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VOLUME LXXVIV, NUMBER 9 TE VET 28, 5753 / THURSOA Y, JANUARY 21, 1993 35« PER COPY Magaziner Brings Talents to Washington, D.C. by Anne S. Davidson the ill -fated Greenhouse Com­ Herald Editor pact in 1984. Magaziner sold While most Rhode Islanders' his successful consulting firm only glimpse of the inaugura­ Telesis for about $6 million in tion came via TV coverage, lo­ 1986, and has since started a cal businessman Ira C. Maga­ new firm, SJS, named for hi s Liner ex perienced first hand the children, Sarah, Jonathan and festivities this week in Wash­ Seth. ington, D.C. After all, he is now Magaziner will bring to the a part of the new administra­ administration a wide range of tion, having been named Bill talents. including a knowledge Clinton's senior adviser for pol­ of health-care reform, public icy implementation last week. transportation and creating In a matter of seconds. Maga­ jobs. His duties will cover a .,iner was projected to national wide range of issues, from status as Clinton's new chief of overseeing task forces to spear­ staff. Mack Mc l arty, listed his heading problems. appointment on Jan. 14 . The Bristol resident had re­ The 45 -year-old has been portedly hesitated to take a po­ friends with the new president sition with the new administra­ since they were both Rhodes tion because it would mean Scholars in 1969. Since then, moving the family away from UNITED IN SOLIDARITY - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stands with Rabbi Joshua He,;chel (left) Magaziner has led a varied and the Ocean State. oft~eJewish Theological Seminary and Rabbi Maurice Eisendruth (1902 to 1973), president of the unusual life, as the voice urging But with his acceptance, Umon American Hebrew Congregations, holding the Torah scroll. The photo can be viewed in the on Brown University's " new Rhode Island now has a promi­ nent voice in Washington. basement of Temple Beth•EI. Plroto c:ourtl'S!J of Tl'mpll' Bl't/,.£1 arc:l,ivu c:olll'c:tion curriculum" in the late '60s and Israelis, Palestinians Calm Beyond the Dream Lies Hope as U.S. and Allies Attack Iraq by Omar Bradley tru_e American who fought and ultimately died for something by Gil Sedan the raid by the United States Herald Contributing Reporter and its allies "does not relate As hundreds of people from too many of us take for granted JERUSALEM (JTA) - Israe­ lis and Palestinians alike to us di rectl y. " all kinds of ethnic and racial - freedom. reacted calmly last week to Over and over again, official gro ups congregated in the 1 si ncerely hope that all the news of the allied air strike on sources stressed that currentl y State House rotunda, the spirit goodness and wisdom that southern Iraq. " this is not our war'' and there of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. emanated from the hearts of Foreign Minister Shimon was li ttle chance that the con­ enveloped the crowd. Al l week­ ~PINIOI blacks and whites, Jews and Peres may have summed up flict would escalate to include end, churches. temples and genti les, won't be lost through­ the fee ling of many Israelis Israel. va ri ous organizations held cere­ support Israel and work closely out the rest of the year. My per­ when he told reporters in Paris U.S. and allied aircraft at­ monies in honor of his li fe and with numerous Jewish organi­ sonal prayer is for those who on Jan. 13 that the Iraqis "got tacked surface-to-air missiles death for the civ il rights move­ zations during his lifetime. didn't remember - that alt what they deserved." and other targets in southern ment. On Friday at Temple So Jan. 18 is more than just a dreams can happen if you be­ Israeli military sources said (Continued on Pa,Re 19) Ema nu-El , black and Jewish black holiday, for King was a lieve. Americans sang, shared and held one another during a reli­ gious service that personifi ed Also to Keep what Dr. King sacrificed for - by Mike Fink the brotherh ood of men. Hera ld Contributing Reporter As members of the Temple Gilbert Breuer and I, we Emanu-El choir sang to the bunked Hope High and drove crowd Monday night, more up to Boston fo r a fan -dance people filtered in to see, hea r matinee at the Old Howard and absorb a sense of commu­ Burlesque. What a pair, a big nity that has been lost. Despite black guy from Camp and a the passage of 26 yea rs of so­ thin bookworm from around called progress, civ il rights has the corner. become a shame ful example of Another afternoon I took the pohtical procras~1 nation taking Hope trolley downtown to a back seat to more lucrative Loew's with Raymond Jack­ legislation. And the sad part son, classical pianist of our about this 1s everyone knows school and of the Baptist Church. We saw "Showboat" " Although Rabbi Wayne .md drank hot cocoa at Gib­ hanklin was hope ful by the son's. events that took place around Vivian Taylor of that church the community, "Prejudice still told Emanuel visitors on Sun­ exists as people st ruggle to dis­ day that Jews and blacks used cover each other and the need to forge better buddy bonds in fo r more work is necessary," those days at Ho pe. he -.a 1d In the campus mutiny of the Cantor l}r1an Mayer added '60s, I went back lo Hope and to Classical to play my part in that it i!> im portant for Jews to THE LAND Of THE FREE-Jo hn Britto sings the "Star-Spangled Banner" at the rotunda during rccogml.e rhe fact that Dr. King RISO outreach. I did my anti- Monday's Martin Luther King Jr. Day ceremonies al the State House. Hm1ltl photo by Om11r Bn14lty was one of the first leaders lo (Continued on Page 5) I

INSIDE THE OCEAN STATE Cancer Support Noah's Ark Sets Open House Groups Offered Programs Offered Noah's Ark, a group spon­ how others differ from them. ~~S? The Hope Center fo r Life En­ sored by Life Patterns Institute The open house will provide for Mothers, Kids hancement is sponsoring three (LPI), will be holding an open participants with additional in­ Children who have wit­ ::}NEWS~ breast cancer support groups, house on Jan. 25 at the Parish formation about Noah's Ark nessed domestic violence and C) BRIEFS h-:i which will provide the oppor­ of Good Shephard at 490 and Life Patterns Institute. That their mothers are invited to ~ tt1 nity to share concerns and Broadway in Providence, from evening, the organization plans participate in two programs of­ feelings, and help you explo re 6 to 9 p.m. to form another Noah's Ark fered by the Women's Center of An anniversary celebration the impact of breast cancer on A secular group with no reli­ group. Information wil l also be Rhode Island in February and to benefit 2 to I : The Coali­ your body image, self-esteem, gious affiliation, Noah's Ark disseminated on a new series of March at locations on the East tion to Preserve Choice,.:; sexuality and relationships. consists of 32 people - 16 workshops that the institute Side of Providence. featuring Jones & Boyce, These eight-week sessions males and 16 fema les, one each will be offering in March and The Kids' Club, a Saturday Charlie Hall's Ocean State are available both in Provi­ of the 16 personality types April. morning expressive therapy Follies, will be held Jan. 22 dence and North Kingstown. identified by the Myers-Briggs For more information on program, is run concurrently from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Call the Hope Center for fur­ Type Indicator and the Life Pat­ Noah's Ark and the open with a women's support group. Cav, 14 Imperial Place in ther information, 454-0404. terns model. house, contact Terence Duniho The February and March ses­ Providence. For more infor­ The group meets monthly to al 120 Moore St., Providence, sions are open to children who mation, call 455-0755. interact with each other to learn R. I. 02907; 272-2322. are 3 or 4 years old and 8 to l l more ,1hout themselves and years old. Expressive therapist "Take No Rights for Mobile Optical Marcia Spindel] helps children Granted: Access to Abor­ Newport Mansions Set Winter Schedule to communicate their thoughts tion in Rhode Island" is the e,'6 Marble House, the William children. There is ample free and feelings using a variety of topic of an educational fo­ K. Vanderbilt mansion built in parking. art forms. rum Jan. 27 from 7 to 8:30 Services 1892, and Chateau-sur-Mer, Winter events for the Preser­ Free child care is provided p.m. in the Peterutti Lounge built in 1852 for William S. vation Society will include an for children of other ages while at Brown University. Steve IN-HOME EYEGLASS SERVICE Wetmore, are now open fo r the Irish speaker in March to cele­ mothers attend the women's Brown, executive director of SALES , SERVICE , REPAIR winter season. brate Irish Heritage Month. support group from 10 a.m. to the Rhode Island ACLU, and Appointments at your Both houses will be open Patrick Meade, from the Estate noon. Children must be regis­ Andrew Bla zar, M.D., of convenience now through March 3 1, week- and Appraisals Department at tered for the winter session by OB/ GYN Associates, will be DAYS•EVENINGS•WEEKENDS ends only, from 10 a.m. to 4 Christie's Auction House, will Jan. 23 . There is a registration featured. Prescriptions fill e d at p.m. talk on Irish painters. fee of $5 per month for each affordable prices Admission to Marble House For more information or a child, and scholarships are "Taking It Back: A Practi­ SENIOR CITIZENS DISCOUNTS and Chateau-sur-Mer is $6 free color brochure, write to available. cal Guide to Reclaiming The Preservation Society of An eight-week Parent Edu­ Ed Oeluty, Registered Optician ~~~~ :~~=~utl~s c~h! : Your Rights, Your Envi­ lat~:;c:~r Newport County, 118 Mil[ St., cation Group with free child ronment and Community" 7 3 Newport, R.I. 02840, or call Al Uc. 1 1~: : ~~ L! 1 4260 bination tickets to both houses care will be provided on Tues­ is the title of the Jan . 23 con­ L______J are available at each property 847-1000. day nights beginning Feb . 16. ference sponsored by Save at $11 for adults and $4 for Women's Center staff Corrine The Bay and Brown Univer­ Bennett and Anne Lamoureux sity at the Salomon Center will focus on parent-child com­ on the Brown campus. Cost munication, discipline, child for the conference is $15. For health and safety, creative play, reservations and informa­ \I 1he Rhode Island Jewish Herald fPJ dealing with abuse, talking tion, call Save The Bay at with children about difficult 272-3540. Announces Its Spedal Issue For subjects and other concerns of group members. Shooters will host a country There is a registration fee of western roundup party to $4, and participants must regis­ benefit United Cerebral ter by Jan. 29. Palsy of Rhode Island on SHABBATSHIRA For more information or to Jan . 24 from 4 to 8 p.m. The register, call Corrine Bennett at event will feature live coun­ The Sabbath of Song 861-2760. try western music and a guest performance by coun­ CCRI Offers try western star Rob Crosby, free dance lessons by Joe and Off and ~· Degree Program Jeannette Shutt, dance con­ tests, raffles and prizes. Tick ­ The Community College of ets cost $25. For informa­ Rhode Island, in cooperation tion, call United Cerebral with the Associated General Palsy of Rhode Island at 1lJ B'SHVAT Contractors, Rhode Island •J f• 728-7800. Jewish Arbor Day Chapter, is offering a program in construction management A variety of classes are avail­ technology that leads lo an able for all ages at the East associate in applied science in Side + Mt. Hope YMCA in­ JANUARY 28, 1993 technical studies degrees. cluding exercise classes, This supervisory training swimming lessons, water program is geared toward both walking, preschool gymnas­ We welcome advertisers and contributors to individuals working in the con­ tics, water play and arthritis struction fie ld who seek ad­ exercise. The YMCA is open join us in celebrating these two special days. vancement and those inter­ from 6:15 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. ested in pursuing a career in Monday through Friday and the industry. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Satur­ DEADLINE FOR EDITORIAL COPY AND A The program provides a day. For more information, ADVERTISING SPACE IS .JI background in academic areas call the Y at 521 -0155. It is as well as specialized training FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1993, AT NOON. located at 438 Hope St. in in the construction fie ld. This Providence. Bring this re­ is one of only two traini ng pro­ lease with you for a free grams of this kind in the coun­ visit. try developed specifi cally for this industry. The Bryant College Center For additional information, for Management Develop­ contact Ann Mackie, director ment offers a number of of the Center for Business and seminars from Jan. 25 to 29 Industrial Training at CCRI at from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 333-7087 or Nancy Berndt, "Training for the '90s Rhode Island Chapter of the Workplaces: Designing Associated General Contrac­ and Developing Dynamic tors, at 461 -8899. Training Programs," is a three-day seminar set for Jan . 25 to 27. "Training for Mail gets to us fa ), ter if you '90s Workplaces: Deliver­ use o ur po~t office box ing Effec tive Training" is num ber. scheduled for Jan 28 and 29 P.O. Box 6063 For more information, call 232-6200 PrO\ idcncc, R.I. 029.40 l;HE jlHQDE l§LANR JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1993 - 3 FEATURE

