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VOLUME LXXI, NUMBER 36 FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1984 30c PER COPY' Israeli Women Seek New Role "Civilization & Jews" To Air by Linda Matcban Jewish women's organization, US/ Israel Boston Globe Women to Women.) On WSBE-TV October 1 TEL AVIV - It would have been easy Even women who are sympathetic to to get the impression, at the Sixth feminist ideals have trouble with the National Feminist Conference held in notion of a formal feminist movement. Israel in May, that feminism is a major Yona Ballas, for example, a Kfar Saba force in this country. artist and mother of three, is proud to Some 500 Israeli women jammed into point out that much of her artwork - the high school where it was held, and etchings of pregnant women staring where pink (not blue) Israeli flags draped longingly outside of windows, of the walls. wistful-looking women with babies - Women crowded into workshops on have themes that she considers feminist. "Recovering From Rape" and "Feminist But would she call herself a feminist? Issues on Pregnancy." In a session called "I don't want to be a feminist," Ballas "Sexual Exploitation by Professional says without hesitating. "They are radical Helpers" women shared harrowing ... It is difficult to be a woman here, but personal stories about being sexually feminism doesn't show me a way to make propositioned and abused by their doctors, it easier .. . Feminists ask me to fight my lawyers, therapists. Others lined up three husband, and I don't want to fight him." deep to collect literature on everything Said Jerusalem's Shifra Jacobson, 30, from feminist jewelry to shelters for who describes herself as a radical fe minist battered wives. here: "Feminism is just a dirty word in But the energetic women at this Israel. In general, it's a word that can't be conference may well be most of the mentioned without people getting into Abba Eban feminists there are in Israel. Leaders of hysterics. Immediately, you're seen as a the women's movement here say they lesbian. You hate men. You don't know by Robert Israel public television station. The second doubt there are more than 500 in the your place." A major 10-part series that chronicles installment of the series will air Tuesday, country. That's barely a dent in Israel's But the feminist movement in Israel the history of the Jewish people will air on October 2, also at 9 p.m. Thereafter, population of roughly 4.1 million people. persists. It has a lot to take on, and it has Channel 36, WSBE-TV this fall. Entitled remaining episodes will be telecast on Even the most committed advocates of chosen to take on almost everything. Heritage: Civilization and the Jews, the Mondays at 9:00 p.m. equal rights for women here will admit the The question of religious law, for program will premiere on Monday, T he quality and impact of the series is Israeli feminist movement, which began example. Since 1953, certain matters October 1 at 9:00 p.m. on Rhode Island's (con tinued on page 7) about a decade ago _ with pertaining to the marriage and divorce of consciousness-raising groups afld action Jews in Israel have been under the committees, is today having problems exclusive jurisdiction of rabbinical courts, On Being Single And Jewish gaining ground. which make judgments on the basis of "It's a minority group. It's unorganized. their interpretation of Jewish religious law by Karen A. Coughlin It's not nationwide," acknowledged which has its source in the Bible, the Joanne Yaron, a journalist who helped Talmud, and in the codes of Jewish law. coordinate the conference. Under religious law, for instance, a wife The Singles It is loosely coordinated, at best, with can ask her husband for a divorce, but only Activities Director the exception of the National Feminist he can grant it. A wife whose husband has Conference held annually in Israel. deserted her and who has left the country "There are two separate worlds - one It is difficult for someone not hooked (and is therefore outside the jurisdiction of single and one married," says Judith Jaffe, into the feminist network to track down the religious courts) cannot marry anyone who for the past 15 months has been some of the feminist groups, since their else. senior adult coordinator at the Jewish addresses change frequently. Rabbinical courts do apply legal, social, Community Center in Providence. There are feminists in Tel Aviv only and financial pressure upon recalcitrant Jaffe, a divorcee for 12 years and the remotely aware of what women's husbands in divorce cases - although the mother of two grown children, feels movement groups are doing in Jerusalem extent to which they do is a source of "There is mutual misunderstanding just 40 miles away. Around the country, argument in Israel and an indication of between single and married people - women's centers close frequently. Most how thorny the issue really is. (There is "a misunderstanding that education could often, the closings are because of money tremendous amount of reconciliation," dispel." And Judith Jaffe is well prepared problems and burnout. according to Dov Fri mer, the director of to provide some of that education as she Elliot Schwartz the Institute of Jewish Law at New York's ·earned a Master's Degree in Psychology NOGA, Israel's only feminist magazine to me," she says, almost as if being single Touro College School of Law, who has from Loyola University in 1979 where she (the title is the Hebrew word for "Venus") were a contagious disease. is having trouble finding a distributor, practiced law in Israel. But, reconciliation focused many of her research projects on is happening "less and less/' according to the problems of single adults. "Married men and women might fear admitted Rachel Ostrowitz, one of its that a single friend could 'steal' their editors. Ofra Friedman, a legal advisor for Pioneer As she discusses several important Women/Na'amat, the Movement of" spouse," she adds. Most of the feminist activity in the "Among single people who are searching country - shelters for victims of violeqce, Working Women and Volunteers.) In any case, the court's authority is for a spouse and are not comfortable-with women's resource centers, a publishing single life, there can be envy of those who house, among other projects is limited. There have been instances in which husbands have extorted money and are married," Jaffe says. concentrated in the large centers of Tel The word "pain" begins to be heard in Aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa, although property from their wives as a price of ,granting·a divorce. In one notorious case, a Jaffe's further comments. several other groups do exist elsewhere. "After the breakup of a marriage, there Efforts to unite them all into a single man who refused his wife a divorce 25 years ago was sentenced to jail until he is usually a grief period of about a year, as coordinated feminist movement have after the death of a spouse," she says. never managed to succeed with any changed his mind. He is still in jail, and nothing more can be done. Painful too, she adds, is the frequent national impact. breakup of friendships made when the Feminism, it seems, is winning no The absence of separation between religion and state in family matters is an single was part of a couple. popularity contests here. It is almost an "Even if the two women from a couples aspect of life in Israel that has infuriated either-or proposition in Israel: you're · foursome have been close friends, very either a feminist or you're not. It is many women, including Shulamit Aloni, a member of Knesset and longtime often that friendship ends. That is very common to hear a feminist sum up painful for the single woman," Jaffe adds. champion of women's rights who someone in the other camp with a remark These are some of the problems singles such as "she's nice - too bad she's not a maintains that legally, women in Israel are Judith Jaffe little more than the "property" of their face in our society, and groups like The feminist." Center Singles hope to make it easier to husbands. She has been vocal and blunt aspects of the facts of single life, the And it's common to hear a non-feminist face them. Jaffe's group sponsors about addressing it: listener, married or single, might squirm dismiss the feminist movement here as once-monthly brunches featuring guest "The clergy is very, very strong here," with a little discomfort, but cannot help merely "strident," or ignore it, or discount speakers, game nights, happy hours, it - as antifamily, as a frivolous fringe Aloni said in a recent interview. "And as but hear how honest and perceptive her long as (matters oO marriage and divorce square dances, outings of various kinds, group at a time when Israel has more comments are. wine-and-cheese gatherings, dine-outs and remain under the jurisdiction of the most "There's a disease between married and important concerns, as a foreign import discussion groups. It provides baby-sitting orthodox clergy, the status 'of women will singles, as there has been at times between perpetuated by Americans, an import services for single parents, and in short, continue to be bad. blacks and whites, Jews and Gentiles," she which does not transfer well to a Mideast tries to provide ample opportunity for The feminist movement has spoken out says. culture. (In fact, most of the feminists at Jewish singles from a wide variety of age on other issues. It has pitted itself against "Single people may threaten married the conference were native-born Israelis, , , gro~ps and educational backgrounds to though _a_l)Umb~r qf_f~m_il)i_st proj~~~ ,h~ye what feminists broadly call the "sexism" people," Jaffe notes. Married people tend been funded by the New York-based ·'''' ·' ·' ' ((';11\iinw•d 011 ·,;ag-<• J:l 1· to think, ''Oh my God, that could happen ,(c.: n1;t ·i1~u ~d on page I 11 2 - THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1984 News and more IN THE HERALD Local News

.,.,OUI? J>l?IVA Tl: Camp Yawgoog Temple To Be CtiA.Ut=t=l:Ul21:I) CLA.§§IC CA.12 Dedicated August 12 · Yawgoog Boy Scout Reservation has a Warwick. His leadership and scout new Jewish chapel consecrated' in June committee wo rk culminated in becoming a with Rabbi Marc Jagoli nzer officiating. commissioner in the West Shore District The new Temple of the Ten in charge of Cub Scout and Boy Scout Sli0- Commandments is well attended by scouts roundtables. He was awarded the 3 hours 50 free miles of the Jewish faith from Rhode Island, Commissioners Key and honored in 1974 Massachusetts and troops from New York with the Capt. George Bucklin Medal. who are in Camp each week. The Torah Narragansett Council called on Abe to for the chapel has been loaned for the revitalize the Jewish Committee on summer by Temple Torat Yisrael in Scouting in 1978. T he task was Varton Classic Limousine Cranston. undertaken as a labor of love in behalf of The Jewish Committee on Scouting, Jewish values and scouting. Narragansett Council B.S.A. , has had this Abe Aron served on the board of Temple new chapel constructed after a prolonged Beth David and the Anshe Kovno Schul. fund-raising campaign and has asked He was Youthleader (USY) of Temple Rabbi Jagolinzer to again officiate as the Beth Am and also ritual Committee Temple is dedicated on August 12, 1984 at Chairman. He served three terms as 3:30 in the afternoon. President and board chairman of Temple TOURO FRATERNAL ASSOCIATION Very propitiously, Scout is Reverent Beth Am. His other credits include Sunday at Camp Yawgoog is also August working fo r the Jewish Federation, Israel 960 Reservoir Ave. - P.O . Box 3562 - Cranston, R.I. 02910 12. After dress parade ceremonies, the Bonds and the B'nai B'rit h. Temple of the Ten Commandments will While serving as chairman of the Jewish Presents be dedicated in the memory of Abraham Committee on Scouting, Abe Aron died. I. Aron. T he Temple is situated directly His work continues and he will be lastingly TOURO NITE AT FENWAY PARK opposite the parade fie ld. remembered by this Jewish chapel at Ab raham I. Aron was an active scouter Camp Yawgoog. in the West Shore District as well as T he public is invited. T hose who have involved in R.I. Jewish community personal memories of Camp Yawgoog will activities. In scouting, Abe Aron led a want to spend the afternoon. Plan on troop sponsored by Temple Beth Am in arriving prior to the 2 p.m. dress parade. Chabad Hou se Judaic Living Center

About nine years ago, Chabad Shabbat and holiday services that Lubavitch of Southeastern New England, combine lively Chassidic melodies with lncl_ude s bus fare, soda and chips began planning fo r a multi-purpose Jewish the warmth and comfo rt of the European Heritage Center. "shtible" (local neighborhood shul). For Touro me mbe rs and the ir fri e nds It would be designed to provide vitally According· to Director of Religious needed outreach services to unaffiliated Services and Activities, Rabbi Yitchok Reserva ti ons must be received no later than Fri day, August 10, 198-4 Jews t hroughout Rhode Island, Dubovich, "There are many people who Ti ckets to be picked up at Touro Ha ll on Monday and Wednesday evenings or wi ll mail southeastern Massachusetts, and northern would love to experience t he depth and Buses will leave rear of Touro lot at 5: 15 p.m. SHARP Connecticut. Its staff would go wherever it feeling of authentic Torah-true J udaism, could to help stem t he rising tide of and the Chabad House is set up to let assimilation, drug use and intermarriage. them do just that. For example, at the Its activities would be aimed at helping Chabad House, the pace of davening is a increase the level of Jewish awareness and bit slower. We go out of our way to explain observance within all segments of the the meaning behind many of the prayers. Jewish population. And we try to include a lot of singing and In 1980, a search committee was formed Chassidic dancing, so everyone can join in We Serve Fish! of community leaders and lay personnel, - even t he kids." including Shmuel Berman, Leibel Estrin, The house also serves as a base of Thomas W. Pearlman, Hershel Smith and operations for all the outreach activities David Sears. Chabad has been noted for. These After an exhaustive three-year search, activities include educational visits to the committee . decided on a private "Talmud Torahs" and schools throughout 18-room facility that once served to house southeastern New England, campus students from local colleges, like Johnson activit ies aimed at reaching unaffiliated & Wales, RISD and Brown. Arrangements college and high school students, were quickly made, and on the 18th day of Chanukah candle-lighting ceremonies at Elul, the Chabad House of Southeastern all area hospitals and nursing homes, New England officially opened its doors. distribution of thousands of Purim kits The new Chabad House is a three-story, and hundreds of pounds of hand-baked multi-family dwelling. The first fl oor has "Shmura" matzoh, and much more. been turned into a multi-function room These activities are funded locally that can handle up to 75 people easily; the through the generosity of community second floor serves as the home of resident leaders and are designed to increase the Chabad Rabbi, Rabbi Michael Phillips level of Jewish pride and identity among and his family; and the third floor will the Jewish community. house students and guests for Shabbatons, For more information, call 273-7238. retreats and other activities. Located at 360 Hope St., Providence, the Chabad House is a "Center for Living Hunger Group Judaism" ' according to the regional Declares VH Day Dinner Specialties director of Chabad Lubavitch, Rabbi Yehoshua Laufer. "It is a place that A concert to benefit local soup kitchens • Swordfish • Scallops combines Jewish heritage and Jewish will be held at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, hospitality; a place that will appeal to the August 14, at the Mathewson Street heads, hearts and souls of all members of Church, 134 Mathewson Street in • BabyCod • Baked Stuffed Shrimp the Jewish community." The Chabad downtown Providence. The concert will House offers a variety of classes, covering feature performances by the Big Zucchini Daily Luncheon Specials everything from beginning Hebrew to Washboard Bandits, the Latin American advanced concepts in Jewish mysticism. folk group Tierra Adventro, and poets Earl Lobster & Crabmeat Salad In addition, the Chabad House sponsors LeClaire and Kathy Lannigan. holiday workshops for unaffiliated adults, The concert is sponsored by Artists for ·chowder including new Americans, informal rap Oxfam, an ad-hoc group of Rhode sessions for area college and high school Islanders who fast once per month and ( made fresh daily!) youth, winter and spring sessions dealing donate their food dollars to international with such subjects as drug abuse, hunger relief projects of Oxfam America. intermariage and " religious" cults. In light of the food crisis in Rhode Island, Chabad also provides the chance to Artists for Oxfam has declared August 14 experience an authentic Shabbos or "VH Day," or "Victory Over Hunger holiday meal 'at the home of one of its Day." Proceeds from this concert will be members. Already this year, a number of donated to Amos House and Feed My students have spent Shabbos or holiday at People, soup kitchens in the Providence various homes within the Chabad area. community, including Mr. and Mrs. David Tickets fo r t he concert will be available Sears, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Silverman, at the door. A $4.00 donation is requested. Mr. and Mrs. Leibel Estrin, Mr. and Mrs. The concert will be air-conditioned, and Yossi Vaknin, Attorney and Mrs. Z. free parking will be available. Hershel Smith, as well as homes of the International foods will be fo r sale. 636 Central Ave., Pawtucket 1-95 North, Exit 2 A, NE!wport Ave., Pawtucket, 1-95 South, Es:it 2 A, Newport Ave., Pawtucket, Chabad rabbis themselves. For more information on the concert or 726-3510 at third light, tum right on Central Ave.,¼ mile on right Last, but certainly not least, Chabad on food relief projects, contact Artists for offers something for the Jewish "heart" - Oxfam, 273-4499. THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1984. - 3 [ ORT Holds Summer Olympics

