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After Operation Moses Director Urges Israeli Women by Rabbi Davi~ SaPerstein visit the Gondar villages prior to the To Fight For Political Clout arrival of the Congressmen, I was told I Two major concerns brought me to could not, "because of what the Israelis did by Roberta Elliott Ethiopia: fear for the 7,000 Beta still in Operation Moses." The Director of The good news is that more women are living in towns and remote villages, and Tourism told me that it had been involved in municipal politics in Israel worry about the millions of Ethiopians determined at the highest levels of than ever. The bad news is that they are threatened with starvation. Few moments government that all foreign contact with not climbing the political ladder to the in my life have made me more proud Or the villages was to be cut off to prevent and ministerial positions. being an American Jew than when I saw outsiders from "instigating" these Jews to According to Sharon Shenhav, who starving children being fed from sacks of leave. Recent statements by the heads the Jerusalem legal- services office food marked "From the U.S.A.", or when I government indicating that it would no of Na'amat, Israel's largest women's orga­ watched Abie Natlian arrive with tents longer consider Falashas as Jews reflect its nization, about 100 women sit on city marked "From Jerusalem With Love" - determination to further isolate the Beta councils in Israel, and 21 municipalities tents purchased with funds donated by I~rael from world Jewry. have advisory committees on the status of members of Reform synagogues to shelter We brought Jewish and Hebrew women. While the current Knesset has another 10,000 refugees in Senbete, his educational materials for distribution to nine women members, the same as the pre• second tent city. the and reassured them that vious Knesset. there is no woman cabinet I was joined on the trip by Senators they were not forgotten. The Congressmen member; the previous cabinet had one. Dennis Deconcini of Arizona and Paul were exceedingly helpful in negotiations Na'amat, which is now expanding its Trible of Virginia and Representative with Gondar officials about expansion of programs to educate and activate Israeli Gary Ackerman of New York. Prior to our the UAHC Operation REAP (Reform women on political issues, receives major Sharon Shenhav arrival, no outsider had been to the Movement's Ethiopian Jewry Assistance support in the U.S. from Pioneer Women/ Ethiopian Jewish villages since Operation Program), which sends doctors to Jewish Na'amat, the Women's Labor Zionist Or­ women in the Knesset, it would make a big Moses, the Israeli airlift of Ethiopian and non-Jewish villages there. Their most ganization of America, now celebrating its difference." Jewish refugees. In the international important negotiation, however. took 60th anniversary. Said Mrs. Shenhav in a Political Power the Key Jewish community there was deep place in Addis Ababa, where they talk to Pioneer Women/ Na'amat leaders A Chicago native who immigrated to Is­ uncertainty about the remaining Jews. discussed implementation of a family in New Yo rk: rael with her husband and two children six How had the Ethiopian government reunification program to allow Jews to "We have concentrated on bread- and­ years ago, Mrs. Shenhav said political responded to Operation Moses? Had they leave for Israel legally. Although accepted butter issues fo r a long time, and these power was the key to the religious courts' taken out their resentment on the in theory by the Ethiopian government, it women are now cutting their teeth on local control of domestic issues. the rabbinate remaining Jews in the Gondar? Indeed, is doubtful that it will be put into effect in issues. But it's time to put our efforts to­ was given exclusive jurisdiction over mar• how many Jews were left in the country? the near future. ward national politics. If there we re 25 1nui!i1 1~,,., ~~n pag(' 71 What we re their needs? Could a safe and Visits To The Relief Camps legal way be negotiated to bring out the After visiting with the Beta Israel, I Jews still there'? visited camps run by two of the finest Israeli Artist-In-Residence When we arrived in Addis Ababa, it was relief organizations working in Ethiopia: immediately evident that Operation Catholic Relief Services and World The JWB Lecture Bureau, in coopera­ winner of Israel's "Harp of David" Award: Moses had traumatized the political Vision. Once people are taken into one of tion with the Department of Development Hanan Yovel, vocalist and guitarist; Sally­ establishment. The news that thousands 60 camps operated by these groups, they & Services of the World Zionist Organiza­ Anne Friedland, dancer and actress; llan of Jews had left in pursuit of freedom was are sheltered, fed and provided with good tion, is introducing a new concept in the Dar, actor; Tamara Mielnik, dancer and viewed as an attack on the government. health care. Children who come into the cultural arts ~ an Israeli Artist - in - Resi• actess; and Gideon She mer, actor. Omanut The overwheling attention given in the camps weighing as little as half of what dence program "uniquely designed to offer La'am helped JWB in selecting the artists. Arab and African press to stories that they should are put on high-caloric diets local commuinity exposure to a variety of Stephen L. Bayer, director, JWB Lec­ Ethiopian Jews were being trained for the that restore them to near-normal weight specially selected Israeli performers in tu re Bureau, sa id , "The artist will present Israeli army and that others were being within a month. dance, drama and music." a fo rmal performance in a concert setting; settled on the west Bank, was a political But the camps serve only one-half present a series of mini-performances and embarrassment to the Ethiopian million of the eight to nine million at risk. lecture demonstrations to a wide range of government. Most grating were the human The drought has lasted six years. In many age and interest groups; work with existing interest stories so favored by the Western regions not enough topsoil remains to groups in the community to further de­ press depicting the Ethiopian Jews as sustain crops. Virtually no conservation, velop and expand their artistic skills; con• primitive natives. In Addis Ababa this was reforestation or irrigation projects exist. duct seminars with university arts facul­ regarded as a national affront. As good a job as the relief groups and the ties and local community professionals; No Overt Reprisals Evident U.S. government (which supplies half of and speak with representatives of local T V As we visited Jewish villages, no overt all emergency relief supplies) are doing, and radio stations and newspapers about reprisals or harassment were evident. All only . an international effort of relief the Israeli arts scene. of the Jews with whom I spoke had heard combined with development offers "Quality programs at a lixed price range of Operation Moses, but only one or two in Jong-range hope. are two important advantages offered by the larger villages had any idea of the Many of the children being cared for in the Israeli Artist- in- Residence program politica1 controversy it had engendered. the· camps have suffered so long from Life in the villages continues essentially malnutrition that they are distressingly the way it has in the past 18 months, since vulnerable to disease. Measles remains the the dictatorial and anti-Semitic former biggest killer of children. Whooping cough Governor Malaku was moved by the and tuberculosis take a heavy toll. Every authorities out of the direct governance of rain is a mixed blessing, replenishing the region. Under Malaku, synagogues needed water supplies but striking down were closed, Jewish teachers were thrown with colds, influenza and hypothermia into jail and tortured, and the teaching of hundted& of adult.a and children who have Hebrew was forbidden. Today the Jews lost their natural resistance. are treated with relative tolerance. Threat of Cholera Overcome Neverthelesa, drought, disease, inadequate With the problem of disease an Sally-Anne Friedland health care, and the raging civil war ever-present danger, Dr. Rich Hodes, an nearby all serve to make the lives of the" infectious disease specialist sent by the Irving Ruderman, of Rochester, N.Y., remaining Jews periloua. UAHC's REAP program, worked for a JWB officer and chairman of its Lecture The flight of many Jews to the Sudan time in the first Abie Nathan/UAHC Bureau, says, "The Israeli Artist- in- Resi­ bas left the infrastructure of the villages ao camp in harbu. Scores, perhaps hundreds, dence program is designed to build bridges badly eroded today that little teaching of lives were saved because of his early of understandin~ and appreciation be­ goes on out.aide of Wolleka, the diagnosis of cholera and his successful tween Israel's cultural scene and Jews in government's showcase Faluha village. efforts to stem an epidemic. North America." Yet, despite these condition, the Jews we With the help of congregations According to Shara Gilman, coordinator met were optimistic, proud of their throughout America, the UAHC will of the Israeli Artist- in- Residence pro• Jewishne88, and confident in the belief continue to support legislation and field gram, "Each performer will spend an in • that someday, with the help of world service programs aimed at providing relier tensive week in every North American Jewry, they would live freely in Eretz and development for East Africa's starving community arranging fore residency. This Hanan Yovel Yi,rael. people, aa well as rescuing the remaining will provide the community with en in ­ which will be offered on a two-year, two­ holatin1 the Jewi•h Vil1agew Jews in Ethiopia. As crushing as· the depth experience withe noted Israeli artist The government'& reapon&e to problems are, our visit convinced ua that end will increase the community's aware• season basis." Operation MOM!8 baa been to isolate the we can make a difference. But we can do neu end appreciation of the nature and For terms and dates or artist availabil­ remaining villages from the out.aide Jewish even mon, and there is much yet to do. scope of Israeli artistic development." ;ty. call or write Shara Gilman. JWB Lec­ world, ph)'1ically and psychologically. (Reprinted from Reform JudtJi,m ma,a­ There are aix Israeli artists in the pro• ture Bureau. 15 East 26th Street. New Yo rk. N.Y. 10010- 1579; (21 2) 532 - ◄ 949 . When l initially applied for permiuion to zine) gram: Oded Teomi, actor and three- time • • ., « ' • • II 2 - THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1985 Beth-El Plans Visit With Cong. Mlshkon Tfilo Noted Composer Special Services for the Fast of Tisha · On October 18-20, noted Jewish B'Av, the Final Day of the period of composer Ben Steinberg will be national mourning known as "The Three Local Kews composer-in-residence at Temple Beth-El Weeks" will be held at Congregation I as part of the Freda and Louis A. Mishkon Tfilo, 203 Summit Avenue, Kaufman Memorial Weekend. Providence. Rabbi Philip Kaplan On Friday evening, October 18, announces the following schedule: Steinberg will lead the Temple Beth-El Saturday Evening, July 27, at 9:00 p.m. Levitt Named Assist. V.P. Andrew Feldman Honored Choir in the singing of a number of his Maariv, followed by the chanting of the compositions and he will address the Scroll of Lamentations. At Hospital Trust By Mensa Foundation Congregation after services on "Why New Sunday morning, July 28, at 8:00 a.m. Music for the Synagogue?" Mr. Steinberg Shachris, followed by the recitation of the Alisa A. Levitt has been promoted to The American Mensa Education and series of poems and liturgy known as Assistant Vice President in the Domestic Research Foundation takes great pleasure will addresS the Congregation a second time on Saturday afternoon on the topic Kinos. Banking Department of the Corporate in awarding the first place prize in their Sunday afrernoon, July 28, at 1:00 p.m. Division at Hospital Trust National Bank, essay competition to Andrew Lewis of "Musical Mosaic of Judaism." On Sunday morning Ul conclude the weekend, Mincha Service with Ta1is and Tfillin, it was announced here recently. Levitt is Feldman of Providence, Rhode Island. Reading of the Scroll of the Torah and responsible for contacting middle-market Andrew is pursuing a medical degree at Mr. Steinberg will speak on " Music of the Shtetl - Our Yiddish Heritage," at a chanting of the Haftorah (Chapter from companies to offer them financial services Brown University in the seven-year Isaiah). for expansion, working capital, program. An accomplished musician, breakfast sponsored by the Temple acquisitions, and cash management. Andrew has been the recipient of two Brotherhood. Levitt joined Hospital Trust in 1981 as awards for demonstrating musical Composer Steinberg was born in Cong. Beth Sholom an Assistant Credit Analyst; in 1982, she excellence. He is employed at University Winnipeg, Canada and educated at the Congregation Beth Sholom will be ob­ was promoted to Credit Analyst; in 1983, Hospital in Boston this summer as a University of Toronto and the Royal serving the fast of Tisha B'Av on Saturday she moved to Senior Credit Analyst. computer programmer investigating the Conservatory. Presently head of the night, July 27 and Sunday July 28. Tisha Levitt joined the Corporate Division in complex mechanisms of hearing. music department of Forest Hill B'Av commemorates both destructions of 1983 as a Regional Account Manager in Stringent competition distinguishes this Collegiate and Director of Music at the ancient Temple in Jerusalem. The first the Corporate Real Estate Department; prestigious award. The competition was Toronto's Temple Sinai, he is a noted destruction occurred in 586 B.C. when the and, in 1984, she was elected a Loan first broug:1t to his attention by his loving composer, conductor and lecturer. He Babylonian army of Nebucadnezar cap­ Officer. grandmother, Mrs. Beatrice Miller, who is recently received in 1983 "Kavod Award" tured Jerusalem and killed and exiled its A graduate of Georgetown University, justifiably proud of her grandson's talents of t he Cantor's Assembly, representing inhabitants. The second destruction took Levitt earned a B.A. degree in economics and achievements. over 2,000 Conservative Synagogues in place in 70 C.E. at the hands of the Roman and government. Levitt is a member of the Andrew is also the son of Caryl Ann the United States and Canada. general Titus and his legions. Young Women's Division of the Jewish Miller, consultant to the Metropolitan Temple Beth-El is able to bring The evening service for Tisha B'Av will Federation, Organization for Museum in New York and Dr. Martin Steinberg to the community due to the be held at 9:00 p.m. on July 27. The Book Rehabilitation Through Training, and the Feldman, a researcher and teacher at generosity of the Kaufman Memorial of Lamentations - Megillat Echa - will National Organization of Jewish Business Boston University Medical School. Weekend, a generous endowment be read in the traditional manner. Women, and the R.I. Women's Network. A check for $1,000 is being mailed to provided by Mr. and Mrs. Howard Schachrit services will begin on Sunday, Levitt is a resident of Providence. Andrew from the Mensa Foundation. Kaufman and Mr. and Mrs. Arnold July 28 at 8:00 a.m. The traditional Kinot Kaufman in memory of their parents. or mourning dirges will be read. The Min­ cha, afternoon services, will take place at Charlesgate Residents 7:30 p.m. on Sunday afternoon. Read Assoc. 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Rabbi Egozi wu the guest of Chaim Rab~i Egozi is now Educational Herzog, President or the State of Israel, Director or the Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto, Canada, the largest CATERING and received a scroll and medal during a ceremony on Yorn Yerushalaim, May 19. Day School in the world, with an in Mishkan Hanui. enrollment or 3.000 student.. 