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VOLUME LXXVII, NUMBER 19 THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1991 35¢ PER COPY One, Two Three, Infinity... lnterreligious Coalitions Temple Shalom's Penny Project Create Paradoxes tragically stunning for the by Debra Nussbaum Cohen wishes except under certain children and adults alike. NEW YORK OT A) - When circumstances. The older children of Temple Stephanie Gurwitz became And the Providence CRC, Shalom's Hebrew School are director of the Rhode Island with local black, Christian, responsible for the counting of Jewish Federation's Com­ Moslem and Hmong groups, is the thousands of pennies. munity Relations Council five presently working on a state Stored in a great water jug, the years ago, she never imagined religious restoration act that pennies have been slowly she would be working to would effectively reverse last multiplying over the course of defend the rights of Hmong June's Supreme Court ruling. the past year. Charles, Michael, refugees from Southeast Asia. Providence is one of many Justin, Jason, Bethany, and But when the Rhode Island illustrations that Jewish com­ Sarah make up the Penny­ state coroner performed an munity relations professionals Counting-Brigade. With en­ autopsy on a dead Hmong man and religious leaders across the thusiasm and dedication they against his family's wishes in country are living out Shake­ will attempt to total the mam­ 1987, the CRC joined the speare's truism "Misery (Clockwise from left) Michael Hackett, Rabbi Marc Jagolinzer, moth collection of change. Hmong community, the Ameri­ acquaints a man with strange Sarah Jagolinzer, Bethany Fisher, Charles Jagolinzer, Jason "We're commemorating how can Jewish Congress and the bedfellows," as they forge rela­ Lilien and Justin Buffman-with their enormous penny col­ six million Jews died," explains American Civil Liberties Union tionships with ethnic and reli­ lection. Charles. "It's sad to see how in supporting a suit against the gious groups that would have state asserting a violation of by Sarah Baird having had no idea how to an­ many pennies we have, because been unlikely, even impos­ Herald Associate Editor they are really like people," the family's civil rights. sible, a short time ago. swer that question. The CRC's interest was two­ While coalition-building has Yom Hashoah is a powerful, "I thought and devised a continues Bethany. "And it shows how many neighbors we fold: It was generally con­ always been a strategy used by important day for all Jews. The project, the Penny Project. We cerned about the violation of American-Jewish organiza­ Samuel Zilman Bazarsky Reli­ decided to collect pennies to could have had," Jason con­ cludes. an ethnic minority's civil tions, new groups, most nota­ giousSchool ofTempleShalom show the children the magni­ ri_ghts, and it was specifica·lly bly Asians and Hispanics, as in Middletown, under the di­ tude of such a number. People The children are very much aware of the significance of their concerned because traditional. well as Moslems in some areas, rection of Rabbi Jagolinzer, has have a lot of pennies and are are emerging as important project. They also plan to do­ Jewish observance prohibits undertaken a special project to willing to donate them. Not just autopsy in most circumstances. nate the collected money to a partners. help educate the students and Jews but non-Jews also gave The Providence coalition . The Asian population in this greater community about the pennies to the project. The kids charity. won the court case. But the vic­ country has doubled in the past Sarah draws attention to the significance of this day of re­ have been very diligent, be­ decade, and the Hispanic popu­ mission of their project. "It's tory was shortlived. membrance. cause this is their pet project." After the Supreme Court lation has increased by more important for the little kids to The impetus for the devel­ Each life lost during the Ho­ ruled last June that states need than half, according to prelimi­ see how many pennies we opment of this creative project locaust is represented by a not prove a compelling state nary figures from the 1990 have." "If everybody knows, came one year ago after a young penny. After all of the pennies interest before infringing on we can keep it from happening Census. child asked RabbiJagolinzer an are counted, the children will certain religious liberties, the Joint action on such local unanswerable question. cover the vast floor of the social again," Michael explains. federal district court judge who issues as municipal budget cuts "How much is six million?" hall with row upon row of The profound tragedy of the heard the Providence group's and intergroup tensions pre­ Rabbi Jagolinzer admits to pennies. The effect will be Holocaust must be acknowl­ case took the unusual step of sents a stronger, united front to edged by all people, according reversing his earlier ruling. protect minority interests and to Rabbi Jagolinzer, because it Tackling the problem an­ is "becoming a necessity rather could happen to any national­ other way, Gurwitz, together than stylish," said David Nuss­ ity. "It is important that we with Hmong, black and Jewish baum, executive director of the who experienced the Holocaust groups, as well as the ACLU, Flint (Mich.) Jewish Federation as a people tell and teach the successfully lobbied last year and executive vice president of world about it." for a state law prohibiting its social service agency, Jewish The Penny Project at Tempie autopsy against a family'~ (continued on page 17) Shalom in Middletown has helped to enlighten the entire community about the tragedies of the Holocaust. On the eve of Yorn Hashoah, Temp_Ie Shalom will have its annual interfaith service of remembrance. The children and adults will join together to mark this terrible Students at the Samuel Zilman Bazarsky Religious School of period of world history. Temple Shalom counting pennies.

Demand For Tough Security Measures additional strain of Jewish set­ tler rage at the ambush murder Tempered by U.S. Push For 'Gestures' of a 30-year-old settler, Yair fidence-building" gestures to Mendelsohn, whose car was by David Landau the Palestinians to advance the riddled with bullets recently JERUSALEM OT A) - The peace process. . ' near Ramallah, in the West Hundreds of Haggadot we;e presented this week to soldiers Israeli government is facing The policy-making Inner Bank. of the American Patriot batteries serving in the Haifa area, seemingly irreconcilable pres­ Cabinet met last week to dis­ That outrage followed a The servicemen are participating in a Pesach Seder here, sures as it attempts to deal with cuss possible new measures, wave of knife attacks by Arabs most for the first time. the rapidly deteriorating secu­ but it reached no decisions. on Jews in Israel proper, which The special Haggadot are a gift of the American-Israel rity situation in the admin­ Defense Minister Moshe has resulted in five fatalities Bank, a subsidiary of Bank Hapoalim, Israel's largest finan­ istered territories and Israel Arens and Police Minister this month alone. cial group. proper. Ronnie Milo were instructed to The spate of violence has Haifa bank branch manager Shaul Tzur (center) pointed While its own increasingly draft a joint set of proposals to prompted demands for tough out that the message of the Jewish festival of freedom is one vocal right wing is demanding deal with the latest spate of new security measures from shared by Americans and Israelis alike. tough new measures against Arab violence against Jews, to right-wing Cabinet ministers. Seen from left to right are: Specialist Carl Hardy of Los Palestinian troublemakers, the be submitted to the Inner Cabi­ At a recent meeting, Yuval Angeles; Specialist Charles Pickman of Atchison, Kansas; Bush administration in Wash­ net for consideration at its next Ne'eman of Tehiya and Mr. Tzur; PFC Susan Fajeson of Abilene, Texas, and PFC ington is urgi ng Israel ever session. Ricky Colsen of Houston. more forcefully to extend "con- The ministers met under the (continued on page 17) Inside the Ocean State

Events At The JCCRI: W~ek Of April 5-11 and a VCR program. The Hashoah , Holocaust Remem­ schedule for the week of April brance Day. Services at 7:30 The Jewish Community Cen­ Brown Bag Club/ are invited to submit essays ter of Rhode Island, located at 5-11 includes: p.m. at Temple Emanu-El, fol­ Yiddish Vinkel about, " An individual or a Sunday, April 7 - " A Night lowed by candle-lit walk to the 401 Elmgrove Avenue in Provi­ On " Movie Day," April 9, family with relatives in Israel dence, will be holding activities At The Opera," with the Marx Rhode Island Holocaust'Memo­ the Brown Bag Club will screen or serving/having served in Brothers, 10:45 a.m. rial Museum. of interest for people of all ages the original black and white the Armed Forces in Saudi Wednesday, April 10 - Yorn Call Sandy Bass for details. during the month of April, as version of "The Jazz Singer." Arabia." Entries must be at detailed in the following list. Sam Primack will lead the dis­ least one typewritten or two To sign up or to obtain further cussion that follows. The film handwritten pages and many Events At Brown information, please call the begins at noon. Adults are in­ include photographs or draw­ Center at 861-8800 artd ask for vited to bring a brown bag ings. Each entry must include Folklorist Film Festival and is made possible by a grant the person specified in the lunch. The $1 donation in­ the child's name, age, grade, The Music Department of from the Jacob Burns Endow­ listing. cludes dessert and beverage. school, address, telephone Brown University will present ment on Ethics of the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundations. Swim-a-thon Upcfate . .. Yiddish Vinke( will meet at 2 number and parent's signature. the Annual Spring Colloquium The JCCRI wishes to thank. p.m. directly following the All essays must be submitted of Folklorists in New England, Panel Discussion: "Out all who supported and partici­ Brown Bag Club. For more in­ by Friday, May 3, to Ruby Inc. , from 9:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. of Order? Women in pated in Swim-A-Thon '91 , formation, call Evy Rappoport. Shalansky, Jewish Community on Saturday, April 6, in Room American Religion" making this event fun and suc­ . Junior Outdoor Club Center of Rhode Island, 401 315 of the Orwig Music Build­ "Out of Order? Women in cessful. to See Red Sox Play Elmgrove Ave., Providence, ing, corner of Hope Street and American Religion," a panel Young Judea Meetings The Junior Outdoor Club, R.I. 02906-3451. The Commit­ Young Orchard Avenue. A discussion, will be held at 7:30 Students in grades 4-7 are for students in grades 6-8, is tee will judge the essays in series of five films and video­ p.m. Tuesday, April 9, in invited to join the fun during planning a trip to Fenway Park May and winners will receive tapes made by folklorists living Lower Manning on the College the next Young Judea meeting, on April 17 to watch the Red awards at the KidSpace/PTC and working in the New En­ Green. The program will ex­ Sunday, April 7, from 1:30 to Sox play the Kansas City Dinner. Call Ruby Shalansky gland area will be shown, and plore the present status of 3:30 p.m. Call Evy Rappoport Royals. The fee ($8 for Club for further information. the filmmakers will be present women in Christianity and for details. members, $13 for all others) Kosher Mealsite to discuss their films. Ad ­ Judaism. The panelists will Club 456 Plans-A Hayride includes deluxe round trip Seniors are invited to join in mission is free and the public is include Rabbi Sharon Cohen, Club 456 will be going on a transportation and ticket. Stu­ a variety of activities and to welcome. assistant director of the Tufts spring hayride at the Scituate dents are asked to meet at the enjoy a hot kosher meal at Ethics: "The Nazi Doctors University Hillel; Rev . Beverly Carriage Works on Sunday, Center by 10:45; the bus de­ noon at the Kosher Mealsite at and the Nuremberg Code" Edwards, pastor of United April 14 . A bus will leave the parts at 11 a.m. and returns at the Center. "The doors open" Dr. Michael Grodin, director Congregational Church in Lit­ Center at 2 p.m. and return at about 5:30 p.m. Tickets are weekdays at 10 a.m., with cas­ of medical ethics at Boston Uni­ tle Compton; Rev. Linda Kirk­ 5:30 p.m., after an afternoon of limited, so those who are inter­ ual conversation in the lobby versity's Schools of Medicine land-Harris, associate minister fun, refreshments and a one­ ested should respond by April until 11. Exercise is scheduled and Public Health, will give at Ebenezer Baptist Church in hour, horse-drawn hayride. 10 to Evy Rappoport. In the on weekdays at 11 :15 . A the annual Holocaust Com­ Boston; and Elizbeth Morancy, The fee, including transpor­ event that the game is "rained Women's Group meets every memorative Lecture, "The former Sister of Mercy and tation, is $5 for Club 456 mem­ out," the Center will "do" Tuesday morning from 11 to Nazi Doctors and the Nurem­ state representative in Rhode bers and $10 for all others. Stu­ pizza and a video. The Out­ 11 :45 . Friend to Friend meets berg Code: Human Rights in Island. Elizabeth Nordbeck, dents in grades 4-6 are wel­ door Clubs are sponsored by Thursdays from 11 a.m. until Human Experimentation," at 8 dean of Andover Newton come and asked to reserve a the Robbie Frank Fund. noon. Bingo is played Thurs­ p.m. on Monday, April 8, in Theological School in Mas­ space by April 10. In case of Saul Abrams Memorial Essay day from 12:45 until 2 p.m. Room 102 of Wilson Hall on sachusetts, and an American inclement weather, Club 456 Contest Invites Entries Shabbat traditions are ob­ the College Green. The lecture church historian, will be the will meet for a video and pizza " Desert Storm" is back­ served on Fridays. Sundays is sponsored by the Brown­ respondent. The program is free and open to the public. It is at the Center at 2 p.m. Call Evy ground for this year's Saul begin with tea, coffee and hot RISO Hillel and the Chaplains ' Rappoport to make a reserva­ Abrams Memorial Essay Con­ muffins served at 10 a.m., of Brown University. Grodin's sponsored by the Chaplains' Office, the Sarah Doyle tion or for further Information. test, as students in grades 4-6 followed this month by movies talk will be accompanied by rare footage from the Nurem­ Women's Center, the Pem­ berg Medical Trials. This is the broke Center for Teaching and fourth of five lectures in the Research on Women, the series "Ends and Means: Ethics American Civilization Depart­ in Research," sponsored by ment, and the Charles K. Brown-RISO Hillel. The lecture Colver Lectureships Fund. is free and open to the public Exhibition Of Israeli Artists At Striar Jewish Community Center "Expressions '91 ," an ex­ of pieces of felt and wool, are hibition and sale of Israeli art­ unique in the art world. ists and artisans, is set to open Also highlighted will be at the Perkins Gallery at the Bracha Lavee who makes beau­ Striar Jewish Community Cen­ tiful tapestries of felt and Yael ter on the Fireman Campus, Gillis who does three dimen­ 445 Central Street, Stoughton, sional weaving with sculptural MA 02072, on Sunday, April 7, fiber techniques. There will be 2-4 p.m. The exhibit will run tapestries, sculpture and prints through the 14th of April. by other artists as well as The exhibit features over 80 jewelry, ceramics, mosaics and contemporary Israeli artists stoneware available. and artisans and is designed to The Gallery will be open highlight the vitality and diver­ Sunday, April 7 - Sunday, sity of Israeli art. Some of the April 14. Hours are Sunday featured artists include Baruch through Thursday, 10 a.m. - 10 Sketsian, whose famous sculp­ p.m. and Friday from 10 a.m. - ture "Korchah With His Chil­ 2 p.m. Admission to the exhibit dren" can be seen at Yad is FREE and there will be a Vashem, Israel's monument to 10% discount on all purchases victims of the Holocaust and made at the opening preview Calman Stemi whose "soft on Sunday, April 7. paintings," made of thousands

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enden Street. Next thing, th; Johnson Wins Animation Award! On The Side whole tenement will rise on paws or claws and take off Of The Beasts down to the river. I have always asked the rab­ bis of Rhode Island, the Ocean By Mike Fink State, what is the Jewish view Herald Contributing Editor of ri vers and dogs and cats and salamanders. I asked Rabbi Israel M. Goldman if I could feel sorry for that ram that stood in for Isaac. Rabbi Frank­ This is a story about a couple she comes tram a long line of lin and I write to each other on of local Jewish artists whose furriers. She is a Haspel. She the subject. He penned a mild work deals with the hope for a tells me that ironically, her P.S. that the concern doesn't higher regard for animal rights. grandfather has just named a seem awfully Jewish somehow. Mike Johnson graduated shearling line the Dyan Rabbi Liben faced the issue at from RISO last year with a Group. She wrote her final my daughter's bat mitzvah. He degree in animation. His wife paper in my journalism class pointed out that when the Dyan finishes up this spring in on the politics of animal rights. I Bible was created, technology apparel design. They are a tall, liked the way she handled her had less power of destruction. dark, attractive Jewish couple, topic. She did not judge Rabbi Bohnen sent me mes­ drawn and designed for each harshly. She used restraint, sages in his time at Emanu-EL other. respect, even some humor - But he dealt with who owns One of the values they share rare qualities on campus these what property, deeds and land l is a deep feeling for animals, days. But she came out rights, not so much animal Mike Johnson won the New England Film and Video Festival for nature. Mike likes reptiles. strongly on the side of the feelings. Rabbi Braude walked Judges' Award of Merit for Animation. His prizewinning senior film beasts. along the rock wall in front of sion of human values. There is the poem about the fate of a thesis featured a lizard, Right now Mike is working his house and took me seri ­ a warning against waste in Jew ­ little kid, whose death is _re­ sketched from his own pet. He on a new film. About a Russian ously. Whether I deserved it or ish tradition. They fit the crisis deemed by G-d Himself. also longs for the space to own witch whose house stands and not. of the planet into these con­ Mike and Dyan and I go a d(?g. He would like to do a moves on chicken legs. It fol­ Rabbis are beginning these cepts. ·out for lunch every couple of cartoon about a ghost hound. lows the hag around the woods days to write and talk about Pesach marks the moment in weeks. We always discuss our Dyan is a catlover. She op-· like a strange pet. He works the earth itself in terms of the year for these worries to hopes for a Jewish moral order posed the use of fur in the fash­ from a model that has taken regard and responsibility, come out into the brene and that rests ·upon a gentle creed I ion industry - even though over their flat just off Wick- though often only as an exten- the light. The Seder ends with -toward every nechama.

