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Whistling A Happy Tune

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n the 1944 film To Have and Have nance, you may offer a wolf
Not, the Lauren Bacall character
whistle.
says to the Humphrey Bogart
Though the whistle itself
character, "You know how
may be used to sum-
to whistle, don't you? You
mon someone, we
just put your lips together
need to be aware
and blow."
that there are pleas-
Even if you are not a movie
ing bird whistles,
nostalgia buff, you may be
whistles to call one's
interested in the many uses
dog or the shrill
of "whistle".
teakettle whistle
To buck up spirits or to
that may hold the
show that you are in good
promise of a warm-
spirits, you may whistle
ing drink. The latter
while you work. Of course,
may entice you to
Sy Ma nello
this may not gain you
whet your whistle,
Ed it o rial
friends, so try it only if you
though that expres-
Assis tant
have a soundproof office.
sion usually is
This is also applicable to
reserved for a bever-
the advice, "I Whistle a Happy Tune,"
age of more strength than tea.
which was a clever song in The King
Perhaps you have not
and I. The courage sought by the latter heeded the advice, "Neither
is also expressed by whistle in the dark a borrower nor a lender be,"
— keep this in mind the next time you and you are now awaiting
are crossing a graveyard late at night
repayment. Chances may be
(as if that is likely to happen other
good that that you can whistle
than on the "silver screen").
for it (demand with no success).
A police whistle may be used to help
Anyone who has made a purchase
direct traffic, but you can expose some-
of a new car or new electronic device
thing nefarious by being a whistle blower.
may have requested one with all the
If you are surprised by something,
bells and whistles and then may have
you may issue a whistle of astonish-
given the (above mentioned) whistle
ment; if taken by a beautiful counte-
of surprise at the price tag.

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Dec. 25-31, 2014

JCRC Executive Director Robert Cohen
and President Dr. Richard Krugel flank
speaker Shimoni-Stoil, Washington
bureau chief for the Times of Israel.

Israeli Journalist
Offers Her Views
The Jewish Community Relations Council
held its annual media lunch Nov. 19 at
the Detroit Athletic Club. Members of the
local media heard Rebecca Shimoni-Stoil,
an American-born Israeli journalist, pro-
vide an insider's look at covering Israel,
Washington and Gaza from her vantage
point as Washington bureau chief for the
Times of Israel.

For the art lovers among you, let
me let you in on a tidbit that you can
then pass on to impress others (if
they are easily impressed). There is
a painting that is formally known as
an Arrangement in Black and White
and commonly known as Whistler's
Mother.

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34
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33
Year In Review
8

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Danny Raskin

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Conservative
Innovator Rabbi
Harold Schulweis
Dies At 89
Rabbi Harold M.
Schulweis, a tireless
innovator who implored
1111w
followers to fight against
Rabbi
genocide
and see
Schulweis
Judaism as a religion
with universal significance, died at age 89 at
his Los Angeles home.
Rabbi Schulweis, who was regarded as
one of the most influential rabbis of his
generation, died on Dec. 18, 2014, after a
struggle with heart disease.
"Rabbi Schulweis was in many ways an
innovator and an inspiration and a man
who didn't worry about artificial boundar-
ies, and that was his greatness," said Rabbi
Bradley Artson, dean of the rabbinic school
at American Jewish University, where Rabbi
Schulweis taught.
The rabbi was a regular contributor to
the Detroit Jewish News for about 10 years
(mid-1980s through mid-1990s).
In 1970, New York-born Rabbi Schulweis
was invited to take the pulpit at Valley Beth
Shalom, a Conservative Los Angeles syna-
gogue. In more than four decades leading
it, he introduced a number of practices that
were replicated at synagogues across the U.S.
— Jerusalem Post

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