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VOLUME LXXVII, NUMBER 16 THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1991 35¢ PER COPY
Missile Threat Not Ended With War, News From Hadassah, Jerusalem As Syria Obtains North Korean Scuds by Hugh Orgel been known for some time that improve relations with the TEL AVIV (JT A) - The Syria was trying to obtain an United States because the defeat of Iraq apparently has improved version of the Scuds, economic, political and mili not ended the Scud missile which were originally designed tary power of the Soviet Union threat to Israel. in the Soviet Union. is declining. Israeli military sources said After Moscow rejected The sources said the new recently that Syria is obtaining Damascus' bid to purchase thinking in Damascus has not North Korean Scud C missiles Soviet-built 55-23 missiles, the altered Syria's attitude toward ,that are more accurate than the Damascus government turned the Arab-Israeli and Israeli Iraqi-made Scuds launched at to North Korea for improved Palestinian conflicts. But more lsra.el during the six-week Scuds. A shipload of Korean reasonable statements about Reva N. Paisner, of Providence, R.I., who is serving in Israel Persian Gulf war. missiles has already arrived in resolving those problems have as a volunteer under the Hadassah Winter in Netanya The Scud C has a range of Syria, and another is on the been heard from Syria lately, (WIN) program, packs gas masks for distribution to the over 300 miles . and is much way, the Israeli sources said. the sources said. Israeli population. She is working in an army base "some more accurate. Launchers de The report that Syria is build The idea of Syria as a possi where in Israel." ployed deep inside Syria could ing a Scud missile arsenal coin ble negotiating partner has There are 29 American senior citizens in the WIN group. reach targets in southern Israel, cides with debates in and out been advanced by Foreign Min When Saddam Hussein started to rain Scuds on Israel, the the sources quoted by Israel side government circles over ister David Levy, who believes · volunteers were asked if they wanted to go back to the U.S., Radio said. whether the time is ripe for Israel should launch a peace but they refused. Moreover, the Syrians are peace negotiations with Syria. initiative in the aftermath of "We had a job to do and it gave us a good feeling that we said to have the ability to tip Once regarded by the West as the Gulf war. were helping Israel in this critical time," said Reva Paisner. the new Scuds with chemical leader of the Arab rejectionist Levy is opposed by Likud "We were much appreciated." weapons they have develoepd, bloc and a supporter of inter hard-liners and coalition part the sources said. national terrorism, Syria was ners even further to the right The same capability was at part of the U.5.-led coalition who shun negotiations involv CBS Newsman Tells tributed to the Iraqis, but all 39 that defeated Saddam Hussein ing the Golan Heights, which missiles they launched at Israel of Iraq. Israel annexed from Syria in Of Ordeal As Captured Jew carried conventional warheads. The Israeli military sources 1980. by Ruth Rothenberg Military _s_ources said it has said Damascus is trying to London Jewish Chronicle LONDON (JT A) - CBS brutally beaten, and then to an News correspondent Bob army prison camp for eight Beth-El Library Reopens Simon was worried that his days, where discipline was Jewishness might cost him his severe but some kindness was life during the six weeks he shown. and three colleagues were pris Afterward they were put in oners of the Iraqis while the solitary confinement and inter Persian Gulf war raged. rogated for 24 days. " I though my number was Simon, who lives in Herzliya, up when they started accusing north of Tel Aviv, and has me of being a member of Mos visited every Arab country sad," the Israeli intelligence neighboring Israel, said he and service, said Simon, who is his crew had no passports normally based in Tel Aviv. when they were captured, only He said his captors "kept Saudi press cards and an Inter shouting 'Yehudi, Yehudi' at national Red Cross card. me. He said he did not respond " l was more worried about to the shouting and insults of my Jewishness than my Tel his Iraqi interrogators and they Aviv posting," the American did not seem to expect an newsman told reporters at the answer. Humana Wellington Hospital His French Catholic wife, in northwest London, where Francoise, said she was he was admitted for medical shocked at her husband's checkups and treatment. appearance when she met his Simon and three members of convoy at a Jordanian border his television crew were cap post Saturday, March 2. tured by an Iraqi patrol on the Dr. Stuart Sanders, who ex Saudi-Kuwaiti border four amined the reporter and his days after the Gulf war started crew, said the four men were on Jan. 17. They were released dirty, disheveled, tired and dis March 2. oriented when they got off Simon said that after their their plane in London. During the quiet summer months last year, the William G. Braude Library at Temple Beth-El . capture, the four men were But apart from some bruises, became a center of movement and change. As one of the most distinguished synagogue taken to the southern Iraqi city there is remarkably little wrong libraries in the country and the largest in the state, the Beth-El library was used to a lot of of Basra, where they were with them, the physician said. activity and attention. . This time, however, construction workers, electricians and masons walked through the door in place of the usual traffic of rabbis, students and other quiet scholars. The tens of 1-lJ J .1:,1v thousands of books were settled into more than four hundred boxes; and the boxes climbed 110N RABBIS one on top of the other, crowding into corners, halls, classrooms. Passover messages are due March 15. All messages Today, the renovations of the William G. Braude Library have been completed, and many must be typed and double-spaced; and no more of the books are back on the shelves. The sun streams in through the new windows, filling than a page-and-a-half in length, using one side of the bright, comfortable reading room with warmth. The library houses approximately 22,000 books, including numerous rare and popular periodicals. . each 8-1 / 2" x 11 " sized paper. On Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays from 10 am until 5 pm and on Sundays during the Send to: school yeqr from 9 am until 12 noon, anyone i_nterested in browsing _in the reading _room or ru. Jewish Herald P.O. Box 6063. Providence, RI 02940 I doing more scholarly research is welcome to v1s1t the library. Rem, Silverman, the hl,ranan, 01'/CIX to: (40J) 726-5820 __ is on hand to answer all of your questions. d 2 - THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1991 Inside the Ocean State
Interfaith Housing Corporation Cranston/Warwick Hadassah Rebuilding Communities The first meeting of the 1991 by Kathy Cohen Gelineau as chair, an executive Housing Corporation are proof season of the Cranston/ War Herald Associate Editor member of the R.I. State Coun that they do agree on some wick Hadassah will be held on The Interfaith Housing Cor cil of Churches and the Chair of things - and one is helping the Monday, March 18, at 7:30 poration, originally organized the Board of Rabbis " for the underpriviledged find a re p.m. at the Villa Del Rio Club l about ten years ago, is com purpose of considering how the spectable home they can af house opposite Warwick Mall. ~ prised of a group of Rhode ls faith communities could relate ford. This meeting promises to be I land's religious leaders. The to the need for affordable hous In the beginning, the corpo exciting as well as interesting. I group is responsible for coordi ing in Rhode Island." ration worked mostly on "ad The time for the drawing of the I nating the construction of forty According to Rabbi Wayne vocacy for housing." They al Annual Raffle is here, and the modular housing units Franklin, the committee most gave up their work until three lucky tickets will be throughout the west end of formed from the founder's about two years ago, when drawn that evening. Providence. They will have monthly meetings which were then newcomer, Reverend Fran Weisman, Regional been completed by this publi " for general sharing and ad Hayes, showed them the light Conference Chairperson, will cation. dressing common beliefs and by pointing out how difficult it be there to tell you all about President of the program is common interests that the reli would be to restart a "non the exciting Spring Conference Reverend Bayler Hayes of the gious community as a whole profit 501-C3 organization." to be held in Boston to which Pawtucket Congregational can address." Once the corporation re all members are invited. Church; Vice President is Rabbi These interfaith meetings did ceived an overture by the state Following the business Wayne Franklin of Temple not happen by accident, says from former Governor Garrahy meeting there will be a most Emanu-El, Providence. Trea Hayes as " Rhode Island has to build, the corporation looked informative program entitled, surer is Episcopal Bishop been an open place where all for locations. They discovered " Are You Making the Right George Hunt, and Richard different religious faiths were several " tax-reverted vacant Decisions ... Where there's a Brown of the Executive Rhode not only practiced, but ac lots" that were available Will , there's a Way." Our guest Susan Leach DiBiasio Island State Council of cepted and honored." through the city. With the help speaker is Attorney Susan aspects of business, corporate Churches agreed to be secre Hayes explains that there are of a consultant, they purchased Leach DiBlasio. Ms. DiBlasio is and health-care law. tary. · many subjects on which reli eighteen scattered lots at a partner at the prestigious law For four years Susan was Hayes explained that the cor gious leaders don't always $30,000. firm of Licht & Semonoff in Editor-in-Chief of the R.I. Bar poration was founded by Ro agree. These forty well-built The corporation's goal was to Providence. She is a Phi Beta Journal, and for six years man Catholic Bishop Louis · housing units of the Interfaith build three-and-four bedroom Kappa of Wheaton College, served as a Director of the R.l. homes that fit the theme of the and a graduate of Boston Uni Law Institute. Spending 13 neighborhood's original style. versity Law School. years as an officer, and on the Terence Kerrigan, L.M.T. David Presbery and Associates Susan is a member of both Executive Committee, she be was hired to design the homes, Rhode Island and Massachu came President of the R.l. Bar The Benjamin System of Muscular Therapy most of which included setts Bar Associations and Association in 1990. She is a is a systematic approach to working with " twelve pitched roofs" with clerked for Judge Weisberger, trustee on the Board of Miriam fenced-in yards, parking the eminent Associate Justice Hospital and also serves as a the body which combines various, levels of places, etc. of the Rhode Island Supreme Trustee on the boards of the therapeutic massage, muscular tension The leaders are working to Court. She has her MBA from Jewish Federation and the Jew release and body awareness education. wards another goal and have Providence College, and her ish Home for the Aged. resumed their monthly meet outstanding work at Licht & Susan is very proud to be a Treatments may consist of tension evaluation ings to work on another "possi Semonoff has given her extra Life Member of Hadassah since and release techniques, sports massage, passive ble forty units," says Hayes. ordinary expertise in many the age of 12, and her three mobilization, body care and personalized year-old daughter, Amy, is also - --- CORRECTION/ CLARIFICATION a life member. nutrition and exercise consultation. For more This should prove to be a information or an appointment call The phone number in the advertisement for Terence wonderful Hadassah evening Kerrigan LM.T. in the March 7 issue was incorrect. The concluding with refreshments 231-4205 correct phone number is 231-4205. The Herald is sorry for served under the supervision any inconvenience. of Lil Gilstein and her able committee.
