Word: kosher
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...Stormy Life of Lasik Roitschwantz, by Ilya Ehrenburg. A previously untranslated 1927 satire of revolutionary Russia by the man who is now Communism's No. 1 journalistic Pooh-Bah. This kosher Candide reincarnates the nonhero of Jewish folklore: Peter Schlemiel, the enemy of commissar...
...tone, the book resembles that comic masterpiece of World War I. The Good Soldier Schweik: in form, it is a kind of kosher Candide...
...gregarious "coffeehouse guy," he mixes at all levels of the Hollywood social scale-in the Holmby Hills Rat Pack (Frank Sinatra), in the Kosher Rat Pack (Groucho Marx and friends), even in the exclusive A Group (top studio brass and long-established superstars, like Gary Cooper). For all his gregariousness, he can be cruel without reason, successfully plays the domestic tyrant. At dinner one evening, his wife Audrey announced brightly: "Darling, do you realize this is our anniversary?" Replied Wilder: "Please-not while I'm eating." Says Playwright George Axelrod: "Billy is essentially, not personally, mean. Most...
...merely rests in the nectar sac, where it becomes honey. Science now knows that the bee secretes an enzyme that changes the nectar to honey. In recent Orthodox opinions, an enzyme from a nonkosher animal (such as a bee) is forbidden to Jews; enzymes used in the making of kosher cheese, for instance, must come from kosher animals. Question to be resolved: if a nonkosher enzyme is permissible in honey, should it not also be permissible in cheese...
...beaches or battlefronts. Three years ago Camera Bug Eric L. Ergenbright of North Hollywood opened his own agency, this year is running 30 camera tours-in Japan, South America and elsewhere-with live models and expert photographer-guides. One agency set up a religious tour of Israel, complete with kosher food, tossed in a surprising fringe benefit: a special audience with Pope John XXIII on the way back...