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VOLUME LXXVIV, NUMBER 14 ADAR 4. 5753 /THURSDAY.FEBRUARY 25. 1993 35< PER COPY Christopher To Arrive in Israel Fanny, a Friend by Mike Fink With New Demands on Deportees Herald Contributing Reporter by Gil Sedan Mubarak and Syrian President " I've been concerned with JERUSALEM OTA) - Israel Hafez Assad indicated the animal rights for 20 years, since is expecting to come under Palestinians would not return I met Cleveland Amory in the pressure to make further con to the negotiations unless Israel early '70s." Steve Kass spoke to cessions on the deportation cri made further concessions. me this week before going on sis, following U.S. Secretary of Israel has offered to take the air at WHJJ with his talk State Warren Christopher's back immediately 101 of the show. I had tried to get through visit to Arab capitals, where deportees and the rest by the time after time to do my inter leaders told him Palestinians end of the year, but the Pales view before the ears of the would boycott the peace talks tinians have rejected the deal. Rhode Island world. But they'd unless the issue is resolved. Mubarak reportedly de- already gone on past Fanny the Israeli officials originally be manded three concessions: that elephant to the Clinton tax lieved that a compromise deal Israel announce officially it thing. worked out with Washington would not resort again to de regarding the 415 Palestinians portations as a punitive mea deported by Israel to Lebanon sure; that it would accelerate ''Pawtucket doesn't deserve in December had taken the is the appeal process by which Fanny, or even a pigeon." sue off the international agenda deportees have an opportunity - Steve Kass and paved the way for a re to get their deportation orders sumption of the peace talks. canceled, and that the depor However, according to re- tees be allowed to stay in the " I used to run a Pet Care ports received from the Israeli-controlled security zone Center chain business around Christopher shuttle, both of southern Lebanon until they here. I gave that up. But not my Egyptian President Hosni (Continued on Page 12) interest in kindness to animals. And Slater Park Zoo in Paw tucket, they have a rotten record of care. There have been The Once and Future Purim: incidents of serious abuse, due to lack of supervision," he said. Thoughts on the Holocaust " Would you say there's con nection between your involve (Editor's Note: The following perished along with them. ment with the Fa nny issue and is the first of a two-part feature. But I don't think I really con Part 11 will appear in ,1ext fronted the Holocaust, at least Jewish eth ics?" I asked. ''I'd say it's more of a general week's paper.) not head-on, until I saw for the human problem, not a religious by Rabbi Avi Shafran first time the actual images of o ne specifically. But it's true Special to th e Herald what can only be ca lled that the zoo is like a concentra I thi nk I fi rst met the Holo " mega-m urder," in vivid tion camp. I don't mean to triv caust in 1968, when I was 14. enough black-and-white, on ialize our tragedy, however." I certainly knew of it well television. How ironic, I some " I was told your wife wore a before that, even the fact that times think, that it took a CO OKIE QUEEN - Kristin Elizabeth Keinz prepares to choose fur coat to the hearing on the many members of my parents' medium which has become a confectionary treat last week at the Jewish Ho me for the Aged . Slater Zoo at the City Council families met their ends in it. synonymous with mindless dis (See stor y on Page 13) Herald photo by Omar Bradley Even that millions of my some traction to carry a message of (Continued on Page 3) what more distant relatives (Continued on Page 5) Jews Who Are Gay: We'd be Poorer Without Them by Mike Fink floor in a circle. Reps called Herald Contributing Reporter facilitators among the group Brown-RISO Hillel launched made themselves known, by its series of programs on homo first names. " I call myself a sexuality and religion with an 'queer,"' began a young event on homophobia among woman. " We're not here to out Jews last week. anyone. There are no correct I stopped by to catch the answers. You can stop us on lecture. But the room wasn't the street and ask about any set up with podium and bridge thing. But we haven't got all chairs. Instead, you sat on the (Continued on Page J) Chief Rabbis Elected After Bruising Campaign
by David Landau Ashkenazic chief rabbi and JERUSALEM (J TA) - After a Rabbi Eliahu Bakshi-Doran of campaign marred by mudsling Haifa as Sephardic chief rabbi. ing and allegations of romantic Lau 's victory to succeed misconduct, the nation's two Rabbi Avraham Shapira as new chief rabbis were elected Ashkenazic chief rabbi came Sunday for IO -year te rms. follow ing newspaper stories A 150-membercouncil, made claiming Lau had engaged in SENSATIONAL - David Paskin of "Shir Sensati ons" perfo rms Yiddish and Israeli songs for up of both rabbis and secular improper relationships with seniors and children at the kosher meal s ite last week at the Jewish Community Center of Rhode political leaders, elected Rabbi women other than his wife. Island. (Ser: st ory on Page 16) fftrald pliol o byOmarlJru,llry Yisrael Meir Lau of Tel Aviv as (Continued on Page 6) J
2 - THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1993 INSIDE THE OCEAN STATE Hair Salons Unite To fight AIDS Rhode Islanders can get a offered. Taxpayers Ask IRS ~~ J;: new personal look from a All of the proceeds from this choice of some top hair design event will be donated to Rhode /:jNEWS~ ers and help people living with Island Project/ AIDS. c;:) BRIEFS h"J AIDS all in one simple stop. The project currently offers New Ways to File Tax Return ~ The path to this changeover is assistance to more than 350 to follow any road to the War women and men who are Jiv These are typical of ques tax preparers. Unlike the tradi The town of Coventry will wick Mall on Feb. 28. Fund ing with AIDS and HIV infec tions asked by taxpayers and tional paper ·1040, which may hold a breakfast to benefit raising "cut-a-than" will be tion. 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The session will Meeting Street Center at 438- ble through software com The Southeastern New Eng offer an explanation of the dif 9500, ext. 238. panies to both individuals and land Antique Dealers Asso ferent funding categories. ciation is sponsoring a Win Complete grant guidelines JCCRI Singles Plan Busy Month Ahead ter Antique Show at East and application forms may be Providence High School on obtained at the council's of The Jewish Community Cen Cheryl at 453-6414. Mark for information at 463- Feb. 27 from 10 a.m. to 5 fices. For further information, ter of Rhode Island UCCRI) Singles will dine at the 8455. p.m. and Feb. 28 from 11 call the Arts Council at 277- Singles Club has a busy month Ground Round in the Carousel The group meets at 7 p.m. a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is 3880. ahead. Food Court at Warwick Mall on March IO for happy hour at $3. For more information, On Feb. 28, the group will March 2 at 6:30 p.m. RSVP to Peaches on North Main Street contact Bob Anderson at meet at 11 a.m. for a bagel Gerry at 331 -1524. in Providence. Call Mark at 782-1230 or Joyce Nelson at brunch at the JCCRI, 401 Elm On March 6, singles can 463-8455 for more information 826-1441. Get the facts! grove Ave. in Providence, with dance the night away at Mus On March 13, the JCCRI Sin Read the Herald! a special guest speaker. The tang Sally's at 8 p.m. with a gles will have dinner at the All "Animals, Their Motion brunch costs $6. RSVP early to choice of oldies or country. Call Aboard Restaurant, 146 Duke and Why" is the topic of St. in East Greenwich (at foot of Judy Sweeney's lecture Feb. London St reet, off Main Street) 28 at the Roger Williams beginning at 7:30 p.m. Guests Park Zoo. Sweeney, with the can choose from dinner-for Northern R.I. Collaborative, two specials or the regular will address an audience of menu. RSVP to Cheryl at 453- children in her I p.m. talk. 6414. The lecture is free but zoo A night of bowling at Lang's admission is required to at Bowl-A-Rama, Niantic Avenue tend. For more information, in Cranston, is set for 7 p.m. on call 785-3510 or TDD 75 1- March 14. For information, call 0203. Gerry at 331-1524. All will meet March 17 for a Safe Place, a support group JCCRI Singles St. Patrick's Day for family members and dinner at Carpano's, Route friends who are grieving the q is coming! l l 114A, Seekonk, Mass., (on the suicide of a friend or relative, East Providence line) at 6:30 will meet from 7:30 to 9 p.m. p.m. RSVP to Cheryl at 453- every Tuesday in March at The Rhode Island Jewish Herald wlll be publlshlng a 6414. the Samaritans Center, 2 A taste of old Mexico will be Magee St., Providence. For special section for the Purim holiday on March 4, 1993 offered March 21 at Casa information on the group, Lupita's Sunday brunch, 340 ca11 272-4516. Another East Ave., Wa rwick, beginning group also meets the first 0 We invite our readers and .;> at 10 a.m. The brunch costs and th ird Thursday of March ~ advertisers to participate by ~ $9.95 per person. RSVP to in Fall Ri ver, Mass., from ~ submitting editorial copy and * \j.(., Ma rk at 463-8455. 7:30 to 9 p.m. Call (800) 365- t' <> advertisements for this 4 Game Night at the JCCRI is 4044 for more information · special section. Ma rch 23. Pool, Trivial Pursuit on the Fall River Safe Place and friendly conversation be meetings. ., 4 EDITORIAL AND ADVERTISING DEADLINE: .;, gin at 7 p.m. The evening costs $1 for refreshments. Call MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, AT NOON Cheryl at 453-6414 for more in Send ed1torla.l or a.dvertlslng copy to: ,..') formation. The 50th class reunion of A bagel brunch at the JCCRI Hope High School will be ~ ~ P.O. B~oioJ~~~o~~;~~~e~~a.lg2940 .)T is set for March 28, featuring a held July 18 this year. Mem t guest speaker, $6. RSVP early bers of the class of I 943 are to Cheryl at 453-6414. invited to contact Annette (Wintman) Perlman at 438- 4 1831 for more information. Correspondents wanted : 724·0200 THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1993 FEATURE
and POW inmates form a post Fanny, a Friend war band to save elephants. They built up an ideal of the (Continued from Page I) giant but gentle creatures that meeting. Sorry to put you on hold up the heavens. But ev the spot, but I have to ask about erybody wants them down, for this. Was it fake fur?" their tusks, their grass, their "We've argued about fur, but muscles, their funny shape. what can I do? She makes her The motley crew go off to pro decisions, and I stick to mine." tect endangered herds of Kass promised to organize pachyderms and meet their the "entire talk show hosts of fate. America" to make Fanny a na Gloria Grzebien lives on the tionwide cause celebre if the edge of the park. She gave me a Pawtucket councillors did not file on Steve Kass, a video agree to let their elephant go. about him, and took me He got bad press from the through to meet and feed Evening Times. They didn't sign Fanny. " It's just money," she their editorial against me," says. " Fanny brings in money. claimed Kass. To let her go would cost " But Florence Lambert of the money. That mural in her pen Elephant Alliance, formed on makes kids feel better. But no the West Coast, has already ar body cares about Fanny." ranged a better life for Fanny, a A guy who works in the zoo place where she can make made a different case. "She's friends of her own kind, liber used to us here. She came up ated from that chain. If you from Sarasota in I 958. This is knew how elephants are her home now. Every 'rubber "tamed," through beatings, im cow' is different. Some are A FOND FAREWE LL - Herald contributing reporter Mike Fi nk bids a fond fa rewell to Fanny the prisonment, you would shud mild, some are mean. Mahouts elephant at Slater Park zoo during a recent visit. Hera1"photoby0mar8radley der. "We've already placed the from India come and calm them bears, which were overweight down till they settle in. Fanny and in bad shape." belongs here to us now." straw. The trunk, moist and ers circus. She ate grass from Bring The Family. Steve Kass isn't the first Jew But Steve Kass said to me, warm, breathing on me, my own garden, behind the ish animal-rights activist. The "Pawtucket doesn't deserve grabbed the dry grass. The arena, the last springtime she In Fact, Bring Two. French Jewish novelist Romain Fanny, or even a pigeon. They truth is, we also shared a bagel roamed the American land. Gary wrote The Roots of don't pay attention to the needs and a Dunkin' donut. It wasn't We're old friends, Fan and me. Heaven, which was later made of the poor beasts." right, these prisoners are I wish her the best among the into a major color film with big They're different in person overfed. But Fanny and I had alien corn. stars. In the book and movie, a from how they look in books. I shared a world long ago. She group of concentration camp reached out with a handful of came from the Ringling Broth- Jews Who Are Gay: We'd Be Poorer Without Them (Continued from Page l) Next, a basket of slips of on a class so well-organized, night, so please, let us get on paper and pens went round. that worked so well. These Our advertisers with our schedule." Everybody had to write down young people make quite an I counted more than 30 a question and pass it along. impression. They want to live would like to young people, twice as many While that was going on, we as Jews. They work out their women as men. Some said played a round-robin game of way at being gay. Rabbi Alan .