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answer tor vou!
by Ira L. Tedoff
It there really anything to the
adage that to a Jewish mother,
“food means lover 1
You better believe it! And I for
one am very glad of it...I shudder
to think how many great meals I
would have missed out on
otherwise, not to mention all that
love. For many of us who have
been on the receiving end of such
glutonous adoration, such
manifestations of love can feel very
good, not only from an olfactory,
gustatory, and visceral standpoint,
but from a psychological
standpoint as well.
However, such expressions of
love can be a two-edge sword.
Those of you who have ever
attempted to get away from a
“Jewish mother’s" (other religious
and cultural groups are also
fortunate to have such wonderful
loving “mothers") dinner table by
pleading satiation without at least
cleaning your first gargantuan
portion off your plate, let alone
eating seconds, know how
uncomfortable things can get at
having to reject another's “love"—
after all, can one ever get enough
love! Having your offer of love
rejected can be a very painful
experience, and many individuals,
both men, as well as women,
delight in having others show their
Dr. Tedoff, a clinical
psychologist, psychotherapist
and marriage counselor in
priate practice in Atlanta,
invites readers to submit
questions in care of The
Southern Israelite,
appreciation for such offerings of
love by accepting it. Such
acceptance implies a covert
reciprocity of that love which says
“I love you too.”
Although an offering of food in
our Jewish culture has similar
roots to that of other cultures, as
being indicative of an offer of
friendship, I believe the “feeding of
our loved ones" has taken an
added significance to us as Jews
through the thousands of years of
our persecuted existence. Often,
our ancestors, and still many of
our brethren around the world
today, have been limited as to what
they could do for their loved ones
by the harsh realities of an
impoverished existence. As such,
food became a more important
vehicle as a sign of love...If we
could not do much of anything
else, at least we could feed our
children well!
Such, perhaps necessitated
realities of our persecuted Jewish
people, may very well have been
passed down from generation,
including to our present
generation, in the form of a
modeled tradition, or unconscious
attitude regarding the meaning of
food.
Regardless of how food came to
symbolize love to us, I have a
personal message to all the “Jewish
mothers” out there: “I’ll take
seconds on everything!"
Carter speech writer
has his presecessors
by David Schwartz
Bernard Aaronson, 32 years old,
has been made chief speech writer
for President Carter. That is quite
a responsibility, but he has the
assistance of three other speech
writers. The President these days
has to make a lot of speeches and a
staff of four is kept busy at it.
We imagine Aaronson
sometimes must envy the speech
writer for Calvin Coolidge. He
probably worked only an hour or
so a month. There is some dispute
whether Coolidge ever made any
speeches outside of a few remarks
now and then to his wife, which as
they say were ex tempore and no
speech writer was required for
them.
Hamilton wrote Washington’s
Farewell Address but that was not
a speech. It was to be read, not
spoken.
Jefferson was probably the best
writer in the country in his day but
he was not much of a speaker. He
wrote the Declaration of
Independence, but he did not do
any of the speaking on the
resolution for independence.
Abraham Lincoln'was a good
speaker. He didn't have a speech
writer. He did ask a Chicago editor
to look over his Cooper Union
address in advance and the editor
did and suggested some changes,
but Lincoln did not use any of the
changes.
Truman didn't care for ghosted
speeches. When Truman ran
against Dewey, all the papers
predicted his defeat. What saved
him was that he didn't use any
speech writers. In the last few days
before the election, Truman,
touring the country and “giving
them hell” as the expression goes,
won over the voters with his plain
speaking. The fancy stuff doesn’t
get the votes.
It is said that Golda Meir seldom
wrote a speech in advance. Ben
Gurion was not much of a speaker.
He didn't seem to like speaking
over the radio. He made his first
radio speech in New York. He
came out of the studio after the
speech murmuring in Yiddish
“rayd zum vant" (talk to the wall).
The speech writer may think he
has a hard jqj», but sometimes the
audience hak a harder one,
listening to the speech. There is a
verse in Psalms, “I would rather be
a door keeper in the House of the
Lord than dwell in the tents of
wickedness." Woodrow Wilson
said the reason is that the door
keeper can easily escape if the
speaker is boring.
Jerome Braude has properly
emphasized the importance of
brevity. “If," he said, “in your
speech, you have not struck oil in
ten minutes, stop boring.”
There is the story of the fellow
who began his speech asking,
“What shall I talk about?"
Someone in the audience yelled
back—“Talk about a minute and
shut up.”
But one does not have to be a
great speaker to be a leader.
Moses, according to the Bible,
suffered from a stammering defect.
A noted rabbi once said that if
Moses had been a speaker, the
Jews would still be enslaved in
Egypt.
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P»t« H the SOUTHERN ISRAEUTE February 9, 1979