LETTERS
SAY WHAT?
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HAVE YOUR SAY…
Let’s leave this society shinning and impearled.
ESTY BLUMENAU
Mazeltov!
Esty wins The Bird’s Head Haggada – A
pop-up edition adapted from The Bird’s
Head Haggada in the Israel Museum,
published by Koren Publishers
AVID READER
The Kosher
Foodie
literally makes
me salivate each
month. The
combination of
mouth-watering
FANCY
recipes, which
DRESSED
are so innovative
FOOD
Dress up your food
and fresh, and the
this purim
delicious-looking
design that makes
the food seem
so tangible and
NIFTY AND NOVEL IDEAS FOR
MISHLOACH MANOT!
real, is truly a treat
for almost all the senses! Well done to the foodie ed and
designer – they’re doing a fantastic job!
The Purim issue was something special; I think it must
take some really patient and creative parents to put in all
that effort to ‘dress up’ food for their kids… something to
aspire to, when I find the time ;)
Thek
sher
foodie
4
ISSUE 4
FEBRUARY 2015
PAGES OF FOODIE FUN FOR
YOUR KIDS THIS PURIM,
INCLUDING RED VELVET
HAMANTASCHEN.
PHOTOGRAPH: BIGSTOCKPHOTO.COM
The society we live in is not okay,
It’s where young people want to die today.
One word, one joke, one comment, one sneer
Can all end up in self-harm and fear.
Society expects perfect bodies and faces,
To be better than others, they’re always having races.
In this society no one’s ever good enough
And most peoples lives are very, very tough.
It’s a place where people judge, criticise, abuse and hurt.
It’s a place where imperfect people get treated like dirt.
The work is overwhelming and the people are insane,
People go to sleep not wanting to wake up again.
A bad day, a bad week, a bad month, a bad year,
“A bad day doesn’t mean a bad life,” they tell her.
But how can she believe them now
After they joked and called her a fat cow.
Society breaks many people these days,
Society can destroy in many different ways.
We all have a turn either breaking others, or others
breaking us
A better way to live we need to discuss.
We must change ourselves to change the world,
Thank you so much for your feature on the Har Nof
and Paris massacres, and the Jewish response to
tragedy. Each writer tackled the subject with amazing tact
and faith. At a time when Jewish communities worldwide
are increasingly coming under GF6