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VOLUME LXXI, NUMBER 51 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1984 30t PER COPY Dershowitz & Kahane In Debate Rabbi Korff Donates Archives (JTA) - Rabbi Meir Kahane, Knesset a modified synagogue-state separation member and leader of the extremist Kach that takes into account Israel's Jewish To Brown University Party, clashed in a dramatic two-hour, nature. sometimes heated, debate here with Dershowitz warned that if Kahane's Harvard Law School professor Alan plan for the expulsion ofArabs from Israel Dershowitz on a wide range of topics is implemented, Jews not fitting the concerning Israel am;! American Jewry rabbi's "particular definition" of before more than 1,600 persons at t he Jewishness might also eventually be Hebrew Institute of Riverdale in the expelled. He called for territorial Bronx. compromise in exchange for peace along The debate, moderated by Rabbi the lines of the Allon Plan. He urged aliya Avraham Weiss, spiritual leader of the and intensified efforts to free Soviet, Hebrew Institute, consisted of a question Syrian and Ethiopian Jewry as a means of and answer format that included time for ensuring a Jewish majority in Israel. rebuttal. Many in the overflow crowd had In an exchange on the recently to observe the proceedings via closed uncovered Jewish terrorist underground circuit television. The attendees, who on the West Bank, Dershowitz expressed were searched by synagogue volunteers grave doubts that the "alleged terrorists" before being allowed to enter the building would be able to receive a fair trial in Sunday night, applauded enthusiastically Israel, but also expressed his "great throughout the debate but remained respect" fo r the Israeli judicial system. " If ord~rly. their acts are proved, I deplore them," he asserted. Much of the discussion focussed on Warns Of 'Holy War' Against Jews Kahane's proposal to expel Arabs from Denouncing those who take t he law into Israel and the West Bank. The their own hands, he predicted that such Brooklyn-born founder of t he Jewish actions would "absolutely guarantee" Defense League, asserting that .. no Arab escalated " holy war" against the Jews. He wants to live in a Jewish State," reminded called Jewish ter~orism a "denigration of the audience oJ the massacres of Jews in the Israeli armed forces," and stated that Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s. He a "mature state" must reject the doctrine asserted that Halacha forbids the of collective responsibility and distinguish granting of Israeli citizenship to between the guilty and the innocent. Baruch Korff non.Jews. Kahane countered that it is a by Robert Israel Halachic Authority Questioned .. disgrace .. to the Jewish people that t he Brown University announced last week upstairs LO lrn, bt-.... u.)'. Asked why "not one great Halachic trial will take place at all. He accused the that Rabbi Korff has pledged to raise "Here is a letter from December, 1945, authority .. has supported h_is proposal, Israeli government of necessitating the $250,000 toward the establishment of an when I worked with an Orthodox group Kahane replied that many rabbis agree actions of the alleged Jewish endowment fund to award scholarships to that networked, underground, to save Jews from the Holocaust. It's signed by with him in private "but are afraid to say underground. "If the government won't seniors in history and government, so." He termed the plan a continuation of expel the Arabs, that guarantees the personally pledging an initial $50,000 to President Harry Truman. And here is a letter from General Douglas MacArthur, the "population exchange" that began killing ot Jews," he declared. inaugurate the fund. To date, an dated 194 7, when I was working to get after 1948, when 700,000 Jews were Dershowitz forcefully attacked Kahane add!ttonal $33,000 has been received from Jews to immigrate to the U.S. And here," expelled from Arab countries. "They for advocating violence, referring several other donors. The fund will provide an the Rabbi continues, -as we walk up the weren't compensated," he said. He also times to the death of Iris Cohen, a $18,000 biennial study leave for a faculty stairs, "here is a photograph of my called fort he establishment of a theocracy secretary in t he New York office of member who has excelled as a scholar and teacher. A second fund, created by a gift of daughter when she spent two weeks as a in Israel, asserting that Israel must "do impressario Sol Hurok. Cohen died when guest of Anwar Sadat at his palace." what is ,Judaism, not that which is bombs placed by the Jewish Defense property from Korff, has been established to support the archives. These archives To the right and left of the photographs gentilized Western civilization." League in a 1972 protest against a include papers t hat span more than 50 of Sadat are photographs of Richard Dershowitz, a ·prominent defense performance by a Russian orchestra years of both Nazi and Soviet persecution, Nixon. attorney, rejected t he notion that Israel exploded. the Holocaust, the revival of Israel, must ~oose between its Jewish character Such violence, t he Harvard professor "Here is a photograph of President and democratic values. "Zionism is a great continued, set back t he cause of Soviet relations with the Middle East, and the struggles for survival of European Jewry, Nixon and my daughter, but she didn't challenge to keep both," he said. "Rabbi Jewry "because it failed to distinguish which include the involvement of six want to shake his hand because she told Kahane seeks a false dichotomy." Calling between the critical and the frivolous." Presidents of the United States. him, 'Mr. President, you take too much himself neither a total secularist nor a Citing Kahane's praise for last month's time of my father and I seldom get to see killing of a Palestinian on a bus in East total disbeliever in a theocratic state, the When I arrive at Rabbi Korffs East him.'" Jerusalem, he called such statements civil rights advocate expressed support for Side Providence home to interview him, "despicable, anti-Jewish and racist." T he There are other framed documents and _there is a repofter from the Su11 Chronicle death of any innocent person, Jew or newspaper clippings. One document who wants to know more about the non-Jew, is a "tragedy," he said. recalls the time when Rabbi Korff spent Rabbi's association wit h only one of those Kahane Defends Using Violence time in a prison in France and went on a six Presidents, Richard Nixon. Back in hunger strike for the cause of Jewry; Kahane defended t he occasional use of 1974, Rabbi Korff made _headlines' when another series of letters from the World violence to protect Jewish lives and rights.­ he founded and became chief executive Jewish Congress recalls his efforts during "It is a terrible thing," he declared, "but officer of the · -National Citizens 1944 to rescue Jews from Hitler's gas sometimes it is a terribly necessary Committee for Fairness to the Presidency. chambers. thing." Stating that only violence brought This was during the Watergate furor, the t he issue ot Soviet. Jewry to "page one of impeachment hearings in Congress, which "There is nothing I am seeking to gain t he New York Times," he compared the ultimately brought about t he resignation personally," the Rablii tells me, "I'm not death of Cohen to the inadvertent killing of Preisdent Nixon in August, 1974.- looking to do business, only to perpetuate of ,Jews by th~ lrgun during the King the cause I served for 50 years.'' David Hotel bombing in pre-state days. Rabbi Korff has written a pamphlet on Accor(jing to President Howard But he asserted that if he became P remier the subject entitled The Personal Nixon, Swearer, Brown will also receive, upon of Israel, not ol)e Arab would be injured. Staying on the Summit. He gives a copy of Korffs death, his library, art objects· and "I don't want to kill them, I want to expel it to the reporter from Att leboro and tells gifts from foreign dignitaries as part of them," he reiterated. ·him that he will find all he wants to know the collection. Swearer said last week, Other topics covered in the debate inside t he pamphlet. ' He really doesn't "The Rabbi Baruch Korff Archives included the future of American Jewry, choose to dwell on his association with should be of great value to scholars and Black-Jewish relations, and the rise of Richard Nixon. historians interested in international Christian fundamentalism. Throughout, "I knew Richard Nixon at t he affairs during the past 50 years." Swearer Dershowitz defended Kahane's right to culmination of my career," Rabbi Korff has appointed the Right Reverend George speak. ..The democratic response is to says. "He's a very small part of my N. Hunt, Episcopal ,Bishop of Rhode answer him (Kahane) to persuade archives.- I have 96 cases full of Island, as chairman of an advisory people to reject his views on their memorabilia. The students are still in the committee to aid in the establishment of . demerits,., he said. process of packing it to take it over to the the Korff Archives and related funds. Kahane in turn called it "the greatest of library." "I especially wanted to do this," the tragedies .. that there are those who would When the reporter leaves, the Rabbi Rabbi tells me before I leave, "because I permit him to speak "because they'd also and I talk. further about his fascinating felt I owed it to t he future students of grant (Nation of Islam leader Louis) life. He does this by visually pointing to history and government that they should Farrakhan and (PLO chief Yasir) Arafat the many photographs and documents save all men and women from man's Alan Dershowitz the right to speak ... that are framed on his wall that lead inhumanity to man." 2 - THE RHODE _ISLAND HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1984 Torat Yisrael Gelle$. Named Men's Club Meetings Outstanding Local News The Temple Torat Yisrael Men's Club, 330 Park Avenue, Cranston, will meet on American Tuesday, ,December 11 at 7:30 p.m. for a Board Meeting and on Sunday, December I I I 6 for a breakfast meeting. Herald Editor To Speak I Peggy h aplan 723-1739 and JoAnne Jewish E1perience In ToBBW ' Pattek 7J2-2766. American Film At · "What's on My Mind?" That's the B'nai H'rith Women*** of Rhode Island Emanu-EI topic fo r discussion at t he next meeting of are snonsorine- A rnlly on Der. 2 in support B'nai B'rith Women of Rhode Island, The of \he \\:omen's Plea for Soviet J ewry. To celebrate Jewish Book Month the guest speaker fo r this meet ing will be The rally will take place at t he Jewish Temple l,;manu-EI Library has prepared Robert Israel, Editor of t he R.l, Jewish Community Center, Elmgrove Avenue, an exhibit. of outstanding photographs Herald. T he meeting will take place at the Providence between 2-4 p.m. All members organized with the cooperation of t he Jewish Community Center, November 29 of the Jewish Community and their National Center for Jewish Film, at 8 p.m. All friends and members of friends are urged to attend and lend their Brandeis University, and the American BEW are cordially invited to attend t his support to this important issue. For J ewish Historical Society under t he meeting. Coffee and dessert will be served further information please call Harriet auspices of the Academy of Mot.ion following t he program, Anyone needing a Priest 8J 1-5014 or Cathy Gavopoulos Picture Arts and Sciences. ride please call: Harriet Priest 831-5014; 944-7160. T hese posters are arranged in t.he following categories: The Jews as Historical Figures; Classical Images and Stereotypes; Americanization: Pain and Progress; Yiddish T heatre/ Yiddish Film; The Holocaust, Dealing with the • all kinds of jewrlry repairs Aftermath; Anti-Semitism as an Issue; To Be or Not To Be - A Jew/ Maintaining Richard Gelles done on the premises the Identity; It Only Hurts When I Laugh: Jewish Humor in Film; Jewish Women, Richard Gelles, Dean of t he College of • retail & wholesale jewelry Other Modern Roles. Arts and Sciences at T he University of Rhode I , land, has been selected for 737-4048 OPEN: This exhibit will be on view in the M,T,WS--5:30 Bohnen Vestry during Jewish Book inclusion in the 1984 Esquire Register of 1639 Warwick Avenue Th, Fri till 9 Month, November 18 to December 18. On O!Jtstanding Americans Under Age 40, to 1n the Gateway S.C. Sat 8--1 December 7 Rabbi Wayne Franklin will be published in the December issue. speak on Bookmaking Among the Early The nominations were made from t he Jews in America and' t.he Founding of the public at large. T here were 5000 Jewish Publication Society. Following the candidates considered qualified by services, the annual Library Reception Esquire; 271 were chosen. Holiday Panorama '84 will be held. Books from the collection dealing with the subject of Jews and Or. Gelles, who was named dean of American film will be on display. URI's largest college last August, is ADVERTISING DEADLINE Chairman of the Library Committee is internationally known fo r his research on A Dr. Eliot B. Barron and t he members of child abuse and family violence. prolific TUESDAY,DEC.4 the commit.tee are Florence Silver, author, he has