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VOLUME LXXVII, NUMBER 42 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1991 35¢ PER COPY U.S. Jewry Pushing For U.S. Loans To Israel by Debra Nussbaum Cohen money would be used to re wi ll be an impact." NEW YORK (JT A) - The settle an estimated 1 million And in Israel, Prime Minister American Jewish community Soviet immigrants expected to Yitzhak Shamir said recently will continue to press Congress arrive in Israel during that that Baker told him in a and the Bush administration period. telephone conversation that for rapid consideration of Baker asked Congress re the United States does not Israel's request for $10 billion cently to give the administra support linkage between the in loan guarantees, despite tion "a little bit of time to loan guarantees and the peace Secretary of State James review this request," in order process, and that the Bush Baker's plea for "more time" to " to assess its impact on the administration is committed to study it. peace process" in the Middle helping Israel absorb all its "The American Jewish com East. new immigrants from the During the Jewish National Fund's recent Major Gifts Mis munity is fully united" in seek That heightened fears in Soviet Union. sion in Israel, Israeli Housing Minister Ariel Sharon (left) ing the loan guarantees now, Israel and the American Jewish The prime minister also met with Dr. Samuel I. Cohen, JNF Executive Vice Presi Shoshana Cardin, chairman of community that the administra denied reports that Baker dent, to discuss JNF's Operation Promised Land campaign. the Conference of Presidents of tion would seek to link the had urged him in the phone JNF is preparing the land for 83,000 housing sites in 55 loca Major American Jewish Or loans to concessions on the call to postpone making the tions for Soviet and Ethiopian olim, and it is also building ganizations, said at a news peace process. request for guarantees. dams and reservoirs to meet the needs of thousands of new conference here recently. Malcolm Hoenlein, execu Shamir and Baker are ex water consumers. Israel's ambassador to the tive director of the Conference pected to discuss the issue fur United States, Zalman Shoval, of Presidents, warned recently (continued on page 13) is expected to make a formal that any suggestion of linkage request for the loan guarantees would be dangerous. at a meeting he scheduled with Baker himself said recently Rhode Island Has New Kosher Mashgiach Baker. that he was not "drawing any by Kathy _Cohen. played a significant role in the reduction of kosher facilites. Israel is seeking the U.S. linkage" between the guaran Herald Associate Editor guarantees so that it can more tees and the Middle East peace Almost every state has them. Even though there clearly has easily obtain $2 billion in com process. But then he added: "I All establishments that claim been less kashrut observant mercial bank loans each year am not suggesting that there's they carry or prepare kosher people, there has always been a for the next five years. The not some relationship. There foods must have proof of ap- steady group of Kosher believ- proval by them or face the con- ers, mostly of the conservative sequences of breaking state and orthodox faith. law. However, Marder also ex- Highlights Of The Year The Vaad Kashrut of Rhode plains that some interesting by Lisa Samin rived in the "Operation Solo Island is a Jewish organization studies recently show that (WZPS) 5751 has been a mon" airlift. with a representative layman there has been a returning - year of dramatic change for With the euphoria caused by and a rabbi who are authorized even in the reform movement Israel. The Gulf War drastically Israel's swelling population to supervise any organization - to ritual observances. changed the delicate military came the harsh realities of pro wanting to serve kashrut or Marder admitted that he and political balance in the viding housing and jobs for the kosher foods. would be happy and excited to Middle East and the Bush ad new citizens. More than 97,000 Since Rabbi Jay Jacobs left help people change their kitchen into a kosher one, ministration tried to turn its new housing units are already Rhode Island for employment military victory into political planned and foreign investors in Connecticut, manybutchers, "both as a Vaad Kashrut and as gains. The intifada, once the are being sought to help spur restaurants, and caterers have a rabbi of the shul." "Kosher living is not as hard darling of the international the awakening economy even been in need of a new rabbini media, faded from the spot further. cal Mashgiach or supervisor. Miriam Hospital, Autocrat Inc., as some people think it is. It would be nice if there were a light. But the question of an THE GULF WAR Rabbi Marder, of Congregation and Catering by Elaine Inc. few more kosher restaurants in independent Palestinian state On Friday, January 18, at 2 Beth Sholom, has agreed to Marder serves only Ocean town, but once you get the continues to divide the Middle a.m., two days after President step in to help inspect for State institutions. But when house together, get the initial East. Bush's ultimatum to Iraqi Presi Kashrut. Before Jacobs left, there are out-of-state functions, expenses out of the way, it's not Nationally, Israel has seen dent Saddam Hussein to with Marder had "been involved in Marder works in conjunction that much more expensive. the arrival of the greatest num draw from Kuwait, eight Scud a supportive role helping with with other Kashrut supervision. Kosher meat is high quality and ber of immigrants since the missiles were fired at Israel. the kashrut supervision" with If an out-of-state caterer comes a number of stores carry kosher mass aliya of the mid 1950's. President Bush personally Jacobs and Rabbi Strajcher of into his Rhode Island jurisdic Russian immigrants continue appealed to lsniel to act with Providence Hebrew Day tion, Marder will be there to su- products." When asked what the under to come in their thousands and restraint, and for the first time School. There will be times pervise. lying rules are in keeping the vast majority of the Ethi in its short history, Israel re- when Marder still consults with Al Weiner is the organiza kosher Marder explains, opian Jewish community ar- (continued on page 16) Strajcher and other rabbis. tion's layperson Mashgiach Now that Marder, the only and Sheldon Salasy is the pres ·· Kosher food has nothing to do full-time Orthodox synagogue ident. The lay body of the Vaad with blessing. It has to do with rabbi, is in charge, his responsi is made up of two representa ingredients and manner of bilities include supervising for tives from every synagogue in preparation. It is ingredients Kashrut, monitoring publicity town "so that everyone should and ensuring that milk and (continued on page 7) for kosher misrepresentations, feel that they have a part in and managing the mikvah, lo helping assure Kashrut stan cated at the Jewish Community dards." This group is meant as Center. As the rabbinical su a supervisory committee which DOROTHEA pervisor, he has a free hand in ensures that all the funds are SNYDER making Jewish law decisions being used correctly. WILL BE BACK without having the Vaad lay Funding comes through the people getting involved. different institutions that pay NEXT WEEK Some of the places that re for supervision. WITH ANOTHER ( ceive approval from Vaad are According to Marder and Kaplan's Bakery, Izzy's Kosher local demographic studies, "AROUND TOWN" Tending a new-born baby in a Jerusalem hospital during a Catering Inc., Marty's Meat through the years, the nature of ARTICLE Scud missile attack. Operation Desert Storm, Feruary 1991. Market, Spigel's, Brown Hillel, affiliation in Rhode Island has (WZPS photo by Arik Raltinester) Kosher food arrangements at changed, which, in effect, has ------
2-THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1991 Inside the Ocean State
UCP Bike Tour Gains Momentum race dinner will follow the tour. Design Best Global Change Poster; United Cerebral Palsy of RI UCP Challenge riders will Money raised by the UCP announced that momentum is raise money by soliciting Challenge will help support the Win Nig~t For Two On Block Island over 30,000 people serviced by building for the UCP Challenge pledges for their participation. Global change. What is it? the. adult category is a night for United Cerebral Palsy. UCP of bike tour. The 25, 50 and-100 Riders are urged to sign up What can people do to help? two - including continental mile bike tour fundraiser will early (by September 16) to have Rhode Island offers a variety _of breakfast - at the National services to people with cerebral Come up with some helpful, take place Saturday, September time to solicit pledges. A mini creative, artistic answers to Hotel on Block Island. Grand mum of $35 in pledges is re palsy and other disabilities in 28, at Chariho High School. these questions and you could prize in the children's category Jennifer Ondrejka, UCP of RI quired. cluding transportation (wheel is $25 and a " Fish of Narragan chair lift vans), education and win a night' for two at the Executive Director, related that The tour is designed for a National Hotel on Block Island sett Bay" poster. the agency was pleased about broad range of experience lev sports programs, respite and Deadline for entry is 4 respitality, recreational activi as part of Rhode Island Sea the number of corporations els and will include solo road, · Grant's Coastweeks '91 Poster p.m,, Friday, October 11. Send ties, family support and a host that have signed up to sponsor solo mountain, tandem and Contest on Global Change. or deliver entries to: Rhode of other programs. the event. She congratulated team rider catagories. The 25, To enter, design an 11 -by- Island Sea Grant Information For a registration form and Major Video, lead sponsor for 50 and 100 mile rides will start 17-inch, black-and-white Office, Marine Resources Build the UCP challenge and the 20 and finish at Chariho High information on the bike tour, ing, University of Rhode Island call UCP of RI at (401) 728- poster that generates public other corporations that have School. Everyone entering will awareness of the climate and Bay Campus, Narragansett, 7800. agreed to be sponsors. receive a tour T-shirt. A post- global change issue. Winning R.I. 02882-1197. posters will be used in a new Sea Grant is a federal-state climate and global change partnership based at universi The Narragansett Bay Chorus Welcomes New Singers awareness poster series by ties throughout the United States whose states border on On Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. formances in 1991, including in the last ten years! Rhode Island Sea Grant. in Warwick, R.I., men of all the oceans or Great Lakes. It appearances in Cumberland, Directions to Rehearsals: Entries for the poster contest ages are welcome to hear and Somerset, Lake Placid, Hart wi ll be received in two cate works to ensure the wise use of From Providence, take exit lOA marine resources for the public experience " that old barber ford, and on First Night in off 1-95; from South County gories: adults and children benefit. shop style" of singing. No Veterans' Auditorium in and Westerly, take exit 10 . Fol (grades K-8). Grand prize in musical experience needed - Providence. low signs to Kent County Hos the NBC music team just wants New voices are always wel pital, and go to Doctors' Wildflower Walks Preserve and explore the interest and presence! The your come. The chorus has been the Auditorium - you'll hear the The annual fall series of rebirth of spring. The botanists chorus has an ongoing full Northeastern United States music when yo(! get there! Wildnower Walks held at wi ll lead the groups through schedule of contests and per- chorus champion seven times U.R.l. 's W. Alton Jones the identification of hundreds Campus, will begin September of ferns, wildnowers, mosses, I 9. This year's walks will be trees and grasses that make up led by two popular local botan the 2,300 acres of fi elds, woods Fifty Years Ago This Week In The Jewish Herald ists, Irene Stuckey, a retired and lakes of the W. Alton Jones professor of botany at U.R.I. Campus. Wildnower walks will also September 12, 1941 and author of the book Rh ode lsla11d Wildflowers, and Lisa be held on September 21 , 25, Jews Lauded As Heroes $1 Dead or Alive 27, 28 and October I. For more Immigration Banned Gould, a trustee of the Rhode MOSCOW. The Jews of ANKARA. The Nazi disre Island Wild Plant Society. information, call the W. Alton Zhmerinka, a small village GENEVA. Nazi Germany gard for human life was Come and meander through Jones Campus at 397-3361. captured by the invading has banned the emigration demonstrated by an offer the Nettie Marie Jones Nature Nazi armies, were forced to of all Jews between the ages made by Nazi occupying au load machine guns, ammu of 18 and 45 as a result of an thorities in Serbia of about Internal Revenue IRS has established three nition and airplane parts acute labor shortage, accord $1 for the capture dead or Service News outreach si tes to help anyone aboard a train headed for the ing to reports received here. alive of every "Jewish sabo who needs assistance in filing Ukrainian front. They re Nazi spokesmen refused to teur." The offer apparently The Internal Revenue Serv an amended return (1040X) turned later that night and confirm the report although is encouraging pro-Nazi ele ice has announced that special and to answer any storm re set fire to the train and were they admitted a labor short ments to murder Jews and relief provisions have been lated questions. Th e days and able to escape to Russian age exists in Germany. then claim the $1 reward. implemented to assist taxpay locations of the outreach sites held territory. ers who were affected by Hur are: ricane Bob. September 10 - Westerly District Director M.A. Senior Citizens Center, 39 Liebermann said that these pro State Street, Westerly, R.I. visions allow taxpayers, who September 11 - Wakefield qualify to claim a casualty loss, Government Center, Route 1, to amend their 1990 Federal Wakefield, R.I. In come Tax returns im September 12 - IRS Newport mediately. 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City folk don't go much for ble pillars and columns, with absentee landlords and tran ruby, jade and ochre board de sient tenants. But that house on tails. Everyone in town is Morris near Emanu-El at the whispering gossip about the crossroads of the East Side dreamhouse that it turns out stops tra ffi c dead and sets ca m everybody has wanted to pur eras cl icking with its fantastic chase in their past. Who owns c.,___- ~-- beauty. it? Who rents it? Fra nkie Carie's " Louise," while 270 Laurel: Disting uished The funny little white clap I jeeped by and shook hands high regard." custom Brick Ranch for luxury board doll 's Victorian sticks up with Hal Hillman, an actor I scribble down phone num Hal teaches Zohar in class living; 3 beds, 3 baths, RARE. a thin tower. It bubbles out who shares the quarters rented bers. rooms as well as doing his S400s. Motivoted! with paned windows made to from the Gansmans. Hal tells me about his Rhode make-believe on the boards. hold aloft a display of potted I met Mitzi, a housemate Island Jewish roots in Paw Right now though he is battl plants. This month the toy man who works on rats at Brown. tucket, Barrington, and Bristol. ing a bout with the gout, that sion has burst its sidewalk " How do you feel about that?" · Carl Feldman taught him Sun illness made famous in the Age bounds with blooms - sun " Maybe in my next life I'll day School here in our big city of Reason. I'll say a prayer in fl owers, cosmos galore on come back as a Brown lab rat." at Beth-El. my succah for him to regain his their s kinn y s te m s and Bob Newman, once of James Hal didn't quit his studies place in the sun as well as in brilliant coppery zinnias. If you town, gardens and paints and after confirmation. He went on the spotlight. stroll along the path they over composts the weeds and scrap. to pursue Kabbalah. He re This hospitable haven has searc hed the ties that bind Jew whelm you with September I stepped into their parlor, and charm, even a touch of magic. 147 Evergreen: Sparkling ish mysticism wi th Christian colors, smells1 sounds. the indoors surprises you as If it up and vanished in an 3-bed Coloniol on quiet street. The plain white exterior now much as the outdoors. A real medieval beliefs and Sufiism. October mist I wouldn't be all Updated kitchen. garage, mint. tricks your eye with fa ux mar- old wind-up Victrola plays " The Sufis hold Moses in very that surprised. S130s. Wileen.
