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Israelis Unwind, !Adult Bar /Bat MitzvahAt Habonim I But Love The Bomb NEW YORK (JT A) - The among I, 130 Israelis believed threat of non-conventional to be a representative sample of warfare has apparently the country's adult Jewish pop­ ;·- - I . - . prompted Israelis to offer their ulation, also established that Defense Ministry a virtually the war ca used three out of ev­ unanimous endorsement to de­ ery 10 Israelis to change their velop nuclear weaponry. On a opinions on security and politi­ wealth of other issues, how­ ca l issues. i~~-,.,._'" \ s, . • ~ .... ~-:, ever, the gap between hawks "That's an enormous figure, '""j I ) and doves seems to have but the net effect does not seem widened as a result of the Per­ to be very great," Arian said, sian Gulf War. adding that in most cases the In a public opinion survey war accelerated polarization, conducted by Tel Aviv Univer­ causing hawks to become more a sity's Jaffee Center for Strategic hawkish and doves more ~1 '• Studies, 91 percent of the re­ dovish. spondents favored the expan­ While there has been a slight 'A sion of Israel's nuclear capabil ­ increase in the number of peo­ ( 1:JJ ity, up by 15 percentage points ple who would agree to the es­ from 1987. tablishment of a Palestinian The number of people who state in the West Bank and favored the use of nuclear Gaza Strip, half of the Israeli weapons increased " astound­ public continues to strongly op­ ingly" over the past few years, pose the creation of an inde­ added Professor Asher Arian, pendent Palestinian state, and who conducted the survey. to view the Arab population of The survey suggested that Is­ Israel as being increasingly raelis were primarily interested hostile. - Left to right (rear): Linda Klepper, Joyce Zern, Helena Friedmann, Michael Little. in nuclear weapons as a deter­ Thus, more than half the (front): Toby Liebowitz, Micki Gold, Pat Buff, Temma Holland, Karen Goldman, Barbara rent against the use of non-con­ rspondents supported harsher Heller, Hope Zawatsky, Terry Lieberman, Deborah Klibanoff. ventional weapons by the Arab measures against Palestinians. states; they did not seem to On another note, the study by Sarah Baird the honorees had been waiting of being Jewish, of belonging to think that a nuclear capability illustrated a rise in U.S. prestige Herald Associate Editor decades for this day. a communi ty." As if to demon­ was necessary to offset the among Israeli s. Sixty-four per­ "Happy are we whose sy11agogue On Friday afternoon Barring­ str"ate their point, the eleven Arab's numerical superiority in cent of the respondents s,1id is s111a/l / because we love each ton was buzzing with excite­ women and one man swirled conventional weaponry. they believed American secu­ Jew / because we have to / be­ ment. In a flurry, the celebrants around this reporter, one fin ­ Thus, 75 percent of the re­ rity commitments were reli­ cause we do ./-..Happ y are we drove to and from Temple ishing the other's sentences, spondents said they were will­ able, up JO points from last wh ose house is a shut/ a11d Habonim with arm loads of peppering their comments on ing to abandon all non-conven­ year. whose te111ple is a ho111e." /For the ·flowers, fruits, tablecloths, and record wi th conversation off tional weapons providing the Trust in American Jewry also Jews of B11ai Isaac, Aberdeen, glassware. These dedicated, in­ the recor.d . enemy did so too. There was far rose. Sevt!nty-two percent of South Dakota). spiring adults were hard at Although some of the words work setting up for their own differed, most of the comments less readiness to accept limita­ the respondents said they be­ Shabbat services began wi th tions on conventional forces. lieved U.S. Jewry strongly sup­ Oneg Shabbat. had a similar focus . All twelve this poem last Friday at Temple With infectious smiles and adults were excited and moved Arian said he believed this ported the Israeli government's Habonim in Barrington, as the attitude reflected confidence in policies. Only 58 percent frequent displays of affection, by the impending ceremony. congregation gathered to cele­ they acted more like family They took seriously the signifi­ the IDF's capability in case of thought so last year. brate the synagogue's first conventional war. However, But can the American Jewry members than classmates. As cance of the rituals and were Adult Bar and Bat Mitzvah. they pulled together to orga-' ready to participate as commit­ confidence in Israel's ability to influence U.S. policy regarding The twelve adults comprising cope with a non-conventional the Arab-Israel conflict? Half nize the reception, individuals ted, informed adults. Their the Bar/ Bat Mitzvah group, paused to offer their insight dedication and enthusiasm war has been "shaken some­ the respondents thought they spent the early afternoon what," he said. could, the same figure as in last into the process and meaning were truly awesome. preparing the synagogue for " I'm the oldest one in the The survey, conducted year's survey. of their Bar / Bat Mitzvah. the evening's honors and cele­ _group," Hope Zawatsky con­ " I think that a big surprise for bration. The celebrants had fided with a broad smile. all of us is the unity that devel­ studied under the guidance of " When I first joined this group, oped in the group," explained "We Are All Our their teachers, Toby Liebowitz I wanted to do this because as a and Rabbi James B. Rosenberg, Joyce Zern. "Yes, " continued young gal, I didn't have the op- Barbara Heller, " it's the unity Brother's Keepers'' for a year and a half. A few of (continued on page 11) by Kathy Cohen given by Yad Vashem for her dren ranged in age from about came truly conscious. And, at Herald Associate Editor courage, the Myrtle Wreath 2 to 12. The Germans were last, in that same week (I de­ Marion Pritchard, a heroine from Hadassah and has been loading them into the truck. cided) to take home a little boy of the Dutch underground dur­ honored by the Anti-Defama­ The kids didn't move fast for a couple of days until a ing World War II , was the fea­ tion League among many oth­ enough. They were crying and place was found where he tured speaker at the Jewish ers. upset and these (Germans) ... (continued on page 3) Community Center of Rhode Pritchard took the podium at just picked up these kids by the Island last Monday, May 6. 3 pm and began to relay an arm, by the leg, and threw Mis. Pritchard's speech was amazing story of stealth, cun­ them into the truck. And I DON'T MISS OUR part of the center's Anne Frank ning and resourcefulness that cou ldn't believe what I was exhibit, which runs until May made the Dutch Underground seeing. Two women came from MOTHER'S 12 . famous for bedeviling their the other side and tried to stop Pritchard, who during the Nazi captors. the Germans who si mply o DAY o Holocaust rescued Jewish peo­ Pritchard explained to a cap­ picked them up and threw ple from Nazi genocide at the tiv e audience how it was that them on top of the children in FEATURE ri sk of her own life, has been she began her crusade to hide the truck. honored by many Jewish orga ­ Jews from peril. " And that was when my de­ PAGES 10 & 11 nizations. She is the recipient of " I saw a truck outside a Jew­ cision to do anything I could to Marion Pritchard th e Righteous Gentile Award ish chil dren's home. The chil - fru strate the fin al solution be- 2 - THE 'RHODE IS~AND JEWISH HERALD, THOR5DA Y, MAY, 9, 1991 - Inside the Ocean State

great pain, sedation, grog­ take over the lung's job during Miriam Women Help Patients In Pain giness, relief, new pain build­ respiratory distress. The design The proceeds of The Miriam pain for two hours," according up. Seventy-five percent of is computer driven, state-of­ Hospital Women's Associa­ to Dr. Steven Blazar, who post-operative pain occurs the-art and has an extensive tion's 1991 Equipment Event described the benefits of within the ensuing 48 hours. alarm system. Dr. Charles B. will be used to purchase five Patient-Controlled Analgesia The PCA machine, releasing Sherman, Director of the Pul­ Patient-Controlled Analgesia (PCA) machines. The patient measured amount of pain monary Division of the Depart­ Machines and a Ventilator for with a PCA now has control medication into the blood­ ment of Medicine at The the I.CU. At our Open Meet­ over his pain. Instead of push­ stream when the patient deter­ Miriam, explained its use and ing in February, two Miriam ing a call button, the button mines it is needed, is extremely its importance to our patients. Hospital physicians, Steven L. pushed released pain medica­ successful in providing relief. It This event was under the Blazar, M.D. and Charles 8. tion directly into the blood­ was invented in 1984 and is Chairmanship of Suzanne Sherman, M.D., described this stream. Less medication is now used in 45% of all U.S. Gilste in and Joanne Summer, equipment. needed because the pain has hospitals. Post-operative pa­ and Treasurer Sylvia Brown, " High doses of analgesics not built up to

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TlilE1RHODE !SI!AND JEWISH HERAL!]), THURSDAY, MAY•9, 1991 - 3 Feature iafed written down in the second capture the essence and beauty not be possible without men­ remember to go up north and by Idelle Kaplan century by Rabbi Shimon Bar of Jewish religious and cultural tion of the vast mountain experience this jewel of a city. Having spent over a year's Yochai. The Ari had a syna­ life. Some familiar themes of ranges surrounding this small Its beauty and other worldli­ ne in Israel, I am writing to gogue and it is still in use these paintings are traditional city. Clusters of trees and ness capture the heart and 'orm others about the city of today. Jewish communities in Old bushes scatter along the moun­ leave one with fond memories. fed. One can easily overlook Mysticism is still deeply Europe, famous Jewish figures tain slopes, and Arab villages because it is quite far from embedded in Safed as evi­ in their most thoughtful ex­ are in the mountain pockets. Idelle Kaplan, originally from 2 center of the country. But denced by a copious amount of pressions, and artistic repre­ These mountains are intensely Providence, spent about a year 1en one tours Israel, Safed Chassidic institutions dotted all sentations of Kabbalistic green and still. They appear and a half in Israel to study in a ould be one of the essential over the city. Indeed, spir­ themes. Artists often sit outside majestic against the sunshine Yeshiva for wo111en to leam how ,iting stops. Most tourists itually inclined people often and paint in the summer during the day. Residents savor "to be 111ore religious." This is her efer either the cosmopolitan feel drawn to this northern city months, almost completely watching the sun set over the fi rst piece printed in a publica­ 1 Aviv or the religiously where they find expression to ignoring the tourists while con­ mountains as the sun slowly tion. Kaplan plans to become :ense Jerusalem, but I am in their inner needs and aware­ centrating on their work. changes to orange, then blue­ trained in ele111e11tary education. 2 vocal minority which has ness. Many can be seen reciting Storeowners are aggressive red before finally becoming Eventually, she hopes to use her ;covered and is thoroughly Tehillim (Psalms) at the grave in attempting sales on either night black. training in Israel. amored by Safed. I often of the Ari, who is buried in the paintings or their crafts, Walking along during the scribe this small isolated city Safed. which usually consist of hand­ day, 1 would often stop and · up north as magical and in a According to tradition, if one made jewelry, menorahs, and marvel over the breathtaking sher reali ty. prays by the grave of a tzaddik mezuzah boxes. Tourists walk­ landscape. It seemed to suggest Mention Safed, and Israelis (righteous person), then the ing from gallery to gallery in that the city and its inhabitants d those familiar with the city tzaddik in Heaven will per­ the hot summer months wel­ were above and safe from the mediately think of mysti­ suade G-D to answer the peti­ come the box-stands inter­ tumult and troubles occurring m, the artists' quarter, and tioner's prayers. mittently scattered along the in the rest of the world. Indeed, 2 mountains. As for the As for the famous artists' roads, in which Safed residents all that seemed to matter was rsticism, the city is infused quarter, it resides in the old city sell cold drinks and other re­ the present, and all concerns th the character of its most of Safed. Small art galleries freshments. There are many would take care of themselves. nous mystic, Rabbi Yitzchak abound along the narrow wind­ galleries to see and enjoy in In fact, the day I left Safed for ria, or, as he is better known, ing roads of the old city. These Safed. They are certainly one Jerusalem, I looked wistfully 2 Ari. He lived in the 17th buildings are made entirely of of the city's principle attrac­ outside, missing the magnifi­ ntury and was the first to stone and have an appearance tions. cent mountains. ich many the Zohar, the of being old and worn. But Of course, a full description Thus, anyone planning to crets of Torah, a fter it was inside, there are paintings that of Safed's attractions would visit Israel this summer must