220 Meeting Street (across from Wendy's) O~n 8 a,m.•11 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 111 mklnl1ht Fri. & Sat. T HE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, FRID AY, JULY 26, 1985 - 3 Jabotinsky Prize Regional Director To Be Awarded Appointed To NCSY Oct. 30 Rebbetzin Peggy Weiss, a professional ,,.,.,, - Al "-I Al-" '. T he third annual Jabotinsky Prize, The in youth work from Brookline, Defender of Jerusalem Award, will be Massachusetts, has been appointed presented on October 30 at the Grand regional director to the New England Ballroom of the Federation of Jewish Region of the National Conference of Philanthropies in New York, Eryk Synagogue Youth (NCSY). She will serve ,j Spektor, Chairman of the Jabotinsky as a liaison between the region and its Foundation, announced recently. communities in the New England states of The Jabotinsky Prize, which carries a Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island and $100,000 honorarium, was shared last year Connecticut, revitalizing and expanding by former Israeli Ambassador to the the programming of the existing network United Nations, Yehuda Blum; Nazi of NCSY chapters in the region. Mrs. hunter Beate Klarsfeld; and Soviet Weiss will monitor and evaluate each prisoner of conscience, Anatoly chapter's activities and programs, and Shcharansky. guide the local NCSY chapter advisors. The Defender of Jerusalem Award is Mrs. Weiss received a master's degree in given fo r a single outstanding action or administration from the Cambridge program or a series of actions or programs Institute of Open Education at Harvard. that have contributed to "the defense of She attended Hebrew College in the rights of the Jewish people." Brookline, Massachusetts, and taught The Award was established by the Talmud Torah for 18 years. Jabotinsky Foundation in 1983. The She brings a plethora of NCSY recipients that year were Soviet Jewish experience to her new position. As a activist, Yosef Begun; the late U.S. teen-ager, Mrs. Weiss was the New Senator, Henry M. ·Jackson; and Madame England regional advisor. As newlyweds, Simone Veil, President of the European the Weisses moved to Memphis, Parliament. A special Founders' Award Tennessee, where Rabbi Saul Weiss was was given to former Israeli Prime Minister spiritual leader at Congregation Anshei and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Sphard. She then became director of the Pictured above a re Joseph and Thelma Linsey (left), Honorees of the "Night at Menachem Begin. Southern Region for a year. Pops," accepting their New Founder s Scroll from Jack J. Spitzer, National "This year," Mr. Spektor said, "a panel In 1965, Mrs. Weiss founded the Pr esident, American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and of five hundred Jewish leaders from Brockton, Massachusetts NCSY chapter Jeremiah S undell, President, New England Area, Ben-Gurion University. They throughout the wo rld will serve as the and served as youth director at were the honorees of the evenings festivities in reeognition of their long-time nominating committee. The nominations Congregation Agudath Achim in support of Ben-Gurion University and its ideals of developing the Negev. Prior will be reviewed by our distinguished Brockton, where her husband served as to the concert Dr. Abram Sachar, Founding President of Brandeis, addressed the group of judges who will be responsible for spiritual leader. During this time, the friends of Ben-Gurion University. making the final determination." NCSY chapter won the "Chapter of the Year" award at least five times. In commenting on this new Moshe Rivlin appointment, Rabbi Raphael Butler, national director of NCSY, said, "We look Elected To Board forwa rd to Mrs. Weiss using her special Come ... Eat Blueberry Blintzes ~?>- areas of expertise to further the goals and accomplishments of NCSY." In Jerusalem Her goals as regional director of the New England Region are "kiruv richokim and chizuk k 'rovim," bringing those You Are Invited To Join estranged from Orthodoxy closer and strengthening those who are already close. She feels that the qualifications for her job Dorothy Ann Wiener are aluwat Torah and yirat shamayim," love of the Torah and fear of G-d. Mrs. on a personally escorted Weiss is the mother of Ariela, 20; Adina, 19; Menachem, 16; and Bracha, 11. Deluxe Tour to Israel , Relief Agencies Oct. 9 to Oct. 23 Honored For Rd. trip /lites, hotels, transfers, sightseeing, full breakfasts Ethiopian Aid All This and Israel, Too! 0 Three international relief agencies $1799° which have conducted an extraordinary Israel Airlines Moshe Rivlin, World Chairman of the effort to provide aid to the victims of Jewish National Fund, has been elected to famine in Ethiopia were honored with the the Board of Governors of the Jewish 1985 Roger E. Joseph prize by Hebrew Agency at its recent annual Assembly. In Union Co llege-Jewish Institute of Call Dorothy today 272-6200 this position, he will represent the World Religion. The prize, which carries a cash $10,000, Zionist Organization. He was award of was presented to ~-Y• lh...,>4hJ Ann """ DOMESTIC WORLDWIDE Director-General of the Jewish Agency Catholic Relief Services, Church World FLIGHTS cRu,sEs TOURS from 1966 until assuming the top JNF Service and the American Jewish Joint fflener ~.. post in 1977, and was Israel's Distribution Committee during the annual 766 HOPE STREET PO ~C)X 6845 PROVIDENCE RHODE ISLAND 02940 Consul-General in New York from 1952 to ordination services of the New York 1958. School this spring. Closter Named Exec. Director GO EL'7J/AL7NZ Sidney H. Closter, director of added to his responsibility. Israel Alrllnes development for B'nai B'rith Last year, during B'nai B'rith's biennial International since 1979, has been international convention, Closter was appointed executive director of both the awarded the Julius Bisno Award for B'rith Foundation of the United States Professional Excellence. The lat-e Julius and the B'nai B'rith Henry Monsky Bisno was former executive director of the Foundation, Dr. Daniel Thursz, executive boys' division of the B'nai B'rith Youth vice president of the world's largest Jewish Organization. service organization, announced. Closter has also been active as a B'nai The B'nai B'rith Foundation is the B'rith member as well as in the Jewish and major recipient of gifts to support B'nai general communities. During his residency Why travel tor the tmes1 in Cantonese and Szechuan tood, when the Golden Orll.foo Rn taura ot will come to )'OU? Each B'rith's multi-fa ceted program, while the in Virginia, he served as a member of the day, we travel trom Boston to Johnston, ollenng "Cll/neJe food Monsky Foundation holds title to all of Board of Trustees of the Benjamin N. rrntr makes spke lovers rejoice." (Providence Joornal) B'nai B'rith's properties. Cardozo Lodge in Ar li ngton and as an Aswecelebrateourhrstanmversary,wewouldhke youtol(llnus Among Closter's duties as head of the officer of the Virginia State Association of • FREE Hot and Sour Soup or B'nai B'rith Foundation, a newly created B'nai B'rith. Currently living in Maryland, FREE glass of Chablis per person position, will be to form a new board of he is active in Ohr Kodesh Congregation directors and develop innovative projects. and the Rosemary Hills Community (excludes dinner specials) • He will wo rk closely with both the School Board. - ma10,-cred1tcardsaccepted - open7daysawe-ek executive vice president and the BS80Ciate He served three terms as president of - wheelchairaccus1ble director of B'nei B'rith. the B'nai B'rith Headquarters Staff "With these new and vital duties, AS80Ciation and is a trustee of the B'nai FOR RESERVATIONS PLEASE CALL 231-0590 COUPON OR TAKE OUT ORDERS Sidney Closter will continue to serve as a B'rith Staff Retirement Plan. 1D~OFF key staff leader in all of our operations and Commented Dr. Thursz: "Several years (Luncheon specials dally to 3:00 p.m.J will be available for special usignmenlll in ago, J described Sidney Closter as 'one of Expires July 31. 1985 ON All TAKE OUT furthering the cauM! of B'nai B'rith," said the most dedicated, indefatigable and ORDERS OVER $10.110 Or. Thursz. creative leaders' on our staff, a man who is Closter joined the pro(eNJional staff of "highly respected among both lay and THE GOLDEN DRAGON B'nei B'rith in 1948 as usistanl national profeNJ ional members of the B'nai B'rith 61 PUTNAM AVENUE director of Youth Services Appeal. In the system.' That description is equally JOHNSTON, RHODE ISLAND 02919 early 19608 the poaition of nationaJ appropriated today: · (At. 4-4; next to Carvel Ice Cream - from 295 take Exit 7 A) at&OCiate dif1'Ctor of development was ' .. ------·- ---- ·-- - -

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by Irving Greenberg Developing such high-level scholarship From The Editor Conclusion takes time, talent, and careful cultivation. by Robert hrael American Jewry must establish a In addition, we need middle-level systematic religious dialogue among the dialogue in which the rabbis and Jewish denominations on the scale of the practitioners, as well as the Jay leadership Jewish-Christian dialogue of the past fifty of each movement, are brought into years. Over the decades, the Jewish systematic and regular contact for community has financed dialogue learning, fo r better mutual understanding, programs of the Anti-Defamation League, and for finding common solutions to the American Jewish Committee, the common problems. Hiroshima - 40 Years Later American Jewish Congress, the Synagogue Finally, there must be a popular level, Council of America, and the joint National modeled on the 'living room dialogues' of l was in sixth grade in Cranston, in the heavens in fear, thinking a bomb Conference of Christians and Jews to the Jewish-Christian experience. Through the basement classroom when the might fall on our town. And when I met ensure that Jews and Christians would such dialogues, people overcome alarm went off. It was like a fire drill, a concentration camp survivor that overcome the hostilities of the past. Many stereotypes. They learn that there is real only this time we didn't go outside. The same year, a woman whose arms were have criticized the duplication, but the commitment in the other groups to values teacher pulled the shades down and tatooed and who told me her story, fact is that an extraordinary success was which they also respect and desire. This turned off all the lights. It was like even though I was a youngster, I made possible by this significant changes the atmosphere and gives support being in a theater, the only light learned that history is living and that investment of resources. to the rabbis who seek to overcome some glowing was the exit light over the unless we pay close attention to the A legacy of eighteen hundred years of of the legal and theological obstacles. door. We were told to get down on the stories of survivors, we will be doomed hatred - and even murder - has been Without such lay sympathy, it would be floor and crawl underneath our desks, to repeat the pain, the loss, the broadly overcome by people inspired by impossible for spiritual leadership to our bands over our beads and wait for destruction. dialogue, religious sharing and overcome barriers. the "all clear" signal. When the signal Today, we make special efforts to theologizing, as well as by personal and It is time that those Jews who are not sounded, the teacher returned the make the lessons of history come alive. social contacts. There are Evangelical totally 'denominationalized' assert the classroom to light and read from a There are ceremonies during Yom Christjans now challenging the principle and the priority of clal Yisrael mimeographed sheet of paper. What Hashoa that implore us to bear witness anti-Semitism of the New Testament. (the unity and totality of the Jewish we bad ezperienced was a test, a civil to the tragedies that befell millions of Devout Catholics and Protestants have people). I would call upon all Jews to put defense test. Her voice was very official innocent people in Nazi Germany. We reformulated their own traditions to pressure - peer pressure, moral judgment, as she read from the sheet. We were to have ceremonies imploring us to bear eliminate stereotyping and hatred and to even economic pressure - on the be prepared in case of a nuclear attack. witness to the ultimate hol<>Cflust, advocate Jewish causes such as Israel and leadership of all the denominations. Let a Around that same time, the late nuclear proliferation. It is a deliberate Soviet Jewry. Eminent Jewish thinkers non-Orthodox Jew who is giving money to 1950's, people in the neighborhood. attempt to force us into awareness and have formulateQ the most positive Jewish traditional institutions ask them: What began building shelters in their homes. each ceremony that occurs, every year models of Christianity ever developed in are they doing to advance unity? Are they I took a tour of one, two blocks from that it occurs, I remember crouching all the days of their separate ezistence. abusing other Jews? Just asking the · my house. It bad everything anyone down, I remember the darkness in the When it comes to Jewish-Jewish question begins to have an impact on could want - food, games, containers classroom and the fear that we would dialogue, however, there has been a policy. of water. It had everything es:cept all be lost. shortage of organizations. The Synagogue Let Orthodox Jews who are active in the windows. A geiger counter was When the television program, "The Council of America (SCA) brings together community constantly challenge their mounted on the wall to determine the Day After" was shown, Elie Wiesel, a the thre_e denominations. To prevent non-Orthodox co-workers: What are they level of radiation outside. Holocaust survivor, spoke afterward halachic controversy due to participation doing to insure that their own It was also during this time that I and said that suddenly he felt that the in SCA, each movement was given a veto. denominations not act irresponsibly in learned the definition of the word world had become Jewish, that all the To avoid straining the weak fabric of the matters of personal status or issues that holocaust, as an act of genocide against men and women on the earth shared a SCA. 