- serve you! they are gay. Others claimed raid playing. You had to say a Flam said, ,.They have so they are "questioning." gay thing. To try to put your much to offer. They want They called the first item on self in the situation of a homo Hillel to make a place for them the agenda, •· forced choice." sexual person in a straight soci within our community." HEALTH CARE TIP: For this event, three problems ety and see how it feels. Hillel would be the poorer without them. A nursing home alternative .. were set before us. "Do you I have never taught or sat in stay at home with Staff Builders know the sexual orientation of Home Health Care Services your friends?" You couldn't try S1, 1•kt11std. , v•Nb/tllhoor, 1d.lr,ldm,weti "some," you had to go all the way, and vote with your feet. Complete Remodeling to Modest Repairs CALL 273-2280 You got up and moved to one FOR A FREE ASSESSMENT side of the room or the other. Number two. "Would you help out the victim of homophobia BATHROOMS by saying or doing some by Wayne Goodlin thing?" " How about an inci dent of anti-Semitism?" 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And maybe Your Bat Mitzvah Girl Deserves later she·d convert." The leaders wouldn't let the Best - A Pink Domino Dress! anyone sock out too many words. They stuck to their Exclusively for Girls, Pre-Teens & Juniors guns. But first-year, second year undergrads, still in their teens, made their brief com ments with maturity and dig nity. --- 4 - THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, I 993 OPINIONS
judge asked him why he in deed beat up the stranger, the 'Moshiach Is a Human Being' Letters to the \\lllll>, accused replied thusly: " Your " Moshiach," some people that are prerequisites to be en If~ Honor," he said, " the fellow say, when asked what they dowed with the gift of always made disparaging re know about moshiach and the prophecy. marks about Jews, accusing redemption, "is an era, a time Moshiach will reveal alto them o( many bad things, that o( peace and prosperity when gether new insights, making were untrue, but when he the world has evolved into a mani(est the hidden mysteries finally asked me if I were Jew Utopian state." o( the Torah. ish myself, I let him have it, for What the Torah sources have The Prophet Yeshayahu (Isa· this was the ultimate insult." to say about Moshiach, though, iah 11:2·5), in a message o( in Israel and Germany Offer That, friends, was some 60 differs greatly from what many spiration and optimism fo r the years ago. Alas, the same story of us might have learned in future o( Israel details the qual can be told about li(e in the Sunday school o r Hebrew ifications of moshiach: " A Examples of Gay in Military United States in the 1990s sub school. shoot wilt come forth from the stituting "Jewish" for " gay." The redemption of the Jewish stem o( Yishai (King David's fa To the Editors: about sexual orientation, and, The more things change, the people, and the subsequent era ther) and a branch will grow When I grew up I was led to as much as I hate to admit it, more they remain the same. o ( peace throughout the world, forth out of his roots. The spirit believe that " gay" meant the German army. The latter, will take place upon the perma of the L-rd wil l rest upon him, happy and carefree as for ex predominated by Prussians, nent return of the Jewish peo the spirit of wisdom and under ample in the "gay '90s" when was known to have a large Just as it is impossible for the ple to their land and to G -d. standing, the spirit o( counsel my parents were born, or in number o( homosexuals human mind to picture 6 mil However, the Torah teaches us and strength, and the spirit of "gay Paris" the songwriter among it. lion victims o( the Holocaust, that G-d will send a person - knowledge and fear of the L-rd. Jaques Offenbach wrote about. Both their armed forces did so it is equally impossible for moshiach - to accomplish ... He will judge the poor with Not so. not suffer because of the " gay" the brain to figure out how this. justice and reprove with gentle- The word has a complete dif problem. many dollars a deficit o( 4¾ ferent meaning, obviously, and In conclusion, the head o( trillion (with a 'T ') is. much fuss is made about it the Union o( American Hebrew Before Reagonomics, that now, especially with emphasis Congregations, Rabbi Schindler, deficit was ''only" I trillion. on " gays in the military" is appalled by the issue and which President Clinton talks has come out openly against it. Hans Heimann about when he wants to fight Cranston the prejudice against them. Two great military forces (On another subject ... ) come to mind to the Jewish Thanks for Moshiach is a human being, ness the meek o( the land." reader (and writer). First, of In pre~World War IL a man born of human parents in the Belie( in a human moshiach, course, the army of Israel was hauled into court for the Publicity normal fas hion. The only quali· in a great Jewish leader who which does not ask its soldiers assault and battery. When the fication about his origin is that will lead us out o( exile, was To the Editors: he is a descendant o( King established in biblical times The Rhode Island Chapter of David and of his son, King and has been reinforced Hadassah and its seven groups Solomon. From his birth on throughout the ages by our ~ Rhode Island Jewish Herald Jl':n across the state, would like to wa rd, moshiach's righteous sages o( old, medieval Jewish publicly express their sincere ryess will increase continually, scholars and Jewish leaders of SUBMISSIONS POLICY thanks for printing its publicity and by virtue of his deeds, he the past few centuries. throughout the year. will merit \o(ty levels of spiri Rabbi Yitzchak Abarbanel, The Rhode Island Jewish Herald Send to: By keeping a constant aware tual per(ection. the leader of Spanish Jewry welcomes any written submissions l etters to the Editor ness of Hadassah in the pub· Moshiach will not suddenly during the infamous inquisi from its readers on Jewish RI Jewish Herald lic's eye, you have provided us emerge from heaven to appear tions, wrote three books about moshiach. Of these, two have ~~dcerd~uj~-i~~~sc~~st be P.O. Box 6063 with the ability to achieve our on earth. On the contrary: ~rta~~ Providence, RI 02940 extensive discussions about the include a daytime telephone goals and subsequent recogni· Moshiach is already on earth, a number. Anything longer than lion in all areas o( our work. human being of great saintly fact that moshiach is a human 500 words may be edited for Or fax to: You have also kept an aware status; such a person exists in being. space restrictions. 401 / 726-5820. ness o( us before the merchants every genera tion. Maimonides considers belie( of our great community. As a In his various works, Moses in a human moshiach so intrin result, whenever we have ap· Maimonides (the "Rambam"), sic to the concept o( redemp RHODE ISLAND JEWISH proached them for donations of has much to say about moshi· tion that he states: " Whoever merchandise, goods and ser ach's personality and qualities: does not believe in him [moshi vices, we have been showered Moshiach's wisdom will exceed ach], or does not await his com HERALD with love and help. even that of King Solomon, the ing, denies not only [the state On behal( o( the people of Is wisest of all men; his stature ments o~ the other prophets, (USPS 464-760) rael who are the eventual bene and honor wil l exceed that of but also {those o~ the Torah PublishedEveryWeekByThe Jewish Pren Publishing Company ficiaries of our labors of love, all kings before him; he will be and of Moses, our teacher." EDITOR: we sincerely thank you and an extraordinary prophet, sec· Submitted by Rabbi Yehoshua A NNE S . 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some and simply queerest of The Once and Future Purim: Thoughts on the Holocaust Hitler's henchmen, Julius (Continued from Page \) ten folk around, but only a lightenment is available to all the Bavarian government, he Streicher, the editor of th2 pre su_ch importance through the prophet may identify Amalek; humanity, then there is little remarked to Rudolf Hess, mier journal of juvenile Jew thick fog of my teen-age indif we lesser mortals should shun room fo r an irredeemable "You know it's only tl* baiting. Elements of his life are ference, deep into my essence hasty conjecture. Now, Amalek in our world picture. moon I hate. For it is some almost dripping with hidden ~:s~. Jew, like a dagger into though, I found myself sud Yet there was equally little thing dead and terrible and meaning for the Jew knowl denly less sure. room for the Amalek idea in inhuman .... It is as if there still edgeable of Jewish lore. The particular documentary The sheer scale of the trag the world of 18th and 19th lives in the moon a part of the Streicher edited the vile tab I saw could as welt have been edy itself, faced squarely, century assimilated European terror it once sent down to loid Der Sturmer from 1927 any of dozens; whether the spoke for something special Jews either, and what their earth .... I hate it!" until the beginning of 1945 . At endless of piles of skeletons about this chapter of Jewish progeny met in the form of the The oddity of so intriguing a its peak, in 1938, it had an offi with skins had once been Pol anguish, for something singu Third Reich came as an exis phobia is no mere curiosity to cial circulation of 473,000, ish Jews or Hungarian Jews or lar in the essence of the Third tential shock to them, though anyone familiar with Talmudic though print runs were some each pile some gruesome Reich. As did the monomania not to their religious brethren. and Midrashic lore. A chill ac times as high as 2 million. In amalgam of ex -nationalities - of so many of its movers, its companies our first exposure to addition, thousands of elab mountains of universal Jews - prime one among them, with Hitler, few people know, it. In the literature of Judaism, orate display cases were built would have made little dif regard to Jews. The German the symbol of the Jewish peo for the papers so that pedestri ference. It was the simple sight people as a whole may not was afraid of the moon. Not ple - in particular of our abil ans who would not purchase of the effects of such utter have been Amalek, to be sure; the dark, but the moon. He ity to rebound from our ene the thing could still gawk at its inhumanity itself that screamed maybe not even every individ anathematized it, and its mies' hardest blows - is the shrill headlines and crude a chilling, endless scream at ual in a Nazi uniform. But ever-rejuvenating, shining disk front-page caricatures. me that evening. something unspeakably evil very appearance irritated of the moon. Indeed, the very A typical offering included a Inhumanity. We don't often had clearly made itself un him. first commandment we are close-up of the face of a de recognize the word's poig deniably evident during those given as people, while still formed Jew above the legend nancy, so often do we use it. years of terrible destruction. In 1863, Abraham Geiger, awaiting the Exodus in Egypt, "The Scum of Humanity: This To be human, we forget, is an To believing, observant one of the Reform movement's is to identify ourselves, Jew says that he is a member earned honor, one which, in Jews, those the world has cho founders, preached of an through our calendar, with the of G-d's chosen people." retrospect, can be granted only sen to call Orthodox, the col imminent Germanic "cele moon. Another displayed a cartoon questionably, if at all, to cer lective Jewish tradition, includ bration of brotherly concilia There is much more oddness of a vampire bat with a Jewish tain elements of two-legged ing the Talmud and the Mid tion ... one human race united about Hitler with connections star on its chest and a grotes Europe 50 years ago. rash, is no mere curiosity of in love, one great and mighty to ancient Jewish tradition, inci quely exaggerated nose. history, no simple ethnic lit Fatherland!" dentals like hi s fondness for In yet another, a Jewish erature, but a wellspring of Rabbi Samson Raphael ravens, in Jewish lore as butcher was depicted snidely It was the simple sight of the truth, a window on the will of Hirsch, however, repeatedly sociated with cruelty; he went dropping a rat into his meat effects of such utter inhu G-d. It would do us - not to cautioned against such un so far as to issue special orders grinder and, elsewhere in the manity itself that screamed mention our fellow Jews who bridled optimism, warned as that Germans not molest the issue, the punctured necks of have not yet embraced the full he was by the ancient Jewish birds. handsome German