THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
`Latkes Make You Civilized'
Friday,' December 10, 1976 45 °
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the Bible prophesizing
Hamilton was born in
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the restoration of Israel.
If I can't Beat Your Best Deal
the West Indies. His
"You see," said Lloyd mother was a French
Jews eat latkes. That is
understood all over the George, "I can do nothing Creole who vas married
world. There are Russian about this. It is all writ- to a Jew named Levin, but
the two separated and his
Jews, American Jews, ten in the Bible."
Wonder what some at mother later lived with a
French Jews, tall and
at the Same
short Jews, Republicans, the United Nations would Scotsman, Hamilton, and
Democrats, but one thing do if someone rose and Alexander was their off-
spring.
is common — they like read the Bible to them?
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Meanwhile, Dorothy
There is -a tradition,
latkes. That is fundamen-
tal — like all men are Schiff is parting with her however, that his mother
ARNOLD MARoOLIS
created equal. If you eat paper — the New York sent young Alexander to
latkes, you feel good, you Post — the oldest news- a Jewish school and the
On All Name Brands
are friendly to everyone, paper in the United States, legend has it that Hamil-
you are charitable, you founded by Alexander ton could recite the Ten
are just, you will not tol- Hamilton in 1801, when Commandments in He-
erate the thought of war Thomas Jefferson was brew. We don't know
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President.
whether Hamilton ate
— you are civilized.
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Alexander Hamilton any latkes. His great op-
Latkes are good any
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time of the year, but this was not Jewish, but he ponent, Jefferson, proba-
is the special season. Be- had a Jewish half- bly would have liked
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sides, the benevolent ef-. brother, Peter Levin of latkes. Jefferson liked
Hrs.
Mon thru Sat. 9:30 ti) 5:30
feet of the latkes, there is South Carolina, with "milkhige" food; didn't Amp.,
whom
he
corresponded.
eat much meat.
the historical signifi-
cance and with a special
meaning perhaps to the
world of today.
The world faces an oil
shortage. The Hanuka
latke recalls the story of
such a shortage. When
Judas Maccabeus entered
the Temple after defeating
the Syrian General
Antiochus, there was oil
enough there for only one
day but it miracuously
lasted for a week. How
could one better celebrate
that 'than by eating latkes?
They liked them so much
that now latkes are com-
mon at all times of the
year.
The Maccabean victory
had consequences for the
entire world — but only to
the Jews. -
Today the world has an
oil problem again.
Israel cannot supply
the oil, yet the fact seems
to be that Israel is help-
ing to keep the price of oil
lower.
Recently the Associated
Press reported on a meet-
ing of 10 of the Arab oil
nations in Kuwait. The
dispatch quotes -a member
of the group warning the
others to be moderate in
raising the oil price. He
warned that if they raised
the price too much, they
would be doing exactly
"what the Zionists want
them to do."
In other words, they
fear that a large increase
in the price of oil would
benefit Israel, and not
wanting that, they are
forced not to raise the
price too much.
So Israel is helping
keep the price of oil down
to some extent. So I think
the whole world should
begin to eat 19,tkes.
Eli Evans, a Southern
Jewish writer, recently
noted that Jimmy Car-
ter's support of Israel
stems from his Baptist
belief in the Bible.
This recalls a little inci-
dent that happened at the
time of the Balfour Decla-
ration. A small group of
English Jews opposed
Zionism and the Balfour
Declaration. Lloyd
George, who was them
Prime Minister, asked
them to have breakfast
with him.
They came, had their
toast and tea and Lloyd
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