'divisive' theological issues have affect the overall unity of the Jewish innocent Jews in Europe during the common fate of facing the ultimate been avoided. Moreover, delegates sit not people? It is time to collect 1.O.U.s from Third Reich and as an act of war holocaust, His words stay with me. as individuals but as representatives of each other. At least, a combination of against Japan that resulted in the They have become part of my personal their movements, which restricts or moral and political pressure should be atomic bombing of Hiroshima and understanding of history. prevents growing toward each other. Most brought to bear to advance solutions that Nagasaki. We all have a commitment to local Boards of Rabbis follow this same favor the good of the total community, This April we commemorated the building an everlasting shalom for this policy. rather than the short-term advantages of a 40th anniversary of the liberation of world. If we dream of a better world, a At the present time, the National particular group. the concentration camps in Europe. world that is full of peace and Jewish Resource Center offers the only Among those Jews who view the We commemorated the end of World possibilities and a healing of wounds - serious organizational commitment to polarization with equanimity, many are War II. We commemorated the end of not an amnesia of history, but a intra-Jewish ecumenism. NJRC's convinced that only their group will the Vietnam War, ten years ago this recognition of its important lessons - CHEVRA project for rabbis is committed survive. But the Orthodox who favor year. And nes:t week, we pause to we must advocate for disarmament, we to clal Yisrael and provides a forum for withdrawal should not be so complacent. remember the atomic bombing of must advocate for negotiation, we must ongoing dialogue. Due to limited budget, True, they could turn out to be the saving Nagasaki and Hiroshima. advocate for sanity. The tat.tos on the on ly 120 rabbis in six cities are currently remnant. They could equally turn out to The lessons of history have always arms of the survivors of the involved. That number is not yet large be the contemporary 'Dead Sea sect' - had an impact on me - not only concentration camps will never be enough to change the outcome of policies the group that withdrew to save its own recorded history as I have learned it, erased, and nor will the ovens that still or to reverse the present tendency to purity and died an arid, nameless death but personal history. Personal history darken the landscepe in Germany. The polarization. NJRC has sought funding to sundered from Jewish history. Those merges with what one learns, makes rubble that remains in Japan will increase the scope of CHEVRA but has Conservative Jews who feel that Orthodoz the lessons that are printed in the remain as a testimony of humankind's found little receptivity to its requests. is reactionary and a lost cause, those textbooks a more vital, immediate ultimate power of destruction. We Nationally, the Federations are giving Reform and secular Jews who have written es:perience. must band together for a common millions for Jewish-Christian dialogue but off the survival of the traditionalists, all When I crouched down under the purpose, to recognize the ultimate only pennies fo r Jewish-Jewish dialogue. those who are convinced that they alone desk and es:plored the concrete devastation, the ultimate holocaust, The level of consciousness regarding the are modern enough to survive, should ask bunkers in my neighborhood in and work, untiringly, to prevent it. urgency of the issue is too low. The truth themselves whether it is not equally likely Cranston, I experienced first-hand the of the matter is, if the growing that they will simply be assimilated into terror of what a nuclear holocaust divisiveness is not stopped, it will split the the magnetic culture of the twentieth might be like. For many months Robert Israel will return from his unity of community, affect the success of century? afterward. I remember looking up to f.eave of absence next week. local campaigns and cost the Fedei:ations We need each other. The renewal of millions of dollars. each group is the best insurance for the The internal Jewish discussion should survival of all groups. It is time to develop follow the Jewish-Christian dialogue true consciousness of the urgency of the model, in all its aspects (an embarrassing polarization problem and to formulate but accurate analogy). There should be a strategies detailed enough and wise high-level dialogue encompassing sys­ enough to attack problems and find root tematic theology and studies in halacha solutions. The will to unity, and which respectfully acknowledge divisions recognition of common fate is between the groups. Theological and extraordinarily powerful among the halachic reasoning that justify and Jewish rank and file. The failure lies in the mandate the necessary steps to cooperate fact that all that energy has gone into and to construct common solutions must political and philanthropic fields. It is be developed within each movement. time to translate the sense of common For example: within the Orthodox ■ EDITOR, IIOBERr /SRAEL destiny into theological categories, movement, there are scholars already halachic thinking, and religious behavior. ■ ASSOCIATE EDITOR, SUSAN HIGGINS arguing that even if the non-Orthodox This call for unity is not based on the ■ ADVERTISING DIRECTOR: K.ATHI WNEK movements follow halachic procedures, all hope of unanimity or uniformity. There is their acts will be invalid. In this view, nothing wrong with disagreements. The ...... ,..,: lo• IOU,~- fl.I. on4(I non-Orthodox theological assumptions divisions need not be papered over. What T....,._,(401)724-0200 P\.ANT: HwaldW...,, of'IW~St., ...wt..R.1 . 02111 (including the possibility of change in is needed is restraint to avoid fundamental OFF!Cf.! 172 T__,. ~v•~E.,.t ~ . A.I. 02t14 halacha) make all non-Orthodox acts ipso breaches, and commitments to find Seoono:ldH I postlge plKI 91 PrO'lldenc>I, Rhodlll· fa cto null and void. Halachic scholarship common solutions. No one should :;i,."8':='~~:::.!."':i"G:l~f1 H1tr· that seeks unifying solutions should build underestimate either the tradition, or the on the suggestion of the Chazon lsh (the will and fertile imagination of the Jewish S1 ~~-!n~~ ,...,_lc:,:.=,...~YM=i great leader of the most traditional Israeli people. There are positive solutions S14.00 Pl" ennum Bult,_ on '""'-'"'- 1111 KM•kl ..__....~11r oontr.,.,. ... -~ , continuousun11t:1oot11ild 10 sector of the past generation!) that enough within our grasp. We need the TlwHerald 11_,,..nonr11ncllll~lorlypo, disbelief and even atheism should be intellige nce, the courage and the grapr.:1l.-.or1 11'1~. bulMl(9'Pfl'l11hfit treated as a modern cultural bias or commitment to pursue it. The time to act P1tOrtion. government not intrude on the most To the Editor: who have received life-giving transplants, A statement issued by Phil Baum, private and intimate decisions which On February 9, 1985, at Yale- New to fill out an organ donor card have taken ;sociate executive director of people make - whether or not to bear a Haven Hospital, my infant daughter, that all-important first step. You have JCongress, characterized the Reagan child. An Administration committed to Marissa, made medical history as the made the commitment. Hopefully, you dministration's "call to turn back the getting government off our backs might be youngest child to undergo a liver trans­ have also discussed your wishes with your ock" as "shocking" and said his expected to refrain from insisting on plant. I would like to express the heartfelt family, and they will be spared this deci­ rganization is pledged to continue to putting it in our bedrooms. gratitude of all the members of my family sion should a tragedy ensue. efend the right of women "to be Given its failure to marshal sufficient to all those who were so supportive during Special thank-you's to the following: lVereign over their own bodies." support for a constitutional amendment to these past difficult months. It was a long B'nai B'rith Hope Lodge, Cranston, for Tlie text of the AJCongress statement outlaw abortion, and given polls which and dreary winter, brightened only by their generous donation; Rabbi Jack Mo­ llows; show consistently that a substantial Marissa's smile and all of you who so gen­ line of Congregation B'nai Israel, Dan­ Roe u. Wade affirmed the right of a majority of Americans support the Roe v. erously gave of yourselves. Friends and bury, for organizing the fund for Marissa, oman to decide whether to bear a Wade decision, the Administration is now strangers alike, of all faiths, donated their soliciting donations nationwide and lend­ nd significantly enhanced the dignity of pursuing the extraordinary course of time, their food, their money, medical ser­ ing boundless support; Barbara Marks of 11 women. The Administration's call to calling upon the Court to reverse itself. We vices, babysitting, tickets to amuse Arielle Pawtucket, who singlehanded1y mobilized Llrn back the clock to those days is are confident the Court will not do so, and and Jesse, good wishes, prayers; all are so several Jewish synagogues and groups in hocking. we pledge, in concert with other religious deeply appreciated. the Worcester, Massachusetts area to The Supreme Court decision requires no and civic groups, to continue to safeguard Thanks to you, many wonderful things make wonderful contributions to Marissa's ne to have an abortion. It leaves the the right of women to be sovereign over are happening. More and more people are fund; Rabbi and Mrs. Eli Bohnen; Rabbi ecision of whether abortion is a moral their own bodies. considering organ donation. Perhaps, like and Mrs. Les Gutterman; Redwood Lodge me, they always thought of the donation/ No. 35 for all their assistance; the Rhode transplantation issue as a curious blend of Island Trowel Club for their donation; ~CJW Urges Upholding tragedy and miracle, something which Laurel Link No. 15 O.G.C. for their won• made facinating reading and TV documen­ derful donation; and all our friends in taries, but which would never affect them Providence, our former home, who have )f Roe V. Wade personally. I, like so many others, have donated so much to help with Marissa's In response to the Reagan constituency has driven him to try to learned that tragedy is an equal-opportu­ medical expenses. \dministration's recent call for an 'supercede 00th the rule of law by which we nity affliction; one never knows whom it It is written in the Talmud, "He who iverturn of the Supreme Court decision on are governed, and the majority opinion in will strike. Any of us might, at any mo­ saves a life, it is as if he has saved the 1bortion, Barbara Mandel, National this country. ment, be forced to make an agonizing deci­ entire world." To all of you, countless indi­ ?resident of the National Council of sion involving our own survival as an organ viduals and organizations and businesses, The National Council of Jewish Women Jewish Women issued the following recipient, the survival of a member of our some of whom wish to remain anonymous, believes that the rights of women are itatement: family, or the donation of the organs of a you know who you are. You are all a part of paramount in any family planning "The National Council of Jewish loved one suddenly struck down, yet our wonderful miracle. Many of you will go decision, and that a woman's right to Women is extremely concerned by the miraculously able to offer new life to a total on to become part of someone else's mira­ privacy must be preserved. $ince 1973, the stranger lying near death in a hospital cle, or to live one of your own. Reagan Administration's latest effort to Supreme Court has protected a woman's ;eek reversal of the 1973 Supreme Court hundreds of miles away; a stranger who God bless all of you. constitutional right to choose abortion, ruling in Roe v. Wade, which established also has a family gripped in agony. Those and we trust it will continue to uphold its of you who have been moved by Marissa's Jane Empie 1bortion as a constitutional right. decision for all Americans." Brookfield Center, Ct. It is evident that this attempt on the story, and the stories of so many others part of the President to undermine a Established in 1893, the National woman's right to privacy is part of his Council of Jewish Women is the oldest relentless pursuit of this issue particularly Jewish women's volunteer organization in A New Mindset For Israel since both the Lower Court and the America. NCJW's more than 100,000 Supreme Court have reaffirmed Roe v. members in 200 Sections nationwide are by Elmer L. Winter• Chairman between local and Israeli companies. Wade and have insisted on states' active in the organization's priority areas If American Jews are to expand their 4. - Get your federation to add an adherence to precedent. of women's issues, Jewish life, aging, efforts on behalf of Israel by helping to industrial component to Project Renewal We find it unfortuante that Mr. children and youth, Israel, and build its economy, we need to develop a by setting up of factories, creating jobs and Reagan's loyalty to his small anti-abortion constitutional_rights. new mindset which says: "Yes, finding local companies that will open philanthropy and the purchase of Israel plants in Israel to sell products to the Bonds continue to be important - but Project Renewal "twin" back in the B'nai B'rith Women Oppose Reagan's that's not enough. We need to add a third United States. dimension. We need to help Israel become 5. - Urge the Israel Bonds Attack On Abortion Rights economically independent." organization to sell stock in Israeli firms Israel cannot permit itself to be in a as they continue to see Israel Bonds. B'nai B'rith Women President Beverly leased a national survey. One of its fmd­ position where its decisions are based on 6. Urge Jewish nonprofit Davis has sent a letter to President Ronald ings showed the majority of both Jewish the granting or withholding of funds by organizations hospitals, Y's, Reagan expressing opposition to his ad­ and non-Jewish women think that "every the United States, but this is euctly synagogUes - to get into the habit of ninistration's urging of the Supreme women who wants an abortion ought to be where Israel finds itself as a resu1t of its finding Israeli sources for the supplies Court to overturn its 1973 ruling legalizing able to have one." Of the Jewish women need for an emergency aid package from they need: medical equipment, sporting :1bortion. polled, 91 percent agreed to that state­ the U.S. goods, furniture, whatever. ment. While American conditions for such aid 7. - Organize business development In the letter to the President Mrs. Davis Mrs. Davis' letter to the President con­ might be in the best interests of Israel missions to Israel and include in every .vrote, "ln 1964, after a polling of our local cludes, "Anti- abortionist rhetoric on this long-term, they place the Government of itinerary to Israel the opportunity to meet :hapters, our Delegate Assembly passed a issue clouds the fact that most American , in a difficult position. with Israeli business people for talks about resolution supporting a women's right to women favor a free choice for every Thoughtful Israelis seriously question business. :hoose when it comes to having an abor­ woman. B'nai B'rith Women respects this whether the country can meet these 8. - Help increase the number of tion. Your request, should it be needed, constitutional right." conditions without creating large-scale engineers and scientists in Israel by ;vou1d force thousands of women to seek an B'nai B'rith Women is a Jewish unemployment, causing a deep recession working to establish a Robotics Institute illegal, and in many instances, an unsafe women's service and advocacy organiza­ and possibly increased emigration. The and a Microelectronics Institute to help alternative." tion with more than 120,000 members in Government of Israel must be able to design the factory of the future, Last month, B'nai B'rith Women re- 834 chapters in the United States. make its own decisions, consistent with enterprises that wou1d attract engineers political and economic realities as it sees and scientists from abroad. them. , 9. - Urge the U.S. government to help Outrage Over Forced Conversion If American Jews are to be of real help, Israel in new ways, among them: buying new approaches are needed. Here are 10 medical and military supplies from Israel Of Ethiopian Jews ideas: and organizing joint agricu1tural services 1. - Make a personal commitment to to Caribbean and African nations. NEW YORK - Rabbi Alexander M. for which they qualify as Jews entitled to buy products carrying the label "Made in 10. - Project the image oflsrael as the Schind1er, president of the Union of citizenship in Israel. Israel," to make "This year in Jerusalem" land of business opportunities for American Hebrew Congregations, said "Why, then, shou1d the Ethiopian Jews personal visits, to interest local business American companies by explaining the this week he was "outraged" by the be subjected to the insulting demand that firms in opening factories in Israel and advantages of the unique Free Trade "demands of t~e chief rabbinate of Israel they prove their Jewishness again by conducting R&D in cooperation with Agreement, just signed by the U.S. and that