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Dear Dr. Imber: It is en! irely possible that a child [__ L_o_c_a_I _N_e_w_s______] I ha ve a young son who gets who is initially anxious for some of very upset whenever he is sep· I he reasons just described may a rated fro m me . I don't just continue to exhibit upset behavior Congregation Ohawe Sons Of Jacob First Fellowship To mean upset, I mean tearful a nd because of the consequences. For Shalam Discuss Conversion physically ill. On occasion, he example, a child who is going to Friday, August 5 can make himself sick to his nursery school fo r the first time Services this Friday evening are stomach. My husba nd a nd I Candlelighting at 7:39 p.m. The Rabbis from the U.S. and may he excited and somewhal anx 7:40 p.m. Shabbat morning, the were so concerned that we Minchoh service is at 7:50 p.m. Canada will be gathering together ious. His mot her may also be ex first day of Rosh Chodesh Elul, took him to his pediatrician. Saturday, August 6 - Reading on Monday and Tuesday, August cited a nd anxious. However, ir the Paul Marks will be called to the Medically, there seems to be of the Torah-Ekev. Morning 29 and 30, at the International <·hild senses that. mother's anxiety Torah in honor of his forthcoming nothing wrong w hatsoever. services 8:30 a.m. Blessing of the Synagogue, JFK International level is hiKh, the child may perceive marriage. An elaborate kiddush Recently, we were on vacation new month of Elul. Minchoh Airport, N.Y. for the first that there is indeed something to will be sponsored by his parents, and had to return because he services at 7:30 p.m. The Sabbath conference of the Fellowship of he <:oncerned about. T he child may Mr. and Mrs. Israel Marks. became so ill. Can children re is over at 9 p.m. Traditional Orthodox Rabbis. cry or even throw-up because he is Services begin at 9 a.m. Saturday ally make themselves that Next Saturday and Sunday, In response to the interest of genuinely upset. If the child's evening Mincha will be at 7:30 p.m. sick? We'd really a ppreciate August 12 and 13, is many of its members, the Monday mother is called and the child is followed by the Third Sabbath some help on this o ne . Rosh-Chodesh. afternoon session will deal taken home. the child may unwit Meal. Maariv is at 8:25 p.m. Feeling Imprisoned Sunday, August 7, morning exclusively with the subject of tingly learn that he can control the Havdalah is 8:35 p.m. services at 7:30 a.m. conversions, firstly with a situation. The situat ion can de Upcoming activities include a Minchoh for the entire week is presentation of a broad spectrum velop into a very romplex problem pre-Selichot program. It will at 7:40 p.m. - promptly!! of relevant halachic views, which may have serious implica include a comedy film, followed by Dear Imprisoned: Once again, Rabbi Morris followed by a treatment of the tions for parents and child. refreshments. It will take place at The situation which you have Drazin's lectures between issue from an historical the congregation Saturday encountered is a most diffi cult and It would seem most appropriate Minchoh and Maariv concerning perspective. Rabbi Melech evening, Sept. 3 at 10 p.m. At frustruting one. You were wise to for the child to have fu rther medi preparations for the forthcoming Schacter, Ph.D. (Dropsie College), midnight Selichot will follow. take your son lo his pediatrician. <·al assessment in order to ensure High Holidays. Rosh Yeshiva at Rieta of Yeshiva Services this coming week are as however, you may wish to rerer that there is indeed no "physical" University, and former follows: Morning - Sunday 8 a.m.; your sun to a l:{astrointestinal spe problem. The problem which you coordinator of the Beth Den of the Monday and Thursday 6:50 a.m.; Temple Emanu-EI cialist to ronducl a fu rther assess· have described might be addressed RCA, will make the halachic Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday ment. Now, some kids just can't through more soothing but firm Leisure Club presenfation while Rabbi C. 6:50 a.m. Evening - 7:30 p.m. stomach their parents leaving parenting. You may need to pre Gershon Bacon, Ph.D. (Columbia daily. The Temple Emanu-El Leisure them with another. For some chil pure the child when you leave him Club will have a trip to University), senior lecture( in Bar dren. the situation is genuinely with a trusted adult and show un Theatre-By-The-Sea, Matunuck Ilan University and visiting unxiety-provoking. Kids may be derstanding of his fee lini:s but assistant professor of history at Eden Garden Club on August 24, 1988 for the afraid that their parents are just maintain your position, even if he _Bernard Revel Graduate School The August 18 meeting of the performance of 42nd Street, an not goinl:{ to c.·ome back. Other chil does become "sick." The trusted and the Jewish Theological Eden Garden Club will be held at extravaganza that will entertain dren lin
... , •., . • ! . - THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1988 - 3 Books vs. Beach: BBYO Summer Program games here, but it. is questioning ~onlidant to the teenagers. In the and new ideologies and making STARLIGHT, Pa. As " There's no secret," says Kalla h all agreed with Lora Koenig of midst of an interview with him, a new commitments. Bridget Ba rrows played with the direct.or Peter Stark. " lt.'s simply Rochester, N.Y. participant approaches a nd says, "It is normal for the kids to food on her dinner plate, she t hat. we take the kids seriously and "Rabbi I did as you suggested and " I feel so good about my Judaism become confused. One of t he thought of how confusing the challenge them all the. l ime. The now," she explains. " I'm very took her flowers as a peace t hings lhat a J ewish person has to offering." search for her Jewish identity had challenge is matched w1lh a lot of confused because everybody feels hear is that if you end your search "So, are you going to get back become. staff contact, vanat1on m so different, but. we were warned then you have locked yourself in; together wit h her?" t he rabbi asks. " You hear one thing, and then progra mming and t he spirit of a t hat this is an intense Jewish there's no growt h." " No, but we're friends again and you hear the opposite," she said. " I communit.y. experience and that if we leave a Reconstructionist Rabbi Bruce I feel better," the youth says with a don't really know what I believe "These are regular Jewish kids little confused, that's OK." right now, but. I'm learning a lot who have an interest, as most kids Aft does not share Kilimnick's smile. "Thanks for your help; I jusl For David Smola r of Baltimore, theological ideology, but the two and feel good about it." do, in learning more about wanted you to know.'' Kallah is the challenge he had share a deep friendship ano Bridget was one of the 140 themselves a nd about their The scene speaks for the hoped for. commitment to teaching t he Jewish teenagers experiencing a people," he adds. "We give them a warmth and relaxation in which "To get into this program, you richness of Jewish life. phenomenon t hat, since 1964, has uniquely challenging opportunity the Kallah is run. As Stark says, have to sign a waiver that says you "More important tha n what is helped more than 1,000 youth to do that." " Here, the person who is teaching have to be open and remember learned in class al Ka llah are the study a nd explore Judaism in per Stark, as with many Kallah staff in the classroom may be weeding that, no matter what your role models," says Rabbi Aft. haps as unique and challenging members, is a past participant in background, you have lo alongside lhe kids and talking " Anybody can pick up a about God, one hour later. an environment as possible: the the program himself. A 1966 part icipate in every program a nd ,Jewish·interest book and read a "So ma ny J ewish education B'nai B'rith Youth Organization's Kallah graduate, he has, on the be exposed to as many different few ideas but here you have an systems are afraid to lake kids (BBYO) International Kallah. Ka llah staff, spent the last 12 philosophies as possible," he says. opportunity to interact with seriously," he adds. " If Jewish The Kallah, an intense four-week summers doing everything from " I came here to look at as ma ny people who represent the communities across North study program, is held at the B'nai leaching Yiddish to leadership different aspects of Judaism as I movement.s of Judaism." America tried programs like this, it B' rit.h Perlma n Camp in Starligh t., program. For the past fi ve years he could, to clear my head a nd t hen Rahbi Aft., as wit h the rest of the would do wonders fo r J ewish Pa. This year's progra m ran from has directed t he program. When he fill it wit.h as much as I could," he staff, is teacher, friend a nd education," he says. ,June 30 to ,July 27. is not at the Perlman Camp, he says. "So far, I'm still filling it wi th For four weeks, Bridget and her teaches Biblical li terature to sixth, diffe rent ideas." ~ - November 9 to November 23, 1988 - peers learned Judaism's various seventh and eighth graders in While Stark repeatedly claims ideologies from a staff t hat Boston, and works on a Ph.D in there a re no secrets to Ka llah's ...... Personally Escorted by Dorothy Ann Wiener includes a n Orthodox rabbi, a Biblical and Assyriological success, a key element is surely the Roundtrip bus transportation from Providence • Aoundtrip El At Israel Airlines from Reconstruct ionist rabbi, a nd Studies. staff he assembles. Boston • Deluxe Five Star Hotels - King David Chain • Hotel taxes and service ,Jewish educators from across His own experience as charges • Transfers • Nine days sightseeing per itinerary on air conditioned a A prime example is Lucy Blazer, motorcoach • English speaking licensed guide • All entrance fees • Full Israeli North America and Israel. participa nt was a life-cha nging the Kallah's head of Israeli breakfast daily • Final banquet • Many extras It's not how you would expect one. " Even now, 23 years later, I educa tion. Blazer, a New York mainstream teenagers, a group ca n still feel shivers sitting in a $1699 per person Call Dorothy/or brochure 212·6200 nat ive a nd ll·year resident of $200 deposit will hold reservation more attuned to summer days at spot where Elie Wiesel stood a nd Israel, she is spending her fi rst. the beach and rock 'n roll concerts, spoke to us at a time when nobody summer teaching at Kalla h. She is -~11. 'f• UmnUn Ann YOUR DOMESTIC WORLDWIDE to spend a vacation. had ever heard of him," he says. amazed at the teenagers' eagerness ~. I i· FLIGHTS CRUISES TOURS Complementing the staff a re a For him, one of the most to learn. c 11c ~~iii~ wide variety of guest speakers. gratifying aspects of the progra m is "In Israel I usually have to 766 HOPE STREET PO BOX 6845 PROVIDENCE RHODE ISLAND 02940 Since the first Ka llah, 25 years how it " stretches" the minds of its challenge kids to he more open," ago, personalities such as Elie part icipants. she says. " Here I have to get t hem Wiesel, Mordechi Kaplan, and The Kallah pa rticipant's to scale down the scope of t heir several U.S. Congressmen have comments, however, show that t houg,?t.s. Their minds a re so addressed the program's they a re not st retched to one open. pa rticipants. perspective of J ewish t hought, bul Rabbi Shaya Kilimnick, known On weekdays, the yout h the entire spectrum of J ewish as Reb Shaya, is in his seventh pa rticipate in activities such as ideology. summer on the staff. A warm and studying Yiddish, learning modern While Ala na Muller said that. gent le ma n who laces his classes da nce, and debating various she is now lea ning towa rd Reform with jokes a nd a necdotes, he calls approaches lo observing ,Judaism's ideologie!=i, Julie Ka ll ah " t he most important traditional beliefs. On Friday Sonenshine countered that the program fo r Jewish youth who do Call in Your Order Now evenings and Saturdays, they progra m has made her more not have a very sound J ewish (617) 325-7750 enjoy t.he Sabbath with creative comfortable with Orthodox education. services and relaxation - and Judaism. ''What brings me back each year Rhode Island Customers volunta ry classes (called Shabbal "I'm not Orthodox, but. I know is the opportunity t.o share my please ca ll collect electives). the Tora h came from God because commitments to boys and girls The obvious question is, "Just that's the way it is," she explains. from across the country," he HOLIDAY PICKUP how does one convince a teenager "I agree with Reb Shaya (the explains. " Here, there's a Friday. Sept. 9, 1988 Noon-3 p.m. on summer vacation to sit. in a staffs Orthodox rabbi) because friendship that's being Sunday, Sept. 11. 1988 9 a.m.-1 p.m. classroo·m, exploring and he's right. How can you argue with highlighted by in-depth study of Order Deadline Monday, Sept. 5, 1988 by 3 p.m. experimenting with Judaism's him?" J ewish identity and our people's various philosophies?" Rega rdless of individual views, history," he adds. 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A.I 02940 their display garden in full bloom! 1673 FALL RIVER AVE (Rte. 6), SEEKONK, MA 336-5630 HOURS: MON.-SAT. 9-5, CLOSED SUNDAYS 4 - THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11 , 1988 The 1988 Presidential Elections When Secretary of Defense by Don Walsh Weinberger resigned, a topical Do you remember the Sondheim (_ _o _ p_in_i_o_n______] joke was that President Reagan song Send in the Clowns? That's on hearing of it said: "I didn't even right, the little piece of musical know he was under indictment." and verbal poetry that could break Somehow, I fail to see the hu your heart (or at least make you mor in that given the Pentagon list.en ). It is the single song of The Night Of The Murdered Poets scandal, lrangate, Ollie (Gee America's great.est living lyricist/ Whiz) North, AG Meese and the composer that might be termed a rest of the sleaze in Washington. by Abraham H. Foxman of being Jews. murdered on that August night. popular hit. It made the charts! Therefore, as campaign '88 Abraham H. Foxman is notional T he poignancy of the life and T he memory of these 24 has Which I could care less about. death of one of the poets, K vitko, winds down, I wish the principals' director of the Anti-Defamation been effaced fo r most Russians; You see, I was always intrigued by advisors would remind them of League. points up the infa my of Stalin's they are still "unpersons." the title: Send in the Clowns. crime. An orphan, reared in the the meaning of Send in the The Soviet Union is attempting Moreover, despite the heady Sondheim says he took it from the Ukraine by his grandmother, he Clowns. And, come January '89, to make amends for the abuses and atmosphere of glasnost, circus ringmaster's order when began to write poetry at the age of either George Bush or Michael crimes of the past. Under anti-Semi tism co ntinues in the real or imagined tragedy had oc 12. Recognition came early for his Dukakis and their men and "glasnost," the openness Soviet Union. How can this curred in the show. When a high poems and children's stories. He women be prepared to govern introduced by General Secretary humane openness be squared with wire performer or trapeze artist wisely and well. We Americans Gorbachev, Soviet citizens are embraced Communism in the the invectives against Jews that fell. fervent belief that it was opposed are tired of suffering fools gladly finally confronting the murderous persist in some Soviet The clowns were used to divert to anti-Semitism and was (2 Corinthians. XI, 19). tyranny of the Stalin era. publications? How can the Soviet the audience's (mostly children) dedicated to eradicating prejudice. Republican. Democrat. Inde Bukharin has been posthumously government ignore the problems attention; to relieve the tension Before he was killed in Lubyanka, pendent. We want you to succeed rehabilitated and the name of posed by the anti-Semitic, and horror they had witnessed; Kvitko wrote: "A survivor . . . will Mr. President. We want to be Trotsky, hitherto unmentionable, nationalist Pamyat movement? Is make-believe replacing reality. enumerate the slain; My dead proud of our government. We is coming out of the shadows. it not possible for the Kremlin to In a way, regrettably, our na name will he write along with want the world to see what But rehabilitation of Stalin's issue a signal of displeasure, at tional and world leaders have victims has only just begun. The many others in letters small on a least, instead of according Pamyat America's best and bright.est can lengthy list." been practicing this little con for do. Soviet Union has yet to make a official neutrality? too long now. They have been Mourning K vitko, the Russian Just leave Sondheim's Clowns gesture of atonement for many In seeking to understand the sending in their clowns to divert writer Kornei Chukovsky wrote: to the stage and the Big Top. more victims and to remove the - new direction of Soviet policy, one us; take us from reality to a nu "Kvitko was a victim of dark Don Walsh writes musical re stain from their names. The wonders if the night of the clear never-never land. Kremlin has yet to unblinkingly suspiciousness, libels and violence murdered poets will continue to be vues and children ·s theater plays. face up to one