The Spice Box
the spice box Mint condition We can't explain It; we can only report it. (Chazzan Alan Sokoloff sent in the British gold with the TJ-0 seal of approval; Rabbi Shamai Kanter, the photo...
...And speaking of noisemaking (which we weren't), Douglas Greener writes from Jerusalem to all us that craftsman ktriel Sugarman is now producing beautiful "egalitarian" Purim "graggers" [noisemakers...
...Parade Magazine recently printed the erroneous claim that America's favorite CEO makes free appearances at "birthday parties, benefits and bar mitzvahs...
...It will allow us all to be a bit closer to God and we'll all pray for a good world and a happy world for this boy and all children...
...D pending on length, we pay from $5 to #50 for i> terial that is accepted-Submissions cannot b8 knowledged or return6* Be sure to include your name, address and telephone number...
...From the listing of "Churches" located on the grounds of JFK International Airport (submitted by Mrs...
...In Brooklyn, we learned recently, there's a Chinese-kosher restaurant named Shang-Chai...
...And on the 3tb-er side: "Blessed be Esther...
...as for shmuta, which is correctly spelled shmateh, in English it's a rag or a piece of old clothing...
...Cooper said she was appearing In the Assembly Chamber as 'Chanukah Claus' because she Is 'the only Republican Jew in the Assembly' More on Chanukah, this Star-Ledger (NJ), submit one from the December 18 ted by Arthur S. Horn...
...We res* the right to edit all submissions...
...Kind of odd, isn't it, that one language (or maybe even two) was missing from this label that came on reader Levi Smith's Swissair meal...
...for those who've forgot-*ri, Zeresh was Hainan's Wfe...
...Attention, citizens: Beware of vice-mayors named Harrian...
...Richard Blumenthal): "Synagogue-Hours 9 AM-5 PM daily...
...jjuj ng from the experts (Maven is Yiddish...
...Invitation Readers are invited-ad encouraged-to submit material for The Spice Box...
...No one gets busted for marijuana...
...Considering Purim in a inore geographical light, reader Sharon Halper informs us that there is a city in New York called Shushan...
...Closed Saturday...
...puri ishpiels A few Purlms ago, the Jewish families in the Marathon Key area got together for a costume party, (we reprint here the local paper's account of that event...
...Deafening silence...
...Yours, and ours Frances Wolf was good enough to share with u« this ad in a catalog from the Printery House of Cm ception Abbey in Concf*} tion, Missouri...
...What a reputation we have...
...Star wars...
...catch up...
...Cursed be Haman the Aggagite...
...Photo or Frank OrSlecerno Assemblywoman Dolores Cooper (R-Atlsntlc) tells Assemblyman An thony Vlllane (R-Monmouth) that she Is wearing a Christmas cap in celebration of tomorrow's observance of Chanukah...
...My greatest prayer right now," Dobin added, "is that it doesn't rain...
...On one Me of the wood graggers is etched the traditional 'Blessed be Mordechai the Jew...
...It's good, clean fun-really kosher.' Moore, 23, said she has been a born-again Christian since she was nine...
...Commented Rabbi Rubin Dobin, the boy's grandfather: *Tffe know God is up there in the heavens and we felt that this would be a very interesting phenomenon that everyone would remember...
...From the LA Times (submitted by Myra Newman): '"It's just so different,' Moore said...
...Speaking of b'nai mitzvah: you can dream up all sorts of shtick to make your child's bar or bat mitzvah a special event, but don't you dare invite Lee Iacocca...
...gelt, plain and straightforward, is Yiddish for "money...
...From a letter about the 13th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Community Celebration, sent out by the Economic Opportunity Authority of Savannah, Georgia (submitted by Melinda Stein): "Our theme for 1985 is 'UNITY,' therefore, we are having an Ecumenical Brotherhood Service of all religious denominations at Rabbi Saul Rubin's Church...
...TREES FOR IRELAND Judy Darsky received tto ad from Phil Hoblin, an Irish-American friend, along with a note: "It taB a long time but we final...
...This ad from the LA Jewish Federation Bulletin was submitted to TSB by Harvey Lutske...
...Nearer my God Reader Ed Cohen spotted an item in the Miami News about an unusually, ahem, uplifting, bar mitzvah celebration: The parents of the bar mitzvah rented a hot air balloon for the reception, to help the celebrants get "closer to God...
...the closest English approximation would have to he "expert...
...Bat shpelling takes longer Aggressive assimilationism...
...Rabbi Shamai Kanter, the photo oftheGoldabill...
...Ouch...
...But no, reported the Wall Street Journal of January 4 (submitted to TSB by Martin Ingall) in a brow-raising headline: Lee Iacocca Wants Ton to Know: He Doesn't Do Free Bar Mitzvahs Cooper's "blooper...
...Hungry reader Jeff Marder sent us this ad...
...Roger L. Price sent in this 9*1 clipping from the JOT - I News, December...
...Please send us ids notes, curiosities—anything you'd like to shar with our subscribers...
...Purim party planned From Bermuda A bona fide no-cheeseburger(l) sign, posted in the buses of Bermuda, as witnessed by Jill and Ira Rothstein...
...The Florida Keys, proud Floridian Marian Goldner writes, are known to have the best fishing in the world...
...From a December edition of a Gloversville, NY newspaper (submitted by Rabbi Milton Feierstein): "On Monday, the Yellow Unit will have a Chanukah program as part of the effort to teach children about the world's different Christmas traditions...
...Jewish, identity, American style • The Idaho Palls Post-Register recently described a local citizen as "a former member of the Ha-dassah religion" (submitted by Joan Downing...
...Cursed be Zeresh...
Vol. 10 • March 1985 • No. 3
