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Rhode Isla nd, 130 28, the anicle said that in the Sessions St. , Provi ea rl y 90s, rhe base grant from dence , RI 02906. the United \'/lay dropped to Telephone 401-421- Holocaust Updates $ 106,000. In fact, it dropped 4111 ; FAX 401-331- Museum founder "responsibility" to find out by $ 106 ,000 from 7961 ; e-mail his fate. [email protected] . ISSN relinquishes chair $33 1,000 to $225,000. Do number 1078-7232. Wallenberg , a Swedish WASHINGTON, DC - nordesignation amounting ro diplomat employed by the National and interna Miles Lerman , chair of the $4 0,000 then brought the in US War Refugee Board, tional news is gathered US Holocaust Memorial come from United Way ro from Jewish Telegraph ic Museum these last six saved thousands of Agency , Wo rl d Zionist $265,000, a loss of $66,000. years and a driving force Hungarian Jews from the Press Office , general By 1999, the total funds behind its creation , has Nazis. He was last seen media, etc. Member: Supplies are being loaded from plane to truck at from United \'/lay had dimin American Jewish Press being taken into custody by Caracas airport. The boxes were marked "from the stepped down five months Assoc .. ; Inte rn ational the Soviet Union on ished further to $240,000. people of Israel to the people of Venezuela," and were after an independent report Jewish Media Assoc . January 17 , 1945. It is Combined with the $337,000 sent in the aftermath of recent floods to Congress criticized him Publisher: Jewish for interfering too much in possible that Wa llenberg, allocated by the Jewish Fed Federation of Rhode then age 32 , is still alive, eration of Rhod e Island , the Is land: the day-to-day operations of but most believe he is dead. Center rece ived funds from Robert Mann , President National Notes the Museum. Steven Rakitt , Executive Lerman, nea rl y 80, said he Why has n't his fa te been rh e two sources totali ng Vice Presi dent resolved? David Harri s, Arab blasts charged with killing a gay will remain on the 55- $577,000 for FY 2000. Editor-i n-c hi ef: head of th e AJ Committee, Jane Sprague couple in Californi a ha s member board, adding W hile th at is more than Anti-Jewish commented, "This is not Production Assistant: admitted to planning th e "Th is mu se um is my life." rheJCC received in 1986, Ex about nuclea r weapons. It's Leah Camara cartoon arson attacks on three Lerm an, who was born in ecu tive Director Vivian about the fate of one man, Editorial Board: LOS ANGELES - James northern California syna Poland , was captured by Wisema n says th e Center suf Joshua Stein , PhD but not just any man." Chairman Zogby, who heads th e Arab gogues last summer and to th e Nazi s and imprisoned in fers a loss in purchasi ng power Members: Stanley Aron American Institute in personally torching the a slave labor ca mp. In when the gra nt income is fac son , MO , Alan Axelrod , Washington, DC , con largest one. 1942, he escaped and tored for inA atio n. Patricia Cohen, Mark demned an anti-Jewish form ed a re sistance group Feinstein , Linn Freed Benjamin Matthew Wi lliams, ca rtoon that appeared that spent the next two man, Rabbi Alvan Kaun 31 , told reporters during a Israeli Items fer, Eleanor Lewis , Toby alongside an essay of his in jailhouse interview that as years fighting the Nazis in London , Doris McGarry, the official Palestinian many as eight other white the forests of southeastern Robert Riesman, Authority newspaper. Poland. Really going from strength to strength! Richard Shein , Gladys supremacists joined in the Sollosy , Norman Tilles , Appearing on December 28 June 18 arson spree in the Representative Ralph JERUSALEM Judith Romney Wegner, in th e daily Al-Haya! AI Sacramento area. Regula , whose committee - The Entre Alan Zuckerman. ordered the scrutiny, Jadida, it depicted an old Williams told two reporters preneurial Advertising Represen man , labeled "20th Cen praised Lerman's service Incubator at tative: Seena Taylor from the Sacramento Bee and said, "Without him there Correspondents: tury," and a young man , that the "success" of the Israel's would n't be a museum." Betty Aronson , Stanley labeled "21st Century," and firebombings emboldened Technion Aronson , Joshua between them a short Jew him to slay the gay couple University has Edelglass , JJ Goldberg , with a hooked nose, developed Terna Gouse , Yehuda two weeks later in what he Where's Lev sk ullca p and Star of David, termed "homicides." Wallen berg? Flexibeam, a Photographers : labeled "The disease of the mixture of The arson spree evidently Is now a good time to Seymour Glantz, Bi ll century." rubber-like was some kind of in itiation Sprague pressure th e Russian synthetic Zogby wrote the editor, into a racist organization, Advertising Deadline: government to resolve the materi als, metals and metal composites that is ideal for _ Advertising space must "Since such anti-semitic which Williams refused to longtime mystery of Raoul paramedics' stretchers because it is collapsible, lightweight be reserved by the 1st of cartoons are harmful both identify. He said that to "get Wa llenberg's disappear the month . The Voice to the Jewish people and (only Bibs) and yet strong enough to hold the weight of into the organization you ance during World War II ? does not accept also to th e Palestinian and three or fou r grown men . advertisements for pork had to get involved in a The American Jewish Arab people, I urg e you to Because every mechanical structure is based on support or shellfish, or attest to group activity to do some Committee thinks so . the kas hru t of any refrain from including such beams , Flexibeam has very wide application for su ch items thing of signifi ca nce for the William Korey, author of the product. For information as firemen 's ladders, folding bed s, shelving , pergolas, material in your paper in th e movement." He said he call 421 -4111 , or e-mail AJCommittee-published, oars, tents, yacht stanchions, scaffolding , antennae, future ." personally assembled the to [email protected]. "The Wal lenberg Mystery; electric poles, traffic signs, even solar panels. 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Peace with Syria? A view from Lebanon by Etienne Sacre Guardians of the Cedars - National Lebanese Movement Ever since rhe Madrid Confere nce in 1990, wesrern di plomaric circles, and in particu lar rhose of rhe Uni ted States, are exerting im mense and sustained efforts ro achi eve a peace creary between Damascus and Tel Av iv sim ilar ro the ones concluded with other counrri es of the region, in order ro cl ose the lase remaining lin k in the peace process.
And despite these long yea rs of effo rt, no appre ciable res ults were o btained . Yet the diplomacy of the West still perseveres, believing that Syria is ge nuinely des irous ro achieve peace and is sin cere in its engagements and intentions.
We, however, are firmly convinced rhat the Sy ri an regime is nor eager for peace, and that all its decl arations in chis respect are contrary ro its real intentions. ln line with its obvious covert policy, the positive ideas and proposals it emits every now and rh en, are nothing bur political maneuve rs aimed at conditio ning national and international public opinion and ro whi le the rime away.
The fo ll owin g fac es prove our contention:
• T he Syrian regim e still harbors and supports all the Pales tinian organiza ri ons and ch e many re rrorisr gro ups openl y opposed co peace. W hile it denounces all the organisms char support =====Letters peace, it backs all the belligerent forces and bellows slanders against the Pales tinian Au Free Vanunu Light a candle thority every rime it reaches a new deal wi th Recently, Ran Cohen, Israel's lndustry and Israe l. On a gloomy w inter's day, I a([ended a so much time in fi nd ing ho m es for them . Trade minister, said, "A great disgrace has ServiceofWo rship a nd Tha nksgiving for the • The Sy ri an regime still occupies Lebanon, not been wiped from our fa ce." C ohen's refer I listened cl osely as her children, grandchil Life of Martha Sharp Cogan at M anni ng only in ord er to undermine Israel and ea r up her ence was t0 the dismantling of the shrine in dren a nd fri ends o ffered examples of M artha C hapel, Brown University. Upo n entering resources, but also to wield hi s enormous assets Qiryat Arba on the W es t Bank co mass being the kind, giving person who m ade the to fi ght Israel on the political, security, diplo the chapel, l was offered a candle that at the murderer Baruch Goldstein. It is co the credit wo rld a better place in her quiet yet purpose matic and pro paganda level s. Ir has in effect conclusio n of the service was lit as a soloist of the government oflsrael that th is so-called ful ways. T here was no defini te answer as to rurned Lebanon into a battle field aga inst Israel sang these words. shrine to the murderer of 29 Muslims was why she chose to becom e a heroine. Perhaps by providing logisti cal and fin ancial support to eliminated . U nfortunately, a miscarriage o f Light a candle fo r the child who sleeps it's just as well. the terrori sts. justice of parallel pro po rtio ns still ex ists in in the cold. Life and death a re full of mysteri es that will • T he Sy ri an regi me is in furi ated by the Israel i light a candle; let our heart's com Israel with the continued imprisonment of never be solved . Ln sread each of us must decision co withdraw unilaterall y fr om So uth passion unfold Mordechai Vanunu, a fo rmer Israel nuclear search fo r o ur own paths of insp iration to Lebanon. T hi s decision ca uses it grea t embar A light will make the darkness seem industry worker who has been jail ed in Israel bring meaning in co o ur li ves a nd ho peful ly rassment by eli mi natin g che grounds for its easier to bear. fo r 13 years, 11 o f ch ose years in solitary leave behind a li ght fo r others co rem ember contin uous occupation of Le banon, and subse Light a candle for the hope that we confinement. us by. quentl y the base ro purs ue its war of attrition share. aga inst Israel down to the last Lebanese and Vanunu b lew the whistle o n Israel's nuclear Cindy Halpern fro m Lebanese terr itory. In other words, Syria weapo n 's industry that has a n estimated 200 T hese words were symbo li c of the ki nd oflife Providence does not wa nt to leave Lebanon nor does it nuclea r weapo ns in its arsenal. Va nunu's this woman led . H er life began as a privileged want the other fo rces ro leave. single crim e was co tell the world that the person fu lfilli ng the role assigned her in life country, founded in the shadow o f the Holo by attending the best schools, marrying a .., • The Sy ri an regime is ideologica ll y opposed to The Jewish Voice of Rhode Island caust , was producing doomsday weapons. minister and raising a family. This rem ark Israel: not o nly does ir nor recogni ze it bur aims welcomes letters from members of the H e gave away no sectets of the workings of able woman then took a dramatic turn off the ro des troy it when and if conditions will all ow. Rh ode Island and nearby Massachu Israel's nuclear fa cilities. Yet, he has been beaten path. ln rh e meantime, it endeavors to delay the held in conditions that Amnesty Interna setts Jewish communities. We are conclusio n of peace by stalli ng and double She fo ll owed her conscience in leaving be happy to have our pages used as a tional has call ed "cruel, in human and de dealing, in ord er to keep the present state of no hind her comfortable life ro embark on a forum for th e civil exchange of ideas gradi ng." peace, no war as long as possible. Indeed, the rescue mission ofsavingchildren from Hitler's and issues. Sy ri ans realize fu lly that this status serves them le is time for Israel to free Vanunu, and use death camps. After accomplishing what oth most and char all-out war and all -out peace will Please keep your letters to 300 words the example of his case to reAect upon the ers said was imposs ible, she went even fur bring their end! or less. If you are interested in submit production of weapons of mass destruction. ther. She then worked closely with H adassah ting a longer, more in-depth opinion We hope - and so does the majority of the [srael has an absolute ri ght to self-defense, to place lost children in Jewish Palestine. In piece, please call the editor are 401 - Lebanese, that the diplomacy of the West wi ll but that right does not include the readiness doing so , Martha became a role m odel for grasp the reali ry of rhe Syrian position and C hristians and Jews to work together to 421-4 I 11 , ext. 168. to use nuclear weapons, a " ri ghe' chat recognize its evil des igns and, thereafter, seek to achieve co mmon humanitarian goals. Hiroshi ma, Nagasaki and the Holocaust have Letters should be submitted by the free Lebanon from its cl aws, not onl y to rel ieve alread y rendered indefensibl e. One might be tempted to wonder why this 20th of the month, essays by the 15th. this abandoned country, bur also to achieve Howard Lisnojf wo man of privil ege ri sked her own li fe to save Send th em to Jewish Voice, 130 Ses peace. sion St., Providence, RI 02806, or e- Narraga nsett children ofa different fa ith and then devoted '-- m ail to [email protected] . The JewishV01ce of RI • February 2000 l·fflMM&J 5 by Mitch ell Bard batteries. sraeli-Syri a n negotiations drag on, but the Think defense pact A treaty also would require the US to come to Iresult is predictable: Israel will withd raw Shimon Peres Aoared the idea of a treaty opposition to prevent Israel from mo unting Israel's aid only if asked . The Israelis could from so me or all of the Golan H eights in instead, which could accom plish rhe primary the war to recapture the territory. A US treaty take the position the US did in the Gulf, exchange for a peace treary char requires Syri a o bjective of dete rring the Syrians wirhour commitment, however, would make such a namely, that they can ha ndle an arrack o n to normalize relations with the J ewish State. forcing President C linto n to place mo re G ls move fa r mo re dangerous for Sy ri a. A treaty rheir own a nd don' t need help. If l srael is An agreement to engage in rrade and tour in a fo reign , poss ibly dangerous, environ would also be a powerfu l d eterrent to rhe will in g a nd able to go it alone, despire a cl ear ism, and to exchange ambassadors is a neces ment. creation ofa nycoaJition o f Arab armies agai nst US treaty commitment, then its image would sa ry co ndition for Israel ro make territorial Israel. Thus, a treaty should e ncourage Assad undoubtedly be enhanced . concessions, bur the sin e qua non is security Early warning essential to pursue negotiations as the o ne avenue ro guarantees. T hus, much of the discussion Israel's capability would also be aided by a At the time of Peres' proposa l, then Foreign regain the Golan. revolves around water rights, ea rl y warni ng treaty. Israel already receives a n impress ive Minisrer Ehud Barak said Israel's goal in stations and troop deployments. C ritics argue a creary would undermine Israel 's amount of US weaponry, regula rl y engages talks with Syri a was ro d evise security a r tradirio n or defending irself. True, Israelis in joint exercises, shares intelligence, is in T he C linto n Administration is reportedly rangements ch ar wi ll '' render a surprise arrack don' r ask A meri cans ro fi ghr rh eir battles for volved in cooperative research a nd develop ho lding out the poss ibili ty of concluding a practica ll y imposs ible, significantly reduce them , but, while Ameri cans ad mire Israeli ment of new weapons systems and has the fo rmal defense treaty with Israel as an incen the temptation to launch a fu ll -scale war and self-reli ance, they don' r believe Israelis rea ll y status of a Major o n- NATO Ally. Still, as tive ro take rhe ri sk of making peace wirh prevent d aily bo rder clashes fro m deteri orat can go ic alone. Furthermore, nocions of o ne fo rmer Pentagon official put it, being Sy ri a. Many people in the Unired Srares and in g into full -scale collisio n." One of the keys Israeli self-reliance are grea tl y exaggerared . nea r the top of rh e pyram id is nor rh e sa me as Israe l will oppose a formal all iance; neverrhe to Israeli securi ty after any withdrawal from bei ng at the top. As a full treaty partne r, Israel less, it is a move that is lo ng overdue. the Golan will be ea rl y-warning. In addition Help only when asked should get the laresr a nd grea rest technology to any a rrangements Israel directl y negotiates T he idea is hardly new. In I 954, Israel re While America n G l s have nor fo ught for a nd panicipate in programs that are other w ith Syria, as a treaty partner Jerusalem quested membershi p in NATO a nd was Israelis, US backing has played a critical ro le wise beyond its reach. could count on Ameri can warni ngs of ag turned down. Two decades later, Moshe in mosc of Israel's wars. Throughouc ch e gressive Syrian movements. By ex tending our d efense umbrell a to cover Cold War, the threat of US inrervenrio n D aya n proposed a defense treaty. The Career Israel, we in crease the risk of being drawn lncid enra ll y, a treaty would be even more insured ch e Soviet U nion would no t directl y Administration was amenable because it in to a wa r. T he US already ass umes some ri sk valu ab le for Israel if the negotiations fa il. inrerve ne o n rhe side of rhe Arabs. The US is hoped a rreary would secure territorial con of war in defending Israel and troops were Israeli defense strategists have long feared Israel 's principal arms supplier and the 1973 cessions from Israel , but the