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Monday, October 31, 2005
Big Band Theory
On Saturday night, folks got dressed up the way they used to dress up before the Age of Casual, and they danced to a real band with real instruments: men and women in black, The Connecticut Connection, ten brilliant instrumentalists and a "girl singer" who could belt out a tune. They played songs made famous by Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt, Chicago, and Blood, Sweat, and Tears. In short, the synagogue rocked.We did our dancing and celebrating at the Mortgage Burning Party. What made it feel so good? Maybe it was because the synagogue has been a place where we have gone so often recently for funerals, or for solemn High Holiday services. Now, for a few hours, all cares were set aside, a great achievement (raising the money and building the place) could be fully celebrated with great music and food (although there was some grumbling among the devout that the caterer, who had done an excellent job otherwise, should have realized that cheese and chicken on the same menu would doom us all for ignoring the clear teachings of Leviticus, which says, if I remember my Torah correctly: "Do not eat an animal in its mother's milk or cheese and chicken at synagogue mortgage burning parties, no matter the giddiness induced by good red wine.")
For a sample of the evening, call up http://www.cbsrz.net/party.htm.
Posted by:Lary Bloom at 7:08 AM
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