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26 | sun lakes lifestyles | OCtOBeR 2015 | Yiddish Culture Club At our next meeting on Wed., Oct. 14, at 7 pm in the Main Clubhouse ballroom, members and guests will enjoy an encore presentation consisting of letters taken from "A Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward," compiled and edited by Isaac Metzker in 1971. A Bintel Brief was a legendary advice column that appeared in the Jewish Daily Forward, the most popular Yiddish daily newspaper in America at the turn of the 20th century. The aptly named column, A Bintel Brief, which means "bundle of letters," published thousands of letters from 1906 to the 1970s with questions that poured from the hearts of bewildered Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe seeking advice about their new lives in America. For more than eighty years, A Bintel Brief dispensed shrewd, practical, and fair-minded advice to its readers. Topics of discussion included tough bosses, rough neighborhoods, wrenching spiritual dilemmas, dating, love, marriage, and even petty family squabbles and hilarious predicaments that resulted when the Old World met the New. A Bintel Brief became not only a favorite source of guidance and wisdom for generations of Jewish immigrants, it also stands as an oral record of the catastrophic events of the first half of the 20th century. Only 14 out of the hundreds of letters in the book will be read aloud. Some are about life-altering events, while others present the more comedic side of the situations faced by these immigrants. Some of the stories deal with: women's right to vote, a daughter-in-law who is ashamed of her husband's Yiddish speaking parents, middle-aged couples sharing domestic duties, and the joy of retirement in the 1970s. The audience will be asked to participate following the reading of each of the stories by deciding what the editor's reply could have been, considering the time in which the advice was sought. Then the true reply will be read aloud for all to see how closely they came to the answer that was actually given. No reservations for the evening are necessary, and refreshments will be served. Cost is $3 per guest, and members are free. For information call Diane 769-0130. Bible Study Our Bible study group is non-denominational. All are welcome. We meet together every week for fellowship and study. On the first Wednesday of each month we meet for dinner before our regular meeting. Reservations for dinner are taken in the meeting the last Wednesday of each month. Bring your Bible, any version, and listen to or participate in our discussion of the evening topic. We're all learning together. We'd be delighted if you'd join us. We meet every Wednesday at 7 pm in the Main Clubhouse Multipurpose Room.