recently-arrived Ethiopian Jew1 undergoing conversion? I see no reason for Israeli universities. (A booklet that Israel, which permits U.S. firms to sell undergo ritual immersion, a religious it and I join the Bet.a. Israel in rejecting describes "11 Ways in Which You Can their products duty-free to Israel and to convel"ftion rite." this procedure. Personally Help Build the Economy of produce in Israel for duty-free es.port to In a 1t.a.tement commenting on news "For two millennia the Jews of Ethiopia Israel" is available free from CEG-1, 5301 the European Common Market. report& from Israel that recent immigrants maintained their religious heritage, read North Ironwood Road, Milwaukee, WI By using the skills we have developed in from Ethiopia were being required to the Torah, kept the sabbath and observed 53217,) mobilizing our communities for aubmit to immersion if they wish to the various biblical feast.a and fasts and 2. - Make a personal investment in fundraising, we can do much to help Israel many, Rabbi Schind1er declared; ritual purification. It is a bitter irony that Israel by buying stocks in the 13 Israeli build its economy. Let's get moving now! "Such a demand is offensive and on their arrival in the land they have companies that have come to Wall Street humiliating to a Jewish community that dreamed of and prayed for over the for financing, establishing an investment haa guarded it.a Jewish identity fo r aome generations, they face a challenge to their club specializing in Israeli stocka and 2,000 yea.ra in the race of perMCUtion, Jewishness that is demeaning and reviewing the financial opportunities poverty and iaolation from the 19l of the degrading." available through AMPAL, PEC, limited Jewiah world. partnerships, CD'a issued by Israeli bank.a, ''The historic Opetation M08N that etc. (A discussion of such investment brought thousands of Beta Iarael to the avenues is presented in CEG-1'1 free Promised t.nd waa hued on the fact that booklet, "10 Waya to lnveat in larael.") theM people are Jevn, recognized u auch 3. - Get your local federation to by the rabbinate and the government of organize an larael-oriented economic larael. Thell immi,ratlon to Ianel bu development. program that will 1erve aa a been made po(flible by the Lew of &tum, cat.al)'Bt in developing business relaUona II 6 - THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1985 Devar Torah a~· '. A,/'- ~~~~~~g~~~;;~::il~./e~i~~/;}J~~~:~~n~eadeJerusalem July 29 - August 1, 1985, and movers of the young world Jewishra announced Eliezer Sheffer, Chairman of community will gather to begin ~*...,.______, '- theHemshech World Department.Zionist Organization's Over 200 of Dorthe culturalconstruction village of outsidea world Jerusalem,artistic andto most potent young Jewish leaders from inaugurate a Hebrew University linked over two dozen countries - including small program designed to develop the top by Rabbi Lawrence Silverman i:; a theme that is treated with particular and remote communities in Latin Zionist and Jewish leadership of active Temple Beth-El poignancy in connection woth the America, Europe and Balkan Countries young people from the diaspora, and to prescribed Scripture-reading for the not usually involved in such projects - will view and evaluate the Israeli premier of With the arrival of the Ninth of Av Ninth of Av, namely, the Book of be coming together for the First World the acclaimed documentary "Kaddish" (Tisha b'Av) this week-end, it is fitting to Lamentations. Jewish tradition maintains Conference of Dor Hemshech - Young and its handling of the problem of note that this is the date in the Jewish that Lamentations was composed in the Leadership for Zionist Renewal. Holocaust survivors and their children. calendar most closely identified with aftermath of the Babylonian invasion, "This is a new concept in Zionism. This "The young Jewish leadership is tired of tragedy and communal mourning. which resulted in the destruction of is the first ever Zionist non-Congress. We the old Zionist frameworks," notes Traditionally, the Ninth of Av has Jerusalem. Speaking of the Holy City, the will have no long speeches, declarative Sheffer, "Now we are going to come up commemorated the destruction of both lament begins: "Ayn lah menacfwm, "that resolutions to be immediately forgotten. with some new ideas." the First Temple, by the Babylonians, and r is, "She has no comforter" (Lamentations We will be operating entirely on a creative the Second Temple, by the Romans. In 1:2). According to one of the apocalyptic each case, the fall of the Temple is midrashim, this passage may be "Project Kehillah" Hotline To Judaism understood to epitomize the Jewish understood in the following way: More than 75 persons from around the But sometimes calls come from people people's military defeat, Israel's political "Jerusalem has no Menachem," with the United States and Canada have been aided with more simple questions. subjugation and, ultimately, our people's word "menacfwm" ("comforter") being by master rabbis manning a special A clerk for a justice on the Wisconsin forced exile from the Promised Land. read as though it were a personal name. hotline sponsored by the Max Stern Supreme Court called when she had a Within the scope of this theme, the Ninth The implication is that, if Jerusalem had Divison of Communal Services (MSDCS), disagreement with the justice over the of Av also came to express Israel's despair no Menachem when t he Temple was the service outreach arm of the Yeshiva origins of Hassidism. The rabbi who over the downfall of Bethar and Bar destroyed, then she will have a Menachem University-affiliated Rabbi Isaac answered her question confirmed her Cochba's failure to regain independence when the Temple is re-built. Since the Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS}. version of history. The justice has been (Mishnah Ta'anit 4:6). re-building of the Temple is an event that T he hotline is part of a program called wrong. Emerging as the focal point for Israel's belongs to the Messianic Age, several "Project Kehillah," which was established Another call came from a member of a sorrow, the Ninth of Av also came to midrashim appropriately call the Messiah in February to help members of small disbanded congregation in Brooklyn, NY, represent the people's perennial hope that by the name "Menachem." The Messiah congregations without spiritual leaders. who wanted to know how he could get the what had happened would be reversed, will be Israel's Comforter. (See also "Project Kehillah" makes master rabbis congregation's Torahs to Israel. that the Exile would soon come to an end. Sanhedrin 98b). available fo r counseling on religious, An Englishman visiting in New York The Sages counsel that only one who Perhaps the foregoing helps explain educational, and communal issues either City who had only recently become more mourns over Jerusalem (on the Ninth of why the Ninth of Av acquired yet another by phone or in person. They also answer religious called the hotline for help in Av) will be found worthy to rejoice over meaning in our messianic traditions: on questions dealing with personal and family remembering parts of the "Modeh Ani" her re-building (Ta'anit 30b). In a similar this very day, which marks the concerns. (the morning prayer). vein, many of the dirges in the liturgy for destruction of the Temple, the Messiah The services of "Project Kehillah" .. Other callers have asked for advice in the Ni nth of Av contain supplications fo r would be born! Here is an expression of which can be obtained by calling (212) picking Jewish names for their children the comforting of Israel and the the belief that, at the root of destruction 960-5289 during regular business hours and have asked practical and immediate restoration of Jerusalem. Likewise, the and despair, there is power for renewal Mondays through Thursdays - were questions regarding the laws of burial and prophetical portion fo r the Sabbath and restoration. May so be our lot in the expected to appeal to congregations bris (circumcision). following this day of mourning offer a days to come, that we may find this power without rabbis in the inner cities of major Rabbi Rosenbaum himself took a call message of comfort (Isaiah 400:1-26). of renewal and restoration in our own metropolitan areas with dwindling Jewish from a young woman who had been raised Finding comfort in the wake of tragedy lives! populations and to small, isolated Jewish as an observant Jew and had then communities in rural areas of the nation. discovered she was adopted. Since her The rabbis involved with the hotline natural parents were non-Jews, she Book Sale Protested hope that, by providing leadership and. wanted to know what she would have to do The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai "We were shocked and distressed to ~i:;c~y ~~t: ~f ~~~ :~~~a~t::~ to '~~me :!ew. very upset," Rabbi B'rith has protested to Sweden about a learn that in conjunction with a Jewish communities. Rosenbaum said. "You can imagine how government-sponsored Islamic exhibit in government-sponsored Islamic exhibit at Stockholm at which copies of the book, the Historical Musuem in Stockholm, The hotline has been used by members :~: t~~ f!~ ~ts~!~:S~~~[~: ~~:~;~ TM Protocols of the Elders of Zion, have there is being sold by the Islamic council of such congregations and communities, Jew at all." been sold. copies of the age-old anti-Semitic forgery, but others who have called have been The young woman expressed a desire to In a cable to Swedish Prime Minister The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. This people who are not affiliated with any undergo a formal conversion to Judaism, Olaf Palme, Abraham H. Foxman, book, one of the most notorious and congregations,accordingtoRabbiYitzcha:z and Rabbi Rosenbaum suggested that she , associate national director and head of vicious attacks on the Jewish people, has Rosenbaum, director of rabbinic alumni at contact her local rabbi to discuss the AOL's International Affairs Division, no place at or near any reputable exhibit · M~~~Shave come from as far away as procedure to be followed in a formal called for banning the distribution or sale on any subject. It should be branded for 0 of the book. He said the what it is and those who wish to spread its Washington and North Carolina and from co~v~:~ ::~:~;~: Rabbi Rosenbaum turn-of-the-century Czarist forgery is one venomous lies should likewise be exposed. Toronto as well as from the New received a follow-up call, indicated that, of the "most notorious and vicious" "Please let us hear that this book or any York-New Jersey area. based upon the guidance provided, an attacks on the Jewish people and "has no other anti-Semitic material will be banned Rabbi Dr. Leon Katz, rabbi emeritus of appropriate conversion process was being place at or near a reputable exhibit on any from distribution or sale at or near any Congregation Adas Israel in Passaic, NJ, developed. subject." such state-sponsored activity." serves as rabbinic coordination of the Persons desiring more information on 'f'l,,, t,,,.., ,.rthr- ,,., ,-.. ,,. f..., J1,...,,,,. project. Rabbi Katz served as spiritual "Project Kehillah" may call the hot-line or leader of the Passaic congregation for 46 write the Max Stern Division of years. Other rabbis with long experience in Communal Service. Rabbi Isaac Elchanan the program. Theological Seminary. 500 West 185th An alumnus of the UniversitY. and Street, New York, NY 10033. RIETS, Rabbi Katz and his wife were The Max Stern Division of Communal honored when a professorship in rabbinics Services is named for the late Max Stern, was established in their name at RIETS. Jong-time and vice-chairman of the Whenever psssible, rabbis manning the University's Board of Trustees. Mr. Stern, Rosh Hashanah hotline try to put questioners in touch founder of Hartz Mountain Corporation, with spiritual leaders in their local was a noted philanthropist whose gifts to communities. At other times, the rabbis the University resulted in many and Yom Kippur refer persons with problems to local developments, including Stern College for Sun. Sept.15-Wed. Sept. 25 community councils and other Jewish Women, the undergraduate, women 's agencies. division of the University. Cantor Herman Malamood assisted by the :~~·v~ (!J"(~ . 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Education Mrs. Shenhav, who practiced law in The Jewish commitment to continued Washington before making , runs life-long learning will be exemplified at the Na'amat's Legal Advisory Service in forthcoming Tenth Annual Conference on Jerusalem, advising women on separation, Alternatives in Jewish Education as the divorce, inheritance, adoption, employ­ almost 2,000 participants gather each ment, housing, social security and other morning for a fifty-minute study session, matters. She comes into direct cont.act or shiyur, before starting their day's with the religious courts, which she con­ activities. siders "the most difficult, problematic in ­ "A shiyur is a study session that is stitutions for women, unique to Israel." almost always based on a text of some To improve her ability to work with the kind," according to Dr. Betsy Katz, often - fru strating system, she has been Chairperson of the Conference on studying Torah one day a week for several Alternatives in Jewish Education (CAJE), years. to be held August 11-15 at Northern "My best allies," she said, "are Orthodox Illinois University, DeKalb, Ill. Jewish scholars" who accompany her to Between eleven and twenty different trials with documents and proof of creative shiyurim will be offered each morning, solutions from halachic texts for sticky most of them led by rabbis who are also personal status problems. members of CAJE. As with the rest of the Halacha and War Widows conferees, the shiyur leaders will represent As an example, she cited halitzah. the all shades of the Jewish ideological requirement that an unmarried brother­ spectrum - Orthodox, Conservative, in - law marry his brother's childless widow Reconstructionist, and Reform. in order to provide an heir, or else free her The texts on which the shiyurim will be to marry another man. Because of the based include selections from the Torah, youth of today's war widows, it is an espe­ Psalms, Talmud, Midrash, Zohar, cially pressing problem. Na'amat has re­ Rambam, the Amidah, Haggadah, Siddur, quested the rabbinate to make a special a tale by Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav, and the parables of Franz Kafka. effort fo r speedy release of the widows by The postal officials of Antigua & young Maimonides visited the Holy Land. employing techniques used in ancient There they made special pilgrimages to Some shiyurim will last fo r just one Barbuda. a former British colony situated session. Others will carry over from one times. the cities of Hebron and Jerusalem. in the Leeward Islands of the Caribbean, morning to another, some going on as long "The rabbis realize that if they don't use released on June 17th a single stamp and Just a few months after arriving in these solutions, there will eventually be a Egypt, tragedy struck the family when as four sessions spread over four days. souvenir sheet to. mark the 850th Conferees will have the option of groundswell to institute civil marriage and Rabbi Maimon passed away. Support of Anniversary of the birth of Maimonides, attending whatever session they wish, divorce," she said. the family was now assumed by a younger the world famous Jewish philosopher, sampling a different shiyur each day, or In personal status cases - like Mlitzah scholar and medical doctor who was born brother named David. For a while, all went and divorce - it is not unusual, Mrs. well as David became a successful jewel choosing a more intensive experience by in the Spanish city of Cordoba. staying with the same shiyur throughout Shenhav said, for one party to blackmail or merchant