The Spice Box
THE SPICE BOX Attaching reagents to separate insoluble polymers and the Jewish problem We're delighted to note that Dr. Abraham Patchornik of the Weizmann Institute, a pioneer in working with...
...Well keep you posted...
...Thank you, E CoDurn Reader Barbara Gross, Assistant Director of the Jewish Federation of Kansas City, sends us a letter she received from her landlord last October: "Article 8 of the Rules and Regulations of your lease agreement states...
...Just put a cube of sugar between your teeth and mourn away...
...The "whatever it is" in question was Ms...
...According to the book American Food and Game Fish, the black jewfish is found from Florida to Brazil and the spotted jewfish throughout the warm areas of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans...
...Gross's sukkah...
...Upon receiving a filled-out form for his prospective jury duty, a campaign worker for the United Jewish Appeal in Los Angeles discovered that his profession had been listed as "Fundraider...
...Important questions We are indebted to reader Fran Grossman of Los Angeles for forwarding to us the advertisement above, and for raising the obvious question about it: The Spinoza Bagel is approved by the Los Angeles Board of Rabbis— but how do the Rabbis of Amsterdam feel about it...
...Be sure to include your name, address and telephone number...
...Truth is stranger than fiction...
...He's also working at "shadchen" (matchmaker) chemistry, which involves the use of an active molecule to carry a reactive species from one insoluble polymer to another...
...In another, the message is injunctive—"Produce Andy Boy Rabbi...
...In any event, we think it would be fun to go into our friendly neighborhood supermarket and ask how much heads of rabbis are selling for this week...
...Invitation Readers are invited— and encouraged—to submit material for The Spice Box...
...Will you introduce me to any girl who would like to correspond with me and be my friend...
...Howard Vernon, Rabbi Richard Hirsh and Rabbi Irwin Witty...
...Now we're trying to find out how "esters" came to have their name...
...Formerly beanie Rabbi Richard J. Israel spotted this proposed resolution on the agenda for the 1983 B'nai B'rith District No...
...Lo, he is risen A riot of readers forwarded to us an item from the April 16th issue of the Toronto Star...
...Rabbi Dan Dorfman of CSTJN Hillel writes of a letter he received last fall: "Hi, I'm__I plan to enroll at CSUN next semester...
...According to the August SO issue of Science, which reports on Patchornik's "wolf and lamb" chemistry, "In the application of shadchen chemistry to oligopeptide synthesis, for example, an amine-blocked amino acid is attached to form an ester that is about 40 times more reactive than the o-nitrophenyl ester discussed previously...
...According to the Field Book of Giant Fishes by J. R. Norman (Putnam, 1951), the naturalist Dampier wrote in 1729 that the "Jew-fish is a very good fish and I judge so-called by the English, because it hath scales and fins, therefore a clean fish, according to Levitical law...
...Sweetly, the menu calendar notes that the 29th of March is Passover...
...Because it's so hard to skin one of them,' he replied...
...Why the name...
...Two other fishes comprise the family: black jewfish (Garrupa nigrita) and spotted jewfish (Promicrups pultatus...
...Material cannot be returned...
...The next time you're in Hartford Check the Hartford phone book...
...Thanks to the Judaism Philatelic Journal for this excursion to Ashland—or is it fishwater...
...As he observes, if this is the new way rabbi's salaries are calculated, it may be worth cancelling Yom Kippur and eating fried matzah and chocolate macaroons all year long...
...Evan's dad, Robert, is Temple President...
...Bet you never thought you'd read about it in moment...
...But perhaps the explanation given by a fisherman in Key West, Florida was the right one...
...Imagine what the anthropologists of the 21st century will have to say when they come across this one...
...We once knew a rabbi for whom we'd gladly have paid $.73 a pound to toss...
...The truth will out...
...Thanks a lot...
...Please send us ideas, notes, curiosities—anything you'd like to share with our subscribers...
...One in Convention assembled, that the Chaplain or acting Chaplain at all meetings be asked to wear a Kippa (formerly Yarmulke) in accordance with accepted Jewish custom...
...Pass the sugar, please...
...Thanks for their eagle eyes to Dr...
...In one version, as you can see, they're pushing "fresh and tender" rabbis...
...0nApril22at8:30 p.m., a special Shabbat service will mark the 35th anniversary of the birth of the State of Israel...
...The growing peptide chain is attached by a benzyl ester linkage to a second polymer in a separate reaction vessel...
...Now, we're all for an informal rabbinate, and could even adjust, if required, to calling our rabbi by his first name...
