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VOLUME LXlV, NUMBER 1 KISLEV 11, 5754 / THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1993 35c PER COPY Friedman Now Offers to Buy Jewish Home by Anne S. Davidson Island Jewish community," the fer," he told the Herald. Herald Ed itor Herald has learned. The petition But the plaintiffs' lawyers New York nursing home was submitted toSuperior Court maintain that the offer would owner Jack Friedman, now Judge Richard J. Israel Tuesday satisfy both parties in the law· known throughout Rhode as part of what the plaintiffs ca ll suit, fulfilling the plaintiffs' wish Island's Jewish community as a proposed settlement in the to preserve the home's 81·year· the man w ho o ffered to run the lawsuit against the home. old mission and the defendants' Jewish Home for the Aged, has However, MartinM. Temkin, desire to sell the home while,at submitted an offer to buy the a lawyer for the Jewish Home, the same time, increasing its facility fo r $5.S million and run called the document "bizarre." endowment. This money could it as a kosher Jewish facility "It's difficult to say what they then be used "to fund the acti vi· "consistent with the spiritual want. But it's certainly nothing ties and programs o f the home," and social needs of the Rhode that resembles a settlement of· they write. "We figure that if we give (Martin Temkin) an offer that Marders Lauded by Community he ca n' t refuse, maybe every· by Taylor Holland the synagogue, said , "Chaim body would be better o ff," said Herald Reporter Marder is a person w ho com· z. Hershel Smith, one of the Sunday was a special lllght bines wisdom with thecompas· plaintiffs' lawyers. fo r Rabbi Chaim Marder and sion of a teacher." Lawyers for the plaintiffs his wife, Suzie Marder, as they Both the Marders' fathers called Temkin last week to dis· were honored at Congregation spoke of their dedication to thei r cuss the proposal, but an Oct. 27 Beth Sho lom - Sons of Zion, family and to their community court order stipulates that any where Rabbi Marder has served and congregation. negotiations regarding the the congregation fo r four years. Friends o f Rabbi Marder's faci lity'ssalestopuntilhemakes The rabbi a nd his wife were fromhistimeat rabbinicalschool a ruling. lauded throughout the evening made the trip from New York.as "II would be an act of bad by members of the local com· did the siblings of the honorees. faith on the home's part, in view munity and mentors from the Also attending the event was ofthecontractualarrangemenlS past as a crowd of a few hun· Rabbi Avi Weiss, of the Hebrew previously made, to negotiate One Step at a Time dred looked o n. Institute in Riverdale, N.Y. with another party," Temkin Providence Mayor Vincent Rabbi Marder served as assis· wrote in a letter to lawyer Tho· President Bill Clinto n and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Cianci Jr. sent a representative !ant rabbi under Rabbi Weiss. mas W. Pearlman, who repre- Rabin leave an Oval Office meeting heading toward an East to award the couple with ci ta· Ra bbi Marder was very sents four former residents of Room press conference recently. "We must not allow the tions for their service to the com· humble in his acceptance of the lhe home in the lawsuit. opponents of that agreement to derail the new progress that munity and thanked them for praise and said he felt uncom· Temkin is referring lo the of· this year has brought," Clinton said. In his remarks, Rabin told their dedication and values. fortable at the podium fo r the fe r from Antonio L. Giordano, the president, "I return home stronger in many aspects, more Steve Schechter, president of first time. (Continued on Pagl' 18) confident in our ability to reach peace." Inside Israel with Chamish by Alison Smith Israelis with the current peace Herald Reporter program. Chamish said Rabin A talk by Barry Chamish Nov. has sunk drastically in the polls, 18 at the Brown Faculty Club and ii has been common know!· stirred up strong emotions and edge for 20years that Rabin had reactions. The speech, spon· a severe substance abuse prob· sored by the World Affairs [em. One of the recent political Council of Rhode Island, could slogans was, "We want a sober very well have been titled "ls· government, not a drunk." raet as Seen by Chamish" be· He suggested that anyone cause that's what it was- a no· who watched Rabin's recent ap· holds-barred view of w ha t's pearance on the McNeil Lehrer wrong with modern Israel by an program must have wondered investigative reporter. about him after hearing Rabin's Cha mis h was born in slurred speech, and trying to Winnepeg, went to Jerusalem makesenseout of his responses. during the Yorn Kippur War, Chamish believes that and sta yed . He and hiswifeand Rabin's personal problems and twochildrcn li ve in a small town hi s deep involvement with the outside of Jerusalem. I lis part· Iran Contra Aff,1ir and other ner,Joel Bainerman,and hepulr unsavory deals while he was lis h a monthly investigative defense minister from 1984 to newsletter called lllsidl' lsrad, 1990 make him "ulnerable to a nd between them they ha vC' pressure from the U.S. govern· written many arti cles for presli · ment and others like Pl'res, a nd gious publications and several that the current peace process books. did not originotc wi th Norway, Reading Pays The first thing he want<.>d to but inourownslatedepartment, and that it hos been pushed hard I lame! and Norman Sali:man count the receipls from the Sunday morning school book fair get across that evening was th.it Prime Minh.tcr Yitzhak Rabin 1s by the United States si n~ 1ls at Temple Tora I Yisrael. 1/trold ,mo,ot,y ,.,,so,r Smith goi ng against the wi ll of most (Contmu<.>d on Page 20) ------
2 - THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1993 INSIDE THE OCEAN STATE R.I. Lung Association Offers the New England Children's Fun Pass ~~s~ Rhode Island Lung Associa shire and Vermont have to tion has teamed up with Lung offer, including Black Moun /!jNEWS~ Associations throughout New tain, Loon Mountain, Mt. t-z-:i England to produce the New Sunapee, Pats Peak, Stowe c:::> BRIEFS England Children's Fun Pass. Mountain, and Sugarbush. ~ Lung Association friends can Visit museums, zoos, aquar A Winter Clothing Drive, support local lung health pro iums, and playlands of all sponsored by Lincoln grams and services for children types, including Connecticut's School at 301 Butler Ave., and adults while taki ng ad Mystic Seaport, Vermont's vantage of great children's dis Santa's Land, U.S.A. and Shel will start on Dec. 1 and counts at fun area attractions. burne Museum, and Maine's end on Dec. 15. Delivery The Rhode Island Fun Pass Palace Playland and Yo rk's to the Joslin Community includes 145 coupons for free Wild Kingdom. Center wilt take place on children's admissions at local Worth more than $1,000, the Dec.17.Al!kindsofwarm attractions li ke Roger Williams Fun Pass is priced at $15; how clothing are needed, es Advocates for the Elderly Zoo, Providence College and ever, "smart shoppers" can pecially winter coats; ca ll 331-9696. The Governor's Justice Commission and the Rhode Island UR I games, The Enchanted save even more on the pass by Cri me Prevention Officers Association present a n award re Forest, and all kinds of museums reserving theirs now at a dis cently to the Commission for the Care and Safety of the Elderl y and amusements, as well as count price of $ 13 for one or Scienterrific, a workshop at the Statehouse. The commission initiated the first senior top-notch attractions in the $25 fo r two. This offer is only on magnetism, will take advocate program in the United States. Each city /town police other five New England states good through Dec. 25. placeDec.3,from 9:30a.m. department in the slate has designated a person on the force (most offers are for children 12 Call the Lung Associa tion at to 1:30 p.m. at the lo serve as an advocate for elderl y persons. Seen here (from and younger). 421-6487 now for more infor Children's MusO?um of left ) a re Anna Tucker, chairwoman for the Commission for the The pass offers 38 attractions mation or to order by phone. Rhode Island in Paw Care a nd Safety of the Elderly; Loriann Agag, Governor's in nearby Massachusetts alone, tucket. Each participant Justice Commissio n; Suzette Gebhard, executive director for all accessible with significant wi ll make their own star the Governor's Commission; Denise E. Owens, Narragansett savings. Skii ng families will Sailors Group magnet for the refrigera Police Depart ment, president of the Rhode Island Crime enjoy free admissions to many tor; same day registration Prevention Officers Association. PhctobyManeCostabile-Boscia of the best slopes New Hamp- Seeks Members is required; call 726-2591 The U.S. Navy Cruiser at8:30a.m. to register and Sailors Association is now for fee information. actively seeking new members to swell its ranks. A Home and Hearth Tour Attention Herald readers and advertisers! Membership is open to all on Dec.4 from 10a.m. to4 ship's company, marine detach p.m. will benefit the ment, avia tion division per Women'sCenterofRhode Reserve greetings space now for our 1993 sonnel and flag members that Island's shelter. The tour served or are serving aboard will feature 10 homes in cruisers. Associate member Providence and Bar ships are available for past and rington. Wheeler School present navy men and women, Field House in Providence reservists, widows of cruiser will serve as tour center, men and interested individuals. and wiU host a refresh Chanukah Issue For information, contact ment table; call 521-4166. Ron ald J. Maciejowski, secre tary, U.S.N.C.S.A., 55 Donna Thursday, December 9, 1993 Terrace, Taunton, Mass. 02780, The Best of Rhode Island (U.S.S. Worcester CL-144). Festiva l will take place at the new Rhode Isla nd Wish your relatives and friends in the Jewish community a Happy Chanukah! Convention Center Dec. 4 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Fill outthe form below, enclose check or money order, and mail to: Disabled Vets Admission is free. A trade Rhode Island Jewish Herald, P.O. Box 6063, Providence, R.I. 02940 show, art and historical to Receive exhi bits, food tastings and Greetings accepted until Monday, November 29, 1993 appearances by local ce Increase lebrities, music,and other ,------7 activities will be offered; The Department of Veterans call 35 1-2700. Rhode Island Jewish Herald Chanukah Greetings Affairs (VA) has announced that disabled veterans will re Safe Place, a support Name: ______ceive a 2.6 percent increase in their compensation payments, group for those coping Address:______withthesuicideof a friend effective Dec. 1. City: ______State: ___ Zip: ______The cost-of-living allowance of relative, will meet on was included in legislation Dec. 7, 14, 21 and 28 at 2 Phone: ______Magee St., Providence, signed by President Clinton on from 7:30 to 9 p.m.; call Veterans Day, Nov. 11. Vet Indicate desired ad size (a column is 2" wide; price per column inch is $6.00). erans will begin receivi ng the 272-4516. Enclose check or money order, payable to R.I . Jewish Herald, for proper amount. higher payments in their Dec. 31 check. The literature of trauma O 1 col. x 2" ($12.001 O 2col.x1 "($12.00J O 2 col. x 3" ($36.00J Almost 2.2 milli on veterans - a co ll ecti ve record of O 1 col.x 3" ($t8.00J o 2 col. x 2" ($24.00J 0 Other are affected by the increase. the sufferering of victims Their monthly payments will of personal catastrophe (Print or type message here, oratlochcopy 1-0/orm) now range from $87 for a single (i.e. rape, incest. the 1-!olo veteran with a JO -percent dis caust, the Vietnam War) abi li ty rating to $1,774 for a - wil l be the topic Dec. 7 si ngle veteran wit h a 100-per at 4 p.m. in the Rhode ls cent disabili ty rating. land Room, University Also affected are more than Club, UR l's Kingston 34,000 survivors of veterans or Campus. Dr. Ka li Tai, au service members who died thor of Worlds of Hurt will from service-connected causes. speak; call 792-5931. Veterans whose service connected disabilities are rated Cardiac patientsand their JO percent or higher may re spouses are invited to at ceive additional allowances fo r tend "An Evening with dependents, based on the Spouses" Dec. 7 al 7 p.m. number of dependents and e)( in the Dining Room 3 at tent of disability. Memoria l llospi lal of For furth er information, con Rhode Island. The cre tact the Providence Regional ation of a support group Office, 380 Westminster Mall, will be discussed; call Su Providence, R.I. 02903 at 273 - san Potter al 729-2503. 4910 or toll -free (800) 827- L------~ 1000. THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1993 FEATURE
