RE: [Cz-L] Pesach

Here is another reason to celebrate Passover - the visitor from out of town sitting next to you is a third generation Czernowitzer. That what happened to me yesterday. She never met her grandmother, whose last name was Burg and is very interested to learn about Czernowitz. How about that?
I am Bcc this e-mail to her too, so she can join the list.
Chag sameach

Channa
 
> From: cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net
> To: HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET; marshaspell_at_comcast.net; mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu; HJarvis16_at_aol.com
> CC: czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu
> Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Pesach
> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:21:02 +0000
>
> Well,Hardy,there is one thing we did that probably makes some of today's
> "Ultraorthodox" do what in Czernowitz was called "platzing"....we had a
> female ruler,a real Jewish Princess who became Queen Salome Alexandra aka
> Shlomzion Hamalka. She ruled from 76-67 BCE,and it was she who introduced
> the Ketubbah.Historically this was of major importance,with clauses
> protecting women's rights...and this would develop into the principle of
> alimony!!And by the way..._at_8 centuries earlier we had Queen Athalia too.
> Cornel
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:bounce-76770367-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of HARDY BREIER
> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 2:37 PM
> To: Marsha Spellman; 'Miriam Taylor'; 'Harry Jarvis'
> Cc: 'czernowitz-L'
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Pesach
>
> 1. Spring holiday - in the Southern hemisphere it is an autumn holiday.
> Unless you also believe the earth is flat.
> 2. When Jews come together they dont talk about freedom and slavery :
> They talk money and Czernowitz. They dont sing . Caruso sang.
> 3. We didn't achieve anything thousand of years ago..
> except religions , prophets and Messias and bloody religious disputes.
> 4. If the Pesach narrative was made as an incentive for women to clean
> their houses - it was clever thinking.
> 5. The Bible is still the best story ever told.
>
>
> Hardy
>
>

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