mitzvah subscription I got in the postwar period, when all A Salute To Classical's 150th Year our environme ntal troubles seemed to explode all over the by Harold Bloom imposing wrought iron gates, Good beautiful world. "Madagascar Special to lhe Herald the Victorian-style interior to Hawaii, the world'§ islands This month marks the begin­ woodwork and the deeply­ are now unstable," says Andy. ning of Classical High School's worn slate stairs, or the course Company Outdoors, snow has dusted a sesquicentennial year as an ed­ offerings that I salute this day. light feathery powder onto the ucational institution. Coinci­ It is the people, the people who paths and passageways. We dentally, that is also the month made Classical the wonderful by Mike Fink sha re our shoemarks ofsole and fltrald Co11trib11ti11g Rl'porltr in which I note the 50th an­ experience that it was in my heel with the clawprints of a niversary of my graduation day. core flock of peacocks and pea­ from Classical in the January The administrative and hens on the loose. "They're class of '43. teaching staffs of Classical ex- "Sometimes I don't take no­ mother by now anyway. This messy, but they're s howy. From more than a half-cen­ tice of what's right before my family only stays together for a People like them," says Andy. tury in the past, memories of There was Mrs. Piche, my eyes. I'll call out to my wife, season or so. Then they take their He points out the snowy owls, walking those musty halls, 'Abby, where are my keys?' own paths. Still, they seem so content in the cold, a not her aris­ ioining in the instructional and teacher of German, who '"They're right in front of happy." We talk about "happy," tocratic group. We walked past philosophically give-and-take brought such memorable you,' she'll say from the next and what it means in a menag­ a pe n of red pandas, "relations incited by the teachers, and en­ poetry into my life that some room." Andy Arkway was tell­ erie. "If they eat and breed, those of the raccoon." joying the camaraderie of com­ ing me over coffee on Hope are the signs they're all right." We greet a pair of pretty pec­ panions with different ethnic of it lingers in my mind to Street how he got his job at Roger Round the bend in the glass caries, American swine in high backgrounds still evoke the this day. Williams Park. cases of exotic and endangered heels, Andy puts it. Three same warm feelings that 1 expe· here I was with a B.A. in "So fabulous creatures, an eerie pair wolves come over to say hello, rienced then. hibited such dedication to their biology from U.R. 1. and no place of"owls" perch like statues on a light-footed and graceful. "Whal Long before someone coined professions and enjoyment of lo go. I sat by the phone. An offer dead limb. Theylooklikesculp­ kind of a job is this for a nice the term " Magnet School," their interaction with the pupils came through the line to stick ture of bark. "They're not owls, Jewish boy?" I wonder. But sud­ Classical was such a place. The that they earned, in many needles in lab rats. Abby said to they're swifts, cousins denly the name strikes a chord yellow brick building at the cases, the affection of us, their check out the local zoo around to the whippoorwills." for me. "Arkway." The zoo has corner of Pond and Summer pupils, and in every case, our the corner. I started as a volun­ We crouched before a a Noah's Ark quality, the whole streets drew students from all respect. teer. Now it's my beat - the pri­ mini-desert, whe re a wood en world of pens and parts of Providence - from the While we alt had our fa­ mates a nd the marsupials." bird swipes crickets planks. In the tearoom a pine " three-deckers" of South Prov­ vorites among the staffs, there Asprivateastheyare,Andy from a furry gopher that box sits on the shelf by the door. idence to the fashionable es­ were some outstanding indi­ met me during a lunch weaves a trail in theairshafts You open up two doors on top tates of the East Side; from Fed· viduals that come quickly to break and took me over of a termite condominium. to sneak a peek at "the most eral Hill to Edgewood; from the mind as being particularly to meet the smallest I as k a few big questions dangerous game in the world." North End to Washington Park. "special." monkey in the world. about the s hrinking u ni­ I pulled apart the portals to see The challenge of C\assical's Mr. Paine, our principal, was A little Adam a nd Eve verse for these evolution­ the wild beast. It was, of course, required Latin course the avail­ one such person. In today's live behind g lass. ary designs crammed into a mirror, marked with statistics .-ibility of Greek as an elective world, it is "prime time" news "They've mated. If closets. ''I'm new here; so on human populatlon growth. and the highly respected when a principal is recognized they raise a fa mily, I far I'm mainly concerned Andy doesn't show off his courses in physics, chemistry for his ability to interact with, can't wait to sec the with down-to-earth mat­ knowledge. He doesn' t brag and the higher levels of mathe­ and motivate, his students. young.J'vehadalook ters, like how much wa­ about his work. But he's doing matics brought together some "Charlie" Paine provided us al photographs, a nd ter tosprinkleon the sand , his milzvah, his mission, with of the "best and brightest" in this support effortlessly and they're real cute, the size of your how many crickets to put in, or quiet goodwill. the city (the rest of us were sim­ consistently, and with obvious thwnb." bamboo shoots. I do the basic I stopped by tos.:1yso long lo ply slipped in to "temper" the enjoyment - during the school. We passed by a group of tree stuff. But they will have to ex­ the giraffes and the elephants. mix). day and at both scheduled and kangaroos, a d ad, mom and pand the spaces." Bereft of the framework of a It is not, however, the van­ ad hoc extracurricular activi- grown daughter. They huddled We slipped past some little noble la ndscape, they look like ished school building with its (Continucd on r age 9) together in a branch to nap away glassed-in corner cabinets that giant cutouts. O n this January a winter's afternoon. "The big hold jade tree frogs, wise old midday, a fewgrown-upssland girl will go on to a nother zoo. turtles (don' t anthropomor­ around and visit. You know,you They can't let them inbreed; it phize, Andy warns) and subtle don't need to hold a kid by the DONALD S.HOROWITZ will damage the species. In the salamanders. It brings me back hand. Andy's world will keep CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT w ild, she would leave her to the Natio11af Geographic bar you good company. forme rly a pa11ner w ith Laven1hol & Horwath, C.P.A.'s He describes the synagogue of now associated with First Financial Group Orthodox 'Stigma' Is Not Deserved about 120 families asa wonder· 1020 Park Avenue, Suite 102, Cranston , RI 02910

by Kammie Kettelle Currently, he is supervising ~~~;~:~;:it~s~;;euc':n~~ar:~~I= LARGE FIRM EXPERIENCE, SMALL FIRM FEES He rald Assistant Edito r rabbi at the Vaad H,1kashruth, As an Orthodox rabbi in an the Orthodox rabbinical com· re!?~eed aer:v~o;e~;n~,~rr~~~~:x Let me save you money on your /992 Income Taxes .uca such as Providence, Rabbi mittee that oversees much of Orthodox synagogue," Marder EXECUTIVE 8: BUSINESS INCOM E TAX Ch,1im Marder would like to said. " I think that a lot of peo- PLANNI NG AND P R EPARATIO N break down the barriers of wh,H it means to be Orthodox :~~::va:~~~ur7gt~/;~~~i~:i~~-~ ALSO S ERVICES FOR ELDERS, INCLUDING BILL " l think the traditional )ew­ ~ Among its many features, the PAY MENT, R ECORD-KEEPING AN D FILING FO R MS. b h way of life is a beautiful congregation has programs for CAU.. NOW FOR A FREE CONSULTATION way to live and I would like to children, families and couples Office 46-8080 • Home 725-3089 :.hare that with everybody," and an active Sisterhood. One L__ _ :..:_:c:..:_:...:._9______c __ ---' Marder told the Haa/d last ~ group the rabbi spoke of was week the Kashrut in Rhode Island "The Li ving Room Limud." He readily gives reassurance According to the rabbi, Beth Each month, a group of JS cou­ that whatever people are afraid Sholom is a conglomeration of ples meets at different families' of, they shouldn't be. three different congregations: homes to discuss a different " People have to get through Ahavat Shalom, Congregation topic. a lot of misconceptions and Sons of Zion and Beth Sholom. (Continued on Page 9) fears !about Orthodox Ju­ daism]," he said. "Tragically, tradition,11 living in all ways of life 1n America has been put on the defensive. ., Marder, who is a native of THIS WEEK'S SPECIALS Richmond, Va., has been the Hop,a .....t loeadon _,,.. T1Wow8h 1127191 rabbi at Congregation Beth Sholom in Providence for two­ Unsalted Nova lox Pieces ...... ONLY lb. and-a-half years. His mother's $3,99 father was a rabbi, and he still uses his grandfather's shtender MIiier's Own $1 49 (Yiddish for stand). Cream Cheese ...... , ONLY , lb. In 1985, he graduated from Yeshiva University in New MIiier's Own $ 99 York where he also obtained a Bagel Chips ...... ONLY , bag mcJ ster's degree in Jewish his­ tory. Marder served as an assis­ Every Monday and Tuesday at MIILER'S tant and associate rabbi to Senior Citizens Discount: 10% Off All Purchases! R,1bbi /\vi Weiss at the Hebrew (Specials e~cluded) Institute in Ri verdale, N.Y. - ·.•1 :--.·_1~ • · :J1,j ,-. J;;;_J 10 t)i-i ~ :, HT .• 4 - THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERAlD,-TJ.iURSDAY.-IAi,/DA1frff 1993 OPINIONS Adding Insult Letters to the \\!\l:;. to Injury ~------1~M','lt,\ To the Editors: The remains of our people cry out in Poland (or should I say their ashes). In life, they were degraded. In death, their bodies were treated as house­ truly concerned Jews for dem­ hands when it comes to this hold refuse - burned and cov­ onstrating at the convent site, issue. They go to their ecumen­ ered up. Now, their collective in favor of its removal. ical tea-party meetings where ashes can't rest in peace. An The fourth was to lie to the they get " promises" of help, abomination, which took place Jewish people when he prom­ on the issues. They have spirit­ a few years ago, has not been ised to give in to "Jewish pres­ ual swap weekends where rectified. sure" and move the convent. Christian and Jewish clergy In all of this world's history, The fifth was to denounce the swap pulpits, with the hope of never has a government built a Jews as too powerful and the help on th is and other issues. memorial to fallen civilians of main cause of Polish alcohol­ Well, they must be doing wartime. Never has a church ism (an excuse to back down something right. No American movement built a church in from his agreement) to have church movement has built a memory of civilians killed in the nuns leave the convent). second convent, at Auschwitz. wartime - well, not until a Now, according to the cur­ I' ve often been criticized for few years ago, in Auschwitz, rent issue of Tlie Jeru salem my strong views, but at least Poland. Post, Cardinal Glemp is pass­ this Jew speaks his mind The notorious anti-Semite, ing the buck. The nuns are re ­ When will the Jews of the left Cardinal Glemp, has been car­ fu sing to move to a newly built do the same? rying on a war against the Jews convent. One might say that I remember my Bu bby for years. The first thing he did the cardinal has gotten into the (grandmother) always telling was to allow a church to be " habit" of bending the truth. me - with her strong Yiddish built on a site where the Jews When will Glemp admit (as accent -" Even if der presi­ have felt much pain and suf­ Ra v Weiss eloquently put it, ·dent vuz here, I vouldn't be fering. when he spoke in Providence afraid to give a talk. " Thirteen Second was to allow the about a year ago) that the days in Teves was my Bubby's nuns who lived in this convent Poles are into historical re­ yahrtzeit Uan . 6). On a yahrtzeit, to distribute literature encour­ visionism. All of a sudden, it is customary for a relative of aging Jews to become the "cor­ 1939 to 1945 has become the the deceased to speak or have rect faith ." Such chutzpah! In a Polish civilian holocaust - the printed a religious theme in Finding the Words place where Jews were slaugh­ Jewish deaths are a mere foot ­ memory of that person. Well, Rhode Island radio personality Flo rence Markoff speaks to tered for being of the " in­ note to history (as said over by I'm not a rabbi and can't come the Dvorah Dayan meeting Monday in Providence. correct faith, " there are those the " noted" French anti­ forth with gushing Torah. All I Herald photo by Omar Bradley desecrating their memory by Semitic poli tician, Monsieur can do is keep a grandson's trying to persuade living Jews LePen, or better known as Mr. promise to a Bubby - to be a to convert (or tel1ing non-Jews Poison " Pen" ). good Jew a11d neve~ be afraid ~ Rhode Island Jewish Herald fl':n to try and convert Jews to the Jewish "leaders" who have to speak the truth. Bubby Kap­ "correct faith ." made a business out of build­ lan, this one's for you and an SUBMISSIONS POLICY The third was to allow ing Holocaust museums aliyah for your neshama. Send to: workers at the convent to beat (there's no business like Jerry Snell :~~t:~~t~~~i~~~7:~~~~~~~:~~c~~~:i~~ Letters to the Editor up Rav Avi Weiss and other "shoah" business) sit on their Providence concerns. Articles must be typed and double­ RI Jewish Herald spaced. Please include a daytime telephone P.O. Box 6063 number. Anything longer than 500 words Providence, RI 02940 Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right may beeditedforspacerestrictions. Or fox to: 401 /726-5820. To the Editors: death factories such as Ausch­ longer leading us. The rabbi Jerry Snell is, perhaps, right witz and Bergen-Belsen were was a rebel-rouser, much as when he says that the whole not yet in existence. YassarArafat. world goes " meshugah" be­ Those 400, many of diem When I was in high schoool, cause of the 400 terrorists who well-known members of terror­ some Jewish friends asked me were expelled from Israel. (See ist groups, included, one must to join the "Betar," a group fol­ Jan. 7 Herald, Page 4) be certain, some innocents. lowing the principles of (USPS464-760J PubllshedEveryWeek8yThe Let us view the situation, They are now in a sort of no­ Trumpe\dor, who thought that Jewish Press Publishing Company however, without blinders. man's land. Two wrongs do every gentile., ought to be EDITOR: When an Israeli policeman was not make a right, Mr. Snell. fought with sticks. After at­ ANNE S. DAVIDSON shot by those terrorists, a The writer also expresses the tending two meetings, I quit. ASSISTANT EDITOR· Candlelighting opinion that anti-Semitism is It has been proven over and KAMMIE KETTELLE roundup of them began and on the rise. Alas, th e sad truth. over again that fanaticism and CONTRIBUTING REPORTER­ they were expelled. MICHAEL FINK It brings back to mind a ti me But Jews do not fight back only ultra-force never work. COLUMNIST· January 22 when a Nazi official was killed with water pistols as Mr. Snell I would be interested to read DOROTHEA SNYDER and hundreds of innocent Jews believes and/or wants us to and even debate rebuttals to PHOTOGRAPHER· were arrested and sent to such believe. He laments also that my opinions expressed here. OMAR BRADLEY 4:30 p.m. Hans Heimann ADVERTISING ACCOUNT REPS camps as Dachau and Buchen­ Rabbi Meir Kahane is no JEANETTE HIDALGO wald. At that time, the ultimate Cranston MYRNA H . DRESS GRAPHICS· JOHANNA BULICH

MAILING ADDRESS: 8ox6063, Provldence,AI02940 Fifty Years Ago This Week In The Jewish Herald TELEPHONE: (401)724-0200 PLANT: HeraldWay,offWebsterStreet Palestine Births Off Warns a Wave of Rising Pawtucket,A102861 JERUSALEM - The Jewish WEEK OF JAN. 22, 1943 Intolerance OFFICE: 117SWarrenAvenue birth rate in Palestine has BUFFALO, N.Y. - Sound­ EH1Provldence,At02914 dropped since 1924 to such H.M. Sherwood Given Emanuel Club Award ing a warning that the Jews Secondda$$postagepa!da1Pr0VldeUtheastarn Massachusetts . S14,00 per aMUm . Bui< was stated here this week by Americans must take strong ratesoorequestTheHeraldaswmessubseriptions Prof. Abraham H. Frankel of community service 'plaque of measures, U.S. Senator ar0conbnU011Sunlessno1rliedtothecoo!ra,yinwr~,"II the Hebrew University. Prof. the Men's Club of Temple ToeHe,aldaswmesnolmancialresponsibility!or Claude Pepper of Florida, 1yp09rapho::alerrorsinadvel'tisements, bu1wiUrep,"'1 Frankel said that the drop in Emanuel at exercises held in addressing a statewide con­ lha1pa11ottheadvet11Samen!inwhicttthelypog,aplucal the Jewish bi rth rate is the Temple. The award is fe rence of 600 delegates of erroroc:cursAdYertise(swill~asenotrty1hemanage­ given annually to a citizen of men1,mmmedoa10tyotanye,-,orwhdlmayoco.,r "catastrophic." The natural the United Palestine Appeal Unsokr!edmanusa¢·Unsokrtedmanuscrlp!Sare increase among Jews has de­ Providence for outstanding called upon the United Na­ welcome W0donotpeyfot~pr,111ed A!lmanu ·- -· achievement in the field of se,tp!smus1betyped, cloot.e-spac&dEnciosea creased from 38.2 per 1000 tions to implement their dee· stamped.settaddressedenvelope~youwall!lhemanu· ...... 1924 1941 , civ ic improvement, human in to 20.7 in he laration of protest <1gainst w,ptr9!\llnedlen&rsto!heedllOlreprMM11heop,n­ betterment and advance­ torl5 ot the wr~ers, not 1he editofs, and should include stated. He appealed for more the Nazi slaughter of thel@l!41wn!(!(s telephonenumberfot•0rdica1ion Notice: The opinions presented on children " to replace those ment of Americar, ideals. 2,000,000 Jews in Europe. The Herald 19 0 member ol the New E"(lland PrftSs thispagedonotnecessarilyrepresent wiped out by the Nazis." -Assoc,aborland asubscflber1o!heJewsl!Teleg,rapllic th eopinionsofthisestablishment THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21. 