He has fi ve grandchildren and WWI Vet, 98, Recalls Stormy Seas two great-grandchildren. His by David Singband in Europe's war, leaving Freed wife died last year. Michael Freedman leans man to serve as a boiler oper Seventy-five years after the back in his easy chair at the ator and Water Tender 1st war, Freedman hvcs in the Rhode Island Veterans Home Class in peace for three years. Rhode Island Veterans Home and lets his mind drift back He was on a destroyer on Metacom Avenue. Age and almost 76 years. docked in Guantanamo Bay, gravity have bent him, but he The 98-year-old Navy vet Cuba, when the United States remains keenly interested in eran remembers standing on declared war on Germany on the world at large. the deck of the USS Nicholson, April 6, 1917. somewhere off the coast of Though he had only six Europe, watching a scuttled months left to serve on his German U-boat slip beneath initial enlistment, Freedman the cold water, taking its cap decided to go to Europe with tain with it. his comrades. The captain, who sank the " I wanted to go," he said. " I ship once the crew was safe was patriotic. I figured the aboard another American ship, country was good to me and I wasn't necessarily a brave man figured I'd be good to the or a stupid man, Freedman country if I could help." said. He was simply a "dedi After steaming to Ireland, cated German captain. That's Freedman re-enlisted in the all." Fleet Naval Reserve and con tinued serving in Navy blues until 1921. As the Germans climbed German U-boats were taking Salads a heavy toll on Allied shipping. fourteen Deliciously aboard the Fanning, Freedman's ship, the USS Different Salads someone, probably the Nicholson, patrolled the eastern Atlantic Ocean for the submarine captain, submarines. The sub hunters opened the ballast valves patrolled the ocean for a week at a time and returned to port sandwiches and sank the ship. for resupply and refueling, f orty Sandwiches from Freedman said. Basic to BOLD Most of the time, the ships World War I changed the escorted convoys or rescued sur FOURGENERATIONSOFFREEDMANS-WorldWarl veteran face of war by introducing sub vivors of sunken merchant Michael Freedman is honored recently with a medal on the marine warfare, chemical men, while keeping a watch for anniversary of Armistice Day. Seen with him are his twin great weapons, the tank and mass German subs, he said. grandsons, Joshua and Nathan Freedman, his grandson, Joel slaughter to the world. On Nov. 17, 1917, the Freedman (left) and his son, Stanley Freedman (center). Lunch and Dinner Seventy-nine years later, the Nicholson's sister ship, the Pliotoby£loist\Vtsto11 Delivery Available first "total" war is remembered USS Fanning, spotted a peri ESPRESSO & only in yellowed photographs, scope and immediately at tain, opened the ballast valves ters Local Union 476 on Sept. CAPPUCCINO jerky film footage and by the tacked with depth charges. The and sank the ship, he said. 15, 1942. He retired in 1967. Open Daily llam-llpm few soldiers left alive who Nicholson joined the action as " He went down with the sub He married Rose Millman in served. the first charges hit the German marine," he said. " That was the 1933 and has a son, Stanley, 1074 HOPE STREET PROVIDENCE Among them is Freedman, submarine. The damaged end of that." who is a retired teacher, and a 273-7230 who was born May 1, 1895, in U-boat surfaced rapidly and its The war ended for Freedman daughter, Carolyn, who is a Manchester, England. crew scrambled onto the deck, on the USS Phillip as it refueled teacher in Washington, D.C. His father, a raincoat maker, hands raised in surrender. It from a tanker off the coast of moved to Cranston when Freed was the first of two U-boats to northern Ireland. A storm blew man was 9 years old and, a year fall victim to U.S. Navy destroy in, smashing the two ships later, sent for his family. ers in World War I. together. The Phillip sustained Freedman, the oldest of IO "They all got up on the top damage to bulkheads and out children, rode on his father's side," Freedman said. "There side plating, but sailed soon "Just because horse-drawn cart, delivering was a gang of about 15 to 20 afterward to the United States. beer for a local brewery as soon sailors. The Fanning took the As it limped across the ocean, as he arrived in the United prisoners. We kept circling the armistice was signed in I need a little help, States. When he was 11 years around so that everything November 1918. old, he got a job with a North would be all right." Freedman and his fellow doesn't mean I need Providence fruit peddler, who The American sailors weren't sailors didn't get back home sold produce from a horse particularly excited by the immediately. Because a world d rawn wagon. appearance of the submarine, wide influenza epidemic was a nursing home." " I didn't go near the horse," Freedman remembered. " We devastating the United States Freedman said from his room at didn't have to do any shoot - killing 20 million people the Rhode Island Veterans ing," he said. " You knew the worldwide by 1920 - the ship When all you need is a little help. ifs Home. " He'd bite you." submarine was helpless for detoured to the Azores before comforting to know Horizon Retirement As the horse clopped down a some reason or another." returning home Nov. 20. street, customers leaned out of As the Germans climbed Freedman returned to Rhode Centers are there for you. For more infor- · their windows and yelled for aboard the Fanning, someone, Island and became a steamfit mation, call the Horizon location near you. potatoes or strawberries or probably the submarine cap- ter's helper and joined Steamfit- whatever they needed that day. Young Freedman grabbed a East Bay Manor bag or basket and ran to deliver East Providence/Barrington 433-SOCX) the order. Sometimes, as he clambered up the stairs, he ate rnMt AND West Boy Manor a few berries himself. Warwick He lived with his boss during 739-7300 the week and went home on Greenwich Bay Manor weekends. He made $2 a week, (tlrn~ATt East Greenwich plus room and board. In 1913, 885-3334 while traveling around the South Bay Manor United States, Freedman de Soulh Kingstown cided to join the Navy in T~t mTIVAl 789-4880 Cleveland. At the time, one had No rth Boy Manor to be 21 to join, so he added six Smithfield years to his age and took St. 232-5577 Patrick's Day as his birthday. 0~ ll~HT~ AT About a year later, on June 28, Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinated Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand, ~e1ot~TO~~f.SI -~ precipitating Europe's descent into the " war to end all wars." A Fine Arts Bookstore owa,uHU,IDS&(J151 128 Nor1h Main Strecl Providence, R I f'lf:POIS& m!DIJYI The United States under 401-455-0050 President Woodrow Wilson BCO'.SOI.IUASPl:CTS tJ TlfMJS, A IIOURS: 10-10 Mon-Sat. 12-6 Sunduys l&lln/JOJl)S((U([ C.AAl:M tried to avoid getting entangled 4 - : HE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1993 EDITORIAL Paul Revere or Chicken Little? A Matter of
by Alison Smith be, complain about perceived Life and Death Heu.Id Reporter wrongs, someone always says, The Lubavitcher rebbe's posi Barry Chamish, who spoke " If you don't like it .. " tion of not trading land for last week at the Brown Faculty O f course, Chamish's idea of peace has been strong, un Club (see Page 1), is not a tem cutting off all aid now is also equivocal and unchanging. perate man. Listening to him, I short, simple and wrong. You Many have thought that the was reminded of Paul Revere do not whip someone's crutch rebbe's position comes from riding through the countryside out from underneath him sim wanting to retain or encourage on a spring night, to warn the ply because you have decided the biblical borders of the holy colonists about the British. that he has become too depen land. Revere did not say, " Look dent on it. But this is not the reason. It is fe llows - if you're not other The effect of such a sudden clearly and simply, as the rebbe wise occupied right now, and if action in the Middle East would has stated scores of times, a you don't have too heavy a day be unsettling and catastrophic. matter of p'kuach nefesh - a planned for tomorrow, would Severe suffering would result. matter of life and death. you please get up and get your Our own reputation as a nation rifle and join the others to see if would be fo rever, irreparably we can't do something about damaged. these Brits coming up the But maybe givers should road?'' have a fuller accounting of No. He said, "Up! Now! Get where their money goes, and ready! The British are coming." maybe, if charges of graft and Chamish said indelicate corruption have been made, fbPINIOI things and was very plain-spo searching questions should be ken. He sounded like a man asked, and asked again, till the Rabbi Benny Elon, head of who was trying to warn every answers jibe with the facts. the settlement movement body about a danger he saw as If the leaders of Israel are not "Emunim," told reporters on imminent. People don't like to as they have been portrayed to March 18, " I now admit that be warned. us, don't we deserve to learn when the Lubavitcher rebbe When a woman in the audi the truth? If we have been used to speak about holding on ence acidly suggested that, if he naive, who among us would to every inch of territory, there didn't like it, he could leave, care to remain so? were many of us who thought one recognized a familiar re Are our policies based almost that this stemmed from some sponse - the short, simple completely on our own na kind of messianic- redemption wrong answer. There is always tional interests and not on the ideology. We failed to grasp his a short, simple, wrong answer. need for a just peace in the real message that it is 'a matter " PLEASE UNDERST ANO ..." - Barry Chamish makes a point When blacks, liberals, whistle East? If so, aren't we entitled to of life or death' without any d uring his talk on conditions inside Israel, Nov. 18, at the Brown blowers, and women in jobs know that, too? other consideration involved." Faculty Club. His appearance was sponsored b y the World where men don't want them to The peace plan cannot end Affairs Council of Rhode Island. u ~ra ldphotobyA/ison Smitll and will not control terrorist groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, Rhode Island Jewish Herald and fa ctions of the PLO who strike every city in Israel from Syria. From its heights every are sworn to our destruction. its pre-1967 border. A katyusha hostile move can be detected. SUBMISSIONS POLICY We must remember that noter can be carried to a hilltop on Control of its mountain roads Send to: rorist organization (except one the back of a donkey and fired allows us to repel enemy troop :~~t~~~i~:~i:~~7:~~~~~~~;~c~:~i~~ Letters to the Editor faction of the PLO) has agreed with a metal tube and car bat and tank movements. Without concerns. Articles must be typed and double RI Jewish Herald to any of the terms of the tery. It can, and will, be smug it, military experts agree, we are spaced. Please include a daytime telephone P.O. Box 6063 negotiations. In fact, all of them gled through dozens of path helpless. number. Anyth ing longer than 500 words Providence, RI 02940 Judea and Samaria create a may be edited for space restrictions. have sworn to oppose it . ways and seaports. Or fox to: 401 /726-5820. And while some would have Israel will be only nine miles barrier to attacking armies from us believe that only the ··set wide at its most populated area. the east. Its mountains are tlers" are at risk, these terrorists Each flight to and from Ben home to our early warning RHODE ISLAND JEWISH thirst for the elimination of all Gurion Airport will be a target. radar. This span of West Bank the Jewish people in Israel, not This is not an issue for the set land affords precious seconds HERALD = just those living in the "terri tlers only. Every Israeli, every for our Air Force to repeal any tories. tourist and visitor will be at attack. Wit h Israel's borders re ri sk. The U.S. Department of De (USPS464-7150) If the Golan, Samaria, and fense, in a recently declassified Publlshod Eve,yWeek 8 yThe duced, Ashkelon, Tel Aviv, JewlshPreu PubllshlngCompeny Haifa - all of Is rael - each Judea are surrendered, all of report. stated that "without these areas for defense, Israel's EDITOR Israeli home will be in range of Israel is vulnerable to attack, ANNE 5. D AVIDSON a terrorist katyusha rocket. left without protection from its vulnerability would be a temp REPORTERS Candlelighting A katyusha rocket has a enemies. The Golan provides tation for Arab attack." TAYLDR H OLLAND Israel's only barrier against (Continued on Page 6) ALISON SMITH range of 30 miles, far enough to CONTRIBUTING REPORTER M ICHAEL FINK November 26 AROUND TOWN COLUMNIST D OROTHEA SNYDER Fifty Years Ago in the Rhode Island Jewish Herald ADVERTISING AO:OUNT REPS 4:00 p.m. JEANETTE HIDALGO MYRNA H . CRESS f------WEEK OF NOVEMBER 26, 1943 ------1 GRAPHICS JOHANNA SPARLING New Plan for Partition in Palestine being Considered MAILING ADDRESS: CAIRO - A new plan of partition is now under consid~ration as a solution of the Pale~tine eox&o63,Provldence,R.l.02940 question, it was learned authoritatively by the N.Y. Post.1 he plan has al read y been tentatively TELEPHONE: (401)724-0200 submitted to several Arab politicians. While details of this proposal h~ve.been w<.'rkcd out, they PLAITT: HeraldWay,otlWebs terStntel may not be disclosed al this t-ime. It ca n be stated, however, that 11 differs widely from the Pawtuckel, R.1. 02861 proposal put forth in 1937 by the Peel Ro ya l Commission, under which all Jews w~re to be OFFICE; 1175WarrenAvenue brought within the proposed Jewish territory and no Arabs would be left under Jewish rule. EaslProvldence,R.1.02914 Samuel Magid Re-Elected Home Head for 11th Term Sec:onddassp0stag,o,pa,d-Prowloenc:e,Rhode Samuel M. Magid was elected president of the Jewish Home fo r Aged of Rho~e !