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THE SPICE BOX California strikes again We have no ready hypothesis to explain the regularity with which our California readers come up with the most innovative license plates in our continuing...
...I hen a crowd would gather and Ihe unanimity of opinion was overwhelm int...
...And, the opinion went on, if at that point the Association refuses to amend its rule, the district court should determine whether First Amendment rights have been violated...
...In case there's any doubt as to its genesis, the ad suggests "Play for peanuts...
...Judge Posner's opinion states: "The First Amendment provides that 'Congress shall make no law...
...The letter claimed that thousands of dollars and many months had been spent in the effort to locate "almost every MOMENT FAMILY in these United States...
...If you personally go to "Brussels III," the Third International Conference on Soviet Jewry, from October 24—26 in Paris, it will make a difference...
...This letter is for all moment readers: Dear moment Readers: Yes, it will make a difference...
...I would ask...
...27 Lebanon 'genuine joy' By HILLEL GOLDBERG UN Senator Editor/Israel Correspondents JERUSALEM — The first US Congrcvsinan 10 lour Israeli-occupied Lebanon said ? hal he MM asiun-ished al what he saw...
...Ik- said, because ihi1 media had tailed m re...
...NB The Cohen con The "Letters" page is for letters to the editor...
...Yes, even with the name Cohen, she was invited to buy one of these "exclusive" family heritage books...
...the defendants, the Illinois High School Association...
...Join the congregation...
...But we are reasonably sure that a secure head covering exists or can be devised at trivial cost without violating any tenet of Orthodox Judaism...
...Bnai E. Cong," and the salutation, of course, was ¦"'Dear Mr...
...Make of it what you will...
...That's what happened in 1971 with Brussels I and in 1976 with Brussels II, and now 260,000 Jews have been rescued...
...Sensible, right...
...Today...
...Futons...
...In the interests of justice, let's put the blame where it really belongs...
...However...
...Rep...
...U lUtm did in.[ i-\[iffl I Ins...
...But the majority ruling of the higher court disagreed...
...reported Wilson...
...Whatever the explanation, this month's entry, from reader Ralph M. Kramer of Piedmont, CA, sets a new standard for inventiveness...
...Help stamp out rabbis Readers will recall a May TSB item that described a "Rabbis Clinic" conducted by the Dog Officer of Winchester, MA...
...But, in an effort to comply with at least the spirit of the law, the young men tried fastening the yarmulkes with bobby pins...
...These are terrible times for Soviet Jews...
...I'm terribly civilized, and as uncomfortable with public professions of faith as you are...
...In this era it is the whole congregation of Israel which must cry out the message...
...Wilson has less than I (JO Jews in his BaptiM district outside of Hons KM...
...heh, hell) Item: The Wall Street Journal carries an ad for "Octaspin," a "thrilling new 8-sided spinning game of chance...
...Lnclish-speak-I.*-hane\*\ ami Uin would fill me Ihis...
...There would be no Israel and no American Jewish community to speak of today had it not been for the Jewish exodus from Russia a hundred years ago...
...District Court (Northern District of niinois, Eastern Division, Judge Milton I. Shadur...
...S. "Should a Jewish lesbian with a Jewish lover use the mikveh...
...Sensible, maybe, but discriminatory definitely, in the opinion of the plaintiffs, two Orthodox Jewish high schools in Chicago, who brought suit against the Association, contending that the ruling, which includes the wearing of yarmulkes, forces a choice between religious observance and participation in interscholastic basketball, the only interscholastic sport in which the two schools participate...
...We are not the people to devise the method—to say that yarmulkes should be equipped with chin straps or sewn to head bands or replaced by some form of head covering that fits the head more securely...
...While the court overturned the district court's decision, on the grounds that the plaintiffs have no constitutional right to wear yarmulkes insecurely fastened by bobby pins, it held that the complaint should not be dismissed, putting the burden for proposing an alternative and secure head covering on the plaintiffs because they "know so much more about Jewish law...
...The computer can create Tree-of-Life graphic plots, using biographical linking, manually and automatically generated in root-genealogical order...
...We've saved the best for last: "With the sophisticated research tools made available by our System, it is now possible to trace back family histories to Adam, the First Man...
...Readers will recall Rabbi Richard Israel's observations on the peculiar questions that the interaction of modern culture and Jewish tradition has raised (moment, March 1982...
...Charles Wilson ?. Texas» said (hal the I ebanese welcomed the Uraolis "almost like a ? her .in up army...
...It seems that in Illinois, interscholastic high school sports, including basketball, are conducted under the auspices of the Illinois High School Association, a group that includes virtually all of the state's public and private high schools...
...These curious questions he has assembled under the generic name of "Kosher Pigs...
