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A GRUESOME MEMORIAL — A gruesome but effective reminder of the Holocaust will impact on visitors to the Washington Holocaust Memorial as one of the orig­ inal railroad freight cars in mMi which the Jews were trans­ '^:m 160] ported to the death camps will be a major item on dis­ t in the play. The car, donated by the Polish government, reached the Baltimore port ‘s from the two days after the Fourth of members of July. This particular car red Ore elec- carried its doomed "passengers" from Warsaw jian, Th&S# , members of to Treblinka. A brief cere­ the Labor Party fav< by a wider mony took place at the —American Israelite photo margin--66 to 34 percent. •JK: Dundalk Marine Terminal 6 MILUON NOT ENOUGH — "We want six million more" The poll Palestinians was with Holocaust chairman was the cry of the skinheads who picketed outside the 104 Harvey M. Meyerhoff, and Federal Building in Cincinnati, chanting anti-Semitic Ryszard Krystosik, charge derogations and giving Nazi salutes. "Just wait and see. d'affairs of the Polish Em­ We'll destroy the ZOG (Zionist Occupation Government)", bassy, participating. they called out as workers were departing the building, Israel for __ according to the American Israelite. They were protesting with even the U,S. approvi: IT first the death sentence of Richard Snell, a member of the time the U.S. in recent years has i t vetoed a one- Order, convicted of murder. sided UN action against Israel. ’"y mm

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By BARBARA RHSMAN Executive director. Child opinion about families. dent. two-eamer families has risen produced a new family con­ Care Action Campaign, Twenty-one national maga­ In another poll, the Lou by 27%, since 1981, from 19.9 stituency which has the poten­ And CAROLE STEIN zines ran the survey to query Harris/Philip Morris, "Sur­ million families to 25.2 million tial to transform politics be­ Indiana Liaison, National readers on a broad range of vey II: Child Care," (April families. Also, important is cause of its breadth. As the Advisory Panel, National family concerns. This made it 1989), 83% agree that parental the increase of families main­ "Family Matters" data shows, Council of Jewish Women. the largest survey of its kind. leave of up to 10 weeks must tained solely by women, a 16% the group includes both men Americans still firmly be­ Many general interest maga­ be given legal status so par­ increase since 1980 from 6.6 and women: 75% of fathers lieve in "apple pie and moth­ zines, some clearly targeted to ents do not get penalized on million families to 10.9 mil­ and 84% of mothers think the erhood," but a study of public men, enthusiastically joined their jobs. Of the men who lion. Indiana statistics show family should be a legislative opinion polls show that their in the effort. responded, four out of five 112,000 families with children priority; second, the group beliefs about families and The survey shows that (79%) agree that parents under 18 are maintained consists of those who work politics have shifted remarka­ there is a growing constitu­ should have the legal right to a solely by women. outside the home and those bly over the last decade. A ency of Americans, a remark­ parental leave. Secondly, increased media who don't; 78% of employed strong majority now regards able number without children This marks a major shift in attention has fueled the public women and 70% of women family issues as public con­ at home, who believe society opinion about the need for discussion over these issues. not working outside of the cerns, not purely personal has a responsibility to help public support of family con­ We see families on the air home thought family issues problems. Most women must families and children. The cerns. As recently as 1981, the waves daily — on Cosby, thir­ should be a top priority; and work to earn money. It sounds public now insists that both answers to questions on fam­ tysomething, Family Ties. finally, the new constituency painstakingly simple, but un­ government and business get ily issues differed. In 1981, an American parents now recog­ contains non-parents; women til now the public has been involved. This shift from pri­ ABC poll asked: "Do you feel nize that they are not alone. without children under 18 reluctant to accept this. This vate to public represents a spending for federal govern­ This recognition has moved (91%) support an employee's fact has ignited a familyrevo- dear departure from the past. ment programs should be in­ the issue to the forefront of the right to family leave. lution, with vast implications. The public strongly want creased, decreased or left public domain. Attitudes about family is­ This February, the Child family concerns to be a top about the same for day care Finally pollsters have only sues will continue to shift Care Action Campaign and priority of the president. Con­ programs for children of just begun to track family is­ toward the public domain. As the Great American Family gress and business. The sup­ working parents who cannot sues, no longer framing them more and more Americans Tour,in partnership wi th Life­ port for family policies exists afford to pay." A minority only or largely as women's experience the difficulties of time Television sponsored a across the country, including (34%) felt spending should be issues. Pollsters have begun to juggling a job with their national readership survey, here in Indiana. 77% of Mid­ increased. By 1987, a majority question the general public. family's needs, whether at a "Tell the President: Your west respondents to "Family (57%) of respondents said The pollsters' recognition that moment when they need to Family Matters" to explore the Matters" want family issues to spending should go up. The family policy affects more find child care or elder care, a dimensions of this shift in be a top priority of the presi­ percentages of individuals than just working mothers, greater number will under­ who felt spending should and their willingness to in­ stand thebenefitsof acompre- decrease dropped by half clude family oriented ques­ hensive policy although a few from 15% in 1981 to 8%. Fam­ tions has allowed for new re­ hold outs may covet the fanci­ ily concerns have moved from sponses. ful images of the past. Sew Smart the private domain to the The shift in attitudes has Fabric and Crafts public. Keystone Square Mall Why this shift? First, Agency provides skilled nursing Bring in ad and 2160 E. 116th St., Suite E-6 . changing demographics have rocaiv* 10% Carmel, Ind. 46032 contributed to changing pub­ Family Home Health Care significantly less than an ex­ discount. Enpiit s/sr/ss 848-7566 lic attitudes. The percentage of is an extended care agency tended stay in a hospital or which provides highly skilled nursing home. All or part of professional nursing care and the cost may be covered by The Indiana personal care services under medicare/medicaid, private Jewish Post & Opinion the supervision and guidance insurance or private pay. USPS 262-180 of registered nurses in the One of the newest pro­ Home Care Can Be Published weekly by comfort and security of the grams offered is Hospice, The Spokesman Co. Inc. patient's home. Many pa­ where cases of terminal illness 60* per copy tients recover faster at home are managed in the home, $29 per year with professional medical focusing on the physical and The Best Care Editor care, support and monitoring. emotional comfort of the pa­ • Free Pre-Care Assessment Ed SUumann Advertising All aspects of patient care tient and family. 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Please Knirel enclose a recent label from your copy of the Toba Schwartz dies; outwitted Nazis HEALTH CARE paper showing your name and address. ■i mm mm Equal Opportunity Employer* mm mm mm mm mm tmi mm mm mm m Toba E. Schwartz, who All publicity must be In the office of the Indiana rental properties for 1 5 □ Free Information Brochure Jewish Post and 0 pi non by Wednesday, the came to Indianapolis in years, retiring in 1959. Pre­ week before publication. No publicity can be 19421 as she barely escaped □ Free Pre-Care Assessment taken over the phone. Publicity photos Just be viously she had been em­ In the office by Thursday the week before from the Nazis from her na­ Name______ployed by the Wm. H. Block publication. tive Warsaw to France and Co. for 10 years. In Brussels Address______Known office of publication, 2120 N. Meridian then to Brussels, died at the she had been an expert SL. Indianapolis. IN 46202. 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Suitor puts sweetheart’s name in lights

By GISELA WEISZ 255 5019 WITH HANDS ON HIS Steve's mother is Sandy Her parents, Ruth and Nathan lumbia. In preparation for the end. HEART: Who says there is no Frankovitz. Congratulations! Cohen, celebrated their 50th large family gathering each romance among the younger- wedding anniversary. guest was asked to bring a TEACH IT TO YOUR generation? Not Steve NEW LIFE: Sharonandjay Barbara flew to San Diego memento from the past that CHILDREN: The closing Frankovitz, and as a matter of P. Doner became grandpar­ with her children, Leslie, Ellie involved the golden couple. meeting for the Indianapolis ents on June 15 in Buffalo and Marcia, along with People brought in photos, told students of the Wexner Insti­ Grove, 111. Caryn Rachel Marcia's fiancee, Philip Vick- stories andshared treasured tute — a dinner catered by Doner is the daughter of Marla man, from Chicago. Barbara's memories with relatives at the StanGurvitz—washeldatthe and Brian Doner. The baby is brother, Steven also arrived parties; and everyone there Conference Center, down- the great-granddaughter of from Vancouver, British Co­ had a greatly enjoyable week­ Continued on page 5 Evelyn and Benjamin Klain of Indianapolis, and Betty Lach- man of Chicago. Congratula­ tions to the families! Classical Artists International prc>tm>

UNITED JEWISH AP­ fact, Caryn Stein cannot say so PEAL: Two representatives either. Let me tell you what from Indianapolis joined a THE happened: Caryn and Steve, group of women, directors who. have been seeing each and chairmen from all over other for some time now, at­ the country to meet newly BOLSHOI tended a baseball game on arrived Soviet Jews in Italy June 20. What teams played and attend instructional lec­ matters much less than the tures in Israel. Phyllis Ver- writing on the scoreboard af­ nick, Jewish Welfare Federa­ BALLEJ ter the 6th inning: "CARYN I tion, Chairman of Women's LOVE YOU!!!," said the gi­ Division 1999 and June gantic letters. When Caryn Herman,Women's Division saw it, she thought: . .what Director, visited many Rus­ . a lucky girl that other Caryn sian Jewish families in Ladis- Jcamiti is." Soon she was compelled poli, a seaside resort village to realize that she, herself, is near Rome. According to that lucky girl... when Steve Phyllis, hundreds of people — intentionally or not — are waiting there to be eligible dropped bunch of paper nap­ to enter to Canada, United kins between the bleachers. In States, Australia or Israel. The order to retrieve them, he second part of the trip took the knelt at Caryn's feet and then leaders to Israel. 65 STARS OF TODAY he looked up at her and asked Here the women visited AJSD TOMORROW, the question: various projects and heard' LEGEXDS I S THE H AKIXG. "Would you be my wife?" important people. The jour­ The engagement is on and ney took place in June 18-26. wedding plans are made for June 3, 1989, in Indianapolis. GOLDEN: In San Diego, Caryn is the daughter of Ar­ Barbara Herman spent a joy­ lene and Larry Weinberg and ful weekend with her family. “THE ENERGY. THE POWER. Family Home Health THE YOUNG BOLSHOI .’’ Care Health Care In Your Home. Family Home Health Care is an extended care agency which provides highly skilled professional DIRECT FROM THE USSR nursing care and personal care services under the supervision and guidance of registered nurses in the comfort and security of with soloists from the Bolshoi, Moscow the patient’s home. Classical and Stanislavsky Theatre Ballets We Meet All Needs. We can provide: t Intravenous Therapy (chemotherapy, pain management, antibiotic therapy, nutritional therapy) • Injections • Respiratory Therapy • Private Duty Nursing • Speech Therapy • Mother and Baby Program • Respite Care for Caregivers • Homemaker and Companions • Durable Medical Equipment (hospital beds, wheelchairs, canes, walkers, bedside July 14 & 15 at 8 PM; Julv 15 & 16 at 2 PM; July 16, 18, 19 at 7:30 PM commode, feeding pumps, other medical needs as required). THE WARREN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Who Provides Care? • Registered Nurses • Physical 9301 East 18th Street, Indianapolis IN 46229 Therapists • Speech Therapists • Occupational Therapists • CALL (317) 898-9722 FOR TICKET INFORMATION Medical Social Workers • Home Health Aides How Are Expenses Paid? All or part of the cost may be Tickets: $28 Adults, $26 Students/Senior Citizens, $15 Ages 12 & Under covered by one of the following: • Medicare/Medicaid • Private Tickets Available At All Ticket Master Outlets Including L.S. Ayres and Karma Insurance • Private Payment. To obtain more Information contact: Family Home Health Care, 8202 Clearvlsta IIAC'O Nonantwiuppononn* Ail* Comm*ion ona Transport3tion1 For Tho Company' ' Sponsorod’ By' Pkwy, Building 8, Suite A, Indlan^olls, Indiana 46256 •onal fndowmant for Aj»