doctor would cruise off into the cake arid ice cream for des­ horizon in his supermobile. sert." Often I would get up at once. His words alone cured me. Ezra Sharp made me get up In Memoriam My wife and I got married and grab hold of health just by on a May 4, R.I. Independence looking at me. Some of his Day. I first said I do on the day medical advice might stun you . By Mike Fink the state I was born in said I do today. It made good sense only Herald Contributing Editor to the Constitution. We're slow the day before yesterday. They to join up, the state and me. still give shock treatments for youthful depression. But Dr. ______. ceeBefo draggedre we got me hit toch eEzd,ra my for fi anthe­ Sharp would reall y lay it on the blood test, which I dreaded. line. "It's time you got mar­ He drove up to our house in and took a chair beside my She didn't want to buy a pig in ried'" Complex chemicals may neat brown business suit. He bed. I lay low, feverish or even a poke. What was she getting? treat the elderl y for melan­ arked his black Cadillac on delirious. I get that way in Dr. Sharp poked me there and choly. Dr. Sharp - according ur cobbled driveway and got spring. Is this the end? Dr. Ezra there. He asked a question. to a Pawtucket source - ut. He carried a small dark would take my hand and time " Do you drink?" I panicked. would say, " Go out and buy alise or grippe. Neighbors my pulse. "You'll be back at Did he want me off the prec­ yourself a corncob pipe. Your Air Duct tood on their sidewalks or work in three days. No more, ious potion? " A drop from time troubles will vanish like a puff tared out their windows. no less. Don't bother with to time," I muttered. "Well, I of smoke." He had the magic Cleaning Vhat had we done to deserve aspirin." He wouldn't jab me prescribe wine with your touch. He was the Wizard of uch an honor? A house call with a needle or stuff me with meals. You're too thin!" Providence. Decontaminate your duct sustem rom a family doctor! pills and powders. I would from: bacteria. dust, mold, fungi, Who else but Dr. Ezra reach over for my wallet from The physician used the same Dr. Ezra Sharp died last pollen, and keep it clean. • FREE ESTIMATES • ;harp? He climbed upstairs the cluttered nighttable. Super- word my mom did, Eat' "Take spring. (28 Adar) May Special: FREE Electrostatic Air Filter Keepers Pritchard told a story of how her home as well as found hope that they (will) be open­ ($85.00 Value) she had to convince a Jewish homes and hiding places for minded and question authority. (continued from page 1) couple who were expecting a numerous Jewish babies. Ba­ Germans followed their leaders EXCEL because of their upbringing. :ould be staying." child to give it up to a gentile bies were hauled in garbage ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS, INC. cans, laundry bags anything to They would receive harsh pun­ Pritchard also explained the couple in order to save its life. Tiverton, RI • 625-1 010 'carrot and stick" philosophy Eventually the Jewish couple rescue them from a terrible fate. ishments if they didn't obey. They never thought for them­ Commercial • Residential h at the Germans used to lull agreed and the gentile wife Of the four Pritchard hid, three Air Purification Systems Also Available ·he Dutch Jewish community fa ked pregnancy as a security have survived. One, now 48 selves. Don't be obedient. " nto a fa lse sense of security. measure. When the child was years old, gave birth to a baby The Nazis summoned local born, the transfer was made. boy last year. Another became ewish community leaders and Unfortunately, the Jewish cou­ a cellist; and she has lost con­ 1ppointed them as members of ple were eventually captured tact with the third. the "Jewish Council," a liaison and executed by the Nazis. The After her speech, an audi­ When It Comes To Diamonds, between the Nazi occupiers child survived. ence member asked what she rnd the Jewish population. The Pritchard, while in her early would tell children today about We're Both 'ewish Council was used to re­ twenties, also hid four Jews in the past anrl she replied, " I ay the false message to the A Cut Above The Rest. Jeople that compliance with all \Jazi demands would ensure No other diamond can compare to :heir safety. The council was the distinctive quality of a Lazare Diamond. ilso ordered to set up a Jewish THE MUSIC ROOM And no jeweler in Rhode Island can match the newspaper so that the Nazis presents diamond expertise of the people at Providence Diamond - might be more convincing in the exclusive Rhode Island dealer of :heir propaganda. The commu­ SUNDAY ... nity was divided in its view of .II N rhe council. Some sa w it as ... , I . 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dition when poli.tical motives consciousness. The " ritual," Letters are concerned. baby, may not be where you're What we all have to fear is ,\NT m· at, but it is what countless an­ to the the sudden power of neo-Nazis cestors of yours and of mine infiltrating the " respectable" A VI SHAFRAN. went to the torture chamber EDITOR and influential professions in of non-Jews, and the rabbi in and the stake for rather than America. Their abuse of power abandon. Dear Editors: Episcopalian Rabbis question was indeed speaking is directed towards ruining the at an interfaith conference, but Perhaps we should be thank­ First The Pollards Jewish image by framing Jews ful for his giving the lie to the Now The Mannings there is little reason to suspect in connection with crimes Were it not so terribly tragic, silliness that the Conservative Having followed the Pollard him of dissembling. He simply never committed by associat­ it would be burlesque. The movement (his affiliation, in case for years, I couldn't help considers the en tire corpus of ing them with "extreme spectacle, reported locally, was presumably good standing) has but discover the striking simi­ Jewish law - from the Sabbath groups." This dangerous insur­ of a rabbi (give him the title; it true concern for the integrity of larities between the treach­ and dietary laws to those cover­ gence of prejudice by associa­ has long since lost any real Jewish law, a contention heard erous imprisonments of two ing marriage and conversion to tion poses a physical threat to meaning) defining - defining much less these days but not dedicated Jewish couples, the prohibitions against adultery or Jews the world over. - Judaism as "social action." without its stubborn, though Pollards and the Mannings. homosexual relations - to be Let us speak out on behalf of "The ritual," he added, "is not aging, proponents. But the I set out to visit the Man­ passe. He is, of course, entitled the Mannings immediately by where it's at." The nominal re­ to whatever notions tickle his sheer horror of the fact that nings on one Shabbat in April writing to Prime Minister ligous leader went on to define fancy, but he is most certainly there are men who, looked to at the Russian Compound in Yitzchak Shamir and Minister • mitzvot as "good deeds" - i.e. by their unsuspecting congre­ Jerusalem and found this 1101 entitled to redefine Ju­ of Justice Dan Meridor, The actions smiled upon by politi­ gants, daily mislead countless warm, pleasant couple shaken daism. Knesset, Jerusalem, Israel. Urge cally correct proponents of the innocent souls obliterates any from the trauma of being tom Though it has happened, un­ them to stay the extradition. current liberal social agenda. satisfaction one can possibly from their beloved children. fortunately, often enough. Israel is a haven to all Jews no To compound the sheer idiocy take in the exposure of the em­ Coincidentally, this latest in­ From Korach and his men to matter what the situation. No of removing the Metzaveh peror's wretched nakedness. justice came right at the heels the Sadducees, from Paul of Jew should be handed over to (Commander) from m.itzvah There was a time, still fresh of Baker's welcome by · an Tarsus to Holdheim of Berlin, any foreign government. May (commandment), he also railed there has been no dearth of in the memory of many, when Israeli government of perpetual G-d's rescuing help come in a against the " narrow-minded even non-Orthodox rabbis beggars for money in exchange Jews who rejected the authority twinkling of an eye. mentally of helping strictly played, if not the role we Or­ for peace. The political ram­ of the revealed law and sought Karen Dub one's own people." thodox wished they had, at ifications of the Manning to belittle the concept of mitz­ Now there is a long, if undis­ va h as divine least an undeniably positive arrests are many, however Providence comma11dme11t. tinguished, tradition of obse­ No dearth, in other words, of role. They encouraged at least legally there is no right to extra- and Jerusalem quious Jewish behavior in front those who have sought to de­ some observance of Jewish ·Judaize the Jewish people. But praxis, to one degree or an­ somehow it is more striking, other, and stressed the impor­ Gun Control Debate more tragic, to see someone in tance of a Jew's concern, first Statement of Charles Schumer, by a group teaching, Jewish history, and our own times, after the Cru­ and foremost, for his or her fel­ Rabbi David Saperstein calling itself 'Jews for the Jewish values. The attack on sades and the Holocaust, after low Jews. Many still do. But Director, Religio us Action Center Preservation of Firearms Own­ Rep. Schumer, the Anti­ the establishment of the state of others, like our rabbi, aspire to of Reform fudaism ership' is a blatant and outra­ Defamation League and B'nai Israel and the Middle-East different, indeed diametric, "The ugly attack on Rep. geous distortion of Jewish B'rith for their support of the wars, scurrying about trying to (continue?_on next page) Brady Bill which attempts to chase the divine out of Jewish prevent criminals and mentally c~, Rhode Island Jewish Herald /;; ill people from obtaining guns PRESS RELEASE & LETTERS POLICY uses the rhetoric of gutter big­ otry, degrades the democratic l process and belittles the need The Rhode Island Jewish Send to: for civilized dialogue about vi­ Herald welcomes letters from Letters to the Editor tal and controversial public is­ its readers on Jewish concerns. RI Jewish Herald sues. Letters must include a daytime P.O. 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Kurdish Unity And The Negotiations With Saddam by Moti Zaken the past he had spoken of mere Mr. Talabani, in his real The Herald prints a range of opinions. The editors wish also The abrupt meeting between autonomy for Iraqi Kurdistan, politik, probably hopes that to express a viewpoint. We hope that Rabbis from all points on Kurdish leaders and Saddam but after his 1985 disappoint­ with the ally forces still in the spectrum, to avoid losho11 hora, will seek not only to respect Hussein stunned many in the ment he changed his objective Kurdistan he might succeed in differences, but even to celebrate the richness of our diversity. West as well as many Kurds. It to 11atio11al se/f-deten11i11atioll grabbing the opportunity to was not accidental that the leading to an independent insure a Kurdish autonomy. If Iraqi news agency circulated Kurdish state. and when autonomy is the particular photograph A unity among the Kurds achieved, Talabani and the showing Jalal Talabani and was slowly emerging during Kurds would then look for a "I Didn't Cry For My Mother" president Hussein kissing each this time. Talabani's PUK grad­ better political climate, prefera ­ by Lenka Rose would stand in her way when other on both cheeks. Mr. ually shifted its policy toward bly without Saddam, in which My mother Hencha was 44- it came to her children. When Talabani is the most vocal Barazani's KDP which was to achieve their other goals. years-old when she and her trouble started I could see how Kurdish actor in this political allied with Teheran against Talabani tries meanwhile to two younger children Sarallah she suffered, not being able to drama. Two Kurdish proverbs Iraq. At the end of 1986 the resort to finding a political 11 years and Chavallah 8 years feed us. " I have lived already might be appropriate for military cooperation between solution, despite the Iraqi were brutally gased by the but what do they want from describing that meeting. The Talabani 's and Barazani's government history of be­ German Nazis in Auschwitz­ my children?" After much tor­ first one says "if you cannot fighters resumed after a hiatus trayal. Birkenau. ture and suffering my sister bite, do not show your teeth." of more than ten years. In the KDP leader Masoud Bara­ With her last breath she died at the evil hands of The other says, "believe in nei­ years to follow the Kurdish zani, the second main figure in must have clutched her chil­ Ma'ngelle in Auschwitz. ther a pleasant winter nor a unity remained intact, though the Kurdish front and Tala­ dren to her bosom to shield Religious life in Carpathia smile of an enemy." After the this unity was not seriously bani's main ri val, did not them from the incoming gases. was orthodox. We lived our catastrophic Kurdish military challenged by external events participate in the Damascus These German beasts had a religion and Mother instilled de(eat it seems that Mr. and powers as might occur press conference in mid­ free hand to do as they pleased Yidishkeit in her children. She Talabani is complying with the now. March. Neither did he take part with the lives of innocent taught us to be good people, to first proverb, and showing Even during this period when the delegation met with people. They knew the world be sensitive to the needs of signs of reconciliation. It is not Kurdish unity was only tei:i­ Saddam Hussein, instead he didn't care and there would be others and to respect the elder- . clear yet whether he trusts the uous. In the past, because of sent his twenty-five-year-old no consequences. ly. My mother was a real ruthless enemy who smiles at the enmity between the KDP nephew Nashirwan, the son of My mother was pretty, gra­ " Balabuste"; she baked her him. and PUK, it was impossible to Mahmud, his youngest broth­ cious, intelligent and an ardent own challas for the Sabbath, In order to analyze the cir­ have both organizations in the er. (Behind the birth of reader, which she instilled in coffee Kuchan, filled with cumstances which brought same front. The various Kurd­ Nashirwan there is a story with her children. Her complexion poppy seeds, cocoa, nuts, about this meeting in Baghdad, ish leaders, including Barazani an Israeli angle. When Nashir­ was peaches and cream. She cinnamon, raisins or cheese it is necessary to examine the and Talabani, were forced to wan was about to be born his had seven children, three boys and the odors would remain in two chief Kurdish leaders - bury their differences, especial­ mother's life was in danger. At and four girls. The third child my mind forever. Her chicken Jalal Talabani (who attended ly after the chemical attack the ti me, a field hospital, fu ll y died at home as an infant. The soup, homemade lukshen, and this meeting) and Masoud against Kurdish civilians in equipped and run by an Israeli three older children, two boys, many other goodies, produced Barazani (who did not). 