the h igh holidays that fa ll, But the awai ted final surren Fifty Years Ago - Our Spirits Were Broken although observed in a sur der was not coming. Was it by Ray Eichenbaum reptitious manner, were full of possible that somehow the Everybody is talking thi s despised Bolshevists, · their bitter approaches. Where was hated Teutons will not reach year about that mythical year, "cousins" from the gutters of He, the omnipotent G-d of their goaJ? Was the Almighty 194 I, 50 years ago. Records arrogance and intolerance, the Israel? Did he not hear the cries playing a trick on them? Or were set in many sports. The "other" radicals whom they of all his oppressed people were the Russians playing the U.S.A. became an industrial have feared the most, were whose hopes and aspirations "old " pull them in deep rou power, and was prepari ng for crumbling and meekly submit for freedom were rapidly ex tine that they so aptly played Terney Gardens: Luxury 2-bed , war. . . A human memory is a ting to the Nazis might and tinguishing? ' on the great Napoleon once _2-bath condo. Air, lo undry, thing to behold. Every once in organizational skills. It seemed Alas something went before. The "old timers" of the extras, mint. $110,000. Carl. a while, my thoughts go back to us as if they were walking wrong with the calculations of ghetto were wagging their - way back to the summer of on air, to our chagrin and great the Nazis. Although Hitler pre tongues. Was history repeating 1941 - in the ghetto of Lodz, disappointment. dicted that he would celebrate itself? Poland. Soon after we had heard the anniversary of the hated (conti nued on page 15) As I recall, up to that point in news that whole Russian Versailles Treaty of 1918 in time during the war, we were armies were surrendering en Moscow that year, some D 8 M ANTIQUES still full of hope. The Allies masse in the plains of the how he didn't get there in time. were still there. Surely, France Ukraine and Byelorussia. After all these victories and so Sing le Items or Estates was defeated, but England and Moscow was within reach of many areas and armies con the German Panzer divisions, Ap praised or 80 Faunce Drive: 3-bed luxury Russia would still resist the quered - the Russians were Purc hased. and Leningrad was on the Ranc h. Park-like setting, air, Nazis. But then came the news not giving up. As the fa ll of ~ private yard, attached gar that Germany attacked the verge of being overrun. Furniture • Paintings • Clocks that fateful year wore on, the Dolls • China • Glassware age . S380s. Soviet Union, followed quickly The German authorities in Germans were spreading their Oriental Rugs charge of the ghetto were by the evidence of massive and arms all over mother Russia, 337 NO. BROADWAY disastrous Russian defeats. We starting to tighten the vice on getting deep into the Cau EAST PROVIDENCE were crushed - our very last their bedraggled Jewish slaves. casus, all the way into the 431·1231 TOLL FREER.I. J.flOCM,75-12~0 hopes that somehow we'd be The schools for Jewish children Ural Mountains. Marvin Rubin, Proprietor liberated and freed from our in Marysin were closed all at cruel captors were utterly and once. The quotas for the goods produced by the ghetto facto r completely destroyed within a I ' week's time. A complete numb ries were doubled without ~ ness, a bleakness of indescriba explanations. 17 Leicester Way: 4 beds, ble despair had enveloped our The one pound loaf of black DELTA CONSULTANTS, INC. 2½ baths, 1990 eat-in kitchen, collective souls. When we bread rations given to us for fo ur days, will now have to last large rooms, gum wood mold looked at the victorious Nazis presents ings & more. S250s. across the fences, we could see six days. The deadly trap that their glee of glory, their blush we were caught in was closing of elation. They had almost tighter - ever so tighter. .. "A Creative Day for Educators proven it to the world - that And where was justice? ... of Young Children" they were a nation of super Where was G-d? Our prayers recited during men. Their arch-enemies, the November 2 , 1991 at the Providence Marriott lla&u-...'.-· .--_ . -,,_ .r«d;' .-- •,._· :.. ' > • ...'. Keynoter 326 Uoyd Avenue: Repriced. 13,065 square-foot corner lot. David Elkind, Ph.D. 6 beds, 3½ baths, garages. Karen. S200s. 1'm- Sessions focus on intellectual development, 1084 Hope Street, Providence • 454-4919 growth and well-being of the young child, Across from Blackstone Blvd,, next to Maxlmlllian's grades K-4
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Yorn Kippur - On this holy day we look in ward and pledge to act out A Day of Solemnity and Release wardly, helping others in the AN (:)ISERVANff EVE year to come. In effect, we by Sarah Baird purge our souls both physically . AVI SHAFRAN dividuals,and G-d." Therefore, ~ Herald Associate Editor and spiritually, as we address although we spend twenty-five our prayers to the heavens. Born At The Right Time Indeed For many of us, Yorn Kippur hours fasting and many of means two things in particular. those hours praying and asking So that we can immediately An ex-student, - no, a stu indulging the same cultural We anticipate a fast, long hours G-d's forgiveness in shul, we implement our vows for the dent; there's no such thing as caprice. of food-filled daydreams, and can find enormous release and coming year, we begin to pre an ex-student - thought I might I took the exit to Monsey, of we prepare to repent for our comfort during Yorn Kippur. pare for Sukkot on the day after enjoy listening to a recording course. Even had my passen sins. Yorn Kippur, the "Sabbath Together we gather with Yorn Kippur. The end of Yorn of Paul Simon's recent live con gers not been counting on me Kippur, therefore, is not about of Sabbath," however, is much other Jews to explore our trans cert in Central Park; and he for transportation, even had more than the convergence of gressions and find forgiveness. eating all of the wonderful was right. I came of age, after the traffic into the city been at things we have dreamt of in the hunger and guilt. It is a mar The forgiveness we seek, how all, to the accompaniment of all thinkable, even had my preceding twenty-five hours. velous holy day, during which ever, is only for those sins com Simon and Garfunkel and still wife consented, there was a time we look inward and hope mitted against G-d. The process The silence after the Ne'ilah find their old albums among dear talmidah anticipating my truly can be one filled with the most sublime efforts in all fully find peace within our of repentence therefore, must presence at the most important comfort and solemn release. selves and with G-d. begin before the solemn re of modern musical poetry. To event of her life elsewhere. No The fast distinguishes Yorn frains of Kol Nidrei echo thrice this day I sing one of the contest. Kippur from other days and through the halls of our syna Shabbos zemiros to the melody The cosmic return, I sup of Scarborough Fair. gives us pause to think about gogues. Those people whom pose, on my investment of a spiritual rather than mundane we have wronged must be ap As it happens, my wife and I missed opportunity was my Letters and several friends had been matters. During the service we proached prior to Yorn Kippur. talmid's gift, the tapes of the remember the hungry and If someone refuses to grant for to the heading toward New York the event. A magnetic ribbon could pledge to feed and clothe them. giveness for a wrong we have day of the concert - actually hardly be expected to hold the We confess every possible sin committed against him, and if EDITOR toward Monsey, a large Ortho experience of floating like a not only because we wish to we have asked for forgiveness dox community a couple dozen drop of water in an ocean of "cover all our bases, just in in utter sincerity three times, miles from the big city. Listen humanity, but the music was case," but rather because we then (the rabbis reason) G-d ing to the news on the radio as there - and, of course, the Dear Editors: we drove, hearing of the crowd crowd, too, in a sense, manifest seek forgiveness for the sins will forgive us. Now that the Temple committed by us as part of a Before the final service, that was gathering in Central in its powerful aural residue. Emanu-El office has the entire Park - first 100,000, then community. Ne'ilah (Shutting or Sealing), Simon did a good amount of Cemetery database computer 300,000, then an estimated his new music, the happy re According to Rabbi Joseph we attempt to make a final ized, we are moving to update 500,000 a11d climbing-, I was sults of his recent experimenta Telushkin in his invaluable peace for both the year past and all of our records. In this effort, overwhelmed at the thought of tion with African and South new resource, Jewish Literacy , the year to come with man and we are requesting that all Cem the concert scene. We were American rhythms, instru (New York: William Morrow G-d. The Ne'ilah signals the etery landowners consider travelling to Monsey to attend ments and voices. But I was and Company, Inc., 1991), symbolic shutting of the gates sending the temple office a let the wedding of a young lady particularly gratified and " Rosh Hashanah and Yorn Kip by G-d. We must try to be in ter with relevant burial in whose teachers we had all intrigued to hear the monu pur's goal is nothing less than cluded in the good new year formation for our records. been a half-dozen years earlier. mentally thunderous swell of an ethical and religious re ahead of us. Whereas on Rosh This letter should contain assessment of one's life .... The Hashanah we asked to be writ Yet when I reached the exit applause and cheers each time important data such as who has leading away from New York holiday's goal, however, is not ten in the book of blessings, on the performer sang one of his permission to be buried in the and toward our destination, I self-mortification but rather to Yorn Kippur we ask to be sealed old signature pieces from the family plot and wlrere people couldn't help but wonder what bring about reconciliation be behind the gates in the same sixties or seventies. What an are to be buried withi11 the fam it would be like to stay on the tween people, and between in- book. effect this man has had over ily plot. We will only accept highway and head straight into the decades, I marveled. And such letters from official deed Manhattan, how it would feel on so n, a11 y - the crowd was holders or their heirs. Notice to stand like a blade of grass on now estimated at nearly three Gladys Kapstein a golf course among a half-mil quarters of a million strong. The opinions presented on this page do not Cemetery Committee lion people sharing the same Not only had he entertained Chairperson necessarily represent the opinions of this establishment. park and the same music, (continued on page 16)