Jtdy i2.1983, Page Indiana 3 Katz started his bar mitzvah fun weekend in Cincy, where Dr. Bill and Harriett Borman; gift-trip to Israel, with his old­ they also saw the Reds lose to Vivian and Phil Pecar; Karen est grandson Marc, a few the Dodgers (sitting out in the and Larry Mitzman; Flo-Mary years ago. Well, Harry, you 92-degree hot sun) were and Tom Mantel; David and have a few more Israel trips to Elaine and Frank Rosen, Bill Meta Kleinman; Bess and Joe mm make in the near future, with and Jackie Strauss, Toot and Roth, and Alberta and Sher­ your other grandchildren. Marian Werler and Rosalie man Weinstein. And celebra­ What a great memory for you and Elliott Gussow. ting a July birthday are Sidney and yours. FLASH! Harry and Rose Stein, Alan Rubenstein, Leah FLASH! I love this. He was Stein will be celebrating their Wachter, Elmar Ruben, telling his mother that one of 50th on Yom Kippur. Harry is Johnny Hurwitz, Sid Tuch- FLASH! Chuckles. Con­ Gloria and Si Schwartz, Mari­ his tickets won the lottery. She issuing an invitation to every­ man. Eve Riceman, Manuel gress is shrewd. First they put lyn and Moe Schankerman, asked, "What do you mean one to come for lunch, (read it Leve and Frank Newman. a heavy tax on liquor, then Ivan Chalfie, Jackie Larman, one of your tickets?" He said, twice): Mazel Tov to this con­ And Edna Mahalowitz was 93 they raise other taxes to drive Dr. Peter Cahn, Leonard Ber­ "I bought myself five tickets." genial couple and may they years young on July 4. Con­ people to man from California and Mama said, "So tell me, why celebrate with their loved grats to all the July celebrants. drink....AND.... The reason Donna and Mel Lefkovitz did you buy the other four?" ones for many more anniver­ FLASH! "Officer, Officer" the cow jumped over the from California. Also greeting FLASH! Belated congrats saries. the driver called from his car moon, was because there was old schoolmates was Rep. to Bob and Muriel Romcr on FLASH! Norm's philoso­ on 38th street. A policeman a short-circuit in the milking Andy Jacobs. their 41st anniversary last phy of the week. Kids should sauntered over. "Yeah?" "Of­ machine....AND.....It's nice FLASH! Daffynitions. month. May you continue to u se horse sense abou t dope, by ficer, is it okay for me to park for children to have pets, until (HarpFLeaming to play this celebrate many more great saying neigh. here?" "Absolutely not." "But the pets have instrument is no guarantee anniversaries. FLASH! Celebrating a July officer," the nebech protested, children.....AND...... Some that you'll get to heaven. FLASH! Tee Hees. The fel­ anniversary are Joan and Le­ "How about all those other people are so prejudiced, they (Rumor)-Rumor has it that low went to Florida for a sun­ onard Larman; Rosita and cars parked up and down the won't even listen to both sides Humpty-Dumpty was tan, and when he received his Alan Zukerman; Hany (Or- whole street?" "They," said of a phonograph record. pushed. (Joker)-Jest-nut. hotel bill, he turned rie) and Lorraine Schuchman; the cop, "didn't ask." FLASH! Congrats to our (Night Club)-A place where white....OR....He bet on an own Milton "Josh" Fineberg, people who are not hungry eat aristocratic horse. He was the Haley Isadora bom to Katzes who was named as a member things they don't like, at a last of his race.....Policeman: of the Indiana University price they can't afford. (Furs)- "Can you descibe your miss­ Lori and Don Katz became baby is Larry Weinberg, Indi­ Board of Trustees, by Gov. If it wasn't for the installment ing cashier?" Businessman: the parents of Haley Isadora anapolis. Helen and Jack Evan Bayh. Josh has always plan, a lot of animals would be "He was 5 ft. 6 in. tall and — a daughter — on June 19. Shady, North Miami Beach, worked on the university's wearing their own furs this $7,000 short."....OR.... A Grandmothers are Lee Katz, are the great-grandparents. behalf and has earned this winter. newspaper reported that a Indianapolis and Stephanie The two older brothers of the honor. FLASH! Just returning widower had donated a loud Sutherland, North Miami infant are Max, 7, and Jacob, 4 FLASH! Belated birthday from a 20-day travel tour are speaker to his church, in Beach. Grandfather of the and a half. greetings to a swell guy, Harry Katz and his grandson memory of his wife. Marty Frankfort. Was 92 on Adam Fisch (Dr. Gary and FLASH! Sid and Sarah June 9. Barfrie). Adam will be cele­ Sakowitz enjoyed the 4th of Reshaping done by suction of fat FLASH! Last weekend, brating his bar mitzvah in a July holiday with their won­ Appearances are impor­ tial to overall weight reduc­ there was a 40th reunion at few months and this was his derful children; son Jeff and tant. That's why health spas tion, bu t may leave fat in those Shortridge, and some of the gift from Grandma Margo and Amy from Boston; daughter and yogurt are so popular. But parts of the body you want to guys and gals attending were Grandpa Harry, although Anita and Dr. Allen Kramer many people have bulges they trim. The body does not slim only Harry and Adam made from Coral Springs, Florida; can't lose regardless of how down proportionally in all the trip. They spent two weeks and Mar^a and Bruce Sklare much they diet or exercise. areas. So it's possible to wind in Israel, four days in London, from Indy. Together with all Now they have a second up with an extremely slender and a few days in Brussels, the grandchildren, it was truly chance to slim down—thanks waist while still having large Belgium, where they visited a wonderful family get to­ to Lipo-Suction Surgery, also thighs, or vice versa. with Harry's aunt, 91 years gether. referred to as Body Contour- Through incisions of less young, and cousins. Harry FLASH! Returning from a ing. than one-half inch, a small Lipo-Suction removes fat tube is inserted and the fat is deposits that are stubbornly sucked away. The incisions resistant to diet and exercise. are then closed and the small First developed in France sev­ scars are, if possible, hidden in eral years ago, it has proven to skin folds. Afterwards there is be an effective method of deal­ some soreness, but that can ing with unsightly and un­ usually be controlled with wanted fat on hips, buttocks, mild pain relievers. % thighs, knees, neck, calves, If you want to learn more even the face. And it is much about Body Contouring NEED TO GET simpler than the older "tuck" through Lipo-Suction sur­ T procedures. Lipo-Suction is gery, contact Dr. Richard M. WORK DONE? Central Physical Therapists, Inc. Gel away from it all quick, with minimal pain, and Storm at his office at Suite A, and get down to bus»n 257-1872 portation; aid in obtaining medical equipment and sup­ 1328 West 86* St. 846-6501 plies; cooking; housekeeping; companionship. July 12,1984 Page Indiana $

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Leadership at fault We have a small complaint. grown to the point where he was one of the For our "Quotation of the Week" feature, most competent and innovative and the top we scan hundreds of bulletins of publications were his clients. He was most World Jewry has never been in such disarray as congregations and read everything or almost helpful to us also. it is at this time, and wherever one turns, there is everything in Jewish periodical literature. We were surprised when he told us that confusion. Every once in a while we locate a gem, and he and his wife — he seemed not much The answer may be lack of leadership and poor once it appears in the P-O, a number of older than perhaps a few years less or more planning, but the unexpected large increase in the other places pick it and instead of crediting than 50 years old — had planned to join the it to the P-O credit it to the same place to Peace Corps. But the company — Magazine number of Jews leaving Russia is responsible and which we credit it. That leaves all our Management — made him an offer he seems to have thrown the leadership in both work out. It is a little awkward to credit couldn’t refuse. That was only less than two Israel and the diaspora off balance. the place from which we reprinted the item years ago. Now we have a letter from Frank The recent sessions of the Jewish Agency Board and then credit The P-O also, but it is the stating that the Kavalers are joining the of Governors which was to have made the only fair way. Peace Corps. So there you have it. In his letter, he gives us a pat on the back. "You necessary decisions about the Jews who are and may not believe this from someone who has will be streaming out of the Soviet Union, ended been less than active in Jewish affairs, but I in what seems to be inability to come to any In the past several years we've worked read the P-O religiously each week." conclusions. with Magazine Marketplace in Peoria, 11., "Marylou and I feel it is time for a new The fact that Israel must assume its share of the and found Franklin Kavaler most willing to adventure," he goes on. "We have applied blame for the present predicament is hardly an cooperate. We finally went over to Peoria to and have been accepted by the Peace and it was pleasant and productive. They Corps. We are awaiting assignment....As you answer. represent leading magazines in securing can imagine we are more than excited about What seems to be the problem is that there was renewals and their operation was an eye- what the future holds." little advance preparation and no advance setting opener, several hundred people on the If the Peace Corps only knew how able of priorities. telephone at one time and with the finest he is in management, they wouldn't send The questions which should have been direction and a system that gave everyone him anywhere, only put him in charge in answered and which are still left hanging are: an opportunity to advance. We were Washington or wherever is its headquarters amazed. Franklin had been in circulation and watch the whole world be changed. 1. Who will be responsible for absorption of the acquisition work in Philadelphia and had Russian Jews in Israel, will it be the government or will it be the Jewish Agency, or will it be both? 2. Where will the necessary funds come from? Blunt appraisal Will World Jewry mount yet another special Reduced sentences for Pollards urged of Yasir Arafat campaign on top of the one for $75 million hardly completed? If so how will the funds be divided as ATLANTIC CITY — Re­ tion expressing revulsion at JERUSALEM — If he is between absorption of the Russian Jews in the duced prison sentences for the brutal killing of students quoted accurately, Canadian diaspora or in Israel? the Pollards were urged by in Beijing. Prime Minister Brian Mul- the American Association of The Association, which roney called Yasir Arafat a 3. What should be the approach to the U.S. — Rabbis at its convention here characterizes itself as small "terrorist and a crook." This shall it be for more visas, for more funding, or if at which Rabbi Richard but growing, will consider at was reported by President no additional visas are offered by the U.S. for Smith, Babylon, N.Y. was its convention next year es­ Chaim Herzog on his return whatever reasons that might obtain, must the elected to succeed Rabbi Ja­ tablishing a lay-congrega­ from his official visit to Russian Jews be faced with the alternative of cob Friedman as president, tion affiliate. Canada. going to Israel, not accepting visas and remaining the rabbis passed a resolu­ in the Soviet Union or becoming refugees as CORRECTION some 11,000 are at the moment in Ladispoli, Italy? The front-page photo in less on the spot. the issue of June 21 showing 4. What about the World Zionist Organization two sons and one daughter and its role in Jewish education, aliyah, etc?. Israeli leadership is hardly blameless. The who were ordained by HUC- Although the WZO has little connection with the differences should have been narrowed in J1R and their fathers on real problem of Russian Jews, there still is a advance discussions and alternatives clarified and page one incorrectly stated budget of $55 million that is provided them by the outlined so that decisions could have been that the graduation took Jewish Agency, whose income has been dropping reached. place at the Cincinnati There is a lesson to be learned here, and the school, when it was at the as diaspora Jewish communities retain a larger New York school. and larger percentage of funds they raise. hope is that we have learned it. When the U.S. and Russia get together for discussions of disarmament, advance planning Tin* Xauotml Jewish enables the representatives to work out agreements that give away less and secure most of what the U.S. needs are. If there was any advance planning for the recent session of the Jewish POST Agency, it at least was not effective, and as a result Editorial and aale* offices are located at The Jewish Post ft Opinion what stares the Jewish world in the face is a 2120 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis, IN 46202 Published weekly by: number of formidable loose ends that require 317 927-7800 The Spokesman Co. Inc. being tied up into a sensible program. Address correspondence to: ISSN 0888-0379 P.O. Box 449097, Indianapolis, IN 46202 Second elase postage paid at What remains to be done is for the American Indianapolis, IN. Jewish community to reach decisions and quickly. Publisher and Editor AN clrcutatisn oorreependence A special session of the board of the Council of Gabriel Cohen •houM be addressed to The Jewish Jewish Federations must be convened, perhaps Post end Opinion, Subscription Art Director Deportment, P.O. Bex 1308-CQ, one that brings in representatives of other major Fort Lee, N J 07084. Postmaster David Edy Send xddreee chances te The components of American Jewry so that we will Jewish Pest and Oplnlsn. Sub- Executive Director acOption Department. P.O. Bsx not have another instance as the one that the IT os CO, Fart Lae. NJ. 07024. B'nai B'rith finds itself in, with its adjunct the Mellnds Marshall Anti-Defamation League, taking one stand while Subscriptions $29 par year Back Issues JSC Single Copy 60C the president of B'nai B'rith, Seymour Reich, as A!1 advertisements designed and prepared by The Jewish Post and Opinion are the sole property of the chairman of the Conference of Presidents of newspaper and cannot be reproduced without the consent of the publisher. Major American Jewish Organizations more or July 12,1989 Page National 2 Catholic paper challenges Israel ADL view Catholic bishops on Israel praised by editor MINNEAPOLIS — The TORONTO — The statement by The Canadian stand by the ADL on Ameri­ Conference of Catholic Bishops on the intifada was can Jewry giving its challenged in an editorial in the Catholic New Times. "priority and resources" for The statement by the bishops drew "particular attention the emigration of Russian to the rights of the Palestinian people” and condemned the Jews to Israel was praised violent repression of "the popular movement which by publisher Rabbi Marc animates the intifada" by the Israeli security forces. Liebhaber in his column in At that point the editorial noted that it had stated his American Jewish World that same criticism, but then added that the view here. expressed by The Catholic New Times had also pointed out Liebhaber recalled his that "we have clearly recognized the right of the state of previous column in which he Israel to exist and have called on the Vatican to declare wrote: "In theory and prac­ NEW BRANDEIS SPORTS CENTER — Brandeis University their recognition for the state in the clearest possible tice there can be no Jewish at Waltham, Mass., is planning a $25 million sports center terms." refugees in modern history; that will include a 6,000-seat field house, a 3,000-seat bas­ The editorial then accused the declaration by the there is a vibrant sovereign ketball court, four racquetball and four squash courts, three bishops, composed by Archbishop Hayes, of not containing state of Israel that opens its other courts which may be used for tennis or volleyball, a "an unequivocal recognition of the state of Israel. As such, borders and its homes for 200-meter six-lane track, and practice areas for baseball, it is inherently ambiguous. The fact is that as long as the any Jew who cannot or does lacrosse and soccer. Vatican refuses to recognize the state of Israel, any not want to stay in the land statement by an official representative of the church about of his/her birth. To leave policy and practices of a particular government in Israel the Soviet Union with an will be construed as an implied negation of the right of Israeli visa and then convert that state to exist." it to a subway ride from Continuing the editorial clarified its views: Manhattan to Brighton Orthodox rabbis may choose "We grant the right of a state to be imperfect and Beach in Brooklyn, begging assume our right to criticize it only after have have HIAS for a token is a mock­ moderation or the opposite acknowledged its right to exist. Anything less will ery of Zionism, a humilia­ inevitably be interpreted as part of an effort to negate the tion of Israel, a denial of NEW YORK — The rab­ said. existence of the state of Israel — as Catholics have so often the heroism of the thou­ bis affiliated with the Rabbi Soloveitchik, on instigated or participated in the negation of the Jewish sands who died in the Is­ Rabbinical Council of Amer­ the other hand, charged people and their religion throughout history." raeli wars and a waste, yes ica, the Orthodox body, can that the Conservative and The editorial was printed in full in the Canadian Jewish a waste, of Jewish philan­ take their choice as to Reform movements of Ju­ News. thropic money. whether to follow the ad­ daism were on an "offensive vice of Rabbi Norman to take over and force Or­ Lamm, president of Yeshiva thodox rabbis to recognize University, or Rabbi Aaron their leadership." He said Israel Bonds close Soloveitchik, of Chicago's that as a result of the pres­ College offers scholarships Brisk Yeshiva. sure on senators and con­ many big offices Rabbi Lamm outlined to gressmen and the U.S. ad­ but no Jews should apply the rabbis at their conven­ ministration on the "Who is tion last month the value of a Jew" issue by Reform and MIAMI — An unnamed college is offering scholarships NEW YORK — A re­ "moderation". He said that Conservative groups, the for non-Jews only, according to Arthur Teitelbaum, Southern trenchment program by Is­ all extremism is "deadly" American government weak­ rael Bonds will affect a Area Director for the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai and urged rabbis to weigh ened its support for Israel. B'rith. He told the Miami Jewish Tribune that the college, number of offices in major options care- He referred to the recent which asks the faith of students on their applications, will American communities. The fully."Moderation requires speech of Secretary of State be named shortly and unless the application form is offices being closed will be thinking and courage," he James Baker as proof. changed, he promised a law suit by his organization. serviced by regional offices. Teitelbaum told a meeting of the Holocaust Two of the offices being Documentation and Education Center at Florida closed are in Kansas City International University that the threat of anti-Semitism and Seattle and ten other More funds needed as first well dry has never been worse than it is today. He added that it is district and several satellite easy for Jews to live their lives without concern for anti- cities will also lose their TEL AVIV —With only sued a statement that the Semitism, but that could be fatal. He said that Jews still offices. $2.4 million left from the potential for finding oil in face discrimination by private clubs and that the UN "is Israel bond sales for the $16.4 million invested in Is- the area remained. Drilling the principal theater for anti-Semitism in the world first half of 1989 are ahead ramco's drilling at Negev 2, will start immediately at today." of 1988 purchases, but the more funds will be sought, another location a kilometer As for the skinheads, , they number 3000, but Nazism bulk of bond sales are no Drilling has halted in the away. started with small numbers and "God forbid it should longer the individual pur­ Yam 1 site, but Isramco is- happen again. Anti-Semitism and its related bigotries chaser, but banks and insti­ tutions such as labor unions cannot be ignored unless you want to take a very substantial "Our first time at Kutsher’s. And they treat risk." who buy large amounts and receive an interest rate of us like we've been coming here forever." two percent over prime. Americans stay away from Israelis in droves The Jewish National nd also is engaged in a re­ trenchment program. It is JERUSALEM — Despite Israel, states Harry Wall, closing offices in Dallas, figures released from time to the director of the ADL's Seattle, Kansas City, Den­ time by government agencies office in Israel. ver and St. Louis. comparing monthly statistics "There are few cities in on tourism, the totals con­ America," he writes in The tinue to drop for the second Jerusalem Post, "where a Traditional Conservative Net Joy Black 8t David Sbecky year and the Jews of Amer­ visitor can feel as comfort­ Congregation of 1250 families Cartel me Americans Greene ica, normally providing 75 able and safe, by day and in Downsview (Toronto), July 22 July 2V Aug 5 Aug 12 percent of the tourists, have night, as in Israel. American Ontario, Canada Yakov Frankie Harry seeks a full time Smirnoff Volt Betafonte the worst record. Tourism Jews , so rankled by the bad Aug 19 Aug 26 labor Day Weekend press Israel is receiving, can Hazzan dropped 15 percent last year (as of Sukkot 5750) from 1987 and for the first and should do more than Interested applicants are invited Exercise Center with Computerized Rowing three months of 1989,16 per­ shout back at their televi­ to submit resumes to: Private Lake • Boating & Fishing • Dietary L< cent lower than in 1988. Eu­ sion sets or write a letter to Cantorial Search Committee If ropeans continue to pack the their local newspaper. They Beth David B'nai Israel Beth Am 11 should take a trip to Israel: 55 Yeomans Road, Downsview II Kutsher’s Country Club beaches and hotels at the Ontario, Canada M3H 3J7 ! Monhcello. New York. 12701 • WI41 704-6000 normal rate, but Americans not only is it safe — it may (416)-633-5500______II Call Toll Free (800) 431-1273 • A CalskilLand Resort have opted out of visiting even by enjoyable." July 12,1989 Page National 3 5 greeting Arafat win Heschel Award 14 die in bus tragedy: Ad by a Jew calls for enraged Israelis retaliate Palestinian Yad Vashem NEW YORK — The five American Jews who met TEL AVIV — The fallout lyn; Fella Feingrish, Rita ATLANTA — Extremes to thinking, liberal kind of with Yasir Arafat in Stock­ from the bus tragedy in Levine, 39, and Sylvia Mar­ which anti-Semites, Jewish newspaper" that Creative holm were honored with the which 14 passengers riding tinez. or otherwise, will go was Loafing tries to be. Jewish Peace Fellowship’s from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem The youngest of the dead evidenced by an advertise­ However, he was apolo­ Abraham Joshua Heschel were killed as a Palestinian was Kinnerct Cohen, 12, of ment in a local newspaper getic, and explained that Award. They are Rita forced the wheel and Jerusalem, who had been on which was prominently dis­ had he known the ramifica­ Hauser, Drora Kass, Men- plunged the vehicle into a a shopping trip to Tel Aviv played on page seven which tions of the name Yad achem Rosensaft, Stanley ravine was still evoking prior to her upcoming Bat read, " WANTED: Attorney Vashem, the ad would never Scheinblum and Abraham isolated incidents of Mitzvah. to incorporate foundation of had been published. He Udovitch. retaliation by enraged Is­ The Arab who grabbed a Yad Vashem Memorial for promised that "We will Rabbi Philip J. Bent- raelis who attacked Arab the wheel is Abdul Rahadi Palestinian Children pro never run an ad like that Iey,the Fellowship’s presi­ cars with rocks, killing one Rafad Agam, 25, of the Nu- bono." again." dent, said "We believe that driver. seirat refugee district in The associate editor of Ben Hirsch, president of the Stockholm meetings Two of the dead are Gaza. Instead of shouting the paper. Creative Loafing, Hemshech, comprised of represent an historic moment Canadians, Fern Rykiss, 17, "Allah Akhbar" (God is told the Atlanta Jewish Holocaust survivors, without in Jewish-Palestinian rela­ of Winnipeg and Dr. Shel­ Mighty) as reported at first, Times that "It was a Jewish being told that the ad was tions and helped to create a don Halpcnny, 33, Vancou­ he had called out the name man who bought the ad. He placed by a Jew, said that climate in which peace may ver dentist. Among the 27 of a friend who had been called himself a Jewish Re- "It's probably some liberal at last become an achiev­ wounded were seven Ameri­ wounded by Israeli soldiers. constructionist. I didn't Jew who thinks he knows able goal." cans, including Eliezra Ben- Agam is cooperating with know him. He just felt what he's doing. It's outra­ Yehuda Kassutto, 52, Brook­ police. strongly about creating a geous, but I’m not floored. memorial for Palestinian We're a very self-destruc­ children. He believed in tive people. We're the first what he was doing." to fight with ourselves...I The associate editor, don't know what makes Begging for a fight, denier Scott Walsey, who is Jew­ people like this tick. It's ish, said he was "caught off self-hatred and I don't know guard", but thought it was what else." of the Holocaust gets one in keeping with the "free WEST LOS ANGELES — aficionado. "No Nazi will A trip through a plate glass ever be allowed into a syna­ window was the reward of gogue under any conditions." David McCalden, who says "It's not your synagogue," he is the founder of the Lib­ McCalden countered. Cruise O’Brien praises erty Lobby’s Institute for "Oh yes, it is. I am a Jew, Historical Review, which and all synagogues belong to Thomas Friedman’s book denies that the Holocaust the Jewish people." r, took place, when he at­ McCalden told Rubin that tended a debate between Irv he would nevertheless at­ Rubin and Yehuda Lev. Ru­ tend the Rubin-Lev debate. NEW YORK — Conor Egyptian peace, stating that bin is the leader of the Jew­ "He then told me that if Cruise O'Brien, one of Is­ it was President Sadat first, ish Defense League and Lev he's attacked in any way, it til rael’s best friends in the in­ and then Menachem Begin an assistant editor of The would be just one more tort Heritage photo tellectual area, has nothing second, with the U.S. Presi­ Jewish Journal. The account against me," said Rubin. David McCalden but praise for Thomas L. dent playing an auxiliary of the fracas as it appeared "It will be on your head," Friedman's book on Israel, role. in Heritage here, written by said Rubin. "Your own re­ scene, wanted McCalden to "From Beirut to Jerusalem," O'Brien reaches the publisher Herb Brin, gave sponsibility." reenter the sanctuary to but contends that the New heights in his description of the following details: Just before the start of point out the Jews involved York Times correspondent's Friedman's "Israeli identity "It all started when I got the debate. Rabbi Yisroel in the melee. "grasp on the previous his­ debate" as "One of the most a telephone message on my Kelemer, spiritual leader of Members of the audience tory of the Arab-Israel con­ illuminating things that has office recorder," said Rubin. the synagogue, ordered Mc­ objected, one declaring that flict is not so sure." The re­ ever been written about Is­ "It was from McCalden, who Calden to leave the it would cause more prob­ viewer faults the author rael." 0"Brien then quotes said that he must talk to me premises. lems. also on glowing credit to the following paragraph: at once." McCalden was escorted "To have a Nazi enter a Jimmy Carter for the Israeli- "As a result the different "I have as much interest out of the synagogue, wit­ synagogue to point out Jews visions grew side by side. in talking to that guy as to nesses said, while Rubin and — those days arc long over," Israel became more secular a cockroach," said Rubin. Lev were on the him a, said Rubin. and more Orthodox, more "After all, he's suing me for preparing for the debate. The debate ensued, some­ mundane and more Mes­ $500,000, charging me with Rubin told Heritage: "In what subdued in counter­ sianic, all at the same time. vexatious litigation result­ the lobby of the synagogue, point to the McCalden fra­ Far from having built a 'new ing in the loss of speaking McCalden started grabbing cas. Jewish identity’ or a 'new engagements." at people, and a brawl was McCalden sent a letter to Jew,' Israel seems to have But Rubin, on reflection, inevitable as a result of his Rubin, seeking payment for brought out of the basement did call McCalden. 'What aggressive hatred against damages to his clothing, of Jewish history every Jew­ do you want?" asked the the Jews." eyeglasses and watch. ish spiritual option from the JDL loader. In the melee, McCalden Irv Rubin said that a Indian Blanket past 3,000 years; the country "I would like to come to fell through a plate glass document issued by the anti- Special Offer Free Blessing has become a living museum Size 72x90 And Choice of Blue the debate tonight. Yehuda window outside of the Semitic Aryan Nations in or Brown. Authentic Indian De­ of Jewish history." Lev told me he has no objec- building. His cut forehead Hayden Lake, Idaho, called sign Each One Personally tion. I'm wondering how you required a number of Brotherhood of Murder, has Blessed by Wise Owl, Medicine feel." stitches. Rubin as Number Four on its Man and Chief Drowning Creek Reservation $150 Value For "Your appearance in any A witness said that po­ target list, right after Mor­ Only $39. Postpaid Satisfac­ JEWISH synagogue would be like lice, who rushed to the ris Dees, of Klanwatch. tion Guaranteed. The Only serving a ham and cheese Blanket Offered fc the Public INTRODUCTION sandwich at a bar mitz­ Blessed by Indian Medicine vah." Man. Your Order Provides Help INTERNATIONAL Urgently Needed by Tribe. A local, innovative and penon- McCalden then offered to Please write: Chief Wise alized Jewish introduction service. support Rubin in his debate. Subscribe lo Tbe PoslH Ages 21-101. Let us find that Owl, Drowning Creek Res­ special someone. "I need your support like ervation, R#2 Box 108, Call 1-800-442-9050 a hole in the head," Rubin Maxton, NC 28364 102 Cities in the U.S. & Canada told the neo-Nazi Hitler $ & July 12,1989 Page National 4 Bus carnage didn’t help „ x tOUrIsm from U.S. - Survey Pafe^nian causeg

