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VOLUME LXVI, NUMBER 35 AV 2, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1996 35¢ PER COPY Whose Wall ls It, Anyway? Progressive Jews, Women at likely to be undermined or set study in Israel for a year. This back. past Shavuot, the holi day mark the Wall and the Ultra- "I think people underesti ing the giving of the Torah by Orthodox Battle for mate what are the full implica G-d to the Jewish people, a tions of the Israeli elections," group of students gathered un Judaism's Holiest Site warned Rabbi Jerome Davidson, der the starry Jerusalem sky at by Yosef I. Abramowitz executive vice presid ent of the the Kotel plaza for an egalitar "Jerusalem was destroyed congregational wing of the Con ian prayer service. because justice was perverted . serva ti ve movement. " It will "They wanted to pray with people insisted upon the fulfill create a chasm in Israel and a men a nd women together," said ment of the exact law and never schism with the diaspora." Rabbi Robert Golub, executive sought compromise." - Tal Adds Miriam Benson, legal director of Mercaz, the Zionist mud (Baba Batra 30b) li aison for the International arm of the Conservative move Orthodox feminist Blu Committee for Women of the ment, "so they stood all the way Greenberg approached the To Wall: "Since Jerusalem is the in bac k, far from the Kotel and rah resting on the rickety table, eternal capital of the entire Jew the mechitza separating men three feet from the Kotel, the ish people, then the Kotel does and women." Western Wall of the ancient Jew not only belong to the Charedim The mechitza, the partition, ish temple. She took the cloth (ultra-Orthodox). If we let the was erected in 1967aftera group used to wrap the scroll, touched forces of injustice win in Israel, of Reform rabbis from the it to the Hebrew words, and we will all lose." United States tried to conduct then kissed it gently. "Blessed The on-going struggle of a n egalitarian service a t the are You, King of the Universe, Women of the Wa ll to co nduct newly liberated site. The ultra who selected us from all the services at Judaism's holiest site Orthodox community, encour people and gave us His To is a microcosm of the dynami cs aged by Rabbi Yehuda Getz, rah ... " she chanted in Hebrew. in Israeli society that have spear protested, and prevented the headed coercive Orthodox leg American rabbis from conduct JOSEPH SUBOTNIK, SUPER-ACHIEVER, will be spending islation a nd prevented the ing their service. Getz was sub five weeks in Israel this summer at the Weizmann Institute of legitimiza tion of Reform and sequently named by the Minis Science. When women create Conservative Judaism. try of Religion the administra their own congregations, Fai I ure by this sma II tor of the Kotel and held the halachically constituted group position until his death last year. Subotnik Heads for Weizmann the shechina (G-d's - with thousands of support As with any major holiday, presence) is not present ers worldwide - to secure the Ko tel plaza two months ago Joseph Subotnik, of Provi in the five-week program are prayer rights is also a litmus test was filled with tens of thousands dence, joins 17 other hi gh school trips to Israel's most modern and their prayers are of diaspora interest in influenc of worshipers, mostly ultra graduates this summer at the science-based industries and not heard ... instead of ing the Jewish character of Is Orthodox who stream in on foot Weizmann Institute of Science desert field trips. kedusha (holiness) we rael. It also exposes some fun from nearby neighborhoods. As in Rehovot, Israel. Subotnik is the son of Dan damental and disturbing weak the American students prayed, He will spend a month study and Rose Subotnik. He was a have kedesha nesses in American progressive they were harassed and verbally ing at one of the world's fore semi-finalist in the West (prostitutes). Judaism. a bused by some ultra-Orthodox most research centers and par inghouse Science Talent Search Efforts by Women at the Wall men. "Asur. It is forbidden," ticipate in an exclusive program and was a recipient of chemis Rabbi Menashe Klein to pray as a group within the they shouted at the rabbinical of science lectures and labora try and math awards. He was bounds of Jewish law have been students, and interrupted their tory work. also chosen as a National Merit met with violence, ridicule and prayers. A line of police officers Now in its 28th year, the Dr. finalist. A recent graduate of political contempt. After months surrounding the students pre Bessie F. Lawrence International Classical High School, he will "As I began the blessing, I of tension in 1988-89, the Israeli vented any physical attacks. Summer Science Institute brings attend Harvard University in heard yelling from the other Supreme Court ruled that the "As American Judaism in the together an international group the fa ll, concentrating his stud side," said the author of How to women can pray at the Kotel past 30 years embraced the par of talented future scientists. ies in physics and chemistry. Run a Traditional Jewish House silently, without a Torah and ticipation and empowerment of These 71 teen-agers from 18 While at the Weizmann Insti hold. " It came as a real surprise without their prayer shawls women, ultra-Othodoxy be countries (including China, tute, he plans to study particle to me. I couldn' t understand. until a political solution is found. came more extreme and exclu Singapore, Yugoslavia, Colom physics. What was wrong with people The previous Labor Govern sive," said Jonathan Sarna, bia, and Uruguay) wi ll meet The Weizmann Institute is coming to pray together at the ment finally made a recommen Braun Professor of American with the scientists in hopes to one of the world's foremost cen Kotel? I had no idea this would dation this past April: If women Jewish History at Brandeis Uni- do research in fie lds of their in ters of scientific research and blow up into a major political wanted to pray with a Torah, (Continued on Page 15) dividual interest. Also included graduate study. issue." they can do it in Moslem East Greenberg's aliyah at the Jerusalem, outside the Old City. Kotel was the first by a woman, The Supreme Court has re and was undertaken by an Or cently given the Israeli govern Reform Leaders Accuse thodox-leaning group that la ter ment until July 29, 1996 - five became known as Women of days after Tisha B'Av, the day Rabbi of Inciting Violence the Wall (WOW) . commemorating the destruc Eight years later the right of· tions of the Temples - to rec by Debra Nussbaum Cohen to kill Reform Jews much the tated the action by an extremist women to pray co llectively al ommend how to secure the NEW YORK OTA) - Israel's same way the convicted assas 'reli gious' Jew last November," the Western Wall is one of the ri ghts of all Jewish worshippers Sephardi chief rabbi made re sin ofYitzhak Rabin cited justi said Rabbi Shmuel Goldin, chair most volatile and unresolved at the Kotel. If Binyamin marks this week that have been fication in Jewish law for his ofShvil Hazahav,orTheGold en political and reli gious issues fac Netanyahu's government re interpreted as ca lling for the violent act. l'ath. ing world Jewry. With the Or sponse is anything similar to murder of Reform Jews, spark The head of Shvil Hazahav, In a sermon recentl y a t thodox religious parties mar that .of the previous ing a sharp response from the an organization which repre Je rusale m's Tifereth Yerush shalinga record 23 Knesset seats administration's, he wi ll seek leaders of the Reform move sents Orthodox Jews who sup alayim synagogue, Rabbi Eli ahu in the latest Israeli elections - a n extension a nd delay ruling ment. port the peace process, ex Bakshi Doron compared the bib and their recapturing control of on the issue, predicts Benson. They are concerned, sa id pressed similar co ncerns. li ca l figure Zimri to Reform Jews, and praised Pinchas, the man the Ministry of Religious Affairs "It's si mply l~o. ~ol." Rabbi Lennard Thal, vice presi "If what was reported lo have who murdered .linui for having - Orthodox feminists and pro dent of the Union of American been sa id by the rabbi is true, it sexual relation~ with a non-Jew gress1 ve Jews face a new world Rabbinical students from the 1-Iebrew Congrega tions, lhal the co uld be viewed as incitement b h woman. where demands for equality and Conserva ti ve movement's Jew chi ef rabbi's sermon could be similar lo those words which r centadvanct"lmplura li hmare ish Theological Seminary often viewed by someone as license were reported lo have precipi- (Conl1J1u('d llll Pag\'.' l C"i) 2 - THE RHODE ISLAND JEW ISH HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1996 INSIDE THE OCEAN STATE He's One of the 'They' Nature Conservancy Fund-Raiser Scheduled for Books on the Square has Hits 10,000 Acres Mark scheduled aneveningwithSam Meeting Street Beard, one of the people news The Nature Conservancy Horned Rush, and one of the casters mean when they say, purchased a 22.45-acre piece of rarest dragonflies, the Banded Meeting Street By The Bay, a "They say the economy will ... " property in Richmond on June Bog Skimmer, a candidate for fund-raiser for Meeting Street Interna tionally renowned 28. The property, which is lo the endangered species list, with Center /Easter Seal Society of economist, founder and chair cated off Route 138, is an addi its best populations in the world Rhode Island, will be held Sept. man of the National Develop tion to the conservancy's Grass right here in Rhode Island. 6 at 7 p.m. at Linden Place in ment Council, he has been an Pond Preserve, which now to Just as significant is the fact Bristol. advisor to presidents Nixon, tals 125 acres. This most recent that this addition to the Grass The event will feature Max Ford, Carter, and Reagan. land acquisition puts The Na Pond Preserve may help pro well May's new painting "Hap Beard will discuss and sign ture Conservancy over the vide an ecological link between piness," which was created as a copies of his new book, Res tor "10,000 acres protected" mark. the 2,300-acre Carolina Manage tribute to children of Meeting ing Hope in America: The Socia l The property is composed of ment Area and the 1,800-acrede Street School. Security Solution. He has pains a large boggy wetland and sur Coppet Estate which is bei ng Patron tickets at $250 per takingly developed a program rounding wooded upland held in trust for the State of couple include a signed limited he hopes will solve Social Secu buffer. The wetland contains an Rhode Island. The new preserve edition numbered print of ''Hap rity shortfalls threatening the open bog and areas of healthy not onl y is significa nt in its own piness," an entry into a drawing system'ssolvency. He envisions Atlantic white cedar swamp. ri ght, but helps ensure the long for the original painting ($5,000 a quasi-public system which Cranberry growing in the sedge term viability of the whole area value), and li sting in the event offers individuals greater con meadowsupportsa huge popu by linking these larger trac ts. program. trol and incentives to save than lation of Bog Copper butterfly, Additionally, the new pre Tickets at $100 per person or the current system does. Beard whil e the Atlantic white cedar serve may be a good opportu $50 percouple include a limited edition signed print of "Happi will speak on July 25 at7:30 p.m. Sam Beard provides larval food for the nity to provide a link for the at Books on the Square, 471 Hessel's Hairstreak butterfl y. state's North-South Trai l, which ness," and an entry into a draw Angell St. in Wayland Square, gram is free and open to the In addition to being a home is in search of a connector in this ing for the original painting. Providence (331-9097). This pro- public. to the state-endangered butter area. Tickets at $50 per person in fli es, the Grass Pond Preserve For more information on the clude a poster of "Happiness." also provides a habitat for the co nserva ncy, ca ll 331-7110. Guests will also be treated to MicroBusiness Workshops to Start Little Bluebell, the Inundated entertainment, a meeting with M.S. Society Mays, hors d'oeuvres and des Greater Elmwood Neighbor and wi ll continue every Monday serts. hood Services wi ll sponsor a evening through Aug. 19. Romance is Seeks Air Mays, a Rhode Island nati ve series of fr ee MicroBusiness A certification ceremony for and graduate of Rhode Island Training and Peer Lending ses thosecompleting thecoursewill Alive and Well Conditioners School of Design, began paint sions for persons who are cur be held on Aug. 26. Books on the Square will host The Rhode Island Chapter ing 50 years ago. rentlyoperatingor areplanning The program offers free busi an event of special interest to National Multiple Sclerosis So He li vesand paints ina Rhode to start their own home-based ness traini ng in marketing, busi readers and writers of romance ciety is hoping to have new air Island farmhouse built in 1737 business. ness plan, budgeting, support novels: Gai l Eastwood; author conditioners, or-used air condi that has been ca refully restored. The series begins July 22, from from other entrepreneurs, and of An Unl ikely Hero (Penguin, tioners in good working condi His association with Yankee, the 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Also, a series of access to small loans from $300 $4.99), will read from her book, tion, donated to the chapter to New England Magazine, has MicroBusiness Workshops will to $3,000. sign copies, and talk about her be distributed to individuals brought his work to the public be offered on the same days from For more information, ca ll newest work in progress. withmultiplesclerosis who may through a series of cover pic 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. All classes are Ken or Isabel at 461-4111 . Eastwood has won several be confined to their homes. tures, adding to his status as a held at903 Broad St., Providence, nafional awards for best Re Summer heat can often ag "collectable artist." gency Romance novels, and is a gravate this condition, making Mays completed "Happi native Rhode Islander. symptoms such as muscle weak ness" in 1996 as a tribute to the L@SE 10 lbs. in 3 DAYS! The program will take place ness, fatigue, blurred vision and abilities and joys of children with ALL NATURAL WI11t on July 25 at 7:30 p.m. at the slurred speech more severe than disabilities at Meeting Street Call 800 CHROMIUM store, 471 Angell St. in Wayland in the less humid weather. School. Like all of his paintings, 854-8353 r-~ PICOLINATE! Square, Providence (331-9097). 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THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1996 - 3 THE JEWISH COMMUNITY Decline In Kashrut Bad for Butchers by Emily Torgan are only two of us left, and su sher butcher shops in the state. ewish Community Reporter permarketscansell kosher meat " I remember when there he aromas of fresh meat and on Saturday, which really isn't were 5 or 6 butcher shops within Tpickling spices have filled right." 