·shielding Our Loved Ones grandmother are goad friends; said as she started to leave. " If expose youngsters to such they both left Germany after suffering doesn't bring wis­ things!" - by Eleanor Roth entered his office and asked, the Second World War. " dom, then truly, it was borne in " But we have to understand Special To The Herald "What can I do for you, "The Germans are a nation- vain." history if ;,_,e hope to prevent Confused by the strange Nancy?" ality, but the Nazis were a The following day Nancy them from happening again," conversation she heard as she "Father," she began, " My political group," Father James approached her grandmother. she reasoned." entered the hallway, Nancy grandmother is worried about replied pointedly. "The Nazis "We've been studying the Sec- · moved back against the wall, something that's involved with were responsible for the con­ and World War in school this beyond her grandmother's line a service at the synagogue, but centration camps. Several Jew­ month," she began matter-of­ S A o L O E of vision. my family is protecting me ish survivors of the Holocaust factly . " We're learning about j · • - "I'll miss · the synagotue from whatever it is. That's why -nave· told me that they owed the Holocaust." · ~ · STANLEY I service," her grandmother I've come to you." their lives to the courageous A gate seemed to snap shut said, speaking to her friend, Father James held her gaze Christians - Germans among across her grandmother's eyes. INSULATED Mrs. Goldstein. " But getting as he leaned , towards her. them - who saved them. And "Your teacher shouldn't STEEL there would be difficult with ' 'Nancy," he said, " the I'll tell you this: when I went to I my wheelchair, and I don't synagogue holds a memorial Jerusalem I visited the museu111 ENTRANCE want Nancy to ask where I'm service for everyone who lost that's been dedicated to the DOOR going." She paused, her voice his life in concentration camps victims of the Holocaust. PRIVATE troubled as she added, "You during the Second World War, There's a wide, tree-lined ave­ CHAUFFEURING . must think that I'm overly pro­ and that's why so many nue in front called The Avenue Installed $ 5 4 9 churches in the city participate. of the Righteous Christians. tective; after all, Nancy is 15! Luxury Stretch Deadbolt & Doorknob But can you blame me for You see, many people of differ- Each tree has been dedicated to Limousine shielding her from such ent religions and political a Christian who saved the life licensed & Insured tragedy?" beliefs suffered at that time." of a Jew." For All Occasions Call office: "Of course not," the other 'The Germans were respon- "Thank you, Father James," 527-6750 woman's tone held understand­ sible for those concentration Nancy said, rising from her LORIN LIVERY, LTD. ing. camps and my family is Ger- chair. " You've really helped After 5 pm: . "Still, the prayers are such a man," she answered, puzzled. me." (401) 884-6814 231-8414 • 353-4745 comfort," her grandmother "Yet Mrs. Goldstein and my "Just remember this," he went on. "They make me feel as though I were bringing flowers to my daughter-in- law's grave, wherever it may be. And your music helps, too ... What a wonderful choir you have!" "Just remember that your choir and two other churches BOSTONTELAVIV help to make it that way," Mrs. Goldstein answered. Their voices became muted and Nancy felt troubled as she left the hallway. She remem­ bered that last year, - at this same time in the spring, she had become aware of guarded (nonstop) words, cautious glances, and silencing gestures. She felt cer- tain now that her family was withholding knowledge from her, and she felt pushed away, distanced from some dreadful problem. She pondered the matter' for days until she remembered As you can see, there is no longer a stop between Boston Mrs. Goldstein saying that and Tel Aviv. Right now, we're flying nonstop every Monday. their own church choir partici­ Come June, nonstop every Monday and Wednesday. pated in this special service. These two cities have El W111~~ &'Al W111~llA-f ~ Surely her priest could help never been closer. ....a11,$~.,_$$~.....,. her! Feeling confident that after­ noon, she went to see Father . James. J:Ie ... smiled __as .. .she __L------.----- ...... -- .....-,....,.--,...... 4 - THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1991 Editorial

Horizons Beyond alive with dying people. reminded of the Holocaust so The expanse of sunken earth that we can never forget it. by Sarah Baird is a powerful memorial to the When the stories become more Herald Associate Editor Soviets who died here. They rare, we are able to think of died in the struggle against the As·Yom Hashoah approaches, them as nothing more than sto­ Germans, a border war, not one it is important for all of us to ries. of raging, blind anti-Semitism find some time to address the Stories fade to fiction, fiction and repulsive bigotry. Cer­ to forgotten tales. The threat of terrors of years past. In the af­ tainly, countless P-oles, Rus­ termath of our joyous celebra­ the terrible shadow of the sians and Jews perished at the tion of the Festival of Passover, Holocaust in time reduced to hands of the German murder­ Jet us remember to pause to pay someone else's memory is very ers. But their names and na­ real. As time passes, Gentiles tribute to the millions of Jews tionalities are not remembered. and others, who perished dur­ and Jews alike forget the hor­ The " fi nal solution" is never rors, wondering whether it all ing the Holocaust. mentioned. As a young American Jew really could have happened. The officials pass out How long will it be until our with no direct personal ties to " znachki," buttons with their the Jews who suffered across a children or theirs begin to slogan: " No one forgets. No question whether the victims vast ocean and years before my one is forgotten." birth, I adopt the communal were really as innocent as we If only that saying were true. know they were and are? history of all Jews. I must, how­ Today, many people forget and ever, not merely memorize the Years ago Babi Yar was a more and more are forgotten playground for all the local facts but also learn to personal­ every day. Places like the ize the history in a meaningful children. Suddenly, it became a Rhode Island Holocaust Mu­ swelling graveyard for the liv­ way. seum, Babi Yar and our local Keeping the history alive and ing. Today, it is a memorial to synagogues are places where the nameless victims. In how learning from others must go we can renew our commit­ beyond empathy. Certainly, many years will its purpose ments to Judaism and to learn­ again change? empathy is an important start­ ing about our rich, albeit tragic, ing point, but to guard against Let us remember and never Union. There I visited numer­ cents, the paths are lined with histories. They must be, how­ forget so that nowhere will such horrors happening again, ever, places not just of memori­ I must push past purely reflex­ ous memorials to those lost in rose sand - the color of blood. another playground become a the "Great Patriotic War." Only Like the dreadful descriptions als but also of testaments to the killing field. And we must ive responses. I believe that as a living and the future. young adult virtually un­ on rare occasion was I re­ in Babi Yar by A. Anatoli honor and visit these sacred In order to make that which spots so that, G-d forbid, a touched by the distant wars, I minded about the Jews. To (Kuznetsov), the ground slips is past relevant to the present memorial never becomes a must find a way to incorporate many Soviets, World War II underfoot, a memory of a mov­ and our futures, we younger playground for generations the past into my understanding was a national Soviet triumph. ing mass grave, the ground Jews, when mentioned, were Jews must recognize and accept unaware of the past. of the present and expectations the past. We must be constantly for the future. an afterthought. At Babi Yar, the immense Four years ago, I spent some Letters favorable comment on the let­ tury, Vienna (no I don't grave for thousands of inno- time as a student in the Soviet to the ter published written by a remember, I am not that old), group of gay and lesbian Jew­ there was a Jewish depty in the EDITOR ish clergymen. Austrian parliament, who r'-. Rhode Island Jewish Herald /7 I am a Jew, (and a heterosex­ when another delegate men­ PRESS RELEASE & LETTERS POLICY ·Dear Editors: ual if I may state) and would tioned something about crimi­ As a longtime faithful reader have been offended if there nal involvements of Jews, of, and sometimes writer to were any criticisms expressed replied, "Sir, we have an equal The Rhode Island Jewish Send to: your great publication, I want by your readers. right of having wrong-doers in Herald welcomes letters from Letters to the Editor to express my pleasant surprise To those who are and who our midst." its readers on Jewish concerns. RI Jewish Herald that neither in last week's nor kept nevertheless silent, let me Hans L. Heimann Letters must include a daytime P.O. Box 6063 this edition was there any un- say that in lat,e nineteenth cen- telephone number and should Providence, RI 02940 be no longer than 500 words. True Freedom Not dus 32, 16). Say our sages, "Do conduct. When the opportunity Longer letters may be edited Or fax to: Just Civil Liberties not read charut but cherut arises to do a mitzvah, he finds for space restrictions. 401 /726-5820. (freedom), for there is no free reasons why not to fulfill it. If There's been a lot of talk person except one who oc­ the mitzvah involves a degree lately about people's rights; cupies himself with the of self-sacrifice, such as RHODE ISLAND JEWISH living, doing and saying what­ Torah." (Avot 6,2) charity, he is doubly certain ever one wants. Sleeping on Freedom from all restrictions not to perform it. HERALD the street and burning money has its dangers. 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government's only remaining probably stop indefinitely. In November 1989, diplo­ port. Although President When Mengistu. halted the matic ties between· the two Mengistu is widely disliked by emigrations of Jews from Addis countries were renewed, but his people and accusations of Ababa a few weeks ago, a only about 3,500 Ethiopian human rights abuses by West-­ Western diplomat said he was Jews were allowed to emigrate em governments are a con­ convinced that the objective in 1990. stant, he is also believed to be was to squeeze aid from Israel. American pressure resulted the only hope the Jews have to However, as stated already, the in the Ethiopians agreeing to a get to Israel. emigrations have resumed. stepped up reunification pro­ The Eritrean rebels have On April 9-10, the Student gram. Since the first of the year, been fighting for 31 years for Association for Ethiopian about 2,000 people a month the secession of Eritrea, Jewry will sponsor an Ethi­ have been leaving for Israel. It Ethiopia's northeastern prov­ opian Jewry lobby in Washing­ should also be noted that since ince. The group controls ton, D.C. When l participated the N.Y. Times article last the majority of Eritrea. The in the program last year, the Feldman's Foibles: The Questionable Sunday, the emigration pro­ other rebel group, the Tigrean issue(s) were crucial. This Plight Of The Ethiopian Jews gram has resumed. front, which is based in the year, as the question of how l could stop this article here province of Tigre has been long the current government iopian Jews to Israel. It (the· by Tj Feldman by saying emigration is run­ trying to overthrow the will be able to hold on looms, The present government of article) said the emigrations ning smoothly. But I ask " for government since Col. this lobby is even more im­ Ethiopia is in trouble. As were stopped because of un­ how long?" The answer is not Mengistu came to power in portant. Hopefully, the current the possibility of its demise specified " irregularities" by simple. 1974. The group holds the government will remain in become greater, the fate of the Jewish aid agencies. In 1984 The March 22, N.Y. Times provinces of Tigre, Gojjam, power long enough for all the Jews remaining there becomes Jewish emigration from Ethi­ reported that the government Gondar, and a few other areas. Jews to emigrate to Israel. May more of a crucial question. opia was suspended when for­ seems near its end as the rebels If either or both of these groups they all be there for next Pass­ In last Sunday's (3/17) N.Y. eign press reports disclosed gain in strength. According to came to power, the Jews re­ over, and may we think of Times it was reported that the what was happening. At the the article, rebel forces are only maining in Ethiopia would them as we celebrate ours! Ethiopian government had sus­ time, Ethiopia and Israel had 90 miles from the capital and probably face a very bleak Happy Passover! pended the emigration of Eth- no diplomatic ties. 30 miles from Assah, the future, and emigration would

Passover Story Hitler, on the other hand, wandering in the desert does Land of Israel, be it Canaan or the era of the " New" Promised by Ray Eichenbaum used the Jew as the scapegoat not have a parallel in the occur­ Palestine was the ultimate goal Land for the Jewish people. For Now that the Holiday of for strictly political purposes., rences in the European Holo­ of our people - the fulfillment this, we, the survivors, are Passover is upon us, compar­ He skillfully managed to utilize caust, although it might have of their dreams and aspirations greatful and very humble. isons of troubled times for Jews the prevalent anti-Semitic ten­ been the will of the Almighty to after all the trials and all the This Passover, in spite of the are in order. dencies of the German people " waste" the generations of the vicissitudes. interval of the Scud missiles Naturally, the slavery of our to divest their attention from Jews in both cases. Hence, the happy prognosis scourge, let us be of good cheer forefathers in the Land of the his fanatical, almost idiotic In the first instance there for our future and the future of and pray hard to the Almighty. Pharaohs and the enslavement ideas of the Aryan race arose the strident voices among present-day Israel. Because the We hope and wish that this and destruction by the Hitlerite supremacy and other nonsen­ the Jews against G-d's will in generations who followed the time around, the old Promised regime comes to mind. sical visionary ideals. the debacle of the Golden Calf. "wandering slaves of the Land - Israel - the same ulti­ Both tyrants wanted to exter­ Once he duped them into fol ­ This can be set against the di­ desert" found their Promised mate goal of all these genera­ minate the Jewish people, be­ lowing his crazed racial purity vergent voices and views of the Land and lived, prospered and tions of Jews - will live, cause of the latter's belief in the laws, he had achieved his goals European Jewry, who could not died there for many, many gen­ progress and prosper forever. One Almighty G-d. The via the most convenient vehicle speak in one voice when it erations. Whole new religious Amen. Pharaoh of Egypt went about it, - the hatred of the Jew. But came to deciding to strive to re­ customs, indeed new civiliza­ albeit very clumsily, because he underneath all these causes, l gain Eretz Israel and return to tions came from this "cradle of thought of himself as being a believe was the layer of latent, Jerusalem. 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Nancy begged. " Don't 6 - THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1991 World and National News Britain Prepares To Prosecute Nazis by Anne Sacks Author Contributes Funds London Jewish Chronicle involved are elderly and nature To Soviet Retraining Project LONDON (JT A) - Scotland could allow them to elude Yard is poised " to hit the justice. Therefore, a special Popular author Judith this gift to retrain six physicians ground running" in the investi­ detective squad has been set up Krantz, whose six novels have and ten nurses to .give them the gation of suspected Nazi war to begin interviewing suspects all been on the best-seller lists opportunity to restructure their criminals living in Britain as as soon as the bill becomes (five were made into TV mini­ lives and become useful con­ soon as royal assent is given to law. series), was so moved by tributing members to Israel's the new war crimes bill, which At the moment, at least three Hadassah's program for re­ economy. 