By JEAN HERSCHAFT WASHINGTON — Uni­ NEW YORK — The re­ Meanwhile, the Ameri­ versities and art galleries cent terrorist bus devastation can Gathering/Federation of around the country will soon that left 14 dead and 27 in­ Jewish Holocaust Survivors be offered political posters The unexamined aphorism jured in Israel will have an group reported no cancella­ espousing the Palestinian impact on tourism, already tions on Sunday as 4 5 position. Daniel J. Walsh, of weak, to Israel, Seymour American Jewish and non- nearby Alexandria, an ex­ Reich, chairman of the Con­ Jewish teachers left for a By YAACOV LURIA pert on graphic design, has (Editor's note: This col­ ference of Presidents of Ma­ three-week seminar in Israel Because — to quote Plato been contracted by the PLO umn was written on April 6.) jor Jewish Organizations, that it conducts and quoting Socrates — "the un­ and went to Tunis to arrange Southern California is told The Post and Opinion in partially subsidizes. examined life is not worth details. He refused to tell suffering through a Santa a survey on the situation. Emunah Women’s Ortho­ living." I’ve got a. lot of ex­ the New York Times how Ana. If you’ve lived through amining to do. He added, though, "Israel dox travel agency reported much he is being paid. Suppose I start by scruti­ is still safer to visit than that all of its executives "The political poster is a nizing the Socrates/Plato many of the U.S. crime-rid­ were in Israel this week and way to shatter taboos and aphorism: How true is it? den cities." Reich offered next. And speaking unoffi­ debunk mythologies, he told The great mass of people are some hope by noting that cially, noted that the agen­ Robert Pear of The New born, grow up, bear or beget "I’m sure it will bounce cy has been doing business as York Times. He said the back." children, work, grow old, usual (in the context of in­ Palestinian posters will and shuffle off without ever However, Henry Sieg- tifada). speak to an American audi­ having given a thought to man, executive director of At the same time, com­ ence more directly and more questions like, "What am I the American Jewish menting on another aspect of effectively than PLO lead­ Congress, which operates doing here? What’s it all the terrorist incident, Sey­ ers have been able to do so. about? Is it worth it?" G o one of the Jewish tourist mour Reich volunteered crit­ One that was pictured in agencies, pessimistically tell these millions of up­ icism of the U.S. State De­ the news account in the standing citizens on this said, "It's already affected partment for "failing to de­ Times showed an Arab a chamsin (or sharav, its by the intifada ... it can't lovely planet that they're nounce the incident in the woman breaking the chain other name) in Israel, you living in vain. Kohelet said get any worse." strongest terms. They merely which bound her arms. The know the Santa Ana. pretty much that, but he Hiding behind rose-col- commented on it," he said. only message was not a mes­ This is the third day, was stronger on poetry than ored glasses, though, was He also was critical of the sage but stated, "General with another three or four on philosophy. the Israel Tourist Bureau PLO’s failure to denounce Union of Palestinian days expected, of hot, dry. I have a neighbor, usual­ spokesman, who said she the terrorist act, which he Women," both in large En- fiercely sunny weather, ly a quiet man who spends didn't believe it will impact said "flies in the face o f glish wording and in Arabic. Plaster yourself with prunes, at all, as "American Jewish their opposition to terror­ Walsh said that he had potatoes, and schmaltz, sit his time reading and tourists know that there are ism, the plank on which sold 3000 posters since Jan- in the sun for awhile, and I watching TV. Only when danger spots all over the they won U.S. support.". uary and that his biggest guarantee that you will turn he’s had a few too many world." problem was getting enough into first-class cholent. For scotches does he demand posters to fill the demand, kashrut I don’t vouch. that I tell him the meaning The artists are Palestinians, A few minutes ago, 1 be- of life. He picks on me be­ Israclis, Poles, Cubans, Ital- gan to work on my memoir, cause I'm the only one be­ ians and Americans, he said, an opus that's been ongoing sides his long-suffering wife for as many years as a me­ who is handy. At such times dieval cathedral, but it's I wonder whether Socrates/ | too heavy labor in this siz- Plato started the business zler. Why do I have this about examining life when OMTl’AIUES compulsion to finish the they had had a bit too ' book, I ask myself. To land much retsina in a taberna on on The New York Times the Plaka. best-seller list? No. So my I think I'll stick with the grandchildren will have a majority that does what it 500-page ethical will? can and doesn't stew in the Moshe Kol succumbs; Maybe. Oh, I know why! Continued on page 10 headed Youth Aliya S U B S C R I BE TO JERUSALEM — Moshe The National -iewLsh Kol, who is remembered in America for his work with Israel establishes school Youth Aliyah, and was a signatory of Israel's Decla­ Li in; for its brightest students ration of Independence, died at the age of 78. He was the pyery week you may have delivered to your 160 of Israel's top high promised. Outstanding stu­ world head of Youth ■^mail box the newspaper many consider school students will launch dents in physics, mathemat­ Aliyah. He was elected to among the best In America. the opening year next ics, biology, chemistry or the first Knesset and served September of the Israel Arts music and plastic arts will for many succeeding sessions. jfn addition to expanded coverage of domestic and Science Academy, whose be tutored at the residential He served as Minister of and international news. The Post and Opinion building pictured above is school by outstanding nota­ Tourism under Eshkol, Meir presents feature articles not available anywhere and Rabin. now under construction, $6 bles, as for instance Isaac else. In fact, everything injhe P-O is'exclusive with Stern and Yehudi Menuhin million of its $9 million cost us, including 21 columnists who write only already in the coffers and among others. fpr Our regders. the remainder practically I. F. Stone dies; Send the Jewish Post and Opinionl Why Russian Jews are Israel-bound wrote famed weekly □ One year $29 □ Two years $54 Q Three years $76 JERUSALEM —Israelis and accommodations imme- 41 x Name______receiving a bonus in Russian diately under a new a pro­ NEW YORK — Memorial Jews as hundreds at Ladis- gram. services for I.F. (Izzy) Stone QJ Address______poli, Italy, their first stop The Joint Distribution were conducted at the Ethi­ City/State/Zlp_ after arrival from Moscow, Committee meanwhile is cal Culture Society here discover they cannot enter cutting off support to the Wednesday and at noon Phone. the U.S. Several hundred emigrants after they have Tuesday, July 18 at the have therefore opted to go been turned down for refugee Friends Meeting House in to Israel to the joy of all Is­ status by U.S. immigration Washington, D.C. He died P.O. Box 449097. Indianapolis, IN 46202 rael. They are promised jobs officials. of a heart attack June 18. July 12,1989 Page National 5 If