written and edited nine Frances Wattman, Gloria St.em, Martha books on t he subject, along with 26 Phone Wexler, Eva Zucker, Stanley B. Abrams, scholarly papers and 15 book chapters. and Lillian Schwartz, Librarian. His work has heen supported by more than $500,000 in grants from such Kathi Wnek, Advertising Director Dr. Besse To Speak agencies as the National Institute for Mental Health, the U.S. Department of 724-0200 At URI Hillel Justice, the U.S. Department of Health As part. of the URI-Hillel Fall lunch and Human Services and the National program, Or. Susan Besse of the URI Committee for the Prevention of Child History Department wi ll speak on Abuse and Neglect. He has served as "Nicaragua: The Sandinistas and the consultant to many public and private Jews," November 29 at Hillel House on organizations, including the National Lower College Road in Kingston. Academy of Science, t he Navy's Family Lunch is available starting at 12:15. Advocacy Project, and the Center fo r The lecture is free and begins at 12:45. All Disease Control. are welcome. Gelles currently also serves on the Lurtsema And Quartet faculty of the Harvard Medical School, To Perform and is Hesearch Director for the New On Sunday evening, December 2, t here Y_ork polling firm of Louis Harris and will be a ·'Concert to Freeze the Nuclear Associates. He joined t he URI faculty in Arms Race." The concert will be in 1973 after earning his doctorate from the Alumnae Hall on the Brown University University of New Hampshire. He earned campus, beginning at 8:00 p.m. The his Master's degree from the University of concert will feature chamber music Rochester in 1970 and a bachelor's degree performed by the International St ring . from Bates in Maine in 1968. He is a Quartet. Special host for the evening will resident of Kingston. be Robert J. Lurtsema, of WGBH radio's popular Morning Pro Musica program. The Register is the first. of an annual Tickets for the concert are $8.00 each and series in Esquire honoring the "best of a Specializing in all. types of may be purchased at the door. generation those who exemplify T he concert wi ll include two pieces (professionally) the qualities of courage, • Window Treatments played by the International String original_i,tY, ingenuity, vision, and selfless service • Upholstery Quartet: Ravel's Quartet. in F and Schubert ·s Quartet in G Major. Each The toremost criterion was that a • Slipcovers and Alterations piece will be introduced by Mr. Lurtsema, candidate's work have genuine value or who will briefly discuss the music and the provide service to others. Other critical NOVEMBER SPECIAL composers. Mr. Lurtsema's presentations elements were initiative in his or her will also include several of the - pauses profession and demonstrable risk-taking Free Lining and Installation - for which he is justly famous. on behalf of a 'J)ersonal vision, idea or The International-St.ring Quartet is in standard. Phone Stephanie FREE EST_IMA TES residence at Brown University and includes Chihiro Kudo, violin; Michelle IN YOUR HOME! , l 828-8020 Djokic, cello; J ames Van Valkenburg, BBW To Rally For viola; and 0 Machie Oguri-Kudo, violin. All proceeds from the concert wi ll Soviet Jewry benefit the nuclear-freeze work of the B'nai B'rith Women of R.l. are in the - D OLORES de M E D E IROS American Friends Service Committee process of organizing a rally in connection (AFSC)~ AFSC is a Quaker service and with BB W's plea on Soviet Jewry. This is educational organization which was an important issue especially with the founded in 1917 and which won the Nobel latest report regarding our fellow Jews in Peace Prize in' 1947. In Rhode Island, the Soviet Union. Anyone who would like AFSC helped initiate work on the nuclear some more information and could weapons freeze in 1981; AFSC's effforts volunteer some time, please contact Cathy helped lead to the successful statewide Gavopoulos at 944-7160 or Harriet Priest voter referendum on the nuclear freeze in at 83 I -50 I 4. All efforts toward helping to COATS U N LIMITED November, 1982. "Let My People Go" will not go unnoticed. 326 NO. BROADWAY There are similar rallies being planned throughout the country to coincide with EAST PROVIDENCE, RI 02916 Smalley To Exhibit Works Human Rights Day, December 4. While Melvin L. Smalley, sculpture, enamels we are enjoying our holidays and the and oils, Ronald Caplain, photograph and freedom to practice our religious beliefs Dawn Nunes, watercolors, will exhibit ... let us not forget those who have been HOURS their works at the Providence Art Club on denied such freedom. BBW issues an urgent invitation to all groups to join us in MON. THRU SA T. 10 -6 p.m. M.C. 11 Thomas Street, Providence. The 434-2339 this effort. There is no voice too small or FRI.10 -S p.m . VISA exhibit opens Sunday, November 25 from 3-5 p.m. no cause too big! THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1984 - 3 Chased Schei Amess Nuclear Arms Forum I To Meet At Brown The Chased Schei Amess Association, A panel of Brown students will present Lincoln Park Cemetery, 1469, Post Road, a_nd discuss fou r different options for U.S. Warwick, R.J., will hold its Annual nuclear a rms policy at an open forum in Meeting at the Priest Memorial Chapel, Sayles Hall on the College Green Nov. 27 at the cemetery, on Sunday, December 9, at 8 p.m. The four policy options were 1984. Officers are: President, Louis originally conceived by researchers and Rottenberg; !st Vice Presic/ent, Simon scholars at Brown's Center for Foreign Chorney; 2nd Vice President, Louis Policy Development. Brown; Treasurer, Samuel Shindler; The opt ions were outlined in the study Financial Secretary, Stanley Grebstein; Voter Options for Nuclear Arms Policy, PRlV /\ TE INSTRUCTION for: and Past President, Jack Mossberg. which the Center and the Public Agenda Members of the Board of Directors are: Fou~dation (headed by former Secretary • SINGLES. COUPLES • WE OFFER COACHING FOR Louis Bloom, Sheldon Blustein, Remmie of State Cyrus Vance and political analyst • PERSONALIZED GROUPS BALLROOM INSTRUCTORS & Brown, Joseph Gladstone, Stanley Daniel Yankelovich) released this fall. It Join Our General Weekly Group Classes ~-c_o_M_P_E_T_1_N_G_AMA__ T_E_u_R_s_~ Horovitz, Sam Jamnik, Max Kerzner, was designed as a "briefing book" for George Labush, Irving H. Levin, Abe candidates in the 1984 national elections Compare Our Rates With Ponce, Ralph Rottenberg, Nathan in the hope of hroadening and clarifying Any Franchtsed Studio Rosenfeld, Philip Rosenfield, Philip discussions of nuclear arms policy and Simon, Bernard Schneider, M. David increasing voter awareness of the issues. "YOUR FIRST LESSON IS FREE" Seidman, and Herman Wallock. The book presents the results of a public Our Weekly Studio Parties Can't Be Beat! 150 NEW! 'ORT A VE .. EAST. PROV. Members of the hominating committee opinion poll of American attitudes about M-F 11 AM -lOPM•SAT. 9 AM-5 PM NEAR PA\VT.-EAST PROV LINE 438-5430 are: Chairman, Sam Jamnik, Sheldon nuclear issues and outlines the four Blustein, Abe Ponce, Max Kerzner, and possible policy options that the student Remmie Brown. panel will present for audience discussion. Richard Smoke, research director for USY Plans Study Weekend the Center and one of the book's co-authors, will introduce the options and The New England Region, United explain the significance of this approach. Gourmet Holiday Desserts Synagogue of America, for the third time Andrew Hurwitz, assistant to the director will repeat its successful and popular , of the Center and also a co-author, will from study weekend Thursday evening through moderate the panel. Student panelists will lunch Sunday, December 13-16. _ be Julia Levin, a junior; Debra Koff, also a The location is the Sheraton Regal Inn, junior: Philip Rizzi, a senior; and Curtis Route 132A, Bearse's Way, Hyannis, on Levey, a graduate student in computer Cape Cod. Dynamic, stimulating science. authorities on Judaism and more y mocha fudge torte particularly conservatism will lead Hava Nirkoda At Emanu-EI spirited discussions and will be available y plain cheesecake Temple Emanu-El is presenting "Hava to answer questions. \' mandarin pecan torte A conference on the topic Nirkoda1'', a Festival of Israeli dance and "Conservative Judaism Today - Issues song on December 16 at 2:30 p.m. The \' chocolate walnut torte and Answers" will be held Thursday dance groups, which will participate in the evening and Friday morning with Dr. Saul performance, comprise a lively 'f chocolate walnut mousseca ke cross-section of the Providence Jewish - Shapiro, president of the Metropolitan 'f coffee wa lnut cheesecake Region of the United Synagogue and community, ranging from the preschool to co-author the recent survey on the status the Leisure Club of Temple Emanu-El, of conservative Judaism, as the keynoter. and including every age in between. A shabbat weekend of study and Other groups scheduled to perform Chanukah Specialties relaxation will follow, led by Dr. Morton include: The Harry Elkin Midrasha, the K. Siegel, director of the Department of Solomon Schechter Day School, the almond chocolate mousse torte - fresh apple cheese tart Education, United Synagogue and Providence Hebrew Day School, the Adult chairman of its Co mmission on Jewish Institute oa·ncers, and Brown University 861-5 190 Education who will be the Kallal, Israeli Folk Dancers. scholar-in -resident. "Hava Nirkoda'" is being coordinated 90 SPRUCE STREET For information, call the _ United by Rabbi Dan Liben of Temple Emanu-El, Synagogue office (617) 698-0085. who is a veteran Israeli fo lk dancer and 2 blocks before Casserta Pizza teacher. RISD Continuing Admission will be free and open to the TUE .-SAT. 9 A.M. -5:30 P.M. public. For information. call Rabbi Liben Education 33 1-1616. Rhode Island School of Design's Office of Continuing Education has the answer Rabbi Flam To Speak to holiday gift-giving problems. Gift certificates are available for a variety of To NCJW. courses and special events from French Rabbi Alan C. Flam wi ll be the featured NOW EVERY WOMAN cuisine and Mexican fiestas to painting, speaker at the National Council of Jewish hand papermaking, woodworking and Women\ Paid Up Membership advertising cqpywriting. buition ranges Luncheon on November 28. - The CAN OWN from $85.00 to $200.00. If requests arrive luncheon will be held at noon at the by December 10, donors will receive an ,Jewish Community Center, Elmgrove elegantly embossed, hand lettered card in Avenue: Providence. The program will THE LUXURY time for holiday gift giving. For more follow a short business meeting which will information. call the Office of Continuing begin at I 2:45 p.m. Education at 401-331-351 l , ext. 282 or The program will feature Rabbi Flam, stop by the first floor of the College along with college students from Brown Building, 2 Coll ege Street, Providence. University. he will speak on the joys and Office hours are Monday through struggles of maintaining a Jewish identity Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. and while at college. They will also discuss how Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. students approach other moral conflicts on the campus, such as the recent Hadassah Rummage controversy over stocking suicide pills for Sale ·· use during nuclear war. Cranston Chapter of Hadassah win Rabbi Flam was ordai ned as a reform hold a rummage sale on December 4 from Rabbi upon graduation from tI:i_e Hebrew 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Warwick Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1978. Firefighters Association, 750 Warwick He came• to Brown University in 1982, Avenue, Warwick, across the street from where he presently serves as both _the Star Market. · Director of the Brown-RISO Hillel Hud~on's Foundation and also Associate Chaplain Jewish Home of the University. 1st Annual Handicraft Bazaar - The committee planning the day includes Marilyn Friedman. Barbara Fur Trade-In Sale The Jewish Home for the Aged at 99 Cohn, Barbara Long, Mindy H ill~ide Ave. will hold a Residents Wachtenheim. Dee Dee Witman and Great Savings! Handicraft. Bazaar on Sunday. November Marilyn Woronov. Providing hospitality 25 . l 984 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. for the luncheon will be Lillian Ludman, Featured wi ll be crewel pillows, knitted Chairman; Kay Abrams, Shirley Goldberg, 2 Days Only items. plants. fabrics, ceramics and many .June Goldfarb and Roberta Blum. other holiday gift items. Other tables will Membership dues may be paid at the Nov. 23 and 24! include staff consignments and hooked door and babysitting will be provided upon rugs and Holiday Basket raffles. request. National Council of ,Jewish Women is a community service and social action 'Hudson Gf'urs SINCE 1910 organization which is an advocate for priority areas of women's rights, children The Label That Makes Luxury Affordable. and youth, aging, Jewish life and Israel. For further information, please call 10 l Cranston St . Exit 21 off Rt. 95. Providence. RI 02907•401-33 1-4198 Marilyn Friedman at 83 1-2 175. The Salon is open 9 until 5. Monday through Saturday. 