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THE SPICE BOX Matchmaking We hope the owners of their spouses. But just both these license in case, they might plates are well, and also want to meet in, say, Kansas City. ("Sabta" is Hebrew...
...We were shown to our places between a uniformed KLM pilot and a natty, plump, middle-aged man who greeted us in French...
...466-0418 KtK WC CranburyStauon-UmonValleyRd Rabbi Ronald Roth (Beth El Synagogue, East Windsor, NJ) hopes that it wasn't one of his own congregants, less than pleased with Bnagat R 26 KrabsRdPlnsbo...
...I suppose we should have had fair warning that this night would, indeed, be different, when my husband and I made inquiries at the synagogue about the possibility of attending a Seder...
...Hang Sameach" (in English, "Happy Hanging") would be a first-rate greeting for Purim, in memory of the despicable Haman, infamous advisor to the king of Shushan...
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...Depending on length, we'll pay from $5 to $50 for material that is accepted...
...However, I could visualize her look of utter disbelief at the appearance of a dish of artichokes, roasted in oil and garlic, and famous throughout Rome as carcioB...
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...He expressed his feelings charmingly...
...Bhatt Ravindra WestDrPrnctn -----Bhattacharya B C 297 MoorePrnctn — Bhawnani Durgadas the vitality of the weekly sermons, who was responsible for this entry in the local Yellow Pages...
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...They just got their holidays mixed up...
...I phoned him right after Shabbas, forgetting that Winnipeg is one time zone away from my home, Boston...
...Be sure to include your name, address and telephone number...
...the meal began with minestrone...
...the service then began in an Italo-Sephardic Hebrew which sounded as strange to us as the Italian translations in the Haggadah looked (Perche questa notte tutto differente...
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...Whereas it's not at all difficult to accept that the Satmar may indeed be able to bring us the word from on high, it is curious that they've chosen to do it via, of all things, satellite television...
...We were thoughtfully presented with brand-new, illustrated, hardcover Haggadot identical to those the children would be using, with the text in both Hebrew and Italian...
...We were told long ago that the Earth is the Lord's, but until now we weren't aware that He was interested in selling it...
...Our attempt to communicate in Yiddish with the top-hatted, frock-coated beadle was indignantly challenged...
...More than likely, those of us whose forebears had strayed further afield after the Fall had reversed procedures somewhere in our journey through time, space and alien cultures...
...From whence cometh this nod to modernity...
...Invitation Readers are invited— and encouraged—to submit material for The Spice Box...
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...Thanks to reader Julius Judelson for bringing this one to our attention...
...And, finally, the meal...
...You should be ashamed of yourself,' she said to me...
...I knew, then, sitting at a Passover table in Rome, that I had come face to face with the Diaspora...
...Sometime later, the daughter was asked on a test, 'What does B.C.E...
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...The serving woman, assuming the proprietary air of a Second Avenue, New York, waiter, kept urging us to "mangia, mangia...
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...You can't go back much farther than that for culinary authenticity, but who knew about artichokes in Lemburg...
...The box of matza was clearly marked "MADE IN HOLLAND...
...A most interesting evening," he said, as he took his leave...
...Yom Kippur 1, Shahbos 0 From St...
...Tuning in The Lubavitch have their Mitzvah-mobiles, and now, if we are to behove what we read in the accompanying ad copy in the January 1983 issue of Video Magazine, they have been wildfy one-upped by the Satmar...
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...In my family, we had always started with the eggs, but I wouldn't dream of suggesting to a people who had preserved an artichoke recipe for 2,000 years that they could be mistaken in the order of an important Festival meal...
...With the appearance of the main course, known to Jew and Gentile alike as veal scallo-pini, I realized that there is a point at which cosmopolitanism becomes chaos and although it was excellent scallopini, I'm afraid that in my own insularity I would have enjoyed it more at a table in Alfredo's than in that cheder...
...One member of my congregation explained to her ten-year-old daughter that even though most people in America subscribe to the Christian view of the world, we Jews disagree with that view...
...Instead, there was just enough familiarity to make the dissimilarities painful...
...After assuring him that his heritage and piety were not in question, we carried on as well as we could in our (very) basic Italian and were finally able to make the necessary arrangements to attend a Seder at the Hebrew School, which would be conducted by the students under the guidance of the school faculty...
