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One Potato, Two Potato
Which Potato For A Latke?

D

o you have about as many
brains as Mr. Potato
Head when it comes to
picking a spud for your latkes?
Have you actually been guilty —
gulp — of serving Chanukah
treats made with the wrong
potatoes?

The National Potato Council
is here to help you.
A spokeswoman for the Col-
orado-based organization rec-
ommends using Round Red and
Long White potatoes for
creations like latkes. These
spuds are especially moist, but
will hold together for dishes
such as scalloped potatoes, she
said.
This contrasts with a potato
like the Ruffet, which is fluffy
and good for baked potatoes.
Still, the spokeswoman
stopped short of actually en-
dorsing any one potato: "It's all
a matter of personal preference,"
she said.

The Fax
About Women

new project is seeking to
identify each place in the
A6 13 mitzvot where a
distinction is made between
women and men, and to con-
sider these distinctions
using legal and philosophical
sources.
The "Women in Judaism
Project" is being conducted
through the fax and the mail,
with participants in the United
States, Canada and Israel.
For information, call the
Nishma organization, 1-800-
267-6474.

Moscow School Seeks
Yiddish Teachers

W

ith an enrollment of
100 students between
the ages of 18 and 25,
a Yiddish teachers' training
institute in Moscow needs qual-
ified academicians and rabbis
fluent in Yiddish.
Now in its second year of
operation, the school is under
the auspices of the Foundation
for the Advancement of Yiddish
Studies in cooperation with
Touro College. It is seeking
American and Israeli educators
fluent in Yiddish to teach
Jewish history, tradition and
folklore, Chumash and Rashi,
movements and ideologies in
Jewish life, as well as Yiddish
language and literature.
The school will pay travel and
living expenses of volunteers,
who are expected to teach for

one month during their stay in
Moscow.
For additional information, or
to apply for a position, contact
Rabbi Milton Arm, 29180 Wood-
crest Ct., Southfield, 48076, or
call 358-2961.

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JNF Forest Honors Ryan White

T

he Jewish National
Fund has dedicated
a parkland in mem-
ory of Ryan White, who at
18 years old died of
AIDS.
Ryan White's par-
ents, Jeanne White
and Roy Ginder,
attended the dedi-
cation at JNF's
AIDS Memorial
Forest in Lahav,
north of Beershe-
va.
Ryan's case at-
tracted national attention

when, in 1985, officials at his
school in Kokomo, Ind., tried
to bar him from attending
classes. Although the fam-
ily won the case, Ryan
and his parents later
moved to
another city to avoid
continual harass-
ment.
The
Ryan
White memorial
parkland is the
.4- first in a series
commemorating
those who died of
AIDS.

el Aviv (JTA) — Thirty-
eight skeletons found six
years ago in a cave in the
Judean wilderness have proved
to be members of a single fam-
ily.
Archaeologists and anthro-
pologists who carried out
minute biochemical examina-
tions of the bones found a com-
mon genetic defect in all of
them, proving that the male
and female adults and children

were of the same family.
Scraps of parchment discov-
ered in the cave disclosed that
Yehoya Bar-Levy and his
family had taken refuge there
at the time of the Bar-Kochba
revolt, nearly 2,000 years ago.
Apparently, the family died
of asphyxiation when the Ro-
mans built fires at the entrance
to the cave.

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Take A Ride On A Chanukah Carousel,
Then Pop In At A Lively Party

ooking for a little some-
thing different to help
light up the holiday?
Among the myriad
Chanukah items out this year
are Hanukkah Carousel, a live-
ly book from Yellow Brick Road
Press that children can play
with as well as read.
A rhyming story for pre-
schoolers, Hanukkah Carousel
has pages that can be inter-
locked to form a three-dimen-
sional mobile. The book begins
with a light look at the holiday,
focusing on dreidels and latices,
then explains the story of
Chanukah.
Other books available from
Yellow Brick Road Press in-
clude Uh! Oh! Hanukkah,
Noah's Family (which also
transforms into a three-dimen-
sional carousel) and My First
Words, a transliterated He-
brew/English dictionary of 72
words concealed behind die-cut
picture windows.
Hanukkah Carousel is avail-
able at bookstores nationwide,
or may be ordered by calling
Yellow Brick Road Press, 1-800-
213-9628.
New from Cantor Paul Zim
is "Chanukah Party," a sing-
along cassette featuring whim-

sical and traditional tunes.
Cantor Zim, of the Hillcrest
Jewish Center in Queens, N.Y.,
has recorded numerous albums
including songs of the Holo-
caust and Pesach. (And lest you
think John Travolta was the
only king of disco, Cantor Zim
also has on his resume an al-
bum of Jewish disco hits.)
A native of Toronto, Cantor
Zim attended the Jewish The-
ological Seminary and the Juil-
liard School of Music.
"Chanukah Party" is avail-
able locally at Spitzer's Hebrew
Books and Gifts, Borenstein's
and Esther's.

Cantor Zim

Mmmmmmmmmm...Good News

N

ow, at long last, they
can melt in your kosher
mouths, not in your

hand.
According to the Kosher-
Gram, produced in Southfield
by the Merkaz (the layman's as-
sociation of the Council of Or-
thodox Rabbis), a number of
M&Ms candies are now certi-
fied kosher (0-U) and dairy.

These include: M&M's plain,
peanut and almond chocolate
candies, the peanut butter and
mint chocolate candies, and the
semisweet baking chocolate
candies.
And how about this snappy
news: even the M&Ms holidays
plain chocolate and peanut
chocolate candies, all especial-
ly for Christmas, are kosher!