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FYI: A Jewish inventor of the
18th century was the first to
seek a patent on removing
salt from sea water.
In 1790, Jacob Isaacs secured a
meeting with President George
Washington to discuss a remarkable
discovery: Jacobs had learned that
salt could be extracted from sea
water, leaving in its place a pure,
fresh and quite drinkable-liquid. The
next year, Isaacs appealed to the
House of Representatives — again
the subject was his wondrous inven-
tion. Apparently Thomas Jefferson
became involved in the case, and
encouraged the House to financially
support Isaacs. Yet for reasons we
will never know, Congress dropped
the matter and Isaacs drowned in
obscurity.

FYI: The son of a British duke
was Jewish.
Lord George Gordon (1751-1793)
was the son of the third Duke of
Gordon. Born in London, Lord
George was a convert to Judaism.
Some suggested the move was strictly
a political one, done to gain Jewish
financial support for causes he advo-
cated. Yet Lord Gordon lived quietly
and without taking advantage of his
new situation, and was known to put
on tefillin each morning and cloven,
and to keep kosher. (You can read
more about him in Barnaby Rudge by
Charles Dickens.)

FYI: If you keep kosher, you
can't eat gecko.
Gosh, darn, and those little critters
look so tasty, don't they? A little toma-
to sauce, maybe some sauteed
onions... The gecko is a member of

the lizard family. You can see them
running throughout the Sinai Desert,
especially at night when they're
searching for tasty meals of spiders
and insects. The Torah specifically
mentions the gecko as treife. Leviticus
1 1 :30-31 reads, "The gecko, the
land crocodile, the lizard, the sand
lizard and the chameleon — these
are unclean."

FYI: Despite those old movies
that show ancient Israelites
garbed in nothing but white,
dyes were used in biblical
times.
In fact, workers knew how to make
all kinds of colored cloths and
threads, including a deep blue/pur-
ple (as seen on tzitzit) from the rare
murex snail; yellow from pomegran-
ate rind; blue from the indigo plant;
red from vegetables, certain minerals
and bugs; and black out of myrtle
berries.

FYI: It was Art
Garfunkel, not
Paul Simon, who
broke up the
famous duo.
Though it was
Simon who wrote
the songs, budding
thespian Art (most
recently seen in an
Amy Grant
Christmas special)
decided to end the
pair's longstanding
musical endeavors
because he want-
ed to pursue act-
ing. (And boy, hasn't
his career just taken
off!) Art Garfunkel:
Move over, Laurence
Olivier!

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