Charles E. Kaufman, ~.D. announces the association of Mrs._Rebecca Simon, R.EEG T. for the performance of EEG and Evoked Potentials Testing at 1515 Smith Street North Providence, R.I. 02911 353-4010 for appointments At the ORT One-Half Mile Race were, (left-right) Bonnie Cimino Jeanne Lafazia, Sue Huling, Pat Perry and Joan Ross. · ' ~ ~~~~~~&~~ ~~~~~~~~ IAll:l }{ii/side Florist r ~ @rattO ®p£ning SPECIAL! 25%0FF HANGING PLANTS 725-0100 Comer of N. Main St. & Hillside Ave. Diagonally acros.s from Sears

Mon. -Sat. 8:30·6 p.m. • Sun. 9·1 p.m. Am,ric,., Eip=• Viu •M/ C ' ' ' A break for the hard-of-hearing_._._. i ,', (Left to right) Steve Sirota, Dennis Vinhatiero, Dennis McCarry, Wayne 'I Wilfand, Paul Wilde, Stan Gallek, Bob Arp, Michele Keir (ORT V.P. Special High hearing aid costs have been a ,. ~ Projects), Dr. Bob Smith and Marilyn Smith. burden for the hearing impaired for years. ' On the second day of the World Summer DiPrete, Bob Arp of Warwick (6 min. 47 Olympics, the Providence Chapter of sec.), sponsored by Mark Patinkin, and Here's what we're doing about it.'' Women's American ORT (Organization Wayne Wilfand of Warwick (who also tied for Rehabili tation through Training) held at 6 min. 4 7 sec.), sponsored by Sine!, Wil­ 35 years service to the Hard of Hearing a special track meet entitled the "ORT fand, and Vinci, CPA's, Inc. Mile and ½ Mile Race." The event was The three winners of the Women's (800 Presently Introducing held on Sunday, July 29, 1984, at Brown meters) ORT 1/, Mile were Pat Perry of University' Stadium on Elmgrove Ave. in Saunderstown (3 min. 33 sec.), sponsored TheAI/New Providence at 10:30 A.M. The "ORT Mile by Torbots, Joan Ross of East Greenwich CUSTOM CANAL and 1/ , Mile Race was part of the Brown (3 min. 38 sec.), sponsored by Winkleman Masters Invitational Track Meet spon­ Travel and Dr. Ed Katz, Sue Huling of HEARING AID sored by the Rhode Island Track and Field Cranston (3 min. 50 sec.), sponsored by Foundation and Brown University. The Ross-Simons. Also finishing the race were GILBERT FISHBEIN track meet had many of the events of the Jeanne Lafazia of Riverside (3 min. 51 World Summer Olympics, such as running, sec.). sponsored by Senator Richard Licht, javelin throwing, discus throwing, and pole and Bonnie Cimino of East Greenwich (4 $295. vaulting. min. 11 sec.), who deserves a lot of credit , ORT's participation in the Brown Track for not only donating to ORT, but for do­ ...... Complete Meet was three fold: for enjoyment, ad­ ing the actual running. Ms. Cimino will be :SMALLl:ST: (Non-Allergic Acrylic Plastic) vertising, and as a fund raiser. Sponsors running for Secretary of State this coming ._ EVER J "The most exciting hearing aid I have ever seen." made a generous donation to ORT, and as fall ...... Gilbert Fishbein a result were represented by a particular Souvenir sun visors with the logo tt you can i-, but not ..-stand ... modem O..:..., l 0d rOOHKJ VI' ~,,used ... uJEISc dla me runnel in each race. Thirteen runners rep­ "Brown Masters" on them were given to all technology has the answer! This arnost t.ndetect­ cumin! popular type Canal ~ Aids that have resented $1300 in donations given to ORT. the runners as thanks for participating in - heenng aid Is completely custom fitted Inside taken the~ Aid Industry by stonn and have the ear canal only- with notl*1g-wttl*l· These donations will go toward the 1984 such a worthwhile event. Large, marble­ been so widely advertised at prloes up to $900. the shel of the ear. tt·s tiny, yet extremely effective. Our n,gular price on these Instruments Is $395. opening of the LAOTI (Los Angeles ORT based trophies were awarded to first, sec­ light and comfcnabfe to wear. This Custom Canal . Technical School) School in California, ond, and third place winners. ~ Aid cs, make a world of~In your ---in order to entice you to lrlquira and world. check out these Instruments. we an, offering them the second ORT school in the United Chairpeople of this ORT event were for $295, during the months of August & September. Come In and let us clleck the posslbllty of being · tt dissatisfied for any reason, States. This will be a "high tech" school, Michelle Keir (V.P. Special Projects) and able to wear this tiny lns1rmlent. • iii money..,,_ within 30 Days. training its students in computer technol­ Leah Zisserson. There was even an ·1ce be worn by about of of Can 25% the hard '-Ing. (AH other type~ Aids fa,ty priced) ogy and other skills related to jobs in Cali­ Cream Cone (Marilyn Smith-sponsor) Wortd's tiniest heenng aid, smaller 1han the tip of your pinky finger. Alprlcescµ,tedatxNelncaJdec:ar1)1eteServlca& fornia's Silicon Valley, and the "high tech" cheering on her runner. ORT hopes to Fitting. plus smal ad

4 - THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1984 Israel On Tisha b'Av by William Safire Begin-Shamir Government was too fearful From The Editor Don't believe the guff you've . been of unemployment to deal with inflation, hearing from defeated doves in Israel and for which it deserved to be rejected, -disappointed liberals in the U.S. and in To both parties, the voters' message our State Department about what they should be clear: Use this time for economic A Summer Idyll claim is the failure of Israel's voters to austerity leading to recovery, and no one choose a direction for their country. side will be blamed for the necessary pains by Robert Israel expanse of lawn that greets the coming of day with thick dew. In the evenings, before The Israelis seemed to have every and cuts in spending that such austerity In the early 1950's, we stayed at one of incentive to reject the policies of the right: must entail. Beyond that, both parties the mosquitos drive us inside, there is a those summer homes at Narragansett Pier galloping inflation, dissension about the must pick better candidates for the next , that have since disappeared, a home where calm and a seabreeze that soothes the war in Lebanon, the retirement of campaign. mind and quiets the soul. several families crowded together in Menachem Begin and the exhortation of a Personalities count. Mr. Peres tells me Throughout the summer there has been rented rooms and shared a common room media eager for the triumph of Labor's he plans to choose "a government of wide and a kitchen, an abundance of wild flowers: black-eyed Shimon Peres. shoulders, to bear a heavy burden." As a child, it was ideal: there were susans, daisies, red, white and pink tea roses, and now, orange trumpet flowers. Despite all these pressures, most Israelis Obviously Yitzhak Rabin, the former hoardes of other kids to play with, a yard refused - for the t hird time in a row - to prime minister who turned out to be Finches have fluttered past the window, where tall weeds and grass grew wild, a turn back to Labor. Instead, the voters , Labor's most effective campaigner, will be Last week, a: hummingbird was seen playground across the street and the beach sent the message to politicians that the important to such a "ministry of all the only a few minutes away, nosing around the geraniums, leadership offered by both major parties talents." The man from the Fish and Ice plant A fisherman neighbor of mine took was unacceptable, and that the politicians In the Likud, behind Mr. Shamir stand delivered blocks of ice for the icebox, some time away from fixing his lobster should choose a government of all the Moshe Arens, David Levy and Ariel There was local corn at dinner and, for traps and remarked what a fine day it had parties to get the nation's act together, Sharon. There is talk of the dreaded Mr, been, and how, that week, he had been dessert, thawed frozen strawberries with The same sources who predicited this Sharon for the Finance Ministry, because sour cream. fortunate to catch enough fish that made unexpected outcome two months ago now his opponents hope he would dig his up for last month's slow days, My father drove down to join us in the tell me that the voters' refusal to give political grave while getting the tough job "Summer is too short," he said. "It evenings and the weekends, I remember power to either side could not have been done, Another possibility for the role of seems we pay for this little break all year running to him one day on the beach. The more timely, The right-wing Likud had Dr, Gloom is party-switcher Ezer around, When it finally comes, it's waves were huge that day, or so they failed to bite the bullet on the economy; at Weizman, the Jewish John Connolly. glorious, but only fo r a short while." seemed. I wanted to tell him about the the same time, dovish Labor had misread Mr. Shamir seeks a rotation of t he top I'm sure all of us would like to extend waves, but the words wouldn't come out. the mood of the country and of the armed offices, but that may be too the summer into winter, to bring a bit of Take your time, he told me, Describe what fo rces after the war. discombobulating. Mr. Peres is trying to .you saw. Many years later, I have come to Florida up north. If that could be Whal was needed was precisely what upgrade the Foreign Ministry into the No. accomplished, the snow birds could stay in realize that was my first lesson on how to happened: Israelis gave a swift kick in the 2 job for Mr, Shamir, so that Labor's Mr. Rhode ls~nd and not have to fly south to be a writer. teeth to the Old Order, to both the Rabin can get the usual No. 2, the Defense roost. Government and its opposition. Now a portfolio. Mr. Levy cannot be eager for · But as I live through this idyllic summer chastened Mr. Peres will meet with the any wide coalition since it will surely and remember the summers that have Likud's lame-duck leader, Prime Minsiter rehabilitate his chief rival within the passed, I find myself thankful for each Today, living in the same town where Shamir, either to divvy up offices and 1:,ikud, Mr, Sharon. And Labor's left wing day, for each season, and for each my early summer memories were born, I waste time wrangling until the next hopes the attempt at unity will fail so that opportunity to describe and share what am surrounded by the lushness and beauty I election, or to use this brief respite from a narrower deal can be cut between the left experience. of the overgrown woods and the long partisanship to heed the voice of the and the religious parties. The people, maneuvering is politics at its most T o the limping left, that Israeli voice is delicious. School Is Not Church saying: Cut out the hand-wringing about a The game of musical chairs will get the "Vietnam syndrome" after Lebanon; attention here this week, but the under- by Marc A. Pearl informing our representatives of our although most generals voted with Labor, lying story is the politicians' grudging The U.S. Congress may soon ask for the position on foreign aid for Israel. Our the orivates went 55 percent to 45 percent respOnJ!e to the voters' demand for a deep President's signature on an ill-advised and elected officials cannot be allowed to think for the Likud. Stop negotiating with breath and a new start. Labor's leader had . constitutionally suspect bill that would that we are no different from single-issue phantoms over the West Bank and start been forced to offer to share power with open America's public schools to a wide constituencies who rally behind the dealing with the rights of Arab Israelis. his strongest rival and the Likud cannot variety of religious activities. This Religious Right. Our credibility and Stop blaming an erosion of Labor support honorably refuse that offer, T he splinter so-called "Equal Access Act," even in its continued success on behalf of Israel may on the new political clout of Jews from and religious parties will no longer wield revised form, would permit political, as well depend on our ability to protect the Arab lands, and wake up to the hardening inordinate power. well as religious groups to meet in public Bill of Rights, particularly the First of Labor's political arteries - either of the On the eve of Tisha b'Av, anniversary schools. Amendment. Likud choices for the Knesset are under 40 of the destruction of the Temple, Mr. Disguised as a civil liberties measure, The preservation of religious liberty years old, while only one of the new Labor Peres. and his political foes have been "equal access" is another attempt by the transcends the presidential campaign and members can make that claim. given the historic role of reconstructing Religious Right and its · congressional goes to the very heart of our constitutional To the rigid right, the voters are saying: Israel's stability. They will come together supporters to get around the Constitution rights, A phone call or a short letter to Stop relying on your religious party to share the unpopularity, and will then and put government sanctioned prayer your representative opposing "Equal connections to form a government and step aside for a return to healthy into public school. Jerry Falwell of the Access," and an appeal to friends around start reaching out for biggest party status. partisanship in a robust democracy. Moral Majority admitted as much when the country to do likewise, will Recognize that Israel's greater danger now William Sa/ire is a writer for the N. Y. he said that he knew the Constitutional demonstrate our community's concern is economic weakness, and that the.__ ..;T;,:';;; .m:,;;e;,;s;;,. ______..., Amendment on school prayer was going to about social justice. Only through a