Opening Meeting of ARZA The opening meeting of the Temple Beth-El Chapter of ARZA, Association of Reform KNOW SOMEONE Zionists of America, will be held on Wednesday, March 20, at 7:30 p.m., in the Silverstein Meeting Hall. The guest GETTING MARRIED? speaker will be Gidon Elad, veteran kibbutznik and teacher, who will speak on " Are We One People?" If you love Israel, if you want Tell us their name and address and we'U send them a to build Reform Judaism in Is rael, if you want to help in the one--year complimentary subscription to the struggle for religious rights in the Jewish state, we urge you to Rhode Island Jewish Herald. join in this meeting. The Asso ciation of Reform Zionists in America is the Reform commu ------7 nity's voice for expressing soli Couple's Name ------I darity with the people on the State of Israel. Mitch Mallett and William Tilchin, are the co Address ------chairs of the Temple Beth-El ARZA chapter. ------Zip----- Wedding Date Interfaith Seder In Kingston Your Name ------The URI Chaplain's Associa tion and the Kingston Congre Address gational Church will be co hosting an interfaith Passover ------Zip----- seder on Tuesday, March 19, beginning at 6 p.m. at This offer good only for new subscribers. the Kingston Congregational Mail this coupon to: Church in Kingston. A Passover seder, which is a Rhode Island Jewish Herald Rhode Island Jewish traditional meal-service cele P.O. Box 6063 brated by the Jewish popula- Providence, RI 02940 c::==:::i HERALD tion during the holiday of 1------·-·-·_-_.._ .._ .._ _ ._.. _:: _.: ._:._:._·..._ _ .._ .: _.- _.. _:-~-_ -·_!J_-_-_-_r._' .•_,. _J_~_.._. ._ .- _.. ~_ -_·--·-·-~-~-~-··-··-· ··- ·· -·· -·· ---··-··-· _..._ ._.· -·-·-··-··-··-··-· ·-·--··-·¥_r_•·-~-w·-··-·-·-·-·-· .. · ' ~a;;~~~r~ :;s~~~;i~~~!1~~n~ THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 14 , 1991 - 3 Feature
Meeting Helen Again
By Mike Fink Herald Contributing Editor
Helen was married to a stu One of those late afternoons dent of mine. She invited me to I asked Helen up for a glass of their dinner parties. She set a sherry. My department head fine table. With her round chin, gave cocktails to his staff and cow eyes, pi led up heap of neighbors next door. He called chestnut hair, glowing com her a showoff. She had done plexion and rather subdued summerstock with Zsa Zsa costumes, she created an air of Gabor. At that point the only soft and elegant dignity as a names that would have hit hostess. hard with me were Garbo and Helen got in the habit of pop Thurber. I took the rest of the ping into my office after classes celebs for granted. to offer me a ride home in her When my mother became Volvo. We might stop briefly bedridden, Helen noted my for tea on the way. I lived with closed door at the college, the my mom, who was very ill. blank spot I left in my routine. I That school study of mine spent my hours helping my be hid away in the romantic tower loved. Helen phoned and Come Hither, Everyone That Thirsteth of a Victorian castle. I also sub asked if she could drive by and let a very small flat across fix lunch. Mom, what do you started to ring at odd hours. Helen brought her preppy ing visit, David died. I have not Benefit Street, in the cluster of think? Why not? Helen whispered strangely, " I new spouse for the weekend. heard from Helen since. townhouses ca ll ed Atheneum Helen stepped to the door can't ta lk now. Something's This time it was Helen's be· Helen and I met for a spell. Row. This warren of retreats with all the tools to make a happening. I'm at Gracie Man loved who was desperately ill. We mix again in the blur of rose up behind the Atheneum souffl e, a bag of French bread sion. I'll get back to you." She Shortly after thei r very charm- memory. Library, which is a noble old and another of wines, white did and fill ed me in. She had Greek Revival structure with a and red. My mother pulled her been remarried and once again stone fountain on Benefit. Leg self up and came to the table. divorced. She was about to try end has it if you sip this water The souffl e rose. The wine was still another time. She had cho _ Green Manor _ you will return to Providence. excellent. sen the twin brother of the It reads, " Come Hither, Every Helen's marriage ended. She Mayor of Manhattan. Here at one That Thirsteth." left town. My mother passed an art school I live at the brink Edgar Allen Poe courted away. Some seasons later I got of the deep end a dreamer may a la carle Mrs. Whitman upon these married and we had a daugh fa ll into. Though anything's premises. ter. At our flat the phone possible. --shoppe-- Passover Fare HORS D'OEUVRES Whole Roasted Broiler 8.00 ea. AND APPETIZERS (3# Avg.) w/Matzo Veg. Stuffing & Sauce Chopped Liver 7.00 lb. Roasted Capen w/Matzo 4.25 lb. Chopped Herring 7.00 lb. Veg. 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knew what to do with from mitzvahs, engagements, wed fi nd that it had been tCltally Mike and just could not thank dings, public achievements. flooded, could not run anJ Mike and the Sugarman-Smith My dad's portraits were smelled to high heaven. A Chapel enough. A day later the beautiful studies of people and night to remember-. Cantor called again. It seems I used to compare _his work My dad, Morris Schwartz, that just about every Marine with Yusuf Karsh of Canada. died of a cerebral hemorrhage Dear Editor: and Army commander was I remember portraits of the in the " hospital room" on the return to their G-d and the tra Sinclair fa mily, the Censers, The Israel Defense Force has calling him to get yarmulkes for fifth fl oor of the Outlet Com ditional way of life. the Jewish men in their outfits. the Rakatanskys, the Grants, pany on January 16, 1938. He recently issued the following Why do we not see, at least Rabbi Shusshiem, Rabbi statistics: 37 Scud missiles fell When I told this to Mike he was a kind, warm and loving· not in our community - the said: "Don't worry; we will Braude, Judge Joslin, Judge man . . . a terrible loss for a on Israel during the war, two slightest manifestation of any Capotosto, the Providence Col Israelis died as a result of a provide all they need. No Jew 14-year-old girl (and a 17-year form of Teshuvah - Repent lege faculty, etc. (Much to my :faect hit causing injuries from ish person in the service in the old brother). ance - and return to the most Gulf who wants a yarmulke delight, I even found, after we I left the studio in 1949. It rn attack; twelve other deaths basic principles and practices were married, a grammar were caused indirectly and 241 will go without one." I must was always - to my memory - of Judaism such as Sabbath, school graduation photo of my Israelis were injured. In the say, Mike, that you and your only called "The Colonial Kashruth and Jewish Family husband, Earl!) Iraq-Iran War, 130 missiles hit associates in your Memorial Studios." ethics? What further miracu The studio was on the fou rth Iran resulting in 1000 deaths. Chapel should be proud of Beverly Fleisig lous deeds must occur for our what you did. I know that what floor of the department store. I nee Shwartz Of course every single people to convince all of us of can remember way back to numan life is precious, but you did shows that good, car (Mrs, Earl Fleisig) the existence and Divine Provi when the union organizers when we read these statistics, ing people do shine thru when Hallandale, Fla. dence of Almighty G-d? the need arises. Again, thank walked through the store yell ,hould we not be overwhelmed Rabbi Philip Kaplan Dear Editor: you Mike Smith. ing out "Strike! Strike!" Was The Persian Gulf War should JY the possibility that many, Pawtucket, R.I. this 1935-36? many more residents of Israel Barry Newman go down in history as one of Dear Editor: Warwick, R.I. I also remember a large :ould have been the victims of Thank you Mike Smith, Ex the great turning points. It is tented area, on the fourth floor, full of miracles. rhe missile attacks. The ecutive Director of the Sugar Dear Editor: near the studio and the furni religious and faithful elements man-Smith Memorial Chapel. Imagine my surprise to see Thomas W. Pearlman ture department, with soldiers Providence Jf the Jewish people have seen Most letters to the editor com in your January 31 issue, Moe and "swing" music. I don't in this miraculous salvation the plain about many things in and Fran Cohen's wedding remember the purpose o( the Dear Editor: ''Etzbah Elokim" - the Hand general but I think that once in picture, taken in my family's event, but most likely to sell We are lesbian and gay rab Jf the Almighty. By their a while a letter of thanks is due portrait studio - "The Colonial more war bonds! bis from across North America. xayers, their recitation of when a person goes out of their Studios." More memories: the Great. We are Conservative, Ortho f ehilim (Psalms) and their in way to help others. While WH ERE did your credit line Hurricane/ Flood being dox, Reconstructionist and :reased study of Torah, they working on a project to send come from? Although my hus stuck in the store ... no electric Reform. We are proud to be helped bring about the quick food and Seder kits to the Jew band and I have been out of ity ... no elevators . .. looking Jewish and proud to be gay and ~nd of this war. ish personnel in the Gulf area, I Providence for many years - re out of the windows and seeing lesbian. Some of us are single. But what about the thou was talking to Mike Smith. He turning several times during the waters rush by, covering Some of us are in committed ;ands of our secular brethren asked if they had yarmulkes for each year to see family - we cars, showcases of the storefront relationships. Some of us have who should be learning a great Friday night services and also still subscribe to the Rhode floating by, and dummies float been blessed with children. lesson from all the events of for Passover. I checked and Island Jewislr Herald. ing, looking like humans! We Some of us are gay and lesbian, the Persian Gulf War. Our they had not thought of them. Colonial Studios, in the Out finally got out about 8:30 p.m. yet still living as heterosexuals. 3ages teach us that the most Mike said " Do not worry." A let Co., was well known with after the fi remen had laid Our diversity mirrors that of .mportant result of the saving week later the phone rang and most of the city, recording spe down a wooden-bridge path the Jewish community we Jf Persian Jewry from the plans it was the chaplain who said cial events of their lives with from the side door on the street serve. Jf extermination by Haman in that they had just received memorable photos, i.e. new shared with the Crown Hotel. Recently, we were pleased :he Purim story was their more yarmulkes than they babies, school graduations, bar We went to our car, only to (continued_c>n _£lext page)
The Divine prescribed manner, yet of their The events which we com became angry with his wife, placed in the palace and a Chess Game • own volition. The chess pieces, memorate on Purim are their got rid of her, and began a favorite of the king when we decide, must be puppets own kind of chess game. In the search for a new queen. Haman's evil plan was signed Imagine a chess game where with invisible strings or they're megilla, the record of the story Enter Esther, a woman who into action. The Divine recov the pieces on the board seem to magnetized or computerized. of Purim, one does not see, nor had no interest in becoming ery could begin its work once move of their own accord. Somewhere, somehow, there is hear any mention of G-d. In the new Queen, who, in fact, the illness had begun. Pawns, rooks, queens and a hidden hand pushing the fact, G-d's name is not men hid herself from the royal mes Throughout the entire kings all move in the correctly pie,<'s around. tioned in the entire megilla; the sengers and, according to course of events, everyone Book of Esther is the only book many sages, was even disqual moved as they should have; RHODE ISLAND JEWISH from the Bible entire in which ified from participating in the the king one square at a time, G-d's name never appears. "beauty contest." In addition, EstI:ier as she pleased but in HERALD And yet, somehow, some way, Esther did nothing whatsoever accordance with Torah, after learning about the "chess to beautify herself once she Mordechai in a straight line. To (USPS 464-760) game" which took place in was among the "contestants" the untrained eye, it looked Publlshed Every Week By The those days, one must conclude in the palace. like a regular game. Except that Jewish Press Publlshlng Company that G-d's hand was controlling Add to this the fact that, chess pieces don't move by CO-EDITORS: KATHY COHEN the game. though Esther's relative, themselves. SARAH M . BAIRO Candlelighting Judaism teaches that G-d Mordechai, was well-known The story of Purim, with it s CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: supplies the "recovery" before by all, no one in the palace overt lack of G-d's name even MICHAEL FINK * he brings the " illness." In the knew or realized that Esther once in the entire megilla, was a March 15, 1991 ACCOUNT REPS: case of Purim, even before was Jewish, nor did it ever leak Divine chess game, par excel JEANETTE HIDALGO 5:34p.m. Haman convinced King Ahash out and enter the king's ears lence. And the best thing about MYRNA H. DRESS uerus to sign the decree to an until Esther told him herself. it was that our side won. GRAPHICS: nihilate all the Jews. 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Enclose a stamped, self-addressed - Haman, about whom we selves to be deterred or dis been instrumental in mobiliz envelope if you want the manuscript returned. - - read in the Purim megilfa this couraged by any Amalekite in ing those inner powers which Letters to the editor represent the opinions of - the writers, not lhe editors, and should Include week, was a direct descendant any shape or form. would have otherwise re the letter writer's telephone number for.verifi ~ ------,---, of Amalek. His hatred of the One might ask, "Why has mained dormant. cation. Notice: The opinions presented on Jews was compounded by the G-d done this? Why is a Jew Based on a letter of tlte The Herald is a member of the New England this pagedonotnecessarilyrepresent fact that " their laws are differ- confronted with trials and Press Association and a subscriber to the L11 bavitc/1er Rebbe. Submitted by Jewjsh Telegraphic Agency. the opinions of this establishment. ent from those of any other • difficultie:J" The .. ,an:.wer, , is, ,Rabbi Y. Laufer. '/, - , •,,, •, •, •, •,, • •.•.•.,,•.•~•.. • ..• ' •"•' •.•'•'''''','I ':'IJJI~~ 1 ,1 ,.'t1''''- ' ' I_ - ••••••.• - -- .. THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1991 - 5 Atrocities In Kuwait------to a higher plateau. the human condition following deterrent to tlw Lw ,ti,11 s idl' of This brings me to the main the atrocities in Kuwait is not the human potenti ,1 I. by Ray Eichenbaum .ire beyond human comprehen point of my short discourse. ble,1k at all . We see a tendency I hate to think that W(' , the sion. And the world sh ould not The entire world was en Shall mankind try to forget the in this world which bespeaks survivors o f the Ho loc,1ust, are forget that the _Nazis were r,1ged upon heMing of the lessons to be learned from the till' eventual evolution of the conscience o f humanity: doing it for a period 111 excess atrocities committed by Sad Holocaust, or s hall we keep on humankind to a higher moral that w hen we are "gone" from of six years. Also, one should dam Hussein's Jrmy in Kuivait. talking about this subject for plateau where such behavior this planet, as will be s hortly re,11i ze that criminal behavior The indignation and horror in tinws to come, or until such will be diminished and then the case, people will revert to of supposedly highly cultured responsL' to these dastardly timl\S as Jtrocities such as those fin,1lly L>lii11inated. And let us that previous animalistic be ,i nd educated n1en and won1en acts point out once again that that happened in Kuwait will not forget w here and by w hom havior. No - this cannot be. m,111kind has not yet emerged cannot be compared with ele not take place any longer? these atrocities were comn1it The blood of the innocent mil from its uncivilized ways. me nts of lesser cultural stan Only by repetition and ted . EvL'n tlwre, in the "dark" lions cries out from the earth There is also a tendency among dards. ex,1111ple w ill h uman beings Middle Eas t, the e nlighten demanding that this cannot people to compare the murder Thus, although atrocities are finall y learn that the bloodlet m ent is s tarting to enter. and will not happen. and pillage in Kuwait City with atrocities, there is a great dif ting and murder perpetrated As a Holoca ust survivor I am I pity the " last" survivor, the atrocities perpetrated by ferL' nce. The Nazi misdeeds upon other human beings low saddened , but not entirely dis because he o'r she wi ll feel like the Nazi hordes during World s hould not be forgotten . If they ers the evildoers to people just heartened by the events. The re tht> prophet Moses at Mou nt W.ir 11 . are to be erased from the ,1bovt' th e• animal level. The wi ll still be some abberations Nebo before his demise. For This writer does not think human consciousness in very human propensity for destroy in our ascent to a better kind of th is person wi ll lament and much of such comparisons, short order, then civili zed man ing others should then disap huma n species. These might be despair to the Almighty: . because the facts in both cases would be deprived of a great PL'ar once for all . the last o nes, I hope. But we " Did th ey become a ·better are so different. The brutality learning experie nce w hich However, the prognosis must keep o n talking, and by people from our telling them and bestiality of the Hitlerites could elevate life on this earth w l1i ch ca n bL' given the state of doing this we wi ll build up the what we have witnessed?"