~land for his Island POS1mas!8f,sendacklressci'langestothe AhodelslantlJewishHerald,P.O.Bo,6063,Provi 11th consecut-i ve term at theannual meeting of the Home held last Tuesday evening 1n I he Home llel>ce,A.I02!MQ.6063 Subscrlpllonrates,Thlrty-livecentspe,eopy. auditorium. Other officers elected were Judge Philip C. Joslin,Jacob I. Felder, and Mrs. Samuel 8yma,1$1000pe,annum.OulsldeRhodelslaod Mi chaelson, vice-presidents; Milton Sulzberger, treasurer; Benjamin Brier, financial secret,1ry; 811d sou1M..ste,n Massachusetts; $14,00 per aMUffl_f.,.,"!!esonrequest.TheHetaldas· Herman J. Aisenberg, recording secretary; Edward Blackman, account,1nl and auditor. Mem MM10Saub,o,p,onsan1c:onbnuousunie,sf!Cl~ bers of the Board of Dircclors include Saul Abrams, Dr. !lie Berger, Jacob 13erkelhammer, fled totheoon~arylnwritjng lhe Hefllld a,sumes f!CI linllf!CliM rOSl>Of!slbility Charles C. Brown, Nat C. Cohen, David Dw,1res, Irving I. Fain, Jacob L Felder, Abe C. Fine, fortypographlcaterr0 ever Jews settle; Providence, too, has one. A Servant or a Son? The Pawtucket Gemillath Here's What Chesed has well over $100,000 This week's Torah portion, When a son fullfilb b i,; father's sitting, accumulating interest in Vayish[ach, narrates Jacob's wishes, he does so ,. ,1 1•1•ily and various banks and vaults. The victorious struggle with the an out of love. A servant, how I Think general concensus at the an gel and the subsequent chang ever, is not necessarily over nual general meeting I attended ing of his name to Israel. " Not joyed at the opportunity to not long ago was that efforts Jacob shall your name any carry out his master's com by Rabbi Hershy Worch need to be made to attract new more be called, but Israel, for mand, quite frequently doing Special to the Hera ld members, who will swell the you have striven with G-d and so only because he has no coffers at the usual rate. with man, and prevailed." choice in the matter. There are no plans to actual Money is like manure, to be those who only have drawers ly spend or put the money to spread about to make other full. work in Pawtucket or Central things grow. For, when money Imagine a community like Falls. The bylaws of the society is kept in storage it becomes, ours deciding to start a free are carefully worded, I believe, like you-know-what, a cess baby-ca r-seat loan society, to prevent that. An Israel bond TORAH TODAY~ pool or midden. where families with grown chil was purchased at some time ~ Which reminds meof a story. dren could donate car seats for (I'm not sure how the bylaws A man came to the psychiatrist. other fami lies to use. felt about it), but Israel is The names "Jacob" and " Is Both situations apply to our The doctor asked him why had What would you think if different isn't it? rael" are used to refer to the own lives, in our own personal he come. they continued to accumulate The founders of the fund entire Jewish people; each of service of G-d. A Jew can pray, " My family thinks I need to car seats until there were would be astounded to know the two terms emphasizes a learn Torah, observe the see a psychiatrist," answered 27,482 of them stored in base that the money contributed this particular characteristic of the mitzvot and serve his father the man. ments all over the city? And year will simply join the money Jewish nation. According to like a son, or he can perform " Why do you th ink your what would you say if they from last year in the Old Stone Hasidic philosophy, "Jacob" the very same actions without family thinks that?" continued to campaign for Bank, with virtuall y no hope and " Israel" symbolize two joy, like a servant serves his " Because of the pancakes," more car seats? that it will ever be put to the levels in the Jew 's relationship master. When a Jew stands on the man said. use for which it was conse with G-d. the level of " Israel," he will ''What pancakes?" crated. I'm su re they'll be glad Jews are referred to as both ingly fulfills his father's com " Well, doctor, you see, I love to know it 's earning the best servants of G-d and as G-d's mands, experiencing no inner pancakes." possible rate of interest, though. sons. As "servants," they are (Continued on Page 17) "There's nothing wrong in I think it imprudent at best called "Jacob" - " hearken that. I myself am extremely and scandalous at least for unto me, Jacob, my servant." fond of pancakes," the doctor grown Jewish men to sit talking As "sons," they are called " Is METROPOLITAN said. about the mitzvah of Gemillath rael" - my son, my firstborn, "You are? Oh! Won't you Chesed, whilst yearly watching Israel." POLISHING love my place then. You must The Pawtucket and Central its bank balance metastasize. The difference between a ser complete nail Located at the service AMERICAN LEGION HALL coll tor Route 1, Plainville, Massachusetts appointment HOURS: MONDAY-IRIDAY 9:30 AM-8:30 PM• SATURDAY 9 AM-5 PM• SUNDAY 12 PM-5 PM ROUTE 95 NORTH TO SOUTH ATTLEBORO EXIT, WHICH PUTS YOU ON ROUTE I NORTH . STAY ON ROUTE I 1250 mineral spring avenue, north providence 727-1330 UNTIL YOU REACH IA (ABOUT I MILE PASTTI1E OLD JOLLY (HOLLY). FOLLOW SIGNS TO PLAINVILLE. 20 1 waylond avenue, PfOVldence 273-2400 THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1993 WORLD AND NATIONAL NEWS Most Israelis Now Oppose Violence Leaves ~ '-- Pact with PLO, Poll Shows ~EWS Many Skeptical Or Bl\lEi'S 70 by Michele Chabin showed a smiling PLO Chair JERUSALEM UT A) - The man Yasser Arafa t and the ceeded to prevent assassina by David Landau wave of Arab violence that has words, "Would you buy a used lions by extreme Palestinian overtaken Israelis since Israel car from this man?" JERUSALEM UT A) - De terror groups of Israelis, and I signed a self-rule accord with The latest statistics were spite government calls for mod cannot say that we have suc the Palestine Liberation Orga backed up by conversations eration and warnings that the ceeded always to control reac /la\ nization in September has with a random sampling of res law would be strictly enforced tion by the settlers to these as [NTERNATIONAL sassinations," he said. eroded public confidence in the idents of Jerusalem. for Israelis and Palestinians JERUSALEM (JT A) - A peace process to such an extent Most of those interviewed by alike, disturbances erupted in group of 119 olim from that now more Israelis oppose the Jewish Telegraphic Agency several locations in the West A Matter of s trife-ridden Armenia Bank and Gaza Strip during a the agreement than favor it. last week said they do not trust Life and Death landed in Israel early Nov. single day of violence that left The reversal of Israeli sup the PLO chairman, saying he 17 after a 30-hour ordeal. many here skeptical about the (Continued from Page 4) port for the accord was re lacks the strength or determi The arduous flight, prospects for peace. vealed in the latest opinion nation to eliminate terrorism So strategic are these areas to marked by long delays In Gaza on Nov. 16, an Israeli poll, which was published in from the territories. Israel's security that the United and an unexpected de policeman was stabbed in the the Hebrew daily Ma'ariv Nov. " I was very optimistic about States, in its desire for Mideast tour, resulted in large part chest and his assailant, a young 12. the peace treaty a couple of stability, is offering its troops from fuel shortages in Pa lestinian, was shot dead by a Of 505 Jewish men and days before it was signed,'' said on the Golan, and perhaps in Armenia and Georgia. witness to the incident. women polled two weeks ago, Talia Heller, a 23-year-old soci the West Bank as well. Jewish Agency officials 39 percent expressed support ologist, "but that feeling has In the West Bank town of Ra But can we count on America mallah, soldiers shot dead a acccompanying the olim for the Israel-PLO pact, while given way to pessimism. to protect us when terrorists literally had to scavenge 45 percent said they were "'While I was prepared for young Palestinian and attack or, G-d forbit, the treaty wounded another after being for fuel among the planes against it. some acts of Arab terror against fails? How many U.S. soldiers parked on the tarmac at pelted with stones from a wilt, G-d forbid, have to sacri The remaining 16 percent Israelis, I was really unpre lbilisi. surveyed expressed no opinion. pared for Arafat's lack of a re school. fice their lives at the hands of These findings contrast sponse. When he finally did de And the same day in Hebron, terrorists before America sharply with the results of polls nounce one of the attacks, it Israeli settlers went on a ram demands her brave young sons TELAVIV(JTA)-While taken immediately after the was only because he was page in the center of town, home? speaking before the Sept. 13 White House signing pressed by the international overturning stalls, smashing The war of Arab against Jew Knesset last week, Foreign ceremony. At that time, the community," she said . windows and jostling Palestini is not political. It is an Islamic Minister Shimon Peres majority of Israelis favored Heller was referring to ans. religious war dedicated to the made a comment that al granting limited autonomy to Arafat's public denuncia tion of Prime Minister Yitzhak Ra destruction of the Jewish most brought the house the Palest inians. the Oct. 29 kilting of settler bin, who was briefing Arab re people and the land of Israel. down around him. Dur One small signal that Israelis Chaim Mizrachi after Israeli se porters on Nov. 16 at the end of This enmity will not be legis ing a Knesset debate Nov. are now having doubts about curity sources revealed that the his visit to Washington, said lated by a political struggle to 17 on the escalating vio the future is the emergence of five men being held for that that Israeli security forces had maintain power. lence in lheGazaStripand stickers and T-shirts jeering the crime have admitted they were largely failed at stopping the vi Israel was created in strength West Bank, Peres was an peace process. One T-shirt members of Arafat's Al Falah olence committed by terrorists out of a need for strength. swering criticism from hanging in a shop downtown movement. and Israeli settlers . Peace was not its purpose; pro members of the opposi· " I ca n't say that we sue- tection of the Jewish people tion, some of whom were was and should sti ll be. cal\ingonlhegovernment This peace once again places lo call off the peace talks Join thousands of readers who know what's Jews at risk for their li ves. All until radical Arabs ceased Jews, not just the "settlers." their attacks on Israelis. going on in the Rhode Island Jewish Community... Israel's goal should be Israel's Peres responded by say· preservation. A preservation ing that Israeli security based on strength. Based on the forces were doing all in wisdom of history. Based on their power to halt the at truth, not on wishful, naive tacks. He then added: ~u,,c1&i,e to tke th inking. "The most that Yasser Silence is being taken for con Arafat can do at the mo sent. But if the Jews of Israel ment !about escalating value safety and security, if the violence] is to denounce Jews of the Diaspora value the attacks - until he having a refuge and homeland, forms a Pa lestine state in then all Jews must voice their Gaza and Jericho." His Rhode Island protest against this travesty. All reference to a "Palestine Jews - not just the settlers. state" created the furor. From a11 article by Jay Litvin/ C/1abad of Israel. NATlONAL WASHINGTON ()TA) - Paul Revere or Israel and the Vatican are Jewish Herald on the verge of an agree Chicken Little? ment to establish diplo matic ties,according loan "IN TOUCH WITH THE JEWISH COMMUNITY" (Continued from Page 4) official at the Israeli Em ls our news about Israel man bassy here. The agreement TIMELY FEATURES, LOCAL & SOCIAL EVENTS, aged? Are we told what some would create the first offi· one wishes us to hear, and not cial relations between the EDITORIALS, BUSINESS PROFILES, AND OUR what actually is going on? It's Jewish state and the "AROUND TOWN" SECTION HIGHLIGHT EVERY ISSUE! tragically easy, by simple omis Catholic Church. sion or careful phrasing, to slant a story so the reader gets WASHINGlDN QTA) - ~Ok 4 the wrong (?) impression. Per Members of Congress are 't -..i,, ,ikt;k Okel haps it is time to read each engaged in a flurry of ac· news release critically, with an tl vity designed to end the Retu rn the coupon below to su bsc ribe . Just $10 in Rhode Island eye for signs of hidden unrest. Arab economic boycott of ($14 out of sta te) bring s you 52 issues that will inform and entertain you. One member of Chamish's Israel, amid signs that the audience asked pointedly if he I ------Israel-Pa lestine Liberation wrote fiction . He bristled, but Organization self-rule 1 handled the question well. agreement itself has had I Judging from the thoughtful si I liltleeffect indoingso. Sev 0 $10 per year (RI resident) 0 $14 per year (out of state) lence in the room, some were I picking up the gut-wrenching eral pieces of legislation aroma of unpleasant, unwel have been introduced in I recent weeks, al the s.1me 1 Name come truth, and wishing it were tinteas the Clinton admin all fiction . : AddreSS ------Is Barry Chamish a modem istration has asked the U.S. "Chicken Little," warning us International Trade Com 1 that the sky over Israel is about mission to study the im I to fall, or is he an Israeli Paul pact of the boycott on J Mail check to: Rhode Island Jewish Herald, P.O . Box Providence, RI 6063, 01940 Revere, shouting at us to wake American business ~------up and do something? THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1993 WORLD AND NATIONAL NEWS Hopeful Sign as Economic Talks Begin in Paris by Michel Di Paz "The economy is one of the suited in the historic agreement Nov. 8 in an undisc1o~ed loca PARIS UTA) - Israeli and main issues of the peace pro signed in Washington on Sept. tion in Cairo in an effort to con Palestine Liberation Organiza~ cess," said Alaa. "I believe that 13. duct the negotiations away lion officials convened here last cooperation between us based The Economic Committee from the glare of the media week to begin their first formal on parity and equality will cre was created following the Oct. spotlight. economic talks in an effort to ate and motivate this process 6 meeting in Cairo between On Nov. 16, the second day build a viable Palestinian ad and will help to make a real Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of the talks in Cairo last week, ministrative entity in the Gaza change on the ground." and PLO Chairman Vasser Israeli as well as Palestinian NATIONAL Strip and West Bank town of Shohat urg~d the PLO to Arafat. sources indicated that progress Jericho. maintain close economic ties The economic talks are had been made on the issue of Meanwhile, with less than a with Israel after Palestinian aimed at establishing a frame security arrangements, includ WASHINGTON (JT A) - month remaining before Israel self-rule in the territories be work of cooperation between ing how Israel Defense Force Due lo the overwhelming is scheduled to begin with gins. Israel and the Palestinian au troops will be redeployed after popularity of the U.S. drawing its troops from Gaza "Only through open and un thority that will administer the withdrawals. No details Holocaust Memorial Mu and Jericho, Israeli and Pales restricted trade can the West Gaza and Jericho when Israel were provided. seum in recent months, tinian negotiators were report Bank and Gaza and Israel fulfill begins withdrawing its troops Also in Cairo last week, ne museum officials are en ing progress in their Cairo their potential," he said. from the two regions. gotiators from 40 regional and couraging future visitors based talks. " It is precisely at this mo That withdrawal, which is overseas countries reported a not to come-al leasl not Those talks, which entered ment when we have begun to scheduled to begin Dec. 13 and first tangible breakthrough in yet. The museum has their sixth round last week, fo remove the barriers of hatred, to be completed by April 13, the multilaterial talks on envi drawn such large crowds cused on Israeli troop with that we must prevent the cre has been a source of contention ronmental issues. that officials have been drawals. ation of new barriers - eco between the two parties. With cash subsidies provided forced to hire more em In Paris, heading the eco nomic or political - which Two weeks ago, the Pales by the World Bank, modern ployees than initially nomic talks, which began Nov. could restrict future joint tinians suspended the talks in equipment for coping with oil planned, and the result 16, were Israeli Finance Minis progress," said Shohat. the Sinai border town of Taba, spills will be bought and stored ing wear and tear on the ter Avraham Shohat and the Alaa was the PLO official saying that the Israeli proposals in the Jordanian port of Aqaba, museum will require ad top official of the PLO eco who headed the secret negotia for troop withdrawals did not for use by any of the four states ditional refurbishing. nomic division, Ahmed Karia, tions with Israel earlier this go far enough. bordering the Red Sea - Jor also known as Abu Alaa. year in Oslo, Norway, that re- The talks were reconvened dan, Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia - who may need it in WASHINGTON (JTA) an emergency. ln the wake of an appeals And he paid homage to Is court decision last week Rabin Denies Plans to rael's architect of that deal. overturning the 1985 ex " I more than appreciate the LIFETIME tradition of john Abandon 'United' Jerusalem courage of the late prime minis Demjanjuk, some Jewish ter of Israel, Menachem Begin, WINDOWS, INC. by Bram D. Eisenthal War. officials here are protest when he took the decision to 738-6434 ing insinuations by the MONTREAL UT A) - Recall "You don't have to tell me give back a large percentage of Vinvl Replacement Windows court that the Justice De ing his roots and role in the and no one has to tell me the Sinai," Rabin said. LIFETIME WARRAN partment bowed to pres modern history of Jerusalem, a meaning of a united He admitted that, by negoti ON WINDOWS surefrom}ewishinteresls. visibly angered Yitzhak Rabin Jerusalem," the prime minister ating with the PLO, he had bro GOOD... $150 said. ken a campaign promise. The appeals court ruled has denied suggestions that he BETTER ...$ 165 But he chose this route, he BEST...$175 the Justice Department had abandoned his commit said, after he realized that the Allpritesincludeinsiallatioo prosecutors had commit ment to a united city. organization was calling the Ar"f,(slze-doublehung ted fraud by witholding 'Tm committed to a united "No one has to tell me R.I.Lic.12186 shots for the Palestinian negoti evidence while obtaining Jerusalem and no one will teach the meaning of a me what is a united Jerusalem," ating team. 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The environ more than any of the other "The historic breakthrough ro~::~~~~~: ""' ts~mit~:;~ ment has been slowly brigades in the War of Indepen did not take place on the lawns changing, allowing some dence." of the White House on the 13th gay clergy to make their He said he had " had a unique of September, but took place on orientation known to their role" in bringing about the the lawns of the White House mainstream congrega city's unification when he was in 1978 upon the signing of the tions without the admis Israel Defense Force chief of Camp David accord," Rabin sion ending their careers. staff during the 1967 Six-Day said. Their experiences, how ever, remain the excep tion. Most gay clergy can not reveal their identity. NEWYORK(JTA)-The DO YOU KNOW WHERE • Anti-Defamation League has reached a settlement gf'~ with the San Francisco YOUR DREIDELS ARE? district attorney's office, ;:::;1 Jm' S KOSHER KITCHEN which has been investi Also •.• gating the AOL for THEY'RE letchefJeffcoteryoU1nextporty,fomilyrthe1ing01' months, by agreeing toan ¢ Menorahs ¢ Toys injunction nol to use ille ¢ Candles ¢ Books ~nn:::1,·,~;i,:f~:~~t h~:!01 ::~j gal methods to monitor HERE!~ ¢ Banners ¢ Cards ,eosonoblepli "I have very few obvious refer goes out with a Korean girl al Elie Weisel Discusses the Creative ences,onlya page or a few para Yale. He seems to accept that." graphs. But it enfolds what it Jonas Hauptman, my com· leaves out." panion fo r the afternoon, comes Process at Boston University Sohyun put in a few words. to my journalism class on Col by Mike Fink up and sit inon the class, which pact, how could a Jew stay in "I read your every word with lege Hill. On the road back in his Herald Contributing Reporter deals with Weisel's own body there? Yet my friend Howard artistic pleasure. I hated to turn truck, he smiled and said, "You "An agonizing pleasure ... or of work. The group of about 60 Fast took ii on the chin and re :~: ,last page and close the cov- arc gently pulling me back to maybe a pleasurable agony!" people all held The Testament in mained faithful to Commu my Judaism." This is how Elie Weisel describes their hands. nism." Stalin hated the Jews out Ayoung man in a crisp white "No," I responded. "You the act of writing. One of his "I spent years researching the of envy. They were close to Lenin shirt and necktie noted that the came to me in order to find your B.U. seminar students, Sohyun background for this book. I read at the very start. characters don't brood alone, own way back to your people. Bae, had taken my RISO elec Marx and the history of Lenin I rode up with a RISO stu they deal with each other. "My But it isn't a step backward. It's tive called "Jewish Narrative." and Trotsky, the story of com dent, Jonas Ha uptman.who work changed after I got mar going forward. T raditions don't She went on todo graduate work munism. I could see how Jews brought his camera along. The ried," confided the author. "This root usina static way. They give in Boston and got into Weisel's from the Pa le could go for a secretary let only me step over is my story about a father and usa tap from which to move up popular course at the School of vision o f a finer life, freer, more the blind threshold into the in· son, a mystical bond. In this and seek our light and spread as Theology. hopeful, a messianism without ner sanctum of the classroom. story, the father is absent, but wide as we can stretch our The two of them, professor G-d, a promise of change. We were 20 minutes late, the boy idealizes him and pun selves." and student, asked me to come "But after the Stalin-Hitler trapped in the tangle of trucks ishes the mother for his disap on the bridges and in the tun pearance. But the tie between a WWI Vet nels, twisting and turning until man and his son can be very (Continued from Page 3) we found the quiet halls of the beautiful," a lmost w hispers He reads newspapers with a university. Weisel, who has one son, a se scanner that projects magnified The famous author and win· nior at Yale. words onto a television screen. ner of the Nobel peace prize Elie Weisel pulls you inward What he reads worries him. greeted me with a soft smile and with his refined demeanor that The world today is a more vio handed me his own chair. haunts you and hovers over you. lent, dangerous place than the Dressed neatly and compactly Like a great star, he finishes one he remembers. in a navy blazer and gray flan quickly and rathersuddenly. He ·· 1 hate to see what's going nels with polished loafers in clas turns the knob and leaves the on," he said. " I didn't expect to sic college elegance, but with room, while an assistant takes be able to see how tough things dark wild hair as a dramatic over the discussion. are today. In those days, we Emerald Inn halo("You used lo say he looked My pupil Jonas snaps a quick it. didn"t hear nothing about Restaurant like the wandering Jew," my shot of our handshake in the Maybe it was going on, but Szechuan, Mandarin & Hunan Cuisine former student, Sohyun, said lo corridor and ofSohyun's beam today it's terrible, wicked. Exotic Drinks me later), Weisel stood at a giant ing greeting. " I am so happy to Things have changed a whole conference table. have her in my class. Yes, of lot since I was a boy. Changed He murmured with a crisp ~ -rJ; 1275 Fall River Ave. - Route 6 - Seekonk course I remember meeting you for the worst." Ruma nian accent in a quiet, in Providence." Then Elie Weisel On Nov. 11 , Michael Freed f1'tl ?"U (508) 336-8116 - (508) 336-8351 close-up, resonant voice. He was gone. man received a medul commemo 2 minutes from Showcase Cinemas - located between Pier 1 and Herman·s nodded and called on the ques "I don't quite know why I am rating the 75th anniversary of the tions and raised hands of an so drawn to Jewish history," urmistice for World War I. attractive bunch of participants, says Sohyun over coffee in the Freedmun has resided in Rhode better turned out and more stu B.U. refectory. "Maybe ii has to fslund since 1905 and has been a diously composed than my do wi th Korea. Weare the Jews member of Lenas Hatzedek, Sons Providence art disciples. of Asia. Crushed by outside en of Abraham, and Shaare Tzedek. "The two ideologies of our emies, China and Japan, we Synagogues. century, communism and Na bend inward and ding together, The presentation at the Rhode ziism, but the Nazi regime was searching for our own roots, al Island Veterans Home in Bristol far worse. It held no hope, only though we have been occupied was witnessed by his twin greut the arrogance o f conquest for again and again. grundsons, Nuthun und Joshua, the masters." Most of the dis "For the Jews ii was the Rus by his grandson, Joel, and by his cussion centered around the is sians and the Germans. It's not sot1,Sta11ley. sue of w hether the Holocaust the same, but it brings us together. This story was reprinted with figures within his latest novel. Professor Weisel told me his son pennission of the Bristol Phoenix. 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November is J ewish Book Month (Me-lo-nee) - My Dictionary and we light the first Chanukah candle at sundown, December 8, 1993. Books make great Chanukah gifts and Jewish Book Month is the best time to make your choices! i1;'1£,t:) Jewish books have been popular almost as long as there (seef-ree-yah) have been Jews. However, the first writers of J ewish stories library ti;;,~ did not write books exactly. T hey wrote "midrashim." The (sheh-ket) word midrash comes from the Hebrew word meaning "to quiet search." In the early days of the Bible, the rabbis wanted everyone to know and understand Jewish laws and history The rabbis were concerned that simple people wouldn't be able to understand the meanings behind the Bible stories They wanted to teach the ideas of the Bible to all people not just other rabbis. To reach the ordinary people, the rabbis would preach ir the synagogues on Sabbaths and holidays. instead of givin1 sermons like modern-day rabbis do, they made their pointi by telling stories or midrashim. In the midrashim, they no only discussed the Bible but also the problems that tli, people were having. During sad limes, the rabbis used th• stories to give the people courage and faith in God. Thi stories would tell of God's love for the people and God' ~ promise for a better future. r:i~o (sahf-rahn) Many of the sennons were collected and written down a librarian (male) books of midrashim. Today we have more than one hundre/ of these books. n'J').E,t;, ~-··: (sahf-rah-neet) · .; · Even today, authors write midrashim - stories to teach c librarian (female) ·: .