4 - THE RHODE ~SLAND HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23; 1984 Focussing On Nicaragua By Jerry Elmer peaceful vigils will be set up at the home I still remember where I . was exactly offices of every Senator and From The Editor fifteen years ago, on Saturday, November Representative. The vigil in each office 15, 1969. I ,was in Washington, D.C., will end when that member of Congress taking part in the "moratorium" Vietnam votes to end the invasion. Sit-ins peace demonstration, until that time the involving civil disobedience and probable largest peace demonstration in American arrests will take place at the office of history. every member who does not so vote. Reasons To Be Thankful For three days, from Thursday until Additional civil disobedience, perhaps by Robert Israel overwhelms the distant rays, diffusing Saturday, 24 hours a day, demonstrators involving hundreds of people, is scheduled After the leaves fall from the trees on it, chilling it, clouding it over. walked in a single file from the Capitol to to take place at the White House. the roads around my house in the During these next few months, in the White House in a " March Against The plan has two striking features. country, the town has a barren, order to keep my spirit buoyant, I seek Death." Each demonstrator carried a First, the emphasis of the plan is clearly shivering and hushed feeling to it. The the companionship of friends· and placard bearing the name of an American on (if you will pardon the word) smell of the rotting leaves is family for warmth. The Thanksgiving soldier or Vietnamese killed in the war. "deterrence." That is, the focus of the everywhere. When the rain comes, it is holiday is an official time aside for this The March Against Death was silent, plan is not to protest impotently against a cold, annoying rain, dampening the sort of gathering, and I am grateful for except that as each demonstrator passed an invasion after it has occurred, but to wood pile, slicking the field stones that it. but really, I long for it more thailjust the White House he or she called out the prevent one from taking place. To that lead up to my front door, forming large in November and wish there were name s/he was carrying and placed the end, national organizers have already puddles on the road. feasts and hullabaloo all winter long. placard in a mock coffin. Then, on circulated the plan to every member of Perspectives change in November, When winter comes, I am especially Saturday, 500,000 from all over the both houses of Congress, to the National after the autumnal colors have faded. grateful for light - candlelight at country gathered for a peaceful march and Security Council, Pentagon, and C.I.A. My neighbors' homes seem closer. I Chanukah, the bright ligt\t that rally. The March Against Death and the Locally, copies of our Rhode Island plan hear more than I do during summer - emanates from fam ily and friends subsequent rally received wonderful and have been shared with all four members of · the sound of the traffic on the highway during gatherings, tj1e light that lingers extensive press coverage, perhaps because the · Rhode Island Congressional in the early morning often drowns out well into the evening after everyone has this was also the period that polls began delegation. The message is clear: the the chorus of the birds. gone home. Surrounded by darkness, showing that a sizeable majority of . domestic political costs of a U.S. invasion And so it seems that our lives become by the foreboding chill of an early Americans opposed the war. of Nicaragua would be unacceptably high. more insular, more confined to evening and a late rising sun, we must I also remember well how discouraged I Second, the involvement of the interiors. I seal the cracks and crevices make lig-ht wherever we can, - and all my friends - felt as we boarded religious community in the -planning and around the windows, put the s!prm illuminating all the corners of our life. busses and trains to return home after the implementation of the contingency plan windows up, look around for bargains When we retreat during these next demonstration. President Nixon had has been · striking. Across the country, for snow tires, snow boots, ski trips to few months, let's take stock of what we announced, through his press secretary, most of the post-invasion meeting will the north woods. Survival is the name have - not material possessions, but that the largest peace demonstration in take place in local churches. (Here in of the game now, making sure one's our spiritual and interpersonal ones. U.S. history would not affect U.S. policy Rhode Island, we will be meeting in the skin is thicker, one's hide is tougher for Let us rise to the challenge and devise one bit. What had become of democracy? Episcopal Cathedral of St. John in I wondered. What had become of the Providence, with the approval and the onslaught of cold winds, freezing creative ways to rid ourselves of the Jeffersonian deal of governments ruling support of Episcopal Bishop of Rhode rain and snow. clutter of our lives, to make room for Each day dawhs coldly on the more people, more friends and with the consent of the governed. All of us Island George . Hunt. In South County, who demonstrated felt completely people will gather at the Wakefield horizon and I watch it from the docks, neighbors, more family, more li ght. l ! ineffective and it was a very depressing Baptist Church.) Not since Martin Luther I watch the distant sun rise above find myself increasingly thankful fo r feeling. King used to hold prayer meetings before I Newport and Narragansett Bay. For the shared moments of community as I I It was not until five years later that we each sit-in have we seen such direct many glorious moments, the sky is work. with others, to make this life·one discovered how very effective our connection between main-line churches filled with the pastel colors of a warmer that upholds basic ideals of social demonstration in Washington had and nonviolent civil disobedience. time. And then the sharp air justice, peace and fellowship . actually been. During the Watergate Decades of civil rights agitation and_ scandal, previously secret Vietnam war protests have taught us that communications between White House we can influence public policy. We are The School Prayer Issue aides Dwight Chapin and H.R. now putting what we learned to work in Haldemann became public. It seems that our effort s to prevent a U.S. invasion of by Seymour Graubard founded. I want this Committee to know at the time of the demonstration the Nicaragua. The cu rrent controversy over prayers in about the persecution of Catholic school White H ouse was actually planning a public schools takes me back some 20 children who refused to join in Protestant major escalation of the war, including the J erf')' Fl mer is a Field Secretary with thTorah and the Talmud have been claimed by too few in our community. He that from time• to time such conflicts -, ' table signaled the start of Shabbat. presented as totally preaching racism, and his wife sent all three of their children cannot be avoided; however, we in the ' Suddenly, without any warning, there hatred and violence. The continuing to the Providence Hebrew Day School. Rhode Island Jewish community should I ~l)peared two armed guards. They arrested crackdown by their Soviet government is Jerry's memory will live on but because recognize the community's strength in 1 the family and removed variotrs criminal t hreatening each- parent's effort to give his children did attend a Hebrew day being able to present such fine programs materials from the home. The father was their children a Jewish eduation. Instead, school his legacy will persist even should throughout the state as those sponsored sentenced to six years in prison. The wife - children are learning that, perhaps, it is the memory fade, on November 11 by Temple Emanu-El, lI was the luckier of the two . .. only two t heir legacy to maintain their heritage Joshua Pearlman Temple Beth-El and the South County ' years to serve. Does this sound like a through clandestine methods. So, in Jewish Music Series. ' familiar occurrence to you? No? Of course e£sence, Soviet Jews are hostages .. . Edward D. Feldstein ' not, for this thank G-d, is America. But, hostages of a country that doesn't want To the Editor: President this incident did take place not very long them . . . yet refuses to let them go! It is As President of Temple Emanu-El, I Temple Emanu-EI ago in the Soviet Union. The crime? .. . time for countries such as the Soviet am writing in response to a letter which "Defamation." The criminal materials Union to realize that Human Rights are appeared· in The Rlwde Island Herald on taken from their home were publications not subject to political sanction .. . Friday, November 9, 1984 from Cantor Chur~h And State At Ric; of Jewish history and culture. The real regardless of how much propaganda or Stephen Freedman. In his letter Cantor Dr. Willard Enteman, provost and reason for their· arrest . . . they are persecution is used to justify their Freedman makes reference to three events vice president for academic affairs at RIC, "refuseniks," Soviet Jews who have position. Human rights came from a Deity in our community which were all will discuss "Church~ nd State -.Views of applied to leave the, Soviet Union and higher than any Government or its scheduled at the same time on Sunday a Philosopher" on November 28; and the have been refused. Emigration from the officials. On December 2, B'nai B'rith evening, November 11. Rev. John Randall who will discuss Soviet Union has virtually halted. Only Women of Rhode Island will hold a rally "Church and State - · V:iews of a Before Temple Emanu-El scheduled its / ' slightly more than 1300 Jews were allowed at the Jewish Community Center in concert, it checked the Community Conservative" on December 5. to leave the U.S.S.R. in 1983. This is in support of the Women's Plea for Soviet Calendar maintained by the Jewish The colloquia are held on Wednesdays sharp contr~st to the more than 51,000 Jewry. The rally will take place between Federation of Rhode Island and was (unless otherwise noted) from noon to 1 that left in 1979. The d~spair and 2-4 p.m. We have the freedoms that our informed that there were no conflicting p.m. in Gaige 207. frustration of not obtaining an exit permit fellow Jews in the Soviet Union are events on t he calendar. As a matter of is further compounded by the treatment desperately fighting to regain . . . and fact, anyone checking t he calendar for the USY Holds Reunion that is inflicted upon the Soviet Jews after retain. Let us never become so complacent month of November (as published in the they have applied to emigrate. They are that we take for granted the precious Herald) , would see that the T emple The newly formed ALUMNI AND constantly harassed, evicted from their freedoms that we have. OUR temple doors Beth-El presentation of Irving R. Levine FRIENDS OF USY will hold its first jobs and apartments. During August of are not barred; OUR voices not silenced! was scheduled for Saturday, November annual reception at the John F. Kennedy this year, Mrs. Blanche Narby, the Please open your hearts and raise your 10. The President of Temple Beth-El Library on Saturday, November 24, 1984, national BBW coordinator for the voices. It's time for "free" Jews to send informs me that before that date was 6:30-10:30 p.m. ALL FRIENDS AND Women's Plea on Soviet Jewry was the U.S.:,.R. a message, "Let My People selected t he Community Calendar was ALUMNI OF USY are cordially invited to "detained" by the Soviet Police. She and Go1" . Throughout t he country there will checked and cleared. Unfortunately, after attend this exciting event. The night will her companion, Dr. Phyllis Pacheco, were be numerous rallies staged in connection t he November 10 date was selected the provide former USY ers and friends of planning to visit refuseniks when this with Human Rights Day, which is on agent for Mr. Levi ne indicated that the USY an opportunity to socialize and incident occurred. After her ordeal, Mrs. December 4 this year. Please join us . .. only night the program could·be presented demonstrate their support for USY while N arby said, "The harassment I felt for no and remember . . . until every J ew is free, in Providence was November I I. By the visiting the fascinating JFK Library. valid reason was like the harassment no Jew is free. Whatsoever happens to one time the conflict came to the attention of The reception is sponsored by those poor people face all the time." Jew, happens to every Jew. Temples Emanu-EI and Beth-El t he ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF USY, Unfortunately, the Soviet Union has Cathy Gavopoulos publicity fo r both programs had gone out chairman - Mark Feins'lein. Admission is persisted in t heir campaign to deprive and changes could not be made in the free, light refreshments will be served. Jews of their past. They systematically scheduling. For more information, contact the USY have expunged references from textbooks Cantor Freedman's point is well taken, - Regional Office at 180 Blue Hill Ave., of various episodes in Jewish history, and every effort should he made by Milton MA 02186 (617-698-0085).

