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The Musical Fruit

and soy milk are great
eans. Beans. The '
contributors to those
musical fruit. The
who are lactose intoler-
more you eat ..."
ant or who are trying to
Well, you know the rest,
get a beneficial substi-
and that is the summa-
tute for red-meat pro-
tion of the life of the
tein.
bean. Much maligned
Where would many of
and yet an integral part
us
be without the coffee
of our lives.
Sy M anello
bean
and its resultant
The bean as a singular
Edit orial
beverage
that gets us
noun occurs 445 times
Assi stant
through
Mondays,
to say
in 100 million words and
nothing
of
the
rest
of the
as a last name, 17,000
times per 100 million persons; in week? Can you.even imagine a
Thanksgiving dinner without the
the U.S.A., it ranks 713 in family
requisite green bean casserole?
names.
And what would movie
All this aside, the bean figures
munchers do without jellybeans,
in our diets, in our valuing of
things, in our describing life hap- which are not true beans; but I'll
penings and in daily expressions. take candy wherever I find it,
As a food, the bean contributes thank you very much.
Because of its being perceived
a lot to menu items, especially
as a lowly vegetable, the bean has
those made from soybeans. Tofu

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come to be equated with low
value. If something is trifling it
many be "not worth a hill of
beans" — or bubkes in Yiddish. If
you are uninformed, it may be
you "don't know beans about
that." However, if you are seen to
be filled with energy and get-go,
you may be described as being
"full of beans." However, if you
are devoted to detail, you may be
identified as a "bean counter!'

Use Your Bean

And it is interesting that there
are several associations with the
brain and head. To urge someone
to really think out a problem, we
may urge him to "Use your
bean." In baseball, a ball thrown
at someone's head may be seen
as an attempt to "bean him."

Rabin Remembered

On Nov. 4, 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by an Israeli Jew hoping to
stop the peace process begun in Oslo, Norway. What do you remember about the assassination, and
what do you make of its impact — on the Mideast peace process, on Israeli society, on Israeli politics,
on American Jews, on you — 10 years later? Please send your thoughts — 100 words or less — for
publication or posting on the JNOnline Web site to kcohen@thejewishnews.com by Sunday, Oct. 30.
Please include where you live and a daytime phone number.

For Pregnancy Loss And Infertility

For those touched by the loss of a baby as well as those seeking to build a family, "Hannah's Sisters"
hopes to provide options, answers and support.
"We are not untouched by these kinds of tragedies and need to bring them out to the forefront:' said
Gina Horwitz of West Bloomfield, one of the co-chairs. "There are people still hurting years after. There's
a whole learning curve out there. People in the community need help and JFS wants to be there for them."
Jewish Family Service of Metropolitan Detroit is sponsoring the daylong workshop, from 10 a.m.-4:30
p.m. Sunday, Nov. 13, on infertility and perinatal loss at its Graham & Sally Orley and Joseph & Suzanne
Orley Building, 6555 W. Maple in West Bloomfield.
Keynote addresses will come from Rabbi Michael Gold of Tamarac, Fla., author of Hannah Wept:
Infertility, Adoption and the Jewish Couple, and Debra Nussbaum Cohen, who covers Jewish life for the
New York Jewish Week and has contributed to a Jewish book on infertility and pregnancy loss.
Both will address spiritual needs, and the rabbi will discuss where God is in this process as well as
Judaism's human approach to infertility and Jewish views of treatments and options for family building.
Breakout session topics will range from "Medical Approaches to Family Building" to "Couples Yoga"
and "Moving Beyond Loss."
There is an $18 charge, which includes workshop materials, a kosher buffet lunch and refreshments.
Carol Sue Coden, Gina Horwitz and Diane Orley are event co-chairs. The Jewish Women's Foundation
has underwritten the event, with additional support from Say-On Drugs, Ferring Pharmaceuticals and
the Adat Shalom Sisterhood.
For reservations or more information, contact Rachel Yoskowitz at JFS, (248) 592-2324, or e-mail
ryoskowitz@jfsdetroit.org.
— Keri Guten Cohen, story development editor

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Also, note the times that a non-
Jew made inquiries about your
kippah (skullcap), describing it
as a "beanie."
For something so "unimpor-
tant," the bean figures promi-
nently in daily talk. If you want
to get someone to give you all the
details or relay a juicy bit of gos-
sip, you might urge that person
to "spill the beans!' If that person
happens to be very tall and thin,
he might be described as a
"beanpole Being tall would pre-
clude him from being very com-
fortable in a "beanbag chair:' but
his reach might make him a win-
ner at the game of "beanbag
toss."
Speaking of games, does any-
one remember playing with
"Mexican jumping beans"?
(These were not actually beans

but little capsules that had some
kind of larvae that was activated
by the warmth of the human
hand.)
Did you know that "Every bean
has its black"? This expression
apparently means that everyone
has his faults. And if you know
someone who has "found the
bean in the cake" has done some-
thing the equivalent of winning
the lottery. This would then allow
him to go on a vacation to "Bean
Town" (Boston).
Well, maybe you say "Fazole"
(Czech) or "Faven" (Cornish) or
"Babarrun" (Basque) or "Boon"
(Dutch); you still refer to the
bean. You may even offer "ean-
bay", which is bean in Pig Latin
and not to be confused with e-
Bay, where you could buy some-
thing for beans. What a gas! ❑

Donate Halloween Candy

So your kids came home with a Halloween haul. There's so much
candy they'll never be able to eat a fraction of it. Well, don't throw it
out. Give it to the "Candy Lady" who will distribute it to more than
200 boys living at the Maxey Boys' Training School in Whitmore Lake.
Without the help of Joy and Lou Landau of Oak Park, these boys
would miss out on the childhood pleasure of Halloween.
For 45 years, the couple has collected donated
Halloween candy and inspected each piece before
sending it to the Maxey school.
It's a win-win situation all around. The boys
enjoy the candy; parents keep their children
from overdoing the sweets; and the children
learn about tzedakah and giving unselfishly to
others.
The Landaus are collecting candy through Nov. 16.
Make it a project for your PTA, Scouts, neighborhoods or schools.
Drop the candy at their home, 24231 Gardner in Oak Park, between
Coolidge and Greenfield, south of 10 Mile. For information, call the
Landaus at (248) 541-6884.
— Keri Guten Cohen, story development editor

IlLEMET 'cha Don't Know

"Dayenu," a famous song sung at the Passover seder,
means "it would have been sufficient." Italian Jews use
the term to describe something else related to the holi-
day. What?
— Goldfein

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