The Spice Box
THE SPICE BOX May you live to see 120 Spice Box items are supposed to be short and punchy, but now and again there's something very special that warrants extra space, and is so very fragrant...
...Heifetz had spent much of his free time in Russia visiting with Jewish refuseniks, and had donated the prize money he won to them...
...I Is open to the public and cost is 52.50...
...Temple Emet will be celebrating Seder with a Dessert Seder at 7:30 p.m...
...Ravak is Hebrew for bachelor...
...It takes on a mortar like appearance which Is a reminder of the mortar that was used to cement the bricks that the early Hebrews used as salves in building the store cities, Pi thorn and Ramses," Sherwood said...
...Also served is charoset, a mixture of chopped nuts and apples mixed with wine...
...At which point the audience goes wild, applauding for ten minutes even before Heifetz has picked up his bow...
...The most veteran of the couples has been married for 48 years...
...The Seder Supper celebrates the time when the Hebrews were freed from captivity in Egypt...
...Now we don't know whether or not Ms...
...the newliest-weds were married less than a year ago...
...Traditionally It Is ? reminder of the tears the Hebrews shed while in slavery...
...It's not often (fortunately) that you get to attend a wedding together with the offspring of the bride and groom...
...on April ft...
...The food served at the supper is symbolic of several things...
...And here all of us are, saying to each other that we love you still, and still choose to be married...
...Body and soul We knew it was time to dust off the bad taste award as soon as we saw the headline: "Fitness Classes Jog for Jesus...
...What costume...
...It Is a festival of freedom...
...Seven rabbis officiated, 60 rings were placed on 60 fingers (including the finger of one very pregnant bride) and 60 glasses were broken...
...Also during the meal songs are sung and children ask questions about the special occasion...
...Workouts include the Damascus Walk, the Jesus Jog, the Heavenly Stretch, the Salvation Rock and the Seventh Heaven____" Rabbi Krantzler's suggestions for Jewish adaptations...
...The event took place at Temple Mishkan Tenia in Newton, and we were among the fortunate 1,000 guests who filled the sanctuary...
...Easter, Shmeaster, as long as it's kosher Kuklux Mown...
...The Jewish Post and Opinion reports on the strange case of a woman in a recent county court case in Florida who was permitted to fulfill her lS-hour community service requirement by working for the Ku KLux KLan...
...For the same reason, watching the ceremony was like watching your own parents, and sometimes grandparents, get married...
...The roasted pig should have been written as roasted egg...
...So, instead, she's got one that reads "Mutik"—or, roughly, Sweetie...
...Because they had to leave quickly they did not have time to use leavening which needs hours to rise, so that is why the bread Is flat...
...Really one family now, as the moving words of one of the grooms attest...
...Putting them in their place There's a Reform synagogue on Bezalel Street in Jerusalem...
...Nigun...
...First," he said, "it's not always that you get a second chance, a chance to show that if you had it to do over, you'd still do it...
...A word about the music: The evening opened with the playing of Ernst Bloch's "Nigun" by Emanuel Borok, himself a recent Russian immigrant who is now Assistant Concert-master of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...One family...
...The last time we heard the piece, it was part of an extraordinary tape of the story of Daniel Heifetz's experience back in 1978 when he was a winner of the Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow...
...mixing with the crowd during the reception, you simply couldn't know just from looking at them who was a new immigrant from Russia, who an old-time Bostonian...
...Most of the couples, as it turns out, were from Moscow...
...Correction In the article about the Seder Supper in last week's News Enterprise, an error was made on one ot the items used in the meal...
...Ravak, meet Mutik...
...And, when he finished his performance, more of the same, plus flowers, hugs, kisses...
...Lettuce and parsley show greenery to celebrate spring...
...Ill have to be patient, I guess...
...Following the ceremony, there was a full-blown reception and a wedding ball...
...So, an American Jew playing Bloch's "Nigun" in the Soviet Union, a Russian Jew playing the same haunting piece in New-ton, Massachusetts...
...The entire Heifetz performance was simply excised the next night, when the tape of the concert was broadcast by Soviet television...
...It was a formal wedding...
...A recent ad in the Los Angeles federation bulletin reads, "Wanted: A Fiddler in full costume to fiddle on roof for one hour at Bar Mitzvah...
...The Moment (Marriage...
...The last item on the Seder plate is the bitter herb...