be defeated, "but equal access gets us what grassroots effort can we be successful in Mailing AddreH: BolC 6063, Pro'iidtince, A.I. 028rlD we wanted all along," thwarting attempts to "Christianize What will this "new" and "improved" America." "Equal Access" bill mean? While we may not win this latest "Equal To The Editor: students, the bill will open our public 1) Outsiders will still )Je allowed to come Access" battle, the Jewish community school doors to religious and,cult groups, into public secondary schools and take must remain vigilant. Other battles await The American Jewish Committee strongly opposes the provision passed by some' of which use high pressure part in religious and political activities. us. proselytizing techniques. In addition, the Marc A. Pearl is Washington repre­ the House of Representatives denying Though they cannot "control, direct or measure could open to racist and sentative of the American Jewish Con­ public schools the right to prohibit silent regularly attend" such activities, extremist organizations the op_portu_n_ity classrooms will be open to any extremist gress. prayer. cult leader or political proselytizer who is Since any person in a public school to operate in our public schools, today is perfectly free to pray silently any Seymour D. Reich "invited" by the students, ADL 2) If a school allows one non-curriculum Candlelighting time the spirit moves him to do so, this related club (e.g., a chess club or Boy Scout provision is totally unnecessary. To The Editor: troop), they must admit any and all August 10, 1984 As far as a formal period of silence is The American Jewish Committee student groups, no matter how extremist. concerned we believe this constitutes a considers the recent passage by the House "Our high schools," Norm Redlich, dean 7:35 p.m. devotional exercise that circumvents the of Representatives of the Equal Access of the NYU Law School has written, "are Constitutional prohibition against Bill as a sharp departure from Congress's not London's Hyde Park and should not Government-sponsored prayer in public traditional caution and concern that be open foruins." The proposed lel!islation schools. religious liberty and separation of church erodes the authority of school officials. T he unseemly haste with which this and state not be tampered with. Religious proselytizers, fringe cults, and action was taken in a surprise amendment We are especially concerned that this "political" groups such as the Ku Klux to a broader educational bill, when coupled bill was little debated in either the Senate Klan and the Nazis, would have the doors (USPS 464-760) with the rapid passage of Equal Access or the House, and that a suspension of the Published Every Week By The legislation, creates a troubled atmosphere of our schools swung wide open for them. Jewi!h _Pr~ss Publ~!1!"1lCompa ny rules was used to rush it through the Instead of encouraging extra-curricular t hat will send a signal to many Americans House, Editor Associate Editor that this week was not a good one in T he measure as adopted is open to activities, "equal access" may well Robert Israel Karen A. 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Letters t~ the To The Editor: It is the right, as well as the duty, of all editor represent the opinions ol Iha writers, not the editors. The advocates of this 'equal access' closely monitor how this controversial law and should include the letter writer's telephone number !or is implemented, and will remain ready to American Jews to let their feelings be verillcatlon. legislation openly proclaimed that its known on religious activity in our public passage would be a way to get religion ,into challenge unconstitutional practices that may grow out of its administration, schools. Speaking out on behalf of the FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1984 the public schools, And they re, right. First Amendment is just as important as Under the guise of free expression for Howard I. Friedman ' -~ -,·-··~·"········ ···· ··· ············ ·.·.·.·.·. .-. -, ...... - .-.-.. .. , 1 I ·1• THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1984 - 5 I .Israel's National Unity Jews & Blacks: Indelible Bond - Democracy is often a flawed and messy existence." system for resolving the eternal problem of It is this need to address the conflicts Jews and Blacks share an indelible bond situations exist where Jews and Blacks are power. Israel's current problem in within Israeli society that makes the call from theit collaboration in the civil rights working cooperatively, both to improve translating its popular will into a new for a national unity government movement that overrides present their own relationship and to achieve government illustrated the wisdom of appropriate. antagonisms, according to Basil Paterson, mutual community-wide goals. · Winston Churchill's dictum that however Israelis are talking more openly about writing in the current issue of Present She points out: "The interaction cantankerous democracy may be, the "rifts" that divide North African Jews Tense magazine, published by the between Boston's Black and Jewish other systems are worse. from European Jews; hawks from doves; American Jewish Committee. leaders during the King (1983 black Israeli President Chaim Herzog echoed the wealthy from the poor; Arabs from Paterson, former New York State mayoral candidate Melvin King) public sentiment when, exercising his Jews; Orthodox Jews from Reform and Attorney General, analyzing the strength campaign reflected what observers constitutional obligation, he designated Conservative Jews; religious militants of past relations between Blacks and Jews, described as generally good relations Labor Party leader Shimon Peres to form from secular citizens who wish to prevent -recalls: "Members -of the NAACP and between the city's Black and Jewish a "s~rong and stable government." Peres Israel from being dominated by religious other black Americans were deeply aware communities." will be free to form whatever coalition fanatics. In describing the animosities that Jews suffered for thousands of years This has not been a quick or easy government he can, yet President Herzog engendered by these conflicts - and the as victims of bondage, countless pogroms process, according to those interviewed by made it plain that most Israelis long· for a violent rhetoric practiced by Rabbi Meir and the Holocaust; American Jews were Ms. Stone. national unity government "based on Kahane - President Herzog spoke of an equally aware that Blacks have suffered Leonard Zakim, co-chairman of the cooperation among all the central "absence of tolerance and dialogue." kidnapping, slavery, segregation, and Greater Boston Civil Rights Coalition and groupings in the nation." Without mentioning Kahane by name, continuing discrimination." executive director of the ADL's New This means a governing cabinet that Herzog denounced the new Knesset He adds, "In those early days and for England branch, is quoted as stating that includes members from both the Labor member's public call to expel all Arabs many years thereafter, we shared a building a Black Boston-Jewish coalition alignment and the right-wing L :-ud bloc from Israel and the occupied territories as common struggle. Together Blacks and has been a long and sometimes led by Yitzak Shamir. Such a coalition is "frightening and disgraceful." Jews were in the forefront of the American uncomfortable task. He uses an annual needed because, although Labor emerged civil and human rights movements. We Black-Jewish seder as an example. "Only from the recent elections with a three-seat Above all, a national unity government marched together in Birmingham and seven persons took oart in the first seder appears necessary to cope with what plurality in the Knesset (parliament), Selma. We prayed together and died four years ago," he. recalls. "The next year neither party achieved majority status. T o Herzog called "an economic situation that together." there were 15, but it was held in an govern, either would have to form a may well be the most dangerous and Despite current tensions, Paterson atmosphere of distrust and doubt about difficult this state has ever known." coalition with several small emphasizes that it was the old-style the commitment of either group to each Inflation now runs at 400 percent. Israel special-interest parties that won 35 of 160 coalition of Blacks and Jews that other's concerns. This year, 200 Knesset seats. has the highest per capita foreign debt in succeeded in electing Black mayors in participants, about half Blacks and half In the ·event that Peres wished to form a the world, plus a growing balance of Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles. Jews, sat together at the ritual meal." governing coalition with some of the payments deficit and an expanding black "Many of us have continued to come Nationwide, the American Jewish market. l smaller parties, it is not certain he can. together to reconfirm common goals of Committee has sponsored campus • The religious parties are partial to Likud. Ironically, it seems that only a national economic and political justice, an end to workshops between Black and Jewish l Any attempt to woo them would alienate unity government can take the politically discrimination in whatever form and the students, co-chaired by Cherie Brown, an the secular, progessive branch of the unpopular steps needed to impose an vital importance of world peace," he intergroup relations expert of Boston, and Labor alignment and would require that austerity program. If such steps are put off explains. Joyce Duncan, a human relations :i Peres offer large concessions on both any longer, Israel will become more Ellen Stone, editor of the Cambridge, consultant based in New York City. ( power and policy. It may be that Labor dependent on the U.S. and on a Mass. J ewish journal, Genesi$ 2, asserts, T hese approaches represent the only • could not offer such concessions and military-industrial complex that already "The current controversy over the Jesse common sense hope for putting out the l remain stable as a party. Even if such a accounts for 25 percent of industrial Jackson campaign has obscured the fact dangerous fires that were fanned in the government could be formed, it would be exports. that Jews continue to support Black past few months by those on both sides of weak and tenuous. If the current crises in the economy and causes in large numbers." the controversy, who consciously or not, Hence Peres declared that he would society of Israel are not resolved through "Jews have found themselves in were playing into the hands of our make an effort to carry out the popular the piessy methods of democracy, there is positions that make them visible, enemies. Jews and Blacks must once again mandate evoked by Herzog. Peres said he a danger that Israel, like any democracy, middle-level agents of a largely gentile come together, not tear each other apart. would try to form "as broad a government might turn to other leaders willing to use society that oppresses Blacks," Ms. Stone Those who counsel otherwise must be as possible, a government of national other methods. That would usher in continues. "The History of the supposed vigorously opposed for what they are ~ unity, which will bridge the rifts that have something much worse than democratic disintegration of the Black-Jewish enemies of America, Jewry and decent been discovered in the ground of our confusion. coalition is a history of Blacks and Jews people everywhere. being set against each other." Reprinted from the Sentinel. Jewish Terrorist In Boston, she notes, a number of Yeshiva Graduates Enter Sentenced Prestigious Law Schools JERUSALEM (J TA) - Yosef Tzuria, Soviet Jewry Update ----- one of 27 indicted members of the Jewish terrorist underground, was sentenced re­ Thirty-seven out of .38 Yeshiva (J T A) - A small group of students many years. T hey were joined after cently to six years in prison for his part in University graduates who applied to law staged a hunger strike across the street noon by the daily group. schools during the last academic year have a conspiracy to blow up Islamic shrines on the Temple Mount. from the Soviet Embassy in One non-Jewish visitor to the Soviet been accepted by at least one Washington, D.C. last week to express Embassy carried in one of the Tzuria, a 25-year-old resident of Ramat American-Bar-Association-approved law solidarity with 100 people on a similar protestors' news releases, and it was not Hasharon, was convicted of having ob­ school, giving the University a 97.5 strike in Riga and Leningrad to protest returned. As a rule, the Soviets do not served the Temple Mount in preparat ion percent law-school acceptance rate for the the three-year prison term given to accept any written matter from the for a possible attack and having posed as year. Zakhar Zunshain recently for protestors and rarely is a demonstrator an officer in order to purchase silencers fo r T he undergraduate, liberal arts and "anti-Soviet propaganda." guns. admitted to the Embassv. science divisions of the University are T hose fasting (but not abstaining Shalom's visit to Washington is part T hree years of his sentence were sus­ Stern College for Women (SCW) and from water due to extreme heat) from 9 of a trip organized by the WUJS to pended by Judge Yisrael Weiner of the Yeshiva College for men. a.m. until 3 p.m. were Philip Machlin, commemorate the deaths of 11 Israeli J erusalem District Court who said that in Michael Hecht, associate dean of U.S. chairman of the North American handing down ·sentence, he had weighed athletes in Munich in 1972, and "to Yeshiva College and University pre-law Jewish Students Network; Moshe bring home to America and Canada the the seriousness of the crime on one hand, advisor, announced that all 29 1984 Ronen, North American president of impact of the massacre on the media and the "defendants positive personal at­ graduates of Yeshiva College who applied the Network; and Craig Zetley, and the worldwide television audience," tributes" on the other hand. to law schools were accepted by at least national co-chairman of the National according to a spokesman. It's only a shame, the judge continued, one law school. Seven of the eight SCW Jewish Law Students Network. They Shalom took part in an all-night vigil that someone like T zuria would get in­ graduates who applied were accepted. were joined in their vigil by Baruch on the evening of July 26 at Queens volved in such a conspiracy. He said that Tegene, an Ethiopian Jew who now Park in Toronto, commemorating the The students will be attending some of among the reasons against being lenient lives in Montreal, and Shlomit Shalom, Munich massacre. She then went to the the most prestigious law schools in the were the potential damage to the state that an Israeli swimmer who was a member Olympic Games in Los Angeles where nation, Dean Hecht said. One will be might have been caused by such .an attack of the Israeli Olympic team at the the memorial program will be jointly attending Harvard Law School and one on the Temple Mount, the effect it would Olympic Games in Munich in 1972. sponsored by the Simon Wiesenthal will be attending Yale Law School. Four have had on Moslems around the world T he chairman of the World Union of Center. It was hoped that many of the have been accepted at Columbia and the need to deter others from repeat­ Jewish Students (WUJS), David Israeli athletes participating in the University School of Law and 11 have ing those acts in the future. Makovsky, has just begun a three-day Olympics would participate. After the been accepted at New York University T he court was surprised by the request Law School. , hunger strike at the Western Wall in Olympics, she will take part in another of T zuria's lawyer Yaacov Rubin, who Jerusalem. Makovsky had invited program in Vancouver. Some graduates will be attending asked that his client be released on reserve Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Yeshiva University's own Benjamin N. duty -next month, as "an act of repen­ Cardozo School of Law. Labor Party leader Shimon Peres to tance." The request was denied. participate in the strike at the wall. They declined because of the elections; In a related story, one hundred and r ..... however, they both sent him telegrams eighteen Jewish families in the Soviet McCRUDDEN saying they had contacted the Soviet Union have written President Francois Union about Zunshain and giving Mitterrand of France asking him to RADJATOR -RO~At :¥Ai~<£ Makovsky their support. help them obtain an exit visa and leave ' (Formerly The Sandpiper) 732-2155 Simultaneous one-day strikes were for Israel. A copy of the letter was made REPAIR held by students of the Network all available to French reporters in 1035 WEST SHORE RD., WARWICK, R.I. over the world - in Leningrad and Moscow. 