1991 OPINIONS We Can Learn from the Staff of Aaron We read in this week's A Call to Action for Bosnia Aaron's staff turned into a (Editor's Note: The following Torah portion, Va'eira, of dards. serpent, for Pharaoh's magi~ is an iuterfaith statement 011 G-d's instructions to Moses We call upon the president cians were also able to perform Bosnia from the Community Rela­ and Aaron prior to their ap­ and our nation's other leaders, this feat. Rather, it was the fact tions Cou11cil, Jewish Federation pearance before Pharaoh . acting in concert with other that Aaron's staff (after having of Rlwde Island; Dr. Mohamed When Pharaoh asked them nations where possible, alone changed from a serpent back Arif, µresident, Masjid Al Islam; for a sign to prove that the one where necessary, to: into a staff) swallowed the Rhode Island State Council of 1. Redouble our nation's who sent them was mighty, magicians' staffs. Churches, a11d the Roman Cath­ efforts to promote an immedi­ Aaron was to throw down his The wonders and plagues olic Diocese of Rl,ode Island). ate and lasting end to the vio­ staff and it would turn into a that occurred in Egypt did not lence in the former Yugoslavia. serpent. When Aaron threw We cannot stay silent; we come about for the sole pur­ 2. Enforce the existing U.N. down his staff, Pharaoh imme­ will not. pose of punishing the Egyp­ The dying and the killing in "no fly" zone over Bosnia. diately called in his wise men tians, but rather to break down Bosnia and elsewhere in the 3. Demand that the U.N. and magicians, demanding the resistance and opposition former Yugoslavia must stop. Security Council create safe that they duplicate the trick The miracle which took of the Egyptian people to G-d Tens of thousands of lives havens in Bosnia to protect themselves. They easily per- place here was not that Egyptian philosophy claimed have been lost; hundreds of innocent civilians. that G-d has no power of influ­ thousands of lives are at imme­ 4. Ensure that relief supplies ence in the world; after Crea­ diate risk; thousands more are intended to sustain life in fact Also to Keep tion the world was ruled by suffering unspeakable torture reach the suffering people who, the laws of nature and G-d at this very moment. While so desperately await them. (Continued from Page I) boat." On Friday night at the relinquished any day-to-day America may not choose to be 5. Join in implementing ef­ war thing - I read Vietnam temple, Mort and his group, in supervision or attention. policeman to the world, the fective measures to ensure that folktales. Destruction held us lieu of a piano, took their notes The 10 plagues disproved mass murder of innocents in those areas of the former Yugo­ from the canary-perfect pitch in its gri p. Protest acted out this ideology, each one of them unacceptable; we cannot sit slavia that have thus far been another war on its own. Maybe of our diminutive dynamo can­ illustrating a different error in idly by as the cruelty and kill­ spared the horrors that have tor. through tradition and art, I their way of thinking. The mir­ ing persist. devastated so much of Bosnia figured, we could learn some­ I also read, wrote to and acle of the swallowing of the We are all marked by the les­ not become new a reas of thing, about others and about listened in on Avi Shafran's staffs was an introduction to sons of the Holocaust. For us, tragedy. ourselves. objection to the holiday. He the miracles that would follow. as leaders of Rhode Island's (Continued on Page 20) wants a "Rights Day," not a The meeting between Aaron faith communities - Cath­ America no longer only King Day. We spoke on the and Pharaoh was a confronta­ olics, Protestants, Muslims and phone. "We need ideas, not tion between the forces of melts us down into a com­ Jews - the legacy of "never OVERSIZED SALADS heros," says Rabbi Avi. good and evil. Aaron's staff again" also extends to never mon pot. We now seek not STEAMED VEGGIES I met a little girl of 8 who symbolized the godly force again allowing the world to just to share and merge, lives in South County. She is a which comes from holiness. stand idly by in the face of Jewish Narragansett, a tribal but also to keep. The serpent symbolized Egypt, organized oppression based on member of two peoples. My as it says, "Egypt is a great ser­ religious or ethnic identity. own Reuben plays with a cou­ pent stretched out within its The policy of ethnic cleansing Patches of garden space at sin who mixes Jewish and Afri­ rivers." By turning the staff RISO bloomed with colorful and the atrocities being con­ e can blood. But America no into a serpent, Aaron showed young people in beads. Air ducted by the Serbs against the Valerie Anne's longer only melts us down into Pharaoh that Egypt itself owed Muslim population in Bosnia 727 East Avenue, Pawtucket resounded with fine phrases. I a common pot. We now seek its life-force to G-d. When drove from RISO to D.C. with are clear violations of all inter­ 727-3620 not just to share and merge, Pharaoh's magicians were also national human rights stan- Tuesday-5aturday 6-3. Sunday 7-1 an Olneyville black student but also to keep. We beg to able to turn their staffs into named Ray Wooden. We differ. serpents, they were insisting ~------, packed toothbrushes and went Rabbi Franklin spoke of love that they had their own power. to stand among the throng and as the friendly force to weld When their staffs were swal­ drink in the stirring words of the alliance together again. lowed up by that of Aaron, it 0 Martin Luther King. I play Mark Patinkin on his show proved that the power of im­ 40%-60%Off the record cut that day for my spoke of the brain as well as purity and uncleanliness is classes from time to time. the heart. nothing in the face of the Fall & Winter Mercha ndise Omar Bradley, the man be­ We need more knowledge of power and force of holiness, hind the camera, fulfilled his each other. Blacks can find and can have no existence or Sale In Progress " own role in those days of some facts about Israel, about duration. Wayland Square • Providence destiny. He was there upon the the Holocaust, about Jewish Through this miracle, G-d Gorden City • Cranston stair at RISO, Hope and Clas­ struggles in America. showed Pharaoh and his wise sical, watching and recording. Gladiy must we learn and men that they, too, were under We shared in the season of gladly teach while we reach. (Conti nued on Page 20) dreams. Vivian Taylor thinks Jews 0 and blacks split because Jews moved away from the East 0 Side. 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Benjamin Eisenbe rg • Ellen Eisenberg Shofne r 727 Hope s1,-.1, ProvlNnc• • 421.0309 • Monda,--ThurMl•Y 9:30-5:30, ,rida,- 9:30-2, Sunda,- 10-2 • ·· •.·.·· ·,. ··,, .. ,1: ':~-: :... 1?1 :~nn1·:~: 1:~r 6 - THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1993 WORLD AND NATIONAL NEWS Arabs Urging Anti-Israel Sanctions Israel Indicts Jew Implicated by Larry Yudelson foreign ministers. UN ITED NATIONS OTA) - The statement calls on the in Plot to Kill Israeli Leaders ~ The Arab states are urging the Security Council "to take ade­ U.N. Security Cou ncil to con- quate measures, including the by Hugh Orgel PLO activities in the occupied ~ sider using sanctions, if neces­ application of the rules of TEL AVIV OTA) - An territories.· sary, to get Israel to reverse its Chapter 7 of the United Na­ Indian-born Jewish resident of Avraham was given $20,b00 tions Charter, to oblige Israel Rishon le-Zion has been in­ and instructed to return to .~. expulsion of more than 400 Moslem fundamentalist activ­ to implement Resolution 799 dicted for plotting to kill Israeli Israel and assassinate an Israeli ists to Lebanon. immediately." leaders at the instructions of a leader from among a list Palestine Liberation Organiza­ Im•\ Representatives of the Arab headed by Ariel Sharon, and states met with the president tion faction. including Yi tzhak Shamir, INTERNATIONAL of the U.N. Security Council Jews for Jesus Rafael Avraham, 44, was Ceula Cohen, Yitzhak Rabin on Jan. 13 and asked him to ordered held in custody pend­ and Rafael Eitan. TEL A VIV (JTA) - Israel re­ expedite the council's consider­ Wages Massive ing completion of the investiga­ Rabin became prime minis­ ceived advanced notice from ation of the matter. tion. ter in July after succeeding a Washington that the U.S.­ Japanese Ambassador Ad Campaign Prosecutors say Avraham, Likud government headed by led air strike against Iraq on Yoshio Hatano, who this b y Boaz Ovir driven by a desire for money, Shamir and including Sharon. Jan. I J would be limited in month holds the council's rotat­ Miami Jewish T ribune turned to the Falah group half Cohen and Eitan both rep­ scope, Prime Minister ing presidency, said he would MIAMI UTA) - Many Jews a year ago after being turned resented right-wing parties in Yitzhak Ra bin has disclosed. bring the request to the atten­ are already looking forward to down by the Jo rdanian and the Knesset at the time. Visiting an air force base in tion of the body's 15 members. next year's holiday season. But Iraqi embassies in London, to the south, Rabin, who also But according to an Israeli for some Jewish families, the whom he first allegedly offered Peres Proposes holds the defense portfolio, official, Hatano also told the next holiday season will not be his services. said the United States had Arab representatives that a the same. Al Fata h is a constituent Weapons-Free been in contact with Israel U.N. envoy who traveled to Some members of Jewish group of the PLO; both the fac­ and with other Middle East the Middle East last week in an families who celebrated the tion and the umbrella organiza­ Mideast capitals in advance of the strike against targets in attempt to resolve the issue Maccabees' victory this year lion are headed by Yasir by Michel Di Paz southern Iraq that was car­ might he sent back to the will commemorate Jesus' birth­ Arafat. PARIS (JTA) - Israeli For­ ried out by American, British region for further discussions. day next year. Avraham allegedly made eign Minister Shimon Peres and French warplanes. The envoy, Chinmaya This, due to a four-week, contact with the group through urged the Arab states last week Charekhan, was in Paris on $576,000 ad campaign by a a Pakistani taxi driver in to join in establishing a Middle Jan. 13, briefing U.N. Sec­ missionary group that in­ London who put him in touch East free of weapons of mass JERUSALEM (JTA) - Secu­ retary-Gen. Boutros Boutros­ volved six national magazines with an official of the PLO, destruction. rity forces have arrested two Ghali on his mission. and 25 newspapers, according Abdul Achman. Addressing an international Palestinians from the West " When you put it all to­ to Susan Perlman, spokes­ Avraham, who has not conference o n chemical Bank for the murder of an gether, it's clear they're rolling person for San Francisco-based served in the Israel Defense weapons proliferation here Israeli Shin Bet security it over to the incoming Clinton Jews for Jesus. Force because of mental prob­ Jan. 13, Peres urged the crea­ agent in Jerusalem two administration," said the Different ads appeared dur­ lems, represented himself as a tion of a " mutually veri fiable weeks ago. They are still Israeli official. ing December in publications senior officer in the Israeli zone, free of surface-to-surface ' searching for a third suspect. The Arab representatives such as TV Guide, Time, News­ army. missiles and of chemical, bio­ All three are relatives from gave Hatano a copy of a reso­ week, Parade, Was//i11gto11 Post, He was sent on to Tunis, logical and nuclear weapons." the Aida refugee camp, near lution approved Jan. 12 in Philadelphia /11q11irer, Miami where he met with Jibril Rajub, Israeli willingness to include Bethlehem. Cairo at the end of an emer­ Herald and The New York described as a senior aide to nuclear weapons in arms con­ gency meeting of Arab League Times. Arafat and "coordinator of trol considerations evidently JERUSALEM UTA) - Is­ opened the way for Arab states rael's High Court of Justice to participate in the signing has delayed the posting of here of an international treaty Ambassador-designate lta­ hanning chemical weapons. mar Rabinovich to Washing­ Earlier, the Arab states had ton, pending hearings on a said they would stay away challenge to his appoint­ from the chemical weapons ment. The court last week is­ conference because of Israel's sued an injunction barring refusal to sign the Nuclear Ra binovich from taking up Non-Proliferation Treaty. his post until it rules on a But according to sources petition by Conen Segev of here, all of the Arab countries · the right-wing Tsomet party. of northern Africa - including Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and JERUSALEM UT A) - Israeli even Lihya - have now university professors have ,1greed to sign the Convention ended a one-week strike on for the Prohibition of Chemical the promise of continued ne­ Weapons. gotiations on their salary de­ And sources say that Jordan, mands and an interim pay Oman, Kuwait. Yemen and hike of 4.8 percent. Rhode Island's Premier Bridal Guide for Jewish Women Mauritania are expected to fol­ low suit. TEL AVIV (JTA) - An inter­ nal investigation by El Al into the crash of one of its Administration Boeing 747 cargo jets in Am­ To target your services and products effectively, call sterdam on Oct. 4 has laid To Maintain full blame for the disaster on 724-0200 the plane·s American manu­ Aid to Israel facturer. The report, pub­ by Deborah Kalb lished Jan. 10, recommends ~ ,y,eadf~ ~ w~/a,UJ.' St.itesNewsService that the airline sue the Seat­ WASHINGTON (JTA) tle-based Boeing Corp. for Fashion for the Bride & Mother of the Bride The Clinton administration full damages. The decision will seek to maintain the cur· noted a similar loss of an Your Reception • Wedding Services• Florists rent high level of foreign aid to identical China Airline ,:1 ir­ Israel, Secretary of State­ craft a year ago. Photographers • Videographers • Honeymoon Travel designate Warren Christopher told the Senate last week. Hair Salons • Cosmetics • Jewelers • Invitations "There's a very strong case JERUSALEM OTA) - An for the maintenance of aid at 11th-hour effort by an Israeli Shower Gifts • Wedding Gifts • Party Supplies those existing levels, a case Cabinet committee to reach that·s usually strongly put and ,:1 compromise over a contro­ Caterers • Bakeries• Restaurants strongly fe lt here on Capitol versial highway site here ap­ peared to founder as both Limousines • Rental Information Hill," Christopher told the Sen­ ate Foreign Relations Com mit­ sides in the dispute rejected cvnal:mow tee during confirmation hear­ the proposal. The compro­ ings Jan. 13. mise proposal would shift ADVERTISING AND EDITORIAL DEADLINE IS His comments came in re­ the route of the highway by sponse to a question fro m frcsh­ six or seven y.uds to avoid MONDAY, JANUARY 25, AT NOON m,m Sen. Russell Feingold ,111 but one of five anoent (0 Wis.), who ,1sked for burial caves accidentally un· Rhode Island Jewish Herald, P.O. Box 6063, Providence, RI 02940 'ipccific examples of where the covered ..11 the site. {Continul'd on r .,ge 19) THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1993 WORLD AND NATIONAL NEWS Polish Leader to Take Part in Ceremony I~ by Michel Di Paz PARIS (]TA) - Polish Prime Minister Hanna Such­ ock,1 has agreed to take part in ceremonies next April com­ [- \ memorating the 50th anniver­ NATIONAL sary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprismg. WASH INGTON OTA) Suchocka told leaders of the The Rev. Jesse Jackson has European Jewish Congress re­ accepted his first-ever offi­ ct>ntl}' that she will participate cial invitation to visit Israel, in events sponsored by world according to Jackson and an Jewish organizations and the Israeli Embassy official. Polish government to com­ While no date has been set memorate the ghetto resistance for the visit, it will probably to the Nazis. take place sometime within Members of the congress' the next year, both parties executive board, holding their said. The invitation was ex­ first-ever meeting in Warsaw, tended by Deputy Foreign abo r,1ised the issue of restitu­ Minister Yossi Beilin at a tion for Jewish assets seized by meeting with Jackson on Jan. thl' Na1.is and then by the Com­ In Memory 7 in Washington that both munists. At the Jewish National Fund dedication for the Yi tz hak Roth Memorial Recreation Area in the sides termed positive Discussion of the issue has Jerusalem Forest, Dr. Efrayim Mordechai Roth contemplates the memorial marker fo r his father, been prompted by the onset of w ho perished in the Holocaust. NEW YORK - The Na­ a process of privatization in the tional Council of Jewish former Communist states of the larger issue of a resurgence and Eastern Europe. Jewish Congress in Paris, to be Women and the AJCongress Eastern Europe. 