Letters_(_co_n_t_in_u_e_d_rr_o_m_p_r_ev_i_ou_s_p_a_g_e>____ _ by the Central Conference of ing, including the possibility of Fifty Years Ago This Week In The Jewish Herald American Rabbis' resolution to losing the jobs which we h old ordain and accept openly gay and having to leave the profes Providence, R.I. and lesbian rabbis. At the same sion which we cherish. A few March 14, 1941 time we were pained and sad o f us have "come out" to find present Frank Sinatra, Con dened by negative reactions new challenges confronting us Willkie Views Nazi Europe ,"irst victims, the first to suf nie Hai nes, Buddy Rich, w h ich emanated from some as we continue to serve the - Persecution Will Spread fer, are the Jews." Ziggy Elman, the Pied Pipers quarters in our Jewish com Jewish people, and fortunately to Russia. If Adolf Hitler and the Hermon Quartette. munity. some of us have found both wins the war in Europe, the Tommy Dorsey Band to Ap As rabbis, we preach, teach, ourselves and our communities suffering of the Jews will be pear at Met. Tommy Dorsey, New York-Palestine Service counsel, and minister to the enriched by our openness. greatly increased, Wendell the famous " Sentimental Announced. Jerusalem. A di Jewish community. We are We commend th e Central L. Willkie declared in an Gentleman" and his orches rect regular fo rtnightly respected spiritual leaders. We Conference of American Rab interview with Joel Slonim, tra, will begin an engage steamship freight service be h ave welcom ed babies into our bis on its courageous action. of The Day, a Jewish daily ment at the Metropolitan tween New York and Pales communities. We have trained We look forward to the day newspaper. " Wherever Hit Theatre starting March 21 , tine was announced by the and inspired countless B'nai when the oth er movements in ler m oves in," Mr. Willkie for three days. In addition to Palestine Bonded Ware and B'not Mitzvah. We have our community will affirm us was quoted as saying, " the the orchestra, the Met will house, Ltd. sanctified loving relationships. as well . We have the right to We have comforted the sick. share the fullness o f our lives We have buried the dead. We with the communities we have consoled the bereaved. serve. We have observed, taught and perpetuated mitzvot. What dis tresses us is the demand that Rabbi Rebecca Alpert we separate our personal lives Rabbi Allen B. Bennett from our rabbinic careers. Rabbi Denise L. Eger THORPE'S It is time for us to be ac Rabbi Julie Greenberg cepted for who we reall y are: Rabbi Linda Holtzman PHARMACY committed Jews and rabbis Rabbi Yoe! Kahn who also are lesbians and gay Rabbi Sanford Lowe men. We would like to be open Rabbi Eric Weiss with those whom we serve, and 21 other Gay and both for their sake and for our Lesbian Rabbis own . Many of us continue to pay a terrible price for living WHEN YOU SHOP FOR two lives, yet we fear that the consequences of " coming out" would be even more damag- PASSOVER SWEETS, COME SEE US ...
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under any circumstances. I con tact an attorney. Even if in your circumstances. What it hope you will take the advice probate is not necessary, cer basically sa ys is, that you and offered and rid yourself of this tain paperwork such as affida your children will continue to nightmare and get on with vits a nd R.I. estate tax returns remain eligible for benefits your life. Good luck. will have to be filed. under your ex-husband's health plan until such time as Dear Attorney Pulner: Dear Attorney Pulner: certain events may take place. My husband of 43 years be My husband and I were Those events include, 1) remar came quite ill several months divorced approximately eight riage of either party to the by Louis M. Pulner, Esq. ago and I am no longer confi months ago, and our three divorce, or 2) until such time as dent that he will be with us children are living with me. provided by the Final Judg Dear Mr. Pulner: indicate in your correspon much longer. My husband My husband works for a ment, or 3) until such ti me as My ex-boyfriend scares the dence as to whether or not you and I both prepared wills rather large company in this your ex-husband is no longer a heck out of me and I just and he lived together, and several years ago and these state and we had always been participant in that health plan. don't know what to do. We therefore, I am not sure w hich wills state our intention that covered by his Blue Cross The problem here is, that if went out together for ap court I should be directing you each of us desire to leave family plan. My attorney told your ex-husband's obligation proximately three years and to. I will assume that you a nd everything to the other in me that my ex-husband pursuant to this ACT is not even though I made every he have never lived together case of death. Recently, a dear would have to continue to specifi cally set forth in the effort to make the relation and by doing so wil l tell you friend indicated that when give us that coverage even Final Judgment or the Property ship work, I finally broke up that the Superior Court of the my husband dies, we will after the divorce, and that I Settlement Agreement, your with him approximately four State of Rhode Island will have have to probate his estate and should not worry about hav husband may very well be months ago. He just won't jurisdiction to provide you the that this can end up costing ing to bear the burden of right in that he is not required accept the fact that I don't desired relief. By havi ng the us a great deal of money. Is medical expenses alone. I to mai ntain that coverage for want to see him any more and necessary paperwork drawn my friend correct, and if so, have been scheduled for you. Don't panic if it is not spe constantly harasses me on the up, you can have your ex-boy should I be getting a lawyer? minor surgery three weeks cifically stated, but rather con street, and at my place of friend restrained and enjoined - Doris in Warwick from now and told my ex sult your attorney to see if the employment. He even goes so from assaulting, harassing, Dear Doris: husband that I needed his Final Judgment can be modi far as to grab me by the neck molesting, or interfering with If your husband and you Blue Cross number. He tells fied so as to include this re and threaten me that if I don't you at your home, on the own a ll of your real estate me that he no longer covers quirement. Your h usband come back to him, he will street, at your place o f busi jointly, and if all of your bank me and the children, and that should obviously want his chil never leave me alone. When ness, or elsewhere. His viola accounts and other assets a re nowhere in the Final Judg dren covered under his plan, ever I have threatened to call tion of such an Order will the police, he tells me that he owned jointly, there will be no ment does it say that he has a nd probably will not oppose likely put him in ja il for your attempts to include it. I is not committing any crime need to probate your hus to. There is no way I can contempt. band's estate. Only when a afford all of these medical caution you to act in this mat by trying to get back together. By the way, you stated that d eceased's assets are to be dis bills by myself. Who is right ter quickly and without delay. Is there anyway you can help he has put his hands around tributed by a Last Will and - my ex-husband or my me get out of this mess? your neck. If that is so, I will Testament, and then, only if attorney? - Scared in Swansea The an swers provided above are strongly suggest that you can those assets exceed $10,000 in - Tapped-out in Taunton based upcn general legal principles, contact your local police Dear Scared: value, is it necessary to go Dear Tapped: and therefore will vary from case to Yes, there are steps you can department and have him through the probate process. This is a sticky one. Your case. charged with assault and bat take to prevent your ex-boy This, of course, is a quick attorney is very correct insofar Louis M. Pu/ner, Esquire, is an tery. As such, it is an unlawful friend from harassing and answer to your inquiry and, in as there is a law entitled " The attorney in Rhode Island with la w act, and ought not be tolerated tormenting you. You do not order to be complete! y sure, I In surance Continuation Act," offices at 2 William s Street (at South Main St.), Providence, R. l. 02903. • • do strongly suggest that you which does provide for people (401) 455-0040; FAX, 751-5257 LOUIS M. PULNER and o the rs have become house her fami ly had been jailed Feldman's Foibles: ho ld words. either without charge or under Attorney and Counsellor at Law "Hi, Honey I'm Our economy has slid into a fa lse cha rges, severely tortured recession . Right here in Rhode through beating, electri c shock Home" Island a banking crisi s that or other methods and even Personal Injury Wills / Trusts greeted Governor Sundlun on raped or killed. My fri end her by Tj Feldman hi s first day in office may not self was even subjected to tor Criminal Probate For those o f you who've be fully resolved until his last. ture before she was abl e to get Family Law Auto Accidents been my readers for the past out. DWI/ Refusals few years, you were probably My friend has one ad wondering what happened to vantage over other Kuwaitis me. Well I was gone fo r a bit, which is that she is an Ameri but my trusty pen and I have can-born and raised dual citi returned to the Herald. Len and her father is a diplo 2 Williams Street (40!) 455-oo4o I was seventeen when I (Al South Main Street) Free Consultation d mat here in the States, but that · RI 02903 By Appoinlmenl began writing this column, an doesn't change her cu lture or • Providence, • it's heading has changed from ..______" Youth Hi Li gh ts" to " Coll ege the things that happened to her There is something e ven wh il e she was visiting Kuwait. Chat" to the present heading. more tragic than a ll of this that Though Kuwait has been lib This column has been more I wish to share though . I attend e rated, the scars and open than a place for me to express the American University which wounds created by Saddam myself, it 's been a place for me has a high percentage of inter Hussein will take a long time to to grow and now that I'm back national students. Last semes hea l. The suffering inflicted on. I plan to stick around for a ter I met a girl from Kuwait at the people of Ku wai t ca nnot be while. the school shutt le bus stop. Her forgotten by them or by us. Si nce I last wrote a column, name escapes me now, but she Before this war Kuwait was a we' ve fo ught a war in the Per and I got to talking and what I small, wealthy nation that sim sian Gulf. Israel has been the heard left me speechless. pl y went about its business. victim of Scud missile attacks. She told me that she had Now Kuwait's business is in Patriot, Scud, anti-aircraft been smuggled out of Kuwait pi cking up its pi eces. My heart BllSINESS PR<>FILES artill ery, berm, cluster . bomb and that several members of goes out to my Kuwaiti fri end and her fami ly and to all of the pc•ople of Kuwait. For the Kuwaitis the war in the Gulf has been more than w ha t we've watched on CNN lfJNITED or heard from Ge ne ral DOES YOUR BUSINESS PROVIDE Sc h warzkopf in dail y briefings. SURGICAL CENTERS For tlw Kuwaitis, Saddam Hus OUTSTANDING OR UNIQUE sc·in 's occu pation o f their coun SERVICES TO THE COMMUNITY? try has been a nightmare that they ,,long with the rl'st of the Why not let our readers know about it? Quality Health Care At Home world are glad to see end. The Rhode Island Jewish Herald takes Once again their fla g fli es as "A CLOSER LOOK" Oxygen • Patient Supplies they look to tlw future, and Hospital Beds • Wheelchairs• Walk Aids fin.ill y, they are a free nation at business In Rhode Island and .ig,1 in . The cost of freedom has Southeastern Massachusetts Bath Safety Equipment • Ostomy Supplies bee> n heavy, but worth it if it In every Issue. \\'ill prevent this kind of thing A story on yoijr buslnesa, complete with photos, from happening again. will let our readefl know all about your work Aggression of the kind p ro and what you have to offer the community. duced bv Saddam Hussein [ffl"'~s~ be>nefits i,o one and is quite FOR MORE INFORMATION ON simply unacceptable. The coali "A CLOSER LOOK" 380 Warwick Avenue tion forces h,,ve shown that CALL MYRNA OR JEANETTE AT Warwick, RI ,111d hopefully th e lesson has bt>t'n k ,uned. .,. , .. .724-0200..... 781-2166 L ....••..•.• ~....-··---·~~~ ..... ,~ -----·-·---···---~------~~:::!Jt----~it~lt~>t"'c~·-1-1-,,~,~st•s------
. ' . THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1991 - 7 1 ESL Tutors And The Freedom URI Purim Carnival tion, Tay-Sachs Disease and Of Speech The third annual campus cease fire was declared by other wonderful groups _will Providence has a long his man have remembered the wide Purim Carnival will be President Bush on the evening benefit from the fun and frolic tory of being a new home for community's link to newly set held at the University of Rhode on which Purim began. Jews on campus that day. Jewish immigrants. At the turn tled Jews, in the past and Island on Thursday, March 21 , around the world saw this as The la_st two carnivals have of the century, Jews escaping today, by taking the time to from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. on the being particularly meaningful been great successes. Over the anti-Semitism in Europe talk with the Soviets participat Quadrangle in the center of . because Sadaam Hussein has $ I 500 has been raised for the and Eastern Europe arrived ing in the ESL classes at the campus. (The rain date will be declared himself to be a descen various groups' charities in the here and created neighbor JCCRI every Friday morning. Tuesday, March 26, same dant of the villain in the Purim last two years due to this hoods in the city's north and The New Americans en times, same place.) story, a man named Haman. project. The number of organi south sides. Synagogues were rolled in the classes have come The carnival, which is being The organizers of the carnival zations participating in the established. Kosher bakeries to the United States, as in coordinated by the U.R.l. Hillel hope that the campus will con event has grown also, since and butcheries opened. A via previous generations, so that Foundation, is being held in sider this carnival a celebration these groups now know that it ble Jewish community identi their children could have better commemoration of the Jewish of freedom for all peoples, is an easy and fun way to raise fied itself. And as these Jews lives. They are well-educated. holiday of Purim. This celebra besides a great charity event. money. ' established agencies and insti In fact, the roster reads like a tion occurs every spring to Twenty-five organizations, The public is welcome to tutions to meet the needs of list of· temple board members: recall the saving of the Jewish including fraternities, sorori attend and support this their community, they created engineer, psychologist, sur people from massacre about ties, and student groups, will wonderful charity event. For a safety net for those who geon, music teacher. But with 4,000 years ago in Persia. The sponsor booths at the carnival. more information regarding would follow decades later. poor English skills, they face Purim story is told in the Book There will be everything from the holiday of Purim and the of Esther in the Bible. Jewish pie-throwing at professors, to event itself, please call either people worldwide celebrate dunking booths, to game Rina Sky Wolfgang or the chair this festive holiday by having booths, to food booths. Each person of the event, Debra carnivals and enjoying them organization is raising money Kaplan (789-9625). selves and their freedom. for a favorite charity. Such fine This year the holiday of charities as Ronald McDonald SPRING CLEANING - Purim took on a new meaning House, Muscular Dystrophy, JUST IN TIME FOR P~SSOVER because the Persian Gulf War American Leukemia Associa- Last Day Kathleen Connell, who is Just the Basics To Order Daffodils serving as honorary state chair by March 21 is the last day person of Daffodil Days, added Brenda Weparr,c,;,•1• American Cancer Society vol " that the money raised during unteers will be able to accept Daffodil Days will be used to flower orders for Daffodil Days fund researchers who are mak -=~~) on March 25 through April 5, ing constant progress in the pre vention, detection, and treat according to Ellen Flynn - Corneau, Daffodil Days chair ment of cancer, as well as can ~~-~. Barbara Heller, a volunteer from JFS, uses current events in Providence. cer education programs ' and ·"'"'"'"°'°" with resettled Soviets to practice English skills. "These flowers can bring a service to cancer patients." --- friend some of the cheerfulness " In Rhode Island volunteers QUALITY ClEANING The Providence link to 'difficulty finding appropriate of spring while helping in the are working to raise $66,000 Soviet emigres continues, as employment. Weekly practice, fight against cancer," Flynn for the American Cancer SERVICES Jewish Family Service and its then, is much more than chit Corneau said. A minimum con Society's cancer control pro • Fully Insured cadre of concerned volunteers chat. It increases the chance of tribution of $4 will buy a bou grams," Flynn Corneau said. getting hired. Additional tutor • Commercial provide services to New Ameri quet of 10 daffodils, and $200 "fop the people of the Central cans who have arrived in ing is invaluable. will buy a box of 500. Unit to be part of this event, • Residential Rhode Island. Temma Holland, Merrill Percelay, a "regular" "The flowers arrive in their they must order their flowers Since 1984 resettlement/ job and volunteer among the Friday morning "bud stage" after being by March 21." Daffodils can be tutors, also makes a home visit 1r;; PROVIDENCE CRANSTON coordinator at Jewish Family shipped all the way from the ordered by calling the Ameri 461-3343 781-0805 Service, had readily available once a week so that an emigre state of Washington. They look can Cancer Society at 1-800- community members who can practice. When asked why like asparagus when they ar ACS-2345. were eager to help newly ar he made that commitment, he rive," said Joe Salafias of rived emigres. And when the quietly states, " It's the Jewish Clarke Florist, who has agreed ESL (English as a Second Lan feeling of wanting to help to deliver the flowers for free. UNGAR'S FISH CO. guage) program was re-estab other Jews who can use it." ~ lished for the new wave of It is that spirit of helping and Holocaust immigration, she saw a need the consciousness of previous . FROZEN GEFILTE FISH they could fill : volunteers as generations that links the com Remembrance Ready To Cook tutors. She and Arthur Moss munity to the Soviet Jew arriv berg, director of the ESL ing today. Day • Flounder Portions program, held special training The Soviet Resettlement Pro WASHINGTON, D.C. - workshops to address im gram at Jewish Family Service, Holocaust Remembrance Day • Flounder Fillet portant issues, such as sensitiv- which includes the ESL classes, will be commemorated on • Sole Fillet ' ity to cultural differences and is funded by the Jewish Federa April 11, 1991, the United the teaching of English. Last tion of Rhode Island. 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THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1991 - 9 Keeping The Economy Going The Pro-Israel Campus Agenda Is Set by James Campbell the one that has the highest , (WZPS) " Melah" is the acro profile as far as the civilian is nym for the Hebrew words for concerned, is at the local level. Now that the Gulf War has summer to tour or next year or go Israel," commented Eric "The Economy in Time of Every single city, town and vil ended, students across the study. Esses, National Director of the Emergency." Incidentally, lage throughout the nation has nation are concentrating on The University Student USO/ AZYF - Israel Action " Melah" is also the Hebrew for its own Melah committee. pro-Israel political action and Department of the American Center. " We think these guides salt, but rather than putting salt Under the chairmanship of the Israel program promotion. Zionist Youth Foundation - help get out two important on the wounds of the econ local mayor, the committee is Political action consists of lob The Israel Action Center has messages - Israel wants peace omy, Melah is the central divided into key areas of re bying the U.S. Government to recently published and distrib and now is the time to go to authority charged with keeping sponsibility with a unit respon urge the Arab nations, especial uted two comprehensive Israel." civilian life functioning under sible for each. These include ly those who participated in guides that outline effective By sending hundreds of let conditions where, for example, electricity (working in close· the U.S. led coalition against political action and Israel pro ters and signed petitions to the mobilization of reserves can coordination with the national Iraq, to recognize Israel's right grams promotion techniques to U.S. Government and by cause serious disruption of Electrical Corporation), water, to exist. Moreover, pro-Israel pro-Israel student activists and actively recruiting students to essential service~. health, education, transporta activists are celebrating Middle campus professionals. go to Israel, students are work Melah was established by tion, public information, food East peace by encouraging " We've always been commit ing harder than ever to partici order of then prime-minister and fuel supplies, manpower both Jewish and non-Jewish ted to educating students about pate in Israel's security and David Ben Gurion in 1959, and several others. students to go to Israel this Israel and encouraging them to development. when it became apparent that Each Melah committee has if army reserves are mobilized its own liaison officers rep- . for a substantial period of time, resenting the local army com civilian life is seriously af mand and police force, so that Israel Must Take 'Drastic Steps' fected. If bus drivers (even the there is immediate coordina buses themselves) are mobil To Attract Investment, U.S. Warns tion when necessary. Each is greater exposure of the country ized, people cannot get to located in a secure location JERUSALEM OTA) - Israel the talks. Speaking at a news work, students cannot get to has been advised to adopt an conference after the talks con to imports to make the local with close contact with the city economy more competitive. schools; sometimes pupils can or village administration, and American blueprint for econ cluded, McCormack said that walk to their schools but teach omic recovery if it hopes to under existing circumstances, McCormack said foreign linked by a special communica-· investors expect a profit margin ers can't get there to teach. tions network to the District attract foreign investments. chances are slim that foreign While bread and other essen Fight inflation, expand free entrepreneurs would invest similar to what they can get in Melah Command and through Singapore or Greece. Other tial foodstuffs might be amply it to Melah national head trade and privatize govern capital in Israel. available, there may be no ment-owned enterprises, Israe "The Israeli economy needs wise they will not come here in quarters. This ensures that if significant numbers. vehicle available to deliver. lis were told recently at a meet to take drastic steps to cope one particular area is in need of Herbert Stein, another mem Because of the vital importance ing of the American-Israel Joint with the great challenge of support or service, they can be ber of the American delega to the national economy (as sent in from other areas. Economic Committee, which aliyah," he said. 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8- ~~ RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1991 AROUND TOWN ~ A National Treasure ~ by Dorothea Snyder A- ' " I get very excited by the truth that isl comes of what people have left th behind, like letters," says actress Julie or Harris. It 's like listening to someone's s, heart." " ! The latest heartbeat listened to by di the successful " Belle of Amherst" u team, Julie Harris and playwright 0 William Luce, is his newest a one-woman play, " Lucifer's Child," opening at the Colonial March 19 0 through 24. The play is based on the autobiographica l writings of Isak Dinesen, the pen name of Baroness Karen Blixen of Out of Afr ica fame. At a press reception in Boston on Monday, producer Ronald S. Lee said that " Luci fer's Child" rehearsals began at Duke University on January 2nd and was the first play ever done at Duke with the entire company present during the rehearsal period. " It was like being in a laboratory." Juli e Harris related that the id ea came about when she and William Luce were filming a pl ay in Ireland in 198 1. " l told Bill we should write a pl ay about Isak Dinesen who l had thought about since l was 16, so it's been a long time growing. Bill was Julie Harris portrays Isak Dinesen in playwright William Luce's new one-woman play, "Lucifer's Child" enthusiastic because he loves Isak opening for a pre-Broadway run at the Colonial March 19-24. They are shown at a press reception in Boston Dinesen's writings. " early this week. Photo: Dorothea Snyder Ms . Harris recall ed how as a 16-year-old she was impressed by her fath er would have wanted me to see · Lucifer means 'light-bearing,' so it's want you to know the Isak Dinesen / parents' love for reading. "There were them. How my father would have ambiguous. know, how spl endid she is, how always lots of books around the been proud of me to sti ck it out! "She didn't tell her family she had much we can learn from her. house, but a particular book, Out of " In Kenya, l visited Karen Blixen's syphilis for a long time. They thought " It's like Mary Lincoln when she Africa caught my fancy. By it was farm, now a museum, and went on it was a tropical