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Goldman Gets Inside View Of FCC Local professor among 25 educators in U.S. to see how broadcast industry policy evolves by George LaTour Dr. Mark E. Goldman of War­ you can comprehend by actually cable TV) and cheaper." wick, an associate professor of talking with the people involved," The last thing covered at the communications at Rhode Island he assures. conference, says Goldman, was College, recently was one of a select Goldman says subjects at this High-Definition TV (which re­ group of communications educa­ year's meeting concerned changes cently has been developed and tors from around the country to at­ "likely to occur in policy" under marketed by the Japanese). tend the Annenberg Faculty Con­ the new Bush administration. Goldman says HDT is clear and ference in Washington, D.C. These include an appointment very sharp - like a movie. While As one of the 25 invited college/ by the President of two new mem­ this might not make a big differ­ university faculty there, he was bers to the five-member FCC, ence to the average television briefed on the latest developments which would g',e Bush direct in­ viewer, it will offer excellent detail, in communications and had an op­ fluence on future FCC decisions; say to the medical profession, us­ portunity to discuss these develop­ "maybe" a move to control the ing TV for surgery, etc. ments with governmental policy content of on-air shows (e.g. One of the problems with HDT, makers. "Raunch Radio"); a review of the however, says Goldman, is that it is "We got to talk with the Federal Fairness Doctrine (which was re­ not compatible with current TV - COMMUNICATIONS PROF. Mark Goldman of Rhode Island Communications Commissioners laxed under the Reagan adminis­ cameras or receivers. (FCC) and their staff lawyers as tration) to again require local pre­ College holds T-shirt given to him and a select few other leading The implication is that much communications experts invited to attend recently the well as (members oO the National sentations of controversial issues money will have to be expended to Annenberg Faculty Conference. (RIC Photo by George LaTour) Telecommunications Information and rebuttal time. convert to HDT on a large scale in Administration," reports Gold­ And, "the most exciting for the America. man. average consumer," a growing in­ What all this means for RIC, lishes TV Guide. them an opportunity to discuss "They gave us the low-down on fluence of the telephone company says Goldman, is state-of-the-art The Annenberg policy-oversight among themselves how best to in­ what's happening or what's likely in the cable business. information for communications office, established in Washington, troduce the new material in their to happen in the communications Goldman explains that Regfonal students here and, perhaps, the in­ D.C., to keep tabs on what is going respective classes around the coun­ industry." Bell Operating Co. (RBOC) which troduction of new courses which on in mass communications legis­ try. A lot of the information shared includes NYNEX (of which New would address these various lation, etc., is affiliated with sev­ As a result of the 1985 confer­ with the educators was "inside England Telephone is a subsidiary) changes in the world of mass com­ eral universities from which it reg­ ence, Goldman introduced two new stuff as to how the various staffs has been installing fiber-optics munications. ularly draws faculty expertise. courses here, including one on the move ideas into law or regulation" (stringing cable) "all over the Goldman had attended (by invi­ These include the Annenberg pro­ question and ethics of television regarding the broadcast media, country" on which they can put tation) the first Annenberg Faculty grams at the University_of South­ coverage of terrorists. says Goldman. TV programming in addition to Conference in 1985 which lasted ern California School of Commu­ That a communications faculty "This was an exciting opportu­ telephone conversations. for two weeks. nications and Northwestern member from RIC is invited to nity for a teacher to see how these "The cable (TV) companies are Walter Annenberg was a former University. these conferences "says something laws/regulations are crafted - frantic," says Goldman, explaining ambassador from the United In addition to the information about the RIC communications step by step - and the philosophy that "the phone companies may be States and former sole owner of shared with the educators, notes program," assures Goldman. behind them. It's only something able to provide similar services (as Triangle Publications which pub- Goldman, the conference gave Sam Fineberg Inducted Into Rhode Swearer Apologizes Island Jewish Historical Association To Jewish Community David J. and Maurice H., and the Special To The Herald Brown was not awa"re of Vidal's middle child, a daughter, Kay. Providence - In a letter to Mr. record: "The Fellows ... were not They resided on Pratt Street and Norman D. Tilles, President of the aware of the heated exchanges in were members of the Orthodox Jewish Federation of Rhode Commentary, the New Republic, synagogue, Ahavath Shalom, also Island, former president Howard and The Nation . . . As far as I known as the Howell Street R. Swearer of Brown University, know, this controversy and Vidal's Synagogue. When Kay was 14, her whose last official action was to a statements were not picked up in mother died. confer an honorary degree on Gore more widely-read publications. The above are a few statistics Vidal, recently apologized to the Only the day before the degree was about a man which in no way Jewish Community of Rhode to be awarded did these matters indicate how unusual he was. He Island for his action. come to my attention!" earned his living by selling "Tilles had written in December, He further admitted, "The newspapers at a downtown stand, after the furor over Brown's Fellows voted the honorary degree but had always been interested in honoring Vidal led the organized for Vidal because of his literary sports. As a boxer he suffered a Jewish community to complain to accomplishments ... and because fractured nose, obvious in the Brown University for legitimizing the Library planned to hold a photograph and in a cartoon anti-Semitism and racism. Vidal is major series of events based on the drawn by the Providence Journal well-known for his violently John Hay Collection and thought editorial cartoonist, Frank hostile statements about American it would be appropriate to have Lanning. A cartoon with Jews, whom he has called disloyal, Vidal as an honored speaker since accompanying editorial was Frank the State of Israel, and also about Hay was featured so prominently Lanning's way of saying goodby to Americans of Asian origin or in Vidal's book on Lincoln." Samuel "Ike" Fineberg on his descent. Commenting on Swearer's death, which occurred on May 16, Swearer admitted that the statement to the Jewish 1966. We quote from this article: honorary degree was made without community, Judaic studies by Eleanor F. Horvitz articles written about him in the "He was one of the best-known consulting the faculty-student Professor Jacob Neusner, who The Archives of the Rhode local newspapers. figures in Providence when he sold committee on honorary degrees. with_ students and important Island Jewish Historical Samuel Fineberg was born on papers at the City Hall end of the "A check was supposed to have alumni had led the original protest Association contain various types January 9, 1892 in Russia, a son of old Journal Building. His steady been made ... but, because of the to honoring Vidal, whom he called of memorabilia and Morris and Sophie (Weitsman) customers included the mayor and press of affairs ... that connection an anti-Semite, stated, "Swearer's documentation. This may be, for Fineberg. He came to Providence the governor. was not made." That has since apology to Mr. Tilles clearly example, in the form of a at an early age. One of his first In the days when "Ike" started been confirmed by committee indicates that had Brown newspaper article, a photograph, a residences was in the North End of his career in boxing there was no chairman Professor Newell Stultz, University known Vidal's record, naturalization paper, a seat Providence on North Davis Street. controlling authority, and many who stated that his committee it would not have chosen to honor number in a synagogue. He served in the U.S. Army during injustices were perpetrated. knew nothing about the degree him under any circumstances. The name of Sam Fineberg was World War I, and had the status of Unscrupulous promoters and until it was announced. Campus That shows that Brown University recently added to the listing of a disabled war veteran upon matchmakers often refused to opinion places blame on the will not again choose to honor individuals on file in the archives. discharge. In 1921 Sam married honor their oral contracts, and Brown University Librarian, Dr. racists, bigots, or anti-Semites. We learn about this man through Sarah Aslauer who had migrated shortchanged the boxers who had Merrily Taylor, and her staff. The point has been made and the an interview with his daughter, to Providence from Austria. They no redress. Swearer further conceded that case is closed." Kay Fineberg Henshaw, and from had three children, two sons, (continued on page 15) 2 - THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1989 Sons Of Jacob Temple Sinai Friday, March 10 - three days Scholar-In-Residence in ADAR II. Candlelighting at 5:27 CRANSTON - Ellen Kaplan p.m. Minchoh services are at 5:35 of East Greenwich chairs the p.m. committee planning the fourth (__ L_o_c_a_I _N_e_w_s______,] Saturday, March 11 - four days annual scholar-in-residence in ADAR II. Torah reading is P'Pelrude. Additionally, this sab­ program, which will be held at Temple Sinai, Cranston, Friday bath is the conclusion for the 2nd Midrasha Is Doing It Again Congregation Ohawe and Saturday, March 10 and 11. Chumish Exodus. All worshippers The speaker for the Friday Last year's Family Community programs. Help make this event a Shalam finish with the expressions Chazak! evening of music and fun was such evening and Saturday program will great success. The synagogue on East Avenue Chazak! Venischazeik! Now is the a success, the Harry Elkin be Rabbi Maurice Davis, rabbi Bonnie Ryvicker and Ron Sohn is now affiliated with the Young Venischazeik! Now is the Midrasha is once again sponsoring are co-chairpersons of this event. beginning for reading Leviticus! emeritus of the Jewish Israel Movement. This Friday Community Center at White this outstanding event. They are assisted by Joann evening services are at 5:35 p.m. after morning services. Morning Singband, reservations; Bob services are at 8:30 a.m., Kiddush Plains, N.Y. Rabbi Davis, who was On Saturday, March 11, 1989, at On Shabbat morning, as we finish born in Providence and educated Temple Emanu-El, the Shirim Corin, refreshments; Phyllis the book of Exodus, services begin follows immediately. Minchoh Shapiro and Cindy Kaplan, services are at 5:25 p.m., the Third at Classical High School and Band will be featured. at 9 a.m. with a Kiddush to follow. Brown University, has a national Widely-known for its Israeli, donors; Ellie Elbaum, mailing; and The Rabbi Jacobs' class will be at Meal will follow immediately. The Jill Robinson, publicity. Sabbath is over at 6:20 p.m. reputation for fighting cults. He Klezmer, Folk and American 4:45 p.m. Mincha is at 5:25 p.m. also has been prominent in music, this five-person group will Tickets can be obtained by followed by the Third Sabbath Havdalah service will be at 6:31 calling the Bureau at 331-0956. p.m. inter-racial activities. be the highlight of the evening. Meal. Ma-ariv is at 6:25 p.m. The subject of the weekend Patrons and donors of $ 100 or Sunday, March 12 - morning Also on the program will be light Havdalah is at 6:35 p.m. program, which begins with the snacks throughout the evening and more will receive four tickets. Our congregation is hosting its services are at 7:45 a.m. Coffee and Donors who give $50 will receive refreshments follow morning 8:15 p.m. Friday service, is "To Be another fabulous Viennese Sweet 3rd Annual Purim Meal (Seudah) a Jew Today in America," based on Table at intermission. two tickets; sponsors who give $25 on Purim Day, Tuesday, March services as usual. Minchoh for the will receive one ticket. General entire week will be at 5:30 p.m. Rabbi Davis's forthcoming book, 21, at 5:30 p.m. We will have a full Trial by J ewry. Rabbi Davis will Join us on March 11, 1989 at admission tickets are $ 12 for Monday and Thursday morning course meal with homemade open the Saturday program at 9: 15 7:30 p.m. You don't need a adults and $6 for students and hamentashen and pastries. There services are at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday, wedding or a Bar Mitzvah to seniors. Wednesday and Friday morning a.m., after which participants will will also be lively music with be divided into discussion groups. celebrate - just good music, For a fun -filled evening, mark strong drink for the adults. Don't services are at 6:45 a.m. There are friends and fun. Support the Harry your calendars for Saturday, nine days left to Purim! Following the 11:15 a.m. Sabbath forget to reserve this date and service, led by Rabbi George Elkin Midrasha's enrichment March 11, 1989 and Shirim. make your prepaid reservations by The raffle prizes are: 1) Color Television (19") RCA or Zenith. 2) Astrachan, lunch will be served, March 13. The cost is only $8.50 and there will be open discussion an adult and $4.00 a child under A ladies' or men's pair of Leather Boots, 3) Three bottles of Whiskey. of the subject, with a summary by 12. The maximum price is only $30 Rabbi Davis. E per family. One can call in Whiskey. s 0 L I T A I R s Tickets are available at the Also serving on the planning reservations at 723-2669, committee are Kenneth Adler, lHE RIGHT DIAMOND • CllWJIY. SIZE SfTT1NG t'ND PRICE. 724-3552, or 724-2632. synagogue or Dave Friedman at 438-5220. Lotte Feinberg, Judy Oraslan and SHOM-J BY N'POINTMENT /IT DISCOLM. The N.C.S.Y. group is also Joseph Postar of Cranston; 112 om ST/5 J/4 om 11475 1 om rm, 11m planning a Purim Carnival Temple Sinai Catherine and Fred Berkowitz of Sunday, March 19, 2-4 p.m. There Warwick, Sukey Denniss of East will be a planning meeting this Sisterhood Greenwich, and Livia Weinstein, Sunday, March 12 at 2 p.m. Sisterhood Meeting Selman Nasberg, and Ruth and Our schedule of services this There will be a Temple Sinai Sidney Jaffa of West Warwick. week is as follows: Temple Sinai serves Reform Morning: Sunday, 7:45 a.m.; Sisterhood Meeting on March 13, 1989 at 7:30 pm at the Temple So­ Jewish families in Cranston, Kent Monday and Thursday, 6:40 a.m.; and South Counties. Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, cial Hall. PROVIDENCE DIAMOND 6:50 a.m. Esther Yanku, traveling consul­ C 0 M A N y tant of the Fantasy Travel & Tour, Temple Sinai Expands ,,..,,-c1 ... 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•n1•on ] This time of Y~~!~~C~~~~~in. Hejusthelpedout Opl sophomores declare majors and running errands. Joel had a touch [ pick roommates. For me they were of Ferdinand the Bull, he sat by his ______,., hardme as choices a lawyer to type.make. I usedMy dad to helpsaw flowershimself . Butand thoughsmiled humble sadly, Joelto people with their problell).s. I had a was also versatile and talented. He few of my own. Maybe I could be a rang the Harkness bells and tooted Ta,e Oral Torah shrink. Mostly I took English a horn with the band. His father by Jacob NeUBner is a loan owed to a human being of tradition. What makes the chain courses. I read stories and fancy presented him with a bright, brand Part Two of Two Parts and a loan owed to the a statement of the standing and words about them. But if I headed new, red convertible. He was always The oral Torah complements Omnipresent, the blessed, as it is authority of the Oral Torah's for med school, I'd need sciences. I glad· to chauffeur us into the sun on the written Torah. When, as we said, The wicked borrows and does authorities is the compositors' started with biology. weekend jaunts, me with a beer shall now see, a sage works out not pay back, but the righteous inclusion of the names, within the In lab, instead of taking the can in my fingers and a pipe in my with his disciples sayings that turn person deals graciously and hands tradition of Sinai, of authorities of knife to pit and dissect the frog, I teeth, radio blaring. out, as we see them altogether, to over [what is owed].) Ps. 37:21. the important books of the Oral tucked it away and rescued the Neither of our hobbies ended be nothing more than elaborations Rabbi Eleazar says: Ill will. Torah, beginning with the creature. After a month I ran a zoo well. Another "pal" knocked the in concrete terms of the same verse He said to them: I prefer the Mishnah and encompassing later in my rooms. I hatched fertile eggs plants off the sill to crash on the at Lev. 19:18: "You shall love your opmion of Rabbi Eleazar ben on the Midrash-compilations we under a lamp and had chicks cobbled courtyard, and also neighbor as yourself," that too is Arakh, because in what he says is have already consulted at some clucking at dawn on the mantel. poisoned my poultry. Just a prank. part of the discourse of the master included everything you say. length. That fact indicates the They perched on my writing table He also took down his ROTC rifle with the disciples in the here and Tractate Avot 2:8-9 whole of their polemic: the while I penned postcards. Jars of and shot rats in the dump. now. It is not merely valid because A second look at these sayings teaching of the authorities of the paramecia and amoebae lined the As for me, I scribbled those the Written Torah is cited. It is shows us we have a sequence of Oral Torah derive from authorities windowsill. White mice scampered garbled penny postcards warning valid because the master has concrete applications of what who stand in a direct line to Sinai. under the bed. At school holidays I my folks I didn't think I'd make it taught the disciples, through Christians know as the golden rule. Then the Oral Torah enjoys the always brought something home. If to lawyer or doctor. Stories and precept and example, that truth. It is framed in terms of reputation, standing and auth6rity of God's it was not welcome by the hearth, poems took me over and I turned That suffices to find a place for the property, attitude. But it comes revelation to Moses at Sinai and I'd have to find a farm or doorstep to teaching instead. Oddly, my teaching in the chain of tradition down to the same thing. So the forms part of the Torah of Sinai. A or nearby open field. Local brothers both faced toward extending upward to Sinai. Oral Torah as represented by process of oral formulation