100 .yards of each other," re kosher butcher Marty Members of the state's reli membered . Syd Cohen as Weissman's Cranston shop for gious establishment are deeply Weis?man wrapped his pur about 35 years, but such shops concerned about the waning chases in butcher's paperonJuly and their traditional offerings buyership. 12. "There were shops all over may not exist in Rhode Island " We have no authority over Broad Street, Hope Street, much longer. the supermarkets," said Rabbi Ohrms Street and Willard Av ''I'm the last one in line," Mitchell Levine of Congrega enue. On Saturd_ay night, most Weissman said on July 12. tion Beth Shalom and head of of the Jews would go up there to A 71-year-old Holocaust sur the Va'ad Hakashruth of Rhode the meat markets. There were vivor, Weissman wiped his Island. "They are not under our also five or six bakeries, a bar hands on his apron and stared supervision." bershop and a fish market. That at. his jars of borscht and soup Jay Rosenstein, lay president made a community." mixes. oftheVa'ad,explained that fresh Both Levine and Rosenstein "The new generation does meat sold by such establish think kosher butchers are vital not want this," he said. ments as East Side Marketplace to Rhode Island if the Jewish Some local supermarkets and Shop & Save are prepared community hopes to expand. have recently been selling fresh in Boston, then brought to Rhode " American Jews are highly koshermeat,competingwiththe Island. mobile," explained Levine. state's only two kosher butcher According to Levine, the in "They are capable of relocating shops for a dwindling market. creased availability of kosher to where the environment is Due to fierce competition, the food is positive. good. If we want to attract kosher butcher shop, once a vi " l am an American, and I people to Providence, we must tal part of Jewish community believe in economic competi be able to sustain a level of Jew life in Rhode Island, may soon tion," Levine said. "We appre ish identity here. We have two become part of the community's ciate the increased availability J~wish day schools, and a ko history. of kosher food. But l feel re sher butcher is something "There used to be a much sponsible to be an advocate for people will look for. It will help Kosher butcher Marty Weissman in front of his Cranston shop. bigger market," Weissman said. the butchers too. If we rabbis if they are choosing between Herald plroto by EmilyTorga 11 "People aren' t keeping kosher made kashrut a priority with Providence and New Haven and anymore, and a lot of the older our congregations, there would Brookline." dedicated to the community." said, glancing at briny vats of people go to mealsites. And be plenty of customers." Additionally, Rosenstein said But there are not many com pickled tomatoes and sfacks of peopleareeating a lot less meat." But the number of customers he was concerned that the su munity members in Spigel's halvah. "Theotherstoresfinished Bernard Spigel, proprietor of has declined steadily. When the permarkets might drop their . shop towards the end of a doingtheirbusiness,and nobody Fred Spigel's Kosher Meat & Va'ad was founded in 1920, it kosher goods at any time. Monday afternoon. Although replaced them." Deli-Tizer, agreed with exercised authority over about "If the (kosher meat) is not Spigel says he is busy, he ex Spigel sips his soda thought Weissman on July 15. 28 kosher butcher shops. By profitable, the supermarkets will plains that many of his cus fully when asked. if he thinks "There were about 28 kosher 1960, Spigel remembered about not continue to sell it, and people tomers are gentiles who buy anyone will eventully replace butchers in Rhode Island when 23 kosher butcher shops. In 1975, will not be able to get it," kosher m eat because they him. my dad opened this shop in the The Providence Journal Bulletin Rosenstein said. "The kosher know it is better quality. . "Actually, I don't know," he '40s," Spigel said. "Now, there Magazine reported only 7 ko- butcher and baker are much more "I still have this stuff," Spigel said. Rabbi Levine Talks About His First Ten Months by Emily Torgan led Levine towards marriage, wanted to pay more attention to pers in their20s and 30s," Levine tiny minority, he learned to ex Jewish Community Reporter fatherhood and a geographically the study of Jewish texts. said. " Also, we have a lot of plainJudaism to others veryearly. Though hesaysheis not good diverse trek towards his Ortho " I decided I would not feel participation from teen-agers." "I do not feel that I or my with dates, Rabbi Mitchell dox Providence pulpit. comfortable calling myself a Levine said he is proud of his family experienced overt anti Levine of Temple Beth Sholom Shortly after Levine earned a rabbi without giving the text a synagogue's offerings. Sernitism, but there was a lot of in Providence says he will never B.A. in philosophy, he knew he lot more attention," Levine said. " We cater to families willing ignorance about Judaism," forget the year he graduated wanted to become a rabbi. He He then went to Darche to make an enormous commit Levine said. "The South is not from Kenyon College in Gam spent a year at the University of Noam, a yeshiva in Jerusalem. ment to Jewish identity and con as colorfully ethnic as the bier, Ohio. North _Carolina in Chapel_Hill ln 1992, Levine was ordained tinuity," Levine said . North." "lt was 1984, and every studying, then went to the by the chief rabbinate of the state Levine, who was raised-Con Now, Levine is happy to wor graduation speaker said some Reconstructionist Rabbinical of Israel. He had also met his servative, thinks his Southern ship with his religious congre thing about that," said Levine,a College in Philadelphia. After future wife, Alison, in Israel. background helped prepare him gation. 34-year-old who was born in two years there, Levine contin Soon, the two again crossed the for his Orthodox practice. "We are very happy here, NewYorkand raised in Raleigh, ued at the Reconstructionist Atlantic. The Levines married "Raleigh is part of. the bible both professionally and so South Carolina. Rabbinical College in Israel. He in the United States, and Levine belt," Levine said. "The domi cially," Levine said of his fam And the years that have en then went to Pardeis Institute took a three-year pulpit in nant culture is fundamentalist ily. 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I 4 - THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1996 EDITORIAL One Not-So-Small Step Toward Jewish·Unity Thoughts About Tisha B' Av temple. As a result, some Or Venting the umbrage in a dif thing but diminish the powerof or none, lost relatives or none), by Rabbi Avi Shafran thodox Jews who in the past ferent direction, yet another those later catastrophes. Quite and perhaps even right in their Director of Public Affairs may have attended the cer writer to the paper noted that the contrary, the memory of suggestion that the key to Jew Agudath Israel of America emony at a neutral site but who "Hitler did not differentiate those sad events is empowered ish unity lies in that precise di Thoughitismonthsgoneand. regarded a non-Orthodox place among Reform, Conservative by their connection to the earli rection. its return months away, Yorn of worship as an inappropriate and Orthodox Jews" and est roots of Jewish national an Are they willing, though - HaShoah is a timely topic for place for such a gathering stayed averred, "neither should we" as guish - roots, our sages teach are we all willing - to face the our thoughts these days. Indeed, away. As reported in the New if the Nazis wholesale slaughter us, that stretch back to when deep implication of that fact, perhaps some distance from the York Jewish Week, a vice·presi of Jews regardless of their be our ancestors wandered in the especia lly in light of Yorn date of the annual commemora dent of the New York Board of liefs somehow renders all be Sinai desert. HaShoah's reported fading, the tion of the Holocaust is precisely Rabbis, Rabbi Marc Schneier, liefs legitimately Jewish. rise of Holocaust revisionism what we all need to reflect con said he was offended that"some The larger issue, though, lies and thedeepyearning incount structively on what has become, people would use their halachic back in the Baltimore writer's less Jewish souls for something sadly, a source of some tension, · arrogance" to not attend the letter. His observation - that Let us begin to more than the popular modern and even ill-will, within the Jew event. Yorn HaShoah ceremony atten ist Jewish expressions offer? ish community. dance, even when held in neutral recapture unity by The implication: Tisha B' Av This past year's commemo locations and even among the · joining together in the observance beckons us all. non-Orthodox, has lapsed oflate ration produced an especially solemn observance The time hascomeforallJews noisy note of intra-Jewish dis The above-quoted critics - is invaluable. For confronting to reconnect to the mother-lode cord, sounded in such forums of the Orthodox may and understanding th,\t fact may of the millennia-old of Jewish tragedy commemora as the Baltimore Jewish Times. well be the key to recapturing day of national tion - and, through it, to the One of the periodical's readers indeed be right in their. true Jewish unity - not only in entire'ty of Jewish history. Let noted a "a gradual decline" in contention that the the realm of Holocaust-con Jewish mourning. us begin to recapture unity by attendance at the local Yorn commemoration of sciousness but far beyond. joining together in the solemn HaShoah gathering, attributing For, sadly, there have been observance of the millennia-old it to "the 'old ones' .. . just dying Jewish tragedy should other national tragedies in our Which is precisely why so day of national Jewish mourn off and the younger generation include all Jews ... history, tragedies whose com many Orthodox communities ing. Let each of us find a shul or seem[ingly] less interested." But memoration Yoffie's movement and individuals _: regardless yeshiva where Jews spend Tisha then, the writer reports, "I was long ago let lapse. Observan_t of their attitude toward Yorn B' Avevesittingon the floor and struck with a sudden thought. Jews still maintain the memory HaShoah - set their Holocaust mourning, where images and Where are· the members of the Concurring with Schneier of those terrible events-prime focus, too, on Tisha B' Av, in feelings ofJewish tragedies, both very ' frum' community? I was the president-elect (now among them the destruction of many places with special poetic distant and near are called up looked in vain for the black hat." president) of the Unio n of the holy Jewish temples in dirges composed in the wake of and bemoaned. Let each of us Callii:ig the absence of such American Hebrew Congrega Jerusalemand the resultantJew the European Jewish cataclysm. set aside the day to fast, to pray, headgear at the gathering "a tions, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, who, in ish exiles-with the full force of The sheer scope and depth of to reflect on our collective pain. shondeh" [disgrace], the writer a letter to the same periodical, any religious obligation, on the tragedy of a mere half-cen And let us all, thereby, be joined went on to ask, "Are these called Orthodox refusals to par Tisha B' Av, the Jewish tury ago understandably and by our fasti ng and praying-to people so isolated, so insular, ticipate in the remembrance calendar's fast-day that has,' trenchantly link it to the lamen one another, but also to our fel that they won' t join their fellow ."hypocritical" and "an affront sinceantiquity,focused usJews tably longer chain of the Jewish low Jews throughout the ages, Jewsinanactofremembrance?" to the memory of those who on our national tragedies. This people's suffering. whose tragic experiences are no - and to remark, "They lost perished." year, it falls on July 25, begin And participation in Tisha less a part of our collective Jew relatives, too. The least they The~e was a certain irony in ning with sundown the previ B' Av commemoration is wax- ish legacy than the events of a could do is join in a public act of the fact that many of those who ous day. ing, not waning, as more Jews generation ago. tribute." perished in the Holocaust would That commemorations of become more observant and For that way may indeed lie not only meaningful com · Theairwas particularly thick never themselves have consid subsequent tragedies- the fall children of observant fa milies with tension this year in New ered entering a house of wor of Betar and the expulsion of come of age. memoration of the Holocaust but the beginning of the path York City, where, in order to shipidentified with a i:novement Jews from various European The above-quoted critics of hold costs down, the annual like the modern Reform one. But countr.ies in the Middle Ages, the Orthodox may indeed be fo ultimate Jewish unity and redemption. May they arrive Holocaust remembrance obser the angered were not intrigued for instances - were incorpo right in their contention that the b' mheira b'yameinu, quickly, vance was held in a Reform by ironies. rated within Tisha B' Av's commemoration of Jewish trag nucleus in later years does any- edy should includeall Jews (hats . in our days.
RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD Transforming the Material (USPS 464-760) Published Every Week By The Jewish Press Publishing Company Into the Spiritual EDITOR ALISON SMITH This week's Torah portion , spiritual re-invigoration and in them into spiritual. "'G-dgrants A SSOCIATE EDITOR NEIL NACHBAR Can~lel!ghting begins the fifth book of the To spiration, so that they would the Jew his livelihood and he, in CONTRIBUTING REPORTER rah. Devarim (Deuteronomy). not become materialistic and de turn, utilizes themoneyformitz MICHAEL FINK July 19, 1996 The Book of Devarim is also based in the material word tl-)at vot in general and for the sup JEWISH COMMUNITY REPORTER called Mishne Torah, meaning lay ahead. port of Torah-study in particu EMILY TORGAN 7:58 p.m. "RepetitionoftheTorah";Moses On the contrary, the whole lar. In this way, one truly con A DVERTISING A CCOUNT REPS THOMAS A . FLYNN began to repeat the Torah to the purpose of their coming into the verts the material (money and DIANA FLORIO Jewish people on land was to instill holiness, to worldly posses MAILING ADDRESS: the first day of the elevate and make more spiritual sions) into Box 6063, Providence, A.I. 02940 Hebrew month .,..-;~.,______,---,.. TELEPHONE: (401) 724-0200 the spiritual. PLANT: Shevat. Transfor Herald Way, off Webster Street The timing of mation of Pawtucket, R.I. 02861 TORAH TODAY the material OFFICE: the Repetition of 1175 Warren Avenue the Torah was es to the spiri East Providence, A.I. 02914 pecially signifi tual can be Second class postage paid at Providence, cant fo r the Jew the material aspects of daily life achieved by Rhode Island. Postmaster, send address ish people in that it served to - thereby transforming the ma other means, also. One can el changes to the Rhode Island Jewish Herald, P.O. Box 6063. Providence, A.I. 02940-6063. prepare them for their entry into terial into the spiritual. This evate and refine one's profes Subsa1ption rates: Th1rty-hvecents per copy. the Promised Land. During would be accomplished through sional environment by setting a By mail $15.00 per annum. Outside Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts; their years of wanderi ng in the the study of the Torah, worship personal example of Torah $20.00 per annum. Senior c111zen dtscounl cfesert, all their needs - food, of G-d, performance of His di guided honesty and good con available. Bulk rates on request. The Herald assumes subscnpt1ons are conlinuous unless water, clothing and shelter - vine precepts, giving charity, and duct. nollfied to the contrary 1n wrmng. were miraculously provided for doing acts of loving kindness. In all matters of sanctity, one The Herald assumes no financial responsi· mus t go from s tre ngth to btlity for lypographical errors in advertise them byG-d. The divine purpose of our ments, but will repnnl !hat part ol the adver Now the Jews were on the entry into the Holy Land - to strength, constantly increasing hsemen1 in wh.ch the typographical error OC· verge of leaving this place where elevate the environment and in holiness. In this way, the bless curs. Advertisers win please notify lhe man agement 1mmmediately of any error which for years they had had no mate and transform the material into ing of "prosperity through char may occur. rial cares. They were about to the spiritual- is the very same ity" becomes realized, with G-d Unsolicited manuscripts: Unsot1C1tedmanu- scnpcs are welcome. We do not pay for copy settle in a land and a way of Ii fe purpose that every individual giving material blessings in a p
THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1996- 5 EDITORAL .Once Again, A Day to Mourn And Then There Was Just One by Alison Smith Rabbi Jerom"e M. Epstein rible event raised a red flag in everyone had merchandising our own commitment to peace, Herald Editor quotas to fill. Finally he got laid isha B' Av is a different holi the Jewish community, one so valued in Jewjsh tradition. Once there was a small vil off and went to live with his day every year. Granted, it which demands attention even r The suffering of other com lage in the Himalayas where the daughter.in India who dwelt in is always a day of mourning now. munities might well be added people were remarkably con a town where they knew from -although the intensity we are The rabbis teach that the Sec to our Tisha B' Av list, not only tent. There was a sheep df aler, prayer bowls. able to muster for this task var ond Templewasdestroyed partly because of Judaism's unique con who could supply a herder with The sheep dealer, disillu ies for each individual from year as a result of causeless hatred, cern for the sanctity of every in a very nice lamb, ewe or ram if sioned with life in general and to year. Still, whatever else we sinat!Jjnarn,among the Jews. This dividual life but because the given three month's notice. with retail sales in particular, do, or think about, on that day, lack of civility - ranging from spread of violence engenders There was a yurt builder, whose decided to li ve a hermit's life on we continue recall with sad to character assassination to calls more violence - and the entire yurts were the- pride of the the mountain top. ness the destruction of the First for the literal assassination of human community suffers when valley ... easy to take down, easy The yurt maker packed up and Second Temples as well as opponents,asinthecaseofRabin the forces of evil are unleashed. to put back up, and immovable and went to computer school. the expulsion of the Jews from - clearly violates Jewish teach Thus, we must remember with in the face of stormy winds. Now whenever someone in Spain and other tragic events in ings and threatens the fabric of sadness the victims of the Okla There was a prayer bowl the village needed something, the life of our people. the entire community. homa City bombing, whose first maker - a man of great impor they had to go to the meadow This being said, we have nev Unfortunately, even after the "anniversary" was marked this tance in the village. When you and buy whatever those mer ertheless had the luxury, in-re collective shock suffered by the year by a grieving nation. We entered his shop he would sit chants had in stock. And, after a centpeaceful years,ofbeingable Jewish community in the after also look with both sadness and down with you, and talk of tHe while, those merchants weren't to divert some of our attention math of Rabin's assassination, outrage at the widespread burn weather, and your family, and selling things so cheaply. And on this day to other matters. In the incivility continues - with ing ofblackchurches in the south when the snows would come people found that while they the absence of physical destruc name-calling and mutual suspi ern United States over the past again, and by the time you a~ had asked for a ewe, the deliv tion, we have been spared the cion among diverse groups several years. mitted that you really had come ery man left a ram, and when agony of adding additional out threatening the continuation of It is time to re-legitimize the to buy a neiy prayer bowl, he the winter winds blustered rages to the list of events com civilized discourse_ notion that we are all respon already knew exactly which around the new yurts, the yurts memorated on this occasion. Tisha B' Av provides us with sible for one another and that prayer bowl would be right for fell down, and the prayer bowls Indeed, we have used this time a unique opportunity to remem another group's loss should be you, under these circumstances_ never seemed to satisfy. to reflect and to tackle challenges ber our shock and sadness at the treated as our own. On Tisha Maybe you needed a big prayer They gathered in small, un of a different kind, such as those terrible time. Perhaps refresh B' Av, we can mourn the victims bowl, with deep resonance, to happy groups and talked about oframpant assimilation and the ing our own memories will re of these tragedies and reflect on deal with the troubles in your the good old days when you weakening of our young mind us of the terrible cost of the meaning of mutual respon yurt, or maybe you should get a could really relate to the man people's a ttachrnent to Judaism_ extremism and instill in us a sibility. We can also begin to small, silvery toned one with who sold you your yurt, and This year, however, our recomrnitment to civility and model in our own lives the kind which to pray prayers of grati move in with him for the dura hearts are heavy once again and mutual respect. of behavior that demonstrates tude and blessing. tion if the yurt he sold you blew we feel compelled to spend the Extremism takes many forms. respect for our fellows, and call Then, struggling up the down in a blizzard. They longed day mourning and paying trib Several months after the Prime upon our synagogues and other m0untain one spring, came a for the days of hand-made qual ute. Over the past year, we lived Minister's assassination, scores Jewish institutions to do the long pack train of merchants and ity and personal service, but it through senseless acts of terror of men, women, and children in same_ llamas, a_nd they took over the was too late. that robbed us of many precious Israel lost their lives in suicide In recent years, some have biggest meadow in the valley Most of our advertisers oper lives and threatened to sap our bombings perpetrated by ter questioned the relevance of and set up a long r·ow of stores ate on a small scale, and pride spirit. Even more, we saw the rorist groups determined to de Tisha B' Av,mourning,asitdoes, in tents. They sold everything themselves on giving their cus clear resurgence of hatred ex rail the Middle East peace pro "past" tragedies. Whatever the anyone could want, and what's tomers good advice and high pressed openly, shamelessly cess. During one of these bomb appropriate response to that more, they sold it for less. quality products. Support them and violently. ings, we lost two young Ameri position, it is clear that this year Pretty soon, the prayer bowl now, while they're still with us. While these events did not can Jews whose commitment to Tisha B' Av must fulfill its tradi seller had to go to work for the If we don't support them with take place on Tisha B' Av itself, Judaism and to tikun olam_ tional role - eliciting from us new merchants, but when he our dollars, and they close up the day provides us with an would have enriched the world, an outpouring of grief and re tried to delve into just which a nd go to the mountain top or opportunity to remember those had they been permitted to live morse and forcing us to con bowl would be best for each computer school, we' ll miss who perished and to reflect on and to fulfill their potential. front the continued existence of customer, he fell behind ... them. But it will be too late. the implications of these trag The reverberations of those unreas_oning hatred in our edies_ bombings will be felt for many world. If solutions to this prob The assassination of Israeli years to come, as the world lem arise, so much the better. If gofromactivestagestoplateaus_ Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin struggles to comprehend the they don't, we will try again You Dig? We never stop progressing, but in November left the world - dimensions of such barbarism. next year. Weallknowtheamazingtales major changes are often fol and the Jewish community in ·Perhaps Tisha B' Av will pro The author is the executive,vice of how the desert has put forth lowed byperiodsofrelativerest. particular - both numb and vide us with an opf!ortunity to president of The United Synagogue forests and vegetation in Israel. Yet, through it a_l], we are al uncomprehending. This hor- defeat this terror by reaffirming of Conserva tive Judaism. Trees growing on a cup of water ways provided for. Manna and a year. Watermelons emerging water from Miriam's well are from the sa nd. You may have there to be had, in a miraculous HOW Much Do Children Owe Their Parents? accepted thisinformationassome way, when we are children. As by Rabbi Moshe Ulmer repayment parents should ex "and I promise to look after you modern miracle of scientific ge adults, we enter the Promised Tifereth Israel Congregation pect from their children_ all my life." nius and high-tech agronomy. Land and, just as our ancestors This article appeared ' in the The story appears in a classic Thereupon the father bird But the truth is that it's mostly did, leave behind the comfort temple's June/July bulletin. volume entitled, The Memoirs of dropped him into the stormy sweat..:and faith. and caretaking for the responsi Our congregation has re Gluckel of Hame/n. sea, and shouted, "You, too, are Let's take the watermelons. bilityofcreatingourownmanna cently had the good fortune of A bird once set ouf to cross a a liar!" There was no.miracle creating and miracles and we must re celebrating the b' nai mitzvah of wide stormy sea with its three Finally, the father bird set out wells in themiddleof the Negev. late to G-d even in seemingly many of our children as well as little ones. The winds blew vi with the third fledgling_ The water is there. It's just down unG-dly situations. a wonderful confirmation ser ciously and the father bird was Once again, he put the same deeper than we normally look A wilderness, in both spiri vice of 11 young and women. compelled to carry his fledg question to his offspring and the for it. And it's saline. So to grow tual and geographic terms, is a These events raise the ques lings across, one by one_ . ·young bird replied: "My dear any heavily_aqueous fruit, you placewherepeopledonotdwell tions of what are the obligations When he was mid way across, fatheritis true that you are strug have to dig, and then process. (without the occasional vegeta of children toward their parents with the first young bird firmly gling and risking your life for my Sometimes miracles require a tion and oases, even nomads a1nd what should Jewish par clasped in his strong claws, he sake. I would be an ingrate not to lot of hard work and bushmen could not call the ents realistically expect from turned to the fledgling and repay you when you are old for This week's portion, Matot/ desert a home) and G-dliness is their children. shouted above the noisy wind: all your kindness and sacrifice. Masei, describes the 40-year not present. The world, without Our tradition holds that G-d "My child, look how I struggle But I cannot promise. journey of the Children of Israel the influence of our Torah study is concerned that children must and risk my life for you. When "This, however, I can prom through the desert before they a nd mitzva observance, is a be taught to follow the paths of you are grown up will you do as ise you: when I am grown and entered the Promised Land. spiritual wilderness, a place of goodness and righteousness and much for me? Will you provide have children of my own, r shall Along the way, the snakes and chaos and Darwinian survival. for this work G-d has called for me in my old age?" do as much for them as you scorpions were destroyed, wa How do wemakeita fitdwell upon parents. The frightened fledgling an have done for me." ter from Miriam's well followed ing place-forbothhumansand However, the question is swered: "Yes, father. Only bring The father bird smiled and them everywhere, manna was G-d? The' miracles are here al raised as to how much do Jew me to safety and I will do every said: "Well spoken, my son. provided, and somehow, in the ready as G-dliness exists in every ish children owe their parents_ thing you ask of me." Your life I will spare, for you most unwelcoming land on aspect of creation, but they only How many ca n fulfill , in word Thereupon the father bird have spoken wisely. I will carry earth, the tribes grew a nd provide the foundation for us to and in spi rit, the commandment, dropped his child into the raging you to shore in safety. " thrived to reach their goal. build upon. It's up to us to irri "Honor thy fa ther and mother?" sea, shouting after, it "so shall it Wise parents, mothers and Masei means "journeys," but gate the land and uncover trus G dly energy, plant the trees, de Gluckel of Hameln, a saintly be with a liar such as you!" fathers, expect nothing fr om it also means "encampments." velop the fruits, make a home for woman who lived inGermanyi n The father rel-urned to the thei r child re n for all that was It delineates 42 stages of the trek the latter half of the ]7th century, shore and picked up the second given to them. from Egypt to Eretz Yi srael, the ca ttle and fish. To make the entire world an offered some advice to parents_ fled g ling. Halfway across he Wise parents hope only that stages that are considered to be Eretz Yisrael - Holy Land, we As the mother of 14 boys and stopped in mid-air and asked the the good lessons of lifelhat were a n analogy of our own stages have lo dig, dig, dig. girls, she was cerlai nly gua Ii fied . sameguestionofthesecond bird . taught lo their children will be through life. Ju st as the tribes Submitted by Rabl>i E/ic;:er Ll'l'Y Through lhemedi um of a charm "Just bring me lo safety," the transmitted intact to the next encamped, then marched, then of the CHAI.Cc1Jtc1 .. ing fable she tells us how much young f-led&li·ng ,whimpei;ed,1.. genera tion-.