An Unusual Video Appearance

I was importuned by two, quite nice, Orthodox Jewish Girls @ Barnes & Noble in Forest Hills, Queens, to appear in a video, to wish a dear friend of theirs, a Happy Birthday. That, I did & wished both of them a Happy New Year. They wished me the same.
A number of years ago, a Bingo Hall Owner who is a Jew, explained to me that a Good Deed is called a Mitzvah.
Well, in the Loyal Order Of Moose, we members are advised in the Ceremony of Enrollment for The Moose Legion, to do a Good Deed every day.
As I am both an Actor & Videographer/Producer, I got to be part of the two girls video, to wish their friend a Happy Birthday. Doing The Mitzvah does feel quite good.
Both girls, who are Orthodox, were very modestly dressed, not exposing any skin, which is a good thing.
I, thanks to a Bingo Hall Owner, have some further understanding of Judaism. Now, a Bar Mitzvah is the Good Deed done to bring a Jewish Boy into Manhood at 13 Years Old. For Orthodox Jewish Girls, the age is 12, for the Bas Mitzvah.
Bar, in this case, is for the Male & Bas is for the Female.
Shalom!
L'Chaim!
M

A Favorite Greeting In The Chasaidic & Orthodox Jewish Areas

On Friday Afternoon, the favorite saying is "Have A Good Shabbos". Shabbos is Yiddish for Sabbath.
These Jews do not do any Servile Work, including turning on & off light switches. For this, a person called a "Shabbos Goy", would do this.
Way back when, at the corner of Lincoln & Liberty Avenues, in East NY, my father was a Shabbos Goy, who would turn on & off the lights in a small synagogue at that corner.
Currently, there are no Jewish Residents of that area.
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Yom Kippur

It is the Culmination of the High Holy Days in the New Year in Judaism. It is The Day Of Atonement For Sins committed in the past year. It is also a day of complete fast & abstinence.
The fictitious Bigot, Mr. Archibald Bunker of 704 Hauser Street in Astoria, Queens, NY, whose knowledge of everything is mired in misunderstanding, as well as speaking in malapropisms, once described this day as "When the Jews starve themselves on their Young Kippers."
Then again, Archie once described Cherry Heering as a drink that Jews make wine out of fish.
The Irony of this all is that Archie eventually became the ONLY Non-Jewish Member of a Synagogue in Queens.
And Archie mellowed.
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