and cemeteries were good places to set teaching too. It was the draw of Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai Yohanan ben Zakkai joins to Sinai oral transmission through the free wild lab things. our favorite subjects, not received [the Torah] from Hillel the everyday observations of the memories of sages links the Oral Though I wanted to know and education itself, that pulled us in. and Shammai. great masters and his disciples. It Torah and the Written Torah alike learn everything, I wasn't cut out Joel went on to Harvard Law He would say: If you have does not suffice only to quote the to Moses at Sinai. to be a serious scholar. Classmates and did well in the world. I still learned much Torah, do not puff Written Torah. What people We shall understand the huddled long hours over books. I hear from him. He owns a movie yourself up on that account, for it observe in the streets ("Go out and position of the framers of Avot "flicked out" at the cinemas. I theatre in Stamford and uses it for was for that purpose that you were see .. .") contributes to the Torah. when we recognize the problem found a gentle and accepting Jewish film festivals to raise created. And how the disciples transform that confronted them. It began roommate. There weren't a lot of money for his temple causes. He had five disciples, and these everyday affairs into with a vast law code, the Mishnah, Jewish boys at Yale. But Joel The genre ofliterature I prefer is are they: Rabbi Eliezer ben Torah-teachings forms the which, along with the law of visited his Yiddish grandma right about animals that find freedom or Hyrcanus, Rabbi Joshua ben centerpiece of revelation as they Scripture, Judah the Patriarch, in New Haven. Joel raised friendship. My most recent find is Hananiah, Rabbi Vose the Priest, experience it - and also add the whom Rome recognized as the begonias on his window ledge. He Victoria - Biography of a Pigeon. Rabbi Simeon ben Nethanel, and revelation they have received to ruler of the ethnic group, the Jews, cared for them devotedly. He I also teach movie courses and Rabbi Eleazar ben Arakh. the tradition that forms the Torah. in the province of Palestine, didn't drink or smoke. Though his show the flicks I saw in New He sald to them: Go and see Let me then generalize on the adopted as the basic law for the dad owned the country club where Haven. Sometimes I feel I'm still a what is the straight path to which theory of the Oral Torah that we government of Israel in the Land Benny Goodman played golf, Joel sophomore. someone should stick. have seen expressed in these of Israel (thus: the Jews of Mike Fink Rabbi Eliezer says: A generous striking details. Tractate Avot, 250 Palestine) in around 200. As soon spirit. Rabbi Joshua says: A good C.E., represents the authority of as the Oral Torah in the form of origins of Jesus Christ by appeal to characterizes the Hebrew of the friend. Rabbi Yose says: A good the sages cited in Avot as the Mishnah, the first document of genealogy, just as, in tractate Avot, Mishnah. Mishnaic style is neighbor. Rabbi Simeon says: autonomous of Scripture. Those the Oral Torah, made its we find an explanation of the elegant, subtle, exquisite in its Foresight. Rabbi Eleazar says: authorities in Avot do not cite appearance, the vast labor of origins of the Oral Torah by appeal sensitivity to word-order and Goodwill. verses of Scripture, but what they explaining its meaning and to genealogy: the genealogy repetition, balance, pattern. He said to them: I prefer the themselves say does constitute a justifying its authority got under represented by tradition. The solution to the problem of opinion of Rabbi Eleazar ben statement of the Torah. There can way. Second, an authorship might the authority of the Mishnah, that Arakh, because in what he says is be no clearer way of saying that How relate the Written Torah to also imitate the style of biblical is to say, its relationship to included everything you say. what these authorities present in the Oral Torah, which, people Hebrew and so try to creep into Scripture, was worked out in the He said to them: Go out and see and of itself falls into the maintained, encompassed this law the canon by adopting the cloak of period after the closure of the what is the bad road, which classification of the Torah. code, the Mishnah? The Mishnah Scripture. But the Mishnah's Mishnah. Since no one now could · someone should avoid. Rabbi Specifically, as we see in the presented one striking problem in authorship ignores biblical syntax credibly claim to sign the name of Eliezer says: Envy. Rabbi Joshua opening chapter of the tractate, particular. It rarely cited scriptural and style. And the Gospel's Ezra or Adam to a book of this says: A bad friend. Rabbi Yose the authorship of the tractate lists authority for its rules. Omitting authors of course did not even try. kind, and since biblical Hebrew says: A bad neighbor. Rabbi as its authorities Moses, Joshua, scriptural proof texts bore the Third, an author would surely had provided no apologetic Simeon says: A loan. (All the same prophets, and onward, in a chain implicit claim to an authority claim his work was inspired by aesthetics whatever, the only independent of Scripture, and in God, a new revelation for an open options law elsewhere. The two that striking fact the document set canon. But, as we realize, that were, first, provide a story of the RHODE ISLAND a new course for itself. For from claim makes no explicit impact on origin of the contents of the Oral the formation of ancient Israelite the Mishnah. And it would be Torah, beginning with the Scripture into a holy book in some time before the canonical Mishnah, and, second, link each HERALD Judaism, in the aftermath of the Gospels were given the standing of allegation of the Oral Torah, again (UBP8-l'IOI · return to Zion and the creation of revelation through the Holy Spirit; starting with the Mishnah, l'llllblled E._y W- lly Tho the Torah-book in Ezra's time (ca. it is a claim they do not make in through processes of biblical (not - - Pubhhlng Company 450 B.C.) the established canon of their own behalf. Mishnaic) exegesis, to verses of the a EDITOR: reyelation (whatever its contents) Scriptures. SANDRA SILVA · coming generations routinely set Fourth, at the very least, someone would link his opinions to These two procedures, together, their ideas into relationship with biblical verses through the exegesis would establish for the Mishnah a ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Scripture. This they did by citing DAVIDDeBLOIS that standing that the uses to proof-texts alongside their own of the latter in line with the former so Scripture would validate his which the document was to be put rules. Otherwise, in the setting of a ACCOUNT REPS.: views. The authorship of the demanded for it: a place in the Israelite culture, the new writings PAMTCATH Mishnah did so only occasionally, canon of Israel, a legitimate could find no ready hearing. DONNA DINUCCI but far more commonly stated on relationship to the Torah of Over the six hundred years from its own authority whatever rules it Moses. And with the notion that Malling -.., 9M..olOU. -, R.I. the formation in writing of the proposed to lay down. In this the Mishnah and later writings Torah of "Moses" in the time of PI.ANT:~.li~!.!:..~-.,R.1. regard Matthew shows, for that amplified and explained its 02111 Ezra, from ca. 450 B.C., to ca. 200 law formed a component of the OFFIC!: 305 W....,.... Ave., Eut Providence, C.E., four conventional ways to instance in Chapter Two, how this IU.0291• would have looked; much of Oral Torah, the writing down of accommodate new writings - new the Oral Torah began. Second clu1 postage paid at Providence. Matthew's Gospel places into Rhode Island. Postmast., send address "tradition" - to the established relationship prophetic teachings The upshot is very simple. The ChangQtotheA.I. Herald, P.O. Box 6063, Provi­ canon of received Scripture had donot, A.I. 02940-6063. about the Messiah and the life, founders of Judaism as we know it, come to the fore. who flourished in the first seven By~1~00R:':a~."':: r.r.~ First and simplest, a writer teachings, and actions of Jesus whom Christianity calls Christ. centuries of the Common Era, ~=~::·~4.:.er.::un:. :,: would sign a famous name to his ICripdona are continuous unten notified to the brought Scriptures into their contrary in writing. book, attributing his ideas to The Hebrew of the Mishnah and world, and their world into The Herlkl assumes no finanelal responsi­ Enoch, Adam, Jacob's sons, of the other writings of the Oral Scripture. They therefore show us bility fOf typograpNcal errOfl In advertise­ ments, but will reprint that part of the adver· Jeremiah, Baruch, and any Torah complicated the problem, how people shaped their tisement In which the typographical etTOf number of others, down to Ezra. because it is totally different from understanding of the world out of ~~etywi~:-.~~ ~ But the Mishnah bore no such the Hebrew of the Hebrew the resources of God's revelation of OCCUf, attribution, e.g., to Moses. Scriptures. Its verb, for instance, Untotldted manuscripts: Unsoflcl1ed the beginnings of humanity, and, manuscripts are ~ - We do not pay for Implicitly, to be sure, the makes provision for more than especially, of God's people, Israel. ~:!/'"e:.act,lptstta~;!,~~: Candlelighting statement of Avot 1:1, "Moses completed or continuing action, The great sages, honored with the Ornsed envelope tf you want the manuscript received Torah from Sinai" carried for which the biblical Hebrew verb returned. Letters to the editor represent the title of rabbi, transformed the the further notion that sayings of allows, but also for past and future Torah into a plan and design for c ·1r:: ~-~notwr:,.~~ times, subjunctive and indicative number IOf YeftficaUon. March 10, 1989 people on the list of authorities the world, the everyday as an The H9rald Is a member of the New ~nd from Moses to nearly their own voices, and much else. The syntax instance of the eternal. They read PreH MIOdltion and the American Jewllh day derived from God's revelation is Inda-European, just as Latin Presa Association. and a subscriber to the 5:28 p.m. Scripture as God's picture of Jewish Toteg,ophlc Agency ono the ,_,.. at Sinai. But no one made that and Greek are Inda-European creation and humanity. They read swc:a.n1 Pren Semce. premise explicit before the time of languages, in that we can translate the life of the streets and the Talmud of the Land of Israel. the word order of the Mishnah marketplaces, the home and the We note, in this connection, that into any Inda-European language hearth, the nations and the world, Notice the authors of the Gospels took the and come up with perfect sense. as an on-going commentary on The opinions presented on this page do not same view as did the authors of the None of that crabbed imitation of Scripture and the potentialities Mishnah. They too did not sign biblical Hebrew, that makes the (not all of them good) of creation. necessarily represent the opinions of this establishment. , the names of Old Testament Dead Sea scrolls an So as we now realize full well, authorities. They explained the embarrassment to read, Torah flows in both directions. THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, T HURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1989 - 5 Cashing In On Radon Toward Saner Solutions by David DeBlois The list compiled by the EPA is by Rabbi issues vitally affecting the life of probe, an exploration of intentions Associate Editor the only connection that Alexander M. Schindler the country. and not an embrace of Arafat's companies may have with the positions. Washington continues Some people will attempt to Events in the Middle East move Israel's economy urgently needs Agency. T he EPA does not repamng. Indeed, the new to oppose any international cash in on anything. endorse specific companies, nor do swiftly, and their course defies conference that is vested with the In the wake of the prophecy. Yesterday's predictions government has already proposed they work in conjunction with any austerity measures that no narrow power either to impose a Environmental Protection to do testing. Any fi rm which are mocked by today's realities, settlement or to veto it. It does not Age ncy / Public Health Service and no one can tell what tomorrow coalition could hope to carry makes such a claim should be through. Another imperative is favor the creation of an joint recommendation that most will bring. questioned extensively. electoral reform; here, too, only the independent Palestinian state, still homeowners have their homes J ust think of the traumas Israel Because of the difficulties two major parties working in preferring that any Arab-ruled tested for radon, some companies caused by firms making fal se has witnessed in recent months: entity in a large part of the West have begun using inaccurate and the intifada, and the desperate concert can enact such change. claims, the EPA plans to The realization that in each of the Bank and Gaza be confederated misleading statements in response that it evoked; the Israeli implement "blind" tests of last two elections their combined with Jordan. (So do most of the marketing these services. election results, and the companies (they will not know strength waned may impel them to other Arab nations, their public Consumers are advised to carefully they are being checked) in order to consequent, demeaning efforts of protestations to the contrary select a company to test their party politicians to bargan for do so now. provide more quality assurance. Responding To The PLO notwithstanding). homes. After these "blind" tests are power; murky political convulsion And, of course, George Shultz But this above all: only a Michael R. Deland, EPA administered, an updated list will within the PLO, and the State meant to make certain that broad-based Government can Regional Administrator, warns, Department's decision to open a Arafat's pledge to eschew terrorism be released this summer. muster the clarity of policy and "Consumers should beware of Done properly, radon testing is dialogue with its leadership. of any kind is not a ruse, that the sense of resolve required to firms that use hard-sell tactics simple and inexpensive. 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Kennedy Federal investigate the reputation and Building, Boston, MA 02203. prices of a company, utilizing the Consumers who still have help of state radon programs or questions about radon testing after EPA if necessary. It's usually a 1ne most contacting their state program can good idea to employ a different contact the EPA's radon program company for mitigation than was at (617) 565-4502. used for testing. Letters To The Editor Museum Seeks available for "do it yourself' ship­ of tne Dest Object Survivors ping of books. For complete in­ fo rmation, contact Project Sefer, T he United States Holocaust SSSJ, 210 West 91st Street, Memorial Museum is looking for New York, NY 10024; tel. (212) objects that document Nazi crimes, 799-8900. life in the camps and ghettos, armed and spiritual resistance, the WANTED American response, rescue efforts ( A request from Eleonor F. for tne east. as well as efforts to build life anew Horvitz of the Rhode Island after the Holocaust. Jewish Historical Association.) If you have such objects, please Within the last few weeks two It's spring, and Loehmann's is describe t hem in a letter to: people who were involved in a Curator, United States Holocaust business that was a very important brimming w ith Designer and Name Memorial Museum, 2000 L St., part of the Rhode Island Jewish Brand dresses, suits, blouses, j N.W. (Suite 717), Washington, scene have died. The business was sportswear and accessories. A ll in , ,:· D.C. 20036 or call 202/828-9554 for that of the Jewish delicatessen. information. The individuals involved were ·­ one place. All for so little. And more ,, Project Sefer - Jewish Lena Chase of Chase's of the newest fasnions arrive daily .· } . '\ Delicatessen, and Harry Davis of -everything from casual to career / i_ Books To Russian Jews Davis' Delicatessen, both at one After years of hoping, it's hap­ time located on North Main to couture. I :\ pening. Street. These wonderful stores Our clothes are always in i · That's what the Student Strug­ were filled with mouth watering season, in style, and straight from ,! / gle for Soviet Jewry says about delicacies of all kinds. Who can Project Sefer. Sefer in Hebrew forget Diwinsky's or Clorman's or the world's top fashion houses. / J. means "book,'' and the SSSJ is Kolodofrs or -Lightman's or (Petite sizes, too.) J f sending hundreds of Jewish books Cohen's. Undoubtedly there were But wait until you see our L..~ .. J ,_,!/t&, in Russian by mail from Israel to several others in various parts of price tags. Loehmann's -.,,:' i, both refuseniks and to Jews who've the city. not yet applied, but express a deep Recently I was told when I asked guarantees you the lowest prices ~ hunger to connect with their why I could no longer find pickled in town, while giving you the ancient heritage. Almost all the watermelon that there were several greatest value for your money. books are getting through. reasons for their not being Now Project Sefer has expanded available. Julie (of Davis' to North America. Jewish books in Delicatessen on Hope Street) Russian and English (the USSR's explained that the type of prime foreign language) are also watermelon needed was no longer being sent to Jews in comers of the grown, that no present day store \ USSR unreached by foreign tour­ would have the room to display the ists. needed barrels, and most of all that "We're working with a seme of there were no coopersmiths in You can't beat our prices! real urgency," the SSSJ said. "No business today who could mend one knows how long this small these barrels. opening will last. We aim to send We need more stories - were thousands of Jewish books ea you connected with these gone but quickly as possible so that the not forgotten delicatessens, or was \J sparks of Jewish knowledge can be a member of your family? PerhaJ,. kindled across Russia, even if the you just remember the experience doors swing abut again." of shopping in them. We wondered Individuals, synagogue, groups if you had any photographs or and schools are urged to partici­ treasured memorabilia that we Now Accepting For Information Call : (401) 823-5170 • Warwick, Loehmann~ Plaza, pate in Project Sefer. SSSJ can might reproduce. D ::-'ili:I send in books for them, with a Just call the office at 331-1360 if 1276 Bald Hill Rd . bookplate indicating the donor, if you can help us on this nostalgia requested. Instructions are also trip. And thanks. -- 6 - THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1989 S. A. Rakitt Is New Executive Director At Temple Emanu-EI (__ s_o_c_ia_I_E_v_e_n_t_s ______]

