■I■ COMPILED BY ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM' 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. Skeletons Tn The have T 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. I p •I • -01 iht %Mt ill, la, 1.:1, i • 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!