...Wilson said lhal he Ihou^hl that sinee Israel had a bead > taken a hjtieniiji in public opinion, and a haltering in easiialiies, "I would he ?·?\ disappointed if Israel didn't go into Beirut and finish Ihe joh...
...It was thought up by the Kramers' daughter, Miriam Shein of Jerusalem...
...and that does not actually prohibit a religious observance but merely makes it more costly by forcing the observant to give up some government benefit (here, participation in an interscholastic sports event sponsored by an arm of the state)____The noheadwear rule forces Orthodox Jews to choose only between keeping their heads covered and playing interscholastic basketball...
...The article headed so gracelessly reports on Congressman Charles Wilson's trip to Lebanon, and quotes Rep...
...When asked b> Israeli Radio w he I her Israel should enler wesl Beirut...
...Where is a kosher l'Pesach restaurant where I can buy a lunch for my prospect...
...Bobby pins are an acknowledgement of theyarmulke's instability, and further, they are not a secure method of fastening...
...Theodore R. Mann National Conference on Soviet Jewry Suite 907 10 East 40th Street New York, NY 10016 Kingcong...
...The opinion continues: "The wearing of a yarmulke—which by its size and position is liable to fall off in any activity involving sudden movement—is conventional rather than prescribed...
...Good night, Mr...
...This does not even take into account non-Jewish Cohens...
...not motivated by antipathy to any religious group...
...It was addressed to "Mr...
...Don't ask me why it will make a difference...
...I thought maybe you were wondering, though, so I felt I should tell you...
...Does it matter if you're testing water beds instead of conventional mattresses...
...Thanks to reader Michael Millenson for passing the ad along...
...Material cannot be returned...
...Or beds...
...1 aid I supposed lhat we could have invaded Mormand) wilhoul bt>mbs...
...Rand...
...Be sure to include your name, address and telephone number...
...Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, was heard by Justices Cudahy, Eschbach and Posner, and was an appeal of a decision from the U.S...
...Please send us ideas, notes curiosities—anything you'd like to share with our subscribers...
...Bobby pins and the First Amendment The plaintiffs were Moshe Menora, et al...
...But it does not, so it would seem that all the plaintiffs have to do to obviate the state's concern with safety is to devise a method of affixing a head covering which will prevent it from falling off during basketball play...
...We'd let the matter rest, but we recently received a letter from Miami subscriber Marsha Cohen...
...In last November's TSB we wrote about a computerized invitation that came to our office (addressed to M. Moment) offering us the opportunity to buy a "family heritage book" for "the Moment family...
...He ioted lor jhe sale of AWACS to Saudi Arabia and of E-15 jei fighters to Jordan...
...Or did they stay around to learn about spaying and neutering, just in case...
...Help...
...3. "Lunch time, first day Pesach, I am taking a break from the office to solicit a big gift for the Federation...
...The COHEN name is very rare, and my research has shown there is only about one COHEN family for every quarter million Americans...
...Thanks to Chicago reader Bruce Mosbacher for sending us this one...
...Most of world Jewry would be in the Soviet Union, suffocating, disappearing, with no one outside to help them...
...For every 25 Jews who were allowed to leave in 1979, only one is allowed to leave today...
...Bad taste of the month Intermountain Jewish News tammuz 11, 5742 July 2, 1982 Vol...
...But the decision, which the Jewish Telegraphic Agency describes as a local legal precedent, prompts some speculations regarding Jewish law as well...
...They challenged the rule as an infringement of the religious freedom of Orthodox Jews, stipulating that "Orthodox Jewish males are required to cover their heads at all times except when they are (a) unconscious, (b) immersed in water or (c) in imminent danger of loss of life...
...What it is, is a dreidel doubled...
...I have located almost every COHEN FAMILY in these United States...
...We give up Below, a publicity blurb we recently received...
...The concern, of course, is that the headwear might fall off, and a player might slip on it, fall and be injured...
...Maybe it's because we are long past the era of Moses, when the Almighty designated a single prophet to cry out his message...
...Reader Rabbi Lennard R. Thai was prompted to dig out of his files a 1974 announcement, in The HoUtywood Reporter, of a "Low Cost Anti-Rabbi Clinic" in Los Angeles...
...But reader Cohen knows better...
...We reserve the right to edit all submissions...
...Who runs America...
...Cong...
...In the opinion of the district court, the hazards posed by yarmulkes are too slight to justify requiring the plaintiffs to choose between observance and basketball, and the rule, as applied to the wearing of yarmulkes while playing basketball, violates the free-exercise clause of the First Amendment...
...I found an immense It-din ? ?? rebel t« be ml ol [lie ?? tl.' said WHson...
...of Mosdos (Institutions) Santz-Grybov, announces the first computerized Jewish genealogical database system under the auspices of Yochsin (genealogical) Institute...
...prohibiting the free exercise [of religion].' This language would not forbid a regulation secular in purpose (to promote safety...
