Page 6 - The Canadian Jewish News, Friday, September 6, 1974
Organizations and People
what's new...
By MIRIAM HERMAN
FJWO ACTIVITIES
Federation of Jewish Women's Or-■ganizations president Lil Wax: has scheduled a Presi^pnts' Gouncil meeting for all presidents and representatives of FJWO constituent organizations for Thursday, Sept. 12, at 12:30 p.m; at Shaarel Shomayim Synagogue. The theme. One is Alone.Two is Together, will cover committee reports, programing,_and a discussion of problems relating to all organizations.
One of the upcoming events is a United Way bus .tour Thursday, Sept. 19, to meet the newest UW agency, the Co-ordinated Services to Jewish Elderly. Visits will be made to the Atlaz V^rkshop, the Creative Living Centre, and the ARC Industries, a sheltered workshop for young adults. Anyone interested in attending may contact the FJWO office.
ISRAEL BOND DAY
. Two Toronto landsmanshaften have Chosen Sunday, Sept. 8 as their annual Israel Bond Day. At separate lunch^ eons, the Maramoresher Society and the Keltzer Sick Benefit Society wil! ^in their efforts to enrol each member family as a Shomer Israel. The Maramoresher luncheon is. at Adath Israel Synagogue. Their efforts are spearheaded by president Joseph La-zar and bond chairman Mrs. Geta Ganz: The Keltzer Society luncheon at the Zionist Centre is one of a number of, scheduled bond events to help them reach their 1974 target.
TORONTO OF YESTERYEAR
. September heralds the beginning of the season's community activities. Beth Tikvah Sisterhood gets off to a start with : a general meeting Wednesday, Sept. 11", featuring Canadian Jewish Congress - archivist Stephen Speisman who will be giving an illustrated talk (with slides) on Jewish Toronto of Yesteryear. The meeting is called for 9 p.m. It is open to the public.
BB OPENING MEETING
B'nai B'rith Toronto Lodge resumes its general program activities Monday, Sept. 9, at an opening meeting to which wives and friends are invited. Guest speaker will be Senator David. CroU, who among other things,, is honorary president of the lodge's senior club. The meeting takes place at 471 Lawrence Avenue West at 8:30 p.m.
HADASSAH CHOIR NEEDS YOU
V Can you carry a tune? The Hadassah Choir is accepting new members. Busily preparing for its first featured public concert in the spring, the choir is under the direction or Varda Hall Berenstein,; accompanied by pianist Sara Barkin Sandler. Rehearsals are Thursday afternoons at the Zionist Centre, .beginning Sept.12- Applicants may call Min Saunders at 488-6212 or Anne Sugarman at 782-5023.
SHAAR SHALOM NEWS
The fledgling.; congregation Shaarv Shalom is having its opening adult education meeting Saturday, Sept. 7, at 9:30 p.m. at the home of member Jerry Lewy. Rabbi Barnett Hazden will lead a discussion pertaining to the Jewish Holy Days in the Conservative :way of life; Selichot services will follow. Interested members should call Mr. Lewy at 494-2611, 889-1443 or Harry Wargii at 494-2611.
Further news in the education department is that the synagogue's religious school is now affiliated with Beth. Am Congregational School. They will be running classes for kindergarten up to grade 3, on Sundays and after school at the Steelesview Public School (Leslie and Steeles area);
THE DOCTOR
Those of you who have Keeble Gable TV can catch a special of Shalom Aleichem's The Doctor, taped by the Yiddish Drama Group. The showairs Wednesday, Sept; 11, at 7 p.m. on Channel 10. The drama group is under the auspices of Committee for Yiddish of Congress and the tape is available for showing to any organization. Just call Bess Shockett at Congress.
HOLIDAY SERVICES
High Holiday services at York University, sponsored by the Jewish Student's Federation, will beconductedby Rabbi Sol Tanenzapf (who is also pro- , fessor of humanities). Services are being held at Winters College Masters Dining Room. For information call the. JSF office at 667-3647. .