idea was dropped. pur at risk during the G ulf War. Given the that Syria might be tempted to make a light airlift helped preve nt Israel from losing the In I 997, Clinton suggested a n American peace process, however, the th rea r of war is ning thrust ro retake the Golan H eighrs and Yorn K.ippu r War. During rhe Gulf War, troop deployment on the Golan. fn defer lower than it has ever been in the Middle then sir on them ex pecting international Israel accepred US-manned Patriot miss il e ence co the o pposirion by some Americans, East, and, given Israel's current strength, the probability of needing direct US assistance has significantly decl ined. A majority of one Another a rgument agai nst a treaty is char it Unsavory stew when religion, politics mix could impede Israel 's abil ity to launch pre emptive or retali atory strikes against its en by Yehuda Lev Arafat is also running for office, a chairman hekJ,sher fro m an approved rabbi. Today em ies. From the Ameri can perspecti ve, this ei.I , we cerrainly ~or r.h e new 1~1'.llen- hoping to become a president. being just kosher is not enough; even the could bea posirive development. The Un ired W 111um off to a ternble start, pol1 n call y most informal of menus at Orthodox fun c Srares has fr equenrly opposed Israeli mi litary A second problem lies in the tendency of speaking. Just as it looked as though we tions include no thing but glatt kosher food . actions and might use the treaty to try to reli gious lead ers, once they descend from insure it was at least in fo rmed of its partner's might have a couple of pres idential primary their mo nasteries and mosques a nd yeshivas Were the standa rds of fo ur decades ago treyf? races devoted to serious iss ues (like who is plans, if nor give n an outright veto. More into the real world , co use political power to This new level ofobservance is marched in raising the least soft mo ney a nd who is the important, the treaty would, in theory, im force their beliefs and practi ces upon the perhaps even inspired by - Israel. There the n1ost underdog) someone had to spo il it al l prove coordination ro procecr rh e interests of non- bel ievers amongst the citizenry. This ultra-Orthodox pa rties, never very en thusi by asking the Republican contestants to name both narions. gave them no difficul ty in millennia past astic about a Jewish state founded nor by the their favorice philosopher. It turns out that when church a nd state were o fr en o ne and M essiah bur by mostly secula r Z ionists, they are all born-again C hristians, as are Treaty translates to flexibility the same. Examples survive in Afghanistan, tended to refrain from political acri viry until C linton and Gore, which is ve ry good if you Even today, Israeli leaders know rh ey ri sk rhe Iran, Sudan even unto Millennium III. {If they lea rned that in Jerusalem the source of are in the religion business but godawfu\ opprobrium of the United States if they act ch e ultra-Orthodox ever ca me to power in most financial support is the government, (sorry) if you are inro polirics. without consul ta ti on or in a manner viewed Israel, we would see more of the same. Jews wirhour which there are few jobs fo r the boys as ha rmful to Ameri can interests. Still , if the Whenever someone cell s you that they know may be chosen fo r so me things, but we are (never girls). This lesson learned , they plunged rlueat to Israel were deemed suffi ciently seri not exempt from the fo lli es thac sometimes what God wants you to do, ir's time to head inro national politics wi ch much enthusias m ous, it is likely an Israeli Prime Mmister accompany faith.) for the hills. Religious beli ef serves many and now control one fifth of the sea ts in the would risk angering the U nited Scares, as practical functio ns; it provides solace, a rtistic Kn esset. No 1srael i government can functi o n W hich brings us to the most se rious pro blem Ben-Gurion did in I 956, Levi Eshkol did in inspiration, a sense of purpose a nd a set of effecti vely today witho ut the cooperacion of of al l when it co mes to mixing religio n with 1967 and Begin did in 1981. ch e H aredi o r u ltra-Orthodox parries, as M r. moral precepts, among oc her useful things . politics. O ur form of democratic politics Barak is learning to his discomfiture. No rrea ty will be a substitute fo r defensib le And short of slaughtering maidens on the depends for irs success on compromise among hilltops under a fu ll moon, beli evers have borders and security arrangements; however, competing ideas and fa ctions. Religion , taken Except as a wa rning of what could happen if every right to thei r religious p ractices and the US commitme nt will give Israel more seriously, is absolutist and does not permit ch e C hristi an Right ever comes to power, even, if the spirit sho uld move them, to try to flex ibility in the negoti ati o ns to rake greater compro mise. Of course most believe rs are none of this matters co our presidential aspi r convince the rest ofus that God has provided risks for peace. not fanatics but ch e fact is that among the a nts. With the exception of Bill Bradley, who insrrucrion for all of us in rh e sacred book of believers it is usuall y the ex tremists who sec wisely told a reporter that his religious beli efs Mitchell C. Bard is a foreign policy a11a9•st in their choice. the pace and lead the way. No one wa nes ro are his own business, their problem now is Maryland and webmasterfor the Jewish Stu One problem with all rhis is rharGod appears be seen as a shirker in the vineyards of the havin g ro compete with one another in reli dent Online Research Center (http:!lwww.us to have written d ifferent things in d ifferent Lord and so we see, among Orthodox Jews, gious correctness. le promises to be a boring israel.org). H e has just published The Idiot's books. Our born-again politi cians have the increased p ressure ro confo rm to more and election. C omplete Guide to the M iddle East. word direct from their Messiah. more exacting sta ndards. It is almost enough ro make o ne long for rhe And did you watch Vasser Arafat, a Muslim , B' nei Akiva is the youth movement of the excitement of an Israeli election campaign B y-lined articles a nd cartoon s in in a Bethlehem church on C hristmas Eve, Modern Orthodox movement. Forty years with its distribution of sacred amulets to the T h e J ewish Voice of Rho d e Island sitting nex t to his wife, born a C hristi an a nd ago most B' nei Akiva youth move ment pro fa ithful, a nd its Shabba.r stoning of automo reflect only the personal opinion s turned Muslim? H e might have bee n won grams all owed mixed dancing; today it is bi les or rhe fa irhless. of the a uthor or the organization dering what the Koran has to say to beli evers srricrl y forbidden. Forry yea rs ago kosher God save us, everyone. the a uthor m ay represent. about such goi ngs o n. Keep in mind that food was kosher food as long as it received a 6 IMEMI The JewishVoice of RI • February 2000 Arafat recaptures spotlight by Mich ael Shapiro During their meetings, both Clinron and US WASl-ll NGTO UTA) - With rhe United Secretary of State Madeleine Albright sought to reas Scares devoti ng m uch energy in recent weeks to Israeli sure the Palestinians. "The resolution of che iss ues Syrian peace talks, the Palestinians are trying to make berween Pa lestinians and Israelis is at the core of rhe sure they are not left our in the cold. Their effort was comprehensive effort rhat we aJI want co make for peace helped when the 2nd round of planned Israeli-Syrian throughout the M iddle East, and we have to work INDOOR negoti ations, set for January 19 , was ca nceled , enabling through chem ," Clinton said with Arafat at his side at the Palestinians to retake center stage. an Oval Office photo-op. After meeting wirh President C linton o n January Israel and rhe Palesrinia ns are working to reach a 20, Pales tinian Authoriry President Yasser Arafat pub framework agreement by February 13 and a fi nal peace licly end o rsed peace talks on the Syrian front. But h is deal by September 13. WEATHER cop negotiator a d ay ea rl ier, wh il e also welcoming the For the Isra elis, rhe jockeying by rh e Palesti ni ans Syrian ca l ks, maintai ned that the Palesti nian track, not and Syria ns could se rve to st rengrhen thei r hand in the the Syrian track, is the key to Middle East peace. negotiarions with borh. Joel Singer, who was a key "T he term ination of the A rab-Israeli con fli ct ca n architect of the Oslo accords with the Pa lestin ians and not and will nor be anained witho ut a solutio n to the also negoti ated with the Sy rians during the ea rl ier Palestinian q uestion from al l of its aspecrs," Saeb round ofralks, compared the Palesti nian-Syrian riva lry Erekat sa id Wednesd ay at the Center for Policy Analy to char of competitio n berween b usinesses. WA sis o n Palestine. " If commercial firms are com peting, p rices go Most people don ' t find out down," sa id Singer, a Wash ington attorney. "Ir's good PA hires ex-consul general as lobbyist thei r furnace has fa iled unti l fo r the customer," mea n ing Israel. T he Palestin ians have even h ired Edward Abington, O ne Jsrael i source sai d that it appears chat rh e late one cold night when they the former US consul general in Jerusalem, as a lobbyist Palestinia ns "d on't want ro m iss the train " and both reall y need heat. But if you to help butt ress thei r image here as final-sta tus talks sides have agreed to cond uct intensive negotiatio ns with the Israelis con tinue. call your Carri er Indoor when Arafat retu rns fro 111 Wash ington. "We're no r here to dam age anyo ne's interests," Weather Expert now, you' ll Erekatsaid d uring h is speech that rhe nego ri ari o ns Erekar said . "We're nor here co accuse anyone of co ul d lead to an invitation fro m C linton fo r a trilateral get a thorough checkup at anything as far as our p ublic relatio ns efforts are summit in Washingron to hammer o ut a fra mework special pre-season sav ings. concern ed. W hat we' re trying co do now is introduce •fill♦. deal. Yo u' ll even save money on a CUSTIIM MADE l'IDOOR WWltBI" o urselves the way we are." new furn ace, if you need one. The Syrians appea r to have a different opinio n on 300 American rabbis willing to share what is key to a comprehensive peace in the M iddle And, as the lsra eli sand Palestinia ns grappled with East. In his December I 5 speech at the W hire H ouse the difficult fin al-srarus issues such as Jerusalem , 300 marking the initial resumptio n o f Israeli-Syri an ta lks, Am erican rabbis called fo r rh e ho ly city robe shared by Syrian Fo reign Minister Faro uk al-S haraa said a deal both sides. berween Israel and Syri a "is rhe o nl y peace that shall T he statement, which was spearhead ed by Jerome open new horizons fo r totall y new rela tio ns between Segal, the president of the Jewish Peace Lobby and a people of the regio n." research scholar at rhe U niversity o f Maryland's Center Erekat rejected Sharaa's statement, saying that of l nrernatio nal and Security Studies, came after a yea r "denying fa ces doesn't mea n that they do n't ex.i st" and of reaching o ur to 1,200 Reform, Reconscructi o nisr PROVIDENCE, RI warned any of the parties fro m tryi ng to play the Syri an and Conservati ve rabbis. Segal sa id no O rthodox 401-351-7600 and Palestinian t racks o ff o ne another. rabbis we re as ked to sign the statemen t. "Weare parallel tracks and not competitive cracks," T he iss ue's sensitivi ty is evid ent in the number of 1-800-244-1252 he said. "The mo ment any side decides to play a track ra bbis who decl in ed to sign. Some 1,200 were initiall y against another it wi ll be a major setback co ward approached; of the more than 800 who backed o ff, progress in the peace process." many said they could nor envisio n a practi caJ way of RI Lice nse •2470 • MA License 14421 sharing the city. Mossad builds new jon to monitor Assad by Douglas D avis According to the report, the Barak by rhe Mossad and by m il i LON DON UTA) - Syrian medical analysrs concluded that tary intelligence analysrs re po rtedly EAST SIDE Pres ident H afez Assad may well Assad , who has had a heart attack described Assad's cond ition as wors PRESCRIPTION CENTER have been impressed to d iscover and now suffe rs fro m diabetes and ening and suggested he is now so cancer, does not have lo ng to li ve. in capacitated chat he could work 632 Hope Street• Providence, RI• 401-751-1430 that a toilet had been erected fo r his excl usive use when he visited Jo r The sample confirmed the state of fo r no more than a fe w hours a day. BLUE CROSS dan last February for the funeral of his diabetes, the presence ofca ncer, T he repo rt d escribed how BLUE SHIELD King Hussein . and reveal ed traces o f whatever Assad suddenl y ca nceled a trip ro H e wou ld no t have known, drugs Assad was then raking for his Moscow las t yea r and m issed the ALL+.ll BlueCtiP acco rd ing to a report in the Lon litany of ailments. funeral of M o rocco's King H assa n. "T he latest Israeli assess ment," PRESCRIPTION PLANS INCLUDING: don Sunday Times in earl y Janu "The Israel is have lea rn t no rh of Rhode Island ary, that the toilet had been spe the paper reported , is rhat "Assad is ingsince ro convin ce ch em his con Preferred Rx AND SCRIP ciall y created by the Israeli intelli living o n borrowed time and that a dition can improve," the paper said. gence agency Mossad and its Jo r potential partner for peace may be It also quoted fo rmer head o f UNITEDhealthcare danian counterpart. lost. " The paper q uoted an aide ro mi lita ry inte ll igence D a nny W hat made the to il et special, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak Shoham as saying that "Assad is the report added , was that the o ut as saying: "W e should do every hospitalized every couple of months th ing possib le to reach an agree WE ACCEPT MOST 3RD PARTY PLANS. let d id not lead to a drain but rather to replace his blood ." to a specimen jar. Minutes after the ment wh il e Assad is ali ve. Nobody T he Mossad sought to play CALL OUR PHARMACISTS TO HAVE YOUR PRESCRIPTION Syrian leader had used the toiler, knows whatwill happen after Assad. d own its role jn the affai r, describ FILES TRANSFERRED TO EAST SIDE PRESCRIPTION (ENTER the specimen jar co n taining a "There are some gloomy assess ing rhe coll ectio n of the u rine BLUE CHIP FOR MEDICARE FILLED HERE. sample of his urine was being sped ments about a possib le bloodbath sa mple as a rou tin e operatio n for a to a hospital in Israel , where a ream in Syri a. Assad is a man you ca n special age ncy unit k nown as 751-1430 of pathologists and biochem ists was trust to sra nd by his word ." Kcshet. lrufeperufent(g servi11g the 'I.ast Sirfe of Provirfe11ce for over 23 '}ears. waiti ng ro analyze it. A medical fil e p repared for The Jewish Voice of RI • February 2000 7 JDC programs address Ethiopians' plight, FSU elders' poverty by Jane S. Sprague The Joint's Shalom Project is corporations to supply co mputers And it is in the area of aid to everyw here.,, W ith u nemployment at 8%, a national service altern ati ve for to poor households - 30,000 in the elderly ch at JDC continues to To do ch at, JDC functions on wirh 16% of the populati on ( in Orthodox girls ages 18 and 19 who the first phase - in an effort to shine in the former Sovier Union a global budget of$63 million, $57 cluding 32,000 children , living will nor joi n th e arm y. Ea ch morn narrow the gaps in Is rae li sociery. and Eastern Europe where The millio n of w hich comes from North below the poverty line) with one ing, th ey serve as tutors to Ethiopi JDC's oc her area of emphasis Joint provides food, clothing, med i America n federation ca mpaig ns, million immigrants in 12 yea rs ans in schools and each afternoon in Israel is mo re comprehensive cines and medical servi ces to eld including Rhode Island's. Seven (70,000 of rh em Ethiopians), and rhey spend three hours doing more services to the elde rl y. One man, erly pensioners and H o locaust sur teen million of the $63 million is with rh e social problems of sub rutoring in th e children's homes. who while li ving in Poland in 1924 vivors. There, ir also engages in dedicated to Israel. Bue th rough stan ce abuse, family v io lence and Other model JDC programs received matzah ar Passover from helping co build community with a cooperative and crea ri ve arran ge school dropouts among some in incl ude deaf adults reaching deaf TheJoi nc and 24 yea rs later fo ught volunteer scru crure. ments in all nations where ir works, the general population - the work children, emphasizing hi -tech edu for lsrael's independence, today is The Joint's services also ex T he Joint triples its effectiveness; in Israel of the Ameri can Jewish ca tion for at-ri sk teenagers co help helped to stay in his own home in te nd to Latin Am eri ca, Afr ica and by levera ging governmenr doll ars, Joint Dis tribution Committee hale the drop-out race, and joining Jsrael through supportive services Asia, based on the principl e, Novak its $63 million becomes $ 180 mil 0 DC) continues to be critical. with go vernmenr agencies and large des igned by J DC. sa id, "T hat Jews cake care of Jews lion. T har was rh e pictu re that Michael Novak painted when he stopped in Rh ode Island last month to nuke his power-point prese nta tion to agency di rectors and Fed eration leaders and staff. Novak is JR[CCJHIMOND JP>lACCJE the newly appointed directo r of resource development for J DC.
A feature story on page IO covers the highlights of S idney and Alice Goldstein 's recent visit with Ethio pians in both Is rael and Ethiopia.
