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Last month, when Oakwood Club, <\/strong><\/span>a Cleveland Heights yekkie<\/em> (German Jewish) country club, went under, the powers-that-be (charitable foundations, city government, the club’s board of trustees) came to Yiddishe Cup for ideas to reinvent the place.\u00a0 The machers<\/em> were considering a Jewish theme park.<\/p>\n Yiddishe Cup said no thanks.\u00a0 We weren’t going to participate in a Yiddishland Epcot.\u00a0 Not our thing.\u00a0 We won’t even play Fiddler on the Roof<\/em> unless the audience begs.\u00a0 And they do.\u00a0 (And we play it.)<\/p>\n The Oakwood Club machers <\/em>begged Yiddishe Cup to take a second look at the theme park idea.\u00a0 We did.<\/p>\n The Yiddishland theme vied with the steering committee’s Plan B, called “Oakwood Park, an Oasis for People and Wildlife.” \u00a0That plan was just a front for owls, hawks, woodpeckers, songbirds, foxes, flying squirrels and dragonflies.\u00a0 The old golf course would become a meadow.<\/p>\n Songbirds don’t pay the bills.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n A Friday night klezmer shabbat would work. \u00a0It would feature a very lite, ecumenical Yiddishe Cup. Yiddishe Cup has a piece — “Friday Night Service-able” — with no words, like a jazz mass.<\/p>\n We’ve done the number a few times.\u00a0 It’s basically a D-minor drone with a lot of modal improvising on top.\u00a0 The composition is 45 minutes to an hour.\u00a0 We’ve had a few listeners\/worshippers “fall out,” or faint.<\/p>\n A Yiddishe Cup klezmer shabbat would draw visitors from Columbus, Pittsburgh and Detroit.\u00a0 And they would want to stay over.\u00a0 So we would put them up at Oakwood. We would find space.<\/p>\n Beat this: For $450 per person, the out-of-towner gets a Friday night klezmer shabbat (with brisket and fries), the hotel room, and a Saturday morning round-robin tennis tournament with kiddush<\/em> (sanctification\/vino) and coconut bars. <\/em>Followed by a nap, followed by golf and swimming.<\/p>\n Need an extra day?<\/strong><\/span> Take a hike on the Tribute to Reform Rabbis exercise trail.<\/p>\n Sunday afternoon would be Jewish wedding central, featuring the house band, the one and only . . . Last month, when Oakwood Club, a Cleveland Heights yekkie (German Jewish) country club, went under, the powers-that-be (charitable foundations, city government, the club’s board of trustees) came to Yiddishe Cup for ideas to reinvent the place.\u00a0 The machers were considering a Jewish theme park. Yiddishe Cup said no thanks.\u00a0 We weren’t going to participate in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezfiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10911,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions\/10911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nReaders’ advisory: This post is made up.\u00a0 Fiction. Based on the fact Oakwood Club is closing and is for sale.
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\n<\/span>1 of 2 posts for 2\/10\/10.\u00a0 Please see the post below too.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"