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Inside: ---------~ R. I . Jewish Historical Association 11 From The Editor, page 4 130 Sessions Street Around Town, page 8 Providence , RI 02906 Noah's Ark, pages 10-11 THE ONLY ENGLISH-JEWISH WEEKLY IN RI AND SOUTHEAST MASS VOLUME LXXII, NUMBER 19 FRIDAY, APRJL 12, 1985 ao, PER COPY Nation 's Health Deteriorates Under New Priorities Yom Hashoah: by Susan Higgins herbs. Hygeia prophesized illness could be Day Of Remembrance In a profoundly moving t.alk held last avoided by the conscientious co-actions of week at Brown University, Or. Victor W. government, community, and personal Side!, president of the American Public responsibility. Health Association, drew a powerful The success of Asklepio's teachings parallel between the Greek Gods, the resulted in longer life and less illne&s. current Zeus in Washington and the Unfortunately this success distressed Zeus deterioration of our nation's health who tossed a thunderbolt at the healer and system. Dr. Side\, who is a distinguished killed him. Symbolically one understands professor of social medicine at Montefiore the health of a people is subject to the Medical Center and the Albert Einstein whims of government. Then so, the gods Col!ege of Medicine in New York, spoke in Washington can either tender their on behalf of the hungry, the cold, the sick support or destroy the efforts of the and the dying population of the wofld. healers. In a speech that was equal parts sad, Through the use of graphs, Or. Side[ shocking, amusing, and inspirational, the effectively demonstrated the correlation co-founder and board member of between health and poverty. Prevalence of Physicians for Social Responsibility, serious chronic health conditions appealed to the hearts of his audience for stastically correlates with income. increased social participation. Individuals of low income consistently Zeus, ruler of the living, Dr. Side I told a suffer from twice as many conditions such crowd of about 75, was the god of as rheumatism, asthma, heart failures, and government. His son, Apollo, who was diabetes, as do people in all other incomes. greatly loved by the people, represented The numbers also indicate the community. As a result of a union with a distressing lack of protection that afflicts nymph, Asklepios, god of health and low income families. In families with healing, was created. Due to the nymph's annual incomes less than $10,000, 27% of lack of diety, Asklepios only attained this group is uninsured a.JI or part of the status as a demi-god. He was survived by year. Less than 10% of upper income two daughters, Panathea, and Hygeia. groups with earnings of $32,000 per Observance, beginning at 8:00 p.m. Panathea taught healing by the use of (Continued on page 9) There will be many community events that will pay homage to the More de~ils inside. Holocaust victims. In Middletown, on Thursday, April In Providence, the second Interfaith 18, beginning at 7:30 p.m., an Interfaith Single Jewish Mothers Yorn Hashoa Service will be held on Holcaust Evening of Remembrance will April 17 at Temple Emanu-El, be held at Temple Shalom. Rabbi Marc beginning at 8:00 p.m. The Most Rev. S. Jagolinzer of Temple Sha1om, the Break Stereotypes Bishop Gelineau will give the Rev. Eugene McKenna of St. Lucy's invocation. Cantors Perlman and Roman Catholic Church, Rev. Dr. L. by N. Dina Nerenberg " I was 35 at the time. with no prospec Freedman will be featured and Flora Edgar Stone, Jr. of the United Baptist a nd Ellen R. Nissenbaum tive husband on the horizon, and I knew I Kalman, a Holocaust survivor, will read Church, Rev. Robert Williams of the (JSPS) - lfit's a boy, Lisa Klein would wanted to have a baby," a junior high from her writings. The "Never Again" Community Baptist Church, Rev. like her son to have a traditional briss and school teacher says, recalling the resolu award will be given to Rev. George Canon Coyle of Trinity Episcopal bar mitzvah - she's planning for him tion she made to have her child approxi Hunt by the Jewish Federation of Church, Rev. David Hackman of St. carefully, just as she meticulously arranged mately two years ago. Rhode Island. Peter's Lutheran Church and Rev. Dr. her pregnancy through artificial insemina Most single women choosing maternity In Kingston, that same evening, at Quinton Ivy of Calvary United tion, a pregnancy method which offers no are exceedingly conscientious, according the University of Rhode Island's Methodist Church will all participate involvement with the father, no ties or to Toronto psychologist Larry Nisan, who Memorial Union Ballroom beginning in a service memorializing