The portrait he drew of the Ethi opia n community was bleak. He described large, single-parent fa milies and a parental ill iteracy rate in thei r native rongue of7 5%, hi gher in H ebrew. H e talked of exceptionall y high unemployment or unskill ed laborers who produce little income. A pre-school enroll ment ofonly 50% leaves most ch il dren from illiterate ho mes unpre IT'S DEFINITELY pared for fi rst grade, and chat leads to a high dropout and delinquency race by high school. According to \NORTH THE VVAIT. Novak, only l 0% of Ethiopian youths pass the coll ege matri cula tion exa minations, as co n1pared to Yes, th ere are other ass isted li vi ng f he essenti al components of our seni or 40% of the general population. communities out th ere. But th ere's onl y living experience w ill fulfill all your needs - H ow can the JDC, affection ately known as "T he Joint" the one that w ill offer you everything you all in one place! They include: world over) make a dent in these need - and more. • Carefree Residential Li ving mass ive problems? Novak says, T he Joint works Ri chmond Pl ace, scheduled to open in • El ega nt Hosp itality by developi ng pilot programs chat mid summer, is proof that good things do have been well designed and en • State-of-the-art Fitness and Wellness indeed go to those w ho wa it. Thi s premier dorsed by chelsraeli govern ment at Center in ception. "These social programs assisted living community is designed to are made to succeed, and the gov make seniors feel comfortab le and secure • Dive rse Cultural & Social Activities ernment commits in the beginning to assume them after th e pi lot in a beautiful, home-like environ ment. • Peace Of Mind phase," h e ex plained. If t he program's eva luation is good, it To discover why it's definitely worth th e wait ca ll 401-275-0682. should then be duplica ted. For instance, t0 address the pre-school problem, JDC started rwo programs. In H araf, in terven tio n in homes of newborns to 2- year-olds helps parents learn to ~ stimulate thei r babies co help th eir cognitive development. ln Ecgar, RICHMOND another home-based curriculum for 3 co 5-year-olds offers more of the PLACE ON THE EASTSIDE basics of pre-school educa tion. T he BUTLER AVENUE • PROV I DEN CE, R I 02906 Join t al so works with munici pali ties to ensure access to kindergar ~ ten for these children. Ki ndergar AN l':POCDI ASS I STED LIVING COMM UNI TY ten, like pre-school, is optional in Israel and not government-funded. 8 The JewishVoice of RI · February 2000
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I The JewishVoice of RI • February 2000 9 German Jews' new leader seeks reconciliation Terrorists' funding source nabbed by Toby Axel rod and non-Jews closer together - a task that Bubis, in by Douglas Davis BERLIN UTA) - German Jewry is entering a an interview shortly before his death, said he had failed LONDON UTA) - Abu N idal's terrorist network has suffe red a new era of leadership at a critical juncture for the to accomplish. crippling fi nancia.l blow with the ar rest of a senior member, accordi ng to community. Fi ve months after the death of lgnatz Ar the news co nference, Spiegel said the normal a jou rn alist fami li ar with th e orga ni zatio n. Bubis, th e Central Counci l of Jews in Germany has ization of relations between German Jews and non Patrick Seale, a biographer of Abu N ida! and a close confidant of elected a D usseldorf thea trical agent, Paul Spiegel, as Jews "has yet to happen," but that he is hopeful that ir Syrian Pres ident Ha fez Assad, wrote in mid-Jan ua ry in the Lo ndon-based its new presid ent. will. Ar th e same rime) he added, "the situation has Arabic dail y AI -H aya r that Pales tinian Halima Nim r, who was said ro have T he January 9 electi on of the 62-year-old by the improved 1 and th e fact char Jews are saying they want been usin g a fake Jordanian passpo rt, had been arresred in Vienna when she nine-member co uncil is seen as a bridge between th e to li ve in Germany is nor a bad sign for us." attempted to withdraw some $7.4 mi ll ion from an Austrian bank. aging generati on of Holocaust surv ivo rs and the younger Spiegel sa id th at unlike Bubis, he was "relatively Seale quotes intelli gence so urces as saying the lo ss of the Vien na ge nera ti on ofGerman Jews who, to a grea rexrent, want oprimistic" about the futu re of the Jew ish com muni ry account will greatly curtail the freedom of Abu N ida! - rh e norn de guerre to put the past behind them. Bur hi s el ection also in Germany, despite an in crease in xenophobia in of Jaffa-born Sa bri al-Banna. signifies a relu ctance by Jewis h leaders here to pass the rece nr years. He ex pressed conce rn abo ut the effect of Abu idal was the PLO's chief representative in Iraq when he broke leadershi p baton to the post-H olocaust generation. "extreme right-wing and an ri -semiric poison" freely with Yasser Arafat's Farah move men t in 1974 to protest the PLO's Bubis, who had become a major public figure in ava ilable on rh e In ter net. flirtation with diplomacy rather than violence. His Farah Revolu tiona'1' German y sin ce servin g as pres ident from 1992 until his On th e other hand, he applauded yourh exchange Council , which ca rried ou r a se ri es of attacks in European ca pitals during dea th in August, had reported ly wanted Spiege l, who programs between Germany and Israel and sa id rh e the 1970s and l980s, claimed hundreds oflives and was regarded as one of was vice presid ent, to succeed him as the head of rh e interes t of young Ge rm ans in lea rn in g about Judaism rh e most dangerous international terrorist orga nizations. group char oversees religious, cornmunal and financial and the Holocaust has "never been as grea t as it is Among Abu ida l's mosr high-profi le attacks were rhe si multaneous matters for G ermany's 80,000-member Jewish com today." gun -a nd-grenade attacks on rhe El AJ passe nger counrers at Ro me and muni ty. Spiegel told reporters he would rry to li ve up ro Vienna airports in 1985 in wh ich 17 people we re killed, and the assassina Spiegel, head of Dusseldorfs Jewish communiry Bubis' id eals, but thar he would find his "own style" - tion ofrhe PLO's intel li gence chief in 199 1. His group has tried several si nce 1984, was chosen by a 6-3 vore over C harl otte including delega ting tasks to other council members. times to kill Arafar. Knobloch, 67, head of Munich's Jewis h community Spiegel's fa mily comes fro m rh e vill age of Abu N ida! had been struggling ro regroup his organizarion after a sin ce 1985. Like Knobloch, Spiege l surv ived the Holo Warendorfin the state of Westphalia . During World se ri es of damagi ng spli ts and defecti ons, as well as the expulsion of both ca ust as a hidden child. War 11 , he was hidden, along with his mother, Ruth, himself and members of his orga niza tion from Libya and Egypr. Attestin g to th e impo rtance of th e Jewish commu by Belgian fa rm ers. H is fa ther, Hugo, and his older N imr, now in custody in Austri a, is the wife of Sa mir Najm eddeen, nity in Germany, so me l 00 reporrers attended a news sister, Ro sa, were discovered and deported by the who was large ly responsible for managing Abu Nidal's overseas assets conference call ed by Spiegel upon his election. At the Nazis. Rosa never returned . Spiegel's father surv ived during the 1980s, Sea le writes. news conference, Spiegel said his top prioriry would be Buchenwald and Auschwitz and was liberated from From a base in Warsaw, Naj meddeen ran the "SAS Foreign Trade and the integration of the 50,000 Jewish emigres from rh e Dachau. In ves tm ent Company" as a front for Abu Nidal 's arm s dea lin g. In the late former Soviet Union who have come here during th e In a recent interview, Spiegel recalled how during 1980s, however, he was stripped of his powers and recall ed to Libya, then past 10 yea rs. As a res ulr of th eir influx) Germ any has the war years "people had told me that Germans were Abu N idal's main base. Little has been heard of him since, and he is thought Euro pe)s fasrest-growing Jewish co mmuniry. giants who ki ll ed littl e children." After the war, th e to be either still in Libya or to have moved to Iraq . They need fin ancial an d spirirua.l sustenance) fa mil y was reuni ted in Wa rendorf and decided to stay Sen ior members of the Ab u N id a I organ iza tion , such as N imr, trave l Spiegel said, adding, "T hey know they are Jews, bur in Germ any. Spiegel' s father renovated th e town's ri ny on Jordania n pass porrs that were fo rged in the past with the help of the they don't know what Judaism is." Jewish chapel and led rh e first services there. Bei rut ce ll of rhe Japanese Red Army. T his cooperation ca me ro an end Spiegel told reporters he hopes to heal rhe rifts H e has bee n described polirica ll y as a ce nrrisr. He when fi ve members of th e Japanese Red Army were arrested by the between observa nt and libera l Jews in Germ any. is also sa id to have close contacts wi th Germ an Pres i Lebanese authorities in March, 1997. H owever, the leader of the cell , a He also said he will attempt ro bring Germ an Jews dent Johannes Rau. woman code-named "Mariam ," escaped fr om Beirut and is believed co be in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
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Goldsceins are preeminent demog absorption centers outside Jerusa Unlike past populatio ns w hich lem where they learn urba n skills, raphe rs a nd soc iologists fro m have gathered in Addis Ababa to Brown U niversity and both have language and culrn re before mov wait for cleara nce co Isra el, chis encoun tered chis populati o n, espe ing in to the general communiry. Falas Mora populatio n of 8,000 ciall y in Eth iopia, o n several trip s. Most are illirerace, even in their receives consid erably less in rhe way native language, Goldstein said. This rime, their first stop was of support services from Israel or Israel w here Sid , co nsidered the These C\Vo communities con J ewish agencies, and none fro m rhe d ean of A m eri can d emographers, trasted wirh rhe caravan camp of Ethio pian governm ent. was lecruring at H ebrew Univer G iv'ar ha-Matos, near J erusalem. T he excep tions are some basic sity as part of an award he received This community ofFalas Mora li ves med ica l se rvices from rh e A meri from the former C ouncil of Jewish in a dry and nearly barren area. The canJewishJo int D istribution C om Fa las Mora either have a J ewish Federat io ns (now United Jewish The Ethiopian Jews who live in Afula in the lower Galilee may be mittee, which has reopened a scaled ancestor o r a first-degree relative Communities) fo r rheexrensive ro le among the most fortunate as they comprise 10% of the city's down cli nic char it had closed in who came co Israel before them. he p layed in develo ping Jewish de population. Here, Alice (third from left, standing ) and Sid (far right) 1998 w hen officials thought the mography. Goldstein interact with children in a pre-school. Goldstein said that the Jerusalem last of the Falas Mora population munici pality supplies chem with In their personal rim e, rh c 1990. Eve r t he demog ra phe r, T he pre-school programs al had been Aown to Israel, a nd the social workers a nd health services, Goldsrcins arra nged to vis ic several Goldstein notes that " ln Afula,35% low mothers to work, although North Am eri can Committee for a nd the Orthodox community is areas w he re Eth io pia ns are now of the populari o n of 40,000 are ad mittedly at low-paying service Ethi opian Jewry, w h ich 0 1,erates a fac il itating their conversio ns. living. W hat they saw were three recent immigrants, and 4,000, or jobs such as house cl eaning. But school and an embroidery shop. Even tho ugh the li ves o f the disti nct populations wi th ch rec dis 10% of the roral population in Ali ce Goldstei n po inrs to com put The school, w hi ch includesa lunch tinct life styles. Aful a, a re Ethiopians." ers in the pre-school that are ava il Ethiopians in Isra el are nor as brighr program , is inside ch e compound as one wou ld wish, most of chose In Afula, which is in the lower Ali ce Goldstein describes an able ro older sib lings and paren ts in near rh e Israeli embassy. The co m - still in Ethio pia are in dire condi- Galilee and is part of Rhode Island's array of impressive fa cil ities a nd the evenings. She describes an Please go to next page. Partnership 2000 community, life services for pre-schoolers to senio rs. even ing of program rhar engages for the Ethiopian po pulation may "lt is clear," she said, "thar rhe parents, most them ill iterate, and be about the best in all ofl srael. Of elderl y w ill never be completely gives them a se nse of co nrribucing ----- the rhree gro ups the Goldsteins assimilated ." For rwo years now, to thei r children's education. Sie visited , these Ethiopians have been the community has had its own ring beside their middle school in Israel the lo ngest, havi ng come synagogue, whi ch also serves as a ch il d , a parenr relates the fa mily's as pa rt of O peration Solomon in social cen rer. oral history whi le the child enrers it in to ch e co mputer. Although some of the chil dre n in Afula are in reli gio us ~omgthing i!: Alway!: Cooking at schools, most are in the secular schools which cry co lim it the coral immig rant e n rollme nt in each J. Elliott· R school to 50%, but it may edge up to 60%. From Afula, the Goldsteins N. Y. ~tylo Doli visited the Quara Jews - the most The JDC-run health cl inic in Addis Ababa. 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Were there pogroms' so unded happy- bur her rel ati ves someone named Bul at , a boyfri end beli eved she had bee n kill ed . C haim Motzen, the 1998-99 Ralph Goldman Fell ow at the America n say she looked swo ll en and sick. Jewish Jo int Distribution Committee, resea rched the conditions of the Lic htman, 18, an Israeli ci ti Fa las Mora sci II in Ethiopia, including an ex tensive first-hand in ves ti gation zen born in Russ ia , was freed by her of the inciden ts that led to charge of"pogroms." Chec hen kidnappers Dece mber 25 The June, 1998 all eged incidents were in Bukhara. Barbara Ribakove and brought to her rel atives in the Gord on of the North Ameri ca n Conference on Ethi opian Jewry, sa id she city of Nalchik in the Caucasus "witn essed an Ethi opian ve rsio n of a pogrom o r, more accurately, th e Mountains. Indulge your t.," afterm ath of a pogrom. I stood awestruck and fri ghtened in a ring of twelve "Three days befo re the release charred black circles , where, days befo re, twelve Falas Mora huts had stood. th ey brought me fro m the village The huts, I was told , had been burned down in the ni ght to force th e where I had been held, to so me mi__ J fear of r- terrified inhabitants to fl ee th e village forever. " ca nyo n in the moun ta in s. They Motzen adds that in August, 1998 Yosef Abramowitz, a free-lance kept me there in a rent; th en th ey journ ali se who has written derail ed articl es on Ethiopians waiting co brought me ro so me vi ll age, where commitment. r immigrate and who is the on-lin e publi sher of Jewish Fa mily and Life, an unknown man picked me up vis ited Bukhara , accompanied by Aga ru , a fo rmer Falas Mora fr om and brought me to Nalchik," she Bukhara now living in Israel, who tra nslated for him. told JTA from her ho me in Isra el. Matzen wr ites, "Abramowitz reported ch at he saw about a dozen Officials connected to a "spe burned tukuls (huts) and 'found that the level of fea r and violence is the cial poli ce unit" operat in g in th e hi ghes t of any Jewish community anywhere. Absolutely horrendous."' Caucas us region who obrain ed her Here is what Morzen found on his visit to Buchara. release wouldn't disclose any de Most of the Falas Mora had left the vi llage in 199 1, with another tail s, but according to officials in exodus in the months before June, 1998 because "they we re ca ll ed by their vo lved in the operation, her rel ease re latives" (co nfirmed by seve ral sources). Three, not 12, tukuls were was pan of an exchange deal. burned - one apparentl y in January, 1998 and the other two in June. Li chtman, according to specu T he fi rst bu rn in g was th e res ult of a widow refusin g ro all ow one of her lation , was either exchanged for a child ren to be taken as a concubine by a compatriot of the vill age bandit Chechen mobster who had been (who was the widow's abusive lo ve r). In ret ribu tio n, th e bandit burned her deta in ed in Ru ss ia, or a Chechen home. He was ar res ted an d jail ed. Because life in Bukhara was now un sa fe , military commander, disturbed by rh e wo man took her children and Aed to Addis Ababa. th e immi nent adva nce of Russ ian The seco nd in cid ent was berween a rukul owner, who was sel lin g his troops, wan red to ger "securirygua r hut co fin ance his trip to Add is Ababa ro awai t immigration, and thewould antees" by helping ro free an i,n be buye r, who may have felt he was being chea ted. T he hut was burned . Ir porrant hostage. is not cl ea r whether th e man 's sisrer's hut was set on fi re or wheth er wi nds An es timated 300 to 350 non ca rri ed the sparks rhat lit it. Motzen says rhe in cid ent has been ve rified in C hechen hostages, incl ud ing sev Try it before you buy it. its broad term s by reliab le sources who are sympat hetic to Pa las Mora. eral Israelis, are being held in Twenty- two Fa las Mora were sri \l in Bukhara a year ago when Matzen Chechnya, where Russ ian troops conducted his in ves ti gation. According ro Motzen "rh ey were upset by the have been engaged in heavy fi ght number of 'farenges' visi ting Bukhara. In a vill age whi ch had rarely seen ing with rebel Chec hen fighters. fo reigners before, vi ll agers ca nnot comprehend why so many foreigners have come to look at the charred circle." JSS Bright spots dimmed. .from pg.10 po un d al so is used for communi ry are better off as rh ey ca n continue 07w eleflance o/tlw Jftctm4,WJv.J . acti vities and includes a mikveh rh eir live lihoods, li ve in th eir own and synagogue bu il t by previous huts and avoid the abject pove rty dt-+,ck6ej 'lffiice:J co mmunitieswairin gro immigrate. of Gondar and Addis. Teams of Today there are no housing subsi two , one Israeli , th e other fluent in BAR/BAT MITZVAH di es and the only wo rk is embroi Amha ri c, visit th ese villages to RECEPTIONS dery. So me relatives in Israe l se nd ga th er th e in for mat ion that wo uld REHEARSALS wa iting famili es money. enable them to emigrate. As the JDC clin ic copes with One of the perplex ities among BANQUETS ro uti ne illnesses as well as those people who work with the Falas SHOWERS intrinsic ro un sa nitary conditions, Mora, rh e Goldstei ns say, is why so SEMINARS the doctors and staff must also deal many gave up their vill age lives and FUND RAISE RS with some cases of HI V and HJV migrated ro th e two cities when preve ntion services. Israe li, J DC and other officials ad AMID THE ELEGANT DECOR, FEDERAL R ESERVE RETA INS A WARMTH THAT ln addition to those lan guish vised them to wa it where rhey were. ing in Addis, there are 8,000 wa it Of course, they have rhe exa mple W IL L SU IT YOUR DESIRE FOR AN Y MOOD FROM CASUAL T O BLACK TIE. ing in Gondar and another 10,000 and encouragemen t of relatives who THE RESTA URANT LAYO UT ENABLES YOU TO HOST AN EVENT FO R 25 sca ttered amo ng num erous vil lages. ignored those same pleas several Many claim first-degree relatives yea rs ago and are now in Israe l. TO 350 AND ST IL L FEEL COMFORTABLY ACCOMMODATED. in Israel and/or Jewish ancestry. "The Israe li government is Based on a rece nt, dera il ed census, process ing their applica ti ons, but SIXTY D ORRANCE STREET - PROVIDENCE offi cia ls beli eve these 26,000 rep traci ng ances try and veri fy ing rela RHODE ISLAND 02903 resent rhe las t of rhe Fa las Mora. tions livin g in Isra el is a slow pro IN Tt 1E Ow l1N 10N T RU ST AT n IE CoRNER OF D ORRANCE & W EST /1. IINSTER Reports from rhe JDC indi cess, resulting in only IO to 20 N EAR WHERE Tl IE OUTLET USED TO BE . people fl yin g to Israe l each week," cate that r he Falas Mora in Gond ar 40 1-6:2 1-5700 F AX 401 -:273-8963 live much as th eir peers in Ad dis Sid Goldstein sa id. abys mall y. The 10 ,000 who are 1t is a perpl ex in g and depress PARKING AVAIIJ\lll r waiting in their vi ll ages probably ing situation. 