Mood in Food: 0 Those Blintzes!
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright 1974, JTA, Inc.)
The airlines, it was told,
are finding that the demand
on them for kosher food is
growing and especially among
non-Jews.
Heinrich Heine said that if
Christianity besides taking
over so much Jewish doctrine
had taken over Jewish food,
it might have made a much
easier conquest of the world.
Heine said that many Jewish
apostates found it difficult to
renounce Jewish food. They
would slink back, when un-
ibserved, to the ghetto to get
zefreshments from Jewish
cooking.
Who knows, perhaps kosh-
er food might bring about
that fraternity of nations
which the prophets foretold.
We suspect that there
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might be other gains from
this change of diet. We have
long held a theory that the
lessened alcoholism among
Jews is to be explained by
the tastier Jewish dishes.
With borscht, gefilte fish,
kreplach before you, the
Scotch whiskey doesn't seem
such a bargain. It can wait
and you don't mind if you
don't have it. You are al-
ready in a good mood.
The mood is as important
as the food. And that brings
another thought. With the
spread of Jewish food among
non-Jews, it is to be hoped
they will also, like the Jews,
eat the Jewish way. We hope
they will learn to make a
braha before eating. You
don't really eat Jewish food
right until you learn to make
a braha. Making a braha
shouldn't be difficult.
How do you make a braha?
It really, as I say, is very
simple. Suppose you want to
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eat an apple. You take the
apple and then you open your
mouth and say, "Blessed art
thou, 0 Lord, who created
the fruit of the tree." That is
all there is to it. That's the
braha. You have made it.
Now you can eat the apple.
Or suppose you want to
cat a piece of bread. In the
same way, you open your
your mouth and r e c it e:
"Blessed art Thou, 0 Lord,
who brought forth bread
from the earth."
The brahot are simple and
their theological content is
at one with all religions, so
there can be no objection on
the part of anyone to reciting
them.
We read that Secretary of
State Kissinger is dining with
some foreign diplomats. If
he wishes his detente to suc-
ceed, we suggest he call
Grossinger's and ask them to
prepare the meal. Secretary
Kissinger knows American
history. He should remember
what tea did in 1776.
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Mrs. Fleischer will lead a
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The purported 2,500-year- community at no charge. For
old tombs of Queen Esther information, call the syna-
of Persia and her cousin- gogue office, 851-5100.
guardian Mordecai in Hama-
dan, Iran, were viewed re-
cently by two Detroiters, on
a six-hour side trip f r o m
Teheran.
Leonard Simons, who with
The Vaad Harabonim, the
his wife Harriette made the Council of Orthodox Rabbis
journey to modern Persia, of Detroit, was commended
reported that a guide took Sunday for its "fame through-
them to a handsome new out the Torah world" for
building being erected by the "strengthening Torah Yid-
Shah of Iran to house the dishkeit" and for its work in
tombs as a national historic the field of kashrut.
treasure.
Speaking to more than 400
The eldest man among the guests and sponsors at the
Jewish residents of Hamadan 45th anniversary dinner of
traditionally is the custodian the Vaad at Cobo Hall, Rabbi
of the key, who had to un- Simon Schwab of Khal Adat
lock the door for the Ameri- Yeshurun of Washington
can visitors.
Heights, N. Y., said that it
"The door, in the ancient was "encouraging that so
burial custom of the country, many have joined to pre-
was a very small one," said serve laws of kashrut and
Simons. "We had to squeeze Torah Yiddishkeit."
our bodies through the little
Rabbi Leizer Levin, presi-
opening. The door was a dent of the Council, discuss-
single large stone of great ed the importance of kashrut
thickness that turned on its and the work of the Vaad.
own pivot.
Mr. and Mrs. Max Biber,
"Within the tomb were two the dinner's honorees, were
sarcophagi made of very nresented by State Sen. Jack
dark wood—side by side— Faxon with a Senate procla-
Each carved with intricate mation citing them for their
patterns plus a Hebrew in- work in philanthropic and
scription all around the top. religious organizations. Rabbi
This was one of the times James Gordon of Young 'Is-
I wished I knew how to trans- rael of Oak-Woods also pre-
late Hebrew.
sented the Bibers with a
"Here was the tomb of the plaque for "representing the
biblical heroine who had been People of the Book."
King - Ahasuerus' queen. The
A special presentation was
Persians call him Xerxes I— made to Mrs. Morris (Han-
grandson of Cyrus the Great, nah) Karbal by Rabbi Sam-
Son of Darius the Great, the uel Prero, in commemoration
two kings that permiltted the of the first anniversary of
reconstruction of the temple her husband's death.
and allowed the exiles in
Also seated on the dais
Babylonia to return to Judah. were David B. Hermelin,
"As I stood there thinking dinner chairman; Rabbi Er-
about how these tombs have nest Greenfield, president,
been guarded with loving care Vaad Ha'Ir; Julius Roten-
for 25 centuries — I realized berg, Morris Dorn, Rabbi
how important Jewish history Chaskel Grubner and Dr.
is in helping us keep our re- Samuel Krohn.
ligion alive and in existence
—through every conceivable
form of intentional human
cruelty—for so many thou-
ands of years. For me—that
was an exciting, emotional
experience."
Purim Spiel
Work of Vaad
Cited at Dinner
RABBI JACOB SEGAL
Shula Fleischer. A coffee
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session.
Rabbi Segal will lead three
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Torah portions read in the
synagogues on Sabbath. Couples to Focus
Rabbi Elias Schwartz, a
leader in the day schools' on Jewish Education
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The "Now and You" study-
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Na t i o n al Conference of Shalom Synagogue's Young
Yeshiva Principals, offers in `N' Marrieds will meet 8 p.m.
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non-tom" as being "to teach "New • Directions in Jewish
a way of life . . . to create Education."
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R a b b i Seymour Rosen-
Shabbos, to enrich and sanc- bloom, coordinator and gen-
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through Torah and Emes." group, will join in the discus-
Providing a summary for sion. For reservations, call
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Rabbi Schwartz thereby com-
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with a story related to the couples at least one of whom
Torah portion.
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April 1, a bonus film-lecture,
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Selected Topics on the Holo-
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