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THE ONLY ENGLISH-JEWISH WE,EKLY IN R.I. AND SOUTHEAST MASS. , VOLUME LXXV, NUMBER 51 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1988 35C PER COPY

Times Gone By Analysts Bemoan Israeli 1938: 50 Years Ago This Week Election Results NAZARETH UNDER 24-HOUR CURFEW , Nov. 4 (JTA) - Nazareth was put under 24-hour bv Andrew Silow Carroll based their opinions on early another schizophrenic unity curfew today following bombing of military billets in which two Arabs (JTA) - Israeli projections of a virtual dead heat government, or Labor would sit in were wounded. A British soldier and an Arab were killed in a clash and American observers offering between Likud and Labor, with the opposition to a Likud government between troops and a rebel band south of Haifa. instant analysis of the Israeli religious parties holding the ruling by the narrowest of margins. election results bemoaned the fact balance of power. But the vote appeared decisive 21 REFUGEES BARRED FROM MEXICO LAND IN HAVANA that neither Likud nor Labor had The program, sponsored by a to one expert. In New York. Yusef HAVANA, Nov. 6 (JTA) - Cuba has accepted 21 German-Jewish received a clear mandate from the coalition of American Zionist Olmert, an analyst at the Shiluah refugees turned away from Mexico last week. The group arrived here electorate last Tuesday. organizations, was aired in 32 Institute at University. Friday on the S.S. Orinoco and was permitted to land following appeals Even Likud supporters appeared cities in the and said the election results are to the authorities by Cuban newspapers, labor unions and political parties. subdued discussing the results on a . portentous for Labor. special post-election broadcast For North Americans, the '.'They appear to be at the end of POLISH-JEWISH YOUTH, 17, SHOOTS NAZI EMBASSY over the Council of Jewish program offered a rare glimpse of the road, even after makin~ some OFFICIAL IN PARIS Federation's closed-circuit satellite Israeli politics in action. Footage of internal changes," said Olmert. PARIS, Nov. 7 (JTA) - A German Embassy official was shot today network just a few hours after the both major party headquarters whose brother, Ehud, was and seriously wounded by a 17-year-old Polish Jew named Herschel Israeli polls haci closed. showed no revelry or re-elected to the on the Feivel Grynszpan in what the Embassy said was an act of vengeance for Although they felt confident American-style hoopla, but an Likud list. "They need an the mass expulsion of Polish from the Reich. The wounded official, that party leader Yitzhak Shamir atmosphere of gloom that infected extensive soul-searching. Among Ernst vom Rath, 32, was third secretary of the German· Embassy and a could piece together a ruling panelists in both countries. , a decisive majority nephew of the late German ambassador to Paris, Roland Koester. coalition with the cooperation of In Jerusalem, none seemed as have swung to right-wing parties." the religious parties, the Likud dismayed as Hirsh Goodman, the Samuel Lewis, who served as analysts joined others in talk of former military correspondent for U.S. ambassador to from REICH BANS JEWISH CHILDREN FROM SCHOOLS IN reforming Israel's parliamentary and a strategic 1977 to 1985, also believes that, REPRISAL FOR PARIS SHOOTING election system, to allow voters to fellow at the Washington Institute based on historical precedent. an , Nov. 8 (JTA).- Making good its threat of reprisals for the send a clear signal to their leaders for Near East Studies. Israeli government could act attempted assassination of a German Embassy official in Paris by a and the world what course they "I'm disappointed, but I suppose decisively with only a slim young Polish Jew yesterday, Nazi today delivered a swift suc­ want to see charted in foreign and we should have seen the writing on majority. cession of blows at German Jewry. domestic policy. the wall;· said Goodman. For Lewis, that possibility could While anti-Jewish excesses flared in Kassel, provincial capital of .. It is a pity from our point of There exists, he said, a potential have a significant effect on "the Hesse, and Vienna, the Nazi authorities banned all Jewish children from view that people did not give a very fo r a national consensus, but Israel fundamentals of U.S.-lsrael attendance at public schools and suspended all Jewish newspapers clear vote," Jewish Agency .. lacks the leadership able to deliver relations." throughout the Reich and all branches of the Nazi-supervised Jewish Treasurer Meir Sheetrit said in an it. The future is decided by If Likud makes good on promises Cultural League. interview from Tel Aviv. minorities," meaning the smaller of using harsher measures to put Once a rising star in Likud parties, he said. down the nearly 11-month-old 25,000 JEWS UNDER ARREST IN WAKE OF WORST ranks, Sheetrit said that while ... You won't fund my , Palestinian uprising, or pumps POGROM IN MODERN GERMAN WSTORY seemed to have shifted you won't give me money for new life into the settlement BERLIN, Nov. 11 (JTA) · An estimated 25,000 Jews were under arrest clearly to the right, "it may be time another settlement, I'm leaving the program in the territories, said today in the wake of the worst outbreak of anti-Jewish violence in mod­ to act seriously to change the government,"' he said the religious Lewis, .. that sort of policy has the em German history, which left throughout the nation a trail of burned elections." parties might threaten. potential of stirring up quite a lot , smashed homes, wrecked and pillaged shops, and at least four More than a dozen Israeli and Goodman had scorn for two of static in Jerusalem and known dead. Police seizures of Jews continued throughout the night and American experts were interviewed scenarios that he said could shape Washington." this morning. during combined broadcasts from up in back rooms over the next few Joining Lewis in New York was New York and Jerusalem. They . weeks. Either Shamir would head (Continued on page 19) Unity Is Still The Jews' Chief Strength by Andrew Silow Carroll proud of, being unable to agree on In a recent interview at UJA Diaspora Jews. different Jewish cause, they are not anything else, Jews have headquarters here, he welcomed a But criticism of Israel's security lost to the Jewish community. NEW YORK (JTA) - Two nevertheless agreed that the UJA discussion that went beyond the policies is another story. Their efforts are highly valid, and milestones - one tragic, the other is the central address for fund day-to-day operation of the He belie.ves, as do other Jewish their individuality is something we joyful - are being marked this raising on behalf of world Jewry. organization to include a broader leaders, that criticism can better be want to encourage." year: the 50th anniversaries both But in recent years, fund raisers look at an institution in flux. conveyed to Israeli leaders in Nevertheless, Horowitz said the of Kristallnacht and the founding have begun to wonder whether that "No doubt that the next 50 years private, and not in a forum where it UJA apparatus and its relationship of the United Jewish Appeal. unity can survive . a series of are going to see the UJA engaged in may be seen and distorted by true with other institutions within its It is not coincidental. Prompted changes inside and outside of a far more mature relationship enemies of Israel. constellation may require some "fine tuning." by the terror inflicted upon Israel. with Israel," he said. "We have an obligation to let "Whether that means change of Germany's Jews on the night of In· the United States, "That will mean more Israelis know our views. I have the a revolutionary kind, I don't November 9-10, 1938, leaders of competition from non-sectarian reciprocity, and more utmost respect for those who have know," he said. the American Jewish Joint and even alternative Jewish understanding and respect for one spoken out in public. No American One thing that won't change, he Distribution Committee, the philanthropies has drawn off some another's point of view." Jew is an enemy of Israel," said said, is the UJA's "single-minded · United Palestine Appeal and the of the dollars of philanthropic But there are limits to that Horowitz. concentration on advocating the National Coordinating Committee young Jews. reciprocity, he said. Horowitz On another topic, Horowitz was cause of Israel and overseas Jews." for Aid to Refugees agreed to And since the Lebanon War, defended the advertisements taken asked.if he agreed with sociologists, combine their separate some have shown a out in the Israeli press in June by like those at the CJF-sponsored That mission, he said, is above fund-raising drives into one united willingness to question internal the UJA and the Council of Jewish North American Jewish data bank, appeal. the "vagaries" of Israeli or Israeli policies and to disagree on Federations, urging Knesset mem­ who have concluded that young For Stanley Horowitz, president what role, if any, Jews of the bers not to amend the Law of Re­ Diaspora politics. Jews are increasingly disaffected He gestured to a photograph and chief professional officer of the Diaspora should play in their turn. from traditional Jewish fund that rests on an easel in a comer of UJA, there is a lesson to be learned formation. The Orthodox-inspired raising. his office. Like a Walker Evans in the cause-and-effect Even the UJA, fiercely amendment, which wa~ defeated, portrait of Depression-era poverty, relationship between the two non-partisan in jts efforts, found says that immigrants converted to He didn't agree, pointing to the events. itself taking sides in the Knesset would be entitled to success of the UJA's Young it depicts a group of shabbily "Disunity gave way in the face of debate to oppose the "Who is a automatic citizenship only if they Leadership Councils, and dressed Israeli children of many crisis to unity," Horowitz said Jew" amendment to Israel's Law of were converted according to participation by young backgrounds and races. recently. "lt·shouldn't take a crisis Return. halacha, or Jewish law, as professionals in fund-raising "These children have nothing to to create unity, but unfortunately Horowitz, 55, became UJA understood by Orthodox . missions to and do with the 'intifada,' nothing to it did." president in 1983, after eight years Non-Orthodox Jews argued that Israel. do with Likud, Labor or the PLO," Unity among American Jews, as executive director of the Jewish the amendment would virtually Despite those who have "opted said Horowitz, referring in tum to taken for granted in the 50 years Community Federation of delegitimize non-Orthodox Jewish out" and given elsewhere, said the Palestinian uprising, Israel's since Kristallnacht and the 40 Cleveland. denominations such as Horowitz, the majority of young major political parties and the years since the birth of Israel, has The UJA lists among his Conservative and Reform, and Jewish givers have followed a Palestine Liberation Organization. accounted for the phenomenal accomplishments his administra­ alienate Diaspora Jews, the previous generation's example. .. We're trying to preserve their success of the UJA fund-raising tive successes in streamlining the majority of whom are not .. I know there are defections," he lives physically, make them whole efforts. organization and reducing its Orthodox. said, referring obliquely to newer - people in the end who will build Last year's combined campaign operating costs, while increasing Horowitz supported the Jewish philanthropies like the the Jewish future. Things that with local Jewish federations the combined campaign from $582 advertisements because, he said, New Israel Fund and American build life in an apolitical setting. raised a record $720 million. million in 1983 to last year's $722 the .. Who is a Jew" question Jewish World Service. That transcends the disunity you'd Fabled for, and even at times million. .directly affected the future of "But when they take on a prefer we talk about." - 2 - THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1988 • Providence Hadassah· [__ L_o_c_a_I _N_e_w_s______]