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Lew Soloff are a medley of Duke But it is New Hampshire's "Borscht a nd Elvin Jones. Lew has two bands, one an electric Elli ngton tunes, "Come Sunday," "It Belt," the White Mountains, where Lew Lew sees a big comeback of the band, the other, acoustic. He performs Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Solo ff spent hisseventh,eighthand ninth acoustic-type of jazz led by Wynton in Manhattan jazz dubs. "It's great be­ Swing," and "Love You Madly"; Duke summers with his family at Bethlehem's Marsalis, who has done much to re­ cause you always have a small and avid Ellington's "Take The 'A' Train"; "An­ showplace, the Maplewood Hotel. popularize acoustic jazz. audience, but it's peculiar that a lot of gel Eyes," by Mall Dennis; " I Can't Cet That grand vacation mecca was man· "Jazz isa very broad term as is classical the Manhattan jazz audience is Orien­ Started," a special arrangement by aged by his uncle. music. Classical music is often thought of tal. It's really amazing." Johnny Mercer, and an original tune I was a hop, skip and jump away at as just Bach and Beethoven and Brahms, Recently, Lew finished an album, written by Lew, "Marilyn." the sma ller-scaled Taverne, wa iting on but there are people writing classical "Little Wing," a fu sion-type record, Joe Giorgianni, the series' musical tables during summer vacations be­ music today who may not sound like which is a combination of rock 'n' roll director and trumpeter, has long ad­ tweensemcsters, but managed on occa­ those composers; yet they may have a mixed with jazz. mired Lew'sexpertise, first hearing him sion to catch some of the Maplewood's tougher time getting popular. The title is based onJimmy Hendrix's when he was with Blood, Sweat and finest entertainme nt and Tears in the late 60s. test the waters of its great A New York studio palatial pool. musician, Lew im­ I told Lew that bring­ pressed Joe with his ing up the Bethlehem that versatility and musi­ was would stir up memo­ cality. " I heard him in ries of the good old days many musica l si tua­ for New Englanders. "I tions, playing with big loved it," he said, sur­ and small bands, play­ prised that we'd ever be ing studio dates and reminiscing about movie soundtracks," Be thle hem over the Joe said. "He did so phone. many things so well." Brooklyn born, Lew When the Provi­ grew up in Bensonhurs t dencePerformingArts and Shecpshead Bay. Al Center's "Sophisti­ 5, he lived in Lakewood, cated Swing" program N.J., tabbing it "the win­ was planned, Lew im­ ter Catskills." mediately came to Music impressed him a mind as a featured so­ lot as a tot of 4 and even loist for the Locw's Big younger when he'd listen Band concert series. to the records of Louis "Lew's a great Armstrong, FrankSinatra, trumpet player I really Dinah Shore and Ray respect and admire," Eldredge on his grandpar­ said Joe. "Hecanplay ents' phonograph. like Louis Armstrong Though he took piano and turn right around and ukulele lessons al 5 and play the piccolo and trumpet al 10, avid trumpet in a baroque listening to records didn't style, and on the other drive him to any particu­ side play like Doc la r instrument, he said. Severensen. Thal came much later "And ifhewantsto, in co llege, when he saw he can play in a quieter how much those records Miles Davis style. He had influenced him. "I re­ really has a lot of area alized I had those records covered on the trum­ memorized and still do pet." note for note." A littleofLewSoloff The trumpet was "it" canbeheardononeof for Lew, and at 11 Vi, he Dizzy Gillespie's last studied ;it the Juilliard albums. According to Prepara tory Divis ion Joe, the way it came through high school. I le aboutwasduringalive received a bachelor's de- recording session at grec and the prestigious the Blue Note in New Performer's Certificate York City. from the Eastman School "Dizzy was finish· of Music. He also did a ing up his famous year of graduate study at "Night In Tunisia," Joe Juilliard . Lew Soloff, lead trumpeter for the Li ncoln Center and Carnegie Hall Jazz Orchestras, is the featured said. "I-le looked up Lew spent his 14th soloist for the Loew's Big Band concert, "Sophisticated Swing," on Feb. 6 al 7:30 p.m. and spotted Lew at the summer playingtrumpel l!!!!!!!!!!~;:;;::;;:;;::;;:;;::;;:;;::;;:;;::;;:;;::;;:;;::;;:;;::;;:;;::;;:;;::;;:;;::;;:;;::;;:;;::;;:;;::;;:;;::;;:;;::;;:;;::;;:;;::;;:;;::;;:;;::;;:;;::;;:;;::;;:;;::;;:;;::;;:;;::;;:;;::;!!!!!!!!!!!IJ bar, asking him to atsmallhotelsaround the come up and play the L,1kewood area. The next last few notes for him. summer brought his first fu ll-time job "New creative forms have always tune, "Little Wing." The septet album "Lew went up, grabbed Dizzy's horn at the Holiday Hotel in the Catskills, had some tough times and probably features the great trombone player Ra y and played the last few notes. It's one of followed by summers at the Be ll more at always will." And erson; Kenwood Dennard, d rums; the last few records Dizz)•did, if not the Sackett Lake, The Laurels and Lew isn'toverconfident inthe resur· MarkEgan,bass;keyboardistsGilGold- last. Lew just happened lo be sitting Kutscher's. gence of jazz because he sees it's sti ll s tein and Pete Levin; percussionist there. In 196R, Lew Soloff received public less popular in the United States than in Manolo Badrena, and Lew Soloff on Joe feels Lew's just "a wonderful,rnd acclaim as a featured member of Blood, Europe. "Jazz is most popularinJapan, trumpet. vcrsatiletrumpetplayer,theepitomeof Sweat and Tears.Over the years, he has followed by certain countries in Eu- Lew will be the featured soloist for ,1 great trumpet player. played withlhelateGil Evans.Maynard rope, and then maybe in the U.S. the Loew's Bi g Band concert , "Sophisti- "lnNewYorkCity,he'sprnbablythc Ferguson, Joe I lenderson, Vincent "We still have a lot of catching up to cated Swing" al the Providence Per- most vers.:,ti le there is <1nd just about Lopez, Machi to, Tito Puente, the late do in the appreciation of our own mu- fo rming Arts Center on Feb. 6 at 7:30 my favorite trumpet player there. Diay Gi llespie and many more. sic. lt'sadrag," hesaid regretfully. "Jazz p.m. "In myopinion, outof ,, II the soloists Gi l Evans, with whom he worked for is still quite behind other countries. The program pays tribute to com· we've had from the music world st,rnd- 20years,innuenced him the most, "more Whal you have al home isn't apprcci- posers and b.'lnd leaders who elevated point, Lew's the most recogmzable. I le t~~~ ~!1Y.~\IY;T!".1!1~.11'.C. ~:'\S.21)£Pf .tt,r .. ,. ~te_c! ~Ji.T!l_tkC~ ..• ~ _••• 1 '• ····" , , , • , • , ••• .'!'~.~.l.)'.1~.~~ ~~~ i.r~~ -~-'~~~~~/m:;:1!l~\f:'L. "}!~~~!' in\ernalional reputati,on." THE RHODE ISLAND JEW ISH HERALD, THURSDAY, )1\NUARY 71 1993 - 9 FEATURE

decisions to prepare for the Pale Shadows of Poland in Providence end rather than train and arm A Salute To Classical's 150th Year by Mike Fink darkness and dust, 1 was afraid the orphans. Who is right in a (Continued from Page 3) It is difficu lt simpl y to list the of the dark." While Korcha k Herald Contributing Reporter world gone so deeply wrong? ties. ot her exemplar educators - At RISO we have a six -week speaks, he tends a sill of plants The children pray before the Miss Allen was another fa ­ Miss Slocum, who, figurati vely, "winter session" and offer and watches sparrows as ,1 deportation "not to a G-d who vorite, especially for me. "Aunt pushed me through Lat in; the German guard holds a rifle and courses that mix studios and i~ great, or even good. But to Bessie" we called her (though McKa y sisters, one who taught majors. I show a group of non­ stares from a stand across the G-d who is ours." not to her face), and the appre­ history (once a subject despised fiction films and ask my stu­ avenue Friends of all backgrounds, ciation 1 ha ve for classic litera­ by me, now one of my favorate dents to make their own docu­ The nearly unbearable young and old, men and ture and Shakespeare plays be­ pastimes), the other so pretty drama clips or slide carousels. agony and poignancy of the women, Jews, Poles, even Ger· gan in her class. She was al so that all the boys fell in love life of work, study and culture This time I set up a series of mans, make every effort to the person who presided over wit h her; Mr. Griffin ("The in the orphanage, "O ur feature-length motion pictures spare Korchak's own life, but the interminable debates be­ Griffin" of World War I) and Home,., is shown in long, <1 bout Poland. I folded in some he refuses to leave his chil ­ tween Max Bloom and me. (I Mr. Ward, whose physics and older Ame ri can studio-crafted ironic scenes. As the doctor dren. Instead, he join s them in wonder if Max st ill believes aeronautics CO}Jrses, respec­ classics like the technicolor life daily weighs in each ward, he the cattle car. The final scene is that "anything the mind of tively, were my cup of tea; Mr. of Chopin called "Song to notes that they lose, not gain shot as a light fantasy, in a n1an can conceive is possi­ Kramer, who made chemistry Remember." Merle Oberon as they suffer and sta rve. Yet whited field , slow-motion. ble."). so exciti ng that some of us dresses like Dietrich and plays he refuses to let them ta ke it Holland's " Korchak" recalls There was Mrs. Piche, my would remain after school (vol­ Georges Sand. easy. He runs a tight ship. In and pays homage to the post­ teacher of German (she also untarily) to carry out some ad­ I also screen Garbo as the court. the children judge each war period. in its sublim e and was a teacher of French) who vanced experiments; the fear­ rolish Countess Maria Walew­ other, and their teachers - exalted quest for humanitarian brought such memorable po­ some Miss Wallace - the only ska in ··conquest." Then even the doctor himself. Ju s­ filmmaking. She earns respect etry into my life that some of it teacher that ever had me bring Jack Benny will do hi s Polish­ tice, mercy and poetry reign in for a film with dignity of pace, lingers in my mind to this day. my father to school (because, as Jewish Shakespearean bit in the ghetto, but not in the free words of meaning, and child Das Yugend Zauber fuhr und she put it to Dad, " He's not do­ "To Be or Not to Be." zone outside. Liberation will performances of raw impact. fuhr ruht, lachelnd, doch an ing as well as I expect him to"}. I want to find out if card­ he only in death. Korchak My class will have to step dir, an dir, du graue Stadt am There were so many more. board cut-out sets can capture chooses passages by the Indian li vely to keep up with the tone Meer ... The magic of youth Perhaps, at another time, I may anything at all of the Polish poet Tagore, a Hindu, for the it set. continually rests, smiling, to be commit to paper their contribu­ towns and farm s I saw la st children to act out, "so that I opened my eyes wide to sure, on you, on you, you gray tions to the Classical experi­ summer. And to trace U.S. atti­ they wi ll come to see death as take in the images of the de­ city by the sea. ence. tudes toward Poland before a gentl e friend, not a fea rful portation platform , the um­ No, it wasn't Providence the Why was this time, this the horror of Auschwitz and terror." schlagplatz, th e Warsaw ceme­ poet (possibl y, the Jewish-born school, this group of people so the Polish betrayal of Jews got In another touching and tery, where I visited Korchak's Hei ne) was writing about, al­ special? I am convinced that it full exposure he re. slow scene, the doctor li fts a symbolic grave and those of though that is what always was the love of these profes­ But the high point of my crying motherless child from his associates, and the trees comes to mind wit h these lines. sionals for their work. Their course al ready happened on his cot and puts him into his and st reets of the country For this and others (Das genuine emotional involve­ the very first day. I shared with own bed. He soothes and reas­ whose orphans live right Ringlein, Morgenrot, Roslein, ment translated itself into en­ the class my own first view of sures him until he falls asleep. around the corner from me etc.), I owe Mrs. Piche my thusiasm and commitment that the current work of Agnieska Resistance youth dispute his (Continued on Page 12) thanks. we students responded to in Holland (she directed "Europa Few earned more respect kind. The results were such Europa"). In my small RI SO than Mr. O'Neil. His class in that I am certain few of my auditorium chamber, we stared English composition taught me class will ever forget their Clas­ at her dark black-and-white more about clear and accurate sical years. (Continued from Page 3) sketch of the life and death of communication than"any of my Happy birthday, Classical. Dr. Janucz Korchak. However, the main project subsequent education. When I Here's to another 150. I don't know if or when this Marder said he has been work­ demurred as to the val ue of melancholy tragedy will hit ing on is the Jewish Learning English composition to a bud­ local screens. But the tale it fachange. Th is reconstructed ding aeronautical engineer, he tells is worth a preview in program now has about 100 placed the course in its proper words. Most of us already participants in various cl asses perspective with "what good know the outline of " Kor­ which include the Providence wi ll it be if you conceive the s·~a chak." Greatest Pole of his Hebrew Ulpan and lect ure se­ ·92 9000 (Blue) sunroof, mags, best designs in the world , and spoilei-, 9600 mi ...... $21,588 generation, the Jewish teacher­ ries given by Marder. His wife you cannot communicate your Susie, who is a social worker, is '92 9CXXl CD Turbo leather. loaded. doctor dreamed a vision of ideas dearly and unambigu­ (2) 10.000miles ...... $28.788 Jews and Poles together build­ now conducting a group on ously?" parenting ski lls. '92 900TurboConvertibte(blue),aU ing tomorrow without pre­ thetoys. llkmi ...... 527.588 judice. He taught Polish to Marder describes himself as a very ·· real" person to the peo­ Above cars have remainder ot laclory Jews. He did a radio talk show 6-yrJBO.OOO mi.hmi!edwa,rantyand of the journal of his thoughts. ple of his synagogue. He said D 8 M ANTIQUES Until Nazi Germany jack­ one of the characteristics of be­ Single Items are@~&:ii!