B'nai Israel Beth David Congregation's High Holiday Institute features guest speaker Genya Intrator, chairman of Women for Soviet Jewry, who will be speaking on Soviet Jewry today. The meeting begins at 9:15 p.m. Satr urday, Sept..7. Selichot midnight service follows.
...about people
Dubi Arie
Art lovers, and others, will be pleased to know that Israeli artist Dubi Arie has moved to Toronto and opens his first one-man show here this week — Tuesday, the 10th, to be exact— at the Galerie Heritage on Yorkville Ave-nue; An award winning painter and sculptor of note; the Polish-born, kibbutz-bred, 38-year-old artist has already been cortimissioned to work ona series of decorative wall sculptures in Canada^ The show features oils, acrylics and collages weaving through the theme of Jerusalem and as gallery director Igor Kuchinsky says, "he has ^a message symbolic of the young generation of Israel." His works since the Yom Kippur War "are a reminder of the determination to survive and a tremendous expression of protest against injustice." See for yourself — the show ri^ns to the end of the month.
Winnipeg community leader Arnold Portigal will: be the.recipient of the' prestigious Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitarian Award at the Israel Bond Organization's 1974 Man-=Df=th^-Yfear Dinner held in his honor this WednesV-day at Shaarey Zedek [Synagogue. The award, given for his distinguished leadership in support of Jewish causes in Israel and at home, is "Veserved for persons who typify in their lifetime the high, ideals of devotion to their fellow man.\
• So far, at least two of President Gerald JFord's key White House aides
are Jewish. William Seidman. a Grand Rapids businessman, is general assistant for administration, and Milton Friedman, Washington bureau chief for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency for the :: past .18. years, is now the president's chief speech writer. ;
Professor Harris Schoenberg, assistant director of the B'nai B'rith United Nations office in New York, will be in Toronto Monday, Sept. 9,' to meet with BB leaders, and lodge chairmen. Dr. Schoenberg, also' an assistant professor, of Judaic studies at Brooklyn College of City University of New York, is the English-language . editor of Jewishness Rediscovered, a collection of underground essays published by Soviet. Jewish intellectuals, and the author of numerous articles on the United Nations, Soviet Jewry, and world politics and the Jewish condition.
All it-took was . a few months to brush up on her English and Laura
: Mogilever is ready to return to her first love, music. A recent immigrant from, Russia — she and her husband, a computer engineer, and their two children arrived in Canada just eight months ago — Mrs.. Mogilever is a graduate of the conservatory of music, in Odessa and taught piano at the musical school there for eight years. Now that she has completed the English course at Seneca College (and' she speaks very well), she is taking up where she left off. All that is need-
. ed are some students. If you are interested, Mrs. Mogilever canbe reached at 636-5980.
Perry Rosemond, a former Winni-peger well-known in Toronto TV circles r as writer, director, producer and what have you, has joined the CBC^TV drama department after a stay in Los Angeles that chalked up directorial credits with numerous big star TV specials. He returns to the CBC to develop situation comedies, including his own project. The King of Kensington, a character who in the Yiddish community would.be known as TheMaveUi and' in the black community would likely be called The Kingfisher.
A part-time job as youth organisTer at the Labor Zionist Alliance has how' officially become a full-time appo^int-m.ent as LZA director for youth/and young adults for York University/graduate Emanuel (Ami) Maishlish. iDur-ing his two year part-time stint, he was instrumental in forming threenew young adult branches, and also jliiopen-i_ ing • the new youth and young adult i centre on Hillmount Avenue: ;
Holiday Ijkadj and appk jelly served up for a year of sweetness
added to Lekach, leave them oiit for Rosh Hash-anah. The reasons for this custom vary. One is purely practical: nuts tend to make the mouthand throat dry and asRoshHashanah services are very long, nuts are better avoided; Another explanation has it that the numerical value
bonappetit
By MARCIA KRETZMER
B'Teyavon, the name, of this column, is the Hebrew equivalent of 'bon appetit.' Every week 1 shall write about some aspect of food of inter-r est to the Jewish home-maker, whether male or female.