By Sot QdJLtyK . ‘Double Blessing’ touches your heart A

By IRENE BACKALENICK Professor Sol Gordon is an authority on love, sex and mar­ "Double Blessing," the does not trust love. When one chief ingredient for good thea­ riage, and you probably heard him lecture in your community. new play at the Jewish Reper­ gives oneself to love, it can ter. He founded the Institute for Family Research and Education. He tory Theatre which runs until suddenly be taken away, leav­ As to the production, direc­ is professor emeritus of Syracuse University. He has appeared on July 16; is an old-fashioned ing pain in its place. She in­ tor Ed Cohen gets good per­ The Today Show, the Phil Donahue Show, with Oprah Winfrey, 60 Minutes and Good Morning, America. He is the author of tends to protect her daughter formances from his four ac­ love story. Although the time "Why Love Is Not Enough" and "When Living Hurts." He will from such a fate by effecting tors. Rosalind Harris, as the answer questions from readers and may be addressed at 28 Her­ an "arrangement," not a love mother, is the strong central itage Ct., Belmont, CA 94002. match. core that holds the production Occasionally my wife and I find the need to go away — As the story unfolds, the together, and Helen Green­ to touch bases with our roots. writer's naive but charming berg, with her nervous energy There was Israel — to inspire us — the Extermination message emerges —namely and mysterious smile, creates Camps — they increased our pain. that life is not worth living a fascinating portrayal of This time, I want to write about Holland, this glamorous without love, which is always Chana. Mark Ethan is an ap­ beautiful country, full of Van Goghs so well preserved as there waiting if you're willing pealing — and often very though they had been painted last week; but also the same to open your heart. funny — young suitor, and country where about 140,000 Jews lived before the war It In this critic's view. Miss Victor Raider-Wexler, creates was a vibrant, exciting community with an illustrious his­ tory of contributions to Judaism where Jews obtained civil Lukeman uses too many lines a most s>mpathetic Manny. is the present, the story could rights as far back as 1796. easily have taken place dec­ to get an idea across. Greater The technical side of this pro­ You know the story, 100,000 Dutch Jews were murdered by ades — perhaps even genera­ economy of style might be in duction also deserves praise, the Nazis — probably the highest percentage of deaths of tions — earlier. order. One grows restless, on particularly Ray Techt's ex- any European country. We are surprised to find occasion, as the playwright actly-right set design and The explanations do not make it any easier for us to view this motif in a contemporary moves from point A to point B. Marshall Coid's haunting Jewish Holland. Only 25,000 Jews remain there now — more drama until we realize that But despite the need for original music. a museum than a lively Jewish community. playwright Brenda Shos- tighter writing, this is an ap­ In all. Miss Lukeman is a One’s first visit is to the Jewish Historical Museum de­ hanna Lukeman is dealing pealing little drama, with talent to watch, and "Double veloped within the Ashkenazi Synagogue complex consisting with the hassidic life — a warm, believable human Blessing," despite its flaws, of four synagogues built during the 17th and 18th centuries. world where time indeed beings. Ultimately that is the touches the heart. Its exhibits are so effectively and tastefully designed (by the curator Edward Van Vollen, a young Holland-born, stands still. The scene is pres­ American-trained rabbi) that the Council of European Muse­ ent-day Brooklyn, but the val­ ums awarded it its most coveted prize in 1989. ues hold fast to the past, to a Just across from the museum you visit the now seldom used world of conformity, revered but stunningly designed and preserved Portuguese Synagogue, ancestors, and arranged mar­ unchanged from its 17th century beginning. There is still no riages. electricity and now rarely a minyan either. The mood is reinforced by You pay the mandatory visit to the Anne Frank House, music and by the stage set it­ still a fresh and terrible memory, now one of the most popu­ self. Even before the actors lar museums in the city. By this time you have purchased appear, we hear hassidic "A Guide to Jewish Amsterdam" by Jan Stoutenbeek and Paul wedding music and we view Vigeveno and you go on from there. the set. We see a Brooklyn You do not fail to pay your own tribute at the Holland Schouwburg, the memorial for the thousands of perished brownstone apartment fur­ Dutch Jews. It is appropriately established at the point nished with substantial furni­ where the Jews were assembled and from where they trans­ ture, carpets, drapes, all in ferred to the camps to be murdered. muted browns and rusts, a The memorial plaque reads: room that is permeated with a My soul cries with grief/Raise me up to your world. feeling of genteel faded We were there during the Yom HaShoah commemoration elegance. where more than a thousand Dutch Jews, including the Jew­ Miss Lukeman's tale of ish mayor of Amsterdam, gathered to pay homage, to weep boy-meets-girl, boy-almost- and to remember the past. loses-girl, and boy-finally- All of this would have been grim, however exciting Hol­ wins-girl is surely not land is as a country today with all its sights and museums, if we had not met Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp and his wife. unusual, but she imbues it The rabbi is one of few Dutch-bom rabbis. He survived with a certain charm and with the war hidden with a Christian family as an infant. I con­ her own special voice. As the sider him one of the most courageous Jews in the world to­ play opens, we find Martha, day. In an insane world he inspires sanity, his voice is the mother, nervously prepar­ heard around the world and listened to in the Soviet Union ing for guests. A prospective when it demands freedom for our Russian brethren and hope groom for her 19-year-old for world peace. He is currently the rabbi of the Liberal De daughter Chana is due to ar­ Synagogue in the Haag on Princengracht, founded in 1726. rive with his parents. Manny, Rosalind Harris, left, and Helen Greenberg in Brenda Sho- Along with Elie Wiesel, I know of no other Jewish voice shanna Lukeman's new comedy. Double Blessing, at the Jew­ which can speak more effectively for us, the living remnant her own friend and would-be ish Repertory Theatre, 344 East 14th Street. suitor, has arranged the who still need a spokesman. During our visit there one 12- match. And, not surprising in year-old boy was preparing for his bar mitzvah in the mag­ Conservative rabbis get Europe members nificent old Synagogue, one of the few left in Holland which this close, insular world, all is not a museum. Martha's relatives are coming NEW YORK — As Amer­ and Czechoslovakian rabbis ican Jewish groups vie to see In this setting it was hard not to imagine — despite all to inspect the young man. to formally affiliate with — Am Yisrael Chai Ad B’le dai. Martha is eaager for the which will make the it. Rabbi Albert Lewis, RA match — "an arrangement," biggest impact in Eastern president, said his World’s dienfotheraplsfs meet Europe and are setting up organization will provide as she calls it — but her local groups in the Soviet teachers and educational JERUSALEM — The five- Israel, the largest medical- daughter has other ideas. Union, the Rabbinical As­ material for the building of day • 16th International scientific conference ever Ghana hopes for true love. But sembly, the Conservative Jewish religious life in Congress of Chemotherapy held in Israel. Delegates die mother, whose husband body, has announced an Eastern Europe. brought 6000 researchers to from 66 nations partici­ died during her honeymoon, agreement with Hungarian pated. July 12,1989 Page National 6

MRRIHH - ■ 1». Should we celebrate the 200th Bastille Day?

By JACOB NEUSNER I don't think we have any­ adopted for themselves from Specifically, the division one-shot deal. for granted that they would thing to celebrate in the the late 18th century onward: between the private and the So the economic impulse encompassand tolerate differ­ French Revolution. Let me "Be a Jew at home, a human public, the religious and the for the reduction of difference ence, and society was so or­ explain why. being when you go forth." political, was unknown. to the private and personal dered as to preserve, in stable The complex situation of This peculiar political set­ People took for granted that realm and uniformity in pub­ hierarchy, the layers and lev­ tlement worked out in the one's religion was the same as lic policy did not affect the els of difference, whether the West through the differentia­ one's ethnic identity, and framing of policy for religion difference be marked by reli­ tion of religion and politics, one's ethnic identity was the and culture. gion, culture, language, food, the_ holy and the secular, same as one's nationality. In­ Politics too accorded to education, profession and came about in theaftermath of stead of nation-states, with difference an important place. craft and economic status, protracted and bloody reli­ cultural uniformity in lan­ Indeed, in the organization of clothing — or all of them all gious wars in the Reforma­ guage and culture such as we large empires, difference, together. tion. Not only so, but the nur­ know today, the political enti­ properly manipulated, served And that meant for Juda­ ture of a value-free public ties of Europe, Asia, and the interests of those who held ism a world in which every­ policy and the development of North Africa encompassed power. For by protecting the thing held together under the a world of exchange that was varieties of groups, held to­ rights of small groups, organ­ aspect of Heaven. If a person Judaism now in modern neutral to cultural and reli­ gether in multi-cultural em­ izers of empires could and did was a Jew, then he or she ate times, with its intersecting but gious difference responded to pires. win loyalty and willing assent food identified as Jewish, distinct Judaic systems for the the rise of a new order of capi­ When, as was the case very to their exercise of large-scale spoke, or at least used for cul­ private life and the public talist economics, which re­ commonly, a given territory authority. Coercion served ture and religion, a language square, responds to the social quired growing markets and encompassed much linguistic much less well than obedi­ particular to Jews (Hebrew, world in which Jews live. Reli­ flourished only with the inter­ and cultural diversity, the ence, and fealty best of all. and in Europe for nearly a gion, narrowly defined, is According to the political thousand years, Yiddish, that deemed personal and individ­ Specifically,, the division between the myth characteristic of much of is, the Jewish language), was ual and familial. Politics is the world of diversity such as educated in the traditions of public and shared and corpo­ private and the public, the religious and was comprised by Europe, the learning of Judaism, might rate. The nation-state that re­ Middle East, and North Af­ well wear clothing that quired a common language the political, was unknown. People took rica, where Judaism (arid marked the person as a Jew, and shared politics, that fos­ Christianity and Islam flour­ practiced professions or busi­ tered a uniform culture fop granted that one's religion was the ished), personal fealty, con­ nesses that were generally among diverse groups, that same as one's ethnic identity, and one's crete and palpable, and not assigned to Jews, lived within reduced all persons to the abstract loyalty to the nation­ a political framework com­ common status of citizen, ac­ ethnic identity was the same as one's state defined by language and prising mostly Jews, and, in corded no public recognition culture,gqvemed.Thatis why general, like numerous other to the importance of cultural nationality. Instead of nation-states, people for the long centuries ethnic-cultural-religious sub­ or religious difference. And prior to the advent of the na­ sets of society, formed a free­ that conception of religion as with cultural uniformity in language tion-state in the late 18th cen­ standing and essentially au­ private, the public square as tury understood that various tonomous social system. Un­ neutral, emerged from the and culture such as we know today, the groups followed their own der such conditions, distin­ French revolution. political entities of Europe, Asia, and laws and customs, but owed guishing religion from poli­ If you were not of the reli­ allegiance to a ruler in com­ tics, the private from the com­ gion or color or ethnic origin North Africa encompassed varieties of mon. Consequently, an em­ munal, would have proven or race of the majority, you pire would encompass a vari­ just as puzzling as treating the would find a place within the groups, held together in multi-cultural ety of languages, religions, two as one in our own society majority by emphasizing the and cultures, and each group does. common responsibilities of empires.______r , r formed a self-sustaining social As a matter of fact, from the citizenship. But the points of entity. most ancient times empires difference must be subordi­ The division of a person's were polyglot and multi-cul­ nated and would be tolerated changeability of persons and economy would afford spe­ life into that of the citizen and tural. Once a conquering in private. So religious differ­ products alike, attained cialization to the different the private individual serves people passed the frontiers of ence — which could not be through uniformity, and ra­ groups. In ancient times, for now, but under the conditions its own country, it faced the erased or overcome — would tionality in not only produc­ example, the Canaanite was that prevailed in Europe, task of governing foreigners. be forced out of the public tion and consumption, but the trader, the Phoenician the North Africa, and the Middle Seeking allies wherever he square, and a civil religion also law, society and politics. international merchant, and East for millennia before the could, a king would be glad to substituted within it. Under such conditions the the Jews in the Land of Israel 19th century, it contradicted join up with lesser powers and That accounts for the shape recognition in public policy (later: Palestine) were farmers public policy. That policy, as add their armies to his own. To of Judaisms in the 20th cen­ accorded to difference endan­ and soldiers. The local, subsis­ we realize, never contem­ do so, he might offer to protect tury in the Western democra­ gered the public order, on the tence economies did not re­ plated the homogenization of established practices and cies. The policy for all diverse one side, and impeded the quire interchangeability of populations. True, if people rites. The Romans, for ex­ groups would be, in theory at progress of the formation of persons and products, the worshipped a god deemed ample, did exactly that with least, essentially the same. We wealth, on the other. But in the mass production and con­ evil or false, they might be the Jews when they came into may paraphrase the way in long centuries before the for­ sumption of goods and serv­ wiped out, as Christians the Near East and made an which a principal figure in the mation in the W*$t of the capi­ ices, the rationalization of the wiped out "pagans" in their ally out of the Judean State in French Revolution put mat­ talistic mode of social organi­ formation of wealth. Instead conquest of much of Europe, what later on was to be called ters as they pertained to the zation, on theone side, and the of the notion of large markets, and as Muslims destroyed Palestine. They guaranteed Jews, 'To the Jews as citizens, political neutrality as todiffer- people thought in terms of ido^tors, according the right Jews' rights of free practice of everything; to Judaisms as ence in religion and culture, local bazaars; in place of of subordinated status to Jews their cult and local autonomy corporate community, noth­ on the other, quite different large-scale enterprise (though and Christians, in their con­ as allies of Rome. Those rights ing." To this statement of conditions for a very long there was such) aimed at the quest of the Middle East, persisted from the second public policy a Jewish thinker span of time, back to remote systematic and orderly crea­ North Africa and the Iberian century B.C to the fifth cen­ responded with what define antiquity, characterized the tion of wealth, people looked peninsula. tury C.E., when the now- the settlement that Jews social order. for the main chance and the But the great empires took Continued on page 13 July 12,1989 Page National 7