~oongat booted in. This honored figure ing a good rabbi is being able to or Estates refused to put on the arm translate the ideals of Judaism Rabbi Chaim Marder Appraised or Purchased. Excellent selection of Used Saabs band. He took obsessive to the problems of everyday He-raid photo by Kam mi, Kl'tttl/e 21 TO CHOOSE FROM charge of a large group of Jew­ life. Also, he said his goals as a Furniture • Paintings • Clocks SpeelalFlnanclngAvallable ish orphans, knowing from the rabbi are to bring people to a ~ta H here .... Things get donl' Dolls • Chino • Glassware Upto60Months Oriental Rugs start that all were doomed to greater understanding and ob­ be~·ause everybody makes it die. Holland' scenario relent­ servance of Judaism and to im ­ happen.·· 337 NO. BROADWAY WIGWAM He in vites anyone who has EAST PROVIDENCE lessly pursues th e contrast part the beauty of Jewish li ving 431-1231 915 CHARLES STREET between his love, ca re and and life. interest or questions to come to TOLL fREE RI l-80CMJ7S•l:tJO 353-1260 • 722-5700 moral nobility, and the vile " People have to see Judaism Beth Sholom. One need not be Marvin Rubin. ProprielOI cowardice and brutality of the as part of the noun of who I am a member to participate. German military. The Polish and not the adjective," he said . i\s fo r the future, the rabbi artist admits Polish anti-Semi­ "That doesn't mean it st ifl es me said he thinks it is time to be­ tism but sidesteps and soft­ - it helps form me." come more aggressive in re­ pedals the full fact of com­ Marder called Beth Sholom a cruiting people to the sy na­ DISCOUNT gogue. 'T m ready to take us on plicity. She deals with the ·· hands-on" kind of sy nagogue. SHOES & enemy outside, not within. In ·· we do not ha ve a full -time the road:· Marder added. one scene, a conductor throws HANDBAGS breads fr om the trolley in to the ghetto. A gestapo officer beats and shoots him. Maybe she made the movie tc:, go against Lanzmann's Chanel ~ ·· shoah," which hunts down the truth of Polish collabora­ Q:benetton Patent-Toe tlllll!fl"F tion. But ··Korchak" deals with garden city center the elements of classical tragedy, the compression of time and space. She focuses on WINTER CLEARANCE SALE ~;~~~~~~~ . ~P., 8995 the story of one man, a hero of by I . Miller 7-9AA,6-10M soldduwhere$/50. eloquence and solemn purity. " I grieved for my ca nary when 15-50% Off Rhode Island's Oldest Discount Shoe Store I was 5. My Catholic neighbor Includes all accessories except perfume 23 Dexter Street, Paw1ucket, RI 02860 • 728-2840 told me my sorrow was a sin. Birds, like Jews, have no soul . 16 Hillside Road , Garden Clly , Cranston (Across from Talbol's) MONDAY-SATURDAY ~:30, THURSDAY TILL 8 Th ey go not lo heaven, not 944-2890 MCNISA even to hell. Their soul s sai l to 10 THE RHODE ISLAND JEW ISH H ERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1993 ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT Show To Highlight Works Turn Around, Ann Danis by M. Cushing unspeakable. Special to the Herald But obviously playable. This of Rhode Island Artists And take another bow orchestra played the piece with The Ocean State Chamber pride and care. An additional The Museum of Art, Rhode supporting materials. Each Orchestra gave another delight­ small irony for tonight's pro­ Island School of Design is issu­ slide should be labeled with the ful entertainment Jan. 9 at St. gram: Haas uses a brief ostin­ ing a call to artists who live or artist's name, the title of the ARTS John's Episcopal Church. Di· ato of four rising notes. & work in Rhode Island to submit work, media, dimensions and rector Ann Danis created a The other outstanding item ENTERTAINMENT their work for a juried, contem­ date. program of diverse pieces of on the program was Respighi's porary art exhibition to be held There are three judges in ingeniously plunged together " 11 Tramonto," sung by mezzo BRIEFS in 1994. each division. Hillary Nicholson. Shelley's The weekend of Jan. 30 and The two-category exhibition The judges wil l choose the passionate poem to the sunset, 3 I wi ll welcome a wide embraces both fin e arts and ap­ artists who will be invited to a place where "Genius and spectrum of dance perfor­ plied arts. PaiT_1t ing, sculpture exhibit. The specific work will CONCERT Death contended," is done rich mances and classes, spon­ and works on paper and video be chosen by the museum's justice in the 1913 piece. The sored by Dance Alliance of are being sought in the fine arts curatorial staff. REVIEW personified sunset turns to his Rhode Island Inc. On Jan. category. Applied arts submis­ All submissions must be re· sweetheart: '"Is it not strange 30, Works in Progress will sions may include one-of-a­ ceived by the March 30 dead- Isabel,' said the youth, / 'I highlight new pieces by area kind furniture, ceramics, tex­ line for consideration. A check never saw the sun? We will and guest choreographers. tiles, glass, metal and jewelry. or money order fo r the $25 ap- to marvelous effect - it all walk here / Tomorrow; thou The 8 p.m. informal perfor­ Artists may submit work to the plication fee (payable to the worked into a program of high shalt look on it with me."· mance and 4 p.m. ballet category they deem appropri­ Museum of Art, RISO) and a quality and wide appeal. Poor Isabel, as we might guess, class are held at Brown Uni­ ate. The work will be judged self-addressed, stamped enve- One doesn't expect a serious finds her lover dead before this versity's Ashamu Dance accordingly. lope should accompany slides chamber orchestra perfor­ promised experience. Space. Jan. 3 1 will herald a Artists are invited to submit a and supporting materials. The mance to begin with a jig, then Respighi's setting of a beau­ full day of master classes to maximum of five slides of their application fee entitles the move on to the " Irish washer­ tiful Italian translation of the be held at the Henry Barnard work, a resume and relevant artist to a one-year Museum of woman" interleaved with poem might have pleased Shel­ School at Rhode Island Col­ Art membership. The complete "Greensleeves": Holst's "St. ley, who chose Italy as his lege. For more information, submission packet should be Paul Suite" was the firs t of home and spent many an eve­ call 828-5957. ~ ------7 directed to: Contemporary Art many surprises. ning in contemplation of her

~ I I 1n Rhode Island, Museum of ev!;eJ!:~e0 ~s u:o kj:;~ ~~~; sunsets. Nicholson was spell­ Warwick Museum will p ANDA I (Continued on Ne)(t Page) . from " The Planets,"' and pre- binding. She e)(pressed the text present " Ladies First," a sensitively, letting the music one-woman portrayal of first I cious little else. Here he has do its work. She used as full a I orchestrated tunes we have in ladies by Roobin Lane on ISLAND vocal palette as Shelley did a Jan. 30 at 8 p.m. at Wa rwick I our bones, resulting in a fine literary one, allowing her CHINESE RESTAURANT and entertaining lesson in how City Hall Council Cham­ I superb voice its dynamic and "Panda is a rare find." I to listen to good music. In the bers. A champagne recep­ e)(pressive range. tion to meet the actress will Providence Journal, 3/1.7/fJ2 I ,:.__,,._...,..,.,_,,_...., Ostinato movement, he plays The only disappointment I with a figure consisting merely immediately follow at the was the Vivaldi violin con­ Wa rwick Museum Gallery. s2.oo off with I of fouc descend;ng notes, ,evel- certo, played by Elizabeth General admission tickets 1 @(ill~@)~. ing with each repetition in a this coupon· o Monacelli in rather literal fash ­ cost $ I 8, which includes the ion and without the bravura "minilll.lm$15order · goodthru2/13/93 ~~:1:~afs ~n~::~;; tehaes~~e~~i~ reception. Tickets are avail­ I crucial to this music. Her per­ l mental "Greensleeves" on able at the museum, 3259 formance in the virt uoso pas­ Post Road, Warwick, or by sages was accurate, although calling 737-0010. ~~~:~d , :~:ngot~~: ~\~:ls~~~~ one could ask fo r a lot more line, but these passages are NO MSG. EAT IN OR TAKE Otrr I I i :~~~i~: ~~7~; ::\~vea~i~~~[a~~ only a small proportion of the Young visitors to the Chil­ -~. :a I sI J 2-piece orchestra. 821-5553/65 I piece. The allegros demand dren's Museum of Rhode ls­ ~=:r~::.s::,1,1:~:~: I The performance of Pa vel constant interpretation: shad­ la nd will gather Jan. 24 from 1 Sunday 1230pnH0pm I Haas' ''Study forStringOrches- owing, question-and-answer I to 3 p.m. for a celebration 1 300 Quaker Lane Shopping Center I tra "' was a beautiful gift to treatment, delicacy in length, of the coming of the sun like 1 c,_wes_ett P_laza_,R_t. 2,_w, _owic k, RI I Rhode Island. Haas wrote the lightness of expression. The the people of Hammerfest, Norway do after long, dark L ~ L.------' piece while imprisoned at Tere­ lyrical adagio cries 01,11 for zin, where Nazis allowed pris­ over-the-top playing. winter months. During "A oners to compose and play as a Vivaldi offers the violinist Sunny Start" children will sham. The music, however, is enormous opportunity to draw make sun bread and create a no sham but real, and the the audience into the music; sun out of brightly colored orchestra has given us its when done well , it is a reward­ cellophane and tissue paper. Rhode Island premiere. ing (let's admit it, fun) experi­ Program attendance is on a In a single movement, Haas ence for performer and audi­ first-come, first -served basis. pulled together streams _from ence alike. Otherwise, it 's just Other children's programs many corners of conscious­ boring. There is so much good are being offered Jan. 27, 30 ness, evoking many abstrac­ Baroque performance going on and 3 1. The museum is lo­ tions with hi s well-crafted these days that it's a shame not cated at 58 Walcott St., Paw­ ... Truly Wonderful .. . music. The piece is beautiful to learn from it. Perhaps Mona­ tucket. For more informa­ and dense, as though he didn't celli should lower the music tion, call 726-2591 Naturally Leavened Breads Baked Daily have much time. The bass sets stand a little and shine. Wood-Grilled Pizzas, Fresh Juices various scenes as emotions A Variety of Spcc-ial Entrees There was a little Baroque in Award-winning British ac­ pass over the face of the music. the evening's finale, Grieg's tress Claire Bloom and Rus­ Award-Winning Chili, Salads Sometimes haunted, some­ When food is truly wo11derf11l, it is also bealt/Jful. " Holberg Suite:· The piece sian actress Alla Demidova times ranting, sometimes sing­ pays charming homage to the will present "Silenced ing, perplexity, anger and love I 8t h-century dance suite, a Women: The Poems of LUNCH ? DINNER ? TAKE-OUT mingle in a contradiction of 388 Wickenden St. (at liope SU, Providence• 454-3920, Fax 454-7914 foot in each century (abso­ Anna Akhmatova and Ma­ grounded spirituality; reality lutely no pun intended). It rina Tsvetayeva," a dra­ would have been interesting to matic reading, at 8 p.m. Jan. hear a little more sensitivity to 28 in Brown's Sayles Hall the dance forms - the si nuous on the College Green. two-measure rhythm of the (Continued on Ned Page) Meredith Wilson's "The Music Man" is coming to the New Bedford, Mass., ehina lnn Zeiterion Theatre on Jan. 30 for two shows at 2 and 8 #1 Chinese Restaurant in Rhode Island AnlNIIUICI ,-, weddillg. Hr p.m. For more information, SZECHUAN• MANDARIN orbltmitz¥ab.Hftivt""l'or ca ll the Zeiterion Box Office 1cllild'1ltifdlilldta dt (508) 994-2900. UNDER LOUIS YIP'S MANAGEMENT ,,_,.,_MWidtH""1d. Thec~ltl­ Warwick: 823-3355 inwltllll1,,...toyo11! Bill Staines, folksinger and 1557 Bald Hill Road (former Golden Lantern, next to lnskip) songwriter, will appear in 8 concert on Jan . 3 1 at 3 p.m. Pawtucket: 723-3960 w:~~~:."t:~uc:~~~~ 10: RIJewishHereld,P.O. Box 6063, at the North Kingstown 285 Main St reet, Downtown Pawtucket Providence,Rl 02940 High School auditorium. Pawtuclcel Directions: From South - 9SN to E•it 17, l~h a l 3rd lighl, srraighl to md. From North - 95S to fJlir 17, righr al first lighl, slraight to end. Tickets cost $2. -~-- ---~~ -,~- -~------~-~......

THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1993 - 11 ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT Turn Around, Ann Danis (Continued from Previous Page) sarabande and the unmistaka­ ble gavotte - but this was fine ARTS & music and a most delightful ending to the evening. ENTERTAINMENT The role of commentator BRIEFS Gilles Dery of WC RB, who offers oral program notes at Pieces from the private col­ Ocean State Chamber Orches­ lection of royal memori­ tra performances, was unex­ abilia from the Belcourt pectedly enhanced by the mal­ Castle will be presented for function of the microphone. the first time Jan. 23 and 24, Turns out Dery can project just as part of the castle's grow­ fine, and his interesting re­ ing position as a museum. marks took on a less commer­ The exhibition is open from cial tone than in past per­ 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Jan. 23 formances. and will continue until 4 The Ocean State Chamber p.m. on Jan. 24. The castle is Orchestra obviously has a won­ located on Bel\vue Avenue derful organization and the in Newpor~. • • • best players in Rhode Island, but Ann Danis simply must take more credit on stage. Her Meredith Wilson's "The programming is becoming leg­ Music Man" will appear at endary and her direction is the Providence Performing wonderful, but she takes only Arts Center for one perfor­ minimal bows, and none at all mance on Jan . 28 at 8 p.m. when a soloi st is involved. She Tickets, priced at $ I 5.50, has made a fine thing, and her $27.50 and $29.50, are on audience wants to express it s Schub To Highlight Concert sale now. For more informa­ thanks. tion, ca ll the Providence Per­ The Rhode Island Philharmonic under the baton of Music Director Zuohuang Chen will Turn around, maestro. present the first Classical Concert of the new year on Jan. 30 at 8:30 p.m. a l Veterans Memorial forming Arts Center Box Of­ Audito rium in Providence. Featured soloist for this concert will be virtuoso pianist Andre­ fice at 421 -ARTS. Supper Dance Michel Schub, who will perform Beethoven's powerfu l Conc~rto No. 5 in E-nat major, "Em­ peror." The concert concludes with the dramatic "Symphonic fantastique" by Berlioz. URI Great Performances Set For Feb. 6 Regular ticket prices for the concert are $15, $25 and $30 for adults with a $2 discount for presents "The Arcadian The Burns Anniversary students, seniors and disabled, depending upon seat location. Free parking is avai lable for all Academy," at the Fine Arts Committee of Rhode Isl and Philharmonic concerts both on the streets near the audi torium a nd a l designated parking lots. Center o n Jan. 29 at 8 p.m. will hold its 30th annual supper There is a compli mentary shuttle bus to and from the auditorium for patrons parki ng in these The academy dedicates itself dance in honor of Scotland's lots. Tickets for this concert may be purchased at the Philharmonic office, 222 Richmond St., to the performance of the national poet on Feb. 6 at the Providence, by phone831-3 123 e r fax 831-4577 using MasterCard or Visa, or in person Monday rich and diverse repertoire refurbished Rhodes on the through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets will also be available at the Veterans Memorial composed by the masters of Pawtuxet Ba llroom, 60 Rhodes Auditorium Box Office on the day of the performance. Photo by Carol~ Pallcrso1t the original academy Place, Cranston. (1900s), and this artistic pe­ A roast beef dinner will be riod. Tickets are $16. For served at 6: 15 p.m. (social hour, more information, call 792- cash bar, 5:30 p.m.) Dance mu­ Workshop 2343. sic will be provided by the in­ ternationally renowned " The Offered SISTERHOOD OF TEMPLE ISRAEL ''Kind Ness," by the award­ Brigadoons." Entertainment ~ OF SHARON, MASSACHUSETTS ~ winning New York-based will include the traditional for Singers ~ presents ~ Ping Chong is Perishable " haggis ceremony." 