youths a chilling, endless scream at ness of their heritage - untold oral tradition that humanity's And like, more emblem were shown bleeding into a me that evening. good to reflect, during these perfection, contingent as it is atically, his fa sci nation with bowl held by a Jew more gar days before Purim, on the par on Amalek's disappearance, the art of Franz von Stuck (the goyle than human. artist who had the "greatest By far, though, Streicher's Watching the lifeless hills of ticu lar manifestation of can arrive only with Mashiach. Amalek's malevolence that impact," according to Hitler favorite theme was the sexual humanity grow higher as Having long sin ce adopted himself, on his life), in whose perversion he imagined to in remains were pitched unremit began to congeal nearly 60 Hirsch's Weltanschauung as art a major theme is a sinister here in the Jews; he loved to tingly atop them, I imagined years ago. The Holocaust my own, I was merely shocked yet vulnerable woman en portray the children of Israel as the macabre monuments inch might, thereby, just become, if but not surprised when I first intent on defiling Aryan ing closer to heaven. Each not comprehensible, at least read Mein Kampf and excerpts twined with a large snake. In Jewish tradition, both misogyny womanhood in the most out corpse seemed to be a grand meaningful, in its larger Jewish from Der Sturmer. And about and snakes are Amalek landish ways. parent, a close friend, me. The context. things like Hitler·s idiosyncra Our tradition states cate themes. In 1935, speaking to a cl osed victims had been human even sies and Streicher's last words. gorically that Amalek, Esav's And then there is the matter meeting of a Nazi student if their dispatchers had ap Hitler, few people know, grandson, and his spiritual was afraid of the moon. Not of the most revolting, loath- (Continued on Page 18) parently been something less. descendants hate the Jews at the dark, but the moon. He From that night on, with the every point throughout history anathematized it, and its very Holocaust denuded of the mythic, distant, status it had and are pledged to destroy us. appearance irritated him. Ac always had for me, its images Not a very popular tradition in cording to a German source, Financial brought, as it were, into the our times, of course. 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JERUSALEM UTA)-A rnl ing last week by the Jerusalem District Court is being greeted in Reform Villa Del Rio quarters here as a victory for religious pluralism and the "Where you can have it all for less" movement's quest for legiti- macy. The court ruled that a FREE H EAT, F REE H OT W ATER, FREE C OOKING GAS, non-Jewish citizen or resi- The Miriam Hospital dent of Israel who under- walk-in closets, 9 spacious floor plans, closed goes Reform conversion to Gift Shop circuit monitoring system, elevators, lau ndry, Judaism abroad must be rec- fitness room, swimming pool, clubhouse, ognized as Jewish in Israel Dur upon his or her return. H eritage Is 2 lighted tennis courts, 24-hour maintenance.. Gifts to remember H eallb car e BONN UT A) - The German OPEN HOUSE DAILY Jewish community has re and jected a plan to erect a joint flowers by Mount Fuji memorial to victims of Nazism and Stalinism, at the site of the former concentra tion camp of Sachsen All major credit ards accepted hausen. The plan, initiated Compliment.try 9lh wrap 303 Greenwich Ave. by the state government of Warwick, R. I. Bradenburg, calls for a memorial that would be in 738-8333 two parts, each dedicated to Ask about a separate group of victims. our specials 8 - THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, FE BRUARY 25, 1993 I Am.wd..llmN ft I A Gift to All Actors I Boy, we '50s kids had many Holly The WritersGuild of America nominated wood heartthrobs to take our breaths is to be reading the letters, a very deli ikeRobertWagner,StefaniePow Stefanie Powers fur the best dramatic cate balance." away. Despite the loss of gasps here L ers was brushed by a happy stroke screenplay for a TV movie. a nd there, my peers and I managed to As Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and of luck. Family Secrets, she explains, revolves down a box of Milk Duds, w hile fanta Melissa Gardner, Robert Wagner a nd While studying with Eugene Loring's around three generations of women - Stefanie Powers chronicle their lifelong sizing we were up the re on the si lver AmericanSchoolofBallet,sheauditioned mother, d aughter and granddaughter screen. relationship through correspondence. fo r the film WestSideStory. At IS she was who get together over a weekend be On top of the heartthrob list was Rob The two characters grow up through the company's youngest member. ca use the father (grandfather) has died. ert Wagner. A nd to this day, mention his five decades. "Isn't that wonderful!" Laws employing minors became too They disassemble a house of 40 years the actor exclaims. "It's a joy to do it. I name as I did to coworkers and friends, restricting to the shooting schedule, so including all its memories. As the house the gasps of the 'SOs echoed loudly. tell you, it's such a joy to play it." she was replaced. But writer/director becomes disassembled, issues never Nothing has changed! Love Letters brings Robert Wagner Tom Laughlin saw her test and asked dealt with before rise to the surface. Well, you can imagine what hap and Stefanie Powers together for the her to read for the lead in his upcoming " I was always fa scinated with the pened to this '50s teen-ager when I had fi rst time si nce Har t To Hart . When they film, Among TIie Thorns. diffe rence in relationships between to rise lo the occasion of interviewing hea rd about the play, they obtained the Her performance interested the mothers and daughters and mothers Robert Wagner, who withcharmingco script, thinking it might be interesting major studios' talent programs at the and granddaughters, a nd why there is slar Stefa nie Powers will perform in todo. tail end of the studio star system. this innatestrangenessamong women," Love Letters at the Providence Perform "We read it separately and together "Our business is filled with so many she says. "Instead of creating sister ing Arts Center next week. for fri ends of ours. And our respective moments of chance," she says over the hood, there's always been a sort of odd Not only was I to speak with him, but mothers were also in theaudienceat the phone from Toronto. "Recently, Joe competition, which manages to skip a time," Wagner says. I would a\sohavethebonusplcasureof Mankewicz died. One of the great films generation for some unknown reason. interviewing both actors a week apart. The result was a booking in Boston. he ever did was All About Eve. Nobody "If the relationship is good, there's I was grateful to have the ti me to store " It had the most marvelous run. The could ever believe Bette Davis wasn't usually a better rapport between moth up on extra breaths and familiarize my response to our work was so great. The his first choice. Claudette Colbert had ers and granddaughters. This isn't my self with their bios, for I've long admired play moved us so." become ill." case, but I've certainly observed it be both their careers in film and lV. tween mothers and grandmothers They were on tour in Columbus, rather than mothers and daughters." Ohio, when I phoned Robert Wagner. Stefanie Powers has worked with "I-low are ya' doing?" he asked, his John Wayne, Tallulah Bankhead and warm, friendly manner putting me Helen Hayes among many which she quickly at ease. considers "lucky." What fascinated me about his ca No one particular has played a promi reer was that it took only one minute to nent role in her life. "All of them have. launch him to s tardom. I feel so incredibly fo rtunate to have The movie was With A So11g 111 My grown up in a time when I could really Heart when hewasundercontracl to 20th have a taste of what the motion picture Century Fox. Remember that touching business was really like. scene when Robert Wagner was cast as a She ra ves about Scott Berg's biogra crippled soldier, tears strea ming down phy of Samuel Goldwyn a nd Tile Jews his face, listening to the singing of Susan That l11-uented l-lollywood, the author of Hayward as Jane Froman? which she couldn't recall. The public clamored to know he was. "They're wonderful books. You must " I was very surprised at that," he says read them. What's so remarkable is an in his recognizably relaxed voice. industry vi rtually one generation old, "Darryl Zanuck, who put me in that one lifetime old. We're talking about film, told me that would be the biggest young men who came out of Europe as moment in my career. I didn' t under immigrants.all from relatively the same stand why. I-le said people would walk part of the world. out of the theater and ask, 'Who's that "They came to the United Stales and guy?' found work in the early stages - "Walter Lang, who was a wonderful Goldwyn, Lasky and the men who man, directed the movie. I d idn't know started thebusiness,a business which is much about what was happening. I was yesterday, invented on absolutely noth reacting to Susan Hayward a nd all of a ing by people who came here with sudden, that scene jus t came together. dreams, people who created out of those She was so d ear to me, a great and dreams an incredible life work we call wonderful. .. very fi ne, nice person." the picture business." When asked about his favorite un Remarkable, too, is how these people dertaki ng, he indica tes it's ha rd to an Robert Wagner and Stephanie Powers will star in Love Letters at the Providence invented themselves, she says. "The swer because "they a ll happen at cer Performing Arts Center in three 8 p.m. performances on March 2 to 4. way they invented the business is ex tain times in your li fe. Spencer Tracy emplary, a kind of social slructureand wanted me fo r a role in The Mountain. Learning that a n interna tional com Besides performing on fil m, stage a sort of behavior tha t created a society "I had some great moments M th him. pany was pla nning to do Love letters, and TV, she wrote and coproduced the unli ke anything in America . f-l ewassomarvelousto meandsocaring. they went to England in '90 and per TV fi lm, Family Secrets, costarring with 'Tue movie industry reached such It changed my whole life a round, be fo rmed their roles for six weeks in the Maureen Stapleton and Melissa Gilbert. incredible heights, glory and craftsman cause he put his arms around me and West End. They toured for six-week Transitionsfrom oneexpression form shi p. It wasn't just Hollywood but a sub ca red for me. He was gentlemanly, a stretches in '9L '92 and now again in to another isn't "unusual but natural" culture, a world, a lifestyle, the invention marvelous human being,a very fine man. '93. for Stefanie Powers as she began writ of names, people, backgrounds and fab "He made mebesomebody. 'Gosome "AfterStamford," he says, "it's back ing years ago. " I never thought writing rications that changed their eyes, lips, place, do it a nd get in there.' All that to California in time for my youngest was forbidd en territory. I'd get an idea hair and things into new human bei ngs encouragement was so marvelous." da ughter's birthday. I've got them go a nd start writing it." who would walk and talk differently, Throug h C lifton Webb, Robert ing from 28 to 191" She has collaborated on several creati ng an il lusion that set standards for Wagner, the n 24, met the late Sir When Robert Wagner graduated projects a nd owns a drawerful of ideas. the people wa tching them." Lawrence Olivier, whom he had known from Sa nta Monica High School, he One concept was a TV series, a series Powers describes Wve Let /ers as a gift for a long time. "He asked my late wife made a dea l with his businessman fa within a series, and a multifaceted corn to a ll actors. "It's an amazing piece of (Natalie Wood) a nd I to do Cat On A Hot ther. He'd go into the steel business if he ed y ad venture like Bonanza on location, material. An actor is only as good as the Ti,1 Roof. It was a fantasti c experience to couldn' t get his foot in the door of the fil med in Arizona wi th multi ple stories material. It's like a gift to a ll actors to work with him and do Tennessee Will movies within a year. happening si multaneously. play these parts. iams' enriching work." "I don't think he thought it wouJd "While worki ng on that idea with "It's almost redundant to say it's A wonderful experie nce was his in happen. Though I wasn't a success for Lorimar, they changed ha nds. That's interpreted d ifferently by everyone. volvement with Blake Ed wards' fi rst many years, I worked as an extra, but I the story of everybody's li fe. Ten min O urs evolved along with the play and Pink Pa11 ther movie and "watching Pe wasn't set any place. Then I got signed to utes later, the sa me executi ves you're has slightl y metamorphosized due to ter Selle rs begin to create this cha racter. a seven-year contract wilh Fox maki ng 75 working with a re no longer there. Your the fact we've done it so much, and " It was just wonderful to have a ll bucks a week and taking home 55." project's fa te usually fa lls apart com we've played it in very large halls. those experiences. Can you imagine? That, I said, was success fo r someone pletely because the new people don't "And because of tha t, it becomes more I'm a blessed person!" hi s age at that time. want anythi ng developed by the old of a performance level than a reading." Before movies, Robert Wagner per "It was the biggest success I could people." Among Stefani e Powers' honors are formed in high school theater a nd later ever have," he chimes. "Wonderful She had been working together on a those for work in animal conservation. was cast in a C hicago production of Mr. times. It was the best! Sure, 1 was in the scri pt wi lh Lee Thuna, "a wonderful She divides her life between her career Roberts, but nothi ng as dema ndi ng or door! I could watch them make movies writer." Al a meeting lheysadly learned and her commitment to conservation. consistent as Wue Letters, he says. and I was in the movies. And that's a ll thei r project was cancelled. They pulled Di rector John Titlinger cautions ac I ever wanted lo do." ,, II their ideas together lo see if they Wi\~trer;.~ii,:~:~~~:~>~~~-~~::t~i~~~: tors not to memorize the letters. Wagner Thanki ng him a nd biddinggoodbye, could co me up with somethi ng else. board of the Los Angeles Zoo and works says, " If you get of( the page too much, Robert Wagner, our teen-age hea rtthrob "What Leeenjoyed so much wasorigi with bolh the Cincinnati Zoo and the you lose the audience, a nd you lose the nnd still one, kindly says, "Tha nk you n.1 Uy called The Gladiola Girl, which be Zoo At lanta. She speaks on conserva seOHof what il'a reaUy a ll about, which for taking the time to do this for us." came Fam ily Secrets. I'm very proud of ii ." tion all over the world . THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1993 ~ 9 ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