Touro Sons Of Jacob Friday, November 11 The special feature of this program · will include an Candlelighting 4:08 p.m. Minchoh month's Late Friday Evening introduction of the visiting services 4: 15 p.m. Service-Oneg at Touro personnel. by the Administrator of Saturday, November 12 Synagogue will be a salute to this the school, Commander Benny Reading of the PToledot. year's class of the Newport Naval Hornsby. Shapiro's sermon Morning services 8:30 a.m. The Chaplaincy School. Rabbi Chaim will be entitled, " Religion and the S hull's Kiddush as usual Shapiro, the spiritual leader of the Military." The chaplains will be im mediately after. Minchoh is at Touro Synagogue, in making this given a special tour-lecture by 4: 10 p.m. The S hull 's ":l rd Meal" announcement, pointed out that Rabbi Shapiro prior to the service. fo ll ows. Maariv services 5 p. m. Our this is one of the major elements in A social hour with a collation Sabbath is over at 5:07 p.m. the current "T ouro- Naval Base will be served in the Jewish Havdalah is at 5: 12 p. m. Bridge Program." This program Community Center Social Hall Sunday. November I :I aims at fostering bonds between fo llowing the services. The Morning services as usual at 7:45 the local J ewish community and sponsors of the collation are Mr. a.m. M inchoh for lhe entire week the Naval Base, especially with the and Mrs. Milton Herstoff; in is at 4: 15 p.m. PROMPTLY. Naval Chaplaincy School. addit ion to Mrs. Herstoff, Thursday. November 10 is Ros h Rabbi Shapiro will conduct the hostesses will be: Mrs. Esther Chodesh K islev. Services are at religious program, which will be Nemtzow, Mrs. Bernice Schweber, 6::lO a.m. held in the Main Sanctuary, and Mrs. Sheila Shapiro. beginning at 8 p.m. on Friday, The public is invited to November 11. Since this is the participate in this spec ial program. Shabbaton At night of Veteran's Day, it was fel t For fu rther information, call the Congregation Beth to be an especially appropriate Touro office at 847-4794. time for such an event. The Sholom .....------, Congregation Ohawe " Et hical Behavior in J udaism" · Norman Tilles, President of the This will be a very exciting will be the theme of Congregation of Rhode evening as well as very relevant, in Sholam Beth Sholom's Scholar-in­ Island, will ki ck off Providence li ght of both the Israeli and Friday evening services wi ll Residence Shabbaton on the Hadassah's gala opening meeting American elections. begin at 4: 15 p.m. Saturday weekend of November 18 and 19. with the topic: " Post Election T he Chapter will also hold the morning services, beginning at 9 The guest lecturer will be Rabbi Review; Impact on annual Raffle Drawing t hat a.m. , will feature a Kiddush. Barry Freundel of Congregation Israeli-American Relations." The evening. Chairman fo r the raffle is Saturday afternoon the Rabbi's Rosh Pinah in Yonkers, New Yo rk . event will take place on Sunday Florence Silve r, 27 Taft Avenue, Mishah class will be at 3:30 p.m. Rabbi Freundel is also Director of evening, November 13, 1988 at Providence, phone 75 1-6897. !st Mincha wi ll be at 4: 10 p.m. , Pre-Rabbinic Synagogue Services 7:30 p.m. in the Bohnen Ves try at Prize: $250 State of Israel fo llowed by the T hird Sabbath at in New Temple Emanu-EI. Cert ifica te. 2nd Prize: $100 Sony meal. Maariv will be at 5:05 p.m. Yo rk. He has published widely in T his special meet ing which AM-FM Cassette Walkman with Havdalah wi ll be at 5:1 5 p.m. the national J ewish press. Rabbi combines the portfolio of autoreverse. 3rd Prize: $25 gift The next Junior N.C.S.Y. event Freundel was fo rmerly rabbi in American and Israeli Affairs is certificate fr.o m Jordan Marsh. will be Sunday, Nov. 19 . Exact Norwalk, Conn. open to the public. Men are Please come join us! Coffee and time and nature of activity will be On Friday evening, November particularly urged to attend in refreshments will be served in next week's article. This youth 18 at 8 p.m. Rabbi Freundel wi ll order to hear the most important foll owing the program. group is open to a ll Jewish speak on " Ethics in Professional memher of JFRI. Norman T illes. chil dren, 5th-8th grade. Life." The presentation will be followed by an Oneg Shabbat. On The congregat ion is planning a Women's The evening will begin at 7:45 at Chanukah Melave- Malca fo r Saturday morning, November 19 , a member's home in Warwick. Saturday evening, December l 0, at Rabbi Freundel will deliver a guest Association Desserts and coffee will be served sermon during regular Shabbat 7 p.m. Please mark this date on Jewish Home fo llowi ng the presentation. For your calendar fo r a great evening services. A catered luncheon will fu rther infor mation and for the whole fa mily featuring food, fo ll ow services at 12:30 p.m. T he Women's Association of the Jewish Home for the Aged will hold directions, please call 885-6783. drink and entertainment. Pre- paid reservations of $8 fo r an Don't forget your friends, and a Board Meeting on Wednesday, This coming week there will be a adult and $3. 75 fo r a child under please bring yo ur favorite scarf! regular schedule of services: lhe age of 12 are required for the November 16 , 1988, at the Ho~e Mornings - Sunday, 7:45 a.m.; luncheon. Reservations must be in the Martin Chase Auditorium. Majestic Senior Guild Monday a nd Thursday, 6:40 a.m.; received by the Beth Sholom office The collation will be at l 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday a nd Friday, no later than Monday, November The meeting will be at l p.m. The next regular meeting of The 6:50 a.m. Evenings: 4: IO p.m. 14. presided over by Claire Ernstof, Majestic Senior Guild will be held whenever possible. On Saturday afternoon at I :30 President. on Tuesday, November 22 at p.m. a sy mposium entitled "Ethics Temple Torat Yisrael, Park in Social Life" will be presented by Providence Women's Avenue, Cranston at 12:30 p.m. Rabbi Freundel. Mincha services American ORT We will have a film called Good Planning A Party? · will be held at 3:45 p.m. Shalosh Morning Isra el. From the Mount Seudot will follow. Rabbi Freundel ORT is a Jewish organization of Olives we are going on a tour of wi ll be the guest speaker. The which supports and builds Jerusalem, Nazareth and Masada. Party Monster entire Jewish community is vocational and technical schools Dancing at dawn among the ruins invited. thro ughout the world fo r needy of the ancient city of Avdat. DJ Service individuals. During the dancing and singing a is the answer! On T hursday evening, man emerges with a cart and sings South County Nove mber 17, the Providence in Hebrew " If I Were a Rich Man" Hadassah Chapter of Women's American from Fiddler on the Roof. The 397-6079 ORT will hold a general meeting. photography and music are superb. Members and friends of the Donna Dressler, a well known Don't miss t his most del ightful All Occasions - Bat/Bar Mitzvah - Weddings - Etc. South County Chapter of jewelry and fashion coordinator, afternoon. Hadassah are cordially invited to will be the guest speaker. Don't forget our Chanukah party attend a meeting on November 16, This meeting will focus on scarf on December 6 at Temple Torat .. at 7:30 p.m. at Congregation Beth presentations. 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GAl .. l~EllV Due to a typographical error the Where Smart L------.J December meeting is scheduled for TOP NAMES T uesday, December 20 and not the Decorators Shop! 22 as the bu lletin specifies. 1 OO's OF ROLLS AT We have a change of date on the trip to The Pines in the Catskills. IN STOCK BARGAIN PRICES is just around the corner. The new date is August 20 through 1 OOO's OF SAMPLES 1st. Candle: Sat. Dec. 3 Augusl 27. This is for eight days Also Shades, Blinds & with our usual Super Delu xe FOR SPECIAL ORDERS Wallcoverings Come to Melzer's Shop for all your Chanukah needs: Rooms and Service. Even though •Menorahs• Dre idels • Books• Tapes• Records this is the height of the season. OPEN It's worth the trip! • Decorations • Giftwrap • Party Favors prime time, we will still be paying MONDAY THRU the same pre-season rate. From Providence take 95 South to Large Dripless Chanukah Candles in Orange, With the colder weather upon us SATURDAY 10-5 Route 4 - Wickford Exit (Rt. 102). 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Providence on Monday, November and hors d'oeuvre hour, guests will On November 10 at 7:30 p.m. in 14 from 7:30 to 9 p.m. place bids on a wide variety of the .Senior Adult Lounge of the The session will focus on silent auction items including Jewish Community Center of year-end tax planning and museum passes, theatre tickets Rhode Island, 401 Elmgrove strategies for maximizing gift ~nd food certificates, clothing: Avenue in Providence, a program deductions. Many tax shelters were appliances, toys, sporting goods, of remembrance will be held: Ruth reduced or eliminated by the 1986 Tax Reduction Act. Those that athletic equipment, escape Oppenheim will speak of her remain will be discussed and weekends, sports memorabilia, and Kristallnacht experiences; Rabbi evaluated. much, much more. Wayne Franklin will talk about the unusual Christian community of Traditional tax planning has After dinner, auctioneer Paul usually focused in on four items: Saperstein will begin the live Leipzig; also on the program are Herta Hoffman, who will recognize deferral of income, acceleration of bidding for: glamour vacations deductions, deferral of wide screen TV, tickets t~ Rhode Island Self Help, and Volunteers at the Jewish Community Center Kosher Mealsite Cantor Samuel Linkovsky, who compensation and postponement sought-after events, camp tuition, of gains into future years. The are commended at the Golden Age Club Annual Meeting. The choice gift certificates, celebrity will chant El Malei Rahamim. Me~site volunteers help with food preparation and serving. For the month of November, the uncertainty_ over future tax laws days, autographed collector's makes 1988 tax planning unique. Pictured (I to r): Lil Fellner, Mealsite Clerk· Rose Bernstein· items, art work, and more! Museum, located on the site of the Bessie Soifer; Jean Baker and Max Silverma~. ' ,Jewish Community Center of First, a reversal of each of the four Tickets, at $36 per person, may above-listed techniques may be The JCCRI Mealsite offers a hot, kosher meal at noon Sunday be purchased at the Center. Rhode Island, will exhibit items of through Friday along with daily activities. Transportation to local residents and photographs of warranted this year because tax Proceeds will help subsidize the rates are the lowest that they have and from the JCCRI can be provided for Providence and scholarship fund for Program that dreaded moment on been in years and, regardless of Pawtucket residents. The Mealsite is co-sponsored by Project Services. 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But in our own community, A scholar who has received the it is, as I said, lazy and envious of Israel Prize in Judaic Studies, others, insecure and slothful anrl Why We Need Reform Judaism Rabbi Eliezer Waldernberg, conciliatory of views it must reject declared that a gentile should not and abhor. by Jacob Neusner be permitted to live in Jerusalem. That is not to suggest only and laypeople, who see more contemporary Judaic morality. It The body of a gentile woman Reform Judaism has a If I had to choose two words to observant Jews and think they are comes in an address by who lived as a Jew without official contribution to make to the moral characterize the contemporary somehow inferior, who meet more Yehoshaphat Harkabi to the conversion was disinterred from a renaissance of the Jewish people, state of Reform Judaism, they learned Jews and think they are in Council of Reform and Liberal Jewish cemetery. would be sloth and envy. correctly characterized by Mailer some way less. Rabbis at the Liberal Jewish Explaining these and many as now too self-absorbed for their I call Reform Judaism slothful Without conceding for one Synagogue in last year. other expressions of anti-Gentile own good. because it !,as become lazy about minute that less observance or less Harkabi chose his platform well, prejudice, Harkabi pointed to the Hebrew Union College-Jewish developing its own virtues and so learning are to be treated as the only religious Judaic platform belief of what he called "religious Institute of Religion has delivered deprives all of its unimportant, I think Reform for his message, that there is a radicals" in the imminent coming to Reform Jews a corps of rabbis invaluable gifts, its insights and its Judaism has a message to offer to crisis in our relationships to the of the as explanation for bearing a moral concern and - powerful ideas. I call it envious all Jews, including the most gentiles (a.k.a. "the goyim"). these developments. They are not more important - an intellectual because it sees virtue in others and Orthodox of the Orthodox and the Yehoshafat Harkabi, limited to the State of Israel. system and structure that form a despises itself. The single greatest most nationalistic of the Hebrew University, raised in a Harkabi called for "discarding monument to the capacity of and most urgent idea in the Jewish nationalists, and one that in stunning public statement the those elements" of Judaism that Israel, the Jewish people, to think world today is the one idea that importance outweighs not eating issue of the divisive power of the instill or express hostility to both of itself and also of the other, Reform Judaism has made its own lobster and studying the . Jewish religion within the Jewish outsiders. He said, and to love not only itself but also and developed for us all, and that is It is that Judaism as Reform people itself. Harkabi raised the "Demonstrating to Orthodoxy that the outsider. the idea that loves all Judaism defines Judaism is a possibility that "the Jewish some of its rulings are liable to Now, when more than ever we humanity, not only holy Israel. religion of respect and love for the religion that hitherto has bolstered raise general opprobrium may need Reform Judaism for the Today, no single idea is more other, as much as for the self. Jewish existence may become facilitate the achievement of a moral renewal of all Israel, the urgent than that one. Let me Reform Judaism teaches that God detrimental to it." modus vivendi between it and the Jewish people, what Reform Jews explain. loves all people, finds and He pointed to manifestations of other streams in contemporary must find within their hearts are Reform Judaism in the temples · emphasizes those teachings of the hostility against gentiles, formerly Judaism." • not sloth and envy but the two and in the schools lacks vitality, received holy books of the Torah repressed, but ascendant in the Where are we to find the corpus opposite virtues: energy and even while it correctly points to that deliver that message, and past decade. In the State of Israel, of ideas concerning gentiles to conviction. enormous growth. Reform Judaism rejects bigotry and prejudice when in the U.S.A. is the most numerous practiced not only by gentiles but Judaism and is growing faster than even by Jews. ----Who Is A Jew: Part 111----- Conservatism and, in absolute And there should be no doubt at numbers, much faster than all, the single most urgent moral by Leibel Estrin off a live animal; as well as a the State of Israel ignores the Orthodoxy. crisis facing the communities of In previous articles, we noted positive commandment to halachic definition of "who is a The reason is that Reform Judaisms today is the Jews' that both rabbis and converts have establish courts of justice. Jew," it causes Jews all over the Judaism has accurately taken the self-indulgent hostility toward the to meet certain standards and Since the reform and world to ignore it as well, with measure of the condition of other or the outsider. qualifications; rabbis in order to conservative movements deny the disastrous results. American Jewry and has framed a Take for example our visceral carry out their duties as the Torah Divine authenticity of the Oral Why hasn't the Judaism that deals with the real response to the candidacy of Jesse demands; and converts in order to Torah, they can not legitimately been corrected? and urgent issues of contemporary Jackson for the Democratic attain the special status of a Jew. convert anyone. Simply put, the solution has American Jewish life. nomination for the presidency. Specifically, a convert has to This fact has not prevented been part of the problem. But that success, for which the Jackson, widely held in Jewry to be accept the rules, responsibilities members of these movements from On January 16, 1985, the Israeli lay people must take credit, since an anti-Semite and unfriendly to and rituals of Torah-True trying. In Florida, one famous Parliament brought up an they are the creators of Reform the State of Israel, precipitated Judaism, including all the laws of "conversion mill" advertises "six amendment and promptly voted it Judaism, has yet to make its mark debate in American Jewish circles. kashruth, Shabbos, family purity, months of Jewish learning in one down. Ironically, tragically, Arab on the morale and attitude of the On the one side a candidate from a etc. The prospective convert also eight-hour session." Another members of parliament were Reform movement. The movement long-oppressed minority, on the has to formalize the relationship conversion mill in New Jersey allowed to vote on Who is a Jew! still regards itself as a second-class other side himself distrusted as through bris milah and/or provides weekly conversion Reporting on this spectacle, the and somehow less than fully unfriendly, Jackson elicited mixed immersing in a mikvah. courses. Nine sessions for $225. January 17, 1985 New York Times legitimate Judaism. feelings. In order for a Rabbi to be ($180 for members.) Still another commented, "Every time an Arab By "the movement" I do not Mayor Koch's statement that qualified, he must be outfit in Texas states that "liberal" member's name was announced mean a few theologians at Hebrew any Jew who voted for Jackson is knowledgeable, personally Judaism is really a polydoxy(!) and during the roll call, a wave of Union College, who have set forth a "crazy" provoked Norman Mailer, observant, and absolutely believe you can believe what you want ... chuckles went through the solid and substantial rationale for the novelist, to reply (New York in the Divine authenticity of both as long as you pay your money! chamber .. ." Reform Judaism in both history Times, April 18, 1988) in language the Written and Oral law. Unfortunately, the entire sorry The reform and conservative (Michael A. Meyer) and theology re'lliniscent of the prophetic By their very definition, scenario all comes to a head, when movements have also pressured the (Jakob J . Petuchowski). I mean tradition: "What made us great as conservative and reform Judaism it comes to the State of Israel. Israeli government to maintain the the vast number of pulpit rabbis a people is that we, of all ·ethnic deny the Divine origin of both the Israel and the Law of Return · present situation. groups, were the most concerned Oral and Written Torah. Instead, The entire issue of Who is a Jew The conservative Rabbinical with the world's problems ... We RHODE ISLAND these movements claim the Torah is central to a statute known as the Assembly has urged that its understood as no other people how is "Divinely-inspired" or in the "Law of Return." On July 7, 1950, members declare any Knesset the concerns of the world were our case of the reform movement, the State of Israel passed a statute Member voting for the amendment HERALD concerns. The welfare of all the · humanly inspired. stating that "every Jew has the a upersonna non grata." In essence, (USPS '60-760) people of the world came before our Why is recognition of the Oral right to come to Israel as an preventing that Knesset Member Published Every Week By The own welfare ... The imperative to Law's Divinity 80 important? immigrant." This law allows Jews Jewish Presa Publishing. Company from appearing in a conservative survive at all costs . . . left us In the Torah, we find 613 to immediately become Israeli synagogue, and telling the truth. • EDITOR: smaller, greedier, narrower, commandments which are citizens and to receive free housing The reform movement SANDRA SILVA preternaturally touchy and incumbent upon a Jew. There are allowances and other sponsored one of their converts, self-seeking. We entered the true 248 positive and 365 negative government-sponsored benefits. one "Shoshana Miller" from • ASSOCIATE EDITOR: and essentially hopeless world of mitzvos•. Most of the mitzvos On March 19, 1970, the law was Boulder, Colorado. When she DAVID DeBLOIS the politics of self-interest, 'is this mentioned in the Torah are not amended by the Israeli Parliment. originally applied to the Ministry good for the Jews?' became, for all It • ACCOUNT REP.: completely "spelled out." Take the defined a Jew as "one born of a of Interior for identification papers MARY FrrZPATRICK too many of us, all of our politics." mitzvah of Tefillin, for example '. Jewish mother or one who has as a Jew, she was properly turned Mailer concluded, "The seed of The Torah states "And you shall converted." In doing so, it left out down. She then brought her case to Mailing Addrffa: aoJe:43, Providence, R.I. any vital American future must bind them for a sign on your hand, the word "K'halacha," (conversion the secular Court, where her still break through the century-old and they shall be for frontlets according to Jewish law). petition was granted. Having done PLANT: ..!:~~::Jt~~:.~ Pawt., R.I. hard-pack of hate, contempt, 02861 between . your eyes." (Deut. 6:8) Before the law was amended, her part to weaken the holiness of OFFtCE: 305 Watennan Ave., EHl Provfdence, corruption, guilt, ' odium, and The Torah doesn't explain what only one conversion process was the State of Israel, she left the A.I. 02914 horror ... I am tired of living in the Tefillin are, how they're made, accepted; the same process that country. Second class postage paid at ProvkSenoe, AhOde Island. Postmaster send address miasma of our indefinable and exactly how they're worn, when has been in effect for the last 3,300 Perhaps the one example that changes to the A.I. Herald, P.O. Box 6063. Provi­ ongoing national shame." they should be worn, who should years. After the law was changed, dence. R.l. 02940-6063. dramatizes the dangers of reform I find in Mailer's comments that wear them, etc. anyone claiming to be a Jew can and conservative conversions is BySu:f,1()0R=t 9:a~~.fl:.c:~ ~- ~ morally · vital prophetic tradition The Oral Law clarifies the claim the right to enter the state of the case of Mubarak Awad. ~~t~!:~·rt!1'tt~.er.:~".:1; that Reform _Judaism - alone Written Law. In this case, the Oral Israel. Mubarak Awad was born and scriptions are continuous unless notified to= ~ among contemporary Judaisms - contrary in writing. Law tells us that tefillin are to be Why is the Law of Return educated in America. He moved to The Herald assumes no financial responsl­ espouses. And as a Republican, I worn by a male over 13; that he has 80 important? Israel and quickly became a bitrty lor typographiell errors In advertise­ could not care less who won the to bind leather boxes on his arm The was given to ments, but wUI reprint that part of the adver­ spokesman for the Palestinian tisement in which the typographleal error New York primary. and his head, that the tefillin the Jewish people as both a gift and cause. After years of instigating occurs. Advertisers witl please notify the man­ agement lmmedletety ot any error which may But there is a much more telling contain passages from the Torah, an inheritance. When the Jewish trouble, he was forced to leave OCCU,. comment on the condition of etc. people allow non-Jews to register Israel for the United States. Unl06ciled manuscripts: UnsoHcited manuscripts are welcome. We 00 not pay tor When a movement or a group of and be accepted as Jews, they At last report, he was looking ~,~~:"'e:~pt:t~~~~ individuals deny the Divinity of affect their status as inheritors; into the possibility of becoming a dressed envelope If you want the manuacrlpt Candlelighting the Oral Law, they essentially give and in turn jeopardize the gift. reform or conservative convert, so returned. Letters to the editor repreaem the themselves the ability to make up To put it another way, we find he could re-enter Israel under the cs~u:, ~e~"°~ ·~11':~ the rules as they go along. At that numerous statements in the Torah Law of Return! · number tor vertflcltlon. November 11, 1988 point, they stop following G-d's to the effect that the Jewish people How do Israelis feel about n,. Harald is e member of the New England Press Association end the American Jewish Torah, and begin creating their should conduct themselves in a the Law of Return? Prns As soelltlon. and a sublcriber to the 4:11 p.m. Jewish Telegraphic Agency and the JewiSh own. holy fashion, because the land In 1984, a petition signed by Student Prn1 Serv+e.. •Non-Jews only have to fulfill itself is holy. Both the nation of more than a million Jews living in the Seven commandments which Israel and the land are inextricably Israel was presented to the Prime were given to the Children of bound together. When there's a Minister demanding that Notice Noah. These include prohibitions problem with one, it will have a be The opinions presented on this page do not against idolotry, murder, theft, negative affect on the other. recognized only when it is blasphemy, sexual misconduct To make matters worse, many according to halacha. necessarily represent the opinions of this establishment. such as adultery, incest, and people look to the State of Israel , A~Jll01!1':Jl!aiity, ancl ea,ti?g, ~Pl! J_imb: : li;~d~i;s~~ ~~d ~/r'e~fio~ :,'Yhen , ·. , ' . (&!n\imred or, page 18 ) ~or ' . •• 1 •• ~J\ l THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1988 - 5 Letters To The Editor======Torah True? No Perfect Way (once the dean of the faculty .at the Norman Podhoretz, the distin­ conducting services and providing Recently, Rabbi Alvin Kaunfer In last week's Herald, a letter to Jewish Theological Seminary, guished editor of Commentary kosher food, Hillel at Brown has no responded to the article, "The facts the editor took Leibel Estrin to quoted in this month's Moment magazine, in vicious, anti-Semitic public' presence !Uld no public in­ behind who is a Jew." In the guise task for "attempt[ing] to discredit magazine), fo r one example, has all terms, referring to the Jews as dis­ terest and no public spirit. That is of "FACTS" (his view, not the Conservative and Reform but given up on the Conservative loyal, unwanted and unwelcome in the only explanatton · for the utter mainstream Judaism's), he makes movements and their Rabbis [sic) movement's claim to care fo r America. I think it outrageous that silence .with. which Hillel and its a number of claims which I find as as legitimate interpretations and halacha. Brown University should honor a . ;Jewish students and rabbi received laughable as they are lamentable. interpretors [sic] of Judaism." Whatever any Jew may think of man who many maintain has this outrage. It is not "Leibel Estrin's brand The writer of that letter went on halacha's importance, it is an marked himself as an anti-Semite. Thi$ is not only a day of infamy· of Judaism" that is Torah True. It to accuse Mr. Estrin of "innuendo" incontestable fact that the This is the last official action of the for Brown, it also is a day of pro­ is the Creator's, Who gave it to and "misleading opinions," and majority of conversions carried out Swearer administration - and the found disgrace for the Rhode Is­ Moshe, who passed it to J oshua. then proceeded to submit several in America today do not meet its · worst. None of the many things fo.nd Jewish community. who gave it to the Elders on down opinions of his own, each standards even those Swearer and his crew have done to Jacob NeUBner to today. It is an unbroken chain of embellished with the impressive conversions which include mikva reduce a once-distinguished Uni­ Providence, RI tradition that is 3,300 years old! wo rd "FACT " in upper-case and milah. That is basically what versity to a public relations circus The reform and conservative letters, a written variation of the Mr. Estrin stated and that is a fact, exceeds this final act in a long and movements (like the Sadducees, great ve rbal tradition of shouting not an opinion. sorry drama. Karaites, Hellenists, and when without any argument of And the proliferation of such And where were t he Jews in all Editor's Note Reformers before them) are merit. conversions should disturb all this? T he administration and The past three weeks have break-away factions that want to There have been many caring Jews, regardless of their Brown Corporation are not J uden­ seen an editorial series on t he change Q-d's Torah to fit their movements over the history of the affiliations, because such rejection rein ·(as Vidal's sort of person Opinion pages of the Herald by beliefs. Jewish people which have laid of the Torah's laws wreaks havoc wishes they were). I think it scan­ Mr. Leibel Estrin outlining, In the article, Leibel Estrin claim to legitimacy on a par with with t he true unity of all Jews, dalous that a University with a from the Orthodox viewpoint, stated that the reform and traditional (a.k.a. halachic, a. k.a. betrays the Jewish past, and aborts Jewish provost-dean offaculty, Dr. w ho is a Jew. Responses from conservative movements deny the Orthodox) Judaism, despite their the integrity of the Jewish future. Maurice Glicksman, and a Jewish the Conservative, Refor m and Divinity of the Oral and Written compromising of the requirements Rabbi Avi Shafran dean of the Co llege, P rofessor Or thodox community are most Law . It's interesting to note t hat Providence, R.I. Sheila Blumstein, should regard as of ancient Jewish law . T here we re welcome. Remarks regarding Rabbi Kaunfe r doesn't dispute it! the Karaites, the Sadducees, the appropriate an honorary degree fo r the topic addressed by Mr. He merely claims there are a Sabbateans, the Frankists, and the Goodness such a person. Estrin may be directed to: number of "legitimate" And where was t he Bnai Brith 19th century German Reform Remembered The Rhode Island Herald movements. Would he care to movement, to name a few . Most Your issue of November 3, 1988, Hillel Foundation arid its rabbi in Editorial Page name them? He surely can't mean this crisis?. Where is "t he orga­ Jews haven't heard of most of which arrived in the mail recently, P.O. Box 6063 t he reform and conservative them, and that's predsely the brought back bitter-sweet nized Jewish community" on cam­ Providence, R.I. 02940 movements. I don't see how they point. While all the rage at their memories. Bitter of course, but pus, which is paid ·for and wholly can be legitimate, if they don't historical times, some even why "sweet"? Let me explain. owned by "the organized Jewish believe that both the Oral and overwhelming the traditi'onal Jews On November 9, 1938, fi fty years community" off the campus? Busy Written Torah come from G-d? in numbers, they all eventually ago, we heard on t he radio about The Rabbi goes on to, I feel, petered out, victims of t heir own the shooting of a minor official of fa llaciously bring "proofs" fo r lac k of fi deli ty to what has always the German Embassy in Paris. The pluralism. He refers to the given Judaism its strength, the assassin was a Polish Jew. arguments between the Schools of Oral 'Tradition of the Torah. The following "spontaneous" Hillel and Shammai, T he writer who complained reaction of the people was indeed and those opposed to Ma imonides, about Mr. Estrin did indeed well planned in advance and well Hassidim and their opponents as mention a va lid example of organized. What happened is evidence. What an incredible authentic pluralism in Jewish known to all of us, and I do not chutzpa! All t hese groups (and all tradition, that of Hillel and have to repeat the horrors again. their arguments) were concerned Shammai. Unfo rtunately, t hat Horrors so terrible, as Erich Call in Your Order Now about the best way to serve example has about as much to do Kaestner, a well-known German HaShem. And all of t hem worked with the phenomenon of modern author and anti- Nazi wrote in his (617) 325-7750 within the "daled amos" (religious American J ewish "pluralism" as diary, that they were Rhode Island Customers framework) of halacha. microfiche has to do with gefilte "unspeakable, yet one must not How dare he compare these fish. As any student of Talmud keep silent about them ," please call collect examples with movements t hat knows, Hillel and Shammai's My parents owned a wholesale abrogate the laws of the Torah, argu ments were entirely limited to millinery business in Vienna; our rather than live by them! the exposition of particular details flat was two stories above in the Wednesday, November 23, 1988 4-7 p.m. Rabbi Kaunfer goes on to argue in specifi c laws; the common same building. Thursday, November 24, 1988 9 a.m.-1 2 p.m. that his conversions are acceptable matrix of their every discussion On November 10, there came an Order Deadline Friday, Nov. 18, 1988 2 p.m. because the people are sincere. was the full acceptance of the edict from the German "gauleiter" ("Let's look at conversions, not at divinity of Jewish legal tradition, that all Jews must vacate their tests of credentials and piety ... ") and their motivation was to find apartments immediately so that Would you trust a Doctor whose ~~=- ~ ~ the truth, not to conform Judaism they can be searched for additional M teacher didn't know a thing about to the times. Not one of their murderous weapons. l====occepled.===~ medicine? How in Heaven's name arguments so much as touched on m- The gentleman who was in can you accept a convert, when the any issue of Jewish belief, as do the charge of supervising my parents' converting Rabbi doesn't believe in positions of so many American Crares G1bert& Davis business, and I do not use the word AN EXPRESSION OF ELEGANCE IN KOSHER CATERING or practice Torah-true Judaism! rabbis today. Both Hillel and "gentleman" loosely, for that's 1580 V.F.W. Parkway. West Roxbury, MA 02132 It's not just a false .conversion, it's Shammai viewed the Sadducean what he was indeed, suggested that a fraudulent one! movement (the . non-halachic we sleep on the business premises. In an amazing display of Divine movement of the time) to be He saw to it that no harm was done Providence, there was a letter from entirely outside of Judaism, though to my parents and me, and indeed, a Conservative Rabbi colleague, it was the affiliation of choice for a the week after, took my mother's Committed only to our Jacob Neusner. Rabbi Neusner large number of their Jewish jewelry, my father's gold pocket blasts another colleague, Rabbi contemporaries. watch, as well as my bar-m1tzvah Alan Flam (who incidentally There is, indeed, a certain watch, to Paris where he left clients and their teaches at the conversion institute), cynicism in even mentioning the everything intact with my uncle, a for including a Minister in a example of Hillel and Shammai in French citizen. Later, during our best interests wedding service. From our point of the context of what is today called emigration we lived on the view, what is interesting is the fact "pluralism," for even the proceeda of the sale of these items. that the wedding service was Conservative and Reform But I digress. . conducted between a nice Jewish movements make no bones about We stayed in the business place boy and a nice non-Jewish possessing standarda of their own, for only forty-eight hours, while graduate of a conservative beneath which they choose, the Nazis searched the apartment. conversion course. Is this how without apology, not to stoop. When we returned nothing was conservative converts show their Many, if not most, Conservative missing, or almost nothing I should sincerity? By having Ministers rabbis would consider the typical say. They did not remove or perform under the chuppa? So Reform conversion to be just as "confiscate" any silver, any much for the "FACTS" that the ineffective as a . halachic Jew paintings or what-have you, but conservative movement and its considers it. And even most one thing was missing indeed. It batei din are Torah True! Reform rabbis would likely view a was a book from the den of my In his final paragraph, Rabbi buffoonery like the late Emett father which was lined wall to wall Kaunfer hopes that we can Frank's "8 hour conversion with books. continue to live in an atmosphere special" with more than a little The author of the book was of mutual respect. In reply, I discomfort. We halachic Jews Adolf Hitler. The title of the book, submit that we can and do respect simply maintain that the Mein Kampf. our fellow Jews as individuals. But standarda which have I suppose we had a guardian how can we respect movements characterized the Jewish religion angel watching over us, and I still which are responsible for and preserved the Jewish people believe that the name of that angel HALPERIN & LAX, ltd. . destroying t he unity of the Jewish for the past several millennia, since was Viktor Maschek, the man who A Complete Financial Service Company people, by separating themselves the Revelation at Sinai, are the was to aryanize our business. 335 CENTERVILLE ROAD from the source of the Jewish very ones which constitute Hans L. Heimann people - the Torah! Judaism today. Cranston, R.l. WARWICK, RHODE ISLAND 02886 It is my sincere hope that While the Conservative (401) 738-2350 HaShem has mercy on all Jews, movement may claim to adhere to and that the truth of the Torah be a "halachic" system of its own, it Dear Editor: established once and for all, so that would be hard pressed to claim it 88 Last Friday, October 21, is a day one faithful to the past. It owes that will live in infamy· in the his­ everyone (even conservative and LAWRENCE M. HALPERIN MARVIN WILLIAM LAX reform rabbis!) can see and more to the accommodation of the tory of Brown University. On that experience the beauty of being part whims of the Zeitgeist than to any date, Brown University confe~ LEO R. BERENDES, CFP of a Kingdom of Priests and a Holy continuity of what Judaism has .an honor~ degree on Gore Vida_), I be E C r a man widely held to be an anti- Eq Se Phil Pa people. a wars en. ven onserva 1~e Semite. Vidal conducted a brutal •s«urltlos offered through Penn Mutua 1 uI t y rv Ices, ., . .. Burt.E.-Minaker, M.D. Mlibi., ,P/1YH8!i,edbq,a~ ~~dtfact_m_, . caliip' ii1-.,;,· ot"vilificatioil'" aga" "inst· · ··· · · · · · · · · · •. · · · · · · · · .. . . · ...... , Attleboro Falls, M888. recent years; tu1 b1 Rona a Pnce ., •• 6 - THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1988