of the most and perished at the time of the covered up. Will these 24 notorious single incidents of Stalinist lawlessness." intellectuals be rehabilitated as Stalin's rampages - the murder K vitko and the others murdered well as the Jewish doctors whom The Six Day War 36 years ago of 24 Jewish poets, on that savage night were the Stalin accused of plotting his targets of a calculated and by Isaac Klausner state of alert. It was evident that intellectuals and scientists who murder? Will glasnost open up the Arabs were preparing for war deliberate effort to eradicate The Six Day War is lately much died on August 12, 1952 in J ewish communal, cultural and against Israel. Jordan was warned ,Jewish life in the Soviet Union in the news. It is discussed, Lubyankli Prison. It was the religious life so that worship is by Israel that if it did not join that had begun four years earlier in criticized, and admired. It "night of the murdered poets." uninhibited, Hebrew can be taught Nasser, Israel would not attack I 948 with assassination - at surprised the entire world. It had a Why were they executed? What and spoken - and anti-Semitism Jordan. Jordan did not take the Stalin's order - of a leading far-reaching effect fo r the State of was their crime? finally eliminated as Jews vainly warning seriously and sent its Soviet Jewish intellectual, Israel. It transformed the fabric of The official accusation against hoped in 1917? fo rces across the border. Israel Solomon Mikhoels. the Jewish State and Israel's life Leib Kvitko, ltzik Feffer, David Will the Soviet government could not wait any longer for the Hofsht.eyn, ltzik Nusinov and the His slaying took place in Minsk truly honor the memory of the politically, economically, and culturally. Arabs' attack and decided for a other ill-fated intellectuals said where Mikhoels had been sent on murdered poets by making it preemptive strike. On the Let us recall very brie fly this war that they were "enemies of the an official mission as a member of possible for Jews to go to Israel if morning of June 5, 1967, Israel the Stalin Prize Committee. of 21 years ago. U.S.S.R., agents of American they wish? launched the attack. Within a few Reported as "accidental death," Terrorist attacks on Israel imperialism, bourgeois nationalist These questions constitute an hours the air war was finished. The Zionists and rebels, who sought by his murder ~ained unsolved important litmus test for glasnost escalated in the spring of 1967. At the demand of Egyptian President war was ended in 6 days. Israel's armed rebellion to separate the until aft.er Stalin's death when it - to determine the possibilities of victory resulted in a reunited was revealed that Mikhoels was Nasser, the peacekeeping force of Crimea from the Soviet Union and democratization and humaneness Jerusalem. occupation of the killed by the Soviet secret police the U.N. betw~n Israel and Egypt to establish their own under Gorbachev. Golan Heights, Sinai, the West who ran him down with a truck. was removed. Nasser also imposed nationalist/Zionist republic bank and the Gaza strip. Mikhoel's friend, Peretz a blockade on Israel's southern there." The future is, of course, Markish, dared to intimate his ports, which was contrary to These completely fabricated Patronize unpredictable, but many lessons, charges were cover-ups for their suspicions by challenging the international law. Egyptian, our Syrian, Jordanian, Iraqi, and often contradictory, may be real "crime" in th"e perverted mind official version in a memorial learned from the Six Day War. of Stalin. dirge: advertisers! Saudi Arabian forces were put in a Simply stated, the 24 were guilty "Your dead eyes blaze with anger, and your heart they Trampled on cries out against =====Letters To The Editor===== The murderous crew . .." Markish was to be one of those Dutch Holocaust towns of Roden, Leek, Norg, Pieze Dear Editor: and Assen during the period of The frightful increase in Survivors Sought Occupation. ,., anti-Se!Ditism in Chicago is __ The Royal Canadian Mounted Individuals who can be of counterproductive, bound to Police has asked the World Jewish assistance in this matter are asked boomerang into self-destruction. Congress for help in locating to contact: Ms. Bessy Pupko, ...::=:=:~.. Consider that Jews and Blacks are witnesses to Nazi atrocities in World Jewish Congress, 501 • EDITOR: both targeted by venomous "hat.e" SANDRA Sit.VA Holland during the War. Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. groups; that the combined 10022 (212) 755-5770. strength of both is imperative The Royal Canadian Mounted • ASSOCIATE EDITOR: whereas friction only weakens the Police is investigating Canadian DAVID DeBl.OIS fight against a common foe. It is residents who may have been Witnesses To Nazi • ADVERTISING DIRECTOR: acknowledged that Jews, more involved in war crimes or crimes BRUCE WEISMAN than any other white group, against humanity committed Crimes In Lithuania supplied legal help in rights cases during World War II. Under SQught • ACCOUNT REP.: free of charge; also more financial amendments made to the Criminal The United States Justice MARY FITZPATRICK contributions to Black institutions Code of Canada in 1987, Canadian Department has requested the Courts now have the jurisdiction to Mallrag Address:~'~. RJ. and participation in Freedom assistance of the World Jewish Marches. try in Canada individuals Congress in locating witnesses to PUNT: ~--=,~J.~~~.... , Pawt., R.I. In political battles, Jewish implicated in such crimes where crimes committed against the Jews OFACE; 305 w...,.,_, Awe., Eut ProvldMce support enabled Harold their activities would have been an of the village of Tryskiai (Siauliai RJ. 0291• ' Washington and many other offence if committed in Canada. District). Lithuania in the summer Second Class postage paid at ProYidenoa Blacks to win elections. Black Among the cases currently of 1941. AhOde ISiand. Postmastw tend address changes to the A.I. Hera6d. P.O. Box 6063 Provi- Congressmen acknowledge under investigation is one alleging At the end of July 1941 the local dence. A.I. 02940-6063. ' consistent support from Jewish involvement of local auxiliary Lithuanian police force ofTryskiai ey~J·:::::::,.~~. .~ members on measures benefiting police in the deportation of rounded up all Jewish males and =-:~~-~4~~ Blacks particularly. Shamefully, persons from the Netherlands, shot them in the woods outside the . ICriptions •• oontinuous unless notified 10= the no effective opposition to the including members of the Jewish village in a spot near the river contra-yin writing. vicious diatribes of Rev. L. community. Virvyte. The Jewish women and ~ ":mn~ Farrakhan and the Chicago While the majority of children were then transported to rnents.,~~--=butwllr-s:mtthatl*"tolh-"'-· =: hate-mongers whose vile deportations would have occurred Zagare on the Latvian frontier and accusations resemble the Hitlerian also shot. =·~mneclatetyofs,yerrorwNcn":'~--~~= · in the Netherlands between 1941 Candlellghtlng poison. Sadly, few Black leaders and 1943, a number of persons Other crimes were committed Untolc:it9d rrwucrc,ta: llnlok:llled protest the slander which against Jews in this area in the ~ .. ..ioome. We do not pay tor went into hiding. It is these dehumanizes Jews like Goebbels persons that some members of days preceding the massacre of the ~ -"'~..::..'.'".:c: did. Jesse Jackson has put up no men and deportation of the women ~ erwelOpe If you Wint "' ~ August 12, 1988 local auxiliary police units are retwned. Letters to the editor rep,--a,a,t the real fight against the evil. alleged to have sought, arrested, and children. It is of great 7:32 p.m. Blacks have much to gain by and turned over to the occupying importance that living survivors of ==-~l'Unblrfor-..rtftcation :::n.."°'~. -~~ reviving the cooperation with Jews Nazi forces for detention in Tryskiai be found in support of ~~"::-ttw°'=~ which in the past coped with the West.erbork and eventual current investigations by the Pr... Asaodetlon. and • ~ to Iha terrible handicaps of poverty, deportation. Justice Department relating to ~ ~~~ ard the Jlwiah, disease, illiteracy, homelessness. In pursuit of this investigation, their prosecution of Nazis and l . Why bit.e the hand extended in the Royal Canadian Mounted their collaborators. good faith? America can ill afford Police is looking for witnesses and Individuals who can be of The op1mons presented on pages 4 and 5 are divisive internal warfare; the need seeking the cooperation of persons assistance in this case are asked to is for unity against outside foes of who may have direct knowledge of contact: Ms. Bessy Pupko, World contributed by the authors and do not necessarily democracy, of humanitarianism! such activities or who may have Jewish Congress, 501 Madison reflect the opiniona of this newspaper. S. Norman Gourse lived in the provinces of Drenthe Ave., New York, N.Y. 10022 (212) New York, N.Y. and Groningen, in particular the 755-5770. - THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1988 - 5 Religion Is Not Politics, self-understanding of Jewry a call to convert, as Christians of a years of the State of Israel, we everywhere. True, the State solved certain sort find themselves called speak of our dreams as private Zionism Is Not The Same As some Jewish problems but by Jesus to convert, from one thing persons, or of soul-searching precipitated other ones. But, again to something else. A State is not a between us and the State of Israel, Judaism And "Israel Is All seen in proper perspective, these religion and its task is not to or of the contribution of the State problems, anti-Semitism brought change lives, but to make possible to the individual Jew. Such Of Us" about by Jewish power, rather for people to live out their lives in questions treat the private person than Jewish powerlessness, for any way they want: but to do so Responses To The Maariv as a political animal, and draw ephemeral history of the everyday instance, define indicators of effectively. together both power and Symposium and the here and now, matters take success. And none would rather Politics addresses collectivities by Jacob Neusner conscience within a single on a different appearance. confront the ones that were solved and defines their status. It speaks category. But when we ere - homelessness, pariah-status of peoples and calls some nations, political, we are no longer In its Yorn Kippur edition, Fault-finding, carping, among peoples - than the ones others not. Religion, in the individual. When we search our September 20, 1988, the Israeli complaining - these form the that have come about. Protestant West, speaks to souls, it is not for the daily Hebrew newspaper, Maariv, If I had to identify the State's wherewithal of free speech, and we individuals and claims to change epiphenomena of politics, writ is publishing a special issue, Jews compete for the gold medal in contribution to the individual Jew, the life of private persons. In small and private in our hearts. described in a letter to me from the the Olympics of dissatisfaction. It as distinct from its contribution to invoking such a theological That is not how life works, or Deputy Editor-in-chief, Levy is our trait as Israel, the holy the political and communal life of category as "soul searching," one should work, or can work, within Hayerushalmi, as "a collective people, the people prepared to the Jewish People, however, therefore commits a stunning the human condition as we know it intellectual heshbon hanefesh contend, after all, with the Creator radically matters shift in focus. confusion of categories that do not and want it to be. (soul searching)." He asked three of the world for so little as havmg The question is inappropriate and questions to those he described as mix. We want a political fact to So to answer the question: "Is leeks and onions for our breakfast unanswerable, outside of narrow make its impact upon a private " leading Jewish intellectuals in the State of Israel the state that I, salad. No wonder, then, that circles of state-claques, stale person, the heart and conscience, both Israel and the diaspora, es a Jew, dreamed about?" The Israelis find fault with the propagandists and party hacks. the mind and soul, of the especially the USA, England, and simple fact is that, when I dream, it everyday reality of the State of For Zionism, reaching fulfillment individual. But politics is public, is simply not "as a Jew" et all. And, France." These are the questions Israel, and we of the Golah follow in the creation of the State, never collective, deals in power. That is as a matter of fact, most of what I to which he asked me to reply, and, suit, with our skills at Israel- and centered its attention on the why politics does not work that do, most of the time awake or after them, I give my answer. Israelis-bashing second only to our individual Jew, and that by way and should not work that way; dreaming, and all of my life, is not I. Is Israel, in its fortieth year, capacity for finding fault with the definition. A movement that when it by intent does make its "as a Jew" at all: it is as a human Jewish communities that we have the state that you, as a Jew, defined the Jewish People as a impact upon the individual, we call being striving to know what it dreamed about? formed for ourselves. It is the spice political entity could not concede that politics totalitarianism and means to be me, which is to say, in of Jewish existence, a spice as 2. What is the soul searching that individual Jews formed an flee from it: we Jews above all flee. my person, "Israel." common, indeed, as salt, and we between you and the State, appropriate classification for Politics rightly practiced leaves us Jacob Neusner is University manufacture it every morning. between you and the Jewish discourse, quite the contrary. free to be many other things. The Professor and Ungerleider People, forty years after? In that context we are apt to lose Framing a question to individuals State of Israel is not a religion, that Distinguished Sclw/ar of Judaic is an anti-Zionist initiative; we are speaks to the heart and calls into 3. What has been the State's sight of what really matters, and Studies at Brown University, not individuals from the the depths of the soul, and it does contribution to the individual Jew that is the totally irreversible, and Providence, Rlwde Island. perspective of Zionism. That is not propose to convert people for in the world, and what liabilities utterly complete revolution in the what makes Zionism Zionism: the purposes of salvation. These are has it created for the Jew? existence of the Jewish People, demand that we constitute a things that religions do, but states These are the answers I sent to wherever located, brought about by the creation of the State of public, a political, a shared and do not do. That is why to invoke Maariv: empowered entity. Israel in 1948 end the the metaphor of soul-searching Seen in the perspective of the extraordinary success its people But as individuals, we are many profoundly misunderstands the long history of the Jewish People have achieved in making the State other things too, we live in many meaning and end of statehqod and from 70, the creation of the State work, and work well, despite wars dimensions of existence. Has the nationality. of Israel in 1948 dominates the and disappointments, since that State of Israel made much Accordingly, the premise (such scene, the definitive fact that time. We Jews simply ere not now difference in what I eat for as the questions at hand propose) redefines everything that what we were before 1948, and if, breakfast? No, why should it? Has of an individual dimension to happened from 70 to 1948 and that God forbid, the State of Israel were it affected my personal goals for Zionism, a movement that has taken place since that time. to be dismantled, 1948 would still my life and career? Not really, how concerns the empowerment of the Those two dates, 70 and 1948, mark a turning in a journ~y on a can it have done so? Only insofar Jewish People to form a Jewish mark an ending and a beginning, path never to be retraced, toward a as it has defined the conditions in State, fails. The reason is that specifically, to one definitive fact goal never to be given up. The which I, among millions, make my categories are grossly confused of Jewish existence: the Jews as a destiny is limned by the individual decisions and live out when we ask people to respond to political entity, located in the one conception that the Jews form a ' my personal life, which is to say, politics in a religious way, when in place in which Jews wish to people, one people, that for everyone equally yes, but for the context of celebrstine fortv constitute a political entity: the any particular person in some one constitutes in particular a political people of Israel in the Land of entity, not merely a clan of families place and at some one time, hardly Israel constituting the State of ever. How could it have been or like-minded individuals. That Israel. To me that view of matters otherwise? 