BUMP

its always divine

To offer in rhyme

The oft strong opinion

Of little miss minyan

Given whenever there’s time.

Winnie: Thank you so much for taking the time to post your recipe. It is chock full of yummy ingredients, so how can it be anything else. I shall try it in the very near future. I can picture my wonderful son-in-law eating it and nodding “yes”.

Lightbrite, there is always enough dessert, so drop by anytime. We love guests at the table.

Winnie, please don’t tease us. Post the recipe please.

I’m composing a new little ditty

So this name will show up bright and pretty

I’m giving a bump

To the top it will jump

So you’ll all the chance to be witty.

Once again I’ll try my hand at rhyme

Though I miss the mark half of the time

My thoughts keep on coming

The metre I’m humming

This lack of content is really a crime.

Joseph, thank you. I have been lurking for awhile and finally I had something to say. It is nice to be back.

metrodriver, the official Canadian way of spelling is the same way as the the English way:

neighbour – not neighbor

colour – not color

centre – not center

cheque – not check

However, Canadian society is so strongly influenced by American culture, that these days, anything goes. Most Canadian television is beamed in from the US via cable so a great number of Canadians even watch US newscasts and often know more about what is ocurring in the US than in Canada. Reading the newspaper one can often find a mixture of both spellings. It is really hard to know know which is correct these days although I believe that the teachers are still teaching the British way of spelling. I think that the only place you could be guaranteed of finding “proper” Canadian spelling would be in hansard.

metro, were you raised in Canada? If so, where did you grow up? Soon we will be playing Jewish geography and find out that we are first cousins.

The CR page had been the same since sundown on Friday night. This place is closed on Shabbat and nothing on the page changes until after Havdallah (I assume in the US Eastern time zone).

Mod 42, now you have me confused. I was always under the impression that you traveled by EMU to CAMEL, and now you tell me the complete opposite. Please reconfirm at your earliest convenience.

Astrix, you CAN make it happen. You might surprise yourself. Talk the idea up with your friends. Speak to a few (younger) rabbis. I think you may find a rabbi who will come on board – perhaps even offer his shul for the shindig. I think its a terrific idea and as you can see by the reponses here, many others think so, as well.

Airies, these marriages don’t all fail. I know of several cases of intermarriage where after several years, the partner became very interested in Judaism and eventually converted. All of these couples had a chuppah and became active, as families, in the shul. In 2 cases, the converted husbands ended up becoming president of the shul. They daven beautifully – one of them reads Torah as if he has been doing it all of his life and the other often leads the mincha/mariv service.

Soliek, unfortunately you cannot “save” everyone and you cannot take everything so personally or you will burn out. Obviously kiruv is very important to you and you should put your efforts where they may be able to do the most good. I can’t understand why an organization wouldn’t want you. Have you considered doing some work for Jews for Judaism? They are a wonderful organization and have been able to “rescue” many Jews from misguided messianics who have them convinced that their brand of xtianity is actually Judaism. I think you would be a wonderful asset to their work. Don’t be so diheartened. You do the very best that you can and that is all that can be asked of someone.

One of my late father in law’s favorite sayings was ” a woman searches for a long time to find the perfect man and then spends the rest of her life trying to change him.” Unfortunately, his own son was unchangeable.

Aries, I completely agree with you on that point. I would never give cash to an addict, but I would offer to buy him/her a meal or chat with him for awhile to recommend a rehab program or ask if he wishes to be put in touch with someone from an organization such as JACS.

I know about this light green man. He got that way when he ate some bad chopped liver at a Bar Mitzvah. Some caterers forget to keep it refrigerated and it can wipe out an entire simcha.

brotherofurs, you say you would never think of writing like that, but you just did. You said “her grammar didn’t affect me for the bad”. Then with a run on sentence (and an uncapitilized “I” you introduced a new and grammatically incorrect second thought.