· · explain something. Many modern stories for Jewish childrE5 could even be called kinds of midrashim. If the story is ju~ for fun, then it's just a story. If a story also teaches Jewish value, then it's also a midrash. How To Play Dreidel The Hebrew letters on the dreidel are nun, Hay stands for "halb", which means "half gimel, hay, and shin. We say that the letters Win half the pot. stand for "Nes Gadol Haya Sham - A Great Shin stands for "shtel\," meaning " put ir Miracle Happened There." The letters on the or "add." Add one to the pot. dreidel did not start out as a sentence though. The letters were a code telling how to play the ga me! The same letters are used in both the Hebrew and Yiddish languages. In Yiddish, To play the game, each player puts a tok( the letters on the dreidel mean lhe following: (nut, penny, or toothpick) into the pot. ThE each player takes a turn spinning the dreidJ Nun <.;lands for "nisht", which means "nothing." Depending on which letter turns up, the play! Put nothing in and take nothing out. gets not hing. gets all, gets half. or adds to t Gimel stands for "gantz", which means "all. " pot. The player getting the most tokens at t Win the whole pot. end of the game wins. THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, NOV EMB ER 25, 1993 - 11 Bookshelf Maze 0~7p ~$~ Find your way through this maze of books. Do not cross any lines or words. (Chee-pes Mee-leem)- Word Find Find and circle the Chanukah words listed below. They can go across or up and down - and some are even spelled backward s! Antiochus .Judah Nes Candle Latke:- Oil (2 times) Chanukah Maccahee Presents Dreidel Menorah Shamash Gelt (2 times) Miracle Temple M E w E L C A R M 0 s L E D E R D T F R A p X R 0 M L L H G C M A C C A B E E A D H E L A s M w p G D E , A T , A N T 0 C H u s N L T D L Q u R C J 0 u E K L H s A M A H s K G E E B R X A w R 0 A F s T N E s E R p H A R 0 N E M T B u L 11;"1------BIBLE Fkf NOAH'S ARK A Newspaper for ...__.______.___ ,______Jewish Children Debbie Israel Dubin and Linda Free dman Block Publisher.VEditors N11ch man, lllu.s trations Goldie Knobler. Mickey Brodsky. NOAH'S ARK Miri11mlsrael.AdaDubin,and A Newspaper For J ewish Child ren Answers To Bern11rd Dubin, Circulation and Word Find 8.12.'JSouthu·rst f'rr'.,u·ay. Suit,•2511 Hou.,tnn,1hn,77n74 Chanukah On 71:1/771 -7 144 n 11 ,L I\! 0). Rook (l-i II V l'J V S 10 ' I )I :•I fl d,.ifa,, aot Announcing the Rhode Island Jewish Herald's S'th Annual Chonukoh Art contuot ...... SPONSORED BY Draw a picture with a Chanukah theme. Please include your name, address, ph0ne number, age, grade, school or synagogue. AMF(I If you do not include this information, we will have to oLang ~ Niantic Avenue disqualify your drawing before the judging begins. ~ n IJ Cranston v:,owlarama 944-0500 NOTE: ARTWORK CANNOT EXCEED 11" X 17" IN SIZE 111:Airp~A~r&'!ort Road, Warwick •: 738--~N1230~ First Prize: $25 Gift Certificate from Sara's Children's Boutique and a Family Membership to the Warwick Museum MY VERY OWN BOOK Second Prize: One personalized book from My Very Own Book; Swansea Mall, Swansea, Mass. "7 Days of Creation" from Shapolsky Publishers, Inc. and 2 Passes (508) 675-2959 (3 games each) from Legion Bowl Emerald Square Mall, Attleboro, Mass. (508) 643-3626 Third Prize: $1 0 Gift Certificate from TTkva Traditions and 7 Free Game IPasses from AM F Lang's Bowlarama Honorable M ention: $5 in Geoffrey Money from Toys " R" Us and Wl1RWICK Post Road 4 Passes from Meadowbrook Cinema Warwick MUSEUM 737-0010 First Prize : Family Membership to Roger W illiams Park Zoo and Family Membership to the Warwick Museum Second Prize: 1-year subscription to SHOFAR Magazine; "The Animated Menorah" from Shapolsky Publishers, Inc. and 2 Passes (3 games each) from Legion Bowl Third Prize: $10 Gift Certificate from Tikva Traditions and 7 Free Game IP asses from AMF Lang's Bowlarama .--=-. THE Honorable Mention: $5 in Geoffrey Money from Toys " R" Us and , - . ,- • RHODE ISLAND 4 Passes from Meadowbrook Cinema ~ "1 fJ ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY if §' RogE:r Williams Park Zoo First Prize: 10-Gallon Aquarium Starter Kit from Tuffy's '; ~ Providence· 941·3910 Aquari um & Pet Center -Second Prize: 1-year subscri ption to SHOFAR Magazine; " It Happened in Chelm" from Shapolsky Publishers, Inc. and 2 Passes (3 games each) from Legion Bow l Third Prize: $10 Gitt Certificate from Tikva Traditions and 7 Free Game IPasses from AMF Lang's Bowlarama Honorable Mention: $5 in Geoffrey Money from Toys " R" Us and _,~ e A DIVISION OF 4 Passes from M eadowbrook Cinema S-- 1 SHAPOLSKY PUBLISHERS, INC. e00• KS 136 West 22nd Street, N.Y.C., N.Y. --- - (212) 633-2022 ENTRY DEADLINE: I@ NOVEMBER 29r 1993 MAGAZINE Judges for the 1993 Chanukah Art Contest 43 Northcote Drive, Melville, N.Y. 11747 Rabbi George Astrachan, Temple Sinai, Cranston; Rabbi Nechama Goldberg, Temple Am (516) 643-4598 David, Warwick; Michael Fink, Herald contributing reporter and RISO professor; Johanna Sparling, Herald graphic artist; Jonas Hauptman, RISO art student TiKVA TRADiTiONS Winners will be contacted by telephone by Hope Street, Providence . 421-0309 December 7 and announced in the December 9 Issue Prizes will be awarded on December 9 at a party in the JCCRI Social SARA'S Hall on Elmgrove Avenue, Providence, beginning at 3:30 p.m. and • CHILDHEN'S BOUTIQUE ending promptly at 5 p.m. Judges are also invited to attend. Wayland Square, Providence· 331-0495 Garden City, Cranston • 944-0495 !!!!~!!Mass For more information, across from Emerald Square Mall) !508) 695-6195 call 724-0200 THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1993 13 MILESTONES United Synagogue Elects Alan Ades as New President The United Synagogue of tee member of Mercaz and as a president is a national vice Conservative Judaism has board member of the World chairman of the United Jewish elected Alan Ades of New Bed Appeal. ford, Mass., to serve as the Presently, Ades is the chair organization's 22nd interna man of States Nitewear Inc., tional president. The installa and a member of the board of tion took place on Nov. 14 at directors of the NBB Bancorp, the group's 1993 Biennial Con University of Massachusetts vention, held at the Bonaven (Dartmouth) Foundation, as ture Resort & Spa in Fort well as numerous civic and Lauderdale, Fla. business organizations. Ades has held many promi A board member and past nent positions in The United president of both Tifereth Israel Synagogue, including im Congregation, New Bedford, mediate past treasurer, vice Mass., and the Jewish Federa president, president, New En tion of Greater New Bedford, gland Region, and chairman, he is a current board member of Council of Regional Presidents. CLAL, the National Confer ln assuming the new office, ence on Soviet Jewry, and Ades told the convention dele AZYF. He also serves as South gates that " We have the obliga eastern Massachusetts chair tion and responsibility to man of the Anti-Defamation perpetuate our heritage and the League. opportunity to help create a A graduate of Yale Univers quality and depth of Jewish ity and Harvard Business experience that will promote School, Alan Ades and his wife, Jewish identity and contin Council of Synagogues. Ruth, have four children and Howard and Frances Gladstone uity." He has been the recipient of five grandchildren. According to the new presi several awards, including the dent, "Conservative Judaism National Community Service Rosen and Gladstone Wed provides the opportunity for Award, presented by the Jewish Theological Seminary, and the officiated at the 1:30 p.m. cere each of us to live Jewishly in Temple Beth-El was the set Shalom Award, presented by ti ng for the Oct. 17 wedding of mony, which was followed im modern society. Living Jew ishly can give us the sense of State of Israel Bonds. In addi :PATCHES Frances Rosen and Ho ward mediately by a reception at the tion, the international Gladstone. The bride is the Crestwood Country Club in unity needed to confront the INCORPORATED daughter of the late Al and Rehoboth, Mass. future with confidence and Sarah Rosen of Warwick. The Given in marriage by her un with optimism. If we are confi bridegroom is the son of Joseph cle, Morris Cohen, the bride dent in our role, we will be able and Lillian Gladstone of Provi was attended by two matrons to inspire others to move for ~ THE j dence. of honor, Elly Hoffman and Vi ward. If we can project the Rabbi Leslie Y. Gutterman McKenna. Ted Katz served as proper image, then truly the JmDAVfA best man. future will be a bright one - .A BAND ~ The bride is a graduate of for The United Synagogue and for all of Conservative Jewry." Hope High School and Personalized Event P1anning "Unique Perso,,alized Sweeney School. She is a tu Ades has long been actively Cbildre 11's Gifts" involved in the Conservative • 8AR/8ATMITZVAH mor registrar at Radiation On • WEDDING PRICES STARTING AT $5 movement and is currently vice •ANNIVERSARY cology Associates Inc. Rocking Chairs Wall Mirrors The bridegroom, also a grad president of the Foundation for • BIRTHDAY Conservative Judaism in Israel, • ANY OCCASION Clothes Trees Doll Cradles uate of Hope High School. Bulletin Boards Toy Chests graduated from Chamberlain co-chairman of the Conserva Featuring Vocalist/MC Students' Desks Bookends Junior College in Boston. He is tive Movement's Program for Hal Katznian Clocks Lamps an executive at Enterprise Fuels Jewish Continuity, and United ...and much more Synagogue's representative on Perlorming JewishMw<,Rock andRoll, Inc. Top40, Janand Swing, ondMore! ( 401) 946-8885 They couple honeymooned the Continental Commission for Jewish Identity and Contin LARRY NELSON By appoint1rn.:nt only. in Disneyworld in Orlando, Fla. (SH) Sl6·73&2•161n 963·1696 Jodi Milkr :ind M;1rt-y Gr.molf They have made their home in uity. He also serves as a board North Providence. member and executive commit- --;--~~--;---;--~~ Yitzchak Gottlieb FLOURISHES Cantor Sam Pessaroff NEAT Student is ~,?t,/P .;A;,/,/o, .fl'""/e m:,J. C ERTlflED M O HEL CARDS • G IFTS • A CCESSORIES (508) 532-6068 Semi-Finalist in ~ Trained at Bilwr Cbofim Ho,,pital, Jeru,1alem H OORS: T UESDAY-SATURDAY 10 AM-6 PM Scholarship Program 769A HOP£ STREET, PROVIDF.NCE, RHODE (SU..ND 0 2906 401-273-6891 Yitzchak Gottlieb of the New England Academy of Torah has qualified as a semi-finalist in the National Merit Scholarship r:.------,, 1y $5 off any service Program. In each annual National ~ ~ WITH THIS AD Merit Scholarship Program, about 50,000 academically able secondary school students are % .\.}6J Folll!,;~.;.,, Colo, honored, but only about 15,000 .t . 1,iu- GIVad cdd, . of them are named semi-final (}J'1 French Manicure ists. Students who qualify as semi-finalists are the only pro gram participants who have an opportunity to advance to fi nalist standing and compete for about 6,500 Merit Scholar ships. Winners of Merit Schol arships in the 39th annual Merit Program (1994) will be announced next spring. 14 - TH E RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1993 THE JEWISH COMMUNITY Beth-El Bowling by Jeffrey L. Goldberg Speci~I to th e lfer<1/d After almost two seasons of Dressler, I SO .I. bowling, writing about every Most pins over average: one else, it finally happened. It Joseph Goodman, 143. happened in a big way. Yes, The Beth-El league will take a this writer, affectionately Thanksgiving break and re known as the " short fat guy" sume action Dec. 2. rolled a 645 series. Jeff Gold Nov. 18 was a difficult night berg rolled a 22 1, 225, and 199 for some of our highest average for a 645 series. Anything is bowlers. Benny Diaz threw a possible. 150 game. Rick Dressler was By the way, Goldberg's team, talking to himself about a new Spare Change, is out of the ball, Jeff Cutler saw more splits basement having won seven of than at an ice cream shop. 'Mr. Food' Wows Crowd its last eight. The team took Rick Bloom threw fate to the three of four from Len Berk's wind by tossing a league lead "Mr. Food" Art Ginsburg is seen at College HiU Book Store with Kenneth Dulgarian on Nov. Come Screen With Me Team ing 256. Spare Change took 10. The author-t; igning event wat; sparked by Mr. Food's effervescent personality. He greeted a and wasted a fine 233 perfor four games from Standard lively crowd with h.indshakes, hugs and kisses. He autographed copies of his books with a mance by Rick (Say Hey) Glass and now have won 11 of personalized "Ooh, it's so good!!" inscription. Bloom 12. The league wishes a speedy The Shamrocks swept four recovery to Smokin Joe Good from first place Howie's Ham Cranston-Warwick Group of Chanuka_h Gift and man who is on the DL list for a mers. month. Sy Brooks has tem Team Standings (Week 11) Hadassah to Hold Chanukah Party poraril y dropped out of the top Howie's Hammers 30, 10; B~~~o ~~Hgo2~.