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In the interim, Washington will be interviewed on ABC's "David Brinkley" largely treading water, trying to avoid any program the day before the election, Washington Report: U.S. Officials fu rther setbacks to its interests in the lashed out against Kahana as representing region, while taking a relatively low only a tiny fringe element of the Israeli profile. society who would not be elected. But Gloomy Over Israeli Economy One of the most embarrassing aspects of Arens, like so many other pundits, was by Wolf Blitzer painful." the election outcome for many supporters wrong. Jerusalem Post Congress is currently considering two of Israel in Washington, especially in the Thus, there were some very depressing The State Department has concluded separate pieces of legislation which Jewish political leadership, was the assessments expressed by U.S. officials that Israel's economic situation is directly affect the Israeli economy - the election of Rabbi Meir Kahana to the and public opinion molders, reminding considerably worse than earlier believed. pending $2.6 billion economic and Knesset. some long-time observers of the similarly In the immediate aftermath of the military aid grant for the coming fiscal Kahana, a former New Yorker who gloomy predictions awaiting Israel and the Israeli elections, several senior U.S. year and the authorizing legislation aimed founded the Jewish Defense League, is a American-Israeli relations after officials have privately suggested that at establishing a free trade area between very familiar figure on the American Menachem Begin's initial election in 1977 Israel is going to have to get its economy the U.S. and Israel. scene. Arab propagandists will now and his re-election on 1981. in some semblance of order to avert a Murphy suggested that several serious suggest that Kahana's elevation to the One American Jewish optimist noted possible total collapse. differences between the U.S. and Israel on Knesset merely underlines the real that the situation did not totally collapse · Consequently, there has been a the free trade area continue and that intentions of Israel as a whole. then "and it won't now. reluctant but increased recognition among despite the strong support of both Kahana's oft-repeated statements "Don't worry so much," he told Jewish the Americans that a national unity governments for the concept, an early calling for the Arabs to leave Israel have friends. "Israel has had many crises in the government in Jerusalem, designed to resolution was unlikely. been well reported in the U.S. news media. past lllld overcame them. It will do the focus on painful economic measures aimed The substance and tone of his remarks Certainly, Kahana's credibility on the same this time." at a recovery, might be the best course for on this matter were in marked contrast to American lecture circuit and radio and Israel right now. the optimistic assessment voiced in recent U.S. officials would have preferred a days by Israeli Minister of Commerce and Jewish Leaders Angry Farrakhan strongly-based Labor-led coalition Industry Gideon Patt. government which might have Meanwhile, U.S. diplomats in the Arab Addressed Press Club simultaneously addressed the economic world are seeking to put the best face NEW YORK (JTA) - American nomination, has in the past months issues as well as a peace dialogue with possible on the outcome of the Israeli Jewish leaders expressed anger and refused to repudiate Farrakhan personally, Jordan. But since the election results election, fearful of enhanced despair consternation at the National Press Club although he has sought to distance himself appear to indicate that any Labor-led among the Arabs and possible openings to for providing Black Muslim leader Louis politically from his ally and supporter. coalition would be weak and fragile, the the Soviet Union. Farrakhan with a platform recently for his Farrakhan has outraged the American Americans appear to be increasingly Throughout Murphy's testimony, there anti-Jewish and anti-Israel rhetoric. Jewish community with his disparaging resigned (9 the prospect of a wall-to-wall was a constant reference to the accepted But the Club's president, John Fogarty, remarks about Israel and Judaism which Labor-Likud coalition. consensus at the State Department that a who is Washington bureau chief of the he called a "dirty religion." Some reports There has been a deep sense of stalemate in the peace process merely San Francisco Chronicle, defended the said he had called Judaism a "gutter disappointment and frustration over the creates opportunities for the Soviet Union Club's decision and said that if the religion." He called the creation of Israel election outcome privately expressed to gain influence in the Middle East. "The opportunity had been provided, he would on "outlaw act" and also termed Hitler a vacuum in the peace process is an open among the Administration officials as well have invited Hitler to address the Club. "wickedly great man." ticket for the Soviets," he said. as many supporters of Israel in Congress. Fogarty also said he would allow Rabbi Nonetheless, Farrakhan said recently he He insisted that the Soviets have played Before the election, Secretary of Stage Meir Kahane, the New York-born leader did not owe anyone an apology for his past George Shultz was reported to have asked a "destructive role" in the peace process. of the extremist right-wing Kach remarks. He said, "There must be an his Middle East policy specialists to list That was why, U.S. officials later said, movement in Israel, to address the Club unwritten law that Israel and Jews cannot Murphy strongly repeated support for options available to bring Israel and the be criticized, particularly by Blacks. President Reagan's Sept. 1, 1982 now that Kahane has been elected to the Arabs into a revived peace process. Now, Knesset. Anyone who does so must bear the burden however, U.S. officials say there is little Arab-Israeli peace plan and why he Farrakhan addressed the press club for of being called an anti-Semite." hope for talks beginning soon. insisted that a revived U.S.-led diplomatic some 90 minutes, part of which was a Press Club President's Rationale Publicly, the Americans have refused to initiative was imperative as soon as possible. speech, followed by a brief question and Fogarty, in a telephone interview with characterize the outcome of the election, answer period. He assailed the American the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in fearful of interfering in domestic Israeli Murphy, who reviewed the current Jewish leadership as "spiritually blind," Washington, said he had no regrets about situation in the Middle East, insisted that politics. The State Department issued a and accused them of having "abnormal" having Farrakhan appear at the Club. "I Jordan remains ready to enter the peace statement noting only that U.S.-Israeli power over the United States government. think he came off as advertised," he added. process with Israel. relations will remain strong irrespective of The head of the Chicago-based Nation In response to accusations that the Club the political party in power in Jerusalem. "J ordan has maintained its continuing of Islam group also said that "the Israel was helping to make Farrakhan a media interest in seeking a political solution to Underlining the deep concern in that is the creation of the Zionists" is star, Fogarty noted that Farrakhan has the conflict with Israel," he said. Washington of the worsening economic "based on falsehood and cannot exit when already appeared on all the major network He also insisted that Syria would have plight in Israel, the State Department's truth comes." He said American Blacks news broadcasts. to become involved in any revived senior Middle East specialist drew a very are the "real chosen people." In allowing Farrakhan to speak at the negotiations. gloomy picture for members of the House Reactions By Jewish Leaders Press· Club, Fogarty continued, there was Murphy said that Syria has recently Foreign Affairs sub-committee on Europe Nathan Perlmutter, director of the an opportunity for him to appear before a been helpful in easing the situation in and the Middle East on July 25. Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, "neutral" forum, which he did not control Lebanon. "In Lebanon," he said, "we see Assistant Secretary Richard Murphy, said that providing Farrakhan "with a and was subject to reporters' questioning. welcome signs. responding to questions posed by bullhorn for his ravings, the press is He said there were about 20 minutes of "We believe that Syria has been one of Democratic Congressman Stephen Solarz magnifying his significance. The result is questions and answers following the helpful players in these recent of New York, said he did not want to print pollution . .." Farrakhan's opening speech. developments. We also believe that "over-dramatize" the situation, but he Albert Chemin, executive vice The decision to allow Farrakhan to Lebanon needs peaceful, cooperative went on to note that the economic facts chairman of the National Jewish appear before the Press Club, which relations with both Syria and Israel. No were bad. Community Relations Advisory Council, Fogarty said is designed to provide all r He cited the increase in the inflation lasting solution is possible which fails to assailed the Club for "providing a known types of individuals a forum to speak, was take into account the interests of both of t rate from 200 to 400 percent, and quoted bigot with a platform." taken by the club's 26-member speakers' these important neighbors. We will i Israeli economists as predicting that it Theodore Mann, president of the committee and was approved by Fogarty. might even reach 1,000 percent unless continue to encourage Lebanon to deal American Jewish Congress, called on the Fogarty said that before Farrakhan's ' emergency action is quickly taken. directly with Israel on the issue of Israeli Rev. Jesse Jackson to "unambiguously appearance recently, the Club received Murphy said there has been a dramatic withdrawal from south Lebanon and repudiate Louis Farrakhan personally." four letters criticizing the decision. Since reduction in foreign investment in Israel security arrangements along their border." Mann asserted that "people pay attention the luncheon, he said he has received 20 Murphy, however, expressed regret that and that Israel's balance of payments to Farrakhan only because of Jesse phone calls critical of the Club's decision. Lebanon had decided to shut down the I deficits were increasing. "Everything is Jackson's refusal to repudiate his Fogarty, in keeping with Club tradition, getting worse," he said. Israeli Lebanon Bureau in Beirut: He anti-Semitic associate." presented the Black Muslim leader with a He also noted that wages have noted that Syria had been strongly Jackson, who staged an unsuccessful bid certificate of appreciation and a. 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"Now it is clear," said the TEL AV IV - Shimon Peres, who was changes are needed in J ewish author of The Feminine Mystique and chosen to form a new Israeli Government, communities in the United States and The 'Second State, "that only with has arrived at the high point of his politi­ Israel if the "new life" created by the women's full equality, will we have the cal career after years of bruising struggle, women's movement is to be allowed to continuation of a strong family." much of it within his own Labor Party. energize Judaism, feminist-author Jewish Women As Scapegoats The Prime Minister-designate, who Betty Friedan told a conference here Friedan also warned that Jewish turns 61 years old Aug. 16, began his work Monday night. women have been used as "scapegoats" in the Government as a close aide of Prime She noted that Jewish women's in the international arena by "regimes Minister David Ben-Gurion, whom he issues are "issues of survival," both in of the left and the right" who have served for 12 years, most of them in the terms of the Jewish future and the targeted them for attack at Defense Ministry. survival of the human race in the international women's conferences in It was a period of rapid advancement, nuclear era. order to divert attention from but it was also marked by sharp criticism Friedan spoke to an overflow crowd fundamental social and political of Mr. Peres, who is known as a compul­ at the opening session of the 20th problems. sive worker who rarely sleeps more than American Jewish Congress She advised the Jewish communal four hours a night. American-Israel Dialogue at the Van leaders in Israel and America to He lists books as his hobby, and delights Leer Jerusalem Foundation here. The prepare fo r the upcoming United in quoting from them in speeches. His op­ four-day meeting, which is examining Nations-sponsored "International ponents, on the other hand, have over the the role of Jewish women in Israel and Women's Decade Conference" to be years delighted in characterizing Mr. Peres America, includes prominent feminists held in Nairobi in 1985. as a schemer and a man without real polit­ from both countries. In t he past, countries that most ical convictions. Joining Ms. Friedan was Rivka strenuously attacked Israel at these Much of the criticism of Mr. Peres dates Bar-.Y osef, professor of sociology at conferences were countries that back to the early 1950's, when Mr. Ben­ Hebrew University and first advisor to opposed equality for women and _used Gurion put him in charge of some of the the Prime Minister on the state of an assault on Zionism to direct Prime Minister's most delicate political women in Israel. The evening was attention away from legitimate · projects. Mr. Peres, then in his 30's, oper­ Shimon Peres chaired by Theodore Mann, president women's issues, she noted. ated with the full authority of Mr. Ben­ of the AJCongress. Bar-Yosef stressed that while Jewish Gurion, with the result that he sometimes proclamation of independence the fo llow­ Friedan told the participants t hat women in Israel and the United States bypassed responsible i:;abinet officials. ing year, Mr. Peres emerged as an aide in when she visited Israel 10 years ago, face many similar problems, Israeli · Meir Reportedly Infuriated the Defense Ministry. feminist ideas were perceived as women face special problems intrinsic Golda Meir, then Foreign Minister, was He married the fo rmer Sonia Gelman, threatening to the survival of the to their own society. said to have been infuriated when she and they have three children, a daughter learned of Mr. Peres's secret missions to who teaches linguistics and two sons, one develop ties with African countries and of an agronomist and the other an air force his visits to France and West Germany on pilot. "Civilization & Jews" To Air military purchasing trips. He was also crit­ Rising in Defense Ministry icized fo r clandestine dealings with France After independence, Mr. Peres was sent On WSBE-TV October 1 on the construction of Israel's first atomic to the United States as head of an Israeli reactor, in the Negev. defense mission. He used his t hree years ( continued from page 1) Jewish life in the world. Abba Eban, in a At another point, critics assailed Mr. there to take courses at New Yo rk Univer­ extraordinary. Encapsulating five mil­ powerful tone, recounts the early attacks sity and Harvard. In 1952 he returned to Peres fo r appropriating Defense Ministry lennia of Jewish history in the context against Jews in Spain, despite their Israel as Deputy Director General of the funds to establish a chain of technology­ of the Jews' relationships with other having brought translations of early based military industries that later Defense Ministry and the next year was Western religious traditions and the Greek literature and philosophy to the promoted to Director General, the top branched out into the manufacture of con­ development of secular Western country. He explores how Jews were post, at the age of 29. sumer goods. civilization, the series is narrated with persecuted in England and banished from He became Deputy Minister of Defense Some of the most wounding blows in clarity and insight by Abba Eban. the country, how the Talmud was put on shortly after his election to Parliament, Mr. Peres's career were struck years later, Eban, who visited Rhode Island last trial in Paris and later burned along with and served in that office four years under particularly by Yitzhak Rabin, the last La­ year and spoke at Temple Beth-El in other Jewish manuscripts, and how Jews Mr. Ben-Gurion and then two years under bor Prime Minister, who appointed Mr. Providence, filmed a segment of the series were even blamed for the Black Death, or Mr. Eshkol. Peres to his Cabinet - a decision Mr. Ra­ at the Touro Synagogue in Newport. That the bubonic plague, which killed Jew and bin said he had come to regret. Among When Mr. Ben-Gurion quit the Labor particular segment, which chronicles the non-Jew alike throughout Europe in the other scathing comments about his former Party to form the rival Rafi Party for the origins and development of Jewish history late 1300's. In a beautifully photographed colleague in his memoirs, Mr. Rabin wrote 1965 elections, Mr. Peres followed his in the United States, will be aired later sequence, the countryside of the early that he could not believe a wo rd that Mr. mentor. He served one term in Mr. Ben­ this fall. Eban is best known as Israel's Jewish settlements is shown. The nar­ Peres said. ' . Gurion's party and then returned with first representative to the United Nations ration by Eban is frequently interrupted Mr. Peres's feud with Mr. Rabin may go others to Labor in a separate Rafi faction. and for serving as vice president of