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L ~~~M~~~CK-°" 6 - THE KHOU~ J:;LANIJ H~KALIJ, 'J'HU~IJAY, AUl.iU::iT 11, HI~~ Have an opinion? Express it in a letter to the editor. [__ s_o_c_ia_I_E_ve_n_t_s ______] home: (508) 532-6068 office: (508) 532-1293 Mr. And Mrs. Eric Twelfth Generation Michele Alcheh Weds Rubin Announce Birth Arrives David Ruttenberg Cantor Sam Pessaroff Mr. and Mrs. Richard Grossack Mark and Heidi Loomis joyfully Michele Lee Alcheh of (Jori Ceder) of Brookline, Mass. announce the birth of their first Brooklyn, N.Y., the daughter of * Certified Mohel are pleased to announce the birth son, Matthew Cass, on July 28, David and Rae Alcheh of Bronx, of their first child, a son, Samuel 1988. The proud grandparents are N.Y., was joined in marriage to Joseph on July 18, 1988. Mr. and Mrs. Neville Wi nkler of David Harold Ruttenberg of Trained at Bikur Cholim Hospital, Jerusalem Maternal grandparents are Mr. Providence, and Mr. and Mrs. Brooklyn, N.Y., the son of Bruce and Mrs. Harold Ceder of Albert Loomis of Tampa, Florida. and Barbara Ruttenberg of Chestnut Hill, Mass. and Dr. and Maternal great.grandmother is Providence. Mrs. Martin Grossack of Hull, Elizabeth Castellucci. The ceremony took place at the Mass. Lincoln Park Jewish Center in ,Jori is the granddaughter of the Carol And Yonkers, N.Y. on July 31, 1988. A late Samuel and Pearl Berkowitz Dr. Stephen Shore reception followed at the Center. of Providence. Linda Alcheh, sisterofthe bride, Announce Birth was maid of honor. Bridesmaids Mr. And Mrs. Richard were Beth Ruttenberg and Grossack Announce Carol and Dr. Stephen Shore of Jennifer Ruttenberg, sisters of the Providence joyfully announce the groom; Melissa Shapiro, Linda Birth birth of their second ch ild, a Rosenthal, Juanita Lane, Gail Zweig, and Erica Weiss. The Mr. and Mrs. Eric Rubin of 75 daughter, Mira Bette Swartz groom's brother-in-law, Leon Urquhart St., Cranston announce Shore, on Saturday, May 28, 1988. Fortin, served as best man. Ushers the birth of thei r second daughter, Sister to Elon Michael. we re Robert Lieberman, Arthur Jillian, on ,July 2. Maternal Maternal grandparents are Herman, William Garner, Gary· grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. H. Charles and Esther Swartz of East Blaustein, Glen Ladau, David Howayeck. Paternal grandparents Providence, R.I. Paternal Gilad, and Alex Tai. are Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rubin. grandparents are Leon and The bride, a graduate of the Great-grandparents are Lillian Bernice Shore of Glenside, Pa. University of Pennsylvania, is Gladstone and Mr. and Mrs. Alex Paternal great·grandmother is employed as a Marketing Research Rubin. Dora Shore of Philadelphia, Pa. Analyst at Chudnoff and Beacham, Inc. in New York City. Fran Weisman Honored The groom also graduated from the NOW OPEN University of Pennsylvania, and CHICAGO - Fran Weisman of States and Israel attended wi ll be entering New York on the East Side of Providence, Western New England Region, Hadassah's 74th National Co n University Law School in Kent County Chapter has been vention (July 31 -August 3) at the September of this year. He is named a winner of the 1988 Hyatt Regency Chicago. With cu rrently employed as a paralegal Hadassah National Leadership 385,000 members in 1,500 chapters in the law firm of Cahill, Gordon, EAST FARMS Award, Hadassah National ac ross the nation, Hadassah, the and Rei ndel of New York City. located at 145 ELMCROVE AVENUE President Ruth W. Popkin Women's Zionist Organization of After a wedding trip to Greece, ann ounced at the organization's America, is the largest Jewish the couple will reside in New York. in the ELMCROVE PLAZA 74th annual convention here. women's volu nteer group in the Mrs. Weisman has U.S. and the largest Zionist Sidney Shapiro featuring a wide variety of produce along with demonstrated the commitment, organization in the world. fruit baskets, flowers, plants and much more. compassion and dedicated The delegates were expected to Honored Delivery service available to all areas. leadership exemplified by the life take action on a range of issues On Sunday, August 7, 1988 the and work of Henrietta Szold, influencing the role of American Jewish Committee for Scouting of Hadassah's founder," Mrs. Popkin .Jewish women in the worl d Zionist the Narragansett Council Bo! Call 331-7458 said in making the announcement. movement and in Jewish Scouts of America dedicated a " It is a privilege to honor Mrs. communal life. plaque in memory of the late Sid for more information Weisman with the Hadassah ney Shapiro. The dedication took National Leadership Award for In Israel, Hadassah established place at the Jewish Chapel at her service to her people, her and maintains an extensive Camp Yawgoog, the Boy Scout res community and Hadassah." network of projects in health care, ervation in Rockville, R.I. at 10 The award was created to honor ca reer education and counselling, a. m. Rabbi Jagolinzer of Temple Hadassah women ac ross the youth we lfa re and land Shalom, Middletown, R.I. offi ci MARTY'S country who are leaders in their reclamation and development. ated at the dedication, to which KOSHER MEAT MARKET chapters, play a significant role in Here in the U.S., Hadassah friends and associates of Sidney developing leadership at the local provides programs in Jewish Shapiro's, as well as friends of education, personal and leadership 467-8903 88• 2 Rolfe St .. Cranston level and are active in Jewish life in scouting attended. their communities. development, Zionist and American affairs and Zion ist youth Sidney Shapiro had served the Koshered Meats For You More than 2,500 delegates and scouting program for over 25 years, . activities. guests from throughout the United beginning as Troop Committee Sizzling Summertime Specials Chairman of Troop 66, Garden World Famous Stage Deli City, Cranston. For the past ~Franks 12oz.pkg. $1.69 per pk_g. decade he was very active in the Comes To Boston Jewish Committee for Scouting, [~ Barbecued Turkeys $1.45 lb. The world famous Stage after you at the Stage is the and his efforts were very Delicatessen and Restaurant, a ultimate honor the city can bestow instrumental in the necessary fund ® Cornish Hens 3 pounders! $1.49 lb. New York landmark for over half a - and it's one that high-profile raising to build the new Jewish f%) Turkey Breast century, is coming to Boston. ·Bostonians will soon be coveting. Chapel at Camp Yawgoog five $1.95 lb. Starting in August. hungry Bill Cosby, Frank Sinatra, years ago. Boston-area diners will be able to Barbara Streisand and Robin See Marty For Many More Specials! feast on the world's best corned Williams have each been beef sandwich, Celebrity Club immortalized at the Stage in Man of La Mancha Combos and over a hundred more heaping portions of corned beef, Wang deli masterpieces served with the pastrami, liverwurst, salami, beef At show business flair that has made tongue and sliced turkey slathered Hal Linden will star in the dual the original Stage Deli a New York with mustard, mayonnaise, and role of Don Quixote, the institution. Russian dressing. fantastical knight errant, and his The essentials of the Stage's The Stage will serve breakfast, creator, the beleaguered 17th menu will be trucked in daily from lunch, and dinner, as well as Century Spanish novelist New York, so that Boston diners offering late night service for Cervantes, when Man of La can nosh on the same rye breads, after-hours patrons with a passion Mancha opens Tuesday, August 16 cheesecake, corned beef, pastrami for noshing Stage-style. In the through Sunday, August 21 fo r and other delicacies that are served morning, start off with Cheese eight performances at the Wang at "the corned beef crossroads of Blintzes and Potato Pancakes, or a Center, 270 Tremont St., Boston. the nation," the original Stage in fi sh platter with Nova Scotia The book of Man af La Mancha Manhattan at 7th Avenue and Salmon, Sturgeon, Whitefish or was adapted by Dale Wasserman West 54th Street. The Stage in Lox. As the sun rises higher in the from Cervante's immortal classic, 800 RESERVOIR AVE. , CRANSTON, R.I., 944-8180/944-7171 Boston will be a full service sky - or well after it's gone down non Quixote. Designer Dee delicatessen and restaurant - move on to the Stage's Doucette's scenery shifts from Weekend Special Fri.-Sat.-Sun. offering take-out service and homemade chicken soup (with Ce rvante's murky dungeon to the catering from its two-floor location matzoh balls or freshly made various sites of Qui xote's mad and in the new Quality Inn hotel (the kreplach), salads, burgers and mirthful escapades. Ted Forlow is CHOCOLATE "Q"), in the heart of the Theatre chicken, and, of course, the over 60 the production's director. 60 District, It represents the Stage's deli sandwiches. Performances are Tuesday ECLAIRS ¢ each first expansion on the East Coast. The Stage will be open seven through Saturday evenings at 8 At center stage in the menu will days a week, 365 days a year, p.m.; Sunday evening at 7:30 p.m. be the Celebrity Club Combos, a serving breakfast, lunch and Matinees are Saturday and Regularly 75¢ each ga laxy of 30 overstuffed deli dinner. Sunday through Thursday Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets $17.50 to sandwiches named after 6:30 a.m. until midnight, Friday $32.50. For group sales, call (617) prominent local end national and Saturday until 3 a.m. Private 426-6444 . For tickets and AS ALWAYS, INGREDIENTS ARE STRICTLY KOSHER celebrities. In New York, it's said function facilities, catering and information, ca ll Ticketmaster at that having a sandwich named delivery will be available. (617) 787-8000. THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1988 - 7 From Our Readers ------Portraits In The Midsummer Sands------by Michael Fink cottage had· no storm or screen petunias in sunny seasons. A bed shrieked and backed into the given me by a neighbor moving III. uMelissa" And ._ Maudie" unit. It opened wide straightway to of azaleas bloomed at the edge of house. Within the next few years away, I found a poem about my Graduation from college is for let you in. In winter Maudie served the sidewalk. This jewel of a she dove ever deeper into her own mother. Once I belled the cat. I some of us the stressful leaving off tea to me and anyone with me at dwelling held beneath the street space. She yanked the bushes and dared to speak, ever so casually of dreams of hope and glory and the moment. In summer we might floor s handsomely finished fl owers that had been her dad's and gently. the taking up again of homely take a pilsner glass of beer within basement with an elegant pride, up from the dark dank earth I asked her to do some typing for scenes of childhood. I moved into the small screened-in back porch fireplace. Not a cellar but a to the cruel dry light to rot and me. To my mild astonishment and my parents' home amid neighbors off the kitchen that gave onto a deepsunk parlor. Talented and shrivel. She also shaved off her great delight, she agreed and told of about my age who had also come neat postage stamp size lawn. successful in school, Melissa had own hair. The car she backed out me to leave the material in her back - against the motto of After awhile she was willing to always projected an eerie edge of from the built-in garage to sink mailslot. In a day I found the Thomas Wolfe to our stroll around the block with me. hysteria. When I first used to read slowly on flat tires and to rust superbly rendered pages in my own pretty-plain little bungalows ·all Then up the hill to the the tales of Truman Capote, his upon the exposed driveway. She vestibule. But her trust in me was put up in the time-stopped neighborhood Hope Cinema. Or haunted girls recalled for me the ripped down the curtains from the unstable and short-lived. I mid-thirties. Our defeats maybe down the hill to the pub on image of Melissa. After a brief picture window and shouted committed a grave mistake of intensified the street, like a North Main for a glass of early marria~e. Melissa fl~w back threats of putting fire to the judgment and tact. Of feeling, too, magnifying glass concentrating on something and a cigarette. to roost in the coop but 1t was a wooden structure. She terrified on my part, I am aware. I dared to a poor trapped ant on the sidewalk. Her mother's kitchen was restless perch. neighbors who in turn terrified walk up her front path of weeds to It seemed to me that my bosses comfortably cluttered. After her Shortly after I became aware her. knock on the dilapidated found me unsuitable. Cousins in death, the house interior was that she was again amongst us in Paint peeled from the front forbidding front door that looked Canada dropped me like a poor repainted a rather severe our curiously shrunken realm, now door. A once sparkling domain like an etching by Edvard Munch. relation. Graduate student guys statement of all white. If Maudie the center of a diminishing that looked like Melissa the child I wanted to announce the birth of and gals found me unscholarly. My had to sneeze it would come out universe, her parents passed away, now looked like Melissa the angry our daughter, I thought she should brothers married and moved apart, semi-suppressed and muffled We or so I thought. Rumors on the and anguished adult. Things went know from me. I told myself it was both heart and hearth. Fancy had a grand, reassuring and sleepy street i,,,rsisted insistently from dire to dreadful. She a courtesy not a brag. The gesture far-off friendships faded. So restorative friendship. She made that her mother lived ferally in the pretended she was blind and proved to be a reckless and neighbors next door mattered the simplest of evenings charming attic. It turned out that she lived staggered slowly around the block. misguided misadventure. more than anything. This oval and outside of time. She reigned nearby at a nursing home where Half-dressed in winter, In return and revenge, she sent street that wrapped around itself over them like a sturdy young she sojourned for a season or so overdressed in summer. From time off to me a special delivery letter - had been constructed on the Queen Elizabeth, to whom she until she passed away. Soon to time she would be spotted one house away. She instructed me principle that one does not drive bore a slight resemblance. Maudie thereafter upon the death of her walking regally, looking neither to in that precise typing never to away from the round block, but was a few years older than I and dad, Melissa came into full right nor left, bearing a backpack, communicate with her again. All in accepts its circular shape. You projected sense and sensibility. possession of the house, and to sleep in the cemetery at the base caps, underlined, and typed over walk around it, or bike or skate or Uphill on my other side lived proceeded to punish it for having of our hill. She permitted no itself just askew enough to vibrate sled - or visit. Melissa, whose style was the kept her lodged and locked within person to address her. Everyone with electrifying intensity. YOU I sing of two young women home reverse of Maudie's low-key its preBSures. She wrought revenge violated her private self. Yet, HA VE YOUR WIFE AND after college. Maudie lived across appeal. Melissa was a few years against whatever reign of error she having exposed everything in and CHILD, I HAVE MY PRIVACY. the way, a small, straightforward younger than I and seemed still had found oppressive within her out of her house, as well as her own LEAVE ME ALONE. Her wrath figure with short dark hair, like the pretty but rather strange inescapable girlhood. person, she would sit on her stoop flashed as briefly as her trust, and hornrimmed spectacles, a simple enchanted child figure she had One prophetic day she hauled all nearly naked all day long. Despite · her human interest in my wife and wardrobe of jeans and comfortable been before the college years. She the furniture outdoors and just left the display, she was in fact never daughter - who were not in the sweaters. She was going through a also lived with her dad in the nicest it on the front lawn to receive the quite totally withdrawn. She wrote least distressed by her - mended postgrad spell of agoraphobia. She place on our way. Faced with rain and then the baking sun. us all poetic messages, lavishly, and healed our spasm of a rift. welcomed my social calls; I was an fieldstone, a picture window with People stopped their cars to ask if neatly and childishly illustrated, or If some neighbors were put off, emissary from beyond her tight bright blue shutters carried a this were a yard sale. Melissa did with cut-out decorations pasted others were drawn in. Meli888 waa ken. The front door of her dad's windowbox bearing cheerful not take the attention kindly. She together. Some were hallmark type a fiercely noble spirit among us. In rhymes she composed for the our house we felt competitive with occasion of some minor holiday any contenders for her J)088ible ------A Country Parable----- like Arbor Day or Father's Day. confidence. Our concern waa Other letters were eloquent genuine, but touched with wild money. Imay losemycrops. I may By David Jaffe pression, buys their farm machin eulogies in the event of a sensation. I ventured a phone call lose all ties with this godforsaken Nick Rogers is a farmer, a ery at the Washington Tractor Co. neighborhood death - perceptive to Maudie, who had become a small farmer ...not diminutive, and gets whatever