* Amputee swimmer Hanoch Bugin brings the flame U.S. Jorges ahead as gotasjall to its athletes RAMAT GAN — First reports from the Maccabiah 400 meter medley. which ends Thursday had Israel ahead of the U.S., but the In fencing, David Mandell, Baltimore, of Columbia U. superiority of the U.S. athletes soon put them in first place and Peter Brand, Needham, Mass., of Dalhousie U., won in number of golds and total medals. the gold. In shooting, sisters Rebecca and Abigale Marcus, For whatever reason, reports of the winning U.S. Boyds, Md., finished first and second in Olympic free rifle athletes were meager, but many new records were set. competition with only one point separating them, while In gymnastics, Cassandra Frey, of Yonkers, N.Y., who the American team racked up three team and three performs for the University of Oklahoma, won three individual medals. golds, and Michael Cohen, Savannah, Ga., won his fourth In wrestling, Robinson Prebish, State College, Pa., gold in his fourth consecutive Maccabiah. Coached by his Solomon Fleckman, Bethlehem, Pa., of Lehigh U. and father, Howard, a former Maccabiah champion, the young Darren Schulman, East Brunswick, N.J., Syracuse U. won Cohen holds 12 Maccbiah records in four weight classes. In golds. sports like baseball, tennis and basketball, U .S. teams were Bringing the torch into the stadium was Hanoch Bugin, heading for the finals. the last of 500 runners from Modi'in, the birthplace of the In swimming Keith Kaplan, Manalapan, N.J., of Maccabees. Harvard, won the 100-meter freestyle. Charles Rose, Bugin, who lost his right arm during the war in Altamonte Springs, FI., of Florida State, won the gold in Lebanon, took up swimming as therapy and became so the 400 meter individual medley. The U.S. swimming proficient that he won a place on the Israeli team that went contingent has won five golds while setting four records to the Special Olympics last October in Seoul, South by Thursday. Ruth Grodsky, Timonium, Md., of Clemson, Korea. repeated in the 200 meter breaststroke and 400 meter Bugin's arrival brought a roar from the throats of 50,000 individual medley, setting records in both. Other records spectators. But they saved their longest and loudest cheers were set by Rick Aronberg, a teammate of Grodsksy's at for the first Jewish sports delegation from the Soviet Clemson, in the 200 meter freestyle as Joshua Mikesell, Union ever to participate in a Maccabiah. Stanford, Ca., of Stanford University, followed suit in the It consisted of 50 Jewish athletes from Soviet Lithuania.

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They marched with the red flag of the USSR, a Lithuanian The whole multi-layered cake was topped by a uniquely flag, a sign reading "USSR-Lithuania" and a giant banner Maccabian cherry as members of the Israel skydiving inscribed "Maccabi Lithuania." school, most of whom are veterans of IDF paratrooper In his speech officially opening the event. President units, gave what has become a traditional display of free- Chaim Herzog of Israel singled out for special welcome fall parachuting, guiding their multi-colored chutes into the Lithuanian, Hungarian and Yugoslavian contingents. the stadium's heart. He also recognized participating countries with so few As the planned section of the ceremony wound up at 10 Jews that their sports delegations consist of no more than p.m., the unplanned part — a mass hora by 15,000 athletes a handful of athletes. Ecuador is represented by three and participants in the ceremony — began. members of a single family. Paraguay, Costa Rica, South This was not Seoul, with its Eastern perfection and Korea and Hong Kong sent one athlete each. mysticism gripping the imagination. But it was no less Ramat Gan stadium's playing-field suddenly became a enjoyable, because of its gay informality, its colorful stetl, featuring every type of Eastern European Jew, as commitment and above all its spirit of unity, reflected in hundreds of men and women in Hassidic garb danced to the theme song of "Belonging.. .of knowing forever that I the evocative sounds of Fiddler On The Roof, led by singer belong." Dudu Fisher in the guise of Tuvia the Milkman. Fisher, With the sports competition in full swing Maccabiah who had previously presented a heart-warming rendition officials had a thorny problem to resolve involving Jewish of the Games' official song I Belong, specially written for athletes from South Africa. International sports the event by local songsters Ehud Manor and Nurit regulations do not permit South Africa to be represented Hirsch, was then joined by Ze'ev Revah as Salah Shabati by an official national delegation or to march with a South representing Israel's oriental communities. African flag. As a consequence, the South African team From a mixture oishtetl and ma'abara, the stadium then marched around the stadium in a "rest of the world" became a gigantic gymnasium, as thousands of young delegation, but the games' organizers decided against the boys and girls in two-tone leotards presented a display of soccer team, while permitting individual athletes to coordinated mass rhythmic dancing. compete as private individuals.

July Ur1989 PMge National. 9 Ibn Ezra, Renaissance man President Bush hiding behind flag

By RABBI SAMUEL SILVER By RABBI MAURICE DAVIS It was SOO years ago that some think Palestine. He As much as any and more ther did the Supreme Court. burn a flag. Abraham Ibn Ezra, one of died at the age of 75. than most, we Jews are per­ What the Supreme Court We Jews are the pulse- the most notable of biblical ceived to be the liberals of was defending was not the takers of society. We can commentators, was bom in Fed's president this land. I wish it were flag burner. Or flag burning. spot the danger to democ­ Tudela, Spain. In the For­ The newly-elected presi­ truer than it is, but that is What it was defending was racy at the very first in­ dent of the UJA-Federation the Constitution of the stance. We have to. Our of New York, David G. United States, and most very lives depend on it. Our Sacks, is going to leave his particularly its First trouble is that after we spot business to give more time to Amendment. the danger we too often the leadership of the giant Me, too! make believe it is not there. agency. Sacks is the chief I for one resent seeing the It is there! operating officer of the Sea­ President reach out for a There is a clear and pre­ gram Company, and, accord­ cheap and easy shot. I for sent danger to our country, to ing to the Forward, a board one resent seeing him wrap our civilization, to our her­ member of both Seagram and himself in the flag, and itage every time one of E.I. duPont Nemours & Co. running to Iwo Jima for a these Sunday patriots sets At the Fed, he succeeds photo session of his cartoon out to tamper with the free­ doms this country fought so ward Dr. Heshil Klepfisz Peggy Tishman. the perception. Along with patriotism. that other perception about If he wants to protest the long and so hard to create devotes a lengthy, learned Supreme Court let him and then defend. essay to the milestone. Ibn The hitch liberals; that while real George Bush may enjoy Ezra lived during the patriots like George Bush protest their retreat from Agudat Israel is the Or­ civil rights. Let him protest what he did to Michael height and then the decline thodox group in Israel and Ollie North are gung ho of the Golden Age of Spain. on the flag, we remain soft their pull back from affir­ Dukakis, which was which tilts to the right. It mative action. Let h i m shameful from start to end. The students of the Bible is to be distinguished from on patriotism, and therefore rank his comments next to soft on the flag. protest their willingness to But this time he is doing it Mizrachi which is also Or­ let 16-year-olds be executed. to our country. He is doing it Rashi in importance, and all thodox but perhaps describ- The truth of the matter is biographers are astounded that we Jews, as much as Let him protest their en­ to us! able as centrist. There's a dorsing the execution of the If he does not know the at the versatility of the segment of Agudat Israel any and more than most, de­ difference between form and scholar, who wrote works pend on the Constitution and mentally deficient. which is inclined to be more But no. He is outraged at substance, between the flag not only about the Bible, but politically liberal than the its Bill of Rights for our and the Constitution, be­ also about grammar, philos­ very survival. We could not none of these. He is reluc­ mother group and it's called tant, he tells us, to interfere tween posturing and patrio­ ophy, astronomy, science and Poalei (Workers of) Agudat long exist without them. tism, somebody ought to tell medicine. Israel. In the 1988 elections Once upon a time we had to with the justice system. In­ A perpetual wanderer depend on the mercy of the stead, he saves his outrage him. Poalei Agudat Israel agreed And it had bcuer not be who found it difficult to to give up its own list and king, and life became ex­ for the issue of flag burning. support his wife and five tremely tentative. Then He would rather weaken Lee Atwater. run its candidates under the Rabbi Maurice Davis can children, Ibn Ezra often had Agudat Israel label. Now came these very documents the Bill of Rights, he would to plead with wealthy pa­ to assure us of our rights. rather damage the First be reached at P.O. Box 351579, there's talk about merging Palm Coast, FL 32i'35-1579. trons for help, and in one of the two, but, according tc an The flag is the symbol of Amendment, then allow his pieces he describes how article in the Israeli paper those rights, and t h e some screwball the right to humiliating it was to knock Ha-Tzofeh and relayed in Constitution is the substance. on the door and the heart of the Forward, there's a hitch Both are precious, symbol donors who "are often away in the union proceedings. and substance. But we know when you want to see them The hitch: Agudat Israel the difference. in the morning, and too busy wants the Poalei group not Which is more than our to see you when you come in to celebrate Israel's inde­ President knows. Or pretends Flashbacks the afternoon." The pendence day (Yom Ha- to know. commentaries he wrote on Atzmaut) or Jerusalem Day The Supreme Court de­ the Bible are concise and (Yom Ha-Yerushalyim). clared that burning the flag relatively unemotional and in political protest was pro­ Immigrants have reasons here and there he throws The campers tected by the First Amend­ doubts on the divine origin ment. With scarce a mo­ of Scripture, which gave There's a poignant photo ment's hesitation, George By RABBI A. P. BLOCH in the Forward: It's of 18 Is­ him the reputation of being Bush wrapped himself once Ca. 538 BCE — The first tral land (Gen. 48:21). Ezra, one of the earliest in the so- raeli youngsters, children of Israeli pilots who died in again in the flag. Jewish Babylonian immi­ too, stated that the immi­ called school of higher crit­ In the words of one come­ grants arrived in Jerusalem. grants "returned" to Jerusa­ icism. the defense of their country. The 18 are being entertained dian, it was deja vu all over The Bible called these lem. Ibn Ezra was praised by again. immigrants olim, "ascen­ The term "returnees" is a Maimonides and is the sub­ this summer at Camp Har- Instead of maligning more appropriate designa­ ject of a familiar Robert lam, in the Poconos, under Michael Dukakis, this time tion of Jews who settle in Is­ Browning poem, "Rabbi ben the auspices of the Union of he set out to do battle osten­ rael (in Hebrew, shavim) Ezra." How he man­ American Hebrew Congrega­ sibly with the Supreme because of its inherent ideo­ aged to turn out so much lit­ tions. Court, but actually with the logical connotation. A person erature whilst in continuous Rabbi Samuel Silver may Democratic Party, and — of who returns home after a motion baffles the biogra­ be reached at 2475 West At­ course — any loose liberals prolonged absence is ani­ phers. He spent time in lantic Ave., Delray Beach, Fla. who might still be left. mated by nostalgic ecstasy France, Italy, England, and 33445. Now for a touch of real­ and joy. That indeed was ity. the state of mind of most If some nut bums the flag Jews who returned to Erctz our country is none the Yisroel from their exile in Luria weaker. If the President of ders" (Ezra 1:2). One had to the diaspora. the United States starts ascend the Judean mountains Returnees of all periods Continued from page 5 under a microscope, but be­ chopping away at the First to reach Jerusalem. This came out of a variety of mo­ pits because the ultimate cause getting the job done Amendment everybody is designation has been re­ tivations. To religious Jews questions are unanswerable. would give me pleasure. But the weaker. tained in modern Hebrew. Israel was the gateway to God willing, I hope to not this afternoon. I'll wait I know of no one in favor On the other hand, Jacob heaven. The restoration of a finish my masterpiece, not until the Santa Ana/diam- of burning the flag. Nobody spoke of the "return" of his viable Jewish community in because I want to put my life sin/sharav blows over. that I know approves. Nei­ descendants to their ances­ Continued on page 13 July 12,1989 Page National 10 > i BM1MM