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6 - THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1984 "Torch Song" In Boston Playwright Comes Mameh-Loshn, Torch Song T rilogy opened at the ToSMU Shuhert 10 Boston on Tuesday night and Noted English playwright Arnold will run until December 1. Wesker will give three _public lectures at Yiddish-Loshn Harvey Fierstein's Tony Award Southeastern Massachusetts University b Cindy Gilman winning play tells the humorous and on Nov. 26 and 27. touching unfolding story of his gay hero On Nov. 26 at noon he will talk about Arnold Beckoff and his quest to find what and read from his play The Merchant, his everyone wants in life - a decent home, a Jewish version of events suggested by good job and someone with whom to share Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, in A MAYSE ON AN INDIK! "Well. we'll go to l:loby's house and it. which Zero Mostel starred. This lecture "Ma. dirl the Pilgrims eat Kreplach have knishes and a lit tle chopped liver. Starring in the National Company is will take place in t he browsing area on t he on Thanksgiving? and kreplach and. .. Charles Adler ( a native of Framingham, first floor of t he SMU library. "No. my son, but we do." "And what about the turkey and the Mass.), Tom Stechschulte and Estelle On Nov. 27 at 12:30 p.m. the playw,right gefil. .. that funny word you said?" Getty in her original Broadway role of will discuss t he women in his plays in Every mother of school age children "Oh. yes. there will be turkey." " Mrs. Beckoff." · Room 204 of the Group V Building will agree that bedtime is a hair "Ma. did the pilgrims eat Kreplach The production is directed by Peter located in the balcony of the main frazzling, exasperating experience. on Thanksgiving?" Pope, director of the original play. auditorium. After· an exhausting day of work. ·'No, Daniel. but we do." Performances will run Monday through Then at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 27 Wesker appointments. meetings. domestic' "Ma. was your Boby a Pi lgrim?•· Saturdays at 8 p.m., with Wednesday and will lecture on "The Birth of a Play: From chores. preparing meals, making sure Saturday matinees at 2 p.m. There is a Pen to Proscenium" in Room 227 of t he homework lessons are completed, I stopped for a moment. This could precipitate another philosophical special holiday matinee on Friday, Group II Building. bathtime. phone calls and so forth, by 9 discussion. if I'm not careful. November 23 at 2 p.m. No performance is Commenting on his appearance at _ p.m. it's your basic daily burn-out. This "Not the kind of pilgrim you read scheduled for Thanksgiving Day. SMU, Dean Tish Dace, who has known is the time of day when I truly enjoy about. Leyg es kepele, boychiikl, and The !::ihubert Theatre-Telecharge is the playwright and has heard him lecture sitting down alone with a fresh cup of sleep peacefully." (617) 236-0300. at New York University, said, "In a couple coffee un farges dij tsores funder velt. Time for a fresh cup o( coffee. Note: Torch Song Trilogy will be of days on our campus, he could bring a Suddenly from my son's bedroom: presented at the Providence Performing large humanity and magnificent ·· Ma~a·a·a~a." 1 In closing, I'd like to share with you a Arts Center by another National generosity of soul to our lives. His ([ think he was a goat in·a past life.) bit of Americana on this week of giving Company. on Friday and Saturday charisma as a speaker and person make "Ma-a-a-a-a, I can't sleep. How thanks. It's a piece by Henry evenings, January 25 and January 26 at 8 him a great success on campuses." about a story?" Wadsworth Longfellow. And you mean p.m. Box office telephone number is Wesker is very well known in England My son thinks bedtime is a good time to tell me you didn't know Longfellow 421-2997. and on t he continent, according to SMU to enter into a discussion on wrote in Yiddish? English Professor Robert P. Waxler. philosophical and religious questions "There he is considered to be the I the T almudic Rabbis would scratch Die Kindheit Fun Hiawatha I equivalent of Arthur Miller." Waxler will I their heads over. But tonight, no Bei dem breg fun Gitche-Gumee. I If you missed Lerner and Loewe's discuss Wesker's works, in preparation in-depth discussions - I'm too tired. Bei dem blischendiken vasser, musical hit Gigi when it was at the for his visit, in his evening course on ! "Tell me a story about when you Shteyt die heiskeh fun No komis, Providence Performing Arts Center, you Jfwish literature on Nov. 15 at 6:30 p.m. I were a little girl at Thanksgiving time," Tochterel fun der Levoneh. can see it at the Colonial where it will i~ Room 108 of the Group I Building. Daniel says. Hinter diezen vigvam-heiskeh, open on Tuesday, November 20 fo r a Interested members of t he community are Er vey· t. This is my weakness. I love Hoicheh, shvartzeh, shtilleh boimer; four-week engagement. invited to attend. to reminisce. Without much coaxing I Und in forent shlogt der vasser, The show stars Louis Jourdan, Betsey Before turning to playwrighting, retell t he stories of my childhood. I Klor und zunig is der vasser, Palmer and Taina Elg. Wesker was a furnituremaker's must be getting older because my son Blischet vie ah yam. der vasser. Evening performances are 8 p.m. on apprentice, carpenter's mate, plumber's refers to my youth as "the olden days." Tuesday through Saturdays with mate, ki tchen porter, pastry cook, and ~nd suddenly in mitn mays. I start Dort die altichkeh Nokomis Wednesday and Saturday matinees at 2 finally chef. Then in the late '50s he giggling. He asks what I'm giggling Hodevel dem Hiawatha. p.m. Sunday matinees are at 3 p.m. There suddenly became famous with a t rilogy of about. "i,'efiluchts." He starts giggling Shokelt tzu dem kleinem nefesh, will be a special holiday matinee on plays: Chicken Soup with Barley, Roots at the sound o'f the word. Then there is In zein vigeleh - geflochten Friday, November 23 at 2 p.m. (nothing to do with the Alex Haley book), silence. Azoi veych, und shtark. und varem: The box office number is (617) and I'm Talking about Jerusalem. Another " Ma. what's gefiluchts?" Shtilt ihm ein ven er tzuveynt zich 426-9366. Tickets are available also early play was The Kitchen, later made It always sounded like such an "Shah. der ber zoll dir nit heren." through ticketron (61 7) 720-3434 or at the into a movie starring Rip Torn. Many of onomatapoetic word. My grandmother Zie fershloft ihm mit ah liedel. Colonial. his plays have been produced in New called it gefiluchts - the stuffing for "Ewa-yea, mein kleyner foigel, York. His most recent London success is t he turkey. Ver is dos, vos macht dem vigvam Carita.s. His latest play, Annie Wobbler, "Well. what are we going t.o have on Azoi lichtig mit zein 01gen'! opens in London this fall. Turkey Day, Ma?" Ewa-yea, mein kleyner fo igel1" ... MARTY'S KOSHER MEAT MARKET 467-8903 88½ Rolfe St., Cranston ROGER ARANSKYS Koshered Meats For You CHRISTMAS STORE New Parking Available Across the Street

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audience was at Carnegie Recital Hall in part by the Rhode Island State Council on David Young: From Poland To New York City. Since then the duo has the Arts through the New Englandi._, entertained audiences throughout the Foundation for the Arts and the National United States and Canada. The Endowment for the Arts. Tickets may be Providence Rosenshontz family concert spans purchased at Upper Crust Bakery, Brick In a sunny, blue room on the west wi;,g generations. Young and old alike are Market Place, Newport; Music Mall, 957 of the third floor at Summit Medical quickly transformed into percussion West Main Rd., Middletown; or by Center, you'll find a slight man who walks instruments, clapping out catchy sending a check to Channing Music with a cane, wears glasses and, sometimes, rhythms; into spontaneous composers, Series, 135 Pelham St., Newport, R.I. even a baseball cap. "David," the nurse improvising verses; into concert 02840. For more ticket information calls as she knocks on his door, "there's performers, providing rousing two-part contact Betsy Leslie at 849-7721. someone here to see ... Where has he gone choral harmonies. to now? He gets around a lot," the nurse The Rosens_hontz concert is funded in ... explains. _. ' He's probably out taking a walk." From Poland to Providence, David Young has traveled a long way before arriving at Summit Medical Center and, COMMON SENSE FOR THE at times, the going got tough. Born on November 12, 1912, in Vilna UNCOMMON INVESTOR Germanovich, Poland, a small town near Gluboke, • David fondly remembers his childhood years. Among Iris many friends, with whom he played soccerball and basketball, was Morris Drazin, who is now Rabbi Drazin of the Sons of Jacob Whywe Synagogue. He and David participated in sports and attended Jewish Hebrew school together. David was an "A" student in history, his great love, and geography. He also studied Polish, take risks to German, Latin and Russian and still likes to sing Russian songs. However, life became 'much harder in David Young Poland. David felt he didn't have much of discovered that he was diabetic. He's had a future there and dedded to join his two three heart operations, including two play it older brothers, Martin and Milton, in pacemaker implants, and, as if that was America. Though they were just starting not enough, in 1982 David had to have the an upholstery business, the two brothers big toe removed from his right foot managed to find enough money to pay for because of a blood infection. David's passage to the U.S. But that He entered Roge r Williams General safe. wasn't the only obstacle David had to Hospital in August, 1983, for su rgery on overcome. hi s left foot, which resulted in an artificial By the late 1930s, U.S. immigration foot and ankle. With the artificial foot officials were leery of immigrants withqut added to his other health problems, David money who might later become a burden was transferred to Summit Medical Today, a portfolio must earn a return to the U.S. Government. David's brothers Center, on September 13, for ahead of inflation and taxes just to knew a New York company lawyer who rehabilitative t herapy and nursing. "The often traveled to Warsaw on business and nu,ses are ve ry helpful to me. They give maintain itself. they arranged · for David to meet the me the ri ght kind of support." David also It's a job most successful people lawyer at the U.S. Embassy in Poland. likes the rest of the SMC staff because are simply too busy to undertake There, the lawyer put a $100,000 "They're helpful, friendly and young," "guarantee" on David's name. "He was a says David, "I· like being around them. properly. nice man to do that. I didn't even know They keep me feeling young." After all, it's also a job that re­ him," David recalls. David participates at many SMC quires uncommon skill. But, there was still one more activities including making crafts and requirement to satisfy - a test--._ to decorations for parties, playing bingo and The challenge of balancing high determine David's educational level. goi ng on outings with other Summit yield with low risk is no easy task. David's "A" grades and love of history residents. He also likes to attend This is why the Trust and Invest­ and geography came in handy and he Summit 's "Ethnic Nites" which are held ment Management Division at Hos­ passed the test with flying colors. At age every month. During these refreshing 72, David still remembers the exact events, Summit "travels" to different pital Trust includes a staff of leading questions asked and how he answered countries of the