crop aids they community. But I will not lose portraits revealing the point of psychiatric social worker. What faith. To niy last breath, not mind you, simply not big-time, big need at the Washington Farmer's I will views from her gaping picture could we do to help her? She business. Nickdoesn'townagreat Market. There's nowhere else to 1-0se faith." window, from which over time she answered: nothing. Chocolate ban deal of land; he's the first to ac go unless you aim to drive across And the "war" goes on. As it had witnessed our lives. Another wrecked her teeth, and mottled her knowledge he's small potatoes. ("I two counties. I take great pride in has for a decade. Not in some group of notes were intimate but complexion. Her stride turned yam what I yam," he offers with a providing this service to my fellow rural backwater of the good, ol' garbled confessions of her own staccato and puppetlike. After a sly grin.) farmers. AB pompous as it might U.S. of A., as I may have led you to life's frustrations and unrealistic long spell of enduring within her Nick is an independent sort, sound,lknowwhat's goodforthese believe, but in a place vastly dreams. With a thud that sounded walls, she was convinced by caring hardly one for convention. He folks. removed from our comfortable easy both violent and infantile, she cousins to sell her house-prison strongly believes in his way of life, "Now, it's a certified fact that chairs and our cozy concerns. For might throw an oddball gift at your and enter a hospital. Later she the way ofthe land, and he resents Rogers doesn't give a rat's heinie, you see, the story ofNick Rogers is front door. In fact, she joined a group home. and resists his neighbors nosing 'scuse my language, for our way of the story of Nicaragua. And the gift-wrapped the garbage for the Presently, she can be sighted, into his business, which they're doing things. Folks have been moral (one of many, actually) of trash collectors. like Garbo, among our streets or generally apt to do. He knows he's farming the same way in this this little parable, my children, is I set myselfup as her biographer. along the banks of the relocating not the most popular fellow in the county for who knows how many that tending to another's business I would collect the papers sent to river, or at the market, calmed by county (though he's probably the years. Who the t,eck is Nick Ro is often at the expense of one's other neighbors, embarrassed by appropriate drugs. Her disturbed most notorious'), and, to be 100% gers to claim the old ways're no own. Or, in the words ofHarold E. her weird generosity of hand and demeanor has been allayed and honest, he admits he doesn't "give longer good enough? Him and his Stassen, "Whoever kindles the heart. I guarded and treasured touched with a quiet dignity. She a damn." "alternative farming." The man flames of intolerance in America those meant for me, which might will ask after us and our neighbors. He says, "I don't aim to be acts so damned high and mighty; I is lighting a fire underneath his 'in reality be· misaddressed to She is a living Greek statue of King of the County. Folks can get sick just thinking about him. own home." Think about it. That's someone else in her frenzy of intelligence and doom. think what they will. I just want "I'll give you another example. all I ElBk. communication. Among papers (continued on page 15) to be left alone to grow the crops I The man pays his help twice what want to grow the way I want to I pay mine. He treats them like grow them, to sell them at the equals, for godaakes! Soon as my market for a fair price, and to keep workers catch wind of that, they on like I am, farming the land my start demanding the same kinda daddy owned, and his daddy be privileges. Nick Rogers is costing fore him, and his daddy before me money. I gotta either keep up KNOW SOMEONE him. ..I love this land. I love the with the SOB or lose some of my feel of the soil running through my best men. I'd swear he does it just fingers, the rich, musky smell ofit to spite me. Well, I don't plan to sit GETTING MARRIED? after a summer rain. There's still while that poor-white-trash nothing quite like it ." excuse for a farmer brings this Nick Rogers, whether he will county to ruin. He's gotta be TELL US TIIEIR NAME AND ADDRESS admit it or not, is in serious trouble. stopped." AND WE'LL SEND TIIEM A ONE YEAR One of his neighbors to the north, To that end, Cap Washington COMPLIMENfARY SUBSCRIPflON one might say the neighbor to the apparently has been using his con TO TIIE HERALD north, is trying to shut him down. siderable influence to put the From a distance, it all seems rather squeeze on Nick Rogers. Nick silly (though certainly it is quite reports that, oflate, his land has the opposite). The biggest land been raided, his crops have been r------, owner around claiming to be damaged, he has had great diffi : Couple's Name ______threatened by a small-timer like culty selling his harvest , and he I Address ______Nick Rogers. What exactly is this has been physically threatened guy afraid of? and abused. Hesuspectsthatsome I Zlp--- WeddlnJ!Dnt.e ______"Nick Rogers isn't just some of his own men were bought off by 1 I eccentric nuisance to be laughed Washington to act as saboteurs. I Your Na me ______at and ignored," says Cap Wash Though certainly hurt by this I Address ______ington. "The man represents a undeclared war, Nick is not one to ______Zip ____ threat to our way oflife. Let me give in or give up. I ~ give you an example. Most of us "I have every right to live my I around here use pretty much the life and farm my land my way," he same technology, the same farm says. 11o11 don't need anyone's ap ing methods, the same kinda pes proval. I don't need anyone's self ~:1; Herald ticides and all that . We use what interested, self-righteous interfer works, and what's worked for a ence. We weren't all put on this considerabletime. Everyone who's planet to follow in the footsteps of anyone, if you11 pardon the ex- Cap Washington. I may lose ~ I r Around Town Twinning, Then Together by Dorothea Snyder The speech Heather Posner delivered at her Bat Mitzvah was dedicated to her Soviet twin, Yulia Volynskaya. As proud family and friends looked on, Heather wondered if Yulia knew about the twinning taking place that day, October 17, 1987, at Temple Israel of J amaica in Queens, New York. Three letters written to Yulia in the months before her Bat Mitzvah brought no reply. The school year ending, Heather looked forward to summer at Camp Jori. T he first day in Point Judith on June 28th, she scanned her cabin's roster of bunkmates and noticed a striking similarity to her Bat Mitzvah twin's name . .. Julill Volinsky. Julia Volinsky never came to camp that day. Heather learned that Julia had switched sessions at camp and would be Photos by coming on J uly 26th. Dorothea Recalling her rabbi's translation of Yulia's name in English, Heather asked a Snyder Russian girl in her cabin if the names could be the same. "I didn't make the connection until the second or third week into camp," she says. "I had a feeling it was Yulia." Heather wanted to write her. Jori's camp director, Marshall Gerstenblatt, gave Heather Julia Volinsky's address. The day Julia received Heather's letter, she answered immediately. Yes, she was indeed Yulia Volynskaya. She had left Moscow in J une, 1987, for Austria. "That is why I never wrote to Heather," J ulia says. "After Austria, we went to Italy, and then to America. We came to Providence the end of last August. " I didn't know I was a twin at Heather's Bat Mitzvah. Until I got her letter in July, I didn't know Heather was here. I was so surprised she found me, t hat she was in the same camp, in the same bunk, and from It was a longshot that Heather Posne r, at left, would have had the incredible New York. I wrote Heather back, and we cha nce to present this Certificate of Twin ning to J ulia Volinsk y. got to know each other through those letters." Heather bubbles, reliving · that exuberance she felt the day Julia's letter ~flZTIFl0TE arrived. " I was really excited. I was people who do care, and who do watch out ~ ; -h .u1nn1n0 screaming. Everybody in my cabin was so for their brothers and sisters." Nat 1t..-., U1 f 1....-011r(·r.:'11t."<011 S."'·1c t .Jcw,~y happy. Oh wow, we couldn't believe it. My Julia smiles. "There are people in mom was so happy. My grandparents were Russia who can't gel out. It's really nice 80 happy, they were crying. My family fo r them to know that, in America, there is members think it's so unbelievable! support for them." -. In the two weeks Heather and J ulia have "At my Bat Mitzvah, I was given two been in camp, they've discovered several Bat Mitzvah certificates, one for Julia and things they have in common. one for me. My mother mailed me Julia's They both have no siblings, like soccer, Bat Mitzvah certificate 80 I could give it to enjoy water polo, and tennis. "We're the her." only two in our cabin who will play Heather didn't have her Bat Mitzvah tennis," they say, happy about t heir time speech on hand, though she thought it a on the Jori courts. good idea to have it sent to her. "The When camp ends on August 21st, Torah portion I read had to do with Cain Heather turns 14. "Everyone leaves camp and Abel, and your brother's keeper. at 10 on the last day of camp, 80 there isn't Basically, I spoke of how we are our much time to celebrate. ..." brother's keeper. But it's good to know Julia will be there "Twinning shows our support, and on her birthday morning, and after camp, Soviet Jewry will find out that there are Heather's letters won't go unanswered. Close-up of The Certificate of Twinning. T he Olympics are on a t Camp Jori, and Heather a nd Julia, clasping a soccer Taking their t u r ns as waitresses, Julia and Heather prepare to set tables in t he ball, stand with their blue team. camp mess hall. ------.. T HE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST II, 1988 - 9 kind of industry, at every level ex and long-standing asp,;ct of corpo cluding the top, where social fac rate life, raises a number of trou tors play a more significant role. bling new issues, and offers much ( Business and Finance ] Corporate employers recruit, select data and analysis showing why the and promote executives who can situation continues despite the move along the insider track, and tremendous gains made by J ews in discriminate against those who are the post World War II business believed or perceived to be too dif world. The Political Conundrum The Outsiders: ferent to be socially acceptable at About t/u, Author: Abraham top levels. Korman i,, t/u, Wollman Di,,tin by Robert Fain And, Korman asserts, because gui,,/u,d Professor of Management Investors and professional cies resulted in only ONE winning Jews And Jews identify with other outsider at Baruch College, City University year (Reagan in '85). advisors have focused on the groups, they have actively pro of N ew York. He has consulted for national political conventions at ·The eight Democratic first Corporate moted or accepted affirmative ac such Fortune 500 companies as hand and the elections which years resulted in FIVE winning tion ·programs for all minorities, Beatrice Foods, t/u, Fairchild Cor experiences for investors. follow in November. At stake, of America despite the possibility that theae poration, IBM, American Airlines, course, is the job of "Chief •[n terms of magnitude, even the programs may limit Jewish em A mstar , Lever Brot/u,rs, RCA, and Executive Officer" of the land and one winning Republican year In industries ranging from oil to ployment in certain fields. T ribune Puhli,,hing. key political and economic advisor ( + 26% ) pales when compared to chemicals, foods, public utilities Using extensive documentation THE OUTS IDERS: Jews and fo r the free world. . .. Quite a task! FDR's + 48% in 1933; Truman and commercial banking, there are from the literature as well as his Corporate America by Abraham K. Investors are confused, also equaled the Reagan winning disproportionately few Jews in se own original research, Korman Korman. Publication date: year in 1949! particularly those where the nior management positions rela shows how the insider-outsider hy September 1988, 224 pages, $35.00, description "institutional" does Are Democratic presidents as tive to their representation in the pothesis illuminates patterns in cloth ISBN 0-669-09987-2. not apply. October 1987 did them bad fo r the stock market as the college-educated labor pool. Yet, the corporate world and the Jewish public perceives? Obviously, the in. Violent swings in 1988 have they are found in the same indus community which indicate that Let the community know done little to cure their fears. And, answer is a resounding no! Also, tries, often the same companies, as there are still occupational oppor to make matters worse, "inflation" there are other persuasive professional staff and even as con tunities closed to Jewish Ameri about your organization's is on the lips of every TV and economic facts that reinforce this sultants! T he relationship between cans. Korman has provided an im functions. Announce them "good news." newspaper market watcher. The American Jews and corporate portant new look at a problematic in the Herald. terrible inflation of the ?O's is too ·The two largest increases in America is marked by a notable ab recent to have been forgotten. common stock dividend payouts sence of Jews from the boardrooms However, the politics of a occurred during Democratic terms: of the large, economically and so national election contribute to the + 51% for T ruman, and + 52% cially powerful industries which in overall equation known as fo r ,Jimmy Carter. fluence and lead the American "investor sentiment." Most ·The average common stock business community. investors have well entrenched dividend gain during all In this hard-hitting study, Abra opinions about presidents and Republican terms came to ham Korman examines this phe ~ political parties. Republicans are + 17. 7%. For Democrats the nomenon and its historical, insti good for the market and average gain was more than double tutional and social causes. He Democrats are bad. Right? at +38.7%. spotlights behaviors, attitudes and •For the stock market as a whole, Brier Brier With that view and early polls & practices by both J ews and non the only net losing term in office giving Governor Dukakis a sizable Jews which account for the low INSU RA NCF l' l·NSIO N S INVFSTM FN f~ lead, along wi th last October and was Republican (Nixon/ Ford ) numbers of Jewish senior corpo other confusions, it is little wonder which registered a loss of 9.0% in rate executives. that the average investor is theS& P 500. Korman argues that Jews and rushing to cash equivalents and Thus, the public view is in error non-J ews both believe that Jews avoiding any and all stock market when compared with reco'rded fact. are outsiders in American society risk. " Why take any risk . ... with Much of the public perception is and the American workplace, and a Democrat as president things likely related to hyperbole rather they behave accordingly. Many will be terrible." than to reality. As one sage Jews, for example, make career and Milton r. Brier Jeffrey G. Brier However, history reveals a much observer noted, "The GOP have occupational choices that will al different story. A review of market their looney right and the Dem's low them to control their work life, have their looney left. Each party direct ion dating back to Herbert such as entrepreneurship and the 89 Ship Street, Providence , Rhode Isla nd 02903 401-274-5000 Hoover shows the following for the has some extreme lefts and professions. 