Whose responsibility? Zionist Organization survives, limping There is something illogical about the argument that Soviet Jews should go to Israel because that country needs them. The Jewish State was created to meet the needs of By SAMSON KRUPNICK Jews v/ho are homeless, or who seek a Jewish environment, and not the other way around. Thus, Israel for its part has The recently held sessions ish Agency resources for ment, priority for treatment of the Jewish Agency for Is­ economic independence and and education for children in an obligation to succor Jews seeking a home. rael Executive and the fol­ communal enhancement." the Diaspora in Latin Israel, together with the Jewish Agency, the world lowing gathering of its As­ All this, possibly some of America and in Israel, and Zionist movement and secure Jewish communities every­ sembly were held under a it undoubtedly wishful the expansion of the Project where have been expanding large sums and exerting inten­ thinking not unusual in the Renewal Model for Diaspora sive efforts to meet the needs of the new immigrants, trans­ port them and see to their integration into the economic and adoption of resolutions, does leadership involvement so certainly not sound like an social life of Israel, but the question arises: How far does successful in the past. The that responsibility go? organization about to fold up Assembly unabashedly crit­ its tent and silently fade The question becomes a practical one in the case, for ex­ icized its own operations ample, of 350 Jewish families from Argentina who were away. Moreover, the Agency and that of the Government, several years ago assisted in their aliyah to Israel. Failing considered and ratified a wherein "...grave damage to adjust, perhaps because they had a place they could budget for fiscal year April has been done to the olim easily return to, they left Israel and did indeed go back to 1, 1989, to March 31, 1990, in community both abroad and Argentina. Now, with the revised situation in that country, the respectable amount of in Israel as a result of the they have changed their minds, and have applied for as­ $360,000,000, approving in confusion created by the ap­ sistance in making aliyah once again. The reserved offi­ addition an appropriation of parent inability of either cial reaction thus far has been to deny them help on the cloud of uncertainty as to "up to $30,500,000 ... from the Government or the Jew­ grounds that the limited resources must be used to help the future of both the Agen­ the proceeds of the project ish Agency to take responsi­ others. cy and the World Zionist renewal campaign to be ex­ bility for the totality of kl- At the American Jewish Congress Dialogue in Jerusalem Organization. Pessimism pended ... in accordance itah (absorption) responsi­ last year a similar moral problem was raised with regard predominated, as it has for with existing procedures." bility in the foreseeable fu­ to Jewish communities which had not left danger areas the last decade or more as To provide for unforeseen ture." when the going was good. The case was cited of the small the WZO functions and bud­ eventualities, the Board of It was therefore resolved Jewish community in the British colony of Aden. Israeli gets were continually and emissaries begged them to get out while they could, but methodically proscribed and Foremost in the minds of all present their smug reply was that they were in good economic cir­ as the Agency, and/or the cumstances, and if there should indeed be danger, would Government of Israel moved and alt in the State of Israel as well as Continued on page 14 in on the areas of aliyah, absorption, education and most Jews abroad were the highly pub­ youth outreach program.s There were recommendations licized reports of a mass exodus of Jews that there be a merger be­ For reliable and qualified cantors for (§ tween the Jewish Agency from the Soviet Union of over 50,000 to IHigh Holidays and Yearly positions i -• and the World Zionist Or­ ganization, or the elimina­ 75,000 this year and annually in the ’Contact Cantorial Representative tion of one or the other, .Edward Smith • 718 / 934-W11 preferably the World Zion­ coming decade. Generally such news is j '750 tbmecrest Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11235 ist Organization, held by kept under cover for fear of Arab some as superfluous after the creation of the Jewish State. counter pressure on the Soviets or the In the end the delegates resolved, after long and bit­ possible embarrassment of Soviet au­ ter arguments, to take a pos­ iiiiiMnaiw itive and decisive course thorities, but apparently both the "...to enhance the partner­ ship” among the Jewish United States and Israel have decided to F&i up, to 25 wo^dU Agency and its various com­ ponents — the United Israel publicize the matter far and wide in One insertion...... $22 Appeal-Kercn Hayesod and Two insertions...... $40 the World Zionist Organi­ order to ensure the fulfillment of a Three insertions...... $55 zation based on greater effi­ Four insertions...... $65 ciency in the structure and Soviet commitment to the United Additional words: 75C each, per insertion operation of the various All advertisements must be accompanied by payment. If a partners; greater financial States in a possible exchange for other box number is desired, add $3 for each insertion. independence for World Box numbers are 2 words. Zionist Organization opera­ diplomatic yields. ^ / tions; and equal representa­ THE JEWISH POST & OPINION tion for the WZO and for P.0. Box 449097. Indianapolis. IN 46202 • 317 927-7800 the UIA-KH in all Jewish Agency governing bodies and Governors was authorized "that the proposed transfer commissions. "...to increase, reduce, of klitah responsibility from the Agency to the Govern­ positions open Center, 4099 Pine Island Rd., Sun­ To implement this pro­ change and amend the bud­ rise, FL 33351. gram, a special committee, get during the course of the ment be reviewed, and that "based on parity," is to bring 1989-1990 fiscal year as cir­ the Agency move ahead RABBI NEEDED — (or 160-member positions wanted cumstances may necessitate." with its operations and re­ Conservative synagogue in upstate in practical recommenda­ NY. Submit resume: Search Commit­ tions "no later than Febru­ As in the past, but with a sponsibilities during this re­ view." A coordinating body tee. Congregation Shaaray Tefila. 68 RABBI — ordained, advanced uni­ ary 1990." In addition, the bit greater emphasis on an­ Bay St., Glen Falls. NY 12801. versity degrees, versed in every sec­ ticipation of possible emer­ was recommended involving tion of a congregation, is interested in Jewish Agency resolved fur­ the Government, the Jewish ther to strengthen the work gencies hopefully anticipat­ THE SMALL JEWISH COMMUNITY a full or part time challenging pulpit Agency, olim organizations, of Barbados, Wt, would welcome the and staff of the Long Range ed, of a mass aliyah from Box 6114, The Jewish Post, PO Box voluntary organizations and services uf a learned man, cantor or 449097, Indianapolis. IN 46202, or Strategic Planning Commit­ the Soviet Union and Ar­ gentina, resolutions were local authorities vto deal retired rabbi, November thru April or 305-538-7811, ext 169. tee to help chart future effectively with the current year round. Please writs to Mr. M. work. The objective is to passed emphasizing the ne­ Oran, PO Box 651C, Barbados. Wl, or RABBI-CANTOR — Experienced, cessity of streamlining arrival of thousands of call B. Lewkwoitz, 609-484-1600. with Torah Reading and Shofar provide areas of service olim." Blowing Skills, seeks yearly or High through regional planning in aliyah, absorption, housing, CANTOR — Conservative Congre­ Holy Day position. Box 6113, The job opportunities, education, Foremost in the minds of gation, Full-time position. Send re­ Jewish Post, P.O. Box 449097, order to create "oppor­ sume and tape to: Sunrise Jewish Indianapolis, IN 46202. tunities through initial Jew­ youth aliyah, rural settle­ Continued on page 14 July 12,1989 Page National 11 '> -

A woman’s manifesto

June is the month of weddings, graduations and the By MIRIAM L. ZIMMERMAN American Friends of the Hebrew U. Sports Dinner that annu­ Germany was the scene of for them, were sold into But unlike rival political ally recalls the Israeli 11 Olympic stars who were cut down by my first experience of wo­ prostitution. These women, parties. Orthodox and Re­ Arab terrorism at the 1972 Olympics in Germany. Howard men's status in traditional mostly from Eastern Europe, form Jewish leaders must Cosell, media sports commentator who was in Germany at Judaism. If it had been New wound up in America, recognize they are part of an that sorrowful hour covering the games, recalls it here each York, perhaps I wouldn't Turkey and other parts of organic, larger, whole — the year, and though most of us know it by heart, the pathos is the Middle East. Stories Jewish people. For Reform to still there, the sorrow never diminishes, Israeli athletes stand were told about Jewish pros­ dismiss Orthodox as fanat­ ics, for Orthodox to deny as heroes. The Sports Center at Hebrew U. in Jerusalem is titutes in Constantinople and their Jewish pimps. Reform the authenticity of named after Cosell in tribute to a caring luminary. Both Pappenheim and their Jewishness, are harm­ 1989 saw more than 500 guests stream into the New York Szold were tireless social ful attitudes. Rabbi Yitz Hilton Hotel for the dinner, a shining affair with each table workers. Both responded to Greenberg, husband of prom­ decorated with ornaments of a particular sports game: football and were nourished by the inent Orthodox Jewish fem­ with miniature football and baseball with the midget bat and secular feminist movements inist Blu Greenberg, is cor­ ball; hockey with colorful wall pennants and so on, and on, in their respective countries. rect to insist on communica­ with sports souvenir bags for the children attending with their Yet neither abandoned tra­ tion between our warring parents. ditional Jewish practices. factions. Reading about Szold and But the special treat for the youngsters and the dads, one have reacted so violently. Despite calls for equal par­ ticipation by Jewish women, Pappenheim has given me can reasonably be assured, was the presence of more than 100 But something about being a both decried Reform Judaism insight from an historical nationally famous sports stars who graciously attended and Jew in Germany and being as not the answer for the perspective. I also identi­ told "Damen sitzen ober" gave autographs freely (with no charge — in this area that has emancipation of Jewish wo­ fied with these women's grown to big business.) (women ,sit upstairs) made strengths as organizers and me want to lash out. In men. This year, San Francisco Giant President and GM A1 Rosen, Although I am a Reform speakers. Germany, of all places, I former slugger Orlando Cepeda, National League President Jew by birth and upbringing, In Germany, I'll need to felt an imperative for all Bill White, with U.S. Olympic Committee President Robert I agree that Reform Judaism tap into these women's Jews to pray publicly, H. Helmich were honored for their contributions to education is not the final solution for traits as models to emulate. regardless of gender or ad­ women's emancipation in Ju­ Stereotypes of the Jewish and sportsmanship. herence to tradition. daism. To me. Reform Ju­ American Princess and the U.S. Ambassador Max Kampelman and New York busi­ Germany, thus, for me, daism is a stop-gap measure Jewish mother imposed on ness leader Howard Kaskel were co-chairmen. However, was the scene where my Kampelman was called away on diplomatic duty that very until the Halacha catches me by my culture do not pro­ Jewish feminist consciousness up. VVc are Klal YIsrael, one vide a suitable model .for morning. Cosell presided as toastmaster. was raised. My thoughts community. And we must what I am setting out to do. A very special guest on the dais, not an athlete, was have turned to Germany re­ have one set of laws for our 3ASF, a German multi­ cently because next week 1 Donald Trump, new owner of the Plaza Hotel, owner of community. national corporation, is at­ will be there once again. Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue and most recently acquirer of Unfortunately, it will be tempting to build a toxic Gcrmanv was also the Trump Airlines, formerly Eastern. Well, the big news is that more difficult for those re­ waste facility in my home Trump is making a visit to Israel to advise how to turn its scene of the genesis of Re­ sponsible for Halacha to town of Terre Haute, Ind. A "economy into profits and/or set up some new Trump estab­ form Judaism. The 1846 implement the changes that small group of community Breslau Conference called Reform already practices. people are going to Lud- lishments in the Jewish State. This night he could only praise for full equality of men and Yet such change is in­ wigshafen, near Frankfort, the Hebrew U. and its work in educating young scholars. He women in all areas of reli­ evitable with time; indeed, to speak out against this was delighted that the funds raised at the affair go into a spe­ gion. The irony is that to­ cial scholarship fund. many changes, such as mixed factory at the annual day there are very few Re­ seating for men and women, shareholder's meeting. Another top guest was A Bartlett Giamatri, commissioner form synagogues in Germany; are quietly occurring in Or­ 1 have been invited to be of baseball, who was himself honored here several vears ago most are traditional. It is in thodox communities today. part of this contingent. Al­ the United States where while still the president of Yale. But there will be resistance though I have taught public Reform Judaism has thrived. Among the glittering sports world figures present: Hank by virtue of the fact that speaking for 15 years and Two early Jewish femi­ Aaron, Mark Breland, Gary Brokaw, Rick Carey, Diane Reform is already doing it. have specialized in helping nists, one in Germany and Dixon, Manny Fernandez, Ron Greschner, Bowie Kuhn, Pe­ This resistance between people overcome stage one in the U.S., have amaz­ ter Lewison, Rusty Staub, George Steinbrermer, Gina Till- rivals is more easily seen in fright, I find that preparing ingly similar parallels in political parties. For exam­ for a speech in German to an man-Hemphill, Wesley Walker, and Dick Williams. their lives. Both came from ple, the political platform audience of 3,000 German traditional, religiously ob­ of the Communist Party gentiles has resulted in a servant homes. Both called some 60 years ago was very A July 2 wedding saw Rabbi Amy B. Ehrlich, an assistant for the equality of men and monumental case of stage similar to the political fright. At last I can truly rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in New York, and Dr. Joseph J. women in religious activity. platform of the Republican Yet both remained observant empathize with my stu­ Fins, a senior resident in internal medicine at New York Hos- Party today. It took the Re- dents. Wish me luck. Jews. pital-Comell Medical Center, tie the knot with the bride's publicansblic 60 years to catch Miriam Zimmerman can boss. Rabbi Ronald B. Sobel, assisted by Rosette Barron Both women founded na­ up, all the while denouncing tional Jewish women's orga­ be reached at 3927 Kingridge Haim and Cantor Howard Nevison, conducting. Communist ideology. Dr., San Mateo, CA 94403. The bride, who was ordained by the Hebrew Union Col- nizations. Henrietta Szold of Baltimore, most of us re­ lege-Jewish Institute of Religion, is the daughter of Mr. and member, is the founder of Soviet Jewry drive is moving slowly Mrs. Carl F. Ehrlich of West Hempstead, L.I., and Boca Raton, Hadassah. Most of us Fla. The groom's parents are Mr. and Mrs. Herman E. Fins of NEW YORK — The cam­ but Marvin Lender, national probably don't know Bertha paign to raise $75 million by chairman, said he is Rockville Centre, LI, New York. Pappcnheim, born in Vienna, the UJA for resettlement of "excited" by results so far. A founder of the Juedische Soviet Jewry has not total of $31.4 million has Frauenbund. Pappenheim reached the half way mark. been pledged. Look who promoted tourism to Israel! strove to alleviate discrimi­ natory conditions of Euro­ Arad says solidarity lacking pean Jewish women. TOKYO — While Japan lished an Israel travel Her organization was WASHINGTON — The that in the last two weeks has been widely accused in brochure aimed at female originally founded to combat American Jewish community he spoke to groups in Hous­ Jewish circles of anti- secretaries, the nation's Jewish women's participa­ was blamed by Israel's Am­ ton, Los Angeles and New Semitism, the Japan Travel largest tourist group, and at tion in the white slavery bassador to the U.S., Moshe York and "people came to Bureau is promoting tourism those who might be inter­ market. Superfluous female Arad, for not rallying public me and told me they were to Israel with a $500,000 ested—‘~J in TIsrael's-— diamondA>- children, whose tradi­ opinion behind Israel’s unaware" of Israel's propos­ budget. The Bureau has pub- market, the world's largest. tional families had no use peace initiative. He said als. Juty 12,1989’Page NatiokitlZ Illness teaches — count your blessings