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Questions And Answers On The Loan Guarantee Program of Jewish Federations, agreed A final word . .. Submitted by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations to underwrite its own program Shoshana Cardin, chairman Q. What is Israel seeking? making available $900 million of the Conference of Presidents A. Early in September, Israel A. With these funds, Israel goods and machinery will be for direct loans to new immi of Major American Jewish is expected to ask the United will (a) create new employ- purchased from American sup grants. Organizations, puts it this way: States to provide guarantees ment opportunities in the pri- pliers. And the continued Q. Why should the U.S. "The successful integration for commercial loans from vale sector using the skills of arrival of hundreds of thou government extend these of the new wave of Soviet, Eth American banks for $2 bill ion the new immigrants; (b) build sands of immigrants to Israel guarantees? iopian and other Jewish immi per year for the next five years. schools, hospitals and other during the next five yea rs wil l A. Israel and the United States grants into Israeli society is not Israel is NOT requesting a institutions needed by the expand the need for consumer share an immigrant tradition, a only a current pressing chal grant, a loan or even credits growing population; (c) pro- goods, increasing the market commitment to freedom and lenge for Israel. It is one of the from the U.S. government. vide essential water, roads, for U.S . exports to Israel, which democracy, and an important most vital and noble tasks ever Q. What is a loan guar- electricity and communications reached a record $3.2 billion in strategic alliance. Because of undertaken by the State of antee? facilities for the new arrivals, 1990. this unique relationship, both Israel together with the Jewish A. A loan guarantee is like a and (d) Help immigrants ob- Q. What are the govern- countries have the potential to people. note that is co-signed. Israel tain mortgages for new homes men! and people of Israel benefit - economically, mor " President Bush and Vice wi ll borrow the money from and apartments. doing to help absorb the new all y and strategically - from President Quayle played key American commercial banks Q. What kind of credit immigrants? the successful absorption of roles in the great effort to 'let and will repay the interest and record does Israel have? A. This year Israel will spend these refugees. This is a hu our people go' from the principal. The United . States A. One of the best in the more than $6 billion, or almost manitarian issue that should U.S.S.R . and to rescue Ethi wi ll provide a guarantee to the world . Israel has never de- 20 % of her budget, on absorp not be tied to political or other opian Jewry. Many members of banks that the money will be faulted on any foreign or tion. Israeli citizens - already issues. Support for this histori c the Senate and House were repaid. Israel benefits because domestic debt or obligation. among the most heavily taxed immigration is consistent wi th especially active in the banks o ffer more favorable Moreover, unlike Egypt and in the world - have already American policy and the prin struggle. l believe they, like the interest rates and longer repay- Poland, Israel has never asked seen income taxes rise. They ciples that have guided this American people, wi ll want to ment schedules on U.S. govern- that her debts be " fo rgiven." now face a 16% to 18% sales tax country. see the job through by sup ment-guaranteed loans. The Bank of America's Coun- on .most goods and services, a Q. What can I do to help? porting this legislation and Q. How much will this cost try Ri sk Monitor, the standard 20% tax on savings accounts A. Write your Senator and thus make it possible for Israel . the American taxpayer? fo r evalua ting a country·s and an additional income tax Representative and urge them to borrow the funds so vital to A. No money will be taken credit-worthiness, rates Israel increase. For the first time iR to support the loan guarantees. helping make these new immi from the U.S. treasury, and among the top 25 of 100 coun- her hi story, Israel will spend Write your local newspapers grants productive citi zens of these guarantees will have no tries rated - ahead of Canada, more on rescuing and receiving and tell them why you support their new homeland. effect on the resources availa- Sweden and other Western new immigrants than on mili - the legislation authorizing the "This massive humanitarian ble for domestic programs. The countries. tary defense. gurantees. Call this number - effort ca nnot be carried out by only "cost" of the guarantees is Q. How will Israel be able Q. What are American Jews 1-800-92-ALIYA H - to send Israel and U.S. Jewry alone. a small percentage of the bank to repay the loans? doing to help? prepared messages of support Vast outside economic re- loan, which is set aside in a A. Israel anticipates an eco- A. By the end of 1992, the for the loan guarantees. Try to sources are required to ensure reserve fund in case any coun- nomic growth rate of 9 percent U.S. Jewish community will meet your elected officials per its success. I am confident that try defaults on its loan repay- per year for the next five years, ha ve raised or pledged $5 bil sonally; many members of the American people, through ment. This minimal cost will be thanks to the use its new immi- li on toward this effort. In April Congress are supporters but their elected representatives in subtracted from the foreign aid grants will make of the jobs the Jewish federations in North they need to hear from their the Congress, will want to par budget and will not be added and services made possible by America, through the Counci l constituents and others. ticipate as well." to the federal deficit. Also, the American bank loans. The Israel will pay the administra- new immigrants have a rich tive fees totalling several mil - potential for contributing to lion dollars a year to the U.S. Israel's society. An extraor government. dinarily high proportion of The loan guarantee to Israel them are highly trained scien will in no way limit the U.S. tists, engineers, architects, and government's ability to guar- other professionals. The econ Join Us~ For A antee domestic loans such as omic benefit for Israel will be fa rm loans and student loans. enormous if the proper level of The government already backs investment is attained to real $140 billion worth of domestic ize the potential of this unique Dessert Extravaganza. loans a year. The guarantees to brainpower. They will help Israel represent 1 percent of Israel flourish - if they are that total. given th e tools to do so. The Q. Why does Israel need to loan guarantees will help ere- The Sweetest Event In Town! borrow $10 billion now? ate those tools. A. To help the huge number Q. How will American of immigrants from the firms benefit? DATE: Sunday, September 15 U.S.S.R. and Ethiopia become A. Banks will earn interest productive, self-sustaining citi- on the loans. A healthy portion TIME: 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. zens and bring the country of the funds Israel borrows will closer to its goal of economic be spent in the United States. PLACE: Pocasset Lodge Retirement Residence independence. U.S. construction companies Q. What will Israel do with are likely to win building con- Announcing a complimentary dessert extravaganza the m~ney it borrows? tracts; raw materials, capital for Senior Citizens, their families and friends. For just one -day, put aside counting calories. 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Moda'i pro of 8,688 Soviet Jews im the Hebrew Immigrant Aid 17 hours of debate that migrated to Israel in August, stretched into the wee hours of posed that it be eliminated Society, which assists the refu entirely by 1995. and another 3,269 arrived in gees in coming here. a recent morning, Israel's Cabi the United States under the net adopted a budget that es The Cabinet's 11 -6 vote to But it is clear that Soviet Jew approve the budget took place government's refugee pro ish immigration to the United sentially says "yes" to demands ,,.,, gram, according to Jewish for increased defense spending around 1:30 a.m. on September States is still far smaller than groups monitoring the flow of and " no" to Ariel Sharon's 4 after hours of grueling debate National was originally anticipated, in over conflicting demands from emigres . . part because of slowdowns at request for more immigrant New York OTA) - Jews The August figure for Israel housing. the various ministries. In the local offices of the Soviet visa end, the governing body around the world have re is the second lowest monthly bureau, OVIR. The $33.9 billion budget for acted with shock and pro aliyah total this year and con 1992 also leaves a deficit decided on a 3 percent across Under the U.S. refugee pro the-board cut for all ministries found anger to revelations tinues a decline from the peak gram, up to 40,000 Soviet Jews equivalent to 6.3 percent of that the Lithuanian govern of 20,473 in June, according to Israel's gross national product. except Defense, which will could have entered the country receive an increase of some ment has begun pardoning statistics provided by the this fiscal year, which began While this is down from 6.9 citizens convicted by the So Soviet Jewry Research Bureau percent of GNP in the 1991 $158.6 million. last Oct. I. But with only one The Treasury had demanded viets of collaborating in Nazi of the National Conference on month left, only 22,41 2 Soviet budget, Treasury officials had war crimes. American Jew Soviet Jewry. warned that any deficit larger substantial cuts in both the Jews have arrived so far. defense and housing budgets, ish Community groups mo But the bureau also reported It is not yet clear how la~t than 5.5 percent of GNP would bilized quickly to protest the that 7,397 more Soviet Jews cause a new spiral of un in order to curb inflation. But month's failed coup in Moscow the Defense Ministry, citing the pardons, which were dis were granted entry visas to and the ensuing instability employment and inflation, closed Thursday in a report Israel in August, raising expec which is hovering around 21 need to draw lessons from the have affected Jewish emigra Persian Gulf War, had asked on the front page of The tations that aliyah would soon percent. tion. What is clear is that emi for an additional $440 million New York Times. increase. gration has not been inter Treasury officials also told Moreover, Soviet Jewish im the Cabinet that such a large every year over the next five rupted. years. In the end, Defense Min New York (JTA) - Two Bible migration to Israel so far this In a statement recently, deficit could make the United calendar year totals 105,680, States uneasy about granting ister Moshe Arens prevailed, scholars have reconstructed Shoshana Cardin, chairman of thanks to the backing of Prime a portion of the Dead Sea up from the corresponding fig the National Conference on Israel· guarantees for $ 10 bil ure of 82,454 for the first eight lion in commercial loans it is Minister Yitzhak Shamir. Scrolls from a secret concor Soviet Jewry, expressed gratifi In order to free up some dance of the text, breaking months of 1990. cation for the "continuation of now seeking for immigrant re The August figure for Soviet settlement. $220 million for the defense '" the lock a small group of emigration throughout the budget, the Cabinet cut into Jews entering the United States At a news conference re scholars have hitherto main period of change in the Soviet the allotment fo r immigrant tained on the scrolls," ac was the highest monthly total Union.'" cently, Finance Minister Yitzhak Moda'i said Israel had absorption. It did so not by cut cording to Hersha! Shanks, ti ng the amount needed to editor of the Biblical Arche "already received queries from the Americans regarding our absorb each immigrant but ology Society and publisher Correspondents Wanted rather by lowering the estimate of the new book. The Dead ability to repay the loans." If you would like to correspond for the Herald In an apparent move to as of how many immigrants will Sea Scrolls comprise the arrive during the next year most extensive documenta by writing about what is happening in your community, suage such concerns, members of the Cabinet committee on from 250,000 to 200,000. This tion extant of life in Judea contact the editor at 724-0200. freed up some $175 million during the Second Temple economic affairs convened re cently to begin discussions on previously earmarked for im period, the era to which both migrant housing. rabbinic Judaism and Chris Housing Minister Sharon tianity trace their roots. was predictably furious over the decision to reduce his Los Angeles (JT A) - A widely budget to provide for only advertised series of video 15,000 new housing units to be tapes, ·· Animated Stories built by the government next From the New Testament," The Rhode Island Jewish Herald year. He charged it was an has drawn fire from the Si '" anti-Zionist'" decision, re mon Wiesenthal Center announces its turning the country to "distant, and the Anti-Defamation dark days.'" League, both of which Defense officials greeted the charge that the videos - Cabinet decision with a sigh of abound in grotesque and relief. They had argued all sinister Jewish stereotypes l?ruDD iJ~iJ along that the requested in reminiscent of Nazi carica creases were the minimum tures. The groups have requirement to meet Israel's protested that the animated [}{]@~rn future security needs, in the videos, aimed at Christian face of a proliferation of mis children, carry the potential siles in the Middle East and a of implanting anti-Semitism general expansion of Arab mili in young viewers. The 0~1P~@wrn~rn~11 tary strength. videos were produced by the The defense budget allots Family Entertainment Net $110 million for research and work in Dallas. development projects and an O@~oo@ other $110 million to be spent International on supplies and equipment orders from Israeli civilian Jerusalem OT A) - The new industries. Soviet foreign minister, October 3, 1991 Defense officials argued that Boris Pankin, told an Israeli both allotments would play an journalist last week that important role in reducing un there is no reason to post Editorial Copy Deadline: employment and fueling an pone the Middle East peace THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, AT NOON economic recovery. conference that Moscow and But the budget battle is not - Washington are hoping to Advertising Copy Deadline: yet over. The Cabinet's ap convene in October. In a THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, AT NOON proval is only the starting point conference with Gideon in a lengthy process of delibera Kotz, of the Labor Party tions culminating in a vote by daily newspaper, Davar, the full Knesset. Pankin also said he hopes to l?