Schechter School To Honor Sherwins Announce Jewish Women Birth Robert and Mindy Sherwin The entire Jewish community of Mesdames Ades, Alexander, announce the birth of their second Rhode Island and southeastern Alperin and Goldberg have also son, Jeffrey Matthew. Jeffrey, Massachusetts is invited to join been concerned with international born February 3, 1989, is the the Ruth and Max Alperin issues, especially in Israel and the brother of Jason Alexander. Schechter Day School in honoring Soviet Union. Maternal grandparents are Mr. four of the community's The evening will be both and Mrs. Newt Sheldon of Wycoff, outstanding women: enlightening and enjoyable. A N .J. Paternal grandparents are • Ruth Ades cocktail hour will begin at 6 p.m., Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Sherwin of • Sheila R. Alexander followed by a delicious dinner. Providence, R.I. Great­ • Ruth Alperin Guest speaker for the evening will grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. • Shirley A. Goldberg be Rabbi Nina Cardin, a 1988 Meyer Fine of Florida. These four women will be graduate of the Jewish Theological honored at a recognition dinner on Seminary of America. Rabbi Tuesday, April 4, 1989, at Temple Cardin is the former editor of the Aaron-Hoover Emanu-El, 99 Taft Avenue, magazine Conservative Jewry and Providence. is a fresh, new voice in The Holiday Inn in Brookline, The honorees have all been Conservative Judaism. She will be Ma., was the setting for the Feb­ actively and intensely involved in speaking on the topic: "Jewish ruary 19, 1989 wedding of Cindy community life, serving a variety Women in Community Life." Pamela Aron to Jeffrey Scott of religious, social, cultural and Minimum donation is fifty Hoove r. educational organizations such as: dollars per person. There will be no Miss Aron, the daughter of Mr. solicitation of funds at the dinner. and Mrs. Simon Aron of Warwick, r the Jewish Community Center of Rhode Island, Jewish Federation, This is an opportunity for the is a graduate of Pilgrim High Temples Emanu-El and Tifereth entire Jewish community of Rhode School. She also attended the Uni­ Israel, the Jewish Home for the Island and southeastern versity of Rhode Island. Mr. Hoover, the son of Mr. and Aged, Jewish Family Services, the Massachusetts to join together in Mrs. Thomas Hoover o( Tiffun, Rhode Island School of Design Art recognition of these women who, Ohio, served in the U.S. Air Force Museum, National Council for through their gift of themselves, as a Security Police Specialist Jewish Women, Hadassah, their time, talents and energies, achieving the rank of Airman First Brandeis University and the have so enriched all of our lives. Class. He also attended the Went­ Solomon Schechter Day School of For ticket information, call the worth Institute in Boston. Rhode Island. Schechter School office, 751-2470. Sheryl and Laurie Aron, sisters of the bride, served as maids of honor. Michael San Gregory was At your service ... best man. The bride and bridegroom are Temple Emanu-El welcomes a new Executive Director, & MAID AR