different makers, one in Paris conne" ("downright weird," same theme ("a glum nymph," Secret c1nd one in Mittenwald, in said McGegan) was mesmer says McGegan), but very dif about the same period, but izing, as a chaconne often is. ferently written. Scarlatti took Spectacular their sounds are as different as The form usually consists of an the "fluffier" lighthearted by M. Cushing their players. eight-bar melody repeated approach, and Hanchard cer Special to the Herald Kyme virtually danced in dozens of times in different tainly has no fl uffy voice. The Nicholas McGegan brought place at times, nearly leaving styles or moods; the effect is taunting opening words in the his world-class six-member the floor on the downbeat; often beautiful and suspense Handel version - "you faith ARTS & chamber music group, the Blumenstock was cerebral and ful, and this was no exception. ful?!" - are full of real feeling, Arcadian Academy, to the Fine driving. The effect was superb ENTERTAINMENT David Taylor, who played and Hanchard skewered the Arts Recital Hall at the Univer - this is as real as it gets. archlute (an astonishing sight audience from the start. There BRIEFS sity of Rhode Island o n Jan. 29, The second Uccellini sonata when first encountered, this was no lack of flexibility here, but not many people knew it. seemed entirely too serious High school- and college lute is much taller than a per and no limit to changes of The hall was hardly empty, but and dry until it became obvi aged musicians in the Boston son and plays notes lower than mood and expression. Han had more people realized what ous that the composer was the harpsichord) throughout chard was in charge here, and area will have the opportu they might hear, standing leading up to some fun. As the program as a continua in blazed her way through some nity to audition for the 1993 room would have been in short McGegan put it, we heard just strument along with David wondrous music. It was hard summer season of the supply. PBS knew about it, but about everything possible on a Bowles on baroque cello and to concentrate on anything but Boston University Tangle lack of funding kept them from violin while the rest of the McGegan at the harpsichord, her singing, but cellist David wood Institute and the filming the concert here; they company played endless D played a solo piece entitled Bowles did peek through the Boston University School for will record it at another venue major chords. The audience "Joy to the Person" by Chris spell with some beautiful the Arts on Feb. 26 from 3 to for broadcast. topher Simpson. The piece is playing. l 0 p.m. and Feb. 27 from 9 McGegan, widely known for exquisitely simple, almost folk Those who did venture out a.m. to IO p.m. at the Mar his prominent San Francisco like, and Tayler's interpreta on that very cold night heard shall Room at Boston Uni CONCERT based period-instrument a rch· tion evoked bravos and left one of the best concerts pre versity School for the Arts, estra, Philharmonia Baroque, mo re than one listener in tears sented in Rhode Island in 855 Commonwealth Ave. REVIEW directed entertainingly from over its beauty. recent memory. The next con Interested musicians should the harpsichord (which set the Lute music is not always the cert in the URI series (Feb. 26) contact the Boston Univer stage nicely with its Arcadian most accessible to the listener, promises to deliver extra sity School for the Arts Mu lid painting). For those used to ended up with a good laugh. but there was not a stir during ordinary entertainment as sic Office at (800) 643-4796. orchestral concerts in which McGegan's interpretation of this piece - except from well: Emma Kirkby, soprano, the director wields a baton (an Scarlatti's "Sonata in D Major" mother nature, who sent gale and Anthony Rooley, lute, will Soprano Emma Kirkby and outgrowth, o r rather ingrowth, for harpsichord was ingenious. force winds slamming into the present 17th-century Italian lutenist Anthony Rooley will of the violin bow frorl') the The sonata was written in hall during this of all pieces. songs. As this is some of the be heard in recital at the Fine days in which the concertmas Spain and indeed sounds like a After a wonderful dance most lyrical and lovely music, Arts Center Recital Hall on ter dire~ted), McGegan's ath fandango. ,McGegan therefore suite by Matthew Locke, let's hope more Rhode Island the Kingston campus of URI letic knee flexes and head played it with appropriate played with wit and delight, ers get a chance to hear it. on Feb. 26 at 8 p.m. as part of movements might be refresh panache, using flamboyant the program ended with a the university's Great Per ingly unusual. His o ral pro arm and wrist movements not Handel (real Handel) cantata Council of Jewish Women formance series. For infor gram notes were also entertain used to play the harpsichord. for solo voice "Tu Fidel? Tu mation, call 792-2343. ing and extremely witty. He obviously had a great time, Costante?" with sinfonie, or Plans Art Exhibit, Sale But what of the music? Vio and one could almost picture chamber accompaniment. The National Council of Jew URl's College of Continuing linists Elisabeth Blumenstock him in a bolero .. Soprano Dana Hanchard ish Women will hold an art ex Education invites Rhode ls and Katherine Kyme began the The English half of the pro had had some difficulty with a hibit and sale of Rhode Island landers to spend "An program of Italian and English gram was weakened by a trio Scarlatti cantata " Bella Madre women artists' work on March Evening with Cicely Baroque music with two wo rks sonata attributed to Handel di Fiore" at the end of the fi rst 7 from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Dryden Tyson" o n Feb. 26 at 8 p.m. by 17th-century priest Marco ("fake Handel," says Mc half. Her voice seemed to lack Gallery, 27 Dryden Lane, Prov in Veteran's Memorial Audi Uccellini. The two women are Gegan). The music was, frank the flexibility needed in the idence. torium in Providence. In lieu a delight to listen to, not only ly, rather boring; it may have florid Italian passages, but here The event will include re of admissio n, donations for for their virtuosity, but also for been included solely for the she gave it back and with freshments, music and a raffle the Janice Paff Scholarship their diversity of style. Their virtuoso final allegro. The interest. drawing. For ticket informa+ Fund will be accepted the baroque violins were made by Purcell G minor sonata "Cha- The cantatas were on the tion, call 861-0448. evening of the performance. Tickets can be obtained at the Veterans Memorial Box Office beginning Feb. 19 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., ex MARY WOLFMAN MANAGEMENT cluding Sunday. presents at
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Rt 116 to Warren, righl at Sunoco, 114 m, on left Pdwtuckel Directions: From South - 9SN to E~i, 17, /eh di Jrd lishl, JtrJighl All MAJOR CREDIT CAROS ACCEPTED lo end. From North - 955 lo Exil 17, ri&hl al firs/ lighr, J/raisht lo end. THE RHODE ISLAND JEWIS H HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1993 11 ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT Gallery 401 to Feature Exhibit by Sculptor Beginning Feb. 28, visitors sculpture by James Russell, a to Callery 401 at the Jewish young Irish artist with a grow ARTS & Community Center of Rhode ing following in the Provi Island will be treated to a dence area. rERTAINMENT unique display of geometric His works combine various BRIEFS woods and mixed metals in architectural and organic ;a Callery invites the forms. A Harvard graduate, 10 attend "Personal Russian Culture Russell spent two years work :tives On Racial ing with the internationally y," from Feb. 27 to Explored at renowned Boston-based sculp 27, at 327 Main St., tor, Dimitri Hadzi. .:>Id. The exhibit is JCCRI Festival An opening reception will j open to the public. A Russian Festival featuring be held for Russell in Callery )re information, call a Russian food bazaar and a 401 from 2 to 4 p.m. on Feb. 38. concert is sla ted for Feb. 28 at 28 . The exhibit will continue the Jewish Community Center through March 22. ublic is invited to of Rhode Island, 40 l Elmgrove Callery hours are 3 to IO "Self-Perceptions: Ave. in Providence from 1 to 4 p.m. from Monday through n in the United Arab p.m. Thursday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. o n !es," on Feb. 28 at 4 The festival is sponsored Friday, and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the Haffenreffer Mu jointly by the JCCRI and the Sunday. Callery 401 is closed of Anthropology in New Americans Club. on Saturdays. Maha Khatib, a grad Events will include arts and The center is located at 401 udent, will discuss ob crafts booths, a food bazaar Elmgrove Ave., Providence. ons on Abu Dhabi from I to 3 p.m., and a concert For additional information, ubai. with a surprise Russian per call Ruby Shalansky at 861- former from 3 to 4 p.m. Door 8800. sical performance by prizes will be offered. The cost Warm-Up Time Singing Sisters" will is $ l per person with a maxi RISO Issues A Warming up for the Dance for Heart Talent Showcase is :sented at the Heath mum of $2 per family, and all David Rodrigues,ofWoonsocket. Rodrigues will be one of more Nursing and Retire are welcome. Call to Artists than 200 dancers from 10 dance studios to participate in the Home, 188 Florence For more information, call Showcase on Feb. 28at Cranston High School West to benefit the Ruby Shalansky at 861-8800. The Museum of Art, Rhode :1estnut Hill, Mass., on Island School of Design, is issu American Heart Association, Rhode Island affiliate. 8, at 2 p.m. Songs from ing a call to artists who live or and other countries work in Rhode Island to submit membership. The packet All artists will be nofitied by ,e performed. Admis- Emanu-EI Players their work for a juried, coptem should be directed to: Contem June 15. The ex hibition will s by reservation only. To Present Annual porary art exhibition to be held porary Art in Rhode Island, open Feb. 12 , 1994, and will in nore information, ca ll in 1994. Mu seum of Art, Rhode Island clude a catalogue reproducing 730. Purim Spiel Musical The two-category exhibition School of Design, 224 Benefit at IC!ast one work of each artist The Temple Emanu-El play embraces both fine arts and St., Providence, R. I. 02903- appearing in the show. \lien and his orchestra ers announce their 14 th annual applied arts. Painting, sculp 2723. perform a "Big Band Purim Spiel Musical, "Esther ture and works on paper and e to Glenn Miller" at Goes Western," a foot video are being sought in the Zeiterion Theatre on stompin', toe-tappin', hand fineartscategory.App\iedarts ~ h I at 8 p.m. For ticket clappin' extravaganza. :nation, call the theater This year's Purim spiel fea :~:~:f,~~on;u;7t~r~~cl~:r:~~c:~ [j , )8) 994-2900. tures a new script based on vir ~~~~Ues, glass, metal and jew- ~ tually unknown rabbinic leg : Real Live Brady end which may have been the A check or money order for :h Show,' will premiere source for Rodgers and Ham the $25 application fee rom the Columbus The merstein's "Oklahoma." (payable to the Museum of Art, on Broadway in Provi A one-show-only perfor RISD) and a self-addressed, e from March 2 to 14 . mance will take place at Tem stamped envelope should ac game show is a combi ple Emanu-EI after the reading company slides and supporting m theater, comedy night of the magilla on March 6 at 7 materials. The fee entitles the party offering prizes to p.m. artist to a one-year museum audience contestants. (from Matunuck) information and tickets, Authentic Szechuan 8t Mandarin Cuisine act 33 1-2211. ,----.