the to include the voices of other speakers who back to 1959, when Mr. Rabin was ap­ Mr. Peres held a series of lesser portfolios General Assembly in 1953. He is also a reenact the plight, anguish and joys of the pointed chief of the operations branch, the in Governments led by Mr. Eshkol and prolific writer. His most recent book is Jews during this part of their history. second highest position in the Israeli Mrs. Meir. entitled The New Diplomacy: Inter­ Manuscript paintings from the time are He made a bid for power, trying to fill a Army, and complained of what he called national Affairs in the Modem Age. used as an integral visual aid, as well a~ void after the top Labor leaders, including Mr. Peres's excessive authority in the De­ "Jewish history is a dramatic story," the inclusion of period_musk. · fense Ministry. Mrs. Meir and Mr. Dayan, were discred­ says Eban. "It has been told in parchment, Sniping Within the Party ited because of the armed forces' unpre­ sculpture, music and writing; but it has There was also resentment elsewhere in paredness fo r the 1973 war. An influential never been told on television as vividly as Comprehensive History the party establishment over what was de­ party member, Finance Minister Pinhas we tell it." By the tenth episode, Heritage will haVe scribed as Mr. Peres's having been Sapir, recruited Mr. Rabin to block him. Tracing Jewish Roots told its story in the words of primary "parachuted" into Parliament in 1959 on Mr. Rabin won the nomination and the The first program in the series covers sources ranging from the Egyptian Book Mr. Ben-Gurion's orders, ahead of veter­ election and appointed Mr. Peres Defense the period of time that begins· about 5000 of the Dead and the Bible to the histories ans whom party regulars considered more Minister. BCE and ends wit h the establishment of of Philo and Josephus; from the writings deserving. In 1977, Mr. Rabin again defeated Mr. King David's centralized monarchy. The of medieval sages to the philosophy of Mr. Peres's detractors could not fault his Peres fo r the party nomination, but- the episode establishes the empires of Egypt Maimonides. T he series1will draw .on' -the Zionist background, which was impecca­ P rime Minister later dropped out after it and Mesopotamia, civilizations that political philosophy of Marx, 'the insrg.hts ble. He was born in Poland Aug. 16, 1923, was reported that he and his wife had vio­ existed fo r almost 3000 years befo re the of Freud, the vision of Zionist Theodore to Isaac and Sarah Persky, and emigrated lated Israeli law by keeping dollars in a emergence of the Hebrews, and recounts Herzl, and the essays of Einstein. to Palestine in 1934. His father, a busi­ Washington bank after he left his post as the patriarch Abraham's covenant with Executive producer of Heritage is Marc nessman, kept that fa mily name, but Shi­ Ambassador there in 1973., The nomina­ God. The Exodus provides a primary Siegel, who has an extensive background mon and his brother Hebraized it to Peres tion fell easily to Mr. Peres, but he took the theme in the program. of film productions with Jewish themes. (his name is pronounced SHEE-moan helm of a party in disarray and ultimately The major theme of the second program The program will also serve as the PEAR-ez). lost the election in the first Labor defeat in is the emergence of a Jewish identity centerpiece for a comprehensive At the age of 20, he was elected secretary Israel's histsory. based on ideas rather than territory. It educational program to be offered by the of the Labor Youth Movement. In 1947 his As opposition leader, Mr. Peres was re­ explores the interaction of ideas between Community College of Rhode Island in career as a kibbutz farmer in Galilee ended garded by many of his colleagues as too the Jewish world and the nations of cooperation with Channel 36. Information when he was invited by Levi Eshkol, a fu ­ mild-mannered in style and unnecessarily Greece and Rome. about the credit-course based on the TV ture Prime Minister and then in charge of restrained in discussions of such subjects The first two programs also introduce series can be obtained by calling CCRI's obtaining arms for the Jewish under­ as foreign relations and security. anti-Semitism throughout the history of office of off-campus programs at 333-7127. ground, to serve as an aide. 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Around Town KIDS ARE WHY WE'RE HERE by Dorothea Snyder

A popularity contest wasn't on the day's Touring around the camp, he points out breezes easily cooled off a damp tendril or asked what they liked about camp. Carole agenda. three athletic fields, the crystal clear pool two. Tolchinsky says, "I like the game room, But it did turn out to be a popular where swimmers' splashing sprays refresh In between our hike through the camp's the new dining hall, the friends I've made election by the happy campers who us from the late morning sun, the old grounds, Marshall unfolds his philosophy at camp, and I like most of the activities in unanimously chose its director among the dining hall converted into the spacious about kids, staff and camp. "I'm people the daytime and nighttime." Nancy Oster best Camp Jori has to offer. Ruth and Samuel Markoff Arts and Crafts oriented more than program oriented. I says, "I like the game room, the director, "I didn't put them up to this," a smiling Center, and the Ruth and Max Alperin want high quality staff. My kids are my counsellors, my bunk." "I like Marshall Gerstenblatt says. "Honestly." Dining and Recreation Hall. individuals. I want staff who are caring everything, mostly the director," says Amy I believed the amiable and energetic Marshall shows his pleasure over the and understanding to their needs. I deal Fink. director who tabulated this year at the camp's progress. The campers with whom with kids and their relationships to other Robin Meisler was in agreement with Point Judith campsite as his twelfth and I sit at lunchtime like the new changes and kids in camp. We want everyone to have a her friends on every count. "I like general camping, in general, his twenty-first year. additions, too. As hot a day as it was, cross good summer, and we'll always go the swim, the Water Whiz at Misquamicut, extra mile to ensure that. the gold rush activity. I mostly like "If I've got good people, I can adjust Marshall the best," pipes in Debbie their talents and they can plug into an Hackett. "I like candy call," Danielle activity." Camp J ori has 22 staff and 110 Smith says, and "I like Marshall the campers. "Being small," he notes, most." " l like Friday night services too," "enables me to do that. With that number adds Karin Zell. of staff, I can be extremely selective in the Lisa Fink and Suzanne Pritzker think people I hire. I can also be structural alike. Both express that they "like program·wise." · Marshall and candy call." Alice Mosseri The campers who spot their director chimes the last sentiment with "I like all leading me here and there were quick to the activities, the game room, the pool and clamor for his response. A big "Hi!" from the director." him was worthier than the chocolate cake The senior boys shared some input into dessert at lunch. T hey could have both. the interview. Troy Marzetta. ea~er to He bats a homerun for youngsters contribute, says "We have fun and hardly pleading for him to do so. Always an ever run out of things to do. The food's exchange of words and pleasantries and okay. We advjse everybody to come to this humor. He is a kid's person. Staff, too, feel camp." Russell Oster said he liked the free to come to the combined office home changes at camp, the new dining room and cabin occupied by Marshall and his wife, the game room. "It's a cool camp," Barbara, who assists with the camp's quipped Jack Brown. kitchen organization. His daughters, Andrea, 16, and Lori, 14, "have grown up There is a sign that is attached to the in camp/' he says. fireplace mantle in the Marshalls' cabin. It "We don't sit in our house and record reads, "Advice to Crew - 'If everything information," Marshall explains, seems to be going well, you have obviously indicating that he is out there with the overlooked something.' " kids and joins in with them. "My doors are By all happy appearances and feelings in Sitting lively on the steps of the rec. hall are bottom row, from left, Suzanne the atmosphere at Clarke Road, nothing Pritzker, Danielle Smith, Lisa Fink. Middle row, from left, Amy Fink, Karin open 24 hours a day. We let our counsellors know this. After all, we're part seems to be overlooked at Camp Jori. If Zell, Robin Meisler. Top row, from left, Carole Tolchinsky, Nancy Oster, Alice anything has been overlooked, it won't be Mosseri, and Debbie Hackett with her arm around counselor Reva Schlessinger. of what is here." A l[TOUp of 8, 9 and IO-year-olds was for long. (Photos by Dorothea Snyder)

Getting ready for the line-up are Joel Greenstein·with bat, Danny Boren next to him, Derek Shapiro, Seth Shapiro, David Roemer, Ben Mirkin, Eric Lev ine, "Casey at the Bat?" - Director Marshall Gerstenblatt sends the ball sailing. Joseph Allen. They're assisted by counselor Susan Roiff and David Halpert.

A bit of cheesecake from half the senior boys' cabin. From left to right, Michael Levine, Jeff Finger, Jack Brown, Troy Marzetta, Steven Pansey, Welcome to Camp Jori . .. and the newly dedicated Ruth and Max Alperin Ru88ell Oster, Bill Moss, Brian Karp. At rear is counselor llya Freedman. Dining and Recreation Hall seen from the camp's entr ance. Education Cindy Gilman: Teacher, Performer & Psychic radio talk shows and on television. But just what is psychic ability? "Psychic ability is being able to pass on information that is received through perception, through meditative thoughts. When I give a reading about someone, I get a visual picture and I'm able to perceive future events. I am also to perceive the passage of energy, which is called psycho-kinesis. Because I am known as a psychic sensitive, when I'm working with a person, information comes to me and I feel a person's health problems within my own system. "I've been involved in psychic work for the past fifteen years and have covered CONFIRMATION CLASS OF JUNE 1984, TEMPLE BETH EL every aspect of it. What I do frequently Se_ated, left to right: S~tt Rosenbaum, Jeffrey Barry, Danny Forman, Rabbi now is what I call psychic counseling. I do Leshe ~utterman, BorlS Tabenkin, Peter Corwin; standing, left to right: a reading about someone and can tell Stephame _Nachbar, Susan Block, Laura Curran, Alison Goldberg, Lori Ann about that person's past as well as present Selya, Lor, Pass. and future because often there are problems from the past that have not been resolved and there is a block that prevents Computers Aid Math Education the person from moving ahead into the future. Through my counseling, I am able Computers are a v~ry important part of Joseph Piel, State University of New York to see avenues another person might not the mathematics education curriculum at Stony Brook, provide an example t hat be able to see." according to the authors in the 1984 makes their point. In their words, "The by Robert Israel People usually come to Cindy Gilman to Yearbook of the National Council of activity described . . . uses a tool of Cindy Gilman, who writes the monthly ask if she has insight into their personal Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). technology to analyze a situation Mameh Loshn, Yiddish Loshn column for life, most frequently seeking information Computers in Mathematics Education. involving technology and society that t his newspaper, is a Yiddishist, a teacher, about their love life, what lies ahead in "Although the responsibility for most high school students face every day." performer and a psychic. their professional life, questions about computer education does not, and should To solve the "yellow light problem," Cindy, who taught at the Temple Beth money and so forth. People have also come not, rest solely with mathematics students must consider the factors Am-Beth David religious school and at to her for ways of finding lost relatives or education, the irmate mathematical bases involved in the design and timing of traffic Temple Torat Yisrael's Bet Talmud last lost articles. of t he technology - and experience with lights. Using the computer, they can test year, will be teaching at Temple "Another part of my work is to work its use as a mathematical problem-solving their designs by simulating traffic Emanu-El's religious school this year. She with the police," she said. "I find this kind tool - place a heavy burden on conditions. will be teaching a pre-school class and a of work very rewarding. I am often called mathematics educators to provide course for the high school entitled, "The in to work on missing children cases, leadership and chart direction for Math Through Programming Golden Age of Second Avenue," which will which can be very painful. Usually, when a computer education," says Elizabeth M. "There is a role for programming in psychic is called in to find a missing child, introduce students to the Yiddish culture Glass, Connecticut Department of mathematics education. But as you he or she is called in as a last resort, when that flourished in this country around the Education. consider the options, make a clear all other avenues are closed. When I'm tum of the century. Advances in computer technology will distinction between the study of called in I often have to deal with the grim "During the first semester, we'll be make an imprint on beth mathematics programming, which belongs to the results." learning about Yiddish music and and the teaching of mathematics. The domain of computer literacy and computer ' Cindy, who is available for private literature," she told me, "and during the speed of the computer's calculations literacy and computer science, and the use psychic consultations, believes that second semester, I'll be teaching the makes some mathematical ideas more of programming to achieve learning everyone has ESP. students how to perform an actual Yiddish important because it has made them more objectives in mathematics. Programming " We all have these abilities in different vaudeville show, with the students usable, according to one mathematician. in mathematics education is defensible to magnitudes," she said. " If you know if themselves writing the comedy routines "The role of the teacher will change the extent that it helps achieve goals for someone is calling you before the phone and the sketches." notably, but the importance of the teacher school mathematics," say John S. Camp Cindy, who hails from Boston, received rings, or if you bump into someone on the will be magnified," says Glass. and Gary Marchionini, Wayne State her training in Yiddish while a student at street after having thought about doing Using the principle that "the computer University, Detroit. just that minutes before it happens, this is the Workmen's Circle School. At age is used to instruct when it provides Another who supports teaching children also ESP." seven she began singing professionally. learning experiences not available by to program computers is Richard J. "The more I learned," she said, "the Does Cindy Gilmarl think that her work ordinary means," Audrey B. Champagne Shumway, Ohio State University. "It is as a psychic interferes with her Judaic more I wanted to learn about Yiddish and Joan Rogalska-Saz, Leaming my basic view that as soon as children are music and culture. I performed in the background? Research and Development Center, in schools they should have opportunities "I think ESP is a natural ability," she Catskills and in a Yiddish theatre in University of Pittsburgh, have developed a to program computers to solve Miami Beach, Florida. Because I was so said. "I have a strong faith and program by which students simulate the mathematics problems." involvement in Judaism and my young at the time and shorter than the· handling of blocks. The blocks, which are "If programming is integrated with the other performers, they dressed me up as a involvement as a psychic has only proportional representations of units, mathematics curriculum, then the extra young orphan and I sang the orphan strengthened my abilities. Many Jewish tens, hundreds, and thousands, model the time spent "learning to program is people shy aw[/.y from ESP because they songs." decimal numeration system. minimal," says Susan Smith, an But what of that other part of her life, feel it may conflict with their religious "Microcomputers can be used intermediate grade teacher in El Paso, philosophy, but