Alexander-Ferry

It may interest you to know you can now fly EL AL roundtrip to Israel for only $799. You can fly business class each way for only another $299. Your first child can fly roundtrip for only $599. Every child after can fly roundtrip for only $399. Of course, there are those who can fly to Israel for less. Boston-Tel Aviv Aights all Mondays and Wednesdays Reuben and Norma Alexander of Cranston, R.I. , announce the engagement of their daughter, Judith, to Michael Ferry, son of Mr. and EL!ZVACTN..r Mrs. Alfred Ferry of Tiverton, R.l. -4 The Airline of Israel. Miss Alexander is a graduate of Cranston High School East and Rhode Island College. She is employed at the Swansea Wood School in For more infornuuion, w:e your k>cal 1nvel agent or c111II Swansea, MA . EL AL 11 1-800-223--0700. In NY. 212-486-2600. Mr. Ferry is a graduate of Tiverton High School. He also attended the

All I.nil,,_ NY nid ...OIi ..i)' 1, c.,...... ~ purdluc ~inNI ""°".,..,• ....., lfc-.RNlled •hlll• 14..,.. iwb 100qu11re. Georgia Institute of Technology and Rhode Island College. He is Mi• ... .,. • ...,. MeL. lld.,.. Fare, 11~,e("IIOthHtr•it_,__ SJ'91•... · dllld-Ms~,..,, ... ~ Dc,-n1n- 1u.1:1 , nM- employed at Plumb House, Inc., in Westboro, MA . ... ia•i1rM- '"· - 1Ki..6rd EffKtl" . , , _.,,,n "°' ..... i'""" 4/IJ .../ 11119 Cnul1 t1:1Ulc1iomu .,,., The couple plans a September IO, 1989 wedding. THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1989 - 7

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·Temple Habonim Welcomes The Lakhman Family by Sandra Silva Barrington, RI - Freedom to They continued to contact and en­ proach each new task. worship, freedom to move about at list the support of Rhode Island Aaron and Marina, having over­ will, freedom to speak out, freedom representatives. Although through come the troubles they suffered in to work, freedom to live in peace, occasional telephone calls they the Soviet Union as refuseniks, and the right to fair legal process. would discover that their commu­ have a joyous outlook on life. While These are things that, as Ameri­ nications of support and encour­ preparing for Friday's activities cans, we take for granted - until agement, as well as the supplies with Maxine, Paula, and Rabbi faced with a situation where we feel that they sent, never actually Rosenberg, they were full of excite­ that these rights have been vio­ reached the Lakhmans, they con­ ment and energy. They glowed lated, or infringed upon, then we tinued to persevere. Last fall, by with pride as they observed the cry out. But even this is a freedom the will of God, that perseverance progress in coordinating the dis­ we think of as our due, the freedom was rewarded, as the Temple mem­ play of Alexander's paintings, to protest against injustice. bers received affirmation that the which were to be exhibited after So, who amongst us can really un­ Lakhmans had been granted per­ the service. Marina teased her son, derstand the magnitude of living mission to leave the Soviet Union. saying that maybe he would be the without these rights, or truly com­ The Lakhman Family - Aaron, next Chagall, whose works she has prehend the hopelessness involved Marina, Alexander and Marina's admired since seeing them exhib­ in living a life in which these free­ mother - disembarked from an ited in the Soviet Union. doms are not, and never have been, airplane at Logan Airport in Aaron has learned to speak He­ an inherent part. This is a life that Boston into the waiting arms of brew. Although humble about his is totally alien to ours, and yet Maxine Richman, Chairperson of ability, be was excited that he was there are people who have made it the Temple's Social Action Com­ asked to read the Hebrew portion a personal and community mission mittee. From that day, Temple of the evening's service. Aaron is to rescue those trapped in the situ­ members have assisted in the also an avid and knowledgable stu­ ation. And, as unlikely as it may Lakhman's transition into Ameri­ dent of Jewish history, and he is seem, one group of devoted indi­ can life. Paula Most directed the thankful to have the freedom and viduals can make a difference, even family to the Boston Museum of resources to study at will. against an uncooperative and resis­ Fine Arts, where their thirteen Marina was to have the honor of tant bureaucracy. year old son, Alexander bas been lighting the candles at the service. This is what last Friday's celebra­ accepted as a student into the art Not being familiar with the prayers tion at Temple Habonim in Bar­ school. and blessings involved, she was rington was all about: the triumph Alexander is an exceptional artist comforted by the promise that of perseverance and prayer over who creates vibrant and striking Maxine would share this honor political tyranny. On Friday, renditions of Jewish history. As a with her, providing support and Proud mother, Marina Lakhman, stands with her eon, Alexan­ March 3, 1989, the entire commu­ gift to the Temple, he has donated guidance. der, before an exhibit of Alexander'& paintings at Temple nity of Temple Habonim, with joy one of his paintings, a vivid depic­ Habonim. and celebration in their hearts, tion of Haman, Mordechai and Maxine and Rabbi Rosenberg welcomed the Lakhman Family as Queen Esther. Alexander's art­ speak for all members of the Tem­ guests of honor to their worship work, although never exhibited in ple when they say that they are service of freedom and thanksgiv­ the Soviet Union, has travelled thankful for the positive effects ing. throughout Europe as part of an their efforts have had on the lives Although many of the Temple exhibit of the works of refusenik of the Lakhmans. Many lessons members had never met the children. When confronted with have been learned during the past Lakhmans before, the preparations praise about his talent, Alexander several years. Everyone in the for this time were filled with an ex­ is charmingly unassuming. Paula Temple, young and old, has learned citement more reminiscent of a re­ has also put the Lakhman~ into to appreciate freedom, and they union with beloved family mem­ contact with art teachers, and soon have come to a greater understand.­ bers than a first introduction. For Alexander's museum school train­ ing of their responsibilities to­ the past two years, the members of ing will be supplemented with pri­ wards others. The congregation the Temple have been striving in vate instruction. has unconditionally devoted its every way possible to effect a Aaron and Marina, spoke not a time, energy, and resources to change in the refusenik status that word of English when they arrived bringing comfort and freedom to the Lakhmans held in the Soviet in Boston. In the few months they others who are less fortunate, and Union. During this time, the hopes have had to acclimate themselves, they plan to continue their efforts and fears tlrat abounded brought Aaron has learned enough English on behalf of the other refusenik everyone involved to an emotional to comfortably communicate with families adopted by the Temple. closeness with these people from so those around him. He often serves In addition, they have learned the far away. as translator for Marina, who, al­ power of prayer and determina­ At times, frustation was tanta­ though able to understand most of tion, and chose last Friday night as mount and feelings of hopelessness what is spoken to her, will look to the time to come together in played upon all, but the Temple Aaron for assistance. Part of the thanksgiving and celebration for members never slowed their pace. reason for their rapid absorption of the blessings that they will never They kept sending letters and peti­ the English language is the positive again take for granted - peace and tions to the Soviet government. intensity with which they ap- freedom. Maxine Richman, Chairpereon of Temple Habonim's Social Ac­ tion Committee, and Rabbi Jamee Rosenberg are thankful that the efforts of their community have had such a positive effect on the lives of the Lakhman family. They hope that their continued effort& on the behalf of other refueenik families will be just as instrumental in bringing the freedom and peace that has seemed so elusive.

