Safti Loves...
Safti's response when her family and friends told her to come home before the 6 day war when she was in Israel.
I am home!
These are the 9 planets in our solar system (or 8 if you don't count the ice giant named for a Disney Dog)
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune (and Pluto)
Shalshelet
Safti and Zaidie were both born on November 11th of what years?
1942 and 1946
This is the name of the neighborhood where Safti and Zaidie grew up
Oxford Circle
This is the name of the school at Beth Shalom, where Safti taught first grade, before it merged with, and was renamed to "Schechter"
Forman Hebrew Day School
This is the highest position that Zaidie held in the Masons
This song is one of Safti's favorites, and literally translates as Jerusalem of Gold
Yerushalayim Shel Zahav
Jeff, Moishe, Roz
These are the names of at least 3 families that Safti and Zaidie are close friends with
Kelsons, Feiners, Tilmans, Feitelsons, Chasans, etc.
These are the names of at least 3 synagogues that Safti has been affiliated with in her lifetime
Beth Shalom, Bustleton Somerton, Oxford Circle JCC
This is the name of the railroad company that Zaidie worked for many years ago
Conrail
These are the names, in order, and sung to the correct tune, that Safti blesses during Birkat Hamazon on Shabbat
Shira Naomi, Meir Yisrael, Shulamit Shoshana, Yehuda Tzvi, Aviva Yael, Shmuel Binyamin, Eliana Aliza, Yitzhak Haim, Ora Hanna, Calanit Yardena, Evan Makor, Ayelet Pnina, Tziporah Eden, Herschel Haim halevi, Yonatan David, Shulamit Reizel, Michal Hanna, Keila Rena, Netanya Maya, Lila Rose, Daniel Eitan, Nechama Bracha, Ira Yarden, Yehoshua , Emuna Miri, Melech Moshe Halevi
This item would have helped to clear up the disagreement about whether or not Zaidie actually proposed to Safti to get married
A ring
This is the number of Safti and Zaidie's street address on Waring Rd, and was also the number of their shore house on Kenyon St.
216
This is the largest women’s organization in Israel, which Safti has been involved with for many years
Na'amat
This the call sign that Zadie uses to identify himself on Ham Radio
K3NCC
This song, which traditionally comes before Aleinu during Shacharit, was the hit song at the 1983 Hassidic Music festival
Ein Keloheinu
These are the two places where Safti and Zaidie honeymooned (although the disagree as to which one was the real honeymoon)
Washington DC and Israel
This is the number of years that Safti and Zaidie have been married
56
This is the maiden name of Safti's mother, Esther
Brownstein
This is the manufacturer of the car the Zaidie hand painted blue, after it's factory coat of white needed a refresh. (And it subsequently caught on fire... coincidence?)
Chevrolet
This is Safti's favorite song on the Thanksgiving song sheet, sung to the tune of Oh My Darling Clementine
Albuquerque Turkey
These are Safti and Zaidie's middle names
Ruth and Melvin
This is the name of the turtles that Safti and Zaidie had when they lived on Ridgeway St.
Michael and Marla