world by creating a festive investment portfolio managers. them. To this day, he could teach atmosphere with the appropriate decor These are highly trained, highly European history. and menu. For instance, SMC recently With the "guarantee" on his name and held a Mexican Fiesta, complete with professional people who evaluate the ticket from his brothers, David deco rations in the main dining hall, alternative investments and balance traveled alone to the port of Danzig (now paper-mache maracas that the residents them with more conventional invest­ called Gdansk) and, along with 2,500 made themselves, a Spanish guitarist, other immigrants, boarded a ship and set conga line dancing, and authentic ment vehicles. They do this drawing sail for America - just 11 days before Mexican food including tacos, enchilades, on the fullresources of Rhode Island Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, burritos and chili. Hospital Trust National Bank and an 19391 You can usually find David (and that's ever increasing fund of experience. After ten days at sea, David arrived in not always an easy job for Summit's stafO America with $ 1.00 to his name. "You strolling along North Main Street. He The result has been asset preser­ know, I may have lost (spent) a lot of often walks to the corner drugstore or to vation and growth for our cus­ 'L money in Americ~, but I still have all my visit his cousin Sylvia's husband, Jack tomers under a variety of financial money from .Poland - the same dollar bill Levin, at his shoe store. Sylvia visits I came here with." He went to work for his David twice a week and brings him his conditions. brothers at their new firm, Gold Star mail, and Jack picks up David every In fact, their record of high return Mattress & Upholstery where he learned Sabbath 10 take him to Sons of Jacob for has consistently made . Hospital upholstering - his lifelong trade. David to hear Rabbi Drazin's sermon. Trust very competitive returns. As with so many others, the tragedy of David also goes to synagogue to pray war took its toll on David. All of his every Sunday as well as two or three times Now, in which trust organization friends and relatives who stayed in Poland during the week. does your common sen~ tell you to died during World War II - that is, all David says freedom is very important. place your trust? but one. Shortly after WW II, David's "Take a bird. Give it everything it wants, brother was attending a sermon at Sons of and all it wants to eat. But open the If you are an uncommon investor Zion Synagogue (the oldest synagogue in window and it will fly away. All people with investable assets of over Rhode Island, until it was torn down in should be free to fly away." But mostly, $100,000, we think you owe it to the mid- 1970s) and met Rabbi Drazin. David says the key to a happy life is to Thus, David was reunited with his , surround yourself with good people, good yourself to contact us soon. · boyhood friend. company, good friends and Gqd. And, Though he worked 14-hour days and always, always, be free -:-- "like a bird.", spent a great deal of time in his synagogue, David did manage to find Rosenshontz To Perform some leisure time. "I loved to drive out to the country to go fishing or have a picnic." The· duo Rosenshontz will present a Gordon· L. Parker, Jr. He also enjoyed going to the beach, family concert Saturday, December ·1, at . playing the mandolin, watching football 7:30 p.m. in the final performance in the Se11ior Vice President and baseball games. He still likes to watch Fall season of the Channing Music Series One Hospital Trn st Plaza sports on television especially at Channing Churc.jl in Newport. Providence. RI 02903 basketball and especially the Boston Gary Rosen and Bill Shontz joined • 401-278-8348 Celti'cs. , forces in 1974, blending impressive Be~ides his outdoor activities, David musical backgrounds. Rosen, a graduate was a member of both the Toro Fraternal of Oberlin College, studied classical guitar Association, Cranston, and the and composition and has written songs for Wolksmann's Circle Association, Branch such superstars as Sesame Street 110, of Providence. A devout Orthodox characters Big Bird and Oscar the Jew, David often helped out at his Grouch. Shontz, a former college music synagogue with bingo parties and other professor, is a versatile performer · and • Hospital Trust social events. teacher with a Master's of Music in flute, David retired in 1978 and has been in clarinet, saxophone and recorder from Trust & Investment Management and out of hospitals ever since. In 1979, he Ohio State University. Member F.D.I.C. had cataracts removed from both eyes and Rosenshontz's first concert for a family I~ i 8-THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1984 I ' , ' . •' Around Town A Sense Of Unity • by Dorothea Snyder_ • ' , I ' Q. ' ' "What we're doing is giving 535 young "Sure we have na tional pride. I want the people. young athletes a chance to American team t.o do well, but there's experience not only competition. but ,Jewish pride. It's not just pride in Israel. Israel. We go through all kinds of lt"s pride. but pride in being a .Jew all over programs to encouri'-ge young people to the · world. The Diaspora is still the take an interest in Israel." Diaspora. We're still all over. It's Thomas Epstein is speaking about the important that we know these Jews are United St.ates competitors who will link there. with 4000 world class athletes from 38 " We go to Shu! on Friday night and countries to participate in 32 sports at the Saturday. We're speaking t he same I 2th Maccabiah Games in Israel July language. This will encourage more and 15 -25. 198~- more international cooperation both to Tom is the sports manager for the help Israel and to help -Jews in general, and United States Rifle Team. "I personally especially help to encourage international am responsible for the rifle team. As a solidarity when it comes vis a vis the group, we·re sending 535 athletes, trainers Soviet Union where we have our problems and coaches from the United States. The still. cost for each one will average out to $3000. The U.S. Rifle T eam's sports manager "That will pay for the trip, the believes every effort should be made to preliminary camp we will have at Rutgers take young people to Israel. "The more before we leave for Israel, the equipment young people that gel the Israeli we will need f9r our stay in Israel and the experience and the more young people equipment we'll be leaving in Israel. We that get the .Jewish experience, the more also maintain a small office in solid the Jewish people will be Philadelphia on a perennial basis to get throughout." ready for the next game four years from Tom l,;pstein's association with the now. All officials pay their own way." Maccabiah Games started a year ago when As an official and rifle team manager, he was approached to take on the job. Tom is trying to raise $21,000 to cover the "The previous chairman could no longer ! expenses of his. team. But beyond the do it. I was very much involved in junior ' finances a nd the details he must oversee rifle shooting in this state and nationwide. ' for his team, there is the deeper " I a!(reed to it only if I could choose the :'- significance and values of these games. team on my own basis. Up to the last ' "To us older ones our interest in Israel Maccahiah games, preference was given lo The sports manager of the U.S. Rifle Team to the 12th Maccabiah Games in ' comes natural. We've been through all the those who could pay their way. I wanted to Israel July 8-26, 1985, Thomas Epstein. (Photo by Dorothea Snyder) Holocaust and all the bad times. We know choose a team strictly on merit.'' i what Israel means to us. We know what it He picked the team members at the sight s. hand. Shooters concentrate on shooting. was like to be a people without a country. National Guard Camp Perry in Ohio " Incidentally. " Tom interrupts himself, The athletes concentrate on doing their But the young people don't know t hat. To where the National Rine Championships "the l l.S. won the gold medal in the thing. Their minds shouldn't be taken up them it's a lmost a ma"tter of indifference. have been held since the early I 900's. In O!~·mpics. The winner scored 590 points with schedulinl{, where's my amm_o, And so we have all these programs that the National Rifleman Association's nut of 600. That means that 59 of his shots where's mv this. where's the other thing. go on from year to year to go to Israel and newsletter. Tom advertised that tryouts earned 10 points earh. one shot. nine where's my snack. experience life there. My oldest daughter would be held this past summer. points. He is a coach at West Virginia ··So. in effect. the manager becomes a Susan and my son Sam each spent a "There were I I 00 shooters. I 9 were University, Ed Anselm. I'd love to have gofer. The sports manager title gives me summer in Israel working on a kibbutz. ,Jewish and tried out for the team. Six him on my team. All the Maccabiah team the proper credentials to gel inside the That's fine." he says. "but we're talking made it.. They were judged by the scores part icipanls must be -Jewish." gates about people who can't necessarily afford recorded on the first day of position 'l'here a re six shooters and one coach on The Epstein fa mily interest in riflery the price to send their children to competition which consist of 40 shots T om ·s team. Two are from Rhode Island. stems back to the turn of t he century with experience Israel and to learn what it each - prone, standing and kneeling, a "One shoot.er is my son Sam. " he says. Tom's fat.her. " I had a mild interest in my stands for." total of 120 shots. "and the rnach is Harold 'Hap' Ma rchetto y11uth." 'l'c,m says.''No serious competitive Tom is convinced "the Maccabiah "There were two days of competition." from Westerly. Hap was on the team eight shooting, I was more interested in bicycle Games, even more than Israel, gives us a he says. "T he first day shooting required years ago in Israel. He tried out for the racing. then rine shouting. My son David world-wide sense of unity and solidarity. iron sights which is more demanding than team this year and made it, but he stepped had a slight physica l handicap and I We're meeting here not only with Israelis. any other sights shooting enabling you to aside to let a younger shooter take his t bought it might be a sport he would like. We're competing with Jews from all over stick a telescopic sight on top of a rifle. place. He's going as the coach.'' "The Providence Revolver Club the world. Jews from South America. The second day is optional sights. The As team manager or sports cha irman, sponsors a junior rifle team. David Chilean Jews. Peruvean Jews. We'll be iron sights competition is the same in the Tom says he is taking on the job "because developed so rapidly that he became the competing with a worldwide aggregation Olympics as will be in the Maccabiah. when we !(el the gang to Israel. they will state rille champion in 1977. In time he of Jews. International competition is all in iron need someone who takes them by ~ e decided rifle shooting wasn't for him anymore. T hen my youngest son Sam took up the sport. Although he didn't have the na tural talent for it. he worked at it considerably harder and within the year became the state junior champion. For the past three years. Sam has been state junior champion. He won the state senior championship this past year at age 18. At the time of this interview, Tom Epstein was notified that Sam made the top 100 junior shooters in t he country for the third year in a row. He is a freshman at Southwest T exas State "concentrating solely on his grades as an English major", his father notes. ",Jumping into things with both feet" is a n action Tom savs of himself. " I took over the Providence Revolver Club team. Then I took over the Ocean State Junior Hille Association as president. It wasn't a C'oup d'eta t.. They were perfectly willing for me to have ii. [ was the chief. cook and bottle washer. [ ran that for five years as well as fi\'e or six junior tournaments in Rhode Island yearly and the northeastern states junior tournament in Connecticut.'' All t.he people who ta ke the job as sports cha irma n in the Maccabiah Games have made a pled g-e to spCmsor at least one athlete. " [ am providing the $3000 for some athlete. Of course, it will turn out to

