The Nosh

January 3, 2017 JMORE Staff

BY THE N#MBERS

2,000 The estimated number of winter care packages (hand-knit hats and scarves) distributed recently on Mitzvah Day, Jewish Volunteer Connection’s annual day of performing good deeds around the Baltimore metropolitan area to help the homeless and hungry, seniors and the ailing, people with special needs, and others.

That’s Easy For You To Say

“I do not think he would unfriend people on Facebook no matter how they voted.”

— Shlomo Elisha Wiesel, son of the late Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, saying his father would have condemned the rhetoric and policies associated with President-elect Trump, but also would have cautioned Americans to respect each other however deep the political divide

“You can’t not be a racist for 69 years, then all of a sudden become a racist, right? You can’t not be an anti-Semite for 69 years, and all of a sudden become an anti-Semite because you’re running [for president].”

— Jared Kushner, defending his father-in-law, President-elect Donald Trump, against accusations of racism and anti-Semitism

“I don’t think of blues as being of any particular color. … But there were white slaves, as well. There have been plenty of work songs from way back. Try Egypt. Quite Jewish, actually.”

~ Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, on whether white people can sing the blues

“That’s a surf mezuzah. A surfzuzah?”

~ Mike D of the Beastie Boys, on a wooden hand sculpture nailed next to the door of his house featuring a pinkie and thumb extended in the Hawaiian “hang loose” sign with crashing waves painted on the bottom of the palm

“Jewish history has taught us that fascism arrives slowly, through the steady erosion of liberties. And we have learned that those who attack other minorities will eventually come to attack us.”

— From a pledge recently signed by more than 600 rabbis and cantors, holding the Trump administration accountable for protecting the human rights and civil liberties of all people

“It could be that without Guatemala, the resolution on that fateful day would not have passed, and history would be very different.”

— Israeli Knesset President Yuli-Yoel Edelstein, thanking the Central American country recently for its critical role in helping establish the State of Israel during the Nov. 29, 1947, United Nations partition plan vote for a two-state solution in what was then known as Palestine

Yiddish Insult or Curse of the Month

Ale tsores vos ikh hob oyf mayn hartsn, zoln oysgeyn tsu zayn kop.

All problems I have in my heart, should go to his head.