Lilly Filler Receives Rachel Filler Is Bat Medical Degree Mitzvah Dr. Lilly Filler graduated from Rachel Lauryn Filler, daughter ( __ Social Events the University of South Carolina's of Bruce and Lilly Filler of ) Medical School on May 7, 1988. Columbia, S.C., celebrated her Bat Following a four-year residency Mitzvah on May 14, 1988 at Beth program, she will be a qualified Shalom Synagogue in Columbia, Rachel Millen Is Bat Cantor And Mrs. S. W. P.H.D.S. Honors obstetrician-gynecologist. s.c. Mitzvah Dress Announce Birth Founders Dr. Filler is t he wife of Bruce Rachel is the granddaughter of Filler, formerly of Legion Way, Gladys Filler and the late Morris Rachel Heather Millen, Cantor Steven W. and Myrna Joseph and Paula Dubin were Cranston. They have three Filler of Legion Way, Cranston. daughter of Alita and Ron Millen Hershman Dress of Warwick, R.I. founders of the Providence Hebrew children, Rachel, Alex and of Randolph, N .J ., conducted are pleased to announce the birth Day School back in 1946. Mr. Michael. Sabbat h services and was called to of their second child, a son, Dubin retired early from his the T orah as a Bat Mitzvah on Jonathan Elliot on October 18, business as one of the first Saturday, October 29, 1988 at the 1988 at the Women's and Infants supermarket operators in Rhode Dr. G. Greenburg Honored Morristown Community Center of Hospital in Providence, R.I. Dr. Island to devote his full time on a A. Gerson Greenburg, M.D., Department of Surgery and is Morristown, N.J. Benjamin Vogel delivered the voluntary basis to help establish, Ph.D. has been named Chairman currently Surgeon-in-Chief at The Rachel shared her Bat Mitzvah baby. nurture, and support the of the Surgical Review Committee Miriam Hospital. At Health Care with Ruth Rheingold of Vilnius in Proud grandparents are Lynne Providence Hebrew Day School of Health Care Review Inc., the Review Inc., he will chair a the Soviet Union. Rachel is a and Stan Dress of Middleton, during its early formative years. state's medical Peer Review committee consisting of practicing seventh grade student at the Mass.; Bernice and Irving His wife, Paula Dubin , was a hard Organization (P RO), it was surgeons in the community and the Randolph Intermediate School. Hershman of Sharon, Mass.; and working, true mother of Israel, who announced recently. Healt h Care Review Inc. Medical She plays violin in the school the late Marlene (Handlin) Dress. ran a t hrift store on a voluntary Frederick S. Crisafulli, M.D., Director, Barry B. Schwartz, M.D. orchestra and is active in Great-grandparents are William basis for many years. The entire Chairman of the Board, said that Prior to joining the staffs of gymnastics. She enjoys bike riding. Dress of Malden, Mass. and proceeds of her efforts were Dr. Greenburg would lead the Brown University and T he Miriam swimming and talking on the Charles. Handlin of Roslindale. donated to the support of the implementation of Health Care Hospital in 1986, Dr. Greenburg phone. She has two sisters, Elise Mass., formerly of Chelsea, Mass. school. Review inc.'s new Ambulatory had served as a professor of surgery and Dara, and a brother, Dan. Elise Melissa Shira Dress (3½ years) is A room will be named in their Surgery Review Program and the at the University of California in and Dan also read portions from the big sister. memory and t he funds of the expanded in-hospital surgical San Diego. His post-graduate the Torah. endowment will be added to the review team as part of Health Care medical training included service Her paternal grandparents are Jonathan Elliot (Noah-Yonatan scholarship fund of which Malcolm Review Inc.'s act ivity for the as senior resident in surgery at the Rita and Lou Millen of Barrington, Eliyahu) was named during the Bromberg serves as chairman. The Medicare and Campus programs in University of Illinois Hospitals, R.I. and her maternal "brit -milah" ceremony held at depository of this Scholarship Rhode Island. and prior to that, at the Michael grandparents are Evelyn and the Temple Am David in Warwick, Fund is the Citizens Trust As part of this Congressionally Reese Hospital and Medical late David Fishlin of Lexington, R.I. on October 25, 1988. His name Company with actual funds, mandated program, Health Care Center in . Mass. She is also the honors the beloved memory of late pledges, and gifts now totaling over Review Inc. will review, on a great-granddaughter of the late great -grandparents Nathan Wesler one and one half million dollars preadmission and preprocedure Mara Priest To Wed Bessie Heller. and Esther Bluestein. Rabbi H. ($1,500,000.00). T he income of basis, ten (1 0) selected surgical A kiddush fo llowed the services Scott White and Cantor Charles this fund is used to help over 150 of procedures. Review will be Mara Priest, daughter of Phylli! Lew recited the customary naming and reception and dinner dance in the almost 300 children who expanded to include a sample of and Burton Priest of Providence, is the evening. Guests attended from blessings integral to the receive some scholarship aid fo r procedures perfo rmed in hospital engaged to J ohn F. Scoliard, son of New England, New York, New "brit-milah" ceremony supervised various programs at the outpatient surgery departments Sandra and Lewis Scoliard of -Jersey and Florida. by Cantor-Mohel Sam Pessaroff. Providence Hebrew Day School. and freestanding ambulatory Providence. She is a graduate of To sustain the scholarship fund, surgical centers certified to provide The Wheeler School and American the school requires scholarship aid care to Medicare beneficiaries, Dr. University. He is a graduate of and gifts in excess of $350,000 a Crisafulli explained. Hebron Academy and the year. Doctor Greenburg has recently University of Hartford. The Providence Hebrew Day been appointed as Acting They will marry September 16, School has become one of the Chairman of the Brown University 1989. leading Torah oriented day schools in western civilization. Alt hough FINE CONSIGNMENTS most of its students are from Profiles I: Jim Rhode Island, it also has students FOR THE HOME from as far away as Bangkok, by Michael Fink group of friends, Jewish and I met Jim my first day at Yale. non-Jewish, to shape a world Fine Used Furniture Thailand, South Africa, California, and numerous other parts of the He sat alone near mi, in the front of within a world. It was a typical Accessories, Antiques country. the bus that toured the campus. He fifties thing to do, a model postwar Collectibles and laughed at a joke I was telling U.N. I recall that J immie someone. He sat alone, and was wondered why I used the pronoun Jewelry When you announce the birth given a room alone, because he was "we" when I spoke of the Jewish of a child why not include black. That was the "tactful" Yale people. He never said "we" about Two Floors Stocked With ~ black and white photo? policy of the period. We became blacks. We discussed Yale Excellent Values, New friends at once. What we shared in prejudice, and I urged him to take Items Arriving Daily. common was a love of laughter and the lead in the budding civil rights a taste for observing people. Maybe movement - this was well before King's role. But involvement was ACCEPTING CONSIGNMENTS NOW. Coffee Exchange I was Dumbo and he was Jim Crow on the telephone wire. He liked to not his style. Jim was cautious, WE ALSO BUY WE'LL PRJCE YOUR ITEMS, watch and I was a little homesick, eager, accommodating. He ONE ITEM SELL THEM trying to fly on my own; my ears admired the understated flair of TO HOUSEHOLDS AND PAY YOU 2/3! ~ -= stuck out too. British policy. For three years Jim •Ample Some kids didn't know Jim was and I had a lot to say to each other. CALL 885-6711 Parking black. He was coffee colored, good We went to a meeting of the 500 MAIN STREET, EAST GREENWICH looking and had a mustache. That AROT C. Flying was a fun fantasy ll4 Wick1:nJ<.·n S1rn:t, PruviJt;"nce, Rl came off freshman week to for me, just an idea to entertain for Across from Kent Theatre, Next to Silverman's • Tues.-Sat. I0-5:30 (h\'r 40 \•,mcfl,,::,,,( wh<1I<' hc-,m C<1ffo,"l> 0 <.")J'l\.."i!jll " pastry accommodate conservative Bill an evening in the twilight. For Jim Buckleyville. Jim spent his mom's it was an up in the air down to hard earned cash - I think she ran earth way of dealing with his an elevator - on an expensive future. After commencement he wardrobe he picked from the joined the new Air Force and rose sparkling windows of J . Press and very high very quickly in its rank_s. ELI and BESSIE COHEN Fenn Feinstein. He regaled me He flew into Yale history. with tales of his conquests of As Aesop pointed out, you FOUNDATION CAMPS women. Sure enough, an Ebony cannot escape your fate. Jim cover girl came to visit. Yale was married a beautiful, very blonde 59th YEAR OF PURPOSEFUL CAMPING not yet co-ed. flight attendant. I met her on a In our sophomore year Jim and I winter's day. I was stunned by the shared chambers. I was afraid to sight of a poised snow queen, in Register Now For 1989 tell my folks. My eldest brother white coat and hat, white dress. wrote me a terrible, angry letter But, after having a daughter, she Scholarships Available accusing me of disservice to our died. The child was retarded. J im parents. I could see that my Yale retired from the Air Force. He has • ForGirls life would have to be kept to had to cope with an endless CAMP PEMBROKE • Pearl Lourie, Director myself. I never brought Jim to childhood, a responsibility on PEMBROKE, MASSACHUSETIES • Tel. (508) 788-0161 Providence, or my parents to our earth from which there is no flight. rooms. Nor did I ever visit Maybe once a year my phone will • Co-Ed Jimmie's folks. But I did take Jim ring and it will be Jim's voice. I CAMP TEL NOAR • Marty Wiadro, Director to New York. We stayed at my recognize it at once and wish now aunt's. She put us up in style. J im he could visit. He never writes, I HAMPSTEAD, NEW HAMPSHIRE • Tel. (508) 443-3655 took me to black nightclubs. We have no address to reach him. With met some prominent jazz artists. his distance, Jim has kept a certain • Co-Ed We liked to see films - to "flick glamour for those of us who shared CAMPTEVYA • Shelly Shapiro, Director out" toget her, and then discuss his space and time. His humor, his BROOKLINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE • Tel. (603) 868-5544 them over a beer and cigarette. He charm, his pathos, his elusive was quick to spot a formula. We entrances and exits. There is no Each camp offers a complete program including varied aquatic and land sports, never lacked fo r lively one perfect friend, but Jim and I drama, music,artsand crafts, trips, Judaic culture. Kosher food. Excellent facilities. conversation. 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THE Rl;IODE ISLAND HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1988 - 7 Donors Beware 9.6 percent. soliciting funds for heart research The American Heart do not meet the CBBB standards. Author Refuses To Ms. Leitner - a native of. The American Heart Association cautions the public to Sweepstakes offers such as those Attend Play Opening Hungary who came to New York Association, Rhode Island Affiliate scrutinize any organization described above are illegal in City in 1945 - said she hopes the is urging all Rhode Islanders to be soliciting funds. Most of the California and other states. Some NEW YORK, N.Y. - Isabella presentation : at Vienna's cautious when responding to mail questions that have been raised may violate U.S. postal Leitner, a New York-based author Technische Museum "will begin requests for donations from concern fundraising methods and regulations. and a survivor of Auschwitz, has the healing process and increase non-profit organizations. Mailings the way donations are spent by We offer these suggestions for asked the Anti-Defamation League the ranks of those who from organizations with non-profit organizations. Some people who are not certain about of B'nai B'rith to make public her acknowledge the past and who similar-sounding names may organizations include requests for the legitimacy of an organization rejection of an invitation to attend yearn and work for a more humane age." · confuse donors and divert funds donations along with surveys on asking for contribution. the Vienna premiere of a stage away ·from the agencies they stress and heart disease. The most - Determine if it has presentation based on her book, intended to support. common mailings at this time tax-exempt status by asking to see Fra!fments of Isabella: A Memoir of Business And In particular, we are concerned include a "sweepstakes" entry with a letter from the IRS. Non-profit, Auschwitz. It opens November9 as Professional Women that the public may confuse the pre-selected winners and tickets to tax-exempt charitable institutions part of the 50th anniversary American Heart Association with be included in donation envelopes. must register with the IRS so that commemoration of Kristallnacht. The National Federation of other groups whose names include One requires a sweepstakes entry contributions are deductible. In a statement released recently Business and Professional words like "American," to be accompanied by either a - . Contact the Rhode Island through ADL and in a cable to Women's Clubs, Inc. (BPW/USA), "National," "Heart," "Heart donation or a check with the word Department of Business Margit Niederhuber, the play's at their 1988 annual convention Disease," "Heart Research," "void" written across it. Regulations to determine whether producer, Ms. Leitner said that as adopted a resolution commencing a "Cardiac," "Cardiovascular," and Fundraisi~g-costs in some cases are it is registered to solicit funds in long as President Kurt Waldheim National Women's Voting Action so on. as high as 55 percent of public Rhode Island. That office can help is in office she "could not visit to encourage all American women American Heart Association support and revenue. you learn about complaints and Austria." to postpone voting on Election Day offices across the nation have legal actions filed against in 1988 until 6 p.m. or later, as a Ms. Leitner, who lost two sisters received numerous requests for The Council of Better Business organizations engaging in public demonstration of the power information about such Bureaus has defined voluntary and her mother in the Holocaust, of the women's vote. fraudulent or illegal activities. said: "My memories cannot be sound-alike and look-alike Standards for charitable - Contact the Rhode Island The Rhode Island Federation of organizations. While the American Solicitations. While not healed. They are beyond repair. On Business and Professional Women, Better Business Bureau or write to some days my inner eye is glued to Heart Association does not wish to recommending one fundraising the Council of Better Business an affiliate of the national the past and l want to run to the question any legitimate method over another, the Bureaus Philanthropic Advisory federation, recognizes the not-for-profit agency raising funds standards call for solicitations and end of the earth shrieking in pain. importance of the women's vote, Service (PAS), 115 Wilson On those days I don't want anyone for cardiovascular research, we do, informational materials to be Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22209, and in support of the resolution to tell me 'it all happened long ago.' want the public to understand that accurate, truthful and not (703) 276-0133. T he BBB and PAS urges Rhode Island women voters there is no relationship between misleading, both in whole .and in For me that is not true. It to exercise their franchise on maintain lists of non-profit happened yesterday." these sound-alike groups and the part. So that fundraising shall be agencies that operate according to November 8th and encourages American Heart Association. conducted without excessive She added that "as long as them to cast their vote after 6 p.m. their standards for charitable Waldheim is president, it would be The American H'eart pressure, sweepstakes offers should solicitations, published bi-monthly unbearable to breathe the air of Association, fo unded in 1924, is specify that no contribution is as "Give But Give Wisely." the only national non-profit health­ needed in order to enter the prize anti-Semitism that still lingers in READ THE HERALD! - The National Charities Austrin." organization devoting all its drawing. Information Bureau issues a free resources to one goal - the The CBBB standards call for "Wise Giving Guide" every two reduction of premature death and soliciting organizations to provide months, obtained by writing 19 disability due to heart disease, on request an annual report and Union Square West, New York, JEWISH DATING SERVICE stroke and related disorders. As a complete annual financial N.Y. 10003. · voluntary health organization, the statements, including an - To verify a solicitation is "Personal Service at its Best" American Heart Association is accounting of fundraising costs. indeed from the American Heart supported almost exclusively by Total fundraising and Association the public may call us Call Bernice at: 1-508-998-1233 public contributions and the administrative costs shall be at 728-5300. For further donated time of more than two "reasonable," meaning that: a) at information such as our Annual million volunteers in communities least 50% of total income be svent Report write: American Heart nationwide. on programs and activities directly Association, Rhode Island The American Heart related to the organization's · Affiliate, 40 Broad Street, home: (508) 532-6068 Association seeks to reduce heart purposes: b) at least 50% of public Pawtucket, R.I. 02860. office: (508) 532-1293 disease deaths and disabilities contributions be spent on the Arthur J. DeBlois, III, through research, community programs and activities described Chairman of the Board programs and educational efforts. in solicitations: c) fundraising During the I 987-88 fiscal year the costs not exceed 35% of related If you are celebrating Cantor Sam Pessaroff American Heart Association contributions: and d) total a special anniversary, allocated $137.7 million to fundraising and administrative * Certified Mohel pwgram services, or 75.8 percent costs not exceed 50% of total announce it in the of total expenses. This included income. The American Heart Herald. Include a photo with $57.7 million for research and $80 Association takes great pride in the announcement. Black and Trained at Bikur Cholim Hospital, Jerusalem million for public and professional that our fundraising and health education and community administrative cost have white on:y, please. services. Fundraising expenses consistently remained well below were only 14.6 percent, while these guidelines. Some organizations currently management expenses were only At EL AL, we've lowered our Boston/ Replenish America's Tel Aviv roundtrip fare Auction To Benefit to $679. Providence Park Forests We've lowered our "Roger Williams Park Zoo is on A new project of The National New York /Tel Aviv fare the verge of greatness," says the Arbor Day Foundation gives you a to $679. executive director of the American chance to help replant America's We've lowered our Association of Zoological Parks fire-devastated forests. Chicago/ Tel Aviv fare and Aquariums. Ever improving Fueled by last summer's and growing, the zoo has begun a tinder-dry conditions, forest fires to $799. new era of growth. With funds burned more than 4.3 million acres We've lowered our from state and local bond issues of the nation's parks and forests. Miami/Tel Aviv fare and the groundbreaking of new Millions of new trees must be to $799. construction and the coming of planted. We've lowered our elephants in less than two years, The National Arbor Day the zoo's education department is Foundation, a nonprofit education /Tel Aviv experiencing increased demands organization dedicated to tree fare to $869. and many new educational planting and conservation, will That's not to say you opportunities. 111 order to meet plant 10 trees in a fire-ravaged can't find cheaper ways many of the challenges that face forest on behalf of each person who zoo education in 1989, the ioms its membership during to Israel. volunteers have organized a November. fundraiser that is designed to "Forest trees play a vital role in appeal to evefYone. A celebrity the ecosystem,". John Rosenow, auction. the Foundation's executive Volunteers wrote to hundreds of director, said. "They hold soil in famous people, movie stars, rock place, protect groundwater artists and government officials to supplies, and · help keep rivers name a few. They were asked to clean. Our forests provide wildlife donate something of their own and habitat, recreation opportunities, personalize the item. The packages and timber products for our daily have begun to arrive and many are use.'' both valuable and collectable. This fun event will take place on "Growing trees also remove November 13, 1988 at the Roger carbon dioxide from the air. By Williams Park Casino at 4 p.m. supporting this reforestation There is no admission fee and project, Americans can help fight some refreshments will be sold. If global warming caused by the you would like to have a close-up greenhouse effect," Rosenow inspection before the auction, added. there will be a showing from 2:30 to To supP')rt this effort, send your 3:30 p.m. $10 membership contribution to ECZJ81C7N...r This is a family event, so mark Forest Trees, National Arbor Day ~ lsrncl. Come sec for yourself. your calendar and plan to spend an Foundation, 100 Arbor Ave., interesting evening with the Roger Nebraska City, Neb. 68410. Ten For more information. con1ac1 your local travel agent or call EL AL al 1-800-223-6700. In NY. 212-486-2 600. Williams Park Zoo docents and ,tree~ Will be fl&nted 0~ YO~f beha, ~. ' 1-1 ilu)' ~1h'11nn• f!U~h~"'' r,'"1Ui1,•tl M1nmmm ~111y t>JU)'· 111u,lmuo1 ! I tlu)' F~n·, ,ut,1,:,·1 ln,·hunj!,' v.,lh.'IJI 1101"·,.. l>1:r;ir 1u n· l~w,. ,-u,1 ,>1n ~nJ have some fun . in a forest destroyed by fire. ,_____ . _• _ -_ _;,cc!'11;:..''~•·cc~rMc..";..";;."..c0;..".;..''*..· 1;.'';.°'c.. ' E'-•1..~ ·-• h-'-'-"-"-,.,.;."-"".. ".. '- '"---"'-" .,__,. ,_,,_,_,,_.,_,.._~_,,_.,_,._.~"' -'~--,_rn_,_1...,1'-1...,"',..''.-"~~.-'·---~~---