A.
Marcia Kretzmer
1- shall present food drawn from Jewish cuisine all over the world and in every case, whether it is a dish cooked in accordance with some ritual requirement or whether it is a food used because it was cheap or plentiful, there is always some twist, some weaving of words, flavor or symbols, by which the Jewish community has made these dishes uniquely its own: ,1 should like to dedicate this first column to my grandmother, still, in her 80's, an excellent cook. (Rumor has it that
she is 85, but no one really knows, because they did not register births in the Ottoman Empire.)
At about this time of year, Grandma's apartment in London, England, is full of the fragrance of apple preserves which she makes in large quantities for all the family, in preparation for the New Year.
The Jews of the Baghdad community from which my grandmother comes, did not use the slices of fresh apple dipped in honey, familiar to European Jews, on Rosh Hashanah. Instead, they tasted a teaspoon of a clear, amber jelly, with slices of almost translucent apple suspended in ■it. .
But the symbolism is the same. The honey or syrup stands for a year of sweetness and well-being. The apple is generally taken to stand for the symmetry of the annual cycle .^rr a theme echoed in the rounded loaves of festival bread.
Thanks for this recipe are due my father, who. with a chemist's meticu-lousness, for once fore-: ed Grandma to be ex-: plicit about the exact a-mounts she uses.
Make lots, and eat it right through the holidays till Simchat Torah.
Grandma's Rosh Hashanah Apple Jelly
1 pint lime water (make this from diluted lime juice concentrate or the juice of fresh limes and water)
2 lbs. hard eating apples 2 lbs. sugar
. 1. peel apples and slice into eighths . 2; soak in lime water for 1 hour and stir well until saturated
■3; remove.apples and discard lime water
4. heat apples in a pan with the sugar -— no water. Stir with a wooden spoon until the sugar melts. Bring slowly to a boil, making sure not to burn
5. lower heat and simmer until apples are "ready" ^-anything from 1-2 hours
, 6. remove and bottle when cool
: If you have a really well-ordered house(mine is sheer pandemonium so I have a chutzpah saying this), you will, of course^ be doing a lot of your baking well before next week.
Here is a recipe forthe best honeycake in the world; It's called Lekach and my upstairs neighbor Sari Wool makes it. She made it in larger quantities than usual last year,: as she rashly invited us over for both nights of Rosh Hashanah. This year, 1 offered to split the baking; biit as my cakes always turn out far better
when she makes, them, I think I shall capitulate and let her do the baking again.
Lekach is thetradition-al cake served on Rosh Hashanah. Its name is Hebrew for "lesson," or "doctrine" and refers to the Torah. Together with our wishes for sweetness in the New Year„go wishes that it be full of Torah, which isitself sweet. This is. an; excellent example of the kind of symbolism so common in the Jewish tradition and reflected in Jewish cuisine.
Although nuts are.often
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of the Hebrew word for nut, 'egoz', equals the numerical value of the word for sin,' chef. As the year should be started in pristine purity, nothing that evokes sin should beused.
Copyright _ Marcia Kretzmer, 1974.
Sari s Rosh Hashanah Lekach
2 cups flour 2 eggs
I cup sugar ».
1/2 cup dark, creamed honey
] cup hot, black coffee. •
1 tsp. baking powder
I tsp. baking soda
1/2 cup oil
I /2 tsp. allspice (optional)
1. mix eggs, oil and sugar and set aside ; 2. mix honey into coffee until dissolved
3. add half the honey mixture to the egg mixture, together with 1 cup flour. Then add the other half together with the second cup of flour and leavening and spices
4. mix well and pour into a large greased pan, preferably a loaf pan . •. - :^
5. bake 1 hour at 325 degrees
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Children under 13 can participate in the Junior Congregation, If not affiliated with any synagogue your patronage would be appreciated,
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To each and an our best wishes for a Happy New Year
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This plate from Delft, HoUand^.circa 1700, was used for serving apple dipped in honey on the eve of Rosh Hashanah.
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