Re: Fear of Repercussions...
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Sun, 13 Jun 1999 16:07:11 +1000
ME Pierce wrote:
> I just returned from my brother-in-law's interfaith wedding in New
Jersey,
> where he had to special order twenty plates of kosher food for his Jewish
> relatives. My husband does not insist that his food be blessed by the
rabbi,
> but he does follow many of the strict dietary mandates (I have seen him
> secretly trashing baby food with bits of ham).
Or as the speech went at my Jewish friend Dave's 21st last year:
`Congratulations Dave on staying kosher for 21 years. Except when there was
that $2.50 special on Cheese and Bacon Rolls at the University Refectory'
(: He has told me the famous story though about how every kid at his school
inundated the local shopping centres when Mars Bars were declared kosher
(do you have Mars Bars over there? They're like Snickers but without the
peanuts). But you're right, it's more a case of solidarity than anything
else, and solidarity is something Jews have in great abundance.
> Question: Please remind me, were any of Salinger's characters Jewish?
The Glasses were all Jewish were they not? I've seen some critics
erroneously call Holden Caulfield a `rich Jewish boy', but it's made clear
in the text that he's not.
Camille
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