who specialized in importing Special celebrations are currently being all its sessions. bribe the other by demanding or offering precious gems from India. h, staged around the world in honor of the Among the subjects that may be,studied " huge settlement matters. It also offers free Unfortunately, on one such business man whose contributions are considered over the course of the four full days of the legal services to war- bereaved and unmar­ trip to India, David was caoght in a storm , ; to have profoundly influenced the ried mothers. and drowned when the ship wrecked in the conference are the following: "' ' direction of both Judaism and Mitzvot - rules of behavior concerning d Indian Ocean. He was carrying the entire Drafting Legislation contemporary religious philosophy. fou r areas: taking advantage of another family fortune with him at the time. With several other Na'amat attorneys, Maimondies, whose real name was person, reproving another person, h, Consequently, in order to support the Mrs. Shenhav is responsible for drafting Moses hen (son oO Maimon, was born in priorities of commitments to animals and b, family, Maimonides began to practice legislation in the interest of Na'amat's Cordoba, an important city in southern people, and the study of Torah; 750,000 members, among whom are thou­ Spain on the day before the Jewish festival medicine. His reputation developed to ;; such a point that he was eventually G~graphy of the Siddur - an sands of Arab and Druze woinen. of Passover in the year 1135. examination of the logical order of the appointed to serve as the personal Measures currently before the Knesset His father, Rabbi Maimon, was a prayerbook and the relationship between physician of both the Grand Vizier and include a bill to eliminate restrictions leading Dayan (religious judge) of prayers; Sultan of the Egyptian caliphate. against night work for women and one that Cordoba's Jewish community. An Feminism andJ-talacha - Jewish law in .J would extend to fathers the one-year post­ impressive scholar in both religious Judaic In addition to the extensive medical practice that he carried out Maimonides relation to women in four specific areas: childbirth leave currently given mothers. and secular subjects, the dayan personally 1 Torah study, mitzvot, ordination, and somehow found the time to compose very One proposal allows fathers leave to care taught Maimonides during the early years divorced women; important works of philosophy. for a sick child. Another bill would grant of the youth's development. Leadership Models in the Midrash - Among his most significant scholarly single mothers special tax benefits and al­ At the time Maimonides was 13 and ways in which the ancient rabbis low child care as a tax deduction for all became Bar Mitzvahed (recognized as an achievements are the publication of portrayed Moses, Aaron, synagogue mothers. Another measure would reinstate adult in Jewish religious law) , the city of "Moreb Nevuchim" and "Mishneh leaders, and teachers; Torah." Among students of Jewish abortions for social reasons, and yet an­ Cordoba was overrun by a sect of Mosle m.s Midrashei Teshuvah - a study of sin other bill, patterned after Dan;sh and who would tolerate no other faith in their religious philosophy, his contributions are and repentence, based on early Palestinian considered unique. Swedish laws, would grant pensions to domain besides Islam. Midrashim or folk tales; Indeed, of him, it has been said: "From housewives. Rabbi Maimon and his family, along Pidyon Shivuyim - a study of Je'llria Moses (the Lawgiver) to Moses Mrs. Shenhav said the problem of equal with most of Cordoba's Jews, were forced sources, including the Talmud, Rambam, pay for women for equal work exists in to flee . For the ne:a:t ten years, they (Maimonides), there arose none like and medieval Jewish literature, t.opther Israel as it does in the United States, wandered from one town to another in Moses (Maimonides). with comments about Jewish sources where women earn 65-70 percent of a southern Spain, unable to remain long At the age of 68, Maimonides passed drawn from the works of Martin Buber; man's salary for the same job. As for child because of the continuing conquest of the away. In addition to his activities as Reconstructionism - its perspectives care, Israel - with its extensive and rela­ Moslem sect which had originally forced physician to the royal court of the on Shabbat, Rosh Hashanah, Yorn caliphate and composer of prized tively cheap day-care network - is ahead them out of Cordoba. Kippur, and the three Pilgrimage Festivals philosophical works, the son Maimon was of the U.S., she said. Na'amat itself, she During this period of upheaval, the (Sukkot, Pesach, and Shavuot): pointed out, furnishes day care to some young Maimonides continued to somehow also the Chief Rabbi of the Egyptian Understanding Ourselves Through the 20,000 children throughout the country. study and refine his philosophical skills. Jewish community. Psalms - an analysis of selected psalms "But as far as the political enfranchise­ In 1159, his family and other Jews from The Antigoa & Barbuda stamp and as a guide to pel"80nal conduct. souvenir sheet honoring the 850th ment of women is concerned," she as­ southern Spain managed to settle in the Infonnation about the CAJE birthday of the world renowned serted," neither Israel nor the U.S. is in city of Fez, then the capit.al of Morocco. Conference may be obtained from Dr. philoeopher was designed and printed by great shape." Unfortunately, reli,ious intolerance Eliot $pack, Nationa1 Direct.or, CAJE, The Hol18e of Questa (London). (Reprinted from ne Jewi•h Wulf once again forced them to flee after a brief 468 Park Avenue South, New York, NY (N. Y.), with permission.) five year stay. On their way to F«YJ>t, 10016. Phone: 212-696-0740. The New Owners Of The Eli and Bess ie Cohen Foundation wfiNJ2V> Sponsors of Camps Pembroke, ~~-Pfimffi Tel Noar and Tevya Are Pleased To Announce That Cordially invites parents and their ALVIN GABRILOWITZ children to tour Continues To Be Affiliated With the camp facilities this summer. Acme Motors PLEASE CALL TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT AS A MEMBER OF OUR SALES STAFF Camp Pembroke (617) 294-8006 467-3900 Camp Tel Noar (603) 329-6931 405 WARWICK AVENUE , WARWICK Camp Tevya (603) 673-4010 Uc. 708 I 8 -THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1985

Around Town "We're Going To Miss Joe" by Dorothea Snyder

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Joe Finkle, "the father of B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League in Rhode Island." (Photo by Dorothea Snyder)

Boxes piled ceiling high fo rmed a " I could go from here to California and formation of the largest group, the Roger There was no one prouder of what Beth-El cardboard skyscraper in a corner of Esther find someone I know in every city on the Williams Lodge. At that time there were did than Joe. Joe saw a story in and Joe Finkle's East Providence way because of B'nai B'rith ·Anti­ over 1000 members. everything. apartment. Defamation work." "After Joe basically retired from "Whether it was kids lighting an "Notice the boxes?" Joe asked with Joe inserted that he was one of the activity, the lodge disintegrated to where out.door Chanukah menorah, whether it gentle humor as I stepped into the den. He original members appointed by Mayor it is now being reorganized. Joe had a was a teacher recognition night, whether it was seated comfortably in what looked to James Doorley to the state agency's great influence on racisim upon the total was a special Shabbat service with a be his favorite lounge chair. commission against discrimination. Called community. Because of his professional speaker who came as a Ten days from now the Finkles would be the Fair Employment Practices position as an advertising_ agent, he had scholar-in-residence, Joe felt this was a uprooting themselves from their home, Commission to ensure job opportunities access to avenues that the average person story that went beyond the borders of from the area where J.>e had built up an for minorities, it later became the Rhode didn't have. Beth-EL advertising agency business and from Island Commission on Human Rights. "When incidents took place, he "What this Temple did in tenns of its where his dedicated commitments to The General Assembly honored him in performed in the right manner and curbed cultural. religious, educational outreach bettering humanity had been felt deeply 1964 for his work in civil rights and all these incidents of racism. Why I use the was a story that was inspiring because Joe by his propulsive impact. general civic betterment. word racism is because he was a member was inspired. Joe was not so much a All their mail would soon be stamped of the city of Providence Human salesman. Joe was not looking so much to He regretted that because of his move to Relations Commission. A very reliable with the postmark of Rancho Palos East Providence from Providence, he had have people join the congregation as much person, he did a terrific job! Verdes, California. to leave the Providence Human Relations as to be inspired by the congregation. "We of the community are going to miss Most 8.SSuredly there were mixed Commission. Mayor Vincent Cianci Because Joe was so moved by all of these Joe," Sam expressed. "I as one who really feelings, but Joe said, "We want to move honored him by proclaiming Sept. 30, events, he felt it was natural to shout it there because we have one daughter, feel 1 have been his protege will miss him from the mountains. 1983 as Joseph Finkle Day. greatly. When I would have a serious Karen. This way we can be closer to her On June 23rd the Roger Williams Lodge "He did it effectively. He did it alone. and her family rather than just seeing her problem and didn't know to whom to turn He did it for many years. of B'nai B'rith honored Joe at a Farewell for help, I'd call Joe and discuss it with once a year." He mentions with Breakfast at 4 Seasons East Clubhouse. "The second was brotherhood:' Rabbi grandfatherly pride his 17-year-old him. Gutterman continued. " You will find out The Lodge's invitation tabbed Joseph M. "Even though there were times when we grandson and 14-year-old granddaughter. Finkle, Mr. B'nai B'rith. his work with the AOL from others, but it Discussing with Joe his life in Rhode wouldn't agree on the procedure, at least was linked in many ways to public "Please come," it read, "to give Joe the he gave me the insight on what the bottom Island, I learned that he graduated from well earned recognition that he so rich1y relations because I think Joe felt that the Bryant and Stratton College, now Bryant line should be. story of the Jew was understood if the deserves for his following service: "Joe was a very dedicated person to College, and worked in the once Honorary President of Roger Williams story of the Jew could be really read . Providence Tribune. At the height of the human relations and to the betterment of our history as a people and who we really Lodge, Past President of Roger Williams humanity. It didn't matter to him what depression, be was involved in Lodge, Past President of District 1, Past were. Joe in his heart felt the cause of establishing the Herold and started the anyone's religious background was. That brotherhood would be enhanced and lhal Chairman of Rhode Island was not important. It made no difference. first "Around Town" column. Anti-Defamation League, Past Chairman anti-semitisim wou1d go down. Joe worked in the Providence branch of '"What made the difference was the fact of New England Anti-Defamation League, "Whether or not social scientists would the Boston-baaed David M.alkiel Company that they are human beings who should be Member of National Anti-Defamation agree. I think in many ways it worked with for a short time beforT, he and his brother, treated equally. That was his dedication League." Joe's relationships. He was a Archie, began their own business. . dedication to equal treatment for all self-respecting Jew. He was proud of his " My brother had just gotten married," "You must have worked closely with peoples. Basically we both believed that all roots, wbe~ he came from, and he found he "IO in 1935 we Sam Schlevin," I remark to Joe. humanily bu the right to live a decent explains, decided to ways through his organiz.ations and his form the Joeepb Mufleld Company using Responding quickly, he says. "I think and equal life in the world or freedom and civic activities to let it be known where he my name Arcltie'• middle name. Sam wu one of the fmt people to get reli.giowl liberty." first and came from and who he was. "We did ewrythi.ng, radio, television, involved in anti-defamation work. He atilt Joe Finkle belorlgm to Temple Beth-El is. I have very high regard for him. I think and bad aerved on the board of trustees. '1"be third.,,.~ becaw,e he went newapaper, dinct mail for clients . . • through a ctre.dfu1 illness tbeae last whole gunut from A to Z. After 40 yean in he's done a magnificent job." For 36 yean1 he was Temple Beth-Er, Taking a few minute& out from work at publicity chairman. months. What impreued me was the ~ the busineat., • 101d out to Bob Meehan, that Eat.her ._ by his side. She in many who is still in Wayland Square." his paper-ladened dnk al Pnwideoce Rabbi Le.lie Y. Gutterman •id. "I ways baa been an~ hero as• ~ Tboee raiud feelirap about leavi111 Hebrnt Day School. Sam Schlevin lhink of Joe with three diffeffnt words to all of bia activities. PruYicleooe 7 wekomea me in. He had been among the that come to mind. l think in terms of ""What WM probably OM of Joe's .. In the beginn~ when my WR, n,orT, than 100 who came t.opther to poblic ~lations. I think UI tenns of honor Joe. brotherhood. And I think in terms of lftlltal. IDOUll'dtl waa to t.Ule an iUneas E.tt.r, decided to mow t.bett," •YI Joe. and a dilrlCUh fall Wh!ft lll05l people " I didn't lib the idN at all I wu born in " ln my opinion," he NU'S, "Joe Finkle ....,.... Pro¥itlenot, ...de • lot of friends and .,.. _.. the fat.her of B'nai B'rith'• "For )'Mn he •• a one-man public would ..... - ..,, ho ... - and Anti.Def.amation Leque for Rhode relations committee. He had meanin«ful k>obd to• new adwoture and• new Ii~ in itMIIYed with .-ny orpniu.tioM on the California becauae F..ther .. by b.il side. .. local and national lewl. Island. He wu responsible for the cont.act&. Media peup)e werT, his friienda. At Our Table