------7 Chinese food Lovers Highly Recommend Providence Performing Center will present A.R. 1~~HA!:~,~!2TS i KE-OPENING ON ney's play, "Love Let ... starring Robert Wag Featuring: FALAFEL : FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 ~ and Stefanie Powers I Chicken Kabob • Kefta Kabob • Chicken Borday • Shish Kabob 1 ch 2 to 4, at 8 p.m. For Serving Lunch & Dinner' :59 Mariner Square et information, call 421 - 1 PWSA FULL LINE OF VEGETARIAN POCKETS! COMBO PLATES ... YOU NAME IT! 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A 1985 graduate of North ern Highlands Regional High School, Allendale, N.J., she received her bachelor of arts degree in 1989, and her master of landscape architecture in 1992, both from the University of Pennsylvania. She is cur rently working as a project manager with a New York landscape architect. The bridegroom, a 1983 honors graduate of Cranston High School West, received his bachelor of science degree, magna cum laude, in 1987 from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and in 1991 received his juris doctorate degree, cum laude, from the University of Penn sylvania Law School and his M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Arnold and Pennsylvania. He is an associ ate with the law firm of Skad Josephson To Marry Brown D 8 MANTIQUES den, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Shaulson Wed Flom in Manhattan. Dr. and Mrs. Alan Josephson of Palos Verdes, Calif., formerly Single 11ems of Providence, announce the engagement of their daughter, or Estates The bride is the granddaugh Beth Arnold and Joseph H. Jamie, to David Scott Brown. Appraised or Shaulson were married Nov. ter of Lee and Dan Arnold of Purchased. New York City. The bride The bride-to-be graduated from Classical High School in 29 at the Pearl River Hilton, Providence and then graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.S. Furniture • Paintings • Clocks groom is the grandson of Etta Pearl Ri ver, N.Y. Rabbi degree in biology from Tufts University. She was recently Dolls • Chino • Glassware Nathanial Schwartz performed and Bill Gerstenblatt of Crans O riental Rugs ton. awarded an M.B.A. from the John E. Anderson Graduate School the 11:30 a.m. ceremony. of Management at UCLA and is currently employed at Integrated 337 NO. BROADWAY The bride and groom were After a honeymoon in EAST PROVIDENCE Health Systems in La Jolla, Calif. She is the granddaughter of escorted to the chuppah by Hawaii, the couple resides in 4)1-1%31 New York City. Frieda Baxi Nemzoff of Providence. TOLLFREEl?I. 1-soo-675•1:l:JO their pare nts, Karyl and Bernie Marvin Rubin. Proprieto, Her fiance is from Paramus, N.J., and is the son of Roslyn Arnold of Upper Saddle River Brown and the late Herbert Brown. He graduated from Tufts University with a B.S. in electrical engineering and was later awarded a master's of science in electrical engineering, also from, Tufts University. He will receive his M.B.A. from the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA this June. An early July wedding is planned in Long Beach, Calif. Christopher To Arrive in Israel (Continued from Page 1) return home. cessions, progress in the peace Egypt reportedly suggested talks would be slow and the that a third of the deportees be Palestinians would not show returned immediately, another up at the negotiating table. third be allowed to return in At the end of his visit to Jor April and the rest by June. dan over the weekend, Christo Christopher, who arrived in pher said Israel should find Jerusalem on Monday, was not "soon" a way of allowing the expected to exert direct pres return of most of the deportees. sure on Israel for further con Officially, there has been no cessions, so as not to retreat further change in the Israeli po from his agreement with Prime sition on the deportees since Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Rabin made his compromise of However, it was expected fer. 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THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1993 - 13 THE JEWISH COMMUNITY JCCRI Vacation Campers Swim-A-Thon Set at the JCCRI Bring Joy to Seniors Water relay races, contests, games and an assortment of by Omar Bradley mond and Florence Marks, Heu.Id Assisto1nt Editor other events are scheduled to who appreciated the small gift take place at Aquafest, the A big smile spread across the from the child. opening event of this year's face of Rose Parizer as she Penny Faich, director of swim-a-thon beginning at I watched little Kristin Elizabeth recreational therapy at the p.m. on Feb, 28, at the Jewish Keinz work diligently on a spe· home, said, "The children help Community Center of Rhode cial drawing for her. The com make the residents feel alive Island. bination of frantic adolescent and think about their own The afternoon will begin activity and spontaneous inter· grandchildren."' with a preschool talent show, action made an irresistible This was evident when followed by water games, relay combination as vacation Parizer commented that little races and contests for children campers from the Jewish Com Kristin Keinz is "the cutest ages 3 to 12. Aquafest costs $ 1 munity Center of Rhode Island child" she's ever seen, "so per person, with a maximum visited residents of the Jewish warm and friendly.'' of $5 per family. The public is Home for the Aged in Provi The openness shared by two welcome to enjoy a free swim dence Friday. extreme age groups disguised following the children's events Peg Loiselle, coordinator for the fact that it was the first visit fro m 2 to 3 p.m. the Building Bridges program for many of the children. The swim-a-than continues couldn't have been happier, as The children not only made for two weeks through March the children wasted no time pictures and name tags but 14 to help raise funds for the livening up the activity room. sang songs and shared a light JCCRJ's Aquatics Department. "The children provide the snack of juice and cookies with Anyone wishing to swim is in chaos and confusion necessary the elderly tenants. As Miro vited to find friends, relatives to make the residents feel Gordon prepared to leave, she and neighbors to sponsor them youthful again, Loiselle said it had been a good experi with a pledged donation for shared. ence to meet the residents. every length of the pool swim. For Emma Gessow, 8, it was "Just because people are old Donations (in the name of chil an opportunity to d raw a pic doesn't mean they can't do dren or any other name) are ture for her new friends, Ray· anything," she said. A SMALL TOKEN - Svetlana Matt, 8, gives Betty G uy, a also invited. resident of the Jewish Home, a picture she made for her last This event is o pen to all week. Hrr11/,l pliotobyOmar1Jra11/ry members of the community. To become a spo nsor, receive a sponsor sheet or obtain further Interfaith Leader To Speak at Sinai Home Women information, call Patty Gold at Rahhi Leon Klenicki, a Rabbi Klemcki edits several 861-8800. world le,1der in interfaith rela interreligious bulletins dis Plan Next tion~. will be the featured tributed by B'nai B"rith, and he ( READ THE HERALD! j spe,1ker and discussion leader conducts a program on inter Board Meeting ,1t the eig hth annual scholar religious affairs in Spanish on The Women's Association of in-residence weekend at Tern· ,1 New York radio station. In the Jewish Home will hold a pie Sin,1i, Cranston, .March ,5 ,1dd1tion to books on Jewish regular board meeting on ,1nd 6. Christian relations and under March 3 in the Martin Chase Rabbi Klemcki, director of ~tanding, he has produced in Auditorium at the home. the Department of Interfaith Sp,rnish and Hebrew prayer Refreshments will be served Affairs of the Anti-Defamation ,rnd study books, and the Pass at 12:30 p.m.; the meeting Le,1gue of B'nai B'rith, with over Haggadah. Rabbi Kl enicki starts at I p.m. headquarters in New York also is professor of Jewish the The speaker will be Duane City. will speak at the 8: IS ology at Immaculate Concep Schumacher, director of di p.m. March S Sabbath service tion Se minary, Seton Hall Uni etary services. He will discuss on ·' Perception of the Jew versity, New Jersey. innovations in the dietary de Around the \'\1orld."' The sub The scholar-in -residence pro partment. He previously ject will serve as the theme for gram at Temple Sinai is open worked at the Union Mission discussion groups after the to the public. Marian Goldstein Nursing Home of Haverhill, 9:45 a.m. service on March 6. of WMwick and Baila Bender Mass. "Unique Personalized Rabbi George J. Astrachan of Cranston co-chair the week Betty Levy will preside. Cbildretl's Gifts" of Temple Sinai, who will lead end activities, which will con PRICES STARTING AT $5 the Sabbath services, was a Broadening an interest of his clude with a luncheon and a Rocking Chairs Wall Mirrors classmate of Rabbi Klenicki at student days in interreligious summation by Rabbi Klenicki. Clothes Trees Doti Cradles the Hebrew Union College - dialogue, Ra bbi Kl enicki has Bulletin Boards Toy Chests Jewish Institute of Religion in written and lectured exten Students' Desks Bookends Cincinnati, Ohio. Social Seniors Set Next Meeting Clocks Lamps sively. He has headed the ...and much more Rabbi Klenicki was ordained Anti-Defamation League's in 1967 after he received an Department of Interfaith Af The Social Seniors of O n March 17, members will (401) 946-8885 go to the Coachman in Tiver M.A. degree in Hebrew letters fa irs since 1984. He has rep Warwick will hold a meeting By ton for lunch and entertain appointment o nly from Hebrew Union College resented the Jewish positio n in on March IO at I p.m. at Tem Jo
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Seniors Doing Smooth donation is $1.50. The JFS kosher meal site is Moves at JFS Meal Site located at Temple Tora! Yisrael, 330 Park Ave., Crans Every Wednesday, 35 or 40 extensive physical therapy to ton. Transportation is available women and a few men do recover from serious illness, for Cranston residents and lim some smooth moves at the JFS and having spent two years ited areas of Warwick. For in kosher meal site in Cranston. working from wheelchair to formation or reservations, call Led by volunteer Ida Falk, the walker to cane, she said that Gladys Kaplan at 781 -1771. group works through a series exercise helps her maintain her of siretching and toning exer progress. "Exercise class is cises, with something for every very good. It helps make it eas part of the body from head to ier to do things and keeps me toe. limbered up." Clothing Drive Part of the class utilizes spe Levy comes every day to the cial elastic bands for resistance JFS kosher meal site in Crans Will Benefit exercises. Each person exer ton. cises to the level that is com " Ida Falk promotes good New Americans fortable. Many have arthritis or health for the group. She not A clothing drive, to benefit other physical difficulties. only gives them a good exer new Americans living in the Some stand, some remain cise program, she also provides Pawtucket-Providence area, seated; one lady brings her practical information about will be held Feb. 28 from 1 to 4 oxygen tank. Falk keeps up a nutrition that reinforces the p.m. at Congregation Ohawe steady patter about the move healthy lifestyle. Most impor Shalam in Pawtucket. ments. "I teach them why they tantly, she makes it fun," said The clothes will be distrib are doing it, how to do it cor Paul L. Segal, executive direc uted to coincide with Purim on rectly," she says. Sometimes tor of Jewish Family Service. ~larch 7, a traditional time for the class does the "chicken Meal-site coordinator Jews to give gifts and help pro dance," a lighthearted series of Gladys Kaplan said the group vide for others in the com movements with its own spe is so appreciative that it voted munity. cial music. to buy Falk her lunch at the Those who wish to donate Falk has been teaching exer meal site each Wednesday are asked to bring clean used cise ever since her husband from the wine fund, as a small clothes in good condition to passed away 11 years ago. She token of thanks. the synagogue drop-off point. teaches and assists at classes in Exercise class begins each If you cannot come at this various locations throughout Wednesday at 11 :15 and lasts time, call 729-1606 to make the week. She is always on the for half an hour. Following alternate arrangements. In addi lookout for new exercises to exercise, a hot kosher lunch is tion, the clothes must be sep keep things interesting, and served. arated into bundles for men, brings back fresh ideas from The JFS kosher meal site is women and children. All for Love her regular visits to fitness open Monday through Friday, The clothing drive offers an Margaret Thornton shows a few of the toys she made lo spas. with activities, trips, movies, opportunity for people to get give to sick children at Rhode Island Hospital as part of a Sylvia Shocket, a regular bingo, speakers, holiday cele started on their spring deaning Valentine's Day project that originated with the Cranston/ participant who sometimes sub brations, blood pressure screen and help others at the same Warwick Group of Hadassah. Thornton, who is not even a stitutes for Falk, says, " I love ings, concerts, discussion time. Everybody is invited to member of the group, makes the toys out of love and compas it, it makes me feel good. My groups and more. Programs participate in the clothes drive sion for the children. Members of the group distributed the children and granddaughter usually begin at 11 a.m. and a and help make this Purim sea· gifts last week. Herald photo by Omar Bradley are proud of me." nutritious, hot kosher lunch is son a little more fraelich . Ida Levy, who is legally served at noon. Every Friday, blind and also suffers neuro there is a special Shabbat meal, pathy, is another faithful exer complete with candles, challah ciser. Having gone through and kiddush. The suggested
