I'd have to Google the exact year, but not long after the founding of the HUC, the Reform platform was still being hammered out, including whether or not Reform Jews should still keep kosher. To this end, shrimp was served as the first course at the HUC graduation banquet that year, causing several rabbies to walk out in disgust.
(Now, it's entirely possible that the whole thing is an urban legend, given that it was the late 1800s and we don't have any way of verifying the first-person accounts given, but that's the story.)
[eta: Or see Tom's link.]
I do not prefer daily life, but as noted, am having a week.
That's okay. This question is really the least of my worries since I swear I'm about to cut someone here.
My afternoon just got marginally more amusing. I get to write copy for a book titled
Cloudy With a Chance of Marriage.
Heh. Her previous book was
Dukes To the Left of Me, Princes to the Right.
My grandmother was a lapsed Congregationalist from Boston who moved to Cincinnati in 1947 (when my grandfather started working at the hospital there). She later worked in the library at Hebrew Union College, and almost all of her Cincinnati friends were Jewish (and they played Mah Jongg together, which we were all taught as children!). There's still a big Jewish community. I never heard of the Shrimp Incident, though!
I never heard of the Shrimp Incident, though!
The Shrimp Incident is interesting but it's no Molasses Flood or Waltz Riot.
In rather different Midwestern news: North Dakota Bois (a la Katy Perry) [link]
That's a really interesting bit of history, Jessica.
Brenda, I was just gonna post that one. because my mom said it like New BerLIN when she first came there and the locals were like (My dad),she's not from around here, is she?"
More ways to share your business on Facebook (and have it shared for you).
Yeah, I don't get the appeal of that or Foursquare. Between 8 and 5, Monday-Friday, my manager has the right to know where I am. Otherwise it's nobody's business where the heck I might be.