by Susan Higgin& Dining amidst the multi-colored stalks of fresh cut flowers, polished. brass fixtures. hanging herbs and striking mirrored walls, Keith and I agreed that dinner at the Barnsider's Mile and A appetizers are comfortably seated adjacent Quarter House in Providence, is a to families savoring juicy over-stuffed buoyant, kaleidoscope experience. The gourmet burgers. overall aura of the restaurant is French In the cathedral room, the mood is Country, but subtle differences between spacious elegance. The tile noor and cool rooms suggest a diverse range of moods grey decorator colors are very chic. Wall and appeals. Eyes, ears and palate are murals suggest the grace and reserve of catered to with equal consideration by the dining in a mansion typicaJ of Newport. professional staff who adjust their Of course the diverse menu is available to pleasant banter according to the formality enjoy in any room. of the individual diners. The newest room is located upstairs and Gracious dining accommodations await adjoins the brass, wood and mirrored walls Charles Logue, manager of the Barnsider's Mile and A Quarter Restaurant in Pro.;ideoce. parties of one through one- of the lounge overlooking the city and hundred-and-twenty persons. Cozy waterfront.. This is a pretty room, where a It is important to understand, just as another calling to heed: At least that's corner tables with flickering candles sense of history lingers. Lovely green the Barnsider has created a room to what we told each other when the conspire to draw an intimate veil of canopies are visible through arched accommodate your every mood, they will attentive waiter brought our entrees. seclusion around the romantically inclined windows and original brick walls are left prepare a dish to satisfy your every food Esthetically arranged, bright couple. Nearby tables entertain a range of exposed. Great care governed the choice of desire. accompaniments enlivened the plate. parties from singles to families with small acoustically sensitive ceiling material. A sample of appetizers includes several The broiled swordfish carried a hint of children (with exemplary manners, of These subtle details can best be soup choices, ratatouille, baked stuffed fresh salt air with it. This seaside delight course). Oversized windows with appreciated during the jazz sessions in the potatoes, nachos and Mexican pizza and was carefully but simply broiled to retain waterfront views add to the gentle evening. The most recent addition to the Buffalo wings. One page of the thick menu the juices and preserve the natural navor ambiance, crucial to relaxed, enjoyable Mile and A Quarter was designed for larger is devoted to interesting variations on of the fish. Accompanied by a large baked dining. parties, business gatherings, bar mitzvahs salad. SeveraJ sandwiches and deep dish potato this hearty portion would satisfy There are aJmost as many dining rooms and wedding receptions. pizza are tantalizingly described. Gourmet the most voracious customer. at the Mile and A Quarter House as there An eclectic mix gathers in the lounge; chopped sirloin burgers with delectable, In the name of science, Keith had are dining styles. One delightful glass couples enjoying cocktails mingle with imaginative sauces and accompaniment ordered the petite Filet Mignon Bearnaise. enclosed room allows a small party of 15 other attitude-adjustment clientele are patiently explained. Several pages The pink center was as requested, and the people to appreciate the visually enticing relaxing after a hard day's toil in the city, detail fresh fish dishes, shrimp, scallop broiled flavor was perfectly mated to the details of the restaurant while maintaining others wait for their table to be prepared. plates, sirloins, filet mignons, prime ribs, rich, French sauce. The Chateau Pont.et a sense of separation from the other Time passes quickly on the outdoor patio lamb, chicken and alternate combinations Canet wine we ordered was full bodied and patrons. Charming French glass doors catching the midsummer rays of the sun or of the above. drew out the broiled essence of our meals. allow diners to control the amount of watching the full moon set in the wesl. The diversified wine list contains The leisurely pace of our waiter enhanced privacy they wish. Typical of the French country style, selections to complement the full range of the whole dining experience. The main dining room is centralized; it dried herbs, seasonings and nowers are the menu. America, France, Italy, And only for you, dear reader, did we is the place to see and be seen. Located artistically displayed. Cases of the Germany, and Spain are represented on allow ourselves to descend to the depths of next to lhe well-stocked salad bar it exceptionally fresh ingredients excite the the reasonably priced list. One could decadence and almost in a whisper to the facilitates return trips for what was surely appetite, soothe the conscience of the indulge in a '75 Chateau Lafite waiter, did we order the delectable, the most irresistible spread we have ever naturalist and leave memorable Rothschild, propose a toast with any of delicious fried ice cream. Rolled in llakes seen. Couples sharing bottles of wine and impressions. the seven choices of champagne, or savor a and drizzled with chocolate we savored simple white wine from California. each wonderful bite. Other desserts too Knowledgeable waiters gladJy assist in the luscious to divulge will satisfy any sweet decision-making if encouraged. tooth. The Barnsider is the perfect solution for Only one note of dissidence could be couples or families with varying degrees of voiced. All restaurant personnel are hunger and desires to be satisfied at required to wear white lab coats. The reasonable prices. sterile jackets appear antiquated and We chose one of the new appetizers; incongruous with the lovely atmosphere at smoked salmon. It was delicate, light, the Mile and A Quarter. But this is melt-in-the-mouth delicious. Attractively certainly a small point that could easily be served on a bed of lettuce, encircled by remedied. crispy crackers and an enticing dip; it The many personalities of the different whetted our appetite for more. rooms, fresh, well prepared food, and As we enthusiastically made our way to friendly professionaJ service, make the the salad bar the attractive display of Mile and A ~r one of the best reasons fresh, crunchy, colorful vegetables tickled to eat out in Providence. our eyes. Exotic greens and salad This is a restaurant that lets you create concoctions will lure the wildest your own dining experience. herbivoire and maybe even convert a few Located on South Water Street, Mile staunch carnivors. Huge chunks of cheese and A Quarter features valet parking. Cost ripe for slicing compete with severaJ of the meal varies with choice; you can eat varieties of fresh baked loaves of bread. As well here very reasonably. Keith astutely put it after we had been Charles Logue, manager of the Mile and seduced into sampliqg all of the tempting A Quarter will be happy to discuss special items, .. I'm full. We should stop eating menus for gatherings. He is a sensitive, right now." Indeed the menu makes concerned manager, running a successful The new upstairs room at the Mile and A Quarter Restaurant is designed for provisions for making a meal at the salad eatery who personifies the Mile and A large groups to enjoy themselves. bu. Quarter's desire to please every person But that was not our fate. Indeed we had who comes through their door. Centrality To Judaism The cok,rful history of Iara.el, ita people place: the Covenant, our people, and the and ita faith - from biblical times to the Land itself. 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10 - THE RHUlJI!: ISLAND HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1985 American Heart Food Festival The American Heart Food Festival, the throughout the state will be offering heart first annual national nutrition event of the healthY menu specials and will also be Social Events American Heart Association, will be held removing salt shakers from tables on September 7-1 4 throughout Rhode Island. Friday of the Festival week. Blenkiron The event, focused in supermarkets and noted that "more and more people are restaurants is designed to create a greater looking for lighter foods when dining out awareness of the role nutrition plays in and restaurants across the country are overall health. beginning to respond to that. Their help Patricia Blenkiron, R.D., the makes it easier for all of us to maintain Joan Mazer And Andrew Field To Wed Association's Nutrition Committee good eating habits, even when we're not Chairperson and a nutritionist at Rhode cooking at home." Island Group Health Association, The American Heart Association announced the appointment of Tony recommends wise eating habits based on DiBiasio, "Spy in the Sky" fo r weight tontrol and reduced intake of WHJY-WHJJ radio, as statewide cholesterol, saturated fats, refined sugar Honorary Chairman. Blenkiron noted · and sodium, while still enjoying a full "we're trying to raise people's awareness of assortment of delicious foods. "We don 't diet and how it can contribute to high expect everyone to make major changes blood pressure, heart disease and stroke. during this week, but we do hope that There are simple changes we can all start through events like this people become to make to have wiser eating habits and more aware of t heir diet and the steps they the Heart Association is ready to help can take to lessen their risk of with information and guidance." cardiovascular disease. Each of us has to Locally, ALMACS, Star, Stop & Shop, take more responsibility for prevention by and A&P will display and distribute adopting healthier lifestyles and we're here nutrition information. Over 6,000 to help with that," Blenkiron emphasized. supermarkets nationwide are taking part For more information, contact the in the event. Participating restaurants Heart Association at 728-5300. Providence County Open Poetry Kennel Club Meets Reading In Providence County Kennel Club will Barrington hold its summertime dog show and An open poetry reading will be held on obedience trial at Victory Field on the the lawn of the Barrington Public Library grounds of Barrington High School. This on Monday, July 29 from 6:30 p.m.-7:30 favorite event will be Saturday, July 27, p.m. Participants are encouraged to bring with judging starting at 9 a.m. and their own poetry, or that of a favorite poet, continuing until the selection of best in to read aloud to the group. A beverage will show in the late afternoon by Mr. Les be provided by the library; bring a cold Kodner of Highland Park, Illinois. supper. The reading will be held indoors if For more information call 434-0101. it rains. Local B'nai B'rith Youth Elected Officers

Mr and Mrs. Lawrence H. Field of 16 Communication. Andrew is a staff Harvest Street Cranston, Rhode Island reporter and Feature talk show host for and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mazer of A.B.C. Televison, station WJLA-TV7 in Pikesville, Maryland take great pleasure Washington. in announcing the engagement of their Joan is a graduate of the University of children Andrew R. Field & Joan Lee Maryland, and is a tape editor/ producer Mazer of W a.shington, DC. Andrew is a for the BBC News Bureau based in graduate of Cranston West and Syracuse Washington. University, Newhouse School of An October 13th wedding is planned. Diahann Carroll Coming To Kutshers Milton Kut.sher, owner of Kutsher's of 15. Country Club, has announced that Tony Award winner, Oscar nominee, super•star Diahann Carroll is scheduled Las Vegas bead.liner and star of her own to appear on Saturday, August 3, in the Emmy•nominated television series Julia, elegant Stardust Room. Diahann Carroll bas likewise been Diahann Carroll is undeniably the consistently singled out as one of the con.au.mate entertainer. So varied and world's moet beautiful women and twice dynamic are her gifts that she seems to on the Ten Internationally Beat Dressed continually astound fans and critics alike List. Moet recently Harper's .8oUJcr who revel in her versatility and named her as one of the world's "Ten magnetism; qualities which have Most Beautiful women." Already a legend e.tablished Diahann Carroll as one of in the worlds of entertainment, glamour Sharon Le.er and Bradley Steinberg were elected officers at Annual B'nai A.merica'e major performing talent8. She and high fashion, Mias Carroll continues B'rith Youth Organization'• convention. has more than succeufully made the to aave a special place in her life for her transition from nightclubs to the long dedicated work with a boat of prised of over 40,000 teenagers of high Broadway ata,e to motion pictures and philanthropic cauaea, the most significant Bursting with smiles and enthusiasm, school age throughout the world. Members television - always garnering the highest of which brinp her in touch with minority two excited BBYO'ers were elected to can meet other Jewish youth from their plaudit& each element of the younpten in a variety of project& geared serve their peers for the 1985/86 program­ area or the other end of the country .. or entertainment world can bestow on its to fully realizing their capabilities and ming year at the Annual B'nai B'rith even other parts of the world. Every year, own while blazing major inroads in a &elf-esteem. Youth Organization's Spring Convention nearly 10,000 young people attend conven· profession she readily embraced at the age held at Camp Boumedale in Cedarville, MA. tions and leadership training seminars, Sharon Lesser of Natick, MA, was and living institutes of Judaism, ranging elected to serve as Regional N'siah (Presi­ from a weekend retreat to a summer of dent) ofB'nai B'rith Girls (BBG). Her du­ Jewish living, learning and leadersL,t> at Mlle and a Quarter ties will include presiding at all conven­ one of BBYO's camps or on an Israel Sum­ tions, programs, Executive and Regional mer Institute program in Israel. Restaurant 8r Lounge Board meetings. She will represent the re• Activities include athletics. social, cul­ gion on the International BBYO Board, tural, community service, religious and South Main Street, Providence, A.I. the New England Region BBYO Adu1t leadership training. Additional informa • Serving daily from 4:00 • 351 -7300 Board, North Shore, Greater Boston and tion may be obtained by contacting the Central New England Councils of B'nai regional office in Brookline, MA at (617) "The East Side's Gathering Place" B'rith Women. 566-2067. CATERING TO YOUR " UNIQUE" BANQUET NEEDS Bradley Steinbeig of Cranston. Rhode Island, was elected to serve as Regional Bat Mitzvahs, Wedding Receptions/Rehearsals, Business Dinfttlri;, Cocktail/Hors d'ouevres, Parties. Aleph Godol (President), and his duties AND SO MUCH MORE. will inlcude presiding at all regional meet­ Stop by or call tor details. ings, being an u officio member of all com• mittee8 and representing the region on the Top Sirloin Dinner Special everyday 4:30-s,30 National Executive Board, the New Eng­ Reg. '11 15 NOW '7" land Region BBYO Adu1t Board, and any B'nai B'rith Councih1 within the region's jurisdiction. I v-"""'"'AA- 1 BBYO l8 a youth- led organization com- THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 26, l985- 11 The Hospital ~ I lt}Q I I