EDITORIAL fr ADVERTISING DEADLINE: MONDAY, MARCH 8, AT NOON Call (401) 724-0200 for more information. Please send editorial and ad copy to: Rhode Island Jewish Herald, P.O. Box 6063, Providence, RI THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1993 15 THE JEWISH COMMUNITY
Cohen Cruises To Title
by Jeffrey L. Goldberg Spetia\tothe Hera/d
It's always good to start the playoffs on an upswing. Jaime Beth-El Bowling Cohen's squad fi nished the reg ular season on a tear, and will Team Standings enter the playoffs as a 2-1 fa Baker Furniture 14 6 vorite to take home the big Goldstein Electric 14 6 prize. Nathan Kaufman #2 14 6 Cohen poured in 18 points Tooth Fairies 13 7 a nd got another great perfor Come Screen With Me 12 8 . mance from A.K.A. "Mr. Con Standard Glass 12 8 sistent" Gary G reenberg with Halperin & Lax 10 10 22 points. Cohen got scoring Trinkle Design 9.5 10.5 from all of his players a nd Shamrocks 7.5 12.5 should be poised to handie the Howie's Hammers 7.5 12.5 A N IC HT ON THE ICE - Members of the Mativ sing les group enjoy a n evening w ith the opening round game against Oakland Mobil 5 IS Providence Bruins last week at the civic center. Herald photobyOma,B,adlry Steve G roag's squad. Groag's Nathan Kaufman Co. 1.5 18.5 team put up 54 points in the season final and will be hard ticket. " We have a n enthusias Nathan Kaufman #2 vaulted Mativ Singles Score at Civic Center put to get by in the first round tic host in Sue, a rolling game into a three-way tie for first unless Lou Pulner returns and by O mar Bradley Price had a chance to get com and a great crowd," he said. place with an unbelievable Heu.Id Assistant Editor veteran Pete Wallick can get fortable, the Bruins wasted no Goldman, who acted more sweep of Elliot Goldstein's then the squad inspired. Read all What has 12 legs, six heads time in heating up the game like a college cheerleader, was first-place squad. Jeff Goldberg about it next week. and screams wildly? How with some wild skating. overwhelmed by the group's bowled very consistently and it Jon Weitzner finished the about a group of Mativ singles Thanks largely to Tim Sweeney excitement. " My aim is to bring was recommended more vaca watching a Providence Bruins and Jozef Stumpe!, the Bruins singles and couples together at season in second place. He will tions might help his team take be fa cing Paul Formal's squad hockey game at the Providence literally blasted the Baltimore interesting events and to have a first place before the season is that finished the season at 6-6. Civic Center. Mativ, which team right off the ice, scoring good time," she assured. over. means "to do" in Hebrew, is six times in the first half. Aside from sporting events, Formal's team has shown peri The Benny Diaz-Rick Dress· ods of consistency but really made up of Jewish singles ages Sweeney scored three goals \er battle rages on. Dressler got (Continued on Next Page) haven't been able to string to 2 1 to 40, according to Sue alone as delighted fans threw in back to his old self and is once gether offense and defense to Goldman, coordinator of the their caps. The Mativ group again closing the gap between group. and 10,000 hockey-crazed fans gether to be a threat. If Steve himself and Diaz. Mike Suger Litwin and Dave Baskin are on Originally, the group was went bonkers with screams of man appears to have a lock on scheduled to attend a Jan. 24 utter satisfaction. $5.60 Formal's team, it could make a third place with Harry Rbse THAT S ALL IT COSTS TO run, but Formal never knows contest between The Bruins Allen, a teacher, attended the and Dave Robinson neck and and the Baltimore Skipjacks, game courtesy of his brother, REAC H OUR ADVERTISERS what team to expect. neck for fourth place. CALL 7l4-0l00 FOR MORE INFO Jon Weitzner plucked Harry but the game was postponed Danny, who gave him the due to poor ice conditions Mamasky off the waiver wire to Top Five Bowlers fill a void created by the sea caused by a " Monster Truck" son-ending injury to Steve Benny Diaz 186.6 event. However, the make-up Abrams. Weitzner might be Rick Dressler 185.8 game Feb. 17 proved to be well able to pull a rabbit out of his Mike Sugerman 183.4 worth the wait. ,~f ~pigtl' 5 ,~f hat if Mamasky and veteran Harry Rose I 79.7 Even before Goldman, Rob Steve Lehrer can gel. Dan Dave Robinson 179.1 Allen, Bruce Ganek and Gary 243 Reservoir Avenue, Providence (near Cranston line) • 461-0425 Stone is capable of putting up ~ Fresh Broile rs ...... $1.39 lb. points and the rookie might be ,------, ~ Turke y Drums ticks...... S .55 lb. called on to make his mark in Pawtucket 724-3114 Fresh Ground Hamburg ...... $1.89 lb. & up these playoffs. Vea l Patties ...... $2.39 lb. The finals, known this year JACK M. MINKIN Cooked Roast Beef...... $5.99 lb. as the Rhode ls/and Jewis/1 dba/Tile-Set --').. VA.AD HAKAS HRUTH OF RHODE ISLAND Herald Classic, will be played CERAMIC TILE INSTALLATION AND REPAIRS DIRECTIONS: TAKE !1!'i NORTH OR SOUTH TO EXIT 17 ROGER WIWAMS BRIDGE IS NOW OPEN! on March I. Be sure to come and see your favorite team. The Cleaning, Regrouting and Sealing -Leaks Fixed game will be covered by the KITCHEN and BATH REMODELING Herald with feature pictures Electrical and Plumbing and an account of the game ap pearing in two weeks. The Her "A TROUBLESHOOTER W ITH IDEAS" Give your loved ones ald will handle the presentation INSURED • R.I. LICENSE NO. 4210 • REFERENCES of the championship trophy '------' immediately following the a gift from the heart game. Final Standings Team Won Lost Dr. Paul Stein Cohen Weitzner 4 and Formal 6 UJNITED Groag 11 Dr. Ralph P. Mirman SURGICAL CENTERS Pulner Wins Scoring Title OPTO METRISTS Lou Pulner 24.4 380 Warwick Avenue • Warwick, RI 02886 Dave Baskin 20.5 Gary Greenberg 17.8 are pleased to announce their association with Jaime Cohen 16.9 We carry: Steve Litwin 16. 1 A complete assortment of canes. Although the season had OCEAN STATE EYE CARE many bright spots with great from simple to ornate. D r. Alfred P. Rosati individual performances, this Seat-lift chairs. .. safely lifts or reclines year's regular season MVP is Dr. David Mills without question Gary Green Dr. Pame la Blodgett a lm•ed one ro a standing or silfillMposition berg. He averaged double fig with a single push ofa Inmon. ures all season and finished in Ma1ne's Shoppmg Center 1050Center\lillrR™d 2~Curson51fet'I third place overall in scoring. Wakefield Warwick West Warwick Rhodrlsland Rhode Island Rhode Island His rebounding, free throw 783-83:» 828-3200 82HKl60 shootmg and above all un Call 781-2166 selfish play earn him the MVP A LL MAJOR IIEA LTII INSURANC~ PLANS ACCEPTED. 3rd Part y Bi ll ing Accepted award Nice job, Gary. 16 - THE RHODE ISLA ND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1993 THE JEWISH COMMUNITY Seniors, Kids Share a Sensational Effort
by Omar Bradley ticed the children to do all He r,dd Assistant Ed itor kinds of crazy things - twitch One by one, the little people their noses, wave their arms or within the circle slowly rose to shake their heads - no matter their feet. They were told to how silly it seemed. Paskin wiggle their ears, shake their went a little further by throw bodies and jump up and down ing in a little Elvis routine as like crazy. Soon, the entire au well. ditorium was fil led with the "The idea is to liven up the drone of stomping feet, clap event whether it's a Jewish ping hands and laughter shared function or a musical pro by young and old alike. gram," Paskin stated. If so, Blame all this commotion on then Shir Sensations succeeded minstrels David Paskin and beyond its own expectations, as Sara Winkleman, a.k.a. "Shir the audience became willing Sensations," from Sharon, servants to their wit and whim. Mass., who came to entertain After a lengthy performance, seniors from the Jewish Com the children scrambled in line munity Center of Rhode Island for a snack of juice and cookies. kosher meal site, the Fall River Two women, Blanche Astrow Jewish Center for Seniors and and Edith Allen, both from Fall children from Kidspace at the River, sauntered through the SMILES GALO RE-Child ren seem to enjoy the comp,1ny of entertainers David Paskin and Sara squealing children up to Paskin Winkleman after they spent a n afternoon of songs, dance and games at the kosher meal s ite o! the JCCRI on Feb. 16. The seniors toured the Rhode Island Holo and personally thanked him for Jew ish Community Center of Rhode Island last week. Herald photo by Omar Bradley caust Memorial Museum earlier making their day. " I just want before attending the musical to thank you for putting on a performance, according to wonderful show, you worked Mativ Singles 'Myth of the Jewish Woman' Rosanne Lichtman, program very hard to make it entertain coordinator for the Fall River ing," Astrow said. (Continued from Previous Page) Is Topic of Hadassah Talk center. As for Shir Sensations, Members of the South a lecturer in the English depart " My seniors are thrilled to Paskin plans to tour cross coun wine-tastings and theater, the County Hadassah group are ment at URI. Program chair come here and see the Holo try while he continues his stud· group also holds Shabbat din conducting the Shabbat serv· woman, Ann Miller, coordin caust museum, which was a ies. "I really enjoy doing the ners, temple lectures and does ices at Beth David Synagogue, ated the services with Ethan very moving experience, but shows, because song and dance charitable fu nd-raisings for so Kingston Road in Narragansett, Adler, religious leader of the the time spent with the chil brings out the joy in us all," he cial organizations. Although on Feb. 26 at 7:30 p.m. synagogue. Other Hadassah dren was an extra treat," she said. only six members were able to The guest speaker, Naomi members participating in the said. attend the make-up game, their Zucker, will share her thoughts service include: Baila Bender, About 50 children from the enthusiam more than made up on "The Myth of the Jewish Marilyn Cohen, president of JCCRJ's Kidspace program Kibbutz School for the no-shows the group Woman in Jewish Literature." the group, Meredith Cole, Clar were invited to share in the mu agreed. Zucker, a life member of issa Kulman, Hope Rittner, sical program with the seniors. Director Coming For more information on the Hadassah, received her Sally Soren and Linda Zell While Paskin, a rabbinical stu group, contact Goldman at master's at the University of The community is invited to dent, played his guitar, Sara to Boston 274-4 169 or Rob Goldberg at Rhode Island,. and is currently the group. Winkleman, his sidekick, en- A director of the B'nai B'rith 331-6070. sponsored Kibbutz High School Program, Dubi Benari, will come from Israel for a (j> il {3 * ,:;- * 0- * promotional tour of seven cit CAMPAVODA ies in the United States and AT THE GATEWAY T O CAPE COD Canada from Feb. 28 to March 011 Beautiful Lake Tispaquin 15. , CAMPS Middleboro, Massachusetts 02346 Kibbutz High School is a Founded 1927 for Jewish boys 7-15 years old one-year program for 10th entering grades 2-IO grade high school students at Red Cross swimming program from beginners to lifeguard training, boating, Kibbutz Kfar Blum, and 11th canoeing. sailing, kayaking, windsurfing, waterskiing: sports instniction includ grade students at Kibbutz Beil ing archery. basketball. football. soccer. softball. street hockey, tennis, volleyball: Hashita. The program, found artsandcrafts.fishing.photography,ourowncampradiostation, wccklyficld trips. and Sabbath setvices are among the numerous regular activities, ed in 1969, is sponsored by the EXCELLEJ\rt' CUISINE -DIETARY 1.AWS - RESIDENT R.N. B'nai B'rith Israel Commission, 8-week season or two 4-week periods in cooperation with the World CALLORWRJTE· ~ -----~ Zionist Organization's Depart· Paul G. Davis. Director OJ ACCREDITED ment of Education, The Author ity for Jewish-Zionist Educa CAMP ® ffEf::s::cct ~ tion and the Ministry of Educa ~J~;~c1~1~t2~~940 American C.mplr,g Assoc/al/on tion of the state of Israel. ACCREDITED BY THE AMERJCAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION Both programs, for which students receive full credit, "consistently attract the best and the brightest of our young people," states Joseph Huscher, CAMP KESHET - an ovemighr camp where you'll want to be. KESHET means SCATA chairman of the Israel Commis ' rainbow' and beautifully descnbes the camp's colorful blend of programs, ac1ivmcs, campers and siaff. limited to 150 campers, CAMP KESHET is a place sion. "Graduates invariably where everyone knows your name and where you can gc1 the individual anention Makes The Pieces Fit rank high in college admission, so crucial to a good a.mp experience. A complete range of ;i.cuvitits includes educational and professional swimming. canoeing. water skimg. sporu. crafts, narun: srudies, video produc achievement and continuing uons, music, drama, a ropes course and much more. Bea pan of our family- The involvement with the Jewish CAMP KESHET family. Where Jewish culrure and tradition arc woven into the community and Israel." fabnc of the camp community (and the food lS Kosher, too!). And where a marure, Benari will be meeting with dedicacedandlovingstaffofcounsclorsandspectalistsaredomguactly whatthey cnJoythcmost:spcndingasummcr withabunch of grcackids! prospective students, parents and others interested in the c.AMP KESHET. Over 100 acres of woods on the Rainbow Reservoir in program in Washington, 0.C., Windsor. Connecticut. It's where you want to be. 2- and i -wcck sessions available Boston, Houston, Toronto, Van U.11 our Ump Director, Howard Cooper, at (203) 236-4571, ext. 320 couver, Los Angeles and New Jersey / New York. For more in formation, contact the B'nai B'rith Israel Commission, 1640 FINDING THE RIGHT SUMMER SINCE 1970 Rhode Island Ave., N.W., Greater Hartford STUDENT CAMP AND TRIP ADVISORS, Inc. Washington, D.C., 20036; Jewish Community Center (202) 857-6584. BOSTON. 