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s,81 th ex ad vi, by Je COi pri an Aaron and Marina glow with happinetl8 a& they stand with the Alexander stands with his father In front of a display of the friends, Maxine Richman and Rabbi Rosenberg, who have artwork that he brought with him from the Soviet Union. worked 80 hard to make their dreams of freedom become reality. Around Town HIS Fair Lady by Dorothea Snyder

"I've been directing since I'm 25, and translation, but I don't know how good it now I'm 57. So that'll give you an idea of is, because I don't speak Japanese. They how long I've been at it," James use headsets and do a read, line by line. Hammerstein said with a trace of a laugh They've seen the movie over there; they in his voice over the phone from his home know the story." in New York. In directing My Fair Lady, Mr. Diverse in scope, his career ranges from Hammerstein said "we've tried, first of all, directing plays by Israel Horowitz, Harold to make Eliza's trip from being a common Pinter, and Simon Gray to musicals flower girl to a lady as dramatic and as Oklahama, Carousel, South Pacific, large a jump as we can. I think the motion Flower Drum Song, and now My Fair picture had a tendency to glamorize Eliza Lady, which opens its international tour Doolittle even in the first scene, which I at the Providence Performing Arts Center thought was a terrible mistake. this weekend. "I think we try to make a more human "I go back and forth between modern Professor Higgins, someone who really straight plays, dramas and musicals," he works hard, and doesn't always have the said, recalling the last time he directed My right answer at the right time all the time, Fair Lady 24 years ago with Douglas but someone struggling to make this Fairbanks at the St. Louis Muni Opera guttersnipe into a lady. It's more of a House, and one before that with Ray struggle. I think we're taking an Milland." interesting viewpoint. It's still Shaw. It He spoke joyously about directing My still has a lack of sentimentality, which is Fair Lady again. "It's wonderful. The trick certainly Shaw's hallmark. with any so-called classic is not to treat it "You go back and study your Pygmalion like a classic, but to start all over again, first. Then, you say yes, it's not quite and that's what we've all been doing. And Pygmalion. It's a musical, and then you having a terrific time! try to extend Shaw into musical numbers. "Everybody in the cast seems to have That's always the problem, and that's done it one time or another. We're all always the fun." trying to forget that and start all over. It If reading the name Hammerstein has to have that fresh crisp feeling; makes one wonder if James Hammerstein otherwise, it becomes entombed." is the son of Oscar Hammerstein II, the " It's still a beautiful show," Mr. answer is yes. My Fair Lady's director Director James Hammerstein relaxes on stage before a rehearsal of My Fair Hammerstein emhasized. "It doesn't date says, "I'm in the fourth generation where Lady. The production opens its international tour at the Providence Performing because it's a period piece. Working with every single male member of the family is Arts Center on Friday evening, March 10, and plays through Sunday, March 13. Noel Harrison is terrific, We've been in the theater, including cousins, uncles, Photo by Dorothea Snyder. having a very good time. He's very good, etc. I don't know why, but that's what we and very different, and nothing like his old do, I guess." man at all. So we're all having a good time, Relating my research on his great stage and talked a lot over the phone. I ought to be." However, he spent nine discovering it for ourselves all over again. grandfather Oscar who opened an opera They would go their separate ways. When years directing at the Eugene O'Neil "As far as Noel stepping into a role house in New York, James Hammerstein they actually wrote, my father would write Theatre in Waterford, Connecticut. Not created by his father, Rex Harrison, he's a extended my abbreviated information. the lyrics first, call Dick in Connecticut full time, he explained, only May through different personality than his father to "He founded two opera houses in New and read the lyrics back to him. Dick August. "It was great. I loved it. You have begin with, and it would be foolhardy to York, one in Chicago, one in San would then compose it, call him back and fou r-day rehearsals, and the actors hold try to imitate . . . not that he has the Francisco, one in London, and maybe play it over the phone. the scripts in their hands. So you don't slightest inclination to do that. some others I don't know about." " I've made a couple of attempts at have to worry about memorization. "What is similar is when good choices His great uncle Arthur Hammerstein writing songs. One is being performed "What you do is direct from a lot of are made by two different actors. produced a couple of his father's earlier every night in a little revue. I was very instinct rather than intellectual analysis, Sometimes they're going to be the same, shows, and grandfather William scared of doing that, and I don't do it very because you don't have time to prepare but that's by accident. Let's face it. Rex Hammerstein ran the Hammerstein's often. each play for two months before you do a was nowhere at all similar to the first Victoria, three-a-day vau\leville. "So they "Everybody in my family started as four-day rehearsal period. The actors are wonderful movie of it, and everybody, who were in vaudeville, opera, operetta, and assistant stage manager and stage wonderful. I had a play with Meryl Streep has played it, has played it differently." musical plays." manager. We all learned the theatre from and Jill Eichenberry in the same cast." "The cast's first performance of My About his children's connection to behind the curtain, calling cues and doing Enjoyable was his experience in Fair Lady will be in front of the audience theater, he replied, "That's the rub. I don't all that kind of work. I tried being a directing Oklahoma in Australia. "The in Providence," he said. "I don't know have anybody in the theatre. I have an producer first, and found I didn't like it. I Australians loved it. There is something Providence that well. I've only done one 11 -year-old who wants to be in the theatre, hated managing money and publicity. I about Australians which remind you of show there, and that was Alfred The Great so it's not all gone. My other son is was more and more attracted to being a Americans 30 years ago. They still have a at Trinity Square. They toured it working as assistant to a set designer in a stage manager. I became known as a stage lot of party spirit, and they're kind of afterwards, and it was quite successful. movie, which is about as close as we come. manager who directed the understudies larger than life as it is. They were terrific. George Martin was in it." And my third son is a computer operator." and kept the shows up well. From there, I The best people to do Oklahoma right now Lerner and Lowe's My Fair Lady will I set the scenario for a familiar motion became a director, which was the obvious is Australians." tour the U.S. in March, then off to Japan. picture where composer and lyricist are at thing for me to finally do." Mr. Hammerstein lives in New York "Then we start playing in even larger the upright on the verge of the big musical James Hammerstein majored in music one-half of the time, and London, the theaters with larger stages. It'll be an hit. Was that the living room scene where at North Carolina. In the last six months other half. "I'm married to an English interesting move. the beloved team of Rodgers and of his senior year, he switched majors and writer of screenplays, so I'm back and "I played Japan before, and this time, Hammerstein polished off their went into theatre. "I ended up with credits forth. it's going to be a different problem. They compositions when James was growing I couldn't use, so I left college and went to Not indicating his preference to here or don't understand the English well enough, up? work for a producer in New York. there, he did say, "They hardly ever ask and this play is about English," he "No, they worked separately, but "I'm pretty well grounded in music, and me to direct over there; they're so full of chuckled. "They do have a simultaneous worked very hard together in the planning not as grounded academically in theatre as directors it's like carrying coal from Newcastle. I prepare for my American shows in England, and come over here to do them. Sometimes, I work over there. I directed a couple of Pinter plays, and my first show ever was done there years ago ... Damn Yankees at the Collisseum when I first started directing." His opinion on musicals today is "The concept musicals, the good ones, are wonderful, Chorus Line, Company. Sometimes, I find musicals called concept musicals when they're really bad book musitals, and I don't like them. "The Lloyd Webber stuff is very theatrical. It's not my type of play. I'm attracted to the ones with more book, more story, more tension, more going on between characters. I don't find that in the modern ones so much, but certainly I like to go see them." On the horizon, James Hammerstein plans to direct a musical, which he did 20 years ago. "I'm looking forward to doing The King and I. We'll tour it first this summer, and on to Japan next year at this time. Not having directed it for so long, I hope I'm fresh on that." With that same crisp and fresh feeling he strongly believed My Fair Lady needed to have and Rhode Island audiences will see at the Providence Performing Arts Center this weekend, The King and I will surely play like a breath of fresh air. 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Take our policies are guaranteed for the life The program will be held at the All Israel Bonds buyers, amount referred to as the "PS-58 example above. After ten years, the of the contract (and so are other CCR! Warwick campus on according to David Hermelin, the cost." after-tax benefit of an insured plan plan funds invested in the Saturday, March 11, and the CCR! organization's international (2) Substantial death benefits: would be approximately five times annuity). Lincoln campus on Saturday, campaign chairman, will be asked When an employee dies, the death the amount available through a (7) Disability benefits: If the March 18. The hours for both to purchase an additional Israel benefit of the retirement plan is plan that was not insured. employee becomes totally and programs are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Bond above their regular based on the value of his or her (4) Low cost protection: There's permanently disabled, the life there is no registration fee for purchases, to provide funds for account (or the value of accrued more to life insurance today than insurance contract may be able to Rhode Island residents over age Israel's Development Budget, benefits). That may be small - just death protection. The policy provide protection without further sixty. For more information, which would increase employment especially in the early years of also builds up cash value based on premiums. And the cash value will contact the CCR! Office of opportunities for new immigrants. participation. In contrast, the the competitive yields of insurance continue to build. That can be Community Services at (401) death benefit through life contracts. Due to this investment quite a comfort at a time when life 825-2000 or (401) 333-7070. ------Life Iusurauee For The Newlywed------by Jeffrey G. Brier policy even if one is no longer in often believe. When discussing in­ agent for verification of an insur­ Knight's As couples begin their lives to­ good health. The main advantage surance with your life insurance ance company's past dividend his­ gether there are many financial de­ that term insurance offers is that agent make the agent explain tory. Limousine cisions to be made. One which may in the early years one can have things in terms that are under­ Jeffrey G. Brier is with Brier & be discussed, but all too often not high death benefit protection for a standable and remember if you Bri€r of Providence. ~-- Ltd. resolved, is the starting of a life in­ reasonable price. don't understand then the agent "The knight is yours" surance program. There are many Whole life polices are designed has not done his or her job. • Outstanding limousines and reasons for procrastinating; how­ to provide protection for as long as Another important distinction personalizeo service ever, the most common is a lack of one lives and premium payments between term and whole life insur­ Let the community know • All Stretch Limousines, TV, understanding of life insurance. will vary depending on the type of ance is cash value. Cash value is about your organization's VCR, telephone, bar, etc. Before deciding what kind oflife policy selected. Traditional whole the equity or investment feature of • All special occasions life, often referred to as ordinary whole life. A policy's cash value is functions. Announce them • Personal protection insurance policy to purchase or • Corporate rates from which company to obtain the life, will initially cost several times the amount of money that one in the Herald. coverage one must decide how the cost of term insurance; how­ would receive if one canceled the 724-9494 24 hrs. much protection (death benefit) is ever, over ones expected lifetime, policy or that may be borrowed needed. The answer to this ques­ the total premium payments for from the policy. If one borrows tion is vey imporant and time whole life will