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March 26, 2021
Passover begins at sundown tomorrow, Saturday, March 27. (Matzo Brei here I come!)
Any prouder? (my blouse will split!)...
How about Emma Lazarus? She was Jewish. Her poem, "The New Colossus" is engraved on the Statue of Liberty! Being a battered child because of my Jewish heritage, the first poem I learned (and never forgot) goes like this: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free ..."
(Although very poor, living on welfare in a Brooklyn project, I knew how special Jews are because of her!)
Dr. Jonas Salk found the cure for polio. Also, Dr. Albert Sabin...
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