·" '"""1" ""'" "" " e11eamp.ed again, we. typicall Y- ~ I I 6-THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1996 I i THE JEWISH COMMUNITY Summer Pleasures at the Gardens of Israel by Alison Smith Herald Editor Lubavitch News Service Named after Rabbi Israel Baal There is a program, Summer The Gardens of Israel are the Shem Tpv, the founder of the bridge, at Wheeler School in place to be this summer. But Chasidic movement, Gan Israel Providence, that offers comrni t you don't need a plane ticket to camps embrace the openness ted seventh- and eighth-grad- ' Tel Aviv to get there. More than and dedication to children asso ers in middle schools a chance 200,000 children in Jewish com ciated with his life. The camp to change the direction of their munities around the world are system was founded by the lives. swimming, running, photo Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi At an age when kids are fre graphing, painting and pad Menachem M. Schneerson of quently drifting, subject to the dling their way through the blessed memory, whose care for treacherous currents of peer summer in Gan Israel (literally: children and devotion to their pressure, neighborhood strife Garden of Israel), the largest educa tion is legendary. and poverty, or welfare leth network of Jewish camping in The children are not the only argy, Summerbridge says, "If the world. ones happy with their Gan Is you really want to make some In the Ita lian countryside, on rael experience. thing out of yourself, grab hold!" a sprawling estate donated by The counseling staff is a mi x This year 88 kids are grab the late sculptor Jacques of young men and women who bing hold and hanging on, com Lipschitz and his wife Yulla, travel from Lubavitch learning mitted to. their own futures and some 100 children decorate institutes where they receive this extraordinary opportunity wooden charity boxes. Three training for their summer posts. at Wheeler. . hundred children in Vienna, They are aided by teen-age jun Sasha Olinick, a three-year Austria, dress up and bake ior counselors. "The counselors veteran teacher at Summer hamantaschen for a mid-sum have a lot of spirit about being bridge and a recent graduate of mer "Purim day," as do 1,000 Jewish and spirit for the camp," Brown, talked to me about the camp children in Dnepro said Orli Linet!, age 11, from program in the reception office petrovsk, Ukraine. Potomac, Md., "and that makes at Wheeler. We sat on a flow Camp director Rabbi Benzion camp really fun." Geisinsky, of the Potomac, ered sofa, in a room full of morn The parents are delighted too. Maryland Gan Israel, believes ing sunlight and leaf shadows, "My son picked up so much in while people with gentle voices that the uniqueness of this enor his two months at camp," said and polished manners floated mous program lies in its cre Djohar Levy of Paris, "so much in and out. The murmur of ation of a total Jewish environ pride and knowledge." ment. "Kids come away with a voices reached us from down All Gan Israel camps offer long, polished corridors flanked sense of living Judaism, not just learning programs designed to with classrooms. It was easy to classroom Judaism. Every part accommodate different levels of imagine the impact of a setting of camp is imbued with their Jewish education.Some children like this on a child whose living heritage and their identity." learn to read Hebrew for the conditions bordered on the cha On Friday afternoons chil first time, while others go as far otic or were at subsistence level. 'THE SUMMERBRIDGE SUCKER,' as Sasha Olinick calls dren bake theirown challahand as to study the Talmud. A student here would feel spe himself, loves his work and believes passionately in tlfe success host "Shabbat parties," saying "The diversity of children cial, would feel fortunate, would of the Summerbridge program at Wheeler School. kiddush over grape juice and teaches them tolerance and ac reciting the blessing for eating feel that almost anything was Hera ld photo by Alison Smith ceptance and breaks down bar possible. bread. riers that might otherwise sepa But Gan Israel children enjoy Summerbridge starts with a ra te communities," said the universal summer pleasures round of visits by Summer A Summerbridge morning a light touch. Mariasha Groner, director of with Jewish spirit as well. "It's bridge teachers or directors to starts with a bus ride to the The kids are kept at Wheeler Gan Israel's Charlotte, N.C., great to see the kids emerge from all the public elementary schools school, arriving at 8 a.m . Break till 4 p.m. - which makes for a branch. a study session to play a wicked in the area during the school fast is served, and then at 8:30, long, rich day. Keeping in mind Camp instills in children a game of tennis or soccer," saip year. These representatives of students go to one of two major the old maxim, "Idle hands are strong sense of pride in their 90-minute classes - numeracy the devil's playground," we feel co unselor Yossi Mandel of Jewish identity. For close to 40 the program tell sixth-graders Caracas, Venezuela. "For the about its satisfactions and its (a course in understanding the pretty s'ure the devil doesn't get children at Gan Israel in better part of the day, they throw demands. Students in' the s_um way in which the principles of much of a crack at these kids. Bratislava, Slovakia, this is es themselves heart and soul into mer program commit to two mathematics work - a class Summerbridge programs pecially true. sports or crafts. But you cannot hours of homework every night, designed to give the student now exist in30 areas in this coun "Camp is the first time that help but notice a refinement, a for the duration of the program skills in handling figures) and try, and the count is growing. they are among other Jewish sensitivity. There's something (July 6 to Aug. 18.) Ii tera·cy ( with stress on the ac The one in Providence is some children," said ChanahMayers, in the air." During the intervening quisition of skill inreading, writ what unique in its emphasis on Lubavitch emissary and direc ing, and some public speaking). the acquisition of skills in han Jackie Si lverman, 12, who at tor of Gan Israel in Bratislava. school year, from September to tends public school in Los An June, each Summerbridge stu Then everyone changes dling subjects, instead of the Mayers explains that the Gan places__: the numeracy students acquisition of more and more geles, said her ca mp experi ence Israel camp there is the only dent puts in two hours twice a remains with her long after she week with a tutor, after school. go to literacy, and vice versa. facts. Jewish summer program in all There are usually two team Why does Wheeler do this? leaves. "At Gan Israel you feel of Slov.rkia and children come A tits fullest and most complete, the way you imagined being Suminerbridge spans two sum teachers to every class of ap Well, partly to contribute to the from halfway across the coun proximately 12 students. well-being of the Providence Jewish was like," she adds. try to attend. "For years Jews mers and two school years, leav "At camp," said Rabbi Heshy ing off just as a student is ready Next comes Iunch , a choice of area, and partly because some here knew nothing about Juda SO-minute .minicourses (Span Wheeler students and teachers Spalter of Costa Rica, "the gaps ism. They get no Jewish educa to go to high school. One of the in the children's Jewish educa most important services it pro ish, the stock market, newspa are involved and get a lot out of tion in school, making camp per publishing, environmental it. Olinick wi ll leave for Syra tion are filled and they are theironlyexposuretoJudaism." vides its students is the full dis reached on a deeper levei." cussion of the options in high sciences, etc.) and microcourses cuse this fall, but he will leave schools open to them. They are of 50 minutes auration in sub reluctantly. He has enjoyed the encouraged to aim high, and jects like arts and crafts, sports, program, gotten so much out of take every advantage the city Haiku poetry, computer lit it himself as an instructor, and JORI Trains Future Leaders offers them in superior faci li eracy, etc. believes so much in its worth. Finally there ts an all-school Both Olinick and Andrea Approximately three dozen They also gave priority to ties, instead of just sliding into teens, whoas former JORI camp the nearest high school, what meeting, about 30 minutes long Kaufman, a teaching team mem teen-agers are getting a chance to develop their leadership ski lls ers, were familiar with the ever the conditions there. - which a student emcees. ber, are Jewish. Riddles are solved, announce If you would like to know this summer at Rhode Island's camp's array of sports, nature, Crucial to the success of the crafts, and cultural program program is always the coopera ments are acted out in skit form, more about Summerbridge, call Camp JORI. The camp's new program, ming. tion and understanding of the the word of the day is defi ned Esan Looper or Cathy Sanford, entitled Leadership in Training, The young people accepted parents, so while prospective and illustrated -almost every program directors, at 521-6744. is designed to provide a skills into the program are dividing students are seeki ng teacher rec thin_gin thissessionis donewith building experience for 14- and their time between leadership ommendations and composing Camp Hoffman to Celebrate 75th 15-year-olds. The program be training and the more traditional essays and filling out question activities enjoyed by all JORI naires, their parents are answer gan June 30. To qualify, applicants had to campers. As part of their train ing questions about how firmly Anniversary submit references and be inter ing, they are participating in they are willing to stand behind Camp Hoffman on Ministe Girl Scouts, their parents, and viewed by members of the workshops and discussion thisprogram,and they must put rial Road in West Kingston, R.l., friends of Girl Scouts of Rhode camp's staff. In choosing par groups, as well as engaging in it in writing. Throughout the wi ll celebrate its 75 th birthday Island, Inc., are welcome to join • ticipants for the program, the role-playing. length of the program, parents' on July 21 from noon to 4:30 the 200 campers in residence in staff sought out teens whose They are also taking special feedback is encouraged, and p.m. with a variety of activities the celebration/ Camp Hoffman school and extra-curricular ac field trips and assisting counse every effort is made to keep them and a ceremony. is the resident camp of Girl tivities indicated leadership lors with the activities designed posted on theirchild's progress. Former campers, counselors, Scouts of Rhode Island, Inc. qualities and potential. for JORI's younger campers. THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1996 - 7 ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT~ Circus Smirkus Comes to Yankee Crafts & Skills Calling All Weekend in South County Readers Dartmouth Children's Museum The South County Museum Children ·of all ages will en We have been amazed On July 21, the Children's with the Moscow circus and will celebrate traditional Yan joy riding on an old-fashioned and delighted by the recent Museum in Dartmouth will host current creative director of acts kee crafts and skills with hands hay wagon pulled by Luke and contributions of older sub Circus Smirkus for two perfor for Ringing Bros. and Barnum on demonstrations of crafts such Blue - Percheron draft horses, scribers who tell us about mances. & Bailey Circus; Vladimir as blacksmithing, woodwork courtesy of Side Hil_l Farm. the Jewish community in International circus clown Augustov from the Moscow ing, beekeeping, rope working, The Little Rhody Model A decades back. · and Smirkus director Rob Circus; Stewart Lippe from the rug braiding and hooking, can Car Club will have an assort Now we are asking our Mermin announced that this Franzini Family Circus; Chicago ing, tatting, quilting, knitting, ment of Model A Fords on hand readers-young and old show will be one of the most fun actress Julie Greenberg, and Victorian floral arranging, pot to view on July 21. The Rhode for their recollections of for audiences. clown Jeff Jenkins, formerly of tery making, fo lk music and Island Beekeepers Association Rosh Hashanahsof the past, "The theme will revolve Ringling Brothers. more, on July 20 and 21, from 11 will also be present on the 21st, even the very recent past. around the idea of an old-time · The two performances are at a.m. to 4 p.m. and will hold lectures and dem What special moment of movie director coming in to 3 and 7 p.m. Tickets cost $8 for Admission to the even tis free, onstrations. happiness, grief or spiritual shoot a circus film usingSmirkus museum members, $9 for non but donations are welcome. Li sa Schmitz a nd Rich awakening do you want to as the background," Mermin members, $7 is the group rate Traditional South County McKinney will provide tradi share with our readers? stated . ''Hilarious situations for 10 or more and children un foods will be available, includ tional music on fiddle and banjo Even humorous moments ensue when the director as der 1 year old are free . The price ing jonnyca kesand Ben&Jerry's on the 20th from noon to 2 p.m. are welcome here. sumes the audience are all 'ex will be $10 at the door. old-fashioned ice cream. The museum is handicap ac We should have the ma tras,' and uses them for funny Tickets may be reserved by Yankee crafters and artisans cessible and is located on Route terial in our hands by Aug. parts throughout the show. Ev calling (508) 993-3361 or come fro m all over South County will 1A in Narragansett. The en 23. The Rosh Hashanah edi eryone under the big top liter to the museum, which is located gather at the museum to pro trance is opposite the Narragan tion of the Herald will ap a ll y gets into the ac t." at 276 Gulf Road, South vide a look back into the daily sett Town beach pavilion. pear on Sept. 5. Coaching and creating new Dartmouth to purchase the tick livesofourancestors, their skills For further information, ca ll acts for the show are Alevtina ets. and make-do ingenuity. Peter Gardiner at 783-5400. Anatolevna Youdina, formerl y Cluster Round Concerts Vet's Pool is Open and Free These Tomatoes The Rogues Coming Up In collaboration with the safe outdoor swim facility dur by Alison Smith Are Back On July 25 (Solution a.d. and YMCA of Pawtucket, the city of ing the summer months. Herald Editor Books on the Square has an TheGodrays), Aug. 1 (Dada and Pawtucket recreation depart For more details on programs For some time now I have nounced the triumphal return Three Pound Thrill), Aug. 8 ment and the Pawtucket Com offered by the YMCA of been buying "cluster" or "on of Rhode Island writer Tom (Magna Pop and Versus), Aug. munity Police Unit, Veterans Pawtucket, ca ll 727-7900or stop the vine" tomatoes because they Briody, author of last year's best 15 (Dishwalla and Frente), and Memorial Park pool facility is by the "Y" located across from taste, look and smell like real selling Rogue's Isles. He will read Aug. 22 (T.B.A.), there will be a now open to area youth and the Pawtucket Library at 20 garden tomatoes(asopposed to fr om and sign copies of hi s Cutting Edge Concert at families. Summer St., Pawtucket. the ones that have no tomato newly published second install Waterplace Park from 5:30 to The pool, staffed by YMCA smell, a white styrofoam core, ment of the series, Rogue's Ju s 7:30 p.m. These concerts will be of Pawtucket, is open Monday, Pawtucket Y Offers and anemic flesh). The cluster tice (St. Martin's). free. Wednesday and Friday 6 to 10 Preschool Programs tomatoes cost a lot-as in $3 or In the new comedy-suspense OnJuly23 (Peru Andes),July p.m., through the middle of more a pound - but I either thriller, investiga ti ve reporter/ 30 (Lester Hirsh), Aug. 6 (RI. The Pawtucket Family August. bought them or went without. lawyer Michael Carolina returns Sax Quartet), and Aug. 13 (4th As one of the community ser Ytv!CA is offering preschool pro They'd spoiled me for the other to look into the suspicious death Street String Band), there will vices the YMCA of Pawtucket grams for area children ages 1 to kind. ' of a former lover and colleague. be a free concert at Providence 5 years. 