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...We seem to be the only Babylonians here...
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...Driving through Connecticut, Bostonians David and Barbara Weisel stopped to take a picture of the offices of Hashem Realty...
...The tables, covered with starched, white tablecloths, were set with boxes of Dutch matza (had the KLM pilot flown them in...
...In her Galitzianer insularity, she might (just might) have grudgingly accepted the thick vegetable soup in place of chicken soup with matza balls...
...Sylvia Leff Just making a living, for heaven's sake...
...Moment/9 Wherefore is this night different...
...But was it marked correct...
...Only in . . . where...
...the children sang "uno solo capretto ohe mio padre ha comprato per due zuzim...
...and bottles of Israeli wine...
...But how, I wondered, would she have reacted to the substance of the feast that followed...
...There will be practice as usual on Saturday, October 2 at 11:00 a.m...
...We reserve the right to edit all submissions...
...He won't be making Havdalah for another hour...
...Material cannot be returned...
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...Of this, I'm sure, my grandmother would have approved...
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...He made it clear, in Italian, that he spoke no Yiddish since his family had been in Italy for a thousand years and he had never been north of Bologna and why did all American Jews think that all Jews spoke Yiddish...
...We soon learned that he was an Egyptian (there was still a considerable Jewish community in that country at that time) who was in Rome on some (undisclosed) business for the Israeli government and yes, this would be his first Italian Seder, too...
...We had come to this place, on this night, hoping that for the first time in our seven months in Europe we might feel closer to home as we basked in the reflected warmth of a universal Jewish ritual...
...For an example, she said that we believe it is in error to say that Jesus was the Messiah, even though Christians believe that...
...Turns out, according to reader Jeffrey Maas, from South Orange, NJ, that SATMAB, in this case, actually stands for Satellite Marketing...
...A note from Rabbi John Friedman in Durham, NC: "It is not all unusual for children to ask questions about the difference between Judaism and Christianity...
...And did you notice...
...More mix-ups The opening of this computerized letter, received by Jay Rubin at the Augusta Jewish Federation, speaks for itself...
...You can't call Rabbi Schachter yet...
...A poor connection...
...Hashem, literally, "The Name," is one of the many Hebrew terms used to refer to God...
...My husband and I were left with mixed feelings...
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...The meal ended with the hard-boiled eggs and salt water...
...My call got no further than the Winnipeg person-to-person operator...
...Once, a number of years ago," writes Richard J. Israel, "I was in a hurry to speak with Rabbi Zalman Schachter, who was living in Winnipeg at the time...
...Winnipeg...
...Sabta" is Hebrew for grandmother...
...But the potential, as the kids would say, is absolutely awesome...
...Our solicitious server explained that this was a treasured recipe brought to Rome by Titus' captives after the Pall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Second Temple...
...As the last dish was cleared away, the children sang a rollicking version of "One Only Kid" and the Feast of the Passover came to an end...
...Louis, Judy Firestone writes of a sign she saw some months back on the door of the Music Building at Washington University: BAND PRACTICE CANCELLED ON SEPT...
...mean?' Her answer: 'Before the common error.'" ". . .For Haitian he was swinging while Mordechai was singing . . We don't think that the United Illuminating Company had less than honorable intentions in misprinting the Hebrew version of "Happy Holidays," which, correctly rendered, would be "Chag(or Hag) Sameach...
...Everybody rose to sing "Hatikvah" with great feeling...
...as to "zaydie," that's gramps...
...Surely not from Phoenix, Arizona...
...Since our Road of Ages has led us all down some strange paths with tenuous threads to bind us, our Egyptian friend must have experienced the same confusion...
...As evidence of his hard-won good will, he assured us that it would be una sera bellissima and that we would enjoy the Festa, sicuroWhen we entered the large Common Room of the school on the "beautiful night" a week later, about 100 children of varying pre-Bar Mitzvah ages were already seated at long tables in the middle of the room while admiring parents and relatives sat at similar tables arranged around the periphery...
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...Please send us ideas, notes, curiosities—anything you'd like to share with our subscribers...
Vol. 8 • March 1983 • No. 3