@ll lllO@ll@ ~ooQ@lllllOtilOO@oo @dl00 make a visit soon to the Mid dle East, including Israel. i}~~@~@'@ PATRONIZE OUR .. . . ADVERTISERS . Jerusalem OT A) - Following Washington's lead, Israel The Rhode Island Jewish Herald will be announced recently that it accepting copy submitted by advertisers for TI{E AMERICAN HEART ASS(J:IATION was extending diplomatic the Fall 1991 Home Improvement Issue. For MEMORIAL PRCI;RAM. recognition to the three more information, call 724-0200. Baltic republics of Estonia, r:rem 611 Latvia and Lithuania. The announcement was made by Foreign Minister David Levy. Thia spacw pn)'t'tded U I public HMct, THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1991 - 7 1dassah Contributes To JNF Operation Teaching The Teachers About sites of the Auschwitz, Birk 1, The Holocaust enau, Majdnaek and Treblinka concentration camps and at by Mark Frankel tended symposia and work NEW YORK ()TA) - Holo shops. caust studies are on the cur ln Israel, they visited the ~~ ; ~;. riculum of many U.S. schools Yad Vashem Holocaust memo and colleges. rial and document center in But for those who teach the Jerusalem, the Ghetto Fighters courses, it is essential that they House in Kibbutz Lochamei feel the subject, according to Hagheta'ot in Upper Galilee Vladka Meed, author of 011 and the University of Haifa. Both Sides of the Wall, a The teachers found Poland memoir of her days in the depressing, according to Ford Warsaw Ghetto resistance. ham University Professor Meed, a vice president of the Diane Isaacs, who chairs the Jewish Labor Committee, re English Department of the cently led 41 American teach Nyack, N.Y., public schools. ers from 17 states, most of "Treblinka was just a bunch them non-Jews, on a seminar of monuments," Isaacs ob and tour of Poland and Israel ...... served . " lt's chilling to think to try to absorb the feeling she Mrs. Meed, who is quoted ex how close we came to having it described. tensively i11 the story, originated all disappear." Equally important for them, Seppinwall recalled a high U the Kennedy Memorial in Jerusalem, (I to r) Carmela t/1 e project and serves as its co she said, was to understand (almanson, outgoing Hadassah president; Moshe Rivlin, ordinator. rise complete with sun-bathers that while "6 million died, Jew NF world chairman, and Evelyn Sondheim, JNF chairper Their resistance took many next to Mila 18 in the Warsaw ish life continued . ;on for Hadassah, display the check for $100,000 given by forms, not always physical, she Ghetto. " The Holocaust had a pro fladassah for JNF's development of Israel's land for housing said. "When the plane landed in fo und influence upon Jews," 5oviet and Ethiopian olim. "The primary form of popu Israel, the feeling was liberat Meed said. "We wanted to lar resistance was dignified ing," said Isaacs. show to these teachers that not survi val, then eventually digni Meed took them to Masada, all Jews perished, that there is fied death. Almost every Jew the Israel Museum and Kum Loans still a continuation of Jewish showed some form of defi ran to demonstrate the con (continued from page 1) expect to hear from many cor ners. But the argument is fa l li fe and culture despite what ance tinuity of Jewish li fe . her when the secretary of state lacious, according to the Con happened ." ·· 1t was an intensive three " We wanted a combination, •isits Jerusalem later this ference of Presidents leaders, This was the central theme weeks both intellectually and to see what was destroyed and nonth. because providing Israel with of the seminar, she said. emotionall y," said Harriet what was not," she said. In Washington, the State the loan guarantees will cost Because Jews resisted the Lippman Seppinwall, professor The teachers seemed eager ) epartment announced that American taxpayers very little, Holocaust they ultimately of culture and teaching at the to put" into classroom practice 3aker would travel to if anything. survived. College of St. Elizabeth in the lessons absorbed in the :srael, Egypt, Jordan and The amount that will need to "There is a false image that Morristown, N.j. program. Isaacs said Meed told 3yria after visiting Mexico and be set aside in escrow to cover Jews went li ke sheep to be During their five-day stay in her during the trip: " l trust you the Soviet Union this week. any loan default will be part of slaughtered," Meed explained . Poland, the teachers visited the teachers." Meanwhile, the Conference the foreign aid package work of Presidents and the National ing its way through Congress, VolkswagenWon 't PayR eparationsTo Slave Laborers Jewish Community Relations and will have no effect on the by David Kantor The Advisory Council are gearing money available for domestic tional programs dealing with up for a massive lobbying cam BONN ()TA) - The German programs, according to Hoen automobile manufacturer the ideological heritage of Blackman paign on Capitol Hill, to per lein. Nazism. suade Congress to adopt leg Volkswagen announced re Insurance That amount is a percentage cently that it is refusing to pay Volkswagen responded that islation authorizing the loan of the- sum of the guaranteed it has no legal commitment to guarantees before the govern- . reparations to former slave Agency loans and is determined on the laborers who were exploited in pay reparations and is not in a ment's 1992 fiscal year begins position to review individual basis of the risk involved. In its factories during the Nazi 885-7110 Oct. 1. the case of Israel, which has claims expected to be filed. lt The two umbrella groups era. never defaulted on any loan, also argued that after World Richard S . Blackman, CPCU have organized a National A spokesman for Europe's the amount required for escrow War 11 , the company became, Hom eowners Leadership Action Day, Thurs biggest car manufacturer con is expected to be between 2 to a large extent, state-owned, Auto day, September 12, when fi rmed that after two years of percent and 8 percent, Hoen and that the state had already Bu sines s some 750 Jewish activists from negotiations with a group of lein said, considerably less done its share in paying repara Life 40 states are expected to con trade union activists and than some of the figures cited tions to victims of Nazi persecu verge on Washington to lobby church representatives, the two 655 Main St., E . Greenwich in recent press accounts. The tion. their senators and representa sides had failed to resolve the cost of administering the loan tives on the issue. issue. guarantees, an amount Hoen And that is only the begin The group negotiating with lein called "negligible," would Volkswagen had proposed cre ning. " We haven 't yet begun ordinarily be paid by the our efforts in full force," ating a $17 million foundation United States, but could be one that would make compensa Hoenlein said . " We hope to of the elements negotiated tion available to former slave have a million letters and tele with Israel, he said . laborers and fi nance educa- .______, grams sent to Congress and the =G~ROCER=oN=wHEELS administration over the next couple of weeks." Pawtucket 724-3114 YOUR PERSONAL GROCER One of the greatest chal • 24 -Hour Ordering Line lenges in winning both congres JACK M. 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NOAH'S ARK A newspaper for Jewish childr_.n
VOL. XIV, NO. I SEPTEMBER. 1991 / ELUL-TISHREI. 5751-5
Operation Solomon: We Took Our People Home!
The children were so ex cited to receive your pres sents! Some of the presents needed explaining. For exam ple, some of the pencils or pens were designed to look like bracelets or toys, so the children didn't know what they were. They also needed to be shown how to play Last spring, readers of NOAH'S ARK learned that about with the yoyos and how to 20,000 Jews still lived in Ethiopia and dreamed of the day play jacks. when they would be taken to Israel. NOAH'S ARK readers were asked to send packages of toys and school supplies which would be taken to the children as they waited in Yoyos and jacks are just Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. NOAH'S ARK readers small part of what they hE sent hundreds of packets! to learn. Coming from pc farming villages in Ethioi: Then, during the last weekend of May, Israel whisked the most didn't even know wl Ethiopian Jews out of Ethiopia. This amazing rescue took 40 a door knob was (they Ii\ plane trips, and an incredible amount of cooperation among in straw huts)! They did the United States, Israel, and Ethiopia. know anything about modt plumbing, such as how In July, one of the publishers of NOAH'S ARK, Debbie \:· turn on a water faucet. Israel Dubin, visited Israel. She took a suitcase stuffed with one of the classes, readers' gifts for the Ethiopian children. Thanks to the North teacher was explaining h American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry, she was able to \ to cross a street. There visit with some of the children and personally deliver your . so much to learn, but tl gifts. are learning quickly. In f: by the end of Septeml She went to the Diplomat Hotel, a big hotel in east Jeru: the children will probably salem. That's where 1300 people, the largest group of Ethio in regular school classes! pian Jews, are living and studying until they are able to live on their own in Israel. About 700 of them are children. While in Israel, Debbie met a young woman who had cc to Israel from Ethiopia in 1984. A college student now, wasn't worried about the new immigrants getting used to in Israel. "They'll become Israelis very quickly. The lsra are so happy that they are here, that I'm sure they'll I as much as they can!"
To all readers of NOAH'.S ARK who sent packages for the Ethiopians: Thank you! The children were told that All of these children were smiling and happy! None of these were "welcoming pres them seemed shy! The children, like the adults, came to ents from Jewish children Israel with only the clothes they were wearing. They weren't in the United States, Can allowed to take any suitcases or anything extra, in order to ada, and around the world. squeeze more people onto the airplanes. Once they arrived in They were so happy that Israel, they were immediately welcomed by the Israelis, who you cared enough to think brought them clothes, shoes, toys, and warm wishes. about them! - THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1991 - 9
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Do Not Destroy (Ha-Code Ha-mees-toe-ree)-Mystery Code ~ This month, NOAH'S ARK begins a new regular feature called, "Do Not Destroy." In this column, we'll share ideas Why do all holidays, including Shabbat, always for recycling and for protecting the earth. begin in the evenings?
Sukkot is the perfect time to begin. During Sukkot, Jews live in temporary hut:,, reminding us of our connection to the ~=A ~=I \!] = s environment. The crop season ends and begins again on ~ Sukkot. The first prayer for rain is said on the day after Sukkot, and then everyday for six months, until Passover. @ = D = M [I/ = T ~ When we pray for rain, we should remember how impor tant water is to our lives. When we pray for rain, we should Q = E -Q- = N 0 = V not waste the water we already have. Here is a simple way to see how much water you might be wasting everyday. I)= G = 0 um= w What You Need: a pencil J)=H = R OJ = y a measuring cup a sink with a plug your toothbrush " toothpaste ))0 0 What You Do:
1. Plug the sink. Turn on the water and let it continue to run as you brush your teeth. Rinse your mouth and 0 tr! 0 D toothbrush. Then, turn off the water. Using the pencil, mark how high the water is. 2. Unplug the sink and drain the water. Now plug the sink 0 again.
3. Refill the sink to the pencil mark, using a measuring cup. -- ' Count how many cups you used. How many ounces did I) you use? (1 cup = 8 ounces. 8 cups = 64 ounces or 1 gallon.) Unplug the sink.
