{"id":29370,"date":"2021-12-08T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=29370"},"modified":"2021-12-07T08:29:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T13:29:19","slug":"all-but-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/08\/all-but-eagle\/","title":{"rendered":"ALL BUT EAGLE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Be prepared . . .<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The lead singer in Yiddishe Cup, Irwin Weinberger, is A.B.E. (All But Eagle). He tried to get an Eagle Scout badge as an adult, but the national office wouldn’t give him the badge. I’ve seen Irwin swim. He can do it now, HQ!<\/p>\n

\"Irwing

Irwin Weinberger, 11, and his father, Herman (with cig), 1966.<\/p><\/div>\n

If the Scouts would give Irwin the badge, he would donate money to the Scouts. (My guess.)<\/p>\n

Did Irwin ever get the Ner Tamid religious service medal? (Yes.)<\/p>\n

The Boy<\/strong><\/span> Scouts religious service medals — like the Ner Tamid thing — were attractive because they were real medals. For the Episcopalians and other Christians, the medals looked like British flags, with lots of crosses. Very cool. The Ner Tamid medal was an eternal light. Not as cool, but cool.<\/p>\n

Boys’ Life<\/em>. I miss that mag. Then again I miss a lot of things, and Boys’ Life<\/em> is way down the list.<\/p>\n

Just above Bosco.\"bosco\"<\/p>\n

I’ll miss Irwin. He’s moving to North Carolina. Fly like an eagle, brother.<\/p>\n

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Steven Greenman (violin, vocals) and Mark Freiman (trumpet, vocals) are joining Yiddishe Cup in January.<\/p>\n

Irwin’s first Yiddishe Cup gig was a bar mitzvah luncheon at Suburban Temple, Beachwood, in 1990. His final Yiddishe Cup gig was last week at Wiggins Place, an assisted-living facility in Beachwood. Join Yiddishe Cup and see Beachwood!<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Be prepared . . . The lead singer in Yiddishe Cup, Irwin Weinberger, is A.B.E. (All But Eagle). He tried to get an Eagle Scout badge as an adult, but the national office wouldn’t give him the badge. I’ve seen Irwin swim. He can do it now, HQ! If the Scouts would give Irwin the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-of-age"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29370","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=29370"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29408,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29370\/revisions\/29408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}