Friday, September 12, 1947

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

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Paul Muni Cracks
Jokes With Ease

"it's not two people making love;
it's a lot of commodities getting
together."
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Testing Your Jewish Knowledge
BUT MUNI is a modest le/IOW
and he has never taken himself,
As part of its program of service to Jewish Community
or the praise often lavished on
Centers and YM-YWHAs, as well as other Jewish community
Actor Creates Puns
him, too seriously. When a play
agencies, the National Jewish Welfare Board has published a
of his flopped he said, "I think
to Meet Situation
102-page book entitled 'THE JEWISH HOLIDAYS-A Guide
the take must have been the
to Their Origin, Significance and Observance" by Dr. Mordecai
lowest gross in Broadway his-
Soltes. From this book we have extracted this Rosh Hashonah-
By ELYEll NATHANS
Yorn Kippur quia)
WHEREVER GOOD acting is tory. Just think! thirty dollars
mentioned, Paul Muni's
name automatically enters the
QUESTIONS
conversation. It's typical of the
1. What do the words "Rosh liashonah" mean?
Wishing All Friends
man that he started his acting
2. When is Rosh Hashonah observed?
career in the %Jewish theatre
3. What does "Yom Kippur" mean?
A Happy, Prosperous
4. On what day in the Jewish calendar does Yom Kippur fall? playing old men at the age of
New Year
5. By what special Hebrew name are the High Holy Days 13 and only now has gotten
around to playing characters
called?
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6. By what three names is Rosh Hashonah known?
Mr. and Mrs.
7. What is a Shofar?
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8. When is the Shofar blown?
MANUEL KAPLAN
9. By what Hebrew name is the person whc blows the
Shofar. known?
10. Name three occasions in the life of the Jewish people on
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which the Shofar was sounded in ancient times.

20 Questions for Holy Days

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in two nights.. No one can equal

that."

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ACTING as master of cere-
monies at an amateur contest
one night, Muni was introduced
to a young girl, who, though she
spoke with a broad Harvard ac
cent, said her father was a
painter.
"House painter?" asked Muni.
"Just fine," she carolled back.

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4.
5.

ANSWERS
Beginning of the year (literally, "head of the year").
On the first day of Tishri, the seventh month in the He-
brew calendar.
Day of Atonement.
On the tenth day of Tishri.
Yomim Noraim (Solemn Days or Days of Awe).

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6. Day of Judgment (Yom Hadid), Day of Remembering
(Yom Hazikaron), and Day of Blowing the- Shofar
(Yom T'ruah).
7. An old surviving wind instrument, usually made of the
horn of a ram, which is blown in the synagogue on the
High Holy Days.
8. During the morning Service on Rosh Hashonah and at the
concluding Service on Yom Kippur.
9. A "Baal Tokeah."
10. To announce the new moon and festivals; to proclaim the
jubilee or year of release; to issue a call to battle; to
communicate tidings of victory. (Any three).
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11. L'Shanah Tobah Tikateb V'tehatem (May you be inscribed
and sealed for a happy year).
12. The 10 days of penitence which are devoted to earnest
self-examination. They begin with the New Year (Rosh
Hashonah), and end with the Day of Atonement (Yom
Kippur).
13. In the afternoon of the first day of Rosh Hashonah, if it
does not fall on a Sabbath, many Jews assemble along
the banks of a stream or river and recite verses from the
prophets, and appropriate penitential prayers.
14. It is based on the sentiment expressed in the following
passage from the prophetic book Micah: He will again
have compassion upon us; He will subdue our iniquities.
And Thou wilt cast (Hebrew, V'tashlikh) all their sins
into the depths of the sea."
15. A special prayer which begins the Synagogue service on
the eve of the Day of Atonement.
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16. Vows made in the heat of passion which an individual
assumed for himself alone, and which concern his rela-
tion to his conscience or Heavenly Judge.
17. By total abstinence from all kinds of food and gratifica-
tion of other material desires.
18. For sins involving the individual's relation to God, but
not for wrongs committed against another person, unless
they are rectified.
19. Isaac and Samuel.
20. At the conclusion of the Day of Atonement.

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"Kupat Holim" (Workers' Sick
Fund) Maternity Hospital at
Hedera is another step towards
the solution of the very serious
problem of hospitalizatior which
is general throughout Palestine
and which is particularly acute
as far as the working community
and "Kupat Holim" are con-
cerned.
The new hospital has 30 beds
and is provided with up-to-date
equipment. Although its quota of
beds is relatively small, the hos-
pital will be able to accommodate
1,000 mothers a year in the Sa-
maria district and thus allevi-
ate the pressure on other hospi-
tals.

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ROSH HASHONNAH
GREETINGS TO ALL

PAUL MUNI
whose ages are commensurate
with his own. "I had to become
forty before I could play a man
of thirty," he once commented
wrily.
WHEN HE first came to Hol-
lywood, Muni was obliged to
follow the inane but contract-
insisted custom of escorting
pretty starlets so that the two
would be photographed together
or be mentioned as a 'two-
some." T h e happily-married
Muni was inflicted with an
empty-headed lovely who, when
they sat down to dine, sighed,
"Oh dear, if only I weren't on a
diet! Is banana shortcake really
fattening."
Muni smiled and answered,
"Only if you eat it."
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NOT ONE to be intimidated
by. studio politics, Muni tells
the story of a producer for
whom a studio banquet was pre-
pared. At the last minute the
banquet had to be called off.
"What made the incident
doubly tragic," says Muni, "is
that he spent the entire after-
noon in the make-up depart-
ment having a lump put in his
throat."

OF A CERTAIN movie singer
with operatic pretense, Muni
said. "She is the only singer
who ever got an answer from
Chloe."
BUT, IF these anecdotes imply
that Muni is acid-tongued, that
impression is erroneous. Like
many other talented artists
Muni has rebelled against the
mechanical meatgrinder in Hol-
lywood where individual ability
is often ignored in place of sex
and crime.
"When two stars make love
on the screen," Muni observed,

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15. What is the "Kol Nidre"?
16. What kind of oaths are annulled by tile recital of Kol
Nidre?
17. How is the Biblical admonition "Ye shall afflict yourselves"
on Yom Kippur, interpreted traditionally in practice?
18. For what kind of transgression does Yom Kippur atone?
19. What two great Jewish personalities of ancient times are
said to have been born on Rosh Hashonah?

LEINOFF and SON

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11. What special greeting do worshippers extend to each
other at the end of the Service, on the eve of Rosh
Hashonah?
12. What are the Aseret Y'me T'shubah?
13. Describe the ceremony known as "tashlikh."
14. What is the right of the custom of "tashlikh."

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