4. Now plug the sink again. Brush your teeth again, but " turn on the water only when you actually need it to H -,~- o rinse your mouth and toothbrush, .,- .,- . _,_ 5. Mark how high the water is now. Let the water out. Plug the sink again and measure how much water you NOAH'S ARK used. A Newspaper for Jewish Children 6. Subtract the amount of water you used the second time .... -- Linda Freedman Block from the amount you used the first time. Now you know and Debbie Israel Dubin how much water you waste if you don't turn the water Publishers/Editors ~ - off when you brush your teeth. Multiply that by 2 if you :\ ,>/ ,(_ ~- ' ., Nachman, Illu strat ions brush in the morning and at night. ,., ,. . Goldie Knobler, Mickey Brodsky, Miriam Israel, Ada Dubin, and Bernard Dubin, Circu lation
7. Multiply that number times the number of people m H.'12."I ,','outhu. ·t•sl Fn·,•u·oy. Suit,, 2.50 your family to figure out how much water is wasted at In July, NOAH'S ARK's Houston, '/hns 7707 1 7 I .'J/771 - 714:1 your house everyday. Now multiply that number times co-publisher put readers' letters into the cracks of the kotel, the Copyright 1991 (c) NOAH'S ARK 365 to see how much water is wasted in a year! last remaining wall of the area ISSN: 0892-4945 around the Holy Temple: We * * * * * * * * * * * hope your prayers are answered! /1uli1·idu,d .,uh.,rn(llum., 11n· ~ .'io. (!, 11 f/11 ( 'mmdn. S/t .'ifl (<1n~1.:11J M u,f l1< • f""'' m I ' S ,urn·nr, ur 1n//1 i11t,·mt1/u,r111/ "'""''" or-d, ·r. fHl\nhl,· m I ' S dul/11,.,_, tmd If you have an idea for this column, send it to: "Do Not m,,y /1<• ,,,y/,•n·,/ fn,m th,• lit"""''·'
by Sarah Baird litical and social innocence. Herald Associate Editor stage. Dolores Dermody de The dramatic introduction, serves special recognition for "Cabaret." however, of the Nazi party in to an outstanding performance. The name itself has the the world of the cabaret is per The current staging of power to awaken the dark fectly in tune with the obscene " Cabaret" provides an enjoy ghosts of Berlin 's dance hall s leer of the Emcee and the ex able evening of entertainment. with their high steps and wild posed nesh of the chorus line. Entertainment, however, is abandon backed by strains of The musical numbers work hardly what " Cabaret" is really dissonant music. Based on the magic by charming and then about. The terrible undertones book by Joe Masteroff and the shocking the complacent audi and ironic seductions of the play by John Van Druten, the ence. Meanwhile, the drum dance numbers have the power musical (by Christopher Isher ming, sexual beat goes on, to challenge the audience, pos wood with music by John Kan while the Nazi opportunists ing questions about apathy, in der and lyrics by Fred Ebb), is a consolidate power and pro dulgence and self-preservation. hauntingly seductive ta le about pagandize. " Cabaret" can stun the audi the grim frenzy of decadence City Nights Dinner Theatre ence with its cynicism or, as the and apathy gripping Germany in Pawtucket currently is stag Pawtucket production tends to Dolores Dermody as Sally and Lawrence Calabro as the on the eve of the dreadful Third ing "Cabaret" through October do, it can keep the audience Emcee. Reich. 6. With Dolores Dermody as roaring with amusement and these rude awakenings are his name, finally sees the direc "Cabaret" is a remarkable Sally and Thomas J. Coughlin good cheer. Awful songs like anomalies rather than culmina tion in which Germany is head musical for many reasons. The as Cliff, the City Nights' produc "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" tions of the story line. ing and tries to alert Sall y to the main characters enchant, while tion captures the gay spirit of and " What Would You Do?" In keeping with the slapstick danger. The danger, like a can the choru s thrills the fascinated Berlin in late 1929, early 1930. remind us to think about the tone of the production, the au cer, has grown into Sally, and audience. Fabulously funny With strong voices wrought implications of keeping silent dience laughs at the closing line she is unable or unwillingly to and soul-stirring songs lull us with heavy bravadoes, the two in the face of oppression. But in of " If You Could See Her." In break away from the destiny of into a manipulated state of po- young lovers dominate the the Pawtucket presentation, this odd and jarring song, the chauvinistic Germany. . Emcee, a fantasy character, Sally becomes a broken dances with a monstrous ape record of pithy slogans, which and sings of his love for her. He sound more and more hollow explains that if only you could until at last the entire cabaret is see his lover the way he sees exposed as a li e. " Where are her, then you, too, would love your troubles now?" the Emcee her. The last line concludes: coos at the audience. " Forgot "She wouldn't look Jewish at ten. I told you so!" all 1" The irony of the ugly line In fact, nothing is forgotten, was utterly lost on opening as we anticipate t_he im minent night, as the audience laughed threat of genocide in the shad NEW RIVERS and applauded in ignorant ows of the bright stage lights. Beachcomber bliss. The hilarious cabaret slowly an amer ican bistro Cliff, the clever American fades into a somber graveyard LUNCHEON * * * * * writer with no publications to peopled by a macabre chorus. 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Wolf of Pawtucket, R.I . around the state. I've about run and artists who have their fund-raising activities for other Ms. Wolf, a full-time art in out by now. works on display in their nonprofits such as Sojourner structor and practicing artist, is It's tough explaining to film offices to the Rhode Island House and the American Can a graduate of Rhode Island majors that not showing action community. cer Society, often utilizing School of Design. She has been can prove more powerful than B.H.H. Consulting has made actors and designers from featured at the Fitchburg Art getting down and dirty. gallery space available through Bright Lights Theater Co. Museum, Fitchburg, Ma., the In "Spartacus" Senator out their East Side offices in a All proceeds for any works N.E. School of Art and Design, Charles Laughton has to take newly established entity that are purchased through the Boston and Art Galleries his own noble life. He sets his named Gallery At B.H. H. for Gallery are kept by the artist. throughout New England. mouth, wraps his toga, and artists to exhibit their works in Both principals with back Deborah Norman, local busi steps back behind a veil. It 's all What made " Truly, Madly, a professional atmosphere - grounds in nonprofit theater, nesswoman and owner of the we need. That's class. Deeply" so far and away better at no cost to them. realized from both their finan French restaurant, the Rue De In "Tatie Danielle" a wicked than our "Ghosts"? It used Elaine Rakatansky and cial planning perspective and L'Espoir of Providence is an old woman drives her kindly words instead of makeup to David Brochu, owners of personal experience, that up other exhibitor who, a U.R.I. maid up a stepladder to clean bring the actors to life. They B.H.H. Consulting Inc. , upon coming artists always appreci graduate, continued her train the chandelier. We don't watch said things. It spent some time moving into their East Side ate assistance in obtaining ing at R.I.S.D. her fall among shattered glass. on rats, not just human bodies office at 126 Waterman St., visibility. Free gallery space, Any artist, interested in They just edited all that right doing things. Best of all, it realized that the walls and open to the public and exposure showing his or her work at out. The French import at the pulled you into several direc halls of their new home pro to the fir111s' clients has beco111e B.H .H., should contact Sean Avon and the Cable Car asks tions all at once, instead of tell vided the ideal gallery space 1>ery pop11lar. Giles, who is gallery manager. the same question we find in ing you where to step and what fo r artists to exhibit their talent. Included among the 15 art He will put them on the wait Tanach - why? to feel. Pawtucket native, Elaine ists who are being presented at ing list for upcoming space " Dead Again" at Showcases "The Doctor" fin ally got me, Rakatansky is a graduate of Gallery at B.H.H. is Argen availability. starts out with mood and but it left me cold. Throat can Brown University '66 and Paw tinean Sara Neumeyer. The open house will be on allure. But the scene with cer hits a heart surgeon, Bill tucket West High School, '62. Her twenty-five year career Sunday, September 29, and all spurts of blood and jabs of scis Hurt. It scared me physically, Mother of two children, she of ex hibiting internationally in are welcome to come meet the sors in the last five minutes but didn't reach me spirituall y. renewed her ever-present cludes art shows in South artists for champagne and hors cops out and kills the eerie I didn't care. It tried too hard to interest in theatre by enrolling America, Canada, the United d'oeuvres from 3 to 7 p.m. For tone. It makes literal what make me care. It put down a in th e Trinity Repertory Con States and Israel. Highlights information call 273-8982. could have been suggested, woman doctor and a black tech servatory in I 979. Upon com held back. nician so that we could center pleting the program, she joined "Thelma and Louise" just on just the one hero - with his forces with another Trinity Rep won't go away. It hit me as small eyes and sturdy jaw. He co nservator, Patrick Garner, to very authoritarian, not "radi gets a crush on Liz McGowan launch an 'off-Trinity' non- cal" at all. The big cop runs who hides her bald head from around trying to do good. So brain cancer treatments under Art Exhibition we won't lose faith in the male a s/i eital. But he never makes Artist Linda Allen will be ex system. Meanwhile the girls out with her. That might shock hibiting her work at the Sarah shoot 'em up and then drive off us and wreck the fake solemn Doyle Gallery, which is located a cliff. Truffaut did this kind of tone. I told my movie compan in the Sarah Doyle Women's thing decades ago, much much ion I found " Doctor" too Center, 185 Meeting Street, better. ''straightforward." Providence, RI. The show will "Straight out of Brooklyn" I' ve made up a movie jargon open Sa turday, September 14, moved along that culture trail of my own. " Porn " mea ns 199 1 and continue through Sat from Thayer to South Main. A "corn ." Parents worry about urday, October 5, I 991. The bl ack teenager made it, with ki ds seeing too much viol ence pi eces are photographs and refreshing awkwardness and or sex . I worry more about drawings of mi xed media. The sin ce rity. He doesn't bl ame a them seeing too much standard ex hibition is free and open to stock vill ain for his tragedy. He stuff. Literal junk smothers the public. imagination and deadens ten risks an ironic plot and builds Gall ery hours: Monday- der ta stebuds. You can censor th e portraits of women into a Thursday, 9 am-10 pm; Friday, or rate images. But what dam trul y affecting chorus. The set 9 am-3 pm. Please call for ages the minds of youth is is a brick proj ect. The famil y weekend hours. self-destructs, from within. "entertainment." We could all You only meet one white guy, do with a bit less padded pap Patronize a fellow who drives up to a sta and more - dare I use the ti on for gas. It's really a fine word? - poetry. our pi ece of work, free from stock advertisers! formula. It aims higher, though it comes from lower. AMF LANG'S THE MEADOWBROOK CINEMA Get the facts! BOWLARAMA 2452 Warwick/we ., Wa rwick Wed. SEPT. 25 THRO ACROSS FROM SUPER STOP & SHOP 225 Niantic Avenue, Cranston Read the Herald! DAILY MATINEES - 2 PM ...... 11.00 and ALL SHOWS - MON. & TUES. EVES ... 11,00 Sun.SEPT.29 VIC MICHAEL'S SHOWING DAILY MATINEES START· @PROVIDENCE CIVIC CENTER HAVE CAR, SOUND COMPANY ING FRIDAY: Harley Davidson & The WAYSTOGET Marlboro Man, Mobsters, Pu111 Luck *PERFORMANCES* 3 WILL TRAVEL. present SHOWING. EVENINGS: Harley Wed. 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Events At The JCCRI: Week Of Sept. 13-19 B'nai B'rith Membership
