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By using three matzahs,
we fulfill two precepts: we
commemorate our origins
in poverty and slavery,
and we rejoice in our lib-
eration and celebrate the
holiday.
Q: Is it true
that a Jew came
up with the unfor-
gettable "I Like
Ike"?
A: You can
Q: For many years I sin-
cerely believed that no one
on the face of the planet
could have bushier eye-
brows than former Soviet
leader Leonid Brezhnev. I
mean, how could that guy
see underneath all the
hair?
But then along came Robert
Shapiro, O.J. Simpson's attorney.
While being mesmerized the other
day by Mr. Shapiro's eyebrows, I
couldn't help but notice his re-
markable resemblance to Israeli
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres.
Could the two be related?
A: As far as we know, Mr.
.
Peres and Mr. Shapiro are not
kin. Of course, we
could always run a
DNA test...
thank Henry
Spalding, for-
mer editor of
Hollywood Tal-
ent News for
that
clever
phrase,
the
hallmark of
President
Eisenhower's
bids for the
presidency.
Some of the other popular
phrases and words created by
Jews:
* New Deal, coined by Samuel
Rosenman, the Texas-born ad-
viser to President Franklin Roo-
sevelt.
* nuclear fission, invented by
Otto Frisch, former director of
the nuclear physics division of
first Jewish residents during the
Middle Ages, in cities like Caer-
leon and Chepstow.
By the 13th century, city char-
ters offered residents the "liber-
ty" to forbid Jews from living
within their boundaries.
The first organized Jewish
communities recorded in Wales
were in Swansea (around 1730)
and Cardiff (around 1840).
During the 1880s, many Jews
fleeing Czarist Russia found safe
haven throughout Great Britain.
In Wales, they settled in Aber-
dare, Llanelly, Merthyr Tydfil,
Pontypridd, Tonypandy, Trede-
gar and Porthcawl.
In the early part of the 20th
century, a number of Welsh min-
ers strikes were tainted with
anti-Semitic overtones, culmi-
nating in the destruction of sev-
eral Jewish homes and
businesses. The British home
secretary, a young man named
Winston Churchill, took charge
of the problem and sent troops
to quell the disorder.
Today, Cardiff is home to the
largest Jewish community in
Wales. It also is the birthplace
of one of the country's most fa-
mous Jews, poet Dannie Abse,
who was born in 1923.
Q: What is the story
behind the three
matzahs at the seder
table?
A: Two of the
matzahs are lechem
mishne, the double
loaves always used
on Shabbat and hol-
idays. (Two loaves
commemorate the
double amount of
manna that fell be-
fore Shabbat when
the Jews wandered
in the desert after
their liberation from
slavery in Egypt.
Because, with few
exceptions, no work
is permitted on hol-
idays, we extend the Making matzah for Pesach: Three's a charm.
same custom to hol-
idays.)
the United Kingdom Atomic En-
We add a third matzah to be ergy Establishment.
broken, representing the lechem
* parapsychology, brainchild
oni, bread of poverty or of afflic- of Germany psychologist Max
tion. The reasoning is that a Dessoir (1867-1947).
poor person or slave does not en-
* vitamin, a word made up by
joy the luxury of a full loaf of Casimir Funk (1884-1967), a
bread; he must be satisfied with Polish biochemist.
part of a loaf, or at best, only half
Q: What kind of a Jewish com-
a loaf. (The other half of the bro- munity exists in Wales?
ken matzah is used later in the
A:Several thousand Jews live
seder for afikomen.)
today in Wales, which listed its
Another famous Wales native
was actor Richard Burton, who
claimed in his biography to have
had one Jewish grandparent.
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Franklin Rd., Southfield, MI
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