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Monkee Business

Something tells me I'm into something good with this news!

ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Q: I know that some people
Q: I understand that a Jewish-Ital- exact nature of manna.
think the Beatles were talented ian citizen once saved the nation's
Some suggest it was a sweet-
and sure, I guess they knew some- treasury from total bankruptcy. Does tasting substance, almost like hon-
thing about music. A lot of music Tell Me Why know anything about ey. This is based on the similarity
between "manna" and the Arab
lovers think Stevie Wonder is this?
word
man, a thick liquid that
great, too, and I'm not going to
A: Cosmetics, show-biz, Barry
deny that. But when it comes to
Manilow jokes, history — you flows from cactuses in the Sinai
desert.
name it, Tell Me Why has it.
real genius, I don't think
Others believe it had the taste
The
man
to
whom
you
are
you can argue the bril-
of
whatever the man or woman
referring is Carlo Schanzer,
liancy of the Monkees.
who consumed it so desired, while
who
was
born
in
Vienna
in
Now there was a rock
1865 then immigrated with mystics suggest manna was a
group.
magical bread eaten by the angels.
his family to Italy.
A few Christian historians have
I know that Neil
Schanzer began his ca-
Diamond (and
reer as secretary to Luigi Bo- advanced the theory that man-
can anyone
dio, a leading Italian na is produced by insects. Schol-
economist who also ars generally discount this,
headed Rome's however, as the Torah makes
General Bureau clear that manna is a basic food
of Statistics. By akin to bread, while the substance
1901, Schanz- from the insects is minimal and
without proteins.
er was
- Interestingly, manna did not
fall from the sky on Shabbat, but
rather came in two portions the
day before the Sabbath began. It
was said to taste like sweet
wafers and look like coriander
seed. This double portion of man-
na is the reason Jews use two
whole loaves of challah on their
Neil Diamond was a
"Daydream Believer." Shabbat table.
But do you know who
Q:I recently was reading a book
was thinking about
by
William Faulkner and I swear his
another "Pleasant
sentences are the longest in the
Valley Sunday"?
world. But my mother insists that a
Jewish author had even longer ones;
working with the does mother know best?
tell me why
Ministry of the Inte-
A: Mother always knows best,
rior, and throughout
women go
my
friend. Faulkner's wordy prose
his
life
continued
to
nuts over this
can't begin to compare with that
serve
various
posts
guy?) wrote
within the cabinet. It of French writer Marcel Proust,
one of their
was while working as minister of best known as the author of Re-
best-known tunes, "Daydream Be- finance in 1919 that Schanzer membrance of Things Past.
liever." Are any other Jewish' came up with the concept of the
Years ahead of Jane Fonda as
songsters behind Monkee hits?
"Victory Loan," a national pro- an advocate of consuming as
A: As a matter of fact, two gram that literally saved the Ital- much mineral water as possible
well-known Jewish artists wrote ian treasury from going bankrupt. (colleagues recall he was never
seen without a bottle of Evian wa-
one of the biggest Monkee num-
(1: I'm often hearing the expres- ter
in his pocket), Proust had a
bers ever (kind of gives you a sion, both from Jews and gentiles,
special glow just thinking about that 'something is "manna from sentence with 958 words — that's
right, 958 — in his book Cities of
it, doesn't it?): "Pleasant Valley
heaven."
I
know
that
manna
is
men-
the
Plain.
Sunday."
tioned in the Torah, but what exactly
By the way, if you're one of
The songwriters were none was it?
those people who still calls him
other than Carole King and Ger-
s. nsually .translated . as.. "Prowse" (which means you're like-
ry Goffin, whose other popular
ly calling Reform Judaism "Re-
songs include "You Make Me "bread from heaven," but you formed," saying "nu-cue-ler"
Feel Like A Natural Woman" — would be hard-pressed to find a instead of "nu-cle-er" and labeling
once an Aretha Franklin hit and Jewish scholar who really thinks German author Goethe "Loath"),
now the stirring theme song of of manna as a loaf of rye or get with it! The correct pronun-
a hair-color commercial (what's pumpernickel.
Cited in Exodus 16:4-36, and ciation is "Proost." ❑
an unnatural woman, by the
way?), "I Feel The Earth Move," Numbers II: 7-9, manna was the
"Something Tells Me I'm Into food that, miraculously, fell from Send questions to Tell Me Why,
Something Good," "It's Too heaven and fed the Israelites as The Jewish News, 27676
Late," "Loco-Motion," "One Fine they wandered for 40 years in the Franklin Road, Southfield, MI
Day," "Up On the Roof," "Will desert. It was a fine, almost snow- 48034, or fax to (810) 354-6069.
You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" like food that melted in the sun. All letters must be signed and in-
and the dreary piece we never, It had to be eaten within 24 hours, clude the writer's address. Ques-
ever thought we'd hear the end or else it would be rotten and filled tions answered in the column will
with worms.
feature only the writer's initials
of, "You've Got A Friend."
Ideas abound concerning the and city of residence.

