Word: kosher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kosher Causes. Even at 68, Georgie Jessel is as energetic as he was in the '20s when he hoofed, sang and gagged around the circuits with the Marx Brothers and Eddie Cantor. Nowadays, however, he sticks mainly to monologue, or rather oratory. He likes to think of himself as the "Toastmaster General of the U.S." Since he is essentially a Jewish comic, he specializes in Israel-bond and similar fund-raising functions. He is equally proud of the fact that he spoke at inaugural parties for Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John Kennedy...
...always served Catholic organizations well." His reward: one box of cigars from Winston Churchill, 600 thank-you plaques, 200 City of Hope "torches," honorary membership in 188 synagogues and in the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to say nothing of the nourishment from three or four thousand kosher dinners...
Everyone-especially if he had never been there-used to think he knew Brooklyn troo and troo. It was Green-pernt and Bensonhoist, Coney and Canarsie, the land of kosher pizza and the foot-long frankfurter, of pickles with everything and every third Schaefer's on the house. It was Leo The Lip Durocher bawling out the umpires at Ebbets Field, the impassioned rooters alternately toasting Dem Bums with Cokes and bombarding them with the empty bottles...
...read the Torah and recite prayers. Contemporary day schools are much like Protestant or Roman Catholic private schools. At the Orthodox Manhattan Day School (tuition: $1,000 a year, although 80% of the students have scholarships), the 370 students spend their mornings on religious studies in Hebrew. After a kosher lunch, they turn to secular subjects, taught in English-including science and new math. Standards in the day schools are high; 90% of their graduates qualify for college scholarships...
...joyful exploding into space. He works every day but Saturday, rising at 6 a.m. to put on the traditional phylacteries for his prayers. "I start my sculpture with a prayer," he says. "My belief is like a child's, but I don't keep kosher or attend synagogue...