12 ------a=®Mf \!h-1111,______The JewishVoice of RI • February 2000 Standing under a canopy, in silk from a floating canopy by Peter Eph ross now li ves in Brookl yn. dem o nstrated a re m a rkable vi NEW YORK UTA) - Lily D espite all the info rmati on brancy - don' t fit victimization Fri ed man wa nted to wear a white available about the H olocaust, re la stereotypes. gown at her wedd ing in l 946, but tively litcle is known about the People have two images ofs ur there was o ne problem: T here roughl y 90displaced perso ns camps vivors - wearing concentrati o n weren't any gowns at her displaced that housed some 250,000 Jews camp unifo rms scaring offinro the persons cam p. H er fia nce, a cook at between 1945 and l 95 1, when all distance on liberation day and as the Cell e cam p in G ermany, solved but one of the camps closed. grey- haired people lighting ca ndles the problem. He traded two pounds "[ can't tell yo u how many at H o locaust commemo ratio ns - of coffee to a German pi lot for a people have come by and sa id 1 says Rosensafr, who, as a m ember large, off-white parachute. didn't know anyth ing about th is of the 2nd Generation Advisory A seam stress fri end m ad e a history," Steven Lucken , curator Project, was o ne of the organizers d ress out of the parachute, and of the permanent exhibiti on at the of a con ference o n the cam ps. with exrra material, a sh irt fo r the US Holocaust Memori al Museum, Exhibits on ch e topic are open groom . With the help of a sui t says, talki ng of an exhibit about at o ther museum s and instiwtions borrowed fr om a Bri tish major, the DP camps, "Life Reborn : Jewish in the Washington area, incl uding couple's outfi ts were complete. On D isplaced Persons, 1945- 195 1. " the B'nai B'rich Klu trnickMuse um Lilly Friedman wore a gown made from a silk parachute for her Jan. 27, 946, they were married in and the Nati o nal M use um of l Parr of the reason fo r this, says wedding in a displaced persons camp in 1946. The dress was a makesh ift synagogue near the Menachem Rose nsafc , who was America n Jewish Military History. recycled 17 times as Europe's survivi ng Jews renewed their lives cam p in front of more than 400 born in the Bergen-Belse n D P camp Friedman was n'rrhe only bride by falling in love and marrying . guests, most of them su rvivo rs. in 1948, is that the Jewish ex peri in the camps. By 1947, the 90 "T hat was the first occasion ence in the cam ps - in wh ich camps ch at housed Jews in Ger they coped with th eir situati on by saft, a member of the US Holo where people danced and were individuals barel y removed fr om many, Austria and Italy had one of recreating rhe life and com m unal caust Memorial Council. At least happy," re members Friedman, who their ho rrific wartim e expe riences the hi ghes t birch rates in the wo rld . structure they had known before 75,000 moved to the United States "You needed to fo rm these bonds the H olocaust, cobbli ng together after legislati on in 1948 opened up beca use yo u had nobody," says an impress ive array of rel igio us in slots ro displaced persons, and about SEEKING EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Regina Speigel, who married her stitutio ns and schools, political o r l 6,000 we m ro C anada, he says. The Rh ode Isl and Holocaust Memorial Mu seum and Resource Center husband, Sa m, in the Fohrenwald ganizations and sports cl ubs, and Jews weren' t the o n ly o nes (RIH MM) is dedica ted to educating the RI community about the Holo camp in Germany. " People can't theater troupes and newspapers. housed as displaced persons after caust, provid ing outreach programm ing and serving as a community live by themselves. " An overwhelming number of the wa r. Britain and the US also se t resource. We are a living memorial. .. an energetic program active ly T he su rviving remna nt of Eu people initially wanted to immi up camps fo r other war refu gees. In fighting in tolerance and bigotry. ropean Jewry, or she'eri1 hapletah, grate to Palesti ne, but the British initia ll y organizing the camps, the as it is ca ll ed, quickl y began to restrictions on immigration rhere, US and British govern men rs, hesi The RI HMM is currentl y seeking an Executive Director for a full-time rebu il d a se mblance of normalcy. coupled with reports about the tant co use the sam e racial classifi position. Ou tstanding interpersonal and organ izational ski ll s requ ired. The U ni ted 1arions, rh e Ameri rough life in the Middle East, damp cations as the Nazis, housed all Add itio nal experience: fun d-raisi ng and grant-writing expe rie nce, can and British governments, and ened en thusiasm. displaced persons, including Jews, knowledge of Holocaust history, an un derstanding of Jewish heritage and rhe American Jewish Joint Distri Still , in the end, 142,000 of by their country of origin. As a educational processes. Competitive salary and benefits. bution Committee ran the camps. the camp residents moved to pre resu lt, Jews occasionally lived 111 Please send a con fi dential resume and references to: Bu t "just days or weeks after the state lsrael , according to Rosen- Please go to next page. Ch air, Search Committee li berarion,Jews began ro organize," RIHMM Luckertsays. ln orher words, survi News from the Museum 401 Elmgrove Avenu e vors d id m o re than just survive. Providence, RI 02906 Teetering, as o ne of them said , "between hope and depression ," Deadlines approach for student, teacher contests Deadlines are approach inr; for submiss ions ro rwo contests, one for Because No Two Seniors Are Alike ... schoolchildren and the other for thei r teachers, sponsored by the Rhode Island Holocaust Memorial Museum. Newton Senior Living Introduces a World of Choice Usi ng a quote from the D iary of Anne Frank -"How wonderful it is rh at nobody needs co wait a single moment before scarring ro improve the • Independent and Assisted Living Plans world" - pupil s in local public, private and parochial schools may submit writi ng, poetry and art work on the theme, not on the autho r. • Variety of Apartment Floor Plans and Accommodations T he awards, to be presented on Student Awareness Day, May I 0, range fro m $ I 00 for firs t place ro a set of books on the Holocaust to a special • Delicious Meals with Alternatives Always Available certificate and a book. T he cash award is from rhe Morris Gastfreund Family H olocaust Memorial Fund. • Dietary Preferences Accommodated T hat endowment also funds th e $500 grant that will be awarded to a • Personal Care Plan Tailored to Individual Needs reacher who pro poses a winning H olocausr educarion program. Ir, too, will be presem ed on May 10. Student Awa reness Day wi ll be in the Providence • Wide Array of Stimulating Social and Cultural Activities Atrium o n Smith Street, across fro m rhe State H o use. For a full ser of ru les fo r both contes ts, contact RJH M M at 40 1 Elmgrove Ave., Providence, RJ 02906, 401 -453-7860. f) Upcoming: book, film and meeting Book Discussion: The Nazi Officer 's Wife by Beer and Dworkin, T uesday, AQUIDNECK PLACE HARBORHILL PLACE February 22, 7:00 pm, at Borders Books in Garden C iry, C ranston, RJ PORTSMOUTH, RI EAST GREE NWICH, RI • 2nd & 3rd Generations of RI H olocaust Survivors meeting, Wednesday, 401-683-0725 401-884-2704 February 23, 7:00 pm at the Museum, and, on March 8, Romana Primus of the CT 2nd Generation wi ll speak at the M useum, 7:00 pm. Gracious New Independent & Assisted Living Fi lm: O n T uesday, March 7, T he Last Days, an award-win ning documen ~ www.newtonseniorliving.com ~ tary abo ut fi ve H o locaust survivors and their fa milies, to be screened at the M useum at 10:00 am. The Jewish Voice of RI • February 2000 13 Shoval ends his "second coming" to US; lrvy Israel's new ambassador by M ichael Shapiro with his family and return to his interesting Likud politicians in my ence who was in power," he said, peace between Israel and Syria WASHINGTON QTA) - business ventures. H e also may head mind because he comes from a adding rhar eranyah u and Barak would auco marically bring about During earl y J anuary, Zalma n the board of trustees of a new aca background and a n ideology of have been less ideological and mo re the lesse;{ing of lran's a nti-peace Shoval put the finishing touches demic insriwrion. moderation and compromise which pragmaric than Shamir and R abin. a nd anti- Israel sea nce," he said, "rhe on what he d escribes as his "second "I will try to remain involved, re fl ects his Dayanisr and Be n "Jn our case security must precede o pposite may actually be true." con1ing" as lsrael 's a mbassador ro b ut you can be involved in differ Gurionisr roots bur he has also anythi ng else." During the interview, Shoval the United Srates: H e d eli ve red a ent ways," he said. Sh oval, who has been a very effecri ve spokesman for \Vhile Shoval says a n agree stressed several rimes that a peace speech at the National Press C lub, said he was bitten by the political Likud," said Samuel Lewis, the ment with Syri a would contribute deal between Israel and Syria is nor hosted a pa rry at his offi cial res i bug ea rl y on in life, said he is nor former US ambassador to Israel. co chat securi ty, he has been wa rn only importa nt for the Jewish stare d ence fo r m o re tha n 400 Beltway sure if he would run again for rhe " H e is nor an ideologue bur a ing rhar a peace d eal with Syria and bur for rhe U nited Stares, which rypes a nd was feted by J ewish lead Knesset, where he served som e 13 man of great wisdom, moderation, Lebanon wi ll nor lead to rhe "com will be expected to support rhe deal ers in the posh New Yo rk home of years, m os rl y for the Li kud Parry. starure and very wise counsel which prehensive peace" many in Wash with billions of d ollars in aid. cosm etics he ir Ronald La uder. " I still have it, but even bugs he has provided prime ministers ington, including Presid e n t Si nce the deal will help "ce T his time, however, Shoval get older," said Shova l, 69, who left w ith over the lase 30 yea rs," Lewis C linton, have been talking about. ment" the US position in rhe re believes his farewells are for good . his posrJanuary l 5 a nd was imme add ed. "Syri a no longer holds a gion , Shoval warned agai nst a re H e does not think he will becom e diately replaced by Israel's new ShovaJ said it has nor been stranglehold in this respect, and in peat of rhe Wye aid battle, where the first lsraeli to serve as ambassa ambassador, David Jvry, a forme r ha rd to serve prime m inis ters of a ny case, comprehensive peace is rh e money becam e a political foot d or to Wash ington rluee ri mes. gene ral who comm anded Israel 's both parries. "The moment I be nor all that comprehensive, look ball between rhe W hite Hose and "Whe n I left the iast time, a ir force and has headed rhe Jewish ca me an ambassador I stopped be ing at Iran o r Iraq in the nor-roo Congress. "There is a lesson to learn alrhough I never rationalized it, l sta te's strategic relationship with ing a politicia n," he said. " Both my d isranr neighbo rhood ," he said from tharand that lesson should be had a good se nse that I might come rhe United Stares since 1986. friends and my political o pponents during a Ja naury 11 speech at rhe learned less perhaps by Israel a nd back," Shova l said in a n inte rview Shoval's second stint as arn knew chat. " ari o nal Press C lub. m o re by the admi nistration, " before heading back to Israel. " I bassador ended just like his first Bu r Shoval said it goes d eeper Contrary to what he ca ll ed Shoval said. had a fee ling and I guess rhat was the Likud prime minister who had rh an rhar. Beyond what he ca ll s " rather half-baked theori es rhar o ne reason char I never wrote a se nt him to Washingcon was d e "rhe more ideologicall y inclined book of my first te rm , although l fea ted by rheopposirio n candidate. fringes on both sides o f rh e po li ti had all rhe material for it, because I Observers say Shoval could cal spectrum." Shoval said there is didn' r want to burn any bridges." se rve fo ur prime ministe rs of cwo consensus in Israel on cercain issues We are eager to prove that buying and W h il eShoval has yet to d ecide different parties because of his pro such as Jerusalem a nd not goi ng servicing an automobile can be a ifhe is goi ng to burn those bridges, fessiona.lism and moderation. back ro rh e pre- 1967 borders. he said he is planning ro spend time Shoval is "one of the most " Ir didn't make much differ- pleasant experience! Wedding . .. from pg. 12 rhe sa me camps as refu gees who atrocities, th ey were sti ll high ly regi th ing that, more tha n 50 yea rs later, had collabo rated wi rh the Nazis. m ented. she describes as "magical." Afrer mmomm T his ch a nged after August "You can do this, you can' t do her wedding, she loa ned her gown l 945, when the US iss ued rh e so char. You depend o n them to give to her sister and other would-be called H arrison repo rt which re you ration cards co get food. You brides - a nd ir eventual ly rook mmmmm 1667 Hartford Avenue (Route 6) ferred to the camps as "concentra resent it," says Spiegel. pa n in more tha n 17 ma rriages. t ion camps" in which so me wore For Lily Friedman, the camps "Ir was a miracle char we Johnston, RI 02919 striped pajam as similar to rhe Nazi provided an o pportunity for som e- wanted to go on with li fe. Phone: (401) 553-6000 camp uniforms and lived mostly o n bread and coffee. The report made rwo recom m endations ad opted by Pres ident Foxwoods Resort Casino mmomm Truman, the m ost important of and Kayrouz Producti ons proudly presents . .. which was rharJews should be seg regated in their own camps, be cause "rhis was done fo r so long by mmmmmm 1451 Brayton Point Road the Nazis rhar a group has been Somerset, MA created that has special needs." alabina Phone: (800) 922-3445 The camps were difficult for Featuring Ishtar & Los Ninos de Sara people because even though Jews (Es ther and the Children of Sara) were no longer subject to the Nazi Perfo rming o ld favorites & new songs from their H OT NEW CD RESERVE AD SPACE mmomm Saturday, February 5, 2000 - 11:00 PM CHRYSLER ■ PLYMOUTH ■ JEEP FOR PASSOVER Now. Performing in Foxwood's Grand Ballroom 1451 Brayton Point Road CALL SEENA AT Call Foxwood's Box Oflice for ticketing & information Somerset, MA 401-421-4111 1-800-200-2882 Phone: (800) 495-5337