1987-88. "We couldn't cope team, has just been established Dudi and Benci and I, Leah, many happy memories. Talbani, a lawyer by training, with such atrocious weapons" near the headquarters of survived the treacherous war. Years later, when I was sooo heads the Patriotic Union of said Mr. Barazani in London Mustafa Barazani. The The Nazis ripped us out of hungry, my mind could recre­ Kurdistan (PUK), while back in 1989. All Kurdish lead­ woman's condition deterio­ our home and we were taken ate those lucious smells, and I Barazani, whose father Mulla ers adopted a united front. rated and the midwives began to Auschwitz. Upon arrival the could actually taste them. At · Mustafa was Talabani's life­ Their military tactics were screaming and lost their hope. men and women with their chil­ these times, I longed for my long ri val, leads the Kurdish changed completely; instead of Only after repeated requests by dren were separated. We were mother, our home. How I Democratic Party (KDP). In the using permanent bases in " lib­ the Israeli physicians from greeted by Dr. Mangelle, his prayed to stay alive to tell the mid-sixties, Talabani fought erated" territory and confront­ Mulla Mustafa Barazani, was cohorts and dogs, An_ order world what happened to our the elder Barazani in conjunc­ ing the Iraqi army directly, the one of them permitted to run to came to line up, five in a row. people. tion with government troops. KDP returned to its classic in­ the women's encampment. Just My mother and her fo ur chil­ When my mother perished, Masoud Barazani, as his father surgency tactics that involved at dawn and after tremendous dren formed a row. A selection there was no one to shed tears before him, was a guerrilla small, highly trained units, effort, succeeded the physician, took place. I was pushed to the for her. But I did cry. The tears commander all his life. targeting specific economic Dr. Uri Frand, to rescue the left and the rest of my family to I shed were for me and not my The April 1991 meeting was sites such as dams. It may well woman's life and to help her the right. As I turned to assess mother. The last months of our not the first time Talabani sat have been that the shift in give birth to two healthy male my new situation, there was mother's life must have been with Hussein at the discussion Kurdish operational tactics in twins, Nashirwan and Dolu­ my 14-year-old sister, Rif­ excruciating. Not only her table. In December 1983, dur­ the late 80's is yet another rea­ wan. kallah. "What are you doing death but to witness the mur­ ing the Iraq-Iran war, Talabani son for the Kur-dish military Masoud Barazani, usually HERE?" 1 asked. " My 'mother der of her children. It is beyond entered peace negotiations failure in March 1991 . prefers to remain inside north­ sent me to you as she said human comprehension. with Saddam Hussein. This act Talabani's meeting with ern Iraq alongside his fighters. 'You shouldn't be alone."' My I am 'bothered to this day. I was opposed vehemently by Saddam could be interpreted It is not accidental that Masoud mother parented to the last. the elder daughter, Leah, who the other Kurdish national as an acknowledgement of'the who is known as a militant How my sister got to me is loved and adored her, did not movements in Iraq. These deal­ Kurdish military failure. He keeps low profile in the nego­ beyond belief as she had to go shed a tear, the day she lost her ings reminded Talabani's op­ had recognized the inability of tiations with Baghdad. He by the evil Dr. Mangelle. That life. " I didn't ·cry for my ponents of what they believed the Kurdish fighters to succeed might not fully agree with was my mother, as nothing _mother." were the treasonous even ts of in a full -scale war which goes these discussions but he does the mid-60's. beyond mere hit-and-run gue­ not have any reason yet to When the negotiations be­ rilla operations. The fact was back out. At the same time, he tween Talabani and Saddam that the Kurds were unable to has nothing to lose. He will sit The broke down, in January 1985, establish order in the region and wait to see whether the hostilities between the two they captured. As an old clan fruit that Talabani is picking is Blackman sides resumed. Talabani be­ leader put it " there was no ripe, before trying to eat it. came the most notorious regularized form of coopera­ Moti Zake11 is a Middle East Insurance enemy. of the Baath regime. In tion among the clans. They did scholar currelltly worki11g not know how to operate the toward a Ph.D. ill Kurdish his­ Agency tanks, planes and helicopters tory at the Hebrew Ulliversity of Rabbis they seized from the Iraqis. Jeru salem. Currently Zakell is 885-7110 the Natiollal Director of ISFI, the (continued from previous page) Their army lacked the neces­ Richard S . Blackman, CPCU sary modern organization and lllstitute of Faculty alld Students goals: the unapologetic perver­ Homeowners discipline." Oil Israel, ill New York. Auto sion of Jewish law and the un­ Business dermining of true Jewish iden­ Notice Life tity and unity. There is, without doubt, The opinions presented on this page do not 655 Main St., E. 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baum, director of the Soviet Zionism and Jews as the great­ Anti-Zionists Stage May Jewry desk of the Anti-Defama­ est evil to ever befall the tion League of B'nai B'rith. Russian Republic," she said. Still, they " highly concern us," The rallies show a strange Day Marches Pamyat was the main spon- she said. alignment between ultrana­ by Shoshana Levine sor of the protests, which in Martin Wenick, executive tionalist groups, which are NEW YORK (JT A) - Thou- Leningrad lasted several hours. director of the National Con­ generally anti-Communist, and sands of demonstrators hold- The ultranationalist group was ference on Soviet Jewry, said Communist conservatives, ing aloft anti-Semitic, anti- assisted in organizing the that both the Moscow and who often profess a similar Zionist signs were highly visi- marches by Yedinstvo and the Leningrad incidents are "re­ anti-Jewish sentiment. ble participants in May Day United Workers Front, similar nective of the fact that these Anti-Semitic marchers car­ marches recently, both in Len- nationalist groups. (anti-Semitic) groups are still ried pictures of Joseph Stalin,· ingrad and Moscow. Among the posters held aloft active. While not necessarily who was responsible for whole- · The marchers accused Soviet in Leningrad was one that read large in numbers, they are sale purges against Jews. National leaders of favoring Jews over "Soviet Army, save us from troubling and create an en­ " It's disturbing that these Russians. Judeo-Bolshevik butchers." In vironment which is threaten­ demonstrations continue to NEW YORK (JT A) - Clio Straight, a retired U.S. Demonstrators also claimed that parade, such posters were ing to the Jewish community." take place," Shinbaum said. brigadier general who was that Zionists killed Pamyat seen from the begining of the Shinbaum remarked that " But it 's equally disturbing that responsible for setting up leader Konstantin Smirnov- march. " Leningrad particularly has people don 't speak out and Ostashvili, who reportedly In Moscow, where one sign become a hotbed of anti­ depl ore them." the post-World War II prose­ cution of Nazi war criminals committed suicide last week called for no ties with " fascist, Zionist activities, especially Shinbaum pointed out as while serving a two-year sen- racist Israel," nationalists during the Gulf War. " the main problem" the fact in Germany, died April 22 of tence in a labor camp for his began demonstrating toward She noted that these demon­ that "there's been no counter­ pneumonia at St. Francis Hospital in Wilmingtin, Del­ role in the anti-Semitic attack the end of the parade. strations illustrate the " latent action in the Soviet Union." aware. He was 86. on a Moscow writers club in Such manifestations "do not anti -Semitic sentiment that has Nei ther An atoly Sobchak, January 1990. surprise us," said Myrna Shin- existed in the Soviet Union fo r mayor of Leningrad, nor his decades and whi ch is becom­ Moscow counterpart, Gavril Samuel 0. Their, M.D., pres­ ing more prevalent toda y." Popov, publicly denounced the id ent of the In stitute of Lighting A Memorial Flame " Nationalist groups see demonstrations, she remarked. Medi cin e of the National Academy of Sciences and fo rm er chairman ,of the De­ Private Fund Established To Boost Jewish Birthrate partment of Internal by Tom Tugend Under the terms of the fund, Medicine at Ya le Unive rsity couples bearing or adopting a School of Medicine, has LOS ANGELES (I T A) been named the sixth Presi ­ While demographers bemoan child duri ng a given Jewish ca l­ endar year will share in the dent of Brandeis University the low Jewish birthrate, the in Waltham, Massachusetts. congregation of Mishkon 8.25 percent interest ea rn ed an­ Tephilo in the Pacific Ocean­ nuall y by the fund. Temple WA SHINGTON, D.C. - A front community of Venice is members Louis and Doroth y nationwide ca mpaign to reg­ doing something about it. Gold, who put up the is ter high school students to Mishkon Tephilo, which bills $100,000, view the di vid end as vote at the age of 18, by itself as " A Participatory Con­ a kind of first birthday bringing registrars directly serva ti ve Synagogue," has an­ present," and hope it will be in to the schools, will be un­ nounced creation of a $100,000 applied to the infants' future dertaken by members of trust fund . Jewish education. NA 'AMAT USA, the Women's Labor Zionist Or­ _ganization of America. Har­ Remembering Kosinski ri et Green of Miami, na­ by Herald Staff tional president of the When you write an obit, you hope the next of kin may be organization, said a program comforted. If the person was a major public figure, you may in Dade County, Florida, believe that history should take note of the good or bad. If you which has met with 98 per­ are some kind of a mystic, you may even cling to the notion , cent success among eligible that the soul of the departed may smile at your words in print. high school seniors, will be a In the case of the suicide last week of Jerzy Kosinski, you · model for the campaign. just take note of the loss of a leaf out of Jewish life. He was of a special generation. If you share his age, you compare your life International to his. They came. to us. They rose and sometimes fell among us. We could share their enemies, but sometimes not their LONDON (JTA) - The War friends. Crimes Bill , overwhelmingly When his book The Painted Bird came out, it struck some as adopted by the House of a cruel book. Not just about cruelty, but cruel in itself, hammer­ Commons six weeks ago, ing home its horrors without, space among them. ,Yet befor~ was rejected last week by the Over 1,000 Holocaust survivors and community leaders the end, he made it up with Poland. And then he took his own House of Lords, for the sec­ recently gathered at a Yom HaShoah commemoration to life. ond time in less than a year. memoralize the six million victims of the Holocaust. The Imagine, he picked up his English and American by study­ But the measure, which event's two keynote speakers, U.S. Brigadier General ing Poe and Shakespeare. He listened to the romantic whispers would allow British courts to of Ava Gardner and spoke with the sharp tang of Humphrey Sidney Shachnow, currently commander of the Berlin Bri­ try suspected war criminals gade and Knesset Member, Dr. Eliahu Ben Ellisar, who Bogart - in the gorgeous and romantic " Barefoot Contessa." living in Britain, is expected People in Providence who think about Jerzy Kosinski might served as Israel's first Ambassador to Egypt are both survi­ to become law despite oppo­ vors of the World War II Holocaust. While reflecting on the keep in mind that his spiritual brothers and sisters live in our sition by the peers. neighborhoods. A lovely and friendl y Polish lady on the East \ impact of the Holocaust on their own personal destinies, ... Side converted to Judaism when she married a Jewish mer­ and documenting the world's apathy to the Jews of Europe TEL AV IV (JT A) - Intourist, under Nazi occupation, both the General and the Ambassa­ chant seaman on shore leave in Lodz. Her mother had thrown the Soviet state tourist ser­ bread over the barbed wire fence to Jewish prisoners. She dor spoke of the recent Gulf War. Pictured lighting the vice,. opened its first bureau made friends with Ray Eichenbaum, once of Lodz, who came Memorial Flame are (left to right) Dr. Gerald .Margolis, in Israel last week. The assis­ Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center; Dr. Ben Ellisar to us as an orphan. tant manager, Anatoly Something about Jerzy Kosinski dwells in Rhode Island and and General Shachnow. 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Scores of thousands of ex plosion of the Persian Gulf Harlev explained that El Al has TEL AVIV (JT A) - Two holi­ federation, took out full -page Orthodox Jews and Hasidim Warm January nearly brought been refused inclusion in other days of vastly dissimilar char­ newspaper advertisements massed at the tomb of their Israeli tourism to a halt. airlines' frequ ent flyer pro- acter coincided this year, bring­ hailing its forbearance from sage, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, "This year was the first very grams. ing together in Israel the strikes and work stoppages so at Meron, near Safed, joyfully bad period of time we've had " We 've been trying to strike celebrations of a completely that Israel could deal with the and prayerfully observing the since I 982," said Rafi Harlev, up deals with other airlines," secular day of observance with economic burdens of the Per­ miracle that halted a plague president of El Al Airlines. he said. "No airline wants to a day steeped in religious mys­ sian Gulf War and mass ali yah which ravaged the country in " But now we are back to have a relationship with El Al , ticism. from the Soviet Union. the Middle Ages. normal. Traffic for Passover because they fly to Arab coun­ On Wednesday, May 1, some Lag B'Omer began at sun- was good, with a great deal of tries and are afraid of losing Israelis observed May Day, the tourists from the U.S. and business. Therefore, our pro­ international festival of the la ­ Canada." gram can be implemented only bor movement. 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It was touch-and-go weather for the refl ected on the day's festivities. Rhode Island Chabad Lubavitch's Lag "Joyfully, Chabad House welcomed B'Omer celebration annually held at again new immigrant families from Hope High School Field. the Soviet Union to our Lag B'Omer Sprinkly rain showers alternated festival and to our community. This with sunshine and dark clouds. year's celebration included the Brit Taking no chances, everyone Milah circumcision of a Russian Bar gathered at the outdoor area of Mitzvah boy. Chabad House where a sudden " While enjoying themselves, all downpour could hasten everyone children, the guarantors of our Torah, indoors. were encouraged to hear the Ten The skies cleared. Commandments read in their Music, entertainment and a synagogues on the first day of barbecue were enjoyed by adults and Shavuos on Sunday, May 19. On that children. The youngsters were day, Chabad House will provide a big especially enthralled by the magic and blintz and ice cream kiddush for the personality of Twisty the Clown. entire family with prayers for the Rabbi Yehoshua Laufer, director, coming of the Moshiach speedily in our days." I I ~ • - Regina Telbouckova with Twisty the Clown. --- -- .. David Meyerzon and Itta Kaykova hold up the Chabad House welcome sign. ' •

