SMBIT (subtitle may be ignored totally)

I love Gala apples, as do many people. It is now the second most popular variety of apples in the US. My personal favorite variety is Pink Lady, a very similar apple.

In Boston, we already have had about 75 major snowstorms, or so it seems.

Another six inches of snow today makes me feel a bit hopeless. For tomorrow’s storm, we are right on the rain/snow line. Could be another foot of snow, or could be lots of freezing rain. What a choice!

I do believe that many of these horror stories are due to lack of social graces on the part of one or both parties. Social graces can be taught to most people, and probably should be. Don’t you think schools should teach shidduchim skills so people can judge others on their true worth and not on how clumsily they navigate the world of dating?

dear Moderator:

would you please change the title to:

Wye mai presents hear is spore attic.

for those of you who don’t know me, I am Mary, Queen of Scots.

then he should have named it: “Focal Point”

The minhag is: You buy the ranch, you get to name it.

When I was a wee child, I started to write with my left hand. My parents thought I was a lefty. I was actually mixed-handed, throwing and grabbing primarily with my right-hand. I wrote lefty.

My father bought me a left-handed baseball glove, which stunted my baseball development and is likely the only reason that I am not now enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.

Make sure your child is a genuine all-around lefty.

>>>Bubbie Baltimore, Bubbie Far Rockaway, etcThe<<<

AH Bubbie, that is so cute. It reminds me of what Queen Elizabeth II called her paternal grandfather when she was a child. Her grandfather was King George V of England.

She would call him Grandfather England. He called her Lillibett.

A hundred years ago there was plenty of divorce and abandonment. Frequently it would take different forms. Husbands would leave for America and not send for their wives, or perhaps marry another woman in America. It’s not generally talked about much, and of course it didn’t happen to your great-grandmother or -grandfather.

Dowry-Farmers would go to a shtetl, marry a woman, collect her dowry, then move on to repeat the same in another locale, or just move to the New World.

There was also plenty of marital unhappiness then, too. But what era has ever been free of that?

There was great shame in divorce, but there still is today. I’m not sure anyone WANTS to get divorced.

Jews have always been in the forefront of the American Civil Rights movement, because it always has been a movement committed to Jewish ideals. After all, we were slaves too, and we suffered pogroms, and we acutely remember the misery brought about by that state.

Much of the early funding and leadership and many of the early board members and early leadership of the NAACP (National Ass’n for the Advancement of Colored People) were Jews, including Jacob Schiff, Jacob Billikopf, and Rabbi Stephen Wise. Early Jewish-American co-founders included Julius Rosenwald, Lillian Wald, Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch and Wise.

About half of the Freedom Riders in the late 50’s and early 60’s were Jews of yet another generation. Two of the three civil rights workers beaten and murdered in Mississippi in 1963 were Jewish.

Dr. King’s struggle has been our struggle, and has resulted in the greatest freedom for Jews ever experienced in the Galus. Dr. King’s sacrifice has benefited all Americans AND made the world a more just place and what could be more Jewish than that?

St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands is lovely this time of year AND they have a Chabad House.

Dentist.

all Joseph, all the time.

Realtor

Jacuzzi

Trampoline

are all registered trademarks.

>>>comp guy says the drives should be okay for at least 5 year<<<

SHOULD is the word. Hard drive failure is a random sniper, it can happen any time.

most missed: a600kilobear

how DID you get those Philistines to give you their foreskins?

you may see that happen sooner than you think.

You, and thousands of others have this problem.

Probably time to file a complaint with the Consumer Product Safety Commission. This should really be recalled.

you can buy them on ebay for less.

>>>As for your other question, I never heard of any complaint that a detector with a good battery didn’t work.<<<

dear RuffRuff, there are many that don’t work so well. Stick with the ones that are tested by a major laboratory, such as Underwriters.

Drs. Sabin and Salk. also, Dr. Hilerman, Dr. Koproswski and all the others who tried. – I’m not sure they were Jewish.

So much suffering was averted by this one discovery, so much anxiety and fear prevented. Just imagine the pain of parents not able to go to their own child’s funeral due to quarantine.

A very cruel disease indeed, and today it is gone in most of the world due to the efforts of these people and others.

zeman – why not also ask if he’s a habitual seat-belt user?

dear BPTotty, google AMI MAGAZINE or just go to http://www.amimagazine.org

mikehall, you are so right.

dogs provide transportation in the arctic, watch our homes and families, find bedbugs, detect cancer, find landmines, find earthquake victims under piles of rubble, provide companionship for autistic kids, etc., all without complaint and with only the expectation of any reward except a bit of food and some human affection. And, when they get that food and affection, they’re invariably grateful.