The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1921-04-20
The Happy Pass
over Fund

showed unmistakable signs of impend-
ing important events. Divers construc-
tons could have been put upon the
interested instructions which Mrs.
Aaronsohn was giving the cook, who,
i'll her turn, was compromising sundry
ingredients of food. Some new master
piece in the culinary art was probably
to be produced. That was it. Mrs.
Aaronsohn was explaining how a
matzo-ball should be properly made.
1t was just before the Passover
season. All the leavened food had
been taken out and the dishes that
were used only during the Passover
week had been installed in the newly
cleaned pantries. Every crumb of
bread must be burnt so that the food
for the holidays should not be faint.
ca.
BE sure to use plenty of fat in
structcd Mrs Aaronsohn. make the
halter rich or the balls will be hard.
Half the taste of matZO-balls lies in
their sofetness."
In previous years when Mrs. Aaron
sohn had been more active, no one but
she could prepare the meal for the
Seder night. But the cares and wor-
ries of Il busy life, together with the
loss of son in distant Russia, had
told on her and she had reluctantly
turned over the affairs of the house
hold to the American servants. Moth
crs in Israel guard jealousy the
physical comfort of their kin and are
not wont to shirk their personal du-
ties.
Much had happened in her siXty-five
years How will she remembered tn,
time thirty-five years before when the
rierciless pogrom in acknowledgement
had forced her suddenly to flee with
her husband and ten-year-old son to
America with its golden opportunities ).
They left the younger son whom they
had to forsake to suffer the will OF
the barbarous murderers.
Living conditions in Pittsburgh,
which they adopted as their home, had
hccn little better with them than with
the other immigrants settled there but
hy grim perseverance and much self
denial they had saved enough money
10 send Moses. their son. to a univcrs-
ity. The youth had Il mind that show
I'd by heredity the days and nights
which his father had spent porting
over books of Talmudic lore. Analysing
tile propositions therein. And it was
-
manifest in the fact that he-hefd high
est rank in his class and was now one
of the prominent lawyers of the city.
From the time Moses had firmly estab-
lished his practise. the Aaronsohns
had lived we'll. He supported his par
cnts, kept them comfortably situated.
and gave literally to charity. Moses
Aaronsohn was Jew among Jews.
On the evening of the first day of
Pesach he came home II little earlier
than the usual time. bringing with him
II guest whom he introduced as Mr..
I.lndcsmann. He explained to his
mother that Mr.. Landesmann was on
!, visit to America from Palestine.
speaking in behalf of the rcconstruc-
lion OIL lSiicl 80 hff'
come to Moses because the latter was
one of the leading citizens of the COM
1uunity interested in that cause.
As they sat at the table, the seven
branchcd Memorial. with its Pickering
candles impressed them as it always
did Probably its symbolism was felt
by all Was it because Truth and
Judaism. profaned by racc-hatrcl.
seemed like the unsteady flames, so
often on the verge of extinction? The
Jews philosophy. born of persecution
caused him TO ponder these things! Mr..
AaronsOhn. his head covered with a
black skull cap. leaued comfortably on
pillows placed in the CORNER of small
diyan, in keeping with the custom
.ypifying the Jews freedom as con
trasted with his former oppression
under the pharaolls Now lie could be
more at ease. This. the small group
felt was pleasantly true i'll America.
Mr. AaronsOhn opened the Hngad-
in sing-sing tone that created the
impression of chanting more than
reading At times there wits plain
tive note of melancholy. a hint of this
Jews heritage Of suffering. Occasion
ally he would stop and explain, as
he had done year after lear. the full
import of certain passages. in some
cases fitting the circumstances of the
day to the words. The other members