Isaac Goman, Mark and Svetlana Liberman with sons Max and Paul; Zhanna Firer, Schlomo Vorovitch, formerly with the Soviet Armed Forces and now student at a recently established Chabad rabbinical college in Moscow; Rabbi Yehoshua Laufer, who presents a gift of a watch to Max Liberman in honor of his Brit Milah. Max recently arrived from the Soviet Union and will soon be a Bar Mitzvah. ~! ' ,: .~ . v, ~ ~

A double celebration for this family who had arrived two weeks ago from the Soviet Union. Pictured are Nina and Aktisanov Genadey with daughter Julia, niece Regina and their grandparents, Israel and Mella Liskovich.

David Magidin volunteered to assist Twisty.

Enjoying the music are Eva Nosovitsky, Inna Zhigalina, Anna Goman, Alina Meyerzon, Polina Freydina. Alina's son, David, beams a big smile. A captive audience delighted by Twisty the Clown's antics. - - • _I I THE RJ::!..ODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1991 - 13 l

THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1991 - 9 ======Arts and Ente rtainrn ent

City Nights Belts High Energy leaves us with just the fancy embody the late of the South. phrases, jokes and taboos. The region gave "decadent" In "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" "Cancer" was a word not comedy and pathos to the smil­ by Mike Fink heard in films. Talk about love ing postwar world. I used to Herald Contributing Editor between men was cut from think that Tennessee's wit When you climb the flight of moviescripts. T.V. glorified would preserve his work and stairs to City Nights you step kids. Theater countered with stand the test of time. up into an attic of years past plays like " Bad Seed" arid But much has dated in this and plays seen. "Cat." Blunt and upfront on piece. All three married men, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" Broadway, or in Pawtucket. Big Daddy and his two big brings back the image of Eliza­ You must remember the boys, find their wives re­ beth Taylor as the Cat, struttin' plot. Ailing Big Daddy faces pulsive. They make love only her stuff in a slip, mixing in her the doctor's dire verdict and to keep up the family line. Men MGM whisper with whoops writes his will. He has to leave bond with each other, not with and shouts. And the imprint of " the finest soil west of the women. You could argue that Burl Ives as Big Daddy with his Nile" to one of two sons. The the playwright was question­ easy singer's drawl. Movies elder has three kids and an­ ing the values behind our big could too firmly fix and stamp other on the way. But Big Boom. But he never preaches roles within the faces, forms Daddy, like Big Mamma, likes Gay Rights. and voices of the stars. Tennes­ the younger. " Brick" (with a Instead he tacks on an see Williams' plays zig-zagged crutch as prop) has moved upbeat close. Dressed like fig­ beyond his great days as foot­ from stage to screen. Pictured left to right are Grant Derderian, Lynne Marran, ures in Greek drama or­ ball hero. He has turned to the The fifties in two senses Thomas St Claire, and Marry Mattos in City Nights Dinner Cocteau farce Maggie and Brick table of bottles, and away from stood for "boom" time. With Theatre's presentation of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." The pro­ (in .scarlet pajamas) hug as the bed of his wife Maggie. He the war behind us, you had to duction will run Friday and Saturday evenings through May lights go out. drinks to get over the death of keep your head down. But we 25 and Thursday evening, May 16. There are Sunday mat­ At our table a pleasant lady were also bursting out at the his best buddy, who loved him inees, May 5, 19, 26; Sunday 6 p.m. Early Dinner, May 19. from one of the Attleboros . . . too much. And yet be­ seams. Dinner and show $18.00. For more information call 723-6060. commented gently, " I don't The play in Pawtucket re­ trayed him with Maggie .. . or know any couples like those. calls that time and that place, the lines with gusto. The audi­ pitch of today's tastes. tried to. People I know get along much The South, where so many ence gave back warmth and The stage was set with care. Dashing stars, winners better." In her plain New plays, poems and novels were good humor. Maybe they over­ But the actors have to pace turned into losers with charm, England accent, this woman coming from . The troupe does did the comedy and kept to a back and forth among fixed former beauties male or fe­ said it all. The play freewheels a high energy job belting out slightly shrill level of sound. heavy upholstered sofa and male, always play the pivot in around like a comic strip. the funny words. They deliver They had to keep up with the chairs that stay put. That Williams' pla_y. For him they Poet Dieter Weslowski At Library R. I. Philharmonic Presents Native German poet, Dieter time in the Basque Region and All-Beethoven Concert Weslowski, will conduct a free moved to Providence in 1988. poetry reading at the Rocham­ His first book, Th e Bird Who The Rhode Island Philhar­ phony No. 5 in C minor, Opus monic Orchestra will present a Tickets for the All-Bee­ beau Branch of the Providence Steals Everythi11g Shi11i11g ('88), 67 and his powerful -Sym­ thoven Concert on May 22 special All-Beethoven Concert Public Library, 708 Hope won the prestigious Gardner phony No. 3 in E-flat major, may be purchased at the Phil­ Street, on Tuesday, May 14, at Poetry Award, and his second on Wednesday evening, May "Eroica," Opus 55. This con­ 22, at 8 p.m. This premiere per­ harmonic office only, 222 Rich­ 7p.m. book, Ca11dles of Wheat, is forth­ cert will be departing Music mond St., Providence, either formance at Veterans Memorial Born in Dusseldorf, Germany coming. Director Andrew Massey's by phone (401) 831 -3123 or in in 1950, Weslowski moved to Weslowski's work has ap­ Auditorium marks the Orch­ fi nal appearance conducting estra's official move to its new person 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Mon.­ the U.S. at age 11 and spent peared in the America11 Poetry the Orchestra, concluding his Fri."Ticket prices for this co·n­ home at Veterans, and to high­ 5-year tenure with the Phil­ most of his adult years in and Review, Ke11yo11 Review, Poetry cert are $15, $20 and $25. Seats around Pennsylvania. He has East, Caliba11, Massachusetts Re­ light this event, the Orchestra harmonic. This concert also will perform two of the world's concludes the Philharmonic's in the Loge are available for traveled to Mexico, Italy and view, Puerto Del Sol and the $50. Spain where he lived for a short Quarterly, to name only a few. best loved symphonies - Bee­ " Beethoven Month." thoven's compelling Sym- Trinity Rep Concludes With "Other People's Money," Set In Rhode Island Poetry At CAV The Players THE MEADOWBROOK CINEMA Ada Jill Schneider read a The Players will present 2452 Warwick Ave., Warwick Trinity Repertory Company, survival in the 80's. When group of her poems at CA V on " Follies," opening Tuesday, ACROSS FROM SUPER STOP & SHOP R.l.'s only professional theatre majority stockholder Andrew May Day, L'ag B'Omer. Among May J4. The show runs company, will conclude its Jorgenson learns that shares in them, she created some whimsi­ through Sunday, May 19, at ALL MATINEES $1 .00 27th season with the Off-Broad­ his old-line firm are jumping in ,al occasional verse about a Barker Playhouse, 400 Benefit way - hit, " Other People's value, he is curious, not con­ battle between an aging Street in Providence. Curtain is Money," the saga of a small cerned. After all, who could be woman and her mirror. In an­ at 8 p.m. except on Sunday, a 2 Rhode Island company's ef­ interested in his debt-free, but other selection, she compares p.m. matinee. Ticket informa­ forts to fend off a takeover profitless, wire manufacturing frying an egg to staring at the tion is available at (401) 421- attempt by a greedy New York company and its diversified moon. Her last piece imagines 2855. corporate raider. Ralph Waite, subsidiaries. Enter Larry the the fate of a sheaf of her pub­ " Follies" brings us Stephen well known for his role as the Liquidator, a consummate lished poems left behind after Sondheim's music in an ele­ father in the television series, takeover king with an eye for a her death. Will a neighborhood gant, sumptuous setting. The "The Waltons," will make his Ziegfeld era is caught in the CALL 738-2471 bargain and big plans to prove library later sell the slim FOR TIMES & LISTINGS first appearance at Trinity Rep how wrong Jorgenson is. The volume, and will a fond lady most stylish manner possible. as owner of the beleaguered battle for control begins and like herself buy them and hold firm. Artistic Director Richard company management and them to her cheek? Jenkins will direct the play their lovely, feisty attorney Smiling gently, wearing a which won three Outer Critics learn some tough balance­ pastel shirtwaist dress and a Circle Awards, including the sheet lessons. strand of pearls, (her husband 1989 Best Off-Broadway Play, Performances are at 8 p.m. beaming at the front table), MOTHER'S ;and has been playing to sold­ Wednesdays through Satur­ Ada Schneider made the pur­ out houses at the Minetta Lane days, 7 p.m. Tuesdays and suit of poetry seem poignantly DAV Theatre in New York since Sundays and 2 p.m. selected pleasant, a softened anguish. 1989 opening. Danny De Vito Wednesdays, Saturdays and She had warned the reviewer, is slated for the lead role when Sundays. For ticket informa­ he might not like her work "be­ BALLOONS it is released as a motion pic­ tion and the exact schedule, cause it's sentimental." Some­ ture next year. "Other People's please call the box office at how, it wasn't. Maybe it wasn't 000000000 Money" will play in Trinity (401) 351 -4242. VISA , and a L'ag B'Omer bonfire, but it Rep's upstairs theatre, 201 MasterCard are accepted. was a glowing candle. Washington St., Providence, from May 10 through June 9. GRADUATION In "Other People's Money," Decorations• Favors • Plates• Napkins playwright Jerry Sterner, once a Wall St. stockbroker, brings to life a fast-paced, comedic portrayal of corporate fight for 310 East Avenue • Pawtucket Want to reach the right DISCOUNT PRICES • JEANNE STEIN ,-- audience? Advertise in The Herald. 726-2491 Call 724-0200. Monday-Thunday 9:30~ • Friday 9:30-7 • Saturday 9:30-5 ------

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®@ 0 IVIC>THER'S D Out Of The Past (Remi11isce11ces from the obliged to place them in the February 13, 1902, was held in tion in 1941. The hospital had of the founders of the Mach­ Archives of the Rhode /sla11d Orphanage because of inability her home at 257 Willard Ave­ its origins in a 1903 charter zeka Hadas Orphanage in Jewish Historical Associatio11) to support them. In some in­ nue with 29 ladies present. She under the name of Miriam South Providence, which later by Eleanor F. Horvitz stances, this was a temporary was also one of the organizers Society. Their aim was to help became part of the Jewish Chil­ The majority of children situation. of the Jewish Home for the Jewish patients. dren's Home of Rhode Island. who were born in the last few A most unusual lady was Aged. She was described as In addition to the South On Mothers' Day 1991 we decades have grown up in a Mary (Mrs. Louis) Grant who "organizer of the Miriam Providence Ladies Aid As­ salute these hard working and family with two working par­ managed to combine a busi-. Hospital," and as such was sociation, the Jewish Home for productive women like Mary ents, or in a home where there ness (she ran a millinery shop elected first honorary trustee of the Aged, and the Miriam Grant, the "Supermoms" of is a single working parent. on Prairie Avenue in Provi­ the Miriam Hospital Associa- Hospital, Mrs. Grant was one our past. Our image of the mother of dence), raise a family (she had the "olden days" is one who a son and daughter), and help stayed at home and who was found several charitable concerned solely with the care organizations. The stories of her family and all the about this woman's energies domestic chores inherent in and beneficial endeavors are that care. This is somewhat of a many. Her daughter recalled myth if applied to many Jewish that there were two rows of mothers who lived in the early chairs outside of her mother's years of this century. There shop. Every morning people were many women who would wait until she opened worked full time along with the door. They were not cus­ their husbands, literally "mind­ tomers, but desired to talk to ing the store." Often the store her. Mrs. Grant would listen to was located in the front, the them, one at a time, and advise living quarters in the rear of the them what to do about their tenement. There were many problems. cases of the single parent, often Mary Grant's name is as­ a widow, who was loaned a socia ted with the founding of small amount of money to the important institutions of open a variety or grocery store Rhode Island Jews. She was by the Hebrew Free Loan organizer, founder and the first Association. Jewish Orphanage president of the South Provi­ records attest to children dence Ladies Aid Association. whose single mother was The first meeting held on

~beneUon garden city center These "supermoms" made up the committee and board for the Strawberry Festival which raised funds for the Miriam Hospital. It was held on the lawn of Mrs. Charles Brown's home in June of 1937. SPRING SALE Identified as follows: (Seated on lawn r to l) Mrs. Karnovsky, Mrs. Leo Cohen, Mrs. Markoff, Mrs. Nathan Hilfer, Mrs. Abram Halpert. (Seated on their knees) Mrs. Morris Mellion and Mrs. Jacob Horvitz. (Second row) Mrs. David Goldman, Mrs. Hakovsky, Mrs. 25°/o OFF Louis Grant, Mrs. Joseph Smith, Mrs. Harry Rosen, Mrs. Temkin, Mrs. Charles Brown, Mrs. sweaters & selected items Felder, Mrs. Oscar Klelrier. (Third row) Mrs. Samuel Ernstoff, Mrs. Jacob Ernstof, Mrs. Smira, Mrs. Louis Lovett, Mrs. Jacob Leibo, Mrs. Joseph Webber, Mrs. Samuel Kennison, •••••••••• Mrs. Hornstein and Mrs. Benjamin Sass. REMEMBER MOTHER'S DAY. .. MAY 12 •••••••••• ~------7 58 Hillside Road, Cranston, RI I . b B d HOUSECLEANING J ust t he B asics y ren a sERv1cEs I 944-2890 I Since 1984 . _ _ \ / , / _ I Beth Sholom HOURS: Monday, Tuesday, Saturday-10-5:30 Congregation Beth Sholom Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 10-9 • Sunday 12-5 : Mother's Day Special ~ ;,, ·~~:-:,: : will sponsor a special Mother's I Schedule 2 cleanings, get 3rd cleaning FREE! I Day Breakfast and Jerusalem I With coupon • Expires June 15, 1991 I Day Celebration on Sunday, May 12. The breakfast will be­ I Bonded & Insured • Priced By The Room • Residential • Reasonable Rates I gin at 10 a.m., and will include I .t;;@.\ I a menu of pancakes, French OTHER'S DAY I PROVIDENCE ~ CRANSTON I toast, bagels etc. with lots of M FAVORITES L __ 461-3343 _ , _ -:- ___ 781-0805 -~_J coffee and other beverages to go around. The cost of honor­ ing the moms in your life is $4 from for adults and $2.50 for chil­ dren. Why not treat them (or yourself, if you're a mom) to a DESIGNER morning out? 'PfR SHOES Following breakfast, at ap­ proximately 11 :15 a.m. there will be a celebration program • Gaviota lingerie for Yorn Yerushalayim Make Mother Special Jerusalem Day, commemorat­ • Ken Done beach bags ing the reunification of Israel's • Kirks Folley watches & Eternal capitol which took jewelry On Her Day place on this date on the Jewish Calender in 1967. The program • I Was Framed fabric­ will include a short film clip of covered jewelry boxes Linen $1495 the recapture of the Old City, Fabulous finds for moms slides of Jerusalem old and .- . ' .,. .' Wedgie new, a Jerusalem singalong and .-,, ·, of all kinds are right here . SOLD ELSEWHERE by $26.00 more. Even if you cannot at­ tend the breakfast, please join 277 Thayer Street Look for us in Browsabouts SM- 11 M • 6- l/2AA-1OAA in for this important celebra­ Providence Newport after tion. For more information, call 751-1870 23 DEXTER STREET, PAWTUCKET, RI 02860 the Beth Sholom office at 331 - Mother's Day at 9393. The Synagogue is located Mon.-Sot . 10:30-6 411 Thames Street 728-2840 at 275 Camp St. (Corner Sun. 12-5 (beginning May 19) HOURS: Monday-Frinay 9-S:30 • Thursdays 'til 8 Rochambeau Ave. & Camp St.). ~-~ -~ ------==--- ·-- - - •!

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by Mike Fink Of Moths And Mothers Herald Contributing Editor dessie who lived in uneasy lux­ Guardia and dashed off to the green at the sight. Mom looked a secret rear rack of the cedar For years you wore your ury on Park Avenoo. airport. The company held a like a lovely witch. closet in the upstairs hall. shoes till the heels were run The New Look flew over plane to wait for her. She had She put on a Kell y green Many years later, decades down and the soles tissue thin. from Paris and hit Manhattan become a symbol of the courtly floor length dressing gown in ago by now, I dug them out. Corner cobblers used " compo­ - with longer skirts and richer era. As she stepped li vely up soft wool flannel wi th a giant Moths had done their damage. sition·· cardboard to keep you hues than khaki. My mother, the stairs into the cockpit, vets gold button at the waist. It Like the sequins of the dough­ on your toes on the march of like a reverse Cinderella, had in uniform whistled at her, the went with the green and gold boy aftermath of World War I wartime. Then all at once the put away her twenties ward­ pretty emblem of consumer platform boudoir mules. But in our attic, the sequins of the time to scrimp and save was robe of beaded dresses and peacetime. for brunch at home? She lifted splendor of post war II all hung over. slippers to clean the hearth for Now, Providence at that the lid from hatboxes with upon threads. They had gone her man and boys during the time had cinemas and hotels - shapes that Garbo as Nin­ blear and blind. Depression. After the Duration The Narragansett, Crown and otchka would have locked Even so, I like to think back my dad went out and bought Dreyfus as well as the Bilt­ away in safe deposit storage. to that season of high hopes . her a pressure cooker - and a more. But our downtown The feathers alone would have and good cheer. Maybe the group of Waltham watches for didn't sparkle like the great put Mom under Audubon Soci­ present postwar quest for us fell ows. Gotham imprinted on us by ety house arrest. peace brings back those few Mom took the train to peer wartime funnies and films. The trouble was, Rhode glittering days in a spring of into the shining displays of And our own house held a Island night life fo r my fo lks longago. Fifth Avenue. She planned to dark parlor with beige wallpa­ meant Ei leen Darling's for a windowshop with her sister in per and dim amber lighting fix ­ late cabinet or Howard John­ the Big City - which was done tures. Against a coal fire our son's for pie and coffee. After Advertising in 1946 and the world was just up in spring colors of green mom undid the packages with that twilight when she had The Herald gets results. starting to pick up its pieces and purple. th eir fabu lous labels. Splendid tried out these items, my Call 724-0200 By the end of the brief things ca me tumbling out. She mother hung them away upon and put itself back together for details. again. Dixie Dugan got de­ weekend it turned out she had tried on th e Dior fin ery like a mobilized in . the Sunday dared to step inside the great young Queen. Silver sequins funnies and took a job as a department stores. She left her spilled over the shoulders and stewardess with a passenger sister's tiny Gramercy Park flat bodice of a dazzling violet suit. airline. It took her longer to get laden with fancy boxes. But she She pulled on long jade gloves r-======~ .\- from the airport home than it missed the last train out of dyed emerald on one half and had to go round the world. Grand Central toward New jet on the other. A crooked Mammy Yokum left Dogpatch England. She felt like Cinderella lightning line of gilt beads A ~ffi\rM@~@~ ©GJJ~~~rM~ and trekked to Noo Yawk to stuck with a pumpkin in stead zigzagged up to the elbows. ~ THAI RESTAURANT look in on her glamorous sister of a coach. She ca lled La - Hi ldegarde would have gone 1982 WARWICK AVENUE• WARWICK • 738-6874