1,2,3 Grow; Preschool offers area youth and families, Recently, on a television Set in Providence, the novel Washington Plaza from noon to Picassos and Jimminy Crickets the Vet's pool facility provides cooking show, I learned that takes a satirical look at the cor 2 p.m. lneach case, the rai n date will run for four weeks, begin individuals and families with a these cluster tomatoes come ruption in Rhode Island and will be the following day at the ning July 22. from Israel. These Israelis know explores both above and below same time. 1,2,3 Grow is an interactive how to grow tomatoes. Anyone ground, courtrooms and city For more information, call Hear the Music parent/ child program for chil who can get me to pay more hall offices. Publisher's Weekly 785-9450, ext. 244. dren ages 1 to 3 years. This Na than $3 a pound for tomatoes is notes that "the public figures of the Andes tional YMCA program devel on to something. are nearly as funny as they are The Providence Waterfront ops basic motor skills and intro corrupt and dangerous." Festival, Inc. would like to an duces movement exploration Briody will appear on July 24 nounce the continuation of the through songs, games and tum at 7:30 p.m. at the store in Providence Washington Con bling. Let Me Tell Wayland Square, 331-9097. The cert Series. Peru Andes, a Bos 1,2,3 Grow is offered Tues program is free and open to the ton-based band will be perform days from 5 to 6 p.m. or Thurs You a Story public. ing in the fourth concert of the day 9 to 10 a.m. Books on the Square will hold series from noon to 2 p.m. on Playdough, finger paint, cut a third Summer Pajama Story July 23. ting, pasting, coloring and draw Hour on July 24 from 7 to 8 p.m. The music from the Andes ing are some of the things Pre Special guest storyteller 01l!'anicc.otkcs Mountains is full of the poetry school Picassos will be doing in Sharon Ahern of Seekonk will Coffee Cdcbcs of their ancient languages, but this creative parent/ child class. visit, bringi\1g several of her fa K:11..m i also possesses the freshness of Preschool Picassos is offered vorite stories for the children. Exchange Colombian the new. The power of the puma, Thursdays from 10:30 to 11:30 This program is for children3 to Roasting Coffee Daily Gu~ncmal:m the eagle, and the serpent are a.m., for children ages 2 to 4 years. Ba nd their families, teddy bears, just as important, in Peru Andes' Jimminy Crickets celebrates blankies, and other nighttime ~::'.:.:~ r Peruvian . music, as the tenderness of the the fun of being a preschooler. can't-do-without loved ones. C Children jump, hop, skip, climb, Children areenouraged to come Mocha dove. M:ittari t: Additional lunchtime con sing and tumble their way in their pajamas. Books on the - Ethiopian s through this interacti ve pre Square is located at 471 Angell whole bean coffee! • p:utrics certs wi ll take place on every Sumatra s. school program. JimminyCrick St. in Wayland Square, Prov espresso • c:irruccino HOPE Tuesday until Aug. 13 from Mail Order / Gih Boxes Tanzanian \,I noon to 2 p.m. Located at the ets is offered Tuesdays from 6: 15 idence (331-9097). Story hours are free and open to the public. American Roa;t • Fu ll Citt· Roost Cona Rican TRAVEL Providence Washington Plaza to 7:15 p.m. Vicnn;i R.:-a!t • &rrcs,so Roost Mocha Java \,I (formerly Old Stone Square), _ For more details on programs Swi$$ \~~~t:;~= Dea& Hazelnut "' adjacent to Hemenway's on offered by the YMCA of Aa\-orcd C.Offce: Ci nnamon tt South Main Street. Pawtucket, ca ll 727-7900 or stop w Announce the birth of Vanilla !.~r~:,, Al l co ncerts are free and open by the "Y" located across from 207 \V 1ckcndcn Street Oran11c the Big Dijference+ N to the public. Rain dates are the Pawtucket Library at20 Sum your child in the Herald! 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He that is fundamental to bringing cultural observances. Kwanzaa, Ramadan, Yorn Kip that is at the very foundation of willexplorethequestionofhow about redemption. In Providence the presenta The 1996-1997 AOL Memo & pur and other significant days, Jewish life. the Torah can legislate the feel tion will be held in the Korn Date Book is a convenient, 17- as well as a special section for As it has on Tisha B' Av in the ings members of the Jewish Auditorium at Providence He month comprehensive listing of names and addresses. The cal past, The Chafetz Chaim Heri people harbor in thei r hearts. brew Day School. The presenta special occasions for Jews, Chris endar is organized so that two tage Foundation will present a The Torah tells us that the lack of Ahavas Yisroel (love of tion will take place at 2:30 p.m. ti ans, Muslims, Buddhists, weeks can be viewed simulta videotaped lecture for groups gathered in loca tions through Admission is $6 donation for Baha'is, Shintoists and others. neously. fellow Jew) caused the Second Several holidays are keyed to out the nation. This popular Temple to be destroyed at the adults and $4 donation for stu relevant AOL videos, posters The AD L Memo & Date Book is event will take place this year in hands of our enemies. The exile dents. and other materials that ca n be available for $4.95 per copy, in more than 100 camps, bunga that began then continues to For more information, con ordered in advance to make cluding shipping and handling. low colonies and communities day, because the sin that caused tact the Providence C ha fetz commemorations more mean SendchecktoAOLMemo&Oate across the United States and continues as well. Chaim Heritage Foundation at ingful. For example, Martin Book, Dept. MRC, 823 United abroad. So, there's no better time than 272-5011. Luther King Jr. posters ca n il Nations Plaza, New York, NY lustrate Black History Month, 10017. For further information, an "Hispanic America" video ca ll (212) 490-2525, ext. 7951. Jewish Educators to Gather can highlight Hispanic Heritage in Jerusalem for CAJE 21 ______Reparations for Survivors-- Where do Jewish educators cational issues. Topics to be examined in Holocaust survivors who provide funds through the U.S . from around the world meet to Sizable delegations are com clude "New Technol_ogies and were American citi zens at the ForeignClairnsSettl ementCom discuss the issues of the day in ing from the United States, thei r Implica tions for Jewish time of their Nazi persecution mi ssion to those identified un thei r communities a nd the Ca nada, Israel, Great Britain, Education," "Parent and Fam are now eligible for a new repa der a Holoca ust Claims Pro means for passing on Jewish Sweden and Australia. More il y Involvement in Ed ucation," rations program being con gram. heritage? than 1,300 Jewish ed uca tors are "Jewish Values in the Rea l ducted by the Justice Depart The reparations are specifi In Jerusalem, of course, "for planning to attend from the World," "Educating for Jewish ment. cally for those U.S. citizens who out of Zion will go forth Torah." United States. The Israeli con Identity," and "Meeting the The payments are the result were interned in a concentra Therefore, it is entirely fit tingent is expected to total be Challenge of the Future of the of a lawsuit initiated by Holo tion camp or under comparable ting that the 21st annual Con tween 200 and 300. Jewish People." caust survivor Hugo Princz - conditions during the Nazi era. ference on Alternatives in Jew The international represen For more information about supported by an amicus curiae The deadline for filing is Sept. .ish Education, to be held in tation will be utilized for cross CAJE 21, contact CAJE, 261 W. brief filed by the Anti-Defama 30, 1996. 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--- ' ~/;""ii, Jewish Little League Hits A Home Run Maccabiah Alumni To by Sherry Shameer with three age divisions on each problemssellingJudaism to kids Connecticut Jewish ledger team. without trying to deny them a Compete _ln Atlanta WEST HARTFORD, Conn. The teams are affiliated with chance to fulfill the American (JT A)-For many Americans, a synagogues in several area dream by hitting that grand Maccabiah alumni of United the 1987 Pan American Games childhood without Little League towns. slam in the ninth." States Maccabiah Teams will be and in the 1991 Pan American baseball is almost unthinkable. Overall membership was up Hammerman also feels that competing in the Summer Games in Cuba, earning a gold Yet for many children of Or about 33 percent from last year. the league places "sports in their Olympics, announced Robert E. medal in team epee. thodox and Conservative Jew Girls make up about 40 percent proper place." Spivak, president of Maccabi Keeve, 35, began competing ish families in Connecticut's of the members. "Baseball is filled with posi USA /Sports for Israel, sponsor at the age of 9. He earned two Lower Fairfield County, play The season began in April tive Jewish values: teamwork, of the U.S. Maccabiah Team. medals in judo in both the 1985 ing baseball on a town team was and ended recently. cooperation,discipline,exercise, Fencers Clifford Bayer (New and 1989 World Maccabiah something, well, out of their Each team name has a bibli leadership and acceptance of York City) and Elaine Cheris Games. His upcoming competi league. cal reference - Maccabees, adult authority, but all in mod (Denver), judoist Damon Keeve tion in Atlanta will mark his Last year, Stamford resident Matzoh Balls, Shimshon Slug eration," he said. "Moderation (San Francisco) and swimmer second appearance at the Olym Ira Schechter went to bat to gers, Eagles and Stars. is the Jewish way." Daniel Kutler (Israel) will join pics as he also competed in the change things. When this soft For the players' parents, the He added, "Seen in this way, the thousands of Olympic ath heavyweight class in 1992,earn spoken,self-employed advertis fun of baseball is just as impor the ballfield can become an ex letes heading to Atlanta for the ing a seventh place. ing man moved from Long tant as re-enforcing a strong tension of the Hebrew school centennial Olympiad in July. Kutler, 25, first traveled to Beach, N.Y., to Stamford two Jewish identity by being with classroom:" Swimmer Brenda Levy (Rock Israel with the U.S. Maccabiah years ago, he found a gaping other Jewish children. Having a strong Jewish iden ville, Md.) will compete at the Team in 1993. He swam his way hole where a baseball diamond Dana Silver, who is affection tity is not always a top priority Paralympic Games in August. to two gold medals, in the 100m and kids should be. ately known as the owner of the for some of the kids at this stage Bayer, 19, earned both an in butterfly, setting a Maccabiah Schechter realized that many Matzoh Balls team, said, "It in their lives. · dividual bronze and a silver record, and in the 4x100m Jewish kids could not play Little gives the kids more spirit of Schechter redesigned the team medal in fencing at the freestyle event. Born and raised League baseball on Saturdays chavura with each other." Stars' uniforms because the kids 14th World Maccabiah Games in Santa Clara, Ca li f., he was a because their families observe Ei leenRosner,a local teacher, were uncomfortable with the in 1993. At the age of 17, he was 1993 graduate from UCLA. Shabbat. said, "I think it's terrific that we large Starof David that was part named U.S. National Champion. Brenda Levy, 38, competed His experience as a coach in a have a league that plays on Sun of the logo. The Star of David Cheris, 50, will mark her third for the U.S. Maccabiah_Team in league of about 300 Jewish chil day so that kids who want to was in place of the "a" in the appearance at the Olympics this 1993, earning gold medals in dren in New York's Nassau observe Shabbat don't have to Stars' logo. This year, this sym summer. She competed on the the disabled half marathon,50m County made him a natural to make a choice." bol of Judaism is smaller but 1980 and 1988 Olympic teams, freestyle and 50m backstroke. start a Jewish baseball league in This issue is, understandably, makes up part of each letter on Stamford. · a concern for Rabbi Joshua their uniform. The league, which began in Hammerman of Temple Beth Despite this, there is no ques Olympic Committee Snubs April 1995, was warmly wel El. tion in the league about Jewish comed by local Jewish commu "I don't want Judaism to be identification or Jewish values, nities. seen by the child as the thing which parent-coaches empha Kin of Slain Israeli Athletes The league has about 200 that kept him from playing base size over the idea of "winning is by Faye Bittker Rekhess-Spi tzer stressed that kids, ages 5 to 12, on fi ve teams, ba ll," he said. "We have enough everything." Jewish Exponent the families are not asking for a PHILADELPHIA (JT A) memorial to the slain athletes The families of the 11 Israeli ath for political reasons. Is the Olympic Mascot Jewish? letes slain at the 1972 Munich "We don't ask that they men Olympics have written to Presi tion 11 Israelis, or 11 Jews. We by Neil Rubin Laurie Olsen, communications In addition to Atlanta news dentClinton, asking