_J Around Town ~D--_::::=_ by Dorothea _Snyder

Thirty years after his graduation from "l got a jol, teach in!( Eni:lish and theatre Brown in I 958, Alfred Uqry won a Pulitzer at the Calhoun School. enjoying the work Prize for his hit comedy, Driving Miss and the kids. I lea rned a lot about Daisy, which opens at the Colonial in playwriting, teaching and putting on Bost,,n next Tuesday, November 15, for · Shakespeare plays. three weeks. "The first time wrote dialogue Based on the real life experiences of Mr. professionally was when I adapted Eudora Uhry's grandmother, Driving Miss Daisy Welt.y's The Robber Bridegroom into a tells the story of a Jewish Atlanta matron, musical. Bob Waldman did the music, and Daisy Werthan. and her black chauffeur, I. the book ·and lyrics. I was nominated for Hoke Coleburn. who break through their a Tony a nd two Drama Desk Awards in initial racial and class distinctions to 197.,. develop a deeply felt relationship that "[ did another adaptation for ,John spans 25 years. Houseman's Aeling Company. We.turned In a phone conversation, the playwright The Italian Straw Hat into a musical re,·alled the time he was in Providence. ca lled Chapeau in 1977. Then. I did lyrics " My theatre experience at Brown was for an ill- fa ted musical called Swing in invaluable. In my day. the 'theatre HJ80, a nd aft er that, I went into my department was tiny, yet tl,ere a re maybe a Goodspeed phase. I rernnsl ructed fi ve old DRIVING dozen people I knew from Brown who musical comedy librel tos for the make their living in the theatre. Some are Goodspeed Opera House overt he next four quite successful . . . such as television yea rs. AKa in. a wonderrul learninK dire<'lor Will McKenzie and Richard experience because I really got to ma ke up MISS DAISY Foreman. anything I wanted as long as the songs lit A New Comedy " Wha t I learned most about. the theatre it. was from ,Jim Ba rnhill a nd Janice Van " My last musical in 1984 -8!; was about lleWater. They were the entire theatre Al Capone and called America's department. I'm very grateful." 8 11 wl'/heart. I worked on it for four years red penril sc-rah ·hes. were humor. it was a very, very dry one ... Mentioning the Brownbrokers who and earned almost nothing. It had a "She wa!- vt-ry much of her own lime. nut a lot of warmth." sponsored original musical comedy workshop, two regional productions, a nd Any disn1ssions to do with sex was ignored The irwidenl lhal led lo writing /)ri1•in;: rnmpel it.ions, the playwright said, "We that. was the end of that. all togt>t her. There were a lot of t hings we Miss /)nis,·. he expla ined, is when a rnuld enter a full-fledged musical comedy, "Then I decided to du something I'd didn't talk about. prodm·er friend asked him to come to and twice, I was lucky enough to be a part never tried. writing a play. I didn't tell "To her, the things that really counted Cunne<·t ieul lo see a play and to advise if or the shows that won ... Barney and Me anybody, except my wife. The play was were doing: well in school. heinl:{ honest and she should bring il lo New York. and Fiddle Dee Dee. about Atla nta and things I remembered very dis,·iplined. Those are still pretty " fl was a play about black a nd white " Robert Wa ldman ('5 7) wrote the music from my family a nd my childhood. good values. rt'lal ions, a nd it was awrul. I t houghl I for l hose two shows, and through the "My grandmother was the youngest of a " And nol reeling sorry fo r yourself. T he nould write a play better l han l hat, and it years, we ·ve been writing on and off l~rge family. S he had four older sisters, a one thing I try lo do with my ,·hararters, mTured to me at that momenl. I would loget her. I also met my wire ,Joanna there. couple of brothers, some who died before heeause I so loathe it in life, is to keep write a play ahout my grandmother and She was an art history major. I majored in they were grown up. Her own mother died them from whining and feeling sorry fo r her <" hauffeur. When he first rarne, I was 11 English Literature. Our oldest daughter is when she was three weeks old. themselves. That's one attribute in people or 12. a Brown i:raduate, so I have a lot of Brown "This was a ,Jewish family in Atlanta that turns me off. I'm drawn to people who " I worked on and off the play for a year. ct>nnections. during the decade a fter the Civil War. The ~et on with i t." It la kes mr a long time to work it up to "After collei:e. I came to characters are based on all l he sisters, Asked ir the casting of .Julie Harris, as where l he l'haraders talk lo me. Once they lo break into musical comedy. Bob although I knew my i:randmolher the best his i:randmother, was his choice, Mr. Uhry talk to me, il gels easy." Waldman and I were hired by Frank because s he lived with us. replied, "Absolutely! Who wouldn't choose Ahoul winning the Pulitzer Prize, he Loesser to write songs for eds, television. "They were a very fe isty bunch of people .J ulie Ha rris to do a nything'! She's a total said, " I never exped ed this lo happen . Heviews were good. which ·was nice. The and in the process, we learned a lot about with hil(h sta ndards, very loving in their lcrhnician, a total disciplinarian, a tota l song writing from a master. During those own way, but they weren't very effusive. genius. show was extended from fi ve to 10 weeks. _vears, I wrote theme songs for TV shows You just knew you were loved . We never ·· You'll never see a better perf(1rmance l1f It all just grew, so there never was a a nd comedy material . .. That Was The talked about it. There wasn't a lot of this play than these three people who give moment when I realized the enormity of W,•ek '/'hat Was and dozens of jingles. hugginl( going on. it. They're wonderful." He refers also lo tht- play·s su<·c·tsS." "My first show was Here's Where I "My grandmother was very strict, but Hruck Peters and Stephen R,xit. Tlw · news hroul(ht letters of ('ollJ! ralulations from the Hrown HPloll/i in 1968. I wrote the lyrics. I'm grateful for that. Having been a His i:randmother. he said, had "a dry, Waldman did the music. and Terr.nee teacher, she had high sta ndards about little sense or humor. That's why she was · n1mmunitv and dozens of former McNally did the brn,k, based on learning. She always expected us to read. so funny . .. l>el·ause she didn't have a dassmate~. " I· was glad to them," he Steinbeck's Ea.st of Eden. It was a terrible Of course. my mother was l here, too. I sense of humor. She was always right. adclPCI. with a smile in his voiee. experien<"e. Open;ng nii:ht on Broadway would write letters when I was away from Humor wasn't hil( in that fa mily. Don't was also dosing night. home, a nd she would send them back with forget. il was a Germa n family. If there Alfred Uhry is working on the s('reenplay for /Jrh,in,: Miss /Jaisy, which is almost finished. Shootini{ will hegin in March. He has pla ns lo begin work on a new play a nd s<·reenplay. His My.'itic /Jizza is a hox i 1ffke favorite.

"A GEM! A HIT! - WIiiiam A. Henry Ill, Time Magazine "ONE OF THE YEAR'S TEN BEST! Humor and humanity, tenderly portrayed! Heartwarming!'' - Mel Gussow, New Yortc; Tlmes/WOXR Radio "HOORAY FOR 'DRIVING MISS DAISY'! A captivating achievement! Fresh as a daisy!" - Douglas Watt, Daily News

"STAR SPANGLED THEATRE! 'Driving Miss Daisy' is wonder1ull'' - Sylviane Gold, Wall St. Joumal "A FUU EVENING OF ENCHANTMENT! \ Magical theatre! One of the year's best! .. - Wllllam A. Rakty, NewhouM Newspapers

"BREATHTAKING! A most enjoyable ride!" - Peter Wynne, Bergen Record "ENDEARING, TOUCHING, AND FILLED WITH HUMOR! Flrst,ratetheatrel Oneofthe year's best!" - Leida Snow, WINS Radio "AN UTTERLY ENGAGING, LOVELY PLAYi How warm and wonder1ul and human It all Isl·· - David Rlchar~ . Waahln9ton Pott

"A SMASH HIT!" -Jeck Curry, USA Today "A BEGUILING, CAPTIVATING, DEUGKT· FUL COMEDY! A geml Don't mloa It!" - SuNn Graflget'. WMCA Radio "A JEWELi YOU MUST GO SEE IT!" - Shenya Henry, WOR Radio

F.rpm Jeft: .l)(r.el'w i: ,Ron Lagomarsino, Stephen Root, Playwblgl)f ,A:lf.-.!d,U hf:,,', ..Julie Hahis' and Brock Peters at r<' hearsills of Drl.iiifl/f°Mbs Daisy, Photo by Mar tba Swope. ' ' . ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' . ' ...... ------~~=---~-

THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1988 -- 9 ======Kristallnacht, 1938, A Memory For Our Times