MOTHER'S DAY SPECIAL $5 off your party's check* when you bring Mom At Habonim · to look around, because the classroom.'' said a joyous cele­ Serving The Finest in Authentic Thai Cuisine (continued trom page 1) odds are that at least ten per­ brant. "The synagogue has a 'Limited meals served Sunday. May 12 cent of you will not be Bar tremendous commitment to ...,_'-L -_ -_ -_ -_ -_ -_-_ -_ -_ -_ -_ -_ -_ -""- _ -_-_ -_ -_ -_-_-_ -_ -_-_ :___:-_- _ '--_ -__:-_ -_ -_-_-_ -_ -_ -_-:'__./ portunity, and now I have an Mitzvahed next May.' And I adult education!" adult perspective. And as I'm was so shocked. Each one Helena Friedmann, a Colum­ doing this, I can almost under­ looked so determined. It was as bian Jew with an Orthodox stand in my older mind what if they were thinking: 'l know background, explained her mo­ the teenagers thihk about, the I'll be there, but what about tivation for spending long teenage excitement, the exu­ you?' hours learning about holidays, For Mother ... berance." " Then four weeks later, in­ rituals and Hebrew, as she Michael Little, the lone man stead of ten, we had two more! planned to become a Bat Mitz­ in the Bar/Bat Mitzvah dozen, And they came every Tuesday vah. "When I got the chance, I Worthy of the Best joined Toby's class in order to night. No one left. It was very grabbed it! " share . more actively in his difficult for some of them, they Stand by for upcoming news daughter's Bat Mitzvah experi­ really worked hard." on the next Temple Habonim ence. " l got interested in the " The Rabbi beams every time Adult Bar and Bat Mitzvah process by watching her start he has walked through our class! The Bracelet out. But when she needed help, 14K Gold with Diamonds I couldn't help her. " l began with Toby for the $1400 functional course. My daughter and I studied together and her performance improved almost immediately. I led by example. There were two things that in­ fluenced my decision to have a Bar Mitzvah - my daughter and also the feeling that fifteen MOTHER'Sm DAY years ago when I converted I The Ring felt that it was a less than trans­ GIFT CERTIFICATES formational experience. I feel Platinum with approximately like I'm more a part of the faith AVAILABLE now and that I'm part of the 1.67 ct. Diamonds tradition." $1950 Toby Liebowitz, who led the weekly class, outlined the ini­ tial impetus for setting up an adult education program. " A lot of kids were coming here and saying that they couldn't do their homework, because ~ their parents don't know He­ brew and ca n't help them. The classes began as a Hebrew The Earring§ study group and evolved into a ~ Bar / Bat Mitzvah class, when 14K Gold with Amethyst th e students requested more in­ formation . So, after th e ten­ $425 week-crash course, we had an­ other class and then got into '(1 / grammar. And they said , we're The Originator of the not reall y into grammar, but DAY SPA Experience Reliable Gold Ltd. what we do want is a Bar Mitz­ va h! 99 BALD HILL ROAD 181 Wayland Avenue • Providence "This Bar Mitzvah class CRANSTON, RI started a year and a half ago. At (401) 861-1414 the second class I looked at 463-6749 them all and said , 'I want you L..:...:.:...:.:lit::======:::::;a:.:· :..:.:··~··.:.:J·· ·· b~=~~~=~===~ 12 -THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1991 Mi Ies tones ======First Schechter Graduates ------Are College-Bound The Ruth and Max Alperin Evergreen State College (Wash­ University Schechter Day School is ington), Harvard University, • Elie Kaunfer Harvard pleased to announce that the Ithaca College, Miami Univer­ University school's first eighth grade sity of Ohio, New York Uni­ • Saul Metnick Ari zona graduates, the Schechter Class versity, Ohio State University, State University of '87, are now about to gradu­ Rhode Island School of Design, • Ari Newman Boston ate from high school and begin Smith College, State University University their college education. of New York at Binghamton, • Lynn Singband Uni- These seven young men and SUNY Buffalo, Syracuse Uni­ versity of Chicago women have distinguished versity, University of Chicago, • Daniel Stein · University of themselves at Classical High University of Hartford, Univer­ Rochester School, Providence Country sity of Massachusetts, Univer­ The community joins in con­ Day School and the Wheeler sity of Pennsylvania, Uni­ gratulating Schechter's first School. versity of Rhode Island, Uni­ graduates and in wishing them They have received accept­ versity of Rochester, and Yale continued success. ances at the following colleges: University. Alperin Schechter Day Arizona State University, Their decisions for next year School was opened in 1978 Barnard College, Boston Uni­ are: and combines an excellent gen­ versity, Brandeis University, • Rachel Alexander - Brown eral education with innovative Brown University, Bryn Mawr University Judaic studies, kindergarten College, Columbia University, • Dorie Fain · Ohio State through grade 8. Touro Celebrates Its Heritage------on Sunday, May 12, 1991 , early Jewish experience in the crystal-clear, beautiful voice at 4 p.m., Touro National Heri- Amencas. It also works for bet- enchants and delights audi­ tage Trust will present noted ter . understandi_ng between ences, no matter what she folk singer, Judy Frankel, in a Jewish and Gentiles through a sings. The presentation at program of songs and stories constructive exchange of ideas Touro Synagogue will include from both East and West. This and cultures. songs in Ladino and Yiddish - unique presentation will mark Judy Frankel is a gifted, providing a taste of both the another step in the Trust's seasoned virtuoso. She studied Sephardic and the Ashkenazic. effort to CELEBRATE THE medieval and renaissance Everywhere, this talented artist HERITAGE syi;nbolized by music at Harvard and has wins the adoration of her audi­ America's oldest synagogue. soloed with the San Francisco ences, Jewish or Gentile. Touro National Heritage Consort, the St. Helena En- Touro National Heritage Trust, a nonsectarian, non-for- semble, and the UC Berkeley Trust cordiall y invites every­ profit organization, was Collegium Musicum. She has one to celebrate Mother's Day founded in 1986 by leaders of also been a resident musician by sharing in this unique ex­ Levin Weds Glick Touro's congregation in for Mt. Zion Medical Center in perience. Admission is free, so response to a growing demand San Francisco and was a fou nd- mark your calendar now and Cheryl Joyce Levin of Warwick and Stanley Richard Glick of for knowledge about Touro, its ing member of the Golden plan to CELEBRATE THE Cranston were married November 4, 1990, at the Providence founders, and its significance Goose Vocal Quartet. Ms. HERITAGE with us on Sun­ Marriott where the reception was also held. She is the daughter of today. The Trust's primary goal Frankel has performed in cities day, May 12, at 4 p.m. - and Norman and Sylvia Levin of Warwick and he is the son of Herbert is to fill an existing void with from San Francisco to New to stay for the reception after­ and Elaine Glick of Cranston. The ceremony was conducted by regard to knowledge of the York, and even to Hawaii; her ward. Rabbi George Astrachan and Cantor Remi Brown. The bride was given in marriage by both of her parents. Dana Haggard was the matron of honor while Karen Levin, NCJW To Hold Annual Luncheon sister-in-law of the bride, Jill Pollack, Lisa Skuce, and Barbara Cohen were bridesmaids. Larry Glick, brother of the bridegroom, Shades of pink flowering was best man. Ushers were Harvey Levin, Mitch Levin, brothers plants will decorate the Grand . of the bride, James Pagano· and Lee Miller, cousin of the bride­ Ballroom of the .Providence groom. Marriott when Rhode Island INCORPORATED The bride's grandparents are Fay Hassenfeld and the late Section National Council of Charles and Mildred Levin. The gr_andparents of the groom are Jewish Women holds its 14th Edith Linder, the late David Linder, and the late Henry and So­ Annual Community Service phie Glick. Award Luncheon on May 15. The bride is a graduate of Pilgrim High School and of the Uni­ This year's honoree is Irma versity of Rhode ls-land where she received a B.S. in Early Child­ M. Gross, community volun­ hood Education. She is currently enrolled in a master's program at teer and humanitarian. A foun­ URI and is a preschool teacher for the Jewish Community Center der of Lippitt Hill Tutorial of Rhode Island in Providence. Program, Mrs. Gross presently After the bridegroom graduated from Cranston High School heads the Alliance for Better West he attended the University of Rhode Island and received a "Unique Personallzed Nursing Home Care. She has B.S. degree in Business Administration. He is presently the Presi­ Children's Gifts" served in major positions with dent of Complete Landscaping Services of R.I., Inc. the League of Women Voters, After a wedding trip to Aruba the couple resides on Scituate PRICES STARTING AT $5 Volunteers in Action and was Avenue, Cranston. Rocking Chairs Wall Mirrors the president of Rhode Island Clothes Trees Doll Cradles Section National Council of Irma M. Gross Bulletin Boards Toy Chests Jewish Women where she also NCJW Community Services Co-chairing the event are women's volunteer organiza­ Student Desks Bookends Judith Litchman and Hinda tion. Its 100,000 members in Clocks Lamps chaired the Child Care Hand­ and Scholarship Program ... and much more book Outreach Project pub­ which offers financial as­ Semonoff. Members of their 200 sections nationwide are lished in four languages. sistance to college students and committee include Bonnie active in the priority areas of ( 401) 946-8885 Proceeds from the fund­ camperships to needy children. Goldowsky, Barbara Long, Abi­ children and youth, women's By appoinlmenl only. raiser directly benefit the More than 9D women are work­ gail Leavitt, Sheri Singer, issues, Jewish life, aging, Israel Jodi Miller and Marc.)' Granojf ing on the affair. Marion Goldsmith, Joan and constitutional rights. The Reservations for the lunch- Abrams, Ardean Botvin, Rhode Island Section has over . eon may be made by calling Shirley Lichtman, Beth Weiss, 500 members. 521-2932 or 273-6117. Catego­ Evelyn Gompertz, Gertrude In 1978 the Community ries are: Donor $25, Sponsor Gordon and Mardelle Berman. Service Award was established $35, Benefactor $50, Angel Founded in 1893, National by the Rhode Island Section to $75, Special Gifts $100 and Council of Jewish Women is honor individuals who best the oldest national Jewish exemplify the ideals of NCJW and whose commitment to PROPERTY MANAGEMENT INC, human need has been outstand­ ing. Choose an apartment in any one of Fresh Chicken Cutlets ...... s4. 79 lb. d~ our buildings and live your way. Fresh Chicken Legs ...... 51.09 lb. .. Blackstone Blvd - Wayland Square Turkey in Chinese Sauce ...... s1.000// Courtyards, fireplace, garage, per box 24-hour service, air conditioning Are you celebrating a Studio, 1-2 bedrooms major event in your life? 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National Leaders To Address And They're Off! 'il- ~ - Day School Event PROVIDENCE' ~ _HEBREW .DAY SCHOOL ~ Dr. Alex Mandel, president books and manuals on youth of the Providence Hebrew Day work and on the fundamentals lbt~n!l'1~ School/New England Aca d­ of Jewish fa ith. Many of Rabbi emy of Torah, announced that Stolper's publications deal Rabbis Pinchas Stolper and with "difficul t" topics which Rabbi Chaim Berlin . He stud­ Joshua Fishman will address are usually avoided by other ied for several years in the Ko lle! of Gur-A.ryeh in the the insti tution's annual Jewish writers such as " Re­ scholarship event honoring sponsible Jewish Adulthood: post-graduate div ision of Rapbi Sholom Strajcher, the Jewish Insights into Love, Sex Mesivta Rabbi Chai m Berl in as school's Dean, on May 12 at and Ma rriage." Through his well as in the Chevron Yeshiva 7:30 p.m. in the Korn Audi­ writings and personal visits, in Jerusalem. torium, 450 Elmgrove Avenue, Rabbi Stolper has directly in - Rabbi Fishman was an in­ structor in the Hebrew Insti tute Providence, R.I. The guest rab­ 0uenced the development of of Long Island. He later bis represent two of this virtually every Orthodox Jew­ assmed the post as Principal of country's largest Jewish syna­ ish community in North the Crown Heights Yes hi va of gogue and school organiza­ America. Brooklyn, and later was ap­ tions. A graduate of Brooklyn Col­ pointed Dean of the Mesivta Rabbi Stolper is the Execu­ lege, with a graduate degree in Gur-Aryeh High School. tive Vice President of the Political Science from the New Rabbi Fishman joined the Union of Orthodox Jewish School for Social Research, staff of Torah Umesorah as Congregations of America. The Rabbi Stolper was ordained by Educational Consultant and as I Union of Orthodox Jewish the Rabbinical Mesivta Ra bbi I Execu tive Secretary of The Congregations of America is Chaim Berlin and the Gur National Conference of Yesh­ 1 11 I . I the central spokesman of A

