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ere's a memory test for you.
Can you recall balking when
presented with a "new" food
and not wanting to eat it?
Undoubtedly, you were treated to
the exhortation, "Try it — you'll like
it." Or maybe you heard the version
that went, "If you don't try it, how do
you know you don't like it?"
SY
Personally, I prefer the syllogism
MANELLO
that goes: I don't like spinach. I'm
Editorial
glad that I don't like spinach because
Assistant
if I liked spinach, I'd eat spinach and I
don't like spinach.
With hopes that I would have been forgiven by Dr.
Seuss, I offer this parody of his classic Green Eggs and
Ham.
That I-am-Sy, that I-am-Sy. I do not like that I-am-
Sy.
Would you like some rye with shmaltz? Would you
like it as you waltz?
I do not like it, I-am-Sy; I do not like some shmaltz
on rye.
Would you like it here or there?
Rockin' The Park
2004
One hundred years ago and eight years before the
sinking of the Titanic, 200 Russian Jewish immi-
grants died in a shipwreck. Which one and where?
— Goldfein
JN
8/27
2004
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Not in a box, not with some
lox, not tied with ribbon or
laced with griben. I
, would not eat this
shmaltz on rye. I do
not like it, I-am-Sy.
Could you, would
you with a fresser?***
Could you, would you with Abdul
Nasser? Would you, could you on
Shabbat? Would you, could you eat it hot?
Would you, could you in a vault? Would you
without an "Oy gevalt***"?
Not with a fresser or Abdul Nasser, not on Shabbat
and never when hot. I do not like this shmaltz on rye. I
You say "no like" all day long, but try it, try it; you
may be wrong.
Sy! If you will just let me be, I will try it. You will
see.
Say, I like this shmaltz on rye. I do; I like
it, I-am-Sy. And I would eat it on a train.
And I would eat it in a kochaleyn.**** I
would eat it and eat a lot, but not, I
think, on Tu b'Shevat.
I would eat it and have a
ball, but it has much choles-
terol.
I would eat it with some
sturgeon. But no, says my car-
diac surgeon.
So though I like some shmaltz on
rye, I will forego it, I-am-Sy. ❑
* taste
** fried pieces of chicken fat
*** cry of fear
**** a quick, noisy eater
***** a summer bungalow
The Temple Israel Shabbat Singers — third-graders — performed the national
— Ronelle Grier, special writer anthem at a Tigers game at Comerica Park.
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Would you like it with some griben?"
Would you like it tied with ribbon?
Would you like it with some lox?
Would you eat it in a box?
do not like it, I-am-Sy.
Kadima, Jewish Family Service, Yeshiva
Beth Yehudah, the Friendship Circle
and Gilda's Club.
"It's not about having the best seats
in the house; our goal is community
togetherness," said Grey of Farmington
Hills.
Jonathan Arens and Clay Barbour,
who live in the JARC Berlin Home in
Bloomfield Hills, enjoyed watching the
game with JARC volunteer Dan Stoller
of Farmington Hills.
"The Shabbat Singers did us proud,"
said Cantor Michael Smolash, who was
aided by cantorial soloist Neil
Michaels. "They rocked the stadium."
"It was a terrific experience; I really
enjoyed it," said first-time singer
Lauren Kunin of West Bloomfield. ❑
Although the Tigers managed to Make
Comerica Park history by hitting seven
home runs in one game, the real high-
light of the Temple Israel Brotherhood's
20th Annual Baseball Outing was the
singing of the national anthem by the
congregation's third-grade Shabbat
Singers.
Due to the organizational efforts of
Jim Grey and his committee, more than
420 fans from the Detroit Jewish com-
munity, including the singers and their
families, enjoyed the game Aug. 8 from
their seats in Kaline's Corner behind
right field. Complementary tickets were
distributed by the brotherhood to sever-
al organizations, including JARC,
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I would not like it here or there; I would not like it
anywhere. I do not like some schmaltz on rye; I do not
like it, I-am-Sy.
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Quotables
Do You Remember?
"We should celebrate giving directed toward the gen-
eral public welfare just as much as we celebrate giv-
ing to primarily Jewish groups. At the same time, we
must make Jewish philanthropy more attractive and
something in which more people want to become
involved. A strong and vibrant Jewish community
requires philanthropic investment. We need to dedi-
cate ourselves to more righteous giving in every
realm. The Jewish/non-Jewish question will resolve
itself by our increased generosity."
August 1964
— Gary A. Tobin, president of the Institute for Jewish
Community Research; quoted in the fall issue of the
Conservative movement's United Synagogue Review
Residents of Istanbul, Turkey's, Jewish quarter
suffered monetary damage and hundreds were left
homeless when a fire gutted the area known as
the "Jewish Bazaar."
The blaze, which started in a furniture shop,
swept through shops and large buildings in a
business district overlooking the Golden Horn.
— Sy Manello, editorial assistant