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helped in a service at a church that
used a Torah scroll, "nothing ever pre-
pared me for this part," he said.
"I did some research on Orthodox
Judaism, trying to get an idea of how
things would take place in a syna-
gogue, how to hold a Torah and how
to read from it," he said.
Elementary facts were important
for him: "I found out that you really
don't touch the Torah pages — you
use a pointer," he said. "When I got
to the opera, I already knew that the
Torah was going to be read from back
to front.
"And there is also a book that the
rabbi uses, and I had to ask the direc-
tor if it was read the same way —
back to front. He told me it was
true."
Musically, Smith's father has been
influential. But spiritually, Smith
began to distance himself from his

roots.

The Pentecostal church is "very
fundamentalist," said Smith. "We
were taught that women should not
wear pants and shouldn't have short
hair and that men should not have
long hair."
Smith "had questions, especially
when I went off to college and started
seeing different parts of the world,
and visiting different religions and
going to different churches.
"I think my father has come to
realiie" that the most important thing
is "living a good life, asking forgive-
ness for your sins and doing good,
treating others the way you would
want yourself to be treated.
"That is the common denominator
in all the religions that I have found,"
he said.
For his rabbinical role, the young

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singer wears a yarmulke and occasion-
ally a hat over it, a vest and fringes,
and "I wear something like a scarf
that comes around my neck." A talks?
He thinks so.
"The role is not demanding
vocally, but dramatically it is very
demanding," said Smith, describing the
fate of the Jews in the imaginary
German town. "It is amazing to me
that Kurt Weill foresaw" what would
happen to European Jewry. "Just imag-
ine, five or six years after he wrote this
opera, what started happening. It is just
incredible."

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"One cohesive bond among Jews is
food — good food, great food and
lots of it And even more food, if you
please," write Honey and Larry
Zisman in Eat! Enjoy!: The 101 Best
Jewish Recipes in America (St. Martin's
Griffin; $14.95). The Zismans are the
authors of 13 previous cookbooks,
most recently The 50 Best Pizzas in

the World.
The dishes in this collection are the
winners of the "Jewish Dishes, So
Delicious" recipe contest held around
the country, and include traditional
recipes handed down from generation
to generation as well as new creations.
While not a specifically kosher cook-
book, all recipes can
be prepared using
strictly kosher ingre-
dients and, when
necessary, nondairy
ingredients can be
used in place of any
dairy items.
Michiganders includ-
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paperback volume
include Donna
Winter of East
Lansing ("Fruit
Tzimmes"), Lisa
Towler of Ann Arbor
("Apricot-Apple
Crisp") and Toby
Katz of Grand Blanc
("Old-Fashioned
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