~~~nual five. The sunshine state is a lit Chanukah Gift and Book Fair Baker Furniture 26.5, 13.5; tle disappointed. The last few The Cranston - Wa rw ick will present a Chanukah story. opened on Nov. 21. This pro Standard Glass 24, 16; Come breakfasts at Wolfies have been Group of Hadassah will meet Those planning to attend ject is aimed at providing suit Screen With Me 22 .5, 17.5; lackluster. on Dec. 6 for its Chanukah cele should bring a 1-pound item as able holiday supplies and gifts Tooth Fairies 20 .5, 19.5; Sham bration. a gift, which will be auctioned fo r Touro's congregants as well Team Standings (Week 10) rocks 18, 22; Oakland Mobil Copresidents, Ruth Fink and off. Potato pancakes, coffee and as members of the community. Howie's Hammers 28, 8; 17, 23; Spare Change 17, 23; Ruth Ross will chair this after- pastries will be served. The fair will be open for Baker Furniture 25.5, 10.5; Goldstein Electric 16, 24; noon, starting at 1 p.m. at As the year progresses, many shoppers during regular office Come Screen With Me 2 I .5, Halperin & Lax 15.5, 24.5. Letter Carrier's Hall, Mayfield of the group's members con h0urs, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Mon 14.5; Standard Glass 21, 15; Top Five: Benny Diaz, 192; Avenue, Cranston. tinue to sew, knit and volunteer days through Thursdays; Fri Tooth Fai ries 19.5, 16.5; Oak Barry Rappaport, 188.8; Joe Geraldine Foster, the well their time for children at Rhode days 10 a.m. to I p.m.; and land Mobil 16, 20; Shamrocks Goodman, 186; Howie Wasser, known and inspiring speaker, Island Hospital, and look for Sundays, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. 15, 21; Goldstein Electric 14, 183.3; Rick Dressler, 180.9. ward to the opening of the The fair, located in the Touro 22; Spare Change 14, 22; Most pins over average: Jeff Hasbro Child ren's Hospital in Community Center, at the cor Halperin & Lax 12.5, 23.5. Goldberg, 192; Rick Bloom, 90. Let the community know February, 1994. This project of ner of Touro and Di vision Top Five Bowlers: Benny High Game: Howie Wasser, about your organization's dolls and booties for the small streets, will run through the Diaz, 193.2; Barry Rappoport, 233. functions. Announce patients is one of the most re Chanukah holidays, the last 188.7; Joseph Goodman, 185.8; High Series: Jeff Goldberg, them in the Herald. warding activities of this group. Howie Wasser, 183.3; Rick day of the fa ir being Dec. 12. 645. Calendar of Jewish Events Friday, November 26 Tora! Yisrael Fall Book Review Series, All-CenterJCCRI Chanuka.h Party ...... 6-8 p.m. A Ori/d 's &okof Midmsh ...... 7:30 p.m. Sunday,December12 TempleTorat Yisrael First Fridays Dialogue with Authors Fall Book Review Series, To Life! ...... 8 p.m. at Congregation Mishkan Tefila Winter meeting of R.l .Jev,1ish Saturday, November 27 Chestnut Hill, Mass ...... 8:15 p.m. Historical Association al JCCRI ...... 2p.m. Sunday, December 5 Grandparents' and Parents' Special Ira and Anna Galkin Concert, "Paved with story and crafts hour Gold" at Temple Torat Yisrael ...... 8 p.m. Parent/Quid Chanukah Workshop for children 3-8 at JCCRl ...... 2-Jp.m. Tuesday, November 30 atJCCRI ...... !:30-3:30p.m. Reading of Until Death Do Us Pnrt, a play written by Ray Eichenbaum al JCCRI ...... 24 p.m. '"ThcCaribbean Islands to Aquidneck Island Monday, December& Touro Community Chanukah Party ...... 3 p.m. - llleTouroConnection" Playwright Paula Vogel spe,1ks at JCCRI ...... 7 p.m. at Touro Synagogue ...... 7 p.m. 2.amir Chorale of Boston presents Wednesday, December& Ligh!s1': The Chanuka.h Concert Wednesday, December 1 at Northeastern University ...... 3p.m. Cranston Senior Guild annual Gallery 401 reception for Marjorie Ball ...... 7-8:30 p.m. Chanuk.-ih Holiday Luncheon ...... noon Tuesday, December 14 Thursday, December 2 G\adysC. Kapstein Memorial Lecture Chanukah Story Hour for Children with Rabbi Arthur Green at Newport Art Museum ...... 3:30 p.m. "Let Your Child Choose Day" at JCCRI .. 9 a.m.--4 p.m. at Brown Univen;ily ...... 8 p.m "A Medical, Ethical and Communal Wednesday, December 15 ResponsetoAIDS" at JCCRI ...... 7:30-9p.m. Thursday, December_9__ Slide lecture by Nelly Toll about experiences Friday, December 3 RJ,crle lslnnd fc-wish 1-/emld Chanuk.ah Party as a child hiding duri ng the and Awards Ceremony ...... 3:30-5 p.m. Holocaust al JCCRI ...... 7:30 p.m. Alperin Schechter open house ...... 9-11 a.m. Members of the community are invited to submit a calendar listing (in addition to press re leases) to the Herald in writing by the Friday before public.ition. ll1e event title, date and time, plaCt' and a contact person with phone number should be !isled. Send items lo: Calend.ir, Rhode ls/anti /ewisl, Hernfd, P.O. IJo.-.:6063, Providen«.', R.1. 02940 THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1993 - 15 THE JEWISH COMMUNITY Interfaith Group to Hold Reception at the Rhode Island Statehouse The Aristides Sousa Mendes Trust Fellow at the John Carter Society is holding a reception at Brown Library and Visiting Re the Rhode Island Statehouse, search Associate in the pro State Room, on Dec. 2 at 5 p.m. gram of Judaic studies at Brown This reception is to present the University. He is a research fel first issue of society's journal low at the Ben-Zvi Institute for Rf'llnir and to recognize a dis· the study of Jewish communi tinguished visiting scholar and ties in the East at the Hebrew former diplomat from Israel, University in Jerusalem and an Mordechai Arbell. adviser to the World Jewish The Aristides de Sousa Congress. Mendes Society is an interfaith In a long career, he was the multicultural organization ded· ambassador of Israel to icated to the study of the her· Panama and Haiti, charge itage and culture of Iberian d'affaires at the Israeli Embassy Jews and their descendants, in Seoul, Korea, and the consul and to the promotion of friend o f Israel in Bogota, Colombia. ship between descendants of Arbell is the featured speaker Iberian Jews and the Jewish for this event and his topic will community. be " Roads to Freedom: Chris The society is named after a tians Saving Jews During Portuguese diplomat renowned World War II - A Personal for saving many thousands of Story." Jews during World War II. The Gov. Bruce Sundlun and Sec Can You Help Us? membership welcomes anyone retary of State Leonard have who shares an inter~st in pro· been invited to attend and Taken in the late 1940s or early 1950s, this photo is one of a group which were copied from the moting friendship and under· make remarks. State legislators Fei nberg family's historian, Irma Feinberg Meggidoof New York. She has identified three of the standing between these com· and leaders of the Portuguese women, but the one with a cigarette is not identified.Seated (from left)are: Sara SobiloffFeinberg, munities. and Jewish communities have Miriam Grossman Fain, and Sarah Fei nberg Grossman. Irving Fain is seen standing. Anyone Mordechai Arbell is currently also been invited. with more information on the photo is welcome to call the Rhode Island Jewish Histo rical the Touro National Heritage Association at 331-1360. Anne Grant to Address Hadassah Congregation Begins D & M ANTIQUES The Pawtucket Group of several books, and produced Single Items Hadassah will holds its annual eight television programs. or Esta tes paid -up membership event on In 1975, Grant received the Preschool Program A p praised or Purchased. Nov. 29 at 7 p.m. at Highland Clarion Award for " Ms: the A monthly preschool pro and $65 for nonmembers. A Court, Providence. All new Fight for Women's Rights," and gram for children ages 3, 4 and second sibling may register for Furniture • Paintings • Clocks The Educational Press Associa 5 will begin Dec. 6 from 3 to 5 $36. Registration will take Dolls • China • Glassware members will be recognized at O riental Rugs the petite supper. tion of America Award, " Best p.m . at Congregation Agudas place at the first class session. 337 NO BROADWAY " Hadassah, known for its Feature Article in an Educa Achim in Attleboro, Mass. For further information, con EAST PROVIDENCE award-winning educational tional Journal, 1972," for " Sex The class will meet the fi rst tact Marjorie Arvedon at (508) 4.1.1•12.1.l programs and seminars, was Bias in the Public Schools." Monday of each month through 543-6244. IOUFREERI. I-800-tt7S:·I230 Morv,n Rubin. PrOf)(ie/Of the reason for selecting Anne Linda Sinel, membership June. The children will par Grant as our guest speaker," chairwoman, and her commit· ticipate in hands-on activities ~------, said program chairwoman, tee of Esther Alter and Barbara to learn about Jewish customs The Jewish Community Center of Rhode Island seeks a n Miriam Plitt. Grant's topic is Hecker have planned an inform and holidays. " Recognizing and Responding ative evening. Fo r information The cost of the program is EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR to Domestic Abuse in the Jew and reservations, call Linda at $50 for synagogue members ish Community." 727-0086. S1rong Administra tive/CEO Skills Grant currently serves as the Fundraising, Staff Development, Program Development. Financial Oversight. Long Range Planning, executive d irector of the Board Development. Work with Communal Agencies Women's Center o f Rhode Island. She has served as a Excellent communication and interpersonal skills required. project director for the Women's For All Your Strong Jewish background and Action Alliance Inc. in New Community Center experience desired. York and WNTE-TV /NY City Insurance Board of Education. Compensation commensurate s:11 During her service as Pastor w ith experience. S:/~~/·S:/~ of the Canaan United Method- Needs ... ,_,s.,,_,_,s 1st Church in Connecticut, ::~~=~:~1sr:um8 With Salary • ~,s • Grant worked on program Searc h Commlnee, J CCRI j j K! ! development, community out J 91#9 reach and counseled individ Brier in South County MEDICARE & MEDICAID Chanukah... ~NURSING PLACEMENT- Invitations • Decorations • Gift W rap • Gift Tags The South County Hebrew CERTIFIED ANO LICENSED Plastic Fillable Cups • Fillable Dre1dels • Candles School and the South County -= HOME CARE INC.==- SKILLED NURSING STAFF Plastic Dre1dels • Wooden Dre1dels • Chanukah Gelt • Etc Hadassah wi1\ hold a CASE MANAGEMENT Chanukah Party on Dec. 5 at • RN Assessment Christmas. .. Temple Beth David in Narra " Home Care You Can Rely On" • 24·HourSuperv1s1on Invitations • Decorations • Gift Wrap • Gift Tags gansett from 9:30 to 11 :30 a.m . 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Sunday 11-4 16-THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1993 THE JEWISH COMMUNITY JCCRI Will Celebrate Printed Word in Dec. "Celebration of the Printed AIDS in the "90s. The event, Word,'" the JCCRl's annual which is free and open to the Jewish book and cultural festi community, is cosponsored by val, will commence on the first the Community Relations day of December this year and Council of the Jewish Federa run for two weeks. The event, tion of Rhode Island, the Jewish held at the Jewish Community Community Center of Rhode Center of Rhode Island. 40 I Island, the Bureau of Jewish Elmgrove Ave. in Providence, Education of Rhode Island and celebrates Jewish Book Month Jewish Family Service. and offers many special activi A parent/ child Chanukah ties and programs for all ages. workshop will be held on Dec. The community is invited to 5 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Partic browse through the vast assort ipants will learn all about the ment of Jewish books and latest holiday. its origin and its tradi best sellers at the featured book tions, make holiday crafts and sale, hear guest speakers and enjoy refreshments. Sponsored attend the tea tasting and by the center's afterschool pro Gallery 401 opening reception. grams, KidSpace and Preteen The following is the schedule Connection, the event is for of events for the two-week se children of all ages and their ries: parents, and costs $2 per child. On Dec. 1 from 7 to 8:30 Paula Vogel, Brown Univer p.m., a gallery reception will be sity professor and famous play Honored for his Support held for watercolorist Marjorie wright (award-winning Balti Ball, with an English tea tast more Waltz) will speak about Providence Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr. accepts a plaque from the Holocaust Survivors of ing. The event, sponsored by her work as a playwright, both Rhode Island, in recognition of his support of the Jewish community, at the dedication of a new the JCCRl's Gallery 401 , is free locally and in New York City sculpture a t the Rhode Island Holocaust Memorial Museum on Nov. 9, theSSth anniversary of and open to the community. on Dec. 6 at 7 p.m. Sponsored Kristallnacht. Presenting the plaque to the mayor are (from left) Edward Adler, secretary, R.l. Dec. 2 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., by the JCCRl's Cultural Arts Holocaust Survivo rs organization; Morris Castfreund; and David Newman, president, R. I. is .. Let Your Child Choose Department, the event is free Holocaust Survivors organization. "The Rhode Island Holocaust Museum ensures that we w ill Day,'' an opportunity for chil and open to the community. learn from the terrible atrocities of the past. It is a living memo rial to those w ho were brutally dren (with or without parents) On Dec. 7 from noon to 1:30 murdered, a nd it is a symbol of the strength and persistence of those who survived," Cianci said to browse the vast selection of p.m., guest