The Spice Box
THE SPICE BOX K'Chol hagoyim You may have noticed that recent ads by Israel's Ministry of Tourism have featured Israel's luxury hotels, gourmet restaurants, nightlife and such. "The miracle on...
...The second quote refers to the courage of the men of Tzahal and contrasts it by implication of cowardice with that of the Jews who were led to the slaughter at Babi Yar...
...In the shadow of the gallows we taught our children the law...
...This idea, however subtly implied or expressed, must be combatted wherever it is encountered—particularly among Jews...
...The oldest Jew in America...
...Shoter anyone...
...But what does he do to keep busy—and fulfilled...
...to lay our heads defenselessly on the chopping block of history and hope that some international organization or foreign power .. . will come mercifully to the rescue . . ." and directly following: ". . . proud of the military capability, repeatedly demonstrated by Israel's officers and men, the courage and skill of its jet pilots and tank crews—the same Jews who a short time ago had been led to the massacre of Babi Yar...
...the inscription of 1489 on one side and 1512 on the other had been moved in 1912 from its original site to that of a Kaifeng Anglican church...
...A far cry from potential jet pilots and tank crews with a nation standing behind them to a man...
...Israel comes second, at $1,835...
...And last, they lend ammunition to those who would have us believe precisely this—that somehow it was our fault...
...The miracle on the Mediterranean" is what they're calling it...
...Is there a "shoter" (policeman) out there anywhere...
...His position as a survivor lends a spurious expertise and weight to these remarks, the two most immediate implications of which are that the Jews went to the slaughter like sheep, and that those who died somehow deserved to...
...The only thing it can't cure is a neurotic dependence on one's mother...
...Maybe the IGTA is right, and more tourists will be attracted by the bars, beaches and bikinis than by all that musty religious stuff...
...They have not pondered the words: "Keep me far from wicked neighbors...
...It's not, we expect, that the ADL hates the KKK less, but it may well be that it loves America more...
...Bad taste We have a tie in our Bad Taste of the Month contest...
...But it's much harder to melt a whole iceberg...
...now spends $759 per capita, about seven percent of GNP...
...You quote Mr...
...Since his retirement he has been collecting quotes—a hobby that now occupies him full-time...
...It includes such treasures as "Guilt: the Jewish mascot emotion" and "Chicken soup: an ancient miracle drug...
...On September 22, 1941, an order rounding up all the male Jews in Kiev was issued by the German commander...
...Most of the able bodied men had already left Kiev—with the Red Army with whom they were fighting—so that on the 28th of September, when the order for the death selection went out, the Jews forced to report were infants, children, mothers...
...Some build airplanes Rabbi Andrew M. Sacks from Perm Valley, Pennsylvania happened to be paging through the Norfolk, Virginia Yellow Pages when he found this advertisement for Mohels...
...Or ganav...
...These contrasting views frame a current debate between the Anti-Defamation League and the National Education Association...
...The information on the steles (page 41, middle column) should have read...
...And we thank Rabbi Sacks for the tip...
...It does not say, "Wait for the enemy to invade your land...
...He is the oldest active member of Ocean Lodge B'nai B'rith in Winthrop, Massachusetts and still davens two mornings a week at Temple Tifereth Israel, where the members honored him on November 29...
...Stack all those dollars in one pile, and they reach all the way to madness...
...in the starving ghettos we produced the plays of Chekov;—and at the gates of hell itself, the Jewish sonderkommando rose in rebellion...
...They did not abandon themselves to dependence during the Holocaust years, and they did not yield one whit of autonomy that was not dragged from them after they had been systematically humiliated, isolated, decimated, starved, tortured and, finally, murdered...
...Lend us y^sur license, so we can be a properly licentious magazine...
...Tropez...
...Writes Rabbi Sacks: "It would seem that being a Mohel is now not only a vocation, but an avocation as well...
...However, from a portion of those remarks I must demur, and with the following quoted passage I emphatically disagree...
...By contrast, the U.S...
...Thought we had a sure winner in Arthur Naiman's new book Every Gov's Guide to Common Jewish Expressions...
...Pretty disconcerting...
...The second stele, with inscriptions of 1663 on both sides, had been reported missing since the mid-nineteenth century...
...In case you were wondering Even before factoring in the cost of the AWACS, Saudi Arabia is spending $2,664 per capita for "defense...
...Their implications are unacceptable...
...First, the Jews of Europe did not lay their heads defenselessly on anything...
...Civilians live next door to criminals...
...had they only rebelled .. . had they only fought back...
...Otherwise, why not St...
...They violate historical veracity and they are an offense to the memory of the dead...
...The text in the Torah reads: "When you go forth to battle...
...There is no reason to retreat, no reason to bow our heads in remorse...
...You can get all supplies and five easy lessons, [not five easy pieces, we hope] at the Beach Hobby Shop...
...When one of his granddaughters had difficulty adjusting to college, he cheered her up with letters full of helpful quotes...