The Jewish Community Cen- ercise is scheduled on week sponsored by the JCCRI and Campaign ter of Rhode Island, located at days at 11:15. A women's the Rochambeau Branch of the The New England Member new members. B'nai B'rith will 401 Elmgrove Avenue in Provi- group meets every Tuesday Providence Public Library, ship Cabinet of B'nai B'rith has extend recruitment efforts to dence, begins the New Year morning from 11 -11 :45. Friend meets monthly to discuss mys announced plans for a major include the newly created Pub with a wide variety of classes, to Friend meets Thursdays tery books and authors and to membership campaign to take lic Affairs Unit. activities, events and volunteer from 11 a.m. until noon. Bingo plan for programs (such as place throughout Massachu Ann Gaffin and Carole Mill opportunities. For further inf or- is played on Thursdays from bringing in local authors to setts, R.I. , Vermont, New man will represent the Planta mation on the listings below, 12 :45 until 2 p.m. Shabbat tra speak). Club members are is Hampshire and Maine. B'nai tions Unit of Rhode Island. call the Center at 861-8800 and ditions are observed on Fri sued discount cards which enti B'rith currently ma1ntains a B'nai B'rith International cur ask for the person indicated. days. Sundays begin with tea, tle them to a 10 % discount on membership of nearly 6,000 in rently sponsors the B'nai B'rith coffee and hot muffins served books purchased at Murder By the five-state area. Youth Organization (BBYO) Flea Market at 10 a.m., followed by movies the Book, 1281 North Main Cabinet Chairman Bob and Hillel Foundations on col The Annual JCCRI Flea Mar- or VCR programs. Special Street, Providence. The next Golden stated that the goal of lege campuses. The organiza ket, a fundraising event, wil l be events include: meeting will be held at the the campaign was to s1gn 500 tion also sponsors the B'nai held September 15, from 9 a.m. Friday, Sept. 13 : VCR pro Center on Monday, September new members by December B'rith Senior Citizens Housing to 2 p.m., rain or shine. Sundry gram, "I'm in Love With Paris," 16, at 7:30 p.m. Call Lisa Yanku 1991. program which develops af second-hand articles wil l be on 1 I a.m., Shabbat. for details. B'nai B'rith community and fordable housing for low sale for bargain hunters. Call Sunday, Sept. 15: JCCRI Flea industry groups throughout income elderly of all ethnicities Sandy Bass or Paula Waldman Market, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., rain or Get Fit the Region will sponsor special and backgrounds. for details. , shine. The Jewish Community Cen programs in a massive out For further information, con Please note that the Center ter of Rhode Island, located at reach effort targeting potentia!' tact Ann Gaffin at (401) 751- will be closed on September 18 401 Elmgrove Avenue in Provi 2663. Special Event for Seniors for Yorn Kippur. Call Sandy dence, offers a full range of A special "Fall Fun" outing Bass for more information. classes through its Health and Sholom Chapter Pioneer Women for seniors is planned for Physical Education/ Aquatics On June 4th Sholom Chap Sholom Chapter will hold its Thursday, September 19. After For Youth Department that are designed ter Pioneer Women held its in meeting on September 25 at lunch at Archie's Tavern in The Outdoor Club (for stu to meet the fitness needs of stallation dinner. The officers 7:30 p.m. sharp. The meeting Pawtucket, the group will dents in grades 9-12) is plan preschoolers to seniors. installed for the I 991-1992 will be held at Fitness for Life, travel to 7 Arrows Herb Farm in ning a day trip to Block Island For parents looking for a safe year are: Robert Blum, presi 2348 Post Road, Warwick, R.I. Seekonk for a tour of the 18th on Sunday, September 15. The and supportive environment to dent; Debra Deletetsky, vice Please dress casually and bring century herb and perennial gar fee ($10 for Club members; $15 introduce their toddlers to the president for programming; sneakers. dens. For more information or for non-members) includes fun of fitn ess, the Center offers Joan Tebrow, vice president for Pioneer Women Sholom reservations, call Sandy Bass. round trip bus transportation to Parent/Tot Gym. Adult and membership; Sandra Gar Chapter will hold a member Galilee, ferry ticket and bever child play together in carefully finkel , secretary; Idelle Nathan, ship tea on October 3 at 7:30 Kosher Mealsite age. Participants should bring planned activities, such as treasurer; Holly Sil,verman, cor p.m. Please contact Joan at Seniors are invited to join in their own lunch. The bus will crawling, jumping, finger plays responding secretary. 822-0434. a variety of activities and to en leave the Center at 8;45 a.m. and games, promoting the de joy a hot kosher meal at noon at and return at approximately 5 velopment of motor skills and the Kosher Mealsite at the Cen p.m. To reserve a space, call ,awareness of body and space. Cranston Historical Society ter. The doors open weekdays Evy Rappoport. 'The Parent/Tot Swim Class in The President of the Paw Panichas's talk will be an illus at IO a.m., with casual conver Mystery Buffs of RI troducies babies and toddlers to tucket Historica l Society will trated presentation. sation in the lobby until 11 . Ex- the water with the comfort and be guest speaker at the Sep The 7:30 p.m. meeting will In its third year, this club co- (continued on next page) tember 17 kickoff ( 1991 -92) be a't the society's headquarters meeting of the Cranston His in the Sprague Mansion, 1351 torical Society, Cranston Street. A brief busi Denise Panichas's topic will ness meeting will precede the Join thousands of readers who know what's going be " This Is Our City." She will guest speaker and refresh discuss the city of Pawtucket's ments will round out the eve on in the Rhode Island Jewish Community Children's Educational Project. ning. Eden Garden Club Of Temple Beth-El On Thursday, September 19, Martha Finger, Jan Friedman, Subscribe To _The the Eden Garden Club of Tem Lillian Strauss, Dorothy ple Beth-El will meet at the Kramer, Goldie Greene, and Regency Community Room at Frances Sadler. 1:3 0 p.m. The program will'in Guests are welcome. Reser clude a demonstration on dried vations must be made by Sep RJHIODE !§LAND flowers by Henrietta Thomas. tember 12 by calling 272-0623 Hostesses for the day are or 884 -2903.
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THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1991-13 Temple Torat Yisrael Temple Emanu-EI ======Temple Tora! Yisrael has with the professional staff. the warmth and spirit of shab prepared for its Midweek and Coming events for the rest of Early Kabbalat Shabbat brew), or helping in set up, bat at Temple Emanu-El. TOT Sunday School classes during the month will include: Service Schedule please contact Beatrice Swift at SHALOM provides age-ap Early Kabbalal Shabbat September '91. The schedule is Sunday, Sept. 15 - First day 331-5988 or Karen Beraha at propriate activities in three as follows: of school with a special parent Services will begin on Friday, 722-1506. separate groups: September 27, this year. These Thursday, Sept. 5, 7:30-9:30 workshop for parents of chil Please make a note of the 6 months to 3 years, 3 and 4 informal services are designed School Staff Orientation dren in the preschool Yeladon dates for EKS below: years old, and 5 and 6 years for temple members of all ages. where the entire faculty met Program. 1991 - September 27, Octo old. We meet in the Bohnen Vestry. ber 18, November 22, and with the temple president, Monday, Sept. 16 - Midweek The program has been sched Shabbat z'mirot precede December 13. principal, Rabbi and Cantor classes at Southern Campus uled for 10:30 a.m. on the fol each service and begin at 5:45 1992 - January 10, February and the school committee to Warwick begin. lowing dates: p.m. The prayers are lead by 28 (Study Weekend), March initate the new academic year. Thursday, Sept. 19 - Mid 1991 - •september 21, Octo volunteers from the congrega 27, May 1, and June 12. Wednesday, Sept. 11 week classes at Cranston ber 5, •october 26, November tion. A story for children (and Aleph Parlor Meeting where begin. Tot Shalom - Shabbat Program 16, and December 14. adults!) highlights the service. parents of all children in the For additional information, TOT SHALOM is a program 1992 - January 25, •February We conclude with a kiddush midweek Hebrew School met contact Mrs. Picker, Principal for young families who like to 1, February 29, March 14, (including challah, chopped and were briefed on their chil at Temple Torat Yisrael at 785- bring their children to Temple. •April 18, April 25, May 9, liver, nuts, raisins and herring dren's Jewish Education ahead 1890. Parents have a chance to enjoy •May 23, and June 6. salad) at 6:45 p.m. We services while their children ·Additional dates not listed welcome congregation mem experience a shabbat play on the sisterhood calendar. Congregation Sons Of Jacob Synagogue bers of all ages. group suitable to their needs Please register your children Any one (child or adult) and interests. in advance. We look forward to Friday, September 13, Five Tuesday, September 17 : interested in conducting serv Our professional staff will seeing them at Temple for TOT days in TISHREI. Erev Shab Erev Yorn Kippur. Candlelight ices (either in English or He- introduce young children to SHALOM. bos Shuva. Candlelighting is at ing is 6:30 p.m. Shacharit is 6:41 p.m. Shacharit is 6:45 a.m. 6:45 a.m. Mincha is 2 p.m. Mincha is 6:45 p.m. Ma'ariv is Wednesday, September 18 - Mashgiach uses a U with a circle around it. involved in education cam 7:41 p.m. Yorn Kippur. Shacharit is 8 The letter K is not a registered paigns at some point during my Saturday, September 14, a.m. Yiskor is 11 :15 a.m. (continued from page 1) trade mark, so that anybody travels and to try to have an Six days in TISHREI: Shabbos Mincha is 5:30 p.m. Neilah is meat products and kosher and hypothetically could put a let outreach fair during the year in Shava. Shacharit is at 8:30 a.m. 6:30 p.m. Ma'ariv is 7:30 p.m. non-kosher products are not ter Kon their product and trick which we'll have different Mincha followed by Shalosh From the synagogue to all of mixed together. It's also impor people into thinking it's kosher. groups and topics; one will be Seudos at 6:45 p.m. Ma'ariv our friends and supporters, a tant to ensure that other gen " We do our best and we try to on Kashrut." followed by Havdalah at 7:40 most meaningful healthful, eral Jewish laws are not vio create a situation where as p.m. content month, and under lated during production." many people can have access to Sunday, September 15 - standing new 5752. There are a number of Kosher kosher supervision as possible. Morning services are at 7:45 A most happy and blessed symbols to look for when shop There are some areas where we a.m. new year! ping for Kosher products. Lo sort of like to see an increase in cally made foods have the Vaad standards and we work to INCORPORATED Kashrut of R.I. symbol, a K with wards trying to help ... but for The JCCRI three points of a star circling the most part we are always (continued from previous page) the top. The oldest and largest looking for more.. .for other Kashrut supervisory organiza people who are interested in safety of a parent. to enjoy dramatically reduced The Center has a variety of tion is the Union of Orthodox becoming kosher. That's our chlorine levels. In addition, the Jewish Congregations which general mission. I hope to get children's team sports, includ pool is equipped with a Nolan ing micro-soccer, tag football, hydraulic lift that allows the speedball, racquetball and bas physically challenged to be ketball. Children as young as 4 lifted safely and comfortably Miriam Hospital Art Exhibit years can enjoy and learn from "Unique Personalized into and out of the water. Se The works of employees and and at the Surgi-Center in the