Definitely!! Or...my personal choice would be Fyvush Finkel...at least he knows all of the words to Mayn Grine Kusine!!!
L'shanah Tovah, Fred!!!
Troods
>From: "Fred Blumenthal"
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant
>Subject: Re: Colin Powell and Yiddish
>Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 13:53:24 -0500
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>It might not be an ideal choice, and one of them IS deceased, but
>hypothetically I'd rather have Lenny Bruce as president than George W.
>Bush.
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>Fred Blumenthal
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>Well, as Lenny Bruce said...if you're from New York then you're Jewish.
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> P.S. I still wouldn't vote for him for President!
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> >From:
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> >To: World music from a Jewish slant
> >Subject: Colin Powell and Yiddish
> >Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 08:55:45 -0400
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> > >Colin Powell (who claims to know
> > >Yiddish!)
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> >OK, I recognize that this is off topic, but I have a first-
> >hand experience with Colin Powell and Yiddish. My wife and I
> >bumped into him at a Chinese restaurant in Virginia shortly
> >after the Gulf War. Never shy, my wife went up and started
> >talking to him. She mentioned that we were out for dinner
> >with a Jewish social group and we had heard he spoke Yiddish.
> >He then immediately switched to conversing in Yiddish. The
> >ironic part is that my wife is not a Yiddish speaker. So
> >there you had my nice Jewish wife standing in a Chinese
> >restaurant unable to comprehend the Yiddish being spoken to
> >her by the African American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
> >Staff. The melting pot at work.
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> >Jesse
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