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~4 School Beat ~CA7' JCCRI Youths Strap on the Skates PHDS To Host a by Omar Bradley had just returned from a ski trip Purim Puppet Show Herald Assist,mt Editor at Wachusett Mountain the day Nathaniel Gurman looked before and were ready for more A talented group of Provi into a whirling sea of arms, legs adventures, the group's leader, dence Hebrew Day School and sponge balls and dove Mark Kublin, informed. eighth-graders will perform a right into the middle of sheer Kublin was busy tying up Purim puppet show on March 3, at 7 p.m. under the direction pandemonium, and it didn't laces for Sam Gessow, 6, who of Rivkie Gerber, who also de hurt one bit. It was the kind of was dying to try his luck day all children dream of, as 50 around the rink. Although six signed the puppets. Aviva Jakubowicz, Miriam members from the Jewish counselors were present to Pliskin, Chava Shafran and Community Center of Rhode oversee the children, they were Rena Silberberg have invested Island's vacation camp, pre dearly outwitted by the ener many of their hours into re teen connection and preschool getic bunch. Jonathan Kay, 9, and his hearsal time. basked in the glory of total fun The performance, which will at United Skates of America in buddy John DeBoer, 12, raced around the rink like two speed be held at the Providence He Pawtucket last week. brew Day School, 450 Elm In fact, many of the children demons as if their skates were a pa rt of them. " I come here at grove Ave., is open to the com least once a week with my munity. friends," Jonatha n bragged. But Jessica Navilliat wasn't as Preschool Registration lucky on her skates and openly admitted falling at least five Open to Public times before giving it a rest. As The preschool operated at for Dianne Bellino, a counselor, the Jewish Community Center her second try on skates re of Rhode Island still has limited sulted in no spills and plenty of space available and is now thrills, as she skated side by open for general registration. side with her young charges. The program has a high Meanwhile, Sam Carrera, 7, teacher/ student ratio and of vented out all his adolescent fers morning or afternoon, anger on the "Wacky Gator," three-day or fi ve-day pro game with John Kay. Surpris grams. The preschool's class ingly, Eric Emerson found him rooms, activity rooms and play self reliving his fa ntasy of play grounds are supplemented by ing "Captain America" in the physical education facilities another video game, as several READY TO RO LL - Vacation campers from the Jewish available at the center, located children watched him combat Community Center of Rhode Island anxiously await their turn at 401 Elmgrove Ave. in Provi inside United Skates of America in Pawtucket last week during the Avengers. But no one dence. school vacation. HrraldplrotobyOmarBrarlley SH A K Y ON SK ATES-Nathan seemed happier than 5-year For more information, con Pakula, 7, shows good fonn at old Nathan Gurman, who felt tact Eva Silver or Debbie Blitz the United Skates of America like a living beach ball as he at 861 -8800. bounced up and down and all skating rink in Pawtucket. around the Dragon Pit while Vacation campers from the his playmates screamed with Jewish Community Center of Rhode Island visited the rink joy. last week. CAMP NASH OBA NORTH in Raymond, Mame Herald plroto by Omar Brnrllry 3, 4, &8 Boys and gir1sages7- 1S. 70 acresonbeautituICrescentlake. Superiorinstruction and lots of choice. ACAacc,ed,ted. caringstat1fort1rst·time campers, and a week uniquetaciliry.Electiveprogramincludes aspec1alhorseback 1idingprogram lor sessions beginne1s through advancedlevels. sports, dance, theater. sailing,windsurling. Music School L\ Callfot tenn,s, arche,y,woodshop, waterskiing, ar1 s. phoI0, golf. 11ipsand lots morel brochure The Seawards, Nashoba Road, Littleton, MA 01460 Announces Music eamp c~ and video. 508-486-8236 • 800-448-01 36 outside Mass. Scholarship FO R BOYS FO R G IRLS ANDOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE The Music School an nounces its fifth annual Music DIRECTORS: ARTHUR aad JUDY SHARENOW The Providence & Elmgrove Talent Scholarship Competi 10 Partridge Road, Lexington, M A 02 173 • 617-862-7537 tion. Annual scholarships are WE'LL BE AT THE CAMP FAIR AT THE J,C,C, MARCH 7! Chapters-At-Large of ORT awarded by competitive audi tion to students with demon Brother-Sistet Comps on o private lake . 34th summer under the $0mecaring Present~ direc1ors. Jewish environment. bu1 nol o religious comp. PerSOflOI a"ention strated talent in music, without a nd a family 01mosphe1e . .. Ca bin cou$elors predominantly former camp regard for financial need. ers ... Proless1onol ,nstructio n In 1ennIs. booting. sw ,mmmg, wo1er skung, Auditioners must be at least 12 years of age, but younger ~r::~1:~!l_._g\~i~'l~~r~~;·~r~r:~!.o~~!:~ ·sc;'.i~p~~~s than seniors in high school. to Excellent a nd well·mcMto ined locil i1ies MD on sta ff ACA accredited enable them to use their summ~~ awards. All scholarships are used to • pay for lessons, classes or en sembles at The Music School. The winner will have the op camp fa•r portunity to play with the Exciting &Varied Ocean State Chamber Orches MARCH 7, 1993 tra during the I 994 season. Programs for Girls The competition is open to EXHIBITS INCLUDE DIRECTORS FROM : any student nominated by a Ages 7- 15 • 8 Week or 4 Week Periods professional musician, music Mature Staff• Judaic Program · Excellcm C uisine Residential Camps Pre-School Camps teacher or person who has sig Affordable Rates · Scholarship Aid Day Camps Computer Camps ni ficant involvement in the Teen Travel Camps Sports Camps fi eld of music. Preliminary Call or Write: Pearl Lourie, Director Art Camps Theatre Camps auditions will ·be held March 5 Birchmeadow C ircle, Framingham, MA 0 1701 Girls, Boys, Co-Ed 28 from 3 to 5 p.m. at The 508/788-016 1 , CampO//;ce, 508/881, 1002 Music School. Final auditions, Don 't miss this unique opportunity to decide finthand what which will be open to the kind of experience your child will be having this summer. public, will take place on May FREE ADMISSION 2 at 3 p.m. at the Music Man ~ CAMP ~BKDK£ BRIN G THE ENT IRE FAMILY! FROM 1 2--4 PM AT THE sion, 88 Meeting St., Provi Lake O ldham · Pembroke, MA at the gaceway IO Ca/Je Cod dence. The deadline for receiv SPONSORED BY THE Ell & RESS IE COHEN FOUNDATION JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ing applications is March 5. Elmgrove Avenue, Provid ence Applications can be ob r e • CCREO,,EO l tained from The Music School, ...- ~ :.~ HIGH SCHOOL & COLLEGE STUDENTS - 75 John St. , Povidence, IU . COME APPLY FOR SUMMER EMPLOYMENTS 02906, or by calling 272-9877. 18- THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1993 OBITUARIES
HANNAH G. FINBERG Gutholz of Miami, Fla., and ELIZABETH METZ PORTLAND, Maine - Han several nieces and nephews. PROVIDENCE - Elizabeth Bosnian Moslems nah G. Finberg, 81, formerly A graveside funeral service Metz, 91, a resident member of employed for many years at the was held Feb. 21 at Lincoln the Jewish Home for the Aged, (Continued from Page 7) Despite the controversy, the Harbor Shop, died Feb. 19 at Park Cemetery, Warwick. Ar 99 Hillside Ave., died Feb. 16 at "I hope the Israelis will ac Israeli government decided to Mame Medical Center in Port rangements were made by the Miriam Hospital. She was the cept us," said one of the go ahead with the humanitar land. She was the widow of Max Sugarman Memorial widow of Max Metz. refugees, 22 -year-old Asmir ian operation and gave the Percy Finberg. Chapel, 458 Hope St., Provi Born in Russia, she was a Mede. " I think they will, be refugees a red-carpet welcome. Born in New York City, she dence. daughter of the late Nathan cause they know what we have More than 50 journalists and was a daughter of the late Leo and Bessie Arbeitsman. She been going through. During photographers, as well as gov and Beatrice (Goldberg) Gor lived in Providence for 75 World War II they lost every ernment officials, greeted the don. She was a longtime resi years. thing. Just like us.'· refugees as they disembarked dent of Portland. ANNAS. KAHN She leaves a sister, Faye Although the refugees were from a plane marked, appropri She was a graduate of the for PROVIDENCE - Anna S. Davidson, in California. originally supposed to be ately enough, "Air Liberte." mer Bryant-Stratton College in Kahn, 65, a resident of the Jew The funeral service was held hosted by two Israeli Arab vil The plane, which flew from Boston. ish Home for the Aged, 99 Hill Feb. 18 at the Jewish Home for lages, Arab leaders withdrew the Croatian capital of Zagreb, Finberg was active in Temple side Ave., a bookkeeper for a the Aged. Burial was in Lincoln support for the plan at the last was chartered by the European Beth-El and its Sisterhood Or watch repair service in Provi Park Cemetery, Warwick. Ar moment on Feb. 14 and de Jewish Congress and the Rep ganization. She was a member dence for five years, retiring in rangements were by the Max nounced the airlift as a " public resentative Council of Jewish o f the Jewish Community Cen 1951, died Feb. 18 at the home. Sugarman Memorial Chapel, ity stunt." Institutions in France. ter and the Cedars Jewish She was the wife of Malcolm 458 Hope St., Providence. Home in Portland. Kahn. She leaves three daughters. Born in Providence, a daugh SOL J. ROSENBAUM The Once and Future Purim Adele Kay and Billie Lee Fis ter of the late Daniel and Rose PROVIDENCE - Sol J. (Continued from Page 5) appearance in the king's cham cher, both of Cranston, and (Brook) Bernstein, she had Rosenbaum, 74, of the Jewish organization, Streicher said: bers at precisely the wrong Lois Silver of Framingham, lived in Cranston for 43 years, Home for the Aged, 99 Hillside "All our struggles are in vain time, when he said precisely Mass., seven grandchildren moving to Providence in 1991. Ave., died Feb. 19 at the home. if the battle against the Jews is the wrong thing. and one great-grandchild. She previously had worked He was the husband of the late not fought to the finish. It is Major Blitt, incidentally, was The funeral service was held with her late father in a dress Estelle (Terner) Rosenbaum. not enough to get the Jews out Jewish. Feb. 21 at Temple Beth-El, 400 making supply and service Born in Uniontown, Penn., a of Germany. No, they must be Another uncanny but mean Deering Ave. Burial was in business for 10 years. son of the late " Ike" and Clau destroyed throughout the ingful irony in Streicher's life Mount Sinai Cemetery. She was a graduate of the for dine (Lambert) Rosenbaum, he entire world, so that humanity involved the fate of his consid mer Edgewood Secretarial had been a Uniontown resident will be free of them." erable estate, which, as was re LOUIS FRANKEL School and had been a member for most of his life before mov Whenever anyone attacked ported in Stars and Stripes in NEW BEDFORD, Mass. of Temple Sinai. ing to Providence two years Streicher for his crudeness, the late 1945, was turned into an Louis Frankel, 80, of I 28 Besides her husband she ago. Fuhrer always defended him. agricultural training school for School St., died Feb. 18 at Mas leaves two daughters, Lila Rosenbaum was a self-em Der Sturmer, Hitler once said, Jews intending to settle in Pal sachusetts