COMPILED BY ELIZABETH APPLEB:k

No Bird Brains

Tell Me,
Grandma

Your grandparents, aunts and
uncles and cousins have

hundreds of interesting sto-
ries about your family his-

tory, and about history in

general.

One evening,

Molly Picon, third from left, in the 1936 film Yiddle with His Fiddle.

ask a relative to

Faces
And Places

sit down and tell

you all about his life
in Europe, Ameri-

Tidbits from
Jewish history.

IMI oily Picon was born in 1898 in New York.
Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, she was a
leading Yiddish actress on the stage and in
films.
She began her career playing Yiddish roles in New York,
then entered vaudeville with her husband, Jacob Kalich.
By 1942 she had her own theater, the Molly Picon Theater
in New York.
Following World War II, Ms. Picon made frequent trips
to displaced persons camps and toured throughout Eu-
rope. During the 1960s, she appeared in a number of plays
including A Majority of One in London.
Ms. Picon, also the author of So Laugh A Little, died
last year.

ca or wherever he
grew up. Ask what

it was like for Jews

in the town where he

grew up. Where did his fam-

ily live, and what did they

like to eat? Did he go to He-

brew school? Who were his

friends? What was the syn-

THE HEBREW WORD for bird is tzipor,
and the Hebrew letters of tzipor

are hidden somewhere
on this bird. Can you find a
tsadee, yud, peh, vuv and reish?
(Answers below)

Parsha Project

he coming
week's
Torah por-
tion,
Deuteronomy
16:18-21:9, is Shof-
tim. The parsha
contains a variety
of laws regarding
the Jewish legal-
justice system, the
monarchy, prophe-
cy, cities of refuge,
murder, bound-

aries, sacrifices, le- from trees. But
don't list bananas:
gal witnesses and
war. It includes the did you know that
admonition in time these actually
grow on a tall
of war not to cut
plant? And while
down the enemy's
many are familiar
trees, especially
those that produce with the mulberry
bush, do you know
food.
that one type of
For a project,
mulberry, the red
make a list of all
mulberry, actually
the different foods
grows on a tree?
— such as fruits
and nuts — we get

Do you have an idea
or photo that would be
good for The Jewish News Fun
for the Family section?
Please send to
Elizabeth Appleba:um,
Family Fun, c/o The Jewish News,
27676 Franklin Rd.,
Southfield, MI. 48034.

agogue he went to like? Is it

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and cannot be returned.

still standing?
You might want to bring

your tape recorder as it's

sure to be an interesting

tale.

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