Ms. Grau

(born Freid at Tampa, 1946 during the Baby Boomer)

No antisemitism in Florida as Florida is multicultural.

16th Oct. 1962 : Cuban essort President Kennedy decided embargo.
There was a threat of World War.

There is very much minorities in Tampa.
1500's>1848 : peace in Florida
1848> big immigration (because of the wars, conflicts, starvation...) > Eastern European Jews too who came with Yiddish.

There were 3,000 Jews in USA in 1776 : they began to take part of the government.
In 1861 (beginning of the Civil War), they were 150,000.

There were very important Jews : Polio vaccine, Gampers (Labor Union), atomic energy... Evidence 4,5
Also contribution in sports, TV, sciences...

There are three groups of Jews:
- Orthodox (NYC, Miami; communities, very stricts about religion)
- Conservative (all over USA, speaking hebrew, observing diatary laws)
- Reform (speaking english, without diatary laws)

Kosher : which observe diatary laws (hebrew word for separation : no milk with meat)
Good for allergies of milk.
OU stands for "Orthodox Union"
Parve means "without milk"

In France, there are 600,000 Jews. They are 6,000,000 in USA and Israël.

Celebrations :

March 3rd : Purim : reading the book of Esther : Esther saved Jews of Persia from annihilation (as said in Anna and the King, the King wanting to kill all Jews, Anna not, herself Jew)

April 2nd : Passover (Pesach in hebrew) : Moïses gets freedom for Jews (cooking all separately, telling the story of Moïses

April : Holocaust remembering Day

Jewish Calendar different from Gregorian one : we are on Friday 23 February 2007 => 5 Adar (I) 5767.
1st jewish year began in Abrahim's era.

In september-october begins the new year. The first ten days of the year, we read the Book of Life, after, begins Rosh Hashanah (Head of the Year). After ten days, this is Yom Kippur.

Mardi Gras is Rebirth


Bar (son) Mitzvah, Bat (daughter) Mitzvah : when the child is 13 years old, he's or she's considered an adult (religiously speaking). Bat Mitzvah is quite recent in the USA.