by Sarah Baird word "Go!" Beth-El Religious School------Herald Associate Editor Proceeds from this event First Year High School Graduation Eli zabeth Gutterman, Rebecca They came in ones, twos, benefit the expanding athletic Hebrew Class Siyum Service Harrington, Noah Landow and threes, and more! They were program of the Day School. Fifteen students have com­ The 59th Post-Confirmation Paul Phillips. tall, short, big, small, silly and The sponsors of the races were: pleted their first year of High School graduation will intent. They wore sweats, Insurance Underwriters, In c. Hebrew study at Temple Beth­ take place during the Sabbath skirts, shorts and wonderful and North east Fitness & Sports El. To celebrate this occasion, a eve service on Friday, May 10, D 8 M ANTIQUES new tee-shirts. Some had special program was held to at 8: 15 p.m. Six students who Superstores. Single lte~s beards, oth ers sucked their Those who deserve special honor the students. On Tues­ have successfull y completed a or Estates thumbs. They came in all mention for the Twelfth An­ day, May 7, the students par­ full twelve years of religious Appraised or shapes and sizes, spanning the nual "Torah Freedom Race" in­ ticipated in a Siyum to mark studies, including participation Purc hased. years from infancy on upwards. clude: Russell Ra.skin, Sharon th e completi on of one book of in a Reli gious School teacher's Furniture • Paintings • Clocks But all came for one reason .. . Mintz, Aharon Afsai, Rabbi "Torah" and th e beginning of training program, will be Dolls • China • Glassware The races were soon to begin. Mordecai Fried, Rabbi Yechiel another book. The congrega­ honored. We expect these grad­ Oriental Rugs As anyone who gathered on Pinsky, Michael Mitchell, tion congratulates th e foll ow­ uates to serve us and other 337 NO. BROADWAY Elmgrove Avenue on Sunday Bessie Nochomowitz, the many ing students and their parents: communities in the years EAST PROVIDENCE 43l•IZ3I morning ca n verify, the volunteers, and the Seventh Harl ey Bl ock, Shannon ahead as in fo rm ed, committed TOLL FREER.I. t..,_7S·1230 Twelfth Annual Providence Grade of PHDS, who orga­ Boucher, Thomas Carroll , Jewish leaders and teachers. Marvin Rubin . Proprietor Hebrew Day School "Torah ni zed the race in the school. Lynn Du coff, Jeffrey Galli, Pl ease join us in honoring: Freedom Run" was a huge suc­ Approximately one hundred Da vi d Jacober, Seth Joseph, Sara Coen, Hilary Gordon, cess! runners and fri ends took part in Il ana Kahn, Robert Kinn ane, The seri~us stretchers and the races. Everyone did a ter­ Joseph Lurie, Michael Phillips, Our Rye Bread was chosen R.I. 's Best by dedi ca ted dashers got ready to rific jo)J and had a wonderful Joel Rosenberg, Geoffrey run the three- and fiv e-mile morning. ·congratulations to Sherman, Sabrina Shore, and Rhode Island Monthly. Try some this week. courses at nine a.m. the winners, th e runners and all Eli za beth Siga l. Mon .. Tues.. Wed . May 13. 14 & 15 ... 51.09/loaf reg. 11.39 A few minutes later, the th ose who ca me to cheer! sound of small shoes pounding the pavement shattered the still morn ing air, as tens of chil dren TREAT MOM TO A set off spri nti ng. The Mini-Mile race for those fi ve years old and GOURMET DINNER younge r roused the spectators, In the comfort of home. who clapped and cheered, as (Pick 11 p Sat 11 rday) the kids whi zzed down th e road. Everything From The fi na l race was the one­ SOUP TO NUTS breads • bagels • desserts • soups • salads • sandwiches mi le open road race. Together, 727 East Avenue Phone 727 -1010 adults and chi ld ren crowded GOURMET-TO-GO & LUNCH Pawtucket Fax 724-0075 the starting line. Like a great Monday-Friday 11-7 • Saturday 10-5 HOURS: MONDAY-FRIDAY 7-6 . SATURDAY 7-5. SUNDAY 7-1 wave, the racers were off at th e .. .,,, .. .;. , . . .. - • ·------• _ j I 14 -THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD: THURSDA)',,MAY,9, 1991 Cranston-Warwick Hadassah Goldie Greene, Frances Sadler, and Shirley Schreiber ·Miriam Women Hold Meeting, Installation are coordinating this yea r's The Miriam Hospital ment Event, chaired by donor dinner with the help of Women's Association will hold Suzanne Gilstein and Joanne the following committee. their 199 1 Annual Meeting and Summer, will be contributed Invitations, Hope Mellion; Installation of Officers and for the purchase of vital medi­ Reservations, Irma Silverman, Board on Thursday, May 23, at cal equipment. Additional gifts Estelle Winograd, and Doris Ledgemont Country Club in will be made from The Jacober; Telephone, Sylvia Seekonk, Massachusetts. The Women's Association's general Taubman and Edna Gilstein; slate is headed by Patricia A. treasury. · Publicity, Dorothy Kramer; Hairabet who has served as Lillian Zarum, recipient of Chapter Treasurer, Norma Co-President with Patricia G. the eighth Annual Recognition Friedman. A program and ad Cohen for the past two years. Award, will be honored for her book is being prepared under Her Vice Presidents will be many years of dedication to the chairmanship of Lorraine Suzanne Gilstein, Terry Lieber­ The Women's Association as Webber. man and Joanne Summer. Past an active board member. The installation of the new President Ruth Triedman, This 94th Annual Meeting is officers for 1991 -1992 will· be M.D. will serve as installing being co-chaired by Susan conducted by area Vice-Presi­ officer for the Officers and Weingeroff and Dee Dee dent, Susan Smoller. Board of Directors for 1990- Pictured are some of the entertainers who will be featured at Witman in honor of their Membership is required to . 1991. mother's receiving The the Donor Dinner of May 13, 1991. Shown from left to right: become a Donor. Al l paid-up Highlights of the meeting Eva Tagoe from Ghana, West Africa, Ahron Afsai from Israel, Women's Asseciation's Recog­ members of Cranston-Warwick include a tribute to the sell -out nition Award. Decorations are Rena Werber from Israel, Sela Panapasa from Fiji Islands, are welcome to participate. success of the Association's and Benjamat Chongcharoen from Thailand. being arranged by Lillian Cost for attending the Donor nationally known cookboq_k, Zarum; Publicity is by Patricia The annual Donor Dinner I~raeli folkdancing at Temple Dinner is $30. A Sponsor pays Simply Delicious. All the G. Cohen and Dee Dee Wit­ and Installation of the Crans- Emanu -EI in Providence. $45 and an Angel pays $60. women who participated in the man. Barbara Rosen is Reserva­ ton-Warwick chapter of three printings of the cookbook tions chairperson. HADASSAH will be held on (1975, 1978, 1983) will be Anyone who wishes to Monday, May 13, at 6:30 p.m. honored. Chairperson Harriet attend the noon luncheon at the Johnson & Wales Motor Samors will present a check and ~1,1.l:_,~eq uent Annual Meet­ Hotel on 2081 Post Road, representing proceeds of the ing may obiain further informa­ Warwick, R.I. cookbook to the Hospital for tion by contacting The Women's The theme of this year's the purchase of medical equip­ Association's office: 274-3700 event, which benefits the ment fo r patient care. Ext. 2520. Hadassah Medical Organiza­ Monies from the 1991 Eq ui_p - tion, is " HADASSAH AROUND THE WORLD." Alperin Schechter-What's Hadassah International pro­ motes medical interchange New In Grade Two between countries around the Spring has sprung; th ere's Lips And Read) includes per­ world and Hadassah Hospital. joy in the air; and wonderful sonal reading with daily Based on the international things are happening at th e reports which are actually mini theme, the program will Alperin Schechter Day School. book reports. In the newspaper feature dancing and music Some time ago the second center, each child investigates a from far away lands. The enter­ grade sent an "information box" newspaper in order to answer tainers are Benjamat Chong- filled with information about questions on task cards. Ques­ . charoen of Thailand, Sela our school and community to tions must be answered in all Panapasa of the Fiji Islands, the Schechter school in Dallas, sections of the paper, from the Eva Tagoe from Ghana West Texas, and ever si nce that tim e front page to the classifieds. Africa, the four Israeli dancers - we have been anxiously await­ We wi ll also be looking at Ahron Afsai, Rena Neiger, ing their response. It has finally other ways we communica te: Kanti Patel and Rene Werber Left to right: Rene Werber and Ahron Afsai who will be arrived and we have jumped braille, sign language, sema­ who will be performing are performing with other dancers from foreign lands at the enthusiasticall y into the phore and morse code. A box memb'ers of a larger group and Cranston-Warwick Hadassah Donor Dinner on May 13, 1991. materials they sent. Among the of materials on communication meet week Iy for recreational treasures are a book they made from the Boston Children's What You Need To Eden Garden Club===.=====;;====,===c:== with facts on Texas, maps they Museum has arrived wi th a largest collection of native Know About Cancer made of the school and area, Tibetan prayer wheel, ex­ Cranston Garden Club has plants in the Northeast. leaves of plants indigenous to amples of Egyptian and invited you to join them to be Date: Thursday, May 16, Check up on cancer. thei r area, seeds of their state Sumerian hieroglyphs, a braille one of the first to open GAR- I 991. Know the warning signs. flower as well as recordings of version of the Boston Red Sox DEN IN THE WOODS this Place: Garden in the Woods, See your doctor if symp­ Texas songs sung in English game schedule, and a piece of year. The garden contains the Framingham, Mass. toms last more than two and Hebrew. In our "Texas cross-sectioned transatlantic Time: Meet at 8:30 a.m. at weeks. Besides being alert center" we also have children cable. the Woodridge Congregational to symptoms of cancer, placing cities and states on a Things to come include a, sci­ FREE Church parking lot. We expect both women and men blank map of Texas. They must ence unit on plants, a look at MOTH PROOFING to return about 2:30 p.m. should have regular physi­ read a road map of the state in the solar system, a visit (in ON ALL Price: $22.00 includes bus cal exams. Many cancers in order to do this properly. imagination only) to Mexico, PBY CLEANING transportation, entrance fees, their earliest, most curable Our reading program is rich and a field trip (in reality) to guided tour, and lunch at Tom stages do not have any and varied. All the children are the Providence Joumal-Bulleti11. KENT CLEANERS symptoms or pain. 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Jewish Televi­ previous director of Hillel on and innovative programs for days to Ka bolas Hatorah) IY AR the same time as the syna­ sion Program during the the Brown University campus. Jewish students and faculty at 27. The Pashas today is gogues do. The second is that, month of May. Rabbi Marker finds relaxa­ all major universities and B'HAR/B'CHUKOSAL. The even if there is a synagogue Although entitled, "Quick tion and enjoyment in his responds to the needs of other Torah reading is concluded that does not start Shabbos Campus Foods," this program kitchen by creating low calorie institutions of higher learning. with "chazak chazak venis' early, still if the head of the wi ll be of interest to anyone nutritional menus. He enjoys CAYS programs are de­ chazeik." Also we will be bless­ household has started Shabbos who is searching for simple sharing his culinary skills with signed to give students a ing the new month, SIVAN, early, the entire family must nutritious recipes that are low students and faculty. deeper understanding and which falls on Tuesday (May start Shabbos early, then for in calories. Included in this program are appreciation of Jewish educa­ 14). The Molad (the appear­ example, candles may no Rabbi Richard Marker is join­ 2 salads: a different pasta salad tional, religious, cultural and ance of the new moon, loca l longer be lit. Thus, the wife ing Eenie Frost, hostess of and an interesting spinach leaf political events. time, Jerusalem) falls on Tues­ must be sure to light ca ndles " Eenie's Kitchen" as guest and hearts of palm salad. You can enjoy Rabbi day morning, early, at 12:06 and finish all other prepara­ chef. The award winning Jew­ For his main dish Rabbi Marker's visit with Eenie Frost a.m. and 47 seconds (or 14 tions before the husband has ish cooking program," Eeenie's Marker selected Northern every Sunday at 10:30 a.m. chalokim). Morning services said Kabbolas Shabbos. Kitchen," was originally pro­ Mediterranean Chicken Breast and Thursday at 7 p.m. on (Shacharis) are at 8:30 a.m. fol ­ Intifada Killings Continue duced by WJUF in Chicago and with Cous Cous. A delightful Cable TV Channel 49 during lowed by kiddush. Mincha The INTIFADA continued to is sponsored on R.I. Cable TV light lemon chiffon pie com­ the month of May. All Heritage service is 7:50 p.m. followed by take brutal tolls on Palestinians by the Community Relations pletes this meal. Cable subscribers, however, the Third Meal. Ma 'ariv service li vi ng in the territories in 1990. Council of the Jewish Federa­ Rabbi Marker is currently must turn to Channel 57 at the is 8:35 p.m. Shabbos ends 8:42 The number of Palestinians tion of R.I. director of Hillel's College Aid same time as above. p.m. Havdalah service is 8:45 killed in clashes with Israeli Former RISO and Brown p.m. troops or civilians fell from 3 I 4 Sunday, May 12 - (Six days during the intifada's second Events At The JCCRI: 10-16 to Kabolas Hatorah) Morning year to 133 through the end of May service is at 7:45 a.m. Also, I 990. Contrasting, 156 Pales­ The Jewish Community Cen­ sched ul ed on weekdays at Call Sandy Bass for more in ­ today is Mother's Day, and tinians died at the hands of ter of Rhode Island, located at 11:1 5. A Women's Group formation. Yorn Yerushalem. their fellow Arabs during the 40 1 Elmgrove Avenue in Provi­ meets every Tuesday morning Tuesday, May 14 - Rosh intifada's third year. Many dence, wi ll be holding activities from 11 to 11 :45 . Friend to May Brown Bag Club Chodesh SIV AN - (Four days were murdered with knives and events of interest for peo­ Fri end meets Thursdays from RISO Art Museu111 Tour to Kabolas Hatorah) Morning and axes, and in some in ­ pl e of all ages during the week 11 a. m. until noon. Bingo is The Brown Bag Club will services are at 6:15 a.m., as the stances victims were tortured. of May 10-I 6, as detailed in the played Thursday from 12 :45 meet at the Rhode Island service is more than one hour · Arab residents of the ter­ foll owing list. To sign up or to until 2 p.m. Shabbat traditions School of Design Art Museum in length. Pl ease cooperate and ritories, Tulkarm and Nablus, obtain further information, are observed on Fridays. Sun­ lobby (224 Benefit Street) at 11 come on time. carried pictures of Saddam please call the Center at 861 - da ys begin with tea, coffee and a.m. on Tuesday, Ma y 14, fo r a Morning services for Mon­ Hussein and Yasir Arafat, 8800 and ask for th e person hot muffins served at 10 a.m., guided tour. In addition to the day and Thursday are at 6:30 showing strong support, and specified in th e l~ting. foll owed by interesting pro­ regular exhibits, th ere will be a a.m., and for Wednesday and chanting slogans of support. grams. The schedule includes: special exhibit on the costumes Friday at 6:45 a.m. Thousands participated almost Kosher Mealsite Friday, Ma y 10 and textiles of the '60s and Mincha for the entire week da il y. In Jenin, Palestinians Seniors are invited to join in VCR Program, " A Mystical Court Robes from India. Ad­ is at 8 p.m. urged Iraq to use chemical a variety of activities and to en­ Journey thro ugh the Hebrew mission is $1.50 for senior citi ­ Starting Shabbos Early weapons during their missile joy a hot kosher meal at noon at Alphabet," 11 a.m. to noon. zens. According to Halacha, one launches. the Kosher Mealsite at the Cen­ S1111day, May 12 The Brown Bag Club is for may begin Shabbos and say Intifada violence surged in ter. The mealsite is open at I 0 VCR Movie, "African Queen" people free for lunch. For de­ Ma 'ariv and Kiddush I¼ sea­ the wake of the October 8, a.m., with casual conversation With Humphrey Bogart, 10 :30 tails call Evy Rappaport. sonal hours before sunset. This 1990, Temple Mount riot in in the lobby until 11 . Exercise is a.m. time is call ed Plag HaMincha. which 17 Arabs died. The PLO In the summer when sunset is and the intifada leadership late some people have a cus­ exploited that tragedy, with Dvorah-Dayan Club Na' Amat/USA tom of beginning Shabbos Arafat's Fatah organization Dvorah-Dayan Club of held at the home of Geraldine deliver them yourself. Please early. However, a problem putting out a death list con­ NA 'AMAT/ USA wi ll hold its Foster. ca ll Ceil Krieger at 351 -2139, ari ses concerning the breaking taining names and addresses of next meeting on Tuesday, Ma y We turn to you, members who will be delighted to collect of Mincha and Ma 'ariv. It is not Israelis and Arabs to be killed 21 , at 7:45 p.m. at th e home of and friends of NA' AMAT/ any and all gift items, furni­ permitted to say both Mincha for revenge. president Florence Silver, 27 USA, and ask that you remem­ ture, children's clothes (no and Ma 'ariv in the same time Hamas and Islamic Jihad - Taft Avenue. (Please note ber us as we gather saleable adults, please), books, jewelry, frame, i.e. both after Plag both terrorist groups com­ change of date from our usual items for our GIANT YARD etc. We are counting on your HaMincha and before sunset. prised of Islamic fundamental­ Monday evening.) SALE. We have not had as help if we are to schedule this Otherwise it would be a contra­ ists - have vied with the PLO Guest speaker will be Paul good a response as we had one-day project and we are diction, for you would be treat­ for leadership of the insur­ Segal, Executive Director of hoped and at the present time grateful fo r any help you offer. ing this period both as "day," rection. The situation has Jewish Family Services who we cannot plan to have this by reciting Mincha, and as intensified with no real pros­ wi ll discuss " Emotional Impact fund-raising project without your assistance. We must have "night," by reciting Ma'ariv. pect for solutions. Despite the of Being Jewish in Today's Shalom Chapter Therefore, if one wishes to start tense situations, the Israeli World" with reference to anti­ merchandise to sell and we Shabbos early it would be nec­ government continues to work Semitism, Israel, and inter­ urge you to ask your family Shalom Chapter will hold its essary to say Mincha before the to improve the atmosphere for marriage. and friends to gather house­ next meeting on May 14 at 7:30 time of of Plag HaMincha and peace talks. Reserve Monday, June 17, hold items and call us for p.m. at the liome of Sandra Ma 'ariv after Plag HaMincha. for our Annual Dinner to be pickup if you are not a_bl e to Garfinkel. By arbitrarily beginning· We will be having a Pizza Mincha at 7 p.m., as is done in Party and Penny Social. Please ma.ny locations, and saying plan to join us!! Ma 'ariv immediately after' Fifty Years Ago This Week In The Jewish Herald wards, one would be saying both Mincha and Ma'ariv in May 9, 1941 Balkan Jews Fear Nazi Hate the same time frame most Vicious Talk in Congress Bell Heads Charity Tactics weeks. Washington. Congressman Zurich. Hitler's anti-Semitic These are two important Campaign John E. Rankin of Missis­ policies marched deeper into DON'T WEIGHT Hala chic considerations when Joshua Bell was this week sippi made one of the most the Balkans this week, close starting Shabbos early. The named chairman of the ANY LONGER anti-Semitic speeches ever on the heels of the Nazi war Rhode Island drive for funds first is that if all of the syna- heard in Congress. Warning machine, which was consoli­ for the United Charities of " international Jews" that dating its conquest of Yu­ Jewish War Jerusalem,-it was announced they "are making the great­ goslavia and completing the Veterans Meeting by Rabbi David Werner. est blunder since the Cruci­ invasion of the Greek main­ George Samperi! is trea­ An Executive Board Meeting fixion " in attempting to push land. The reign of terror surer. Rabbis Goldman and of the Jewish War Veterans th e United States into war, against the Jews in the Mace­ Waldman are being assisted .Wore than just a dieI'• State Department of Rhode Rankin accused th e "inter­ donian province of Greece by a local committee. 82 Pitman Street. Providence. RI 02906 Island wi ll · be held at State national Jews" of war-mon­ was organized by the terror­ (401) 454-1920 Department · Headquarters, 83 gering. ist leader, Ivan Mihailoff. Park Street, Providence, R.I. , on Monday, May 13, at 8 p.m. All members are requested to Joseph Rubiano, Sr. Joseph Rubiano, Jr. Andrew Galasso attend this meeting. SEE ISRAEL THIS YEAR