by Dr. Alfred Gottschalk As an eight-year-old German-Jewish child living in the Rhineland town of Oberwesel, the terrifying experience of November 9, 1938, now known to the world as Kristallnacht, made an indelible mark on my being. In the black of night: howling at the door, the noise of windows -shattered, shouting, then a deathly quiet. Desperate fear sets in. At - daybreak the J ews know great devastation has been visited upon every Jewish community in Germany. My grandfather takes me by the hand and we rush to our little synagogue in the town square. It was ravaged. The door had been Kristallnacht 1938_- Jews Rounded Up, battered down and inside there was Synagogue Torched an unforgettable darkness and pogrom, Jews were rounded up and Prophet had seen." Rabbi Baeck On November 9 , 1938, Nazi SS in Baden-Baden, Germany, stench. This house of worship had taken to concentration camps such then quoted from Daniel 5:26-28 - rounded up Jewish men and took them into the city's main been tarred ,black, the ark violated, as Dachau, Buchenwald and "Mene mene tekel upharsin . synagogue, above left, where leaders of the Jewish community the bimah hacked to pieces; the Sachsenhausen, and there Mene: God has numbered the days were forced to read from Sturmer, an anti-Semitic newspaper. bench where I stood between my degraded and brutalized in scenes of your kingdom and brought it to Hours later, the Baden-Baden synagogue is in flames, after father and grandfather in prayer that would soon echo across an end; Tekel: you have been being torched by the Nazis. Similar scenes were repeated was overturned. Suddenly my Europe. weighed in the balance and fou nd throughout Germany and other parts of Nazi-occupied territory grandfather shouted, "Where are Finally, one sees in the Nazi fine wanting; Upharsin: Your kingdom during "Kristallnacht" - the "Night of Broken Glass." the Sifre Torah?" of a billion Reichsmarks, presented is divided and given to the Medes Photograph courtesy of the Leo Baeck Institute, New York, In a brook fl owing into the to German Jewry for the damages and Persians." N .Y. Rhine we· found the carved-up inflicted on Jewish properties Rabbi Baeck understood the pieces of parchment together with during Kristallnacht, the profound wrong of silence. In "community of fate." pallor of a new silence nurtured by torn pages of prayerbooks. My beginning of a heinously evil assessing the failure of the Evian In the 50 years since the smug complacency of a world grandfather waded into the brook "partnership" between Nazi and Conference of July, 1938 - at Kristallnacht, it has also become dazzled and deluded by and handed me the scraps. I Jew, a partnership by which the which time no country present apparent that not only Jews are technological "progress," it is only. clutched them to my heart. Nazis ultimately made the Jewish increased its immigration quota, part of this "community of fate·." then that the event which marked The scraps and bits of population pay fo r its own murder. no country eased its immigration When we understand tJ,.at Jews the end of German Jewry and the parchment and prayerbooks In the cruelest of ironies, Jewish restrictions, no country protested belong to a greater humanity which beginning of the Holocaust will be symbolized the fragmentation monies were used to pay both the formally to Germany over its lives under the shadow of a new a commemoration of substance which marked the response to cost of transportation to treatment of Jews - Rabbi Baeck breed of political predators and the and lasting value. Kristallnacht by our own Auschwitz and similar said, "Nothing is as bad as silence." American Jewish community. destinations and for the Nazi T he sin of silence in the face of Disunity, shock and suffering were personnel necessary to carry out oppression is the lesson of the immediate consequences. In the destruction. Kristallnacht. This is the message The 'Only" Party Warehouse New York, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise Looking back now, from the that should fo rm the basis of our wrote on the day after the pogrom vantage point of half a century, two Kristallnacht celebration. And in 310 East Ave., Pawtucket in Germany, "I am sitting in sack points emerge clearly from the making clear the consequences of cloth and ashes over the suffering Kristallnacht event as distinct that silence during the Holocaust Let Mom relax and enjoy Thanksgiving of our people How long, Oh lessons for our time. years, we must also make clear that by using our disposables. Lord, how long?" His fellow T he first point is that all Jews are now part of a American Jews would share this Kristallnacht and its consequences Schicksalsgemeinschaft, a - FOR YOUR TABLE - clearly link the fate of German shock and suffering and it would Plastic and Plastic Coated Plates • Wine Glasses Jewry with that of East European shape the nature of their response Serving Trays • Cups • Napkins, etc. to the plight of European Jewry Jews in the years after 1939. We throughout the years of the can no longer speak of Holocaust. T he major Jewish "German-Jewish life under the organizations would counsel Nazis" as though it were a caution in their response and limit detached, free-standing episode of that response to interfaith worship the years before the Holocaust. services publicly, and frantic T he images which fi ll our history efforts to move an immovable books from the years 1939-1945 American president and had their origin, indeed their government privately. The J ewish "dry-run," in the experience and "masses," led by inconsequential suffering of German Jewry. organizations, would fill the seats T he second point is that we can of Madison Square Garden with now understand that the public demonstrations which "conspiracy of silence," a term would be ignored by the American which the American .Jewish "establishment." 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CHIP -GET THE FACTS­ Lynnfield, MA 01940 _ Advertise Your Business in Since 1944 (617) 334-6275 ACCREDITED BY THE AMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION ' THE HERALD. 1 1 I )11 • I 336-9142- 10 - THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1988 demonstrate their good faith about Official's Attack On allowing Jewish culture to flourish in the USSR, Abram said, they Soviet Olim Stuns should repeal all laws restricting Leadership the study of Hebrew and permit by David Landau [__ w_o_rl _d_a_n_d_N_at_io_n_a_I_N_e_w_s__ J synagogues and Jewish J ERUSALEM (JTA) A institutions to be open whenever scathing attack on Jewish the communities desire. immigrants from the Soviet Union. future. Succeeding Abram at the belm by a ranking official of the Jewish U.S. May Limit Entry Of Soviet The outgoing chairman of the National Conference is Agency for Israel stunned overseas acknowledged that there had been Shoshana Cardin of Baltimore, Jewish leaders in Israel this week. Jews significant progress since the past president of the Council of It was delivered, by Meir summit in increasing Jewish Jewish Federations. Sheetrit, treasurer of the Jewish NEW YORK (JTA) - The for them." emigration. While Cardin is not expected to United States may one day not be Saying that the American Agency and World Zionist But he appeared to cast doubts have the same diplomatic clout in Organization, at a meeting of the able to accommodate all of the J ewish community will have to do on the significance of reports that Washington that Abram enjoyed, Soviet Jews seeking refuge in more to help immigrants adjust to agency's Board of Governors in the Soviet Union is allowing the she commands widespread respect Tiberias. America, the Reagan their new lives, including providing opening of various Jewish cultural and is likely to bring a new level of administration's top human rights better job counseling, Schifter said, Embarrassed officials hastened facilities. · energy and spirit to the Soviet to attribute Sheetrit's outburst to specialist said here recently. "We must reach into our pockets to If the Soviets want to Jewry movement. "There may be limits as to the contribute to this cause." his relative inexperience. The number of Jews allowed to T he assistant secretary made a Likud Knesset member is serving emigrate to the United States, similar pitch two weeks ago in an (JTA) Two non-Jewish dominated society," his fi rst term in the WZO-J ewish particularly when there is another appearance at the annual meeting longtime refuseniks offered Cherniak said. Agency Executive. country of refuge - Israel," said of the Union of Councils for Soviet different reasons why the majority Kosharovsky, however, stressed Sheetrit, who is of North Richard Schifter, assistant J ews in Washington. His remarks of Jews leaving the Soviet Union that "people seek better and more African origin, compared the secretary of state for human rights would appear to signal that the prefer to go to the United States comfortable lives, and the United conditions that greet Soviet olim and humanitarian affairs. federal government is shifting its rather than to Israel. States has more to offer than with those confronted when his Schifter spoke at a dinner approach to refugee relief efforts. According to Yuri Cherniak, Israel. It's just as simple as that," family arrived in the 1950s, a time honoring Morris Abram, outgoing T his summer, the U.S. Embassy who heads a scientific seminar for he told the Jewish Telegraphic of severe austerity in Israel. chairman of the National in Moscow temporarily stopped refuseniks. Soviet Jews fear Agency during an interview in his He flayed the Soviet newcomers Conference on Soviet Jewry. The issuing entry visas for Soviet Jews moving to an "all Jewish society." Moscow apartment. for complaining, demanding and criticizing. He claimed that the dinner was part of the conference's and other ethnic minorities But Yuli Kosharovsky, who first Kosharovsky denied that Jews applied for an exit visa 17 years money spent on one immigrant annual leadership assembly, which wishing to immigrate to the United are "cheating" when they accept ago, believes it is simply because family from the USSR "could be began last Monday night and ran States, saying it had run out of Israeli visas but settle elsewhere. through Tuesday afternoon. funds earmarked for this purpose. America offers a more comfortable used to prevent . the life. "They want out and there is no (emigration) of six Israeli In remarks devoted chiefly to Rather than immediately ask easy way to get out of this paying tribute to Abram, the Congress for additional funding, The "neshira" or dropout rate - fa milies." · country," he said. "The only way Sheetrit singled no one out by assistant secretary noted that the Reagan administration began the number of Jews emigrating on available for them is to say they during the course of the chairman's urging private refugee relief Israeli visas who end up settling in name. But his attacks appeared to want to go to Israel and to travel on be aimed at two of the most five-year tenure there had been organizations to take on more of other countries - is running at Israeli papers. substantial progress in persuading the burden. about 90 percent. prominent Soviet Jewish the Soviets to allow more Jews to Analysts noted at the time the In an attempt to curb the "Otherwise, they would be stuck refuseniks who arrived in Israel in emigrate. irony that after pressing the problem, the Israeli government here. You really can't blame them recent years. Noting that the current rate of Soviets for years to increase decided last summer to deny visas for that," he said. They are Natan Sharansky, who Jewish emigration is 20 times what emigration levels, the United to Soviet Jews who are not Kosharovsky said he favors the recently urged a special fundraising it was in January 1987, Schifter States now finds itself in a position committed to settling in Israel. But idea of direct flights to Israel to effort for Soviet Jewish immigrant said, "The work done over the of not being able to accommodate the policy has not been reduce the number of "dropouts." absorption, and Ida Nude!, who years under Morris's direction has all of the newcomers. implemented yet. According to recent statistics, has publicly criticized the way paid off." Abram did not address this According to Chemiak, J ews more Sovie.t Jews are applying now Israeli society treats Soviet olim. But he said that while the subject in his own remarks, which born and brought up in the Soviet fo r tourist visas to Israel than for T he Jewish Agency and the struggle to win freedom for focused largely on praising the Union are wary of settling in Israel, immigration visas. "It's government announced, mean­ thosands of Jews remaining in the Reagan administration for its because they "can hardly absorb encouraging," a diplomat here said. while, that they are postponing for Soviet Union continues, the new strong support for Soviet Jewry the idea of living in surroundings "When the Soviet tourists come 18 months the government's challen2e is "finding a nPw home and outlining some goals for the which are different from what they back from Israel, they will tell the planned takeover of immigrant have experienced here. truth about what they saw in that absorption facilities and services, "So they prefer to move to the country. 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.. ______~ 1 THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 10, 1988 - I I __,._ Illinois Signs Pact With Israel exports and strengthening the America 18 months ago. One state's economy." positive result, he said, is that the News In Brief 'Israel's Unique Advantage' Governors of all 13 states that have Minister Levy explained that established direct economic Israel's Economic IsraeI·has "the uni']ue advantage of relations with Israel are planning Slowdown Continues free-trade agreements with both to head missions to Israel during by Gil Sedan the United States and the the next few months with top JERUSALEM (JTA) A European Economic Community." exe~utives of their leading general economic slowdown in This means, he said, "that corporations to explore Israel continued during the third American goods can enter Israel manufacturing and assembly quart.er of the year, the Bank of duty-free and then be re-exported opportunities in the . Israel, the country's central bank. to the European Common Market, 'Hugely Successful Israel announced recently. also duty-free - provided only Fair At Jordan Marsh' Although employment rose, that sufficient work on the product The economic agreement with industrial output was down, there is done in Israel, such as adding Massachusetts, known as M.I.X. were fewer sales to the local market components or assembling the (Massachusetts-Israel Exchange), and a steady rise in exports ended. various Parts." led to a decision by Jordan Marsh, The construction and hol-el Increasingly, he noted, one of the major department stores industries also reported a drop in individual states in the U.S. are in Boston, to conduct a two-week activity. beginning to recognize this special "Land of Israel" Fair earlier this benefit and are exploring ways that month, Minister Levy reported. their own companies can open He said that Elliot Stone, the Court Orders Ministry manufacturing or assembly plants president of Jordan Marsh, To Solve Problem Of in Israel or enter into joint ven­ had been approached by the Mas­ tures with Israeli firms. sachusetts secretary for economic Ethiopian Marriages While the individual states of affairs and urged to visit Israel by Gil Sedan the United States cannot enter under the M .I.X. program. JERUSALEM (JTA) - The into diplomatic relations with In Israel the department store religious establishment is under foreign governments, Minister executive, impressed by the range court order to facilitate marriages Levy explained, there is nothing to and quality of the wit.bin the Ethiopian ' Jewish prevent direct economic ties with Israeli-manufactured goods he saw, community. SIGNING THE Gabriel Levy, Israel's Economic I.I.I.: countries such as Israel - "and decided to experiment with a Israel's High Court. of Justice Minister to North America (left), and Illinois Governor James R. more and more states are going this two-week fair promoting Israeli gave the Minis_try of Religious Thompson sign a Memorandum of Intent setting up special route in order to strengthen their goods. Affairs 90 days from October 30 to economic, educational and cultural ties between Israel and the economies," he said, adding: The result, Minister Levy said, establish an "Institute for the State of Illinois. Standing at the governor's right is Lieutenant "With plans racing ahead to was " hugely successful." Not only Heritage of Ethiopian Jewry" to Governor George H. Ryan. At rear are two of Mr. Thompson's make all of Europe a single were large amounts of Israeli settle controversies surrounding aides. The accord will be known as the I.I.I. - the Illinois-Israel all-powerful economic entity by Ethiopian marriages. Initiative. products sold and Israeli cultural 1992, Israel offers a bridge - or, if events promoted, he reported, but The problem arose when the Chief Rabbinate refused to The State of Israel and the State With the signing ceremony in you will, an open door - to the Jordan Marsh itself profited huge European market. greatly from the additional recognize the marriages of Jewish of Illinois have agreed to establish Gov~rnor Thompson's office, immigrants from Ethiopia, unless special economic ties with each Illinois became the 13th state to "Goods from the United States numbers of shoppers who came pay no duty entering Israel. Goods into the store to visit the Fair. The the couples underwent special other in a formal Memorandum of sign a reciprocal trade agreement conversion rites. Intent signed by Gabriel Levy, with Israel. Of these, five are in the · from Israel pay no duty entering Israeli official said he had been Europe. Israel's economy benefits informed that-normal store traffic The Ethiopian Jews who are Israel's Economic Minister to Midwest - Michigan, Minnesota, devout took offense to that North America. and Illinois Missouri and Wisconsin in from the fact that work is done on was increased by up to five times the American goods in our country; on weekdays and ten times on demand. Governor James R. Thompson. it addition to Illinois. The others are and the American economy weekends during the period of the was reported this week. California, . Connecticut, Florida, benefits from the fact that it can The aim of the accord, to be Maryland, Massa.chusetts, New "Land of Israel" Fair. known as the Illinois-Israel Jersey, Virginia and Texas - the sell to this huge market duty-free, " It was good for Jordan Marsh November Emigration Initiative (I.I.I.), is to identify and latter concentrating on agricultural thanks to Israel." and good for Israel," Minister Levy Up Slightly, Passes. implement trade, investment and ties with Israel. Minister Levy has concentrated declared. "That is the purpose of on signing state-by-state trade 2,000 'Figure Again manufacturing opportunities that In inaugurating the I.I.I., Illinois each of the state-by-state pacts as part of his strategy for agreements we have signed - to NEW YORK, N.Y. (JTA) - would serve to strenrthen the Gov. Thompson said: "Under this strengthening U.S.-lsrael trade promote two-way trade in which October's figures for Jewish economies of both Israel and agreement, Israel could become a since assuming his post as emigration from the Soviet Union Illinois, according to Minister bridge to Europe for Illinois everybody benefits. manufacturers, thus enhancing our Economic Minister to North "And we're getting there." showed a slight increase from the Levy. previous month and, again as in September, was the largest Israelis Stationed New York City to New Jersey. afl-er wave, until the end of the presided over a three-day monthly total of Jews leaving the About 30 persons in the station occupation," Arafat told reporters conference of the Jewish Youth Soviet Union since April 1980: Abroad Protest observed the attack in the Ninth after a 90-minute meeting with Federation of Italy in Bologna. was A total of 2,068 Jews left the Elections Street PA TH station in Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti. · more succinct. "This, in the short Soviet Union in October, of whom Manhattan and did nothing. Some Arafat was making a three-hour term. makes the prospects of peace 192, or 9.3 percent, went to Israel, by David Kantor have since come forward, stopover after a flight from more distant," Liberanome said, according to the National BONN (JTA) - More than 100 according lo Manhattan District Baghdad. But the official Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry, Israelis employed at diplomatic Attorney Robert Morgenthau's As for the outcome of the community of Rome, some 18,000 The total number of Jews who • have left the Soviet Union this missions or other institutions here office, which pressed the charges. election, which put the balance of strong. simply reaffirmed its year to date is 13,306, the highest protested angrily against the denial A spokesperson for the D.A.'s political power in the hands of support of Israel and professed no number since 1980, when 21,471 of their right to vote. office, Colleen Roche, said that ultra-Orthodox and extreme concern with its internal politics. Jews emigrated. In April 1980, · They did so by staging a mock ,John Himmelstein. 23, and right-wing parties, the PLO chief Rabbi Cesare Moscali was 2,469 Jews emigrated from the election that followed to the letter Matthew Andrews, 20, of said, "The results show the failure quoted by the news media as Soviet Union. the rules observed by their fellow Philadelphia; Harry Wilson, 17, of of the two main parties. saying, "We can feel solidarity Israelis who cast ballots at home Morrisville, Pa.; and John Cook, "The growth of the small parties with Israel from many points of recently for the 12th Knesset. 22, of Nutley, N.J., were each shows the confusion of the view - moral, economic, religious. Greek Court Israel has no absentee ballots. Its charged as adults with robbery in efeclorale," Arafat said, although But in politics, absolutely not." He citizens living abroad, including the second degree and assault in according to him, there was no added, " IL's a field in which we Overrules President diplomats, businessmen, the second degree. difference between Prime Minister have_no right lo enl-er." On Status Of journalists, students and tourists, Stump alleges that the four Yitzhak Shamir's Likud bloc and Jewish Museum forfeit the right to vote. forcibly stole his wallet, punched the Labor Party headed by Foreign Dallas Police Fight by Jean Cohen The only exception is Israeli and kicked him, causing Stump I'> Minister Shimon Peres. ATHENS (JTA) - The High seafarers aboard merchant ships suffer broken bones in his face and Anti-Semitism Court of Justice here has decided far from home, who are allowed to cuts and bruises on his body. Italians DALLAS (JTA) - The Dallas in favor of the Jewish community's cast ballots in advance which are One of Lhe Skinheads allegedly Apprehensive Over police have formed a special task request to change the status of the flown to Israel in time for the approached Stump, who was force to deal with the growing Jewish Museum in Athens from a counting. accompanied by his wife and infant Election Results problem of anti-Semitic incidents private institution into the ward of The mock vote here was held at a daughter. and called out "Be white. in the city. a foundation. · private home. The expatriates, Be right." by Ruth E. Gruber· The police arrested 15 people The decision . overruled voting by secret ballot, could Stump told · Port Authority ROME (JTA) Italian after several Dallas synagogues and President Christos· Sartzetakis 'pf choose from any one of the 27 police the Skinhead asked if he commentators in the news ,:nedia, ·Jewish institutions were the Greek republic, who since 1986 parties running in this year's were German and then gave him a and in some sections of the Jewish vandalized with anti-Semitic has twice denied the request for a Knesset elections. "Sieg Heil" Nazi salute. community, expressed dismay with graffiti and Nazi symbols painted change. The presidential signature , Stump alleges that Andrews hit the outcome of the Israeli on walls and doors. is required for · such Skinheads Arraigned him with a glass bottle, and that all elections. In one particularly violent transformations. four of them then kicked him in It was the worst of three possible attack, windows and glass doors The court ruled that the For Assault And the head with their boots. A PA TH results, Paolo Mieli wrote in La were shot out and riddled with president's position · was R_obbery worker who observed the act on the Stampa. referring to the fact that bullet holes, which led police to unreasonable and groundless. The station's video camera alerted neither Labor nor Likud won a step in and mount an intensive case was the first time a -religious by .Susan Birnbaum police, who ran to the scene and governable majority. campaign to apprehend the minority in Greece appealed NEW YORK (JTA) - Four arrested them. According to the writer. a criminals. against a presidential decision. self-described "Skinheads" were decisive victory by either of the Police believe the Skinheads are arraigned in New York State Election Results And two largest parties would have been behind much of the violence in Criminal Court by Judge Leona The Intifada preferable to a narrow coalition Dallas and other cities, though Former Knesset Freedman for having beaten and based on the extremist religious their numbers are believed to be Speaker Dead at 70 robbed a New Jersey man while by Ruth E. Gruber parties and the far right-wing. small. by Hugh Orgel calling out white supremacist ROME (JTA) Palestine The newspaper La Repubblica The local Jewish community has TEL AVIV (JTA) - Menachem slogans. Liberation Organization chief said in a front page editorial, "If reacted by tightening security at Savidor, a former speaker of the William Stump of Bayonne, Yasir Arafat offered his analysis of the vote was a referendum on peace area Jewish establishments and Knesset and a member of its Likud N.J ., was violently beaten by four last Tuesday's Israeli elections, and in the Middle East and cin the working closely with police. faction, died of a heart attack at tattooed. shaven-head Skinheads insisl-ed that the results would have security of Israel, the verdict is While a recent survey of Dallas Ichilov Hospital at the age of 70. dressed in leather, who used their no bearing on the intifada - the uncertain. · The country now Jewry reported that 99 percent of boots to kick the 31-year-old man Palestinian uprising in the West appears to be split in two, like an the'area's Jews have detected some Savidor was born in Russia and on the stairs of a subway station of Bank and Gaza Strip. apple." anti-Semitism in their city, most came to Palestine in 1940, PATH, the transit line connecting "The revolt will c'.lnlinue, wave Daniele Lib~,ranome, , ~ho ·· Jew~ 81"/ ta~ing ,a, watchfµl ,•,tl)-n~e: ti;a',!,?1Utg ,\Sia Cb,\1,1a and Japan. ,.

I 12 - THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1988 High Marks For "Anything Goes'' (__ A_rt_s_a_n_d_E_n_te_r_t_a1_·n_m_e_n_t ____ ]

Boris Berman At R.I.C. unforced pianism" with an , oncert programming, prompting "unfailingly beautiful tone," will the Jerusalem Post to observe: perform Bach's Chaconne from "Berman's original thinking and Partita in D Minor for Violin Solo capability to get a specific message (transcribed for left hand only by across through his program have Johannes Brahms), Debussy's become indispensible assets of our Four Preludes and Chopin's musical life. No one can rival his Barcarolle in F sharp Major Opus rare sense of balance in the art of 60 and Scherzo No. I in B Minor programming." Opus 20. Berman founded and directed His performance is free and open the successful Music Spectrum, an to the public. acclaimed concert series in Born in Moscow and now Tel-Aviv from 1974-84. The series residing in New Haven, Conn., made its debut in New York in with his wife and two children, 1984 and continues under the Berman studied at Moscow auspices of the Yale School of Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Music. the esteemed Lev Oborin and Berman is currently the head of graduated with distinction as both the piano department at the Yale pianist and harpsichordist. School of Music. He has performed extensively This year, his concert tours will throughout the Soviet Union as a take him to Europe, the Middle recitalist and has appeared as guest East and Central and South soloist with numerous orchestras, America. including the Moscow Boris Berman Philharmonic and the Moscow Poetry Contest Noted pianist Boris Berman will Chamber orchestras. perform in recital at Rhode Island In 1973 he ·immigrated to Israel A $1,000 grand prize is being College in the chamber music and appeared repeatedly as a offered in World of Poetry's Free series on Wednesday, Nov. 16, at 1 soloist with all major Israeli Poetry Contest. open to all poets. p.m. in Roberts Hall 138. orchestras, the Israel There are 200 prizes in all. totaling Berman, whom the Boston Globe Philharmonic among them. over $16,000. The d~adline for termed a performer of "opulent In Israel Berman developed his entering is November 15, 1988. Winners will be notified and prizes sent on or before December I 5, in plenty of time for Christmas. by Dorothea Snyder Says Contest Director Joseph Mellon: "Even if you have written Commanding a three P rating at opened October 18. 1987 at the BRIGHT LIGHTS only one poem in your life. send it the Shubert is Cole Porter's nifty Vivian Beaumont Theijtre. THEATRE COMPANY in. I expect to discover new poets Any thin>: Goes. The plot is farcical with through this contest." To enter, This peppy. perky and pizzazzy gangsters in guise as ministers. send One Poem Only, 21 lines or production is lavishly set in love persona popping in and out of ~backtolntFivt &Oinie, less, to: World of Poetry, Dept. PR, boat surroundings. There's doors on bottom deck and up and 243 1 Stockton Blvd., Sacramento, romance on the high seas and stars down the staircase to the top deck. Calif. 95817. . in the ingenue's eyes. played The story becomes the link to the .Jim~x~~~!!"'lk~n dreamily by Rebecca Baxter. but next great production number. how could you miss with songs like And there are many! 372 WAYLAND AVE. CALL 724-8030 ··Easy To Love" and ·· J Get A Kick Bouncy Susan Terry is a Out Of You."' high-powered Erma and dazzles Leslie Uggams. Rex Smith and with her "Buddie, Beware" zany Rip Taylor are crispy salts on number. Paul Ames blunders and board that make fo r smooth sputters Americanese through his sailing. Vocal vibrations by upper crust Englishman's tongue. Uggams and Smith do justice to Michael Smuin's precise the array of wonderful and choreography is interpreted by a sentimental songs. T aylor's timing terrific dance company. Tony is great. and his role as Moonface Walton's elaborate set and Martin is tailor-made for him. exquisite costumes are a stunner. The original 19:!4 Anythin!i Jerry Za ks' acute sense of t iming Goes production was written by keeps the show moving at a brisk Guy Bolton. P.G. Wodehouse, pace. Howard Lindsay and Russell The National T our of Cole Crouse. An Off-Broadway revival Porter's musical, which won the opened May 15, 1962, and was 1988 Tony Award for " Best revised by Guy Bolton. The Revival." continues at the Shubert. current Lincoln Center 265 Tremont Street, Boston production, with book by Timothy through November 19. (617) Crouse and ,John Weidman, 426-4520.

