Word: matzoth
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...famed, venerable (about 75) Satmar rabbi, Joel Teitelbaum, will begin building ranch-style and split-level houses on a 500-acre tract in Mount Olive Township. N.J. Besides the houses (average price: $15,000), the congregation plans to build a mikveh (ritual bath), a shopping center, a matzoth bakery, a rabbinical seminary and a synagogue. A number of Hasidic Jews who operate garment factories in lower Manhattan plan to move them to a tract adjacent to their new homes. Ultimately, the move to the suburbs may cost $20 million...
...Temple Emanuel's most popular members is the Honolulu Advertiser's nightclub columnist, Eddie Sherman, who recently dramatized Hawaiian Jewry by giving a luau (a Hawaiian outdoor dinner) and calling it a Jewau. The menu included such succulencies as bagel breadfruit, pineapple-flavored matzoth balls, and a renamed local wine, Mogen David...
...absurd thing to be pelted with matzoth balls, and for some years now, the South's more sensitive segregationists have been feeling absurd. The barrage of wet kosher dumplings comes from an overweight (198½ Ibs.) leprecohen named Harry Golden, who lives in Charlotte, N.C. and publishes an eccentric (no news, all editorials) newspaper called The Carolina Israelite (TIME, April 1, 1957). When he is not waging his blintzkrieg against the racists, Golden may be tweaking some fellow Jews by the short hair of their mink stoles, sentimentalizing about his boyhood in Manhattan's Lower East Side...
...from a sausage stuffer to the late Mrs. Henry Ford (in an article on her "Model T cookies"). Her office at the Trib, next door to the testing kitchen, is stuffed with all kinds of sample foods from German wild boar roast, smoked shrimp paste and bite-size saltless matzoth to dehydrated soups and lobster royal ("cooked with a wiggle in its tail...
...carving Palestine with a sword. In a whirlwind week they seized Haifa, attacked Jaffa, won Tiberias on the Sea of Galilee and tried to cut the Arab supply road into Jerusalem. For the first time since the Romans leveled Jerusalem 1,800 years ago, a Jewish army ate Passover matzoth and bitter herbs around campfires in the field. Said Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion: "We stand on the eve of the Jewish State . . . heartened by the victories of our army . . . We have just begun to buckle on the sword...