1 he S~m. Ir Sam had not made the team. I would ha\·e sponsored another athlete. This is part of the job. "smiles Tom. The .Jewish Olympics is an event recog-nized · and overseen by the Internal i1mal Olympic Committee. and ,·11nsidered one step below t_he Olympics. Tom calls it a sub-Olympic event. He has tapes in beta a nd vhs of past Maccabiah games and would be happy lo show them to groups and organizations who are interested and have access to a vcr. He can be reached at Northeast Paper Converting · The U.S. Rifle Team. Rhode Islanders shown here are coach Harold "Hap" Rocketto, seated at far left. Next to him Corporation in Warwick. is Sam Epstein. Standing at top left is Tom Epstein. (Photo courtesy of Tom Epstein) ******************** THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1984 - 9

As the years go passing through. Conservative Judaism. Creating Jewish-American ·Music· More and more I find the meaning of Safam has accomplished a lot in the ten my life years they have been together. They work by Ruth Rappaport To the moving, danceable sounds of ·i n loving you." constantly - from September '83 to June ·(.JSPS' - " We have essentially created electric guitars, bass, drums, and Audiences which range in ages from 2· '84 they played 46 concerts. A fifth record what can only be described as a synthesizer they sing of Jewish life: the year-olds to 80 have loved Safam, and rave is due t.o be published next month. What ,Jewish-American sound," says singer Dan day-to-da_v activities Jews experience, reviews come to t hem from papers and are their plans for the future, now that Funk. " We don't do anything all that prayers and psalms set to new music, the music promoters from Kentucky to New they've enjoyed such sweet success? magical. but ·we combine the music we horrors of religious persecution, and the York. They have played in huge concert "Bigger and better things," says Joel grew up with and put it to Jewish yearning for peace in a complex world. halls such as the Garden State Arts Sussman. "The challenge is to maintain themes.'· Some of their material may be termed Center in New Jersey, and in smaller the quality, and to get to new areas where Ten years ago, Funk met with two other political, some inspirational. Safam settings such as ·local synagogues and we're not known. We strove to. be the members of the Boston area musical brings "a message that modern American Jewish centers. Some of their more number one Jewish music group in the group Zamir Chorale to share their unique Jews could identify with," says Sussman. distinguished gigs have been for the country, and we made it. Nobody else has interest in pop music and Jewish identity. · Their most recent album, United Synagogue National Convention, been able to copy us yet." Alan Nelson, Joel Sussman, and Funk "Bittersweet," produced in 1983, lays the Union of Orthodox Jewish Safam is scheduled to tour in the New enjoyed si nging and playing together, and testimony to their creativity and Congregations of America National York Cit v area and Massachusetts later people liked their sound, so they formed multi-talent. The material ranges from a Convention, and the Women's League for . t his moni h and in December. their own musical group. They · all had rocking "Tsur Yisrael," which is a new mustaches, and decided to call themselves. ve rsion of a morning prayer t to the Safam, which is the Hebrew word for hair moving "Yamit," the tale of a modern Rep. Gejdenson To Speak At Beth-El above one's lip. Jewish community in Sinai which was A year later, Robbie Solomon joined levelled bv Israeli trooP,S in 1982. In Joel Connecticut Congressman Sam their circle and thus cemented the Sussman·s " Amnesty" they sing of the Gejdenson will prese!lt the view of a U.S. foundation for this highly successful oppression that has faced their Jewish Representative when he speaks on the Jewish-American rock group. brothers and sisters throughout history, Relationship between Church and State Today Safam enjoys its national • and still ex ists today: at Temple Beth El on Friday evening reputation' as a unique band which blends "Whether it's a Hitler, Brezhnev or November 30 at 8:15 p.m. popular music with Jewish culture and Assad, Sam Gejdenson, born in an American values. They are now six in number; the They will never learn displaced persons camp in· Eschwege, newest members being Brad Clemens and That we are all children of one G-d. Germany is the first child of survivors of Steve Tapper. Safam has taken their Locked in an asylum, a ghetto or a jail, the Holocaust to serve in Congress. He sound to twenty states and Canada, Are we all not prisoners of systems that represents Connecticut's largest leaving behind four record albums. . have failed . " Congressional District - the Second, If you hear Safam on the radio, you They sing of t heir love for their which geographically encompasses 57 would think they were another families. (Safam's second album is towns, and borders Massachusetts and highly-polished, excellent rock band. entitled "Sons of Safam.") In "Wings of Rhode Island, and was first elected to Listen closer and you'll hear the message Love" Robbie Solomon writes: Congress in 1980. His dynamic address to which strengthens their sound and gives "When I take you by my side, my litt le Holocatist survivors at a reunion in them a personal quality. Jewish child, Washington, D.C . was the high point of "We are not a klezmer band or a Will you think of me with pride in your the week -end. Chasidic band," echoes Joel Sussman. days of running wile:!? "Safam's sound is original, contemporary, Like the names you are receiving This forum is the second in a three part vastly Americanized. We have put a there's so much you can't control, series dealing with the Establishment Jewish flavor into it." But don't ever stop believing you have Clause of the First Amendment. The first, Rep. Sam Gejdenson Safam ·s material covers a wide freedom in your soul." entitled "The Court and the First fo r Separat ion between Chifrch and State territory. and does not stick to one style. Robbie Solomon used a line from Song Amendment" with Judge Raymond J. was-held at Temple Emanu-El on October almost all of it is original. Robbie of Songs which is recited at Jewish Pettine dramatically presenting the case 26 to an audience of more than 350. Solomon and 'Joel Sussman are the weddings to create the beautiful song, principle songwriters, and virtually all the " My Beloved." 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Seff-Reliance" in the study of contemporary American Kingston. Newcomers are especially welcome. BOSTON Brandeis University Jewry, Mrs. Handler noted. Curtain time is 8 p.m. and tickets are President Evelyn E. Handler says priced at S4 for the general public and $3 education is the only route to Brody Receives for students and senior citizens. Loren Dwares And self-reliance, and today's scientifically The play, directed by Kimber G. driven society must guard against narrow Gubow Award Wheelock, associate professor of theatre Paul Redman Are training that ignores broader human Leonard C. Brody, son of Mr. and Mrs. at URI, was the winner of the Pulitzer values. Albert Brody of Providence, received the Prize in 1953. It also won the Drama Married "Brandeis is unabashedly committed to Ju9ge Lawrence Gubow Memorial Award Critics Circle Award. humanistic education, liberating for Americanism at the 89th Annual "Picnic" is set in a small Kansas town education in the broadest sense," Mrs. National Convention of the Jewish War in the 1950s and tells the story of how the Handler said Saturday night (Nov. 17) at Veterans in Washington, D.C. Brody is lives of tour wotnen are forever changed the 30th convention of the National commander of the Marsack-Feldman Post by the arrival of a young man into their Federation of Temple Brotherhoods. #145 of the JWV. The award was given in world of "quiet desperation." Mrs. Handler was the keynote speaker recognition of Brody's / dedication and For more information and to reserve at the convention's banquet. devotion to many civic and veterans tickets, co_ntact 792-5843. Tickets also are "Higher education, and in fact programs. The award was presented by available at the Memorial Union Box education at all levels, has many C:ommander Joseph Zoldan. Office. down-to-earth uses," Mrs. Handler said. "But its most fundamental purpose is the Dr. Sue Silverstein Rebecca Friedman improvement of the human condition." She said federal cuts in aid to education Weds James Nominated for 1985 and disquieting, because "education is not an ornament or a luxury. It is our most Osofsky Youth Seminar basic and universal tool for fixing "chat is Dr. Sue Silverstein of New York City, wrong with our world." daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. Silverstein of RebecC'a Friedman of St. Dunstan's Day The United States' rapid shift toward a Philadelphia, Pa. and James Osofsky also School, Providence, has ·been nominated service economy based in science will of New York City were married October fo r the 1985 Hugh O'Brian Youth transform society in many important 28, 1984. The bridegroom is the son of Foundation Leadership Seminar. The ways, Mrs. Handler said, and "some of the Mrs. Sarah Osofsky and the late Israel purpose of the Foundation is to seek out most significant consequences will be Osofsky uf Cranston, R.I. The ceremony and reward the leadership potential of reserved for our educational system. was held at the Long Pond Inn in high school sophomores. This year's "All of us are accustomed to'hearing of Mahopac, N.Y. International Leadership Seminar will be the 'need to train more scientists and to The bride is a graduate of the held in Los Angeles. · place more emphasis upon the study of University of Pennsylvania and New Rebecca has been active in community science and mathematics," she said. York University Medical School and is a service projects, such as helping at nursing homes and schools fo r the "The concern, however, should go resident in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Loren Dwares and Paul Redman were beyond the worry that too few students Bellevue Hospital, in New York City. The handicapped. She has been a group leader at Farm and Wilderness Indian Brook in united in marriage on October 4 at the have a critical understanding of science, bridegroom is a graduate of the University Crestwood Country Club in Rehoboth, · technology and its implications for of Pennsylvania and has an MBA from Plymouth, Vermont. Rebecca enjoys writing and reading in her spare time. She Massachusetts. Rabbi Samuel Emen society. the Uni versity of Chicago. He is an officiated at the candlelight ceremony "Of ~qua! concern - perhaps even account executive with Scali, McCabe, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Friedman of Providence. which was followed by a reception. greater concern - to all of