speakers will be po at the dedication. children's books. Sponsored by litical journalist Russell Gar Mayor Cianci a lso presented a check for $16,000 from the city of Provide nce to sculptor Barney the JCCRI preschool, it is free land and music critic Channing Zeitz. The city contributed $35,000 to the Holocaust Memorial Museum. and open to the community. Gray, both of the Providence " A Jewish Response to Journal. The event costs $ 2 for AIDS" will be held Dec. 2 at 7 JCCRI members, $4 for non p.m. Why is AIDS a Jewish Is members, and includes a dairy Federation Plans Super Sunday sue? A panel representing a lunch. It is sponsored by the cross section of people most in JCCRI Brown Bag and Golden volved with and affected by ·(Continued on Page 17) The Jewish Federation of to noon, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Jewish Eldercare of Rhode Rhode Island is looking for vol 6 to 9 p.m., or Super Week, Island, the Bureau of Jewish unteers to help with its annual Dec. 14 to 16, 6 to 9 p.m. Train Education of Rhode Island and fund-raising telethon, Super ing and refreshments will be Hillel foundations on college Meal Site to Show 'Fires of Sunday, on Dec. 5, at the Jew provided. campuses. Moneys are also ish Community Center of Super Sunday raises funds used to aid humanitarian ef· Rhode Island, 401 Elmgrove for local social service agencies forts nationall y, in Israel and in the Mind, the Brain' Ave., Providence. including Jewish Family Serv more than SO countries around " Fires of the Mind, the Brain" Tuesdays from I 1:15 a.m. to Volunteers can choose one ice, Jewish Community Center, the world. is the title of the JCCRI's kosher noon; " Friend to Friend" meets or all of the three shifts: 9 a.m. Super Sunday ·94 is the fed meal site VCR presentation on Thursdays from I I a.m. to eration's 13th annual phona next week. The program will be noon. and musJC appreciation thon. Each year. volunteers shown on Nov. 28 from 11 a.m. with Dr. Wold is held on Fri raise more than $100,000 in to noon at the Jewish Commu days from 11 a.m. to noon. that one day. nity Center of Rhode Island, Shabbat traditions are ob eAMPAVOOA For more information, con 401 Elmgrove Ave., Provi served on Friday evenings. Tea. tact Elisa Silverstein at the coffee and hot muffins are AT THE GATEWAY TO CAPE COD dence. federation, 421-4111. The kosher meal site invites served on Sundays at 10 a.m. On Beautiful Lake Tispaquin seniors to join in a variety of and movies and video pro· Middleboro. Massachusetts 02346 activities and to share a hot grams are held once or twice kosher meal at noon weekly, aweek. Check the kosher meal FoundedlnL927forJe"'1shboys7tol5yearsold entcr1nggrades 2 through 10 Sunday through Friday. Doors site calendar, posted in the Tell them you aaw open weekdays at 10 a.m., with JCCRI lobby, for a listing of this ll·IE TRADITION COJlfllNUESM their ad In th'!' casual conversation in the month's events. ARCHERY • ARTS & CRAFTS • BASKETBALL • CANOEING • lobby for an hour. Exercise is For more information about kosher meal site and senior FISHING • FOOTBALL • FUN-YAK.ING • HYDROSL\DING • ~ode Island scheduled during the week at KAYAKING• KICKBALL• NEWCOMB • PHOTOGRAPHY • PING 11:15 a.m. programs. contact Sandy Bass PONG• RADIO • ROWING • SAILING • SOCCER • SOFTBALL • Jewish ~raid Bridge is held on Mondays at 861-8800. STREET HOCKEY• SWIM INSfRUCTION • TENNIS • TUBING • from noon to 3:45 p.m.; VOLLEYBALL • WATERSKIING • WEIGHTLIFTING • Women's Forum is held on Agudas Achim WINDSURFING• WOODWORKING • WRESTI...ING • WEEKLY FIELD TRIPS • INTER- AND IN"TRA·CAMP COMPETITION Begins Adult EXCELLENT KOSHER FOOD• RESIDENT R .N. • 3 ON-CALL PEDIATRlClANS Brunch Series 8-week or two 4-wcek periods P.O. Box. 300, Exeter, Rhode Island 02882 • 202 Wolf Rock Road On Dec. 2 at 10 a.m .. Con· (401 J 294-2909 gregation Agudas Achim in CALL OR WRITE Attleboro, Mass., will host its Paul G Davu, Director first older adult brunch pro Camp Avoda gram for the year. Clit II Euex Street Members and nonmembers .la Lynnfield, MA 01940 are welcome to socialize and 1• ' 1) hear remarks by Rabbi Gail '~:;fW,-m. Diamond on '"Becoming a Re Suzuki Philosophy of Instruction • Reading Classes as Well constructionist Synagogue." ACCREDITED Jazz, Classical and Popular Music • Music Theory and Composition Participants will also be asked (:..;:A':-! Ages 3 through Adult to choose future discussion ENROLLMENT FOR WINTER SEMESTER topics. For directions or further in a e/uvdu,fiwnilia,,'1 formation, contact the syna A I Cert,!,ed Teachef, Mus 8 , Urilversityol Rhode Island gogue at (508) 222-2243. PHDS Students Take Trip to Journal Edito~'s Note: The followi11~ each color, one plate is needed. Servant or Son werewrittenbystude11tsatProv1- The four main colors were den~e Hebrew_ Day School fol- black, yellow, magenta and (Continued from Page 5) low mg an out mg to The Provi- Sian. We then went into a room conflict with the evil inclination dence Journal._ where the paper is weighed. As a class trip we went to the We weighed ourselves too. We in order to properly fu lfi ll his Providence Journal. When we also looked into the next room master's command, quite fre Sidney Dimond dis get there we split up into two and get to watch the paper quently doing so only out of a cusses life in New England groups. Each group had a tour switch, because of the blue sense of obligation and submis- 200 years ago with Alperin guide who took us around. First sticky tape. This was special s1on. Obviously, the level of " Is Schechter Day School stu we saw the ink room. _It had a because not everyone gets to dents in th~ fourth grade 7000 gallon tank of.. . mk! But see that when they come for a rael" is the one toward which recently. Dimond visited ~omething even more amazing tour. At the end, we all get we all strive. yet one cannot the school as part of itsCul ts _the paper room. There were newspapers from back in the reach this level without first tural Enrichment Program. millions of huge rolls of paper 1800's. We had a great time!! passing through the level of .. Jacob." that weighed over 1000 Rochel Dena Jakubowicz If a Jew is not always enthusi pounds. To make the paper astic in his service, sometimes they took the negatives and put The visit to the Providence finding it difficult to serve G-d Sekatau Educates Students on it into a machine that made a Journal was very interesting. properly, he should know that plate. The plate had places They showed us just how much this is only natural when one where it was higher than other effort it takes from the time the the 'Life of the Narragansett' embarks upon a new course. parts. Then another. Each was reporter gets the scoop, till the paper delivers it. On the tour The evil inclination is not van by Taylor Holland American was largely falsified a different size then somehow they showed us where the ink quished all at once, and it takes Herald Reporter and untrue. they'd put it all together and was stored. They special names time to transform the will of "TV has brought a story of you had a color paper. Then Narragansett Indian and eth for the red and blue ink. They G-d into one's own personal the Indian that is not true," put into another machine and nohistorian Ella Sekatau called red, magenta, blue, Sian, will. Sekatau said. made part of the paper. When thrilled children at the Alperin and yellow and black were just At first (and this stage may "The Indians learned how to the whole paper was done you Schechter Day School last called by their regular names. last for years!), the evil inclina scalp from the French and saw them by the millions and week with a very blunt and ed After that we saw the gigantic tion howls in protest, attempt Spaniards.'' being gripped by grippers to ucational slideshow on "The roles of paper they used for ing to divert the Jew. But when Sekatau went o n to tell the count them. Cool, amazing for Life of the Narragansett." printing. Then we saw the nega a Jew consistently stands up children the Narragansett tribe sure. Sekatau told her young but tives being changed into stamp for what is right and refuses to numbers around 2,500 and has Bashie Lipson captivated audience the Indi like things. Later they would despair, the evil inclination is an operational government ans were here well be fore use them for printing the paper. eventually conquered. equal to that of any state or na "Columbus blundered his way They even let us watch the This is also one reason why, tional government. We went to the journal the here trying to find India" and printing of the paper. At the even after Jacob received the the basic purpose of Indian cul She showed slides of Narra other day. The first thing we name Israel, he is sometimes saw was the ink room. The ink end of the tour we took back ture has not changed as a result gansett houses and described referred to in the Torah by his is diluted ir, water, because it is two negatives for the class of the white settlement of what it was like to live the life old name. so thick. Next, we looked at a room. They gave each of us a America. of a Narragansett tribal mem Adaptrd fro m the u>orks of lht room that had gigantic rolls of copy of a paper they produced She made it clear that what ber. in eighteen sixty-nine. The Lubaiiitchcr rtbbe. Submilled by "The earth dictates the way paper. We learned how when the children were learning in Daily Journal. It was fun to look Rabbi Yelros/Jua Laufer. Reprinted in which we live," she said. " If the paper is finished up, a new their history books and from at ads from eighteen sixty-nine. 1dt/1 permissiou of L'Chaim publica you had anywhere to go, you roll comes because it has sticky television about the Native Adina Shafner tions went by canoe or you walked." blue tape on it. Then we went Printed Word She also said the Indians upstairs and saw a room that · wore face paints for protection made the negatives of the (Continued from Page 16) from the elements like we now paper into plates. These plates Age clubs. wear facial cream or vaseline. were used as stamps. In the An all-center Chanukah The difference being the Indi next room they would go in the ink stamp on the paper etc. etc. Discover party will be held Dec. 9 from 6 ans added color, and were to 8 p.m., featuring a hot dog thusly labeled as "red" people The plates were put on this thing that went round and h and latke supper. The JCCRI by the European settlers. Children's Chorus, B'Yachad The children were allowed to around and kept on stamping, t l~ while the paper kept on Meaning will entertain. It is sponsored try on some Narragansett by the JCCRI Special Events clothing after the slideshow. coming. We also saw how for Department. On Dec. 12 from 2 to 4 p.m., ,------ ot Sumtl}.er Ra y Eichenbaum will read Un til Death Do Us Part, an original play about the Holocaust. It is Alperin Schechter Day School suggested for adults and chil Warmth dren older than 12 only. The 85 Taft Avenue, Providence ,4&8WkSesslons Electives Pr11gram event, which is free and open to the community, is sponsored Ma1ureSlafl Judalc Cu11urt by the JCCRI's Adult Depart ment and the Rhode Island Holocaust Memorial Museum. WaterSports Koshe1F011d Grandparents' and Parents' Special, a story and crafts hour LandSports ACAAmedi1!d for children ages 3 to 8 led by Judith Plotz of Books on the Square, will be held Dec. 12 o,ama&Muslc AttordableFn s from 2 to 3 p.m. (No child younger than 5 unattended.) Arts& Crafls Schola1thipAid Sponsored by the Children's Youth and Family Department. the special hour costs $ 1 per OPEN HOUSE child with no charge for parents and grandparents. Friday, December 3, 9-11 a.m. camp Nelly Toll, painter and au !CAMP Came. [a thor of two books including Be • meet faculty. administrators, students and parents l1111d t/1e Secret Window: A Mem • learn about admissions, curriculum and fi nancial aid 1eiji Tel Noar oir of a H1dde11 Child/1ood, a P£MBRO'.:E • enjoy displays, demonstrations and a school tour book designed for young peo LAKE DLDHAIII LAKl PDU.IIIPO Suun L.,1,u ple, will present a slide lecture K,n,krgancn 1hrough G••de 8 • l'ull·d•y K,ndc1gurtcn • Out,1Jnd,ng At•dcm"' Pembroke. MA e,ookline, NH Hampslead. NH about her experiences as a hid Whole l.