By ARLENE G. PECK Those who have been read­ cholesterol level of a teenager. job...whatever it is that is you enter the room and good­ mortality, I really believe now, ing me for any length of time "It wasn't fair!" Well, there making them crazy. When the bye when you leave. And, allows you to draw from an are by now aware that 1 have are four words that I have long question is asked, "What hap­ look them in the eye when you inner strength that you didn't taken out of my vocabulary... pened to you the year before? speak to them. know you had. fair, equitable, ought and it was amazing how many had Thank g-d, in my case it Now, I think that it's a duty should. 'Cause life sure isn't had a traumatic event preced­ wasn't as serious as it could to use it as a blessing and give fair, equitable or, the way it ing their illness. have been. But, facing all the back what was given. oughta be or should be! Inci­ More and more the doctors fears and challenges of your dentally, my friend's husband are learning that it's not a good is also one of the most laid- patient who is a cooperative back and easy going men I've and passive victim. Malignant ever met. I would make bet patients had a better chance Bloch that he is rarely, if ever, eaten when they had fire in them Continued from page 10 of mystics and messianists to up with negative emotions than when they were being the land of the Bible was that city. such as helplessness or anger. "good" by being willing to go always a primary goal. The search for a place of True, sometimes biology along with whatever had been That was uppermost in the refuge brought thousands of begin to live it. The women overtakes psychology, but ordered for them. That's minds of the Babylonian ex­ Spanish Jews to Palestine who won't buy themselves when serious illness strikes, where control comes in. When iles as well as the early after their expulsion in 1492. that special gift because they the difference in conquering it you learn to turn situations to Zionist settlers who came The same factor triggered are waiting for some man to can be in the attitude in which advantage, the first step in from Russia. the early aliyahs from Rus­ buy it for them. Or, maybe it's handled. How much better cleansing the system is done. The revitalization of a sia and the flood of refugees stagnant Palestinian Jewish in the Hitler era. putting off that vacation until community motivated the Disillusionment moved the next year because the time departure of Ezra in 456 BCE some people to end their just isn't right. You know, the , True, sometimes biology overtakes and the departure of Obedi- lives in a Palestinian re­ ones who si t on the sidelines of ah Bertnoro from Italy treat. Such was the case of life. Why waste valuable years psychology, but when serious illness nearly 2,000 years later (in Damcion Bally, a leader of wishing your life away? 1488). the Sephardic community of Singles groups call me in to strikes, the difference in conquering it A romantic love of Zion Bucharest and a Rumanian talk to them about single life. and a yearning to hug its ru­ patriot. He secretly joined in They are usually surprised can be in the attitude in which it's ins inspired the illustrious 1848 the Rumanian revolu­ tionary movement which when I tell them, this is it folks. poet, Judah Halevi, to leave handled. How much better to feel that, Spain for Jerusalem (ca. advocated Rumanian inde­ Time spent, not to be looked 1140). The same was true of pendence. When the revolu­ upon as singles life, but instead of waiting to die, you are deter­ the members of the Mourners tion failed he was instru­ life...period. of Zion, who risked their mental in saving the lives of I wonder how many begin mined to live. / lives for the privilege of some of its leaders. When to live as soon as they think kissing the Western Wall. these leaders triumphed in that they are going to die? I The academic preemi­ 1866, they instituted a reign know that, although I thought to feel that, instead of waiting Looking inside yourself and nence of Palestinian acade­ of oppression and treated I lived life to the fullest, it took to die, you are determined to cleaning out the anger and mies in the Tannaic period Bally with disdain. Bitter­ a biopsy and a couple months live. And, it's a very scary anxiety is vital. (ca. 50 BCE-200 CE) at­ ly disillusioned, he moved thing to say you want to live to Working in group situ- tracted many scholars. The in 1852 to Jerusalem to find of fear to make some drastic solace in a rediscovery of 100. It takes courage. It's even ations helps to clear out your establishment of a Kabbal­ changes in my way of think­ his roots. a threat to admit that. Most head in order to workout your ah center in Safed in the ing. I've long said that attitude 16th century brought droves is the key...to everything. people will say that they want problems. Everyone has the Recently, 1 had a chance to to live, but only if it's in good power to get his or her life hear Dr. Bcmie Seigle, the Yale health. It's interesting though under control. Think about it. graduate who went from the how people are caring and Would you want to be around operating room to another nice to you when you are sick. you? kind of healing, and has writ­ Think about it. Does the work Interestingly enough. Dr. Neusner ten the best seller, "Peace, force give sick days or well Seigle said something which I Continued from page 7 pluralistic culture, religion, Love and Healing." Also, Dr. days? have long thought. That being Christian Roman empire ab­ and society dictated public Harold Benjimen, founder of If you ask people to de­ that first-year med students rogated many of them. But the policy for long centuries. Until the Wellness Center, where scribe their disease they don't should be taught to experi­ basic policy of accommodat­ the French revolution — so such famous cancer victims as usually tell you about their ence the same terror that a ing important difference — what is there to celebrate? Gilda Radner have gone to physical ailment. Not at first. potential cancer victim feels even at the price of subordi­ Contrast the accommoda­ find inner peace. They spoke But, they will tell you about upon finding, ""We've found nated status — remained firm tion, even tolerance, of genu­ about how you feel emotion­ something that is eating them something and need more for the whole of Western his­ ine difference characteristic of ally will influence your im­ up. What is their deep source tests." Maybe they could be tory to 1789. the great empires before the mune system. of aggravation? Stress is the told that their blood test re­ And through the Near and French revolution and the True, some people have real problem for all of us. The sults were positive. Then, later Middle East and North Africa pseudo-liberalism of a toler­ such strong immune systems solution isavoiding that nega­ they could find out that it was from ancient times to the ad­ ance that denied important that nothing happens to them. tive emotion by getting con­ all just a mix up. Maybe then vent of the nation state, the difference characteristic of the A friend recently bemoaned trol cf your life. Stressful prob­ they could grow into doctors essentials of the tolerant atti­ French revolution and you the fact to me that although lems don't suddenly go away. with the needed empathy. tude that favored — whether will answer Nothing to cele­ she watched her diet, she Part of life's reality is how And finally, what do pa­ of right or of necessity — a brate, not today! didn't smoke or drink and we meet our problems, the key tients want the most? Accord­ even made the effort to exer­ to emotional stability. Some ing to a recent survey they cise, her cholesterol level had save their lives by getting to want to be treated like people. not gone down as she ex­ the core of what's bothering They want you to knock on the SUBSCRIBE pected. Her husband on the them. Sometime it's getting door before you enter and al­ other hand who ateevery kind the divorce..."Harry, you're low them to talk first. They To The Jewish Rost) of garbage possible, had the killing me." They quit the want you to say hello when July 12,1989 Page National 13 Metaphor and Memory Reviewed by RABBI FRANK ROSENTHAL Metaphor and Memo­ by the author who had ry: Essays by Cynthia completed his last Lager The Warsaw Ghetto Ozick, Alfred A. Knopf, manuscript, whose "heart New York, N.Y., 1989, 283 burned out, there was not Reviewed by RABBI RICHARD POURER pp. more to tell." In another es­ This volume contains say, also written in beauti­ The Warsaw Ghetto: A zero in on the abominable Nazis, still took time out from some 30 essays and book re­ ful prose, Ozick recreates Christian's Testimony by Wla- psychological twists and their war effort to denounce, views — most of the reviews Sholem Aleichcm's Revolu­ dislaw Bartoszewski. turns inflicted upon Jews by hunt, and capture Jews for the are essays that a Montaigne tion: he made Yiddish the This is a short but impor­ the Nazis in the ghetto, but German foe. The author does would have appreciated — literary center of a civiliza­ tant book in the ever-growing forget that the Poles were also mention these scoundrels, but by Cynthia Ozick, a New tion that had heretofore re­ body of literature about the given this maltreatment. The only in passing. He admits York-bom-and-educated writ­ garded Hebrew as its lan­ Warsaw Ghetto. Bar­ emotional stress of life in that that they were quite a prob­ er. She brings a passionate guage of learning and liter­ toszewski, a devout Christian era is well set forth. This is a lem, and that his organization intelligence, expressed i n ature as much as of worship. honored by the State of Israel good picture of another side of set about to record and punish masterful language, to her This reviewer regards her as a righteous Gentile for his the ghetto story, giving us a such "confidence men," as he task. 25-page commentary on the efforts on behalf of the Jews of broader view of Warsaw life calls them. S. Y. Agnon, Sholem Ale- 85 sentences of Ruth as the Warsaw during the dark days and death under Nazi rule. Criticizing aspects of this ichem, Saul Bellow, Prime best interpretation of this Levi, Bialik and the Book small book, an interpreta­ of the Second World War, This book does have its book in no way diminishes the of Ruth are the subjects of tion that enlightens us to presents his recollections of shortcomings, however. In­ life-saving work that Bar­ some of these essays. She perceive Jewish identity and that fateful time. tent upon producing his toszewski and so many others sees Primo Levi's latest culture in our post-enlight­ The perspective of the Christian view, Bartoszewski performed during the ghetto book. The Damned and the enment world. ghetto years from the non- gives us the impression that years. He is a righteous and Saved, a sort of suicide note Jewish side is enlightening. an overwhelming segment of brave man who risked his life The author's style is very the Polish populace was en­ to act against unspeakable evil terse, sparing us many stan­ gaged in rescue and resistance in his time. What I point out Krupnick dard textbook details avail­ efforts, and that the only thing are suppositions or near­ Continued from page 11 many insist will be raised to able in any general history. that prevented good Poles omissions from an otherwise all present and all in the take full advantage of this Instead, he focuses on obser­ from saving all of their Jewish excellent historical study. The State of Israel as well as hopefully God-sent opportu­ vations, feelings, and actions brethren was the infernal Nazi book's strength and weakness most Jews abroad were the nity to solve many problems as one on the outside looking war machine and the daily lies in the fact that it is admit­ highly publicized reports of and to save Jews otherwise in. It is quite a different view­ rigors of total war. In fact, the tedly written from a particu- a mass exodus of Jews from lost to assimilation in the point, replete with plusses religious community of Po­ larist perspective — a the Soviet Union of over Soviet Union or in other di­ and minuses. land did righteous work in Christian's view of events in 50,000 to 75,000 this year aspora countries, such as the and annually in the coming On the positive side, we are this area. The apathy, at best, which he participated. As United States, Canada, long as we recognize this, decade. Generally such news Sweden, etc. The Jewish reminded that the Poles were of the public at large, how­ is kept under cover for fear Bartoszewski's» commentary Agency called attention to accorded their share of abuse ever, is not mentioned. of Arab counter pressure on its "opportunity in its 60th by the Nazis during the occu­ Reading any standard Jew is invaluable. We could not get the Soviets or the possible year of operations, to enable pation of Warsaw. As Jews, ish history of the ghetto, we this picture from a Jewish embarrassment of Soviet au­ the greatest migration of we sometimes focus on our see that the Polish community portrayal. With the blessing of thorities, but apparently Jews to Israel in recent his­ own tsuris, and almost forget on the "Aryan" side could not different perspective, how­ both the United States and tory," and therefore calls that there was a war going on always be trusted, and that the ever, comes the obverse side Israel have decided to pub­ upon all groups and organi­ out there, as well. We are arming of the ghetto fighters of the coin — the shortcom­ licize the matter far and zations "in this historic reminded that the Germans by the Polish resistance was ings that I have outlined wide in ord.er to ensure the hour to bind themselves to were wont to shoot whole often accomplished at above. A Christian's Testimony fulfillment of a Soviet com­ the primacy of the settle­ families when even one should broaden our view of mitment to the United ment in Israel of the Jews of enormous expense and often States in a possible ex­ member was found hiding or the Soviet Union." Relying grudgingly. This is not the the Warsaw Ghetto, and change for other diplomatic helping Jews in any small way should supplement our own fully upon the Jewish people altruistic picture that Bar­ yields. Whatever the case everywhere to rise as one whatsoever. We see the tur­ toszewski paints. Finally, basic knowledge with its fresh may be, this electrifying and respond to the call, the moil that the Nazi "head there is the sore subject of and indispensable outlooks. Assembly concluded with games" produced among Pole news can change the entire Poles who, while opposing the outlook for Israel's economic, this quote from Chronicles: and Jew alike. Sometimes, we security and political condi­ "...And what one nation in tion vis a vis the so-called the earth is like they peo­ deteriorating relationship ple in Israel." between Arab population in­ We can do it if we will creases and that of ours. it. MYSTERY I'EKMIS The initial costs of ab­ Samson Krupnick may be sorption, may run as high as reached at 22 Pinsker, Jeru­ $300-$400 million, which salem 92228, Israel. !)& yCu kshsCM \m/&C4 U/bc?