him to inter just ask that they mention the 11 Atlanta Jewish Times director for Olympic programs. papers, talk of potential offenses vene on their behalf with the In athletes who came to partici ATLANTA(JTA)-IzzyJew One came from a man who hit the local airwaves. Jimmy ternational Olympic Committee. pate in the international games ish? And if so, should Jews be said he was a gentile, but liked Baron, a popular radio morning "The IOC refuses to recognize with a spirit of peace and broth offended? the idea of Izzy being Jewish. show personality, said on the the 11 victims, claiming that this erhood, and went home in cof The question came to the fore Another came from a Jew who air that "as a Jewish person I'm would bea political act," the fami fins." front in the fall of 1993, when felt use of the name was anti embarrassed. I thought it was lies of the Munich victims wrote The International Olympic the Atlanta Committee for the Semitic. really splitting hairs." to Clinton on May 25. Committee has also denied the Olympic Games announced the A letter from a delighted real Olympic committee officials "We thought that since the families' request that their 14 nickname of Whatizit, the offi life Izzy in New York City read: did a computer check in all games were taking place in At children be invited to partici cial mascot of the summer games "I only know one other Izzy and known languages on the name lanta, [Clinton] might be will patein the opening ceremony of that begin July 19 in Atlanta. he lives in China. After79 years, before its final approval, hop ing to help us," Ankie Rekhess the Atlanta Games. The original label received it's great to see another Izzy. I ing to weed out any potentially Spitzer said. "Wehavedoneourutmostto more than a few snickers when it love it." problematic meanings in other Rekhess-Spi tzer was 26 when raise the 14 orphans, many of was released to the general popu The Atlanta office of the Anti languages. her husband, fencing coach whom were infants at the time lation in the preceding year. Defamation League, after con The moniker came from more Andrei Spitzer, was killed dur and never knew their fathers, But it is the ni ckname- now sulting with local rabbis, than3,300suggestionsfromchil ing an attack by the Black Sep without hate in thei r hearts," the official moniker - that deemed.the name was not prob dren in 41 states, the District of tember Palestinian terrorist the family members wrote in grasped the attention of some lematic. Columbia, Puerto Rico and 15 group during the 1972 Olym thei r letter to Clinton." All their Jews, particularly when it was "Even if it is [Jewish], it's not countries. Israel was not one of pics i-n Germany. li ves they grew up in the shadow put in the framework of alleged a pejorative, but utter overreac them. Izzy beat out a final list of She and Ilana Romano, of the Olympics and we want anti-Semitism at the local Olym tion and nonsense by people that five that also included Kirby, whose husband, weightlifter them to be there to taste the pic committee. see anti-Semitism everywhere," Starz, Zack and Gleamer. Yosef Romano, was among the glory and understand what the The organization received said Stua~t Lewengrub, then The Olympic committee dead, have been leading the Olympics are about," the letter some calls about the name, said director of the AOL office. would not confirm or deny battle with the IOC to gai n rec stated. Izzy's ethnic/ religious heritage. ognition for the fallen athletes. "The IOC already said they DO YOU HAVE PAIN IN "We're not saying he's Jew For the past two decades, are not going to do it because it FootTczk's ish," Olsen said. " I don't think seven widows have tried to rec is a political act," Rekhess YOUR HEEl OR THE Izzy, or Whatizit, has a religion." oncile their losses with what Spitzer said, adding that the Orthotic Inner Soles BALL OF YOUR FOOT? But Atlantan Larry Miller they consider to be the ca llous committee is "afraid that the Customizes all footwear disagreed. response of the Olympic Com Arab delegations will getup and to the contours of your "No one not Jewish has ever mittee. walk out if they try to have a feet. Our orthotic inner been named Izzy," he said. On Sept. 5, 1972, eight Pales memorial service." "Therefore, Izzy must be Jew soles are ideal for your: ~ tinia n terrorists entered the According to the Atla11ta /ew Custom Orthotic Inner Soles ish." 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A Thousand Aliens -and Jordans by Mike Fink brave and cautious. He steals and generosity of spirit? Herald Contributing Reporter the show from co-actors just by I'm pretty easy to figure out. Julys nybody know what a jordan his presence. The Bible his fa I write the same words about Ais? It's a sneaker that costs a ther, Judd Hirsch, hands him every American film. '}nd by by Mike Fink lot, made in Taiwan by kids, saves his soul while he conquers contrast, the same words about Herald Contributing and clamorously called for by Reporter the enemies of our planet. We European imports. Our movies kids here who watch Michael even catch a glimpse of an Is cost a lot to make so they have to Jordan on a basketball court. raeli plane with its El Al blue appeal to masses of people. ;,Onceyou'reinJuly, the days Seamus has strolled with his Well, my son talked me into and white logo. Yes, "Indepen Films from abroad don' t have to are getting shorter." I heard this shillelagh staff to our door, and getting a fancy pair to get me dence Day" is Jewish-friendly. come on as broadly, they can lament from a Jewish couple on I have sat at his table. He's back through summer and through Even so, I had a lot of quar risk some quirky themes, some the Narragansett sands. in Middlebridge after several September. If you see me on the rels with this feel-good produc charming speeches, some "But in December, they' re seasons in nearby Jamestown. streets, please take note. · tion. We have two dead moth touches of irony or poetry. already getting longer," I coun Seamus is Irish, has lived in Is My boy also talked me into ersonhand. Theonlygood mom Coming back to my jordans, tered. Touche. It's true that ev rael, has a Jewish daughter, seeing "Independence Day." Ev is a dead mom these days. And they're not the patent leather erything in Rhode Island is com drives his truck to Newport to erybody he knows thought it was the true hero is not the intellec black ones with red soles. My pressed, especially the fine days study Judaism at Touro and at great. I say yes more often than tual but the black marine (Will heir has those, but he picked of midsummer. But then, each Shalom, and sometimes, too, to no to my I I-year-old, and off we Smith) who sleeps with his strip out mine from the most recent precious passage of sun and Providence to consult Emanuel. went to another summer flick. per girl friend, beats up an alien group. They're a soft pearl tone moon may hold a pleasure as The bumper of his red pick "It's got lots ofJewish scenes," he with his bare fists, and proves with blue soles. I'll wear them jewelled as a hummingbird's· up holds both Hebrew blessings noted. Let's talk about the hottest his p.c. manhood also by ac later with jeans and a grey cor visit to your wildflowers. and Gaelic runes. "As a student hit of the season. cepting his fiancee's child, who duroy jacket, maybe even a · For me the special delights of my native Celtic traditions, I Aliens who look like a cross is not his own, and going knit tie. For now they' ll go with include and feature the visits, keep finding the Torah, which between a bug and a clam with through with a marriage cer my beard and my bermudas. calls and notes of my friends holds all the secrets of life." weirdhandsandeyes havecome emony. Pretty crude stuff if you We' ll bounce to the next Hol and allies. There's Sue Oppen Seamus greets my son in ex to knock down our cities "the were brought up with the clas lywood work of entertainment heim, who lives right round the cellent Hebrew, far beyond my way locusts used to wipe out sic cinema. and fill our heads with the lat corner on Middlebridge Roap. own. I walk him back to his own croplands. The only way to fight I guess I worry about the val est images. A tight alley, with machinery, wee quarters a street away. He back, of course, is with major ues my youngest is getting from I' ll stay young during these tools, and parts of trucks lining reads me the poetry and prayers weapons, aircraft, and high tech the fun we have, going out on weeks and months of mild the space at the left of the side he composes, about "the di computers. The mastermind of July evenings. I mean, is watch days and soft twilights. But walk, leads to a flat birdfeeder aspora of the human spirit, dis the human victory is a Jewish ing death and destruction the independence is not what it's scattered with pigeonscratch. A tanced from itself." boy with his father! The son is onlyspectaclewecanshare with about. It's about buying into bevy of mourning doves flut Middlebridge is decidedly none other than my friend Jeff the community? ls the threat of some depe_ndent values. $till, I ters off among the murmurs of not a Jewish community, but Gold bl um. annihilation the only thing that look at my lad's charming face their charming dirge, as I knock there are Jews everywhere, even Jeff plays the Jewish role in C<\n bring the peoples of the with confidence in his good at the door. Sue, a slim, smiling, in the most miniature realms. his cust0mary complex, satur world together? heart, good humor, and good lively person, an editor of schol And then, there are guests who nine style. He's smart but de ls the embrace of amorality will toward me, and toward one arly journals, greets me and stop by to check in, as though I tached, lonely but loving, both the same thing as true tolerance and all. Lighten up, Dad'. guides me to the porch, which were a border guard. Bernie Bell overlooks the glowing river. We and Archie Finkelstein come pass by bedsofliliesofexquisite over and bring laughter and hues, soft pinks and peaches as good fellowship. I have a fancy Those Were the Days, in Old New York well as gorgeous orange, and an sign-in book, but I forget to dust by Jonathan Mark supper, Jews traded wisecracks guys would come to eat and · herb and vegetable patch of po off the cobwebs and collect the New York Jewish Week with their Jewish waiter. shmooze with Lou G. tatoes and tomatoes, basil and noble autographs. NEW YORK (JT A) - Guess The proprietor of one of the The sepia-toned photos on peppers. She tosses food to the Rabbi Joel Braude rings up, "'(hether the following restau new Jewish restaurants with the the restaurant wall are so an row of ducklings passing by the and Jim Wolpaw from James rants or catering places are Jew fo reign sounding, chi-chi names cient that the caption for one of stream, bringing cheer with ev town, and the hours shine with ish: Va Bene, Le Marais, Chez said he is thinking of approach Georgie Jessel and Eddie Can ery word and gesture. gentle words li_ke the flowers in Lanu, La Strada, Medici, Fuji ing the Wexner Institute to pro tor partying at Siegel's does not Myron Waldman also lives a vase, or in a beam of afternoon Hana, Jasmine, La Mer, Cafe videhisrestaurantwitha "scholar even bother to identify a young on Narrow River, feeds the light, like the young robins bath Roma, Le Tre Venezia, Lou G. in residence" who would visit George Burns, puffing on a ci wildbirds, keeps a memorial ing in my birdbath or the un Siegel. tableaftertable, ifrequested, pro gar and eating his supper off to rosegarden, and sits on a bench, seen fledgelings chirping from Thank G-d for Siegel's. viding educational and intellec the side of the photo. a gift from his daughters Sherry the honeysuckle. Onceupona time,Jewishguys tual dinner conversation to the Who remembers? Over there, and Alexis, under a shade tree And so the long and short of did not have to pretend they were upscale patrons. past the kitschy paintingofa man on a velvet lawn. He welcomes it is, the time is brief, the space is from Vichy or the Garden of the But if Lou G. Siegel were alive, in a tallis, is a photo of Rudy me to another tiny domain in mini, but each moment is Finzi-Contini to serve a kosher he would say, "Keep all your Valee, Harry Richmond, Harry Middlebridge, tight quarters golden. Eternity in the ticking meal in New York. Wexner Fellows." He wanted his Ritz of the Ritz Brothers, David like a ship in this small world, of an old clock, a thousand Julys · Siegel's, where New Yorkers joint fi.lled with jolly good fellows. Rubinoffof1933'sradiohitshow, but yar and kindly. from noisy dawn to the firefli es. have been eating kosher since Eddie Share, manager and the Chase & Sanborn Hour. 1917, has closed. owner of the place since shortly Share walked through the. The restaurant lost its lease at before Siegel died in 1965, re empty dining room on one of 209 W. 38th St. after 75 years at members Loti G. as "a Damon Siegel's last afternoons. Hands That Help that location. Runyon character." The carpeting was still dark by Mike Fink ' He took the tortured tortoise in Chances are there is not an "He loved li fe," Share said. red, the wooden walls an Orien Herald Contributing Reporter and said the injury was not life other glatt kosher meat restau "He was the king of the hill tal walnut, the wrought iron still "I was driving down a coun threatening. The next day he rant in the world that has been around here. When he arrived, black. try road when I spotted the enor called me up with a reassuring around so long. When Siegel's you knew he arrived. He would Share pointed out framed let mous snapping turtle trying to report. The patient was on the originally opened on31stStreet, do nothing. (He'd just stand in ters from Eleanor Roosevelt and cross over. A car before me hit mend, and could get its head Wilson was president, the czar the front and you knew he was long-forgotten mayors and gov the poor creature and sped off. I out without difficulty. Where was in his palace and the Yan there. The whole place go the ernors. stopped and picked it up. The had I found it, so he could re kees played in Manhattan. vibration." He showed where a bullet shell was damaged. It couldn't lease it in the right spot to find Back when dinner was called All the Jewish Broadway (Continued on Page 16) work its head out." its proper destiny." 