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Close Encounters With Rod
Somewhere In The Twilight Zone
ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Q: Everybody knows about Bugsy
Siegel and Meyer Lansky. But what
can you tell me about mobster Hymie
Weiss?
A: What the insightful "Tell
women and their children.
Isaiah 34:14 mentions Lilith
as a "night monster"; the Tal-
mud describes her as having a
woman's face, long hair and
Me Why" can tell you is that de- wings.
One Midrashic writing re-
spite his Jewish-sounding name,
Mr. Weiss definitely was not counts that Adam was "encoun-
tered by a Lilith named Piznai
Jewish.
He was born Earl Waj- who, taken by his beauty, lay
ciechowski, but he changed his with him and bore male and fe-
last name to Weiss because who, male demons." Offspring of these
outside of Polish natives, could demons supposedly continue to
easily pronounce something like this day.
Alphabet of Bin Sira identi-
Wajciechowski?
As Earl Weiss, Wajciechows- fies Lilith as the first woman, a
ki often was mistaken for a Jew, being who demanded superior-
which is how he got the nick- ity over Adam and then van-
name "Hymie." In'fact, violence ished after uttering God's
and his numerous affairs unmentionable name.
God, the story says, sent three
notwithstanding, Weiss was an
observant Catholic who regu- angels, who found Lilith in the
larly went to Mass and alwa34 Red Sea. They demanded she re-
turn or watch while 100 of her
carried a rosary.
Weiss was a crony of mobster sons died each day. Lilith re-
Dion O'Banion, whom he was fused and insisted she had been
certain had been killed off by Al created specifically to bring
Capone. To revenge O'Banion's harm to infants. The angels —
death, Weiss — together with Snwy, Snsnwy and Smnglf-
"Bugs" Moran and "Schemer" did not depart, however, before
Drucci — tried on numerous oc- extracting Lilith's vow that she
would lose her powers whenev-
casions to wipe out Capone.
Weiss died Oct. 5, 1926, just er she saw an amulet bearing
outside the Criminal Courts the angels' images.
Lilith, who also appears in
Building in Chicago, where as-
sassins pumped 10 bullets into Arabic mythology (where she is
his body. His killers were never known as Karina or Rabi'a), was
a frequent subject of Kabbalis-
found.
tic writings, where
she is said to be
one of four moth-
ers, including Na-
amah, Mah'alath
and Agrat, of
demons. She is al-
ternately referred
to as "the wicked,"
"the false," "the
black" and "the
harlot."
In later years,
the name Lilith
appeared in Ger-
man literature as
the grandmother
of a female pope,
and in the popular
Hebrew works of
Chaim Vital, who
referred to a Lilith
who could trans-
form into a cat or
goose. Vital ad-
vised new moth-
ers to gently .tap
children on their
Mothers could keep Lilith away with an amulet bearing
the images of three angels.
noses if they
laughed in the middle of the
night, as this was said to be a
Q: Who was Lilith?
visit
from Lilith.
A: Lilith was a female demon
Jewish women giving birth
said to prey upon men and en-
danger the lives of pregnant have, throughout the ages, worn
amulets and other talismans as
protection against Lilith. These
often bear the images of Snwy,
Snsnwy and Smnglf, as well as
the text of Psalm 126 or 121, the
latter which describes God as
man's sole protector who will
"guard thy going out and thy
coming in, from this time forth
and forever."
Most recently, an intense, up-
tight psychiatrist named Thilith"
appeared on the TV show
"Cheers," and a New York-based
feminist-Jewish magazine took
the name for its title.
Q: Who was the first Jew to be
knighted?
A: Sir Solomon de Medina
(1650-1730) was the main army
contractor, during the War of the
Spanish Succession (1701-14),
for the duke of Marlborough. His
responsibilities included fund-
ing the battle, overseeing intel-
ligence and securing provisions.
Sir Solomon also was active
in the Sephardic Jewish corn-
munity of London.
Q: The other day
I was abducted by
space aliens who
assured me they
have had frequent
lunches with Rod
Serling somewhere
in the Twilight Zone. Are you certain
the actor-writer-director is really
dead?
A: Look, space cadet, it's time
to get your head out of the
clouds. Serling is indeed dead
and has been so since 1975. He
is buried at Interlaken Ceme-
tery in Interlaken, N.Y.
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