...Chaim Forer had objected to paying dues to the Ontario Public Service Employees Union because it belongs to the Ontario Federation of Labor, which last November passed a resolution criticizing Israel and supporting the PLO...
...Ecumenism of the month, part II The following ad appeared in the Florida Times-Union of Jacksonville, and was sent along by Rabbi Howard Greenstein of Congregation Ahavath Chesed...
...Thanks to Evelyn Harris of West Hartford...
...Your cooperation is appreciated so that no further action will be necessary...
...But not too fresh, please Sundry readers sent us one version or another of the ad for "Rabbi"— presumably, a new way of spelling "rabi," short for "kohlrabi" (the voice of the rabbi...
...But "Andy Boy" seems to us a bit much...
...And then—hold on to your beanies, you'll never believe it—"a dilute solution of a shadchen molecule, such as imidazole, is then pumped between the vessels in a closed loop Actually, the description goes on for a while, and we just wanted to give you something of its flavor...
...Howard Burnham of the Jewish Federation of Bl Paso shares with us this computerized address label he received on a renewal notice from the Jerusalem Post...
...no article of any description shall be hung from window or upon the porch of the premises that might in the judgment of Owner, fall or be blown from the porch or detract from the appearance of the building.' "Please remove whatever it is that is hanging from the patio deck of your apartment...
...The largest species reaches a length of twelve feet...
...Why do you call it a Jewfish?' I asked him as he was cleaning one of the huge creatures...
...And thanks to reader Richard Drachm an of Bethesda for sharing this enlightening information with us...
...Just a week later, we learn from a news item sent us by reader Judy Brail of Willowdale, an Orthodox Jewish civil servant won the right, on religious grounds, not to pay dues to his union...
...Ecumenism of the month Sanford Akselrad, a student rabbi at Temple B'nai Israel in Kalamazoo, forwards to us the lunch menu from Evan Graffs elementary school...
...Theodor Herzl, founder of World Zionism, will give the sermon...
...the board may prefer a weekly Tisha B'Av...
...He calls his solution "wolf and lamb chemistry...
...Chazzerye (Submitted by William Rothchild, West Orange, NJ) It loses something in transliteration A recent obituary notice in the Asbuiy Park Press (forwarded to us by Rabbi Philip B. Schechter of Temple Shaarei Emeth in Englishtown, NJ), informs us that "the family will sip sugar at Partridge Lane...
...Strange Fish and Their Stories by A. H. Verrill gives another explanation for the etymology of the term jewfish: "Just why the jewfish of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico should have been so named is a bit of a puzzle...
...I'd like to join your club, if it's okay...
...of Temple Emanu-El in Haverhill, MA, estimates in his transmittal letter that at the price quoted, he's worth $104.88...
...Oh, how adaptive those Jews were...
...One Convention: Whereas, B'nai B'rith is a Jewish organization with members in all facets of Judaism, and Whereas, all meetings and programs are normally opened and closed by a prayer asking for divine guidance, Therefore, he it resolved by District No...
...note: phew!] are prized by anglers...
...I'm a Catholic but I like Jewish girls...
...But that, of course, is the rabbinic perspective...
...Depending on length, well pay from $5 to $50 for material that is accepted...
...More from Toronto It must have something to do with Herzl's sermon back on April 22...
...Icthyoiogy, shrrri.cth.y-ology, as long as they're Jewish Donald Altschiller, of Cambridge, MA, shares his research with us, on the occasion of the issuance of a stamp (in British Honduras) honoring the jewfish: Ajewfish, according to Webster's, is "any of certain large groupers, usually dusky green, thick headed and rough-scaled, with a voracious but sluggish disposition...
...But is he Jewish...
...We reserve the right to edit all submissions...
...Forer, a computer programmer for the Health Ministry, argued that the OFL attack on Israel was an attack on the Jewish faith—and the Ontario Public Service Relations Tribunal found in his favor...
...Do you know where your children are...
...Respectfully, "Pam Colburn "Property Manager" P.S...
...Rabbi Ira L. Korinow (Ike...
...You'll find a listing for "A Aalta Cocker...
...Abraham Patchornik of the Weizmann Institute, a pioneer in working with multiple polymers (which are good for you), has figured out how to avoid undesired reactions that can occur when two polymers must be used in the same reaction medium...
...The menu for the 29th features "Ham & Cheese on Rye...
...They frequent deep water in warm seas and, though not highly valued as food [ed...
...TVs 11 o'clock...
Vol. 8 • June 1983 • No. 6