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(Continued on Page 16) ,--- 1 I 12 - THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1996 I WORLD AND-NATIONAL NEWS Right From the Start Russian Jews Take Comfort in Sharon is Special Case Boris Yeltsin's Victory by Naomi Segal with Netanyahu. by Lev Krichevsky cent. The remaining 4.9 percent Le bed, a former general JERTJSALEM(JTA)-Israel's The ar,J)Qintment is likely to MOSCOW (JTA)- Russian did not cast ballots fof either whom Yeltsin appointed premier apparently averted a displease both the Arabs stat~s Jews expressed relief recently candidate. . Russia's security chief after the potential crisis in his Cabinet by and the United States. after President Boris Yeltsin de "We have escaped from the first round of balloting June 16, bringing Likud hardliner Ariel As defense minister in 1982, feated Commtinist Party leader bigger evil that is communism placed third in that vote. Sharon into the government as Sharon led Israel's forces into its Gennady Zyuganov in the and national socialism," said "In order to win, Yeltsin's minister of infrastructure. costly war in Lebanon. In 1983, nation's presidential runoff. Alexander Lieberman of the campaign was using national Netanyahu made the move he was forced to quit after an "Zyuganov had proved to be Union of Councils on Soviet patriotic phraseology" that un just before he left for his first Jsraeliinquirycommitteefound a Stalinist and anti-Semite," said Jewry's Moscow bureau. til recently was the preserve of official visit to the United States him indirectly responsible for Alexander Stepansky, a history Yeltsin's victory, while avert- the Communists and ultrana as prime minister. He delayed the killing of hundreds of Pales professor at the Russian Hu ing a return to Communist rule, tionalists, Lieberman said. his departure by two hours to tinian civilians at the Sabra and manities University. "If he was has not completely alleviated ''Vagueideasofthegreatarmy get Sharon's position finalized Shatilla refugee camps during elected, Jews would have seri concerns among Russia's Jews and militaryindustrialcomplex" by the government. the invasion. ous troubles. I'm g!ad we got -estimates of their numbers run were promoted by Yeltsin' scam The Knesset approved the In the early 1990s, as housing rid of the danger." from 600,000 to 2 million-about paign before the runoff, Lieber appointment recently in a 58-33 minister, he spearheaded a Jew Yeltsin was elected to another the direction of the country. man said, adding, "This is not a vote, with one abstention. ish settlement drive in the West four-year term in the July 3 run Those concerns were height- ~ sign of democratic thinking." The possibility that Sharon Bank and Gaza Strip. off. ened by rhetoric in the Yeltsin Many Russians associate wouldremainoutsidethegovem- Sharon's portfolio in Netan He won 53.7 percent of the campaign and the sudden as- Lebed with a possible Yeltsin mentwhil~Netanyahu was abroad ya.hu' s Ca bi net was created only vote. Zyuganov won 40.4 per- cendancy of Alexander Lebed. retreat from democracy. could have created problems. after other ministers reluctantly Foreign Minister David gave up some of their responsi Levy threatened to leave the bilitieS. Church Coalition Calls for government if Sharon was not The new ministry will over appointed prior to Netan- see the water rights issue, a yahu's departure. Sharon had highly sensitive subject in the Implementation of Agreements. forged Levy'spoliticalalliance Middle East. by Debra Nussbaum Cohen nominations,expressedconcern recalled how the Bush adminis NEW YORK (JT A) - A coa about the future of the peace tration used U.S. loan guarantees lition of major Protestant and process. a? leverage to curtail Israeli settle Mandela Attends Graduation Catholic groups has called on The Clinton administration ment activity in the territories. the Clinton administration to "must make clear that it opposes "In recognition of the consid The ORT-STEP (Science and "Each teacher will, in turn, train press Israeli Prime Minister Ben the building of new settlements erable financial aid provided to Technology Educatio'n Project) hundreds more students .. . and jamin Netanyahu to hold to the and the expansion of existing Israel and the restrictions placed Institute in South Africa gradu they will lead in enabling us to commitments Israel has made settlements geographically or by by the Bush administration on ated its first-class of technology solve today's problems with in the peace process. adding population, including in loan guarantees, Americans are education teachers this past. today's tools." Churches for Middle East the occupied areas in and near particularly alert and sensitive spring. Each of the 28 graduates ORT-STEP, launched in Peace, a coalition of 14 groups Jerusalem," the group said in a about the financing of Israel's was handed his or her Certifi Midrand (near Johannesburg) that together represent some 45 statement released in advance of settlement program," the letter cate in Technology Education in 1993, is the only program of million Christians, including the Netanyahu's visit to the States. said. by President Nelson Mandela. its kind in South Africa. National Council of Churches, Rabbi A. James Rudin, direc The umbrella group urged Speaking at the ceremonies, Funded by local industry and which itself is an umbrella orga tor of interreligious affairs for President Bush to withhold the Mandela praised ORT for its private donations, it is South nization of Protestant and Or the American Jewish Commit $10 biilion in loan guarantees initiative in establishing this Africa's first fully operational, thodox churches; United Meth tee, criticized the move by the until Israel agreed to stop all unique center of technology educational project offering odist Church; United Church of church coalition. "Unless Israel construction of settlements in education and resource .J THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1996 - 13 WORLD AND NATIONAL NEWS 50 Years Later, Poland Tries to Atone Netanyahu.a_nd Clinton by Ruth E. Gruber Hi:s letter elicited angry re fore I speak to you today-and KIELCE, Poland (JT A) sponses from Polish rightists as I remember that I was fright Present United Front "The heavens are weeping on well as a highly critical open ened to death." True Picture is Rockier ing that the regime of Hafez our ceremony," New York Rabbi letter from Edward Moskal, Holocaust survivor William by Matthew Dorf Assad supports the fundamen David Blumenfeld told a crowd . head of the Polish American Mandell, leader of an associa WASHINGTON (JT A) -Is talist Hezbollah group in Leba of about 2,000 people who gath Congress, who called Rosati's tion of Jews in the United States raeli Prime Minister Benjamin non and several Palestinian ter ered last week outside a white apology "unfortunate and un from Kieke, said in an inter Netanyahu has returned home ror groups that are violently building in the center of Kieke, necessary" and accused the Pol view that he appreciated the ef with a firm American pledge or opposed to peace with lscael. Poland. ish government of catering to forts of the Polish authorities to "rock solid" relations between Syria remains on the U.S. list As rain fell, he lit a me{Ilorial the Jews. atone for the pogrom, but that it Jerusalem and Washington. of nations that sponsor terror candle and held it before the Nobel Peace Prize laureate was too long in- coming. Publicly, President Clinton ism. crowd. Elie Wiesel praised the current "The wound has healed, but and Netanyahu heaped praise During their joint news con Fifty years ago, on July 4, the scar has not healed," he said. on each other and pledged to ference after the meeting, 1946, a Polish mob, inflamed by "We hope that today's events extend the honeymoon that U.S. Clinton and Netanyahuglossed anti-Semitism and rumors that bode well for the future, but for Israel relations have enjoyed over their differences even when Jews had kidnapped a Chris What happened in this us older generation, it is tough during the past three years. they appeared to be 180 degrees tian child, besieged the build place showed that to forgive. But their positive comments apart. ing and during a day of bloody "Today opened up some dis could barely maskdeepdi\dsions As Netanyahu pledged to violence, slaughtered 42 Jewish normal citizens could be cussion, but I would not say on the peace process once they continue a growth of Jewish Holocaust survivors. as cruel as the killers of forgiveness." were meeting in the Oval Office. settlements in the West Bank, Sunday's emotional ceremo Some Jews expressed disap In 21 /2 hours of White House Clinton reiterated long-stand nies were held at the site where any death camp. pointment with some. facets of meetings, Netanyahu presented ing U.S. policy that considers the massacre took place, as well Elie Wiesel the occasion. U.S. offi cials with a lengthy list settlements an obstacle to peace. as at the Kieke Jewish cemetery Polis h Bishop Tadeusz of Palestine Liberation Organi Netanyahu sidestepped the and at the former Kieke syna Pieronek, secretary general of zation violations of the accords issue, saying that "we have not gogue. Polish government for its efforts the Polis h Episcopa te, was signed with the Jewish state. yet decided on the precise pat The commemorations mark toward better relations with faulted for giving a bland speech Netanyahu claims that the Pal tern of our settlement policy. ed Poland's offi cial atonement Jews. in which he cited church state estine National Council at its He also said, "We inherited two for the pogrom and its request But he raised the issues and me nts condemning a nti meeting on April 24 did not agreements, Oslo I and Oslo II, for forgiveness. questions that have blighted the Semitism without talking of the amend its covenant as PLO Chair not to our liking, but govern Among those in the crowd memory of Kiek e fo r half a cen ambivalence demonstrated by man Yasser Arafat had stated. ments keep agreements." was a Polish survivor of rury - and that still, despite some senior church figures. Both the Israeli government While pledging to uphold Auschwitz, who wore a concen recentofficial investigations into "He said the right things, but of Shimon Peres and the Clinton past peace agreements, Netan tration camp uniform and bore the pogrom, remain largely un clearly he was not trying to face administration welcomed - the yahu said he is continuing to a sign calling Kiek e the shame answered . the totality of the church's atti PNC's action in rescinding the of Polish Roman Catholics. "True, the killing was perpetu tude at the time," Stanislaw sections of the covenant calling The Kiek e pogrom, the worst ated by hoodlums," he said. "But Krajewski, Polish consultant the for the destruction of Israel. Netanyahu's list directly of a series of Polish attacks on what about the soldiers who re American Jewish Committee, Neta nyahu's list also in Jewish su rvivors returning to ported ly took part in them? And said in an interview. cluded examples of what he contradicts a recent U.S. their homes after the Holocaust, what about the others, the on During the cerem o nies, termed systematic violations of State Department report became a landmark in Polish lookers, the bystanders? side-by-side monuments were a commitment the PLO made anti-Semitism, sparking the "What happened in this place dedicated at the former syna not to conduct political activity on which Clinton based massemigrationofsome l 00,000 showed that normal citizens gogue to commemorate the in Jerusale.m, according to the his decision to certify Polish Holocaust survivors. could be as cruel as the killers of 27,000 Jews d eported to Israeli official. the PLO as being in Although nine people were any death camp," Wiesel said. Treblinka from Ki ek e and to The list also asserted that the hastily tried and executed for Kalman Sultanik, vice presi remember a number· of local Palestinian Authority has not compliance with the the Kieke murders by Poland's dent of the World Jewish Con Righteous Gentiles who saved done enough to crack down on peace accords. Communist authorities, the po gress and p resident of the Fed Jews d uring the war. the fundamentali st H am as grom has been a festering and era tio n of Po lis h Jews in "Both are meaningful and movement. divisive memory over the years. Ameri-ca, echoed Wiesel's call needed monuments," Krajewski Netanyahu'slistdirectlycon study the redeployment of Is Many Poles refused to accept for a thorough examination of said, "but l am a little unhappy, tradicts a recent U.S. State De raeli forces from most of Hebron. thatord inary peoplecould have the Polish past. In his remarks, they are juxtaposed." partment report on w hich "We will not accept the no carried out such carnage, and he recalled his own experi "And also, the monument to Clinton based his decisions to tion that peace and terrorism blamed the attack on provoca ences. "From 1945 to 1946, the Righteous Gentiles is much certify the PLO as being in com can coexist under one roof," tion by Soviet-backed secret more than 1,000 Jews were more elaborate; its inscription is pliance with the peace accords. Netanyahu said . police. killed in variou s p laces by so much larger. The Jews are Such certi fication allows the ' J'\ U.S.-Israel counter-terror Public discussion of the af Poles; taken off trains, they commemorated as a number, United S_tates to provide $7_5 ism group will begin meeting fair during the Communist era were hunted down in small 27,000, an anonymous mass," million in cash assistance to the by the end of this month to ex was virtually taboo. towns and killed. he said. Palesti nian Authority each year. amine concrete ways the two But in January, ,Polish For "I was one of those Jews on a "Those who helped them are But the sharp differences be allies can contribute to ·each eign Minister Dariusz Rosati train from Kieke to Ostrowiec commemorated as individuals tween the new Israeli government other's security. wrote a letter of apology to the when the train stopped and hoo with names. An anonymous and theU.S.administrationonPLO Neta nyahu continued to back World Jewish Congress for the ligans entered to hunt for Jews abstraction vs. individualsabout compliance may pit Jerusalem away from a pre-election inter pogrom. - and l hid my face, so there- whom we care." viewinwhich hesaid thatwithin against the White House on the fo ur to eight years Israel should crucial issue of continued U.S. aid wean itself off of the $1.2 billion Orthodox Leader Damns to the Palestinians. in economic aid it receives each A second set of documents year from the United States. given to Clinton by Netanyahu After meeting with Clinton, he 'Western Decadence' detailed Israeli intelligence re extended the time frame to per ports on Syrian support for ter by Debra Nussbaum Cohen Counci l of America, which in his speech. "Israel's raison haps 10 years. NEW YORK (JT A) - The organized the conference. d'etre is to be a state for Jews and rorist groups. Clinton agreed that now is Si nce his election, Netanyahu Jewish in every possible way, not "a time to do anything to success of the religious parties Religious parties increased has pointed at Damascus as a in the recent Israeli election was their representation in the 120- culturally and religiously." destabillze" the Middle East by major source of terrorism, charg- "a call for the re-Judaization of member Knesset to a total of 23 Given the degree of assimila cutting Israel's aid. Israel," Rabbi Rafael Grossman seats in the May 29 elections. tion plaguing the Jewish com said in his opening address at The victory ofNetanyahu and munity today, he said, "how the First World Wide Rabbi ni the religious parties was a way then could Jews anywhere have Leah Capuano-Iannuccilli ca l Conference, which was held for voters to oppose those Israe accep ted an Israel that assimi with the recently in Jerusalem. lis who "began a process of bi lates into the abyss of Western Grossman is r resident of culturalization," Grossman said decadence?" Florentine Grill the Orthodox Rabbin ical and SHMUEL TAITELBAUM Chef Nicholas Iannuccilli YOU'RE LEAVING? CERTIF IED MO H E L Ta ke t ime to let us know. present a Whenever and wherever you go, we wa nt you to tell 15-Day Culinary us about it . Us. Not the Experience to Italy PostOffice. They don't tell Oct~ber 6 - 20, 1996 us everything, you know! Call us at 724-0200, and Providence-Based • Recommended by Local Physicians & Rabbis Space Limited keep in touch. 