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Page 23-THE NEWS-May 1990 Shavuoth Recipes | Fifty Years Ago: The Holocaust—May 1940 Shavuoth has its origins as an agri cultural holiday celebrating the harvest ing of the first fruits. The food tradition that surrounds this holiday concentrates on dairy dishes, particularly cheese blintzes and cheesecake, foods which should be avoided by those on low- cholesterol diets. Follow the suggestions and the recipes below and you will be able to observe the food traditions and stay on your diet. Wherever your recipe says “eggs” or “cheese,” consider what you can use as replacements. For instance, replace whole eggs in the blintz batter and filling with egg substitute. Use hoop cheese instead of farmer cheese for the filling to reduce its fat content. Wherever your recipe calls for sour cream, use non fat yogurt. If you feel you have to make an exception to your diet because there is nothing quite so wonderful as a rich, high-cholesterol cheesecake topped with strawberries, try Low-Cholesterol Strawberry Mousse. LOW-CHOLESTEROL BLINTZES Egg substitute ('A carton—equivalent of 2 eggs) 1 cup water Low-cholesterol cheese filling 2 cups flour Butter-flavored Pam, for frying 1 cup warm warter Non-fat yogurt, for garnish / tsp. salt, optional Applesauce, for garnish Heat small skillet (on medium) that has been coated with teflon or other non-stick surface. Wipe with paper towel onto which has been poured a little safflower oil. When pan is hot, pour in scant !4 cup of batter. Tilt pan all around to cover bottom with thin Uiyer of batter. Cook on one side, until edges start to brown and curl. Slip out, browned side up, onto clean cotton tablecloth or towel. If you make any extra, make pile of skins with layer of waxed paper between each one. They can be frozen for another time. Continue cooking until all batter is used. Makes 17-18 skins. Fill with cheese filling (about 2 tbs. per blintz). Fold skin over filling, like making a burrito. Spray large frying pan (with non stick surface) with butter-flavored Pam. Heat slowly so Pam does not bum. Place filled blintzes in heated pan, seam side down, fry until heated through, turning once. Serve garnished with dollops of non-fat yogurt or applesauce. Allow 2 blintzes per person. Cheese Filling for Blintzes 8 oz. low-fat cottage cheese, drained 2 8-oz. pkg. hoop cheese egg substitute (‘/2 carton) I egg white salt & pepper to taste Night before you make blintzes, press liquid out of cottage cheese. Place cottage cheese in colander, lined with cheesecloth, and over with plate weighted with something heavy enough to press liquid out of cottage cheese. Place bowl under colander to catch liquid. Place in refrigerator overnight. Cheese should be thoroughly drained and ready to use in morning. If this process is too time consuming, use 3 pkgs. of hoop cheese. In medium bowl, combine all ingredients. Enough filling for 17- 18 blintzes. If you decide to freeze some skins, divide filling into thirds and make what you need each time. NO-CHOLESTEROL STRAWBERRY MOUSSE 2pts. ripe strawberries, washed & hulled 2 tbs. strawberry jam 6 egg whites 1 tbs. unflavored gelatin ‘A tsp. cream of tarter ‘A cup non-fat yogurt 6 tbs. sugar 2 tbs. sweet liqueur. Fresh strawberries for garnish like Triple Sec Puree strawberries in blender or food processor. Add jam. Set aside. In small saucepan, combine gelatin with yogurt. Add strawberry puree and heat slowly, stirring constantly, until gelatin dissolves. Stir in liqueur. Chill in refrigerator until mixture begins to thicken. Beat egg white with cream of tartar. When soft peaks form, add sugar, gradually beating until whites are stiff, but not dry. Fold them into strawberry mixture. Spray an 8-cup mold with Pam. Gently pour mixture into prepared mold. Chill until st. To serve, run sharp knife around edge of mold. Turn over carefully onto serving platter. Cover bottom of mold with hot towels until mousse is loose enough to unmold. If it starts to liquify too much, quickly pop it back into refrigerator to reset. Garnish with fresh strawberries. Jewish Calendar Candlelighting May 6 - 7:53 p.m. May 11 - 7:59 p.m. May 13 - Lag B’Omcr May 18 - 8:04 p.m. May 25 - 8:09 p.m. May 29-8:12 p.m. (Erev Shavuoth) May 30 - 9:16 p.m. (1st day Shavuoth) May 31 - 2nd day Shavuoth—Yizkor June 1-8:14 p.m. June 8-8:18 p.m. The world changed profoundly in May 1940. The “phony war'* on the Western Front ends with shocking suddenness