participating in these sports Children's Gifts" niors particularly enjoy getting volunteers of the Miriam Rosalie and Norman Fain where they gain not only phys exercise by swimming at the Hospital are exhibited in the Health Center building. Mr. PRICES STARTING AT $5 ical skill, but the experience of JCCRI. lobby of the hospital for the Lieberman has been a member Rocking Chairs Wall Mirrors working as a team member. For further information patients, visitors and interested of the Providence Art Club, the Clothes Trees Doll Cradles For adults, a variety of exer Bulletin Boards Toy Chests about the many programs and public. Cambridge (Mass.) Art Associa cise and fitness classes are Student Desks Bookends classes offered by the Center's During the month of Sep tion and the Pawtucket Arts scheduled mornings and Clocks Lamps Health and Physical Educa tember, there will be a display Council. ... and much more evenings and include aerobics, tion/ Aquatics Department, of Linear Reliefs, Paper Mul His works have been shown step aerobics and total body please call Elliott Goldstein or tiples, by Abbott Lieberman. in R.I. , Mass., and Conn. and (401) 946-8885 workout. Other classes, such as By appointment only. Patty Gold at 861-8800. He is a hospital volunteer in he has won numerous awards. water workout and swimnas the ICU / CCU waiting room Jodi Miller aud Marcy Grano.lJ tics can help improve en Yizkor Service durance, strength and body The days between Rosh setts will cosponsor a Yizkor tone in an alternative exercise Hashanah and Yorn Kippur are service on September 15 at 11 environment, the olympic size traditional times for Jews to re a.m. in the Garden of the Mu PROPERTY MANAGEMENT INC. pool. Center members are enti member their lost loved ones seum (weather permitting). tled to use of a fully equipped Choose an apartment in any one of by visiting gravesites. But for Names from the Book of Re exercise room, complete with our buildings and live your way. millions of Jews killed in the membrance will be read aloud Universal gym, floor equip Holocaust, there are no graves. during this memorial service. Blackstone Boulevard- Wayland Square ment, a stairclimber, treadmill The Rhode Island Holocaust Those wishing to add names of Courtyard, fireplace, garage, and free weights. Qualified Memorial Museum, the Rhode Holocaust victims to the Book 24-hour service, air conditioning staff members are available for Island Survivors and Second and to have those names read instruction in equipment use. Studio, 1-2 bedrooms starting at $380 Generation of Rhode Island aloud should call Beth Cohen The Center's swimming pool Evening and Weekend Appointments Available and Southeastern Massachu- at 861-8800. has several features that make 217 Waterman Street, Providence• 831-5995 it an enjoyable place to exer Have an opinion? Express it in a letter to the editor. cise. Water temperature is maintained at approximately 85°F. 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MARION S. BROWN children, and four great-grand Chiropody in 1924, and the ( ______R_E_A_D_T_H_E_H_E_R_A_L_D_! ---~) PROVIDENCE - Marion S. children. lllinois College of Chiropody Brown, 86, of the Jewish Home The funeral service was held in 1926. He was a member of for the Aged, 99 Hillside Ave., September 6 at Mount Sinai Temple Emanu-EI, and an hon .-- .. ... ,.;.,~k;\~\\}.i:\-,>, .: : died Tuesday, September 3, Memorial Chapel, 825 Hope orary member of its board of 1991, at the home. She was the St., Providence. Burial was in directors. He was past presi widow of Jacob Brown. Sinai Memorial Park, Warwick. dent of the Men's Club at the RUBIN MEMORIALS!~*'ttt~V(: Born in Providence, she was temple, and the Men's Club treasurer for 19 years. Monuments and memorials E.:.:.: a daughter of the late Philip and Rose (Sass) Blumenthal. IRVING M. KRITZ He received the Man of in the finest iranite and hronze. Mrs. Brown was a sales clerk EAST PROVIDENCE - Irv Emanu-EI Thallis Award. He ln-lwuse con.ml tations hy appoinrment for the Outlet Co., and the for ing M. Kritz, 84, of 27 Arthur was a master of Redwood LETTERING • CLEANING • REPAIRS mer C ladding's Store for 20 Ave., founder and owner of the Lodge 35 AF & AM during years before retiring 17 years fo rmer Scott Jeweler's that had 1956-1957. He was a member Leon J. Ruhin 726-6466 ago. She was a member of been in Woonsocket and Provi of the Palestine Temple of Affiliated with Charles G. Morse Granite Company Temple Emanu-EI, the Majestic dence for nine years before Shriners. He was a past presi Senior Guild, and the Jewish retiring in 1971, died Saturday, dent of the Rhode Island Podi Home for the Aged. September 7, 1991, at Miriam atric Medical Association, and She leaves two sons, Fred Hospital. He was the husband a member of the American and Brown of Fern Park, Fla., and of Estelle (Pollock) Kritz. Rhode Island Podiatric Medical MT. SINAI MONUMENTS Phillip Brown of Pawtucket; a Born in Providence, a son of Associations. daughter, Toby Smolokoff of the late Julius and Molly (Burg) Dr. Kumins was a member Our owner, Mitchell. .. his father and Huntington, Long Island, N.Y.; Kritz, he lived in East Provi of the Toastmasters, the Jewish grandfather. .. have been privileged to provide a brother, Herman Blumenthal dence for 20 years. Home for the Aged, the Rhode of Warwick; two sisters, Belle Mr. Kritz was previously as Island Jewish Federation, the over 8,000 monuments in RI Jewish Cemeteries Klasky of Swampscott, Mass., sociated with the Kay Jewelry Providence Hebrew Day since the 1870s for two reasons ... the quality and Esta Lipson of Mission Co. for 35 years as supervisor School .and the Providence Viejo, Calif.; seven grandchil of their stores throughout New Hebrew Free Loan Association. is the finest and the price is the lowest dren and a great-grandson. She England. After retiring in 1971 , Besides his wife he leaves a Call 331-3337 for assistance. was sister of the late Reuben, he became active in SCORE. In son, Dr. Richard C. Kumins of Lewis, and Barney Blumenthal, I 983, he was awarded the Providence; a daughter, and the late Etta Halpert SCORE " Man of the Year Rosanne Kumins of Boston; a Adelman. Award." He was a member of sister, Irene Miller of Miami, The funeral service was held Temple Beth-EL He was a Fla., and two grandchildren. Thursday, September 5, at the member of the Ledgemont He was brother of the late Sugarman Memorial Chapel, Country Club, and chairman of Leona Karnes. 458 Hope St., Providence. its membership and house com The funeral service was held Burial was in Congregation mittees. He was a member of Friday, August 30, at Temple B'nai Israel Cemetery, Woon the Touro Fraternal Associa Emanu-EI, Morris Avenue. Your are invited w anend socket. tion, the Hebrew Free Loan, Burial was in Sharon Memorial and Miriam Hospital. He was a Park, Sharon, Mass. Arrange SHARON MEMORIAL PARK'S FANNIE HERMAN member of the Jewish Home ments were by the Sugarman 43rd ANNUAL MEMORIAL SERVICE PROVIDENCE - Fannie for the Aged, and the Doric Memorial Chapel, 458 Hope Herman, 90, of South Angell Masonic Lodge. St. , Providence. SUNDAY.SEPTEMBER 15, 199 1 • 10:00a.m. Street died Wednesday, Sep Besides his wife he leaves a BERTHA LECHT at Sharon's Outdoor tember 4, 1991 , at Miriam daughter, Elaine Jacobs of Lex JACOB GROSSMAN MEMORIAL CHAPEL-IN-THE-WOODS Hospital. She was the widow PROVIDENCE Bertha ington, Mass.; a sister, Hen Lecht, 87, of The Jewish HomE of Myron Herman. rietta Bernstein of Springfield, O FFlC lA TlNG for the Aged, 99 Hillside Ave. . Born in New York, a daugh Mass., and two grandchildren. RABB! BARRY STARR ter of the late Samuel and Ber a production worker at the for· The funeral service was held mer American Silk Spinninf Temple Israel, Sharon tha Shapiro, she lived in Provi Wednesday, September 11 , at dence for more than 50 years. Co. for 40 years before retirint CANTOR MARILYN BECKER Mount Sinai Memorial Chapel, in the early 1960s, diec She previously lived in New 825 Hope St., Providence. Temple Adas-Hadreth Israel, Hyde Park Bedford, Mass., and Fall River, Wednesday, September 4 Burial was in Lincoln Park 1991, at Miriam Hospital. Sh, ORGANIST Mass. Cemetery, Warwick. Mrs. Herman was co- was the wife of the late Davie CANTOR THEODORE SCHNEIDER founder with her husband SO DR. ALBERT KUMINS Lecht. Temple B'nai Moshe, Brighton years ago of the Herman's Fur PROVIDENCE - Dr. Albert Born in Russia, she wa daughter of the late Abe an, In case of cancellarion due ro weather listen ro Radio WEE/ in rhe morning niture Galleries, Westminster Kumins, 86, of Taft Avenue, a Street. She was a member of podiatrist in Providence for 60 Sophie (Danoff) Shore. Sh, Temple Emanu-El and its Sister years before retiring five years lived in Providence most of he hood, the Jewish Federation of ago, died Wednesday, August life. Rhode Island, and the Women's, 28, 1991, at home. He was the Mrs. Lecht was a member c Associations of the Jewish husband of Edith (Cornman) Congregation Sons of Jaco DO YOU KNOW? Home for the Aged and Miriam Kumins. Synagogue. Hospital. Born in Whitman, Mass., a She leaves a daughte: The records at the Sugarman Memorial Chapel of your She leaves two daughters, son of the late Maurice and Esther Yanku of Cranston; family's past funeral practices and preferences are the only Selma Savage of Cranston and Rosella (Sherman) Kumins, he son, Askill " Phil" Lecht c such records dating back to the 1930s. Eleanor Sacks of Akron, Ohio; lived in Providence since 1934. Providence; seven grandchi (continued on next page) More often than not, our records are·the only reliable a sister, Lillian Feinberg of Dr. Kumins was a graduate source of a family's Yahrtzeit dates; Hebrew names; maiden Hollywood, Fla.; four grand- of the Middlesex School of names; etc. That is probably why we are asked to provide such information to area Jewish families more than 100 times each month. For over 40 years, the owner of Mount Sinai More than just a funeral home. Memorial Chapel. .. Mitchell ... has served Rhode Island Sugarman Jewish families over 8 ,000 times ... as a professional Jewish Memorial Chapel funeral director. .. as did his father and grandfather since the 1870s... with honesty and integrity. One of the reasons why the majority of Rhode Island Jewish families call MOUNT SINAI MEMORIAL CHAPEL 331-3337 458 Hope Street, Providence, Comer of Doyle.Ave. Telephone: 331-8094 Out of State: 1-800-447-1267 825 Hope at Fourth Streets Michael D. Smith, Executive Director Lewis J. Bosler, R.E. Pre-need counseling with Please call From out of state PLEASE CALL OR STOP IN FOR YOUR 1991-1992 (5752) tax-free payment planning for your call: JEWISH HERITAGE CALENDAR is available. New Year calendar. 1-800-331-3337 I THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1991 15 ======Classified wick before moving to Rocky Shore Circle, general manager Obituaries Hill in 1978. at I. Medoff Co., Woonsocket, ENTERTAINMENT INTRODUCTION SERVICES (continued from previous page) On June 20, 1986, Mrs. Till for more than 50 years, retiring was the first woman heart in 1973, died Thursday, Sep STEVE Y0KEN ENTERTAINMENT - Profes JEWISH DATING SERVICES: Personal ser dren and ten great-grandchil transplant recipient at Hartford sional Master of Ceremonies and Disc vice at its best. Call Bern ice 508 -998 -1233. tember 5, 1991, at Miriam Jockey. Bar/ Bat Mitzvah specialisls. 9/26/ 91 dren. Hospital She was a member of Hospital. He was the husband N.Y. laser light Show Plus Male/Female The funeral was held Thurs Nu-Hearts at the hospital. of Jennie "Jean" (Zukroff) Dancing Sensations. THE PARTY PLAN day, September 5, at Sugarman Besides her husband, she Sweet. NERS . CHOICE 508-679-1545. SERVICES RENDERED Memorial Chapel, 458 Hope leaves a brother, Julius Rap Born in Providence, a son of 1/ 31 /92 St., Providence. Burial was in paport of Pawtucket. She was the late Jacob and Bella MERCURIO PAINTING. Interior & Exterior FOR RENT Lincoln Park Cemetery, War the sister of the late Arnold (Fromm) Sweet, he lived in painting & papering. Expert work . prompt wick. service and low rates . Book now lor Fall Rappaport. East Providence for 18 years, EAST SIDE · East of Hope • Sparkling, spa Sav,ngsI Our work speaks for ilself. Insured, MAX POLLACK The graveside funeral serv- previously living in Lincoln. cious 3 bed. new appliances. garage. L,c #5264. 