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Hunger and H o melessness: Two of the C RC's areas of concerns are stories and demon The Endowment Fund was hunger and homeless ness. In May, peopl e from va rious J ewish organiza strati ons to suggest ti o ns will participate in assisting members of the Episcopal churches in foods to avoid at created in 1993 by the former Busi building a house for Habitat for Humanity. bu siness meetin gs, ness and Profess ional Women's The CRC also is studying the Jewish community's involvement in how to deal with Affiliate and now has a corpus or difficult foods when $35,000. When the Women's Al hunger-related programs. O nce the scope of programs is known, the C RC th ere's no choice , liance was formed last year, the may suggest more ways for the Jewish community co address the problem. and general respect fund was renamed the Women's H ealr.h : The Government Affairs Task Force is planning a forum o n health fo r business A ll ia nce Endowm e nt Fund . and long-term ca re for the aging. T he C RC realizes that hea lth iss ues are colleagues. The Twenty-three women have made on the minds of many in Rl and will provide chis public service featu ring men may never ruin another ti e while eating soup. the minimum gift of $ 1,000. those officials who create and administer Rhode Island 's health policies. More Nosh at Noo n programs are planned . To ask T he newest contributors are questions or offer suggestions contact El issa Mi rkin , Dori s Feinberg, Elli e Frank, H erta G un Control, H ate C rimes Legislation, Separatio n of C hurch and State: Director of Young Leadership at 401 -421-4111 , ext. 172 H offm an , Linda Mi ll er, Elaine T he C RC is speaking to RJ Congressmen on these issues. As always, the or e-mail her at emirkin@jfri .org . O dessa, Joyce Starr and C heryl Jewish community is vigilant in ensuring the separation ofc hurch and state Teverow. For more info rmation and communicati ng chis p riority to our elected officiaJs. T his past session, o n participaci ng in this endowment gun control and hare crimes legislatio n were controversia l topics in the Introdu cing. fund, call Joshua Ka rlin, Director Congress and remain priorities fo r the C RC to see enacted. of G ift Pl anning, attheJewish Fed Intergroup Relations: The C RC works wirh other minority communities <;floral cJymplzooy ' eration at 401-42 1-4 I 11 , x. 173. to achieve social justice. T h rough the Latino-J ewish Alliance and coop eratio n with RJ State Council of C hurches, National Conference of Offering person al cons ulting services for .. Endowment makes Community andJ ustice, Rl C ivil Ri ghts Round table and others, the C RC is mo re effecti ve in making a difference on social iss ues. Featuring: Weddings, Parties, Bar/Bat Mitzva one more grant COMING The E ndowm e n t Grants G ifts • Cards Plants Women are invited to join the Arab-Jewish Women 's Dance Group, Committee of the Jewish Federa co-sponso red by the C RC, fo r dancing, dessert and d iscussion with local Cut flowers • floral Arranagements tion was able to make one mo re Arab women at 7:30 pm, March 15, in the JCC Social H all. Call Amy grant when funds appropriated last Wire Services - Teleflora & AfS Gross, C RC director, at 401-42 1-4 111 , ext. 17 1, fo r more information. yea r, bur nor spent, became avail 421-2811 able at the end of 1999. 188 Wayland Ave . Square) "T he Future is Now," a tech nology project at t he Alperin ...... Schechter Day School, received $5 OFF ANY PURCHASE OF $25 OR MORE. $9, 132 to upgrade audio-visual NOT TO BE COMBINED WITH ANY OTHER OFFER . equipment, and computer pro grams and hardware so studen ts , GE Financial Assurance and teachers ca n work with state • of-che-arr materials. ., Dan 't let your fear al future T his brings the total number of grants awarded in this cycle to LONG TERM CARE 18 and the total fun ds distributed to $567,057 . casts slap you /ram planning Did yau knaw.. . ??? At the Maimonides Brunch on January 9, doctors and their spouses heard a • Medicare pays very little of overall nursing home costs presentation on the history of The Miriam Hospital. Here, chairman Alan • 43% of people will some day need Long Term Care Gaines talks about the group's gala scheduled for February 12. • You must spend down your assets before receiving Medicaid. • Long Term Care protects your assets and your home CLAYGRO\JNO • Long Term Care protection can keep you at home and • FEBRUARY SPECIALS • <1Ut of a nursing home. • Valentine's Day • Praleclyaur •Winter School Vacation • independence TODAY! • Birthday Parties • "COME IN AND ClAY" Call Lynn Pohl 808 HOPE STREET 5600 Post Road - Ben ny's Marketplace East Greenwich, RI 401-274-7213 PROVIDENCE, RI 401 -884-4888 401-453-5334 Tu es. & Wed . 11 AM- 8 PM • Thurs. & Fri . 11 AM- 9 PM The Long Term Care Specialist Sat. 10- 6 • Sun. 12- 5 The JewishVoice of RI • February 2000 ------tllri-,,,ii,i'i,hk ■------ummm, .. now why is it Mountain rat at Emanu-EI Phil Brown, a professor in the Brown Un iversity there are two Adars? sociology department, will speak at Temple by Rabbi Alvan Kaunfer up" those 11 days . So every two or Emanu-El's Ku lanu and Adult lnstitute's "Meet the Author" series on Sunday, February 27. Why do we have rwo months rhree yea rs we add a who le ex tra Brown is the author of Catskill Culture: A Moun of Adar in some years, as we do this H ebrew month of30 days-Adar tain Rat's Memories of the Great Jewish Resort year? The answer li es in the fact 1l - to the calenda r. Actually, we Area. The book is based o n his own memori es as that the J ewish calenda r was, from add 7 leap months in a cycle of 19 well as over 100 interviews. yea rs (i f you do the math , there a re Bibl ical ti mes, essentially a lu nar The program is open to the community. It will calendar. as many days in 19 sola r years as in begin at 9 :30 am, 99 Taft Avenue, Providence. If you recall your eleme ntary 19 lunar years of 354 days plus school science course, the moon seven , 30-d ay lea p months.) rakes about 29 1/2 days to travel So, if you were born o n Rosh around the earth each lunar mo nth. H ashanah, theo reti call y your H e OMMUNITY T h us in a " lunar yea r" there are brew a nd Engli sh birrhdates coi n only 354 (29 1/2 X 12) days as cide every 19 yea rs. If you a re born CALENDAR opposed to 365 d ays in a solar year. in Adar II though , you might only That means char each year the J ew have 7 birthdays every 19 years, Februar 6 7:00 PM ish holidays keep moving "back" and that would be just fine for JFRI Young Women's Craft Project 3:00 PM 7:00 PM many of us! February 7 by 11 days . (H ence, the fr equent Temple Sinai Ta lmud Study 9:45 AM Temple Sinai Talmud Study 9:45 AM co mmen t, " che holidays a re ea rl y H appy Jewish a nd secu lar leap Miriam Hospital Women's Association Board Mtg. 10:00 AM February 19 this yea r"') year! Leisure Club 10:00 AM Temple Sinai Talmud Study 9:45 AM Al Board of Rabbis Noon Februar 20 In order to correct the lunar Rabbi Kaunfar, Temple Eman u-EL, JFRI Planning & Allocations/JERI Review Com. 7:00 PM Temple Belh•EI Service of Comfort 5:00 PM calendar to b ring it in sync w ith rhe is a member of The Voice editorial BJE Judaica Course 7:00 PM February21 sola r calendar, we have ro " make botlrd. Temple Shalom Board Meeting 7:15PM Temple Sinai Talmud Study 9:45AM Februar 8 JFAI Planning & Allocations Community JFRI Women's Alliance Nominating Committee Mtg. 9:15AM Beneficiaries Review Committee 7:00 PM Temple Sinai Talmud Study 9:45 AM NA'AMAT Davorah Dayan 7:45 PM Coming in March : JFRI Women's Alliance Study Se ries Noon February22 JFRI Endowment Gift Acceptance Committee 4:15 PM Temple Sinai Talmud Study 9:45 AM Torat Yisrael annual silent auction ASDS Executive Board 7:00 PM JFAI Endowment Securities Subcommittee 4:00 PM Temple Emanu•El Adult Institute 7:30 PM JFRI Planning & Allocations Hillels Review Com. 7:00 PM Mark your calendars for the March 25, 2000 Second Annual Sil ent Temple Beth•EI Board of Trustees 7:30 PM Temple Emanu·EI Adult In stitute 7:30 PM Aucrio n at T emple Torat Yi srael in C ranston. February 9 February23 O rga nizers plan an even ing of relaxatio n, laughter and refreshments, Temple Sinai Talmud Study 9:45 AM Temple Sinai Talmud Study 9:45 AM Leisure Club Board 10:00 AM Temple Beth•El's Sisterhood Board 10:00 AM all in a settin g away from cold, snow or rain. CRC Coaliltion for Literacy Mtg. for all Tutors 4:00 PM JFRI Board Meeting 4:30 PM A celebriry guesr auctionee r will lead the bidding for borh the silenr JFAI Endowment Investment Committee Mtg. 4:30 PM Touro Fraternal Association Lodge Meeting 6:30 PM a nd live auctio ns. JFRI Young Leadership Council 7:00 PM JFRI Planning & Allocation JERI/Review Com. 7:00 PM BJE Workshop Series 7:00 PM RlHMM Program for Children of Survivors 7:00 PM C o-chai rs Susa n Adler and Joyce Wacks a re cell ing people to "come for Toure Fra ternal Assn. Board Meeting 7:30 PM Februar y24 the bargains or for rhe excitemen t, for the laugh ter o r fo r the treats, or just JFS Board Meeting 7:30 PM JFRI Finance Committee 8:00 AM February 10 9:45AM come knowing you' ll have a great n ight. " Temple Sinai Talmud Study Jewish Voice Theme Meeting 8:00 AM BJE Melton Class 7:00 PM Tickets are $9.00 in advance; $ 10.00 at the door. T he auction wi ll Temple Sinai Talmud Study 9:45 AM February25 begin at 7 :30 p m . Temple Torat Yisrael is at 330 Park Ave nue. Leisure Club 10:00 AM Temple Sinai Talmud Study 9:45 AM Agency Executives Meeting Noon Februar y26 BJE Melton Class 7:00 PM Temple Beth•EI B'nei Mitzvah Class 9:00 AM February 11 Temple Sinai Torah Study 9:30 AM Temple Sinai Talmud Study 9:45AM JCPA Plenum 6:00 PM Why is spirituality politically correct? February 12 February27 Temple Si nai Torah Study 9:30 AM JCPA 2/27-::3/1 8:00 AM Rabbi Klein will try to explain JFRI Maimonides Society invites members to Temple Emanu·El's Hamentashen Baking 10:00 AM an evening of "Klezmer Music~ 7:00 PM Temple Emanu•EI Kulanu Brunch 11 :00AM Rabbi D ov Hillel Kl ein wi ll discuss why spirituali ty is so po litically February 13 February28 correct, at the C HAJ CenrerofChabad West Bayon Tuesday, Februa ry 15 RI Hadassah Executive Board Meeting 9:30 AM Temple Sinai Talmud Study 9:45 AM Al Hadassah Board Meeting 10:30 AM Leisure Club 10:00 AM at 7 :30 pm. Leisure Club Sunday Program 2:00 PM BJE Judaica Course 7:00 PM Rabbi Kl ein is described as a counse lo r, poli ce chaplain, scholar and February 14 Temple Emanu•EI Executive Committee 7:30 AM hare-crimes expert. As part of his discuss io n, he will explain why Jews Temple Sinai Talmud Study 9:45 AM BJE Execu tive Committee 7:30 PM Lei sure Club 10:00 AM February 29 should look ro Judaism to fill a spi ritual void . In addition, he will ta lk abo ut BJE Judaica Course 7:00 PM Temple Sinai Talmud Study 9:45 AM rel atio nships a nd offer advice o n how ro let nor o nly God inro one's life , BJE Code Revisions Committee 7:30 PM JFRI Women's Alliance Leadership Development 4:00 PM but also o ne's spouse and fri ends. February 15 JFRI Young Women's Committee Mtg. 7:30 PM JFRI CRC Government Affairs Task Force 8:00 AM Temple Emanu·EI Adult Institute 7:30 PM For more information call 401 -732-6559, or visir rhe website at Temple Sinai Talmud Study 9:45 AM March 1 www.chabadcemers.com/warwick. T he C HA I Cen ter is at 15 Centerville JFRI Women's Alliance Executive Committee Mtg. Noon Temple Sinai Talmud Study 9:45 AM 4:00 PM Road , Warwick. JFRI Endowment Securities Subcommittee RI Board of Rabbis Noon Temple Beth·EI Sisterhood Pot Luck Dinner 6:30 PM BJ E Workshop Series 7:00 PM JFRI LEADERS Session 7:00 PM JGC Board Meeting 7:45 PM BJE/PHDS Liaison Committee 7:30 PM March 2 JNF calling on February 13 Temple Emanu·EI Adult Institute 7:30 PM Temple Sinai Talmud Study 9:45 AM February 16 Leisure Club 10:00 AM O n February 13, the Jewish National Fund's G reen Sund ay p hona NCJW Board 9:30 AM BJE MOAIM 7:00 PM thon for the New England regio n will raise money to help Israel meet its Temple Sinai Talmud Study 9:45 AM BJE Melton Class 7:00 PM BJE Purim Workshop 7:00 PM March 3 critica l water needs. RI Hadassah Open Meeting• Cryto Jews; Temple Sinai Talmud Study 9:45 AM Since its fou nd ing in 1901, the Jewish National Fund has planted over The Iberian Kosher Kitchen 7:30 PM March 4 Februar y 17 Temple Sinai Torah Study 9:30 AM 202 mill ion trees in Israel. Today, J NF concentrates o n la nd development, Jewish Voice Copy Review 8:00 AM March 5 environmental co nservation and water resource management. Planned Giving Council of Al 8:00 AM Temple Beth•EI School Board Meeting 9:00AM To vo lun teer, call 61 7-423-0999. Temple Sinai Talmud Study 9:45 AM Temple Emanu•EI Hamentashen Baking 10:00 AM Eden Garden Club 1:00 PM RI Hadassah Lunch & Learn Education Day 10:00 AM In other JNF news, H adassah has made a $3 m ill io n emergency grant JFRI Endowment Securities Subcommittee Mtg. 4:00 PM toward construction of another reservoi r in an effort ro ease Israel 's persistent water shortage problem. February Candle Lighting Times This marks the first time an Ameri ca n Jewish orga niza tio n had made !!habbat such a sizeabl e gift for what many see as the Middle East's most crirical pro bl em . Feb. 4 4:44 Feb. 18 5:02 Feb. 11 4:53 Feb. 25 5: 11 !!halom 16 ------■ tti·i 1 HM4-f ■1------The Jew1shVoice of RI • February 2000 cJ Fox Company.. . from pg. 3 business comes thro ugh brokers w ho work worldwide. for some time, had signed 150 checks jusc hours before O ccas ionall y, it comes in from "off the wall" places. he died. "W e did the packaging fo r pet rocks and mood Perhaps char is one of the reasons char when rings. " Scarr laughs. Per rocks were a man's brainstorm workers jo in CJ Fox, a non-union shop, ch ey rend to AB O VE ' close to the holidays and in order to ge t ch em in the scay fo r yea rs and in some cases encourage their siblings scores for C hriscmas, che gift box had to be simple and or children ro work there, roo. Management does no t NOT JUST FOR KNITTERS! produced fast. "T he life of those kinds of products is hover over ch em. Employees know their jobs and how very short , so we have to rum around rhe packagi ng to do chem. If there's a problem, they come knocking Walk with natural softness in quick.J y," Sta rr ex plain s. on the boss's door and resolve ic together. Bob Scarr leans back in his chair and talks about ISRAEI..:S uniquely cushioned For chat job, che co mpany used a Sta ndard die and set some type to decorate it, bur chat is about as fa r as his fother-i n- law. "CJ was an exceptionally good per footwear. D esigned for the company goes wich graphic design services. Com son ro work for. He never rook the easy way our. You exceptional ease and endur plex gra ph ics are done by designers who send the arc had co ea rn your way. He had firm ideas and held to ance. work co CJ Fox for printing. Fo r many jobs, though, ch em . H e kept chis busin ess at a controllable size, the crea tion of the di e rhar will form rhe box is an successful but not coo big. H e was a wonderfu l delega Rh ode Island's largest selec ro r and gave me eno ug h ro pe to do tion for Israel's most popular what 1 needed to do." footwear Buyers come courting con stan cl y, but th ese rwo generations have no intentio n of sel ling th e Rhode Island'slargest selection of Specialt1 Knitting Supplies! company. "We don't wa nt to work for anyone else," Bob says. "W hat We have, fo r you r shopping pleasure ... a large selection of yarns, happens after someone buys you? books and buttons. As well as an assortment of comfortable W hat are yo u gonna do'" he asks. clothing and shoes, and a unique selection of backpacks and totes. Owning your own business We have lots of ideas for new projects , big or small ! also gives one certa in latitude. Fo r ffiO Wayland Avenue• Providence the Fox and Sca rr families it has been easy to make time to partici 455-0269 Open: Mon-Fri. 10-6 ~ Thurs . 10-7 • Sat. 10-5 pate in Jewish community activi , ' ti es. CJ Jr. was a president of the Jewish Commun iryCencerand was acciveatTemple Beth-El. Bob Stan Although computers have eased stress and reduced the time neces performs cancorial duties at Temple sary to desig n the dies integral to nearly every job on the CJ Fox Stephen F. Schiff, M.D., F.A.C.S. Emanu-El fo r High H oly Days and presses, assemblying the dies is still an exacting job done by hand. ocher occasions, and he, son Josh MOHEL engineering design feat. and J ill Tobek all are active vol unteers at the Jewish Ken I rans says he was nea rly burned out design ing Federation. CERTIFIED by Jewish Th eological Seminary and and drawing di es by hand. Fortunarely, the computer le was CJ Jr. who decided one day in the earl y 70s the Rabbinical Assembly and design software ca me along an d revived him. that the outside of the company's elevatoc shaft would "What used co cake days, now takes hours." That same CERTIFIED by the American Board of Urology be a good spot for some sort of d isplay that would get increased productivity is evident in making negatives fo lks ' attention. Although vexed by very for the one, two or six-color jobs. The staff there says poor eyesight, he was an artist w ith the 401-274-6565 ch ar computerization m ea ns char w hat once took five camera and had a great knack for visual- or six hours, now cakes 10 minutes. They joke as Josh ,zanon. Scarr walks ch rough the plane, "What we used co mess H e decided chat shaft was ch e up after hours, we can mess up in IO m in utes." perfect spot for the company's FROM TRADITIONAL There is an easy and close camaraderie berween long and lanky logo, and there it the I 00-person production and sales scaff and the is for you today, a Fox winking at yo u. TO CONTEMPORARY ... managers. Right outside of the "executive" offices someone is fill ing up a whole bunch of baskets with fruit, following a rrad icion. "About once a month we Touro Fraternal awards ~~NL1TIONLll put fruit out in all the departments," Josh says. first scholarship grant At age 29, Josh is the yo ungesc of the fami ly .------, - sOFFICE FURNITURE~ members co be in the busi ness, the firsc of the fo urth generation. As chief information officer, he is install ing The Largest Showroom new software throughout ch e company's departments. a nd S e lecti o n of It will be used fo r escimacing, order entry, product Desks • Chairs cracking, inventory, shipping and billing. "Everyone in Confe re nce Tables this company can use a computer," he says of his F il es • Pa ne l Syste ms training program. "Everyone knows how ro use a &f!m Fu rniture in keyboard and a mouse. We set up a training room so Southeastern each employee could practice. It created a great ream spiri t. T hey are very proud of themselves." DESIGN & SPACE PLANNING New England Doing things together is a theme of the company. In Stock for Immediate Delivery • Rentals & Leasing There is no job that is co mpletely independent. Al l are inrenwjned and in recent years em ployees have learned how ochers depe nd on their work and vice versa. If they don't have a direct customer outside the company, they've got o ne insid e. Robert Miller, vice chairman of Toure Fraternal Associa And they appreciate each ocher. T hat is a lesso n tion and chair of its student aid committee, gives Sarah 2 74- 9000 learn ed from the second "CJ ," Tobek's father, Bob Hodosh , Cranston, a sophomore at the University of Starr's father-in-law and Josh's grandfather, who died Rhode Island , the fraternity 's first scholarship grant. 