Friday, November 16, 1945
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
So They Tell Me .
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By LOUIS W. ENFIELD
This story was told by a learn-
ed sermonizer in the course of a
speech made to a congregation.
It has a very instructiv e moral.
I beg the public to read it very
carefully.
when her family was glad that
there was no audience for her
acting ability. That was when
this littl e girl was in the seventh
grade in public school about four
years ago.
In a little town in Poland,
there was one very rich Jew. It
was his custom every Friday
night and Sabbath morning to
invite any stranger in town to
his table. One Friday, a gaunt
Jew with a long black beard ap-
peared and was invited for the
Sabbath meals.
Rabbi Levi Delivers
Inaugural Sermon
Rabbi Eliezer A. Levi, recently
called to the pulpit by Congrega-
tion Bnai Moshe, will deliver his
inaugural sermon at services on
Monday, Nov. 19, at 8 p.m.
"Leadership in American Israel"
is the subject
of Rabbi Levi's
address.
Local rabbis,
t h e presidents
and officers of
the various
con greg ations,
members of the
Julius R o se n-
wald Post Am-
RABBI LEVI erican Legion,
the Jewish War
Veterans and the general public
are invited to join the Bnai Mo-
she membership in attendance at
the services and to greet Rabbi
and Mrs. Levi at the reception in
the the social hall, to follow.
Her family gave a cocktail par-
ty and the little miss was assign-
ed to help out in the kitchen. She
filled plates and glasses and
washed them when they came
back half empty. Everythin g was
proceeding smoothly when sud-
denly from the kitchen there
cam e a crash of chinaware. There
This Jew, saddened by many followed the sweet voice of the
unhappy experiences in the course child, singing at the top of her
of his travels, took some precau- lung, selection s
from the march-
tions. At the services in the syn- ing song, "Bless Them All." Over
agogue on Friday eve, he ap- and over she sang the words.
proached one of the elderly gen-
The family rushed to the kitch-
tlemen in the congregation and
en to investigate. There sat the
began to sound him out.
little miss on a pile of broken
"I am invited tonight," he china. She would rise with a dish LOMZER LUNCHEON
started, "to eat at the table of in her hands, stagger across the
Mrs. Morris Schneider, of the
Reb Chaim. Could you give me floor and drop the dish.
Lomzer
Ladies Social Club, gave
a sort of hint, so that I may
There was no way out of the a luncheon at her home in hon-
know what to expect? Just what kitchen except through the throng
or of her son on Nov. 7.
kind of a meal should I expect?" of guests and the family couldn't
Enough money was raised at
The other looked at him grave- stand that. So they left her there this affair to enable the club to
ly.
sitting on the pile of broken adopt a child in Palestine.
"When yen sit at Reb Chaim's dishes and continuing to drain
The Club is giving a Latke
table tonign," he began, "you what was left in the returned party at the home of Mrs. Louis
Kahn, of 19313 Santa Barbara
will find it laid out beautifully. cocktail glasses.
on Dec. 2, at 6 p.m. Friends are
They will serve you first with a
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relatives are invited.
large portion of fish, excellent
In the good old days when Fer-
fish. There will also be on the
table a whole platter of white dinand was Archduke of Austria, NW CONG. AND CENTER
bread. Take my advice and fill that good man lay in his bed
The Board of Directors of the
up on that bread with your fish one night and decided that he Northwest Hebrew Congregation
could
use
a
sniff
of
snuff.
He
re-
because that's the only course
and Center met last week at
they serve. There won't be any membered that his gold snuff box the home of Max Newman, the
was lying on the dining room chairman of the ritual commit-
more."
table where he had left it after tee. They announced that work
The stranger thanked his in- supper. But as he got up to get
on the first wing of the syna-
formant gratefully and went off it, a thought struck him.
gogue will be started in the
to supper. The table was set
"Ferdinand," he said to him- near future so that use may be
beautifully. After the kiddush.
self,
"you are the Archduke. The made of its quarters within a
he was served a large portion of
matter of months.
fish. It was excellent. A huge eyes of Austria are on you. What
The Board also directed the
would the people of Austria say
platter was filled with slices of
Sunday School to have its di-
if
they
knew
their
ruler
had
so
white bread. The guest filled up
rector, Allen A. Warsen, pres-
on this white bread. Slice after little control over his desires that ent at the National Conference
he
must
rise
from
his
bed
just
to
slice he ate until he couldn't eat
of Religious School Educators
get a sniff of snuff?"
another mouthful.
in Cincinnati.
So he decided to do without
Then other courses began to
BUY VICTORY BONDS
be served. Lovely chicken soup the snuff. Then another thought
struck him.
HELP BRING THE BOYS
with noodles and kenaidalach,
BACK HOME
"Ferdinand," he continued in
roast chicken with tantalizing
the
one-way
conversation
with
odors, three different kinds of
desserts, delicious fruits. The himself, "the eyes of Austria are
poor Jew had to refuse every on you. Would they not think
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ed himself on bread. He nearly cause you were too lazy?"
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He lay on his bed and thought.
wept at what he had missed.
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The next morning, at the Sab- Finally, he got up from bed, went moony sauna Hors. No. 1240 rolling-
wood. $200,000. Terms $ 40 . 0 00. for
bath services he located his white downstairs to the dining room, deed. Assume nage.
picked
up
the
golden
snuff
box,
bearded friend and upbraided
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him bitterly. The other replied, opened it, closed it without tak- stoves,
see this. $15,000 rash for deed, as-
"I'm sorry, it was a mistake. It ing any snuff, and then went SUMP mtge.
Mr. Bedford, ('a. 0321
is not on Friday night that your back to his room and lay on his
benefactor serves this kind of a bed. Then another thought sud-
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meal. I forgot. It is on Saturday denly came to him.
"Ferdinand," he said sadly to
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bread this time because that's
all you'll get."
The same thing happened at
the next meal. The Jew filled
up on bread till he could eat no
more. Then course after course
was served. Chalint, baked all the
previous night till it was crisp
and brown. Mandel soup that
made his eyes pop out. Three dif-
ferent kinds of meats, including
roast duck that was a sight for
sore eyes. Four desserts and cv-
y kind of fruit imaginable. The
!mor Jew wept with chagrin and
disappointment.
I don't know the end of this
4ory. I heard it almost thirty
rears ago and it had a beautiful
inoral. It also had a very clever
inding. So I beseech the readers.
If anyone of you ever heard the
ending of this story, please write
m and tell it to me. I will pub-
lish your name and my thanks.
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One of our dear friends is a
little sixteen-year-old school girl
• who comes to the house every so
often. Her starry eyes are always
`hiring and her ambition is to
be an actress. She is always as-
umin g dramatic poses, speaking
:n a cultured voice and otherwise
diving notice that the stage will
he her medium.
There was one time, however,
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