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THE SPICE BOX American Heritage, revised? Glimmerings of good news on the horizon for those of you who have difficulty distinguishing your Manischewitz Concord Grape from your shllvevitz from your...
...4. Buzzing or beeping sounds in ear before sleep...
...Fox hounds can't hold their liquor...
...Thus ends yet another halachlc battle in the United States courts...
...Robertson alleges that the reason he was fired (after seven years of merry service) from his job as a shopping mall Santa Claus was that he is Jewish...
...Depending on length, well pay from 15 to $50 for material that is accepted...
...The problem...
...A happy shiva balloon...
...Be sure to include your name, address and telephone number...
...The article continues to report that come sundown Saturday, Irving the dog "will be a man...
...Well, we seem to be celebrating our Month of the Bizarre...
...The biggest problem was the youth problem, the appearance...
...Score, after round one: Beards 1, Anti-Semites 0. 2. In Boro Park, there's a mini-war going on between the Satmar Chassidlm and the Lubavitch Chassidlm...
...A Santa "has to be a grand-fatherly type, one who's happy, with lines In his eyes and puffy cheeks...
...This example of Jewcumenism-run-wild, more, we're afraid, a part of the World To Come than the World That Is, was sent to us by Pleasant-ville, NY's, Milton Seldin...
...Please send us ideas, notes, curiosities—anything you'd like to share with our subscribers...
...The case, only two years after it was opened, has been closed by TJ.S...
...lists these encounter signals: '1...
...New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Chrandmothera by Robert S. Desowitz (Avon, 93.95...
...His employer, however, contended that Robertson's problem was not his Jewlsh-ness but his youngishness...
...Who could imagine such a story...
...And as to the score— it's still a tie...
...We need more than their grapes...
...Score, after round two: Beards 1, Anti-Semites 1. 3. The potential tiebreaker is, we confess, a bit weird...
...Having come full circle, our advice to the employer is, obviously, to wait the problem out...
...We were excited when we saw the title...
...C. Lisa Treister of Coconut Grove, FL, sent us the clipping, left, \\ from the May 26 Le Monde...
...Why...
...unfortunately, the folks at Family Circle don't seem to have our type of kiddish in mind, after all...
...Theater of the absurd worms and other insidious and mostly invisible creatures that spread misery and death among the so-called higher species...
...There, Judge Coughenour took testimony from various sources, including, as we learn from his decision, "persuasive testimony from a learned and prominent rabbi...
...Some 46 persons are expected to attend...
...Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and from there it went to the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington...
...come...
...When lrresistable corporation discovered Irremovable beard, it terminated its owner/ grower...
...Peh...
...Bed shaking before falling asleep...
...We reserve the right to edit all submissions...
...Plate It again, Sam...
...1. Reader Sue Catler informs us that one Reginald D all aire, a convert to Judaism, is a computer programmer for Electronic Data Systems, where corporate policy does not permit the wearing of a beard...
...And we were still getting used to the old shocks (Submitted by Rabbi Kerry Olitzky of West Hartford, CT) Sic No comment needed to accompany Chazzan Mitchell Martin's submission to the Spice Box...
...WeU, the UFO Contact Center...
...Imagine our surprise, therefore, to learn—thanks to readers Shelly Bares and Beuven Weiss—that Carmel Wine is now featuring a Petite Sirah from "the moderate areas of Shomron...
...Judge Coughenour of Western Washington, it turns out, has more respect for Jews than do the Satmar...
...3. Sudden body abnormalities, such as rashes, warts and geometric marks...
...Harrlsburg reader Cory Schneider spotted this modest little item in front of a hotel in the Catskills...
...A scientist with wide experience in attempting to control diseases around the world talks about the bugs, germs, It must he a very short hook Comes careful reader Steve Whitfield, eyes trained to ferret out any hints of irony, to point out that the forthcoming book from Ktav Publishers, Animal Life in Jewish Tradition, is written by— no kidding—Dr...
...Spice Box submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...
...District Judge Milton I. Shadur, who signed an order in early June permitting the players to wear yarmulkas, provided they secure them with "Israeli clips...
...Beards in the news Sundry efforts have recently been made—In the State of Washington, In Boro Park and In Pensacola, Florida, to separate Jews from their beards...
...your mandel broit from your rugalach...
