While Maimonides' Shul Waits for a Minyan

From: Forward | Date: May 26, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

Lucette Lagnado
Forward
05-26-1995
While Maimonides' Shul Waits for a Minyan.

NEW YORK -- As a little girl in Cairo, I developed a mysterious ailment. I made the rounds of Egypt's leading doctors, was subjected to countless blood tests and X-rays, until finally an improbable diagnosis was made: I had contracted "Cat Scratch Fever." The Cairene medical establishment blamed the malady on my cat, Pouspous. Curative treatments quickly began -- injections, antibiotics, even poultices prescribed by the family dressmaker, homemade doughy concoctions of mustard and herbs that had to be applied every ...

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