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hold the mistaken notion
that Jews used to pray
while on their knees,
then stopped when
Christians adopted the
practice.
In fact, the only time
Jews prayed while not
sitting or standing was
on Yom Kippur. At a
specific point in the ser-
vice, Jews would fall to
their knees and pros-
trate themselves by
touching their foreheads
to the ground. Today,
this ritual is commemo-
rated in the Musaf ser-
vice on Yom Kippur,
during the recitation of
Aleiynu, which calls for Jerry Lewis: Kind of a drag.
prostration.
Never, however, did
so, well, different, in Some Like
Jews genuflect or pray in the It Hot? That was just the start
Christian manner, on their of it!
knees with hands clasped.
Other Jewish stars who have
Q: Does the word "kosher" refer appeared as women are Dustin
only to food?
Hoffman in Tootsie, Jack Benny
in Charley's Aunt, Eddie
Cantor in Ali Baba
Goes To Town, Harvey
Fierstein in Torch
Song Trilogy, Oscar
Levant in The I Don't
Care Girl and Jerry
Lewis in At War With
the Army.
Though turnabout is
fair play, it seems only
one Jewish actress has
portrayed a man in a
film. That, of course,
was Barbra Streisand
in the movie we all
Is it kosher? Shofar, so good.
thought would never,
ever end, Yentl.
A: No. The Hebrew word
Q: Are there any famous Jewish
kasher (Ashkenazi pronuncia- twin playwrights?
tion is "kosher") technically
A: Peter and Anthony Shaffer
means "fit" or "proper," but has are two of Britain's finest play-
evolved into meaning "ritually wrights. Born in 1926 in Lon-
correct."
don, Anthony is the author of
Although the word usually Sleuth.
refers to food fit for a Jew to
Peter, who began his career
eat, it also is applied to objects as a music and theater critic,
that are ritually correct, such counts among his plays Equus,
as a Torah scroll, mezuzah, The Private Ear and the Public
tefillin, tzitzit, shofar, Purim Eye and Five-Finger Exercise.
megila and mikvah. A fully
Q: How long does one need to be-
qualified witness to a legal gin consuming meat after eating
proceeding also is referred to as dairy foods?
kosher.
A: According to the Talmud,
Q: Have any famous Jewish ac- one may eat dairy immediately
tors appeared in drag in films?
after meat — provided he rins-
A: Remember Tony Curtis es his mouth and eats bread.
(aka Bernie Schwartz) looking
The Mishna Brura, a major
source of Jewish legal interpre-
tation, comments that on the
holiday of Shavuot, when it
is customary to eat dairy foods,
there was a practice to have a
dairy appetizer followed by a
meat meal.
The length of time between
the eating of meat and dairy
varies among Jewish communi-
ties. The six-hour wait is
common to eastern European
Jews, while most western
European Jews wait three
hours, and Dutch Jews wait one
hour.
RNS/REUTERS
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