if you examine that her psychic abilities? Cindy Gilman is effectively in the elementary schools in a Texas. "Programming can be incorporated unusual in that she makes a good deal of philosophy, you·will find that it is steeped variety of ways. In the lower elementary into, and enhance the learning of, new her living from working as a psychic. with esoteria. The Bible is filled with grades, a microcomputer can be concepts and skills . . . The teacher "! first became aware of my psychic stories of people who had strong psychic particularly effective as a learning center," introduces a new skill, the students work a abilities, from the Prophets to the abilities when I was very young," she said. says William H. Kraus, Wittenberg number of problems until they think they "But I didn't think it was anything Kabbalah all the way to the Chasidic University. He then goes on to describe can tell the computer how to do t hem, and rabbis." special. I figured all kids had this thing. I some computer 11ctivities designed to finally the students program t he computer was beginning to feel things.. . forecast Free Adult Ed Classes provide not only drill and practice but also and test their program. This programming events. I foretold illnesses and problems The Rhode Island Regional Adult enrichment experiences. activity gives students additional practice and it was part of me. I thought it was part Learning Project, (Project RIRAL) which "Courseware materials should be viewed on the concept, tests their understanding of all children." offers free adult education programs, is . .. as learning activities that can support of the concept, increases their Later on, when she was performing as a beginning a special summer semester this and enhance the mathematics curriculum programming skills, and gives them a Yiddish entertainer and singer in the school year. Although RIRAL is based in as it evolves in our schools," according to better understanding of computers. nightclubs when she was in her 20's, she Northern Rhode Island, its classes are Suzanne K. Damarin, Ohio State "Almost two decades ago, Morris Kline began to "pick up information from people available to all residents of the state. University. She describes courseware (1966) recommended that 'by utilizing real in the audience, which I incorporated into RIRAL offers instruction in basic reading, designed to enrich three basic problems chosen from the world in which my act." basic math, and basic grammar; mathematical topics: geometry, the student lives and involving When she returned to Boston after preparation for the high school estimation, and basic concepts of phenomena which he himself experiences several years in New York, Cindy went equivalency exam; and instruction in probability and statistics. we may be able to to motivate the study of about trying to educate the public about mathematics.' To date, Kline's English as a second language. "With the impact of technology on our psychic experiences and to expose the recommendation has had little impact on Registration for the summer term may lives, students should be studying topics public to "people who are not legitimate, secondary school mathematics curricula or be made by calling 762-3841 or by visiting today t hat are related to something that is the quacks, who misrepresent the psychic happening today." Thomas T . Liao and E. its teaching. experience." She did this by appearing on the office. 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Making arrangements for American Cancer Society Ball to be held at Rosecliff on August 18 are, left to right, Mrs. Burton Sackett, publicity co-chairman; Mrs. Leland Jones, chairman of Career Ball; Mrs. Bea Rosenstein, publicity chairman; Mrs. Oscar Leach, state chairman of special events. Providence YMCA Tennis Tournament The Providence YMCA and the Providence Recreation Department will conduct the second annual Providence r YMCA Open Tennis Tournament on Friday, August 10 through Sunday, August 12 at the Hope High School tennis courts on Hope Street in Providence. The tournament will include men's singles, A & Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rothman B, and doubles, ladies' singles and doubles and mixed doubles. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rothman of 36 The party was given by the couple's two Boys and girls will have events in the 15 Neil Steinberg With Roger Williams Green, Providence, children Martin Rothman of East and under categories. recently celebrated their 50th wedding Providence and Gloria Pollack of Canton. The deadline for registration is Investment Firm anniversary with a party held in their Guests attended from Rhode Island, Thursday, August 9 at 10:00 a.m. Contact Neil D. Steinberg of Providence, former honor at the home of their daughter in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Patrick Markey or Tony Dodge at the vice president in the Corporate Banking Canton, Mass. York. Providence YMCA, 456-0100 for more Division of Fleet National Bank, has information. become an associate in DWQ Associates, a NCJW Names Executive Providence-based investment banking firm specializing in mergers, acquisitions NEW YORK, NY - Iris Gross, Executive's 64th Annual Meeting & Joan Segal Promoted and divestitures. He had been with Fleet Director of Central Services, National Exposition, August 4-8. for nine years. Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), will CAE designation is the culmination of a PLYMOUTH, MA - Joan E. Segal has be designated a Certified Association rigorous testing and evaluation process. been promoted to Assistant Business Unit Executive (CAE) at a special recognition Applicants must have either five years Manager of Flexible Packaging at Ocean Cancer Fund-Raiser ceremony in Minneapolis, MN. The award experience as an association executive or Spray Cranberries, Inc. ceremony will be held in conjunction with three years as a chief staff executive. 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"Married women don't mind inviting would prefer to marry a Jew, he would On Being Sing.le And Jewish· single men to t heir gatherings, but they marry a non-Jew if that seemed the best don't tend to include single women," she thing to do. A single adult Jew is an adult ( continued from page I) five children, two of whom are still at says. first, he feels, and doesn't do well to relin­ meet one another. home, says, "I felt I had to get out and meet The best way to meet eligible men is quish his adulthood by letting someone "Family is the backbone of Judaism," new people and do t hings with a group. I through friends, Ruth feels, "but couples else tell him what to do. Jaffe says, "and yet if something is feel I'm very vulnerable because I'm so new usually don't know many single men, and publicized as a family activity, I don't feel to single life." sometimes don't want to take the risk of Jewish Educator - wanted. I stay away from 'family' services, The group he joined, Shalom Singles fixing people up." and I won't use the word 'family' in coordinated by Liz Diamond, has an active "Right now, I'm content," Ruth says. I Parent announcing any of the Center Singles membership of about 150 people with a think most singles would like to marry Elliot Schwartz, director of the Bureau events. fe male-to-male ratio of about three or four someday, especially as they get older. But of Jewish Education and t he father of "I'm constantly trying to refine the to one. How do the women feel about this? for now, meeting other single women for t hree unmarried sons, brings the needs of the various segments of the single "The women find a great deal of companionship is important to me, and perspective of a Jewish educator and community," Jaffe says. "I don't want to companionship with one another," Bryer t hat's the bulk of my social life." parent to the issue of single life for the see one Jew lost.to Judaism. What right do says, adding that on a recent trip to Dr. Edward Fink of Providence, a adult Jew. I have to let one Jew go through my Provincetown on Cape Cod, there were psychiatrist at Butler Hospital, is a He speaks passionately and fingers?" four men out of the 26 people attending. divorced father of ·two children. He has t houghtfully of the need to reach out to The group's dynamics work on two Bryer wishes more men would join the had several years of involvement in Jewish single adults and to provide them with levels, she says. First, it is important to let group, but he feels men "hold back and are singles groups, and feels that some of the activities to which they can relate and singles see they are not alone, that there afraid." A possible solution to this problem limitations on what they can do stem from gravitate. are lots of other people out there who have would be to do more things jointly, "in financial constraints. Other limitations to "I feel that the Jewish single has not similar life styles, similar needs. "People connection with the group in their effectiveness, he feels, come from the been given enough attention in our agency may come here alone, but we hope they Provincetown or the one in Newton," with problem of scheduling singles events fo r network. We provide for our senior will make friends both with members of which Shalom Singles has shared some "prime time" in temples and community citizens, our children, our infirm, but not the opposite sex and of the same sex. activities in the past, he said. centers because of their family orientation. for them," he said. "We discuss what to do about Ruth Cantor is co-chairperson of He suggested that perhaps a supra-group "There isn't recognition that a problem loneliness, anger and rejection. This helps Shalom Singles and a divorced mother of or umbrella group that would encompass a or a vacuum exists, particularly in our to start the integration process that can two children who live with her in her larger area but would include local singles temple structure," he added. "Temples bring singles to feeling comfortable with suburban South Shore home. As a single groups could be formed to increase the must provide social outlets on a level that their state," Jaffe says. parent, she faces issues both from her numbers of singles participating. will interest the single." On a second level, and more background in Judaism and her present "As married couples, we become importantly, she adds, all of this appeals to status as a person "in between" the role of One of the local Unitarian Churches has involved in our own clique," Schwartz her values as a Jewish communal worker. the single and that of the parent. inter-faith singles activities, Dr. Fink says. But there are many unmet needs out "If a Jewish fellow and a Jewish woman "From my background I was raised to be noted, but added that these would not nec­ t here among the singles and the single meet in our group and marry, then we've married. From a Jewish point of view, I essarily replace activities sponsored by the parents, he feels. helped to perpetuate Judaism." In feel the pressure to be married. It's community centers or temples. This was brought home to Schwartz connection with this, Jaffe notes that ingrained in me. My late mother was more Dr. Fink feels that the Jewish commu­ when "three years ago we started a Home singles tend to feel that volunteering is of a problem at the time of my divorce than nity at large can work with singles in a way Start program intended to reach out to something for married people, somet hing was my husband," she says. "My mother that is analagous to the way it works with Jewish families with holiday materials for they'll do when they're married. simply could not accept the fact that there married couples. "If temples sponsor use in the home. After it was publicized, The Jewish community needs workers had to be a divorce." dances, theater and various education we got many responses from single in all agencies, Jaffe feels, and single "I grew up with t he old notion that the groups for couples, then in the same way, parents. Of 175 responses, 20 were from people are an untapped resource here. woman gets married; the husband becomes these could be sponsored for singles." divorced and single parents or from Jews Volunteering also tends to 'work' for the doctor or the lawyer. I guess there's "There is a significant difference in who had intermarried," he said. singles personally in that it helps them to still a bit of old world feeling about needs between singles who have children Schwartz sees as threatening to t he feel needed and increases their social marriage for me," Ruth says. and those who don't," Dr. Fink claims. As vitality of future Jewish families the contacts. Volunteering, she feels, can be an When first divorced 10 years ago, Ruth, a single parent, Dr. Fink said he worries declining Jewish birth rate, the decreased important element of t he networking an administrative assistant for an most about the continuing development of number of young people opting for process from which singles benefit. accounting firm in Boston, admits that his relationship with his children. marriage at all, the statistic that tells that "A good network of friends can be more "finding a mate was then my number one "I'm concerned about their getting the 50 percent of all people married in the last important to t he single or the newly single goal." adult support they need. For example, I decade are now divorced and the would assume the role of monitoring their than can access to a therapist," Jaffe "But not anymore," she says, "I've substantial incr~ase in t he number of doing homework if I lived with them," he contends, "and that's what we're here for. gotten more comfortable with being single. intermarriages among Jews. said. "We have a single adult committee here No one tells me what to do, and I can raise "Single people in th~ir 30's sometimes "Children of divorced parents have a lot at the center, and some have become board my children as I see fit. At first I was afraid feel marriage is optional. Some feel that of losses in contact with the extended fam­ members," she adds. to be alone, but not any more." they can even choose to have children ily - with aunts, uncles and grandparents. Although the Center Singles group is all Ruth has also faced the financial without getting married," Schwartz noted. And the contact they do have is often in­ about making friends and making pressures that come with being a single "There's a kind of naivete about all frequent and riddled with problems," he marriages, it is not about searching. "You parent. The state of Massachusetts taxes that," he agreed. "These young people, added. stop searching when you feel completely her as a single person - period, with no many of t hem very well-educated, should Young singles do have an increased fear alone and when you've accepted your consideration of the fact that she is raising be exposed to equally well-educated Jews of making the commitment to marry, Dr. single life style," the coordinator says. two children. "Other singles might have of their own age who have found Fink agreed. "They see the frequency of "The feeling of completeness is a very elderly parents to support," she adds. fulfillment and joy in Jewish family life. marital breakup around them. In addition, healthy thing. If one accepts the finality of "But my temple was very considerate of "You know," Schwartz said, "we've young people today are developmentally the end of a marriage, then the adjustment the financial pressures on me for many recently seen the development of the more self-focused; it's my career, my hobby to single life can begin." years," Ruth says. Those pressures, she Havura, which is a fellowship of people and so on." Then things get even better, she feels, adds, have since diminished somewhat. who are similar in age or interests, and because with this adjustment comes free­ This self-focus can be good for singles in who meet in one another's homes for Before joining Shalom Singles, Ruth that it can lead to marriages of people who dom where there are restrictions in mar­ tried a now-defunct sine:les e:roup at her Jewish fellowship. So far it has been riage. No one tells you what to do, what to temple. "We'd meet and chat at one are developmentally at similar stages, he limited to couples with families. But said. · wear. how to behave. another's houses, but it failed largely wouldn't it be wonderful if we could "Then we wouldn't see the marriage of What can the Jewish community at because it needed more organizational identify Jewish singles and bring small the successful professional to the woman large do for its singles? "Because Judaism direction behind it and because of the groups of them into these homes to feel who ended her education and career early is so family-oriented, the temples could small numbers it attracted." the warmth and love they have to share?" in order to support her husband," he said. have dinners for singles and for others "Perhaps if the temples had a leader for In general, Dr. Fink sees any form of alone in the community on Shabat and single adults as they do for youth groups, it coercion to marry within the fold of Ju­ Rosh Hoshanna," Jaffe feels. might help," Ruth adds. ... And most interestingly, Jaffe feels daism as a "form of politicizing in the most Ruth echoes some of the things Judy general sense." Though he says he himself "People should assume the matchmaking Jaffe's research and experience have can be a valid way of making contacts, but taught her. "Single divorced women pose a people are afraid of getting involved. It threat to married women. I don't have any would be nice if every temple had a interest in married men." FOR ALL THIS ..