those who complications. says he's never encountered one who at 7:30 p.m., the Avoda Dance perished during Nazi reign of terror. Lisa Klein is a general pseudonym for a abused or neglected her child. He says that Ensemble of New York will present The community is invited to attend. growing number of unmarried Jewish unmarried parenting attracts "upwardly four dances in memory of the six In Warwick, Mayor Francis women in the New York metropolitan area moving professionals whose desire to have million Jews. More details inside. X. Flaherty will present a Holocaust who are choosing to bear and raise children a child is to have a chattle." He explains In New Bedford, Mass., also on Memorial Commermoration on alone, having no spouse or live-in father this attitude as, '" I already have a piano Wednesday evening, at the Tifereth Sunday, April 21 at 4:00 p.m. at the figure. and a BMW. Now I'd like a child." Israel Synagogue, actor Robert Clary Council Chambers in Warwick City Single Mothers by Choice (SMC), a sup Dr. Baruch Trappler, who teaches psy will be the featured speaker at the port group made up primarily of unmar chiatry at the State University of New Ziskind Memorial Holocaust Hall. ried mothers, career women, claims a Y~1rk in Brooklyn, believes that some membership of some 400 women in New women are prevented from forming tradi York and 350, combined, in other major tional families by profound fea rs of being North American cities including Chicago close or vul nerable to men. He theorizes and Los Angeles. In recent months, the that by having their babies alone, these secular media - newspaper and television women are "acting out their indepen networks - have publicized this three and dence" while ''avoiding their conflict about a half-year old group and the phenomenon being independent while intimate." it represents but the media has failed to One non-Jewish SMC member claims highlight the conservative estimate that at that most women in her situation want to least 75 percent of SMC member are Jew marry, but are unable to find suitable hus ish. bands. Some compromise and marry in or Like many unmarried gentile women ap der to start a family, she says, even though proaching their mid- to late thirties, Jew the women are not totally satisfied with ish women report hearing their "biological their mate. time clocks ticking away." When they real• Hassidic Rabbi Manis Friedman, who ize that their child-bearing years are pass· cou nsels and teaches women from a wide ing, they are confronted with continuing a range of Jewish religious backgrounds at childless life or making an abrupt change Bais Chana in St. Paul, Minn., thinks that ,Ja ne Mattes, a therapist, mother. and fea r of repetition may indeed be at the root fou nder of SMC said that most SMC of many single mothers' choice. Many members ''suddenly realized that our op women swear that they'll be better moth tions weren't eternal." She explained that ers than theirs have been. and this is bad SMC is not an advocacy group, but a place thinking, according to Rabbi Friedman. where women can lea rn that what's best "Part of the maternal instinct to have the for them, in terms of raising children, isn't child shou ld be to have the marrial(:e," he necessa rily rig ht fo r every woman. Mattes asfle rls. The Avodab Dance Entemble of New York will perform al the Univeni_lY of wants SMC to help wome n be in touch " It is likely that she will be al least as Rhode 181and'8 Memorial Union for Yorn Huhoa on Wednewday night, Apnl 17, w1th all the child rea ring possibilities. A l(:•IOd a parent as her own had been," he beginning at 7 :30 p.m. woman should not feel prohibited from believes. "At least, even amidst some havini,t children because she isn't married, disharmony. there is human relat ion, hi1J Mattes explained. (Continued on page 9J DOLORE,S de MEDEIRO~S I ILocal News ] Robert Clary At COATS UNLIMITED New Bedford Designer and Better Quality Holocaust Observance Pantcoats and Coats Star of TV & theater, Robert Clary will Arriving Daily appear as the featured speaker at the Ziskind Memorial Holocaust Sizes Petite to 1 6 Observance sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater New Bedford, Inc., and the Bernard H. & Minna Zi.skind 434-2339 Memorial Lecture Series. The program will take place on Wednesday, April 17, 326 ND. BROADWAY, EAST PROVIDENCE, Al 028"16 1985, at 8:00 p.m. at the Tifereth Israel Mon. thru Sat. 1 0-6 p.m • Friday 1 0-8 p .m. Synagogue, 145 Brownell Avenue, New Bedford, Massachusetts. Clary, who is best known for his role as .. Louis LeBeau on TV's Hogan 's Heroes, is himself a survivo r of the Holocaust.