Purim afterthought

One observation from the seudah: my Hebrew comprehension was way below the norm for that group. I'll have to ask Yaakov what the kiddush text really said; I caught bits and pieces that were clearly, um, not traditional, and lots of people were laughing, but I missed most of it.

What actually brought this to mind was digging through the goodie bag for some candy and coming across the bubble gum with the Hebrew wrappers. I tossed the gum (yuck), but I kept the Bazooka Joe cartoons in hopes that I can get someone to read them to me. (If they either had vowels or were written in square script, I might stand a chance...)

The word "Bazooka" looks funny transliterated into Hebrew -- but not as funny as "New York" (or "New" anyplace). You can translate "new" (chadash), and transliterating it instead looks really weird.

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I called Rabbi Berkun to schedule my next service there, and he's actually full for the next few months. That's a change! It's bar-mitzvah season, apparently, and they try to have the bar mitzvah lead services Friday night as well as Saturday morning. Things could change; sometimes the student just isn't up to the task and they have to substitute in someone else. But currently, his first opening is in late June.

I'm glad their congregation is healthy enough to have this "problem", though a little disappointed that I'll have to wait. On a micro level, I'm disappointed that a certain date in April (my congregation's 4th-grade service) isn't available. As I've mentioned before, I hate those as they are implemented there. So I'll probably go somewhere else that week, but I won't have a handy excuse. :-)

wow

I have no idea where/when this happened, but if true it's pretty darn impressive. (Link stolen from jeannegrrl.)