5tn elegant evening offine Judaic 5trt Theatre's " blast-t he-Febru­ Endorsed by the Rhode The Langston Hughes Cen­ ary-blues" show beginning Island Heri tage Commission, ter for the Arts is o ffering a JO ­ 'Ifie Jil rtuoso (jaffery of Leno,;_ Jan. 28 and running Thurs­ the Burns Supper Dance is one week workshop in performance days th rough Saturdays of the largest and most colorful technique for singers for adults Saturilay, January 23 at 8 pm through Feb. 27. Curtain is 8 Scottish social events in New 16 and older. Performance tech- · U'int and elite.st rtjrtsfimtnts England. For reservations, call nique for singers includes p.m. Admission is $ 10 ($7 Cos,: $ 18 1'£R COUPLE for students and senior citi­ Jo hn Maclean at 78 1-7909. voi,e warm-ups, relaxation technique, breathing, stage A SKOND SHOWING WILL TAKE Pl.AC[ ON zens) and every Thursday is SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, fROM 9 AM TO 3 PM appearance, how to use sound ·· pay-what-you-can night." Cos1: $2.50 PER Pt:RSON The theater is located at 124 Artists equipment and how to work Washington St. For more in­ (Continued from Previous Page) with a band. formation, call 331 -2695. This class meets Tuesday Art, Rhode Island School or' evenings from 7 to 9 beginning Design, 224 Benefit St., Provi­ Feb. 2 dence, R. I. 02903-2723. Registration is $100 for the Photographer Kristine M. All artists wm be notified by JO -week workshop. Pa yment Struminsky is exhibiting her June 15. The exhibition will schedules may be arranged. To " Animal Images" portraits open Feb. 12, 1994 and will in­ sign up, call 454-5422. at the Cranston Public Li ­ clude a catalogue reproducing brary, 14 0 Sockanossett at least one work o f each a rtist Cross Road, through Jan. 29. appearing in the show. [ ~ij_o~~ ?_ij_A-s:_07_ J The public is invited to meet OPEN NIGHTS the artist at a reception Jan. 24 from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Meeting Room. The ex­ Planning a Reception? hibit is free and open to the Join us at public to view during li brary hours. The library is accessi­ ble to people with physical Ce[ebrations '93 handicaps. Party Pfannin9 'Exyo J rom a na[a wedai.n9 to a coz y liome _party, "Deathtrap" is being pre­ 'Bar/'Bat J(..fitz--vaF;:, Sweet Sixteen. J\nnt--versa.ry, sented now through Jan. 3 1 Fridays and Saturdays at 8 J\1rl rt~~!:e~ ~i·::ed"~J(6~c::::-~;r:~J. Mote lh an 50 Decoraton:, Hotell, Caligrapher., Florists, P·A·S·T· l ·C· H·E p.m. and Saturdays and EnterlaineR, C•terers. 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Men's league basketball at team. Steve Litwin poured in the Jewish Community Center 22 points. Formal had three of Rhode Island has been very players in double figures and interesting this season. On Jan. to tall y dominated Groag's J l, the league had basketball team from start to fini sh. <1s usual. The top team fell, Lou Pulner, back from in ­ outstanding team and individ ­ jury, wa s a bright spot once ual efforts were highly visible ,1 gain as he torched the nets for and tempers Oared as the first <1 season and league high, 34 storm of the season erupted. points. Final score in the night ­ The tornado lasted only cap: Formal 73, Groag 55. brie0y, the front was handled The nightcap also featured a calml), and play resumed. o ne-round fight between Jon C0ach Jon Weitzner put hi s Brandt and Steve Groag. For­ 6-1 record on the line. After mer league boxing champion FOR COLD FEET - Jill Asserorganizes warm winter slippers Monday to give lo the children al the dust had settled, Weitz­ Peter Wallick intervened at 22 the Amos House holiday party. Ji ll and olher Mid rasha students volunteered their li me on the seconds and declared the fight ner's team found itself on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Hrrald plioto by Knmmie Kmellr losing side. Jamie Cohen's <1 draw. Both fa ce a one·time squad put Weitzner's team suspension. away with Cohen pouring in Midrasha Students Aid in Tikkun Olam Team Standings 19 points, while his center and by Ka mmie Kettelle at the Midrasha, recently spent the league's most consistent Team Won Lost Herald Assistant Editor " The kids start to see how 32 hours volunteering at Amos player, Gary Greenberg, Weitzner 6 2 Several students from the important it is and the House. heated up for 21 . Cohen 5 3 Harry Elkin Midrasha were " Last year I had to do it for Cohen's team is showing difference it makes . .. Formal busy Monday mo rning sorting my Midrasha class and I en­ signs of making a move toover­ - Ruth Page, Groag through endless boxes of toys joyed it so much I decided to do t,1kc Weitzner's team for first and clothes. They spent their adult education and Israel it again this year," Oelbaum place in the league standings. Scoring Leaders Martin Luther King holiday desk coordinator for the BJE said. Every pla yer on Cohen's team Jr. Average volunteering for the Amos Sharon Fink-Custis, coordi­ scored and consistency is the Name 24 . 14 House children's holiday party. nator of social services for name of the game. Coach Lou ruiner help make the world a better 23. 16 Ruth Page, adult education Amos House, said the nonsec­ Weitzner must be shaking his Dave Ba skin place. She said Midrasha stu­ and Israel desk coordinator for tarian organization holds one head from this 69-55 loss. The G,1r y Greenbe rg 18 dents have volunteered for this Steve Litwin 17.57 the Bureau of Jewish Educa­ nondenominational party after injury to defensive ace Steve event for at least five or six 15 .25 tion, said this was part of the the holidays. Fink-Custis said Abrams is making life miser· Jamie Cohen years. student's tzedekah project. It after the celebration in the ,1ble. Weitzner got 15 points "The kids start to see how Lou ruiner overtook Dave also coordinates with this main dining room, the from Dan Stone and Max important it is and the differ­ Baskin in the league scoring year's theme of tikkun Midrasha youths take the ch il - Brickle as well as IO points ence it makes," Page said. ra ce. " Mr. Consistent" Gary olam,"repairing the world," to (Continued on Page JS) from veteran Steve Lehrer. If Michael Oelbaum, a senior Weitzner wants another Greenberg. Steve Litwin and Jamie Cohen saw their aver· championship, he must find a way to shore up his defense. ages move up. Player of the Week: Lou Pul ­ His team was tested Jan. 18 The Rhode Island Jewish Herald (see next week's Hrrald for ner, with 34 points season and league high. Announces Its Special results). The league sends get-well­ The nightcap game featured soon wishes to Steve Abrams Paul Formal's (what-team -is­ gonna-show-up-tonight) squad, ,md Zeus Barri os. Until next week. sportingly against Steve Croag's (I'll-get· the - lottery - pick - next - year) yours, Jeff Goldberg Top Bowlers Switch Places CAMP Top two bowlers S\vitch posi ­ gry and fea st on competition. It tions in league race for high should make for interesting average. bowling down the stretch. Week number 17 saw Benny The Beth· El league bowls Diaz overtake Rick Dressler for Thursday evenings at Lang's. ISSUE the top a verage in the league. Competition begins at 9:15. Diaz "cha-chad" his way to Fun starts immediately. FEBRUARY 18, 1993 the top while Dressler got Top Five Bowlers stuck doing the funky chicken on his fall from the top. Benny Diaz 187.7 Advertisers and readers are Rick Dressler 187. 1 in vited to parti cipate by It is a pleasure to watch Mike Sugerman 18 1.6 submitting advertisements these two bowl. Both have dif­ David Robinson 177.2 ferent styles but both are hun- Sy Brooks 176.4 and edito ri al copy. su!:::~;~t~~1~';"f;;.,~j!gc;:;1/p5iles, Team Standings Won Lost Children's Clothing, Sporting Equipment, etc. Baker Furniture 41 23 Deod/1,,e for ed,toriol copy ,s Mo,,doy. Trinkle Design 40 24 February ll . 199). at '100'1 Howie's Hammers 34.5 29.5 Halperin & Lax 34 JO Come Screen With Me 34 JO Tooth Fairies 34 30 Nathan Kaufman Co. J 1.5 32.5 Goldstein E\ectnc JO 34 Shamrocks 29 35 Nathan Kaufman Co. #2 28 36 Standard Glass 26 38 Oakland Mobil 22 42 ...... ,-,,,. 'I -- THE RHODE ISLAN D JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, JAN UARY 21 , 1993 THE JEWISH COMMUNITY Sharing and Caring Are Part of Friend to Friend by O mar Bradley Some remembered how dif­ Herald Contributing Editor ficult it was to get any kind of The faces of BO-year-old treatment years ago for the Morris Gorden, 70-something elderly, but admitted things Bessie Soifer and Frank Jordan .ue better now than before. reveal a lifetime of kno\\'ledge However, one woman ,md wisdom in their eyes of warned that rising taxes and shanng and caring. They all shnnking employment bur­ gathered last week in the audi­ dened by a huge national debt torium at the Jewish Commu­ will create less opportunity for nity Center of Rhode Island to happiness for the present gen­ share in a kosher meal and to eration. share their experiences in a Despite the ominous tales of unique program called " Friend woe, almost all the seniors felt Journalist To to Friend." the program was a success In fact, Gorden put on his thanks to the concern of Speak at URI best suit, and rode on three Schwartz and the staff of the buses to make the meeting that center, which also sponsors "" The Secret Agendas of the he said he wouldn't miss for bingo and specic1l programs Bush and Reag,m Administra­ the world. Gorden explained ,um_ed c11 widowed or single tions - Have They Helped or that ··ifs not good to eat alone Hindered the Middle East when you could be here with Peace Process?'" is the topic of a other seniors." Leisure Club Will lecture by Middle East Journal­ "This program was origin­ ist Joel Bainerman on Jan. 28 at ally formed to support wid­ Welcome Howard the University of Rhode Island. owers who needed something Wanda Howard, Providence Free and open to the public, to occupy their time," said Joumal-8111/etiu columnist, will the lecture will be held at 7:30 Sandy Bass, JCCRI program be guest speaker at Temple p.m. in White Hall Auditorium ~irector. Each year, the group Emanu-EI Leisure Club, on URl"s Kingston Campus. 1s chaired by a member of sev­ Women of the Year Program, A journalist who has written eral Jewish organizations; this on Jan. 24 at 2 p.m. at the extensively on Middle East po· year the chairperson is none temple. litical and economic affairs, other than Lola Schwartz, ex­ Howard, whose column "Sil­ Bainerman will base the lecture ecutive director of the JCCRI. ver Network" appears in the on his recently published book As Bessie Soifer clutched a Crimes of a Presidmt. The book A G ATHERING OF FRIENDS-Lola Sch wartz, (left), executive ne\vspaper on Thursdays, will petition destined for Sen. Pell's documents the covert actions of director of the Jewish Community Center of Rhode Island, discuss " Life of a Woman in office, group members voiced the two presidential adminis­ chairs a Friend to Friend meeting in the center's auditorium Journalism.'· She will also their opinions on new laws speak on her travel experiences trations and how their actions Friday as Jeanne Bake r looks on. HerQ/d plroto by Om(lr Bradley that could affect their Medicaid in foreign countries. affected the Middle East peace program involving free medi­ There will be a question­ process. Bainerman's editorials and cal checkups. and-answer period. A social hour will follow the program. analyses of the Middle East have appeared in Tl1e Wall Stred fournal, Tire Christian Sci­ Join thousands of readers who know what's 'Celebrations '93' e11ce Mo11itor, National Review, The Jerusalem Post and many going on in the Rhode Island Jewish Community... Set in Sharon other national magazines and The Temple Israel Social newspapers. A native of Committee has announced Toronto, Canada, Bainerman that "Celebrations ·93," a immigrated to Israel in 1981. reception planning show, will The lecture is sponsored by ~u~,ctai~e to tke be held in Berger Hall at Tem­ URI Hillel Foundation and the ple Israel in Sharon, Mass., on URI Student Organization for Jan. 31, from noon until 4 p.m. Peace in the Middle East As a service to the entire (SOPME). A question-and-an­ metropolitan, south and west swer period will follow the lec­ community, "Celebrations ture. For more information, call ·93"" will assist planners of URI Hillel Director Rina Sky Rhode Island weddings, bar/ bat mitzvahs, Wolfgang at 792-2740. anniversaries, sweet 16s, testi­ monials, birthdays and other special occasions in selecting NCSY Plans services to make their oc­ casions memorable. The event Ski Weekend Jewish Herald will showcase more than 50 of The New England Region the area's services and pro­ (NER) of the National Confer­ "IN TOUCH WITH THE JEWISH COMMUNITY" ducts. 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Currently NCSY is the largest youth ($14 out of state) brings you 52 issues that will inform and entertain you. scheduled performances in· organization in America with I ------elude a band, celebrity imper­ 13 regions and hundreds of sonators, dancers and a guitar city-based chapters in the 1 and flu te duo. United States and Canc1da. I Parking is free. Admission is NER NCSY is open to all New I 0 $10 per year (RI resident) 0 $14 per year (out of state) $2.50 per person at the door Englc1nd youth regardless of I Children under IO will be ad­ their level of obser\!ance. Jun­ I mitted free. Attenders will re­ ior division includes grc1des 1 Name ceive c1 complimentary party five to eight and senior grades nine to 12. : Address------pl,mning guide. For further information, call For more information about the convention or about NCSY 1 Temple Israel at (617) 784- 3986. 111 gener.11, contact the regional I office ,11 (508) 587-3263 or ~ ~~ :_11:_c~t'.'.: ~h_'.'.d_: ~ l~~J:_w_'._s~ H~r_:1': ':._0:.._B.'.'.x~0~3! ~".'..d:_n:_e:.._R~ 0!_9~0 _ ( READ THE HERALDI ) Yon.ltan Kc1g,moff .it (61 7) 734-0718 ...... ! • rnf~i-iooi' JSLANb JEw1si-i' H0ERALD, THORsb'AY: JAN\JAiMelanie Griffith, Rhode Island, a discussion en­ culture and music of those " Paradise for Jews: The Polish the fi lm tells the story of an more information, call Evy titled " Learning About Diver­ times. For one brief weekend, Jewish Experience." undercover policewoman who Rappaport at 861·8800. sity" will be held on Jan. 26, at participants can relive and Jan. 30: Services, IO a.m., lives among the Hasidic Jews, 6:30 p.m. have a taste of that vanished main sanctuary; luncheon and and comes to understand their Young Judaea In this program, facilitated world. discussion with Hundert, "The ways and values. by Jewish Family Service's Nourishment for the mind, Jewish Metropolis in Poland," A discussion will follow on Social Action Stephanie Sakalian, parents food for the body, sustenance Alperin Meeting House; (baby­ the question of whether will discuss how to help their for the soul will be part of the sitting, Tot Shalom and Junior Hasidic life is accurately de­ Overnight Set children learn about and re· special weekend: " Retracing Congregation available); "Yidl picted. Those interested in the spect differences in race, ethnic­ On Jan. 30 to 31, Young Ju­ Roots in Jewish Poland" at Mitn Fidl" (Yidd\e With His film should bring their lunch to ity, religion and abilities. Chil­ daea, the youth movement Temple Emanu-EI, 99 Taft Fiddle) plus another short the center at 40 l Elmgrove dren will participate in activi· Ave. from Jan. 29 through 3 1. travelogue, subtitled in En­ Ave. in Providence, before sponsored by Hadassah, will hold a social action overnight ties that will help them to A full program of stud y with glish, followed by discussion noon on Jan. 26. Both mem· for eighth· to I 2th·graders at understand and accept others. renowned scholar, Dr. Gershon with Hundert. bers and nonmembers are wel· The program is open to chil· the Young Judaea headquarters Hundert; three traditional Jan. 3 1: Breakfast 9 a.m. (pre· come. dren in grades kindergarten in Brookline, Mass. The Ju· meals with an ethnic accent; registratio n required); program The Brown Bag Club is a through six and their parents; daeans will participate in com· moving music based on the with Hundert, 9:45 a.m., " Po· friendly forum for adults to admission is free. munity service projects on Sun· rich traditions of the Polish gra ms and Postwar Politics: discuss current events and top· For information, call April Jewish heritage; Cantor Jacob Polish Jewish Relations After ics of interest to hear guest day. Transportation will be ar­ Peters at 861·8800. Mendelson, in concert with the World War II; Odessa Concert, speakers or venture on special ranged for those attending Temple Emanu-EI choir led by 7 p.m., with Cantor Jacob trips. It is held at noon the sec· Cantor Brian Mayer; original Mendelson and the Temple ond and fourth Tuesdays of from Providence. For more information, call Vanguard Plans Yiddish (English subtitled) art Emanu·EI choir led by Cantor every month and is open to all. Julie at (617) 734-4838. and documentary films pro· Brian Mayer. Participants bring a brown Jazz Dinner duced in pre·War Poland; pho­ The synagogue is handi­ Vanguard, an organization tographic exhibits of 19th and capped·accessible; infra.red for young Jewish singles, has early 20th century Polish hearing devices are available planned a jazz dinner featuring Jewry; displays of the arts, aes­ for lectures in the main sane· Eight To The Bar on Jan. 30 at thetic heritage and artifacts of tuary, and signing is available. Chan's Chinese Restaurant, a world that was lost, but not The photographic exhibit 267 Main St. in Woonsocket. the spirit - all these will help will remain on view for two Kap in touch! For further information, call participants explore, celebrate months, and docents are avail­ the Hadassah office at 463· and keep alive the wonder that able by appointment. You,.