461 -3813. 7/ 9/92 Mr. Sweet owned a dry $695.00. Bayside, 521 -9897. 9/ 19/ 91 HOLL YWOOD, Fla. _ Max ice was held Friday, September TIRED OF COOKING? Qualified , experienced Pollack, 82, of 3800 Hilllcrest 6, at Sharon Memorial Park, goods store in Apponaug in EAST SIDE. 2nd. 3 bedroom. air condition cook with references will cook lor you in Dr., died Monday, August 19, Sharon, Mass. 1929 before joining the Medoff ing, garbage disposal. appliances, conve your home. For more information call 941 · 1991, at the Hollywood Medi- IRENE SCHECHTER organization's retail division nient localion. immaculate. 621-5815. 4715. leave message. 9/ 12/ 91 and opening a chain of curtain 9/ 19/ 91 cal Center. He was the hus- CRANSTON Irene MAIDS available for any social funclion . GARDEN CITY · 1 bdrm. heated. modern. band of Ida (Rubin) Pollack. Schechter, 85, of New London and fabric stores named Janitors/ housekeepers for home or busi A/ C. cable. quiet. near bus stop. must see. Gloraines. ness tailored to your needs. Insured. He was the son of the late Avenue, died Tuesday, Sep- 943-7378. 9/ 12/91 Louis and Bessie Pollack. tember 3, 1991, at Miriam He was a member of the 761 -6112. 9/ 26/ 91 He was a prominent busi- Hospital. She was the widow Congregation Sons of Jacob, WARWICK, WETHERSFIELD I • Furnishe~ 2 Temple Emanuel and Temple bedroom. 2 full baths, TV room . air, pool. TUTORIAL nessman and founder and presi- of Mandel Schechter. tennis . $950. 783-1114. 9/ 26/ 91 dent of Max Pollack & Co. Born in Russia, a daughter of Beth El. He was past president MATH PROBLEMS at School?? Too Hard? office furniture and profes- the late Samuel and Bessie and past chairman of the Touro Fraternal Association, presi Too Easy? Consider the KU MON Math Pro sional auctioneer. (Dress) Krakowsky, she lived gram .. Remedial .. Enrichment. For further He was a member of Hill- in Cranston for 20 years. She dent of the spring Class of FOR SALE information. call (401) 727-2189. 1-800 - crest Country Club, Men's previously lived in Providence. 1950 of Roosevelt Lodge 42 F 628-4284. 9/ 26/ 91 B'nai B'rith and United Jewish Mrs. Schechter was a mem & AM and a 32nd degree DISCOVER ISRAEL · A variety of fascinating mason in the Palestine Temple videotapes - some historic. rel igious, Appeal of Hollywood. He was ber of Temple Sinai, its Sister cultural , educational. Call lor catalogue. a life member of the Jewish hood, and the Jewish Home for and its Scottish Rite. 454 -8483. 9/ 12/ 91 Home for the Aged in R.I. and the Aged. He was a member of the CLASSBDX United Commercial Travelers, LIGHT UP YOUR PARTY , Bar/ Bat Mitzvah . CORRESPONDENCE TO : the Providence Touro Fraternal She leaves a daughter, reunion , etc. with neon glolites. Imprinting the Henry Friedman Lodge of ClassBox No. Association. Barbara Finklestein of North available. Also great fundrais er . R.I. distribu· The R.I. Jewish Herald Besides his wife, he leaves a Dartmouth, Mass.; a brother, B'nai B'rith, Jewish Home for tor . Jorn 885-1197. 10/ 3/91 P.O. Box 6063 son, Lewis Pollack of Bowie, Harry Krakowsky of Paw the Aged and the Jewish Feder RICOH MARAI SLR CAMERA. l ike new, Providence. RI 02940 Md.; a brother, Bernie Pollack tucket; four grandchildren, and ation of Rhode Island. He was hardly used. Cost $375. asking $250. and a sister, Sara Levy, both of four great-grandchildren. She a former budget director and 331 -7997. 9/ 12/ 91 Delray Beach, Fla.; a grand- was mother of the late Sheila honorary member of the execu Th is newspaper will nol, knowingly. accept daughter, Michelle, and a Kaplan, and sister of the late tive committee of Rhode Island any advertising for real estate which is in INSTRUCTION grandson Jeffrey. Abraham Krakowsky, Hyman Jewish Historical Association. v1ola t1on ol the R.I. Fair Housing Act and Section 804 (C) of Title VIII of the 1968 Civil A funeral service was held at Krakowsky and Louis Kra He was past president of the Al Goldberg Memorial Founda VIOLIN - VIOLA · CELLO . Private lessons Righls Act. Our readers are hereby informed Star of David Memorial Chapel kowsky. with symphony musIcIan. Experienced that all dwelling/ housing accommodalions in Hollywood, Fla. The funeral service was held tion for Cantorial Training and teacher from beginner to advanced. Call advertised ,n lhis newspaper are available on Thursday, September 5, at the Tuition Assistance, the trea 941 -6149 for inlormat,on. 10/ 31 / 91 an equal opportunity basis. MARCIA E. Sugarman Memorial Chapel, surer of the Jenckes Hill Corp. RAPPAPORT-TILL 458 Hope St., Providence. and a member of the Service ROCKY HILL, Conn. Corps of Retired Executives of dren. He was the brother of the day, September 8, at the Sugar Burial was in Lincoln Park late Maurice Sweet, Harold man Memorial Chapel, 458 Marcia E. Rappaport-Till, 40, of Cemetery, Warwick. the Small Business Administra 36 Pequot Drive, the senior tion. Sweet and Solomon Sweet, Hope St. Providence. Burial field coordinator for Sorbus, LOUIS I. SWEET Besides his wife he leaves a Kitty Fersht and Lena Levin was in Lincoln Park Cemetery, In c. in Hartford for five years EAST PROVIDENCE son, Bernard Sweet of Louis Fersht. Warwick. before retiring in 1985 due to Louis I. Sweet, 84, of 300 East ville, Ky ., and four grandct,il- The funeral was held Sun- illness, died Wednesday, Sep tember 4, I 99 1, at Hartford c/fnti9u, d?,{ini1hin9 . · Ray Stapleton REMODELING Hospital. She was the wife of Professional Stripping ~ , PAINTING ? ~- S~uJ!ld- David Till. 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What a strikingly Jewish (continued from page 3) ghetto fences became more an entire generation, he had Central Park. way to react to the adoration of The situation on the Eastern frequent, only to result in also made them think. There The sages of the Talmud a near million souls. front stabilized. The great ex many public hangings, when were, of course, the requisite teach that one of the Jew's dis- And yet, the sweetness of panses of the Russian hinter the poor, desperate Jews were "relationship" songs. But tinguishing characteristics is the crowd's roar left something land thinned out the German caught and brought back. The Simon had also written pas- his or her predisposition to of a strange aftertaste in my armies and slowed their ad whole adult population of the sionate and heartfelt songs empathy, something with mind's mouth. For, as my vances. The severe winter ghetto had to attend these sad about society's ills, ~J-,ou t ideals which the lyrics of Simon's imagination panned the image which was coming on that year spectacles. The suicide rate, like truth and kindness, about songs practically drip. Another, of a seemingly endless crowd slowed the Nazi onslaught, following such occurrences, spiritual emptiness, about the according to the same Tai- focused in total on the diminu until it came to a complete halt. would always increase. There power of language, about life. mudic passage, is "baisha11us," live musician, I had to ponder And in December of that appeared to be no help for us at One needed to know nothing the trait of being easily embar- not only the incredible power year Pearl Harbor sped up all . but the fact that not one fight rassed. And so I smiled as I of a great Jewish talent, but the America's entry into the What remained was to mar or ugly incident took place- in listened to the announcer in equally impressive but unreal war. shal our inner strength and the sea of individuals who the background of the record- ized possibility of such talent, However, for us Jews in the generate the will power to turned out that day. That alone ing describe how the Jewish such beauty, such human po ghetto of Lodz life was becom survive. spoke silent volumes about the performer reacted to the final tential turned to something ing very difficult. Somehow we Ray Eiche11baum, a local resi nature of the man's influence. cacophony of wild apprecia- even more than wonderfully knew then that as a group our dent and a survivor of the Holo fate was sealed. Although we Think about the average rock tion. He "seemed embarrassed poetic thoughts and feelings, to caust, is the author of Romek's didn't know at that time that concert, not to mention the by it all," the fellow said, and I the ideas and ideals of Juda ism Odyssey, a moving account average rap ridiculousness. contrasted the image with in a spiri tually needy world. the Einsatz truppen were in about his life. From time to time operation in the East and Babi Think about the average soccer those of photographs I'd seen What affect might the Jewish the Herald will publish excerpts Jar had already taken place, in or hockey game. of rock and rap stars and ath- poetry of a Paul Simon have from Romek's Odyssey. The wardly we could sense that What a beautiful example, I letes heaving their chests or had on our generation? Herald thanks Mr. Eichenbaum thought, of the influence for fists into the limelight, dis- Not to fault Paul, G-d forbid. there was no way out. We were for his invaluable contributions. good a single individual can playing their egos like so many G-d alone may judge what one trapped and at the mercy of a have. A single Jew, as it peacock feathers, asserting could have or should have ac happens. their fragile identities like dogs complished in life. But it was The housing shortage and And, despite Simon's lack of marking turf. just hard for me to witness the RUSSIAN ALIYA unemployment may be causing identifiable Jewishness - he And here stood a little Yid! (I multitude of hearts and minds On July I, a new law went some Russian Jews to delay never (save a few biblical meta- wonder what name he'd been he'd touched without musing into effect in the Soviet Union coming to Israel, but an aver phors) particularly noted his given at birth - Shaul? Pin- about what the world really stating that Russian Jews who age of 16,000 continue to arrive ethnicity in his music, or, for chas?) sheepish - after all these needs so desperately. immigrate to Israel are entitled each month. In a recent survey the most part, in interviews, it years - at the realization that He had, after all, been born to retain their Russian pass conducted by the Jerusalem has always been evident, in a his talents had drawn ,the larg- at so right a time. ports. Sounds like good news, Report magazine, 82% of the but not in actuality for the population think that aliya is approximately 60,000 Jews result in individual peace extended families who have vital to the State of Israel, and Highlights who had finally obtained exit 56% have a favorable impres treaties. been tragically separated for visas to Israel. Most of them do (continued from page 1) years, and will be celebrating sion of the Russian Jews. The Arabs firmly reject not have passports and there the New Year together. frained from a retaliatory direct negotiations. But accord fore will be prevented from Negotiations between Israel strike. ing to Likud Knesset member leaving the Soviet Union until and the new Ethiopian govern For six weeks, Israelis lived Ze'ev Benyamin Begin, "an they go through the long, ment are now taking place re under the threat of chemical ongoing conference will bureaucratic process of obtain missile attacks, donning gas become a tribunal in which garding the remaining Jews, as ing one. masks and protecting them Israel will be isolated . . . It well as the 3,000 Ethiopians Under the family reunifica selves in sealed rooms. They cannot bring peace." who have congregated outside tion law, one million Soviet weathered a total of 39 Scud The tenacity of the Bush the Israeli Embassy in Addis Jews have invitations to come Ababa, who claim they are missile attacks. administration and its refusal, to Israel. 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