COMPILED BY ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM
Guess Which President's
Granddaughter Wed Mr. Cohen
I
t's party time again for
the presidents. Cele-
brating birthdays this
month: Andrew Jackson
(March 15), James Madi-
son (March 16), Grover
Cleveland (March 18) and
John Tyler (March 29).
Now, all you Albert
Einsteins, see if you can
correctly identify the
birthday presidents with
the following stories (and
don't cheat and look at the
bottom for answers before
you even wager a guess!):
1) This
man was
the only
president
who could
read He-
a
brew,
he
skill
acquired in
religious
studies at
Princeton
University.
He also
was the
first presi-
dent to
\ _
appoint a Jew to a diplo-
matic post. Mordechai
Manuel Noah served from
1813-1816 as consul gen-
eral to Tunis.
2) Noah later became a
New York City newspaper
editor and a Democratic
Party partisan. He threw
his support behind this
candidate's 1828 bid for
the presidency. When the
he
won,
candidate
appointed Noah as survey-
or of the Port of New
York.
3) When this president
referred to Americans as a
"Christian people," it
incurred a protest from
Jacob Ezekiel, the Jewish
communal leader of
Richmond, Va. In his
reply to Mr. Ezekiel, the
president admitted his
error. He stated, "For the
people of whom you are
one, I can feel none other
than profound respect."
4) During this pres-
ident's
first
term, he
nomi-
nated
John
Kieley
as U.S.
minister
to Aus-
tria. The
Austrian
govern-
m en t
refused
to accept
Kieley
because his wife was
Jewish. The president left
the post vacant rather
than capitulate to the
Austrians.
In 1968, this president's
granddaughter, Marion,
married Alfred Cohen.
ANSWERS:
1) James Madison 2)
Andrew Jackson 3) John
Tyler 4) Grover Cleveland.
What's Cooking In Israel
he Israel Embassy
in Washington,
D.C., has produced
a cookbook that will give
Americans a new taste of
Israel.
Distributed by the
Buena Vista, Calif.,
Chapter of Hadassah, the
cookbook includes recipes
from the diverse commu-
nities throughout Israel
and reflect the geograph-
ical origins of the people
who have settled there.
In addition to tradi-
tional Jewish favorites,
recipes in the book
include baba ghanouj
(eggplant salad),
bourekas, baklava and
shaksbouka (eggs in
tomato sauce), Preceding
the recipes, all of which
area kosher, are explana-
tions of their history and
development.
The cookbook costs $3
plus '75 cents postage.
Checks should be made
payable to Hadassah. To
order, write Ethel
Morrow, P.O. Box
230970, Encinitas, CA
92023.
Of Chic en, urger
And Really Tough Men
erusalem (JTA) -
e ll' McDonald's
has filed
Free Pesach
Checklist
T
National
he
Halachah Hotline
is offering a free
checklist to help everyone
through those last,
thrilling days of scouring
the house for Pesach.
The guide offers a
detailed listing of house-
hold items that must be
thoroughly cleaned and
searched for chametz.
For a copy of the check-
list, send a self-
addressed, stamped enve-
lope to the National
Halachah Hotline, 225
Division Ave. #3-C,
Brooklyn, NY 11211.
Rabbi's Brother
Saves The Day
or months, the Israel
office of the North
American Conference
on Ethiopian Jewry was
overflowing with duffel
bags, cartons and suitcas-
es full of children's
clothes, school supplies,
toys and other much-need-
ed things donated from
America. The only prob-
lem: there was no place to
put it all.
Then Rabbi Philip
Spectre of the Masorti
movement (brother of
Adat Shalom's Rabbi Efry
Spectre) found free stor-
age space for the
NACOEJ. Now everything
has a temporary place -
until it finds a permanent
home with a new immi-
grant family.
For information about
donating items or taking a
duffel bag to Israel for the
NACOEJ, contact the
Conference at 165 E. 56th
St., New York, NY 10022.
F
Empire Koshe oultry
for allegedly infringing
on its trademark.
an official Complaint
Perdue has long based
against Israel for its
its advertising campaign
efforts to prevent . the
on a slogan made famous
company from importing
by owner and spokesman
its own potatoeS for frari-
Frank Perdue: "It takes a
Chi.ses slated to open
tough man to make a ten-
there by the end of next
der chicken."
d Now Empire,
year.
in a new
is
a vertising carapitign
The company filed the
k
complaint with the U.S.‘ using
the tag line, "It
government
hat Israel was obstruct-
' man to 'make if .kosher
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e
ti ‘ o en . agnr_dautnhdast
eh
a i ce k s en a "niin
ev de e li.'t(I4gje :
Moses
Israeli potatoes do not of
'Mici olding
' h the 10
dm t
meet the standards for
.
to Perdue's
its French fries:..
Adeording t-
ca m-
McDonald's has begun
aNV3-
s
constitutes
issuing franchiSes to
of Perdue ' s
local . ‘businessMen.
infringe—iitl_ and:. false,
throtighout' Israel; .-But it
;also'
as - insisted that it be advertising' Perdue
says `e ne ,adVertise,-
lloWed tesiinPort its own
. ii0; cr: have 'Israeli‘
e
new
cour t
t meet
tkrin
raillero s f poto
gtra°wes to
nd refused
e
is strict standards.
didrt°t
. asg
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a ry ts,
tempor .ns
eanwh le in other
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Museum Hosts Chagall Exhibit
T
he Art Institute of
Chibago is hosting
through May 7 a set
of murals created in the
1920s by Rus-
sian painter
Marc Chagall
to decorate
the State
Jewish
Chamber
Theatre in
Moscow.
"Marc Cha-
gall: The
Jewish
Theatre
Murals" pre-
sents works
Mr. Chagall
considered
his master-
pieces. They
explore such
themes as ‘ ,
music, dance, \
drama and literature.
The exhibit, on loan
from the State Treti'iakov
Gallery, will return to
Moscow following its visit
in Chicago.
Completing the exhibit
will be photos, posters and
sketches to help create a
picture of the
development
of the secular
Jewish the-
ater move-
ment during
an unusual
period of in-
novation and
experimenta-
tion in the
post-Revo-
lutionary
Soviet Union.
Mr. Chagall
became in-
volved in a
campaign to
promote a na-
tional Jewish
art program
early on in
his career. He
was commissioned to de-
sign sets and costumes for
40r-s,
opening night - Jan. 1,
1921 - of the new State
Jewish Chamber Theatre.
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