Zees et al, you should all make aliyah to the Pacific Northwest. I think you would quickly tire of dreary days. I grew up in Vancouver and didn’t anything different than a lot of dreary and rainy days (but at least you don’t have to shovel rain). As much as I love Vancouver, I don’t know if I could live there now. I know that I couldn’t afford to live there now, but finances aside, I think that all the rain would depress me. Where I live it is usually sunny, even when it is bitterly cold. You need sunglasses for driving year round, particularly in the winter when the glare from the sun on the snow can be blinding.

Popa, I have been thinking about your good fortune all day. I think (and I believe that many would agree with me) that in honor of this auspicious occasion it would only be fitting and proper that you should sponsor the kiddush this Shabbas at your shul.

And what happens if “nature” calls during the davening and one of the 10 needs to leave for a few minutes? Does the entire minyan take an intermission? This is one reason that I have often heard that the 11th person in the minyan is very important.

It seems that not much has changed since I trained – and I graduated in 1977. When I was doing my rotation in OB, the nurse that I was teamed with was from one of the Caribbean islands. My instructor was from the same place and knew the nurse personally – this ended up being to my advantage. In those days I used to wear a very tiny gold Mogen Dovid around my neck. The first day I was on the ward, the nurse that I was teamed up with said “I didn’t know that any Jews were nurses. I thought that you all went to university for a year or so and then got married. I know that none of you have to work because you are all rich.” I was so stunned that I had no reply (which for me is highly unusual). Fortunately, my instructor was right around the corner and had heard all that had been said to me. She stepped over and asked me to leave for a few moments. She gave the nurse such a “what for” that it was impossible not to overhear her. She let her know that she had made a complete idiot of herself and that there had been Jewish students in every class since the nursing school had started – 10 years earlier. Then she really let her have it about the “all Jews are rich” line. Anyhow, when I came back the next day, I was paired up with someone else and I never again laid eyes on this woman.

Queen Bee, please do not go. We need your caliber of people around here. You are so intelligent and have so much to offer all (well nearly all) of us here in the CR. You offer so much support for so many people and your wide range of knowledge only makes me look for more of your posts. Certainly, Health was way out of line for the insults that he threw at you and your way of dealing with him was amazing. I am willing to be his “kicking post” if it means you will stay.

Okay Health, fire away. I am Conservative and I guess you know what goes with that title. It suits me just fine – I daven at shul 7 days a week and love it. Have I given you enough ammunition so that you will leave Queen alone and allow her to continue her wonderful contributions to this forum? BTW, I don’t write novels, but I do read them and many of them are also not what you would consider kosher.

Last year I read an article about Hallowe’en. It seems to have lost most of its attachments to religion. This article also said that more homes are decorated for Hallowe’en than for any other holiday – because it is now considered a non-religious holiday and crosses the boundaries of many different religions. I know that when I was a kid, nobody decorated homes for Hallowe’en and in the past 20+ years it has become such a big deal. Some people really go all out. Of course, the person who invented orange leaf bags with faces painted on them was brilliant. Because this is the time of the year that people are raking up their leaves anyway, at least they can now be used for decor.

I would like to add my comments – Kapusta is a terrific person. She can often see (and explain) both sides of a problem or a discussion and can make her points without offending anyone. I hereby would like to nominate Kapusta to the post of CR Ima.

Personally, I love Hallel – the longer the better, because at my shul that means more singing and the tunes we use are beautiful. The Chazzan could take a half hour and it would be fine with me. I love any holiday that has a full (as opposed to Hatzi) Hallel.

PBA is simply an illusion. If you go through some of the older threads you will find that all of his posts have vanished into thin air without the aid of the Mods. You only THINK that you have read something written by him but it is only in your fertile imagination. There is no Popa_bar_abba. Nobody would have a screen name that is so difficult to type – with underscores, yet.

This is also the reason for the difficulty establishing whether or not he has a spouse. He had one but she is beginning to vaporize.

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I don’t use my PayPal account to buy “thin air”.

yoya, it is worth every Arab prisoner in Israel for the life of one Jew.