Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 30 VTMBH Article: Article Order 4 VTMBH Article: Title Kosher tale nabs a frankenfish VTMBH Article: Author Max Gross VTMBH Article: Publication Forward VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb How do you get a live, illegal, non-native snakefish when nobody is selling them? Easypretend youre an Orthodox Jew. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Dick Horne was at a loss. How do you get a live, illegal, non-native fisha fish that scavenges and destroys the local ecosystem when it is put in an alien habitatwhen nobody is selling them? Easypretend youre an Orthodox Jew. Apparently, it worked. Horne, the co-proprietor of the American Dime Museum in Baltimore, acquired three live northern snakehead fish from a market in New Yorks Chinatowndespite restrictions barring the sale of live snakeheadsby asking a friend to claim that she was an Orthodox Jew who needed to kill the fish according to dietary laws. As a result, Hornes oddball museum is one of the few places gawkers can see a live snakehead, which captured headlines this summer after members of the carnivorous, three-foot-long, reputedly land-walking species were discovered thriving in a Crofton, Md., pond, close to the Patuxent River. The Crofton invader was released live into the pond by someone who bought the fish from a market. Fears that the Frankenfish would invade ecosystems around the country led officials to poison the pond, and Interior Secretary Gale Norton to propose a federal ban on importing live snakeheads. Such notoriety is a powerful lure for Horne, whose museum is named after the 19th-century museums propagated by P. T. Barnum. Horne felt a live snakehead would be an important acquisition for a museum that already exhibits a Fiji Mermaid, a shrunken head and Vietnamese nuclear worms. There was only one problem. They didnt want to sell me a live one, Horne said of the Chinese fish markets where snakeheads are considered a specialty, especially when smoked and dried. Horne called a friend who performs under the name Ula the Pain-Proof Rubbergirlshes a virtuoso contortionistand asked her to buy the fish for him. What am I gonna say? Ula asked. Tell them youre an Orthodox Jew, Horne replied. Ulas story, that she had to bring a live fish to a rabbi who would slaughter it according to Jewish law, seemed to have worked. Never mind that whether a fish is kosher or not has nothing to do with the way it is killed. There is no kosher way to kill a fish, said Murray Shaw, managing editor of Kosher Today, a monthly trade newspaper. Just take it out of the water. Shaw, who never comments on whether something is kosher, added, I would highly doubt this thing is kosher. Since coming to the museum, the three snakeheadsnamed Oedipus, Fluffy and Bartholomewhave been an instant success. Weve just come off the best month weve ever had, Horne said. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-08-09 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 285 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kosher tale nabs a frankenfish 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. unknown Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. article Original Name The original name of this item. How do you get a live, illegal, non-native snakefish when nobody is selling them? Easypretend youre Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-08-09