Word: kosher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hotels helped the guests feel at home. At the top resorts, visitors with a yearning for a kosher dinner could get it-flown in frozen from Lou Siegel's Restaurant in Manhattan. At the brassy Arawak Hotel in Jamaica, the planned games included both generations. While the children put on free "calypso" shirts and went for a donkey ride, the parents bet on crabs that had been painted red or blue and goaded into a sidewise race. In tonier circles, no help from the management was needed. The cafe society crowd at Montego's Round Hill...
...dropping magazines and mothers his cold with Smith Bros, cough drops. The couple soon let woebegones be woebegones, but Mrs. Jacoby's daughter and diplomat son-in-law plant cacti in the path of true love. Only at play's end is Mrs. Jacoby set to make "kosher sukiyaki" her dish of life...
...bill came up for Senate hearings, the meat-packing lobby warned that new techniques would mean higher meat prices and the Department of Agriculture criticized the law as fuzzy and hard to police. Although the bill exempted kosher slaughter, Orthodox Jews opposed it as interference with shehitah, the ritual for killing kosher animals. The humane societies rebutted other arguments by pointing out that such countries as Switzerland, The Netherlands and England administer similar laws, predicted that rather than raising prices, new techniques would help packers recover $50 million in meat lost a year through careless slaughter...
...there are perhaps another 15,000 in the country. Because most of them are either very old or very young, the number increases by only 1,000 or so each year. In all Berlin, where the pre-Hitler Jewish community numbered some 180,000, there is not a single kosher restaurant left...
Everything was kosher at the Archbishop of Canterbury's Lambeth Palace garden party in London last week. Men came in grey toppers and morning coats, and women in summery prints. As they chatted on the velvet lawn, two experts made sure that the twelve gallons of fruit juice, 3,000 sandwiches, 2,500 pastries and 30 pounds of cake conformed with Jewish dietary laws...