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"/"/11· ,.,:~hi. about the growing Masorti Move­ award-winning radio pro~Tam ment. and the impact of Conserva­ prudun·d hy Tlw ,ft-wish tive .Judaism in Israel. Tht>ologil'al St>111inary of Anwril'a ('hl-'l'k ., ·01ir N HC' s1a1io11 for in cooperation with the NBC radio local 1inw. Taste the delicious difference in every tender bite network, apnounces its schedule with 100% natural Empire Kosher Young Turkey. for the month of November. R.I. Youth N11,·e111lwr. Philharmonic There is a difference! Every turkey, with incomparable Important New Books Novemher (l: T Iii' World of ()ur The Symphony Orchestra of the Empire Kosher young turkey is texture and superior flavor. Alotht.,-., author Sydne~' S1ahl Rhode Island Philharmonic Youth raised slowly and naturally, And, you 'II love the added \VPinlwrg. professor of histor.v at Orchestras will present the first convenience of Pop-Up Timers. Ha mapo C'ollegt-' , talks wi th Dr. concert of the Season on Sunday. with no artificial ingredients or Natalie Cordon. direction of Nedo can serve the cold water under the strictest ~ '\ won w11 who immigra1NI to Pandolfi. w ill perform ~ymphony supervision. very best for _,-.,-;;, , '$. j A1nprien early in this t·en lury. #2 by Tchaikovsky. cine kleine Stringent adherence to the about the same . No,·t·mher 1: J: ,}cll'ish 'J'imi•s. Nachtmusih by Mozart. and West SoC"io)ogist and hi:-: torian Dr. .'-J'ide .~·tory hy Hernstein. price, and kosher laws governing - (;!adys Hosen talks with author The Symphony Orchestra is cleanliness and humaneness feast on the . How;ird Simons about his composed of 07 spnior and junio r P\·on11 ion of I he people and t lw high school students from public produces the finest kosher compliments! plact•s that have fnrnwd I lw and private schools in Rhode Ameriran .Jewish ro111111uni1y . Island and southeastern Novemlwr '20 nnd · 'l.7: , Massachusetts. They are all /implre Kosber is available a t'finer supennarkets and lmsber hutchc!rs ( ',m.•wrPnlll'l' Judni.wn in /.,;rm•/. arceµted into the Orchestra on the coast Jo coast. For tbc> vc-1)' best p n ulhJ', specify all-natural l:'mpire Hosl J'?olwrt Cohen talks with Dr. has is of audit ions held last ,June. Kosbe1· al yourfatmr/fc• d elicalt•ssen, bu1cbe1· orfrozen foods d<'partment. l.t·e l.cvi1w. Deun of t lw Ht~t Th is concert is sponsored by The Most Trusted Name in Kosh er Poultry and Foods 1-800-EI\IPIRE-4 Mirlrash. Hahhi Edward Ho111111 . Fleet National Hank. and founder of NOAM. and Hahhi admission is free. 1-: hwl Bendel, a memher of I ht• lirsl t, \, ,! ,'I· 1 1 1 i!M<\1 ~1ti11~,t·lr1!-i~ o( the Jer,u :,;u le 111 RSAD·THE·~~RALD! ....,.,. .... ,..,,.,,.,.=-"!'.":~~:-."'.'""~~~~":""-~~ ,,.~_....;.....;______".". -.- .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. -. -. -, based Seminar~ of Judaic Studies, _.,_._ . .,.,.~-- ········. - ~' -~ - THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1988 - 13 Brandeis Brings 'Soul Of A Jew' turn-of-the-century-Vienna, and Times ~one By explores the last desperate hours before the suicide of 23-year-old Otto Weininger, a self-hating Jewish philosopher whose treatise was later used as Nazi propaganda. A member of Shamir from 1957-65, Yehoshua Sobel graduated from the Sorbonne, where he completed his studies in philosophy. Sobel served as Artistic Director of the Haifa Municipal Theatre from 1985-1988 and has written for the socialist paper Al-Ha -Mishmar. Since its founding in 1961, the Haifa Municipal Theater has established a reputation as the outstanding proponent of modern Israeli plays in that country. Its ~0-member company performs eight to ten plays annually, and Jane Seymour and Sir John Gielgud are starred as Natalie tours extensively throughout Jastrow and her uncle, Aaron, when the first 18 hours of Israel. The Haifa has gained an Herman Wouk's War and Remembrance air as an "ABC Novel international reputation for for Television" presentation in seven parts on the ABC provocative, highly theatrical Television Network, beginning Sunday, Nov. 13 and concluding investigations of modern Jewish Wednesday, Nov. 23. issues through its tours in Berlin, The remainder of the estimated 30-hour dramatization of London, Edinburgh (Soul of a J ew Wouk's novel will be seen on the network in 1989. opened the I 983 Edinburgh Festival), and the United States (in 1986 at the Kennedy Center Munchtime Melodies and the Chicago International On Monday, November 21 , a and periods of classical and Theater Festival). great new way for downtown modern music including Baroque, Performances for Soul of a Jew workers to spend their lunch break Romantic, contemporary, jazz, In an exclusive local engagement, the Haifa Municipal Theatre will be Wednesday, November 9, at will begin. The newly renovated fusion, rock, etc. The library will will present Soul of a Jew in Hebrew, by Yehoshua Sobel at the 7 p.m., November 10 at IOa .m. and Providence Public Library and t he also have displays to highlight Spingold Theater in Waltham. Pictured here are members of the 8 p.m., November 12 at 5:30 p.m. Music School Inc., a non-profit other aspects of the various internationally-acclaimed company in a production scene from and 9 p.m., and November 13 at 3 community music school for all cultures. the controversial play, Soul of a Jew. p.m. and 7 p.m. For ticket ages and musical interests, will T he concerts will begin at 12 information and reservations, call In one of only four U.S. Exchange, The Haifa Municipal present a series of lunchtime noon and end just before I. For (617) 736-3400, or write the concerts in the library's further information about the engagements, the Haifa Municipal Theatre will be performing in Los Spingold Theater, Brandeis Theatre will present Soul of a J ew Angeles, San Francisco, New York, auditorium. The entertainment concert series call The Music University, P.O. Box 9110, will be furnished by some of Rhode School, Inc., at 272-9877. by Yehoshua Sobel at Brandeis and at the Spingold Theater. Waltham, Mass. 02254-9110. University's Spingold Theater, The controversial play, Island's most exciting and diverse opening Wednesday, November 9 at performed in Hebrew, with live musicians. 7 p.m. for one week only. As part of English translation available via Kevin Fallon, Sando! Autrausky, and Mark Roberts will present BUSINESS or the Israel-North America Cultural headset, is set in PLEASURE! their old time, hand-slapping, -n&ayan-- foot-stomping music as the Joel Grey Stars ======kick-off for 30 weeks of great In Cabaret noon-time fun. The following Center for eight performances, seriously, and whe.n "life was a weeks will feature fusion by Second Tuesday through Sunday, cabaret." Shift; Mosaic, a classical T he powerful musical November 15-20. For reservations and further woodwind ensemble; Tierra entertainment of Cabaret, once Based on John van Droten's information, call the Providence Adentro will present a Hispanic again starring Joel Grey, directed play, / Am a Camera, and stories Performing Arts Center Box Office Christmas celebration and Holiday by Harold Prince, and Call Today by Christopher Isherwood, Cabaret at 421-ARTS. Tickets range from music from Appalachia and the --;,,... P-£ choreographed by Ron Field, will ¥,~ °W728 - 3600 is the story of Berlin in the final $25.50 to $31.50, and are also British Isles will be presented by +~·_:; 32 Gott Ave. illuminate the stage of the Pawtucket. Rhode lslano days before the Third Reich - a available through Ticketron or Rachel Maloney and Chris Turner. '~l~.;.," • Providence Performing Arts time when nothing was taken Teletron at 1-800-382-8080. Each Monday a new type of music will be presented. The concerts will feature music and Parents' Plights And Rights musicians from such varied cultures as China, Portugal, by Dr. Steve C. Imber interaction. Mexico, Cape Verde, Africa, helpful to work with a therapist. Dear Dr. Imber: . As Bruno Bettelheim once Ireland, Cambodia, and more and Certainly, your stepson may My husband and I have noted, "love is not enough." What I have a particular sensitivity about will also highlight various ti"!es recently re married. 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While time does not heal all • Outstanding limousines and While we plan our visits so you can agree on your own wounds, a concern and a consistent personalized service that we have an opportunity to expectations, you will increase plan of action will increase your • All Stretch Limousines, TV, do a number of activities your success in dealing with VCR, telerhone, bar, etc. chances fo r success. which he enjoys, he begins to behavioral problems. Your stepson • All specia occasions Dr. Imber is a Professor of pout as soon as the activity is may choose to test you because he • Personal protection Special Education at Rhode Island over. Sometimes he appears to is trying to determine just how you • Corporate rates College, a past president of the be quite angry with us as well. fit into tfiings and how you will 724-9494 24 hrs. International Council for Children We understand that the respond to him. It may not with Behavioral Disorders ·and a situation is a difficult one for necessarily be anything personal. consultant to parents and schools. him but are concerned about It is equally important to develop a Questions about children and his behavior. He constantly set of consequences, both positive tests me and is slow ly driving and negative, f:,r his appropriate adolescents with learning or behavioral problems can be mailed me crazy. Any thoughts? and inappropriate behavior. While to him at 145 Waterman Street, On Edge it is certainly appropriate to Providence, R.I. 02906 (401) J.W.RIKER Dear Edgy: establish a warm relationship with 276-5775. A0ll communication will You are in an especially difficult him, the relationship will not be held in strict confidence. position because your husband's flourish unless some clear limits :REAL ESTATE son may have particularly strong are set ar.d you both are pretty feelings pertaining to his parents' consistent in enforcing those FUSE . ,Residential and your subsequent limits. Fuse - A Gripping, Suspense­ remarriage. Your concern can be The boy may have a lot of Drama by Sally Netzel presented Condominiums - Commercial translated into a practical plan of feelings to work through before a by the Rhode Island T heatre Pro­ action which can be assessed more positive relationship can be ject. Performances began October during the next few months. established. It is possible that he 28 and continue thro November Naturally, your own positive will communicate his feelings with 12. Curtain: 8 pm. . Dan Saltzman, Mgr interaction with this young man is you or your husband. 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14 - T~~ RcHOPE rn1,.~ND HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1988 merely a side effect of the· very popular is gluing pieces of vaccination occurring in only one paper or cloth together. Finally, to two percent of those vaccinated. most parents will agree that all ( • ] Another possible side effect children adore being read to. H ealth and F ltness includes a sore arm at the Taking a few extra minutes to · vaccination site. Most ·people discuss a story with your child can would agree, however, that these be an added benefit. mild side effecta, which last no An important thing to remember ------longer than a day, are much better is that rest is the best medicine. than an actual case of the flu. Keeping your child quiet will help Anyone wishing to reduce their speed the recovery process. In the Influenza - Be -Prepared chances of contracting the flu may meantime, enjoy your quiet time receive a flu shot. It should be personal physician are advised to alone with your child and let him Signs And Symptoms noted, however, that the vaccines or her· know that you are there. Influenza is a seasonal viral respiratory illness, with outbreaks visit a neighborhood health center. are made from chicken embryos occurring virtually every winter. Although the flu may vary slightly each Flu Prevention and must not be given to persons What To Do When You Have year, the symptoms seldom change. If you are unsure whether you have It is usually during the colder who are hypersensitive to eggs, The Flu the flu, the following information will be helpful. months of the year that influenza feathers or chickens. Most people are aware that Because flu symptoms can vary, some occurring with less severity than or "the flu" strikes. Occurring in Individuals with questions influenza or "the flu" is most others, it's quite common for someone to question a case of the flu. epidemics, the flu often leaves regarding flu shots · and other common and widespread during Among the common symptoms are chills, fever of 101 degrees to 104 people feeling weak, and often means of flu prevention should the winter months. Since there is degrees, sneezing, headache, sore throat, and muscular pains, particularly depressed, for about a week. contact their personal· physician or no specific treatment for the flu , in the back and limbs. What usually: follows are a dry liacking cough, and Lethargy may even last for several call a neighborhood health center. just about all you do is focus on often chest pains. Later, the cough produces mucus and a runny nose. The weeks, especially in the elderly. When Your Child Has The Flu relieving the symptoms. These fever generally lasts two to three days, and leaves you feeling weak for Although most people recover Most parents will agree that include- muscle aches and pains another few days. Small children tend to run slightly higher fevers than within a few days, there are certain taking care of a sick child can be (especially in the back and legs), adults. If there are no complications, you should be fully recovered within segments of the population where very demanding. With flu season fever, headache and sore throat. one or two weeks. Although the symptoms may subside in three to five flu prevention may mean the here, many of us will find ourselves You might find some relief, days, the cough and weakness may persist. In some patients, especially difference between life and death. taking time out of our normal however, by using the following the elderly, weakness may persist for several weeks. The cornerstone of flu routine to tend to a sick child. tips: It's not uncommon for the flu to be indistinguishable from infection prevention is immunization. or flu Although flu affects virtually all Go to bed as soon as the with a number of other viruses and bacteria that also produce headache, shots. Most experts agree that not age groups, its incidence is highest symptoms appear and stay there muscle aches, fever and cough. However, if there has been an epidemic everyone needs a flu shot. There among schoolchildren. Parents will until your temperature returns to reported, usually by the local, state, or national health authorities, and are certain high-risk individuals, find the fo llowing information normal, usually anywhere from 24 _you have these symptoms, it's highly likely to be a case of the flu . however, who should receive from the Child Life Center at to 48 hours. You should expect to annual immunizations - those Rhode Island Hospital to be feel weak, and possibly depressed, Complications Of Influenza the upper respiratory tract with respiratory or cardiac helpful this flu season. for about a week after your When influenza strikes, usually downward to the lungs and cause problems, people with chronic lung The most important thing to temperature drops. Experts agree during the winter months, most of bronchitis or pneumonia. disease and the elderly. In remember when taking care of a that bed rest is one of the most us will find ourselves susceptible to Pneumonia, the most serious addition, health care personnel, sick child is to see that the child effective ways to relieve flu the virus. Those of us who contract complication of the flu, is marked because of their extensive contact gets plenty of rest and drinks lots symptoms. To relieve aches and the flu will usually recover within a by .. persistent fever, cough, and with high-risk patients, should get oftluids. Children with the flu tend pains, be sure to take aspirin or an week or two. Unfortunately, there other respiratory symptoms for flu shots. Although the vaccine has to develop high fevers (higher than aspirin substitute approved by are certain high-risk segments of more than five days. Bronchitis is not been proven harmful to unborn adults). Drinking lots of fluids will your physician, and drink as much the population with a much greater marked by coughing, fever, and children, pregnant women whose help keep a fever down. A child water or fruit juice as you chance of developing pain in the chest, especially when third trimester occurs during the who has the flu will not feel like comfortably can. Warm baths or complications. coughing. Such complications are winter months should consult their eating for a few days, but there is heating pads may also help relieve Those considered at high-risk rare, and will most likely not affect physicians. no need to worry about pushing aches and pains. include small children, heavy the majority of people who come It is highly recommended that foods as long as fluids are plentiful. If the fever lasts for more than smokers, diabetics, the elderly, and down with the flu. flu shuts be administered in late When suffering from the flu , three or four days, or if you become individuals with chronic cardiac or If you develop the flu you will autumn, the beginning of flu most children will sleep a great short of breath while resting, call respiratory problems. Annual flu most likely not need to call your season. These vaccines, based on deal. When your child is not your physician. In most cases, shots are highly recommended for physician. But if a fever persists the previous year's virus, are resting, there are a few things you however, there is no need to see these individuals. longer than three to five days, it is usually about 75 to 80 percent can do to keep him or her your physician unless you're The main risk of influenza is recommended to seek medical effective, with immunity entertained. Although most among the groups most susceptible that the infection may spread from attention. Those without a developing in about 14 days. Many children are not feeling very to complications - the elderly, people believe that the beginning creative when they're sick, a those with respiratory or cardiac Lose Weight! Stop Smoking! u( flu season is the best time to be youngster will especially enjoy problems or people with chronic immunized, although vaccinations coloring with crayons or markers. lung disease. Reduce Stress! can be effectively given throughout Small children may also enjoy To prevent spreading the virus, flu season. Since flu shots are good water play using cups and funnels, remember to dispose of tissues MlcfteHe~ for only one to two years, an annual or playing with containers such as properly and to wash your hands 1111 IIWI II 11111 vaccination is recommended for pans or boxes. These can be very frequently. the best protection. scx,thing and relaxing forms of Influenza must be allowed to run AUDO COOSCIOUS Unfortunately, misconceptions entertainment. its course. The must important HYPNOSIS STUDIOS regarding flu shots are quite Older children appreciate word thing to remember is to not common. For example, many search games, connecting overexert yourself and to rest as people consider a low-grade fever numbers, crossword puzzles or much as possible until you are fully and weakness occurring 8 to 12 hand-held electronic games. Also recovered. hours after vaccination, to be the flu. In most instances, this is Learn To Eat Heart Smart A "Heart Smart Cook Off," a free Rhode Island Hospital program on heart-healthy food planning, will be held on Sunday, SALES AND RENTALS OF November 20 from 1:30-3:30 p.m. at the Hospital's Gerry House. , RESIDENTIAL, COMMERCIAL, AND INDUSTRIAL Participants will be invited to PROPERTIES taste-test low-fat, " heart-smart" 0• American Heart Association delicacies courtesy of several fine area restaurants, and take home Roast Stuffed Cornish Hen their favorite recipes to use in 2 tbsp. Herbert Brown, Ltd. holiday meal planning. A 6 Cornish Hens (about 1 tsp. sage or thyme, 100 LAFAYETTE STREET, PAWTUCKET, A.I. 02860 cholesterol screening will be 14 ounces each) savory or tarragon available for all participants, 1 pkg. wild rice mix or long 1/4 cup brandy (401) 726-3440 instruction in label-reading by a grain and wild rice 1 cup orange sections Hospital nutritionist, valuable combination "ALWAYS PERSONALIZED SERVICE" information on lowering medium onion, chopped cholesterol from Rhode Island To make the stuffing, cook rice until it is still slightly firm . Drain. In Hospital cardiologist and Rhode a skillet, melt margarine and cook chopped onion until browned. Island Heart Association Add rice and sage; toss gently. president, Dr. Robert Capone, and Clean, wash and dry hens. Stuff lightly and skewer or sew the more. vents closed. Participating restaurants Brush hens with 1/2 cup melted margarine and place breasts side =-=--=-~-=- NURSING ____ include: Alex ion's Family =- up on a rack in a shallow pan. Roast at 350 degrees, uncovered, --PLACEMENT--- Restaurant, Pawtucket; City about 1 hour, basting occasionally with the melted margarine. Lights, Providence; Cup 'N Saucer, Make a sauce by adding 1/2 cup water to the drippings in the ----INC. --- Pawtucket; Domino's Pizza, roasting pan, stirring to dislodge browned particles from the pan. Pawtucket; Gregg's, Warwick; My Add 1/4 cup brandy and 1 cup orange sections. Cook 2 minutes. Brother's Pub, Pawtucket; The Serve with hens. Point, Providence. Nursing Care You Can Rely On Attendance is limited to 100; . Yield: 12 Servings participanta are urged to register RN's • LPN's • NA's • HOMEMAKERS soon by calling the Rhode Island Roast Stuffed Cornish Hen Hospital Department of Nutritional Analysis per Serving PRIVATE DUTY. HOME and HOSPITAL CARE Cardiology at 277-5891. This 198 Calories 44 mg. Cholesterol program is part of a free series on 15.3 g. Protein 24.6 g. Carbohydrates heart health issues sponsored ,by Fully Insured 728-7250 4 g. Total Fat (est.) 28.2 mg. Calcium Rhode Island Hospital .9 g. Saturated Fat 236 mg. Potassium 24 Hour Service 885-6070 departments of Cardiology, 1 g, Polyunsaturated Fat 58 mg. Sodium · · ·Psychiatry and Nursing for the 1 g. Monounsaturated Fat public. I L_ ------