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To Help Communities Build JERUSALEM UTA) - Israel wounds. The other, Elmars Russian Jewish Literacy may finally comply with a long­ Sprogis, an alleged wartime standing U.S. request for the police chief in Latvia, escaped The Union for Traditional Ju ­ lifestyle can be built. Th e He­ extradition of Rochelle and injury when a bomb exploded daism is embarking on a special brew / Russian volumes include Robert Manning, an American outside his house in Brent­ Russian/ Jewish library project the Torah, a siddur (prayer­ Jewish couple suspected in the wood, N.Y. Another person that will help synagogues and book), and a haggadah. Also, mailbomb killing of an em­ was injured. communities fill the Jewish ed­ Rabbi Hayim Donin's To Be A ployee of a Los Angeles com­ In Washington, however, ucational gap among Soviet few, Prager and Telushkin's puter firm . the State Department said c Jewish immigrants. Nine Questions People Ask The Mannings, who are recently that the United States According to Rabbi Ronald D. About Judaism, and a transliter­ active in Kach, the anti-Arab was seeking the Mannings' Price, Executive Vice President' ated birchon (grace after meals movement founded by the late extradition in connection with of the U.T.J ., the Jewish com­ and blessings) booklet are pro­ Rabbi Meir Kahane, were ar­ Wilkerson's death. Department munity missed a major oppor­ vided in Russian. rested recently at their home in spokeswoman Margaret Tut­ tunity in the late seventies Rabbi Edward Snitkoff of National the West Bank settlement of wiler said the United States when the gates of the Soviet Harrisburg, Pa., coordinator of Kiryat Arba and will be de­ was working closely with Israel Union opened a crack and the project for the Union, re­ The New England region of on the case. thousands of Jews poured out, ported to the United States­ called a situation that demon­ 7 ARZA (Association of Re­ shortly at the U.S. Justice· Israel normally resists extra­ primarily to America. "We strated to him the need for the form Zionists of America) Department's request, Israel diting Jews for criminal activity weren't ready then," Rabbi program: announced a general meet­ Radio reported. abroad. But the Mannings' al­ Price said, "and we lost the ma­ "Twenty Soviet Jews came to ing on Sunday, April 21, The couple is wanted for the leged offenses occurred before jority of those Jews to main­ my synagogue one Friday 1991 at 4 p.m. at Temple killing of Patricia Wilkerson, a they became citizens of Israel. stream secular society. They as­ night, and all I had was an old Shalom of Newton. Rabbi secretary for Prowest Com­ Rochelle Manning, 50, was similated. We cannot afford to Hebrew / Russian mahzor (High Roland B. Gittelsohn will puter Corp. of Los Angeles. arrested in June 1988 when she make the same mistake again." Holiday prayerbook) to pass speak on " Peace for Israel: Wilkerson was killed in July arrived at Los Angeles Interna­ Although the vast majority of among them. For many of these Reality or Illusion?" There 1980 when she plugged in a tional Airport, accompanied by Jews leaving the USSR are go­ people it was the first time in­ will be an Israeli response. device that had been described the couple's two children. ing to Israel, almost 60,000 ev­ si de a synagogµe, and I did not as a new invention but was Robert Manning, 38, remained ery year will be coming to the have any Jewish reading mate­ actually a bomb. No motive in Kiryat Arba. However, she United States. While most of rial in Russian . to give them. was given for the bombing was released and allowed to the Jewish community's efforts They were reaching out, look­ Miami UT A) - The Miami then. But it was reported here return to Israel. on their behalf are concen­ ing for a Jewish connection, but Beach City Commission has recently that the company was Meanwhile, the Kach move­ trated on material needs, the we were not ready." approved the building of a in competition with the firm ment has announced the elec­ U.T.J. is seeking ways to pro­ Those wishing to acquire or mikvah by the Daughters of with which Rochelle Manning tion of a new chairman to re­ vide for spiritual needs. donate a library should send Israel on Jefferson Avenue was associated at the time. place Kahane, who was as­ U.T.J. volunteers have sifted $39.95 to the Union for Tradi­ and 17th Street, despite The couple has also been sassinated in New York last through materials from twelve tional Judaism, 261 E. Lincoln protests by residents in the linked to the unsolved murder Nov. 5. He is Avraham publishers (American and Is­ Ave., Mt . Vernon, N.Y. 10552. neighborhood. The Jefferson case of Arab-American activist Toledano, a 33-year-old engi­ raeli), and have chosen appro­ The contributor may choose to Avenue residents, who have Alex Odeh, the regional head neer from Kiryat Arba who priate and useful volumes in receive the volumes or desig­ already lost one appeal be­ of the American-Arab Anti­ says he could never fill Russian. nate a specific family or syna­ fore City Commission, plan Discrimination Committee Kahane's shoes but will be an Through the U.T.J., a commu­ gogue. Alternately, the U.T.J. to continue their fight who was killed in October organizer for the movement. nity or individual can now pur­ will be happy to choose a recip­ against the resolution. They 1985 when a bomb exploded in Toledano announced that Kach chase a "Basic Russian/Jewish ient. ·All recipients will be in­ say a residential area is no the group's Santa Ana, Calif., would seek seats in the Knesset Library" for Soviet Jews. The formed of the name of the place for a mikvah, and they office. Odeh had defended the in the next elections without Library contains the founda­ sponsor. fear the ritual bath house Palestine Liberation Organiza­ changing its platform. tions upon which a Jewish The Russian Jewish Literacy will cause a disturbance. tion in a television interview The platform, calling for the initiative is one of many out­ the night before the bombing forcible expulsion of all Arabs Street To Commemorate reach projects undertaken by . . . but was not a formal member from Israel and the admin­ 'Desert Storm' the Union at cost. The goal of of the PLO, according to the istered territories, disqualified JERUSALEM UTA) - The the U.T.J. is to encourage Jews ·The Providence Journal re­ Palestinian community. Kach from the 1988 elections Jerusalem municipality has to live an open-minded obser­ ported that in an attempt to The Mannings have also on grounds of racism. decided to name a street or vant Jewish lifestyle. strengthen compliance with been tied to the bombings of (Contributing to this report square in the city after Opera­ the global arms and financial suspected Nazi war criminals were /TA correspondent Howard tion Desert Storm, the code embargo against Iraq, the in New Jersey and New York. Rosenberg in Washington and name for the U.S.-led military DON'T WEIGHT Bush administration made One of the men, Tscherim staff writer Susan Birnbaum in operation that drove Iraqi public this week the ·names Soobzokov, died of his New York.) forces out of Kuwait. ANY LONGER of 52 companies and 37 indi­ The decision was made viduals that it says are acting Chaim Potok To Speak unanimously by the City as agents and fronts for FRANKLIN, Mass. - Noted Co,.mcil's names committee. Baghdad. Two of the compa­ author Chaim Potok will speak The full council is expected to nies are American, yet offi­ on "The Artist Against approve without dissent. The cials would not provide de­ Society" at the Dean Junior street or square selected has tails reguarding the list. College Campus Center on not been announced, but a More than jusl a die In Tuesday, April 9, at 7:30 p.m. naming ceremony is expected 82 Pitman Street, Providence, RI 02906 International Admission is free and open to to be held in the next few (401) 454-1920 the public. The program is weeks. being sponsored by the Dean Amsterdam UT A) Department of Humanities and Kuwait, doubly devastated Division of Student Affairs as "Helping in the Joy of New Birth" by six months of Iraqi occu­ part of the college's 125th pation and the seven-week • Infant Care Teaching anniversary celebration. • Breastfeeding Support Persian Gulf war, is still de­ A powerful and widely ac­ manding that firms submit­ claimed writer, Chaim Potok's • C-Section Care · ting bids for work in that work focuses on not only the • Medela Breast Pump Sales and Rental Station country include statements interplay of the Jewish tradi­ • Meal & House Care Assistance that they are not Jewish and tion with the secular twentieth • Mothers' Helpers do not employ Jews, accord­ Chaim Potok century, but also on the con­ • 24 HOUR TELEPHONE SUPPORT SERVICE IF NEEDED ing to Israeli officials. Also, frontations that exist within all The Gift of Asher Lev (published the Saudi and Kuwati gov­ ethnic groups as they interact last year), The Chosen, and The MOTHER AND NEWBORN HOMECARE ernments have denied visi­ with the larger fabric of society. Promise. He is also the author tor's visaa to Sen. Frank (Division of Cathleen Naughton Associates} Potok's characters display a of Wanderings: Chaim Potok's 249 Wickenden Street, Providence, RI 02903 Launtenberg (D-N.Y.) be­ striking sense of continuity History of the Jews, and of cause his passport contained with national history and are numerous articles, short . (401) 751-BABY • (401) 849-BABY Israeli entrance stamps. most often presented against a stories, and reviews. GIFf CERTIACATES AVAILABLE backdrop of the demands of Dean Junior College is REIMBURSEMENT FOR SERVICE UNDER SOME HEALTH PLANS . . . family and religion. His novels located 45 mim,1tes south of include My Name is Asher Lev, Boston off Exit 17 of Rt. 495. Jerusalem - 14 Carbon test on a few of the Dead Sea Scrolls revealed they were written from the second cen­ tury B.C. to the third century ~-1\JRBER-R04 A.O., officials said this week. The testing appeared to con­ ~ J. ~ JEWELERS C'.1:f firm most scholars' belief G.1.A. CERTIFICATE DIAMONDS • ANTIQUE SOLITAIRES that the works were those of N.A.J.A. CERTIFIED APPRAISERS • ESTATE JEWELRY a Jewish sect, the Essenes, Said Magan Broshi, custo­ dian of the Israel Museum's 828-8188 Shrine of the Book. OONALD P. THURBER AN OLD NAME FOR INTEGRITY - A NEW NAME FOR VALUE WILLIAM A. ROACH JEWELER RT. 113 AT RT. 2 ACROSS FROM THE RHODE ISLAND MALL GEMOLOCIST 8 - THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1991 [ I AROUND TOWN I More Of A Triumph~ I by Dorothea Snyder 4 l

The 15 minutes prior to landing at tagline on their stationery Fort Lauderdale Airport always seem Television with a dramatic difference. endless. The quality of their presentations I'm on shpilkies to wiggle out of my are always of the highest calibre. The strait-jacket aisle seat and race up the Sunset Gang ranks high among them ramp to my smiling ear-to-ear mom and surely shouldn't be missed. and dad. After hugs, kisses and news It touches a button of emotions. The flashes hot off the press, our visit Su11set Gang has a warm, wonderfully becomes a marvelous medley of poignant and sometimes comical · touching conversational bases and insight into the way people deal with enjoying reunions with Boston kin changes in their li fe as they enter the converted to Florida natives. threshhold of their golden years. On occasion, I've been lucky to Yiddish explores the magic of falling come back wiJh some wonderful in love again at 70. Velvil (Harold stories like "The Kid From Brooklyn," Gould) and his wife Mimi (Doris all about my dad's close friend and Roberts) have retired in Sunset Village pinochle-playing buddy, Lenny where Velvil " rediscovers his Cohen, who once was head sports Jewishness" and combats boredom by writer for the now defunct New York joining the Sunset Village Yiddish Post. Sadly, Lenny passed away a year Club. There he meets Genendel and a half ago. (Tresa Hughes), anoth-er married Another year, l visited my folks and retiree. Their friendship blossoms into covered the Kosher Foods Expo, not love, but produces a dilemma, an easy assignment, since l whether or not to leave their spouses. Yiddish opens the "American Playhouse" presentation of Warren succumbed to all the sampling and Th e Detective, with Anne Meara Adler's The Sunset Gang trilogy. Problems rise when love strikes a pair had to be rolled out of the Miami and jerry Stiller revolves around a of unsuspecting senior citizens. Shown from left are Tresa Hughes, Exposition Center. restless and bored retired teacher who Harold Gould, and Doris Roberts. And this past year, l was lucky turns a harmless hobby into a enough to have my Florida visit fu ll-time obsession. coincide with Loren Levy Miller's Th e Home stars Uta Hagen as · investiture as Dade County judge in Sophie Berger, a widow, who lives Miami. alone in Sunset Village. She falls and My own wonderful visits with my breaks her hip. Her children worry parents sparked my interest in Warren that the accident will permanently Adler's fictional accounts inspired by prevent their mother fro m .taking care his numerous trips to visits with his of herself. Sophie B,erger is parents once they retired to Century determined to remain independent. Village at West Palm Beach·in 1971 . What surprised me the'' most was His visits, he said, " helped that Warren Adler, writer of this most rediscover the mysterious joys of absorbing and heartwarming trilogy, connection. l became aware of is ·the author of the heartless, bleak changes in my own parents ·as well as black comedy, War of the Roses. the other residents as they made the The Sunset Gang translates into transition from northern urbanites to genuine feelings and caring which southern country dubbers." nurture the growth and development Those visits inspired a collection of of all three story lines! nine short stories called The Sunset Warren Adler said, " As the Ga 11g. Sunset Village became Adler's originator of the material, l am ecstatic fictional name for Century Village. with every phase of the adaptation . . . The stories were published by Viking production values, the wonderfully 15 years ago and have been checked sensitive (true to the original) out many times from libraries. The screenplays of the talented Ronald stories have also become a vehicle for Ribman, and the performances by an Jerry Stiller, right, and Anne Meara, second fro~ righ_t, are fac_ed,~ith stage dramatizations by senior outstanding cast." a major mystery when food disappears from their r efrigerator m The citizens groups. For years, Adler has been baffled by Detective," the second episode of ."The Sunset Gang." "To my mother,'' Adler said, the amazing survival of The Sunset " Florida, in the early years of their Gang. sojourn was Nirvana. She reveled in "Only recently has it begun to it. My father, used to his subway dawn on me that something is commute, coffee shop bagel and embedded in those stories that l coffee breakfast, New York Times and should have recognized from an the bustle of city heat, merely incident back in 1976, a week after the tolerated it. book's publication. "Visiting them periodically, "A man called me for an discovered that these people had autographed copy of the book during created for themselves a hybrid a snowstorm and found his way two culture patched together out of their hours later to my home. Why would own rich experience. They would, of this man brave his way through a course, deny to themselves the · snowstorm for a signature? richness of it, their view distorted by " He told me that his mother lived the economic struggle anq pain of . ~.it:1.c\ nursing home in jack~onville. The di~placement. The idea of tropical stories in that book haq given her Florida for this generation of northern great. happi1161/.S, t,he !l"anted to, in survivors was a fantastic irony and the some ,way, touch the a4fh~r. htimor of it · could · provdke both a :, , ''Tne...rfiltn _who had cq!J!e through wryness ~nid a belly laughi 1 • · • ·.. '.' " th,e stiow·-wasn't .Jewisl,I," Adler said, Two years ago, actress Linda Lavin "yet !Jis'·. motl}er related to these was in search of material to be· used storie·s dn her own· term's. by· her production company. When " It is only now as th~ aging process she came across The Sunset Gang, she begins to work its way into greater approached Warren· Adler's agent for personal awareness, that l haye .begun Uta Hagen stars as an older woman living.alone in a Florida retirement rights. "The stories," Adler. remarked, t to understand the universality .of the"•, , community in "The Home;". the final episode of "The Sunset Gang" I "had struck an emotional-chord since theme. Like birth, aging flattens all ,.•. trilogy. Shown are hei-'' clhldren played by Ronald Rifkin, Leslie Linda's father was currently .living a I differences. Ayvazian and Kathryn Grody. f similar lifestyle in Florida:" . "There is nothing exclusively Realizing that his stories hac;l a . . ethnic, or exclusively anything in the l universal truth and appeal that ' process. It is nondiscriminatory and ,. extended beyond ethnic ., lfarriers,' nonjudgmental. It is th,:: last lap of the The set of three films for The Sunset Linda Lavin brought the project to human journey, the way of all flesh. It Ga 11g airs on WGBH/ Channel 2 on AMER C AN Lindsay Law, executive producer of is also, in its own wa_y, more of. a Fridays, April 5, 12 and 19 at 9 p.m .; public television's weekly " American .triumph than a tragedy," WSBE/Channel 36 on Sundays, April Playhouse" drama. The Sunset Gang, a 7 and 14 at 10 p.m., ski pping a week trilogy about life in a south Florida for the third filin to April 28 at 11 p.m. retirement community, will be aired The trilogy also airs on WGBX/Chan­ PLAYHOUSE. 