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SPICE BOX Desperately Seeking Shnook "The way she sees, and the way he looks, it's a perfect matchf* Submitted by Rudolph Simon at Dale City. Calif, who found it in me Northern California Jewrs/t...
...Calif, who found it in me Northern California Jewrs/t Bulletin * From the Broadway musical Fiddler On the Root This rare European spice boi from the 18m century was expected to fetch between 130.000 and 150.000 at its recent auction at the Second Jerusalem International Judaea Fair...
...Using the traditional system for deriving numerical values from Hebrew letters, the word chai, life, has a value of 18 iViva Los Marranos!* When Sy and Marilyn Golden of Northbrook, IIL vacationed in Mexico, they found this New Year's party notice, with its odd illustration, in their Puerto Vailarta hotel room * Long live the Marranos (Spanish Jews who were forced to convert during the Inquisition but secretly continued Jewish beliefs and practices...
...3000 Connecticut Ave...
...found thii list of Hollywood In via in Premiere magazine, a publication about movies and moviegoing...
...you can clean up in Hollywood Roberta I Cohen of the Bronx, NY...
...N W. Suite 300...
...Waiter, There's a Kippahln My Tea...
...Mass...
...Made of silver filigree, the spice tower is partly gilded, with so enameled medievally clad figures, each representing a different custom pertaining to the Htvddah ceremony...
...DC 2000ft Bagels and Locks This article from The Boston Globe was spotted by Louise Cohen of Brookline...
...who noticed this ingredient on the label of her Celestial Seasonings Sleepybme tea Submit Mate rial to Spice Box Send us newspaper clippings, notes, curiosities and photographs— anything you'd like to snare N your material is accepted, well send you • 125 gift certificate to the momcni Collection, our catalog of Judaica and gift items...
...Please avoid writing on th* item itself, attach an explanatory note instead Mul your submissions to Spec Bo*, moment...
...Make It Char and You Got a Deal And if you'll handle an alligator while wearing a wet kippah...
...The spice tower was rescued from Nazi hands by descendants of the artist who made their way to Israel...
...Perhaps the skullcap & the celestial seasoning, suggests Melinda G Stem of Savannah, Ga...
...Washington...
Vol. 13 • June 1988 • No. 4