~n1u•gc • Sm• II Cla"e' A11cn11nn to lnd1Y1du•I Need, • J11dJ1C S1ud1e, Girls. Agts7-15 Coed. AgesB-16 Coed.Agt s8· 1S Apply now to den child during the Holocaust Tr.. dm,in,. v.1~,. ltkmny & ~lf·E,tecm , O,mputc:" • An. Mu"c, Ph)"c•l 1:.ducaw"' . Apply now lo: Apply now to: MartyWiadro on Dec. 15 at 7;30 p.m. Free Cr111ol Tlunl m1 • I'«• C,..ch,ng • Cuhur11I l::nr1chmc:n1 • cu~l"f Wr111ng , Ucc,,.e, Pearl Lourie Judi Rapaport and open to the community, S0B-788-0161 508-788-1585 508-443-3655 the event is sponsored by A '1ll!lJlkl.r__ ed11cutio11al experie11ce for the J ewish f amily! the Rhode Island Holocaust Mcmbc, Independent Sch< M>I An,oc,a111,n uf IU1odc b lanJ F0rFurther lnlorm1tlon, Cont1ct: Memorial Museum 1-inanc,al A,d Ava,labk GeorgeMa1cus, ExecutweDmtc101 TtteEl1 1rn1Bess+eCohenfoun<1111on tamos. Contact Ruby Shalansky or Bu,,ng '" "" sc,·cr~I crnmnun,11c, 30 MainSt1ee1,Room l6, A5ttlan president of the staff and assis IRVING ALTMAN tant clinical director of the for FREDA JAFFE JENNIE '1EAN" SILVER PROVIDENCE - Irving Alt mer Charles V. Chapin Hospi HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - Freda man, 81, of 53 Holburn Ave., PROVIDENCE - Jennie tal in Providence. Jaffe, 91, of 4330 Hillcrest "Jean" Silver, 82, of 75 died Sunday at the Rosewood In the 1960s and '70s, Dr. Drive, Hollywood, Fla., died Manor Nursing Home, Provi Eleventh St., a retired secretary Gershman was instrumental in Saturday at the Sarah 5. Bray and bookkeeper, died Nov. 18 dence. He was the husband of the organization and staffing of ton Nursing Home. She was Ruth (Shaffrin) Altman. at Hospice Care of Rhode Is neighborhood clinic pilot pro the widow of Bernard N. Jaffe. land, Maude Street, Provi Born in New Bedford, Mass., grams in Providence and North Born in Russia, a daughter of a son of the late Morris and Re dence. Providence that were under the the late Morris and Rose (Fin A lifelong Providence resi becca Altman, he lived in auspices of Project Head Start. klestein) Serwitz, she lived in Cranston for 35 years. dent, she was a daughter of the Dr. Gershman was a Free Florida for 35 years. She previ late Samuel and Eva (Bedrick) Mr. Altman was a manufac mason and a life member of ously lived in New York. Mrs. turer's representative for Silver. She was a member of Redwood Lodge No. 35. He Jaffe was a member of Temple Temple Emanu-EI, and ·the Bradley Associates, Boston, and was a member of Temple Beth Beth El, and was active in Mac other companies before retiring temple's Sisterhood and El, the Rhode Island Jewish town, Miami, Fla. Leisure Club. She was a mem 15 years ago. Historical Association, and the She leaves two daughters, Besides his wife he leaves a ber of Hadassah, a member of Jewish Community Center of June Zeitz of Fall Ri ver, and the Women's Association of the son, Michael L Altman of the Rhode Island. A dedicated sup Hilda McVay of Providence; Bronx, N.Y.; a daughter, Julie Jewish Home for the Aged, and porter of medical programs in two brothers, Paul Serwitz of of Hamilton House. Lane of New York, and two DR. ISADORE GERSHMAN Israel, he was a Life Associate Great Neck, Long Island,, N.Y., She leaeves a sister, Minnie brothers, Charles Altman of PROVIDENCE Dr. of Hadassah, and a member of and Irving Serwitz of Boca Boston, and Sidney Altman of R. Silver, with whom she lived. Isadore Gershman, 80, a Provi- the American Physicians' Fel Raton, Fla.; a sister, Edith Ru She was the sister of the late Deerfield Beach, Fla. dence pediatrician for 40 years lowship for Israel. binstein of New York; four The funeral service was held Gertrude Silver. until his retirement in 1987, Dr. Gershman was a World grandchildren and six great A funeral service was held Tuesday at the Max Sugarman died on Tuesday at Hospice War II veteran, having served grandchildren. Memorial Chapel, 458 Hope Sunday at Mount Sinai Memo Care of Rhode Island's Philip as a captain in a U.S. Army The funeral service was held rial Chapel, 825 Hope St., St., Providence. Burial was in Hulitar inpatient facility. He anti-aircraft unit in England Monday at Fisher Memorial Sinai Memorial Park, Warwick. Providence. Burial was in Lin was the husband of Helen and France. Chapel, 422 N. Main St. Burial coln Park Cemetery, Warwick. Gershman of Providence. Besides his wife, he is sur- was in Temple Beth El Ceme HELEN "DUTCHIE" BLAU Dr. Gershman was a 1934 vived by a sister, Mollie Sindle try. WARWICK Helen graduate of Brown University. of Providence; a daughter, " Dutchie" Blau, 77, of 311 Cole He received his degree in Sherry Stephens of Danville, Ave., died Saturday at the Kent Jewish Home medicine from Jefferson Medi- Calif.; a son, James Gershman "It's certainly nothing Nursing Home, Warwick. She cal College in Philadephia in of Cranston; and two grand- MEMORIAL CHAPEL ..,<;\. Certified /Jy tire ci ...:.:,.i:} R./. &ard of Rabbis 331-3337 Michael D. 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Reier jockey Bar/ tlat m1tzvah . wedding special· (Continued from Page 9) Bresler points out that humor is ences,reasonableCall943-2014. 12/2/ 93 have one good point, she's a Ists. N.Y. Laser Light Show Plus Karao~e . an intrinsic part of Jewish cul CLASSBOK little nutsy and daffy. Bu ton the p.m.; admission costs $6. So THEPARTYPLANNERS "CHOICE(508)679 ture, as non-Jews have learned 1545 2/3/94 CORRESPONDENCE TO· down side, her characters are Stone Soup is going out with a Class8oxNo not only from the many great driven not by inner purposes bang before moving to its new The A.I. Jewish Herald home at Gloria Dei Lutheran Jewish comedians but from POBox6063 but purely by abstract ideas of FLORIDA RENTALS Church, 15 Hayes St. (In the such enormously popular Providence. R.1.02940 Campion who forces them into shows as .. Fiddler on the role models for her rhetorical shadow of the statehouse right WEST Two-b~. two -bath R.I. Jew1shHeraldclassif1edadscost$3for Roof," a klezmer-flavored PALM BEACH - rules and priorities. Men don't behind Veterans Memorial Au~ coJ'ldo . fully furnished . Available March. 15wordsor less. Additional words cost 12 Broadway show and movie. like wives to play their own ditorium). April 946-5827 11 / 25/ 93 cents each . Payment must be received by The comparison with Cajun Monday at 4 p.m. . prior to the Thursday tunes, so Neill won't let that Bresler will be joined by two celebrated klezmer musicians: music is an apt one for Bresler, when the ad Is schedu led to appear beached piano budge. for he was one of the founders HEBREW TUTORING Charlie Berg, who was the orig· This newspaper will not. knowingly. accept Another point-after World of the now nationally known War II the neo-realists declared inal drummer with the world any advertising for real estate which Is +n famous Klezmer Conservatory Cajun and Bluegrass Festival BAR/BAT MITZVAH PREPARATION - In vIolatIon of the A.I. fair Housing Act and to us, let's get down and dirty that draws thousands to Esco· yourhome Referencesava11able . 942-65J9. Sect1on804(C)ofTitleVlllo!the1968C1v1I Band of Boston, and Alex 1/ 13/ 94 on the screen. Show the grubby heag each Labor Day weekend. RIghtsAct Our1eadersareherebyin!ormed Yanko, a Russian Jew who re· that all dwell ing/ housing accommodallOns realities of human life, not just Thus, those who come to the white telephones. But by now, cently emigrated to the United advert1sed 1nth1snewspaperareava1lableon States from Moldavia. Bresler undercroft for Stone Soup's fi. an equal opportunity basis the dregs of neo-realism mean, nal show at the Church of the SERVICES RENDERED audiences like to say, "Yuck!" himself, a deeply observant Jew in recent years, is a student of Redeemer are in for an extraor· like giggling teens. dinary night, for Bresler and his COPPERFIELD'S PAINTING & PRESERVA I~~:rin~:~:t AB~~;k~r;m:~~zmer colleagues, Charlie Berg and TION . Top -Qual1tyworkmanshp. Reasonable Alex Yanko, are world-class exterior/interior power washing . carpentry. Chopping off a finger As many Rhode Islanders paper hanging . license #6884 Insured. know to their great delight, klezmer musicians. And their 274 -2348 8/ 18/ 94 of your beloved has Bresler is one of the most versa· music, sometimes wild and ir~ turned into an instant ti le musicians anywhere, an repressible, sometimes heart· NEED HELP PAYING BILLS? Tracking ex artist not only on clarinet but renderingly melancholy, is the penses !or yeaMnd. Re!erences RIGHT cliche this autumn flute, saxophone, mandolin, kind that uplifts the spirit, mu ARMSERV!CES. 331 -0875 1/ 27 /94 sic whose great popularity has movie season. guitar, penny whistle and even, lllTLETONS EKPRESS MOVERS most amusingly, on the kazoo. spread far beyond the Jewish George Warner He was one of the founders of community to become one of Statewide Home & Office Movers So in "Piano" we have to the well-known bluegrass the great world musics. Antique Refinishing Onepleceorthewholejohl watch.and hear,anold lady pee band, the Neon Valley Boys, The fo llowing Saturday, Dec. 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I In recent years, Bresler has Express it in a letter to steeped himself in not only the since 1967 wish Holly had drowned with the HERALD. her piano at the finale. Instead religious aspects of Judaism but 401-421-1213 in its rich cultural traditions as she goes on to get her voice back ~f~ BOAD>V & well. Now he is a much sought· and live happily ever after, be -~l INSUR'1J cause women have to be win· after artist before Jewish audi· ners. They deserve ii, like the ences all over the Northeast, ads say. not least in that great center of ALLSTATE Paulene Jewelers ONE" CIPCO "Remains of the Day" made Judaism, New York City. fine and Estate ~T EI ' CLEANING But his religious devotion Carpet Cleaning mydaywithitsdignity,subtlety, Jewelry Appraisln9 AH EAD SERVICE ambiguity. "Piano," also writ· hardly means that Bresler has IN CL EANING" ten by a woman, brought me become solemn. 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Payme_n1 MUST be rece1v~ by Monday af1ernoon, PRIOR to the Thursday on wfltch Joe G/adston8- OWner I , thead,stoappear 10'J'.d1scoontgrvenlOfadsrunnmgcontinuously10fOne}'1!ar e H~HMI 9/ 401-434-2049 Thank You. \V __ 30 Years of Business _ .J ~ RI JEWISH HERALD, r.o. eox 6063. PROVIDEN~ RI ~29~ _ 20 THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1993 thrives on massive cronyism, estinian birth rate is 39 to 1,000 trade, and the lifting of burden lisher lo back off. Chamish monopolies, enormous customs while the Israeli birth rate is 19 some taxes. But first, he said, it The book has been published (Continued from Pag<' 1) and duties, high taxes and inef to 1,000. "It doesn't have lo be would be necessary for Israel to in Edinburgh, and is being ficient management. either war or peace, in Israel," learn to depend on itself. I-le widely discussed and debated inception for reasons that have The people who left were not he said. "It may have to be little advised Jews in America to keep in Britain. He hopes it will ap everything to do with benefits small children or grandparents, by little, day by day. We want their money here and spend it pear here soon in paperback. for the United Stales and less to but Israel's most ambitious, ea them out of our hair, and they on those among them who The book, or the newsletter, can do with benefits for Israel. ger adulls between 20 and 40, want us out of their hair." needed help. be ordered through his U.S. Chamish said because the whom she could ill afford to On the subject of U.S. aid lo Chamish said, speaking of representative's sales office. peace process itself was so im lose. I-le pointed out that half a Israel, he feels very strongly that powerful political figures in Is Write to Inside Israel, 1456 Sec moral (hidden deals, pressures, million out of a total population it should stop- now. It is time rael whoarethoughl to be lazy, ond Ave., Suite 142, New York, blackmail of a kind, trading off of 5 million is a big bite. for the Jews in this country to inefficient or corrupt, "The Is N.Y. 1002 1. one favor for another), he feels A listener said, "If you feel seethings as they are.and let the raeli system corrupts. You don't Some of the things Chamish the resulting peace is bound to that way about it, why don't Israelis learn to live within their vote for an individual, you vole said could be construed as slan be immoral also. How can ii you leave?" means, he said. for a list. We can't get rid of derous if false, alarming if true, succeed, he asks, if most Israelis "Israel is my home. I'm not anyone." Widespread graft and yet he has not been forced to are against it? going to let them drive me out cronyism sap the nation's en retract or be silent. His chain of For the first time, regular of of my home," he said. ergy and belief in itself. "All I evidence is so tightly wrought ficers in the Israeli army, insig On the subject of But with his next breath, he want is a democracy in Israel." and so specific and highly de nificant numbers, refused lo take admitted that his wife is becom U.S. aid to Israel, Chamishapparently realized tailed, one would think it would action against rioting settlers. ing frightened. She, too, fore Barry Chamish feels that much of what he was say be easy for those named in his Chamish predicts an explosion sees an eventual explosion. She ing was startling to his audi newsletter, book and speeches soon, if present trendscontinue. fears for their children, and very strongly that it ence,and he blamed news man to confront and discredit him if He said, "An honest process that wants lo leave Israel. should stop - now. agement by the U.S. media and he were wrong. led lo lhe same thing !the same Chamish added that if the government. When his new But there he was last week, plan] I wouldn't be here today." Israeli economy was healthy, the book, The Fall ofIsrael, was being speaking out at the Brown Fac Someone in the audience Palestinians could have gotten Thefigureson Israeli national bought by a prominent pub ulty Club, charging and chal said, "Why discard the whole ahead with their lives - "but debt are staggering. If our aid lisher, the pens were actually on lenging for the sixth time on an process? I mean, Rhode Island they're stuck with the same stops, he anticipates a time of the table for signing the con eight-day tour in this country, is corrupt but..." things we are." painful change followed by the tract, according to his agent, tired, but glad to havecompleted Chamishsnapped right back, Speaking of the Palestinian rise of a leaner, stronger Israeli when the number and intensity his mission. 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