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What would happen to ence that was unlike anything I knowledge about what hap­ week of Pesach which will be salesman of some kind (my them if not for Israel? The had ever had - I ca me face to pened to his family was forever etched in my mind. grandfather was a traveling answer for us is not just in his­ face with my family's past. To extremely limited. It was not Having no family in town dur­ until I was in my mid-twenties ing Pesach and being away salesman), and that he was tory books, but is with our par­ fully comprehend what hap­ ents who survived the Holo­ pened, I need to put my life in that my father decided to tell from our home in Sydney, we trying to buy tickets for himself us about what had happened decided to go to a " kosher le and his family to go home. caust. perspective. This chance meeting wi th I am 32 years old, married to him during the war. One Pesach" resort in Palm It was becoming clear that day, he called my two brothers Springs. On the second morn­ this Mr. Lowy, standing in my past has made me look at and have two small daughters. myself and ask, should I and I was born in Australia and am and me together and pro­ ing of Pesach, I happened to go front of me, had been arrested others like me do more? I cur­ currently living in California. ceeded to tell us his own story into the hotel store to get a with my grandfather 47 years earlier, and had in fact spent rently work with and donate to My fat her was born in Czecho­ of survival during the Nazi newspaper. In front of me was six weeks in the holding camp. Jewish organizations, but in slovakia and my mother in occupat(on of Hungary. Nat­ a man in his mid 60 's also wait­ My mind was racing with ques­ the end always return back to Australia. My father and my urally, this was an extremely ing for his paper. When the difficult and emotional time for shop assistant asked for his tions. I was confused and not the same lifestyle. There is the wife's father are both Holo­ dilemma - as our generation, caust survivors. I grew up in both him and us. Amongst a name, he apswered " Lowy." sure what to do next. Later that day, after talking born out of such adversity middle to upper middle class number of stories, he told us As he had a Hungarian accent to my father by phone, telling slowly moves away from the Australia and most of the kids I when he last saw his father. It and thinking that we might be him what had happened and past and while we involve our­ grew up with had similar back­ was the morning of March 20, related, I introduced myself checking some facts, we con­ selves in our community, we grounds. As fa r as religion was 1944, which I think was a also as a " Lowy" and asked firmed that Mr. Lowy was never really make a commit­ concerned, we were what I Monday. My father and his where he was from . As it indeed arrested with my ment - for us life goes on. would call " traditional Jews." family were in Budapest at the turned out, he was from grandfather. It was also the This meeting with Mr. Lowy Friday nights were spent time and had decided that Hungary, but from a different first time since my grandfather has made me stop and think together, we attended syna­ since the Germans had moved town than my father's. Al­ left his house in 1944 that we about the quality, not just gogue on the major holidays into Hungary the day before, though we were not related, he have found someone who was quantity, of our lives, of other and some other times during they would return to their asked me where my father and actually (physically) with him generations whose presence the year. I was educated at a hometown of Fulek, located in his fami ly were during the war and could tell us exactly what has been denied us and of non-Jewish school, but at­ the countryside near the border and what had become of them. happened - at least over that future generations whose herit­ tended religious school three betwen Hungary and Czecho­ I told him that they were in six-week period. Mr. Lowy's. age we must protect and times a week until my bar­ slovakia. Budapest during the war and son and I are planning to docu­ preserve. mitzvah. After that, my My grandfather went down that most of the family had ment his memories of those six The enormity and tragedy of religious education stall ed. My to the main train station in survived except for my grand­ weeks. Mr. Lowy told us that the Holocaust is difficult to wife comes from a more reli­ Budapest to buy tickets for his father. · he and my grandfather were grasp, but when it touches you gious background. After our family to return home and was Mr. Lowy then inquired as to separated when they arrived at personally, its impact is marriage and then the birth of arrested when he entered the whether I knew what had hap­ Auschwitz, because as they dramatic. While we did not live our child, a need to live a fuller station. After spending a num­ pened to my grandfather and were leaving the train my through it, we were always Jewish life has become a prior­ ber of weeks in a holding where he was arrested. I then grandfather reached back into reminded, but were to some ity for me. It was mainly due to camp, he was then sent to recounted the story my father the boxca r to retrieve his tallit extent protected by our parents this that my chance meeting Auschwitz where he, along had told me, but I did not and teffilin, and as he was from thei r worst memories, was able to occur. with millions of other men, remember the date that he was doing this, he was beaten by and only now can I begin to While growing up, I had women a.nd children perished. arrested. My Lowy interrupted the guards. Mr. Lowy is not understand what my father some idea of what my father I, like (I would assume) most me and told me that he was sure whether my grandfather went through. and others like him had been of the children of survivors, also arrested at the station and survived the beating, but he In spite of my confusion, I through during the war, but listened intensely, let the facts that a Lowy from Fulek was sink into my memory and then arrested with him at the same suspects that he did not. beli eve there are a number of since we had never really been At first, after meeting Mr. lessons to be learned from my Lowy, I was quite emotional. It experience. The parents of my was the first time I had come generation must tell their chil­ face to face with anything con­ dren as much as possible, no Join thousands of readers who know what's going nected to my grandfather other matter how difficult it may be. than my father and his family. The time for this is short - on in the Rhode Island Jewish Community It was as if the past had stuck within 10-20 years the genera­ out a huge hand and grabbed tion of survivors may no longer me by the neck. Now that sev­ be with us. For my generation, eral weeks have passed, I am we must know how to apply EID still not sure what it means or the lessons from the past to the Subscribe To The 0 what I should do about it. To future. Soviet Jewry currently meet Mr. Lowy, for me, has faces grave danger and those opened up more questions that who are waiting to emigrate to it has answered and some of Israel must be helped. If the these may never have an USSR disintegrates and there is RHODE ISLAND answer. Anarchy or Military rule, the I feel an anger growing lives of the Jews of Russia will inside of me about what hap­ be in great jeopardy. It is our JEWISH. HERALD pened, about never seeing my duty to ensure that situation grandfather, about traditions cannot occur where in 30-50 and lifestyle that were simply years the son of a Jew who sur­ T O UC If ,.,, wiped out. The dilemma I 'vived a second Holocaust ,r ITH currently face is on two levels, meets a man who was with his THE one religious and the other grandfather in a camp some­ moral. The religious side, I where in Russia. believe, I will in time work out, I will end by presenting but it is the moral questions some interesting facts. Mr. TIMELY FEATURES ... LOCAL &: SOCIAL EVENTS ... EDITORIALS that I fear wi ll never be Lowy was 18 when arrested in BUSINESS PROFILES ... AND OUR H AROUND TOWN" SECTION answered. March 1944, my grandfather HIGHLIGHT EVERY ISSUEI Writing from an Australian was in his 40's. Mr. Lowy viewpoint, most of my genera­ moved to the U.S. in 1945 or tion has been bl essed with at 46 and currently lives in least a comfortable way of life. Brooklyn, N.Y. My father went DON'T MlISS A SINGJLJE ONIE! We had wonderful educa­ to Israel in 1946 and arrived in tional, cultural and sporting Australia in 1951. I temporarily Return the coupon below to subscribe. Just $10.00 (in Rhode Island, opportunities. To date, a large moved to California in 1990 $14.00 out of state) brings you 52 issues that will inform and entertain you. part of our lives has been spent and until then had never left on furthering ourselves, and home at Passover. My Lowy ------, while we worry about our local decided to go to Palm Springs YES! Please begin my subscription for Jewish community and Israel, for Passover the first time this for most of us, this is either a year, he usually spends Passo­ 0 $10.00 per year (Rhode Island) 0 $14 per year (Out-of-State) financial or time commitment ver in the Northeast. It was 47 - but it really does not divert years and 11 days from the NAME us from our main goal. date Mr. Lowy and my grand­ ADDRESS ______Israel and its survival is, I father were arrested (March 20, believe, the strongest protec­ 1944) until the day we met in tion we have against another the hotel store (March 31 , Holocaust. This evidence is 1991). currently staring us in the face The above article, writte11 with the plight of Soviet Jews. Arpil 9, 1991 , by Peter S. Lowy, Mail Check To: Rhode Island Jewish Herald, P.O. Box 6063, Providence, RI 02940 If not for Israel, where would was submitted by the Si111011 they go? If not for Israel, who Wiesentl,a/ Ce11ter, Los A11geles, ------would stand up and fight for Calif. ------.,; -,

