Word: mishpocha
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...computer class at a local senior center. Before long, Trabish had sent e-mail to her family: "I think I am going to the head of the class...So far, I am one lesson ahead of the crowd. Not bad for the oldest member of our mishpocha...
That's Yiddish for family. Trabish has used her online skills to keep her mishpocha network connected. It includes her three children, four grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, lots of nieces and nephews and some close friends. And she is keeping the network updated on her latest project: a family history starting with the move from Poland to Brooklyn. Everyone will get an e-mail copy, except for Trabish's two brothers and two sisters, who are still holding out on the revolution. "I am the oldest person in the family," she says impatiently, "and I use the computer. My nieces...
...their favorite entree is fish out of water. They love movies that reveal the familiar through brand-new eyes. If detective Harrison Ford could cozy up to the Amish in Witness, why couldn't detective Melanie Griffith go undercover among Brooklyn's Hasidic Jews and become one of the mishpocha? The reason why not is A STRANGER AMONG US. This pill of a thriller, written by Robert Avrech, manages to demean everyone involved, regardless of creed or previous credits. The usually workmanlike Sidney Lumet directs Griffith to be shrill and most of the Hasidim to be cute and noble -- E.T.s...
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