disease. She went saw Abraham for the first time at her another book on the living room th~ overnight train from Nairobi to back to Denmark too late to get the sister's house. When he came across table, Seven Go/hie Tal es, with a very Mombasa, where she boarded a ship proper treatment, although there was the room to Mary, she said 'I saw in romantic picture of a man dressed in a for Denmark. It was exciting to see no proper treatment. his fa ce the look of God.' high collar and fanciful 17th or 18th those places and to visualize what she "The play," Ms. Harris continued, " When I was in " The Last of Mrs. century clothing. I loved that title, yet had seen." "covers a three-month span at the end Lincoln," they wanted to change that it was all so very strange to me." " Lucifer's Child" is playing at the of her life when she is full of line on th e first day of rehearsal to the It was in the 60's when the actress Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. excitement and adventure, looking 'look of greatness.' I stood up as if I first read Isak Dinesen's letters written " We had a very exciting time on our forward to a trip. The second act is had been shot and said get someone to her family from Africa between first night," Ms. Harris said. "The coming back from America but still else to do this play. She didn't say 1913 and I 931 when she had a coffee Queen of Denmark and her husband, with a sense of adventure because she 'look of greatness. ' She said 'look of farm outside of Nairobi in the African Prince Henry, were in the city for a knows she wants to write another God,' a totally different thing, isn 't it? Highlands. " I loved the voice that state visit. They came to see the play. book. She never gives up. Her That's what we all have in us. That's came from those letters. She was a We met them afterwards and she was secretary related that she was always what we are. That's what we come very special woman. The idea that a very enthusiastic about the play. The writing. She might be down on the from ." wonderful play could be done about it Queen said she had met the Baroness floor in terrible pain one minute and Asked how she'd like to be solidifed in my mind. many years ago and was so then she'd be back at the typewriter." remembered, Ms. Harris laughed. " I " Africa was a very special place to tongue-tied she couldn't speak to her. Ms . Harris said that at the · don't want to be remembered my brothers and me because my She felt she was in the presence of a beginning of the play Karen Blixen particularly, but I think you'll father had gone there as a very young very extraordinary human being." explains that she had many names. remember 'The Belle of Amherst.' man to assist a painter of animals. My Replying to the appeal of solo Isak is a Hebrew name meaning 'to That makes me happy." father always wanted to go back to performing, Ms. Harris said, " I think laugh.' In the course of the play, she Her reply to similarities to Isak Africa but never did. it's because you, the audience, and I shares the stage with a host of Dinesen: "Very different. I've never share in the celebration of this characters. tried to control anyone's life; she did woman's life in a very personal way. " A famous picture of Karen Blixen, several times. Our extreme closeness We use her words. It's this woman costumed as Pierot, has the to our fathers is alike. Our whole speaking to you. It's not significance of a clown who is always family connection is very meaningful manufactured nor imagined. It's really unrequited. He's always in love with to me. I would have loved to have her spirit we're after." the wrong person, and so it reflects met her. The preparation for writing a solo her life." " Because I feel very close to her as a performance play requires extensive Approaching a long script " is person who adores her, I have a research, reading and rereading simple for me," she said. " I have to strange, compelling feeling about the everything and making notes from the learn it as if l know it, if I were on a man she loved, Dennis. l can't even life itself, William Luce said. " I pick ship that were rocking, if l were explain that. l feel as if I've known out what will be dramatically viable standing on my head, if I were him by th e way she felt and wrote and carry_ through a theme, which I preparing a dinner so that I could go about him. think will make a good story. You through it perfectly. It took five "During World War If, she was don't tell what made this person months to study the play. I started in writing, talking on radio, telling great. August and rehearsal began in stories, and was part of the " My intere~t is in the human being, January. I studied almost every day. underground helping Jews escape to the emotions, the strengths and My cousin held the book for me every Sweden. She had a wonderful sort of weaknesses, and the frailties. Karen morning from 9 to 11 and I would go independence. " Blixen had a voice. It was to be a through it. I did that because l had to It was important that she perform storyteller. To tell what she was like know it that way." " Lucifer's Child" in Boston before ._. as a human being is what I think "And then," added Luce, Broadway. " I've al ways loved Julie Harris as Isak Dinesen. Photo: deserves to be on the stage." "correlating it all once you learn it Massachusetts and Boston history. I Charles Erickson Ms. Harris explained that Karen with props and movements, and remember my mother and I seeing " In our living room, there were Blixen (Isak Dinesen) called herself learning it over again." Dorothy Maguire in "Claudia" at the African spears and a big ivory horn. It " Lucifer's Child" because of being Ms. Harris said portraying Isak Wilbur. The theatre here has always was mystical and exciting for me. inflicted with syphilis. " Like Lucifer, Dinesen isn't more exciting than been very electric to me. l wish we Africa to me was the cradle of who had been thrown from heaven, Emily Dickinson. They have different could stay here as long as in New civilization where we all began. I she felt she, too, had been thrown temperaments. I loved doing those York." thought that if I could ever go to from heaven and denied all the love three ladies . . . Bronte, Dickinson, Truman Capote called Isak Dinesen Africa, l would sense something and physical expression of love and Karen . They are close to my heart. I one of the great storytellers of the extraordinary that I couldn't sense companionship that a woman love them. century, said playwright William here. experiences in life. But the " I think God is in all of us. l think Luce. " When the chance came for me to Mohammedan concept of Lucifer was we're all such remarkable creatures. Ronald S. Lee, the producer of go to Africa, I was cast in " Gorillas in not the Satan of Christian theology. It When I find someone who has this " Lucifer's Child," noted that just last the Mist" as Roslyn Carr, a friend of was the great lover of God who had trace of God in them, l want to tell week Ambassador Joseph Vern on Diane Fosse. I survived a 6000-foot been thrown from heaven but would you about them . I'm like the Reed referred to Julie Harris as "a climb to find· ·gorillas ·because-' niy•'•'•'•'~ rlt'o'alff•'b'~···r~·~·d"t•'1'11t+''i1lfmt1•'.,..,'~tbl-yfeife'°r•'T'm' lfkV ·an e11ah~elist. r-- national treasure." THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1991 11 ==:=:======Arts and Entertainment
"Silence Of The Lambs" - --RISO Museum Of Art-- Newport Art Festival A Discomfort All The Way There was a whole new ture came creations such as The 31st Annual Newport by Mike Fink Twist and more than Beetho the wedding gown constructed Outdoor Art Festival is sched Herald Contributing Editor you will not be surprised. ven rolled over as the women by Clifford Gastler ('64), while uled for June 22 and 23 to be Jonathan Demme's ambi The FBI looks very liberal of the Sixties cast their gloves a senior at RISO, made entirely held in the Washington Square tious and elegant film "SIL with the right number of pleas aside and began to get their of paper donated by Kimberly area of Newport, R.I. ENCE OF THE LAMBS" pulls ant black faces male and hands dirty. "Where are the Clark for experimental Artists' applications are now off some fancy cinematic tricks. female. Our heroine finishes White Gloves?: The Fashion purposes. available in the categories of Jody Foster and Anthony her job. I mean she gets her Revolution of the Sixties," a The Museum of Art, 224 Painting, Sculpture, Graphics Hopkins look great in closeups gun and shoots one of the per compact but comprehensive Benefit St., Providence, houses and Photography by sending a with their restrained intensity. verts. As Rabbi Avi Shafran exhibition punctuated by a world-renowned collection of SASE to N.O.A.F., P.O. Box The cinematography boasts all asked in a recent Journal Warhol's images of Kent State more than 65,000 works of art 3034, Broadway Station, New the sophistication the film column, is shooting a man and the Kennedy assassination, representing every culture, port, R.I. 02840. world can come up with. Pro dead the highest moment of a traces the evolution of high period and genre. It has over Volunteers are needed to duction never stints or skimps woman's spiritual triumph? fashion from Chanel suits with 3,000 members and operates a help this landmark festival as it slides smoothly from start It always marks the high matching shoes and handbags broad outreach program continue and run smoothly. to end. moment of any American film, to Cardin cut-out mini-dresses throughout Rhode Island and Interested people can contact Nevertheless I felt no emo alas. A chase scene and a complete with helmet, goggles parts of Massachusetts and Peg Vincent 245-3793 (War tion except discomfort all the physical conquest save us from and high boots. In addition to Connecticut. The Museum is ren) or Lee Breault 846-7843 way through. I'm no feminist. I thinking about mental growth. surveying a decade of style, the open from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Newport). have no wish to strike the polit Like an anti-Semite, I scour show, which opened at the Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday ically correct pose. But I hate to the credits for signs of Jewish Museum of Art, Rhode Island and Saturday; from noon to 8 ••t------• watch a woman abused, or her participation. If the movie has School of Design, on March 8 p.m. on Thursday; and from body misused. For the quaint merit, I kvell a little. If it stinks, and remains on view through 2-5 p.m. on Sunday. The sug Call To Artists May 26, reveals the world's gested admission fee is $2. The reason of courtesy. On this I schvitz. Jewish romantics The Sarah Doyle- Women's changing perception of Museum receives partial sup point Louis Mayer of MGM got crafted the great beauties of the Center Gallery at Brown Uni women. port for its activities and pro it straight. Think of every screen. I shudder to think their versity announces a Jury for Time was up for the hour grams from an Institutional woman as your mother. Photo descendants have shaped the the I 991 -1992 Season. The glass figure. The voluptuous Support Grant from the Rhode graph her with dignity. grotesque victims of "SIL deadline for submissions is curves of Marilyn Monroe Island State Council on the "SILENCE" tells about a ENCE" and its glossy ilk. In April I, 1991. Submissions moved aside to make room for Arts and from the Institute for pair of crazed serial killers "'AWAKENINGS" you have a should be sent to the address Twiggy. And motherhood, an Museum Services, an inde whose victims of course are Jewish doctor helping to bring above. For more information, ideal of the Fifties, gave birth pendent federal agency which young women. "Semiotically," elderl y women out of a coma. please call (401) 863-2189. offers program and operational the spotlight glares at the girl A nobler task, a more tragic to a new youth culture. With Thank You! underneath - in a pit or on a tale than SILENCE. this shift came a denial of the support to selected museums morgue table. Men, on the The moth and the lamb, the female form; darts disappeared nationwide. other hand, hold control. Even emblematic creatures of the and baby doll dresses ap male ev il keeps an element of film, leave us with a question. peared. The show illustrates - admirable? - skill and Why are we so turned on by these shifts with two elegant S'(, Is proud to i~LH.ll!UCC the 111.1g.11mc !or k\\ 1sh mind. cruelty? Why_do we rush to sit gowns by Christobal Balenci p profcss1on,lls .JI - I 111 .IL\\ ISII Pno1 I SSIO'\ \LJ\I. The bad guys pair off in a and watch it? For the rash of aga. The first, a circle skirt with reverse buddy form ula that images of women as victims, a soft bodice and elaborate tulle bow, bears little resem i? S'Y.JP (j1't£2t plays on the public. You may we all must take some responsi '}-~ SATIJRDAY, MARCH 16, 1991 ~-?. get grossed out or scared, but bility. blance to the second, a heavily ~~ _ __:__:__ ...... :.. ~e starched bright orange arch ._:. Featuring the Music of High Function -3>~ ~<,r "Boston's #1 Funk, Rhythm & Blues Band" f: Philharmonic Lighthouse Antique itectural cone. ~ ------~ Experimenting with modern 0J_ THE LAFAYETIE HOTEL ~ Show ist high-tech materials and I Lafayeue Place
