Jewish people  invited soda, yes that’s true.First they invented Seltzer back in the late 1700’s hence Seltzer is a common Jewish Last Name.All Jews descended from  working or connected with the seltzer production back in 1772 bear that last name.

Soda was merely invented by adding simple flavored syrup to Seltzer.Jews  not being able to have milk as a beverage with Meat meals needed a drink to accompanying  meals.When the programs started around 1870 Jews fled Russia and brought their Soda industry to America.before that time what was available in America was not really soda as we know  it. Root Beer  was an actual a brewed  product like beer and had   trace alcohol in it similar to A brand name product today “Malta  Goya” Coca Cola had cocaine in it and 7 &up . correct me if  I Am wrong but I  heard that it had Lithium in it until 1940.
Jews also lay  claim to inventing and introducing   Bagels..Bialy’s ( from the Russian town of Bialystok and  Shilvawitz  (liquor)made from apricots and if course the “Egg Cream”at one time mainstay beverage at every candy store and lunchonette in the metro N.Y.City area./end

    Many Baby Boomers remember  going to both sets of Grandparents houses and seeing a10 oz Yahrzeit candle glasses(they were nice glasses or as they refer to them today  glass tumblers).They were strong ..solid and the only way that you could get them was to light  a Yahrzeit (memorial) candle glass.

    As the years went on the wax companies created a wax for a smaller glass that still was able to burn for 24 hours Every year the glasses get smaller .Today its a nothing more than a tin shot glass.Not even worth saving.Those around 70 years of age  in that range will  know what We mean. Wax companies bring back the old 10 0z. glass./end! 

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All the Rabbinical groups from Orthodox to  Conservative , Re-constructionist  and Reform as well  as Karaite should have a world conformance on who is a Jew.  Rabbinical Judaism says it one who is born to a Jewish mother This stems from Roman times in Ancient Judea where  the  off spring involving Roman soldiers as fathers  whether the children should be considered Jewish

Karaite law says it one born to a Jewish father (Paternal) as ascendancy from a Kohane(priest).Until the end of WWII only for formal conversions  were performed in case not involving marriage …a declaration as a Jew was enough. I don’t think this will pass muster among the Chasidic  sects or todays Haredi but they are not the barometer as to what  is and what is not  Jewish. I got to believe that anyone who proclaims himself as Jewish or has Jewish ancestry can & should be accepted as Jews.

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