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time in ls,ael th,owing up. He had to be ~ fed intravenously fo r a fu ll day and night to prevent further dehydration. I have been by his side constantly. The only time by Lilah Tov before putting on the hospital johnny. I see my mother is when she comes to Eli has been in the hospital since Then I carried Eli to his bed. Other relieve me fo r a few hours, so I can sleep in Wednesday - no, he was sick all day and mothers were in the room. Just then the a prone position. My ears are filled with night Wednesday and came to the Hillel doctors came in. I, along with the other the cries of shrieking infants, the sobs of Yaffa Hospital in Hadera on Thursday. mothers we re ushered, amongst tears and some child calling fo r his mother, the ultra He was utterly limp and had to be carried protests, from the ward. The door was loud conversations of the night shift in my arms. The emergency room was bolted. We, the mothers, looked at each nurses, and the solt plop of vomit packed with Israelis and Arabs. We had to other, and then we cried, while we held on splashing into a bedpan. wait. Eli became paler before my eyes. He to one another. The door opened. Each What is more, there are cockroaches in room thoroughly. The odor lies heavy. had been vomiting without cease and now mother stopped crying and without the hospital. Although it is late at night, I T hose insects that did not expire must he looked so frail. The examining doctor looking back went to the bedside of her am awake. I see one crawl down the wall , surely wish they had. c0ncluded that Eli was seriously child. onto the table next to the hospital bed and Yorn rishon. Eli is awakened with a dehydrated and had him admitted. It is now Saturday night. Eli is sleeping towards my teacup. After a scream from third injection. Six o'clock Sunday A nurse came to help prepare Eli for the quietly after a miniscular meal of me and a swat, it disappears. How it can morning, I wo nder if Eli and I will ever hospital bed. This procedure involved fo rbidden eshel (Yogurt) and mashed exist in this naphthelated air, I don't !~ave this place and get out into the open bathing the child in a lukewarm bath banana. Poor Eli has spent the bulk of his know. The nurses sprayed the children's COMING AUGUST 9th The R.I. Jewish Herald presents The Annual EDUCATION ISSUE CONTENTS: Jewish Education & Service Directory Rh ode Island School and College Directory SPECIAL FEATURES ON: Adult and continuing education programs Forum : Iss ues and Priorities for the R.I. community Profil es on educational leaders - Profiles on Jewish schools New Courses of Study WHERE TO SHOP Back to school supplies • fas hions * Advertising and editorial deadline August 6, 1985 Phone R.I. Jewish Herald Kathi Wnek P.O. Box 6063 724-0200 Providence,. R.I . 02940 ' 12 - THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1985 Why Children Public Demand Need Art Keeps "Baby" Arts & Entertainment The Office of Continuing Education of At Trinity Rhode Island School of Design will Trinity Square Repertory Company's sponsor a workshop entitled Why tM Arts production of the musical Baby will be in a Child's Development? on Tuesday, extended for six more performances due to August 14 from 7 - 10 pm . The evening public demand. The play, in the will be free as a service to the community. downstairs theatre, will have its last David Gold Exhibits Medicine Show Dr. Bart O'Connor, Superintendent of the performance at 9:00 p.m., Saturday, Attleboro School System and president of August 3. Photos In Pawt. Magic At the Massachusetts Alliance for Arts in The additional performances for Baby Education will discuss the value of the are: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, The Pawtucket Arts Council has arts in a student's development; Children's Museum Friday (July 30, 31, August I , 2) at 8 p.m. photographs by David M. Gold on exhibit intellectual, social, and creative. Saturday (August 3) at 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. at the Pawtucket Arts Council Gallery The Children's Museum of Rhode O'Connor was one of 12 educators located in Pawtucket City Hall. The Island offers weekly activities and Baby - with book by Sybille Pearson, selected nationally as an outstanding music by David Shire, and lyrics by photographs will be on display until performances for summertime fun. The superintendent for the arts by the August 30. Great Interplanetary Soapbox Revival will Richard Maltby, Jr. - is a spirited Kennedy Center of Washington, DC. musical that celebrates the joy, the Mr. Gold is a former resident of present an old time medicine show at 2 Slides and written materials will be uncertainty, and the humor of becoming a Pawtucket and now resides in North p.m. on Tuesday, July 30. The show mixes included in this workshop which will Smithfield. He is President of Gold magic, juggling and music in a delightful parent. Three couples of different stress the importance of active experience generations face parenthood, and as Industrial Machinery, Inc., located in "potion" that is guaranteed to cure any in the arts to every child's education. It Pawtucket. Mr. Gold uses his native ailment of the spirit. they move from first exhilaration to final will help parents and teachers of children panic, we see how the promise of Rhode Island as the setting of many of his Drop-in workshops to complement the ages 5 - 17 understand that no matter childbirth delivers both tenderness and photographs. Seven of the seventeen visit by The Soapbox Revival will be what the education and career direction of comedy. With endearing characters, photographs on display are of Rhode offered on Saturday, July 27 from I to 3 the student, experience in the arts wonderful lyrics, and irresistable music, Island. The various Rhode Island scenes p.m., Tuesday, July 30 from 12:30 to 2 provides creative modes by which Baby is an entertaining labor of love. include Fourth of July at McCoy Stadium, p.m., and Wednesday, July 31 from 10 students can enrich their total Baby is directed by William the opening of the Arcade in Providence, a.m. to 12 noon. Museum visitors will be development. Emphasis y,,ill be placed on Damkoehler, with musical direction by the backwoods and lakes of North invited to mix magic potions of their own the idea that the arts challenge and Richard Cumming, set design by Robert Smithfield, Mr. Gold's stable in North and to experiment with "scientific" extend the total learning process of the Smithfield, and the East Side of D. Soule, lighting design by John F. phenomena. child. They provide an important means Custer, and costume design by William Providence. The exhibit also includes On Thursday, August 1, the of expression that goes far beyond Lane. The cast includes Barbara Orson, photographs of Martha's Vineyard, "Storymakers" exhibit will be the setting everyday reading, writing, and speaking. Keith Jochim, Anne Scurria, Richard Vermont and Arrezo, a quaint Italian city vi.sits by two professional storytellers, Len The arts are basic: as means of in northern Italy. Cabral and Bernice Bronson. Both will tell Ferrone, Becca Lish, David PB communication, as historical statements Stephens, Patricia Ann Thomas, and One of Mr. Gold's favorite pastimes is stories and encourage children to make up of various cultures and civilizations, and Derek Meader. horseback riding. He has combined his and act out their own stories. Mr. Cabral as unique forms of exploring, knowing, With the Summer Package Special, talents as a photographer and rider by will be at the Museum from 10:30 to 1:30 and understanding. ticket buyers can purchase a ticket for experimenting with taking photographs a.m.; Ms. Bronson fr_o_m l to 2 p.m. Information on all of RISD's Youth while riding his horse. lee Music, Stable, Baby and get a ticket for Not by Bed Alone Programs - which are available through at half price. Not by Bed Alone, the riotous Winter Corral, and Snowbed, which are all There is no charge for these activities or the Office of Continuing Education, part of the exhibit, are examples of some performances beyond the regular farce by Georges Feydeau, opens in the Teacher Education, and the Museum of air-conditioned downstairs theatre on of his work taken from horseback. admission fee of $2 per person. Museum Art - will be presented at this workshop. Mr. Gold has exhibited his work at the members admitted free. The Children's August 9. This offer expires August 3, and Space is limited, so anyone interested is is good except Saturdays, 9 p.m. Both Art Association of Newport and has his Museum's summer hours are: encouraged to register as soon as possible work hanging in private collections in the Tuesday-Thursday and Saturday, 9:30 to tickets must be purchased at the same by calling the Continuing Education time. United States and Europe. 5 p.m.; Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon; Office at (401) 331-3511, extension 282. The Pawtucket Arts Council Gallery is Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. A group rate for 10 or For reservations and information about located on the first and second floors of more is available with advance these productions or subscribing to Pawtucket City Hall. Hours are reservations. Call 726-2591 for more E. Greenwich Trinity Rep's upcoming 22nd Seaaon, call Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. information. The Children's Museum is the Box Office at (401 ) 351-4242, or visit Call the Pawtucket Arts Council at located at 58 Walcott Street in Pawtucket; the Box Office at 201 Washington, St., Festival Prov. 725-1151 for more information. call 726-2590 for directions. lt'S ~ere the action isat the East Green­ wich Summer Festival '85 being presented Cross Mills Gallery by the Chamber of Commerce on Saturday, July 27. Opening at 9:00 a.m. the Festival Features features 36 separate events and will con­ SPECIAL EDITIONS tinue until midnight when they play Good Watercolors Night Ladies, the last dance at the 50's Dance at the Greenwich Hotel Ballroom. The Cross Mills Gallery will feature the Coming in Hotel Ballroom. watercolors of Marion McAusland, "We're expecting a Banner Year," opening on August 10. McAusland is a declares Cynthia Greaves, Festival local painter who finds excitement in the The Herald Director for the Chamber. "The support sky and the sea of Rhode Island. She from the various merchants, civic and paints out-of-doors in front of an old barn, fraternal groups has been outatanding. In a church, or a Victorian house. Usually it addition to the entertainers and other is Rhode Island but she has wandered as events, there will be about 150 or more far afield as Rockport, Mass., and the August 9th booths displaying quality arts and crafts Virgin Islands. McAusland is also showing and many of the merchants are offering some small monoprints printed with Festival Day SPEC{!.LS. watercolor paint that are particularly THE ANNUAL Once again, there will be no problem successful. She studied at RISO and more parking as a Ripta Shuttle Bus will be recently with Frank Webb and Betty Lou available along Main Street from 9:00 Schlemm. EDUCATION ISSUE a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Following the McAusland show the The Entertainers and the events are as gallery wi ll have a group show with an follows: The Apollo's, Art Show, Stephen outdoor festival over the Labor Day M. Baird-Street Singer, The Bierhaus weekend. The Cross Mills Gallery is September 13th Band, Ron Bianco & Bilbo, Walter located in Charlestown on Route IA Boruta, Jr., Chamber Business across from the library. It is open EIJ>Osition, The Chili Brothers, The Dixie Thursday through Sunday from 10 to 5. NEW YEAR'S " Jlh;i it b~ y...,. .,;I\ ton"'"' All Stars, Lee Davis & Friends,. 5.,,.,a,• ..1.w 1-,ut~....,.1R Narragansett Electric Energy Van, Fiddlin' Around; Fifties Dance, Fred Forbidden ISSUE 5746 Flintstone, Bill Hall & the Northwind Blue Grass, Hotay-Totsies, Jabberwocky, Broadway Continues The Lafayette Band, Library Used Book ,. .. ,. September 16, 1985 Sale, Lobster Boil, Magic of Mage, Marek In Boston Morrison, the Clown, Plant Clinic, Puddles the Clown, Rhode leland Forbidden Broadway, Gerard .. ,. .. ROSH HASHANAH Alessandrini's hit musical comedy revue, Bavarian Band, Mike Riviera & the Boozo continues playing in the Terrace Room, Band, Road Race (1 mile fun), Road Race Boston Park Plaza Hotel. Starring Jeff (5 Kilometer), Satinwood, Shuttle Bannon, Toni DiBuono. Brad Ellis, Karen Bus-Lobster Boil, Shuttle Bus- Ript.a, Soap Box Derby, Sweet Ad.lines, Murphy and Bob Rogerson, Forbidden Broadway roasts and toast.a Broadway's Terpsichore, The Wal king Carrot and the brightest stars and hits, including Yul October Wickford Express. Brynner, Carol Channing, Ethel Merman, Cats, Euita and Annie. Performance 4th schedule through August: Tuesday Craftsmen Wanted through Friday at 8 p.m., at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Saturday, and at 5 p.m. on The East Providence Citizens' Sunday. Special matinee on Wednesday, Scholarship Foundation, Inc. (CSF) is August 14 at 2 p.m. Ticke ts are priced at seeking local artiste and craftsmen to $1 5 for Tuesday through Thul'Miay participate in the 4th Annual Country evenings, at $18 for Friday and Satunlay Christmas Bazaar and Crafts Fair which evenings, and at $16 for Sunday will be held on Saturday, November 2 performancee. For information, and to from IO a.m. to 4 p.m. at East Providence charge ticket.a by phone, call the A.I. Jewish Herald P.O. B01 6063 Providence, R.I. 02940 Senior High School, 2000 Pawtucket Forbidden Broadwqy bo:1 office at (61 7) Avenue. 357-8384. T HE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1985 - 13 British Youth Orchestra The King And I Charms Audiences In Matunuck To Visit Westerly The Hampshire County Youth Orchestra, a 110-member group of British musicians between the ages of 13 and 19, will be in Westerly from August 1 through August 4. They will be presenting two concerts in the area during their stay. On Friday, August 2, the Orchestra will perform at the Center for the Arts, 119 High Street, at 8 pm. Their program will consist of Edward Elgar's Overture "Cockaigne", Andrzej Panufnik's Concerto Festivo, and R. Vaughan Williams "A London Symphony." The concert will be preceded at 6 pm by an English country picnic under a tent on the Center's side lawn. Tickets for both dinner and concert are $10. For the concert along, tickets will be $7 .50, with a senior citizens' and students' discount price of $6.00. For reservations, call the Center at (401) 596-2854 from 9 am to 5 pm Tuesdays through Fridays. On Saturday, August 3, the young musicians will appear at Christ Church at 7 Elm Street at 7:30 pm. They will perform works by Handel, Bach, · Woolfenden and Dvorak, concluding with Poulenc's concerto for organ, strings and timpani. Tickets will be $4.00 with a seniors citizens' and students' discount price of $3.00 and will be on sale at the door. The Hampshire County Youth Gay Willis is Tuptim in Tom Zemow is Lun Tha, Orchestra members are drawn from the Theatre-by-the-Sea's pro- another rising star in the schools of Hampshire, a county of 1.2 _duction of The King and I. delightful cast of The King million situated midway along the douth and I in Matunuck. coast of the United Kingdom. They are no One of America's best-loved musicals, with memorable tunes including / Whistle stranger to travel, having toured the Badolato, scenery by Michael Meister, which has been playing to packed houses a Happy Tune, Getting to Know You, costumes by Cecilia Friederichs, lighting midwestern United States in 1976 for the on BroadV:.:ay, The King and I, will be Hello Young Lovers and Something Bicentennial and Australian in 1979, by Benjamin White. Jay Dias is the presented by Tommy Brent at Wonderful. The cast of more than thirty, where they performed in the world-famous Musical Director and Douglas Besterman Theatre-by-the-Sea, Matunuck, Rhode in addition to the New York company Sydney Opera House. In 1982 they visited is Assistant Musical Director. Island, through August 18. with music by includes twelve young children from the Performances of The King and I will be Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. Richard Rodgers and book and lyrics by area. Christine Hunter is featured in the The Orchestra broadcasts regularly on given Tuesday through Friday evenings at Oscar Hammerstein, this exciting musical role of Anna, Gary Flynn plays the King, the radio and have appeared on several 8:30 p.m., Saturdays at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., is based on the novel, Anna and the King Gay Willis is Tuptim, Lucy Sortucco is occasions on national television from and Sundays at 7 p.m. Matinees are on of Siam by Margaret Landon and tells the Lady T hiang, and Tom Zemon is Lun Wednesdays, at 2 p.m. For tickets, phone London. Many ex-members have become true story of the English school teacher Tha. professional musicians with the Montreal (401) 789- 1094 or write Theatre­ who sent to Bangkok to teach the children This production has been directed by Symphony, the London Philharmonic, by-the-Sea, Matunuck, R.I. 02879. of the King of Siam. The show is filled Bruce Lumpkin, choreographed by Dan London Mozart Players, English National Opera, the Ulster Orchestra, the Royal Annual Wooden Ballet, the Boumeinouth Symphony Concert Pianist Musicals By The Sea Orchestra as well as in classrooms, colleges Boat Show and military bands. At Blithewold Theatre-by-the-Sea, Matunuck. Rhode Their conductor, Edgar Holmes, is a A recital by concert pianist Island, is currently presenting a series of In Newport graduate of the University of Mary-Elizabeth Keymel will be presented musicals fo r children on Fridays during Southampton and has spent a large part of by the Summer Concerts by-the-Bay July and August at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. NEWPORT - The celebration of the his professional life in music education. In Series at Blithewold Gardens and Huckleberry Finn is playing July 26 and delicate art of wooden boatbuilding will 1962 he won a Fulbright Award to teach in Arboretum, Ferry Rd., Bristol, R.I., on August 2. Floating down the Mississippi take place August 15-18 at the 5th Annual the United States for the academic year July 28 at 7 p.m. Music by J.S. Bach, Huckleberry and Jim, a runaway slave, Wooden Boat Show in Newport, Rhode and since then he has been a frequent Faure, Beethoven and Chopin will be find life filled with excitement and the Island. Over 140 exhibitors from across visitor, working with American Yo uth featured. spi rit of adventure. Join Huck and J im the country will participate in the show Symphonies. He became Staff Conpuctor and their old friend Tom Sawyer as they bringing their finest rowing, sail and for the Hampshire County Yo uth Although Ms. Keymel has performed in come up against some odd characters who powercraft. "The special variety of Orchestra in 1971. recitals in New York, Washington, D.C. are after Huck"s treasure. Currently exhibitors and activities at this year's For more information on the visit of the and throughout the U.S., as well as in playing is the Wizard of Oz on July 12 and show will ensure an atmosphere of the Hampshire County Youth Orchestra or Florence and Arezzo in Italy, she is a 19: Snow White plays August 9 and 16: celebration," said Abby Murphy, boat either of their concerts while in Westerly, relative newcomer to the New England and Beauty and the Beast is the fi nal show mana}!;er. contact Allen Gates, Executive Director of music community. Her 1985 recital production on August 23 and 30. Tickets For more information on The the Center for the Arts at (401) 596-2854. schedule will, however, include for all shows are $2.75 each. with group Celebration of the Wooden Boat Show, appearances at the Nantucket '':(rts rates of twenty or more priced at $2.50 please call The Newport Yachting Center, Council , the French Library in Boston and each. · (401) 846-1600. Concert Remembers the Fogg Museum in i:::a mbridge. This fall The Preservation Society of Newport she will perform in Angers, France for the County will present a band concert on the France-Etat-Unis organization. Ben Weiss Enterprises ground.