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THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1991 - 9 Books in Review Uneasv Endings nected with the home - the who might be capable of under­ others a resolution does appear help shrink the gap between by Eleanor F. Horvitz doctors, nurses, custodians, standing and communicating. probable. them. If the Jewish community Dilemmas abound in the kitchen workers, administra­ The second and largest group Another approach is the of Harrison made more of a book, Uneasy Endings, Daily tors, social workers as well as was termed the "demented." It documentation of a staff mem­ concerted effort to be involved Life in an American Nursing the relatives of the residents. It encompassed the anxious, the ber's hours on duty. In one in the nursing home, the aged Home, researched and written is often the interaction between forgetful, the confused. This chapter Renee Shield ac­ individuals among them might by Renee Rose Shield, Ph.D. these various groups which is group required little nursing companies a dietician. She not be perceived as scary and (Cornell University Press, responsible for the dilemmas care, but needed guidance and describes her many duties, her alien. Fear and distaste too 1988). created in the functioning of supervision. The third group thoughts, the pressures she often prevent younger people The author has used several the home and its effect upon was made up of those who copes with, and her role with from acknowledging that they methods of approach in con­ the residents. were most capable both physi­ the kitchen staff as well as with will one day be old,' made sidering her three theoretical At the time in which the cally and mentally, but were the residents. dependent, choiceless and re­ premises: the impersonal, author carried on her research heterogeneous in their needs. The author makes some sug­ ceiving. The very first steps organizational principles which there were over 250 staff mem­ Although categorized dif­ gestions: come from our understanding account for many of the con­ bers which included admin­ ferently, these three groups of ( 1) To increase the strengths that the old people are 'us' flicts and divisiveness in the istrators, registered nurses, residents were housed in the of the residents in order to en­ eventually, that there is conti­ nursing home; the mostly pas­ nursing assistants, orderlies, same institution. hance their independence; and nuity between the ages, and sive and receiving role that maintenance and housekeep­ Interspersed throughout the (2) To create community that dependency recurs residents of the home are ing staff, social workers, dieti­ book are recorded histories of rituals to provide cohesion and throughout the life cycle. In placed in; and, most signifi­ cians, and occupational and several residents, which the solidarity, which aid the transi­ recognizing these links, per­ cantly, that "the nursing home recreational therapists. author calls their " voice." tion in the rite of passage. Peo­ haps we all have a future." residents find themselves Seventy-five percent of the From these accounts the reader ple need to 'do somet_hing' in This many faceted study pre­ without anchor in a rite of pas­ employees, excluding reg­ gains an insight into the his­ order to feel worthwhile and sents a realistic portrait of life sage between adulthood and istered nurses, social workers, tory and life of the resident count as human beings. in a nursing home. For those of death." etc., were unionized. There is prior to his or her admittance Furthermore, the author us who have had parents, rela­ The study takes place in a an interesting account of a to the nursing home. Another offers these practical solutions: tives.or friends as residents in a nursing home, the Franklin threatened strike during this term is "notebook" which is "The emotional, cultural nursing home, the author's Nursing Home, (a pseudo­ period. Preparations for the the author's observations of gulf separating the Franklin findings offer no surprises. nym), a nonprofit Jewish home care of the residents in the events. For example, she pres­ Nursing Home from the Har­ Renee Rose Shield in her in the fictitious community of event of a walk-out were ex­ ents excerpts from resident­ rison community could and aptly titled book, Uneasy End­ Harrison. The author spent 14 tensive and seemingly impos­ care conferences which may should be bridged. Perhaps the ings, has given us an insight months in which she studied sible. Fortunately that strike include the doctor, nurses, easiest route would begin with into the complex world of a and researched the many facets · was averted. dieticians, social workers, initiatives from the nursing nursing home, its staff and its involved in the operation of a There were three main members of the resident family home family members and residents. · Whatever our age, nursing home. She combines groups of residents who had and the residents themselves. others from Harrison could be this excellent study is highly resident oral history with the separate needs in the nursing There appears no solution to invited to the nursing home to recommended. interviews and observations of home. One was the very ill some of the dilemmas posed in participate in educational or Rhode Island Jewish the many individ'!al~ con_- physically, consisting of those these conferences whereas in festive occasions that would Historjcpl Association languages went their own way I paid a few coins for this one )ems any better than my small R.I. Philharmonic Dream Books is some kind of Nazi nut. All at a small bookstall behind the ones? When I was a small boy Presents Pavel Berman by Mike Fink names grow out of the Bible. Warwick Mall. I added it to my my eldest brother would walk . right straight into my room. Pavel Berman, winner of the Herald Contributing Editor Figure out where I stuck my shelf of dream source books. I But I had no right to go into his prestigious International Violin Spending a sabbatical nose in a fact catalogue. The used to fix only on ladders and holy sanctuary. One day I Competition of Indianapolis semester brings you back to saga of Snow White moved to trees in my nightmares. So I boyhood. Or it forces you fast Germany from Italy. The fierce use those surreal alphabets to marched in and messed up the will perform the Tchaikovsky neat things .in his sacred "Violin Concerto in D major, forward to retirement. I don't wintry details got added in up dig out the allegorical life not know which. I ramble round North. How the basic plot - only of deep sleep but of the bureau drawers. Is this what Opus 35" with the Rhode nations do to one another? Island Philharmonic Orchestra town. I fin·d myself ponng envious designs of a Queen minor events of memory. Or over dictionaries and encyclo­ against a young Princess - even of every passing day. Ac­ Other personal affairs go on Saturday evening, April 6, wrong and get tangled like a at 8:30 p.m. at the Providence pedias in quiet comers of my reached Italy, or if it grew on cording to Lady Steam, you local Rochambeau branch Italian soil - would make an­ should worry about your kid's shoelaces. Is this the way Performing Arts Center at 220 of all flesh? Weybosset St., Providence, R.I. library, or the nearest Temple other megillah. I said to myself, peonies. They stand for anxiety Emanu-EI reading room a maybe Saul's envy of David and doubt. But penguins when Thank G-d for a workplace Music Director Andrew to go back to! Massey will conduct. Also on block or so away. changed gender somewhere _you come across them mean the program is contemporary Guess where I picked up along the road. The same pages ,your worries will be minor and composerJames Drew'sinnova- · "WORDS," a big red book by credit China with the unravel­ will dive and swim away. I did _. THE MEADOWBROOK CINEMA Isaac Mozeson that lists terms ling of the Cinderella yam. But meet some penguins recently,., tive "Symphony No. 3" and 2452 Warwick Ave., Warwick excerpts from Suites 1 and 2 of in English that come out of maybe she too jumped out of both at the park and in the ACROSS FROM SUPER STOP & SHOP Hebrew. "Giraffe" means the Torah. Joseph is envied for Biltmore. And I do get dis­ Prokofiev's "Romeo and ALL MATINEES "neck" and "skunk" means his beauty and charm by his tressed if my peonies are too $1.00 Juliet" one of his best-loved MON. & TUES. EVES. $ ballet music compositions. This "stink" in their Semitic origins. brothers, who try and be rid of small one year, or no ants come/ 1 00 him. · ALLSHOWS • Philharmonic concert is "Sparrow" grew from "tsi­ to them. · sponsored by Citizens Bank. pora." The founding fathers I get sleepy from all this " re­ Sometimes as I drive or Pavel Berman was born in knew all about it. They came search." I doze off. If I dream walk, or only sit still, I let my -" 1970 and is the son of noted within a few votes of taking on during my forty winks, I can't mind wander down its own.~ pianist, Lazar Berman. De­ Hebrew as the native language . tum to Joseph for· interpreta­ paths. I get lost in mental .: ciding early in life that violin of the United States. Anyone tion, so I look up symbols in underbrush so to speak. I read_. was to be his instrument, he who says the Indo-European my new "Dreamer's Diction­ the news or listen in on the ary" by Lady Steam Robinson. radio at a cafe. If I were this began lessons at the age of five. CALL 738-2471 He entered the Moscow State country or that instead of just a person, could I handle big prob- FOR TIMES & LISTINGS Conservatory in 1988 where he Copies of the Herald are available from: currently studies with Igor Barney's on East Avenue, Pawtucket Bezrodnay. In 1985, Mr. Berman won the third prize in Somethin's Cookin' on East Avenue, Pawtucket the International Competition East Side Pharmacy on Hope Street, Providence of Young Violin Players, the Hall's Drug on Elmgrove Avenue, Providence Wieniawski-Lipinsky, in Lub­ Gary's Park Avenue Deli on Park Avenue, Cranston lin, Poland; in 1987, second Garden City Drug on Reservoir Avenue, Cranston prize in the Paganini Interna­ tional Violin Competition in Genoa, Italy, and now, has PROUDLY PRESENTS TWO SOVIET ARTISTS taken first prize in the Interna­ '-\ II' p111.id , p,n1, ,n .., 11I th ... \I \I/fl B\11 tional Violin Com~tition of 111 1 1!, \•HJ \lftlllll ll l\l t..llllh HAGOP KELEDJIAN Indianapolis. 21111AMMol O,uFir#Ever Tickets for the April 6 con­ Lox TROT MEMBERS-ONLY PARTY VLADIMIR SAVADIAN cert may be purchased by Al phone at the Philharmonic R-lSinCltl APRIL 8 - 27 . _ office, 222 Richmond St., Provi­ viera!.°L '"-11:.:.:::15 SLBall"') dence (401) 831-3123, 9-5 ~17) 227-ROXY (617) 262-2424 DON'T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY! 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Shirley Waterman, Heidi Wat­ Maternal grandparents are The course was co-sponsored son, Michael Watson, and Bella Barbara Gross of Carillon with the New York-based " Na­ Werner. Drive, Rocky Hill, Conn., and tional Jewish Outreach Pro­ "Diplomas" were distributed Jerry Gross of Mayflower St., gram." The following students to all the successful "gradu­ West Hartford, Conn. completed the course: Zee ates" and they were also hon­ Paternal grandparents are Anolik, Marcia Cohen, Sey­ ored at the "Adult Bat-Mitz­ Raymond and Zelda Goldberg mour Davis, Hilda DelRoss, vah" program. We are already of Aunt Park Lane, Newton, Bruce Eipperle, Dawn Em­ getting requests for our next Conn. sellem, Doris Feinberg, Barr prqgram and we hope to spon­ Maternal great-grandparents Flynn, Jessica Gallipeau, Elaine sor this course again in the near are Russell and Selma Golden Glashow, Penelope Goff, Ben future. of South Clarendon St. , Crans­ [ Johnson, Owen Kirby, Phyllis ton, R.l. , and paternal great­ grandparents are Benjamin and Pawtucket Resident Recognized Ida Gross of Harris Ave., Cranston, R.l. Brian Rivard, of Pawtucket, tion which includes a 725-bed recently received an award chronic care teaching hospital, from the Hebrew Rehabilita­ two specialized housing com­ Adlers Announce tion Center for Aged in Boston plexes for seniors and a nation­ Engagement for his years of service. ally renowned gerontological Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Adler Maurice I. May, HRCA presi­ research program. The organi­ of Cranston, R.I. , have an­ dent, commended Rivard for .zation is dedicated to serving nounced the engagement of his 10 years of service in the the elderly with the highest their daughter, Lauren Ann Engineering department. quality of life through care, re­ Adler to David Thomas Katzmans Announce Engagement HRCA is a multi-site, multi­ search and training. Caudill, son of Lewalta Haney Mr. and Mrs. Harry M. Katzman of 19 Lachance Ave., Warwick, service geriatric care organiza- of Louisa, Va., and Thomas Caudill of Chicago, Ill. An R.I., announce the engagement of their daughter, Gayle I. Katz: B'nai Israel Events Soviet Artists October wedding is planned. man of Los Angeles, Calif., to Mr. Ed Wilner of Los Angeles, Sisterhood Meeting Exhibit Works Ms. Adler is a graduate of Calif., the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wilner, of Los Angeles, the University of R.I. and T.C. Calif. The bride is the daughter of the late Frances Katzman. There will be a Sisterhood This month Raphy Gallery is Ms. Katzman graduated trom Boston University. meeting on April 7, at 10 a.m. featuring two Soviet artists Williams School of Law at the The wedding date has been set for October 12, 1991. for the planning of donor event Hagop Keledjian and Vladimir University of Richmond. She is and the future of Sisterhood. Savadian. an attorney with the law firm ALL Welcome! Please join Vladimir Savadian has been of Morchower, Luxton and Family Life Education Provides us. very successful in the Soviet Whaley in Richmond, Va . Support For Interfaith Couples Union and has exhibited his art The prospective bridegroom in Moscow, Kiev, Prague, is a graduate of Virginia Poly­ Interfaith couples often face a common experience. Sofia, Leipzig, Montreal. technic Institute, Virginia State personal challenges as a result . . "One Marriage - Two Reli­ Hagop Keledjian has un­ University. He is presently of their differing backgrounds. gions," sponsored by Jewish fortunately been denied that employed by the State of The concerns that invariably Family Service and led by JFS privilege due to his philosophy Virginia. come up include relations with Executive Director Paul L. Se­ of art and anti-Communist the families, how children will gal, will be held on three con­ stand. He has left his country be raised and how holidays will secutive Thursdays, April 11, and come to the United States Holocaust Memorial be celebrated. A Jewish Family 18 and 25, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. to seek religious and artistic Service Scheduled Service family religion work­ The fee is $35 per couple. freedom. shop, "One Marriage - Two Re­ The workshop will be held at Raphy Gallery is very ex­ On Thursday, April 11 , at 7 ligions," provides a safe, non­ the offices of JFS, 229 Water­ cited to be showing their art p.m. there will be a special judgmental atmosphere where man St., Providence. Pre-regis­ work for the first time in Provi­ Holocaust memorial service these issues and others can be tration is required. To register GOURMET NORTHERN dence. Their work will be held at Congregation Beth explored and discussed with or for further information, ITAUAN CUISINE showing from April 8 to April Sholom at Camp Street and other interfaith couples sharing please call 331 -1244. 27. Rochambeau Avenue. This service with special readings Host Families Help New Emigres Come try our new and a unique presentation will conclude Yorn Hashoah (Holo- ..S.Ctlons created ' caust Day) observances. The Jewish Family Service, in its culture as well as develop a by Master Chef program is jointly sponsored continuing effort to help recent Jewish identity by sharing holi­ NEW! Soviet Jewish emigres resettle, by Congregations Ohawe days. Host families become .·, .MIChele Collse is coordinating a new program, Eleetroale Shalom, Beth Sholom, Mish­ "friends in need" by being a . ;,'..,,,_,.,ollllue Qrolto Family to Family. source of support during diffi, ·.. , andCc,pdcclo FEDERAL INCOME TAX kon Tfiloh and the Providence Hebrew Day School. The entire Through Family to Family, cult times. Rhode Island's American Jew­ Jewish· community is urged to Volunteering as a host family ish families have the opportu­ attend. is a commitment and means be­ -,nuac nity to be involved in the reset­ coming a regular part of an­ FAST tlement effort by being other person's life. The emigres REnJNJtS matched with and befriending will come to count on their new When you send a wedding a Soviet Jewish family new to American friends and will the community. The matched value the service provided. All Your Tu R,timd In 2-3 w... or engagement LOANS2-3DAYS announcement, why not families make regular phone ages are welcome as are fami­ calls and arrange activities include a photo? lies with children, couples and themselves, establishing an im­ singles. I Black and white only, portant .and valuable relation­ For further information or to WRAP&PAK please. 30lill..,-SIIWI • Pnwldlnce • 111-0AO: ship. In the -context of friend­ volunteer, plei!se call Temma ship, host families can help i-:lolland at Jewish Family Ser­ emigres learn more about vice, 331-1244. Rhode Island and American Rabbi Carl Astor Touro Tour Program Resumes Certified Mohel Our nationally acclaimed tours are being conducted and synagogue tour programs have additional public tours and 15 years of professional experience been re-instituted with the con- group tours will start after For a Dignified, Meaningful clusion of the Persian Gulf hos- Passover. Our tours are con­ Religious Ceremony tilities. These tours were sus- ducted under the guidance and pended from January 15 until supervision of Rabbi Shapiro (203) 442-0418 (Work) March 10 for security consider- an~ ~ur Tour C~rdinator, Mrs. (203) 443-0760 (Residence) ·ations during the Gulf crisis. At He1d1 Watson, with a fine staff ·P.resent, the Sunday 1-3 p.m. of competent guides. , ...... -~ ... ·--- -~~-...... _...... _. . .. ,._.__.._._ ... _.____ .... .,,._,._. _____ ,, ·-----·-···' ·------. ·- ··---· -. ------~------·-·- . . - THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1991 - 13 Local News