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JO - THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11 , 1988 Zeffirelli Denies 'Jewish Cuttural Scum' Slur ROME (JTA) - Italian director Christian Anti-Defamation [_w_o_rl_d_a_n_d_N_a_t_io_n_a_I _N_e_w_s__ } Franco Zeffirelli has denied using League." t he term "Jewish cultural scum" to Zeffirelli said he had been com describe the producers of Martin menting on the attacks, many with Scorsese's film "The Last Tempta anti-Semitic overtones, by this and Maccabeans And Olympians tion of Christ," but reiterated his other fundamentalist groups in the criticism of Lew Wasserman, United States. When over 11 ,000 of the world's the hammer isn't just an Olympic Mondschein, who coached chairman of MCA, the entertain greatest athletes converge on goal for Ken; it's something he Israel's Olympic track squad in ment conglomerate whose Univer Nonetheless, he said, he judged Seoul, South Korea this loves to do." 1952, says it's "a great honor" to sal Pictures subsidiary is produc Wasserman to be "a merchant on September for the 24th Olympiad, It's no coincidence that Bob coach in the Olympics, as was ing the film. the lookout for dollars, and not, it won't be the first international Berland, 26, and Steve Cohen, 32 being part of the Maccabiah In a statement by Zeffirelli, pub certainly, of quality films that re competition for most of the are both from Illinois. They've Games. "My Jewishness and the lished last Wednesday in the Ital spect precise universal values." American participants. Several known each other since they were Maccabiah movement are a big ian media, announcing his inten Zeffirelli's statement continued: saw Olympic action four years ago children and have trained together piece of my life," he says. " My tion to withdraw his own film from "As opposed lo Scorsese and in Los Angeles ... many took part to make the Olympic team. "My Jewishness shows and I like it to t he Venice Film Festival to protest Wasserman, I did not intend in any in the Pan American Games just brother and I taught him judo at show." the inclusion of Scorsese's, Zef way lo manipulate in an improper last year in Indianapolis ... and a the JCC," says Cohen, who won Mondschein says one of his firelli was quoted as saying "Temp way the Jewish world and culture" select few others have been a part gold medals in his weight class at proudest moments was watching a tation" was the work of "that Jew in making "Jesus of Nazareth." both the 1973 and 1977 Maccabiah of the third largest international member of the Maccabiah track "I ask Lew Wasserman, with Games. The experience was a ish cultural scum in Los Angeles" competition the World learn he was coaching in 1981 win who wanted lo strike a blow at the irony: What would he say if one Maccabiah Games held every four special one for Cohen. "It was my the decathlon - not only was it a Christian world. day an Italian decided lo make a years in Israel. first time lo Israel and it was really member of his team, it was also his In a new statement published film about Abraham sodomizing To date, eight U.S. Maccabiah a great thrill for me." Berland won son. " My wife was there with us last Thursday in t he newspaper Isaac?" athletes and two coaches will be both individual and team gold and we were all very proud," he Corriere Della Sera, Zeffirelli reit part of the U.S. delegation to the medals at the 1981 Maccabiah. says. "It was a big thrill." Zeffirelli's original statement erated his sharp criticism of 1988 Summer Olympics, which run Friedberg, 28, who has been Len Roitman is keeping his was quoted extensively in several Wasserman but denied having used from September I ?-October 2. The fencing for 15 years, earned an cleats off, as a coach for this main Italian newspapers and on the crude phrases. U.S., which is one of 161 countries individual silver and a team gold summer's Olympics, but it's a the state-run television news. "I could never use the term 'Jew represented in the Olympiad, will medal at sabre during the 1981 position he's not necessarily used Corriere Della Sera and another Maccabiah. Hit's a dream come ish scum.' I have always been a leading newspaper, La Stamps, ran send a delegation of about 650 to. Besides competing in the '77, friend of the Jews. When I made athletes to Seoul. true," Friedberg says of making '81 and '85 Maccabiah Games, a story on the statement but omit (the television movie) 'Jesus of The Maccabiah athletes will be the team. "I look forward to going Roitman was a player/coach for ted the anti-Semitic reference. Nazareth,' I requested the presence competing in a wide range of to Seoul as an American and a the 1983 and 1987 Pan American and counsel of three rabbis." Wire service reports published in sports: Robert Berland (Chicago, Jewish-American." Maccabi team. Since 1986, Zeffirelli added that "it wasn't I American newspapers last IL) and Steve Cohen (Wheeling, Making the Olympic team is Roitman has been an assistant who defined Wasserman in this Wednesday, including The New nothing new for Elaine Cheris. She IL) - Judo; Elaine Cheris (Denver, coach for the U.S. National, Pan way. That label was already given York Times, also omitted the CO) and Paul Friedberg earned a spot on the 1980 U.S. American and Olympic teams. him by an organization called "Jewish cultural scum" statement. (Riverdale, NY) -. Fencing; Ken Olympic team, but the boycott The other Maccabean thus far Chertow (Huntington, WV) and kept her and her teammates home. chosen for the U.S. Olympic learn Andy Seras (Albany, NY) Cheris then competed in the 1981 is a familiar name - tennis star Falwell Declares War On Temptation Wrestling; Ken Flax (Los Gatos, Maccabiah Games and won an Brad Gilbert. Since winning a CA) · Track & Field; and Brad individual silver and team gold silver medal at the 1981 by David Friedman very devastating to the Gilbert (Oakland, CA) - Tennis. medal at foil, one of the three Maccabiah Games, Gilbert has WASHINGTON (JTA) - The relationships that exist between Irv Mondschein (Havertown, PA) fencing weapons. At 42, Cheris will joined the world's tennis elite. The Rev. Jerry Falwell declared "war" Christians and Jews." will coach the U.S. track team's be one of the older Olympians on 26-year-old Gilbert has won 11 recently on the Martin Scorsese 'Nuts Who Are Out There' decathletes for the Games; and the U.S. learn. singles titles in his career and is film, The Last Temptation of He said that he and others have Leo Roitman (Brooklyn, NY), who Ken Chertow, on the other hand, currently ranked 10th in the world. Christ, while denouncing groups spent a "long time building has competed in the last three at 21 will be one of the younger The World Maccabiah Games, t hat have been using opposition to bridges" betwen Jews and Maccabiah Garnes for the U.S., members on the team. The which are held every four years in the film to fan anti-Semitism. Christians. will be a coach for the American 125-pound grappler has had the year immediately following an "I'll certainly speak out and But, Falwell added, "there is no soccer team. tremendous success on the Olympic year, pit Jewish athletes decry every statement or action way lo suppress or control the nuts Flax, who is America's lop wrestling mat over the past few from all over the , world in that in any way fans who are out t here." Olympic hopeful in the hammer years. His successes include an competition similar to that of the anti-Semitism," Falwell said at a Falwell read part of a letter of throw, was a member of the U.S. incredible performance at the 1985 Olympics. More than 4,000 news conference at the National support to his opposition to the team for the 12th Maccabiah Maccabiah Games, in which world-class athletes from 38 Press Club. " Any decent Christian film from Rabbi Y echiel Eckstein Games in 1985. Mondschein Chertow took the gold in both the countries will compete in 30 should do that, any decent of Chicago, head of the Holy Land coached the U.S. Maccabiah track Greco-Roman and freestyle sports, ranging from basketball to American should do t hat." Fellowship of Christians and Jews. learn in 1981, and speaks very divisions. The Peon State senior badminton, in Israel from July Falwell was responding lo "A production of any kind that highly of Ken's ability and was also an Olympic Festival 3-13, 1989. questions about fundamentalist blasphemes Christianity, profanes dedication. "I think he has a good champion in 1986. Andy Seres was For more information, please groups who have made t he faith of its adherents and chance to win a medal," a member of the 1985 Maccabiah write Larry Needle c/ o U.S. anti-Semitic remarks in assaults the sensibilities of its Mondschein says. "He doesn't team, as well, but withdrew in Committee Sports for Israel, 275 S. denouncing the film and Lew devotees is an affront, not only to have great size, but he makes up order lo compete in other 19th Street, Philadelphia, PA, Wasserman, chairman of MCA, the Christian community, but to for it with his strength. Throwing international competition. 19103 or call (215)-546-4700. t he entertainment conglomerate Jews and all decent Americans whose Universal Pictures alike," Eckstein wrote. subsidiary is producing the movie. Falwell called the hastily Milwaukee Skinheads No Threat To Jews "There are some who are clearly scheduled news conference fanning anti-Semitism/' Falwell because Universal announced that MILWAUKEE (JTA) - Police described SHAM members more as paper. said. "It is wrong, it should be it would release the film Aug. 12, a and Jewish community officials thugs than violent, white ADL has pointed lo violent skin opposed. It changes the subject. month earlier than previously here say that while they are closely supremacist ideologues, and said head activity in 20 lo 25 American T he subject is not who are the scheduled. . - ,. ·' monitoring the activity of a local they currently pose no special cities in a report last November en officers of MCA and Universal. Falwell outlined five types of group of 20 neo-Nazi skinheads, threat lo Jews. titled "Shaved for Battle." In that "The issue is, t his publicly action he plans to take as part of they advise that the Jewish com However, she advised, "I think context, the Milwaukee skinheads owned company has blasphemed his war on The Last Temptatwn. munity has nothing particular lo we as citizens have something lo be "are kind of a Johnny-come the savior, the Lord Jesus. It is not They include educating the public worry about. concerned about. It seems as lately," the ADL official noted. a Jewish issue, it is a monetary about the film, urging people never Milwaukee's skinheads seem lo though their main illegal or anti Besides their shaved heads, issue." again to attend a t heatre that have abandoned their nightly for social activity is vandalism, and skinheads are characterized by The film, which is based on a shows the film, local picketing of ays along Downer Avenue, where they demonstrate every once in a their tattoos, tight-fitting jeans 1951 novel by the late Nikos theaters that show the film and a last month they allegedly painted while that they imitate neo with hanging suspenders and dark Kazantzakis, depicts Jesus as letter-writing and telephone swastikas on shops and assaulted a Nazis." British work boots known as Doc resisting his divinity. Falwell said campaign to MCA and Universal man. Michael Lieberman, Midwest Martins. the makers of the movie are not officers. The young white supremacists civil rights director of the Anti The look resembles that of urban ·necessarily anti-Christian, but had The fifth and most important with shaved craniums never have Defamation League of B'nai B'rith factory workers in Britain, where created "blasphemy for profit." act, according to Falwell, will be a won any semblance of control over in Chicago, said. he recognized the skinheads originated about 10 At the same time, the minister boycott of MCA and all its the East Side dining and shopping SHAM's potential for hostility. years ago. said the makers of the film made a subsidiaries, as well as companies strip, but their disruptions brought "There is a propensity toward They can be violent. ADL re business decision that lacks the that have common board members complaints from area merchants violence and toward projection of ports that skinheads terrorized a sensitivity to realize that "there with Universal and MCA, and and attracted media and police at this tough macho image," he said. black woman in San Jose last July are those extremists out there who companies owned or run by major tention. Members of SHAM "could become by making racial threats and deny will use this film in a way that is shareholders of MCA. Milwaukee Police say that in re front-line fighters" for neo-Nazi ing her access lo a park. In Or Toronto Suburb Approves Canadian cent weeks they arrested three causes. lando, Fla., skinheads beat a black members of the Skinhead Army of On the other hand, "I think the man outside a music club. Holocaust Memorial Milwaukee (SHAM), the local neo police are very interested in mak The most well-known incident by Ben Kayfetz Nazi group, on battery and disor ing sure there's not going lo be a occurred in Chicago last November TORONTO (JTA) - The "San Francisco, Washington derly conduct charges. Another as growth of neo-Nazism in Milwau when the windows of Jewish Parks and Recreation Committee and New York have public sault charge is under investigation. kee," he said. owned business were smashed on of North York, a suburb of memorials, but this is the first one Most of SHAM's hostility is di The officials monitoring SHAM the anniversary of Kristallnachl, Toronto, has approved the in Canada, to my knowledge," said rectd at Milwaukee's other skin note that the group is less danger the Austrian-German assault on building of a 36-foot memorial lo Edmund Lipsitz, executive head group, the non-white ous than similar groups in other ,Jewish institutions in 1938. survivors of the Holocaust. director of the Canadian Jewish supremacist Brew City Skins, cities, who have forged connec A known associate of Chicago The monument, expected to be Congress in Ontario. police say. tions with more traditional hate skinheads was indicted in January built by 1990 in Earl Bales Park on Artist Ernst Raab conceived the And despite the skinhead groups, such as the Aryan Nations on felony criminal charges stem Bathurst street, is Canada's first project and will sculpt it over the group's avowed hatred of Jews and and American Nazi Party. ming from the vandalism. public memorial to victims of the next two years. He and his wife, blacks, none of SHAM's violence ADL has been watching Milwau Holocaust. Goldi, collected private donations has been directed at Jewish or kee skinhead activity since March, Editorial and Advertising North York has the largest to cover the cost of the $300,000 black individuals or institutions, Lieberman said, when SHAM be Jewish population of any memorial. and none is expected. gan to distribute neo-Nazi leaflets Deadline is Tuesday Noon Canadian municipality, and many Raab, a survivor, said this Judy Mann, exeuctive director and was the subject of an article in for Thursday's Paper. Holocaust survivors live within project will be the one "closest to of the Milwaukee Jewish Council, the local Shepherd-Express news- walking distance of the park. my heart ." THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11. 1988 - 11 Arabs Worried About Backlash Lubavitcher Over Anti- Semitic Books In Japan Students Visit News In Brief by Willy Stern having an influence. anti-Semitic authors, the Communities Chalbi himself wrote that "the spokesman said. Belgian Provokes TOKYO (JTA) - The recent logic in this case would be: Prove Meanwhile, the Japanese NEW YORK (LNS) - More spate of anti-Semitic books in your good intentions toward the government is still trying to than 200 Luhavitcher rahbinic Spat Over Spit Japan is prompting concern from Jewish state, otherwise your convince American Jewish groups students from New York, as well as BRUSSELS (JTA) An the strangest of places: Arab silence at alleged signs of growing that the anti-Semitic books here many more from Lubavitch incident in Bethlehem recently groups in Tokyo are now worried anti-Semitism in Japan would be are only a passing fad. However, centers around the world, will between Israeli soldiers and a about a backlash, and that the understood as abetting such a recent events in Tokyo suggest leave this week to tour hundreds of Belgian diplomat has turned into an imbroglio. literature is being used by Jewish monstrous tendency - just a otherwise. ,Jewish communities throughout groups to pressure Japan into newfound opportunity for The most popular of Japan's the United States, Canada, South The soldiers claim the diplomat, moving closer to Israel. indulging in a tempting and anti-Jewish authors, Masami Uno, America, Africa, Europe and the Roger de Wulf, spat at t hem. De Wulf, who is the Belgian consul In a recent editorial in the self-gratifying attempt at Japan released on May 20 his third book Far East. Tokyo newspaper, Asahi Evening bashing." in as many years, titled, "If You The senior students par general in East Jerusalem, insisted he did no more than cast a News, titled "A Windfall for Israeli Middle East analysts here see Understand the Jews, then the ticipating in this program have Apologists," Abdelwahab Chalbi, a Chalbi's comments as a Epoch Comes into View." volunteered to spend three to fou r reproachful glance at three armed soldiers guarding a blindfolded spokesman for t he League of Arab thinly-veiled attempt to lobby the This book, which details a weeks oft heir summer vacation fo r Palestinian with his hands tied States in Tokyo, wrote, "No Japanese government not to "complex and deeply laid strategy the purpose of holstering Jewish behind his back. matter how paradoxical it may improve ties with Israel, and also by the J ews to stand astride the awareness and identity. The consul general said he had seem, it is a fact that Arabs are to interpret any overtures from the world," is already a best-seller. In t heir meetings with Rabbis, truly concerned about the Jewish community as educators and J ewish communal been profoundly shocked by the Another book published this publication in Japan of cheap anti.Japanese. leaders, they will discuss the sight. year by a well-known nuclear literature dealing with the Jewish In late June, Foreign Minister problems facing each individual The Foreign Ministry here had critic, Takashi Hirose, explains conspiracy in the world economy." Sosuke Uno became the first. community and seek ways to no comment on the incident. that Armand Hammer is actually a He concluded, "What we are Japanese minister ever to visit reinforce Jewish pride and Diplomatic sources said it was not pro-Israel agent who led a Jewish convinced about is that Israel's Israel, a trip