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***************CAR-RT SQ~T**C-027 24 1. 01/3 1. /-)9 R.I. JEWISH HIST ORICAL ASS OCIA 1. 30 Sessions St Providence RI 02906-3444 Special Occasions HERALD PAGES 10 & 11 The Only English-Jewish Weekly in Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts . VOLUME LXVIII, NUMBER 46 TISHRI 11, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1998 35,PERCOPY Man's Best Friend ... The Dog by Kimberly Ann Orlandi each dog seems more expres McMeel also includes a line of Herald Editor sive in their behavior and feel greeting cards and coffee mugs hy dowe love dogs? This ing than the one before. which will feature photographs seems to be a question "There is a certain humor to of the dogs created by Levin Wthat has many answers dogs," said Levin. They can be and distributed through the depending upon who is both happy and sad at the same publishing company. Eventu asked. For some, a dog is a time, but can still lift your spir ally, Levin hopes to expand the companion. A friend who keeps its." product line and possibly pub you company when you're Photographed in black and lish another book. alone, a protector when trouble white on the streets of Manhat For many of us, the love of a arises. For others, a dog is an tan, Levin captures the true dog is like nothing else. Its un extension of their family. qualities of a dog by photo conditional, forgiving and nur Treated as one of their own, the graphing them in their natural turing. They offerus their friend familydogbecomesmuchmore setting. Whether these four ship and devotion and ask only than just a dog, he becomes an legged companions are stretch in return for food, love and exer other family member, with ac ing out in the warm sun, gazing cise. According to Levin, it is a cess to all of the benefits of being enthusiastically into the eyes of strange phenomenon, a person's within a family. I guess that's their owner, or just being a dog, capacity to love a dog the way where I fall. My dog, Garbo, a 5- all of the dogs pictured generate they would a person. Maybe it's Annual Rosh Hashanah Service year-old Shepard / Collie mix a distinct personality which because a dog will never reject Rabbi Deanna Douglas (center) leads the Jewish Eldercare was a stray I took in, cleaned up, shines through with every pho you or judge you harshly, they of Rhode Island's second annual Rosh Hashanah service at brought to the veterinarian's of tograph. It was something Levin just except you for what you are. Temple Beth-El as Dr. Joshua Gutman (left) and rabbinical fice and who has since been as was conscious of when she be Levin will be at Borders Books, student Tom Alpert looks on. The service drew 109 residents similated within my family, so gan photographing the pets. Garden City, Cranston, on Nov. 18 from 21 nursing homes and assisted living facilities as well as much so I often wonder whether "I want to bring out the dogs' fro m 7 p. m t 9 p.m. fo r a book community members and volunteers. or not she knows she is a dog! personalities and to do that I have signing. Tlie book is on sale now. Herald photo by Emily Torgan-Shalan sky The question of why we love to get down to their level," said dogs is the topic of a new book Levin. Which often means just by author and photographer, that, getting down on all fours, Kim Levin, Why We Love Dogs. camera in hand, and capturing RI Holocaust Museum Holds The daughter of Mitch and that special look or expression. Shirley Levin of Narraganssett, An avid lover of dogs herself, 1 0th Annual Yizkor Service Levin was born and raised in Levin always had dogs while by Emily Torgan-Shalansky "Hear and listen to the shouting reassurance of our canned cul Cranston, where she graduated growing up. In fact, her parents Jewish Community Reporter of Israel. The blood of the tor- ture, must take over the mission from Cranston High School dog, Katie, is featured within Agonizing memories. Teary tured, of the innocent child of memory," he said. "They al the book and the book itself is eyes. Memorial candles. thrown alive into the fire, will ready have, of course." dedicated to all of the dogs Levin All of these, along with tre not be forgiven. Listen, world During the new millenium, had while growing up. Her cur mendous determination never to that betrayed the people oflsrael Fink said, memorials such as the rent dog is Charlie, a 5-month let the world forget, burned at - who stood by and did noth- RIHolocaustMemorialMuseum old Collie she and her boyfriend The Rhode Island Holocaust ing." will become even more essen- picked up at the A.S.P.C.A., an Memorial