• matchmaker," she says. Center Singles has 700 people on its Golf, Tennis, Raquetball, Theme Parties, mailing list and averages 30 new names Outdoor Feasts, Thousand Acre Excursions, per month. But attendance at individual Yoga, Bridge Instruction, Superb- Dining * ' events varies from 20 to 35 or less for Three Times A Day, Fine Care For Little Ones, discussion groups where smaller numbers Outstanding Day Camp and Teen Programs, are an asset. * Dietary Laws Judith Jaffe, with Ellen Steingold of the Jewish Family Service, will be teaching a course "Divorced and Jewish" as part of S~--t We Wook Temple Emanu-El's Tuesday night adult education program. On taking leave of her, I remark that she really looks wonderful and very together. LOLA FALAHA .BEN VEREEN She quickly comes back with, "That's Sal., ""9. 11 Sun., S.,C. 2 because I'm single." And Lots of Midweek Excitement, WED. TO SUN. 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It involved 200 key leaders from the world's free Jewish communities in defin­ Israeli Women ing the goals for human services in the ( continw,d from page I) next five to ten years, with the priority .On The B.ookshelf inherent in Israel, against the negative programs required to achieve these goals. Other major achievements accom­ attitudes toward women they feel are plished through joint efforts include the commonplace. Tales Of Holocaust Reviewed cooperation of the United Israel Appeal They point, almost immediately, to and CJF with the World Zionist Organiza­ advertising. There is an infamous Childhood. By Jona Oberski; translated 'by and diaries. These personal accounts are tion in reconstituting the Jewish Agency grapefruit commercial, for example, a Ralph Mannheim. Doubleday & Co., 245 well supplemented with background mate­ for Israel; merger of the UIA and Jewish public service announcement on television •I rial on the Holocaust and on world events, encouraging Israelis to eat grapefruit. It I Park Avenue, New York, NY 10167. 1983. Agency in the U.S.; creation of the Na­ 119 pp. $11.95. and with maps, glossary and bibliography. tional Foundation fot Jewish Culture and has been shown on prime time for the last ' Welcome Tomorrow. By Arnold and Ellen The only new material presented in Haas' the Joint Cultural Appeal; establishment few months. It shows a line of women - ' ' Reisman. North Coast Publishing, P.O.B. own story of life as a young woman in Nazi of the emergency fund for community rela­ obviously braless - tossing grapefruit to a ' 11119, Shaker Heights, OH 44120. 1982. Germany and in Theresienstadt, and her tions in the Middle East, with central group of leering men. ' 176 pp. $6.95. ultimate rescue on the famous Musy train planning, allocation of projects and funds, Advertising in Israel often uses the ' The Diary of Dawid Rubinowicz. By to Switzerland. These I Do Remember is a and accountability; the federal block grant female body (in various states of dress and Dawid Rubinowicz; translated by Derek very personal book for Mrs. Haas, follow­ for Soviet Jewish refugees in cooperation sometimes undress) to sell products or Bowman. Creative Options, P.O.B. 601, ing her up to the present and even includ­ with HIAS; and transformation of the ideas, and women depicted in advertising Edmonds, WA 98020. 1982. XVI, 87 pp. ing current photographs of her family. It is Jewish Telegraphic Agency into an inde­ campaigns are often portrayed as helpless $10.95. an excellent first book for someone to read pendent organization after being under the or brainless or kitchenbound - no matter These I Do Remember: Fragments from on the Holocaust but is less satisfying for aegis of the Jewish Agency for Israel. what the product being advertised. the Holocaust. By Gerda Haas. Cumber­ someone acquainted with the literature. Aside from this reference to JTA, the There are the violent and sometimes land Press, Freeport, ME 04032. 1982. All four books are about the Holocaust author devotes only two paragraphs to the pornographic magazine ads that have XXII, 287 pp. $16.95. experiences of young people and show how American Jewish press. Since the Ameri­ attracted attention even in the United their authors grew up quickly, and perhaps can Jewish press has proved itself as a States. Lilith, a New York based Jewish Reviewed by Mark Friedman grew old, under those conditions. They all force in Jewish Education, he could have feminist magazine last year ran a 'cover The enormity of the Holocaust makes became very independent, often becoming written more about it in his chapter on article on pornography in Israel. They its reality difficult for most to grasp. We the providers or caretakers for their par­ that area. pointed to themes of sadism and can only begin to understand the human ents while still children. These stories of In 1976, CJF undertook the kind of self­ gratuitous nudity in several dimension of this tragedy through the sto­ individuals, simple people in complex appraisal every dynamic organization widely-distributed publications - the use ries of individuals. These four books tell times, and of their families, open up the should undertake periodically. The review of topless teen-age girls, for instance, to individual and very personal accounts of Holocaust to the reader as other types of involved 1,500 community leaders. Its aim advertise children's clothing, or of what the Holocaust. Three were written by peo­ books cannot. was to link more closely the CJF agenda appears to be a rape scene to advertise ple who experienced the Holocaust as chil­ Reprinted from JWB Book Council. with the agendas of its local affiliates in perfume. dren; the fourth is an ambitious effort to priorities, in national and local planning, Feminists here point to the occurrence combine several personal accounts into a in defining standards, and in making deci­ of violence against women - the fact that survey of the Holocaust. To Dwell in Unity: The Jewish Federation sions and setting politcies. "an estimated 7000 to 10,000 sexual Childhood is a brief memoir written by Movement in America Since 1960. Philip That Jewish communal leaders recog­ assaults per year occur in Israel to women Jona Oberski in 1977. It tells the unusual Bernstein. The Jewish Publication Soci­ nize the importance of CJF is reflected in between the ages of 3 and 80," according to story of his life in occupied Holland and ety of America, 1930 Chestnut Street, the fact that 2,500 to 3,000 of them flock a pamphlet distributed by the Tel Aviv his bizarre childhood experience in Philadelphia, PA 19103. 1983. 394 pages. annually to the General Assembly - the Rape Crisis Center. Bergen-Belsen. Oberski was two years old $19.95. largest major domestic Jewish gathering. Feminists point to inequities in the when the Nazis marched into Holland and Reviewed by Lionel Koppman Bernstein calls it a "unique meeting workplace. They are concerned about the seven at the liberation. The book is written Thanks to responsible American Jewish ground for North American Jewish lead­ fact that women earn 70 percent of what in a simple style so as to enable us to see newspapers, many readers know what ers." men earn on the average, per work hour, the Holocaust through the eyes of a child. Jewish Federations do in their local com­ This is a good book. People involved in because they say only a small number of This device works well and results in a munities and how hard their leaders labor their Jewish communities and in Jewish women reach senior positions where high most moving book. One might, however, to perform tzedakah - social justice. Not life, leaders and those preparing for leader­ salaries are paid, and because salaries have liked to see a postscript by the adult so easily understood are the accomplish­ ship, contributors to Jewish charities, col­ between men and women "commonly" Oberski. Childhood was originally written ments of federations collectively and of lege students wanting to know more about differ for the same work, a~cording to Ofra in Dutch and has already appeared in their leadership network and service body, careers in Jewish communal service, and Friedman. The work is defined differently, seven languages. the Council of Jewish Federations (CJF). others interested in learning how Jewish and she said women get the lower scale. A less effective device is used by Arnold This lack of understanding is due to the federations function will find much in To Feminists are concerned about the and Ellen Reisman in Welcome Tomor­ complex nature of organized Jewish life. Dwell in Unity. shortcomings of the child-care system in row. As the book opens the authors are on Israel, Soviet Jewry, hard-pressed and op­ Reprinted from JWB Book Council. Israel, although they grant that Israel's a train to Poland, until suddenly the vista pressed Jews elsewhere overseas, the daz. facilities are high quality and praise the changes into a vision of Poland in 1939, zling array of domestic services - there fact that they are widely available and when Arnold celebrated his fifth birthday. are local, national, and international orga­ Press Is Bullhorn generously subsidized for women in The memoirs follow Arnold and his family nizations that serve virtually every cause. financial need. They are disturbed, from occupied Poland to the Ukraine to They receive credit, in their own name, for For Farrakhan, though, that day-care centers are very central Asia, drawing a very warm picture the fine work that they do. But where costly for professional women, since fees of the Russians and a very cold one of the would they be without the local federa­ AOL Director Says are determined on a sliding scale, and that neither kindergarten fees nor Poles. Reisman's adventures, crisscrossing tions? Collectively, the federations have NEW YORK - Nathan Perlmutter, housekeepers are tax-deductible for half the breadth of Russia by himself at the become the dominant communal force on national director of the Anti-Defamation working women. age of eight, are at times reminiscent of the American Jewish scene. League ef B'nai B'rith, made the following The movement has had a tangible and Kosinski's The Painted Bird. But this pri­ Philip Bernstein, the chief executive of­ statement in reaction to Minister Louis significant influence in Israel. In the last vately published book suffers from having ficer of the CJF from 1955 until his retire­ Farrakhan's remarks at the National Press few years, for example, battered women's too much historical hindsight projected ment in 1979, has performed a genuine Club in Washington: centers and rape crisis centers have been onto a child's story. The author's perspec­ mitzvah in giving us To Dwell in Unity: "Minister Farrakhan speaks for a small established; a media-monitoring project tive shifts awkwardly from then to now The Jewish Federation Movement in minority of Black Muslims. The majority initiated; a book on divorce rights and the lack of an editor's touch is visible America Since 1960. The title is apt. The · of Black Muslims, by far, are followers of published; a feminist magazine begun; in the irregular treatment of foreign terms federation movement has brought together Minister Wallace Deen Muhammad. By women's studies programs developed in and names. the most diverse philosophies, views, and providing Farrakhan with a bullhorn for Israeli universities. Dawid Rubinowicz was twelve when he priorities to work together for purposes his ravings, the press is magnifying his Israeli President Chaim Herzog in an began his diary in occupied Poland.' His which all of us can share. significance. The result is print pollution interview published recently in Na 'amat diary has a quality that no memoir written Philip Bernstein's book picks up - and a disservice to the large majority of Magazinr, said "If I compare the situation after Auschwitz can have. It tells the story chronologically where Harry L. Lurie's Black Muslims, to Jews, and in the guise of the women in Israel to other lands, like of someone trying to cope with life under work, A Heritage Affirmed, leaves off. of reportage, a distortion of Black-Jewish Moslem nations or Africa, we can be the Nazis, not knowing what tomorrow Lurie, Bernstein's predecessor as CJF ex­ relations. "It's high time for the press to proud." would bring. One can see Dawid changing ecutive, analyzed the origins and growth of brake the round of outrageous ravings There is no uniformity on why with the passage of time, maturing rapidly, the federations from their beginnings in from Farrakhan and indignant responses movement toward equal rights for women yet weakening under the brutal tension 1895 to 1960. Bernstein concentrates on from Jews. It can do so by simply refusing here has been slow in coming - only that and insecurity. The diary ends with the major events in Jewish life and sets to serve as his megaphone." Dawid's deportation in the summer of forth the key issues addressed by the feder­ it has. 1942. As Dawid's fate is unknown, the edi­ ations and agencies, actions taken, and the tors chose to close the book with a selec­ principles and policies guiding these ac­ tion of photographs on the Holocaust. tions. These I Do Remember by Gerda Haas is An outstanding achievement was the a largely successful attempt to present a leadership CJF took in convening the Con­ comprehensive survey of the Holocaust ference on Human Needs in Israel in 1969. through selections from several memoirs The conference was a creative "first" for Be a7minute hero. Giveblood.

II RHODE ISLAND BLOODCENTER THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1984 - 13 ,,. The Puppets Are Coming Final Children's Musical May We Suggest .... To Children's Museum At Theatre-By-~ea The last in the series of Musicals for On Tuesday, August 14 from 2-3 p.m., Children at Theatre-by-the-Sea, Matun­ Puppets Unlimited will be at The uck, Rhode Island, will be on Fridays, Children's Museum of R.I. Puppeteers August 17 and 24, when "Little Red Riding Robert Rogers and Gregg Glaser will show Hood" will be presented at 11:00 a.m. and Museum visitors the different characters 1:00 p.m. · - they use in their shows and how to operate Come one, come all to the enchanted them. Tuesday evening, Puppets fo rest fo r a musical romp with some of Unlimited moves on to Slater Park to your favorite story book characters! Meet perform " Pinocchio" at 7 p.m. Children Little Red Riding Hood and her friends can make puppets in afternoon workshops and share her adventures along the route at The Children's Museum Wednesday to Grandmother's house. But beware of the and Thursday (August 16 & 17) from 1-4 greedy old wolf lurking behind that tree. p.m. But not to worry; Little Red Riding Hood Mornings are full of activities too, at out-smarts the wolf and all's well that ends The Children's Museum. August 14 from well in this timeless tale for children of all 10-11 :30 a.m. children will turn shapes ages. and shells into necklaces in "Shape-Up." The audience is invited to visit with the On August 15 they will use a Brailler to actors after the show on the lawn of the· write their names in "My Way, Your theatre to get autographs and take pic­ Way." Visitors will create appetizing tures. Refreshments are served during in­ works of art by painting with pasta on termission. August 16 and 17 from 10-11:30 a.m. Tickets for all seats are $2. 75 with spe­ The Museum, located at 58 Walcott St. cial rates fo r groups of 20 or more and for in Pawtucket, will be open on Monday (VJ birthday parties. For reservations call Day) August 13 from 1-5 p.m. (401) 789-1094.

