Happy New Year 5774!

[bluenoter]

. . . . . .
Happy birthday, world!
You don't look a day over 5773.

[Gentle Giant]

Likewise to my fellow yehudies.

[steve(thelil)]

God, it seems like just yesterday it was 4157. Time's a flying. Happy New Year all!

Back when I was a suit in a big office building, I was a little taken back that people who hardly knew me just assumed from my Jewish sounding last name (I'm actually part Italian and look Italian) that I was a practicing Jew AND that it was acceptable to come up to me on a Jewish Holiday and ask why I was at work.

So I'd reply: We're Reformed Jews: We go to work on Jewish Holidays but don't do any.

[sozamora]

Let's celebrate with Chinese food!

[moldyfigg]

My dear Mom was Jewish, so I am one of the tribe.

A bit of celebration is a good idea.

[moldyfigg]

I would guess that in SoFla, there some pretty good cooks from Yucatan, Vera Cruz or even Puebla. It's that the gringos don't know enough to ask them to make some real Mexican food.

Am I happy living in SoCal where excellent Mexican restaurants abound.

[Ron Thorne]

Shana tovah u'metukah!

[Tom Storer]

Scott, do you really live in a town called Sleepy Hollow or is that a joke?

I grew up not far from Sleepy Hollow, New York.

[steve(thelil)]

Scott, do you really live in a town called Sleepy Hollow or is that a joke?

I grew up not far from Sleepy Hollow, New York.

So did I. In what town did you grow up, Tom?

[bluenoter]

Likewise to my fellow yehudies.

Yehudies?!

That better mean something nice!

Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999)

Celebrated violinist and human rights activist on how he came to be named ‘Yehudi’ which means ‘Jew’ in Hebrew.

‘Obliged to find an apartment of their own my parents searched the neighbourhood and chose one within walking distance of the park. Showing them out after they had viewed it, the landlady said: “And you’ll be glad to know I don’t take Jews.” Her mistake made clear to her, the antisemitic landlady was renounced, and another apartment found. But her blunder left its mark. Back on the street my mother made a vow. Her unborn baby would have a label proclaiming his race to the world. He would be called “The Jew.”’

Re some posts above: Chinese food is for Christmas Eve. There are traditional foods for Rosh Hashanah---but I just recently learned that one of them is pomegranates. And just for the record,
to an observant Jew, Rosh Hashanah means prayer, repentance, and righteous deeds as well as
a bit of celebration.

[Tom Storer]

In what town did you grow up, Tom?

From age 8 through the end of high school I lived in an area known as "the unincorporated area of Greenburgh," New York. As you may or may not know, Greenburgh is a "town" that includes six incorporated villages and a large unincorporated area. The villages are Ardsley, Dobbs Ferry, Elmsford, Hastings-on-Hudson, Irvington, and Tarrytown. I've never been entirely certain what "incorporation" involves, but one part of it is having your own post office. Since I was in the unincorporated part, our postal address was White Plains, and indeed I could walk for twenty minutes and be in downtown White Plains. But the school district spanned Greenburgh and Hartsdale, where many friends lived, so I always felt like I was as much from Hartsdale as from Greenburgh, although neither of those was my postal address. Where were you, Steve?

[steve(thelil)]

I grew up in Ardsley, which, as you mention, was incorporated but also in the Town of Greenburgh. I know "unincorporated Greenburgh" and Hartsdale quite well. In fact, the Ardsley School District includes part of Hartsdale and Ardsley High School itself was on the border of Ardsley and Hartsdale. Wow. What years did you live there? I assume that if you were there during High School Years you went to Woodlands (?)

(How can you send the boy back to the Woodlands, now that he's seen Paris?)

[sozamora]

Her unborn baby would have a label proclaiming his race to the world. He would be called “The Jew.”’

http://video.adultswim.com/childrens-ho ... ewjew.html

[Tom Storer]

What years did you live there? I assume that if you were there during High School Years you went to Woodlands (?)

I was there from 1966-76, the year I graduated from Woodlands High School. Small world, huh? The JC poster known as RBS was my classmate. Don't think he's here at JT yet.

(How can you send the boy back to the Woodlands, now that he's seen Paris?)

Actually RBS and I went back for a reunion a couple of years ago! As he put it, "Guys who used to steal my lunch money were all of a sudden my best friend."

[steve(thelil)]

Tom: My brother Rob graduated Ardsley High in 1976, the year you graduated from Woodlands. If you and I never crossed paths at Friendly's on Central Ave or Korvette's or Nathan's or Murray's Army Navy in White Plains or somewhere else where kids went, you and Robbie probably did.

[Tom Storer]

If you and I never crossed paths at Friendly's on Central Ave or Korvette's or Nathan's or Murray's Army Navy in White Plains or somewhere else where kids went, you and Robbie probably did.

My God, Friendly's on Central Ave. That shopping center was a frequent stomping grounds for me from grade school on. I used to buy my comic books at the Big Top, a little store next door to Friendly's. Later years included various after-dark memories from the parking lot area behind the stores.

That was in the days before malls. There were only "shopping centers."

[steve(thelil)]

My God, Friendly's on Central Ave. That shopping center was a frequent stomping grounds for me from grade school on. I used to buy my comic books at the Big Top, a little store next door to Friendly's. Later years included various after-dark memories from the parking lot area behind the stores.

That was in the days before malls. There were only "shopping centers."

We went to that Friendly's (my first Friendly's) on many Saturday afternoons after the football game, and many other times as well. It was next to the Cinema 100, if I recall correctly (and since the memory is 30+ years old, I probably do)

There was another Big Top in Ardsley in the Village. I bought my rock magazines there. I worked there assembling the Sunday Papers during 8th grade. I assume the same 2 guys owned the Ardsley and Hartsdale Big Tops. Their names were Howard and Fred. They were a little bit Mutt and Jeffy looking. Do you remember them?

[bluenoter]

Her unborn baby would have a label proclaiming his race to the world. He would be called “The Jew.”’

http://video.adultswim.com/childrens-ho ... ewjew.html

I'm the last person on earth to have heard of Childrens Hospital, but I spent some time investigating it and got the show credits, etc. from Wikipedia. Thanks!

[hornplayer]

Shana Tova, all. We had some pretty tasty short ribs Wednesday night.