The July 11, 1883 banquet in
Cincinnati to honor the first ordination class of
Hebrew Union College included non-kosher food:
clams, crabs and more. News of this "trefa dinner",
with food forbidden by ancient Jewish customs, spread
quickly and widely.
Images of the four page menu were
furnished to the
Ohio Memory website by the
Jacob
Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives.
We have made them more accessible by displaying them
on one page.
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To learn more:
Rabbi Lance J. Sussman,
writes in the Spring 2005
issue of the
Journal of the American
Jewish Archives:
"Ironically and sadly, a
celebration in honor of the
first ordination class of
the Hebrew Union College
(HUC), which was supposed to
signal a new era of
intrafaith cooperation among
American Jews, instead
proved to be a call to arms
and contributed to the
permanent factionalization
of American Jewish religious
life."
To read his essay "The Myth
of the Trefa Banquet",
click here. [pdf]
For an essay by
John J Appel.in the February
1966 issue of Commentary
magazine,
click here. |
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