consider marriage to was Jewish
actress Paulette Goddard, then
\ Mrs. Charlie Chaplin :
481* important is music to the Cha-
first Lubavitcher Rebbe,
tm
r
Zalman of Liadi (1747-
Ra
, "Melody is the outpour-
1813)
ing of the soul. Words interrupt the
stream of emotions. The songs of the
souls, at the time they are swaying in
the high regions to drink from the well
of the Almighty King, consist of tones
only, dismantled of words."
Oodor Herzl was 44 when he
four years later, Israel was
:state.
makes no mention of
randments," but rather
al es these d varim or "things."
‘56, Mark Spitz, later an
old medalist, became the
history to swim the
in
hrrd man
1,500 freestyle in under 17 minutes
— when he was only a sophomore in
high school.
r of the famed Roth-
was responsible for nam-
no-extinct bird. The story
begins on Stephens Island in New
Zealand. In the late 1890s, a man
named D. Lyall, a native of England,
moved to the 1 Mile island, where he
worked as the lighthouse keeper. His.
only company was his cat. In fact, it
was the cat that discovered the
Stephens Island Wren. It was 4 inch-
es long, dark brown, and could not
fly. Perhaps that's why one was
unable to escape Lyall's cat, who
promptly delivered it to his owner.
Lyall brought the bird to the British
Ornithological Club, where Lord Wal-
ter Rothschild named the bird Traver-
sia lyalli.
Meanwhile, back at the lighthouse,
Lyall's cat was devouring every speci-
men of the Traversia lyalli he could
sink his teeth into. And that was every
one. Fortunately, Lyall continued to
save the corpses, which are still on
exhibit at a handful of museums.
53) Though Hebrew has nowhere
near the number of words you find in
English, it has increased markedly
since the times of King Solomon,
when there were some 7,500
Hebrew words in use.
film The Manchurian
te starred Frank Sinatra, Janet
Leigh. and Laurence Harvey — though
that wasn't how it was originally cast.
In fact, producers hoped to get Tony
Curtis for the Harvey role; mercifully, it
never panned out.
final paper on which
wrote her diary was blue
on :t' most unusual stories of
tojudaism is that of John
co ~ i
`SCOlamonti. The former
Catholic priest converted to Judaism in
1972, and 20 years later wrote
Ordained to Be a Jew. In it, he
wrote, "Judaism views the world as
good, unlike Christianity, which sees it
as a threat to achieving eternal salva-
tion. For the Jew the world is a beauti-
ful place, no doubt far from perfect,
but designed by the hand of God
and offering many opportunities for
love, family and friendship."
Bert Einstein specified that after
eath physicians could dissect and
study his brain. Today, the largest
chunk of the brain is in the small town
of Weston, Mo., outside Kansas City.
The specimen sits unceremoniously
under the desk of one of the patholo-
gists who helped on the autopsy.
success
usiness called Sears —
tt
into one of the coun-
andtvr
tqg'rar e t retail chains.
60) The first "blood-libel" case in
Europe was in 1711 in France,
when a passerby said he saw a
Jewish trader toss the body of a
Christian child into the river. In
fact, the man had dropped one of
his animal pelts. This untruth result-
ed in the arrest of the entire Jewish
community of Blois, the nearest
town; all the Jews were burned
alive.
h's ark had three stories:
oah and his family, one
or ker animals, and one for
treife animals.
e married the future
gland, Prince Phillip
enlbye meiny evenings on the
town with his pal, harmonica play-
er Larry Adler.
1
urn. tst Barbara Walters is
aughter of Lou Walters,
owner of the famed nightclub "The
Latin Quarter."
those who have
tit classic Jewish num-
er "Hava Nagila" are Sammy
Davis Jr. and Harry Belafonte.
h says one should
h of his income to
ut never more than
tzecTa ka
one-fifth "for fear that he may,
thereby, then become in need of
assistance."
Abe Saperstein (1903-1966)
.6der and first manager
Globetrotters.
est chapter in the
soh 199.
The first Jew elected to the
Baseball Hall of Fame was Hank
erg of the Detroit Tigers.
67) Rabbi Stephen Wise (1874-
addition to establishing
litute of Religion in
New or was a founder of the
ACLU and the NAACP.
Zionist flag.
ix-Day War began,
fight surrounding
srdel co'tinted of 2,000 tanks,
700 bombers and 250,000
troops.
59) The first Jewish TV program, "The
Goldbergs,ll was broadcast in 1949.
69) Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932)
bought 25 percent in a moderately
probably the most popu-
lar symbol of Judaism, the Star of
David didn't become "official" until
1897, when it appeared on the new
poi
es Levine was the first
ez,s,
irplarie passenger to cross the
Atlantic.
Lenin specified that
mr e Trotsky should be his suc-
cessor.. Yet Josef Stalin destroyed
the will before it could be read to
the public and quickly named him-
self the new head of the Soviet
Union. Trotsky went into exile and
was later murdered by one of Stal-
in's agents.
he cartoon characters
ni'comic'''srips created by Jews:
Superman, Li'l Abner, Betty Boop
and Dondi.
u have a sore throat, try this
remedy at started with Russian Jews:
Mix one-half cup each of hot milk and
hot water. Add 2 T. honey. Drink!
t is the only holiday
n the Ten Command-
ments (it's the fourth).
in Europe, matzah
nd crisp: It was round
a gb gtd 1-inch thick.
adino book was pub-
0 in Constantinople.
e of Karl Marx's best
many years (though in
parted ways) was
t e en
who was raised by
oses
)
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1999
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