...After 30 years of scholarly research and scientific development, the Sanzer-Grybover Rebbe, Rabbi Naftali Halberstam, Pres...
...So: What if...
...For details as to cost, hotels, how you might tie the trip to a trip to Russia, or Israel, or somewhere else, write me...
...some Orthodox Jews prefer to wear an ordinary hat instead...
...TIarumph...
...For gezunterheit means "travel in good health...
...If you are not permitted to rest, because that is your work, then, in order to differentiate between the Sabbath and the remainder of the week (which you spend working, which is resting), are you obligated to work (at something other than resting) on the Day of Rest, while the rest of us are resting...
...or even cashews...
...Crazy glue, anybody...
...Even with bobby pins, yarmulkes continue to fall off frequently during play...
...But you surely have noticed that when nothing else seems to work, then if Jews get together in huge numbers and scream, walls come tumbling down...
...4. "May a kosher caterer cater an intermarriage...
...69, No...
...Zeyer Shein, we say Pilpul: laying down on the job We sympathize with Morley Rand of Toronto, who was fired from his job when he refused, to work on Shabbat...
...On tour in Lebanon, Wilson broke away from his Israeli guides, locaied English-speaking I ebanesc by himself, and lalked (o litem wtlhout Israeli mediator...
...If the Talmud required basketball players to wear yarmulkes attached by bobby pins, there would be a conflict with the state's interest in safety...
...It would follow that of the approximately six million Jews living in the United States, at least 180,000 would be Cohens...
...Wonder how many people were disappointed to learn that it was rabies, not rabbis, that were in trouble...
...The kosher pig (cont...
...Rabbi Jerrold M. Levy of B'nai El Congregation in Frontenac, MO, shares with us a letter of solicitation recently received at the Congregation...
...Wilson regarding "the genuine joy" of the Lebanese in being freed from the PLO...
...Doesn't Jewish law say that I am supposed to drink...
...Rand himself is a mechanic rather than a mattress tester, but it never hurts to consider the possibilities...
...So...
...that, on the facts of this case at least, bobby pins do not implicate First Amendment values...
...They said it was awful, but they also said thai all in all...
...And we're pleased he got legal redress—the Ontario Human Rights Commission has ordered his employer, a local mattress manufacturer, to rehire him...
...The case, argued in the U.S...
...VS ilson satd thai he had an argti-meni wilh a Erench reportcf who also lalked lo I ebanese who were L'lad lhai the Israelis had come, but said lhal ihey should have come withnii bombs...
...It was a great run but now I am feeling terrible...
...to be free of ihe PI ? it was worth it...
...She writes, "Sourcebooks on Jewish genealogy agree that 3-4% of the Jewish population of the world is named Cohen...
...We can help them, and help ourselves and the whole Jewish people by making Brussels III the major international demonstration of our time...
...some ? I whom had losi their homes and relatives...
...Item: Above, a cartoon from The Mew Yorker of July 86,1982...
...Recent newcomers that have come to his attention include: 1. "Rabbi, I just did a hard 15-mile run this Yom Kippur morning...
...But according to the invitation's claim of one Cohen family per 250,000 Americans, there would only be about 900 Cohens in the entire United States...
...I know you didn't ask me...
...That may be so, but it's not quite what the headline says...
...too," said Wilson...
...Rare...
...We seem to have gotten into this over our heads...
...The Greater Miami telephone directory alone lists over 1,400...
...If your work is to rest, are you permitted to work on the Day of Rest...
...he (old the Jerusatcm Wilson met people in Tyre and Sidon...
...Depending on length, we'll pay from $5 to $60 for material that is accepted...
...The gates have closed...
...The invitation she received read, in part...
...And they say we're a people in crisis...
...That's not even medium rare...
...Sorry, said the Association...
...Playing basketball fits none of those categories...
...THE SPICE BOX California strikes again We have no ready hypothesis to explain the regularity with which our California readers come up with the most innovative license plates in our continuing exploration of the license-plate subculture of American Jews...
...The affixing of the yarmulke to the head (more precisely, the hair) by bobby pins is even more obviously a convention rather than a religious obligation, and it happens to be an inherently insecure method of keeping the yarmulke attached during basketball play...
...And the Association makes rules, one of which forbids basketball players to wear head coverings, with the exception of headbands (two inch width maximum) while playing...
...Would you believe that there was a minority opinion as well, upholding the district court's original decision...
...Invitation Readers are invited— and encouraged—to submit material for The Spice Box...
...whul he culled "iht genuine jm" of Iht Lebanese in betriit freed Ins the PLO...
...Whatever one's politics, and however one assessed this summer's events in Lebanon, it seems to us a bit much to entitle a report on what is transpiring there in the manner of the Intermountain Jewish Hews...
Vol. 7 • September 1982 • No. 8
