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16 | OHCC LIVING | OCTOBER 2020 | Just in case: Check with your club contact to confirm meeting place, date, and time. Yiddish Club The Jewish Holiday of Rosh Hashanah was recently celebrated. This holiday marks the start of a new year on the Hebrew Calendar. One of the most popular Rosh Hashanah customs involves eating apple slices dipped in honey, sometimes after saying a special prayer. Ancient Jews believed apples had healing properties (an apple a day keeps the doctor away as the saying goes), and the honey signifies the hope that the new year will be a sweet one. In the Eastern European villages, Yiddish was the language that allowed the Jews to talk freely among themselves without fear of reprisals. In the American Jewish homes, it was the language that grandparents spoke when they didn't want the kinder (children) to know what they were talking about. During this pandemic, in families where the children are home 24/7, the parents probably wish they knew a secret language with which they could communicate. In last month's Yiddish Club article, you learned a few Yiddish words to get you through the pandemic. Here are a few more that might apply. First, we should all get up of our tuchas (you figure it out) and go for a walk or do a YouTube exercise video. You will filn besser (feel better). Shlub is someone who dresses sloppily. All this self-quarantining has made shlubs even shlubbier. Sweatpants and t-shirts are everyday wear. Our wardrobes will seem new again once we can socialize. The word Pulkes usually refers to cute, chubby baby thighs. In this hot weather we might want to turn to shorts instead of sweatpants, but we are not sure our pulkes are ready for public viewing due to the amounts of food and perhaps wine we have been consuming. We have read about the many eyngeshparter out there (stubborn people who cannot be convinced of logic). People who have claimed the pandemic is a hoax or are ordering "cures" on the internet or who don't follow the guidelines for staying healthy. But there are those who vayterdik instruktyes (follow instructions) that will help all of us stay safe. So, from the Yiddish Club to all of you, here's hoping that our situations farbesem (improve) and everyone remains in gut gezunt (good health) for 5781 and 2021. And dip some apple in honey!! Genealogy Interest Group The Genealogy Interest Group is a group of individuals who want to find out about their heritage, who your ancestors were, where they lived and what they did. The group provides tools to do your search and help in getting started or suggestions to the experienced to breakthrough a stumbling block to another generation. They meet on the first Wednesday of the month from 10 am to noon with a short presentation and a help session answering questions the attendees have. We offer a second two hour period of individual help each month, date and time to be announced on the TAG calendar. We offer the World Explorer version of Ancestry.com, a search engine for finding your ancestors free of charge in the computer lab. (Individual subscription about $100 a month.) We offer the Family Tree Maker program on several of the computers in the lab to catalog your family tree data and present your tree data. The coordinators are Dorothy Miller and Don Wirth. Help sessions will add Peggy Singh. Contact us at ohccgen@gmail.com.