' , .1 t.<..,,' 12 - THE RH O DE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1991 Books in Review What's A Mitzvah? You Tell Me! ===New Books On The Scene=== Emma Ansky-Levine And Her Mitzvah Machine Ohale Noo 11 (The Tents of the Rabeeya's books were written region. In 1955, she joined the Published by Tzorech (by Lawrence Bu sh, Fifties). in Hebrew, except for Sephardic staff of the Official Auschwitz ous ability to read her thoughts Ehad publishing house (Be'er Illustrations by Joel Iskowitz, Myths a11d Realities. Museum, eventually becoming and answer her questions stuns Sheva', Israel). Bryn Mawr an UAHC Press, March 1991, head of the department of sci Emma. In time, she suspends nounces the recent publication 115 pages, $7.95, Ages 9-12). Auschwitz Chro11icle: 1939- entific research. her disbelief and begins to of a new novel by David 1945. From the Archives of the learn from Uncle Izzy's crazy by Sarah Baird Rabeeya, professor of History Auschwitz Memorial a11d the Himmle r. By Peter Padfield. machine. Herald Associate Editor of Religion at Bryn Mawr Col Ger111a11 Federal Archives. Published by Henry Holt and Emma proves to be such a re lege. Professor Rabeeya is the Edited by Danuta Czech, pub Company, Inc., New York; Before crazy old Uncle Izzy markable student at Hebrew author of five novels, a play, lished by Henry Holt and Com March 1991, $29.95. Heinrich from Israel sent Emma Ansky school, (with the help of her poetry and proverbs, several pany, In c., New York; February Himmler, Hitler's SS and Levine a Mitzvah Machine for miraculous machine), that in a volumes of history and philos 199 1, $125.00. This 864-page, Gestapo chief, and head of her twelfth birthday, Emma did year's time she is ready to be ophy, short stories, and numer comprehensive chronicle is a Poland's death camps, has not know much about Judaism. come a bat mitzvah. During her ous essays. Ohale Noo11 deals day-by-day record of the never been the subject of a full In fact, Emma probably could speech at the she quotes bi mah , with the Jews who were up events and developments at biography until now. Those not have told the difference be from many sources. Emma rec rooted from Iraq and the alien Auschwitz from its planning in who have attempted to under tween a mitzvah and matzah. ognizes that all of her fri ends ation they now feel in modern the winter of 1939-40 to its lib stand Himmler through his ac When Emma received this and family members have in Israel. Arabic in their cultural . eration in January 1945. Com tions have found him oddly strange birthday present in the fluenced her with their inter shape of the Ten Command upbringing, these Jews present plete with sketches of the per elusive. In Himmler Peter Pad pretations of Judaism, and that a unique dilemma to the Euro petrators, a glossary of terms, a field, a biographer and naval ments, she turned to her par Judaism is enriched by these ents for guidance. " 'What's a pean Jewish establishment ih bibliography, an index of historian, builds Himmler from varied contributions. Israel. Professor Rabeeya has names, and a foreword by dis the inside out by anafyzing ev Mitzvah Machine?' 'G-d only "'You see,' Emma summed lectured frequently on the his tinguished historian Walter La ery detail of his life up to his knows!' said her father. 'Well, up, waving the paper again, what's a mitzvah?' 'It's a reli tory and current status of the quer, Auschwitz Chro11icle is the suicide in 1945. Peter Padfield 'there are more opinions about Sephardim; the history.of con most detailed record to date. is 11n established author of gious kind of thing,' he tried to Judaism than there are people explain." (pp 5-6). frontation and cooperation be Danuta Czech, editor, was born many books, including Ar in this room! And I've had a tween Jews and Arabs; and the in Poland in 1922, and during mada, a book about the 400th Over the course of her bat ·hard time with that. I think kids mitzvah year, Emma Ansky relationship between Judaism the war was an active member anniversary of the defeat of the like to have answers. and Islam. All of Professor of the resistance in the Tarnow Spanish Armada. Levine and her parents learn "' ... And I think part of being many new things about a grown-up is understanding Judaism, including the mean that there are no easy answers, Terezin Chamber Music Foundation to Perform ings of words like Mitzvah, not in life, and not in Judaism, The Terezin Chamber Music Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tzedakah, and Torah. either."' (p. 109). Foundation, a non-profit violinists Ronan Lefkowitz and include a pre-concert reception At first, the Mitzvah Machine Uncle Izzy gave Emma a re organization whose goal is to Si-Jing Huang, violist Mark at 6 p.m. and dinner following turns Emma's world upside markable, invaluable gift for develop an understanding and Ludwig, and cellist Sato at The Wang Center. For down. The machine's mysteri- her twelfth birthday. He liter appreciation for music written Knudsen, with concert pianist information or ticket ally turned her on to the won by Czech Jewish composers Virginia Eskin. reservations, call the Friends THE MEADOWBROOK CINEMA ders and depth of Torah and incarcerated at Theresienstadt The Walter Suskind Office, (617) 482-9393, ext. her Jewish heritage. As magi concentration camp, will Memorial Fund, founded by 251. 2452 Warwick Ave., Warwick call y as it appeared, the Mitz ACROSS FROM SUPER STOP & SHOP perform at the Wang Center on Ma uri ce and Netty Vanderpol, vah Machine disappeared, but March 15 at 7 p.m. to support was established two years ago Chick Fink's ALL MATINEES $1. 00 the enchantment with learning the Walter Suskind Memorial to keep the memory of Walter MON . & TUES. EVES . $1 about Judaism stayed with One Man Show ALL SHOWS • 00 Fund. Guest speaker will Suskind ali ve and relevant to Emma. be Marvin Kalb, award-winning the children of today. Lawrence Bush has written a Now Showing Saturday & news commentator and former The Terezin Chamber Music by Mike Fink Sunday Matinees: Rescuers beautiful, poetic story about a Chief Diplomatic Correspon- Foundation presented this Herald Contributing Editor Down Under, Three Men & A Little young Jewish girl's coming of dent for CBS News. program on January in Last week's parsha went on Lady, Kindergarten Cop age in secular America. Emma about the fancy gilt and noble Now Showln\ Evenl_n~s: Alice, Directed by Mark Ludwig, conjunction with the "Art by Godtather Ill, dward cissor- A11sky-Levi11e A11d Her Mitzvah violist with the Boston Kids" art exchange between woods Bezalel used in shaping hands, Misery, Kindergarten Cpp Machi11e is an exciting celebra Symphony Orchestra, the The Wang Center and the city the first Tabernacle. RISD Arch tion of Judaism and the mitz concert will premiere the of Amsterdam. ite.cture Professor Charl es B. CALL 738-2471 va h machines we all can access works of Gideon Klein, Pavel Co-chaired by Deborah Fink got the name Bezalel at FOR TIMES & LISTINGS - our own hearts. Haas, Viktor Ullmann, and Hauser and Harold Kotler, the his bris. He was born on his Hans Krasa . Compositions by a Fund, wi th a $1 million dollar (my) mother's birthday. When young musician , Robert goal, serves as a permanent it comes to the proper study of GOURMET-TO-GO Dauber, will also be endowment for "Young At mankind, my brother Chick represented. Arts," The Wang Center's figures it was all beshiert. Like & The d1stmgu1shed compos- educational outreach program a folktale prince he was LUNCH CAFE ers' works ' will be performed for the Greater Boston marked out by fate to do what by the Hawthorne · String community. he does - to build castles. 'I Heart-Healthy 'I Quartet, members of the Tickets, priced at $250.00, This month he put together Selections his first one person show, at the Bayard Ewing Building Gal 727 East Avenue, Pawtucket Jewish Television in Rhode Island lery at 231 South Main Street 727-1997 - a group of models and drawings of his work of the HOURS: Monday-Friday 11-7 Jewish Programming On Saturday 10-5 past five years. Beside each I Interconnect Channels project he has mounted a sheaf Channel 49 in every city except those served by of little essays. They make up Heritage Cable (Lincoln, Woonsocket) an architect's autobi ography. At the Thursday, March 7, Heritage Cable Station 57 afternoon opening, students, Air Times: coll eagues, cousins and clients Have a Thursday evenings 7:00 pm, Sunday morning 10:30 am gathered to look and learn, to read and chuckle, br maybe shed a sentimental tear. Happy He gives credit to his former RI SD drawing teachers, like Passover Edna Lawrence. He hopes Jim and Marily"n Winoker will live ~~eh!J~W!JJ~ forever. He wishes his mother For Your Seder Table ... YOUR PASSOVER HEADQUARTERS and father were her to have a PLASTIC and PLASTIC COATED DISPOSABLES kvell. Passover Plates ... Napkins ... Table Covers ... Cups ... Seder His designs respond to the • Seder Plates Plates ... Serving Trays, etc. MAH JONGG way the mills and mansions of Heavy Duty Tableware ... Plastic Wine Glasses ... • Kiddush Cups Rhode Island share the same • Matzoh Baskets CARDS romantic sil houette. Chick The "Only" Party Warehouse • Haggadahs - Child and Adult Available 1" week of April brought back to life a goldfish • Passover Records & Tapes pond on the grounds of his 310 East Avenue 97 OVERHILL ROAD • Passover Cookbooks Newport home, which was the Pawtucket PROVIDENCE, RI • Passover Cards stable of a great estate. The fish 726-2491 get through winter with no Call for a ppointment problems. They grow big as Mon - T~~~r~c30-fiOO PERSONAL/ZED 831 -1710 carp. They flourish . So does Friday 9 30-7:00 SKULL CAPS MC/VISA C~ick Fi11k_ . ··---~a!4rga;, ,'l,:JQ·li:.0J) •• • , ,_ ,, '' , 4~;;;:~T7'.~PT,'7:~'r-7'"""~S-:~,:,r~~~~~.:-.:-:.:-:.:o:.:"..','.. ., ...... ~ --·~·~ "1t•~~,., ...,·,· .. ·,·,-.-.~ .. ~·,·,.~, .., .....,.,· .. ·•· ... ·...... -, ...... ~••• , .. lt• THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1991-13 Milestones
Maldavirs Announce Engagement NCCJ Names Brotherhood Award Recipient Committee. The 1991 Brotherhood He received the National Award will be presented to an Community Service Award outstanding citizen of Rhode from the Jewish Theological Island - Melvin G. Alperin, Seminary of America. A gradu President of Brewster Indus ate of Dartmouth College, he tries. The announcement was was awarded the Dartmouth made by Robert J. Higgins, College Alumni Award in CEO of Fleet National Bank, 1990. He serves on the Board of who is serving as statewide Directors of NCC) as a Trustee chairman of the 39th Annual and Member at Large. Brotherhood Dinner. The din According to Chairman Hig ner, sponsored by the RI and gins, more than 100 business Southeastern New England Re and corporate leaders have vol gion of NCC), is NCC)'s major unteered to serve as solicitors fund-raising event and is in the Annual Kick-Off cam scheduled for May 2 at the paign which wil l begin in late Venus De Milo Restaurant in February. Among the Area Swansea. Chairpersons assisting Higgins Alperin, President of Brew and Vice Chairman Robert J. ster Industries Corp. since McCabe are Northern Area 1980, held vari ous top manage Chairman, John F. Guidici, ment positions with Carol NCCJ dinner honoree Melvin Aquidneck Island Chairperson Cable Co. and Avnet, Inc. in G. Alperin, President of Lucille Mckillop, and the their wire and cable division. Brewster Industries. Southern RI Area Chairman He is from a well-known family held the Campaign Chairman John Howland. Assisting of philanthropists and over ship for the United Way of SE Guidici in the Northern Area many years, has established his New England. He is recognized are Michael Larkin, Charles own reputation through nu as an outstanding leader of the Thurley, Gary Gaube and merous leadership roles in both Jewish community, assisting in Zenon P. Lankowsky. Tickets the Jewish and general commu many ways to serve the Jewish for the event are $ 150 and may nity. Home For the Aged, Jewish be obtained by calling the He has served as a Director Fa mil y Services, Temple NCC) office at 351 -5120. Mr. and Mrs. Melvyn 5. Maldavir of Cranston announce the and Trustee of the Rhode ls Emanu-EI and the Miriam Hos engagement of their daughter, Mindy Sue Maldavir, to Mr. Gary land Foundation since 1987, pital. His outstanding services B. Halpern, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Halpern of Cranston. and currently serves on the have benefited the Jewish Fed Miss Maldavir received her Bachelor of Science Degree from Boards of Valley Resources, RI eration of RI , the council of :PATC#£5 Northeastern University and is currently employed by State Hospital Bank, Moses Brown Jewish Federations. the United INCORPORATED Street Bank in Quincy, Massachusetts. Mr. Halpern, a graduate of and Wheeler Schools, and the Jewish Appeal, and the Ameri The American University, is employed by the Commonwealth of Pawtucket YMCA. In 1989 he can Jewish Joint Distribution Massachusetts in the Department of Revenue. A November, 1991 wedding is planned. Leemans Announce Birth Philbin Makes Harriet Gorodetsky Appointed To Dr. David and Dr. Ramona Dean's List Leeman announce the birth of Some area residents have Board of Directors Of R.I. Mental their fourth child, Ethan Jacob. been selected for inclusion on Dr. David Leeman is a staff car the Dean's List at the Univer Health Counselors Association diologist and assistant director sity of Lowell for the fall "Unique Personalized Harriett Gorodetsky, M.A., codependency issues. A past of the Catheter Lab at the Dea semester 1990. Children's Gifts" CCMHC, and Rhode Island member of the Parents Without coness Hospital in Boston. His Area residents named to the State Certified psychotherapist Partners advisory board, Har wife, Ramona, is a dentist. The Dean's List include: Industrial PRICES STARTING AT $5 has been appointed to the riet is a frequent presenter at Leemans reside in Newton. Technology major and senior Rocking Chairs Wall Mirrors Board of Directors of the Rhode conferences throughout Rhode The grandparents are Rabbi Jeffrey Lionel Philbin of Paw Clothes Trees Doll Cradles and Mrs. Alvin Lieberman and Bulletin Boards Toy Chests Island Mental Health Coun Island and is conference tucket, R.l. Student Desks Bookends selors Association (RIMHCA). committee chairperson for Rabbi and Mrs. Saul Leeman. A Dean's List student at the Clocks Lamps The announcement came at a RIMHCA's forthcoming spring University must achieve a ... and much more recent meeting of that organi meeting Saturday, May 18. Call Schwartzes semester rating of at least a 3.0 ( 401) 946-8885 zation·s Board of Directors. 