KOSHER MEATS
YOUR KOSHER STORE
B.C. Distributors of "Chai" Kosher Poultry
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Choose fronn our great selection ot Deli Fresh Meats • Bread • Pastries and Cakes
Difterent Menu Daily tor Eat In or Take Out: Soup, Salads, Barbecue Chicken, Hot Dogs, Gourmet IVIeals
We cater for parties BIG and small, Shabbat meals,camping trips, shiva platters, office parties, cruise or tour package dinners.
Check us out at:
Oak & 49th (next to Nuily's Donuts) Phone: (604) 261-2727 Fax: 263-1900
Open: Monday to Tliursday 8 a.m. ~ 8 p.m. Fridays 8 a.m. ~ 3:30 p.m. • Sunday 8 a.m. ~ 3:30 p.m.
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Catering from as low as $2.69 per person
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specializing in: Showers ♦ Office Parties Bris/Baby Naming • Shiva Trays
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baker, butcher and caterer! Providing a one stop shop, with a large selection of bakery and grocery items, fresh meat, deli, and poultry — or somewhere quick to catch a bite to eat. All under the supervision of the BCKCheck it out! We are located on Oak and 49th next to Nuffy's Donuts, or call at 261-2727.
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Food For Thought
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Feeling patriotic
boaz dvir SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH BULLETIN
Young Druze Israelis feel more patriotic about the Jewish state than their fellow Jewish countrymen. A recent University of Haifa study shows 57 percent of Druze high school seniors identify closely with Israel — compared with only 47 percent in the same age group among Jews, according to Maariu.
Sixty percent of the Druze students want to become officers in the Israel Defence Force — compared with only 37 percent of the Jewish students.
Commanded to learn
Israeli Jews are not only less patriotic than you may have imagined — they are also less knowledgeable of Judaism.
A recent Maariv study shows that 88 percent of Israeli adults do not know" the Ten Commandments — one out of four cannot convey even one.
Forty percent carmot name the Five Books of Moses (the Torah).
These are the very basics of Judaism. It is hard to imagine the results if the 470 interviewees were asked more complicated Talmudic questions.
It's tricky
The key to being a successful healing rabbi is not education, training, faith or family heritage. It is getting results.
If Refael Yosef Chadad delivered good results for his clients, they would have never complained about him to the police and he could have continued pretending to be a learned rabbi.
But the 30-year-old impostor failed to cure his clients, who each paid him hundreds of dollars, according to Yediot Aharonot.
In fact, many of them have complained that their mental, emotional and physical conditions have worsened since being treated by the healer-wannabe.
In one case, he cut off" the head of a fish and sprinkled its blood all over the house of a couple who sought to have children. He also gave them a strange powder to drink that gave them severe indigestion but no babies.
Boaz Dvir will write once a month about quirks and quarks, Israeli style.
In another case he failed, by his own account, to rid a house of ghosts.
What about hygiene?
Many of the ultra-Orthodox yeshivot in Israel are no longer having their students stay overnight, Yediot Aharonot reports.
The official reason for the change at the yeshivot, where teenage boys study Torah from morning until night, was lack of fianding.
But the yeshivot made the change to prevent homosexual relations, which have been posing a problem for yeshiva rabbis for years.
The rabbis used to deal with this problem by kicking out guilty parties and instructing the students to avoid exposing their bodies in the showers and bedrooms.
Black market blues
If you want to exchange dollars for shekels in the black market where you can get better rates, make sure you get the new kind of Israeli currency.
Some swindlers are giving out the old shekels which look similar but are almost worthless, according to Yediot Aharonot. One thousand old shekels are worth only one new shekel, or about 32 cents US.
It is difficult to stop this. Tourists who fall prey to this scheme, which has been practised widely in Jerusalem, tend not to complain to the police because it is illegal to exchange money in the black market.
Promoting culture
Israeli banks are offering their Visa and MasterCard users cultural rewards, according to Yediot Aharonot.
While many banks offer their credit-card users frequent-flier miles and monetary rewards, the Israeli banks are using this system to promote culture and to develop a sophisticated image.
Israeli Visa and MasterCard users can go to museum exhibits, plays, operas and other cultural events for free or half price.
"We chose to offer cultural rewards to get to the sector in which we are most interested," said Yaa-cov Halevy, Israeli bank manager. "The people who go to these events are the upper echelon." □