he made even after enhance ,Jewish observance on all likely to affect the traditionally conspiracy to cover up the full apologists in the U.S. are dealing Arab ambassadors in Tokyo levels. friendly relations between extent of the Chernobyl nuclear with the phenomenon as a strongly protested. Belgium and Israel. accident. Some of the more distant windfall, a Trojan Horse allowing As a concession to the Arabs, communities to be visited include: The cover-up was designed, them to exert further pressure and however, Uno said before he left l:langkok; Singapore; Bombay and Hirose explains, so that Hammer leverage on the Japanese for Israel that the historic trip does Calcutta; the Netherland Antilles; Peres Berates could capitalize on the diaster by government to hasten the process not signify "even a slight change" Barbados; the Virgin Islands; Orthodox Rabbis On manipulating the international of rapprochement with Israel on in Japan's Middle East policies, Nairobi: Niger; Kinshasa; and food supply, another area which he 'Land For Peace,' the diplomatic, economic and Abidjan on the Ivo ry Coast. which, he addedr in P,rincip(~ . ., claims the Jews control. Intolerance cultural fields to disclaim itself supports the Arab side. Travelling in pairs, they will by David Landau from the anti-Semitic badge of A spokesman for the Israeli This type of literature continues shame." disseminate ,Jewish educational JERUSALEM (JTA) Embassy in Tokyo said Chalbi's to be prominently displayed in Foreign Minister Shimon Peres Chalbi's comments indicate that materials fo r schools, libraries and article was "completely without "Jewish Sections" of Tokyo castigated some 500 Orthodox the Arab lobbying apparatus in factual basis." homes. bookstores. rabbis from 30 countries for Japan - which has basically The article conveniently ignored One major Japanese publishing Upon returning to New York the opposing equal rights for Reform operated without opposition since the long and well-documented house, responding to the young emissaries will file detailed and Conservative Jews, end for the oil crisis of the early 1970s - is history of anti-foreign and continuing popularity of reports to the Merkos L'inyonei creating a rift in the Jewish people. publicly admitting that anti-J ewish writing in the Arab anti-Semitic books here, recently Chinuch, the educational arm of He also tried to convince them counterpressure from the world and Muslim communities, which released a guidebook to Jewish the Lubavitch movement, and that peace with the Arabs is worth Jewish community is finally are now being echoed by Japan's literature in Japan. sponsor of this program. territorial compromise. Peres, leader of the Labor Party, Happy Hebrew The council also decided to Judge Peter Cory found that while military wing of the Palestine addressed the meeting of the extend to what they call the the anti-hate law does infringe on Liberation Organization, and the World Conference of Rabbis and Birthday occupied Palestinian territories the charter's guarantee of free PLO's senior representative in the Community Leaders. It is the same preferential treatment composed of Orthodox Jewish NEW YORK (JTA) - Looking speech, nevertheless it can be con· administered territories. accorded the least developed clergy and lay leaders from North for your Hebrew birthday? All sidered a reasonable limit on this countries, pending the end of the freedom, as permitted by th~ char- and South America, South Africa, Jews can now celebrate their He Hadashot Closed By Israeli . presence, and the ter's first section. ' ' Europe and Israel. brew calendar birthdays by dialing assumption of full control by the The other two judges, Samuel Censor Then The foreign minister was (718) 953-5000, a Jewish birth date Palestinian people over their Grange and Horace Krever, went genuinely angered when an Israeli hotline instituted by the Lubavitch Reopened After national economy without further, stating that the guarantee rabbi asked him how he intended Youth Organization. Apology external interference. of freedom of expression was not to stop the Reform and The hotline began service last The U.N. council requested that intended to give constitutional Conservative branches of Judaism month in response to a call by the U.N. bodies not extend any fo rm of protection to willful dissemination by Hugh Orgel from "undermining the Jewish Lubavitcher rebbe, Rabbi Men assistance to Israel. It emphasized of hatred. TEL AVIV (JTA) A people." achem Schneerson, that all Jews that aid was not and could not be a Both cases are being appealed one-week closure of the Hebrew Castigating the Orthodox for should celebrate their Jewish birth substitute for a genuine and just daily Hada.,hot ordered by the creating a rift, Peres declared, "I dates. and will likely go before the solution to the question of Supreme Court of Canada, where military censor was cut down to won't let the J ewish people be split After punching in the English Palestine. the anti-hate law will face its ulti one hour, after editors apologized because of your intolerance." birth date, the caller receives the In addition, the council called mate test. for violating censorship He vowed to "do everything" to proper Hebrew birthday and the for the provisions of emergency regulations. prevent war between the different next time this date will be observed assistance to the Palestinian Dutch Urge Israel The censor ordered Hadashot streams of Judaism, and that he on the English calendar, as well as people in the territories, including closed August 2, after the would do it "with or without your the day of the week he or she was To Release Activist the dispatch of teams oforthopedic newspaper failed to present for help." born. surgeons. . by Henrietta Boas pre·publication censorship two Peres urged the assembled The hotline, under the auspices AMSTERDAM (JTA) - The stories on promotions and rabbis from overseas not to become of Rabbi Shmuel Butman, director Canadian Anti-Hate Dutch government issued an resignations within the Israel involved in Israel's internal of the Lubavitch Youth Organiza urgent appeal to Israel recently for Defense Force. Under Israeli law, political struggles. tion, can also be used to identify Law Upheld the release of Palestinian activist all news stories dealing with He said that on political any Jewish date such as yahrtzeits Faisal al-Husseini, who was defense or national security issues matters, the rabbis spoke with no by Ben Kayfetz and anniversaries. arrested recently and placed in must be submitted to the military greater authority than anyone else. TORONTO (JTA) - In a sur administrative detention for six censor. U.N. Council Urges prise move, the Ontario Court of months. The order closing the Direct Aid Appeal has upheld the conviction The dovish Israeli group Peace newspaper's press banned it from Brooklyn Rabbi Offers of Donald Andrews and Robert Now had petitioned Dutch printing either the daily or any by Tamar Levy Smith for violating Canada's anti Premier Ruud Lubbers to use his temporary replacement. The order Convention GENEVA (JTA) - The United hate law, thereby maintaining the influence with the Israelis to gain was rescinded after the Benediction Nations Economic and Social constitutionality of the statute. Husseini's release. newspaper's editors apologized for By David Friedman Council, meeting here, has passed Last Tuesday's decision was in The.Dutch government's appeal, what they said had been an ATLANTA (JTA) The a resolution urging world bodies to direct contradiction to one reached however, was made in the apparent oversight. Democratic National Convention, assure that any assistance they in the Alberta Court of Appeal two absence of both Lubbers and Hada.,hot is published by which officially nominated send to the Israeli.administered months ago that overturned the Foreign Minister Hans van den members of the Shocken family, Massachusetts Gov. Michael territories directly benefits the hate crimes conviction of school Broek, who are thought to be on who own and publis h t he Dukakis as the Democratic Party's Palestinian people, in cooperation teacher and anti-Semitic proga vacation. influential daily Haaretz. T he candidate for the presidency was with the Palestine Liberation gandist Jim Keegstra. The Alberta The two men visited Israel last paper is not a member of the Israel blessed by an Orthodox rabbi from Organization. court ruled June 6 that the statute month. Lubbers met with Editors Committee, however, and Brooklyn. The council, concluding its was contrary to Canada's Charter Palestinians and Peace Now as a result cannot make use of Rabbi Morris Schmidman, second regular session early this of Rights, portions of which pro representatives, while van den special discussion procedures executive director of the Council of week, urged the international tect free speech. Broek met in East Jerusalem with between the censor and the Jewish Organizations of Baro community, the United Nations Andrews, born in Yugoslavia, is a group of 18 Palestinians, committee that usually prevent a Park, gave the benediction at the system and intergovernmental and leader of a neo-Nazi group for including Husseini. Van den Broek complete closure. close of the session, in which non·governmental organizations merly known as Western Guard said he found Husseini moderate One of the uncensored stories in Dukakis received 2,876 votes and to disburse their aid, or any other and later renamed the Canadian and reasonable. Hada.shot referred to the alleged the Rev. Jesse Jackson 1,218. forms of assistance, to what it Nationalist Party. His bimonthly In a message handed to the decision by Defense Minister Schmidman was introduced to called the occupied Palestinian bulletin, edited by Smith, carried Israeli ambassador to T he Hague Yitzhak Rabin's military t.he convention by Rep. Charles territories, solely for the benefit of propaganda targeting J ews, blacks recently, the Dutch argued that secretary, Brig. Gen. Elkana Schumer of New York, who the Palestinian people and in a and immigrants from Third World Husseini's detention would have a Harnof, to leave the IDF after arranged for the rabbi to deliver manner that will not serve to countries. negative outcome for Israel, since having been passed over for the closing prayer. prolong the Israeli presence. While upholding the conviction, it would show the Palestinians promotion. A spokesman in Schmidman's The council requested that the three-judge panel reduced An that Israel does not reward T he other article described, Washington office said that in the international organizations drews' twelve·month sentence to moderation. without naming individuals, the New York primary last April, sustain and increase their three months and Smith's seven· But the Israeli government IDF posts that would be newly Schmidman played an important assistance to the Palestinian month sentence to one month. maintains that Husseini is fi lled and how many candidates part in the Orthodox vote in people in close cooperation with The judges gave differing rea anything but moderate. were competing for each post. A Brooklyn going to Dukakis, the Palestine Liberation sons fo r upholding the constitu Authorities charge him with being major reshuffling of military despite the strong bid made by Organization. tionality of the hate crime law. a senior activist in Al Falah, the assignments hes been under way. Sen. Albert Gore of Tenne•sce. r: 12 - THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1988 A Fish Called Wanda Is "Wandaful" Going to the movies is an with many of these people. I mean expensive proposition these days the only possible contact I could ( Arts and Entertainment ] (not unlike allowing an aluminum imagine would be to acquaint a few siding salesman through your of them with some bars of soap. Or portals). Remember when the to tell the tall guy who sat down in whole goshdarned family could go front of me during the opening thick-boned skull covered with fo r ten bucks (and that includes credits to take it elsewhere. That's Return Of The Dinosaurs bumps that protected its small popcorn and soda)? Those were about it, really. brain. the good, ol' days, the days of What else can I say about the T he carnivorous Dimetrodon drive-ins, the days when PG-13 movies? Oh .. . I guess I should tell lived long befo re the dinosaurs and was nothing more than spy code you about A Fish Called Wanda. It was distinguished by an enormous fo r the commissar is in the was hilarious. It's a four-star back fi n on its 12-foot-long body. bathroom. Yep, those were the movie all the way. Kevin Kline, These dinosaur replicas were days, my friends. (Methinks whom you may remember from designed by Dinamation there's a song in that!) The Big Chill and S ophie's Choice, International, San J uan So Saturday night, to escape the was simply outstanding as the Capistrano, Califo rnia, fo r the heat and humidity, and the pablum lunatic Otto. Nominate him for an Boston Museum of Science and of network television, I took the Academy Award. J ohn Cleese, who five other national science little woman to the movies. T wo wrote the script, and Michael institutions that are members of tickets cost $10.501 Can you Palin, graduates of the Monty the Science Centers Exhibit believe it? A medium-sized Python comedy troupe, were Collaborative. The Maiasaura was popcorn and soda cost around fantabulous, as well. designed by Kokoro Company Ltd. $4.001 Oy vey iz mir. Can you A Fish Called Wanda, which also of Japan. imagine if we had kids? It'd be stars Jamie Lee Curtis as a femme Museum hours are daily 9 a.m. cheaper to have the circus set up in fatale who seeks to profit by her to 5 p.m., Friday 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. the backyard. My gosh. charms, features a jewel heist, a Closed Mondays, except holidays So fo r close to 15 simoleons, the stuttering would-be assassin, and Mass. school vacations. wife and I got to sit in cool several unlucky pooches, a great Admission is $5.00 for adults, darkness with a crowd of total deal of double-dealing, a man $3.00 fo r children (4-14) and senior strangers. Now, I hate to say it, but eating fish (note the absent citizens. Children three and under (You knew a "but" was coming, hyphen), and countless yucks and and museum members are didn't you? You can't just say, " I guffaws. I heartily recommend A admitted free. For further hate to say it," and stop right Fish Called Wanda. Bring your information, please call 723-2500. there. You gotta have a "but.") .. . own popcorn, though. hut I would not normally associutc Black Coffee At Trinity Rep by Violet B. Halpert Dionne), is suitably agitated in an rives on the scene. Japp is played Bl Adve rtise inTHE HERALD. Call 724-0200 The Eli and Bessie Cohen Foundation sponsors of Camps Pembroke, Tel Noar and Tevya cordially invites prospective camp parents and their children to tour tlie camp fa cilities tl1is summer. Please call the respective camp to arrange a visit. Camp Pembroke: 617-294-8006 Camp Tel Noar: 603-329-6931 Margot Dionne, Ed Shea, and Daniel Von Bargen (as Hercule Poirot) in Trinity Summer Rep's production of Agatha Christie's Camp Tevya: 603-673-4010 murder mystery Bla,:I, Cofftt, in the Down•tain Theatre July 30 through August 28. (Photo by Marl, Morelli) - T HE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11 , 1988 - 13 Singin' In The Rain Delightful t hat once hung in her closet. third round wit h this wonderful good sh~t, but wasn ' l agile enough "Some of those styles have come show, I had to agree. Joe took the to attain what it takes to pull it off. back," she says. trophy fo r the best. Don Lockwood The scene with a life-sized stuffed by Dorot hea Snyder words and music penned by Nacio And the cast. Mom and l are I've seen! doll needed better coordination. My mom has never dabbled in Herb Brown and Arthur Freed bonded by similar reactions to The theme centers around t he All in alt, the cast was peppy and the field of journalism, but she's a .. .Fit as a Fiddle, You are My what we consider "star quality." chaos that epsued when talking perky, the audience receptive. The terrific connoisseur of movies and Lucky Star, A II I Do is Dream of Lead J oe Joyce, as Don Lockwood, pictures came on the Hollywood technical crew did a remarkable plays. l love what she has to say You, Good Mom in,' Broadway dashing film star of t he silent scene. Top stars squeaked their job in t he Singin in the Rain about the show during Mewdy, and more. screen, fl ashed t hose pearly way out of t he stage door, never to sequence, and Joe Joyce was a intermission and after curtain. Period costuming, artistically whites, and we both were blinded be seen again. Denise Pence, as splish splash smash dancing With that same brand of done by Gregory Poplyk and by his dazzling smile and Lina Lamont, made us run fo r ear tap-puddling through it. ent husiasm, Mom· was my partner Bradford Wood, brought tiny charismatic personality. plugs, but at times lost it, and Mom summed it up. at Theatre by-the Sea's production nudges from Mom when one of our Singin · l n The Rain was almost sounded normal. " Delightful!" of Singin' In The Rain. I had leading ladies wore "ermine" cuffs originally choreographed by Gene Pam Cecil, as Kathy Selden, was seen it twice before, in Boston and on the black satiny pant ensemble. Kell y and Stanley Donen, and J oe a perfect ingenue. T he Cosmo Providence. Drop waist dresses, cloche hats, J oyce's Gene Kelly-like Brown role demands comedic (Singin ' in the Rain continues l knew Mom would journey romantic apparel drew pangs from movements, as Mom says, timing in dance and acting. T all through August 14. Call (401) t hrough Nostalgia Lane with the Mom's memories of t he clothes captivated us both. This being my and lanky Barry Finkle gave it a 789-1094 . . (______y;_o_u_th_H_i_L_i_gh_t_s ______] lo report that the boys are Phantom Of The Opera: Too Open Apartments And Open noticeably more relaxed and are doing better at school. Awesome For Prose Hearts Sigal Ohana (First Year by Ti Feldman Biology) and Michal Ben-Kohav (Second Year Social Work) share a The Majestic Theatre - why this show is sold out small neat apartment. Sigal, who the venue for this for years. teaches folk -dancing and has splendid show. The scenery and lighting organized a choir, notes that she Did you know were oh, so exciting has no fears about living in t he t hat the phenomenon and simply inviting . .. he art of an underprivileged was based on Leroux? Phantom filled me neighborhood of some 10,000 Yes, it was indeed with joy, inhabitants. "Soon after we moved however this Phantom from costumes to hair, in here, I went out one evening on is a Broadway breed. sometimes filling the my way to class. Several of t he The leading lady audience with fear . .. local 'tough guys' came up to me - Christine This show must be seen and warned me against going out seems oh so pure to be enjoyed. alone after dark. Then they and pristine. It certainly filled a void. escorted me all the way." But her heart is torn The ac! ..,rs are skilled. Michal, who plays "big sister" to between two ... A bit o'blood was a troubled 15-year-old girl, says The Phantom - who gives spilled that the students feel at home and her music to her, and the audience enjoy the intimate family and Raoul was thrilled ... atmosphere. "When we stay here of whom the Phantom the suspense continued NEW BUDDIES. 