800-21 5-7000 Touro , the northeast's largest independent Jewish in 1996 after 55 years with the company. He was fraternal order, has made interest-free student lo ans to 36 Branch Ave. , Providence, Exit 24 off Rte . 95 Jct.N . Main known for wa lki ng around th e production floors and child ren of its members for many years . This is the first personall y thanking each employee fo r their good work Jon Weiss outright grant for whi ch members or the ir children are Howard Weiss as he handed out the paychecks. Fox, alrhough ailing eligible. Sarah's parents are Mr. and Mrs Peter Hodosh The JewishVoice of RI • February 2000 ------■ d·h,h,i'i,h¢ ■1------17 Lunch to raise funds for medical Davidson, Gitlitz to drizzle some honey on Hadassah URI professors and spouses from persecution and death, but Davidson and Girliaare experts in equipment at Hadassah Hospital Dav id Gi tlitz and Linda Kay then retained many of their Jewish bo th medieval history and chat age's H adassah's Bar M iczvah Spe husbands are invited to rhe noon Davidson wi ll bring a tas te of religious and cultural practices in special cuisin e. Gitlicz's book, Se cial Gifts Luncheon on May 7 ar rime evenr. 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All of rhe money is to be give n that Boston's newes t full servi ce, PROVENDER away. gla tt kos her ca tering compa ny On January 9, rhe children and so me of rheir opened its doors in the parents ga th ered in rhe Sin ai sa nctua ry , an d whi le Sp ring of 1999 . th ey wa ited fo r th ei r speaker, AJa n Sha wn Fei nstein , they exuded a palpable exciremenr which rh ey di <£r11/mibmeni l.o ~,a rected inco spirited sin gi ng. l by Jane S. Sprague For a synagogue chat is less than 40 yea rs old , Congrega tion Beth Dav id in Narraganse tt has seen a lot of changes. M o re are o n the way. Growth in recent yea rs is part of char change. Stan ley Barn ett, a professor of chemica l e ngineerin g at the Unive rsity ofRJ10de Island, and a presid ent of the shul fo r several years in rh e 80s, says chat wh en he rook rh e rein s, member fam ilies numbered only 50. By 1988 there were 80 Edi tor's Note: T his ar families, 100 by 1997 a~d a I 0% annual growth since then. ticl e is the 5th in a series Today there are 130 full memberships, exclusive of those who The Voice is writing that are seaso nal members. profiles all Jewish con "We have had to deny memberships," Barnett said , grega tions in our area. "simply because we ca n't sear rh cm all during the High Holy Days. ln fact, we're looking for a hall fo r next fa ll ," he added. At the dedication of the new Torah in 1966, congregants paraded the holy scroll from Barn ett reports ch ar the synagogue is also overfl owin g on Caswell Street to the shul. From left, Goldie Stone, congregation president Shlomo Simhat T orah and Purim when children flock to services. Kofler and Chaim Stone walk with Benton Odessa, treasurer, under the huppa . And, there are 10 o r 12 Bar/Bat Mitzva h each yea r now. Trying to keep the congregati on trul y "South Counry," membership regul ations stipulate that fu ll members must li ve home since at least 1946. scuffing envel opes with membership dues notices. between East Greenwich and Westerl y, west to H opkinton/ T hese vacacioningJews, who mostly li ved and worked in Ron Sa!avo n, a longti me resident in the South Coun ty H ope Vall ey and east to Jamestown. Fam il y dues are $225 a Provi dence, eve ntuall y decided they needed a summer syna area and a former board member of the synagogue, also year, $90 for singles. gogue, and in 196 1 spent $ 15,000 to erect a small ranch-style remembers the diligenr work of Bruce Jacober, now a resident "The South County H ebrew School feeds us members building on a corn er lot at Kingston and Warson Roads. T hey of Florida. "In the su mmer, Bruce would wa lk up and down an d young j ewish fa milies are moving into the area," notes the chartered the synagogue as an Orthodox Congrega ti on, al the beach at Narragansett collecting $5 and $ 10 summer sh_ul 's _cu rrent president, Sheldon Slomowitz, a retired Navy though nea rl y 75% of the members belonged to Conservative memberships until he had enough to pay the insurance bill," sc1ent1 st. synagogues elsewhere. Sal avon reco ll ects with a laugh. The H ebrew school was organized by parents some 30 O n July 4, 1962 they dedicated the bu il ding as Congre T he change away fr om being solely a summer shul, plus yea rs ago and remai ns independent of any synagogue o r gation Beth David in memoryofDavid Frank, the son of Mr. the influx to the area of"liberal " Jewish families as year-round l residents, led ro a tense time in the life of th e li ttl e congrega affi liation. I ts princi pal, Ethan Adler, also serves as the spiri and M rs. Jacob Frank, who had died the previous year. His tual leader of Congregation Bec h David. parents had frequently hosted minyanim in their home dur tion as new members sought another transition - to a Conservative affi liation. Rick Perlman, whose fath er was canmr for many years at ing the years before the synagogue was built. Temple Emanu- El in Providence, perform s canrnrial duties. Three years later, with 200 members on the books - T he original by-laws were stacked against them. Any Long rime member, Robert Curran, MD, a kohen , is also a and 300 squeezing into the little shul for the High Holy Day such change, Salavon said, had to be approved by 95% of the to mohel, avail able to perform the rite of circumcision for male services - the congrega ti o n burned its mortgage. T he next membership, and that was interpreted mean the whole in fa nts born to area famil ies. summer, Aug,,sc 14, 1966 ch e offi cers rook turns carrying a membership, not just the majo rity of a quoru m that might showed up at a meeting to take a vote. Adler and Perlman also help prepare 12- and 13-year new T orah scro ll under ahuppa from Caswell Srreet to irs new olds to become Bar/ Bae Miczvah, as do members Brenda home in the Beth David ark. le had bee n donated by Marcin Sah vo n rem embers that "We jusrwanred to be able to sit Levin and Margolit AJ1aro n, an Isra eli "whose inflection and M. Zucke r, in ho nor of his mother, Mary. with o ur families during services/' but th e prospects were accent we hear in her students' Hebrew," Slomowir-L says. T he outside of the modest little synagogue was basicall y bleak. In genuity came forth , as Salavon tell s it. "W e stacked the deck." Although not chartered as a congregation until 1961, unadorned until August 15, 1976 when a Magen David Jews who summered in the Narragansett area had been which had once been on the walls of Sons of Zion, in Members eager for the change bega n recruitin g everyone gar heringa minyan on Fr id ay evenings in so meone's summer Providence, was hung above the Beth David front door and they kn ew to join Congregation Beth David , with its minus dedicated. So ns of Z io n had been demol cu le dues , so rhey could vote for the change. "l think we got ished years before to make way fo r Route about 400 members," Salavon said. "Bur when the vote was 95. taken, we were o ne vore sho rr - 94.6% in favor - and could By this time, the summer Jewish popu nor persuade anyone amo ng the O rth odox to change or lation had dwindled significantly, due withdraw. So we went to court." largely to the burning of the Massasoit Z. Hershel Smith , an attorn ey whose Orthodox fami ly Hotel, where many had stayed.Yer, by 1978 had been associated with the synagogue, would nor budge in there were enough Jewish families perma his instance chat 94.6% was not close enough. What to do' nenrl y residing in the "South County" area Enter a judge with the wisdom of Solomon. Salavo n to convert the synagogue to year-round recal ls the ruling as stipulating ch at for fi ve years Conservati ve use. After board member H arold Perl ow servi ces would be o n Friday evenings and Orthodox on agreed to undeiwri te the heati ng bill, the Sa turday mornings - with the caveat char a special Conser transition was made at 11 :00 am on No vative service such as a Bar/ Bat M irzvah could pre-empt the ve mber 26. Up to chi s ti me, a very small Orthodox o n Saturdays. group of dedicared members had managed "T he O rthodox members cl id not take adva nrage of their the affairs of the sy nagogue. Shl omo Kofler allotted use," Salavo n recal ls, "probably because they could had been its o nl y presid ent and Benton not get a minyan. So, after about three years, it officiall y Odessa its so le treasurer. became a C onservarive congregation . All we did was take Benton's widow, Elain e Odessa, re down rhe mehirzah. \Y/e kept the same prayer book and members carri ng kosher food fro m Davis's service, and many of th e Orthodox joined us." on th e Providence East Sid e down tO N ar C ongrega tion Beth David al so maintains a small kosher The modest little shul has been the scene of services, a few weddings ragansett fo r Sunday breakfasts, and their and numerous bar/bat mitzvah over the years The Magen David over dairy kitchen for occasio nal Sunday morning repas ts and the daughter, Susa n Odessa Froehli ch, recalls the door originally was on th e Sons of Zion synagogue 111 Providence. Please turn to page 20. 20 l;ffliNMiist@tiW The JewishVoice of RI • February 2000 A $25,000 gran t ro the Soci Touro Synagogue, ety of Friends ofTouro Synagogue in ewport will be applied roward an American Treasure, the restoration ex penses. The award came from the Save Ameri ca's Treasures Preserva ti on makes it to the Red Room Pl ann ing Fund of the Natio nal Trust fo r H istori c Preservatio n. T ouro was one of 37 recipients. The grants are funded by the J. 'Your foca{ source f or everything Jewish is .. . Paul G etty T rust. T ouro Synagogue had been Rhoda's Judaica designated an "American T reasure" in the partnershi p project between ~ STOP IN AND LISTEN TO ~ the Wh ite H o use Millenniu m Look closely and you'll see a model of Touro Synagogue between the C ounc il and the I atio nal T rust. women's heads. Gathered in the Red Room aat th e Wh ite Hou se were (I POPU LAR MUSIC SELECT IONS ON O U R In an effo rt ro high ligh t the Trea tor) Melvin Prostkiff, vice president of the Society of Friends of Toure sures, a model o f each was o n dis Synagogue, Society executive director Bea Ross, and Carol and Davi d Bazarsky David is president of th e congregation. nJ INTERACT IVE Mus ic S vsTEM play at the W hite H o use during the .f)J recent holidays. rhe I nquisirio ns in Spai n and Po r examples of J 8th cen tu ry G eo r ~I] We have CD's & cassetts in English, D edica ted in I 763, Touro is tugal, and who were, themselves, g ian architectu re in America. ~ Hebrew,Yiddish & Instrumental ~ the o ldest synagogue in the U nited seeking a haven fro m further reli T he Society of Friend s of 17 Scares and rhe only one to survive gious persecu tion in the Caribbea n. T o u ro Synagogue maintains and J 775 Hope Street, Providence from the colonia l era. T he congre The synagogue was des igned p reserves the synagogue, the Colo 454-4775 gatio n was founded in 1658 by the by colo nial architect Peter H arrison nial Jewish Cemetery and Patriots ~ ~ descendants o f Marra nos who Aed and is co nsidered o ne of rhe fi nest Park, and promotes the cause o f religious fr eedo m in Ameri ca. Sturdy Beth David .. . from pg. 19 _____ annual paid-up members d eli din been an an nual service run co m rime tics to the area, so me mem ner. pletely by women, and the local bers decid ed to provid e fo r Jewish Today, women participate H adassah members also o rga nize buri als w irh in the commu n iry. Great freely in se rvi ces, "and are some of an an nual service. T hey bought and consecrated 130 o ur bes r readers," Slomowirz says. W ith a growing populatio n plots in the non-secta ri a n Fo r rhe lasr seve n years, rhere has and Jewish res iden ts now with long- Fern wood Cemetery on Route 138 on rh e so uthwestern edge of the URJ ca mpus. T he cemetery is open w aJljews, not jusrsynagogue rnem Shabbat. bers. "W e also have mad e provi sio n for intermarried spouses," Barnert said, adding that he esti m ates rhar abou t 25% of the Temple Emanu-EI co ngregation's famil ies are in ter married. is proud to present a O ccasio nally, a no n-Jewish spouse wi ll conve rt, he said. T hose Kallah Shabbat Experience who are interested in explo ring conversion are d irected to the February 25 -26 G erim J nstitute at T empie Emanu EI in Provid ence. T he explosion in Beth David 's Reserve now for this special membership and the general growth of the Jewish populatio n - rhere program that celebrates a are mo re than 580 Jewish fa milies li ving in their geographic area - Congregation president Sheldon Slomovitz and one of his encouraged the sy nagogue to join joyful Shabbat in community predecessors , board member Stan Barnett, on the bimah of Beth Davi d. The congregation is likely to move to new quarters fo rces w irh the H ebrew School, the with songs, study, prayer, if fu nd ra ising fo r the South County Jewish Collaborative's South C ounty Jew ish Community building is successful. Council and H adassah to incorpo and, of course, food! ra te the South Coun ty J ewish Col laborative. The Coll abo rati ve has pur chased an 11 -acre sire with a sizable To be a part of this house, a po nd and natu re trails wh ich the members ho pe ro trans Great Shabbat, fo rm inco a center for vib rant Jew ish acti vity. Plans are being drawn please reserve by fora newstrucrure tharwill accom th modate the H eb rew School (which February 10 now fl oats amo ng ava ilable URI class roo ms) , a 300-seat synagogue, Offering the Best cu ltural programming and offi ces. Fine Wines • Beers • SpiritJ Beth D avid 's offi cers have not 806 Hope Street • Provide nce, Rhode Is land 02906 offi cially voted co move to the new Temple Emano-El Tel 40 1-421-5760 • Fax 401 -421 -SWAN cam pus, but the biggest co ntribu A Co11 servative co11 gregatio 11 that 's a 11yth i11 g but. E-Mail [email protected] tors to the C oll abo rative are its members. It is likely that the stu rdy 99 Taft Avenue • Prov id ence• Rh ode Island • 02906 • 33 1-1616 r~ q)~ (.,. t-d ,Suk ~ u~ li ttle shul will see more change. The JewishVoice of RI • February 2000 ------•wtM·11 Ui•t------23 Apply now; only 75 spots for HIAS SCHOLARSHIPS Cybex strength-Ure Faces Mideast Scholar-Athlete Games HLAS-assisced refugees who may ident1"fy emigrated to ,he United States n e Vschol ar. Nacanya volunteers as a Yo uths ages 15 to I 9 should of rhe lnstituce for lnternarional during o r after 1985, a nd thei r Thestace-of-ch e-art Cybex stren! library teacher fo r 1st graders a nd apply now to be in the M ideast Sport, based at URJ (whi ch hosted children, should apply for $ 1,500 J ewish Community Center's QCC) p n a,de to the 3 rd grade teacher. In Scholar-Athlete Games which will games in 1993 and 1997 that drew coll ege schola rships by March 15. The ease oflearning makes it a pcaddicion, she coordinates Shabbat o pen fo r nine days in Tel Aviv, 3,600 youths from 158 countries), The awards a re fo r high school feel the difference; now I undersca"cnv1t,es for a group of young g,rls Israel on June 25. which created a nd o rganizes the sen iors who will pursue post-sec- Director) wanted co switch co Cybex, 'arrheschool, ~n? organized a group Competition will be in bas Games. H e added, "We are confi o ndary educatio n and for ch ose al- H eald, and Fitness Education Comof youths to VIS lt a n elderl y couple ketball, beach vo ll eyball , soccer, dent that the Mideast Games will ready enrolled in such programs. me mbers identifying muscle groups ,weekly. swimming, tennis, track and field , be a n important building block to Applicants must have spent at least Cournoyer, who raised fu nds fo r this is a senior at C harles voll eyball and chess, as well as a rt, understanding and comm unicarion Rachel Su.ls o ne year in an American high MoncreaJ la5 c August. E. Shea High School and a mem- cinema, dance, sy mphony, cheater, between youth of the regio n." The w riting a nd poetry. program is c h a ired by A lan school, coll ege o r graduate school. The JCC fitn ess center also incber of Temple Ema nu- EI. Rachel For an application , w ri te ro studio, which now offer Pilates on tis a student at H EM a nd she serves Un like mosr internatio nal H assenfeld, CEO of Hasbro Toys. H LAS Scholarship Awards, 333 aerobi cs studio is ho me to step, card as a Torah T utor at Emanu- EI. compcricions, there will be no na Only 75 Ameri can scholar Seventh Ave., Y, NY 10001 - variety of additi onal aerobic group e:Last year, Rachel spent a semester tional tea ms. For example, 10 play athl etes wi ll attend the games. Ap 5004. Enclose a stamped, sel f-ad- poo l, adult and youth basketball and studying in lsrael asastudentin the ers o n a basketball court could come plican ts wi ll be accepted o n a roll dressed e nvelope. For informatio n, contact Courn Alexander Muss High School. She fr o m 10 different countries. In ad ing basis. T he cost, wh ich incl udes . is an active member of the B' nai dition, youths wi ll engage in a vari two days of touring, is $2,450. For B'ri thYourhOrga niza ci on andshe ety of discuss io ns and seminars. an application and information For the scientifically gifted, a summer 24 "The goal of the Scholar-Ath write the I nscicurc fo r I nternarional G ifted high school seniors who side with Weizmann scientists and Please turn to page - lete Games co ncept is to use sport Sport, PO Box I 04, U niversity of will graduate in June may be able to graduate students. and the arts as mediums to bridge RJ, Kingston, R1 02881; e-mai l to spend a mo nth ar the Weizmann Highly