351-3898 for details. and no grade below a B. By appointment only. Ms. Gorodetsky, a psy Announce Birth Jodi Miller and Many Granoff chotherapist with more than 10 ,...... , Mr. and Mrs. William L. Newmans Announce Birth Schwartz of Watertown, Mass., Jeff and Janice Newman of are thrilled to announce the Pawtucket, R.l., announce the birth of their daughter, birth of a daughter Chloe Jill Michaela Rose, born on Febru Newman on March 3, 1991. ary 16, 1991, in Cambridge, Chloe joins her brothers Jona Mass. than and Danny at home, and Paternal grandparents are H/?ohland is the granddaughter of Isadore Morris and Barbara Schwartz and Regina Newman of North of Providence, R.l. Maternal Miami Beach, Fla., and Ray grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. ourt mond and Alice Poirier of War Julian Bistowski of Dedham, wick, R.I. Mass. Now Offers The Community Personalized Home Care & Nutritional Services \// LET US BRING THESE DISTINGUISHED r SERVICES INTO YOUR HOME RELIABLE PERSONALIZED Harriet Gorodetsky - HOME CARE WHEN YOU NEED IT years of experience, has been a ¾ell.'s 5~~ private practitioner on the East Side of Providence since 1980. 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Cambridge, MA therapy, adult survivor and , Open,MQnday, Saturday, Llal1l,~m. Sta by Kathy Cohen the day school joined with stu The special dinner also Herald Associate Editor dents, alumni, officers, board marked the end of the school's Thirteen candles were lit last members, and parents at day-long events which started Saturday evening, each mark Emanu-El's Alperin Meeting out with Shabbat Services at 10 ing a year of the Ruth and Max House for a high spirited and a.m. in the temple's main sactu Alperin Schechter Day School's emotional experience that ary and a Kiddush luncheon for Bar Mitzvah. Friends of lasted until midnight. the entire congregation. As people started arriving around 7 p.m. and signed "The Board," a keepsake which will be framed marking the joyous occasion, thus started an evening of conversation and mingling mixed with hors d'oeuvres and an open bar from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Soon af terwards, everyone took over the dining tables decorated with balloon centerpieces. The dinner started with Rabbi Wayne Franklin's bless ing over the wine and saying the Hamotzi over a rather large challah. And, while the meal From left to right are past president Sam Shamoon, president was served, Master of Cere Joel Roseman and Cindy Kaplan. monies Sam Shamoon intro duced the 4 graduating classes and 9 current grades. Each group took turns lighting a can dle while speakers Joel Rose man, Daniel Kaplan, Sheila Alexander, and Sam Shamoon each read their own poem en compassing the school's yearly highlights. After dinner, Howard Bromberg remarked on the whole affair, thanking those who helped arrange the evening and praising those who gave generously toward the school's funds which to taled in excess of $62,000. Other speakers included Rabbi Alvan H. Kaunfer and Mrs. Kaunfer sign "The Board." Alperin Schechter Alumni are: Zev Alexander, Daniel Stein, Alperin Schechter's president Oren Kaunfer, Josh Schiffman, Eli Kaunfer and Ari Newman. •Joel Roseman' (1989-present), Seated are Rachel Alexander, Hyla Kaplan, Rachel Roseman and 2nd honorary president and Hilarie Rubin. Daniel Kaplan (1979-1983), 3rd president Sheila Alexander (1983-1986), and 4th past pres ident Sam Shamoon (1986- 1989). Director, Rabbi Alvan Kaun fer, who was recognized as one of the founding fathers of Alperin Schechter, received a standing ovation. The people responsible for the successful evening were the Bar Mitzvah Year Celebration Committee including: Howard Bromberg, Chairman, Sheila Alexander, Nathan Beraha, David Isenberg, Daniel Kaplan, Standing at table twelve are: Joshua Stein, Linda Shamoon, Rabbi Alvan Kaunfer, Diannne Sam Shamoon, and Rabbi Kaunfer. Seated are Penney Stein, Newman, Susan Odessa, Joel Hannah A. Quint, Shirley A. Goldberg, and Marcia Kaunfer. Roseman, ex officio, Sam Shamoon, Penney Stein, Steve Penney Stein meets her old friend, Janice Weissburg, at the Peiser, Mina Elison, and Cheryl party. They were once roommates when they spent time in Teverow. Israel. From left to right are the Bar Mitzvah Year Celebration Committee members Steve Peiser, Nathan Be~aha, Susan Odessa, Mina Elison, Penney Stein, Cheryl Teverow, Rabbi Alvan KKJJN¥J!:.uDav:!.!.sen~~osemadn,HDi~~ewbmau.,·Sh~~~~- ~!;.!~!~~~~ ~. ~-a_n_i~~ .. ·n".?r~~~~ .B!~~~~~~!~ ~!~~~~~ JP ~!~-.hl:,~,1-~, ~\t.~. ~-t n~i.~.s,ga~~-- ~lff.·... nee.... & arr,,,.• .., ,,..,.m,ootr m · ~rom erg. ~ · THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1991 - 15 Local News Sons Of Jacob Synagogue Cantor's Spring Concert------Friday, March 15 - Twenty ing Kemal Ataturk's reign in Temple Torat Yisrael, at 330 nine days in ADAR. Candle will highlight a rich and varied the 1930's, Turkey provided a Park Avenue, Cranston, pre lighting is at 5:32 p.m. musical program, including refuge for Jewish professors sents the Cantor's Spring Con Saturday, March 16 - Roch I klirew and Yiddish folk fleeing Nazi Germany. Turkey cert on Saturday, March 23 , at 8 Chodesh NISAN (the first day songs, as well as modern and became a " transit point" for p.m. in the new month). The Torah Jews escaping Europe. liturgical selections. reading today is Parshas Vay Before World War II 80,000- Cantor Solomon, a nationally ikra. Morning services are at IOO,OOO Jews were in Turkey. known composer and lead 8:30 a.m. Mincha is at 5:45 Roughly 27,000 li ve there singer of the popular Jewish p.m. followed by Se'udah today. In 1949, Turkey became musical group Safam, has been Shelishis and Z'mirot. Ma'ariv the first Islamic state to recog accl aimed for his compositions, is at 6:30 p.m. Shabbos ends at nize Israel. In 1980 the Turks " Leaving Mother Russia," 6:34 p.m. Havdalah service is succumbed to Saudi economic "World of Our Fathers," and at 6:38 p.m. blandishments and down " Peace by Piece." His liturgical Sunday, March 17 - Morn graded their representative in music is performed regularly at ing services are at 7:45 a.m. Israel. They also ordered the many temples throughout the T ACHANUN is not recited Israel representative to leave country. during the entire month of Turkey. Arriving in Boston in 1973, N ISAN. In September I 986 an Abu the cantor pursued a musical Mincha for the entire week Nida\ death squad murdered education at both Berkley Col is at 5:50 p.m. 22 Sabbath , worshipers at lege and th e New England Guest Cantor Robbie Solomon Morning services for Mon Neve Shalom synagogue in Conservatory; the latter being day and Thursday are at 6:30 Istanbul. The angry population where he received hi s cantorate past temple programs. Also a.m., and for Tuesday, Wednes reaction to the killing of inno certi fi cation in 1984. Solomon scheduled to perform in sup day and Friday are at 6:45 a.m. cent Jews confronted sharply has served the congregation of port of the cantors are the Tem Now is the time to be think with the norm in the Arab and Temple Sinai in Sharon (his ple Torat choir and inst rumen ing of all the preparations Islamic worlds. The Muslim hometown) sin ce 1978 and talists. for Passover!! Sell your cho communi ty was outraged. plans to assume his cantoral The music will be under the metz!! Call or visit the syna That year, Ankara reversed d uties in July at Temple Ohabei direction of the temple's organ-· gogue for any questions con course and sent a senior diplo Shalom in Bookline, Massachu isl, Steve Ma rtorella. cerning the dietary laws of mat to Israel, one with the rank setts. Tickets may be ordered Passover. of Ambassador. Since I 986 Cantor Shimon Gewirtz of Ilana Gewirtz will enhance through the temple's office by both cantors with her voice and phone (401 -785- 1800) or in Turkish Jews Celebrate open trade has grown from Temple Torat Yisrael, and Can flute playing which has graced person. 500th Anniversary $29,000,000 to more than tor Robbie Solomon of Temple For Jews living in Arab and $140,000,000. Sinai, Sharon, Massachusetts, Islamic societies and Christ ian There is also talk of joint Ir you are celebrati ng a special anniversary. dominated Europe, the last five economic ventures, and aca New Clinical announce ii in the Herald. centuries have been generally demic exchanges have in Inc lude a photo with the announcemem. bleak; they have been frequent Services At JHA creased. Also the two countries Black and white only. please. targets for persecution, vio want to increase agricultural The Jewish Home is pleased lence, and mass murder. One ties. to announce that Henry welcome exception to this is The close ties between the Lichtman, M.D., is providing a Turkey. Next year, Turkish PLO and the terrorist Armenia se ri es of muscul.ir skel etal THE How-To's AND WHAT-1s's Jews will celebrate the 500th (ASALA) secret army for the orth opedic clinics for JHA anniversary of their ingather liberation of Armenia and residents. The 2nd and 4th OF THE ing in the Ottoman Empire. To Sy rian support for Armenia fl oor treatment rooms have commemorate this event, the and Kurdish terrorist groups been outfitted for thi:r; purpose. P ASSOVER SEDER Quincentennial Foundation of have spurred intelligence coop The first clinic will be held on Istanbul U.S.A. will be spon eration between Israel and March 22 from 10 to 11 a.m. AN OPEN SEMINAR AT B ETH SHOLOM soring a series of symposia, Turkey. conferences and exhibitions in the U.S. and Turkey. Singles Volleyball In 14 92 Jews driven out of DON'T WEIGHT Wednesday, March 20 • 7:30 PM Spain by the inquisition fl ed to Night At Striar ANY LONGER 275 Camp Street (Corner of Rochambeau) Providence Turkey, where they were wel The Striar Jewish Com comed by Sultan Bayezid II. munity Center on the Fi reman Please call to reserve your seat. The Jewish community fl our Campus, 445 Central St., ished economically and cul Stoughton, will sponsor Vol 331-9393 turally in their first few centu leyball for Si ngles of All Ages We will arrange Passover Seder hospitality for those who wish. ries under the Ottomans. Cities on Sunday, March 17, from such as Istanbul and Izmir 5:30-7:30 p.m. The price for Mort them jwt II ditt'9 became centers of Sephardic members is $5, nonmembers 82PitmanStrctt.Providenct.Rl02906 Jewry. Joseph Caro composed $7. Pay at the door. (401) 454-1920 the SHULKHAN ARUKH, and Shlomo Halevi Alkabes did the same with LEKHAH DODI, which is noted by Aron Rod rique, an associate professor of history at Indiana University who has done extensive re ~e search on the Jewish commu nity in Turkey. Dimension Travel Jews established the first POSTOFFICEPLAZA•GARDENCITY•15DMIOWAYRD.