8-year-old Dudu, enjoys a new pottery speaks so cruel . .. to build. creation with Alon Kafah, Ben-Gurion University Economics over the weekend, people bring us and loses his cool. And as it unraveled student, and a volunteer in BGU'e "Open Apartments" project. large pots of couscous or home baked cookies." The singing is uplifting the pieces felt into place BEERSHEVA , Israel - "Sigal, doorbells to ask when we'll be According to Bat-Sheva Levi, some melodies sweet, and all at a pace you're really beautiful. If you ever finished with study and come out neighborhood children grow up some full of sorrow, that kept me at the edge of my seat go away from me, I won't feel 1.0 play." and join t~e army, often spend no hope for tomorrow. good." - their furloughs helping the The heartstrings it pulls and made me feel comple('l! Educational And For my curtain call - This proclamation of love from Social Role Models students in the clubhouse in and yet a smile beams little 10-year-old Meirav, pinned activities with the new generation. from ear to ear. I'll simply say "Our students are educational "That's our reward," she says. It's easy to see Go see this show y'all! t.o the wall in one of Ben-Gurion and social rote'.models for these University's "Open Apartments," kids," says Bat'. Sheva Levi, head is a typical expression of the of the Social Action Unit. "They affection which the make contact with the children underprivileged children of the and, through them, with the whole Dalet neighborhood in Beersheva family and encourage the parents Join thousands of readers who know lavish on the students who live and to become more involved in work among them. education. Most of the students in what's going on weekly in the A derelict apartment building, the project come from more which was notorious for years as a prosperous backgrounds, and this center for drug-pushing and other is their first encounter with social A.I. Jewish Community illegal activities, was cleaned up, deprivation. Their responses and renovated and equipped by BGU's their actions prove that they not Unit for Social Action, and now only enrich the neighborhood by SUBSCRIBE TO THE houses 24 students. Altogether 90 giving their time and skills, but are students are now active in five enriched themselves and become underprivileged neighborhoods in mt,ch more S9Cielly.aware." 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He plays her warm, close ·ties with the with them, Jistens to their o $10.00peryear o $14 per year (out of A.I.) children and they obviously enjoy problems and plays peacemaker her company. "In examination between them when necessary. "I NAME time," she says, "when we take a can consult a social worker if I break from neighborhood need advice," he says, "but I find ADDRESS activities to catch up on studies, that intuition and common sense the children stand under our are usually enough." He is happy windows and call us, or buzz our MAIL CHECK TO: Copies of the Hera Id are available from: R.l. JEWISH HERALD P.O. Box 6063 Providence, R.l. 02940 Barney's on East A venue.Pawtucket East Side Pharmacy on Hope Street, Providence L------J Hall's Drug on Elmgrove Avenue Avenue, Providence ------~--~------i -- - - 14 - THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11 , 1988 SAMUEL LICHT MARTIN WAXMAN WATERFORD, Conn. CRANST ON Martin Samuel Licht, 75, of Canterbury Waxman, 78, of 8 Lynn Ave., Villa, a shipyard worker for Rhode Island agent for Lillian Electric Boat Division in Groton Vernon Corp. for 30 years, died (__ o_h_it_u_a_r_ie_s ______] fo r 20 years, retiring in 1978, died Aug. 4, 1988 at his home. August 5, 1988 at the villa. Mr. Waxman was previously a Born in Providence, a son of the supervisor for Regal Plating Co. LEO BORENSTEIN HAROLD L. DORKIN RUTH KOSIVER late Harry and Sarah (Finkle) He also was the owner and PROVIDENCE Leo NEWPORT - Harold Louis WOODSTOCK , Conn. - Ruth Lecht, he had lived in t he president of Vernon Marketing Borenstein, 85, of 500 Angell St., " Hal" Dorkin, 60, of 59 Harrison Kosiver, 68, of Sunrise Drive, Waterford-Groton area 20 years. Company from 1971 until his died August 4, 1988, at Miriam Ave., a retired engineer, died t reasurer of t he Lockheed He previously resided in Quincy, death, and was vice president of Hospital. He was the husband of 1 Sunday, J uly 31, 1988, at his home. Aluminum Window Corp., Mass. New Company from 1977 to 1987. Dora (Nagler) Borenstein. He was t he husband of Evelyn Burrillville, R.l., since 1955, died He leaves two sons, Norman Born in Russia, he was a son of Born in Poland, he was the son " Pat" Mines Dorkin. Aug. 5, 1988, at Uncas-on-Thames Licht of Boston and Dr. Arthur the late Harry and Rebecca of t he late Chaskel and Ethel Mr. Dorkin served wit h t he Hospital, Norwich, Con n. She was Lewis Licht of Washington, D.C.; (Lightman) Waxman. He was a Borenstein. Naval Underwater Systems Center the wife of Benjamin Kosiver. a daughter, Barbara Ferdinand of resident of Cranston nine years, He was a resident of Providence for 30 years until retiring in 1982. Born in New York City, a Boston; a brother, Dr. Leonard and had previously Jived in fo r two years, previously residing More recently, he was director of daughter of the late Isadore and Lecht of Taos, N.M.; three sisters, Warwick fo r most of his life. in New York City. the New England division of Anna Rubin, she Jived in Alice Koret of Rochester, N.Y.; He was a member of t he Greater He was a cost accountant for t he Columbia Research Corp. Manchester before moving to Goldie Marinsky of Providence Providence YMCA Businessman's Monroe Sander Paint Co. in New Mr. Dorkin was born in Woodstock 22 years ago. and Esther Lecht of Barrington; Association fo r 30 years. He was a York City for 20 years before Bridgeport, Conn., a son of the late Mrs. Kosiver was a member of and a granddaughter. past president of t he Fraternal retiring fi ve years ago. He was Samuel H. and Anna M. Dorkin. Sons of Zion Synagogue, Putnam, The funeral was held at the Max Order of Eagles. He also was a previously a lawyer in Vienna, He had lived in Newport since and its Sisterhood_ Sugarman Memorial Chapel, 458 former director of the Jewelers Austria fo r 10 years. I 934 and also owned a home in Besides her husband she leaves a Hope St., Providence. Burial was Shipping Association. He was He was a graduate of the Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. son, Jeffrey Kosiver of Covent ry; a in Lincoln Park Cemetery, involved fo r many years with University of Vienna. He was a A I 945 graduate of Rogers High daughter, Abbye Kosiver of Warwick. jewelry industry donations to t he member and past vice president of School, he received a bachelor of Norwich; a sister, Marcia Katz of Meeting Street School, Pioneer t he Congregation Ohab Zedek science degree in mechanical New York City, and two Women and T he Impossible Synagogue in New York City, and engineering from Brown grandchildren. ELSIE ELLEN Dream. was also past president of its men's University in 1949. He earned his A funeral service was held at the EAST PROVIDENCE - Elsie He leaves a son, Steven B. club. He was a member of the master's degree in public Max Sugarman Memorial Chapel, Ellen, 90, fo rmerly of Nicholas Waxman and a daughter, Donna Yeshiva Un iversity Club in New administration from the 458 Hope St., Providence_ Burial Marra Nursing Home, past W. Shaw, both of Warwick; a York. University of Nort hern Colorado was in Lincoln Park Cemetery, president of the East Greenwich · brother, Sidney Waxman of Besides his wife he leaves two in 1978. Warwick. Jewish Women's Club, died July Storrs, Conn.; a sister, Dorothy sons, Dr. Bruno Borenstein of He was on active duty with t he 28, I 988, at Roger Williams Miller of Green Valley, Ariz.; and Providence and Kurt Borenstein Army during the Korean War, Hospital. She was the widow of t hree grandchildren. of Hazleton, Pa., and three from November 1950 to November LEDA ANN MASTERSON Robert H. Ellen. Funeral services were held at grandchildren. 1952. EAST PROVIDENCE - Leda Born in New York City, a Mox Sugarman Memorial Chapel, Funeral services were held at the During his high school and An n Masterson, 59, of 130 Bourne daughter of t he late Mr. and Mrs. 458 Hope St., Providence. Max Sugarman Memorial Chapel, college years, Mr. Dorkin was a Ave., East Providence, died July Henry Silberman, she lived in East Interment was private. 458 Hope St., Providence. Burial prominent baseba ll athlete, 23, 1988 at St. Luke's Hospital, Providence fo r fi ve years. She had was at Lincoln Park Cemetery, participating in Newport's Sunset New Bedford, after an automobile previously lived in North Warwick. League as well as the Brown accident. Kingstown, Providence, Cranston University and Rogers High Mrs. Masterson was an and Woonsocket. School varsity teams. An admitting officer at t he Wayland Many years ago she had been a BENJ AMIN BROOKNER ent husiastic and highly regarded Healt h Ce nter in Providence. She bookkeeper fo r JO years at the PROVIDENCE - Benjamin golfer, he was t he New England was the daughter of the late Boris Supreme Paper Co., New York Brookner, 92, of 15 Glen Drive, Left-Handed Champion in 1960. and Natalie (Lubavsky) Kaplan of City. founder of t he former Lee's Dress He was a past president of the New Bedford, where she lived for She leaves a son, Stuart L. Ellen Shop, a ladies specialty store in Brown Club of Newport County many years. of South Dartmouth, Mass.; a RUBIN Providence, and its operator fo r 50 and a member of T emple Shalom, Mrs. Masterson lived in daughter, Norma Dunn of years before retiring in I 972, died the Wanumetonomy Golf and Cranston, R.I. for over 25 years, Johnston; fi ve grandchildren and a later moving to Warwick, and fo r great-granddaughter. July 30, 1988, at home. He was t he Country Club, t he Eastpointe MEMORIALS, INC. husband of Ann (Mittleman) Country Club of Palm Beach t he last two years she Jived in East A graveside fu neral service was Brookner, who was associated with Gardens, t he Redwood Library, Providence. held in Lincoln Park Cemetery, her husband in business for 45 Friends of the Newport Public She was a graduate of Fisher Post Road, Warwick. The funeral years. · Library, the Preservation Society Business School in Boston and was coordinated by Mount Sinai Born in Austria-Hungary, a son I of Newport County and the later received an Associate of Memorial Chapel, 825 Hope St., Monuments ana memorials of the late Mendel and Regina Newport Art Museum. Science Degree in Registered Providence. Nursing from R.I. Junior College_ ~-in t~ finest granite (Auerbach) Brookner, he Jived in Besides his wife, Mr_ Dorkin Providence since 191 I. leaves two daughters, Amy B. She leaves a son, David Fern of for present antffu ture needs. Mr_ Brookner was a member of Dorkin of Portsmouth and J udith Big Fork, Mont.; a daughter, If an obituary you would In fwme wn.sultation T emple Beth-El, t he South Dorkin Pendergraft of Danville, Deborah Fern of Cranston; a like published does not sister, Esther K. Roderick of 6y appointment. Providence Hebrew Free Loan, t he Calif.; and a sister, Marilyn appear in the paper, J ewish Home for Aged, B'nai Mill man of Trumbull, Conn. Mattapoisett; and two grandchildren. please forward a copy of Leon J. Rubin B'rith and the Zionist His funeral was held in T emple Te le phone 401/726-6466 Organization of America. Shalom, Middletown. Burial was A funeral service was held at it to: Fisher Memorial Chapel, 422 N. 617/695-6471 Besides his wife he leaves a son, in Bet h Olam Cemetery, The Rhode Island Herald Stephen L. Brookner of Middletown. T he memorial Main St., Fall River. Burial was in Lexington, Mass.; t hree sisters, observance was at Mr. Dorkin's Tifereth Israel Cemetery, New P.O. Box 6063 Pauline Greife r of Providence; home. Bedford. Providence, R.I. 02940 Mary Zoller in Florida; Lee Negru T he Mount Sinai Memorial of Montreal; and two grandsons. Chapel, 825 Hope St., Providence, A funeral service was held at was in charge of arrangements. Mount Sinai Memorial Chapel, U.S. Federal law now-requires all funeral homes to 825 Hope St., Providence. Burial provide itemized pricing. Mount Sinai Memorial Chapel was in Lincoln Park Cemetery, Advertise in THE HERALD! Warwick. has provided this courtesy for over thirteen years. * MOUNT SINAI MEMORIAL CHAPEL Max Sugarman The only RI Jewish funeral home that is a member of Memorial Chapel the Jewish Funeral Directors of America. The Rhode Island Jewish funeral Your family traditions and records,._ for generations home that can be trusted . .. . for its honesty .. . integrity . . . and compliance with the highest standards of Jewish ethics and conduct. 458 HOPE ST. Over 100 years service to R.I. 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R-3397 for current Federal list. 9/ 1/ 88 CHILD CARE CLEANING SERVICES ENTERTAINMENT VACATION RENTAL DAY CARE MOM has opening for 2 year OFFICE CLEANING - Oust. vacuum. balh· STEVE YOKEN ENTERTAINMENT - Protes old + in my Cranston home. $80/ wk. 785· rooms. floors. rug cleaning. Daily, weekly, s1onal Master of Ceremonies and Disc SERVICE RENDERED HILLSBORO BEACH POMPANO - Boca 9118. 8/ 18/ 88 bi-weekly. etc. Oenette Janitorial 724-0714. Jockey. Specialists in Bar/ Bat Mitzvahs and Condo. 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, pool, water 9/ 15/ 88 candle-lighting ceremonies. Radio Station front, security. December on. 231-8148, EAST SIDE woman will care for infants and CELEBRATION PHOTOGRAPHY - Any oc· WINDOWS - RESIDENTIAL. Free esli· Prizes. (Optional · N.Y. Laser Lighl Show) 353-4747. 8/ 11 / 88 toddlers with T.L.C. Mon.- Fri. · full and part Video Services available. Many references. casion - Weddings, Bar-Mitzvahs. Portraits time. References available. Prov .. Pawt. line. mates. Quality work. Also entire house etc. Rhoda Klitzner Sachdev · 331-5359, cleaning services. 726-3766 8/ 25/ 88 508-679· I 545. 12/27/ 88 CLASSBOX 8/ 18/ 88 Carol Rosenblatt · 272-0975. 9/29/ 88 CORRESPONDENCE TO: LANDSCAPING, YARDS CLEANED, shrubs Class8ox No. and hedges trimmed, mulch and stone work. The R.I. Jewish Herald CHILD CARE WANTED CONDOMINIUMS GOODS & SERVICES shrubs planted or removed, sod, RR ties. P.O. Box 6063 Low rates. free estimate. Call Bob. 725· Providence. RI 02940 FLORIDA CONDO FOR SALE. Fort Laud· MATURE WOMAN needed to babysil for our FINt CUSTOM designed lnvilalions for Wed· 0808. 9/ 1/ 88 erdale · Imperial Poinl Gardens. 2 bedrooms, This newspaper will not. knowingly, accept 2 daughlers 20 hrs./wk. (days) in our Edge dings, Bar and Bat Mitzvahs. Also Ketubot by wood home. Starting September. 461-0663. 2 bathrOom s, modern kitchen. Located in an RESPONSIBLE, MATURE individual desires any advertising for real estate which is in well-known artisls and calligraphers · Melz to house-sit. References available. Please 8/ 18/ 88 exclusive beautiful housing development. violation of the R.I. Fair Housing Act and Good condition. 5 minute ride to beaches. ers 831-5813 or 831-1710. 9/ 1/ 88 call atter 2, 467-4836. 8/ 18/88 Section 804 (C) of Title VIII of the 1968 Civil WANTED: A warm, loving, responsible per Recreation and pool facilities. 