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MASSACHUSETTS 18 Shevat 5768 Vol. VI - Issue II www.jvhri.org Januar 25, 2008 Israel vows 'Non-violence is for courageous people' Israeli Teny to keep Gross follows pressure Dr. King's path on Gaza to on Providence's South Side stop rocket Photo by Toby A11elrod MARIA RAABE, spokeswoman BYMARYKORR attacks for the Bad Arolsen archive, in [email protected] front of some of the millions SOUTH PROVIDENCE Palestinians knock of postwar cards tracking -Teny 0. Gross, executive the passage of individuals director of the Institute for down border fence, through Nazi camps. the Study and Practice of Nonviolence, has the six stream into Egypt tenets of non-violence of Photo by Robin Blossom Archive TENY GROSS stands in front of the Institute for the Study and B Y LESLIE SUSSER Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Practice of Nonviolence on Oxford Street in South Providence. ]TA Staff Writer yieldsShoah imprinted on the back of his business card. JERUSALEM OTA) -Despite v1ct1ms. ' 'End bigotry, hunger international and Arab protests, 1. "NON-VIOLENCE IS FOR Prime Minister Ehud Olmert personal effects COURAGEOUS PEOPLE. IT IS and homelessness' has indicated Israel will keep up A WAY OF LIFE." its pressure on the Gaza Strip Access finally Gross served in the Israeli MLK breakfast a governmental, corporate, in an effort to force H amas and Army and worked in the interfaith and multi-ethnic other Palestinian militias to granted to valuables country's peace movement. call to action communities of Rhode stop their cross-border rocket In 1994-1995, he met with Island gathered at Rhodes attacks on Israeli civilians. BYMARYKORR on the Pawtuxet. left behind the settlers in Gaza and [email protected] But Israel relaxed its blockade the West Bank, and with Pastor William L. somewhat after masses of Pales­ BY TOBY AxELROD Palestinians and H amas, to CRANSTON - For 24 years, Shaw II, president of the tinians tried to cross the Gaza­ ]TA Staff Writer "see for myself' and to film the Ministers Alliance of R.I. Minister's Alliance, thanked Egypt border. On Jan. 23, the BAD AROLSEN OTA) - On a documentary. has been awarding scholarships the gathering for honoring crowds succeeded in knock- to deserving students at a index cards, letters and crum­ "Just as we have no choice the legacy of Dr. King "and ing down the border fence, breakfast honoring Dr. Martin bling ledgers, a numbing 17.5 of what family we are born in a more tangible way for and thousands of Palestinians Luther King, Jr. million names of those trapped into, so, too, we have no supporting these youths, streamed into Egypt to stock up in the Nazi camps and ghettos choice of which nation we And so they did on M onday, who, like the young Martin on supplies before returning to are held on rows of shelves. are born into," he says. "But on the federal holiday Luther King, have resolved Gaza. The numbness cracks the we must engage with each celebrating Dr. King, before to defeat the odds." Israel's blockade of the moment a visitor shakes open several hundred members of the Gaza Strip could have some See STREET WORKERS, Page 28 See BREAKFAST, Page 9 See PERSONAL, page 3 See GAZA, Page 7 A Jewish homecoming for Larry Sadwin, URI class of '64 A heartfelt mission University of Rhode Island's bittersweet memories. Hillel Foundation, stands "People always remember for new URI Hillel underneath one of the several the year they graduated from development director signs at the Ryan Center college," Sadwin said. "But, for which bears his photo and the me, 1964 is also the year that BvNANCY SLACK message: "Learn CPR - for changed and shaped my life. Special To The Voice & H erald those you love." It set me on a course as clear For Sadwin, class of'64, it's as the day in March when I SOUTH KINGSTOWN­ a homecoming to be back at watched my father, Sherwood Larry Sadwin, the new URI - but not with a twinge of Sadwin, slip away from this director of development for the world, after his third heart attack, dead at 42 . H e left my sister and me, and my mother. And the fami ly·business," Sadwin recalled. Sadwin was a senior at URI, heading to law school in the fall. His sister, four years younger, was just graduating from high school, and his mother was now a young widow with a company and a family to support. Law Photo by Nancy Slack LARRY SADWIN stands underneath sign at the Ryan Center with INSIDE: Special supplement to The Voice & Herald See SADWIN, Page 8 his image and message: "Learn CPR - for those you love." PAGE 2 Jewish Voice & Herald January 25 , 2008 _________________________. Ki:•1~1~,i•J~iiHI___ ;::,,,,::A_.a. __u __ ... _.....,;_::.,_........, ........._ Both Jewish and American It's a Judaism we told about their grandparents Rabbi Susannah Heschel or great-great grandparents, to (Abraham Joshua Heschel's choose to accept, to learn about the struggles of their daughter) writes in Imagining ancestors. Judaism in America: "Until de.fine, to make My well into the 20th century favorite America was imaginatively Bv JOHN]. CLAYTON "talking constituted by Jewish thinkers [email protected] ass. edu head" is the through a set of projections Supreme , drawn from Enlightenment 'VE WATCHED, as Court ideals of tolerance, pluralism, perhaps you have, the I A ssociate and freedom of religion, all of beautiful series on PBS, Justice, which were defined as biblical "The Jewish Americans." I A SCENE FRO M "BEAUFO RT," a Joseph Cedar film about an Israeli Ruth Bader ideals." unit stationed in Lebanon that was nominated for an Academy say 'beautiful,' though I have Ginsburg, The vision of a Promised Award in the Foreign Lang uage Film category. many quibbles. I found my whose father Land was in origin Jewish eyes often full of tears, and I was an and became the foundation of felt that the programs were accountant. America. Was America, then, telli~i stpl)f, my family's Two Jewish-themed films mi>; Not only the new Jerusalem? story, .J§; ~ ell ~s' telling the does she represent the upward story of American Jews who Even in an America pick up Oscar nominations striving of each generation were here before my family. based on Jewish ideals, - she's simply a great soul. I kept it wasn't easy for Jews to BY TOM TuGEND craftsmen from concentration The first of the three two­ wishing that we had nine Justices comfortably assimilate. hour programs, written and ]TA Staff Writer camps to create perfect counter­ like her, not because of her Grubin tells stories, right directed by David Grubin and feits of British and U.S. currency politics but because of her great from the beginning, of the LOS ANGELES OTA) --Two narrated by Liev Schreiber, in a last-ditch ploy to wreck the heart, her deep spiritual life, her difficulties of being accepted films with Jewish themes were economies of the two allies. begins with the question of passion for justice. as American. But, there's a nominated for Academy Awards how Jews could maintain Also making the cut is Is Ruth Bader Ginsberg's mix more subtle struggle: why in the Foreign Language Film their Jewishness while category. Poland's entry, "Katyn" by ofjust ice and compassion the be Jewish at all if America Andrzej Wajda, which dra­ becoming Americans. Israel's entry "Beaufort" and result of her coming from the already exemplifies the best of matizes the massacre of some Are we Jewish Americans Jewish people? Or is it the result Jewish ideals? Austria's "The Counterfeiters" or are we 20,000 Polish officers and intel­ It's easier received the nod from the Acad­ lectuals by the Soviets in 1940. American emy of Motion Picture Arts and to maintain a Another Jewish-themed Jews? Which "Are we Jewish Americans or are we separate identity Sciences. is the noun, foreign film, Brazil's "The Year • 7 Wh" h · th inalandof The Oscars will be handed out My Parents Went on Vacation," whic;h the American Jews. IC IS e noun, intolerance. Feb. 24 at the Kodak Theatre in adjective? was among the nine semifinalists which the adjective?" What is it Los Angeles. in the category but did not make How do these ____ ____________________ exactly that "Beaufort," directed by Joseph the final cut. outsiders needs to assimilate into this new land of being in touch with American Cedar, is a wrenching war movie It is the story of a boy with one be maintained? Grubin depicting the final action of the - and to what extent do we traditions? Of course, the answer Jewish parent who is thrown into is both. - through the voice-over of first Lebanon War, when a small have to assimilate? Liev Schreiber - speaks of an Orthodox environment when 'The founding of America had Israeli unit evacuated the medi­ Along the way, there's Jews struggling to "maintain his parents flee the 1970 military a religious basis in the Jewish eval Beaufort fortress. moving story after moving their heritage." But the series dictatorship. The director, Cao Bible: a search for the promised In The Counterfeiters" by story. What really got me of programs doesn't define Hamburger, is the grandson of land, the ideals ofjustice and Stefan Ruzowitzky, the Nazis Jewish refugees from Hitler's was to see and listen to the this heritage. Being Jewish round up dozens of skilled Jewish contemporary Jews who mercy, a people in covenant with Germany.

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