- children are growing up. moving out, starting 3636. The dress is casual but was Polish Jewry. The steering committee college. Keep them connected to their Jewish guests are asked not to wear The weekend is being spon­ coordinating this event in· he,..;toge and loco/ happenings with o gift jeans. sored through the Peter J. and dudes: Judith Greenblatt and subscription to the Rhode Island Jewish Herald. Ruth Page, cochairwomen; Staying in touch has never been easie,.-! Sam Shamoon, chairman, Emanu·EI Institute of Jewish 0 Local ($10 per ye:ar) JCCRI Kosher Meal Site Studies, under whose aegis this program is organized; O Out of State: ($14 pe:r ye:ar) The Jewish Community Center of Rhode Island's kosher Cindy Blackwood, Howard 0 Out of Country ($25 pe:r ye:ar) meal·site program invites seniors to join in a variety of activi­ Bromberg, Susan Bromberg, ties and to share a hot kosher meal at noon weekly, Sunday Kathryn de Boer, Ra ymond through Friday. Doors open weekdays at 10 a.m., with casual -Please mail to the following one year of the Eichenbaum, Susan Froehlich, conversation in the lobby for an hour. Rhode Island Jewish Herald. courtesy of Wendy Garf-Lipp, Abr<1ham Exercise is scheduled during the week at 11 :15 a.m. Seniors Gershman, Ken Hersh, Leah can try their hand at bridge on Monday afternoon from noon Hersh, David Kaplan, J<1ne until 3:45 a.m. Name ______Myers. Steven Peiser, Carolyn On Tuesday a Women's Forum is held from 11 :15 a.m. to Roseman, Joel Roseman, Address ______noon and a bingo game runs from 12:45 to 2 p.m. Naomi Schwartz, Reva Stern, Wednesday, the Men's Group meets from 11 :15 a.m. to Jill Weiskopf and Rabbi Alvan noon. " Friend to Friend" meets Thursday from 11 a.m. to Kaunfor, ex-officio noon, and bingo is played from 12:45 to 2 p.m. For more information and/ Shabbat traditions are observed on Friday. Sunday begins or registration forms for Friday with tea, coffee and hot muffins at 10 a.m., followed by a night dinner and Sunday break· variety of movies or VCR programs. fast, contact the temple office Mall cMck to: It.I. Jcwbh Hc111d, '-0-lo1 6063, PtO'rldmc~, RI 02940 For more information, contact Sandy Bass at 861-8800. at 331· 16 16. Applications Are Welcome for Student Loan Fund Touro Fraternal Association begin repayment. If repayment has announced that applica­ is not made as stipulated, inter­ tions are now being accepted est will be applied as detailed for student loans from the Leo on the promissory note. Greenberg Memorial Student Those eligible are 1) regular Loan Fund for the 1993-1994 Touro Fraternal Association school year. members, 2) children of regular The loans are interest-free for Touro members and 3) children a single academic year and will of a deceased regular Touro not be renewed automatically. member. The recipient must at­ Those who received loans in tend an accredited institution of prior years must reapply. higher learning on a full-time A final decision on who is to basis. The cosigner must re­ receive loans and in what main a member in good stand­ amount will be made by the ing for the duration of the loan Student Loan Committee. This and the repayment period. The information will be known cosigner can be any Touro only by the committee and member acceptable to the com­ each recipient. Details of com­ mittee. For an application, contact mittee deliberations will not be CHANUKAH SONGS- Yisroel Yavner(top left), Nina Gammar,Zehava Donowitz, Esther Pere I Touro's admin istrator by tele­ communicated to anyone else. Krauss, Moshe Fried (bottom left), Miriam Jakubowicz and Sarah Engel sing Chanukah songs for The loans will be in the name phone or in writing. Completed family and friends last month al Providence Hebrew Day School. Plroto by Roberta Kaufman of the student and will be applications and allied papers cosigned by the T ouro sponsor. must reach Touro no later than The payback must begin six April I. Those received after months after the student is that date cannot be considered. Families, Friends Gather for PHDS Chanukah Party graduated from or leaves col­ Applicants will be notified of lege, whichever is earlier. It is the committee's decision in The kindergarten class of ents, grandparents, and friends Afterward, guests, children the student's responsibility to writing on or before June I . the Providence Hebrew Day Dec. 22 with a variety of Cha­ and teachers enjoyed refresh­ School entertained their par- nukah songs and poems. For ments including painted Cha­ the grand finale, the children nukah cookies, a frosted Cha­ performed a skit telling the nukah cake and a dreidle cake, Chanukah story, complete all baked and decorated by the with costumes and props. children.

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STUDENT CAMP AND TRIP ADVISORS, inc. BOSTON,MA BEVERLY SBIFFMAN LITTLE NOAHS - First-grade Alperin Schechter Day School students pose with their ark, rainbow and flood. At left is teacher Jane Myers. Ell en Shafner, who also teaches this class, is not 617·469'0681 800•542· 1233 pictured (as she is behind the camera). HOME 0Ff"lC£ 80STON MA BRANCHES ATu\NTA GA • ORI.ANDO i;1.. • BOCA RATON Fl.• NEW HAVEN CT W. BLOOMFIELD Ml • CHICAGO IL • SAN FRANCISCO CA • MONTREAL CANADA The Ark That Schechter Built Council To Award Alperin Schechter first-grade They used thinking skills and '93 Scholarships students have enjoyed a thor­ imagination to make the text oughly engrossing study of meaningful. And the results National Council of Jewish Parashat Noah, the story of were very impressive," she Women, Rhode Island Section, Noah's Ark and the flood. said. will award scholarships to Exciting &Varied Their teachers, Jan e Myers Rhode Island area students at­ and Ellen Shafner, helped them tending college in the fall of get involved with enrichment Disorder Is 1993. Programs for Girls projects that involved a va riety Scholarships will be awarded Ages 7- 15 • 8 Week or 4 Week Periods of disciplines and ta lents. based on financia l need, evi­ Topic of Talk dence of involvement in com­ Mature Staff• Judaic Program• Excel lent Cu isine After studying the Parasha as Affordable Rates · Scholarsh ip Aid part of their regular weekly On Jan . 12, Dr. Steven munity service, and academic routine, students were divided Casalaro gave a presentation to worthiness. Call or Write: Pearl Lourie, Director into groups to do research and the Providence Hebrew Day Students desiring applica­ 5 Birchmeadow Circle, Framingham, MA 0170 1 School facu lt y on attention tions should write to: Seena write their own stories. 508/788.016 1 · CampOfficec 508/881-1002 They also did a crafts project, deficit disorder. Dittelman, 93 Crestwood Road, making an ark fill ed with a va­ Casalaro presented material Cranston, R.I. 02920, or phone nety of animals (including spi­ on the disorder and then 942-5735. Deadline for re­ ders and bats as well as more opened the meeting for discus­ questing applications is March ~ CAMP H:MBROK£ sion and questions. 26. domesticated varieties) with a Lake Oldham · Pembroke, MA al ilie gau.,u,.oay to Cape Cod rainbow in the background and A follow-up presentation as SPONSORED UV THE ELI &. BESSIE COHEN FOUNDATION a representation of the flood . well as a Parent Workshop are Announce your g raduation, This hands-on project was a planned. new job or promotion in the [ 9 ACCReo1reol tremendous success, according Herald. Black and white • ~•MP !J to Shafner. "The students got a photos welcome. great deal out of this project. \ You saw it in the Hera ld! I • 18 ·H Iii HHQD~ ISLAND JEWISH HERALtl, JllaURSDM, JANVAR¥<;'1,,1993 OBITUARIES

MYER C. G REENSTEIN JOSEPHINE LEVEN dcnCl'. died Jan. 12 at the home. Jent of the former C. & 5. CRANSTON - Myer C. PROVIDENCE - Josephine Services were coordinated A lifelong resident of Provi­ Packaging Co., Providence, for Greenstein, 82, of 119 Massa~ I.even of Luzon Avenue died by Mount Sinai Memorial dence, she was a daughter of 30 years before retiring in chusetts St., founder and Jan. 11 at home in Palm Beach, Chapel, 825 Hope St., Provi­ the late Manuel and Esther 1990, died Jan. 16 at the North­ owner of the Armory Auto Ha. She was the wife of the dence. Rose (Mogelever) Sherman. west Regional Hospital, Mar­ Parts Co. for 50 years before lak Harry Leven, founder of She taught at various levels gate. He was the husband of retiring in 1976, died Jan. 19 at the Major Electric Supply Co., CLARA OELBAUM during her 36-year career, the Estelle (Solomon) Shiro. the Veterans Administration Pawtucket. PROVIDENCE - Clara bulk of which was spent teach­ Born in Boston, a son of the Medical Center. He was the Born in Cleveland, Ohio, a Oelbaum of the Jewish Home ing biology and related sci­ late Louis and Eva (Levey) husband of Jean (Miller) Green­ daughter of the late Albert and for the Aged, Hillside Avenue, ences at Mount Pleasant and Shiro, he lived in Warwick for stein. Bl'lty Auerbach, she lived most .i bookkeeper for the Hall Drug­ Hope high schools. She held a 20 years. He moved to Margate Born in Providence, a son of of her life in Providence. store for many years before life teacher certificate and a life 15 years ago, while maintain­ the late Morris and Golda Leven was a member of retiring in 1973, died Jan. 13 at m,1ster teacher certificate, and ing his summer home in War­ (Markowitz) Greenstein, he Temple Emanu-EI, Miriam Hos­ the home. She was the widow served as a critic teacher for wick. lived in Cranston for 43 years. pital, and the Jewish Home for of Henry Oelbaum. many student teachers in Shiro was also president of Greenstein was an Army vet­ the Aged. · Born in Poland, a daughter biology. the former Meed Realty Corp. eran of World War ll , and a She leaves a son, David of the late Solomon and Pearl She attended the Women's and the former C. & S. Coating member of the DAV, Chapter Leven of Providence; two (Nasburg) Rubin, she lived in College in Brown University, Co., both in Providence. He 10. He was a member of the grandchildren, and three great­ Providence most of her life. later named Pembroke Col­ wai, a member of Redwood United Commercial Travelers. grandchildren. She was mother Oclbaum was a member of lege, and was a graduate of Lodge 35, F & AM, the Pales­ He was a member of the Over­ of the late Judy Ann Leven. Temple Emanu-EI, the Pioneer Rhode Island College. She re­ tine Shrine, the Royal Arch seas Masonic Lodge, and the The funeral service was held Women's Club, the Providence ceived a master of arts degree Chapter, ,md the Scottish Rite. Palestine Shrine. Jan. p at Mount Sinai Memo­ Hebrew Day School, and the from Brown University. Besides his wife he leaves a Besides his wife he leaves nal Chapel, 825 Hope Street, Jl'Wish Home for the Aged. When she started teaching daughter, Joyce Shiro of Brain­ two daughters, Sheila Gold of Providence. Burial vvas in Lin­ She leaves a son, Sruel M. at Hope High School in the tree, Mass.: a son, Uavid Shiro Warwick, and Janet Greenstein coln Park Cemetery, Warwick. ·oelbaum of Providence; a early I 940s, she found an of Norwood, Mass., and a of Boston; a son, Samuel Green­ daughter, Dorothy Ruth Klein unu!.ed school greenhouse that grandson. stein of Warwick, and five of Warwick; 10 grandchildren, contained only a workbench. The funeral service was held grandchildren. DYVERA LEVINA and eight great-grandchildren. She worked to equip it and Jan. 20 at Mount Sinai Memo­ The funeral service was held PROVIDENCE - Dyvera The funeral service was held formed a horticulture club that rial Chapel. 825 Hope St., today at Mount Sinai Memorial l.evina, 83, of the Jewish Home Jan. 14 at Mount Sinai Memo­ she directed. Besides using con­ Providence. Burial was in Lin­ Chapel, 825 Hope St., Provi­ for the Aged, Hillside Avenue, rial Chapel, 825 Hope St., ventional methods in the grC'en­ coln Park Ct:metery, Warwick. dence. Burial was in the Rhode died Jan. 17 at Cranston Gen­ Providence. Burial was in Lin­ house, her students experi­ Island Veterans Cemetery, eral Hospital. coln Park Cemetery, Warwick. mented in new technologies, in­ ANNA WARREN Exeter. Born in Latvia, a daughter of cluding hydroponics. PROVIDENCE - Anna the late Leiba and Chaya RUTH SALK Sherman was one of the Warren, 93, of 83 Doyle Ave., WARWICK - Ruth Salk, ANN KLEIN (Gurevich) Levin, she came to mainstays of the annual statC' died Jan. 7 at the Miriam Hos­ Providence in 1980. 