...The article concludes: "The Bark Mitzvah has become a hot Eollowup Readers may remember a Spice Box story from last September, In which Chicago lawyer Bruce Mosbacher reported on two Orthodox Jewish high schools who were battling In the courts (Instead of on the courts) for the right of their basketball players to wearyarmulkas during interscholastic games...
...The details are tawdry, so we shan't impose them on you...
...Ostentatious, apparently, was too long to fit on the license plate...
...ticket at Hershey's Mill, where Mrs...
...And sicker Jane Eisner, who lives in Merlon Station, PA, sends along a sure winner for a bad taste award...
...Elijah J. Schochet...
...Seems that the Illinois High School Association was concerned that a yarmulka, or the bobby pin affixing it to the player's head, might fall off during play, thus endangering life or limb of the other players on the court...
...Mazeltov, Irving...
...Check out these recent contributions to the Spice Box, and let us know if you can make any sense out of them...
...Rosenstein and her husband's namesake reside...
...Thanks to Rabbi Rubin Dobin, we learn of 30-year-old Larry Robertson of Pensacola, who last December brought his complaint before the local Human Rights Commission...
...Ah, America...
...Has the messiah...
...But last month, the newspapers report, a group of the Satmar kidnapped a member of Lubavitch and shaved off his beard...
...Because, explains Rosenstetn, the dog has eyes just like her late husband's...
...A. From the Los Angeles Times, June 29, 1983, submitted by Melvin Botvin: "Ever suspect that you once bumped into an extraterrestrial—but were then hypnotized so you wouldn't remember...
...The Chinese have their Year of the Dog, the Pig, the Horse...
...Given the volatility of the area, we might have expected that if grapes were grown there, they would be grapes of wrath...
...Sorry...
...Glimmerings of good news on the horizon for those of you who have difficulty distinguishing your Manischewitz Concord Grape from your shllvevitz from your generic schnapps...
...After due consideration, the sober judge ruled that EDS must reinstate Pall aire, beard intact, and must neither terminate nor discriminate against him in the future on account of his religion— meaning, at least, the covering of his chin...
...Written up in the June 20 Philadelphia Daily News, the article brings word of Irving the English fox hound, named after owner Elizabeth Rosenstein's late husband...
...Where wine and politics mix Shomron is, of course, the Hebrew name for Samaria, the northern part of the West Bank...
...Pall aire, however, believes that his religion compels him to wear a beard...
...It just doesn't make it...
...that many leaders of the Jewish faith consider it Improper to shave the beard, and that this belief is not limited to members of any one branch of Judaism...
...your gefilte fish from your creamed herring...
...2. Indian or Jewish heritage or affinity for either...
...Remember: We're looking for license plates with a Jewish twist from all fifty states...
...Irving, wearing a yarmulka, will make a brief appearance, but he won't be allowed to stay...
...Children sense that right off, as do parents...
...Invitation Readers are invited— and encouraged—to submit material for The Spice Box...
...As to Robertson, what kind of a job is that for a Jewish boy...
...youth has a way of being outgrown...
...The book, appearing at a time when the denizens of the microscopic world have adapted to many of man's most celebrated chemical control agents, is informative and sometimes grimly humorous...
...Elizabeth is giving him a Bark Mitzvah...
...Yes, Schochet is a real person—a professor at the University of Judaism and rabbi in Canoga Park, CA...
...Pall aire took the matter to the U.S...
...Several readers, among them Diane Burhenne of NYC, sent in this American Kiddish Dictionary, which appeared in the May 31 Family Circle...
...So here we have a case of a Jew who wants to wear a beard in order to pretend to be a non-Jew...
...And for Wyoming, South Carolina, North Dakota, Alabama, Alaska or Hawaii, you'll get a special prize of good intentions (andlittle else...
...Quick, where are they...
...Elizabeth continues to talk about the trials of rearing Irving "to the point where he's coming of age—1-Vz____ Twice he broke through the kitchen wall, and when he was teething, he destroyed ?4,000 In furniture...
...Else, asks our friendly office pessimist, what could explain this ad...
...5. Affinity for eagles.'" B. Spotted by Bess Katz in the Books and Leisure Section of the June 19 Philadelphia Inquirer and reprinted here, word-for-word...
...Rest easy, loyal fans...
Vol. 8 • September 1983 • No. 8