Emma Reimer (Creusa) and Sheryl Dold (Medea) in the Rhode Island Shakespeare Theater 's production of Medea by Franz Grillparzer at the Swanhurst Theater, Bellevue Ave. and We!>ster St., Newport. Medea will play Thursday through Sunday evenings at 8 p.m., closing September 2. For reservations and information, phone 849-7892. ----ART---- - THE SINGLES SCENE­ Armin Landeck: Prints and SHALOM SINGLES Drawings, through Aug. 26, RISO Art Museum, 224 Benefit St ., Providence. Are you looking fo r a luxurious cruise . .. RIC Faculty Exhibit, through Aug. you can afford? You can stop your search! 28; Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island J oin Shalom Singles (ages 35-55), College. · sponsored by the South Area Jewish . . . Later Indian Costumes, June Community Center for an enchanting !-Sept. 16, RISO Art Museum, 224 evening cruise in Boston Harbor on Benefit Street, Providence. Wednesday, August 29. Featured on board . . . Newport Art Museum, six new will be the fabulous Glenn Miller exhibits, through to July 29; for more Orchestra and Winiker Swing Orchestra. information call 847-0179. You can enjoy snacks and a full service . . . Portrait of a Patron, through to bar. · The group will meet at the Center at The fungus among us? No, this tentacled creature is Audrey II, who will be Oct. 7, RISO Art Museum, 224 Benefit featured in Little Shop Of Horrors at Boston's Colonial Theatre, opening August Street, Providence. 1044 Central Street, Stoughton at 6 P.M. and carpool to Long Wharf, Boston. The 1 through September 1. More information and ticket reservations can be made Style and Identity: Chinese by calling (617) 426-9366. Costumes Under Manchu Rule, cruise is from 7:30-9 P.M. We will be back through to Sept. 30, RISO Art Museum, in Stoughton by 10 P.M. The cost is $9.50 22 Benefit Street, Providence. ., fo r members and $12 for non-members. . . . Exhibit of Technological Art, Pre-registration with pre-payment is Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, required by Friday, August 24. To register Connecticut; through to September 2. please call Liz at the Center, 821-0030, or The R.I. Jewish Herald's . . . Wickford Arts Festival, July 7 and 341 -2016 . 8; historic Wickford Village; 10 a.m.-7 Treat yourself to a wonderful 'vacation p.m. both days. day' in lovely Hull. J oin Shalom Singles of .. . . Elaine Goodman Mills Exhibit, the South Area Jewish Community Center New Year's Issue through to Aug. 12, Center for the Arts, on Sunday, August 19 for a beach party Westerly . and barbeque at a member's home. All . . Alexandra Bowes Exhibit, through food _and drinks will be provided. Bring a to Sept. 14, Main Gallery, Fine Arts bathmg suit, towel, and beach chair and 5745 Center, URI, Kingston, R.I. meet at the Center, 1044 Central Street . . . 18th and 19th Century Glass, Stoughton to carpool at 11:45 a.m. Th~ through to Aug. 26 RISO Museum of Art, party is limited to the first 25, so 224 Benefit St., Providence. Examples of pre-register now by calling Patti, 821-0030 European and America molded and blown or 341-2016. glass will be on display. The cost is $5.00 for members and $8.50 . .. The Big Picture: Selections from for non-members. Pre-payment is the Permanent Collection, through to required by Tuesday, August 14th. SEPTEMBER 28TH Sept. 23, RISO Art Museum, 224 Benefit St., Providence. CENTER SINGLES . . . Lecture by Richard Merkin, August 15 - Join us at the JCC at 7 painter, July 25, 8 p.m.; RISO p.m. for an evening of FUN AND Auditorium, 2 Canal Street, Providence; FROLIC with wine and cheese and free. dance-able music. Our Singles Summer SoftbaJI Season is ---DRAMA--- about to start. Call fo r details. If you would like to help out at any of Call today _and reserve your ad space . . . Medea, J uly 26-Sept. 2, Rhode Island our activities, let us know. And, volunteers to wish your family, friends, Shakespeare Theatre, Swanhurst, attend the event at half price. Bellevue Avenue, Newport; 8 p.m.; call For further information or reservations, theatre for ticket reservations . call Judith Jaffe at 861 -8800. customers and clients . . . Beyond Therapy, July 6-29 and What The Butler Saw, August a Happy New Year. 10-September 2; Trinity Summer Rep; for ~MlSCELLANEOUS- tickets call the box office at 351-4242 . . . .A Funny Thing Happened On The . . . Chinese Teahouse at the Marble Way To The Forum, starring Matt House in Newport is now open for tours. Siravo, Newport Playhouse, Newport, For further information, call the through August 26. Reservations Preservation Society of Newport County 849-4618. at 401 -847-1000. DEADLINE: FRI., SEPT. 14, 1984

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His deputy, Fer- "helpful" by a senior State Department Israel-Lebanese agreement, has publicly thousand South Africans launched a cul- die Hartzenberg, has reportedly said that official is "astonishing" and "depressing," challenged our country and demonstrated tural cum-political movement here two it would be difficult for Jews to serve in a the Conference of Presidents of Major its contempt for and hostility to our months ago that raised eyebrows all over government formed by the CP. (Although American Jewish Organizations said purposes. Indeed, you yourself have called South Africa, particularly in the Jewish Jews here are suspicious of Hartzenberg, recently. Syria 'the center of the problem' of community. they do not think that Treurnicht, a for- In a telegram to Secretary of State Lebanon. The latest statement by the The formation of the Afrikanervolkswag mer minister, is anti-Semitic. T homas George Shultz, the Conference said Assistant Secretary seems to signal an (AV) brought together under one banner Langley, a CP member of Parliament, testimony on Wednesday (July 25) by apparent reversal of our policy toward an outright anti-Semite, a radical stated categorically: "We're not anti-Jew- Assistant Secretary of State Richard Syria, one that we find deeply disturbing. rightwing politician, the son-in-law o(·a ish at all. Get it out of your mind.") Murphy signaled "an apparent reversal in "Mr. Murphy's remarks are depressing former Prime Minister, and a one-time Although the AV is shot through with our country's policy toward Syria." because they appear to signal American deputy minister of education. It was anti-Semitic rabble-rousers, AV's chair- Mr. Murphy said Syria was playing a acceptance of Syria's success in turning enough to make Jews take notice, or wince. man, Carel Bosh off, has stayed clear of the "helpful" role in restoring stability in the Gemayel regime in Beirut into a Dr. Sylvia Kaplan, national president of Jewish question so far. T he AV, in short, Lebanon after "blowing up" the puppet state. the South African Association of Arts, said has not adopted a public position on Jews. U.S.-sponsored 1983 Israel-Lebanon she was "absolutely horrified" by the emer- Yet Jews cannot ignore its existence. A troop-withdra;_,al agreement. Assistant "When Mr. Murphy speaks of Syria's gence of the AV and appalled by the Nazi- random sampling of Jewish opinion found Secretary Murphy, former U.S. 'helpful' role in restoring stability in like tone generated by the AV 's inaugural that Jews are either disturbed by the AV, ambassador to Syria, testified at a hearing Lebanon, he is condoning and indeed mass meeting. South African newspapers or confident that its influence will be min- of the House Foreign Affairs praising Syria's de facto control of were equally aghast. imal. subcommittee on the Middle East and Lebanon. 'A stable Lebanon and a stable In Parliament, the AV was roundly con- Aubrey Joffe, a Pretoria lawyer, doesn't Europe. Beirut' under Syrian domination are the demned. The Minister of Education, no close his eyes to the AV, "I wouldn't ignore Kenneth J. Bialkin, chairman of the very antithesis of long-standing U.S. doubt speaking fo r the ruling Afrikaner- it, but in the context of South African pol- Conference an umbrella group policy in the region, which President dominated National Party, ridiculed the itics, it's a total irrelevancy," he said. representing 38 national Jewish secular Reagan himself defined as the restoration AV 's claim to being solely a "cultural John Mosha!, president of the Council and religious organizations - said in a of the independence and sovereignty of movement." Roger Burrows, an opposition of Natal Jewry, in Durban, observed that telegram to Secretary Shultz in Lebanon. If it is now the Administration's MP, asked the government for assurance the formation of the AV might even be a Washington: policy to concede domination of Lebanon that no state funds would be given to the sort of blessing in disguise, because "The statement is astonishing because to Syria, this is a sad day for America's "(white) supremacist, racially divisive"·or- Afrikaners would be forced to take sides the despotic Syrian regime, by supporting role in the Middle East." ganization. and would opt for the middle-of-the-road Elements Comprising The A y National Party (which has cordial rela­ tions with the Jewish community but once Bursting upon the South African scene didn't). Chris Moolman, an Afrikaner edi­ like a thunderclap, the AV is far to the tor in Port Elizabeth, said that the AV has Obituaries right of the National Party, which in 1948 no appeal for Afrikaners. introduced apartheid. To the AV, the If the AV fails to attract the loyalty of present National Party has traitorously Afrikaners, as is genera~ly thought, it will ARYESHARON NATHAN RESEVITZ deviated from apartheid by introducing not pose any threat - real or imagined - TEL AVIV, July 29 (JTA) - Arye SEPULVEDA, CALIF. - Nathan constitutional proposals that would give to Jews. In gen.era! terms, anti-Semitism is Sharon, a noted Israeli architect who Resevitz, 87, of Sepulveda, California, a Asian and Coloreds - but not Blacks - a a fairly inconsequential phenomenon in headed the Housing Ministry during the former New Bedford businessman, died limited voice in policy determination. contemporary South Africa, if only be­ early years of the State, died in Paris last July 25 after a long illness. In the view of observers, the AV com­ cause non-whites are usually on the minds week at the age of 84. He was buried in Mr. Resevitz was a native of New York prises disgruntled, frustrated rightwingers, of bigoted whites. Israel. Sharon designed some of the City where he lived until 1948. He was the disaffected lower middle class Afrikaners "It's safe to say that anti-Semitism has best-known buildings in Israel, including owner of Nat's Deli and Catering Service (South Africa's first white settlers, mainly never been an instrument of any South the Beilinson, lchilov, Soroka and Assaf in New Bedford until 1959, when he Europeans of Dutch, French and German African government," pointed out Michael Harofe hospitals as well as the Ohel moved to California. stock) and Pretoria-based civil servants. Katz, the youngish chairman of the J ewish Theater building, the Beth Brenner Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. All these groups appeared to be repre­ Board of Deputies, the umbrella organiza­ workers' hostel in Tel Aviv and the Beverly Freeman of Warwick and Mrs. sented the night of May 5 when the AV tion of South African Jewry. Yet, as Katz Kinneret rest home in Tiberias. Renee Levine of Woodland Hills, was launched into prominence. Eugene would probably agree, the Jewish commu­ California; four grandchildren and two Terre Blanche, accompanied by a uni­ nity has not always been so blessed as it is formed guard of six young men wearing ROSE RUBIN great-grandchildren. Burial was in Mount today. Sinai Cemetery in Los Angeles. swastika-like emblems and heavy black (Next week: Part 2) CRANSTON - Rose Rubin, 72, of 108 boots once favored by the SS, put in an Narragansett St., a former credit manager, BESSIE ROSENZWEIG appearance. T erre Blanche, leader of the died August 2 at the Bay Towers Nursing PROVIDENCE - Bessie Rosenzweig, Afrikanse Weerstandsbeweging, has been Home, Providence. She was the wife of quoted as saying that South African Jews 91 , a resident-member of the Jewish The Rhode Island Department of Jacob B. Rubin. would be deprived of political rights under Home for the Aged, Hillside Avenue, died Elderly Affairs will offer a IO-week Born in Mineville, N.Y., she was a an AV regime. Joining him were the fol­ August I in Miriam Hospital. The late Pre-Retirement Planning Program daughter of the late George and Sophie lowing personalities: 'Harry Rosenzweig was her husband. beginning September 19, 1984 at the (Heimovitz) Rosenthal. She lived in • Jaap Marais, head of the Herstigte Na­ A daughter of the late Reuven and Yitta Pawtucket Public Library, on Wednesdays Cranston since 1957. sionale Party, who is regarded both as an Lattner, she was born in Poland, and lived from 6-9 p.m. Mrs. Rubin formerly lived in Hartford, anti-Semite and an anti-Zionist. The in Providence about 30 years. The program includes information on where she retired in 1956 after 20 years as party, which publishes a newspaper called She leaves a son, Charles Rosen of financial planning, use of leisure time, a secretary and credit manager for the Die Africaaner, has no parliamentary Honolulu, Hawaii; two daughters, Marcia improving self-esteem, psychological Goodrich Tire & Rubber Co. She was a Mittleman of Delray Beach, Fla., and seats. *Carel Boshoff, a professor, and his wife aspects of aging, continuing education, member of Congregation Shaare · Goldie Cohen of Needham, Mass.; seven Anna, daughter of Hendrik Verwoerd, who health issues and much more. Zedek-Sons of Abraham, its Sisterhood, grandchildren and five great-grand- The cost for the program is $10.00 per the Women's Associations of the Jewish children. • served as Prime Minister until his assassi­ nation in 1966. person, and i_t is limited to 20 persons. Home for the Aged and Miriam Hospital, The funeral service was held at Max the Pioneer Women, Hadassah and Sugarman Memorial Chapel, 458 Hope St. Meeting Street School. Burial was in Lincoln Park Cemetery, Besides her husband she leaves three Warwick. sisters and a brother, Esther Freeman, Sadie Rachelson and Nat Rosenthal of Jewish New Year Calendars are available Hartford, and Celia Hoffman of Boston. by calling A funeral service was held at Mount Sinai Memorial Chapel, 825 Hope St., Providence. Burial in Lincoln Park Cemetery, Warwick. MOUNT SINAI Max Sugarman MEMORIAL CHAPEL Memorial Chapel The Rhode Island Jewish funeral home that can be trusted . .. . Family records for three generations are in our files, for its honesty ... integrity ... making our all-Jewish staff better prepared to serve your and compliance with the highest needs for generations to come. standards of Je wish ethics and conduct. For Service With Reverence And Dignity Over 100 years service to R.I. 331-8094 Jewish families by our director, Mitchell, his father and grandfather.

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