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Outstanding Women Honored members, or what it's like to be on Peddling U2 a concert tour. U2's political news, such a large part of their music, are By Girl Scouts 'Rattle and Hum' Waddles in Dumb left unexplored, despite the obvious opening provided by by David DeBlois gimmick'! A cheap way to sell perhaps the angriest rendition of U2's Rattle and Hum. overpriced black T-shirts to kids? "Sunday Bloody Sunday," the I was looking forward to this. Maybe not. Maybe . . . maybe band's passionate plea for an end I entered the theater lobby. It this "limited edition merchandise" to violence in Northern Ireland, was the first showing of the film at junk was all Paramount's idea. ever recorded. the Showcase Cinemas in Seekonk. Yeah, that's it. I bet it'll still be a "Bad," a song about drug ad­ The first disappointment of the great movie. The soundtrack diction, is judiciously placed after day smacked me right in the face. album is terrific, U2 is a dynamic scenes of U2 touring Graceland, Attendants were still setting it live band - how can it miss, right? Wrong, Einstein. and two Rolling Stones standards up a large cardboard ("Ruby Tuesday" and "Sympathy contraption for displaying Rattle Rattle and Hum, I'm sorry to for the Devil") are interpolated in and Hum T -shirts ($11.95), hats say, is pretty much equivalent to the song. And just what are the ($8.95), and posters. A banner watching an hour and a half of band's opinions about drugs? The , splashed across the back wall of the MTV. question is never asked; the lobby proudly proclaimed that The music from the film, audience never finds out. special U2 "limited edition produced by Boy Wonder Jimmy merchandise" was available here. lovine, is top notch, enhanced at This lack of investigation would Oh, Bono, say it isn't so. Edge, the Showcase by their auxiliary be accept.able if the filmmakers tell me it's all a big mistake. Ya sound system. Of the new material, would just stick with the concert mean this is all just a marketing the biggest surprise is provided by scenes and lei the band perform. Juliette Award Winners L to R: Deborah H. Siegel, Lorraine The Edge, who takes lead vocals on Instead, the audience is force-fed C. McGee, Sheila Tobie Swan and A . .:Jean Coy. Carolina. Her book reviews appear one number. He proves himself gratuitous cuts away from the In a dazzling Newport setting, Woonsocket native, is Assistant regularly in national professional quite a talented singer in his own concerts, flashy rapid editing, four Rhode Island women received Vice President of Marketing and journals - Social Service Review right, capable of fronting for sweeping camera movements, and the first Juliette awards ever Public Relations for Marquette and the International Journal of virtually any other band. any number of scenes rather presented by the Rhode Island Girl Credit Union. McGee is the first Sociolcgy, and she is listed in But U2, of course. has Bono. obviously staged for the film. All Scout council Saturday evening, woman nationally to receive Who 's Who Among Human Bono's appeal as a singer comes this heavy-handed direction only October 29, to recognize their out­ honorary membership in the Services Professionals. less from technical ability than raw detracts from the performances. It standing leadership. Jaycees, and she was named And Sheila Tobie Swan · of passion - a passion that remains all looks like MTV. A. Jean Coy, a West Warwick Outstanding Young Woman in Wakefield is Assistant Counsel for intact here. New songs, old songs, Only at the closing of the film is resident, is Supervisor of 1981 for her community leadership Metropolitan Property and and covers all have standout the band allowed to perform three Computer Operations for the and involvement. Liability Insurance Company. She moments in the film, but. unlike songs ("Running to Stand Still," Electric Boat Division of General Deborah Harriet Siegel, Ph.D., a joined the Department of Attorney the band's previous concert video, "Sunday Bloody Sunday," and Dynamics. A music teacher until Pawtucket resident, is Associate General in 1985, is a founding Under A Blood Red Sky, no "Pride (In the name of love)") with she moved to Rhode Island, Coy Professor in the School of Social member of the Women's Bar momentum is allowed to build up a minimum of interruption fro m found a new career at Electric Work at Rhode Island College. A Association of Rhode Island, here. a fa ult that must be placed on directors or editing, and this Boat. Coy was recognized this year former · Edith Abbot Teaching member of the Association of Trial the filmmakers. sequence is easily the strongest in as Quonset Point's "Professional Fellow at the University of Lawyers of America, is admitted to Unlike the best concert films, the film - an indication of what of the Month," and she is listed in Chicago, she has established practice before the Supreme Court such as the Band's The Last ~ · z might have been. the 16th edition of Who's Who services for the aged in Alabama of the Uni~ States, and also holds and the Stones' Gimme Shelter, we Among American Women. and helped set up an employee membership in both the American are not shown anything new - we Oh, well . . . Lorraine C. McGee, a assistance program in North and Rhode Island Bar Association. learn nothing about the band, its Buy the album. skip the flick. CHANUKAH GREETINGS SAMPLE SIZES THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1988

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Well, there in a fixed rate for one to five years, It cost 27 .5 cents per mile to own West, 27.6 cents; and Southwest, erating costs (15,000 x 7.40 cents) is, it does, and it's called annuity. after which you, in effect, roll your and operate a car during the third 27.1 cents. plus $3,007.60 in ownership costs An annuity - different from life principal over and get the quarter of 1988, an increase of 2.1 The average per-mile cost is de­ - a total of $4,117.60 per year, or insurance because it pays off while company's new fixed rate. On t he cents over the same period last termined by combining operating 27.5 cents per mile ($4,117.60 di­ you are still living - is an other hand, variable annuities year, AAA South Central New and ownership costs. Operating vided by 15,000). investment program that allows provide investors with a market England reported. costs, 7.4 cents per mile, relate di­ The study for the third qllarter you to determine when you start based option. You can pick the The quarterly study of driving rectly to the number of miles of 1988 showed an increase in oper­ receiving payment. Annuities are type of securities in .which your costs is based on computations driven, and include gasoline, oil , ating costs due to rising gasoline issued by insurance companies, money is invested. The choices made by Runzheimer International maintenance and tires. prices nationwide. Ownership costs and today are sold by all types of usually include a stock, bond or of Rochester, Wisconsin, a man­ Ownership costs are the. major we re alsq up in every region be­ fin ancial institutions. money-market fund. As with agement consulting firm specializ­ component of keeping a car on the cause of increased insurance rates. Because they are tax-deferred, mutual funds, variable annuities ing in transportat ion, travel, and road. Such costs include insurance, These quarterly driving cost fi g­ the money you earn on your allow you to move your monies living costs. license and registration fees , taxes, ures are based on a composite principal is not taxed until you around within a family of funds as New England, at 28.7 cents per depreciation and finance charges. national average fo r three 1988 begin co llecting payments your investment strategy and mile, was the most expensive Computed at an average of $8.24 models: a fou r-cylinde r Ford Escort whic h is usually years from now. market conditions change. region in which to own and operate per day, or $3,007.60 per year, own­ G L, a six -cylinder Chevrolet Ce­ The result of tax-deferred When you elect to receive a car, while the Midwest and the ership costs are fi xed costs not lebrity and a six-cylinder Chevrolet compounding is faster capital income from the annuity, you may Southeast were the least expensive, significantly affected by the num­ Caprice driven 15,000 miles per growth, unlike other investments choose from a range of payment at 26.6 cents per mile. Other re­ ber of miles driven. year under stop-and-go driving whose current income is taxable plans. These include monthly gional costs are: Mid-Atlantic, 27.8 A motorist driving 15,000 miles conditions and kept in service fo ur (like bank certificates of deposit). payments for a fixed number of rrn,tc-· f:rr.1t Lakes, 27.0 <'Pnts; per year would pay $1,110 in op- years. Although annuities make sense years, monthly payments at practically any stage of life, they guaranteed through your lifetime, a are perhaps best suited to combination of these two (i.e., the middle-aged people in high tax HERALD ADS GET RESULTS! longer of, say, 10 years of your brackets looking toward lifetime) or a joint-and-survivor retirement in 10, 15, or 20 years. annuity that guarantees an income For example, you could purchase to you and, eventually, your an annuity while still in a high tax surviving spouse. bracket and elect to begin receiving Your annuity income will be your payments at retirement when based on the value of your annuity you will be in a lower tax bracket. at the time the income payments Brier Brier Annuity buyers should have start, the insurance company's & enough liquid investments that assumptions about future rates of INSURt\NCF l'ENSIONS INVl:STM EN rs they will not need to withdraw return, and mortality projections funds prematurely from the fo r people your age. 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MAIL CHECK TO; Copies of the Herald are available from: A.I. JEWISH HERALD P.O. Box 6063 Providence, A.I. 02940 Barney's on East Avenue,Pawtucket East Side Phannacy on Hope Street, Providence ···~·· ·6...___ L------~-J____ ... ._...,_· • • • • • -.. · • ·~=..; .. ~:,,;:, ":" ,: :_·~·.--~.· .. ,-1·.· • •. • •. • • O• •.• . _. • •.• •. • ·.·.·.·.·.·. ·-·.·.·.·.·.·.·.· .·.• ·.·.·.·Hall's.Drug-on.E~A~n11e·Aven11e.1.~viderJ':~-.-·,-, THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, THURSDAY. No½:;v11\ER 10, 1988 - 17 - Kid's Kapers

Children's Museum MADD Poster Contest fforizons For Youth On Saturday, November 12 at 10:30 a.m. popular storyteller Marc WARWICK-"DRIVE SOBER ... DRIVE SMART!" is the 1989 The sixth graders from the Solo­ Challenge Day feather. I think about my life, my Joel Levitt will tell Russian mon Schechter Day School of folktales and stories. This will be theme for the third annual poster/ Danny Silverman short life. essay contest sponsored by Moth­ Rhode Island just spent a wonder­ held at the Pawtucket Then I land in the arms of my ers Against Drunk Driving, and ful week with peers from On Challenge Day the whole Congregational Church audito­ other area friends, my trusted friends. They National Car Rental. Schechter Schools at Horizons for camp was split into eleven differ­ put me down and I jump for joy, rium, next door to the Museum, 56 Youth, a program specializing in ent work groups to complete the' laughing and thanking my friends. Walcott Street. Admission is $2 All local entries must be received hands-on science and ecology edu­ various challenges. My favorite one Now I can do it again, because I per person, $ I per person for at MAD D's Warwick headquarters, cation, in Sharon, Mass. here are was called "The Wall." The idea trusted them! Museum members. :l35-D Centerville Road, no later some of their impressions: was to get everyone over a ten-foot T he week beginning November than January 14, 1989. Winners in wall. A boy named Zack was the Postcard Drawing 13 is a glowing week for the various age categories will be first one up and I was the second. Children's Museum of Rhode awarded gift certificates valued at The two of us stayed up and pulled Contest Island. Sunday, November 13 from Challenge At Horizons from $75 to $ 100, at ceremonies everyone up and over the wall. I All elementary school children 1-3 p.m. the program is called scheduled for Saturday. February had a great time! Mimi Ryvicker are invited to enter the "Rhode "Planets 'Round the Sun." 4, i989, at J ohn Sherer's National What I learned from Challenge Horizons for Youth is a camp Island - Where the Vision Began" Children will find the Car Rental. 615 Reservoir Avenue, that no matter how hard the where issues about nature are dis­ Day is children's postcard drawing constellations hanging in the Cranston, at 11 a.m. For the third challenge is, 'if there's teamwork cussed and taught. Another thing contest. A $50 gift certificate from Museum's "Seasonal Skies" year running, Marquette Credit th"t is taught is how to work to­ and trust, it can be accomplished. "Red Hen Country Gifts" will go to exhibit and create their own Union, with headquarters in gether. That is what Challenge at the winner of each grade group constellations using marshmallows Woonsocket, will provide the prize Horizons is all about. Trustfall (K-1, 2-3, 4-5 and 6). The contest and toothpicks. certificates redeemable for general One of the events in this activity is sponsored by the Rhode Island On Wednesday, November 16 merchandise 'of the winners' called "Challenge" is called "Trust- . Erica Newman Society to Prevent Blindness with from 3:30-5 p.m. during "Give Us choice. fall." One person in the group The boy before me has just funding from the Rhode Island Some Glow" children will help stands on a wall that is about five fallen. We put him down and now Credit Union League and its make the museum shine with silver Mrs. Gabrielle Abbate, who is feet tall. The rest of the group it is my turn to take this scary fall. member credit unions. and gold stars. chairing the project for MADD's stands on the ground and forms I know I will not get hurt if I trust How to enter: Friday, November I 8 from 10 Rhode Island chapter, noted that what is called a "human zipper," myself and the others on my team, I. Draw a picture of a person. a.m. -1:30 p.m. Karen Lambe's local winning posters and essays which helps them catch the person but it is still scary to do. place or thmg m Khocte Island. "Pre-Schooler Friday" features will then be forwarded to MADD's when he or she purposely falls off I start up the wall and big rushes a. ON 81h x 11 white paper S tories Aloud. Preschoolers will national headquarters in Hurst, the wall. For this event, you don't of blood go through my body. It b. use black ink hear stories of early settlers and Texas fo r inclusion in the national need to be strong or have any spe­ seems like a light year before I c. DO NOT COLOR IN. native Indians. There is a fee of judging. National prize winners cial skills. All you need to do is reach the top of the four-foot wall. (Postcards will be "color in" $1.50 per child ABOVE the will be awarded the following: 1st trust yourself and others, and be I look down and to me the people postcards.) Museum admission fee for this place, $ 1000, plus travel to New able to work together with patience. look like ants on the ground. 2. Attach an index card listing: program. Pre-registration required: York City with chaperone; 2nd The trustfall is one of the many I turn around and put my arms Name, address, phone_ number, call 726-2591 between 8:30-10 a.m. place, $500, plus plaque and gold different events that deals with co­ over my chest and close my eyes. I age, school and grade. Give the on Friday morning. certificate; 3rd place, $250, plus operation and trust. This is an stand with my eyes closed for a picture a title and say exactly what The Children's Museum, located plaque and certificate. All national issue that you need to use in your minute. I feel chills running up and the picture is and where it is at 58 Walcott Street, Pawtucket, is finalists receive a certificate. daily life, and that is what Hori­ down my body, waiting for the mo­ located. open Sunday, T uesday, zons for Youth teaches you. No­ ment when I will actually fall. 3. Postmarked no later than Wednesday and Thursday Further information concernmg body can live a good life without Then I feel it - the light tap on November 30, 1988. Mail to: R.I. afternoons from 1-5 p.m.; Friday MADD's poster/essay contest is being able to trust and cooperate my left shoulder. I fly through the Society to Prevent Blindness, I 800 and Saturday, JO a.m.-5 p.m. available by calling the state­ with other people. air, stiff was a board and light as a Post Road, Warwick, R.I. 02886. Admission is $2.50 per person, wide chapter's u,ll-free number: Museum members free. 1-800-242-MADD.

