Word: koshering
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...rapidly that companies catering to the market survey it constantly to detect each flicker of interest. Popeye is currently out; so are Doctors Kildare and Ben Casey, model trains (they are considered old-fashioned), and tuna fish. Among the current ins: Mr. Magoo, electric toothbrushes, army toys, English bikes, kosher foods, pizza pies, and Frankenstein monsters...
...Cherokee called them jew-wedge-du-gish (literally, "the egg eaters") because, to avoid breaking kosher rules, they lived almost exclusively on hard-boiled eggs while on the road. Unlike town merchants in the South, the Jewish peddlers cultivated Negro customers, entered their names respectfully in ledgers as "Mr." or "Mrs.," extended them credit, and let them try on clothing before a sale. The Jews were rarely greeted with hostility. Bible Belt fundamentalists believed they were the living witnesses to the Old Testament. Often one was asked, "Are you a Methodist Jew or a Baptist...
...years interned in a British camp on the Isle of Man. She had an international repertoire of folk songs by the time she left England, but when she came to the U.S. in 1948, she rarely escaped the Borsch Belt and Hadassah-club audiences that wanted a strictly Kosher diet of Hebrew and Yiddish songs. Since then, she has made four albums of international folk songs, but record stores are still likely to keep her in the Jewish bin; when she packed Town Hall for her first New York concert, a friend who had followed her Catskill career asked, "What...
...When two Detroit women died from food poisoning after eating a bad can of A. & P. tuna packed by Washington, health authorities across the U.S. began searching out other cans of Washington tuna marketed under various brand names. New York officials discovered bad tuna sold under a Dagim Tahorim kosher label, sent inspectors to hundreds of groceries to search for the suspect cans. WY2 and WY3 cans also turned up in Cleveland, and inspectors searched out Washington Packing shipments to stores in Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago and Augusta...
...quarrels with all forms of life: pigeons, cats, dogs, landlord, goyim. He hates them all because they still have their life, while he is soon to die. He treats no one worse than his son Carl, who fled to the suburbs and keeps a house that is not strictly kosher. The old man knows how to make him feel guilty. "You think I keep a diary of all my aches and pains, so I can tell you about them every two months?" he grumbles when Carl asks about his health. "I'd need a whole Torah to write them...