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So we get to the theater and Sara tells me she wants a Coke. We're standing at the snack counter and I'm trying to be charming and witty and so, without thinking (obviously), I start singing — loud enough for everyone around us to hear — the "Let's all go to the lobby," song (the one that sounds like a snappier "The Bear Went Over the Mountain"). You know that thing they used to show at movies, with the dancing popcorn and Cokes and candy? Well, I could tell the moment I opened my mouth that I had made a big, big mistake. People around us were glaring at me, and Sara hid her face, like I was the biggest bone- head in the world, which I was. I quickly tried to cover my tracks, pointing out the many delicious kosher candies available for our pur- chase. Then Sara asked, "Jujubes — what's the story behind those? Is there a Jewish connection?" Tell Me Why, I couldn't answer. It was humiliating. As you may have guessed, it's all over with Sara. In the future I will, I hope, be able to control my song outbursts. But I can't risk once again appearing ig- norant about Jujubes. Please, help me out. A:Friend, there's no need to be embarrassed! Yours is about the 50th letter Tell Me Why has re- ceived this week alone asking for a Jewish connection to Jujubes. Ignorance on this vital subject apparently is widespread and nothing of which you should be ashamed. Here's what you should know. Before the jujube ever became a snack, it was part of the won- derful world of flora and fauna. The tree is mentioned in Job 40:21, and today, several species can be found in Israel. The wild jujube is a tall tree with prickly branches. The lotus jujube is a desert bush bearing fruit that can be made into bread. There also is a cultivated jujube, which rabbinic literature calls sheizaf, that has a tasty, large fruit. Just outside Ein Hazavah in the Aravah desert grows a wild jujube which reportedly is one of the oldest trees in Israel. Q:Is it true that famed movie pro- ducer Sam Goldwyn read only one book his entire adult life? A: That's the rumor, anyway. Born Samuel Goldfisch in Poland, Goldwyn started his ca- reer as a glove salesman in, ap- propriately enough, Gloversville, N.Y. With savings from the job, he — along with Broadway pro- ducers Arch and Edgar Selwyn — formed the Gold- wyn (from Goldfisch and Selwyn) Pic- tures Corp. Goldwyn made hundreds of famous films, and The Wiz- ard of Oz could have been one of them. But Samuel Goldwyn rejected the idea after he read the book, reportedly the only one he ever actually fin- ished. Labeling it a "fairy story," he said it would never make a great film. So while Goldwyn did own rights to the Wizard of Oz script, his studio never made the movie. Instead, Goldwyn sold it to Louis B. Mayer at MGM. Q: Who called Israel's pre-1967 boundaries the "Auschwitz bor- ders"? A: Abba Eban, although not in exactly those words. 0- Abba Eban knows the territory. In an interview with the Ger- man magazine Der Spiegel (Nov. 5, 1969), Israel's then-foreign minister stated: "We have open- ly said that the map will never again be the same as June 4, 1967. For us, this is a matter of security and of principles. The June map is for us equivalent to insecurity and danger. I do not exaggerate when I say that it has for us something of a mem- ory of Auschwitz." • J 9r 4 t. Q: In the Aug. 11 issue, Tell Me Why stated that David Levy Yulee was the first Jewish U.S. senator. In his book Judah P. Benjamin, The Jewish Confederate, Eli Evans says that Benjamin was the first Jew- ish senator. Since both can't be first, who really was? From reader A.B. in Farmington Hills A:With all due re- spect to Mr. Evans, it's Tell Me Why that's right (of course), and not the Judah Benjamin author. The confusion, though, is understandable. David Yulee (1810-1866) was raised in Virginia, serving from 1841 to 1845 as the Flori- da territory's delegate to Con- gress. After it became a state and was admitted in 1845 to the Union, Florida elected Yulee senator — making him the first Jew in the U.S. Sen- ate. The reason Mr. Evans, and others, probably fail to consid- er him is that while Yulee was indeed halachically Jewish, he wasn't exactly the kind of guy you would want to bring home to meet Mom. He was born David Levy, but took on his wife's defi- nitely non-Jewish sounding name, Yulee, after he mar- ried the gentile daughter of a former governor of Ken- tucky. Yulee did not identi- fy as a Jew and even raised his children as Christians. Judah Benjamin (1811- 1884) was born in England and grew up in Charleston, S.C. He worked first as a clerk, then devoted himself to law and pol- itics. In 1852 — seven years after Yulee took office — Benjamin, then affiliated with the Whig Party, was elected to the U.S. Senate. Later, he became a De- mocrat. Like Yulee, Benjamin mar- ried a gentile and was not ac- tive in any Jewish groups or affiliated with any synagogue. Unlike Yulee, however, Ben- jamin never identified as any- thing but a Jew and did not attempt to conceal his heritage. Send questions to "Tell Me Why" c/o The Jewish News, 27676 Franklin Rd., Southfield, MI 48034 or send fax to 354-6069. K