be less than term in­ from the policy and should die State of Israel should be taken to arrive at a rea­ surance. Variations of whole life al­ without paying the loan back, the sonable amount. The basic ques­ low one to make premium pay­ nsurance company will deduct the VARIABLE RATE ISSUE BOND tion to ask oneself is "if I were to ments for a specified time period, loan from the death benefit pro­ die today what would the immedi­ such as 10 or 20 years, and have ceeds. In most policies the cash ate and future financial impact be lifetime coverage. In an effort to value accumulates slowly in the allow the buyer to get the perma­ early years and more rapidly in V.R.I. on my family?" Current Rate of Interest* The factors to consider in de­ nent advantages of whole life with­ later years which makes traditional ·Through July, 1989 (For Bonds purchased through June, 1989) terming this include the cost of out paying such high premiums, life insurance a good long term but life insurance companies have de­ a poor short term investment. An • Annual rate Is a minimum of 7¼:% plua half the exce11 of the average burial; the paying off of debts, such prime rate over 71/2%. INTEREST WILL NEVER FALL BELOW 71/2% as student or business loans; and veloped newer policies which com­ advantage to accumulation funds bine the cost advantages of term within an insurance policy is that • Minimum Subscription: $25,000 perhaps paying off all or part of the • Employee Benefit Funds can redeem after three years, others after five mortgage. One should also consider and the permanent nature of whole the funds grow tax free. In analyz­ years - on 120 daya notice the household's monthly bills and life. ing a policy one should look at both • Matures in 12 years ln summary, if someone is will­ the guaranteed and the total cash if there are children, then one may This 1s not an offenng. Offermgs of this 1ssue can be made only by a prospe<:tus, copies of which can be ing to do some homework and learn value. The guaranteed cash value is obtained from: want to provide education funds the basics about life insurance, the and an income for the surviving the absolute minimum that the Development Corporation for Israel decision of how much insurance to policy will accumulte while the to­ spouse. The answers to these ques­ buy and what kind of insurance STATE OF ISRAEL BONDS tions will vary depending on indi­ tal cash value includes the value need not be difficult one. A careful added by the dividends the insur­ Six Braman Street, Providence, R.I. 02906 vidual circumstances. A couple weighing of the amount of insur­ (401 ) 751-6767 with young children will have dif­ ance company expects to pay its nace needed, the money one can policyholders. A company's divi­ ferent priorities than the couple afford to pay and the features which has delayed starting a fam­ dends are not guaranteed and which are desired will help arrive at therefore a company's di1'idend ily. an intelligent decision. Insurance Once the amount of insurance is history is imporant. A good shop­ A Perfect Financial Arrangement is not nearly as complex as people per will ask his or her life insurance determined then one must com­ . - pare the advantages of different - a good reason to · types of life insurance policies with their respective costs. Policies can Combine Life Insurance be grouped into one of two main with your Retirement Plan categories; term insurance and whole life insurance. (There are different types of polices within these categories which will be dis­ cussed in depth in a future article.) Term insurance is strictly death Brier ~ Brier benefit protection with no savings foature or ability to continue cov­ INSURANCE 1:--.: Vl:STME:S: r~ erage without paying premiums. Initially term insurance offers the highest death benefit protection for one's premium dollar. Most HALPERIN & LAX, ltd. term policies are renewable for one or more additional terms, regard­ A Complete Flnanclal Service Company less of any changes in health. Each 335 CENTERVILLE ROAD time the term is renewed premiums Milton I. Brier Jeffrey G. Brier WARWICK, RHODE ISLAND 02886 will be higher and eventually they (401) 738-2350 will become more expensive than LAWRENCE M. HALPERIN MARVIN WILLIAM LAX whole life. Some policies are con­ 89 Ship Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02903 401 -274-5000 vertible which means that during a LEO R. BERENDES, CFP specified time period one may ex­ •s.curltl.. offered through Penn Mutual Equity Services, Phil, Pa. change the policy for a whole life 10 - THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1989 JCH Offers Shopping Lessons For New Immigrants by Nachamah Jacobovits purchases. [...... _w_o_r_Id_an_d_N_a_t_io_n_a_I_N_e_w_s___ J Most Soviet emigres come here To deal with another unprepared for the confusing unexpected aspect of American multiplicity of choices that face life, police spokesmen instruct the Hadassah Introduces Prenatal them as American consumers. newcomers on making their To help newcomers make the apartments secure from burglars. Down's Syndrome Test adjustment, the Jewish They also give the students the Community House of Bensonhurst telephone numbers to call when JERUSALEM - A new test to Bartholomew's Hospital in or fatal disorders, the pregnancy (JCH) conducts consumer­ help is needed, and the procedures detect Down's syndrome in unborn London, Dr. Bach said. may be terminated. education classes every Thursday to follow to develop their own infants has been introduced in Hadassah and the municipality Each woman who undergoes the morning, usually attended by block and builing patrols. Israel by the Hadassah Medical of Jerusalem jointly sponsor a tests fills in a questionnaire on her about 40 older emigres, and But one way in which the Soviet Organization. public education program urging personal and medical history, and monthly evening sessions for newcomers are apt students is in The new diagnostic tool will be pregnant women to undergo the is interviewed by a team of younger people who are at work or dealing with bureaucracy. added to prenatal tests already blood test in the 16th to 18th week counselors on genetic disorders. in class during the day. "Every time I go to the welfare provided here for parents-to-be by of pregnancy. A team of Hadassah The Hadassah Human Genetics " It's very confusing," said Alla office or food stamp office, I feel the Human Genetics Department specialists in genetic disorders Department is developing a Berdichevskaya, 58, who arrived like I'm back in Russia," said of the Hadassah-Hebrew works with municipal public computer program for projecting here in January, at a recent session Aleya Avrasin, 60, who arrived in University Medical Center. The health personnel in conducting the the risk of Down's syndrome based New York in August. tests, from a single blood sample, examinations, which include a that dwelt on such novelties as on data collected from the blood comparison shopping, double One consideration in recruiting seek to identify disabling and procedure known as the ELISA tests, questionnaires and coupon days, and rebates. speakers, said Mrs. Wolf, is the potentially fatal genetically­ test. interviews. Coming to brief the new accessibility of their firms and related neurological disorders early This procedure measures a fetal Dr. ·Bach said one in every 700 consumers are nutritionists, organizations to the emigre in pregnancy. protein whose presence in the babies born in the United States housing experts, physicians, and community. It is important for Dr. Gideon Bach, who heads the mother's blood in abnormally high and Israel suffers from neural tube representatives from the police · newcomers to understand private department, said the test measures levels indicates that the fetus may defects which are manifested in department, the telephone banking, which does not exist in two fetal hormones be suffering from disorders such as spinal bifida, companies, banks, Brooklyn the USSR, she said, but as a gonadotropin and estriol - which genetically-related defects of the where there is incomplete fusion of Union Gas, and the City practical matter, the best persons are routinely present in the blood central nervous system. An the spinal cord, and anencephaly, Department of Consumer Affairs. to explain it are representatives of of an expectant mother. abnormally low level of the protein in which the fetus's brain is not "Things are so different here," banks that operate in the emigres' Abnormalities in the levels of the is also evidence that the baby may fully developed. said Mira Wolf, the director of the neighborhood. In the same hormones indicate a risk of be born with Down's syndrome. Between 10 and 15 infants are center's Russian Immigrant fashion, it was the Council of Down's syndrome in the The blood test is followed with born with Down's syndrome in Education and Service Center, Jewish Organizations of developing fetus, he explained. amniocentesis and ultrasonogra­ Jerusalem each year, Dr. Bach who also interprets at the sessions. Bensonhurst, which has an office The test is based on research phy to determine the extent of noted, most of them to mothers "People don't know they should at the center, that provided an published in Great Britain last neurological damage in the unborn under the age of 35. read labels or get second medical expert to speak on housing. October by a group at St. child. If the final tests show severe The Hadassah Medical opinions. I myself still have Generally, the students pick up Organization is the health care trouble differentiating between the rudiments of consumerism arm in Israel of Hadassah, the AT &T and New York Telephone." within one cycle and drop out of WHEN SOMEONE YOU LOVE Women's Zionist Organization of NEEDS HOME HEALTH CARE CALL. ... Mrs. Wolf, a Soviet emigre, the classes. 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.'- by William Saphire and afforestation agency of all The charges dismissed had to do NEW YORK (JTA) - The charges brought against it by the with fraud and misrepresentation, LET A FRIEND IN ON THE NEWS! Jewish National Fund of America Ad Hoc Committee for Jewish Paskow said. said last Thursday that it expects a Survival in Jerusalem, Judea, But on February 21, Fingerhood With a Gift Subscription to the temporary injunction restricting Samaria, Gaza and the Golan. granted a motion to restrain JNF its use of a map of Israel in Paskow told the Jewish from using a map of Israel that fundraising activities to be lifted T elegraphic Agency that New included all of its annexed and R.I.HERALD when it submits a new map for York state Supreme Court Judge administered territories. court approval "in a week or 10 Shirley Fingerhood has dismissed The judge agreed with the ad days." four of the six charges brought hoc committee that the map was According to Stuart Paskow, against JNF by the ad hoc "misleading," because it does not JNF's director of communications, committee, which supports the reflect JNF's policy of not FOR JUST s10.oo (S14.00 out-of-state) you can that will clear the land reclamation concept of a "Greater Israel." allocating funds for projects give a friend or relative 52 weeks of the most com­ beyond the "Green Line," the name commonly given the prehensive publication dedicated to the Jewish boundary between Israel proper Community. Timely features, local & social events, Ol:>l!U CID:.> and the administered territories. • 1 • '1' • I Rabbi Carl Astor From the Editor and our Around Town section Paskow told JTA that JNF Certified Mohel clearly stated that policy in writing highlight each and every weekly issue. 1~ n·7~? 15yeaJSo/ professional experience in all of its fundraising. He said the tii!iin? ., I O.l:.>'••• map was an "insignificant" part of For A the campaign. ,;um?\' Dignified, Meaningful Michael Teplow, a spokesman . Religious Ceremony for the ad hoc committee, said it O'i?'~l,1~1 (203) 442-0418 (WOii<) initiated the legal action last October to restrain J NF "from To give your gift just fill out the coupon below and C'.~i~ L______( 203) 443-0760 (Residence___, ) continuing the use of their mail it to: misleading ads and a return of past donations obtained through Subscription Dept. misrepresentation." R.I. Herald Teplow said complaints that The Jewish Home JNF violated the state's consumer P.O. Box 6063 protection laws were dismissed on gratefully acknowledges with thanks technicalities. Providence, RI 02940 He said the ad hoc committee and is pleased to honor intends to appeal this issue and I continue the suit on the basis of R.I. HERALD GIFT SUBSCRIPTION the generous efforts of its volunteers alleged violations of consumer I P.O. Box 6063, Providence, RI 02940 protection laws. I Paskow said the entire action I Sender's Name ______The Annual Volunteer Luncheon was initiated in pursuit of a I Address ______Zip ____ political agenda by groups Tuesday, April 11, 1989 12 noon assocjated with Israel's right wing. I Phone # (for verification) ______He noted that Teplow is president of Tehiya USA, a group that I Enclosed is my •check or money order for $ - -­ Chase Memorial Auditorium supports Tehiya, a right-wing I ($1O per subscription, $14 out-of-state) opposition party in Israel. I Guest Speaker Paskow said the ad hoc I PLEASE SEND MY GIFT TO: committee wanted the judge to I Name ______James McCartney, M.D. fo rce JNF to allocate 10 to 15 Dim /or of Psychiatry, The Jewish Hom, percent of its budget to projects in the West Bank. : Address ______, pt # ___ Chief of Psychiatry, Tht Miriam Hospital Teplow said he was "not at I c ,ty ______State ___ Zip _ ___ "Challenges of Aging in the 1990's" liberty to know or state" whether : Phone # ______such a request was discussed during settlement proceedings Please RS VP by Thursday, M arch 30, 1989 handled by law firms fo r the two I ~L~S~M~ E_:H~ K~~O~~R~~~T~R~H~A.'