us should be and Sloves Agency, of New York. The bride was given in marriage by her the need to instill in young people an After a wedding trip to Israel the couple mother, Ms. Shirley Gold of Providence, understanding of the humanistic tradition will live in Brooklyn, N.Y. Singles Scene and her brother, Curtis Dwares. Mr. and and a familiarity with the liberal arts and Are you singing the " Holiday Blues?" Mrs. George Redman of East Providence the social sciences. Monte Carlo Night You are not alone. Join psychotherapist, are the parents of the groom. "What individual is truly self-reliant Ellen Frishman at the South Area Jewish The bride wore a white satin gown without this? And more importantly, At Sinai Community Center on Wednesday trimmed with lace and adorned with a what society could survive without it?" The Brotherhood of Temple Sinai will evening, December 5 at 8 p.m. to discuss cathedral train. Her sweetheart shaped Mrs. Handler, who heads the nation's sponsor a Monte Carlo Night on the " Myth of Merriment." Often at this headpiece was made of white satin roses only Jewish-sponsored, nonsectarian Saturday, December 1, 1984, from 6 p.m. time of year, people begin to experience a and pearls. The bride carried a cascade of university, said self-reliance also has "a to midnight at Temple Sinai, 30 Hagen disparity between the commercialism of white roses. very special meaning for all of us as Jews. Avenue, Cranston. the Holiday spirit and their inner sense of Beth S. Dwares, sister of the bride, was "Trial, adversity, and even tragedy, as A " Lucky Seven" Buffet featuring 7 well-being. Ms. Frishman will explore tips matron of honor. Mary C. Redman also well as success and joy and exhilaration, meat and 7 salad courses will be served for coping with and even enjoying the attended the bride. Both attendants wore have taught all of us that as a people we from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Open bar from 6 Holidays. red moire and satin gowns al\d carried must be self-reliant if we are to be true to p.m. to 9 p.m. Dessert table will be The program will take place at the sweethearts bouquets of red and white ourselves and true to our most available all evening. 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Terry is a high reading, it is suggested that t his book is edited by Ivan L. Tillem {Pacific Press, is now underway, with a deadline of school student who easily achieves good best used in a Jewish classroom setting, 310 Madison Avenue, Suite #1005, New December 11 at noon. Last year, as grades but strives for the adolescent particularly appropriate fo r the fift h York, N.Y. 10017, $11.95 paperback) is a well as this year, three winners will be dream: to be popular. When she is mocked t hrough seventh grades. Teachers can compilation on just about every subject of chosen and they will have their essays as a "smart Jew," she begins to view her guide i_he students through the 150-page J ewish interest, from demographics, reprinted in the Herald and receive two Jewish identity as a burden. Jeff Lazarus, novel, leading to an open exploration of Israel, and major organizations, to the free passes to the Garden City Cinema almost bar-mitzvah age, is seeking students feeling about anti-Semitic calendar, sports, and the media. It in Cranston. revenge against the synagogue vandals incidents....- in public school or the includes articles by Blu Greenberg and This year, the theme of the contest and his personal tormentors at school. community. Paul Cowan. A 167-page directory to is: How Can We Keep the Spirit of The levelheaded older brother, Robert, suppliers of Jewish goods and services Chanukah Alive Today? tries to reason calmly with the prime Brief Reviews adds to its value. Please keep· your essays to a suspect, a -Jewish student who has become by William Wollheim Pictorial History of the J ewish Peop/.e, maximum of two typed-pages in a fanatic devotee of Jews for Jesus. Robert Several fascinating books of Jewish edited by Nathan Ausubel and updated by length. Neatly printed essays are is distracted from this task when his interest have been published recently. David C. Gross {Crown, $19.95) is an accepted, too. girlfriend ends their relationship because They include travel books and history excellent value. This oversized book is a Send all essays to: Essay Contest, he is becoming "too J{wish." books, a book on Yiddish films and a book history of the Jews from Biblical times to R.I. Herald, 99 Webster St., Henkin, who moved in with the Lazarus on Jewish books, books for children and our times and includes hundreds of Pawtucket, R.I. 02861, before the family after the death of Mrs. Lazarus, is books for the reference shelf. Together, photographs and illustrations in its more deadline of December 11. the most fully-developed character. He is they are a bountiful harvest of Jewish than 450 pages. still tormented by guilt for not saving his learning and pleasure. · Momentous Century {Herzl family from the Nazis. The attacks on his One of the most important of the new Press/ Cornwall Books, $25.00) includes adopted family and beloved synagogue books is From Time Immenwrial: The more than one hundred eyewitness bring back powerful feelings of Origins uf the Arab.Jewish Conflict Over accounts of the rise and development of helplessness, finally prompting the elderly Pa/.estine {Harper & Row, $24.95). It is a the Jewish homeland, from 1875 to 1978. Jew to take a brave stand against a group scholarly and massive study of just who Edited by Levi Soshuk and Azriel of neo-Nazis ir, town. Henkin's story and lived where and when in Palestine. Joan Eisenberg, it provides a vivid look at t he the brief flashbacks to the Holocaust are Peters, the author, started her research lives of Jewish pioneers, both leaders and the most well-written, dramatic moments with the belief that the establishment of ordinary people. HARDCOVER in the book. the State of Israel was based on an And, finally, for children, there is I Love From Time Immemorial It is the voice of Rabbi Rosen which injustice: the displacement of Palestinian Hanukkah (Holiday House, $11.95). Joan Peters. Harper & Row. $24.95 provides the moral message -_ to take Arabs. She set out to document that fact Holiday House has become known for its Origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict. pride in Jewish identity, never allowing - only to find that it wasn't a fact. excellent books on the Jewish holidays. It The Haj anyone else to make one act less than a Peters' careful analysis of historical is the publisher of a first-rate series Leon Uris. Doubleday. $17.95 Jew. 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Schocken. $17.95 I "\Q,roJ11&11HX:cem11eR 18. 19M I newsP.aper refuses to print Terry's story Sources {Summit Books, $19.95) edited by New tales of Reb Nachman, great­ on anti-Semitism; Mrs. Himme_lfarb, Barry Holtz is going to be very useful. An grandson of the Baal Shem Tov, mother of a bar-mitzvah boy, is on!y introduction to the major Jewish religious ----. founder of Chasidim. !j concerned that the vandalism on the works, this is a book which will require - ~ It r PAPERBACK I synagogue building will ruin her gala and reward - effort. It does not so much On Equal Terms: Jews in America I affair; and the neighbor who lives across summarize what's in the Bible, Talmud, Lucy Dawidowicz. Holt. $6.95 the street from the synagogue is a sexist Prayerbook, and other basic works, as it A study of Jews in America during the I caricature "a plump forty-ish woman . .. tells you how to study them. It can help past century. in a purple, fl owered double-knit open a door onto t he Jewish heritage, but The Precious Legacy housecoat and fuzzy lavender bedroom t he final message remains " Now go Edited by David Altshuler, Summit. slippers with pink, plastic curlers in her study." $17.50 hair." Other books of interest include: Essays and photographs cataloguing The most serious criticism, though, is Visions. Images, and Dreams: Yiddish the Judaic treasures of the State Jewish the lack of suspense. The mystery, "who Film Past and Present by Eric A. Museum in Prague, now on exhibit in did it'1"' , never assumes-· 'enough Goldman, director of the JWB Jewish the United States. importance in the story, though the book Media Service {UMI Research Press, Ann My Generations - A Course in Jewish. cover promises "A Lazarus Family Arbor, Mich. 48106, $39.95). A "history of Family History Mystery.·· The clues.are too obvious, at the beginning, evolvement, and dubious Arthur Kurzweil. 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Cohen, 66, years. 60 Broadway, a former florist, died last Mr. Halsband retired in 1978 from the of 37 Deerfield Rd., owner of the Cohen Mr. Schiffman was a member of the Saturday, November 17 at the Waterview Leesona Corp. where he worked for many Heating Supply Co., Providence, which he Providence Lodge, Fraternal Order of Villa, East Providence. He was the years. He was a member of Temple Beth founded ;J~ years ago, died last Thursday, Police, the R.I. Retired Firefighters and husband of the late Nettie (Paster} Am-Beth David, the Social Seniors of November 15 at the Vanderbilt Policemen's Association, Temple Cohen. · Warwick, the Sprarrows Point I Tenants Rehabilitation Center at Newport Emanu-EI and its Men's Club, Redwood Born in Russia, a son of the late Jacob Association and the American Hospital. He was the husband of Rosella Lodge 35, AF & AM , the-Scottish Rite, the and Bella (Kaminsky} Cohen, he lived in (Bernstein) Cohen. Association of Retired Persons. He Shriners, the Rhode Island Trowel Club ' · Providence for 75 years. Born in Providence, a son of the late formerly was scoutmaster- of East ' and the Majestic Senior Citizens . .. Mr. Cohen was Rhode Island's oldest· Greenwich Troop 2.' He was a former ' Abraham and Jennie Cohen, he lived in Besides his wife he leaves three sons, I ' active florist until retiring several months president of the East Greenwich Lions Cranston for 24 years. Everett N. Schiffman of Providence, ago. He was cofounder, with his brother, Mr. Club. ' Cohen was a member of Temple Steven E. Schiffman -of Cranston and of the former Lowell Avenue Greenhouses Besides his wife he leaves two sons, Sinai. He was also a member of the Alan D. Schiffman of Miami, Fla.; a sister, in 1919, closing the business in 1979, and Alan I. Halsband of Warwick and Sidney Potowomut Country Club, the Oil Heat Mrs. Rose Rosenblatt of Tucson, Ariz., became associated with his sons in the S. Halsband of Derry, N.H.; a daughter, Institute of Rhode Island and the and four grandchildren. operation of the Twin Florist, Cranston. Palm-Aire Country Club of Pompano Joan DelliCarpini of Manassas, Va.; two A funeral service was held at Mount He was prominent in Masonic brothers, Albert Ha.lsband of Richmond, Beach, Fla. He was a graduate of Bryant .Sinai Memorial Chapel, 825 Hope St. organizations, and was a member of College. Va. and Sumner Halsband of East Burial was in Lincoln Park Cemetery, Greenwich; a sister, Lillian Levine of Redwood Lodge 35, AF & AM, since 1928, Besides his wife he leaves a son, Allan Warwick. having received the grand lodge 50-year Cohen of Johnston; a daughter, Barbara Bloomfield, Conn., and five service medal in 1978. He was a member Cohen of New York City; a brother, grandchildren. of the Royal Arch Chapter 1, Council 1, Marvin Cohen in California, and a sister, A funeral service was held at the Max the Hope Link Order of the Golden Chain, Doris Goldstein of Pawtucket. *** Sugarman Memorial Chapel, 458 Hope a past president and a past secretary of A funeral service was held at the Max St., Providence, with burial in Lincoln the Rhode Island Trowel Club of the Sugarman Memorial Chapel, 458 Hope MORRIS MANIS Park Cemetery. National League of Masonic Clubs, and a St., Providence. Burial was in Sinai FALL RIVER. Mass. Morris past president of the Rhode Island Florist Memorial Park, Warwick. Manishefsky- Manis. 