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senior lifestyle
Passover time, he played the various
Passover songs like ‘Chad Gadya,’” Fox
recalled. “The LP was passed down to
me, and all my kids grew up with that
as well.”
Fred Shapiro, 90, a retired manage-
ment consultant, is active in the Jewish
community of Leisure World. He said
he started learning Hebrew when he
was a 3-year-old boy in Brooklyn. The
fi rst time he asked the Four Questions
was at age 4 at his house.

His father was a neighborhood
grocer, and when Passover rolled
around, he changed over the store
to accommodate kosher-for-Pass-
over foods. “I delivered the foods, the
matzah, with a wagon, walking around
a three- or four-block neighborhood
in East New York, Brooklyn,” Shapiro
recalled. Sheldon Goldberg, 84, of Silver
Spring, Maryland, is a Vietnam War
veteran. He is also retired from the Air
Force and from the CIA. Today, he is
active in Jewish War Veterans. A native
Fred Shapiro and his wife Madeline
of South Carolina, Goldberg remem-
bers Passovers at his grandmother’s
house, mostly for the mystery of the
hidden afi komen. “No matter what I did
or my cousins did, we could never fi nd
the afi komen,” he said. “Year after year
after year, as long as we were there,
we would see my grandfather break it
and used to watch him like a hawk. We
could never fi nd it.”
One memorable Passover for
Goldberg occurred in 1969 when
Goldberg was stationed at a Georgia
Air Force base. “We had a group of
Israeli pilots, and the base did every-
thing possible to have a Passover
seder. But what happened appar-
ently is they could not fi nd a kosher
ladle to dish out the soup. The Israelis
got impatient, and pretty soon they
were banging on the tables and were
singing and yelling. Finally, everything
got settled and the ladle came.”
Felicia Graber, a Polish-born
Holocaust survivor, wasn’t aware she
was Jewish until she was 7 years old.

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