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I always read the seating placards at parties.<\/strong><\/span> I’m there first, so I know everybody’s names – all my old customers.\u00a0 “Jon and Carol [Weinstein], how are you?” . . . I played your son’s bar mitzvah a million years ago and remember your names.<\/p>\n Also, I \u00a0write down the bride and groom’s names before I \u00a0introduce them.\u00a0 That way I’m less likely to screw up.\u00a0 I’ve never messed up, but once a guy in my band did.\u00a0 He called the bride Mindy instead of Michelle, or something like that.\u00a0 To remedy the situation he called out the tune “Michelle.”\u00a0 The bride \u2014 named Michelle \u2014 made him stop the music cold. \u00a0She hated that song.<\/p>\n Volatile songs: “Sunrise Sunset” and “YMCA.”<\/strong><\/span> Songs from Fiddler on the Roof<\/em> make some Jews nervous. \u00a0(Russian Jews love Fiddler<\/em>; American Jews \u2014 at least klezmer aficionados \u2014 often hate it. \u00a0They think it’s not the real thing. \u00a0Hey, it’s been around 45 years.\u00a0 It’s old-time music.) I always read the seating placards at parties. I’m there first, so I know everybody’s names – all my old customers.\u00a0 “Jon and Carol [Weinstein], how are you?” . . . I played your son’s bar mitzvah a million years ago and remember your names. Also, I \u00a0write down the bride and groom’s names before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8734,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/8734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nTomorrow:<\/span>
\nJEW OR NOT A JEW? . . . Puerto Rican Lesbian cage-fighting barber. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"