...In its new location, it will serve as a Golda Meir museum and an Audubon Society nature center...
...And what an event it was...
...The question is, do they want him to dress like Tevye, or like Nero...
...Greenberg is married, but just in case she isn't, we call her attention to her neighbor some 500 miles to the north, reader Nick Martin of San Francisco...
...You had to approach people and listen to their language to know...
...The Tu Bishvat Tumble, Passover Push-Ups, the Bar Mitzvah Bounce, the Lag B'Omer Lunge and (grunt) the Tisha B'Av Twist...
...But he persisted, and on the tape one can almost hear the distress of the announcer as she informs the audience of Heifetz's selection...
...License Bureau Not long ago, we received a photo of the license plate on the left from Susan J. Greenberg of Los Angeles, who writes that she could not fit the Hebrew for her profession (she's a paralegal worker) on her license plate...
...During the meal four cups of wine are drunk by each person as a reminder of God's promise of redemption in the Bible, he said...
...the grooms were all in tuxedos, the brides in lavish gowns...
...THE SPICE BOX May you live to see 120 Spice Box items are supposed to be short and punchy, but now and again there's something very special that warrants extra space, and is so very fragrant that it absolutely belongs in a section with this title...
...Ah, America Our thanks to Rabbi David Vorspan for spotting the article below...
...But other cities were also represented: Zhitomir, Murmansk, Melitopol, Sarator, Tallin, Alma-Ata, Kharkov, Kishinev—as well, of course, as Odessa, Kiev and Leningrad...
...In this case, some dozens of children, as well as a large group of in-laws, joined in the celebration, as did some hundreds of Jewish Bostonians who have helped the Russians make new lives in this country...
...Passover celebration: The feast explained Sandra Sims Oates Staff Writer Ver is almost here Jewish and congrega lions ebrating the Supper in Vent...
...I can't announce that...
...If you are looking for it, we're told, just find the street, and ask any of the neighbors to point out the "bet haknesset layTiudim halo datiim"—that is, the synagogue for non-religious Jews...
...This is Important to bring the [amflycloser together ind have all participate in the celebration, he said...
...Here's one such: On the night of May 11,1982, 60 Jewish couples from the Soviet Union, all of whom were originally married in civil ceremonies, were rejoined in matrimony in a Jewish ceremony...
...They then roamed the wilde racro searching for the land of milk and honey' which God had promised them...
...Fortunately, Chief Circuit Judge Lew Kapner got wind of what had happened, and has taken steps to insure that such things will not happen again...
...Heifetz consciously chose to perform the Bloch piece, to the horror of the MC of the evening, who tried fruitlessly to dissuade him...
...The most important part of the Seder itself is the eating of matzo, which Is the quick bread that the Israelites baked prior to their leaving from Egypt...
...ary of our what brate is a freedom iden-not only with our historical experience but the freedom we have as members of a variegated culture today as well as the freedom we have as Jews, each of us interpreting our Judaism in our own way," said Rabbi John Sherwood of Temple Emet In Woodland Hills...
...Mazal tov...
...Taking the mike during the toasts at the reception, he observed that the evening had been meaningful at two very different levels...
...And second—from now on, we're no longer Russians...
...I haven't met any ravakot in San Francisco, but I only moved here from Jerusalem last August...
...As he comments, "The possibilities are, unfortunately, endless...
...For information call MHSTO...
...as of tonight, we are Jews...
...The faces are the same...
...After the competition is over, the prize winners get to perform music of their choice at a winners' concert, a very gala Moscow cultural event...
...Here's his accompanying letter: Ornitholitics makes strange nest fellows It seems that the Denver house in which Golda Meir lived in 1914-15 has been moved to make room for an athletic field...
...And sure enough, the article from the Charlotte Observer, sent to us by Rabbi Harold Krantzler of Charlotte, North Carolina, includes the following pearls: "Women are jogging, stretching and bending in the name of the Lord in a shape-up program an organizer says works because she can cheat on a diet but 'I couldn't cheat on Jesus...
...The roasted lamb shank represents the sacrificial lamb which was offered then and the roasted pig symbolizes the daily sacrifice that was offered...
...America, it's wonderful...
...We don't know the proportion of new Russians among those who attended, because it turned out to be just about impossible to tell the newcomers apart...
Vol. 7 • June 1982 • No. 6