.:'. _ 351-4 750 ext 60 or 20 parties. , ··~ · - -- ~ - ~ . v L, . • u 1,.,:n,..i...D, THl'P.SDAY, MARCH 9, 1989 - 11 Goan Tells Sephardi Leaders: To achieve what he called "a renewal of life in Israel," Mr. Gaon Neo-Nazi Parties urged prompt implementation of a Using Junk Mail It's 'Time To Take Risks For "Platform for Social Justice" Campaign adopted last year by the WSF. It BONN (JTA) - Thousands of called for a six-point program Frankfurt residents have protested emphasizing programs designed to: against a new junk mail campaign l) Make education truly free and by two neo-Nazi parties soliciting full-time. new members, but postal 2) Industrialize the development authorities continue to insist there towns. is no legal way to stop them. 3) Offer college education for all. The National Democratic Party 4) Provide day-care centers for says it will mail out 500,000 working mothers. pamphlets before the local 5) Cover all Israelis with elections scheduled for March 12. national health insurance. The other group conducting 6) Institute electoral reform. large scale mailings is the "Our platform is not partisan Munich-based German Peoples but is of human concern," Mr. Union (DVU), led by Gerhard Gaon said. "Knesset members of Frey, who publishes the weekly all persuasions must understand National Zeitung. that it is as important to be Harvard Library consistent and true to their (Sephardi) origins as it is to be Computerizes loyal to their party." Hebrew And Yiddish In his address, Mr. Gaon said: Collection "We Sephardim treasure our DUBLIN, Ohio (JTA) - The Orthodox tradition, imbued as it is world's largest computerized with love of the Jewish people, catalog fo r Hebrew and Yiddish moderation in our daily lives and publications will be available tolerance for the views of others. shortly from the Online Computer JERUSALEM - Nessim Gaon (right), president of the World extremist elements, nor is it even "Intolerance among Jews has Library Center, which is adding Sephardi Federation, has called on Israel to "take risks for Sephardim in the religious parties become one of the most bibliographic records of Hebrew peace" and begin a dialogue with "any of the Arabs ... who has who are opposed to progress and destructive elements of the State and Yiddish materials from the a mandate to negotiate for peace." Gaon addressed Sephardi achievement toward peace." and people of Israel. It is Harvard College Library to its leaders from the U .S., Europe, Latin America and Israel at a The veteran Sephardi leader unthinkable that one Jew can database. meeting of the WSF presidium here. Left, Alberto Nasser of Rio warned that "if Israel continues to believe he has permission to judge When loading is completed, de Janeiro, a vice president of the Federation. Center, Israeli put off making peace with the who is a Jew. Only G-d can touch there will be approximately 88,000 Foreign Minister Moshe Arens. Arab states, we only threaten the human soul in such a records of Hebrew and Yiddish ourselves, our families and our JERUSALEM - The president States, Europe, Latin America and fundamental way. Our belief, our items on the OCLC database, the Israel attending a meeting of the land." He told the Sephardi heritage and our family ethics cry organization announced. of the World Sephardi Federation presidium: has called on the Government of Federation presidium here. out for tolerance - that we display Approximately 75 percent of the "We must break the myth and "We must act before world brotherly love and accept every records have been loaded since Israel to "take risks for peace" and public opinion acts for us. Over 50 begin a dialogue with "any of the false image that our Sephardi Jew as he is. Harvard University presented people are intransigent, apathetic countries already recognize "Yet today our (Sephardi) youth them to OCLC in May 1988. Arabs .. . who have a mandate to Arafat's claim to sovereignty and negotiate." and opposed to dialogue with the are being brainwashed into Dr. Charles Berlin, Friedman Arabs," Mr. Gaon said, adding: favor a dialogue for peace. We becoming extremists. If we do not Bibliographer in Judaica and head Nessim Gaon of Geneva, "The opposite is true. should leave no stone unturned, face the challenge, extremism will of the Judaica Department at Switzerland, addressed some 50 "We must expose to the world lose no opportunity, go any grow and our youth will drift even Harvard College Library, said that Sephardi leaders from the United that it is not we who are the distance in the search for peace." further from their roots." the conversion of the Hebrew and Yiddish records involved ------1 thousands of records in a card Islam Radio Wiesenthal Center, through its The center attempts to contact including the Jewish religion, catalog that was developed over a European Director, Dr. Shimon victims through synagogues and would be discarded. This is in half-century, and which had to be In Sweden Charged Samuels, is providing the Swedish community centers, as well as direct contradition to the First transliterated by individuals with With Anti-Semitism authorities with background workshop sessions, brochures and Amendment of the Constitution, an excellent knowledge of Hebrew. info rmation on Islamic mass mailings. which guarantees the free exercise Amsterdam Jewish anti-Semitism. "We are always aware that of religion." After a long delay, Swedish For more information, contact children who witness abuse are New officers of the Leader Dies authorities have announced that the Wiesenthal Center's Public also victims and that both the 10,000-member youth group, who AMSTERDAM (JTA) - Louis they will seek to prosecute the Relations department (213) women and the men involved need belong to Refo rm synagogues Alvarez Vega, a once-central figure Stockholm-based 'Radio Islam' on 553-9036. help," Geller added. affiliated with the Union of in Amsterdam's Sephardic charges of anti-Semitism. On The hot line number is (71 8) American Hebrew Congregations, congregation, died recently at the February 24, Sweden's 237 -1337. were elected this morning. They age of 84. Attorney-General Hans Stark UJA-Federation are: Roxanne Schneider of St. Until his retirement several presented to a Stockholm court, a Establishes Abuse High School Seniors Louis, Mo., president; Michael years ago, Alvarez served as the long list of anti-Semitic Latz of Minneapolis, Minn., social secretary of the Sephardic · statements broadcast by the radio Hotline Lobby For Pro-Choice action vice-president; and Rich congregation and keeper of the station. Maxwell of Indianapolis, Ind., ancient Sephardic cemetery, or A November 1987 complaint by NEW YORK (JTA) - With the WASHING TON Nearly executive vice-president. "Beth Haim," located at the Los Angeles-based Simon death of Lisa Steinberg here 1,000 high school students, Ouderkerk on the Amstel, near Wiesenthal Center led to an April sparking greater concern and representing reform Jewish youth Largest Sephardic Amsterdam. During his lifetime, 1988 warning by the Swedish awareness of child abuse in the groups across the country, lobbied Alvarez wrote an illustrated book Attorney-General to Ahmed Rami, general public, the Jewish Congress today in support of the Gathering Planned on the cemetery, where he himself the radio station's director, to was buried February 15. community has reacted to the right of minors to choose by Devora Mittany desist from the hateful rhetoric. abortions. problems of domestic violence in Sephardic Jews, a majority in White Supremacist However, Rami defied the official Jewish families. The students - delegates to the warning and continued to question 50th anniversary convention of the Israel, have been an almost invisible Claims Refugee Lisa Steinberg was the illegally "minority within a minority" in the the Holocaust as well as to charge adopted daughter of Joel North American Federation of Status In Canada that Jews worshipped money - Temple Youth (NFTY) - told United States until recently. But TORONTO (JTA) A Steinberg, who was fo und guilty now there are signs that American "What is the Jewish world cult? last month of first-degree their senators and representatives member of a white supremacist, Yes, peddling and haggling. What that they support the Supreme Sephardim, Jews whose ancestors anti-Semitic organization in the manslaughter in her fatal beating. came from Spain and other coun­ is the Jewish world god? Yes, The Jewish Board of Family and Court's decision in Roe v. Wade, United States is claiming refugee money." One quotation from the which placed no restrictions on tries in southern Europe, the Middle status in Canada. Children's Services Center for East, and North Africa, are pre­ station said. Family Violence has activated a abortion with regard to age. Howard Pursley, who was As a result, the Swedish The youth delegates also urged paring to take the spotlight. arrested by Canadian immigration telephone hot line for abused The American Sephardi Federa­ Attorney-General reopened the women and children, backed by their congressional representatives officials, claims he is being case, and is seeking a decision from to support the U.S. foreign aid tion, "the central address for persecuted by the FBI for his professional counseling and Sephardim in the United States," the court for "incitement against referral services in six of its program, including the military political and religious beliefs. an ethnic minority." If the jury and economic aid package to Israel will convene the largest gathering Pursley is a member of the Brooklyn offices. of Sephardic Jews from across the accepts these charges, the station The project, which was selected at the same level as last year. Church of Jesus Christ will be closed down. Citing a resolution adopted nation at a conference on Memorial Christian-Aryan Nations, based in to pioneer in Brooklyn because of Day weekend, May 28-31, 1989, in 'Radio Islam' is the name of a its high density of Jewish families, earlier during their five -day Hayden Lake, Idaho. radio program transmitted in convention, at the Hyatt Regency Seattle. All Sephardic Jews and He is being held at the Calgary initially required $40,000 in everyone interested in the traditions Stockholm by a Moslem funding, $30,000 of which came Crystal City Hotel in Arlington, Remand Center charged with association. Swedish Radio is Va., the NFTY delegates said: and role of Sephardic Jewry are illegally working in Canada. from New York's United Jewish urged to participate in the conven­ "open for local non-profit-making Appeal-Federation of Jewish "We oppose laws requiring "He filed a claim for refugee associations that can exercise an parental notification and consent tion, which is billed as "Emergence: status during his detention Philanthropies, and $10,000 from American Sephardic Jewry Today." almost unlimited freedom of the Lavenburg Foundation, because they would place review/ ' immigration lawyer expresion in their programming," constraints on accfss of minors to Under the dynamic leadership of Michael Greene said. He said he administered by UJA-Federation. its new Executive Vice President, according to Lars Maren, Head of "There's a common abortion. Such laws do not prevent was acting as a consultant, not as the Swedish Ministry of abortions from taking place but Hal M. Lewis, the ASF has set an Pursley's lawyer. misconception that Jewish homes ambitions agenda for the coming Education and Cultural Affairs. are immune to wife and child rather cause additional hardships Pursley's "church" has an office Wiesenthal Center officials and health threats for already years. Educating all Jews about in Caroline, Alberta, run by Terry abuse," according to Dr. Janet Sephardic traditions and culture is applauded the action of the Geller, director of the center. distressed teenagers whose parents Long. high on the list. Swedish Attorney-General, adding "But there is domestic violence may be estranged or abusive." Under Canada's new Discounted registration fees are that "a swift prosecution of these in 15 to 19 percent of Jewish The convention delegates said immigration policy, the claimant in effect until March extremist hate-mongers takes on homes," Geller said. further: 15; and regis­ will have to convince a panel that trations added significance in light of the The center, with the help of 10 "According to Jewish law a fetus will be accepted until April Pursley meets eligibility 5. Registration forms and complete violence and intolerance generated social workers and a psychologist, is not considered a full human 1 requirements and that his claim is information are available from the by the Salman Rushdie affair. Like provides counseling and full being. Eliminating legalized credible. Jews, Moslems living in Western information about the problem as abortions would establish as law ASF national office, 515 Park Ave­ If he is successful he must still nue, S countries are best served by well as group support from fellow one theological belief - that a uite 515, New York, NY face a full hearing to examine his l 0022. The telephone number is promoting de mocracy, pluralism victims, advocacy services, legal fetus is a full human being - while case. If not, he will be expelled and tolerance," they added. The help and financial aid. the beliefs of other faiths, (212) 308-3455. from Canada. d-THE RHODE'lSLAND HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1989