5 minute walk LARGE SELECTION of New Year cards and Rights Act. Our readers are hereby informed son to care lor my lwo children (1 preschool, RUBBISH REMOVAL: Houses and yards to J shop.ping centers. Pictures and slides calendars. Order personalized New Year cleaned. Also garages. attics, basements. that all dwelling/ housing accommodations 1 school-aged) in my Cranston home. available to see. $49,900. 783-3935. cards early. Melzers 831-5813 or 831-1710. advertised in this newspaper are available on Teacher's hours. 946-4913. 8/ 11 / 88 Low rates. free estimate. Call Bob, 725- 8/ 25/88 9/ 1/ 88 0808. 9/ 1/ 88 an equal opportunity basis. historic city of Jerusalem, The Council of Jewish guidelines for fund-raising and MAX WEINBERG Jewish Television members of the group share their Federations is the national operations and engaging in joint WARWICK - Max Weinberg Magazine - "The experiences of travelling through association of 200 Jewish planning and action on common of 4 7 Chesterfield Ave., a naval the homeland of the Jewish people. Federations, the central purposes dealing with local, architect in the New York City Making Of A Shofar" T he third segment highlights community organizations which regional and international needs. area, retiring in 1968, died Aug 5, the growing popularity of serve nearly 800 localities 1988, at the Veterans NEW YORK, N.Y. - In basketball among Israeli youth embracing a J ewish population of A referral Service Administration Medical Center, celebration of the Jewish New and examines the reasons why top more than 5. 7 million in the for companions Providence. He was the husband of Year and the arrival of fall, the U.S. athletes are being recruited United States and Canada. to the elderly, Ann {Alprin) Weinberg. September edition of Jewish from leading colleges and Established in 1932, CJF helps since 1967 Born in Russia, a son of the late Television Magazine highlights universities to play on Israel's strengthen the work and the Samuel and Tenny Weinberg, he this joyous season with a current professional basketball teams. impact of Jewish Federations by 401 42 1- 1213 had lived in Warwick 38 years. He look at the ancient art of the In the final segment, Jewish developing programs to meet previously resided in the New York making of a Shofar. Television Magazine continues its changing needs, providing an City area fo r 24 years. series on adventure travel to Israel exchange of successful community He attended the Rhode Island The fi rst segment of this this month as a group of travellers experiences, establishing School of Design and was a monthly magazine-format set out "on horseback" to explore graduate of City College of New program produced by the Council the magnificent terrain of Israel's York. of Jewish Federations focuses on northern borders. Knight's He was a World War I Army Air the intricate work involved in the The monthly programs which Corps veteran. He was a member Shofar-making process. An Israeli, make up the Jewish Televisum Limousine of the Touro Fraternal whose family has been in the R Magazine series, now in its fourth Ltd. Association. business for over 400 years, year, are made available to J ewish "The knight is yours" Besides his wife he leaves a displays his extensive collection of Federations affiliated with the daughter, J une Penn of Warwick; Shofars dating back to biblical Council of J ewish Federations, • Outstanding limousines and two brothers, Julius Weinberg of times and explains the reasons which then obtain air time on their personalized service Cranston and Meyer Weinberg of why each one produces a slightly • All Stretch Limousines, TV, local television stations. T he VCR, telephone, bar, etc. Warwick; three grandchildren and different sound, depending on its program is currently being shown origin and size. • All special occasions two great-grandchildren. in 58 communities from coast to • Personal protection A funeral service was held at This month's program also coast. Corporate rates Mount Sinai Memorial Chapel, captures the sights and sounds of The host of Jewish Television 724-9494 24 tu,. 825 Hope St., Providence. Burial Israel through the "eyes and ears" Magazine is film and television was in Lincoln Cemetery. of a Boston Jewish Federation actor Stephen Macht, currently group. From the spectacular view best known to viewers for his of the Golan Heights to the featured role on Cagney and Lacey. MILTON A. WEINSTEIN WESTFORD, Mass. - Milton (continued from page I) Arthur Weinstein, 65, of I origins, they would have come in Carolina Lane, a fighter pilot American Jewish tourism to Israel greater numbers to Israel." during World War II who utilized has declined dramatically since the Vegar, who was born in his aviation skills in the field of air beginning of the uprising. Argentina and immigrated to traffic control in civilian life, died Deeper Reasons Israel with his family as a child, I"Home Maintenance Speclallsts" ! August 2, 1988, at New Hampshire "Maybe it can be attributed to said that the serving in the largest Complete "CAN-DO" Handyman Service for the Home and Office Memorial Hospital, Nashua, N.H. fear or, with some J ews, to protest Jewish community in the world at Born in Wrentham, he was a son over the continued uprising and the time of Israel's 40th INSURED • ALL WORK GUARANTEED of the late David and Miriam Israel's handling of the situation. anniversary has enriched his Roland D. Lallberte 725-8950 {Rosenthal) Weinstein. But I think that there are deeper service here. He attended the University of reasons," Ye gar said. He said that the cultural events Maine. A first lieutenant in the "At least 60 percent of American of the last year, sponsored jointly Army Air Forces, Mr. Weinstein Jews have never visited Israel," he by the consulate and the American Rhode Island Herald - Classifieds served in the European Theater noted. "This is puzzling Jewish community, have helped and flew 96 missions during World considering their general support "strengthen Israel's positive image 15 words • $3.00 War II. He flew two missions a day and love of Israel. I think that had in America at a time when it was 12~ each additional word during the Battle of the Bulge. they more Jewish conscience and most needed" because of the historical knowledge of their uprising in the tetritories. Mr. Weinstein was employed by C.tqo.,, ------ the Federal Aviation Administration at its air traffic M...... ------control center in Nashua for 22 Portraits {Continued from page 7) ------years until retiring six years ago. Now that Maude and Melissa the simple shapes hold meanings. I Previously, he was employed at the have both moved away, only I am the guilty ancient mariner who air traffic control center at Logan remain of our shared moment of knows the legends behind the International Airport, Boston. post-school retreat. Melissa's groomed facades. . I Mr. Weinstein also was a pilot in house has been thoroughly Melissa symbolizes some part of 1 the Massachusetts Air National redeemed. A pretty deck'has been each of us. The fragility of our Guard and was called to duty in added at the rear. Garden and hopes and our households. I France in 1962, during the Berlin front garden path gleam However vast the world, however Crisis. immaculately. No one driving by many great journeys we may take Naae ______P•oae ----- He leaves three sons, Douglas, would know t he house is haunted into it or courses about it, we are Jay and Robert Weinstein, all of by its past. All the houses on my run to ground among our Addre•• ------Westford; a sister, Corinne street are haunted. Like trees that neighbors. Maudie, an Lamchick of Cranston, and a held nests from which nestlings accommodating spirit, and granddaughter. Melissa, a soul of resistance, they have failed or flown, the wooden No. word• ______Date(•) raa ------The fu neral procession left from nests of Memorial Road have a bear the marks of our space and the Mount Sinai Memorial Chapel, memory for me. In the moonlight time. P•v•••t EacloMd ______825 Hope St., Providence, for a graveside service at Sharon PAYMENT Memorial Park, Sharon, Mass. Copies of the Herald are available from: Payment MUST be received by Tuesday afternoon, PRIOR to the Thursday on which the ad is to appear. 10% discount for ads running Barney's on East A venue.Pawtucket continuously for 1 year. I East Side Pharmacy on Hope Street, Providence Thank Yoa I READ THE HERALD. Hall's Drug on Elmgrove A venue A venue, Providence IL _____R.I. JEWISH____ HERALD___, P.O. Bo•______,Hs, Pntwld______eece. RI 029H _ J 16 - THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1988 Alternative Housing------INNOVATIVE HOUSING the rest by providing you with a equity conve rsion designed for the appreciation reverse mortgage, Whatever is left goes to heirs. STRATEGIES TO SUPPORT $90,000, 10-year amortizing mort elderly. Reverse mortgages can may be more suitable for people You can set up a sale-leaseback YOUR ELDERLY PARENTS gage at 10 percent interest. As part enable your parents to convert who want to live in t heir houses for agreement anywhere in the nation. by William Sullivan of the arrangement, your parents some of their home equity into the rest of their lives. To qualify, But reverse mortgages, a relatively sign a lease granting them the right cash while retaining ownership of Millions of elderly Americans the homeowner must be 62 or older new development in financing, are to rent the house for as long as they their house. These mortgages turn are " house-rich, but cash-poor." and the house must be in good con currently available from only a few live. the cash flow of the regular mort That is, they live in valuable homes dition. Under a shared appreciation savings and loans, banks and mort During the term of the agree gage around. Instead of getting a but don't have enough money for plan, the homeowner gives up all or gage bankers in about a dozen ment, your mortgage payments of lump sum and paying it back in everyday ekpenses. Often, their a portion of the property's future states. In some states, fixed-term $1,190 per month to your parents monthly install ments, the loan is children cover some of their ex appreciation. The bigger the type reverse mortgages are allowed should enable t hem to pay the rent advanced to the homeowner as penses - an experience that can amount of future appreciation the while shared-appreciation mort and leave extra cash fo r expenses. fixed monthly payments. Nothing be demeaning for t he parents and borrower is willing to give up, the gages have yet to be approved. The With the proceeds from t he down is paid back until the term is up, uncomfortable for the children. bigger the current monthly pay concept should spread faster now payment, they could buy a deferred when the advance, plus interest, This need not be the case. There ments. Upon death, the loan, ac that a federally-funded insurance annuity that would begin payment must be repaid, presumably with are innovative ways that today's crued interest and t he bank's share program allows borrowers to re in 10 years (when your mortgage the proceeds from the sale of the elderly can take advantage of the of the appreciation is repaid from main in their homes if they outlive payments are through) and provide house. equity in their homes without jeop the estate after the house is sold. a reverse mortgage term. them with supplementary income Here's how a typical fixed-term ardizing the roof over their heads. fo r life. reve rse mortgage works. The bank A Sale-Leaseback Agreement Even though sale-leasebacks are lends your parents up to 80 percent Keeps the Home in the Family a family affair, they are not simple of the home's value over, say, a JO With a sale-leaseback agree to arrange. These complex transac year period, in monthly install ment, a child buys the parents' tions require a lawyer who has ex ments that give your parents a house and leases it back to them for perience with real estate sales and steady flow of tax-free income. At life. If your parents are 55 or older rentals, and mortgage and annuity t he end of IO years, the house has they won't have to pay federal in contracts. ln addition, for you to an $80,000 mortgage against it. come tax on profits from the sale reap any tax benefits, the IRS re But the property may have in - up to $125,000. The house stays quires that you charge your parents creased in value. At this point your in the family and helps relieve t heir a rent that is comparable to similar parents can sell the house and pay anxiety about the future. If your houses in the neighborhood. off the mortgage or refinance it by total income is less t han $150,000, Sale-leasebacks have drawbacks applying for another reverse mort ownership of the house provides all as well as benefits. The loss of gage. However, if property values the benefits ofrental property: de home ownership may· affect your decrease, paying off the loan or re ductions fo r interest expense, prop parents' status if, fo r example, one financing could be difficult. FINANCIAL SERVICES erty taxes, depreciation and main of them ever has to enter a nursing Fixed-term reve rse mortgages tenance costs. Further down the home. That's because a house is an wo rk best for elderly people who SPECIALIZING IN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT OVER AGE FIFTY road you may also profit if there is exempt asset when applying for need income for a specific length of appreciation in the market value of Medicaid coverage, whHe the note time, for example until a pension CALL OR W RITE FOR FREE BROCHURE the house. receivable is not. · plan or annuity begins payment or (401) 941-8700 Here's how it wprks. Let's say space in a retirement housing de that your parents' current income Reverse Mortgagee Provide velopment opens up. 70 JEFFERSON BOULEVARD WARWICK, RI 02888 is very tight, but they own a Monthly Payments ROBERT FAIN, PRESIDENT Receive Tomorrow's Value $100,000 house free and clear. You Your parents might also con SECURITlES OFFERED THROUGH SOUTHMAAK FINANCIAL SERVICES CO. buy the house with a $10,000 down sider a reverse mortgage, an in Today payment, and your parents finance creasingly popular type of home A new plan, called a shared- Agudath Israel Battles Chicago Gay Rights Bill tJRosl-fer by Haviva Krasner of persons whose religious and dath Israel of America, who is also ~P~£l's ~ru-ket NEW YORK (JTA) - As the moral principles are profoundly of its director of government affairs. Chicago City Council prepares to fended by homosexual conduct to Under this law, organizations vote on a gay rights bill, which insulate themselves and their chil would have the right to " prefer 243 Reservoir Ave., Prov. (near Cranston line) 461-0425 would add "sexual orientation" to dren from that which they consider members of their own faith," but RHODE ISLAND'S ONLY COMPLETE KOSHER DELI the list of categories protected un wrong and dangerous," the letter would not be allowed to discrimi der municipal anti-discrimination continued. nate on the basis of sexual ori enta· laws, Agudath Israel of Illinois is The proposed law would bar lion, except in a case involving em H & S SPECIALS acting in the campaign against the homeowners renting out apart ployment, explained Zwiebel. measure. ments from refusing to accept " Not only do religious organiza ~CHICKEN IJVERS$1.39 1/21b. pkg. Chicago attorney Mendel overtly homosexual couples as ten tions require protection," said Singer, chairman of the Illinois ants, and compel employers to give Zwiebel, "but religious individuals RAW TURKEY BREAST $1.79 Ib. Agudath Israel Commission on equal consideration in hiring to in require it as well." Legislative and Civic Action, and Two years ago, another Chicago dividuals who openly display their 1 ru,.,11,01:•1 BEEF FRY $1.79 pkg. Rabbi Chaim Gross, executive vice homosexuality. gay rights bill was defeated in a president of Agudath Israel of Illi Religious institutions would be similar showdown, after the mea nois, sent a letter to the 50 City exempt from these laws when they sure's supporters had predicted an MOTHER'S OLD FASHION Council members saying that "ho affect employment, but not in any easy victory. mosexual rights should not be other imaginable scenario. An ear In the New York City bill, GEFILTE FISH 21 oz. can (8 portions) $2.19 achieved at the expense of religious lier version of the bill did not in passed in 1986, there is a blanket rights. clude this religious exemption, but exemption for religious organiza WHOLE SHOULDERS $2.29 Ib. "The civil rights issue at stake due to objections by Agudath Israel tions that allows them to discrimi here is not the right of homosexu and others, the amendment was nate on the basis of sexual orienta Great for Sandwich Steaks, London Broil, als to gain jobs or housing - a made. tion in any case, not only one Roast Beef, Shish Kebab right they can exercise simply by "This was an improvement, but involving employment. Agudath keeping their sexual orientation to it is still objectionable," said David Israel was also involved in the ad QUANTITIES ARE LIMITED themselves - but rather the right Zwiebel. general counsel of Agu- dition of this exemption to the bill. SPECIAL EDITION Corning in The Herald . • • September 9, 1988 NEW YEAR'S ISSUE ADVERTISING DEADLINE Friday, September 2, 1·988 - 12 Noon 724-0200