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Synagogue, New Bedford. Burial Three: The only rabbis who can was at Plainville Cemetery, perform the procedure are those Plainville, Mass. Arrangements by that believe in the Divinity of the the Max Sugarman Memorial Oral and Written Law, are Chapel, 458 Hope St., Providence. absolutely knowledgeable, and (__ o_b_it_u_a_r_ie_s ______J strictly observe the Torah and its EVELYN WALLACK commandments. This series of articles has PROVIDENCE Evelyn LILLIAN BLUMENTHAL outlined the issues inuolued on the FANNIE FINKLESTEIN (Kornmeal) Lichtenstein, he lived Youngstein-Wallack, 78, of the PROVIDENCE Lillian PROVIDENCE Fannie in Barrington for 34 years. He matter of who is a Jew. Rabbi Dr. Jewish Home for the Aged, 99 Jacob Immanuel Schochet, the .Blumenthal, 84, of60 Broadway, a Finklestein, 83, of the Jewish previously lived in Warwick, Hillside Ave., died November 1, teacher in the Providence School Home for the Aged, 99 Hillside Colorado and New Mexico. spiritual leader of the Kielcer 1988, at Miriam Hospital. She was Congregation in Toronto, Ontario Department for 44 years before Ave., formerly of East Manning Mr. Lichtenstein previously the widow of Irving Wallack. Her retiring 19 years ago, died Street, died November 2, 1988, at worked in the Warwick school and a professor of Philosophy at first husband was the late Frank Humber College has written the November 2, 1988, at Miriam the home. She was the widow of system. He was a graduate of the Youngstein. Hospital. best book out on the subject. It's Robert Finklestein. Colorado State College of Born in Providence, she was a Born in Providence, she was a Born in Providence, she was a Education and received a master's called Who is a Jew: 30 Questions daughter of the late Samuel and and Answers, and clearly outlines daughter of the late Harris and daughter of the late David and degree from Providence College. · Sarah (Levine) Licker. Rose (Rosenbloom) Blumenthal. Lena Blacher. He was a member of the board of all the issues inuolued. A limited She leaves a sister, Florence number of copies are available free She leaves a niece and two Mrs. Finklestein was a member directors of the Barrington · Landes of Staten Island, N. Y. nephews. of Temple Beth-El, and the Concert Series, a member of the by dropping a note to the Rhode The funeral procession departed Island Federation of Orthodox A funeral service was held at the Women's Associations of the board of directors of the United from the Mount Sinai Memorial Max Sugarman Memorial Chapel, Jewish Home for the Aged, and Brothers Synagogue and a member Jewish Organizations, 750 East Chapel, 825 Hope St., Providence. Aue., Pawtucket, R.J. 02960. 458 Hope St., Providence. Burial Miriam Hospital and a member of of the Rhode Island Music Services at Lincoln Park was in Lincoln Park Cemetery Meeting Street School. Educators Association. He was a Cemetery, Warwick. Burial Warwick. ' She leaves a son, Charles member of the National Education followed . Finklestein of Providence; a Association. If an obi~ary you would . IRVING I. COKEN daughter, Dorothy Cleinman of He was an accomplished like published does not WARWICK - Irving I. Coken, Warwick; a brother, Louis Blacher musician specializing in woodwind (continued from page 4) appear in the paper, 83, of 3180 South Ocean Drive, of New York and two instruments and was a member of the Rhode Island Musicians please forward a copy of Hallandale, Fla., founder, grandchildren. In addition, there have been Union. He was an Army veteran of itto: president and operator of the A funeral service was held at countless demonstrations by Coken Co., electrical contractors, Mount Sinai Memorial Chapel, World War II. The Rhode Island Herald Besides his wife he leaves two hundreds of thousands of Israelis, for 45 years before retiring seven 825 Hope St. Burial was in Lincoln of all political persuasions and all P.O. Box 6063 years ago, died November 4, 1988, Park Cemetery, Warwick. daughters, Sheila Lichtenstein of East Providence and Debra levels of observance, urging that Providence, R.I. 02940 at the Kent Nursing Home. He was the law be changed. These Israelis the husband of Sylvia (Barash) MILTON V. KESSLER Nicholas of Seekonk; a son, Michael Lichtenstein of view the current legislation as a Coken. PROVIDENCE - Milton V. dangerous change from a policy Jamestown; a sister, Rachel Smith Born in Russia, a son of the late Kessler of 179 Cole Ave., assistant that began back in 1948. At that of Hallandale, Fla.; a brother, Research works. Leon and Bertha (Potter) Coken, manager of Floyd's Men's Store, time, David Ben Gurion Abraham Lichtenstein of he lived in Cranston for more than Attleboro, until retiring 20 years guaranteed the Agudas Israel Allentown, Pa.; and four 30 years before moving to Florida ago, died October 28, 1988, at World Organization that the new American Heart five years ago. He came to this grandchildren. Miriam Hospital. He was the State would honor religious law in Association country in 1912 and obtained husband of Tilda (Rotenberg) A funeral service was held at Mount Sinai Memorial Chapel, several areas of life, including ~--'------" citizenship in 1946. Kessler. Shabbos, kashrus and personal 825 Hope St., Providence. Burial Mr. Coken was a member of Born in Providence, he was a son matters such as conversion and was in Sharon Memorial Park. Temple Sinai, Cranston, and an of the late Barney and Eva divorce. officer of Temple Beth Israel, (Wagner) Kessler. Sharon, Mass. Providence. He was a member of Mr. Kessler was previously What can be done to correct FANNIE NOCHIMOW Redwood Lodge 35, AF and AM, manager of the former Hotel the situation? the Palestine Temple of Shriners, Canterbury, Boston, for 20 years. NEW BEDFORD, Mass. There are two ways to resolve the Metacomet Country Club, the For many years, he had been Fannie (Bunin) Nochimow, 84, of the situation in order to protect the Aurora Club, and was a former chaplain of the Fraternal Order of the New Bedford Jewish sanctity and the safety of Israel. RUBIN officer of the Ledgemont Country Police, Pawtucket, receiving its Convalescent Home died The first is to petition Israeli Club. first honorary membership. He November 3, 1988, at St. Lukes politicians to change the Law of He was a past president of the was a member of the Henry Hospital, New Bedford. Born in Return. This has to be done M•MORIALS, INC. Rhode Island-Southeastern Friedman B'nai B'rith Lodge and Russia, the daughter of the late immediately. Chapter of the National Electrical the Jewish Home for the Aged. Yitzchok and Rose (Nochimow) The second is to pressure reform Contractors Association. He was a Besides his wife he leaves a Bunin, she lived in New Bedford and conservative rabbis to stop ~~m1~1,1111rt' past board member of the Jewish sister, Marion D. Kessler of for the last 20 years. She previously their policy of counterfeit ~""~ Home for the Aged and Miriam Providence. lived in Brooklyn, N.Y. for 40 conversions. Rather than mislead :Monu,mnts ana ,mmorials Hospital. He was a member of the The funeral was held at years. Mrs. Nochimow was the their "clients," these Rabbis in tlie finest granite wife of the late Julius Nochimow. should have the honesty and Touro Fraternal Association. He Congregation. Agudas Achim, for present antffuture Meas. was a professional engineer and Toner Boulevard, Attleboro. She was a member of Congregation integrity to tell prospective held four licenses in electrical Burial was in Attleboro Hebrew Ahavath Achim Synagogue and its converts (and any would-be In fiome wnsuitation spouses) three things: contracting. Cemetery, Attleboro. Arrange,­ Sisterhood and the New Bedford 6y appvintmwt. Besides his wife he leaves two ments by Mount Sinai Memorial Jewish Convalescent Home. One: Judaism demands that all sons, Gerald M. and Myron L. Chapel, 825 Hope St., Providence. She is survived by a son, Isidore one's thoughts, speech and deeds Leon J. Rubin Coken, both of Cranston; five Nochimow, East Brunswick, N.J.; be dedicated to the Creator. If a Telephone 401/726-6466 a daughter, Shirley Finkelstein, person is going to convert, he or grandchildren and a AARON LICHTENSTEIN 617/695-6471 great-grandchild. North Dartmouth, Mass.; four she has to be ready to make that BARRINGTON Aaron grandchildren and five commitment. A funeral semce was held at Lichtenstein, 63, of 8 Fairfield Rd., Temple Sinai, Hagen Avenue. great-grandchildren. The funeral Two: The only way to convert is head of the music department in was held at Cong. Ahavath Achim according to halacha. Burial was in Lincoln Park the Barrington public school CemeterJ, Warwick. Arrange­ system for 30 years before retiring ments by the Max Sugarman in 1983, died October 28, 1988, at Memorial Chapel, 458 Hope St., Faulkner Hospital, Boston. He was U.S. Federal law now requires all funeral homes to Providence. the husband of Gloria (Shanahan) Lichtenstein. provide itemized pricing. Mount Sinai Memorial Chapel READ THE HERALD. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., a son of has provided this courtesy for over thirteen years. the late Benjamin and Bertha * MOUNT SINAI Max Sugarman MEMORIAL CHAPEL The only RI Jewish funeral home that is a member of Memorial Chapel the Jewish Funeral Directors of America. Your family traditions and records ... for generations The Rhode Island Jewish funeral home that can be trusted .... for its honesty . . . integrity . . . 458 HOPE ST. and compliance with the highest PROVIDENCE standards of Jewish ethics Cor. Hope & Doyle and conduct. 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Crowe. 822 -1885. taken in other parts of the Middle checks due Rhode Island taxpayers 5017 . 11 / 24/ 88 East," said Eytan Gilboa, a senior worth $135,681.1 5 which were re­ research fe llow at the Leonard ENTERTAINMENT turned by t he Postal Service as Davis Institute for International undeliverable. REAL ESTATE Relations at Hebrew University. STEVE YOKEN ENTERTAINMENT - Profes ­ CLASSBOX According to M.A. Liebermann, Another analyst had a good word sional Master of Ceremonies and Oise CORRESPON DE NCE TO : Director of t he Providence Office, EAST SIDE to say about a unity government. Jockey. Spec1al1sts ,n Bar/ Bat Mitzvahs and ClassBox No. the taxpayers may have moved or Condominium. Walk to Temples. spacious ­ Alan Dowty, a professor of polit ical cai1dle-light1ng ceremonies . Radio Statton The R.I. Jewish Herald changed t heir last names during Prizes. (Optional · N.Y. Laser Light Show) ness of a one family, 2 bedrooms. 2 baths . science at Notre Dame University, P.O. Box 6063 the year and ' fa iled to notify t he Video Services available. Many references. sunroom, den, fireplaced living room, Providence. RI 02940 said in New York that despite its IRS. Sometimes the handwrit ing 508 -679 -1545. 12/ 27 /88 garage. $165,000. deadlock on fo reign policy, the on t he tax return may simply be Near Brown , JCC . Stately 4 bedroom colo· unity government succeeded over illegible. nial. double living room . large yard . Sensibly This newspaper will not. knowingly, accept the last fou r years in stabilizing When a refund is returned by the FOR SALE priced in $180 's. any advertising for real estate which is in Israel's once wildly inflationary Postal Service, the IRS attempts Reduced! Spacious 2 fam ily, 6/ 6. Expansion v1olat1on of the R. I. Fair Housing Act and economy. to fi nd the taxpayer and deliver the CONDOMINIUM FOR SALE - Florida. West possibi l1t1es . Offers encouraged' $160's. Section 804 (C) of Title VIII of the 1968 Civil But for most, another four years Rights Act Our readers are hereby informed checks, but there are always some Palm Beach (off Royal Palm Sch. Blvd .) Off Blackstone Blvd . Bargain' Runners · de· of "unity" seemed a disheartening that all dwelling/ housing accommodations who cannot be fo und, according to Completely furnished two bedroom. two light. 3 bedroom colonial fireplace . proposition. Said Haim Ramon, a advertised in this newspaper are avai lable on Liebermann. bath. Spacious patio off living room . Golfing $t29.000. 11/ 10/88 member of Labor's young guard and pool. $55,000.00. 943 -6280. an equal opportunity basis. Taxpayers who still have not re· SALK 331-4132 inte,..;,iewed in Jerusalem: t 1/ 17/88 ceived their 1987 federal income "The best thing for Israel would tax refu'nd should call the IRS at be a government based o!) the I (800) 424- 1040 fo r information. Kristallnacht present situation fo r the next six to Special From The U.S. They may also write to the IRS Hermann Goering, Reich Minister States and close to a thousand 12 months, during which time we at P .O. Box 6627, Providence, Holocaust Memorial Council of the Four-Year Plan, issued the editorials were printed. Americans can change the electoral system RI 02940. With methodical precision Decree Eliminating the Jews fro m reacted initially with outrage. and ask the public to clearly decide during the night of Wednesday, German Economic Life. A Pledges streamed from parishes, fo r Labor or Likud." November 9, and early morning of 25-percent "flight" tax on all congregations and school districts Is reform possible? Dan Patir, a Thursday, November 10, 1938, SA, Jewish property being removed to adopt and shelter Jewish political scientist at Tel Aviv GET THE FACTS ... SS and Nazi stormtroopers, from German territory and a fine families and their children. Calls University, does not think so. After READ THE HERALD. disguised in plain clothes, of one billion marks ($400 million) for an economic and political all, he said in New York, the assembled in prearranged meeting were levied on the Jewish boycott of Nazi Germany poured decision would be up to the places and fanned out to selected communities to "compensate" for into Washington from trade electorate, which knows the WESIT A referral Service targets in the Jewish communities the damages wrought by the Nazis. unions, civic associations _ and parliamentary system gives vo ice for companions of Germany, Austria and the Goering expropriated all remaining parent-teacher associations, as to smaller groups that may not be to the elderl y, occupied Sudetenland (the Third Jewish businesses by transferring well as from leaders of both heard in a majoritarian system. since 1967 Reich). their ownership to "Aryan" hands. political parties. "It would be difficult to get 60 to I ""' 401 421-1213 Following Gestapo instructions, Panic swept the Jewish The events of Nove!J\ber 9. 10 70 percent to choose political . these Nazi agents axed windows, communities. Thousands packed were a significant step on the road suicide." he said. demolished furnishings, wrecked Western European and American to the Nazis' "final solution of the houses, smashed store fronts, consulates pleading for exit visas, Jewish question." Within two ravaged merchandise, torched but the total requests far exceeded months following "Kristallnacht," For people who are particular synagogues and arrested the stringent immigration rules Hitler, in a major address to the 20,000-30,000 Jews. As the and regulations established by such German Parliament, promised the about their home or business, well-coordinated destruction took countries as France, Great Britain, destruction of the ·Jewish people someone who is parti cular place, most neighbors just the United States, Canada and throughout Europe should there be watched. others. Of approximately 500,000 war. Jews were inexorably about his work, By Friday morning, November Jews remaining in the Reich at the consigned to the Nazis' "Kingdom 11, nearly I 00 Jews were dead, time of "Kristallnacht," about of Night." CARP ENTRY, PAINTING, REMODELING 7,500 Jewish businesses had been -160,000 were able to get out. The pretext for the Nazis' REPAIRS - INTERIOR & EXTERI OR destroyed and more than 275 " Kristallnacht" marked t he criminal attacks against the Jews synagogues had been razed or intensification of a 5-year was the November 7 assassination No job too small Free written estimate burned. The majority of the Jews anti-Semitic program init iated by of the Third Secretary in the Ray 728-1324 arrested we re sent to the German Adolf Hitler soon after he assumed German Embassy in Paris by a concentration camps of Dachau, power in 1933. Between January teenage refugee J ew protesting the Sachsenhausen and Buchenwald. 30. 1933, and November 9, 1938, forced expulsion of his family from Carpets of crushed glass and debris through a series of laws, Jews had Germany. _ Rhode Island Herald - Classifieds covered the streets of the Third been systematically denied their Americans should remember the Reich. civil rights within the German tragedy of "Kristallnacht" as an 15 words - $3.00 T he German public labeled this community and deprived of the event that demonstrates the need event "Kristallnacht," or the right to gainful employment. The for national resolve to respond to 12¢ each additional word "Night of Broken Glass." 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Both Shamir and Peres have in NEW YORK (JTA) - Rabbi rioting Arabs. • DUST & VACUUM attempt of Israel's religious parties Meir Kahane, whose Kach party Kahane, who renounced his to resurrect the "Who is a Jew" the past assured American Jewish • RESTROOM CLEANING leaders that they would try to keep was banned by Israel's highest American citizenship in order to amendment in coalition-building • COMPLETE FLOOR CARE the amendment from becoming a court from running in Knesset run for the Knesset, said that he negotiations with Likud and the elections, said recently that he now seeks to regain his citizenship Labor Party is causing deep political issue. Leaders of the • TRASH EMPTIED Reform movement expressed the intends to change the name of his because "the U.S. will never allow concern among major American party and make some "cosmetic me in America on a visa." • RUGS SlEAMCLEANED Jewish organizations. hope that the two leaders would hold to those assurances. changes" in the party's platform so The U.S. State Department had • DAILY • WEEKLY • BIWEEKLY • ETC. In separate cables sent after the he can run in Israel's next election. barred Kahane's entry into the religious parties' stunning success But if the religious parties are • INSURED• BONDED successful in pushing the Speaking at a news conference at United States because of his in the elections became apparent, the Grand Hyatt Hotel here, the renouncement. Zionist and religious organizations amendment, "there will be hell to pay here," said Rabbi Joseph American-born rabbi said he will But a U.S. district judge issued a here urged Likud leader Yitzhak change the name of his party from temporary restraining order Oct. Shamir and Labor leader Shimon Glaser, executiYe vice president of Reform's Central Conference of Kach, or "thus," to Kosch, or 26, which allows Kahane· to enter Peres not to allow "Who is a Jew" "strength." this country until a federal court to become a bargaining chip. American Rabbis. DENETIE JANITORIAL Among Glaser's concerns, and "On the political level we will rules on his . Their concerns were heightened those of other leaders interviewed make only cosmetic changes," he Kahane, who believes he will win last week, when all but one of the for this article, was that American said. "We will not change our his case in court early next year, Orthodox parties said they would principles." Kahane said that the said he entered the United States Jews would perceive Israel as READ THE HERALD. not lie willing to participate in a dominated by ultra-Orthodox newly named party will use only two weeks ago on his American government unless the ruling party parties and would curtail their quotes from the Bible to advocate passport. guaranteed that the Knesset would contributions to the United Jewish its policies. pass the amendment. Appeal. • Kahane said that he will The amendment would change But Glaser said that he has been announce the formation of Kosch Israel's legal definition of a Jew to relllinding colleagues that the UJA when he returns to Israel next exclude people who are converted and its chief beneficiary, the week. He predicted that no party 9'a-~5vra/~l according to the standards of Jewish Agency, "are not will win a decisive majority and Reform or . that Israelis will have to go to the 1 politicized," and cutting off The Knesset has rejected the contributions would only punish polls again in the near future. ~ amendment over the past 10 years, Israel's citizens. Kahane claimed that Kach saying it would delegitimize and Schwartz of CJF said he did not would have captured between eight KOSHER CATERlt\G thereby alienate Diaspora Jews, think "Who is a Jew" would and 10 seats in the next Knesset. 1800 Post Road, Airport Plaza especially the clear majority of threaten contributions to "Likud was terrified that I would Warwick 401 •739.5454 affiliated American Jews who are federations and UJA. take away from them at least five either Reform or Conservative. "Some individuals may seats," Kahane said. Organizations cabling • !srael articulate that, but the largest He blamed the Likud and its We are now accepting orders for included the Zionist Organization portion of them will remain·loyal to leader, Prime Minister Yitzhak of America, the American Jewish their responsibility." Shamir, for being "the major THANKSGIVING Congress, Reform Judiasm's Nevertheless, CJF will in all force" behind the move to ban Union of American Hebrew likelihood battle the amendment, Kach. Prepared to Order Congregations, Association of as it did earlier this year by joining Kach was banned from running Turkey• • Chicken• • Capone • Comlah Hen• Reform Zionists of America and UJA in placing advertisements in in the elections on the grounds that Mercaz, which represents the Israeli press. it is racist and opposed to the (with gravy and atufflng) democratic nature of the state. Conservative Judaism in the Other groups, mostly Orthodox, Apple Pie • Squaah Pie • Lemon Meringue Pie World Zionist Organization. have criticizd such direct "I am not a racist," Kahane said. Last month, the Council of involvement in Israel's political "Every law I proposed in the Knesset was based on Judaism." Also Jewish Federations also cabled process. But Schwartz defended Broccoli and Carrot Souffl• Jerusalem, urging Shamir and the advocacy role: He charged that the banning of Peres to bar negotiations over the "The largest portion of our Kach is "a blow to democracy." Cranberry Mold• • Kugel • Tzlmmla issue. constituents has asked us to take "Even if I were a racist," Kahane Candled sw-t Potat-• • Auorted Hon d'-uvnta "Our leadership sees it as a and activate a strong position on argued, "How can they ban me and serious matter," Carmi Schwartz this. We are not taking a position still be a democracy?" Complete Selectlon of Kahane, who appeared CJF executive vice president, said on substance. What we are saying Fancy New York Cakes & Pastries @pareve in a telephone interview. "We will is that the Knesset is the wrong composed and confident, said that "it is not relevant whether the convene our coalition on 'Who is a forum to adjudicate this issue." All orders must be placed by Thursday, Nov. 17th Jew' and discuss how we are going Some of the strongest support Labor or Likud" will be victorious to react." for the "Who is a Jew" amendment in the elections because neither has and picked up on Wednesday, Nov. 23rd Robert Lifton, president of has come from the Lubavitch the answers to Israel's problems. between 4 and 7 p.m. ONLY AJCongress, said in his cable: Hasidic movement. Kahane predicted that soon the Palestinian uprising will spill into "Any action to change this law This year, for the first time, ~ CALL 401-738-5454 would be a grave error, a betrayal of Lubavitch made a direct appeal on Israel proper. "The Arabs within Jewish unity and would certainly behalf of a specific Israeli political the Green Lines are completely ~ Monday through Thursday 9-4 behind the intifada," he ~~7 alienate the American when it urged its Israeli Friday 9-3 Under the Supen,illon community. adherents to cast their votes for maintained, warning that sooner of the VAAD HAKASHRUTH, R.I. "The principle behind the Law Agudath Yisrael. or later the Jews in Israel will start

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