Bnai Brith Reports
31,860 Enrolled in '61
AJC Women. Honor 'Comic-of-Year' Pioneer Women Plan Bond Fete on Feb. 22
Bnai Brith enrolled 31,860 new
members in 1961. Dr. William
A.. Wexler of Savannah, chair-
man of the organization's Mem-
bership Cabinet, reported 19,121
men's lodges and, for the first
nine. months, 12;739 in Bnai
Brith Women.
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Yeshiva U. Gets Grant From
General Electric Foundation
Yeshiva University has re-
ceived a. $1,500 unrestricted
grant for: the 1962-63 academic
Ye# from the General Electric
FOundation.
This marks the second con-
settitiVe year in General Elec-
tric's program that the Univer-
sity has been chosen as one of
ten American liberal arts insti-
tutions td receive the grant.
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Announcements
Jan. 28—To Mr. and Mrs.
Sid Matthews of Montreal (for-
merly of Windsor, Ont.), a
daughter.
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Jan. 26—To Mr. and Mrs.
Donald Goldberg (Florence
Hoffman), 19755 Monte Vista,
a daughter, Janice Beth.
*. • *
Jan. 24—To Mr. and Mrs. Nel-
son S. Chase (Carole R. Port-
ney), 16901 Washburn, a son,
Jeffrey Jacob.
* *
Jan. 21 — To Mr. and Mrs.
Walter S. Siporin (Gloria Fen-
ton), former Detroiters now
living at 6300 Dawson, Des
Moines, Iowa, a son, Kenneth
David.
* * *
Jan., 20 — To Mr. and Mrs.
Allen Shapiro (Donna Rubin),
24669 Rensselaer, Oak Park, a
son, Mark David.
* * *
Jan. 19 — To Mr. and Mrs.
Murray J. Chodak (Joan Lynn
Horwood), 10064 W. Lincoln,
Huntington Woods, a daughter,
Lesley Jo. -
"Comedian-of-the-Year" Dick Gregory, honored by the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress women's division "for his contributions
of humor and wit in the fight against bigotry and bias,"
receives an original oil painting done by a young Israeli at
the. Louise Waterman Wise Youth Center in Jerusalem, built
and supported by the AJCongress women's group. Left, Justice
Justine Wise Polier, honorary president of the AJCongress
women's group; right, Kate Krautheimer, chairman of the
luncheon honoring Dick Gregory.
Culinary Art of Ancient Israel
The current issue of Atlas,
"the monthly magazine of th,e
world press," carries an article
on "Food at the Time of
Christ," by Henry Daniel-Rops,
in an English translation from
Cuisine at Vins de France of
Paris. It maintains in part:
"Was Palestine really a `la
flowing with milk and hon
These two products so de
the wandering Hebrew tri
antiquity were still very
in use among the Jews
settled in the Promised
Cow's milk was not only
but less favored than she
or goat's milk, and while al
milk tended to coagulate
quickly because of the heat, the
resultant curds were eaten. The
Jews also knew that 'the churn-
ing of milk bringeth forth but-
ter,' to which Proverbs curi-
ously adds, 'and the wringing
of the nose bringeth forth
blood.' In rural areas butter
was made by slowly shaking the
milk in a sheepskin suspended
from a three-legged stand.
There was also a considerable
production of cheese; perhaps
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the valley of the Tyropoeon
To Mr. and Mrs. ("the cheese makers") in Jeru-
Jan. 17
Henry Lybeck (Faye D. Wad- sale because it
ncient
e site of a
dell), 10679 W. Ten Mile Oa
Park, a son, Theodore Panret. cheese market.
more w ely
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milk. Actually, it as
use.
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where they were
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against maraudi
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onions, whi
ned to relish in
ple had
eir greens were en-
Egyp
div
d lettuce, cooked or raw;
also ate bulbs and roots
e salsify, Jerusalem arti-
hokes and certain vanes of
iris.
"The Je used
king
for all o their
done wit oil. Palestine's
that
groves
e so abun
scented
the excellent, h
exported. 01-
product cou
aten, then as now,
ives w
ved in brine or oil. Olive
oil was often extracted by small
household presses, but there
were also commercial presses
where men or donkeys turned
a shaft that rotated a vertical
millstone set over a vat to re-
ceive the oil. There were sev-
eral grades, and the first qual-
ity—virgin oil—was kept for lit-
urgical purposes and for the
finest pastry. Oil was an abso-
lute necessity, having man
uses in medicine as well
the kitchen, so it is
prising that it appe
least thirty Biblic
as a symbol of
strength.
Lastly, fruit
s an impo
tant part of the set of the ti
Melons, figs,
pes, pomegr
ates and sy
ore figs o
appeared o he table, as
walnuts, al
ds and the p
chios whit were slight
roasts 'in e sun. Mulberries
grew alo
the hedgerows.
Dates, esp ally those of Jeri-
cho, were chly prized. So
fruits were •ed, cert. •
gs
and perhaps , o make
a sort of "cake"—the term
"cake of figs" appears several
times in the Bible—like those
still made in Turkey. The dried
fruit of Palestine was sold as
far away as Rome.
Unfortunately it is hard to
get an accurate idea of the
Jewish culinary art of 2,000
years ago. Hittite and Egyptian
recipes have been found, but no
Israelite cordon bleu chef has
left us his secrets."
This issue of Atlas contains a
number of articles in which the
mistreatment of Jews in the
Soviet Union is exposed by au-
thoritative Jewish and non-
Jewish authors.
r hand, eggs
we r
m e kitehe
hey
ar never mentioned i
Old
Testament, and in
Gospel
only St.
e word in
Jesus' -`
f course,
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a,estinia ut from
e Diaspora. Poultry as not
introduc
into Palesti
until
Award for Koufax
afte
nd e n then
When the 1961 prizes and
c e
,gs
ich the
man pre are
so many awards were handed out, Sandy
ways) appea •
on the ta- Koufax, the lefthanded fast-
baller, was not overlooked. At
egeta
er, formed the close of the year, the Los
an im
nt part
he ordi- Angeles Times gave out its
nary
tinian diet broad sports awards. Roger Maris,
all ent
beans
o
(the quite obviously, was the top
d
Esau's man. And Ralph Houk, the Yan-
ot ,e'
hem at kee manager, also was honored.
least as early as
esis), cu- Koufax got his prize for setting
cumbers—so
prized that a National League record of
they we
n in large pejo§ 269 strikeouts.
Detroit Council of Pioneer
Women is sponsoring its annual
Israel Bond event, Feb. 22,
12:30 p.m., it
w a s announc-
ed by Mrs.
Norman L e e-
mon, pres i-
dent, and Mrs.
Jack Gosman,
Council Israel
Bond chair-
man.
Mrs. Al ex
Schreier w i 11
host the affair Mrs. Leemon
at her home, 13322 Borgman,
Huntington Woods. -
Guest of honor will be Judith
Beilin, Consul of Israel in Ne
York, who was the Israel f
eign ministry's liaison to
hundreds of correspondents c
ering the Eichmann trial. A
the underground radio voice of
Israel she was chosen to an-
nounce the establishment of the
State of Israel on May 14, 1948.
Israel Bond chairmen of chap-
ters who will serve on the Pio-
neer Women's committee for
this event are: Mesdames Mich-
ael .0 lin, Harry Lome, Sam
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religious grounds
who
rk the llot paper on the
wish Sabbath to have their
he presidi
votes record
officer.
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