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Valley Country Club, Pros­ 1991 , at Miriam Hospital. She awarded a certificate from the WILLIAM BOSLOVITZ Woonsocket; and a grandson. pector's Club, National Insti­ was the widow of A. Edward Albert Einstein School of Den­ WOONSOCKET - William Funeral services were co­ tute of Real Estate Brokers, Eisenberg. tistry for Periodontal Disease, Boslovitz, 70, of 218 Pond St., ordinated by Mount Sinai Commercial and In vestment Born in Baltimore, Md., a and was awarded a certificate manager of various Cumber­ Memorial Chapel, 825 Hope Division, vice president of the daughter of the late Morris and from Begg Study & Straight land Farms stores in Woon­ St., Providence. Burial services Commercial and Investment Anne (Berkowitz) Bernstein, Wire Orthodontics. He was a socket and other New England took place at Lincoln Park Division of the Reno Board of she moved to Providence in member of the American Den­ areas for over 25 years, died Cemetery. Realtors and an associate mem­ 1951 , before moving to Paw­ tal Association and the Rhode Sunday, May 5, 1991, at the EUGENE R. BROWN ber of the International Council tucket 23 years ago. She Island and New England Den­ Landmark Medical Center­ RENO, Nevada - Eugene of Shopping Centers. returned to Providence in tal Societies. He was a member Woonsocket Unit. Robert Brown, 81 , died He was an executive commit­ January. of Green Peace, the R.I. ACLU, Born in Pawtucket, a son of Wednesday, May 1, 1991 , at tee member of United Jewish Mrs. Eisenberg was a member the East Greenwich Animal the late Joseph and Rose Manor Care Nursing Center of Appeal and a past chairman of of the Plantations Unit of B'nai Protection League and the Coa­ (Shapiro) Boslovitz, he had natural causes. He was the hus­ National Conference of Chris­ B'rith, and a member of the lition 2:1. lived in Woonsocket 20 years. band of Beatrice Brown of tians and Jews and a recipient Women's Association of the He was a member of Kl an Mr. Boslovitz was an Army Reno, Nevada. of its Brotherhood Award. Jewish Home for the Aged. Watch Project of the Southern veteran of World War II. A native of St. Louis, he was Besides his wife he is sur­ For many years Mrs. Eisen­ Poverty Law Center. He was a He was a member of the born Nov. 27, 1909, and had vived by a son, Stephen L. berg was a volunteer worker at member of Potowomat Coun­ Woonsocket Lodge of Elks 850, been a Reno resident for the Brown of Boston; a brother, the Jewish Home for Aged try Club and the Edgewood and had been chairman of its past 35 years, coming from Harold Brown of Palm Beach where she coordinated the Yacht Club. He was a fo under House Committee. He was a Brockton, Mass. Gardens, Fla.; a sister, Blanche bingo games. of Temple Sinai and served as member of Parkview Club. He Mr. Brown was a real estate Wilson of Tamarac, Florida; She leaves two daughters, its first president from 1958- was a volunteer at Woonsocket broker, owner of Gene R. and two grandchildren. Sandra Waldman of Provi­ 1960. Hospital and a member of its Brown, Realtors and founder A funeral service was held dence and Bette Dubinsky of Besides his wife he leaves a RSVP Program. and former president of Tem­ Friday, May 3, at Temple Sinai Roslyn Heights, N.Y.; a sister, daughter, Joyce Goodman of He leaves a daughter, Carol ple Sinai. He attended the in Reno, Nevada. Graveside Evelyn Bishoff of Washington, Cranston; two sons, Elliot Ziman of Warwick; four sisters, University of Michigan, Boston funeral services took place D.C.; two brothers, Sidney Goodman of Groton, Conn., Ann Ettine of Providence, Ber­ University, and Boston Univer­ Sunday, May 5, at Lincoln Park Bernstein of Essex, Md., and David Goodman of New tha Boslovitz and Ida Bos­ sity College of Business Cemetery. Services were coor­ Howard Bernstein of Boca York City; two sisters, Zita lovitz, both of Cranston, and Administration. dinated by Mount Sinai Memo­ Raton, Fla.; and four grand­ Manson of New York City and Dorothy Massover of Warwick; He was a former member of rial Chapel, 825 Hope St., children. Sonya Margolin in Ohio, and a a dear friend, Ida DiSalvo of B.P.O. Elks Lodge 597, Hidden Providence. The funeral service was held brother; Dr. Sanford Goodman KENNETH DAVID CHAK Thursday, May 2, 1991 , at of Forest Hills, Long Island. WILLOWDALE, Ontario - Mount Sinai Memorial Chapel, A funeral service was held Kenneth David Chak, 32, of 4 825 Hope St. Burial was in Tuesday, May 7, 1991, at Forest Laneway died Sat­ Sinai Memorial Park, Warwick. Mount Sinai Memorial Chapel, 825 Hope St., Providence. urday, May 4, 1991, at Miriam DR. A.S. GOODMAN Monuments and memorials Hospital. He was the husband Burial was in Highland Memo­ WARWICK - Albert S. in the finest granite and bronze. of Susan (Homonoff) Chak. rial Park, Johnston. Goodman, D.D.S., 69, of 83 Born in Cleveland, Ohio, a /11 . /1011.'ie co11su/101irms hy appoi11tme11I Foxridge Cresent, died Sunday, BENJAMIN LEWIS -son of Bernice (Nobleman) LETTERING • CLEANING • REPAIRS May 5, 1991, at 40 W. Greeley WARWICK Benjamin Chak of Toronto, Ontario, and Circle, Warwick, where he had Lewis, 73, of 303 Greenwich Leon J. Rubin 726-6466. the late Leo Joseph Chak, he been visiting. He was the hus­ Ave., a pharmaceutical sales lived in Toronto for 12 years. Affiliated with Charles G. Morse Granite Company band of Marge (Taylor) Good­ representative for several com­ Mr. Chak was a highway man and the late Ethel panies in Rhode Island for 30 design engineer for the Minis­ (Waxman) Goodman. years before retiring 10 years try of Transportation of Born in Providence, a son of ago, died Wednesday, May 1, Toront9 for eight years. the late Harry and Evelyn 1991 , at Kent County Memo­ He was a graduate of the (Margolis) Goodman, he had rial Hospital. He was the hus­ MT. SINAI MONUMENrs University of Toronto in Engi­ lived in Warwick since 1950. band of Lillian (Shushansky) neering. He was a member of Our owner, Mitchell ... his father and Dr. Goodman was a gradu­ Lewis. the Association for Profes­ ate of the University of Louis­ Born in Central Falls, he was grandfather. .. have been privileged to provide sional Engineers of Ontario, ville, Ky ., and its dental school. a son of the late Joseph and and the Crestwood Country over 8,000 monuments in RI Jewish Cemeteries He opened the fi rst dental Rose F. (Erenkrantz) Lewis. He Club in Rehoboth. since the 1870s for 2 reasons ... the quality is office in Apponoag in 1948, lived in Providence before Besides his wife and mother and later moved to Warwick in moving to Warwick fo ur years the finest and the price is the lowest. he leaves a brother, Howard B. I 980. His current offices were ago. Chak of Kingston, Ontario. Call 331-333 7 for assistance. located at 3411 West Shore Rd . Mr. Lewis was a member of A graveside funeral service He was a Navy veteran of Temple Ernanu-El and and its was held Monday, May 6, World War II , serving as a Men's Club, the Touro Frater­ 1991 , at Lincoln Park Ceme­ dentist. He was vice president nal Association, the Majestic tery, Post Road, Warwick. of the Rhode Island Chapter of Senior Guild and the Cranston Arrangements were by the the Academy of General Den­ Senior Guild. He was a past Sugarman-Smith Memorial tistry, and a past president of president of the Traveling DO YOU KNOW? Chapel, 458 Hope St., Provi ­ the Rhode Island Dental Men's Auxiliary of the Rhode dence. Pediatrics Society. He was a Island Pharmaceutical Associ­ REGINA EISENBERG dental consultant at the Ladd ation. The records at the Sugarman-Smith Memorial Chapel PROVIDENCE - Regina School, and a member of the Besides his wife he leaves a of your family's past funeral practices and preferences Eisenberg, 81 , of 61 Woodbury teaching staff at Tufts Univer­ son, Martin Lewis of Spencer, are the only such records dating back to the 1930s. St., died Tuesday, April 30, sity Dental School. He was (continued on next page) More often than not, our records are the only reliable source of a family's Yahrtzeit dates; Hebrew names; U.S. Federal law now requires all funeral homes maiden names; etc. That is probably why we are asked to provide itemized pricing. Mount Sinai Memorial Chapel to provide such information to area Jewish families more has provided this courtesy for over sixteen years. than 100 times each month. More than just a funeral home. MOUNT SINAI MEMORIAL CHAPEL Sugarman-Smith The only RI Jewish funeral borne that is a member of Memorial Chapel the Jewish Funeral Directors of America. 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men ts according to your budget and fancy. When you call any one of their 11 travel special­ ists, you'll find them courteous, reliable, honest and research­ happy. The owners and operators of Hope Travel Inc., Sheryl L. Bernstein, Executive Vice Presi­ L L. dent, her father, Robert Bernstein, founder and Presi­ dent, and her brother, Joel BUSINESS Pl~OFILES Bernstein, Vice President in charge of computer operations, epitomize the idea of a family -Hope Travel, Inc. business." Sheryl, who's in charge of of­ by Kathy Cohen ai rlines to call. Hopefully, you fice operations, says she real­ Herald Associate Editor (L-R) Mr. Robert Bernstein, Mary Friedman, Amy Medeiros, won't have any last minute izes the importance of what Sheryl Bernstein and her brother Joel. Spring is when the clocks are night cancellations, which can they do when dealing with all set ahead, stretching the days lead to two or three hours of customers, whether they are Each trip is carefull y planned Bernstein. " But, you want to into longer ones. Spring fever delay or to sleeping in a strange corporate people traveling on to fit their customer's needs send the right group to an area spreads as quickly as the wild­ hotel overnight. Each day of business or leisure·trips or even and itinerary. Hope Travel wili where they'll benefit and en­ flowers grow. Vacations are vacation is usually very pre­ honeymooners looking for a se­ schedule any vehicle of travel joy." planned, as schools ready their , cious. cluded romantic island. Group whether it be car, bus, train, In addition to their travel in­ students for final exams. After a Once your travel destination packages are very popular, too. boat or plane. terests, the Bernsteins have long year of hard work and is set, then, of course, you must Everyone deserves the same Research plays an important done their share of good deeds many business trips, even pro­ find the right hotel, car rental, quality service at the lowest part at Hope. Therefore, the for their community. Mrs. Edith fessionals ponder where to go restaurants, entertainment, prices. Bernsteins advise all customers Bernstein, wife of Robert Bern­ for leisure trips. sight-seeing spots, and more1 As long-time Rhode Island to know their dates and book stein, is co-President of the If you've ever dealt with Even if you're not a nickle-and­ residents with seventeen years their nights early, thereby al­ Women's Association of the making your own travel plans dime person, the cost can be­ of travel experience under their lowing Hope ample time to do Jewish Home for the Aged, and then you know that it can be come frightening. What a belts, the Bernsteins know they the proper research. This way, Mr. Bernstein himself, has done very tedious. Anxieties can run headache! aren't the only agency around. the customer can get the best so many things for his commu­ high just worrying about which When you need travel ar­ Nothing is taken for granted at price. Customers don't pay for nity that he's embarrassed to airline is safest, let alone more rangements; you need Hope1 Hope. Instead, they focus on the agent's service, only for the mention them all. This ener­ economical. That is, Hope Travel Inc. giving their customers the same reservation services. getic family helps to keep many First, in order to find the low­ They'll whisk your travel blues type of service that they'd ex­ "Safety, cleanliness and com­ people's spirits fl ying high! est rate, there are hundreds of away. Hope will make arrange- pect to receive themselves. fort take priority," says Robert

enthusiastic about school when and schools. Questions about Waterman Street, Providence, he's home but may behave dif­ children a11d adolescrnts with R.I. 02906 /40 1) 421-4004. All ferently at school. Usually, leaming or behavioral problems co11111111 11ication will be held i11 when things are amiss, there ca11 be mailed to him at 145 strict confidence. are no simple answers. Rather, a combination of factors influ­ ence a problem. It is important Year end report to determine the degree to card blues? which your son is able to meet his teacher's expectations. ls Learn a new song the level of the work too diffi­ cu lt or too easy? ls the amount this summer! of work too much or too little' Does his behavior vary signifi ­ Call Dr. Steve Imber Dear Dr. Imber: tive purposes. Schedule a cantly from activity to activity I don't know where to meeting with your son's or from morning to afternoon? • Consultation for learning & behavior problems begin, My nine-year-old son teacher. Send her a brief note Does he show interest in par­ seems to have the winter blah or initiate a short phone call to • Testing and evaluation ticular subjects or classmates? • School consultation blues. School has never been summarize your concerns. When a parent and teacher his favorite pastime but by Then, schedule an appoint­ can agree on " the problem," this time of the year he's in a Psychoeducational Consultants Inc. ment to gather information with close communication and groove, I met his teacher at about his attitude, interactions, cooperation, a plan can be 145 Waterman Street, Providence, RI 02906 open house and she seemed behavior, and work completion developed, implemented and (401) 421 -4004 nice enough. I was impressed and accuracy. Determine the with her concern for children teacher's expectations for monitoDr. Imbred.er is a Professor of ·• ... -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-,-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-,.-,.-,.~.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-;.- ...... and her organization, Work homework completion and test Special Ed11catio11 at Rhode. completion has been a prob­ preparation. Consider this lsla11d College, a past preside11t lem for some time, but this meeting a first step to address­ of the llltematio11a/ Co1111 ci/ for year he seems to be stuck in ing the " problem." Consider Childrr11 with Behavioral Disor­ the tar pits. I don't know that your son may appear un- ders and a consultant to paren ts what to do and he could care less .. , or so it seems. Your thoughts would be appreci­ ••••••••••••••••••••••• 32 Goff Avenue, Pawtucket, RI 02860 ated. HOPE Inside RI: 1-401 -728-3600 Concerns Abound or. 1-800-675-8646 Dear Abound: Nationwide: 1-800-367-0013 Let's face it. We all have Df.VEL FAX: 1-401-724-8076 BUSINESS PR<>FILES good days and bad days. It is a rare person who is able to per­ form successfully with little FOR FLIGHTS, CRUISES or TOURS variation. However, your FOR BUSINESS or PLEASURE · description of the presenting problem appears to go beyond FOR ALL YOUR TRAVEL NEEDS " normal flu ctuations" of per­ + DOES YOUR BUSINESS PROVIDE formance. For most students,· ••••••••••••••••••••••• school is work .. . hard work. OUTSTANDING OR UNIQUE Nevertheless, many students SERVICES TO THE COMMUNITY? look forward to school each GREAT day. Oh, they won't admit it, FAMILY HOME Why not let our readers know about it? not even under intense ques­ 4 bedrooms, 2-1/2 baths, sky-lit The Rhode Island Jewish Herald takes tioning. When a child is per- . master bedroom with whirlpool "A CLOSER LOOK" , sistently unenthusiastic about bath. Fireplaced living room. Fam­ school for weeks at a time, ily room & study on first floor. Su­ at business In Rhode Island and when a child loses his appetite perbly finished lower level. 2 car. Southeastern Massachusetts for academic achievement, garage. Walking distance to syna­ In every Issue. gogues and Jewish Community when a child loses confidence, A story on your buSlness, complete with photos, it's time to communicate.· Center. $215,000. will let our readers know all about your work Some parents are sensitive and what you have to offer the community. about "bothering" their child's teacher. Usually, teachers For details contact FOR MORE INFORMATION ON appreciate concerned parents, LINDA MITTLEMAN "A CLOSER LOOK" provided that parents are sen­ 274-3636 office CALL MYRNA OR JEANETTE AT sitive about schedules and are 724-0200 requesting to meet for con­ 534 ANGELL STREET • PROVIDENCE or 272-4222 home structive rather than destruc-