General Hospital. Kahn Mullins of Lincoln, and ployed public accountant in was the only newspaper he reg estine. Just as Haman's riches He was the son of the late Jacob Karen Ru bin of Newton Cen Uniontown for 40 years before ularly read fro m cover to were given to his archenemy and Jennie (Billincoff) Frankel. ter, Mass.; one brother, Harold retiring four years ago. cover. He was simply "on Mordechai. A self-employed musician for Bernstein in New Jersey, and He attended the University of thorns," he once remarked, to What is in many ways .the many years retiring 15 years two grandsons. Michigan and was graduated see each new issue. most shocking narrative about ago, he was a lifelong resident The funeral service was held from Robert Morris College in It is thus not difficult to see Streicher is the one describing of New Bedford. He was a Feb. 2 1 at Mount Sinai Memo Pittsburg. He was a past officer Amalek's blind, baseless and his death. Streicher was, of member of Congregation Aha rial Chapel, 825 Hope St., and board member of Temple absolute hatred of the Jews in course, one of the Nazis tried, vath Achim in New Bedford. Providence. Burial was in Lin Israel in Uniontown, and the Julius Streicher. Which makes convicted and hanged at He leaves a sister, Celia coln Park Cemetery, Warwick. superintendent of its religious the story of his capture and Nuremberg in 1946. school. death particularly and eerily During the trial, Streicher re Rosenbaum was past trea chilling. mained disgustingly true to surer of the Pennsylvania Soci One need posses no more form. When the prosecution ety of Public Accountants. He than the rudiments of the showed a fil m of the concentra Max Sugarman was an Army veteran of World Purim story to know that the tion camps as they had been War II, and served in the Euro downfall of its villain, Haman found by the Allies, a spotlight pean Theater. Memorial Chapel the Amalekite, is saturated was left on the defendants' box He leaves a son, Lee G. with what seem to be chance for security reasons. Many A tradition of service to the Rosenbaum of Portland, Ore.; a ironies; all that he so carefully people preferred to watch the Jewish community for generations ' daughter, Cindi Portno of War plans eventually comes to back defendants' reactions rather past and generations to come. wick and four grandchildren. fire on him in an almost comi than the mounds of bodies, A fu neral service was held in Professional Pre-Need Counselir1g Arni/able cal way. And the Talmudic matchstick limbs and common Uniontown Feb. 22. Arrange material further intensifies that graves. Few of the defendants, ments were made by the Max theme, which, in the Book of to their belated credit, could Michael D, Smith Sugarman Memorial Chapel, Esther itself, is characterized bear to watch the film for long. Executive Director 458 Hope St., Providence. Lewis J. Bosler, R.E. by the words "v'nahapoch Goering seemed calm at 458 Hope Street, Providence hu," "and it was turned upside first, but eventually began to (Corner of Doyle Ave.) Display Advertising down!" nervously wipe his sweaty 331-8094 Deadline is "Chance" happenings, di palms. Schacht turned away; Out of Sta te: 1-800-447-1267 Tuesday Noon for rected of course from above, Ribbentrop buried his face in Thursda 's Pa er. are the very hallmark, it seems, his hands. Keitel wiped his of Amalek's defeat - and the reddened eyes with his hand likely significance of the "cast kerchief. Only Streicher leaned ing of lots" from which Purim forward throughout, looking takes its name. Though anxiously at the film and ex Fo r over 40 years, the owner of Mount Sinai Amalek fights with iron, it citedly nodding his head. Memorial Chapel.. Mitchell.. has served Rhode Island Jewish seems he is defeated with While no proof was found irony. that Streicher had ever actually families over 8 ,000 times ... as a professional Jewish funeral direc In the days after Germany's killed a Jew by his own hand, tor... as did his father and grandfather since the 1870s.. . with honesty final defeat in the second the tribunal nevertheless de world war, an American major, cided that his incitement of and integrity. one Henry Blitt, en route to others to the task, blatant and One of the reasons why the majority Berchesgaden, made an un successful as it had been, con planned sto p at a farmhouse stituted the act of a war crim of Rhode Island Jewish families call just off the road; it was occu inal, and so he was sentenced, pied by a short, bearded man. along with 10 other defen " What do you think of the dants, to the gallows to hang. Nazis?" Blitt asked. And hang he did. But not MOUNT SINAI 'Tm an artist," came the before taking the opportunity reply, "and have never bothered to share a few final words with MEMORIAL CHAPEL about politics." the journalists allowed to be " But you look like Julius present at the gallows. " Heil 331-3337 Streicher!" Blitt joked, trying to Hitler. Now I go to G-d," he 825 Hope at Fourth Streets make conversation. announced. And then, just " You recognized me?" the before the trap sprung open, Pre-need counseling with Please call From out of stale man blurted out incredulously, he blurted out most clearly: tax-free payment planning for your call, startling Blitt, who managed to " Purim feast 1946!" - an odd is avail~blc. New Year calendar. 1-800-331-3337 compose himself and arrest his thing to say in any event, but serendipitous catch. especially so on an October Only RI Jewish Funeral Home that is a member of the One cannot but be reminded morning. of how Haman's downfall was Julius Streicher, it seems, national Jewish Funeral Directors of America. precipitated by his chance knew iust who he \,•as. THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1993 19 CLASSIFIED
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LargestJew1shsmglesda1abase1nAmenca Man)" people who worry local and personalizeCHealthAodes I Grassley Roofing Co. I No time lo clean? I FOR HOME. Bus1Ness. BOAT I for nonmembers. Homemakers • Compan,on5 • fhcra!) as a practicality, during divorce proceedings. A truly vindictive spouse who can prove the exis tence of an adulterous relation ship could bring that evidence by Louis M. Pulner, Esq. to a law enforcement agency for prosecution, and until such time as this section of the Rhode Island General Laws is Adultery Is Criminal repealed, that law enforcement authority will have an obliga Offense in R.I. tion to follow through in the prosecution of same. While this may sound a bit Dear Attorney Pulner: tween any two persons, where ridiculous, recall that last year As unfortunate as it m ay be, either of them is married. For the state police prosecuted a acts of adultery are quite com example if a married man is en secretary for being involved in monplace. What exactly con gaging in intercourse with an ,m office-run NCAA basketball stitutes adultery and what unmarried woman, then only betting pool. repercussions are there for he is guilty of adultery. If, how Practically speaking, the somebody w ho is guilty of ever, a married man is having mere suspicions of a spouse that act? My wife and I have a an affair with a married woman that the act of adultery is being bet going and there is a din (and they are not married to committed is not going to be ner riding on your answer. each other), then both parties enough to get the police in Curious are guilty of adultery. volved in an investigation. Cranston Now, let me advise m y read Quite wisely, the state and local Dear C in C: ers of something that they police tend to have a hands-off Adultery is most often raised probably do not know, and that attitude regarding these mat as an issue during divorce pro· is the fact that adultery is a ters. ceedings, and still remains a criminal offense in the state of Tiu.' answers provided above ground for divorce notwith Rhode Island punishable by a are based upon general legal standing the fact that irrecon fine of as much as $500. pri11ciples and therefore will vary cilable differences is the most I will concede that you don't from case to case. often utilized g rounds when often read about cases of adul Louis M. Pu/11er is an attorney pleadings are filed. tery in the daily newspaper; i11 Rliode Island with law offices Adultery can best be defined however, that is probably only at 2 Williams St. (at South Main as illicit sexual intercourse be- because this issue is o nly raised Street), Providence, R.I. 02903. ONLY THE BEST-Samuel Vingi and hisdaughter,Gina,show off a variety of their fresh produce at theirstore,J. Vingi & Son, 'Liberators' Film Withdrawn in Providence last week. lfrraldpllotobyOm11rBradfty (Continued from rage 7) caust deniers. producers acknowledged to member the 761st at Buchen "It is the deniers who wait to me, neither [of the veterans) wald - they a ll remember pounce on any inconsistency in were ever in Buchenwald be From Father to Sons: blacks, and indeed there were historical memory, and then re· fore the filming of the scene." blacks there," he wrote. paint what occurred without The fil m had a highly publi Business Booms E.G. McConnell, a member care for detail," Stern wrote in cized screening in late Decem of the battalion, worked with his report. ber, when about 1,200 blacks by Omar Bradley their day in the wee hours of the producers of the film until In an interview, he said, and Jews watched it at New Herald Assistant Editor the morning when many of us he began believing that they "This vehicle, which could York's historic Harlem theater, In 1921, John Vingi began are contemplating a few extra were faking material, according have had the right role (in cor the Apollo. selling fruit and vegetables winks. " If you're not up early, to an article in the Feb. 8 issue recting history), is hopelessly from a horse-drawn wagon there's a good chance you'll of The New Republic. tarnished." throughout Providence, recalls miss out," Sam explained. "It's a lie," he said. "We were In his report, he wrote that Celebrating an event? his son, Samuel, who currently . It is at this hour when area nowhere near these camps "the tragedy of 'The Liberators' Tell us about it. runs the business. And schools, businesses and restau when they were liberated." is that the film has serious fac throughout the years, "quality rants feverishly order the fresh The film's distortions, ac tual flaws, well beyond what and depandability" have al est possible fruits and vegeta cording to Stern, program spe can be written off as 'artistic li· ways been the two words asso bles: green peppers, succulent cialist on extremism and anti cense ciated with it. J. Vingi and Son, squash, plum tomatoes, carrots Semitism at the American "The film makes claims that Inc. is still run by the sons of and a menagerie of nature's Jewish Committee, could pro are, at the most generous, neg fresh fruit bounty from area and national vide grist for racists and Halo- ligently sloppy." farms are systematically un He cited what he called the loaded, processed into salads film's " most glaring historical LProduce A Closer and sorted to wind up on the Correction errors," which involved the lib eration of Buchenwald. tables of award-winning Michael D. Smith, direc Thursdays& Fridays9am-4:30pm restaurants. " I used to cater to In the film, a narrator de torof the Max Sugarman Me scribes a scene in which "two Rocky Point and Crescent Park moria l Chapel, is a mem ber & sho re dinner halls," Sam said. veterans of the 761st Tank Bat J. Uingi Son, Inc. of the Jewish War Veterans. talion returned to Buchenwald 146West RiverStreet, Providence The business is now at its Last week's "Closer Look" (one block lromCorlissStPostOffice) peak, as a health-conscious with Ben Bender, who had incorrectly stated he was a been imprisoned there as a 331-9666 public becomes aware of the board member. need for good produce to curb boy." GREAT He is also a member of " In fact," wrote Stern, "as the QUALITY, SELECTION, PRIC ES disease, he maintained. It s no Temple Torat Yisrael and an surprise that Sam Vingi consid associate member and past ers himself to be a lucky man president of Temple Am the company's o riginator. In with a fa mily that works to stay David. Smith is a pas t presi· fact, the business is still grow together. " I wouldn't know dent and former lx>ard mem ing strong thanks to Sam's de what to do without them," he ber of Touro Fraternal Asso voted wife Gloria, who tends to said. ciation. MIIl.,F:R'S sales and bookkeeping, while When asked if his father, The cha pel is located at "THE INTERNATIONAL DELICATESSEN" Raymond and Richard pur John, would be proud of him, the corner of Hope Street and TT4 HOPE STREET, PROVIDENCE • 521-0368 chase and deliver, he confided. he merely echoed a timeless Doyle Avenue. Sam Vingi and family aper· eulogy: " Honesty and quality We apologize for any con ate out of a warehouse behind are the secret of this business fusion this may have caused that my father built." THIS WEEK'S SPECIALS the main Providence post office o ur readers. Hope St~t tocatlon only. Tfu'oU11h 3/3193. on West River Street and begin Gi:iil FRANKS 12 oz. pkg. ONLY v.!.69 ea. LOUIS M. 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