as the German war machine launches a blitzkrieg against France and the neutral Low Countries. The impact on Jews and other Nazi targets in the conquered Western lands will be dire. Meanwhile, persecution is intensified in the East. May 1 — The Lodz ghetto, with 165,000 Jewish inhabitants squeezed into an area of 1.6 square miles, is sealed by the Nazis. May 2 — British forces yield Southern Norway to the Ger mans who had invaded a month earlier. May 10 — The German Ar my launches its long-planned invasion of Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg and France...In reaction, the weak Chamberlain government in Britain falls, and Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister...Jewish under ground newspapers, principally of Zionist and Bundist (socialist) orientation, appear for the first time in Warsaw. May 12 — Britain rounds up and interns all resident German and Austrian nationals to pre vent possible fifth column aid to Nazi parachutists. Ironically, Jewish refugees are included in the round-up as “enemy aliens.” Soviets Face Difficult Changes (cont*d from page 3) synagogue was destroyed by Soviet authorities in the 1960s. As Jews in the Soviet Union rediscover Yiddishkeit, they face the dilemma of whether to try to build a viable Jewish culture there or whether to emigrate so that they can practice Judaism with complete freedom. The issue is no longer whether a Jewish existence is possible in the USSR. The question is whether the limitations of Soviet Jewish life outweigh the hard ships of emigration. The growing potency of pop ular anti-Semitism will be a motivating factor for many who decide to emigrate. But the deteriorating economic situation in the Soviet Union will likely be as important a consideration. Day-to-day life is very hard, “almost unbearable at times,” an official Soviet tour guide con fided in a statement of candor that would have been impossible before “glasnost.” People are “desperate to leave,” she said, adding weakly, “but somehow, we shall overcome.” Her eyes then filled with tears as she begged a visiting UJA group, “Please pray for us.” May 15 — Holland surrend ers to the weight of the German invaders. Thousands of Jews attempt to flee to the south or to Britain. May 15-18 — Thousands of Gypsies are deported to the Lublin region of occupied Po land from Bremen, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt and other major German cities. May 16 — The Nazis occu piers in Poland launch Opera tion General Pacification (Ak- tion AIB) for the arrest of Polish intellectuals and potential resis tance leaders. May 20 — The Auschwitz concentration camp opens. It will become the largest Nazi death camp; up to two million Jews and tens of thousands of Poles, Gypsies and Soviet POWs will be murdered here. May 27 — British forces, pushed to the English Channel by the triumphant Nazi sweep across northern France, begin their historic evacuation from Dunkirk. May 28 — Belgium surrend ers. Male Jewish refugees from Central Europe are deported by the Belgians to internment camps in Southern France. Thousands of Belgian Jews, including communal and reli gious leaders, try to escape to England or the south, but many will return to their homes after weeks of fruitless wander ing... Hitler issues an unwritten secret order to Hans Frank, governor of the General Govern ment, a vast area of occupied central Poland, for the complete physical annihilation of the Polish leadership. Other events in May: The convalescent home at Hartheim becomes the first major center in Austria of the Nazis’ “euthanasia” program, to murder the physically and men tally disabled...A large satellite camp of the concentration camp of Mauthausen in Austria opens at Gusen, where slave laborers begin to work in factories and stone quarries. Gusen will be come an independent concentra tion camp. This monthly listing was pre pared by the United States Holocaust Memorial Council which is constructing the United States Holocaust Memorial Mu seum adjacent to the National Mall and only 400 yards from the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. CLASSIFIED ADS Get the Job Done!!!! 30c per word. Minimum charge $3.00. Ads must be prepaid to “CJiV.” Send to: P.O. Box 13369 Charlotte, NC 28226 366-6632 366-5007 JOB NEEDED Trained nurse for newborns. 34 years experience. Call 535-5769. FOR SALE Mah Jongg set for sale. Like new. S40. Call 366-4248. 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