Museum's annual Taking up the cry for collec- tial. organization she works closely Yizkor service. tive awareness, State Represen- "We must protect the struc with by donating her services at Initiated 10 years ago for those tative David Cicilline called the ture, but more importantly, we the local dog shelter. touched by the Holocaust and service and Holocaust museum must make it a marker of the 'Tm a relatively happy and scheduledforatimeofyearwhen weapons in the ongoing fight lives of the survivors for their optimistic person, but Charlie Jews traditionally visit the graves against revisionism. children and grandchildren," he makes it enjoyable to come ofloved ones, the Sept. 27 Yizkor "Today I hope that each of us, said. "I learned respect from the home," said Levin. service combined prayers for the after remembering those who survivors, and I think my chi]. Taking a chance that the pub dead with reminders of the obli have died and recalling the dev· dren did too. I hope that my lic would be receptive to a book gations that now confront the astation, will recommit ourselves grandchildren and my students about dogs, Levin left her secure living. to the elimination of bigotry and will take inspiration from the advertising job three years ago In the museum's sunny Me hatred wherever we see it," he same journey." to pursue photography full time. morial Garden, President of the said. President of the Rhode Island Kim Levin Up until that point she had been Rhode Island Board of Rabbis As Rhode Island Jewish Herald HolocaustSurvivorsAssociation juggling a career in advertising Marc Jagolinzer opened the ser writer, and RIHMM honorary PaulFormalalsoemphasizedthe and the pursuit of opening her vice with a tribute to the power member Michael Fink spoke of impact that the Holocaust has West and later from Syracuse own business, Bark & Smile Pet of memory. howcontactwithHolocaustsur- had on world Jewry. University, New York. A self Portraits. In addition to taking "We remember them," he be vivors had shaped his life, he "There are people we know taught photographer, Levin photos for her books, Levin also gan of those who perished in showed how the Holocaust has as'thesurvivors,"'hesaid."Their spent seven years in the adver takes portrait photos of pets for Nazi-occupied Europe." As long become an inextricable part of children are gone, and they are tising and marketing profession their owners, as well as photos of as we live, they, too, will live." Jewish culture that must never without family or friends. But but always had an eye and pas dog events around the city. Ac Preserving the Holocaust and be allowed to disappear. weareallsurvivors,membersof sion for photography. She now cording to Levin, she never more, Jagolinzer explained, is not "I learned respect from the a single family. We mourn the resides in New Jersey, just across thought that the market would a choice but a Jewish obligation. survivors," Fink said, as he re- lost innocence of our youth, the the river from New York. For be that narrow and specialized, "You shall not forget and you called his childhood awe of a dignity of our martyrs, and the her first book, Levin has com rather she was afraid that it shall remember is a biblical dic European cantor's voice and his murder of innocents." bined her iove of dogs and tal would be too big and her audi tate;" he said. "We are a people, interest in the survivors' stories As six memorial candles dedi ent for photography to create a ence too broad. But, Levin called and we are the guardians of the abouttheir terrifyingexperiences cated to the memory of the 6 whimsical answer to the ques upon her years in advertising memories." in Europe. million Jews who perished tion, why we love dogs. and marketing to back her book's By reading a Hillel Zeitlin Calling the Holocaust Mu- glowed, RabbiJagolinzer led the Glancing through the pages endeavor, and inJuly 1997 it paid poem, Holocaust survivor Leah seum a center of the universe, participants through memorial of this book will bring a smile to off with a deal from Andrews Eliashsaid that only Jewish pres Fink considered the role of those prayers. your face, whether you are a McMeel Publishing. ervation of the Holocaust's who will live beyond the survi- As he read the names of fam- dog lover or not. There is noth "I was totally surprised," said legacy could prevent it from suc vors. ily members of Rhode Islanders ing like the smiling face of a Levin. "Initially I was looking cumbing to the same indiffer "Now it is time that the sec- who had lost their lives in the beloved pet when everything in for a licensing deal.