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When Dinah Blew Her Horn
On The Grand Ole Opry Stage
ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Q: It seems I can't open a maga-
zine or turn on the TV these days with-
out hearing the latest on Billy Ray
Cyrus and Clint Black and Wynonna
Judd (how is she ever going to lose
all that pregnancy weight?). That got
me thinking about Jews and country
music, and I was wondering if you
could tell me if any Jews made it big
with the Grand Ole Opry?
A: A native of Winchester,
Term., Francis Rose Shore, bet-
ter known as Dinah, was the only
Jewish star of the Grand Old
Opry•
Born in 1917, Shore began her
singing career in 1938, when she
Q: I love tomatoes. Can the ever-
appeared on radio. In addition to
singing with the Grand Old Opry, insightful Tell Me Why provide me
she was on Eddie Cantor's vari- with some Jewish connection to that
ety show and sang in several delicious food?
A: Tell Me Why is here to serve
films including Up in Arms and
you.
Follow the Bays.
Although American Indians
Shore, whom Burt Reynolds
labeled the most wonderful had grown tomatoes for hun-
woman in the world, also had a dreds of years, the Europeans
TV program, "The Dinah Shore who settled here were convinced
the tomato was poisonous. Were
Show," from 19514961.
it not for a certain Dr. Sicary
Q: Why is Jerusalem holy to Chris- there might never have been any
decent pizza or catsup or that
tians and Muslims?
most
happening food of the X
A: Basically, because it is holy
Generation: salsa. For it was Dr.
to Jews.
According to classical Chris- Sicary, a Jewish physician re-
tianity, when the Jews rejected siding in Virginia, who discov-
Jesus, God abrogated His cove- ered in 1733 that the tomato was
nant with them, and the Jews in fact quite a healthy food.
forfeited the rights to their most
Q: What is Hilluf HaShem?
important, God-given posses-
A: Hillul HaShem literally
sions: the Torah, the Land of translates to "profanation of the
Israel and Jerusalem. God Name" and applies to any act
created a covenant with the that desecrates Judaism or
Christians, who became the new diminishes the honor due God.
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Chosen People with Jerusalem Anything that could be described
as their holy city.
as a disgrace, owing to the
Islam regards the Jewish bib- behavior of someone acting as a
lical forebears as prophets, Jew, is Hillul HaShem.
precursors of Mohammed and
This holds true both because
retrospectively, Muslims. Thus, a Jew is obligated to a certain
all places in the Land of Israel as- standard of behavior for his own
sociated with Jewish patriarchs, sake and because, as a man of the
leaders and prophets (like the Torah, he is supposed to serve as
Temple Mount) are claimed as an example to others. Thus for a
Muslim holy places. Muslim doc- Jew to rob a gentile would con-
trine asserts that in spurning stitute Hillul Hashem.
Mohammed, the Jews insulted
In ancient times, Hillul
God and lost the right to possess Hashem was grounds for excom-
the sacred sites, including the munication.
most important, Jerusalem.
Jerusalem, the holy city to whom?
Q: If the benediction over wine is
borey pri ha-gafen, "who creates the
fruit of the vine," then what is the
blessing over grapes, and what is the
blessing over fruits that grow on a
vine and wine made from other vine-
grown fruits, like strawberries?
A: The blessing borey pri ha-
gafen is used exclusively for grape
wine and grape juice.
The blessing made before eat-
ing grapes is borey pri ha etz,
"who creates the fruit of the tree."
The blessing for fruits other
than grapes that grow on vines
is borey pri ha adama, "who
creates the fruit of the earth."
- The blessing for wines made
from fruits other than grapes is
she hakol ni h'yeh bi d'varo,
"through whose word everything
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