competitive, ,his Dr. c u lt ural, re li g ious a nd ethnic info@i ncernario nalsport.com, o r Institute of Science in Israel con- Bess ie F. Lawrence Internacional The light boundaries," said Daniel E. Doyle, cal l Steve Spiegel at 800-843-9724 d~icting laborac.o?' ~escarc_h in a SummerScience lnscirurefromjuly the fo under and executive director or 401 -874-5088. w,de range of d1Sc1pl1nes, stde-by- 3-28, bringsapproximacely 75 pre will return. university youths co Israel from Europe, As ia, the Ameri cas and JCC accepting pre-school enrollments Israel. Spring T he final week of the program is spent at a fi eld school in the will arrive. Keep your ______ andyourh Whenever. p\an to celebrate a week or I now by \earning to • \ove something new, i and maybe meeting , , ' , someone toot SPRING coURS£5 any other special requirem BEGlN lN MID-MARCH, ··, We also provide transportations APRlLAND MAY. and from veterinarians, gro Make your spring ,1,; If weather and health keep you i by your pet for you. more f ulfilli»g Call Larry Gorin joining us for one of Member of th e National Assoc iation our I 70 evening and weekend courses in: Esta Yavner (left photo) reads a Shabbat story to her literature class of 3-year-olds as the 4-year olds welcome Shabbat History and public }\{fairs with members of the JCC Senior Center at the Traditions Speech and Writing on Wheels cart. Applications for Fall 2000 Early \ 0 foreign languages Childhood programs are available now. For further Music and art appreciation information and tours, contact Sue Connor, Early Writing fiction and poetry Childhood Director, or Shirley Moskaluk, Administrative Assistant, at 401- 861-8800, ext. 130/131. Photography and ,\rt Medicine and well-being ADD camp in PA )'oga, Massage and Golf AstrononW and Science Round Lake Camp, which is B r ier & Brier Accounting and Investing sponsored by the New Jersey Fed Coinputer Skills, eration of YM/YWHA Camps, is Personal Service ... lnsurance Professionals IBM & Mac,and the Internet accepting e nroll ment applications The fun,\a1nentals of forthesummer of 2000. The camp, • Life • Business Managctllent a sleep-away facility in Wayne • Home & Auto • Disability County, Penn., specializes in serv Sharing what we know • Health • Retirement Planning ing children who have been identi best, the love of learning! fi ed as having ADD/ADHD or A new survey shows that 67 "' , Specialists in affordable Long-Term Care. other mild ha ndicapping condi- have proper insurance. For the Brown University tJOns. Milton Brier, CLU Jeffrey Brier, CLU, ChFC Learning Community For derails on the camp and its by a national insurance car: Ca\1401 -863-3452 (or a (rec programming, con tact David (401)-751-2990 catalor,ue or ,isit our \llC . , . ",. Wehsilc at hit\':// Fri edman at the camp office by 18 Imperial Place, Providence, Rhode Island 02903 /1,:,..-' "'"~,.\lrown,cdul call ing 973-575-3333, ext. 122, o r [email protected] '\ ·.1"7°\·~ ,\dlllinistrationl e-mail to ri [email protected]. ~. L \llC 20------~------4ilu•~ittJl;~i?·tC9~•at!9~t¾IMI------The Jew1shV01ce of RI • February 2000 Toure Brithday party on tap at Rainbows on cheeks, smiles an Americ Cranston seniors' meal site aplenty at Adoptions Options party • The C ranston M ea l site w ill celebrare February birthdays on the 17 th, A child sitting patien tl y while eb ra ti o n of the joys associated with makes 1t to ti with a party fo r everyone with a binhday rh is mo nth and fea turi ng musical a rainbow is pai nted o n his face ... a adoprion and an o ppo rruniry fo r entertai nment by Michael Fl ynn. little girl playing a ------parents to meet Mah Jong has bee n added to the Mealsite's regular activities, wh ich whimsical ga me of The next meeting of Adop others who have .------also include T ai C hi , dance ch erapy and exe rcise classes, writin g class, " balloon catcl1 " tion Options, the adoption had similar ex pe ')'our foca[ source for eve Bin go_ and visits fro m the Burea u of Jewish Educa tion Bookmobile. with her mother. . program of J ewish Family ri ences. The J' Pamc1pants ca n ger their blood pressure checked or ask health-related preschoolers con Service QFS) wi ll be March party will be in J questions du ri ng the peri odic visits_ o f the_ Registered N urses from the cen tra t i ng in I from 6:00 to 7:30 pm. The the Adoptions Rh O Options confer d a § H ome Care program of Jewish Family Service. ten tl y at th e arts m eetings a re the first ence room at 229 T he activiti es and programs accompany a hot kosher meal ac noon and crafts cabl e ... Wednesday o f every month Waterma n STOP IN AND every weekday thro ughout the month. The Mealsire wi ll be closed on ado prive parents at the J FS o ffi ces, 229 Street, 2nd fl oor, Monday, February 2 1 for Pres id ent's Day. T he February schedule in c ha rring abou r Waterman St., 2 nd fl oor, POPULAR MUSIC SEL el udes: t h e ir kids, rhe Providence. The m eetings Provid ence. Last adoptio n ex peri are free and open to anyone year, nearly 60 •Tai C hi: Tuesday, Feb. 22 INTERACTIVE M ence, schools, ac interested in pursuing a n peopl e attended ry • Bingo: Feb. 7, 15, 29 ~.f)J ri vi ries, play adoption. Call Adoption the celebration. • Exe rcise: Wednesd ays, Feb. 9, 16 , 23 ~/] We have CD's & ca groups ... This wi ll Optionsar 4 01 -33 l -5437 o r A d o pt io n • BJE Boo kmo bile: Wed ., February 9, 23 ~ Hebrew,Yiddish 8 be the scene ar the toll -free at 1-800-337-65 13 O prions is a ½ • D ance T herapy: Mon., February 14 , 28 2 nd annualAdop for information or to arrange non-secta ri a n , J 775 Hope Stree • N utritio n M eeting: T ues., February 8 tion Options a confidential consultation. comprehens ive ~ 454-4 • Birthday parry: T hursday, Feb. 17 Birthday Party o n Or visi t the web si te at ad option pro •JERI Program : T hurs., Feb. I 0 Sunday, Feb ruary www.adoptionoptions.org. gram under the 13 from 2:00 to auspi ces of Jew- •Mah J ong: Tues., February 8 and 4:00 pm. T hose ish Family Ser Mon., Feb. 28 , 12:45 to 2:30pm who have ado pted recently are in vice. To RSVP,ca ll Adoptio n • Discuss io n Groups: every Friday vited ro attend. Optio nsat40 1-33 1-5437; toll-free G ~• Shabbat M ea l: every Frid ay The event is planned as a eel- ar 1-800-337-65 13. r ~ Programs bcg 111 at I I 00 am unless, otherwise stated, every weekday, except hol idays Every Friday, there is a special Shabbat meal, complete with ca ndles, chall ah and kiddush. Voice Deadline All agencies and organizations The J FS Kosher Mealsite in C ranston is ar Temple Torat Yi srael, 330 Paufine Jewefers Park Avenue. Tran~ponarion is ava il able fo r residents of C ranston and should have articles for the IJ so me areas of Warwick. 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Natanya volunteers as a "Jewish Ed ucators' Guide to the Internet" is the topic of a have been honored wich the Furn re Ra chael Blac kman , Jess ica library teacher for !st graders and worksho p seri es that the Bureau ofJ ewish Educatio n is offering chis month Faces Teen Recognitio n awards Goldberg, Dena Gromer, Eiran an aide co the 3 rd grade reacher. In to help teachers lea rn about va rious possi bili ties for usin g the in tern et - given by JOLT - Jewish Out H ersh , Judah Jacobson, Em il y addition, she coordinates Shabbat as background resources) as instructio nal ai ds and as student acriviries. reach and Leadership Training Krauss, Ra chel Le nore, Stephani e acriviti es for a group of yo ung girls a program of the Bureau of Jewish Markoff, Rachel Sockut, a nd at the school, and o rganized a group This is not just a guide co webs ices and search engi nes. T hrough critica l Educati on of Rhode Island (BJE). Stephanie Sceingold. of youths to visit an eld erl y co uple refl ection, teachers will dea l with the iss ues of reliability, educatio nal Future Faces recognizes Jew weekl y. va lidity and educatio nal structures. This mi ni-se ri es of workshops began Sarah Gross, jun ior ar Appone ish swdencs in grades 11 and 12 February I and continues on Wednesday, Feb ruary 8 and March I , from quet Regional High School and a Rachel SuJs is a se ni or at C ha rl es who exhibi t outstanding abiliti es 7:00-9:00 pm in the Resource Center of the BJE, 130 Sess ions St. , member ofTifereth Israel Congre E. Shea High School and a mem and make contributions co Jewish Provid ence. Lawrence Katz will be th e facil icacor. gati on of New Bedford. She is ac ber of Temple Emanu-EI. Rachel li fe and va lues by their leadership tive in her USY chapter, currently is a srudenr at H EM and she serves "Masks: A Purim Workshop," wi ll meet on Wednesday, and their participation in commu se rving as presidenr, and she is a as a Torah Tutor at E manu-EI. February 16th, from 7:00-9:00 pm in th e BJ E's Resource Center. T eachers niry service, socia l action, Jewish s tude nt in rhe H arry Elki n Last yea r, Rachel spent a semes te r will learn what's behind masks and why we wear them. T hey wi ll study studies and religious acrivici es. Midrasha Commun ity School srn dyi ng in Israel as a student in rhe techniques for making mas ks, find o ut how they ca n be utilized as an Rich Walter, BJE secondary (H EM). She is a student in che Alexa nder M uss High School. She educa tional tool and how they ca n ad d a new dimension ro understanding education coordinator, says ch at UMASS Dartmouth Dual Enroll is an acti ve member of the B'nai th e Purim story. Sharyn Yanku Wilk wi ll be the fac il itator. "The Fuwre Faces nominees and ment Program. Last year, Sarah B'rich Youth Organization and she The Bureau has also begun "The Rabbis said: An Introduction awardees havedemonsrraced an un spent her summer at the T echnion Please turn to page 24. to Rabbinic Literature," a course presented by va rious rabbis and derstanding of and internalization Universiry in Haifa studying math, instructors in the Rhode Island area o n Mondays ch ro ugh May, from 7:00- of primary Jewish teachings such as science and Israel. 9:00 pm. Rabbini c lircrarnre conti nues co spea k to human beings and Kial Yisrael - rh e unity of che Rochel Jakubowicz, a seni or at human societi es througho ut the ages. It is constantly referred to in our texts Jewish people; Ahavat Yisrael - the ew England Academy ofTo The light and from the pulpit. Participants will discuss sel ectio ns from the enti re the love of one Jew for another; rah (NEAT ). Rochel is a member range of pose-Biblical literature attribured co "T he Rabbis." T he nature Tikkun olam - making the world will return. of National H onor Society. She and authors of each type will be exa mined . a better place for all humankind, and Kol Yi srael arevi m zeh b'zeh has worked as a camp counselor Any teachers inceresced in these workshops may register by ca lli ng eve ry Jew is responsible one fo r ch e and has ass isted in a 2 nd grade Spring Diana at the BJE, 33 1-0956. Her e- mai l is bj [email protected]. ocher. " classroom as an ai de. Her deep love This yea r's recipi ents, all ac and co ncern for th ose in need is will arrive. tive in myri ad extracurricular ac evidenced by her regul ar visits to Kick up your heels with Yarmulkazi tiviries, are Sa rah Gross, Lakevi ll e, elderl y members of the co mmu nity who li ve in nursing ho mes or Mass., Rochel Jakubowicz and p\an to ce\ebrate at HEM fund raiser in March acanya Raskin, both of Provi who are homebound. Ya rmulkazi??? It's Brown University's Klezmer Band, and they' ll be now by \earning to dence; Rachel Sul s of Pawtucket, Natanya Raskin, a se ni or at playin g fo r sin g alongs and dancing at the ann ual fund raiser for th e Harry and Lauren Wier, West War.vick. NEAT , a member of Natio nal \ove something new, Elkin Midras haCommunity High School (H EM) o n March 11 ar 7:30 pm Nominees who also were rec H o no r Society and a National and maybe meeting at T emple Emanu-EI in Providence. ognized ar the ceremony are Joshua Merit Scholarship Co mmended Ya rmulkazi is an energetic group of students with widely rangin g someone tool musical backgrounds. The group boas ts di ve rse instrumentation including SPR\NG coURS£5 the violin , clarin et, trumpet, Aute, accord ion, piano, electri c bass and s£G\N \N wo-MARCH, percussion. Yarmulkazi, a favorite in the Brown community, is known for APRlL AND MAY, presentations of tradi tional Kl ezm er favo rites, Israeli dances and "Klezmerized" popular music. Make your spring This year's event also wi ll fea ture the HEM Youth C hoir, 30 area by teens under ch e direction of C antor Brian J. Maye r. The Yo uth C hoir has more fulfilling sung at many loca l celebratio ns and concerts. Located in Narragansett. joining us for one of Tickets fo r the HEM fund raiser are $ 18 fo r adults and $9 for students ~ our I 70 evening and and seni ors. HEM students are invited at no cost. For boys and girls ages 7 to 13. weekend courses in: Fo r more informatio n about the H EM fundraiser or o ch er teen fl programs offered by the Bureau ofJ ewish Education, contact Rich Walter Leadership in Training for Literature at 33 1-0956 x 178 o r by e-mail at rsw l 78@a ol. com. History and public ,\([airs 14-and-15-year-olds. Speech and Writing !II 10 foreign languages Research supports value of Israel trips The only Jewish overnight camp Music and art appreciation in Rhode Island. Writing fiction and poetry Ruch Page, lsrael D es k D irector ar ch e BJ E, says chat "Formal resea rch photography and ,\rt and personal testim o ny demonstrate convincingly chat a summer visit to Dietary laws observed. Medicine an,\ well-being lsrael profoundly influences how yo ung peo ple relate co lsrael and th eir II 'ioga, Massa!,\e and Golf Jewish identi ty. In recognition of the potential positive impact the Israel Trip I: Monday, June 26 AstronontY and Science experience ca n have, th e Rhode Island Jewish community is working to to Sunday, July 23 Accounting and \nvesting sharply increase the num·ber of young Jews who visit Israel. " Conwuter Skills, T he Gift of Israel Program is a partnership among fami li es, sy na Trip II: Monday, July 24 to IBM & Mac, and the Internet gogues, the Jewish Federation of Rhode Island and che BJE. "JFRl's Sunday, August 20 The fun,\an,entals of generosity has enabled chis program to begin," Page adds. Managen,ent Students in grades 3-8 may enro ll , as long as they are in a Jewish Four-Week Overnight $1315. Sh11ri11g wh11t we knoll' educational program and remain there fo r the duration of the G ift program Two-Week sessions !,est, the love of kMt1i11g! ( I Och grade). The trip co Israel may be taken anytim e after the I Oc h grade for first time campers, only $81$. until age 23. Each yea r the child's fami ly co ntributes $ 150, the participat The Brown Uni.versi.ty ing synagogue adds $50, and Federation matches with $200. !Ji ' A summer of fl'.lendahlps, sports,,,..,. Learni.n'b Coininuni.ty Now in its 5th yea r, Gift of Israel has over 200 enrolled and 12 swimming ond boating, '""' Call 40\-863-3452 for a [rec sy nagogues are participating. Students from no n-participating sy nagogues Jewish culture ond the arts. catalogue or visit our n\.C may enroll as lo ng as they are attending approved Jew ish educa tional Wehsile al 11111,: // Thot JORI feeling since 1937. www.\,rown.cduf programs and their parents colllribuce rhe the synagogue's share. Registra ,\dtllinistrationl tion for th is yea r cl oses on March I, 2000. To enroll a child or co find out For information, call (401) 521-2655. \\LC whi ch synagogues are participating, contact Page at 40 1-33 1-0956. 