Sons Of Jacob the PLO · opens with a IS­ Thursday, April 4 - Candle­ a.m. page prayer ending with a pas­ lighting at 5:54 p.m. Forty-four Morning services for Mon­ sage asking Allah to "obliterate PASSOVER CONTEST WINNERS days to Kabolas Hatorah. day and Thursday are at 6:30 the enemies of peace" and Friday, April 5 - Seventh a.m. and for Tuesday, Wednes­ " President Bush, the com­ day of Pesach - Twenty-one day and Friday are at 6:45 mander of the new crazed Cru­ days in NISAN. Candlelighting a.m. saders' war." The Post con­ at 5:55 p.m. Regular Yorn Tov Mincha for the week is at tinues in their review of the CATEGORY: Ages 10-13 services. Torah reading is 6:20 p.m. book, " After heaping ridicule " Vayehi b'shalach Par'oh" and Thursday, April 11, is Yorn Penina Strajchner on Yaron London and Yossi "Vehikravtem," two Torahs, Hashoah - Holocaust Remem­ Sarid (noted Israeli Doves who age 12-1/2 43 days to Kabolas Hatorah. brance Day. 27 NISAN. On have repudiated negotiations "Desert journey home." Morning services are at 8:30 Saturday, April 13-29 NISAN - We will be blessing the coming with the PLO over its endorse­ a.m. followed by Kiddush. ment of Saddam Hussein), Shii­ month of IY AR. Mincha is at 6 p.m. Ma'ariv is ba ya turns to the Israel Center Palestine Journalist Backs at 7p.m. as represented by the Labor CATEGORY: Ages 6 & Under Saturday, April 6 - Eighth Saddam Hussein Party." Why are the overwhelming Robin Halpern, age 5 day of Pesach. Twenty-two The rest of the book is a majority of Israelis wary of a days in NISAN. Torah read­ " long, bitter, and often repeti­ Palestine state? One important ings today are recited. In the tive polemic against the Ku­ reason is the Palestinians' his­ first we read " Aser Te'aser" waitis, the Saudis, the Syrians, tory of embracing tyrants seek­ and from the second " Vehik' - the Egyptians, and all those ing to destroy the Jewish state! ravtem." (Forty-two . days to Arabs who dared line them­ One Arab who is quite ca ndid Kabolas Hatorah). Yiskor serv­ selves up against Saddam Hus­ about this is Mohammed Abu ice is at 10 a.m. Morning serv­ sein. The work ends with 25 Shilbaya, a veteran Palestinian ices are at 8:30 a.m. followed pages of cartoons, all in keep­ journalist based in East by Kiddush. Mincha is at 6:05 ing with the author's outlook Jerusalem, who has written a p.m. Ma·ariv is at 6:45 p.m . condemning the U.N., the book explaining his support of Shabbos ends at 6:59 p.m . Reg­ U.S ., and all other members of ular Havdalah service is at 7:05 Saddam Hussein. the anti-Iraqi coalition." In the past he and the other p.m. During our daily chores, Palestinians supported Gama! Do not use Chometz prod­ business, pleasures, etc. , please Abdul Nasser, Khomeni, and ucts or utensils until 8 p.m., as keep in mind the safe return now Hussein. When Saddam it takes time for the Rabbi to from the Middle East for all of Hussein fails they wi ll wait for repurchase the Chometz. our men and women in the a new Saladin. The book Sunday, April 7 - (Forty­ Ueru­ Armed Forces, and for the con­ sa le111 Post, Nov. 14, I 990) - one days to Kabolas Hatorah). tinuing safety and growth of Robin Halpern which is dedicated in part to Morning · services are at 7:45 Israel. Providence Teachers Receive· Renowneq.Ethicists Speak On Human Research "Never Again Award" A special interfaith service roth currently teaches at " Ends and M~ans: Ethics in Dr. Benjamin Freedman, Pro- ca l dilemmas inherent in this commemorating Yorn Hashoah Classical HigH Scho·ot ·He in-' Research," a series, of lectures. fessor at the McGill Centre for research. will be held at Temple Emanu­ eludes the Holocaust ' in his sponsored by Brpwn-RISD Hil- Medicine,' Ethics and Law and _ Brown-RISO Hillel Founda­ EI, on Taft Avenue in Provi­ social · studies curriculum and lel, will coi;iclull.t!; it_hi.S: _rpontl:f , ,-.Clinft.il'~Etnkist it .. The·· ' Sir • tion, the ·center - for , extracur­ dence, on April 10 at 7:30 ·p.m. ' has brought five classes to the · '' with two important lectures on Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish Gen- Jewish life at Brown University Poetry and music will be in­ Museum: He attendealhe 1990 the ethics of human research. era! Hospital of Montreal, will and the Rhode Island School of cluded to make this a moving " Facing History And Ou~­ Dr. Micha.el Grodin, Associ- talk on "The Ethics of Human Design, is affiliated with the and meaningful service. selves" workshop and this year ate Directot of the law, Medi- Research: The Current Ap- B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundations, The Never Again Award of was co-presenter. cine and Ethics. Pi:ogram and proach and a Sideways Jewish which are headquartered in 1 the Jewish Federation of Rhode A ca ndle-lit walk ,to the Director of Medical Ethics at Glance" on Wednesday, April Washington, D.C. The Hillel Island will be presented to this Memorial Garden of the Rhode Boston University Schools of 17, at 8 p.m. in Wilson Hall, Foundations were founded in year's recipients, Providence IsJand Holocaust Memorial Medicine and Public Health, Room 102. I 923 and today comprise the teachers Fred Suzman and Museum, adjacent to the Jew­ will talk on "The Nazi Doctors " Ends and Means: Ethics in largest Jewish campus organ- Mike Eckenroth. Mr. Suzman, ish Community Center of and the Nuremberg Code: Research" is a lecture series ization in the world with repre- a teacher at Mount Pleasant Rhode Island, will follow the Human Rights in Human Ex- sponsored by the Brown and sentation on over 400 college High School, has taught Holo­ service, where relativf!S lost in perimentation." Delivering the Rhode Island School of Design and university campuses world­ caust studies on his own initia­ the Holocaust will be· remem­ Annual Holocaust Commemo- Hillel Foundation. Made possi- wide and serving over 400,000 tive for twelve years. Last year bered as their names are read rative Lecture of Brown-RISO ble by a grnnt from the Jacob Jewish students. he attended the teachers work­ aloud. Hillel and the Chaplains of Burns Endowment on Ethics of The Hillel Foundations' shop at the Rhode Island Holo­ Members of the community Brown University, Dr. Grodin the B'nai B'rith Hillel Founda- Jacob Burns Endowment on caust Memorial Museum, " Fac­ wishing to have the name of a will speak on Monday, April 8, tions, the series is addressing Ethics, now in its second year, ing History And Ourselves." relative remembered during at 8 p.m. in Wilson Hall, Room current views on the ethics of funds programs to bring to the This year he served on the the service, please call Beth 102 on the campus of Brown conducting research in medi- attention of university commu­ planning committee for the Cohen, Curator of the Mu­ University. Dr. Grodin's talk cine and other areas of inquiry nities the growing need to February workshop. Mr. Ecken- seum, at 861-8800. will be accompanied by rare in the university with attention exercise ethical standards, footage from the Nuremberg paid to the ways in which morality and integrity Medical Trials. Judaism views the various ethi- huma·n relations. Wet on Wet Oil Painting Technique Art Classes ATTENTION: Correspondents Wanted If you would like to at All Passover Contest Entrants who have not correspond for the Herald by BARROS GALLERY received their prizes, please call us today at writing.about what is ~· (Private lesso'r111n your home available) · ' happening in your I 98 Ives Street • Providence, RI 02903 724-0200 with your full name and address. community, contact Tel: 401-.331-3205 . We will mail each of you a free skating ad­ the editor at 724-0200. mission pass to Riverdale Rollerworld and a 2-for-1 pass to The Children's Museum. For the finest in ... PHYSICAL THERAPY and . 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944-3112 (401) 272-9600 .. The Shortest• • Route '!Home 14 -THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1991 Cranston Historical Social Seniors Cranston-Warwick Chapter Of Hadassah Society Of Warwick Providence Chapter Of Hadassah On Monday, April 8. the Future, and a member of The The Cranston-Warwick Sieglinde Ruskaup, a tour The Social Seniors of War­ Providence Chapter of Hadas­ Fund for Community Progress. Chapter of Hadassah an­ guide at the Varnum Home­ wick will hold a meeting sah is pleased to announce as She is an active participant in nounced plans for its Annual stead in East Greenwich will be Wednesday, April 10, at 1 p.m. our keynote speaker, Elizabeth the Bureau of Jewish Education Donor Dinner to be held on guest speaker at the April 16 at Temple Am David, Gardner Kaplan. Drawing on her per­ and serves on the committee Monday evening, May 13, at meeting of the Cranston His­ St. Entertainment will be sonal background, her talk will for teacher training. furnished by the "Silvertones." the Johnson-Wales Airport torical Society. !le " Inter-Marriage and Con­ Mrs. Kaplan's talk will be Refreshments will be served. Hotel in Warwick. Ruskaup, who is an authority version: A Personal Perspec­ presented at the Jewish Com­ On April 23 members will go The Committee, which has on General James Varnum, will tive." Mrs. Kaplan is a graduate munity Center at our open to New Bedford for lunch and held its initial planning give a history of the homestead of Case Western Reserve, meeting at 1 p.m. This will be the Zeiterion theatre to see the meeting, is as follows: Goldie which belonged to the Revolu­ earned her B.A. in English and preceded by our Current play " Into the Woods." Greene, Doris Jacober, Dorothy tionary War hero. A history during the period 1969-1973 Events Study Group, con­ buff, Ruskaup has visited many Kramer, Hope Mellion, Shirley was a high school teacher in ducted by Doris McGarry, and Schreiber, Fran Sadler, Lynn of the major museums in the Mystery Buffs Malden, Mass., and St. Louis, Coffee Hour at 12:30 p.m. United States and Europe and Silverman, Bea Sydney, and Mo. At the present time, she is Serving on the committee Sylvia Taubman. is well-versed in her subject. At JCCRI a part-time student at Rhode for this meeting are Claire A brief business meeting at The theme will be " Hadas­ To have not heard of the Island College in Adolescent , Bell/ Ema Oelbaum, co-presi­ 7:30 p.m. will precede sah, Around the World." In Mystery Buffs of Rhode Island Psychological Counseling as dents; Doris McGarry, pro­ Ruskaup's talk. Refreshments addition to a program of en-' is a crime! This book club of well as part-time teacher in gram; mailing, Esther Swartz; will conclude the evening's tertainment, the chapter will' armchair detectives has been in English to Russian students at publicity, Eunice Greenfield. program. hold its annual installation of business for over two years, co­ the Alperin-Schechter Day We look forward to seeing officers. Invitations to the sponsored by the Jewish Com­ School. She is a member of all members and friends in at­ Donor Dinner will be mailed munity Center of Rhode Island Providence Singers, founder of tendance. This promises to be a early in April. and the Rochambeau Branch of Women for a Non-Nuclear most stimulating afternoon. A DONOR AD BOOK is a the Providence Public Library. most important part of the A meeting to welcome new "The Jews In Eastern Europe Today" Donor fund-raising activity. sleuths will be held on Mon­ The Program in Judaic Stud­ Chairwoman of the Donor Ad day, April 22, at 7:30 p.m. at ies presents a lecture by Profes­ the National Jewish Book Book this year is Lorraine the Jewish Community Center, sor Michael F. Stanislawski, Award in History in 1984. His Webber. 401 Elmgrove Avenue. Nathan Miller Professor of academic career has included Study Group If you would like to join, Jewish History, Columbia Uni­ appointments at the University The Cranston/Warwick please call Jackie Cooper at versity and Visiting Professor of of Washington and Columbia Hadassah Study Group will 455-8110, Bob Halpert at 274- Judaic Studies, at Brown Uni­ University where he presently hold its next meeting on 6795 or Sally Marks at 331- versity. "The Jews in Eastern serves as Nathan Miller Profes­ Wednesd<1y, April 10, at 12:30 3286. Europe Today - An Historical sor of Jewish History. At p.m. at the home of Miriam, Perspective," Wilson 101, on Columbia he has served as act­ Abrams, 175 Merry Mount Cranston Senior Guild Thursday, April 11, at 8 p.m. ing chairperson of the History Drive, Governor Francis Farms, A(ld, 'our The first meeting of the 1991 A native of Montreal, Pro­ Department and acting director Warwick. OIJl1SIIOl'8.:aor::c= season for the Cranston Senior fessor Michael Stanislawski of the Center for Israel and Coffee and cake will be amongthe most-:1:tngent Guild will be held on Wednes­ completed his undergraduate Jewish Studies. Professor served followed by the film, ' . In tha lndust,y. SO, While day, April 10, at Temple Torat and graduate education at Stanislawski serves on the "Enemies: A Love Story" you're en)oylng peace of Yisrael, 330 Park Avenue, Harvard University. A special­ Board of Directors of the based on the novel by Isaac B. mind, your children are Cranston, R.I. at 12:30 p.m. A enjoying Iha summer of a ist in modern Russian Jewish Association for Jewish Studies. Singer. A discussion will fol ­ llfetlme. short business meeting will be history, his books include stud­ the Editorial Board of the YIVO low comparing the plot to the followed by the entertainment ACTIVITES INCLUDE: ies of Judah Leib Gordon Annual, and Academic Council Book of Job, Hadassah's Educa­ Adventure. arts & cr.ihs, archer,,. baseball, of 12 members of the "Senior ( 1989) and Tsar Nicholas I of the National Foundation for tion theme this year. Please basketball, camp newspaper. canoeing, Harmonica Band" performing computer education, dramatics, golf, hockey, ( 1983), a work which received Jewish Culture. R.S.V.P. by April 7 to Peggy kayaking, lacrosse, paddle tennis, old-time favorites. A social Fuerst, 723-1722. photography, pioneering and tripping, radio, riflery, saihng, SCUBA, soccer, swimming hour and refreshments will (ARC). tennis, track and field, tutoring, follow. MATIV Members! volleyball, waterskiing, wind surfing. Reminder: Dues are due and Jewish Television in Rhode Island Located on Lake Thompson. ari e1even.'mi1e, spring-led lake In Oirfo,d, Maioe. less lhan 200 miles horn payable by June 1. To attend the Consider the following facts: Proviclenc:e, RI. KAMP KOHUT oNers 4 and 8 we11k sessions. For boys 6-16. Space is lflli1ed, so please call luncheon and all the other Jewish Programming On this is the year 2535 according or write today. functions and activities, your • ACA Accredited • Interconnect Channels to the Oriental calendar, while dues must be paid. Helen it is the year 5 751 according to Forman is our financial secre­ Channel 49 in every city except those served by the Jewish calendar. Taking the kamp tary and her address is: 145 ' Heritage Cable (Lincoln, Woonsocket) difference in the two dates Metropolitan Road, Provi­ Heritage Cable Station 57 yields the following fact: for kohut dence, R.I. 02908. Telephone Air Times: 3216 years, Jews had to live No. 521-0455.