88, of the Kent Nursing Home, high school science fa ir, and pit,11, Providence. She was the REDMOND, Washington - She leaves two sisters, Rose 660 Commonwealth Ave., died served as a judge until she re­ widO\V of the late Benjamin Ann Klein, 92, of the Sterling Garfunkel of Providence, and Jan. 15 at home. She was the tired. She combined her inter­ Warre n. Park Living Center, 152nd Ave­ Sonya Fisherman in Israel. widow of Samuel H. Salk. est in photography with exten­ She was born in Providence, nue, N.E., formerly o f Provi­ The fune ral service was held Born in Providence, she was sive travels around the world. a daughter of the late Mr. and dence, died Jan. 13 at the Jan. 20 at Mount Sinai Memo­ a daughter of the late Norbert She w,1s a volunteer slide lee· Mrs. Leventhal, and was a life­ center. rial Chapel, 825 Hope St., and Rose (lfosenblatt) Fleisig. turer for educational and chari­ long resident of Providence. Klein worked for the Rhode Providence. Burial was in Lin­ She had lived in Providence table groups. A graveside funeral service Island Jewish Federation office coln Park Cemetry, Wanvick. most of her life before moving She was a member of Tem­ took place at Lincoln Park from 1941 to 1976. She then to Warwick five years ago. ple Emanu-EI, and was a life Cemetery on Jan. 10. Service retired ilnd served as office She leaves a daughter, Nor­ member of Hadassah and of was coordinated by Mount manager there for several DAVID L. MARNER berta Gross of Phoenix, Ariz.; a the Women's Associations at Sinai Memorial Chapel, 825 years. PAWTUCKET - David son, Harold Salk of Warwick; Miriam Hospital and the Jew­ Hope St., Providence. She was a member of Tem­ Louis Marner, 88, of Bacon two brothers, Arthur Fleisig of ish Home for the Aged, where ple Beth-El and its Sisterhood. Street, owner of Dave's Used Cranston and Earl Fleisig of she had been an active volun­ Klein was also a Red Cross Furniture, Providence, for Hallandale, Fla., six grandchil­ teer. driver for more than 35 years. many years before retiring 15 dren and six great-grandchil­ She was the sister of the '*'***'***'**'*' Born in Malden, Mass., she years ago, died Jan. IO at dren. She was the sister of the late Bertha 5. Kennison, 'Mothers and is survived by her identical Memorial Hospital. He was the late: Samuel Fleisig, Maurice Rebecca S. Tanenbaum, and twin sister, Cecile Low of Provi­ husband of the late Hazel (Mer­ Fleisig, Jack Fleisig and Harold Samuel Sherman, David H. Infants' To Begin dence. She also leaves two rill) Marner. Fleisig. Sherman and Dr. Bernard I. sons, Arthur Klein of Medina, Born in Russia, a son o f the The funeral service was held Sherman. The Parent Exchange is once Wash., and Richard Klein of late Samuel Marner, he lived Jan. 17 at Mount Sinai Memo­ She leaves three nieces, again offering "Mothers and In­ Orange, Conn.; a brother, in Pawtucket for 45 years rial Chapel, 825 Hope St., Grace K. Alpert of Providence, fants," a group that meets to Arthur Siden of Peabody, He leaves his stepdaughter­ Providence. Burial was in Lin­ Elinor R. Sherman of Water­ share information and discuss Mass.; three grandchildren, in-law, Christina G. Mc­ coln Park Cemetery. bury, Conn., and Bettye K. issues of concern to new and three great-grandchildren. Caughey; three step-grandchil­ Sopher of Philadelphia; and a mothers. A graveside service was held DORA SHERMAN dren, and six step-great-grand­ nephew, Dr. Mark M. Sherman Mothers are encouraged to Jan. 17 at the Ezrath Israel o f children. He was stepfather of PROVIDENCE- Dora Sher­ of Longmeadow, Mass. She bring their babies from new­ Malden Cemetery in Danvers, the late James W. McC.~ughey. man, 92, of the Elmhurst Ex­ was also the aunt of the late born to 8 months of age. M,1ss. Services were also held A gr,weside service was held tended Care Facility, a retired Jordan Tanenbaum The six-session workshop locally J,m. J 7. at Swan Point Cemetery, Provi- high school science teacher, A private funeral service will be held at the Jewish Fam­ was held Jan. 14. Services were ily Service on Wednedays from coordinated by Mount Sinai Feb. 3 to March 10, 10:30 a.m. Memorial Chapel, 825 Hope to noon. 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Aid to Israel U.S. and Allies Attack Iraq ENTERTA IN MENT SERVICES RENDERED (Continued from Pa ge 6) (Continued from Page l) the raid. STEVEYOK ENENTERTAINMENT - Proles COPPERFIELO 'S PAINTING & PRESERVA­ Clinton administration might Iraq on Jan. 13 in response to Gas mask distribution sta- s1ona1 master of ceremonies and disc TION . Topquahty work manshp. Reasonable exter1or/mtenor power washing. carpentry. consider cutting back on repeated violations of the lions handled their normal 1ockey Bar/ ba1 mr!zvah specialists N.Y. laser light Show Plus Male/female paper hanging license #8884 Insured. foreign aid. cease-fire agreement that daily load of 300 gas mask re­ Oancing Sensations. THE PARTY PLAN ­ 274-2348. 5/20/93 ended the 1991 Persian Gulf placements, as part of an ongo­ Christopher responded that NERS " CHOICE (508) 679-1545 GIVE A VIOEOTAPE lhey"II never for11et. some "military supply relation­ War. ing national program to update 1/ 31 /93 Personalized.animatedVHStapesforb1rth ships" could be cut back now The raid, which reports said equipment supplied during the days. bar mitzvahs- anyoccas1011. Other that the Uni ted States is "out lasted about three hours, came Gulf War. pe1sonallzed1tems available'Call 781 ·8929 of the Cold War era." after Iraq defied the Western The Tel Av iv Stock Ex- FLORIDA REAL ESTATE or781-3016 1/28/93 But he added that the new warnings and sent workers change showed some nervous­ JEWISH DATING SERVICE. ··Perso11a1[ BOYNTON BEACH Hunters Run-East Gate· administra tion would seek to into Kuwait to seize military ness, with stocks going down 2 Serv1ceat1tsbest ·· ca11Bem1ce.(508)998- Two-bed. two-bath. everylhmg upgraded. 1233 2/4/93 maintain aid to Israel and gear left behind at the end of percent. But economists said Second floor with vaulted ceiling. Bea uli!ul Egypt at their existing levels, the war and to demolish ware­ the change was mostly due to v1ewoverlookmg EastCoursehole #8. Must JEWISH MATCHMAKERS INTERNATIONAL. despite the fact that "a tremen­ houses remaining there. speculators making good o n see to appreciate. 5129.000. (407) 736- lar9estJew1shsmglesdatabasemAme11ca. In Washington, White 2959 2/4/93 localandpersonahzed Call(800)234· dous proportion" of U.S. aid profits. 9995 12/2/93 goes to those two countries. House spokesman Marlin Fitz­ On the other hand, the water said the allied attack Palestinian street showed MERCURIO PAINTING. Interior & Exterior• Christopher reaffirmed that JOBS WANTED pa1nt1119. sta1m119. powe1-washm9. Expert position in testimony Jan. 14. would serve to impress upon nothing of the euphoria which work , prompt service and low ra1es All work When committee Sen. Cla i­ Iraq that the West meant busi­ characterized it during the Gulf SITUATION WANTEO: Reliable and ca11ng guaran1eed Our work speaks tor 1tselt borne Pell (D-R.L), chairman ness when it warned Iraqi crisis. 101hve-mpos1t1onweekendsascompanion Insured Lie #5264. 461 -3813 7/8/93 of the Foreign Relations Com­ leader Sadam Hussein to with­ The Palestinians' apparent Experience and references Call Helena. draw anti-aircraft missiles indifference was an indication 647-51411 1/21/93 mittee, asked the secretary­ CLASSBOX designate whether he shared menacing allied aircraft patrol­ of the lesson they had learned WE CLEAN your home or omce References. CORRESPONDENCE TO "the president-elect's views on ling a "no-fly zone" over in losing the good will and aid 8617879 1/2 1/93 ClassBoxNo the importance of continuing southern Iraq. of Arab states like Saudi The RI Jewish Herald PO Box 6063 aid to Israel and Egypt at the Fitzwater said more attacks Arabia by their support of SALES HELP WANTED Prov1dence.RI02940 current level," Christopher could be fort hcoming. Iraq's Hussein. In Israel, the calm contrasted It also reflected their preoc­ responded: "Absolutely, Mr. Tens RelineryCo,p.needsmatureperson RI. Je w1sflHera/dclass111edadscos1$31or Chairman, both because he is starkly with painful memories cupation with the peace proc­ nowm Pawtucket area Regardless of tram !Swords or less. Add1t1onal words cost 12 of the toll taken by the last con­ ess and with the issue of the cents each Payme11t must be 1ece1ved by president and because those mg. wnteWT Hopkms.Box711.Ft Worth. Monday al 4 pm. prior to the Thursday are my personal views." frontation between Washing­ more than 400 Moslem funda­ TX76101 1/2 1/93 when the ad 1s scheduled 10 appear Israel currently receives $3 ton and Baghdad two years me ntalists expelled by Israel to bi llion a year in U.S. aid, in­ ago. During that conflict, Scud Lebanon last month. This newspaper will not. lmowmgly. accept SERVICES RENDERED cluding $1.8 billion in military missiles were fired at Israel An indication of their any advert1s1ng for real eslale which 1s m and Israelis donned gas masks change of heart came in a state­ v1olat1011 ot 1he RI Fair Housmg Act and assistance and $1.2 billion in Sect1on804{C)of T1t1eVlll01the 1968C1v1I in sealed rooms, under threat ment made last week by a top .. CLASSIC EUROPEAN CATERING" by Ana economic aid. That is more and Fatima Servicing all types ot social Rights Act Ourreadersareherebymlormed than any other foreign recip­ of chemical attack. leader of the Palestine Libera­ occas1ons w1H1a touch of class and prec1 · thal all dwelling/hoosmg accommodat1ons ient, but it is an amount that Sources said the likelihood tion Organization. s1on Formal Call Ana 438·0952 5/7/93 advert1sed1n!h1snewspaperareava1lableon aneQualopporturntybas1s has remained constant since Iraq would repeat its missile On a visit to Saudi Arabia, the mid- l 980s attacks on Israel was small, Mahmoud Abbas, also called ln a political climate favor­ partly because its capability Abu Ma zen, expressed public ing a shift of priorities of had been diminished by the remorse over the open support CORRESPONDENTS WANTED domest ic concerns, Christo­ Persian Gulf War and partly given Hu ssein by the Palestin- If you would like to correspond for the H erald pher's strong endorsement of because Iraq had no interest in ians by writing about what is happening in your "The results of the Gulf cri ­ maintaining a high level of aid involving Israel at this time. community, contact the editor at 724-0200. to Israel undoubtedly ca me as Sources in Jerusalem said sis have proved the Palestin­ a relief to pro- Israel forces. Israeli policy-makers were in ians should have known not to Jewish organizational close touch with Washington stray into error and not to let ~------~ leaders were also pleased by over developments. the enemy take advantage of WE SIT other pro-Israel statements Prime Minister Yitzhak it," he said. A referral service for j\ntique ;IRefinisl1ing Rabin, who also holds the companions lo the Protessional Slnpping ~ Christopher made in the Reglueing • Repairs course of his confirmation hear­ defense portfolio, spent the elderly, since 1967 evening Jan. 13 in Tel Aviv as CALL SHAF ings Jan. 13 and 14. IJi~R 401-421-1213 434-0293 273-6074 - In his opening statement to usual. And the Israel Defense Moving? Let us know. FreeEst1ma1es · Pick·Up.Delr.ery the Foreign Relations Commit­ Force chief of staff, Lt. Gen. 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Mohel Finds His Future in Talmud by Omar Bradley by Louis M. Pulner, Esq. Herald Contributing Editor At the tender age of 9 when most boys v.·ere dreaming of Security Deposit Not Forgotten careers as jet pilots o r baseball players, Shmuel Taitelbaum Dear Attorney Pu Iner: strong likelihood that he will found his futu re in the Tal­ Most recently my mother's have to pay you twice that mud. When Abra ham received health has begun to fail con­ amount as a resul t of his non­ siderably, and as a result, it compliance with Rhode Island was necessary for me to move law. her o ut of her apartment and Without passing judgment into a nursing home. on your particular landlord, I personally made s ure that there a re laws in this state that apartme nt was clean and which protect people in pre­ tidy when the last of her pos­ cisely your cJTcumstances. sessions were moved out. Oftentimes, a landlord will There were no apparent diffi­ think that merely because culties or conflicts w ith the somebody is either elderly or landlord because her lease somehow disabled, the fact was up and we had given that they once remitted the him sufficient notice that she security deposit to the landlord would be moving out. I gave will be quietly forgotten. G-d's covenant stating that all him both my and my mother's The fact is, once your lll'wborn males are to be cir· mother moved out of the apart­ address and asked that he rnmcised within eight days, it CARING HANDS-Shmuel Taitelbaum holds S·day-old Meir ment and returned her keys, forward the security to us at became a law to bring Israel Shlo mo Bamberger las t week on a routine visit after the his earliest convenience. followed by her request for the closer to G·d. For as long as circumcision is performed. Herald photo by Om", Brndll'!J Over five weeks elapsed security deposit with her new the law has stood, mohelim and I never heard from him address, the landlord then be­ have been performing this mohel in Israel, \v ho allowed No one understands that bet­ regarding this deposit, so I came obligated to return all sacred operation in accordance him to learn the delicate proce­ ter than 8-day-old Meir Shlomo moneys due her within 20 finally called. He never did with Judaic law. dure of this practice until he Bamberger, who Taitelbaum days· time. come to the phone, but two Since that moment onward, was capable of doing his own. visited last week. Little Meir If he was entitled to some days later I received a letter Taitelbaum has devoted much In fact, Taitelbaum has per­ felt so comfortable in Taitel­ setoff as a re!>ult of physical from him indicating that as a of his life to serving G-d and formed many operations on baum's strong yet gentle hands damagl' to the premises (other result of the extensive dam­ the Jewish community here adults, including Russian that he decided to take a nap. than ordinary wear and tear), age to the apartment, the and abroad as a certified immigrants to Israel escaping Taitelbaum attends the New he would have been permitted security deposit was going to mohel. It was under the guid­ the oppression of their former England Rabbinical College in have to be used for the neces­ to subtract this amount of ance of Yehuda Giat, a veteran country. Although complica­ Providence. He invites mem­ money from the security de­ sary repairs. He a lso indi­ tions may occur, Taitelbaum bers of the Orthodox, Conser­ cated tha t the deposit would posit amount. has been spared of any mala­ vative and Reformed commu­ Once the landlord faded to not e ve n cover the da mages dies, and guarantees a thor­ nities to contact him at but that he would not pursue comply with this requirement, ough, antiseptic operation. 27-1-3298 for his services. us for the remainder. the law then sets forth that a Staff of Aaron Needless to sa y, l am livid tenant may recover the amount (Contmued from Page 5) because l know that that due him or her together with his dominion, and that Pharaoh PROVIDENCE BASED damages in an amount equal to apartment was in fine sh ape truly had no power of his own. R ecomme uded by Ioct'1 phys icians and rabbis when my mother moved out, twice the amount wrongfully This underscored the lesson probably better than w hen withheld, plus reasonable at­ that was to be learned by all of she even moved in. torney's fees. Egypt, and foreshadowed the Do I let him get away with l stro ngly suggest that you 10 plagues that were to come. this, or do I spend probably obtain counsel and fight back. From the above discussion more money than it's worth It's dearly worth it. we can learn a general lesson in pursuing him legally? The answers provided almve in our relationship with others. ~ - Peeved in Pawtucke t an• l,ascd upo11 gt'IH'ral lrKal Aaron was described as o ne SHMUEL TAITELBAUM Dear PIP: pri11t·ip/cs a11J, ll1e rrfore, will who "loved peace and pursued CERTIFIED MOHEL Do I have good ne ws for 11ar11 from case to cas1•. peace, loved all creatures and 274-3298 521-2498 you. Based on the information Louis M. Pu/11r r is an a/tomey brought them closer to Torah." you have given me, you are i11 Rhoifr ls/and wit/1 law offices not only entitled to the security nl 2 Williams St. (at 5011th Maiu : ~::e:~m;;:;esrz;:::~t~"~i .------,---"""lllr----, deposit back, but there is a Stn•,•t), Providrnc1', R.l. 02903. fensive character 0aws, we must approach him with the staff of Aaron - with true love. A Call to Action for Bosnia Adapted from the works of the (Continued from Page 5) ganizations to establish ef­ L11bavircher rebbe. Submitted by 6. Move expeditiously fective mechanisms for timely Rabbi Yt'/10shua Laufe r, and re­ through the United Nations intervention wherever civilians printed with permission of and/ or other international or- are at risk of mass death. L'Chaim publications.

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