It's a Miracle of Division
_Barbara Ginsburg
to illarry an Ohioan
The Multiplication of the Matzo
By CHARLOTTE HYAMS
Now that Pesach is almost over,
I feel compelled to bring a critical
problem to the attention of the
proper authorities. It has to do
with the crumblability of matzo.
From the long-ago days when I
was toting hard-boiled eggs in a
Mickey Mouse lunch bucket through
the years of hard-boiled eggs
squashed between two psychology
textbooks and a half-ton volume
of Shakespeare, I never did fill in
that blank in my education: how
to transport and consume matzo
with a modicum of finesse.
The problem is two-fold. How,.
I would like to know, did our
forefathers get all that matzo
out of Egypt? Plainly, they had
no little brown lunch bags,
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waxed paper and rubber bands
to smooth the journey. Ah, but
neither did they ride the DSR
to the Promised Land.
It is beyond the ken of mortal
passenger how it happens, but
somehow a perfect quadrangle is
atomized into hundreds of crumbly
little pentagons, octagons and such.
Suddenly, it's no longer matzo, but
matzoth.
(In all fairness to public transit,
even when I stole the afikomon,
wrapped so neatly in its white
napkin, it was always returned in
a condition past recognition. For
this had I plotted and connived
and crawled beneath the table and
endured the knowing glances of
my elders? For crumbs?)
Second, there is the problem of
detection. No Jew who is proud of
his heritage should be ashamed to
eat matzo in public for five days
or so; it is a proud badge of
freedom.
But, in all honesty, until you've
hickuped during a sermon, you
won't know how it feels to crunch
matzo in a quiet office.
I remember, back in my college
days eons ago, I often would gulp
down my noon meal in the base-
ment of doddering Old Main, where
lunchroom facilities had been im-
provised for sandwich carriers.
Notorious as it was for a lack
of aesthetic value, Old Main had
many other qualities, among
them an amazing echo-carrying
property. Even crouched beneath
the sagging stairway, I knew
that every chewful of matzo was
being transmitted the length and
breadth of Old Main's many
chambers.
And like the blowing of the
shofar, it drew to my corner others
in like circumstances. There, in
our below-stairs ghetto, my Jewish
brethren and I gathered on the
Passover to munch matzo.
Ah, truly the bread of affliction.
Shad Polier, chairman of the American Jewish Congress, having
governing council of the Ameri- served° for 10 years as chairman
can Jewish Congress, will deliver of the organization's commission
a major address on "Crisis in on law and social action. Since
MISS BARBARA GINSBURG
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Gins-
burg of Oakwood Dr., Oak Park,
announce the engagement of their
daughter Barbara Elaine to Ralph
H. Wexler, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Hyman Wexler of Cleveland. A
July 5 wedding is planned.
Paul Schoenfield to Play
at New York Town Hall
Men's Clubs
sing, will represent the Jewish
Chautauqua Society as lecturer at
Hillsdale College in • Hillsdale,
Mich., May 11. He will speak at
assembly at 11 a.m. in the Col-
lege Baptist Church on the sub-
ject "Judaism and the Democratic
Tradition."
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but opposed certain provisions of
the Morse-Perkins Education Bill
as being "contrary to American
tradition and in violation of the
first amendment." It recently
announced it is planning to test
the constitutionality of the new
S1,300,000,000 school aid law.
Polier, a noted constitutional
lawyer, is a veteran leader of the
1959 he has been writing a week-
ly newsletter on civil rights and
civil liberties developments.
Polier is also a member of the
executive of the World Jewish
Congress. and serves on the
boards of the Conference on
Jewish Material Claims against
Germany and the World Confer-
ence of Jewish Organizations.
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Church and State," 8:30 p.m.
Thursday at the Jewish Center.
Polier will discuss why the A J
Congress hopes to test the consti-
tutionality of the aid-to-education
act, as well as its
impact on the
fp ublic school
system, the prin-
ciple of separa-
tion of church
and state and the
Jewish com-
munity.
The meeting is
sponsored by the
Michigan Coun-
cil of the Ameri-
can Jewish Con-
gress and is open
to the public at
no charge. Dr.
Leon Fram,
president of the
Polier
Michigan Council of the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress spoke out for
large-scale aid to public schools
Detroit-born pianist Paul Schoen-
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York Town Hall in a recital Wed-
nesday evening.
Ballroom Dancing by
Son of Dr. and Mrs. Gilbert D.
Schoenfield, the artist studied pi-
ano from age 6 with composer-
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as soloist and with orchestras. A
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NEW YORK CITY — Plans for an Temple. The degree team of Wind-
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Jewish high school students ent. Mosaic Ladies will be guests.
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has even been known to do this of the Detroit and Michigan real
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