- without Oriental food! After Thursday evenings 7:00 pm, Sunday morning 10:30 am *(401) 724-KAMP (5267) Our officers and board wish all, the Bible says that the 73 Sheffield Ave., Pawtucket, RI 02860 all our members and friends. a· Israelites, after wandering in very healthy and happy Pass­ the desert for forty years, over. entered " the land of milk and honey," not " the land of ses­ ame noodles and dim sum." {b®llffil, ~®tm~ll'a! {f~ it We are not so unfortunate! After our Passover celebration, ESTABLISHED 1931 we can break our seven-day ON BEAUTIFUL LAKE ATTITASH fast in a way our ancestors could not have imagined. Join Amesbury, Massachusetts 01913 us for the second annual (sponsored by the Community Centers of Beverly, Chelsea, MA TIV Passover breakfast at Lawrence and the North Shore) Aspara Restaurant, on Friday, April 5, at 6:15 p.m. This is OUR 61 st SEASON early enough for those who Give your son a summer he will never forget! might want to go to services (at 8:15 p.m.) to attend. Space is ALL ATHLETIC FIELDS ARE LIGHTED FOR limited; to reserve one call me EVENING PROGRAMS at 861-4227 or Sue at 274-4169 and leave a reservation on one Softball • Baseball • Football • Soccer • Volleyball of our machines. Directions are Basketball• Hockey• Tennis• Dramatics enclosed; hope to see you Waterskiing • Canoeing • Sailing • Swim Instruction there. Weight Lifting • Archery • Mountain Climbing_ On Sunday, April 14, the Camp Trips• Photography• Computers• Radio Providence Jewish Community and the Jewish Community Indoor Facilities for Gym, Arts and Crafts, anq Rec. 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Chair of R.I. Holocaust Muesum Environmental Issues Dr. Lisa Aiken To Lecture At Touro Speaks At Temple Emanu-EI Day Set For April 6 Dr. Lisa Aiken, a well­ Jenny M. Klein, chairperson The Environment Council of known Jewish psychologist, of the R.I. Holocaust Memorial Garry, offers the talks along Rhode Island has invited all in­ has agreed to deliver a series of Museum, will speak at Temple with breakfast on Sunday terested persons to a discussion lectures at Touro Synagogue of Emanu-El on Sunday, April 7. mornings at Temple Emanu-El. of important Rhode Island en­ Newport on the weekend of Ms. Klein will talk on the suc­ Ms. Klein graduated from the vironmental issues on Satur­ April 26-28. A unique weekend cessful role the museum has Teacher's Institute of the Jew­ day, April 6 (8:30 a.m. to program has been organized played in Holocaust education. ish Theological Seminary. She 4p.m.). around her talks, by a commit­ Since its dedication in 1988, the has been actively associated ISSUES DAY 1991: AC­ tee of women from the New­ museum has attracted thou­ with Temple Emanu-El for 48 TION FOR RHODE ISLAND'S port community, with Rabbi sands of visitors from 114 cities years in a variety of capacities: ENVIRONMENT will focus on Dr. Chaim Shapiro serving as in 18 states in the U.S. and from teacher, youth director, director pending legislation and other the coordinator of this event. 16 foreign countries. Every of the Institute of Jewish Stud- · concerns in a series of work­ The tentative schedule of eighth grade student in the ies, and Temple archivist. shops. Workshop topics in­ events includes the following: Providence public school sys­ Ms. Klein's talk begins at clude: Narragansett Bay, Air 1. Friday evening, April 26, 8 tem has spent two hours at the 10:00 a.m. in Temple Emanu­ Pollution / Energy / Transpor­ p.m. - Dr. Aiken will be the Dr. Lisa Aiken museum learning about the El's Bohnen Vestry. Preceding tation, Toxics, Waste Manage­ speaker for an Oneg Shabbat Holocaust. the talk will be Minyanaire ment, Water Conservation and program in the Main Sanctuary Shapiro and Bella Werner. Ms. Klein's talk is part of the Shacharit services at 9:00 and Preservation, Land Use, Envi­ of the Synagogue. Her topic Dr. Lisa Aiken, a Ph.D. recip­ Minyanaire program offered by breakfast at 9:30. Invited are ronmental Education, and tips will be "G-d, What Have You ient from Loyola University, is Temple Emanu-El's Men's Men's Club members, wives, on Lobbying. The featured key­ Done For Us Lately?" This pro­ an author and practicing clini­ Club. The program, chaired by sponsors, contributors, rela­ note speakers are: Louise gram is open to the public, cal psychologist. At present she Ralph Levitt and Doris Mc- tives and friends. Durfee, new Director of the with no admission charge. To has a private practice in addi­ Rhode Island Department of accommodate the regular tion to serving on the staff of NCJW Rhode Island Section Environmental Management, Friday evening worshippers, the Forest Hills LP.A. at the Open Meeting The recipient of many scholar­ on "The DEM under the traditional services will be held Holliswood Hospital of The often-asked question - ly awards, in 1989 she received Sundlun Administration" and at 5 p.m., which will enable Queens, New York. She served why women don't go into sci­ a special citation from Brown Dr. Harold Ward of Brown Uni­ them to return for the lecture. for seven years as the Chief ence professionally - will be University for her contribu­ versity on the "Green Rhode A collation will be served in Psychologist at the prestigious explored by Dr. Phyllis R. tions to chemistry. In 1990 she Island" initiative. the Touro Community Center Lenox Hill Hospital of New Brown at the open meeting of received the Governor's This second annual all-day Social Hall after the talk. York City, and has had exten­ the Rhode Island Section of the Science and Technology program is co-sponsored by 2. Saturday, April 27 - Dr. sive experience in various psy­ National Council of Jewish Award from the State of Rhode the Environment Council of Aiken will speak on (Eve to chological and educational Women. To be held at the Jew­ Island. Rhode Island and Brown Uni­ Adam) " Honey, How About capacities, both in the New ish Community Center, 401 All are welcome to hear Dr. versity's Center for En­ An Apple For Dessert?", a York and Boston areas. She re­ Elmgrove Ave., Providence, on Brown espouse the cause of vironmental Studies. It will be Biblical analysis. The lecture cently completed the unique Wednesday, April 10, the meet­ women in science. held in Providence at the will be presented after a special book, Th e Art of Jewish Prayer, ing will begin with coffee at Luncheon Salomon Center on Brown's Shabbat Lunch Seudah, at 1:30 in joint authorship with Y. 9:30 a.m. followed by the Rhode Island Section Na­ campus. Registration begins at p.m. For those who are inter­ Kirzner. In addition, she is meeting and talk at 10 a.m. tional Council of Jewish 8:30 a.m. Participants are in­ ested in joining the meal, reser­ nearing completion on To Be A Dr. Brown, Professor of Women will initiate plans for vited to bring their own lunch, vations can be made through Jewish Woman, her next publica­ Chemistry at the University of their 14th annual Community but beverages and muffins will Touro's office. Those who tion. She has conducted exten­ Rhode Island, will offer an Service Award Luncheon on be provided. The registration would like to attend only sive research and study in Jew­ overview of the opportunities Thursday, April 11 , with a cof­ fee is $5 in advance ($6 at the the lecture may do so without ish subjects as well, and has in science for women and why fee hour for captains and door). Students and senior citi­ cost. traveled throughout the coun­ more women must avail them­ workers at the home of Beth zens are offered a reduced rate 3. The final part of the pro­ try on lecture tours. She has selves of them in order to be Weiss. of $3. Please call 421 -6487 or gram will take place on Sunday taught in New York University, wep_ared_for_the 2Js~ cen.t11ry. The honoree fo this year's 231 -6444 for additional in-. morning, April 28, .9:30 a.m. in in her dual specialties of Psy- ; Dr.-Brown received her B.S. luncheon to be held at the formation. the Social Hall of the Touro chology and Judaism, and . in chemistry at George Wash­ Providence Marriott on May 15, Community Center. Dr. Aiken therefore .brings with her a ington University, and after an is Irma Gross, community vol­ Temple Shalom will then speak at a communal treasure of knowledge and educational hiatus of eighteen unteer and humanitarian. More breakfast, with the subject insights. years, entered Brown Uni­ than 90 women are involved in The annual Holocaust Ser­ being 'T he Id And The Yid," a At present, the committee versity and received her Ph.D. the major fund-raiser. Proceeds vice of Remembrance of Tem­ talk on the relationshp be­ and the Touro office are ac­ in chemistry in 1968. She did from the event directly benefit ple Shalom will take place on tween psychological concepts cepting sponsors for this out­ post-doctoral work in the Phar­ the NC)W Scholarship Fund Wednesday evening, April 10, and Judaism. The entrance fee standing, event. · Sponsors will macology Section at Brown which offers financial as­ at 7 p.m. in the Main Sanctu­ is only $4 per person for this be entitled to reserved seats for and became instructor and sistance to college students and ary. Rabbi Marc S. Jagolinzer event. The committee which is both ihe Friday night and Sun­ then assistant professor· in camperships to needy children. will conduct the worship, com­ arranging this weekend pro­ day morning lectures, and will research in that Section at Co-chairing the affair are ple·te with creative readings, gram consists of: Rosalie be listed in the accompanying Brown. Teaching at the Univer­ Judith Litchman and Hinda testimonies, the kindling of the Goldman, Renee Kaminitz, program brochure. The Touro sity of Rhode Island since Semonoff. Their committee in­ memorial candles and a special Ruth Meierowtiz, Laura Ped­ Synagogue office is located at 1973, she has been full profes­ cludes Marion Goldsmith, musical selection, written and rick, Bea Ross, Rhonda Sabo, 85 Touro Street, Newport, R.l. sor of chemistry since 1980. Barbara Long, Abigail Leavitt, performed by Larry Zimmer­ Rita Slom, Rebitzen Sheila 02840, (401).847-4794. In 1983 Dr. Brown was a Sheri Singer, Joan Abrams, man. Soloist for the evening visiting professor at Hebrew Ardean Botvin, Evelyn will be Georgette Ross Announce your graduation, new job University in Jerusalem and in Gompertz, Bonnie Goldowsky, Hutchins. Members of the Con­ or promotion in the Herald. gregation as well as the chil­ 1987 was awarded a Fullbright Shirley Lichtman, Beth Weiss, Black and white photos welcome. Fellowship to return to Israel to Gertrude Gordon and Mardelle dren of the Samuel Zilman continue her research there. Berman. Bazarsky Religious School will participate. This annual observance is Holocaust Observance Program At U.R.I. open to the entire community. HYDROSEEDING The 1991 U.R.l. Holocaust Nazism who were killed in the All are cordially invited to LANDSCAPE CONSTRUCTION Observance Program will be Holocaust. attend. DESIGN AND MAINTENANCE held on Thursday evening, On Thursday, April 11, at 7 Yorn Hashoah , Day of the April 11, beginning at 7 p.m. p.m. on the Quad, an Ecumeni­ Holocaust takes place each year with a candlelight memorial cal candlelight memorial ser­ on the 27th of Nisan in the He­ SCOTT HESFORD LANDSCAPING INC service on the Quad. vice will be held. 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" We have land." abo ut in response to the concern close to the highest taxes in the • The Human Resources de­ of Rabbi Joel D. Chernikoff of state because there 's no industry, ~ partment gives money to 16 Temple B'nai Israel over the well no manufacturing, no business .....­ agencies in Woonsocket, but being of the city of Woonsocket . opportunities. Some of it goes has a total 34 agencies. The city He took this reporter through the onto the property owners. If tries to fund as many programs once bountiful city and helped to you look around Woonsocket as they can so that agencies can set up interviews with the people you'll see plenty of triple give services. most involved with solving the decker apartment buildings He says the only good thing city's homelessness problem . He built in the 1920's and 1940's. " about Woonsocket is their was once chair to WSCAP. " In order for anybody to own strong human servies network The approach to homeless­ one of these houses and pay like Thunder Mist Hospital, ness in Woonsocket is very dif­ taxes they must raise the rent. Tri-hab, road counceling, visit­ ferent from other shelters George Merchacos We have one of the highest Nancy Paradee ing nurses, Woonsocket reli­ throughout the state. The city rents in the area - just to keep gious sevices, WSCAP, etc. takes the " whole person" ap­ around $16,000 to $18,000. up with the upkeep of a house Merchacos' definition of a "When you make a call in proach to rehabilitate people. The medium education is tenth that's 60 to 80 years old. A lot homeless family is one which Woonsocket, you get results, The goal is to find out what grade level. of the roofs are slate and to ren­ ca nnot live in their own apart­ however, there are some wait­ causes the homelessness, solve The city's unemployment ovate one is a major project. So, ment or house. They are on the ing lists, now," explains Mer­ it and in the meantime find al­ rate, by the department of em­ we have people raising their street, in a shelter, or they're chacos. " For all the people we ternative living quarters. It's ployment's calculations, is 8%. rents to update their apart­ living with their relatives or want to serve, we wish we not always as easy as it sounds. However, Woonsocket's Hu­ ments and keep up with the ris­ friends. could serve more, but the wait­ There's much to do and little man Services says differently. ing taxes; you raise the rent and " When two families li ve in a ing list is just getting that much money. " We claim to be about 11 %, people can't afford the rent. " one room apartment guess longer." Even with the closing of the but if you take the three ki nds " For instance, if you are on what happens. When you mix Most small to medium cities, Marquette Credit Union and a of unemployed people - if general public assistance in the four kids and two single par­ he feels, died during the 80's generally poor economic cli ­ someone's benefit ran out and city of Woonsocket you receive ents you get stress, alcohol and Woonsocket' strength was mate, the stagnant city has not yo4 no longer count in the sys­ $78 a week. What can you de drug abuse, and incest. Woon­ strong family structure. His yet gone into what George tem; if you're not an employee with $78 a week? Yo u certainly socket probably leads the state hometown was made up of a Merchacos, executive director and don't receive unemploy­ can't pay your rent, pay for your in incest. 40 % of every child number of Canadians " who of Woonsocket Human Re­ ment benefits and if you are food and li ve too." goi ng into the head start pro­ knew right from wrong." sources, calls " right at the criti­ unfamiliar with the unemploy­ According to Nancy Paradee, gram is an abused child." But, when these family units cal line - at the Human Ser­ ment system, I'd say you're executive di rector of Woon­ There are people walking the don't work any more - when vices overwhelming line." looking at 15%," says Mercha­ socket Shelter Community Ac­ streets who are mentall y ill, they can't find jobs - families Yet Woonsocket leads the cos. tion Program (WSCAP), the who should be institutional­ start to fragment. . state in several statistics. The The causes of that unemploy­ number of people going to ized. But, according to Mercha­ How are the ci tys agencies medium family income is ment according to Merchacos shelters for the first time has cos, the state pays for local handling this problem? are the 40% high school drop­ grown. Also, the number of mental help centers find alter­ Rabbi Joel D. Chernikoff of out rates. " If you check with food vouchers for first-time natives group homes, psychi ­ Temple B'nai Israel, who has the schools they are going to users doubled in January. atric apartments that are 24 - been involved with Woon­ tell you it's 31 % or 32%. I'm a People who normally get hour manned, with counselors. socket's WSCAP since it 's in­ INCO RP O RAT ED realist. You have to go to school called back from layoffs are not "The Human Resources de­ ception, said, "The answer is and sign out. If you go the first getting called back. There are partment is a $20 mill ion in­ very simple. We believe that day and never go again you're no jobs. The city's employment dustry," says Merchacos. "We even now with both these shel­ not counted as a drop-out (at services can offer nothing. service 350 programs. We have ters we are barely touching the the schools). " "There's nothing booming in 654 part time employees and surface of homelessness in the "Teen pregnancy - 92 out of Woonsocket. We're a dead we spend about $7 million in greater Woonsocket area. We every 1000 girls between the community," says Merchacos. goods and services in the city of need assistance from the fed­ ages of 13 to 18 years are either " Human Services need is so Woonsocket." eral government, state govern­ pregnant or already have a great. We have between 900 "The city gives $581 ,000 in ment, private industry, and the child. The only community that and 1000 homeless families." support of theses agencies. I'm average citizen."