NOAH'S ARK A newspaper for Jewish children

VOL. XI. NO. 7 MARCH. 1989 / ADAR 1-11. 5749

-.~;,~ Remember the Amalekites (Me-lo-nee) - My Dictionary the Shabbat before Purim, Jews read a special ta,dl ~, about King Saul's battle with the Amalekites hn- eh-kites). On Purim day, the Torah portion that is ~read Is bout the Israelites' battle in the desert with the (mahl-kah ah-mee-tzah) Amalekites. Who were the Amalekites and what do they have a brave queen to do with Purim?

/\-:I Esau, Jacob's brother, had a grandson named Amalek. ,;,~ 1;~~~ Amalek's tribe lived in the desert. They were nomads, which (ahr-mone gab-dole) means they didn't live in one town or city, but traveled from 'i'~l? 17~~, ;a rg palace place to place. The Amalekites came from this tribe. (meh-lech ah-sheer) a rich king \c;r:, t,,~ (eesh chah-chahm)

After the Israelites crossed the Red Sea leaving Egypt, the Amalekites attacked them. Being a cruel people, they first attacked the weak and defenseless Israelites at the end of the march. (In any march or race, the most able people are in the front and the weakest, who are trying to catch up, are in the back.) Though the Israelites won the battle, they did not completely destroy the Amalekites. Later, the Israelites were told to always remember what Amalek did when they came out of Egypt.

Throughout the years, there. were other times when the Amalekites fought against the Israelites. During the time ************************************************~ when Saul was king, the Amalekites kept raiding the land. i * The prophet Samuel told Saul that God wanted him to de­ stroy all of the Amalekites and everything they owned. The i Rebus - (Ree-boose) o,:l-.~ i Israelites, led by Saul, defeated the Amalekites. Some sur­ vived but most were killed in the battle. : What was Queen Esther's Hebrew name? i : : Saul, however, did not obey God. He took the best of their animals and he spared the life of the king of the Amalekites, Agag. God was furious that Saul did not follow :i ~ - NGER + ~ - ISY + a orders. Saul asked for forgiveness. The prophet Samuel then :• :* killed Agag. What do these two stories have to do with i i Purim? It is said that the leaders of the I ~ - HOE + /.- MTC = i evil-doers who attack the Jewish people come from the Amalekites. It is said that : * Haman's ancestor was the king of the Amale­ kites, _Agag. (It has even been said that Hitler must have come from the Amalekites because he was the most evil of all people.) We are told to remember the --=-Answe~n next page. Amalekites and to "blot out from the human heart the cruel I --- I Amalek spirit." ······················*************••A'*********** THE RHODE 1$1..AND H8RALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1989 - 13

A Tradition Of Fast Thinking

My father was a very friendly man, who When the pot roast was passed around the liked almost everybody. He sent cards and table, we were ready. "No, thanks. fm full," letters for birthdays, bar mitzvahs, and grad­ said Robert. My father glared at him. He uations. He thought nothing of traveling great could only be full from eating junk and eating distances to drop in unannounced on a friend. junk was a crime in our house.

My mother tried to get him to call ahead, Next, it was my turn. "No, thanks. I don't but discussion was useless. My father would like pot roast." That took my father by such say, "That's the way I was brought up." He surprise that he didn't say anything. I loved couldn't imagine a situation when someone pot roast and he knew it. might not be delighted to see him. "Me, too," said Eddie. We didn't know He was just as likely to bring guests home whether that meant that he was full or didn't without warning. This made things difficult for like pot roast but, in any event, the platter al­ my mother, who was a good housekeeper and so passed him by. _proud of her cooking. "Mother," started my father, "What is . .." Once, on Purim, my father arrived at dinner time with four unexpected guests. They weren't "Pass the potatoes, please," interrupted friends; they weren't even relatives! Where he Mother, and the conversation shifted. Everyone found them or why they were invited, we was served and we got through the meal. never found out. Then Mother and Aunt Mollie disappeared Because of the holiday, my Aunt Mollie, into the kitchen to prepare coffee and dessert, Uncle Jerry, and cousins Robert and Eddie but the problem was the same: not enough. were already there for the Purim seudah (feast). We were having hamantashen. Hamantashen have a triangular shape and are impossible to We were facing a crisis. There simply wasn't cut without having them look chopped off. We enough food. This had happened before and would have been better .off if Aunt Mollie my mother had managed, but this time was had made one of her pineapple upside-down the worst. My father didn't understand or cakes, which could have been cut into a tril­ want to understand the problems of running a lion pieces. kitchen. There was no point in talking to him. He'd only say, "That's the way I was brought Mother and Aunt Mollie came out of the up." kitchen with the coffee and dessert. They had solved the problem. Jews have lived by their It was Sunday evening and the stores were wits throughout the centuries. A tradition of closed. This was in the years before froz en fast thinking had developed. foods were available. This called for desperate measures. Mother served the coffee and dessert. "Nat­ urally, you children, who haven't eaten your My mother called the three kids aside. There main course, don't get any dessert!" was only enough if everybody didn't eat. We were told to let the meat course pass us by Tricked! By my own mother! and fill up on the bread and vegetables. We Illustration by Nachman were thrilled with the gam.~ plan. - By Richard Newman, Copyright 1989

NOAH'S ARK A Newspaper for ( Jewish Children Jumble Linda Freedman Block and Debbie Israel Dubin, Publishers/Editors Purim is celebrated on the 14th day of the Hebrew Nachman. Rlustrations Goldie Knobler, Mickey Brod1ky, month, Adar. That date never falls on what day of the week? Miriam brae). Ada Dubin. and ' Bemard Dubin. Circulation To find out, unscramble the words below: 8323 Southwest Freeway, Suite 250 Houston, Te,as 77074 713/771-7143 TBOH Q Copyright 1989 c NOAH'S ARK 00 Answer To Rebus ISSN: 0892-4945 ln.dwidual subscriptio,u on 18.00; I 10.00 Canada; AILS I I200fomtrn.. Mu.,tkpi ildff.. 00 notional m011eyorrkr, payaf>l~ ui U.S. doUon, and m.QY Hanger - nger + daisy bford~dfromtM&uintuOffict. Grouprctnavo.iJablf - isy + spoes - hoe + upon~unt. ATUB ---- 00 More than &O""- o(NOAH'S ARK pren nan I• pul> ~ match - mtc - Hadassah llahed u a •upplement to the (ollowh1f neft. papen: Jewtah Herald-Voice, lh>u•toa. TX; Inter, moun&aJn Jewtah Ne.,._ Oen¥er, CO; Herttap. Now unscramble the circled letters to find the answer to San D1e10. CA; Jewish Joum•I. Brooklyn. NY; Jewtllh Bulletin. SanFr.nelaco. CA; Je1riahLlrht.. the question. ********** SL Loui, MO; Rhode l.tand Jewtdi He rald. Providenee. RI; TIie Link. Albuquerque. NM: Answers to Jumble B' nal B' rith Meaaenrer, Los Anrele, CA; Jewlah New, Deal Park. NJ; J e~•hObaerwr, Syncu-. NY; Americaa J ewbb World, MLnneapolla, MN; l------=----=-----=-----_-__) J ewl•b Voice. WllmlDrton. DE. 14 - THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1989 DAVID DOLINSKY NEW BEDFORD, Mass. David Dolinsky, 79, of 30 Westview St., died March l, 1989. Obituaries He was the husband of Doris ( (Stuart) Dolinsky and son of the late Gerson and Marsha Dolinsky. MAURICE AARON J He died at the New Bedford Brunswick Urban League, now RUBIN Brunswick. Burial followed at Jewish Convalescent Home. EDISON, N.J. Maurice called the Civic League. Mr. Aaron Beth Israel Cemetery, He was born in Fall River and Aaron of Hamlin Road, Edison, was founder and first president of Woodbridge. lived in New Bedford for 50 years. MEMORIALS, INC. N.J., died February 16, 1989, at Jersey Jobbers Credit Group. Memorial contributions may be He was a member of the Robert Wood Johnson University Mr. Aaron was also treasurer made to Greenpeace, P .O. Box Hospital in New Brunswick. He Congregation Ahavath Achim and a board member of the George 3720, Washington, D.C. 20077, or Synagogue. He was a ~"l'!t?Ji;'f!~\£'~ was 75. Street Playhouse where he ~1~;;~1t~..:4t':\,-'.A~~ the Sierra Club, 730 Polk St.. San self-employed seafood broker and Mr. Aaron was born in New occasionally acted. M