14tonks

I have heard that there are cats that will allow themselves to be vacuumed,
but I have never, ever met one. You may have something about the quality of
the noise. Actually the sound of vacuuming give me a headache, so I can
imagine what it does to a cat's hearing. The really annoying thing is that
there is no necessity for vacuums to roar like they do, Apparently when
someone built a quiet vacuum, people didn't think it was working well.
because it didn't make enough noise. Thereafter all the vacuum cleaner
manufacturers followed the philosophy of the louder the better, and we're
stuck listening to the resulting racket.
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susan mitchell

Built-ins also are a little quieter than the regular vacs.

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14tonks

Most of mine weren't petrified, they just didn't like the racket, and would
move out of range when it cranked up, although they'd usually stay close
enough to watch what the crazy human was doing. Of course we used to run a
little Dustbuster around the kitten pens all the time, so they heard the
sound early.
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eliyahu rooff

I've got a Kirby in my office that's pretty quiet, a noisy Eureka at home,
and recently got a Phantom for the synagogue that's very quiet and includes
a HEPA filter. While design certainly has something to do with it, we have
to remember that adding noise insulation to a machine adds both to the bulk
and the weight. If I'm ever in the position of being able to build myself a
new home, I'll definitely add a central vac system to the design. Puts the
noise and the mess all out in the garage, while giving you nothing to haul
around the house but the hose and nozzle. Eliyahu

blupencl@aol.combadstuff (becky

Hey, Eliyahu, what do you do at the synagogue? Do you have a job there? I
have a very good friend who is (I think) director of rituals at a synagogue.
Part of what he does is teaching the kids before their bar/bat mitzvah and
teaches the cantors, as I understand it. He has a great job.


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Becky Young

.....Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass, of glory
in the flower, We will grieve not; rather find strength in what remains behind
-- William Wordsworth

eliyahu rooff

What do I do there? Just about everything... :-)
Seriously, it's a small congregation (about 25 families in a three-county
area here), so I've taken on the tasks of shammish (sort of a combination
caretaker/deacon/advisor), lay-rabbi (we haven't had a real rabbi since
1942), and member of the board of directors. It's strictly volunteer,
though, as we don't have enough budget to hire anyone for anything. Eliyahu

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blupencl@aol.combadstuff (becky

That sounds interesting. I've forgotten where you live, must not be many
Jewish people around. We passed this great big complex on our way down to San
Antonio - it was a Hispanic Jewish Center. I've been scratching my head about
that for 5 days.

I never knew but one Jewish person growing up. Now that I know some fairly
religious Jews, I'm fascinated.

This guy I was talking about is the ex-husband of a very close friend. They
lived right across from the synagogue in a nearly cloistered Jewish community
in Baltimore, after both having been raised in NYC. They didn't drive on the
Sabbath, had all their lights on timers, etc. They really kept with it. She
kept a Kosher kitchen, had like 8 sets of dinnerware and segregated cabinets
and stuff. They have 5 children (she tells me "Catholics got nothing on us
when it comes to having kids") who are now all under the age of 12, but then
they were all little.

She was adopted and found her birthmother. This angel of a husband sells his
thriving business, their house, and moves with her to Texas to live by her
mother. What a culture shock. Her bmom is a friend of mine and I went down
there when they moved. We thought we would never find anything for them to
eat. She lives in Nocona, TX and believe me, there's not one bite of Kosher
food for miles. So they had to move to Dallas so they could find a synagogue
and something to eat.

Then she decides she's going to be a *******. This would cause a turmoil in my
not-very-religious household but in theirs? Yikes. So they got a divorce. She
got the house and the kids (half-time custody). She's struggling to make ends
meet. Avi moves to an apartment complex in the same neighborhood as the
synagogue and is living like a king. All the Jewish mothers in this place (the
largest synagogue in Texas, I believe) are constantly bringing food, patting
his cheeks, helping with the kids when he has them, and I am sure hoping he'll
notice their daughters, because he is an absolute prince. I love him to pieces
myself, would do anything on earth for him.

He's taught me a lot just talking with him and I'm still fascinated, can't get
enough of it. She does too, of course, because she was the one who was
originally my friend, but she's pretty much shucked Judaism.

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Becky Young

.....Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass, of glory
in the flower, We will grieve not; rather find strength in what remains behind
-- William Wordsworth

14tonks

Sounds like the little town in New Mexico I grew up in - the one synagogue
there had a once-a-year kosher dinner as a fund raiser - they had to fly the
food in from Chicago.
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susan mitchell

I feel closer to the Jewish religion than the one I grew up with. I love it
and have considered attending and learning the religion as best I can. The
greatest people I know are Jewish, Christians on the other hand .........

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eliyahu rooff

Well, there are Hispanic Jews. I have a friend who grew up in the Jewish
community in Panama and, later, Cuba, before coming to the US. OTOH, I've
also seen Spanish churches with names that sound like synagogues, as well as
the so-called "messianic synagogues" that are actually churches disguised to
fool Jews into converting. But don't get me started there...

Actually, you probably knew other Jews, but just didn't know about their
religion unless it was a really small town. If you want some surprises about
famous folks who are Jewish, check out http://www.jewhoo.com . Lots of names there
that you wouldn't have expected to see.

Actually, unless they just liked having some extra variety in dishes, a
kosher kitchen usually won't have more than four sets... one set for meat
dishes, one for dairy, and similar sets saved for Pesach (Passover). There's
also an old Jewish joke about the guy who is so observant that he has all
four sets of dishes, and separate refrigerators, sinks and stoves for meat
and dairy, plus an unexplained fifth set of dishes and everything. When
someone asks him about the fifth set, he tells them, "That's for when
keeping kosher is just too much bother..." :-)


That's always an exciting thing, to find missing family. About three years
ago, I finally ended a 27 year search when I found my daughter, whom I'd
never seen. But that's a long story...

One of my friends (also Jewish) recently went through this with his wife.
Very hard on everyone, to say the least.


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Having a supportive community makes a big difference there! I hope things
work out well for both of them.

Eliyahu