The Spice Box
Berkowitz, Joshua
THE SPICE BOX Goldbergs Finnish, first A letter from Douglas Weber: I suppose I am not the average moment subscriber, In that from time to time I also read Playboy, In any case, the May 1981...
...Zimmerman became Dylan, Schwartz became Curtis...
...We often wonder just how far we Jews have come in being accepted in the melting pot (or salad bowl, depending on how one looks at it...
...Four weekly classes will cost $85 via teleconferencing, which is not simply a party-line connection...
...Marty Lelonky, Assistant Superintendent for Educational Programs in Kotzebue...
...In Fairbanks, the Jewish community— 50 strong—assembled at the Air Force base...
...Shall we write Larousse or chalk this up to a small but significant feminist victory...
...If there is no Sheraton...
...A total of 58 people can be hooked up to one call...
...Not satisfied, our linguist pressed on, "How can that be...
...But if Ms...
...Fifteen minutes after the doors to the conference room where the 400 delegates were meeting had been locked, they were opened...
...S.L...
...Cantor Nulman informs us that the cantor shortage, which is severe, will now be attacked by providing telephone lessons to cantors outside New York...
...Much hoopla attached to the proceeding: the press was there In abundance, the TV network anchorpeople were positioned about the lobby like potted palms, representatives of the other major faiths waited in the anterooms...
...There, twelve Jews gathered at the table of Mlkki and Alan McCurry...
...Lefever, who apparently does not regard violations of human rights in Argentina as deserving of official American concern, might do well to ponder Mr...
...Paques,"masculine plural, means Easter...
...Goldberg and her agent are doing more than riding a temporary wave of ethnicity we might say that we've come a long way...
...Timerman wrote to these pages, "The political prisoners, the prisoners of conscience...
...Inasmuch as the Seder is a time for asking and answering questions, we turned from the Haggadah to the Larousse Modern FrenchEnglish Dictionary for an explanation...
...that four sedarlm were celebrated there this year...
...Our guest announced that Paque meant Easter, not Passover...
...Marlene Beam and Jeff Schwartz, teachers at the village school to Selawlk, 300 miles southeast of Kotze-bue...
...After so many centuries of dispute, and on such a difficult Issue, unanimity, and so soon...
...One middle-aged man, as he placed his copy on my two extended palms, said, "Rabbi, that was depressing...
...In addition to being "Kosher for Passover," the wine was also "Kascher Pour La Paque...
...The Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami was booked for a solid week to give the 400 delegates a chance to hammer out—for the first time in 4000 years of Jewish history—a single position...
...a Jewish mother...
...Back to November, Mr...
...The astonishment of the bystanders was predictable...
...Yes," announced the spokesman, "we have concluded that the Jewish position is that life begins the moment one graduates from medical school...
...Rather, she was born and raised as Tina Viren-ius in Turku, Finland, but picked up her new last name shortly after arriving in Hollywood last year...
...Rabbi," he said, "if I'm not here the next time you do this, don't wait You can start without me...
...The mind boggles, and the telephone poles tremble, at the thought of what might happen if all 58 decide to sing to unison...
...He has also charged that the opposition to his nomination, which is considerable, is "Communist-inspired...
...I do not see how you can continue to be faithful to those ideas without at the same time being faithful to those prisoners...
...My fetus, the doctor We are Indebted to Reynold Levy for the following: It seems that on the eve of the Constitutional Convention called to consider the weighty question of abortion, the Jews decided to seek a unanimous position on the question of when life begins...
...Drache Unleavened tundra Update Rabbi Lester Polansky, hero of On Sunday, the Rabbi Got Frostbite, writes to us from Anchorage, Alaska, (or is It Chile...
...Instead, the University of Alaska at Fairbanks...
...The next time we do this I will be 98...
...method permits the distant listener to hear everything that's happening to the classroom...
...are to prison because they took the risk of being put there—or put to death— for the same ideas with which all of you live so comfortably and which you take for granted...
...Each of the movements—Reform, Conservative, Orthodox and Reconstructionist—convened a delegate assembly, and each elected one hundred delegates...
...Joanna Malta, from San Francisco, a consultant for the Inuplaq Language Studies Conference...
...Mr...
...Apparently her talent agent thinks that a beautiful young Finn by the name of Goldberg has a better shot at making it big in the entertainment field than had she stuck to her previous name...
...Larry Kaplan, Professor of I Native Languages at the Cantor Macy Nulman is the Director of the Can-torial Training Institute, an affiliate of Yeshlva University's Rabbi Issac Elchanan Theological Seminary...
...Grinning broadly, the leaders emerged and announced that they had achieved the unanimity they had sought...
...Among those present were Dr...
...According to Larousse "Paque," feminine singular, means Passover...
...In any case, Playboy's Miss May gives new meaning to the phrase, "Funny, she doesn't look Jewish...
...One of our perceptive guests noticed a linguistic curiosity on a label, which, in conformance with Canadian law, was printed in both of the country's official languages, English and French...
...Dial-a-Cnazzan...
...Easter is the singular, it is only one day, while Passover is eight...
...Besides, how can patriarchal Passover be feminine...
...How do you say dayenu to Inupiaq...
...And the coldle was in Kotze-bue, located on the Arctic Circle to the northwest corner of Alaska...
...As the participants at the service on April 8 filed by to return the photocopied material we had Just used to recite the benediction for Birkat HaChama (the Blessing of the Sun), a ceremony that will next take place in 8009, several expressed those thoughts out loud...
...Or so it seems...
...Mixed blessings An event that occurs only once every 88 years inevitably sparks at least fleeting recognition of one's own mortality...
...Miss May, who now uses the name Glna Goldberg, has her roots neither in Eastern Europe nor Boro Park, Brooklyn...
...It used to be that, in the process of becoming more acceptable to popular American tastes, aspiring actors and actresses would change their names...
...The biggie was in Anchorage, where 300 members of the Jewish community gathered at the Sheraton Hotel...
...But if the aspiring singer-actress featured in the Playboy centerfold of May 1981 has her finger on the American pulse, we might be seeing a total reversal of the custom...
...Joshua Berkowitz Women's rites As our Seder progressed, our dining room sideboard became the repository for the empty Carmel bottles that signified fulfillment of the evening's rituals...
...The next man in line, who indeed looked 98, smiled contentedly...
...Tlmerman's words— and the thunderous ovation with which he was greeted when he arrived to the hearing room...
...Present for a part of the hearing was Jacobo Tim-erman, whose freedom from Argentinian prison and torture was—he believes—the result of vigorous and highly publicized intervention by Patricia Derian, PresiJaoobo Tlmerman dent Carter's human rights spokeswoman...
...Although at this point Ms...
...Ernest Lefever, President Reagan's nominee for the post of Assistant Sec-cretary of State for Human Rights, must not have been very happy with the visitor who attended his confirmation hearing in mid-May...
...Our compliments to these igloomaniacs...
...Ma Bell is...
...Goldberg has only had a few minor parts, her exposure (sic) as Miss May will more than likely put her further down the road to the stardom she seeks...
...Amazing...
...Lefever has argued vigorously against American "sermonizing and preaching" on human rights violations, and has argued, instead, that this nation follow a policy of quiet diplomacy—except in the case of Communist regimes...
...THE SPICE BOX Goldbergs Finnish, first A letter from Douglas Weber: I suppose I am not the average moment subscriber, In that from time to time I also read Playboy, In any case, the May 1981 issue of that magazine has something in it that offers a bit of insight on the current Jewish condition...
...In Juneau, 40 Jews gathered for a second seder In the basement of a local church...
Vol. 6 • June 1981 • No. 6