The Mystery Person has taken an ' interest in Jewish journalism. * ^ Postmark Israel The Mystery Person has been chairman ol \ / his community's Jewish Hospital, and on the \ i Continued from page 11 board of Its leading bank, the Council of » Jewry would come to their help. Soon thereafter the colony Christians and Jews and chairman of the board of * J was swept into the fold of South Yemen, and their fate was the United Israel Appeal. — & sealed. The Mystery Person Is Interested In baseball. *— ^ What about the fate of the Jews of Iran who, even after The Mystery Person was honorary chairman and director ol Supersol, the Israeli grocery chain.' Khomeini came to power, insisted they were in no danger? One's heart must bleed for the Jews of Syria, who are in a continuing desperate plight, but again and again there were opportunities for them to leave, which they did not grasp. The winner of the Post and Opinion Mystery Person will receive a copy of Cecil Roth's To be sure, many German Jews reacted in similar fashion A Short History of the Jewish People, with 169 illustrations, published by Hartmore House. during the early years of the Nazi regime. Each week an additional clue to a well-known Jewish personality will be given. Responses What degree of responsibility for the fate of menaced must be made by mail. The first entry received wins. Jewish communities is borne by Israel and world Jewry, if these endangered Jews themselves refuse to move, confident that when need arises, they will be bailed out at the last moment? — C. A. July 12,1989 Page National 14 Chinese Religions Reviewed by RABBI ISRAEL ZOBERMAN Christianity and Chinese ure to fully acknowledge the Religions by Hans Kung and equal standing of the Chinese Julia Ching. New York: Dou­ religions by finally accepting Empire of Their Own bleday, 1989.309 pp. $21.95. them as Uie "third great river A remarkably creati ve col­ system," on par with the other Reviewed by RABBI DAVID HARTLEY MARK laboration between two great two. Neal Gabler, An Empire of however, was a formidable scholarship with wit, and he scholars leads to the present Surely, the rising influence Their Own: How the Jews challenge in the early part of moves the reader through the fascinating study, providing a and impact of contemporary Invented Hollywood. NY: this century when nativism heady years beginning with unique and essential contribu­ China and East Asia on world Crown Publishers, 1988. 502 and xenophobia were ram­ the early 1900's and culminat­ tion to the science and art of affairs, and its massive com- pp. $24.95 he pant. Beyond the barricades ing in the "Red Scare" of the religion. Hans Kung, the fa­ pxment of one-fourth of the Aficionados of old-time erected by America's guardi­ early 1950's, the time when the mous and debated Catholic world's px)pulation, require of movies — those hardy souls ans, the Jews saw an America moguls, themselves aging, theologian from West us a commensurate degree of who stay up late nights to of gentility, respectability, lived to see their hand-built Germany's University of attention to its spiritual life watch the gems of the 1930's and status, but they were pro­ studios absorbed by entertain­ Tubingen, and the renowned and legacy. An adequate and '40's ) or program their hibited from entering these ment conglomerates. From Chinese-bom Julia Ching of understanding of the Chinese VCR's to do so) — are often precincts." the studios themselves, Ga­ the University of Toronto, mind and its forces at work bemused by the prominently- Their longing for accep­ bler branches out into other present under one cover a ought not preclude a proper displayed Jewish names that tance translated itself into the aspects of their lives — the vitally enriching dialogue jux- grasp of and appreciation for appear as producers. We may movies they made, an Amer­ Hillcrest Country Club which taposing the religions of the spiritual dynamics affect­ have heard of the legendary ica of equality and acceptance they built to (over) compen­ China with a Christian re­ ing it. As proved by the distin­ movie moguls, those absolute (or all — even Jews. Sb"t out sate for their exclusion from sponse and commentary. In­ guished professors, bound to and hardly benign dictators from WASP respe.- ta *y, the tony gentile clubs; their cluded in the Christian frame­ emerge following a serious who ruled Hollywood ^ (ro'.n banking. Wall Street, love affairs (or principled lack work is limited reference to exposure to and consideration ades ago, but we are u i the white-collar profes- thereof); their rabbis (the Jewish sources. of the rich diversity and long iar with their lives. Nea. sions, they created "an empire showman's showman. Rabbi Ching bn1 iantly re­ history of the Chinese reli­ bier, former co-host (with Jef­ of their own." Edgar Magnin, whose searches the ancient Chinese gious experience is the follow­ frey Lyons) of the PBS series And how did the movies Wilshire Boulevard Temple religion as well as the three ing fruitful conclusion: That Sneak Premews, spent many allow for this creation? Be­ resembled a movie palace, major religious manifesta­ there do exist significant com­ years researching this history cause no one but these vision­ along with the quieter refu­ tions of Confucianism, Tao­ mon and meeting points of of the "Hollywood Jews" — ary Jews took them seriously gee, Mix Nussbaum); their ism and Buddhism, while convergence for the world's Carl Laemmle (Universal), as an entertainment medium, reaction to the Holocaust, Kung reacts to them all out of religions that could serve an Adolph Zukor (Paramount), they still represented un­ morals boards, and anti-Semi­ a Christian context. The urgently needed unifying Louis B. Mayer (Metro- charted territory where one tism. Little of their efforts underlying motivating as­ purpose, along with the pres­ Gold wyn-Mayer), the Warner might either make a fortune or remain today, but they cre­ sumption of the authors is that ence of precious divergences Brothers, and others. Today, lose one's shirt. Starting out on ated a celluloid America that the Chinese religions should that higWight the varied reli­ nothing remains of these self- the East Coast, they eventu­ still represents the way in be treated as seriously as the gious systems. A mutual rec­ made emperors but their ally moved their operations to which we American Jews well-recognized great relig­ ognition by all concerned of names — yet they forged a California whose sunny cli­ view this country: the most ions of Semitic-prophetic ori­ each other's worth and value vision of America that re­ mate allowed for outdoor pic­ benevolent £galut (exile) of gin (Judaism, Christiani ty and would help shape a more real­ mains unique. ture-making nearly all year. all. Islam) on the one hand and istic appraisal of one's own Gablcr's research revealed Gabler's style combines. those of Indian-mystic origin faith as well as assist the reali­ that these Hollywood pio­ (Hinduism and Buddhism) on zation of the overarching neers "were a remarkably the other hand. A pleading goals of a closer, more inti­ homogeneous group with call and a convincing argu­ mately bound world commu­ remarkably similar childhood ment are made to rectify the nity and a safer world. experiences." All were immi­ wrong of the dangerous fail­ grants from Europe — Ger­ many, Hungary, Poland — Psalms Commentary and all, with the exception of Horse Trading Zukor, had fathers who were Reviewed by HERBERT LEVINE luftmenschen — worldly fail­ Psalms 1-59: A Commentary. By references within the Psalms Reviewed by SANFORD PINSKER ures who forced their sons to Hans-Joachim Kraus. Trans, by themselves. His categories Horse-Trading and Ecstasy. By Unlike most New York in- go out and work while still at a Hilton C. Osxoald. Minneapolis: are, he argues, more authenti­ Barbara Probst Solomon. tellectuals, Solomon knows young age. These tyros were Augsburg Publishing, 1988. cally Hebraic: tehila, songs of Berkeley, CA: North Point Press, about life west of the Hudson, infused with ambition bom of Students of the Psalms praise; tefila, songs of prayer; 1989.255 pp. $18.95. and while she moves easily paternal hatred, and, starting who have already had signifi­ maasei la-melech, royal psalms; For more than three dec­ among the au courant, she out first in retail (that age-old cant exposure to academic chachmot, didactic poetry, and ades Solomon has enlivened brings a refreshing sense of bastion of Jewish commerce biblical criticism will be inter­ festival pjsalms and liturgies. the pages of magazines such the unpredictable to whatever until fairly recently), after­ ested in this translation of He rejects views of the Psalms as the New York Review of she writes about. The collec­ wards entered the cinema Volume I of a two-volume as either exclusively public or Books, Harper's, Dissent, Par­ tion includes interviews with business at a time when most work by a noted German private; he imagines individu­ tisan Review, the New Repub­ the likes of Norman Mailer Americans thought of movies scholar. This fifth edition of als bringing their experiences lic — as well as Sp>ain's Cam­ and Lewis Mumford, consid- as a parlor toy that could never the commentary, the first to be of distress and thanksgiving bio 16 (their equivalent of erationsof the Jean Harris trial amount to anything. translated into English, fea­ to the priests and temple sing­ Time) — with her brand of and the Ginny Foat Case, and These men single- tures a 100-page introduction ers, who then used them to personal, radically indepiend- some of the best commentary mindedly erased any trace of in addition to psalm-by-psalm compose prayer-p>oems ac­ ent journalism. Horse-Trad­ on Marguerite Duras avail­ their paternal connection — discussion. cording to the formulas of the ing and Ecstasy is a collection able in English. In a bit of Mayer went so far as to appro­ Kraus departs from the extant liturgy, making them of her best pieces, ranging pique Harold Rosenberg once priate a new birth date for dassificatory scheme of Her­ available for future worship>- from a 1959 retrospective labeled the New York scene a himself, the star-spangled mann Gunkel that has domi­ pers. about Kerouac's On the Road "herd of independent minds." Fourth of July — and "em­ nated Psalms scholarship in Like most Protestant bibli­ that tsk-tsked its praisers and I suspect he would not have barked on an assimilation so the 20th century. Rather than cal scholars, Kraus does not that called the Beat counted Barbara Probst Solo­ ruthless and complete that establishing genre types by draw on rabbinic exegesis. Generation's fair-haired boy mon in their number. they cut their lives to the pat­ their hypothetical life settings, While he willingly acknowl­ — correctly, in my view — Granted, time may have tern of American respectabil­ such as laments of the individ­ edges the this-worldly focus "the perfect postwar con­ added a dusty p>afina to some ity as they interpreted it. To ual or community or thanks­ of most psalms, he sees their sumer" to a series of riveting of the essays, but it has not enter America and be ac­ giving songsof theindividual, ultimate theological fulfill­ articles on the recent Klaus entirely taken off their sharp, cepted there as Americans, Kraus is guided by the generic ment in the New Testament. Barbie trial in France. insightful edges. July 12,1989 Page National IS Notes on the Maccabiah and others

By SHEL WALLMAN In news compiled just Pete Glikshtern of San Steve Pollock, a junior at prior to the start of the XIII Francisco finished #2 at the Bentley College from We­ World Maccabiah Games, High School Judo Champi­ ston, Mass., has been named The Hungarian Maccabiah onships. Jon Bemheimer, a the Northeast-10 Conference team announced that their junior at Harvard Univer­ player of the year. sity, was a first-team, All- America, in squash. Jan Shorts Sosnick of SUNY at New Tracy Nelson, a senior Palt from Newburgh, N.Y., goalie at the University of was the 60K weightlifting Virginia from Plymouth champion at the 1989 Meeting, Pa., was named an NCAA championships. All-America, MVP of the North-South All-Star game In tennis and to the National In a base line battle be­ Women's lacrosse squad. tween the state's two top Robin Selbst, a junior at players, Terry London, a Washington H.S., was senior at Weston (Mass.) named All-Philadelphia squad will be led by High School, completed an Public Schools, Ist-team, in Thomas Deutsch, a member undefeated season by win­ softball and field hockey. of the 1988 Hungarian ning the state high school Amy Citrenbaum, a senior Olympic team and the 1988 tennis singles finals. Adam at Council Rock H.S., was backstroke champion at the Benjamin, also a senior at named All-Philadelphia 1988 U.S. Indoor (SC) Weston H.S., captured the Suburban in softball. Championships. state doubles title with his Roger Ginsberg, a for­ Micha Kagan, 27, of Kib­ partner. Drew Conrad. In mer PGA pro from New York Amos Mansdorf butz Shamir, won the inau­ the girls competition, two City, tied for #24 place at gural Kfar Hammacabiah sophomores fought it out the Syracuse Senior Golf 4th round is their nemesis Triathlon, a curtain-raiser to with Shane Sibley of New­ Tournament. WIMBLEDON - Al­ Mansdorf lost to second- the Maccabiah Games. ton North H.S. capturing Bruce Fleisher knocked though neither Aaron seed Stefan Edberg by 6-4, 6- Ten-Pin Bowling has been the state singles final. in a 15-foot birdie putt on Krickstein or Amos Mansdorf 3, 6-2, and Krickstein made added to the 1988 Mac­ Eight Jewish tennis play­ the first play-off hole to won the Wimbledon tourna­ Boris Becker stretch himself cabiah Games sports menu, ers took part in the Wim­ capture the South Florida ment, the play of both was before downing the Detroit but although it's our most bledon Championships. The PGA Open Championships good enough to bring them to player by 6-4, 6-4. An ex­ popular indoor sport, the eight were Brad Gilbert of at Naples, Fla. the fourth round where they pected first-round defeat U.S. will not be represented. Piedmont, Calif., the #11 The top-seeded doubles both fell to opponents was that of Brad Gilbert. USCSFI officials were dis­ seed who lost in the first team of Sol Hauptman of seeded above them. satisfied with the 6 men/6 round; Aaron Krickstein of Los Angeles and Scott women limit and opted to Gross Pointe, Mich., the #13 Freedman of Venice, Calif., scratch from the competi­ seed, and Amos Mansdorf of won the National Paddle Deli customers choose tion. Israel, the #16 seed, both of doubles Tennis Champi­ Two changes have been whom lost in the third onship at New York City. announced in the make-up of round; Jim Grabb of Tucson, Simon Kases, a Pol­ Jewish all-star team the U.S. Maccabiah team. In who with his partner, ish/Turkish Jew, is a bull­ hoops, Dave Bernsley, a Patrick McEnroe, lost in the fighter currently operating NEW YORK — Hank dox, was not previously transfer to Manhattan Col­ Greenberg and Sandy Koufax thought of as Jewish. Also second round; Jonathan Can­ out of Spain. He hopes to lege from the University of ter of Beverly Hills, who reach the stature of the lead the all-time all-star Rod Carew, who is married Rhode Island has been re­ to a Jewish girl, was known after a fling with a Chris­ great Sidney Franklin of Jewish baseball team, and placed by Steven Cronin, a tian spiritual guru and some Brooklyn, N.Y., who fought the pair also might be in­ to be planning to convert but 6:7 senior (F) at Tufts Uni­ bulls up to the 1950s. cluded in an all-time all- whether or not he did is not in-patient therapy, is reput­ versity from Roslyn edly back to his old self; star American baseball known. Heights, N.Y. Additionally, Help write the Sports Scene. Others nominated by the Elise Burgin of Baltimore, Send your items to Shel team, but not too many of Chris O'Loughlin, a senior Md.; Ronni Reis of Miami; the other Jewish players, customers include Ross at the University of Penn­ Wallman, 70 West 95 St., Baumgarten and Howie Ko- and Amanda Grunfeld of #27G, New York, NY 10025. although perhaps A1 Rosen, sylvania, who took #3 in Great Britain. could make the American plitz, pitchers; Ron the Epee at the 1989 NCAA team. Blomberg, first base; A1 Championships, has been The all-star Jewish team Federoff, second base; Sid added to the fencing team. Juniors compete at Wimbledon was chosen by balloting of Gordon, third base; Johnny In other Maccabiah team customers of the celebrated Kling, shortstop; Art Sham- news, Joel Goldstein, a ju­ JERUSALEM — Israelis Ramon of Spain by 6-7, 7-5, Stage Deli on New York's sky and Cal Abrams, out­ nior from Flint, Mich., and were entered in the junior 6-2. Seventh Avenue. One man field and Joe Ginsberg, Joel Kieman, a sophomore girls and boys Wimbledon In junior boys doubles, selected for the honor, Yan­ catcher, among others. from Palo Alto, Calif., are tournaments and some fared Ohad Weinberg teamed kee outfielder, Elliot Mad­ both two-time All-Americas better than others. Yael Se­ with Jorge Vila of Spain in Badminton at Arizona gal made it to the third and lost in the first round 7- First base — Hank Greenberg — Detroit (1933-47) State. Badminton will be­ round in singles, losing by 6(7-4),7-6(10-8). Ohad bowed Second base — Rod Carew — Minnesota (1967-85) come an official Olympic the close score of 7-5, 7-5 to out also in the second round Shortstop — Andy Cohen — New York Giants (1926-29) sport at the 1992 Summer Meredith McGrath of Mid­ of junior boys singles, losing Third base — A1 Rosen — Cleveland (1947-56) Games. land, Mich. In the second to Todd Woodbridge of Aus­ Outfielders — Cal Abrams — Brooklyn and Cincinnati Jeffrey Agoos, a junior FB round, Yael defeated Silvia tralia by 6-2, 6-1. (1949-56); Elliot Maddox — New York Yankees (1970- at the University of Vir­ 80); Art Shamsky — Mets and Cincinnati (1965-72) ginia from Orlando, Fla., Catcher — Moe Berg — Brooklyn, Chicago White Sox was an NCAA soccer All- (1923-1939) America, while Dan Left-handed pitchers — Ken Holtzman — Chicago Cubs Calichman, a junior FB at (1965-78); Sandy Koufax — L.A. Dodgers (1955-66) Williams College from BUY Right-handed pitchers — Larry Sherry — L.A. Dodgers, Huntington Station, N.Y., Detroit (1958-69); Steve Stone — Chicago, Baltimore was a two-time college (1971-81) division soccer All-America. I ISRAEL BONDS July 12,1989 Page National 16