and the coat was.you know? i didn t know whether i would ever get to the top of the pool again, and i would go,. and he would spot me and finally he would get me up, so it was a matter of keeping them amused. thejewish mountains, you went there, really, they went there, really, for the food. they went there to die, because the food was cholesterol, it is all it was. lunch would fill them up to hear, they would eat. speaks yiddish. all yiddish words for doughy substances filled with yeast covered with creams, sometimes they would have lots of raw vegetables covered with one gallon of sour cream and they would eat that, then they would have sour cream for lunch, for desert, and that would be their lunch. and then ten gallons of hot tea and a glass of sour cream. and after that, they would sit and rock on the porch, they would rock.
my family, do not give in to despair and fear. there is so much we can do. there s so much we re learning. work with swing left. work with movement voter project. work with your neighbors on loc community boards. let us right this tilting ship together with kindness and hope. fear is bad for the immune system. let s keep healthy and move this democracy forward to make it stronger, not weaker. that s my wish. can i offer you a little christmas song? oh, who am i to say no to mandy patinkin? okay. it s a familiar one. the only twist is i sing it in yiddish. [ singing in yiddish ]
for some of us whose parents and family fled the holocaust to come to the united states and have the country s most notorious defender of nazis and white supremacists tell jews that he knows what s best for us. there s a word for them in yiddish, chutzpah, but it s the worst form of chutzpah. he thinks about the blacks and the italians and irish and so everyone is categorized by him. of course, of course when he gets around to jewish people, he s going to sound like this. yeah, it s amazing. the best part of the whole thing was he said the salzbergers were jews because they have a game
david s father richard was larger than life. if you can imagine this guy, he was a big guy with a big cigar hanging out of his mouth. we referred to him as bubala. he was bubala. if you know yiddish, bubala, it s like love, it s hugging and it s kissing. we spent more time at david s house than any place else. bubala celebrated us like no other person. he said, i have two more sons. when the boys found each other, it just sort of happened then and there. here s this wonderful story, and that s it. nobody questioned what was going on except the parents, of