72. of 523 Whipple ANNE R.*** SHECHET Association. He was a World War I Army St.. a retired fruit and produce dealer. died NARRAGANSETT Anne R. veteran, and a past commander of Rhode Nm·em ber 18 at Charlton Memorial Shechet, 71, of 55 Lakewood Drive, died Island Post 23, Jewish War Veterans of ***· Hospital. :Monday, November 19 in South County America. Bo rn in Fall Ri ve r. he was a son of the iHospital. . He leaves three sons, Gerald P. and BERTHA PRILUCK late Mye r and .Jennie (M iller) She was born in Detroit, Mich., a Maurice R. Cohen, both of Cranston, and PAWTUCKET - Bertha Priluck, 67 , Manishelsky. daughter of the late Eli and Reva L. Herbert A. Cohen of Marblehead, Mass.; of 69 Harvard St. died Friday, November . Mr. Manis was a member of Adas Israel (Resnick} Shechet. She lived in New York two sisters, Mrs. Marion Goldstein of 16 at Miriam Hospital. She was the wife S;·na~ol(Ue and its Men ·s Club. the ,Jew ish City most of her life, moving to Providence and Mrs. Pauline Berger of of Eli Priluck. Home for the A~ed. and the ,Jewish War Narragansett in August. Los Angeles; six grandchildren and four Born in Pawtucket, she was a daughter Vete rans. both in Fall Ri ve r. He was an She was office manager and comptroHer great-grandchildren. of the late Jacob and Sophie (Matusow} Arm v ve teran of World War II. of the New York Label and Box Co. until A funeral service was held at Mount Chernack. H~ leaves two sisters. Martha Golden of retiring in January. Sinai Memorial Chapel, 825 Hope St. Mrs. Priluck was a member of Cranston. and ,Jess ie Manishefsky of Fall She was a member of the Board of Burial was in Lincoln Park Cemetery, Hadassah and the Jewish Home for the River. Directors of Hadassah. She was a .life Warwick. Aged. A funeral service and burial was held at member of the Jewish Home for the Aged Besides her husband she leaves a son, Hebrew l"emeterv. of Providence. Dr. Jeffrey Priluck of Atlanta, Ga.; two She leaves a sister, Mrs. Beatrice *** brothers, David Chernack of Warwick, *** Katznelson, with whom she lived. Joseph Chernack of Richmond, Va., and The funeral service was held at Mount MINNIE ROSENFIELD two grandchildren. JACK STEINBERG Sinai Memorial Chape.l, 825 Hope St., A funeral service was held at the Max Providence. Buria.l wiU be in Lincoln Park PROVIDENCE - Minnie Rosenfield, PROVIDENCE - Jack Steinberg of 99 Sugarman Memorial Chapel, 458 Hope Cemetery , Warwick. 92, of the Jewish Home for the Aged, 99 Hillside Ave., died Thursday, November Hillside Ave., died last Saturday, St., Providence. Burial was held in Lincoln !'ark Cemetery, Warwick. 15, at The Jewish Home for the Aged. He GERALDI.GAVERMAN*** November 17 at the home. She was the was the husband of the late Ida widow of Marcus Rosenfield. (Wortofsky} Steinberg. ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Gerald I. Gaverman Born in Hartford, a daughter of the late He leaves a son, Edward L. Steinberg of of St. Louis, Missouri, died Sunday, Louis and Rachel (Levinson} Laschever, *** Cranston; four brothers, Joseph Steinberg November 11. He was the son of Max and she lived in Woonsocket for 64 years of Jamaica Plain, Mass.; Samuel, Max and Lillian (Glazer} Gaverman of Aurora, before moving to Providence in 1970. Maurice Steinberg of Brookline, Mass.; Illinois. Mrs. Rosenfield was a member of B'nai Besides his parents he leaves a sister, IN MEMORIAM and a sister, Mrs. Frances Park of Israel Synagogue, its Sisterhood and the Brookline, Mass.; and one grandchild. Gloria Goldstein of Aurora, lll. Hadassah. JENNIE BLOOM Burial was in Plainville Cemetery, New November 21, 1972 A funeral service was held at the She leaves a son, Paul Rosenfield of Hebrew Cemetery in Natick, Mass. Bedford, Ma. Arrangements were by the Philadelphia; a daughter, Mrs. Evelyn As another year drifts sadly by Max Sugarman Memorial Chapel, 458 We think of her and wonder why. Arrangements were by the -Max Sugarman Pascale of North Providence; two sisters, Memorial Chapel, 458 Hope St. Hope St., Providence. Mrs. Rose Sechtman of Laurel Hill, Fla., All the lovely things she would have and Mrs. Anna Fichman of · West seen . . *** *** Hartford, Conn.; five grandchildren and Were for her not to have been. three great-grandchildren. Sadly missed, Her family A graveside service was held at B'nai U.S. Federal law now requires all funeral homes to Israel Cemetery, Woonsocket. provide itemized pricing. Mount Sinai Memorial Chapel *** has provi~ed this courtesy for over nine years. 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--New Holiday HOURS Mon.-Tue.-Wed. Jeanne Stein 9:30-6 p.m. Thur.-Fri 9:30-8 p.m. TEL: 726-2491 Sat. 9:30-5 • Sun. 12-5 p.m. VISA MASTERCHARGE 16 THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1984 United Synagogue upsurge, was scheduled by Irving Greenberg to become the head of Jews' College. Fro_m the strong criticism of the Anniversary of Jews' College Jacobs was liberal in his thinking and ran 'excessive' separation of religious from afoul of growing right wing influence. nomination process for designating rabbis diplomas. public life levelled by President Reagan, of congregations. From the 1880s on, the Jewish mass Finally his appointment to Jews' College the Moral Majority, and others, one would By 1970, the United Synagogue had emigration from Eastern Europe brought a was vetoed because he made concessions think that 'establishment' is the best twenty-three constituent synagogues witn flood of new immigrants, mostly to the claims of Bible criticism. · thing for religion. But the evidence of Eventually he was driven out of the 20,000 members and thirty-five affiliated Orthodox, to England. While many joined Judaism's experience in modern times United Synagogue. This pushed that congregations with 40,000 families - half the existing United Synagogues, the tone points to exactly the opposite conclusion. institution further to the right. By the Jewish population of London. There of that institution led to a 'negative November 1984 is the 129th anniversary eliminating an ideological debate, the were some gains: a high level of communal selection.' The more nominal and/or of Jews' College, the official rabbinical standards was maintained in kashrut and assimilating joined United Synagogue United Synagogue leadership all but seminary of English Jewry. Some conversion. The rabbis were relatively while many of the religiously more insured that its rabbis would teach only reflections on this occasion on the independent of the lay people which passionate sought other outlets. They an almost mindless fundamentalism. The experience of the rabbinate in_ England lack of lay congregational input also prevented some of the vulgarization of the finally organized a Union of Orthodox may shed some light on the church-state rabbinate that occurs in America under Hebrew Congregations in 1926. meant that the strong traditionalist issue. popular pressure. In 1855, Jews' College Gateshead Yeshiva - with a higher influence was able to seize control over a English Jewry's history goes way back, narrow band of levers of pow~r and was set up by the Chief Rabbi to train degree of I raditional rabbinic learning and including expulsion in medieval times and · rabbis to meet higher standards and to religious commitment - was founded in further push the rabbinate into right readmission in the seventeenth century. provide clergymen who had university 1927. This group also started secondary wingism and poor contact with its real constituency. In the nineteenth century, the struggle" degrees. Their jobs were, in effect, day schools in England. In other words, over political emancipation for Jews was 'guaranteed' by the later establishment of the nonestablishment group were free to In 1966, Rabbi Immanuel Jakobovits fought and won. However, England had the United Synagogue and its connection create vital new institutions and to work was elected Chief Rabbi of England. His the model -of an established religion to Jews' College. with likeminded people to intensify own intensity and stature had been {Anglicanism) that continued with official As it turned out, the official standing Jewish life. Unfortunately, the new nurtured by going outside the English governmental support even after the was a blessing at high cost. The economic vitality was often associated with Agudath system to serve in the American democratization of the political system. In and social leadership of English Jewry Israel anti-Zionist attitudes. (non-establishment) Orthodox rabbinate. partial imitation of that model, Chief tended to be more assimilated individuals After World War II, a new wave of Jakobovits did bring new vitality - Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler initiated an but official standing and their personal immigration injected new strength' into all including an all out commitment to day association of the {Ashkenazi) official roles kept them in the United groups. Isidore Epstein, himself trained in schools which he had learned in the congregat.ions in London, which was Synagogue. The result was a leadership Yeshivas as well as Jews' College, United States and which led to a doubling called the United Synagogue and nominally Orthodox but really marginal revamped and expanded that institution's of that school system. Still Jakobovits established by Act of Parliament July 14, in religious interest and indifferent student body and teacher training. himself complained about the 1870. The concept was attractive and spiritually. The dominance of such However, the other groups - ranging conventionality and shallowness of well-meaning. All income was to be paid leadership was chilling to the religious from the right wing Orthodox to Refo rm English Jewish life. Despite Jakobovits' into a common pool and rabbis' salaries spirit ot the United Synagogue and - were also strengthened. Finally, a new intense efforts, including repeated and other expenses were to be paid by the inimical to the development of its leadership took control of the United changes of leadership, Jews' College United Synagogue. Thus, the wealthier spiritual leadership. The preference for a Synagogue. Coming to power in the slipped deeper and deeper into innocuous congregations would support the poorer socially respectable and not too spiritually shadow of the right wing Orthodox surge, desuetude and all but died. It seemed able synagogues and the cost of general enthusiastic rabbi led to the atmosphere the new directors swung t he United to produce only 'reverends' who were communal services. of 'gentleman scholar' at Jews' College Synagogue to the right - often in weak both in traditional learning and The combination of official standing which was weak in traditional learning imitation of the Agudah approaches - modern scholarship. By contrast, the and social status implicit in a Chief and religious spirit. The rabbis had to thus weakening the broader communal independent higher yeshivot grew to far Rabbinate structure led the United please the United Synagogue leadership sense which was one of the redeeming larger numbers and to more intense Synagogues to become, in.the words of the and not so much the congregation in order features of the establishment. religious life. Encyclopedia Juaaica, "one of the most to obtain and maintain their positions. 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