24 lfotfBM,N The JewishVoice of RI • February 2000 From ASDS Come to annual Schechter hoopsters take key rivals Zimriyah The boys' basketball team at ASDS opened its season by trouncing the The a nnual Zi mriya h , or Rocky Hill School 26 to 13, and then romped over Moses Brown 50 to 22. Songfest, ar ASDS will help break The third game was a loss, 38 to 32, to Providence Country Day. "the dull gloom of a long Rhode Lead scorers in the opening game were Ben Odessa with 8 points in Island wi nter," on Thursday, Feb the first half and David Levinson with 6 points overall. Spencer Kurn and ruary 17 ar 7:00 pm. Michael Wolpert each threw in a three-pointer to boost the score, while Studenrs, faculry, staff and Ben Savitzk-y pulled down numerous rebounds. fam il y members present touching, The Schechter girls' team losr to Rocky Hill, 21 to I 0. Marlene Wacks funny and memorable songs co an led the ream's scoring with 6 points, made in rwo consecutive three audience which comes to rhis event poinrers. H ope Sholes and Shayna Hersh helped the offense with two year after year. This year's program points each, while Leah Weissburgcaptured numerous rebounds. The girls will feature "Shabbat Around the RELIABLE GOLD LTD. had a closer game with Providence Country Day, coming within six points. World," including so ngs from Old High scorers were Leah Weissburg (8) and Shayna H ersh (6). World counrries, Israel and the JEWELERS Since 1934 Unfortunately, neither team came out overall winners in rhe "Shoot United States. Out" Tournament amongSchechrer schools that was in Stoughron, Mass., The program, open to the on January 23. The The ASDS boys' team placed 4th overall. The girls won community, will be in the Alperin their first round bur lose our in the second. Meeting HouseatTemple Emanu EI, 99 Taft Ave., Providence. ASDS hires development director Susan A. Freel is the new Di AJperin Schechter Day School's rector of Development, respon annual fund campaign offers sup sible fo r rh eannual campaign, gen porters several avenues for giving, eraJ donations and endowment at for exa mple: rh e AJperin Schechter Day School. • $ 18 buys a li brary book or some Freel's caree r has included or recess equipment ganizing and managing hea lth and • $25 provides a child with mi lk for trade fairs, serving as a director of a month vo lunteers, coordinati ng advertis • $50 pays for Shabbat parties for ing and exhibir sal es and conduct one grade ing re lemarketing, direct mai l and • $ 100 sponsors a class rrip account management. She holds a • $200 undenvrires a culturaJ en BA from Syracuse Uni ve rsity and Susan Freel richment program. an MA and ISW from Boston College. She says her goals include "de veloping a long rerm strategy of fund raising ro strengrhen the mis Under their own tallit sion of ASDS" and "cultivari ng a ~/lfPJda long-term relationship wirh vo lun On Beautiful Lake Tispaquin reers, community leaders and AS OS families." Middleboro,Massachusetts 02346 Freel and her husband, Mark, Founded in 1927 for Jewish boys 7 to 15 years old li ve in Rumford, R.l. entering grades 2 through 10 "The Traditio n Con tinues" Sir Hillary??? Archery • Arts and Crafts • Basketbal l • Canoein g • Fishin g Football• Fun -yaking • Hydrosliding • Kayaking • Kickball Newcombe • Photography • Pi ng Pong • Radi o Ropes/Chall enge Course • Rowing • Sailing • Soccer Softball • Street Hockey • Swim Instruction • Tennis Tubing • Vo ll eyball• Waterski in g • Weightl ifting Windsurfing • Woodworkin g • Wrestling Rabbis Da vid Lipman (left) and Wayne Franklin (right) hold a tallit over the ASDS 3rd graders during their Humash ceremony It is the same tallit that the Weekly Field Trips • Inter & Intra-Camp Competition children's parents had made for their 1st grade Siddur Ceremony. EXCELLENT KOSHER FOOD 2 RESIDENT RN's - 3 ON-CALL PEDIATRICIA NS Future Faces . . . from pg. 23 7-wee k or two 3 t/2-wee k sessions serves as both chapter president vo luntee red her time as big sister, and also as vice president of the reading tutor, youth sofrbaJI coach, CAL L OR WRITE: New England region. and as a Spanish speaking day-care Paul G . Davis, Director worker. Lauren is also a member of Lauren Wier, a se nior at Moses Camp Avoda rhe Yourh in Philanthropy Board, Brown and a member of T emple 11 Essex Street • Lynnfield, MA 01940 a program of the RJiode Island T orat Yi srael. She has received (781) 334-6275 Foundation and the AJan Shawn Sarah Goliger, a 4th grade student numerous awards including being FAX: (781)334-4779 at Schechter, transformed herself Feinstein Foundation. a Louis Feinstei n Memorial E-Mail: campavoda@aol. com into Sir Edmund Hillary for a recent JOLT is funded through a www.campavoda.org Explorers Unit in Language Arts Scholar1 awa rd ed for community service. She is a student in HEM Continu irv Grant from the Jewish class. Sarah introduced her Federatio,; of Rhode Island. For classmates to the famous explorer and an active member of her USY more information about these or from New Zealand In 1953, Hillary chapter, se rving as its president. This camp mus1 comply with regulatoos of the Mass. 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Eat well on-the-run, with our great tasting and good-for-you prepared foods . .,,,.__,,,,,,read & Circus - wHoLE FOODS MARKET 261 Waterman Street, Providence, RI 401-272-1690 Open 8:30am to 10:00pm, Monday thru Saturday 8:30am to 8:30pm, Sunday www.wholefoods.com 26 The JewishVoice of RI · February 2000 PHDS pupils develop Suburban parents choose day school education by Susan and Elliot Waterman marine education center WEST WARWICK - When we got married we serried in West Wanvick which was equidistant from our places of employ ment. At ch at rime, the quality of the town's educational program was nor an iss ue to us, nor was the need to li ve within a Jewish communiry, as we happily observed Jewish customs within our home and spent our week ends driving up ro temple, and visiting our J ewish fri ends in Providence. Our daughter, Jess ica, was born in 1991. We wanted her, as well as our son Daniel, born rwo yea rs later, to know the pride we felt in being Jewish. We filled our ho use wirh Jewish music, books a nd art. We observed holidays, big and small , and each year proudly erected a sukkah in our back ya rd (perhaps rh e only one in rown). D espite the fa ct rhar we knew no one in our area who was J ewish , our Susan and Elliot Waterman with Jesicca and Daniel. children were made to feel comfortable about their speaki ng in front of people. J ndividual attention by the idenriry. teachers has bee n exceptio nal. Academicall y, our chil As part of the special enrichment program ar P rovidence H ebrew Day W e were concerned , as rhe kids grew, about what d ren are light years ahead of where we were ac thei r age. School, 4th , 5th a nd 6th graders are developing thei r own small-scale kind of education rhey should have, and for us the best Their J ewish education has already enabled them , at "marine educarion center." (a bove picture) option was a H ebrew day school. This was rhe logical the 1sr and 3rd grad e levels, to understand and partici Enrichment teacher Beverly H all sa id the goal is to adapt a sa lt water, choice for many reasons: the nurturing, safe environ pate in Shabbat and holiday temple services. marine life exhibit in to a " ha nds-on" educational experience. ment; the comfortable size of the classes; the strong We have been totally happy with our decision. academic program, and, most important to us, the T he first unit being developed by the chi ldren will be based on the Eri c Our children are ch ri ving in rh is environmen t, and we m iss ion of the school - to prepare children to be Carl e book "A H ouse for H ermit Crab." Swdents will set up a nd care for are sure char the valu es they learn here will sti ck with inquisitive lea rn ers, commined J ews, caring human a salr-ware r tank, which will hold rh e marine plant li fe and an imals them for ch e rest of their li ves. beings a nd res ponsi ble citizens. We did nor expect this represe nted in the book. level ofc haracter-building from rhe local public schools. This article is one in ti series that offers ir;formation about We have been impressed with the school's empha the day school experience, brought to you by a collabora sis on building self-co nfidence and solvi ng problems, tion of The Alperin Schechter Day School and The Our advertisers make it possible as well as the amount of experi ence the students get Providence f-Jebrew Day School. to bring you The Jewish Voice. Brown,RISD students win Jewish lottery Please patronize them JERUSALEM - Rhode ls ea rs of Charles R. Bronfman, co raid rhe 5,000 srudents from 16 and say you saw their ad here. land School of Design studenr Juli chairman of ch e Seagram Com countries in Jerusa lem's C om1en Schwartz, 21, of Sudbury, Mass., pany, and fellow philanthropist tion H all. "This is as good as it admits that the Jewish part of her Michael Stei nhardt, a former Wall gets," he sa id. Later, he coached the identity has never been a rop prior Street finan cier, who initiated rh e studen ts ro say aloud: 'Tm Ameri ''Camp Ramah ity. "J celebrated rh e culwral sides project because of concern over can, I'm Jewish and I love it. " of .!:ianukkah and Passover, bur J high rares ofinrermarriage and as Steinhardt) in a speech bor is where I learned ... never really got involved. lt was similation. Each gave $9 millio n. rowing from Lincoln's Gettysburg about friends, about Judaism, mo re goi ng through the motions. Aiming ar Jews like Schwartz Address, sa id thattheJewish peopl e I'm dating a guy who is Jewish. J who are not active Jewishly, ch e were engaged in "a great internal about me." didn't thi nk religion would m at-_ fr ee trips were designed ro awaken battle, testing whether this people rer. But si nce coming ro lsrael, I've Jewish fee ling that will boosr their can persist in freedom." H e call ed been thinking that if we get mar communities ac home. T he rest of on them to consecrate themselves ried a nd decide to have kids, it will rhe $210 mil lion p ri ce tag, wi ll be to the task of renewing J ewry." be nice co pass the Jewish tradition borne by Israel, the private philan Josh Segall, 20, of Montgom on rogerher." chropists, organizations like H a ery, AJa., a Brown srudent, says Schwartz is one of 40 Provi dassah, the Women's Zionist O r chat the trip's cost wasn't its o nly dence scudenrs who won ch e lot ganization of America, and Jewish attractive feature. "S ure , it feels tery and got a free ti cker ro Jsrael, as communities. good co win a fr ee trip, but money part of the Birthright Israel pro The fr ee trips are "a gift fr om is n )t corally the issue. Some of us gram. Her words are music ro ch e our generation co yours," Bronfman have traveled abroad before. Com ing on Birthright has ro do with the Am11iun -,~c,mpln~ des ire co see what lsrael is all about. Au0 Jewish Seniors Agency We provide support, services and activities in a safe and works for continuum of care comfortable environment. by Jane S. S prague find o ur what kinds ofeve nts would draw chem to the T he Jewish Senio rs Agency QSA) is The Home JCC. Rabinowitz says that a health fair for se niors at Conveniently located on Corporatio n remade and looking forwa rd. the JCC is under discuss io n. Wayland Square. 229 Waterman Street, Now under the direction of Suzette Rabinowitz, Telephone Safari terminated who formerl y developed senior serv ices for the C iry of Providence, RI 02906 Bur w hat really has Rabinowitz excited is C ranston, JSA o perates three substantial programs: lnfoques t, a telephone referral system which she • Adult D ay Center at 229 Waterman Sr. (fearn re begins hopes to have up and runnin g by March I , and which CALL 351 -2440 on page 3), the 25-year-old non-sectarian program will also be the responsibi lity of Adler. Altho ugh TO ARRANGE A VISIT. fo r seni o rs who live in the community bur need managed and funded by JSA, lnfoq uesr is bein g stimulation and supervisio n during rhe day; d es igned in coordination with Jewish Family Service • Jewish Eldercare of Rhode Island - the innovative and other agencies which, together, offer myriad A PROGRAM OF THE visitatio n, programming and advocacy project char programs for elderl y Jews. JEW ISH SE NIORS AGENCY brings a Jewish presence to elderly J ews living in Long talked about in che Rhode Island Jewish nursing homes and assisted livi ng centers, and community, lnfoquest wi ll be answered by Adler, • Shalom Apartments, the no n-sectari an Sectio n 8 ho us who is trained as an info rmation specialise. ing for the independent elderl y on Ro ute 5 in Senio rs or their fa mily members who are looking Your Only Local Warw ick, that also o rganizes activities for residents, for services and info rmation, will be able to call some w ith a Jewish co mponent, and serves as a lnfoquest with questions. The jewel of the system, Family-Owned Jewish seniors mealsite for the C ity o f Warwick. (The Rabinowiu says, will be when the operator can trans Apartments have a waiting list.) fe r the cal ler immediately to che agency chat provides In addition, in the several months sin ce Rabi nowirz the service being sought. No need to give our a phone Funeral Home succeeded Adelaide Luber as the JSA executive d irector, number and tell the cl ient to make another call , just the agency has begun a partnership with the Jewish connect them - the end of what she ca lls the frustrat Community Center to enhance rheJCC's programming ing "telephone safari. " for sen io rs. "We hope to help the Center broaden its senior client base by expanding its programming." Assisted living or not? To help achieve that, Rabinowiu has hired one of Sci II ali ve and under assessment by the board of her fo rmer staff members, Sue Ad ler, ro work with ch e JSA is whether to build and fund a kosher ass isted JCC's coordinaror of senior activities, Sue Robbio. To li ving fac il ity in Rhode lsland. Although the board gether, ch e women will look at education and health had hoped rn develop an appropriate program at the related programs, and will meet with va ri ous groups to Please turn to pg. 31 1100 New London Avenue Cranston, RI 02920 Adult Day Center. .. from pg. 3 Tel.: 463-7771 wel l. " Watrs, a former builder, is a stroke victim who has Out of State increased his arm and leg movements since he sca rred Toll-free: 1-877-463-7771 coming to the Day Cen ter th ree days a ,veek. T he gem of the exercise program is the brand new <":\. Certified by the N uStep, a recumbent stepper that gives a total body ~ Cer1ifiedby1he • -.- : Membero/thelewish :i-11, .~---"•~ ,_L R. I . 8 oanI o,J Ra bb· 1s. ;~ :--V,-:...._ :o' F·1m era Ioirec· tors o,fA men.c a needlepoint chat rook you forever ro finish and has been banished to the ·o.- "••• •G .. • attic may adorn an otherwise drab dorm room. These bequests must be made while you are around, otherwise they are destined for the trash. 458 Hope Street, Providence If the anrique spoon is not rel ished, sell it to an antique dealer and (Corn er of Doyle Ave.) give rh e proceeds to your favor ite charity. And finall y, do yourself and your loved ones a big favor and throw out all the stuff that they are likely 331-8094 to throw out on receiving it. Be realisti c in your goals fo r your 1-800-447-1267 "sentimental" legacy. Our heirs may love us but they are not obli ged to share our enthusiasms. Call for our ,10-mo11ey~do111n, pre-need plans. Lewis J. Bosler Would anyone like m y old Persian Lamb coat? 32------The JewishVoice of RI • February 2000 On what side of a house does a desert t ree grow? On the outside. "Speak to the children of Israel, When is a person most that they bring Me gifts; You likely to enter the house? shall accept gifts for Me from When the door is open. every [person] whose heart is so moved . ... And let them make ¢ me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them." Exodus 25:2, 8 What invention lets you look right though a wa ll? Why do you think our ancestors were asked to make God a sanc A window tuary? Can a building contain the Creator of heaven and earth? I DON'T THI NK S0-0-01 That means the miehkan, the desert sanctu \..EN~~6 /\ 1M/\N~ ary, was symbolic. It rem inded \..EN~~6 /\ 1ii!E/\~1 folks that God was in their midst. How 'bout ue? What's our Bisar ... Rezart... re minder? Sometimes it can get Marel .. . Strange so wild and crazy (hurricanes, sounding names, like f loods, urban violence, school _r_,,_-,,._ the sound of Jewish shootings) that it doesn't seem names when we first like God pays us any mind at all. came to America . But The answer's right here in the these names belong words of the Torah. The gifts that to homeless refugees built the sa nctuary had to come and immigrants from from the heart. The selfless act of Kosovo and El giving makes space for God in the Salvador. Many fam world. ilies from all over the world Giving of yourself come to this country seeking freedom and a leads to infinite pos better life. They often need help. Sharon Newman sibilities. Share your Murphy, and her husband, Bill, of Washington, talents with others; D.C., give it to them! In 1978 they established teach someone Mary House, a nomele00 shelter that has since something; volunteer grown to eighteen residences. We spoke to your services! Make a list of sever Sharon on a sunny afternoon. al activities that move your heart Sparks: What is Mary House all about? and share them with your family. Sharon: "Mary House gives people back their Si11iN' - ~At(iN' names." Sparks: What do you mean? AN~ t AYiN' ~~N Sharon: "A name is an identity. Throughout histo We Jews never get a break. Are you brave enough to climb into a leaky canoe and travel ry, particularly during the Holocaust, people's After all, the Torah com along the Niger River in weste rn Africa looking for practicing names were taken away. They were made mands us to speak of the Jews in the lost Jewish community of Timbuktu? That's what strangers, people to fear. Our culture does not laws that guide our lives Samantha Klein and her brother Joehua did a encourage giving a name to the stranger. But when we: sit in our house, few years ago. While she was working in when you learn a person's name, you begin to walk by the way, lie down, Mali (a very poor country in Africa) know them. At Mary House, we give back their rise up - man, hardly with the Peace Corps, she learned name. Then we listen to their story. That's how you build trust." time for TV. And if we're about a community of Moslems in not busy enough, we're Timbuktu that had traced its Sparks: Thanks Sharon. Keep up the awesome supposed to write'em ancestry back to Judaism. It work! on the doorposts of seems that some Jews who were our house. Maybe you fleeing Spanish persecution in 1492 tried to do that when were we lcomed in Ma li. Unfortunately, like you were a baby and got many of our ancestors, this small community was forced to spanked! Hey ... live and learn ... that's convert to Islam soon after it arrived. While none of their why we have mezuzot, you know, the descendants practice Judaism today, there are several clues The largest residence in the world that isn't a beautiful little cases that contain that hint at the true identity of the lost Jews of Timbuktu : palace of a king or queen is St. Emmeram Castle the first two paragraphs of the many families have always given Jewish names to newborns; in Re{Jenet,urg, Ge""any. It has 517 rooms. Of Sh'ma. It's traditional to put them some members sign their names with a Star of David; and course the fami ly now only uses 95 rooms . . . Now on the doorpost of every room in the some Hebrew songs are still sung. It's amazin' that after 500 wh ere did I leave my keys'??? house, except the bathroom ... DUH!! years, this lost community has recognized its heritage and is When we breeze thru our door after a interested in learning about its roots. Check out The Swiss Family Robinson tree house in hard day at school, we see the www.u balt.edu/ www/ ku lanu for more info about Jews in Dleneytand has 300,0 00 fake leaves on it that mezuza h and are reminded how we remote places. are changed t wice a year to reflect the seasons. should act at home. Likewise, when we stroll out into the big bad world, The Paper House at Pigeon Cow is made of 215 we see the mezuzah and are remind thicknesses of newspaper. ed of how to act around our friends. 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