~ of the Victorian mansion, A native of Rochester, N.Y., Ms. Kingscote on Sunday, July 28, from 4 p.m.' Keymel earned a Bachelor in Fine Arts Introduces to 6 p.m. The event is part of a series held degree (magna cum laude) in 1973 from to celebrate the Society's 40th Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri anniversary. and a Master of Music/Piano Tickets for In the Good Old Performance degree in 1977 from the Summertime may be purchased, for $10 Co llege-Conservatory of Music, per family (two adults and their children) University of Cincinnati, Ohio. The music for Preservation Society members and $15 faculty at the Co llege-Conservatory per family for nonmembers, from the presented her with the Outstanding Preservation Society at 118 Mill Street, Graduate Student Award in piano. Newport, RI., 02840. Since its founding, the Society has opened and maintained She has served as assistant professor of six mansions and a topiary garden, in music at Xavier University in Cincinnati, addition to Kingscote. All properties are Ohio and currently coaches in New York A New Dining Club Concept For now open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. City with Ana Maria Trenchi de Bottazzi. until October 31. For a free color For further information ca ll (401) Both Restaurants & Members brochure, wri te or call the Preservation 253 -2707. Adult tickets are $4.00; student and junior tickets are $2.00. Society at (401) 847-1000. FUTURE MEMBERS Complete Watch For Information regarding Listing of Maintenance CORSI Fine Restaurants and Membership Costs. 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A pioneering discovery by a prominent maturity, where growth normally stops. In New York cancer scientist and leader of malignant cells, this pathway is blocked. Obituaries the Israel Cancer Research Fund has given When the block is removed by the impetus to the testing of radically new compounds which induce differentiation, anticancer drugs on humans, offering hope the ce lls behave like their normal of treatment that will be far less toxic to counterparts." patients than conventional therapies. Dr. Friend's discovery stimulated an Dr. Charlotte Friend, director of the intensive search for chemical agents that might convert cancer cells to normal ones. DA YID WEINSTEIN Mr. Ginsberg was an Army veteran of Center of Experimental Cell Biology at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York and a Today's innovative drug therapies seek to BROOKLINE, Mass. David World War II. do just that. Weinstein, 64, of 50 Longwood Ave., died He leaves a sister, Mrs. Dora Ail of charter member of the Israel Cancer Research Fund, first began her studies of How Cells Develop Thursday, July 18, at Worcester City Portland, Ore. The belief that the new "differentiation Hospital. He was the husband of Florence A graveside·service was held at Lincoln so-called "differentiation modifiers" in 1970. The newly-developed therapies - modifiers" might prove effective is based (Adelberg) Weinstein. Park Cemetery. Arrangements were by on the long-held concept that cancerous Born in Savannah , Ga., a son of the late Mount Sinai Memorial Chapel, 825 Hope now being tested on humans fo r the first time - are a direct outgrowth of that cells are normal cells stuck at an immature Isaac and Fanny (Mork) Weinstein, he St., Providence. st.age of development where they are lived in Cranston for 15 years until earlier work. Converting Cancer Cells unable to differentiate - that is, to retiring. develop into mature and specialized cells Mr. Weinstein was a medical attendant Henry Segal Dead To Normal Ones In contrast to standard chemotherapy, able to perform specific functions needed at Worcester State Hospital for 12 years in the body. In the normal course of before retiring a year ago. He was in the At 84 which seeks to kill cancer cells, the new drugs aim to halt the uncontro lled development, ce lls begin as immature stem Fifth Army Artillery in World War II. CINCINNATI, (JTA) - Funeral behavior of cancer cells and restore them cells and then, in the process known as Besides his wife he leaves two sons, H. services were held fo r Henry Segal, fo r 55 to a more normal pattern of behavior. differentiation, gradually develop more Joshua Weinstein of Westfield, N.J ., and years editor and publisher of T he Clinical trials on the most promising of complicated characteristics that allow Kenneth A. Weinstein of Boston; a American Israelite, the oldest American the new differentiation modifiers - them to function as red blood cells, bone daughter, Rochelle Storfer of St. Louis Jewish weekly in the United States. He known as HMBA, or hexamethylene cells, liver ce lls, or other important ce lls in Park, Minn.; two brothers, Alvin died last Thursday at the Glen Manor bisactamide - are taking place at J ohns the body. Weinstein of Jacksonville, Fla., and Abe Home for t he Aged in Cincinnati. He was Hopkins University and the University of Normally, cells reach a stage of full Weinstein of Fall River; a sister, Eva Maryland and will soon begin at Memorial maturity at which they finally stop Myers of Providence, and five S4 years old. Bom in Chillicothe, Ohio, Segal Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New dividing and proliferating. In cancerous grandchildren. graduated from Ohio State University in York. cells, however, the genetic instructions A funeral service was held Sunday at 1922 and again in 1923 with degrees in The search for differentiation modifiers that govern their progressive growth Priest Memorial Chapel, Lincoln Park Liberal Arts and Journalism. He worked was given major impetus by the somehow become blocked, many scientists Cemetery, Warwick. Arrangements were for a brief period as a reporter fo r the experiments of Dr. Friend and her believe. As a result, the ce lls keep dividing by the Max Sugarman Funeral Home, Akron Press and came to Cincinnati in colleagues. In 1970 she added the drug and proliferating out of control, never Inc., 458 Hope St., Providence, R.I. 1923 to join the staff of the Cincinnati dimethyl sulfoxide, or DMSO, to a reaching the terminal stage of full Post where he served as copyeditor, laboratory culture of mouse leukemia ce lls. maturity and normal functioning. DA YID HALPRIN assistant city editor and assistant The addition of DMSO, she discovered, According to Dr. Friend, there are now PROViDENCE - David Halprin, 77, managing editor until 1928 when he caused virtually all of the leukemia ce lls to many modifiers under investigation. of the Wayland Health Center died became managing editor of the Israelite. begin functioning like normal red blood These agents appear to push the cell back Friday, July 19 at the center. In 1930, Segal became the Israelite's cells. to its normal course of development and Bom in New Bedford, Mass., a son of editor and publisher. He retired from t he This, Dr. Friend noted, was the first stop its end.less proliferation. the late Albert and Bessie (Superia) paper in December, 1982. He was also a time anyone had learned how to "The importance clinically of this type Halprin, he lived in Providence for five part-time correspondent for The New deliberately cause a malignant ce ll to of therapy is that it would not harm years. He previously lived in Miami, Fla., York Times for some 30 years and taught revert to normal behavior by applying a normal cells but would selectively affect and Detroit. journalism at the University of chemical agent. the growth potential of malignant cells," Mr. Halprin was vice president of the Cincinnati. . "Before this finding," said Dr. Friend, Dr. Friend said, adding: Refrigerator Wholesale Co., Detroit, fo r 14 Segal was also active in community "it was widely believed that the "There is hope that such compounds years before retiring 11 years ago. activities throughout his career. In t he malignancy of cells was irreversible. What may assume a valuable role in cancer He leaves two daughters, Mrs. Marcia early I930's, he was a founder of t he our work showed," she added, "was that treatment." Caplan of Stamford, Conn., and Paula Jewish Community Relations Council of this not so. Malignant cells still carry the Charter Founder Of ICRF Halprin of Brookline, Mass.; a son, Ronald Cincinnati. He served on the Boards of 'computer' that contains the program In 1975, Dr. Friend joined Dr. Daniel G. Halprin of New Bedford; eight sisters, both organizations for many years and on directing them to the pathway to Miller of the Strang Clinic and several of Mrs. Muriel Rakatansky, Mrs. Jenny the advisory board of t he Big Brothers the nation's leading oncologists as a Zitserman, Mrs. Nancy Halprin-Golden association here and on the Boards of charter founder of the Israel Cancer and Mrs. Leia Feital, all of Providence, Rockdale Temple and former United Research Fund. Since the Fund's Mrs. Minnie Horvitz of New Bedford, Jewish Social Agencies here. His brother formation, Dr. Friend has been a member Mrs. Fanny Lemchen of Framingham, is Robert Segal, former head of the Jewish CARD OF THANKS of the executive council of the Scientific Mass., Mrs. Evelyn Stern of Natick, Community Council of Greater Boston We wish to extend our heartfelt Review Panel that acts on grant Mass., and Mrs. Libby Bikofsky of and long-time columnist for the World thanks to all our family and friends applications from young Israeli physicians Norwood, Mass.; two brothers, Orcha News Service/Seven Arts Feature for their much appreciated thought• and scientists. Halprin of New York City, Meyer Halprin Syndicate. fulness during the recent loss of our For the 1985-86 academic year, ICRF of Miami Beach, Fla., and two beloved son, Steven Webber. allocated yearly $600,000 to support grandchildren. Betty and Marshall Webber innovative studies by 43 scientists at A private service was held yesterday at and sons, universities, hospitals and research Lincoln Park Cemetery, Warwick. Alan, Jimmy and Paul institutions in Israel. In all, ICRF - the Arrangements were by Mount Sinai largest private source of funding for cancer CARD OF THANKS research in Israel - has awarded $2.7 Memorial Chapel, 825 Hope St., The family of Jacob "Jack " Providence. million in grants to encourage cancer Wasser wishes to thank all of their studies in Israel. family and friends for their many MORRIS GINSBERG cards and generous donations made WARWICK - Morris Ginsberg, 77, of in hlll memory. 31 Hutchinson St., a former self-employed Doris Wasser upholsterer, died Sunday, July 21 at Kent County Memorial Hospital. Complimentary Born in Ruasia, a son of the late Gershon and Rose Ginsberg, he lived in Jewish New Year Calendars are available Warwick since 1920. 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Andrea Ilsen is shown receiving her certificate from Dr. Robert Young, chairman of the Bureau's certification committee. Barry Dana is looking on.

ion Gribetz, on leave from teaching at the seventh grader in a Jewish school, the Elkin Midrasha and Temple Torat Yisrael, award entails a financial prize and inclu• Resnik scholars shown w ith their plaques are: Erik Mehlma n (Temple were awarded teacher certification. Mar­ sion in a handsome plaque mounted at the Hab~ni~ Re ligious School)_, Scott Moskol (Temple Sinai Religious School), ion Gribetz was unable to attend the meet­ Bureau. This year's award winner is David Ma~J~r1e lnga ll (Harry Elkm Midrasha) and Dav id Her man (Temple Beth-El ing since she was studying in Israel in the Miller of Temple Torat Yisrael Religious Rehg1ous School). Not shown is Shar ona Weinberg of the New England prestigious Jerusalem Fellows program of School. David won the prize because of his Academy of Torah. the Hebrew University. academic achievements and outstanding Jay Balaban, a student at the New Eng­ essay. Howard Gold of the Lodge is shown The Annual Meeting of the Bureau of dards possible in its teaching personnel. land Academy of Torah, received the Ru­ pointing out David's Award to the assem­ Jewish Education highlighted the honor­ Just as competency testing of teachers is a binstein Music Prize from Dr. Michael blage. ing of teachers and students for their out­ key issue in secular education, Jewish edu­ Rubinstein. Jay, a stud~nt of piano for 13 Through a Jewish Federation of RI. En­ standing achievements in Jewish educa­ cators too are concerned with the insuring years, won the prize because of his many dowment Fund Grant, the Resnik family tion. the greatest professionalism among their contributions to the musical life of NEAT. has chosen to memorialize the late Nathan One of the import.ant functions of the colleagues. Andrea llsen, a teacher at the A major force behind the NEAT band.Jay Resnik. Presented to the most accom­ Bureau is to press fo r the highest stan- Solomon Scheehter Day School, and Mar- is called upon to play the piano for all the plished graduates of Jewish high school affairs of Providence Hebrew Day School programs, the Resnik award includes a and New England Academy of Torah. substantial fi nancial prize and an attrac­ A new prize was awarded at the Bureau's tive plaques. The financial prizes are gen­ Annual Meeting: The Philip Glanzman - erally awarded at the student's graduation; Roger Williams LodgeofB'nai B'rith Edu• the plaques are presented at the Bureau's cation Award. Given to the outstanding annual meeting. -~~lt~M ~UM~ 725-0100 To Celebrate Our Birthday ... 10% OFF All Silk Arrangements (Valued over 815.00) A Beautiful Way To Say ""We~re Over One Year Old:.. Corne r of N. Main St. & Hillside Ave. Howard Gold presenta award to outstanding scholar, David Miller. Dlllf(o n 11. lly 11.crot111 from Sc11.f'!I

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