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THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1991 - 17 I the assailants in the recent 'Gestures' Shoval. (continued from page 1) knife attacks fit that category. According to the reports, Passover Seders On Cunard Line Ship He has the backing of Police Rehavam Ze'evi of the Moledet Baker and his aides indicated Inspector General Ya'acov they saw the Palestinian group party demanded the immediate Terner. expulsion of 1,000 Palestinians as suitable future negotiators But the Defense Ministry with both the United States suspected of violence, along and other security agencies with their families and all and Israel. oppose the idea. The media reports said known leaders of the intifada. . . . ' " ' """'-"'"' "' ; ,...,. IDF officers propose a drastic Baker is pushing, through Ne'eman, who is minister of tightening of controls at cross­ 4 tJ!_SEruJ!tJ.}J!QI!,-'!; j ~- science and energy, referred Shoval, for significant Israeli r!;~ ~ ~-~iL'!J~}~illD points on the "Green Line" "confidence-building steps" specifically to Faisal Husseini, and a concomitant crackdown the East Jerusalem activist who toward the Palestinians - pre­ "' J f 711 1!!1 '!'.! 111111 ' on Palestinians working inside cisely the reverse of the kind of headed a delegation of 10 local Israel without the requisite steps that the Cabinet ministers Tl 1J !fl JI ,., Palestinian leaders at a March IDF-issued passes. They would II II 12 meeting in Jerusalem with were contemplating at their - n·t· b. also crack down on Israeli meeting recently. U.S. Secretary of State James employers who persist in ig­ Baker. Shoval, on home leave for noring the requirement for Passover, was noncommittal. ... ~4, .. ,,_ Ze'evi, who holds no port­ workpasses. The Israeli media nevertheless folio, delivered a scathing But restrictions that would quoted U.S. officials in Wash­ The Cunard Line's ship "Princess," a magnificent ve~sel, is attack on government security emphasize the separateness of ington to the effect that Baker's being used for a rather surprising purpose. The ship has policy. His party's platform Israel and the territories make meeting with him was one of been leased by the U.S. Department of Def_ense as a R_est favors expelling the 1.75 mil­ many coalition politicians un­ the opening shots in the ad­ and Recreation ("R&R") vessel for troops m the Persian lion Palestinians from the ter­ comfortable, particularly the ministration's diplomatic effort ritories. Gulf. . h b Greater Israel advocates, who to revive the peace process in Even more surprisingly, this elegant sh~p as een Housing Minister Ariel believe the West Bank and the wake of the Gulf war. selected to be the site of observances for the first two days Sharon of Likud took the occa­ Gaza Strip are as much part of Washington recently hosted of Passover, including seder dinners on March 29 and _30, sion to lambast Defense Minis­ Israel as Tel Aviv. Osama el-Baz, the key political announced Rabbi David Lapp, Director of _the JWB Jew~sh try policy, with the clear impli­ Israel's internal conflict is ,aide to Egyptian President Chaplains Council, an agency of !he Jewish Community cation that Arens should overshadowed by a larger one Hosni Mubarak, and Adnan Centers Association of North America. resign. involving the United States, its Abu Odeih, an adviser to King The outspoken Sharon, who excluded him from the comfort primary source of..political and Hussein of Jordan. Our Loved Ones was himself forced to resign as he would have gained!" Then, economic support, which has a Those conversations are also (continued from page 5) defense minister in 1982 dur­ pausing to collect her thoughts, Middle East agenda of its own. seen to be part of the admin­ ing the Lebanon war, has made Shamir irritated Washington dared to speak out against she added, "I just know istration's game plan. Hitler; he was declared a Mother would want to attend, no secret that he aspires to when he dismissed Faisal Israeli observers, mean- Arens' job. traitor." too ... We all should go. It's Husseini and his colleagues, while, are watching the U.S. Arens, meanwhile, is re­ the group received by Baker, as "Was he sent to a concentra­ the least we can do." performance in ongoing d_is­ tion camp?" Nancy hugged her ported not to see eye-to-eye creatures of the Palestine Lib­ Her_ grandmother's ey~s cussions at the U.N. Secunty shoulders for warmth. with Police Minister Milo on eration Organization unfit to held relief even as a tear shd Council over the pending de­ " No. The Nazis sent him to how to protect Israeli citizens talk to Israel. down her cheek. portation of four Palestinian a forced labor camp." inside their own country. That triggered an angry pri­ "Don't cry, Grandma," activists from the Gaza Stnp. " And his wife?" Milo has proposed that all vate response from the Bush Nancy urged as she wiped it Several council members are "They took her away, too . . . with her fingers. unmarried Palestinian males administration. The American pressing for a condemnation of under 30 be barred from work­ attitude was very much in evi­ Oh, Nancy, I dread to think "Grandmother's always cry Israel. The nature of the U.S. what might have happened to ing in or entering Israel proper dence, according to Israeli when their granddaughters response could signal the tenor her... " Heartsick at the from the administered ter­ media reports of a conversation grow wise," the older woman of Washington-Jerusalem rela­ memory, she brought her ritories. recently between Baker and the answered. And her voice held tions in the immediate future. hands up to her face. " It was as According to Milo, most of Israeli ambassador, Zalman pride. though she had disappeared Please Note: This story was from the face of the earth." inspired by the united effort in Suddenly her grandmother which the city of New Bedford, Security Measures the Union of American Social Studies brings Conserva­ looked at her as though she Mass., annually commemo­ (continued from page 1) Hebrew Congregations. tive rabbis together with lead­ were mature, a young woman rates National Holocaust Week "Economic strains lead to a ers from black and Hispanic whom she could talk to openly, every May in Tifereth Israel Social Services of Flint Inc. lot of lashing out," he ex­ not a child who had_to be pro­ Synagogue. The public schools Gurwitz of Providence- churches in Harlem and the plained. 'The frustration level Bronx. Along with representa­ tected. conduct essay and art contests agrees. "Everyone feels more !eds to scapegoating and bash­ "Grandma," she urged, dealing with the subject, and vulnerable, more in jeopardy tives of Orthodox and Quaker ing. Some pretty demagogic churches, they engage in theo­ "You will attend this year's history teachers concentrate on because of the severe economic characters have emerged with­ service, won't you?" And the Second World War in times," she said. " We in the logical discussion. in the black community - before her grandmother could Europe. Numerous chmch ~nd Jewish community have seen it lnterreligious coalitions can answer, she added, "And people who hate whites. Anti­ create interesting pardoxes, as public school chous 10m historically that when econ­ Semitism is growing in young Daddy can go with you!" Tifereth Israel's choir in an omic times are bad, minorities in the case in Orange County, "He always wanted to go and leadership blacks." Calif., where there is a large expression of community are the scapegoats." By the same token, he said, with me," her grandmother re­ feeling. Historically one of the most community of Evangelical flected. " But I discouraged " the level of stereotyping and Christians. Eleanor Roth, a frequent con­ important interethnic relation­ racist comments by Jews is him. - I wanted to spare tributor to The Herald, submits ships has been that between While the Jewish community him." growing." finds itself working against fiction and nonfiction. She is a the black and Jewish com­ The Persian Gulf war drove " But you didn't spare him," native of North Dartmouth, muniti~, a partnership that attempts by the "born again" Nancy shook her head. "You the two communities even fur­ groups to change public school Mass. developed through the late ther apart. 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MORRIS ARONS HARRY BERMAN ·:·dinatecl·by Mount Sinai Memo­ Fensterheim, she lived in Provi­ She leaves threr daughters, BOCA RA TON, Fla. - Mor­ PROVIDENCE Harry rial Chapel, 825 Hope St. dence for a year. She previ­ Charlotte Feldman of Crans­ Berman, 87, a resident of the ris Arons of 22479 Vista Wood MIRIAM FISCHER ously lived in the Bronx, N.Y. ton, Bessie Kaplan of Warwick Jewish Home for the Aged, 99 Way, a sales manager for Clay­ NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Mrs. Kranz was a pianist. and Jeanne WeinbeFg of Brock­ ton Mfg. Co. in Norwood, Hillside Ave., founder and pro­ Besides her husband she ton, Mass.; a son, Gerald Mazo prietor of the former Berman's Fla. - Miriam Fischer, 88, of Mass., and Hallandale, Fla., for the Hebrew Home of North leaves a son, Eric Gottfried of of Cerrillos, N .M .; two sisters, 20 years before retiring five Scrap Metal Co., died Wednes­ Flushing, N.Y.; five grand­ Sarah Fradin and Dorothy day, March 20, 1991, at Miriam Miami Beach, died Saturday, years ago, died Monday, March 30, 1991, at the Home. children and ten great-grand­ Peskin, both of Cranston; a March 18, 1991, at home. He Hospital. He was the husband children. She was mother of brother, Peter Polofsky of of the late Martha (Blazer) She was the widow of Solomon was the husband of Ruth Fischer. the late Kurt Gottfried. Cranston; 11 grandchildren, (Baker) Arons. Berman. A graveside service was held nine great-grand~hildren, and Born in Russia, he was a· son Born in Newport, R.I., she Born in Providence, he was a was the daughter of the late Thursday, March 28, at Lincoln a great-great-granddaughter. son of the late Joseph and Eva of the late Max and Tillie Park Cemetery, Warwick, and The funeral service was held (Berman). He had lived in Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Aron. (Greenberg) Aronvitz. He lived Mrs. Fischer was a resident of was coordinated by Mount at Mount Sinai Memorial Providence more than 60 Sinai Memorial Cbapel, 825 in Cranston 30 years before Miami Beach for over 30 years, Chapel, 825 Hope St. Burial moving to Florida six years years. J:lope St., Providence. was in Lincoln Park Cemetery, Mr. Berman operated his previously residing in Provi­ ago. dence. Warwick. Mr. Arons was a founder of company for 40 years before he EDITH MARKOWITZ retired 20 years ago. She was a jewelry worker in SARA H. MILLER Bond Foods Inc. in Providence a Providence jewelry manufac­ PROVIDENCE Edith PROVIDENCE - Sara H. and was its president for 15 He leaves two daughters, Markowitz, 91 , of the Jewish Sandra Goldberg of Cranston turing company for many years Miller, 94, of Summit Medical years. before retiring to Miami Beach. Home for the Aged, 99 Hillside Center, 1085 N. Main St., a Mr. Arons was a member of and Beverly Marcus of Thou­ Ave., died Tuesday, March 26, sand Oaks, Calif.; a son, She is survived by several bookkeeper for a Boston textile the Red Cross of Israel. nephews and cousins. 1991. She was the widow of firm before retiring, died Besides his wife he leaves a Samuel Berman of Cranston; a Benjamin Markowitz. brother, George Berman of Graveside services were Wednesday, March 27, 1991, at daughter, Barbara Arons­ held Wednesday, April 3, at Born in Russia, she was a the medical center. She was the Lewis; and a sister, Edith Wax, West Palm Beach, Fla.; four daughter of the late Oscar and grandchildren and four great­ Lincoln Park Cemetery, War­ widow of Alex Miller. both of Warwick. wick. Arrangements by the Rachel Dimond. She had lived Born in Boston, a daughter A private funeral service was grandchildren. in Providence SO years and in A graveside funeral service Sugarman-Smith Memorial of the late Barnet and Mary held at Mount Sinai Memorial Warwick for 15 years ·before re­ Hurwitch, she had lived in was held Friday, March 22, in Chapel, 458 Hope St., Provi­ Chapel, 825 Hope St., Provi­ dence. turning to Providence six years Providence, Smithfield and dence. Burial was in Lincoln Lincoln Park Cemetery, Post ago. Road, Warwick, and was coor- CYNTHIA GOLDIS Boston. Park Cemetery, Warwick. Mrs. Markowitz was a mem­ Mrs. Miller was a member of PROVIDENCE - Cynthia ber of Temple Beth-El and Hadassah and past president of Goldis, 79, of 395 Angell St., Hadassah. She was a life mem­ died Monday, March 18, 1991 , the Providence Chapter of the ber of the Women's Associa­ League at Broward Medical Center in of Women Voters. She tion of Jewish Home for the was an active volunteer for Fort Lauderdale, Fla., while on Aged. many community organiza­ a trip to visit relatives. She was She leaves a son, Stanley the widow of Herbert Goldis. tions. Monuments and memorials Markowitz of Sarasota, Fla.; She leaves two sons, Daniel A lifelong resident of Provi­ in the finest granite and lm111 ze. two sisters, Sara Cokin of Provi­ 8. Miller of Cataumet, Mass., dence, she was a daughter of dence and Fay Goldwyn of and Charles D. Miller of Smith­ /11 -/11m.,·,, ('(II/SUl!ali,111.,· hy CI/JJ}Oillfll/('11/ the late Abraham and Sarah Boca Raton, Fla.; and two field; a daughter, Mary Bille· of Gershkoff. LETTERING • CLEANING • REPAIRS brothers, Harry Dimond of Copenhagen, Denmark; a She leaves three daughters, Rockledge, Fla.; and Robert brother, George, Hurwitch of Leon J . Ruhi11 726-6466 Arlene Bromberg of Provi­ Diamond of Silver-Spring, Md. San Mateo, Calif.; a sister, Ceil Affiliated with Charles G. Morse Granite Company dence and Ft. Lauderdale, A private funeral service was Schwartz of Rockport, Mass.; Barbara Rhian of Providence held Wednesday, ~arch 27, eight grandchildren and two and Audrey Benjamin of ahd was c6ordinated·by Mount great-grandchildren·. Phoenix, Ariz.; a sister, Rose Sinai Memorial Chapel, 825 The funeral services were Horvitz of Providence; two MT. SINAI MONUMENTS Hope St., Providence. Burial private. Arrangements by the brothers, Stanley Gershkoff of was in Lincoln Park Cemetery, Sugarman-Smith Memorial Miramar, Fla., and Irving Warwick. Our owner, Mitchell ... his father and Gershkoff of Albuquerq·ue, Chapel, 458 Hope St. grandfather.·.. have been privileged to provide N.M.; ten grandchildren and EVA MAZO ANNA R. SHOLES over 8,000 monuments in RI Jewish Cemeteries ~ix great-grandchildren. PROVIDENCE Eva CRANSTON - Anna R. since the 1870s for 2 reasons ... the quality is The funeral service was held Mazo, 95, a resident of the Jew­ Sholes, 76, of 310 Norwood Friday, March 22, at Mount ish Home for the Aged, 99 Hill­ Ave., a book reviewer and · the finest and the price is the lowest. Sinai Memorial Chapel, 825 side Ave., died Sunday, March speaker, died Thursday, March Hope St. Burial was in Sharon 17, 1991, at the home. She was 28, 1991, at Cranston General Call 331-333 7 for assistance. Memorial Park, Sharon, Mass. the widow of Nathan Ma;rn. Hospital. She was the wife of Born in Russia, she was a Leonard J. Sholes. GENIA KRANZ · daughter of the late Louis and Born in South Norwalk, PROVIDENCE Genia Jennie Polofsky. She had lived Conn., a daughter of the late Kranz, 98, of Highland Court, in Providence since she was a Julius and Tillie Kohn, she had 101 Highland Ave., died Tues­ child. lived in Cranston 50 years. DO YOU KNOW? day, March 26, 1991. She was Mrs. Mazo was a life mem­ Mrs. Sholes was a 1935 cum the wife of Mark " Max" Kranz. ber of the Women's Associa­ laude graduate of New York She was the widow of Emil tion of the Jewish Home for the University, and a member of The records at the Sugarman-Smith Memorial Chapel Gottfried. Aged, and was a former mem­ Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society. of your family's past funeral practices and preferences Born in Poland, a daughter ber of Temple Am David and While teaching English and are the only such records dating back to the I 930s. of the late Victor and Amalia its Sisterhood. (continued on ne;i page) More often than not, our records are the only reliable source of a family's Yahrtzeit dates; Hebrew names; U.S. Federal law now requires all funeral homes maiden names; etc. That is probably why we are asked to provide itemized pricing. Mount Sinai Memorial Chapel to provide such information to area Jewish families more has provided this courtesy for over sixteen years. than 100 times each month. More than just a funeral home. MOUNT SINAI MEMORIAL CHAPEL Sugarman-Smith The only RI Jewish funeral home that is a member of Memorial Chapel the Jewish Funeral Directors of America. The Rhode Island Jewish funeral home that can be trusted... for its honesty.. .integrity. .. and compliance with the highest standards of Jewish ethics and conduct. Over 110 years service to R.I. Jewish families by our director, Mitchell ... his father and grandfather... PROFESSIONAL JEWISH FUNERAL DIRECTORS HOME OF YOUR FAMILY RECORDS. 331-3337 Please call 458 Hope Street, Providence, Comer of Doyle Ave. 825 Hope Street at Fourth Street for your Telephone: 331-8094 Out of State: 1-800-447-1267 Pre-need counseling with tax-free New Year From out-of-state Michael 0 . Smith, Executive Director U'wis J. Ooslt>r, H.E. payment planning is available. Calendar call: 1-800-331-3337 I I Classified