861-1403 Contact Leah at 273-8616 , I ' 14- THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1996 OBITUARIES EVELYN KAUFMAN Fontus of Rehoboth, Mass.; a Avis Ja nsson, Commaquid, PROVIDENCE - Evelyn brother, Elliot Slack of Provi Mass.; two sisters, Pauline and JNF Mourns Passing of Kaufman, of Bristol, R.I., died dence, and a granddaughter. Eleanor of Longmeadow, Mass.; June 29 at Rhode Island Hospital. · The funeral was held July 14 four grandchildren and three Born in Piesk, Russia, the at the Max Sugarman Memorial great-grandchildren. She was Congressman Emerson daughter of the late Yitchak and Chapel, 458 Hope St., Provi the sister of the late Oscar and Esther (Backer) Murstein, she dence. Burial was. in Lincoln Frieda. The funeral service was On behalf of the board, staff oflsrael's former adversaries." worked for Jordan Marsh for Park Cemetery, Warwick. held July 15 at Tifereth Israel and supporters of the Jewish He continued, "I was amazed manyyears,retiring20yearsago. Congregation, 145 Brownell National Fund, JNF president to learn that JNF bought plot by She is survived by two LEAH F. 'LEE' SELTZER Ave., New Bedford, Mass. The Milton S. Shapiro has extended plot in Israel in the early part of daughters, Paula Kaufman of PROVIDENCE - Leah F. fami ly ~as assisted in the ar condolences to the family of the century, and ,that this was Bristol and Marsha Kwicinski "Lee" Seltzer, 77, of 139 Ses rangements by Max Sugarman Missouri Congressman Bill how modern Israel came into of Royal Oak, Michigan; two sions St., died July 9 in Miriam Memorial Chapel, 458·Hope St., Emerson, and to those heso ably being." brothers, Leon Murstein of Hospital. She was the wife of Providence, R.I. represented during his years in The congressman was refer Malden, Mass., and Albert Manuel Seltzer. Congress. ring to the fact that JNF was Murstein of Del Ray Beach, Fla. Born in Providence and a life PHILIP SIMON On April 28, Emerson, who created to purchase and redeem She was also the mother .of the long resident, she was a daugh PROVIDENCE - Philip was the vice-chair of the House land in the ancestral Jewish late Roberta Kaufman. terof the late Isadoreand Marion Simon,83,ofE.ShoreCircle,Apt. Agriculture Committee, joined homeland on behalf of world Graveside services were held (Glickman) Leitner. She was a 306, Providence, operator of the a delegation of JNF leaders in a Jewry, and that the United Na June30at Beth El Cemetery, West member of Temple Beth-El, former Artistic Picture Frame Co., meetingwithformerPrimeMin tions' partition lines that helped Roxbury, Mas. The fami ly was Providence, and was a member Providence, then an employee of ister Shimon Peres in Washing define Israel's initial borders assisted in the arrangements by of theCranstonand Majestic Se the U.S. Postal Service before re ton, D.C., to discuss the work of were drawn in large part around Max Sugarman Memorial nior Guilds. tiring 15yearsago,died July 12 in JNF. JNF land holdings. Chapel,458HopeSt.,Providence. Besides her husband, she theMiriamHospital,Providence. Speaking to the delegation, JNF is now sharing tech leaves a daughter, Barbara He was the husband of Emma the congressman began in a nologies it has developed in ANITA NAMEROW Concoff of Woodlarn;l Hills, (Berman) Simon. raspy voice, explaining that he arid lai:ids management with PROVIDENCE - Anita Calif., a son, Benton Seltzer of He was chairman of the was being treated for lung ca n countries around the world, Namerow of Ft. Lauderdale, Plainview,N.Y., a sister, Frances Veteran's Memorial Fund, a cer and that he felt optimistic particularly those in which Fla., and Providence, died July Mendelsohn of Cranston and member of the Jewish War Vet about the course of hi s illness. expanding deserts pose politi 12 in Miriam Hospital. She was four grandchildren. She was the erans, a volunteer at the VA He gained strength as he cal problems. the widow of Maurice "Mike" sisterof the late Leonard Leitner. Hospital and a member and spoke about his regard for JNF JNF national campaign chair Namerow. The funeral service was held volunteer of Temple Emanu-EI. and its work. "What JNF is Robert B. Levine remarked, "We A daughter of the late William July 12 at Mount Sinai Memorial Besides his wife, he leaves a doing is not something that know the pain and loss thatCon and Sophye (Slack) Schmelz, she Chapel, 825 Hope St., Providence. son, Mark Simon of New York makes the front pages of the gressman Emerson's family lived in Ft. Lauderdale and Provi Burial was in Lincoln Park Cem City, and a sister, Nettie Seltzer newspapers every day," he now feels. We want them to dence for the last 18 years. She etery, Post Road, Warwick. in Florida. commented, "but your efforts know they are not alone .... We attended Rhode Island School of The funeral service was held to cultivate the desert and to will miss him. We have all lost a Design, and was a member of EVELYN SHAPIRO July 14 at Max Sugarman Me share these technologies with good friend." Temple Beth-El, its Sisterhood and CENTERVILLE, Mass. morial Chapel, 458 Hope St., developing nations can have a In memory of the congress GardenC!ub.ShewasaGrayLady Evelyn (Fine) Shapiro, of 37 Providence. Burial was in Lin profound impact in helping man, JNF has planted a circle of of Miriam Hospital, and vice presi Wedgewood Dr., Centerville, coln Park Cemetery, Warwick. their citizens, including some 10 trees in Israel. dent of the Waterbridge Condo died July 13. She was the wife of miniumAssociationinSunrise,Fla. the late Milton Shapiro. She leaves a son, Leigh J. She is survived by a son, Rob 'Palestine' Olympics Team-Sparks Renewed Controversy Namerow of West Warwick; two ert Shapiro of West Los Ange by Anne Miller "There is no State of Pales observers. daughters, Sandra J. Namerow les, Calif.; two daughters, Sonya WASHINGTON (JT A) tine," Foxman wrote. "We be A Palestine Liberation Orga of Warwick and Lori Namerow Shapiro, Lexington, Mass., and With the opening ceremonies lieve it is important that the nization faction had taken credit for the Summer Olympics just proper terminology be used for the massacre of 11 Israeli days away, the controversy over when referring to the Palestin athletes at the 1972 Munich an officially recognized team ian delegation." Olympics. Max Sugarman ~ from "Palestine" has sparked First reported in the Atlanta Palestinians are allowed to new protests. Jewish Times in Septembe? 1994, participate in the Olympics un Memorial Chapel ~ A delegation of athletes from the issue resurfaced this month der Article 33 of the Olympic "Palestine," as the team is des when the Olympic committee Convention, which stipulates f#60r .~•~ "'"•, . ignated in the Atlanta Commit began to distribute guides for that "the term 'country' in the several, is there a menu?" asked praying monthly for eight years Wall Rabbi Avi Shafran, director of at the Kate! on each new moon, BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES HELP WANTED (Continued from Page 1) public affairs for Agudath Is but without a Torah and with versity. "And because of the rael of America. " If it's a menu AMBITIOUS , HIGHLY MOTIVATEO person to BABYSITTER NEEOEO . Experienced, respon out prayer shawls. take over real estate agency with unique sible, mature individual, non-smoker, needs d ynamics of Israeli politics and then I think we have a serious According to Talmud (taanit concept. 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"My heart goes out with grati thief ran into Siegel's and a cop The restaurant menu began tude to the people who came followed, shooting a bullet that to list Israeli salad and tri-color over the years. I was told by missed the thiefand hit the wall. food, but the young seemed to people in retail that the biggest As the cop and crook wrestled, think the place was old, an ar times are the opening month Share ran over and "punched tery waiting to harden, a and the closing month. But I the thief in the face." Catskills dining room in search couldn' t take advantage of that "Then, the policeman hit the of a lobby. situation. I just couldn't get thief with the butt of the gun," Share said, "We had some myself to do it." Share said. one a few weeks ago who cel Whendoesarestaurantgrow ebrated his bar mitzvah here in old? When do the Broadway 1934 and now he celebrated his characters stop dropping by? Hands That Help 75th birthday here. But the (Continued from Page 11) Synagogues stopped having young generation, they can't theater parties that always identify with Siegel's like their girl, it's time for me to find my seemed to begin with dinner at parents do, just like they can't own roots." Jewish Theater In Prague Siegel's. identify with World War!!. They Now listen to this. This is Featuring puppets and actors, Isaac Bashevis Singer's "The When did the wedding busi didn't live through it. what I said to Doug. Don' t guf Lion's Milk" is being performed 5 to 10 times a month before ness, in one of the restaurant's "And the kids, they're eating faw. "Doug, that turtle whose sell-out crowds at the Minor Theater in Prague. The play, several private dining rooms, all types of fast food. I don't life you saved, she was a kind sponsored by the Jewish Community of Prague, the American drop off? know about the nutrition. Here and lovely Jewish princess un Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and Edward "We used to be the only game der an enchanter's spell. She's I' you could get a sensible salad Finkelstein of St. Louis, Missouri, is also being performed by in town," Share said. "People and some sensible boiled meat," shy but independent, and she's the Jewish Children's Theater of the Jewish community. got a little bit bothered by the Share said. on her path right now looking insecurity of the streets and "Maybe the kids don't have for you. You're already doing I parking. I the money to spend. Two pizza just the right thing. All you have "The neighborhoods have not slices and Coke will cost you $5, to do is stay here in the shade New Survey of American Jews been an advantage for people of $6. A complete dinner here will and the sunlight on the side I my timetocomedownand have be betw_een $25 and $30, but you walk beside the avenue with Shows Support for Netanyahu dinner. You've got your panhan eat on a tablecloth withlinennap yourcoffee,and keep a lookout. I by Anne Miller I dlers out, and people breaking kins, withambianceandservice." I know she'll come along at the The poll was released re I into cars. Our dinner business But about the kids: Share apt moment." WASHINGTON (JT A) - A cently by the Israeli Policy Fo I' fell off, even as our takeout busi opened Siegel's to touring Is Doug didn' t laugh at me. He newly released poll shows that rum, an American group estab ness to the hotels increased. raeli Orthodox youth groups as only smirked s lig htly a nd American Jews support Israeli lished in support of the peace I "It's getting slow, the whole a Shabbat refuge. They had added, "If you feel like writing Prime Minister Benjamin Net process. I garment district has gotten slow. rooms to light candles, pray and my story down, feel free, go anyahu. Nearly two-thirds of those I And in the last few years, more eat three full Shabbat meals. ahead with it. Only, what made Althoughabout31 percent of surveyed said they believe Net than five glatt kosher restau Until the end, the payroll was you connect the turtle with my American Jews say they would anyahu is sincere "when he says rantsopened withinashortwalk pumping out paychecks for girl friends?" have cast their ballots for Net he wants to continue the peace from here." some 50 people. There were "It's all the fairytales my anyahu in May's election, some process." The new places have names many cooks in the kitchen. The mother used to read to us in the 62 percent now say they view Approximately 44 percent of such as Le Marais and serve soup challah, rolls and rugelach were age before television and canned him either "very" or "some those questioned identified du jour instead of soup of the baked on the premises. The responses. I remember the one what" favorably. themselves as Reform, 33 per day. They serve poisson fume, corned beef was cured right about the little tailor who helps Nearly two-thirds of the 860 cent Conservati ve, 8 percent American Jews polled between Orthodox and 14 percent as gallette de pomme de terre and there, behind the swinging all sorts of creatures on his way vinaigrette de pamplemousse, doors. July2and6believethenewprime other categories, including instead of Siegel's specialities and gets rewarded with true minister will continue to pursue Reconstructionist. For years, Share sent love and good fortune. Colts, like flanken in a pot, derma, monthly checks to the widows peace, a process about 81 percent The poll, conducted for the rugelach, kasha, beef goulash, of rabbis who served as his bees, fish, he spares them and "strongly" or "somewhat" ap Israel Policy Forum by Penn & stuffed cabbage and 13 ways of "mash-gichim," or kosher su they bring him luck. Same with prove of as it was conducted by Schoen Associates, has a mar doing chicken justice. pervisors. you." Netanyahu's predecessors, Shi gin of error of plus or minus 3.5 JnSiegel'syoucouldgethorse Share is hoping to keep the Among the cruel ends of mon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin. percent. radish, a condiment almost ex Siegel's name alive through a the private lives trapped tinct in modern Jewish eateries. delivery and catering service. within our busy routines, a few The restauranttried to change Aside from friends dropping good turns show up, through Wheaton College with the times. by for a last sit-down meal, Share the benevolent hands of those who take note and care. So, Jewish girls, find Doug and Receives Grant rr------~ prove me right! Wheaton College recently college $100,000 to establish the GRASSLEY ROOFING AND received a $100,000 grant from George I. Alden Endowed Schol FOR AD RA TES, the George I. 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