01/28/10
Shalom Aleichem!
You get to a certain age, when everyone you grew up with starts to pass on. Today JD Salinger died at the age of 91 of natural causes. He was born to a Jewish cheese buyer and a Scottish-Irish mother, a perfect combination for guilt. He was most famous for his book Catcher in the Rye. I remember reading that book, it makes me all ver klempt to remember.
My rachmones goes to his mispacah.
Biz a Hundret Un Tzvantzik (Till a 120!),
Bubbe
01/27/10
Shalom Aleichem!
Yesterday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Across the world people stood up and said “Never Again!”. A Broche that the Holocaust should never happen again. In the ceremony at the Auschwitz Center in Poland, Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu stood up and proclaimed,
“From this site, I vow as the leader of the Jewish state that we will never again allow the hand of evil to destroy the life of our people and the life of our state. Never again.”
That man is such a mensch. People were there representing over 30 countries, with one hundred and fifty survivors there. Many world leaders, even though they could not be present, sent their messages abroad. President Obama even found the time the day before his State of the Union Address, to send a filmed message to the survivors.
I was only a little girl during World War II and in America it was a different experience, but I remember enough. Information leaked slowly to America and my parents kept even more from me in my home in Queens. We would crowd around the radio listening to the nightly reports and when things got to much for my ears, my mama began to noodge me out of the room. I remember finally hearing a story one day about the experiments that they were doing to the people in the concentration camps. That they would inject children’s eyes with chemical to try and change the iris color. Children my own age! I can still feel the sickness I felt in my stomach when I heard that. After that I listened to my balbusta of a mama, and only listened to what she said was okay.
We yell “Never Again”, but how much rachmones do we all hold, when the atrocities are still happening around the world? I asked my granddaughter one day when she was giving me a megillah about Darfur, and I said “Nu? What do you do bubbaleh?” She said not enough. The next day she looked and found a ton of programs on campus that she could be a part of, and there was even a program at Hillel, that she never paid any attention to.
Once a week students meet at Hillel, to participate in Challah for Hunger, where they bake challot and sell them to raise money for Darfur.
I ask you all to do your part in saying “Never Again.”
Biz a Hundret Un Tzvantzik (Till a 120!),
Bubbe
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01.25.10
Shalom Aleichem!
My granddaughter gave me so much nachas when she said she was going to go listen to a Rabbi speak tomorrow. Rabbi Shalom Hammer will be at the Chabad@FSU tomorrow at 7 pm. He will be talking about the latest issues in the Gaza Strip. Rabbi Shalom is a chaplain for the IDF and has seen and heard many first hand accounts of the soldiers views of the issue.
Afterwards you can kibbitz with friends and meet your besheret (your “meant to be”).I hope you all go and learn something.
Biz a Hundret Un Tzvantzik (Till a 120!),
Bubbe
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01/22/10
Shalom Aleichem!
Shabbos is here! Its my favorite time of the week. Time to fill your kishka’s and fress (eat like a pig)! Every Friday and holiday I would send my grandchildren one of my mispocha recipes from the old country to make for Shabbos or a Yom Tov. They loved it, and so now I will pass it on to you.
This week I am going to start from the beginning with the traditional bread of Shabbos, Challah:
Dissolve yeast in water in a large bowl. Add honey and let stand 2 minutes, until yeast foams. Add salt, oil, and eggs and mix well.Gradually add flour, 2 cups at a time, mixing after each addition. As mixture gets stiff, use floured hands and begin kneading. Knead for 7 minutes, turning dough over often.http://www.jewishrecipes.org/recipes/challah/spice-and-spirit-basic-challah.html
Shabbat Shalom and Enjoy!
Biz a Hundret Un Tzvantzik (Till a 120!),
Bubbe
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01/21/10
Shalom Aleichem!
Oy vey iz mir. Today a plane was forced to make an emergency landing after taking off from LaGuardia because a 17 year old boychick was carrying a teffilin bag and people thought it was a bomb. Everybody is messuginah today! Baruch Hashem the boy cooperated and everything was settled, but really! What mishegoss!
I remember when I used to go work at the Yeshiva on Stone Avenue in Brooklyn and I would sit at my desk and at the end of the day the boys would run down the halls in their tefillins and make such a ruckus. Their tefillin straps would fly in the air and they would look like birds about to take off!
In my time, things were different though. People trusted each other. Not now, where we point figures at the innocent. If people took the time to learn about others this would never have happened. Tefillin are an important part of becoming a man. (Today, I even see women wearing it too, although this is from the new movements.) Boys, religious or not, receive it on their bar mitzvahs and it is a very special moment in their lives. My grandson looked so handsome when he put them on at his tefillin service! His punim were glowing!
I encourage you all to learn about other people, so mistakes like this does not happen. If you don’t know what tefillin are or you only know a bissela, that’s okay! You can become a maven (an expert) on the subject by reading about it from the link below or anywhere else you find the information!
Keep dry from the rain!
Biz a Hundret Un Tzvantzik (Till a 120!),
Bubbe
Here is the link for the news story:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/01/21/2010-01-21_jewish_teens_tefillin_sets_off_bomb_scare_that_diverts_us_airways_flight_from_la.html
And here is to learn more about what tefillin are:
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/tefillin.html
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