mother she leaves a daughter, ENTERTAINMENT HELP WANTED SERVICES RENDERED Obituaries Susan Levy of Pawtucket; a (continued from previous page) son, Lewis Wintrnan of Provi­ AARON-BEACH PRODUCTIONS: Expert mu­ AVON: EARN MONEY working your own BABYSlmNG POSITION wanted by 14½­ Latin in the Stamford public dence; and two grandchildren. sic entertainment. Bar/ Bal Mitzvahs, wed­ hours. Perfect job for homemakers. stu­ year-old Cranston girl. Experienced, warm. The funeral service was held dings, parties and more. State of Ille art dents. or as a second income. " FREE caring. Call Barri 946-4211 . 4/ 11/ 91 schools in the late 1930's, she STARTER KIT." Openings in your area. Call Wednesday, March 27, at sound & lighting equipment. Disc Jockey INTERIOR, EXTERIOR painting & papering. pursued post-graduate studies and master of ceremonies. EDWARD now - Heleene 943-5959. 4/ 4/ 91 at Columbia University. Mount Sinai Memorial Chapel, Expert work. Paint 2 or more rooms & get a SCHLESINGER "IT'S THE PARTY I CAN DAYTIME NANNY needed for infant child. ceiling FREE! Book now for spring savings! In 1956-57, she was presi­ 825 Hope St., Providence. DO." Call me 943-9940. 4/ 18/ 91 Burial was in Lincoln Park References and light housework required. Insured Uc. # 5264. MERCURIO PAINTING. dent of the Sisterhood of the STEVE YOKEN ENTERTAINMENT - Profes­ Call822-1229. 4/ 11 /91 461-3813. 4/ 25/91 former Temple Beth Israel. She Cemetery, Warwick. sional Master of Ceremonies and Disc was a past worthy matron of BENJAMIN YAFFE Jockey. Bar / Bat Mitzvah specialists. the Hope Link Chapter of the DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (Optional - N.Y. Laser Light Show Plus INTRODUCTION SERVICES Teen Dancing Sensation.I THE PARTY CLASSBOX Order of the Golden Chain. In Benjamin Yaffe, 90, of 5859 PLANNERS' CHOICE 508-679-1545. JEWISH INTRODUCTIONS INTERNA· CORRESPONDENCE TO: 1966-67, she served as vice Heritage Parkway, founder, 1/31 / 92 TIONAL. Local and personalized. Ages 21 - ClassBox No. president of the Women's and proprietor for 27 years of 101 . Let us find that special "someone." The RI. Jewish Herald Association of the Jewish the former Dunbar Shoes, Paw­ Call 1-800-442-9050. 7/ 91 P.O. Box 6063 Home for Aged, and also tucket, before selling the FOR RENT Providence. RI 02940 served as a member of the company in 1966, died Wednes­ This newspaper will not, knowingly. accept board for many years. In day, March 27, 1991, in West EAST SIDE, WAYLAND SQUARE. Luxurious PERSONAL Wayland Manor. Efficiences. 1-bed and 2- any advertising for real estate which is in 1969-70, she was president of Boca Medical Center, · Boca bed units now available. Magnificent views, violation of the RI. Fair Housing Act and the Roger Williams chapter of Raton. He was the husband of 24-hour maintenance. reserved parking. on­ GENTLEMAN, formerly of Riverdale, NYC. Section 804 (Cl of Title VIII of the 1968 Civil B'nai B'rith Women. She was a the late Selma (Weintraub) site management. Restaurant. tailor, dry well educated. fun-loving. personable, Rights Act. Our readers are hereby informed cleaner, hair salon and dentist located in the good family, seeks Jewish female compan­ that all dwelling/ housing accommodations life member of the Miriam Yaffe. ion 26-35. Call or write Alan M. Spivack, 165 advertised in this newspaper are available on Born in Chelsea, Mass., a building. Great location. Call 751 -7700 for Hospital Women's Association. more information. 4/ 11 / 91 Nyes Lane. Acushnet. Mass. 02743. (508) an equal opportunity basis. She was also a member of the son of the late Simon and 995-2173. 4/ 11 /91 Providence Israel Bond Cam­ Sarah Yaffe, he had lived in JEWISH QUARTER, Israel. 4 br.. spacious. scenic. fully furnished. 3rd floor. Available paign, Hadassah and the Florida since 1988. He lived in 8/ 1991 - one year. 351 -4116. 4/25/91 ZELTZER lANDSCAPl National Council of Jewish Rumford for 35 years and in SERVICES RENDERED CO., INC. Women. She was a member of Providence for 50 years. NANTUCKET SUMMER RENTAL: 3 br. house. Polpis Rd. across from vegetable ANTIQUE REFINISHING. Professional strip­ •Oalgn ~Ee - ..: Temple Torat Yisrael and its He was a member of Temple farm. fully furnished. sleeps 6. Full season ping, reglueing, repairs - free estimates - • Construction 1 Sisterhood. Masonic Lodge, Bridgeport, $11 ,000; July $1000/ wk, Aug. $1200/wk. 2 pick-up/ delivery - call Shat 434-0293/ • Maintmlanc8 .. Mrs. Sholes presented book Conn. wks. minimum. 508-228-4223. 4/ 4/91 831 -9568. 4/ 18/91 336-5630 reviews before many groups He leaves a daughter, throughout the state. She and Marilyn Dickens of Boca Want to reach the right her husband traveled ex­ Raton; a sister, Flossie Devore audience? Advertise in tensively, and Mrs. Sholes fre­ of Miami Beach, Fla.; three quently spoke to various grandchildren and four great­ The Herald. nealestate groups and organizations grandchildren. Call 724-0200. 751-6039 PINKY about her travels. The funeral service was held GENERAL CONTRACTING Besides her husband she Monday, April 1, in Mount • painting and wallpapering . leaves four sons, Richard K. Sinai Memorial Chapel, 825 • hardwood floors refinished "The Children's Choice" · Sholes and state Sen. David H. Hope St., Providence. Burial • interior remodeling Available for Sholes, both of Cranston, and was in Sharon Memorial Park, • exterior restoration Children's Parties and Andrew G. Sholes and Steven Sharon, Mass. -~y~ _s!¢ attention to detail Business Promotions. T. Sholes, both of Warwick; a CARPET& fully insured - license #5491 brother, Morton Kohn of UPHOLSTERY CLEANERS Call (401) 737-6966 For Greenwich, Conn.; and 10 .· Ray Stapleton Neal Kaplan Rates And Avallable Dates , PAINTING grandchildren. Residential • Commercial The funeral service was held Interior & Exterior uallty Worll - Free Estlmales Monday, April 1, at Temple ' (508) 336-8383 272-1989 COMPLETE Just the Basics Torat Yisrael, 330 Park Ave. Al U C# 5791 INSURED It's time to try the best. Burial was in Lincoln Park LANDSCAPING Cemetery, Warwick. Services SERVICES by Brenda were coordinated by Mount Harold Greco COMMERCIAL • RESIDENTIAL ~ j J /r ~- Sinai Memorial Chapel, 825 DRIVER'S New Lawns• Planting • Mulching Hope St., Providence. Brick & Bluestone Walks & Patios ~ - ,, PLUMBING CO. Driveways • Backhoe Work SHIRLEY WINTMAN e~ House Cleaning Sel'.Vices Walls & Repair Work • Plastering MATARESE PAWTUCKET Shirley 331-8685 Priced By The Room Wintman, 68, of 33 Newman 463-6354 Specializing in Repair and LANDSCAPE Rd., died Monday, March 25, Remodel Plumbing in C ONSTRUCTION, INC. Bonded & Insured 1991, at Miriam Hospital. She Older Homes. Former Partner ol M & M Landscaping. 3 Room Min. Over 16 Years of Professional E.·oerience. Reasonable Rates was the wife of Milton J. Paulene Jewelers All phases of plumbing. 66 Village Ave.,Crans:on, RI Wintman. • Free Eslimales Bead Stringing 944-9334 PROVIDENCE CRANSTON Born in Providence, a • Fully Insured ..,_- FULLY INSURED 461-3343 781-0805 daughter of Jennie (Goldsmith) 274-9460 Joshua Driver Kaufman of Providence and Free Pick Up &- Delivery ._RI Master Plumber Lie. #1697 the late Louis Kaufman, she ______._------, moved to Pawtucket a year : RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD : ago. ------. Mrs. Wintman attended CONCRETE t MASONRY Rhode Island College. She was :I I :I a member of Temple Emanu-El STONEWORK and its Sisterhood, the I I Women's Associations of the Jewish Home for Aged, and Repairs • Rebuilding • New Walls • Steps 15 words: $3.00 ,C Miriam Hospital, and the Jew­ Chimneys• Walks • Patios • Brick Pointing 12¢ each additional word ish Federation of Rhode Island I Reasonable 647-7473 Free Estimates * and Hadassah. Category ______I Besides her husband and Message I ¼ : I I I Name f Address I I A referral service for companions to the elderly, since 1967. I ¼ I Please call or write for our free brochure! Phone I No. Words ____ Date(s) Run _____ I Payment MUST be received by Monday afternoon, PRIOR to _the Thursday on which I Telephone 401 421-1213 the ad is to appear. 10% discount given for ads running continuously for one year. I 1005 Fleet Bank Building. Providence, RI 0'2903 I Thanklbu I ------RI jEWISH HERALD, P.O. BOX 6063, PROVIDENCE, RI 02940 I were trained. Kaplan's was sold around 1946. In 1957 Barney Kaplan opened Rainbow Bak­ ery in Cranston, where his fam­ il y was based. In 1980 the brothers took over Rainbow Bakery, and about four years ago branched out on their own. Today, Mur­ ray owns Rainbow Bakery and Danny has Barney's - both of_ BUSINESS PR()FILES which are very well-known, successful businesses. The Kaplans' eighteen-year­ Barney's Rises Above the Rest old daughter, Michelle, helps out at the store while the eldest, by Kathy Cohen thereby producing different Bruce, 22, attends law school. Herald Associate Editor tasting breads and their own Barney's differs from the Barney's located at 727 East customer following. Barney's more traditional bakery shops, Avenue (at the end of Black- has that and more. like Rainbow Bakery, because stone Blvd.), Pawtucket, R.l. " It takes a skilled person to it 's also a specialty sandwich doesn't look like a typical bak- make and bake bagels," says shop. The addition of sand­ ery until you go into the back, Mrs. Lois Kaplan, who handles wiches was an experiment that where all the baking is done. the paperwork and bookkeep­ succeeded, says Lois Kaplan. The front has a new fresh look ing, while her husband bakes. "When we first opened we to it with red and white tiled " He cares what comes out, us­ thought we'd sell a few deli floors and a neon clock above ing only first rate (u) ingredi­ products, but it took off," ex­ the center of the counter. One ents." plains Lois Kaplan. can walk in to the self-serve In keeping up with today's Although bagels are the counter, then sit down at one of health conscious individuals, biggest seller (they bake be­ the rounded cafe tables and en- 1 the Kaplans bake cholesterol­ tween 1,400 and 1,500 a day), joy a breakfast, lunch or dinner free and fat-free breads, bagels it 's not the only item made on here. and some pastries. Lois Kaplan Barney's premises. Kaplan pro­ For centuries a baker's prod- says they use Canola Oil in­ duces 15 different varieties of ucts have been a commodity stead of tropical or animal fats. jumbo muffins and bagels ev­ that everyone loves to sink In fact, she says, she knew of ery day with a sixteenth flavor their teeth into. This kind of this secret before other compa­ in the works. Some meats, like food also seems to change a nies were coming out with roasted kosher corned beef, person into a New York Times healthy products. non-kosher roasted turkey food critic. There's no scientific Danny Kaplan has always breast, and whole barbecued explanation as to why bagels had a love of baking. He works chickens, are cooked at Bar­ tum normal folks into judges, up to 70 hours a week, baking ney's. All salads, two kinds of but it's become a constant in twice daily, if not more. Lois soup, challah, potato knishes, life - people are just very exclaims, he even cooks at bagel dogs, several flavors of choosy about where they buy home every once in a while! cream cheese, and more are Lois Kaplan at Barney's baked breads and bagels. Any- Baking has been the Kaplan's made fresh every day. Some­ one who's tasted New York. family business since 1905. The times Danny is up at 2 a.m. ti Beau James Beau James Beau James Beau Ja mes Beau James Beau Ja mes r bagels and challah may never first store, called Kaplan's Bak­ baking for the holidays. ~ buy elsewhere. The only other ery, was run by grandfather Ka­ After the Passover holiday is , ~ f, product that may receive as plan. He opened the store in 3 over go down to Barney's and ~ ~ much competition is pizza but South Providence after moving see the tremendous variety of .' CBeau James that's another story. from Russia; but it was open products. Barney's also offers i . To combat the problem of only a few years. Danny's fa- THROUGH THE MONTH OF APRIL f party platters and gift certifi- -'l · ,.,- - f, competition, most bakeries ther, the late Barney Kaplan, re- cates. Call ahead via telephone j Come see us Wednesday through 3 combine their own secret blend opened Kaplan's Bakery in ~ at 727-1010 or fax at 724-0075, ~ Saturday, 4 - 7 pm, for our . of spices, flour, and dough with South Providence where the and your order will be ready. . a certain method of baking, brothers, Danny and Murray, [;Il[]. $6.95 DEA To Process p.m., North Providence Senior Senior housing units, senior -~ Sun. 12-9 pm Early Bird Specials "' Mon.-Thurs. 11-9pm ~-~------., Identification Cards Center, 2240 Mineral Spring centers, and other agencies in­ Avenue. terested in hosting the DEA ~ ~~i1J~11gg~ I oa~,Lu~~ I f The RI Department of El- Thursday, April 18, 1:00- mobile ID card unit at their site ~ M•i•~[;:ffi~f"tts 1075 North Main Street, Providence • 751-8220 derly Affairs (DEA) will process J:00 p.m., Narragansett Com­ sh~uld contact Carmen Albert t ~ Beau James Beau James Beau James Beau James Beau James Beau James ~ identification cards for persons munity Center, 1 Mumford at 277-2880. 60 and older each Friday in Road. April from 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. 11111.,..,;.______,. ___ lllll!III~-----, at 160 Pine Street in Provi­ dence. Talk to us regarding your IRA State law requires financial institutions to honor the DEA and Profit Sharing deposits. identification as valid for the purpose of cashing municipal, We are the people to call when state, and federal checks under results and performance count! $750. In addition, the DEA mobile L ID unit will be at the following locations in April: Thursday, April 4, 1:00-3:00 BUSINESS PR(>FILES

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