...That's the world's highest rate...
...Tongue-in-cheek...
...And the implications they carry are horrendous...
...dayenu" to murderers who plan our annihilation, to "liberators" who plan to ship our people as D.P.s to countries yet undecided about their Jewish immigration quotas...
...A Lebanese government offers sanctuary to terror planners and permits civilians to be their shield...
...Rabbi Jacob Shtull Mayfield Heights, Ohio Victims—Not Abettors To the Editor: I write with reference to your report in the September 1981 issue of moment on the remarks of Mr...
...We have a quote for him, and a quota: "Biz a hundert un tzvantzik...
...He is the Senior Judge of Juvenile Court in the Parish of Jefferson...
...Corwin says that he begins every day by praying and thanking God for all that he had and still has...
...We think the Beach Hobby Shop should stick to models and leave the mohels to us...
...We asked if there was a "Shofet" (judge) plate out there anywhere, and sure enough Judge Sol Gothard of Gretna, Louisiana sent us this photograph...
...Samuel Pisar to the World Gathering of Holocaust Survivors this past June, in Jerusalem...
...The clear winner this month is Lenny Meyers, to whom a halfhearted mazal tov is coming on the occasion of his impending marriage...
...Perhaps a "ganav" (thief...
...Second, the Jews who were murdered at Babi Yar were not led to a massacre, they were driven...
...Pisar as saying...
...Third, the combination of these two statements in such an important address at such a solemn occasion by a man who better than any of us knows in his own flesh what happened, is extremely unfortunate...
...EDS...
...The word "not" should be deleted from the last line of the last full paragraph of the first column on page 45...
...Self-preservation is a mitzvah and he who comes to kill you must know that he and his accomplices, passive or active, risk being killed...
...No, the Ku Klux Klan is an aberration, and ought not be taken as an indictment of the society as a whole...
...Curiously, it's the NEA that takes the dimmer view of America, the ADL that is more tempered in its assessment...
...The book jacket pictures Naiman in full Hassidic garb offering a bagel to a disgusted nun, and declares that "his missionary work among the shicksas is legendary...
...The photograph on pages 34-35 should have been identified as the Shanghai Children's Palace, formerly the Kadoorie residence...
...Israel's air is the original soul food, and we think it's good to have one tourist mecea (if you'll forgive the term) that caters to the soul...
...These statements are inaccurate, unfair and untrue...
...And at the end of this month Sam Corwin will turn 105...
...A PLO central command office plans murder...
...The will to live, the resolve to strike the enemy, is neither the road to the Styx nor to Sodom...
...Meyers is 61 and has been a bachelor until now...
...Talk about disconcerting____ Worse yet We also have a Worse Taste of the Month Contest...
...Bole reversal The Ku Klux Klan is an example of American racism, the tip of an ugly iceberg...
...Keren Nishry New York, New York Elat, Israel Errata There were some errors in Betsy Gidwitz's article "From Moses to Mao: When a Jew Visits China" (November 1981...
...the pregnant, the elderly, the ill...
...The analogies they draw, between the victims and the citizens of Israel today, are false...
...More like mush-in-brain...
...How about driving down a highway outside of Boston and seeing this announcement (below) of impending doom...
...The SOI guests who celebrated the end of his bachelorhood recently at Boston's Pier Fbur restaurant were greeted by mourning candles on all the tables, since the evening's tongue-in-cheek theme was mourning bachelorhood's end...
...Frankly, though, we're skeptical...
...So says the Israel Government Tourist Administration...
...He retired in 1943...
...Those Jews included few able bodied men...
...In any case, we hope the ADL is right...
...They're part of a conscious strategy to "change Israel's image in the United States from that of a purely historic and religious country...
...I agree wholeheartedly with his understanding of the warning that the Holocaust carries, and I greatly admire his personal courage and tenacity...
...Which is why I write this letter...
...These remarks are unacceptable...
...The first quote carries the clear implication that the Jews of Europe did not attempt to save themselves but rather looked for others to save them, and yielding passively to their fate consented by default, as it were, to their own destruction...
...The story—told so well and so clearly at Yad Vashem—is not of death alone, but of resistance so heroic, against such fearsome odds, that in the annals of human history I do not know of another such struggle...
...Back in our July-August issue we had a photograph of a license plate that proclaimed its owner was an "Orech Din" (lawyer...
...It worked so well that Corwin started doing the same for others and began "Grandpa's Thoughts for the Day"— cards with a theme containing helpful quotations...
...It is the road to survival...
...Perhaps—just perhaps—an aberration can be contained, even done away with...
...Well, aside from his four children, eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, Sam Corwin loves quotes...
...Maybe they figure they'll get the pilgrims anyway, and this new tack is the only way to get the Club Med and related types...
...But Israel's smaller per capita figure works out to the highest percentage of gross national product in the world—23 percent...
Vol. 1 • December 1981 • No. 7
