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Section II THE PHOENIX JEWISH NEWS December 16, 1955
SOME CHANUKAH TALES
EVERYBODY IS JOYFUL on
Chanukah and everybody wants to
give away something on Chanu
kah. My Uncle Nitgedacht was a
very poor man. On Chanukah he
said, he had nothing but a catarrh,
but he was willing to give it away.
And did I ever tell you the story
about the rabbi of Walkowisk? His
teeth were hurting him .So he went
to the dentist, who pulled out the
bad tooth.
“How much is it?” asked the
rabbi.
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“Oh, just consider it like Chanu
kah gelt,” said the dentist.
“All right,” said the rabbi.
“But please, doctor, don’t tell the
other dentists. They may want to
give me Chanukah gelt in the
same way.”
* * *
AND TAKE latkes. No wonder
the Maccabeans fought bravely.
Can you imagine any army not
fighting bravely if they knew at
the end they would get latkes?
Did I ever tell you the story
about my Aunt Ziberly’s latkes?
She made such good latkes, it
makes my mouth water so much
it could irrigate a desert. Well,
one Chanukah, she gets a visitor.
He’s really not such a good friend,
but he knows how good Aunt Zib
erly’s latkes are. So he comes.
She puts a plate of latkes on the
table. He takes one, and says,
“I’ll eat it in honor of the one
God of Israel.”
“Eat gesunterheid,” she says.
He finishes the latke and takes
another. “This is two,” he says,
“in honor of the Two Tablets of
commandments. ’ ’
He finishes the second and takes
a ’third: “Three latkes in honor
of the Three Patriarchs.”
He finishes the third and takes
a fourth: “In honor of the Four
Mothers of Israel.”
And so he goes on until he has
put down Twelve for the Twelve
Tribes of Israel, when my Aunt
Ziberly begins to scream, “Say,
mister, go away, before you take
600,000 for the 600,000 Jews who
went forth in the Exodus from
Egypt.”
* * •
AH, THE LATKES my Aunt
Ziberly makes! A good latke mak
er is like Leonardo da Vinci. A
good latke maker is an artist.
You’ve got to know how to make
them and you’ve got to have the
right ingredients, too.
My Uncle Vaytig was a very
poor man. He lived in a far city
and he never ate any of Aunt Zib
erly’s latkes. In fact, the poor man
never ate any latkes at all, but
he used to hear the stories about
how the rich people enjoyed their
latkes. So one day he says to his
wife, Pupishke, that she should
make latkes for Chanukah.
“But I haven’t got the ingred
ients,” says Pupishke. “Where am
I going to get the cream for it?”
“Make it without cream,” Uncle
Vaytig says.
“And Where am I going to get
the eggs?”
“Make them without eggs,” he
says.
So Pupishke makes the latkes
without eggs and without cream,
just flour and water, dough folded
over.
My Uncle Vaytig sits down to
eat the latkes. He eats one, fin
ishes it. “You know,” he says, “I
can’t understand why the rich peo
ple like latkes so?”
* * *
MY AUNT SIMCHE’S latkes
were not so good. Her husband
would sit-down to eat her latkes
with a tin of bicarbonate of soda
beside the latkes. He would eat
one latke and take a spoonful of
bicarbonate and then he would eat
another and take another teaspoon
of bicarbonate.
One Chanukah she leaves him
for a little while and comes back
and sees all the latkes gone. “Why
did you eat all 10 of the latkes?
Couldn’t you leave a few for me?”
“Who ate 10?” he answers, “I
ate only three.”
She takes up the box of bicar
bonate. “How come,” she says,
“the box is empty?”
* * *
AND THE CHANUKAH candles,
they are so beautiful. I love can
dles. I always used to glow a little
myself just looking at the Sabbath
candles. I remember onpe Aunt
Ziberly’s little girl said io her,
“Mama, why do you always bensh
(bless) the candle? Why don’t you
bensh papa sometimes?”
Aunt Ziberly answered: “If papa
volt gebrennt vie a candle, I
would bensh him, too.”
Yes, Chanukah is a happy time
—latkes and candles and Chanu
kah gelt. It’s good to be a Jew.
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first candle on the Menorah in
preparation for Chanukah. Rosina
is living at the shelter with her
immigrant parents while awaiting
final arrangements for their re
settlement in America. The metal
candelabrum was made by a
well-known sculptor in a Ger
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'Adoption' Plan Is
Set by Synagogues
JERUSALEM, (JTA) A plan
for the “adoption” of Israel syna
gogues by congregations in the
United States and other countries
outside Israel was announced here
by the ministry for religions,
which has circularized some 200
synagogues and religious institu
tions abroad, asking their co-oper
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Under the plan, the Israel syna
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tion will exchange information
about programs of worship, pray
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jects. The plan is intended also
to promote personal ties between
members of synagogues here and
abroad and to enable them to
make personal contact when ob
serving Jews from abroad visit
Israel.
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