•SUITE1S9•CRANSTDN , RI 02920 Hebrew prin ting press in Serving All Of Your Travel Needs Istanbul in 1493. Jews played Group, Corporate, Pleasure - For Everyone's Budget! prominent roles as traders and manufacturers, and many were GIFT CERTIFICATES AVAILABlf • (401) 944-1507 • OUHF·TD~N 1·800•955·0333 •& employed in the government's custom service and Turkey's diplomatic corps. In 1556, Sul tan Suleyman intervened per sonally to save Marranos cap tured by the armies loyal to Pope Paul IV from being burned at the stake, Jews were subject to social segregation and discriminatory laws. However, this is not to say that their lives were idyllic. AGINATION As DHIMMI who were sup- posedly inferior to MUSLIMS, Call Today fo Delivery of our they were forbidden to ride Original p Seltzer Water ~~~e:IA a~!ss s~:j:~~edThe!: 738-2909 ;:~~o:~~r R~~~~~~erdt~~ :i:~ STELLA BOTTLING co., INC. Jenee and degradation fa ced by 70 Rock Avenue • Warwick, Rhode Island l7k1\iifrirn4.~;1~;.a~t~~~~.ii~? ·l i..a'•'_,,_, ._,,_, _,,.,;>;,."_ ' w_/J_,J_iA_,,•_,!_,Y... f.O,-i"_ 's_u_,-f_,f!_,,_~J_•_J?~_•_.,:-_,_,_,,__ _ I 16-THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1991 Jewish Survival And Spirituality Spark Waldoks sources. Jews looked down on no moral rules in the new land. by Mike Fink two millennia. They put things the stage. It smacked of Greek You just go for what you want, Herald Contributing Editor together. The Dalai Lama and Roman sin. grab and hang on." "Some Jews build barriers. chose to build a bridge, not a Only the last book of the " Most of us can trace our Others put up bridges. To start barrier. He needed to learn Bible, the Megillah, lets in roots back both to Chassidic a bridge you need a firm foot from the Jews (whom he had some wit and some playing traditions of storytelling, and ing. To carry on a dialogue you always respected) how they around. The Purim spielers to stricter, sterner observances. have to find out who you are." -did it. The Tibetan Buddhists were the first pranksters and Yet we make up only 2.7% of Moshe Waldoks opened his have been in exile only for jokesters. Waldoks wished that the U.S .A. Soon we will be week at Hillel as Scholar-in decades. The West knows how Purim had become the major only 2%. Yet 60 % of our Residence with an account of to solve problems. But they American Jewish holiday, not humorists are Jewish. " Never his visits both here and in India don't know how to contem- · Chanukah. " It 's easier to spell, theless Jewish parents never with the Dalai Lama of Tibetan plate. How to travel inwardly, for one thing." Also, it 's the say, I'm raising my children to Buddhism. how to sit still. only Bible story outside, in the be funnymen, comedians. That " Buddhists and Jews share "Jewish parents in America exile. says something about our gen very little theologically. But want their children to get The badcha11, or wedding ius for it. " both seek compassionate under somewhere. They are not inter entertainer, the Marryin' Sam, The jammed audience standing." He did a word pic ested in the inner journey. The had to keep guests glad for stayed with Moshe all the way. ture of the Dalai Lama's per idea of a quest scares them." seven days. That's another They laughed, listened quietly, sonal charm. "He giggles. It The Public Affairs Con source of Jewish humor. But and remained for discussion. makes you relax." He also ference on Journalism in the Moshe brought us into the 20th Moshe Waldoks can go from talked about the trip, the con next Brown Building notwith century with a reading of the East to West, from Humor to voy of cars on the one lane standing, Moshe Waldoks Marx Brothers routines. Holocaust. The thread that ties highway. "Careful you don't pulled in a good crowd, who Moshe Waldoks "Groucho tries to fit in and it all together is his profound hit a sacred cow. She may be stayed for the question and doesn't hold much humor. makes fun of fancier Ameri concern and respect for Jewish your uncle." "Jews too have answer period. Except for that plague of frogs cans. Chico plays a more cau survival and for Jewish spir some lore of reincarnation." At the Hillel luncheon on in Egypt. And maybe Noah's tious game, clings to old world ituality. But Jews balance the claims Thursday he traced the history Ark." The parts that strike you customs and hat. Harpo like a of East and West. Jews have of Jewish humor. "Jews are a as funny come from earlier child gets wise that there are proved strong at survival over serious people. The Bible Touro Fraternal Association Events At The JCCRI - Week Of March 15-21 Operation Desert Storm The Jewish Community offered at the JCCRI on consec a.m., followed by a hot kosher Do you have a few moments ANY JEWISH SAILOR Center of Rhode Island, uti ve Tuesdays, March I 9 meal at noon, sponsored by to make a Jewish person serv (OR MARINE) located at 401 Elmgrove Ave. through April 30 at 5:30 p.m. Project Hope. Regularly sched ing in Operation Desert Storm c/o Jewish Chaplain in Providence, will be holding a for high school students want uled programs include the feel a little closer to home and COM-6th Fleet (014) va riety of events and activities ing to improve their verbal and daily opportunity to enjoy his fellow Jews in Rhode Box 6 during March. For more infor reasoning skills. For informa talking to friends in the lobby Island? A Passover card or just NSA Naples, Italy mation or to make reserva tion about the course and to from 10 to I I a.m., followed by a letter will make a world of FPO-NY, NY 09521 tions, please call 861-8800 and register, call the Kaplan Center exercise at 11:15. A Women's difference and make you feel Touro Fraternal Association ask for the appropriate person. at 521 -3926. Group is held every Tuesday good also. It will not cost you Gallery 401 Opening is helping by funding special A Gift for the Seder from 11 a.m. to 11 :45 a.m. any money other than a stamp Passover Seder kits fo r a num Reception Friend to Friend meets Thurs and a few moments of your The community is invited to This year, set your family's ber of the Jewish men and seder table with a handmade days from 11 a.m. to noon. time. Listed below are the ad women serving in the Gulf a Gallery 401 Opening Recep Bingo has been rescheduled to dresses that you can write to. tion on Sunday, March I 7, craft created in the " Passover area. These kits we hope will Seder Gift Workshop" on Sun Thursday afternoons, from These cards and letters will go enable them to enjoy some of from 2 to 4 p.m. for Georgia 12:45 p.m. to 2 p.m. Shabbat to a Jewish chaplain in the Boomer. Mrs. Boomer has ex day, March 24 from 1 to 4 p.m. the traditional delicacies of the Club 456 invites its members, traditions are observed on Gulf. This chaplain will then holiday. If you know of a Jew hibited her watercolors in sev Fridays. Sunday mornings send your card or letter to a eral local and national juried other students in grades 4 ish person serving in the Gulf through 6, and third graders to begin with hot muffins, tea and Jewish person who for some from the Rhode Island area, shows, taking first prize and coffee at 10 a.m. followed by a reason has not been getting honorable mention in the join workshop leader Sherri please contact the Touro office, Streicher in creating a lucite variety of programs. The fol any mail from home. Please let direct your information to: Warren Arts Festival. She is lowing events and programs us show these young people also an award-winning interior holiday gift. Club 456 mem Barry Newman, Chairman of bers can participate in this fun are scheduled for March 15 to they are not forgotten by us, Community Involvement Com designer and has been the set the 21: the Jews of Rhode Island. Ad designer for the State Ballet of activity free of charge; a $ 10 mittee, P.O. Box 3562, Crans fee that includes the cost of Friday, March 15 - Model dress as shown. Rhode Island since I 962. The Seder for Seniors, 11:30 a.m. to ton, R.I. 02910. We will then materials and refreshments is try to direct one of these kits to exhibit will continue through 1 p.m. The service will be led ANY JEWISH SOLDIER April 12. Gallery 401 is open required of all others. Please them. Needed are the name call Evy Rappaport to register by Rabbi ·Sidney Helbraun, as c/o Capt. N. Rober and rank service number and Monday through Thursday, 2 sistant rabbi at Temple Beth El. 378-60-3165-274 by March 21. APO address. Please do not to 10 p.m.; Friday from 9 a.m. Sunday, March 17 - VCR Support Battalion Kosher Mealsite delay y~mr letters or cards as it to 4 p.m. and Sunday, 9 a.m. to program, 11 a.m. - A World 24th Infantry Division The Kosher Mealsite at the takes two weeks to get over to 5 p.m. For additional informa Away, " Hong Kong/Singa- Operation Desert Shield Center offers a variety of activi the Gulf. Make your Passover a tion, call Ruby Shalansky. pore." . APO-NY, NY 09315 Prepare For SA Ts ties and a chance for seniors to Contact Sandy Bass for fur little better by making theirs a meet Monday through Friday or little better. The Stanley H. Kaplan SAT ther information. Preparatory Course is being at 11 a.m. and Sunday at 9:30 Holocaust Service And Art BATHROOMS Exhibit At Touro Synagogue Let a specialist in bath remodeling take care of your of the paintings to be dis needs ... you'll get prompt & professional service at a fair In conjunction with annual tentatively set for 2 to 4 p.m. international "Holocaust weekdays (Sunday through played. One of the honored price whether it's a complete room or a modest repair. Remembrance" observances, Thursday), and 6 to 8 p.m. on guests at this service will be EXPERT TILE • PLUMBING • ELECTRICAL• NEW FIXTURES historic Touro Synagogue of Wednesday evenings. Newport's mayor, The Hon Newport will sponsor a unique A special " Holocaust Re orable Robert McKenna. 14 Years Experience WAYNE ·1••• ISLANDRHODE exhibition of " Holocaust Art," membrance Service" will be A distinguished area artist, Fully Insured BUILDERS for the period of April 14 conducted in the main sanctu Professor Peter London of Lie. #2665 ASSOCIATION GOODLIN g Southeastern Massachusetts through 28, announced Rabbi ary on Sunday, April 14, at FREE ESTIMATE 401-658-4141 Dr. Chaim SJ'iapiro. Through 3:30 p.m., in conjunction with University, will appear at the the efforts of Rabbi Shapiro, international ' observances of special opening program to ex this exhibition will take place " Holocaust Day," and to inau plain both the background of in the Touro Community gurate the art exhibition. Rabbi the paintings and his goal in Center, and will be offered to Dr. Shapiro will conduct the depicting these unique por MARTY'S the general public for viewing service, which will feature Pro trayals. during this period. The sched fessor Peter London, the artist At the conclusion of the KOSHER MEAT MARKET ule for public tours has been service, the assemblage will be invited to view the exhibition, 467-8903 88 ';, Rolfe St., Cranston which will be displayed in the ••••••••••••••••••••••• " Museum Room" of the Touro 32 Goff Avenue, Pawtucket, RI 02860 Community Center. A col ~ Whole Beef Brisket ...... $2.89 lb. Inside RI : 1-401 -728-3600 or. 1-800-675-8646 lation will be served after the viewing. This program is free Turkey ...... $ .89 lb. ~VEL Nationwide: 1-800-367-0013 ~~ FAX: 1-401 -724-8076 to all those interested, but INC. reserved seats will be limited to those who make prior reserva Veal Brisket ...... $1,69 lb. 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For further in Marty carries a full selection of Passover formation, contact Touro's FOR ALL YOUR TRAVEL NEEDS •. office, .85 . .T ouro .Street i o ,------· products • ., .Shop---- early for best selection .••••• •••••••••••••••••••••••------+ - 'Newport, at 847-479 4 . ------ THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1991 -17 New Americans: Jobs Wanted Maje5tic Senior Guild Beth Sholom Scholar-in-Residence Weekend "One of the most important The next regular meeting of base of people we can depend Congregation Beth Sholom On Shabbat morning Rabbi things the community can do upon for jobs." the Majestic Senior Guild will to help emigres is to give them be held on Tuesday, March I 9, Sons of Zion culminated their Rubenstein delivered a stirring The following list describes Scholar-in-Residence Week sermon on "The Sense of the jobs," said Debra Blaine, a employable New Americans at Temple Torat Yisrael, 330 teacher in the ESL program. In Park Ave., Cranston, at 12:30 end, March 8-9, by dedicating Finite." More than 100 friends looking for work. the sanctuary of the Synagogue joined together following ser these days of increasing unem • Entry-level desktop pub p.m. This meeting will be very ployment and economic interesting because upcoming to the memory of Bernard C. vices for a delicious luncheon. lishing skills, drafting. Gladstone and Andrea Saltz The dedication cermonies on gloom, the New Americans • Programmer/analyst in trips and events will be dis face even greater challenges cussed. man, both of whom were major Saturday evening capped a MIS/EDP. Experience with forces in building Beth Sholom wonderful weekend, with finding appropriate employ IBM-360, M-222; operating July 17 we have a 2-night ment. "These are highly edu and 3-day trip to Kelly's in the into the important place in the Rabbi Chaim Marder acting as systems MS-DOS; program Orthodox Jewish community it cated people who left careers Poconos. Deluxe accommoda Master of Ceremonies, Rabbi ming languages ALGOL, AS holds today. Our guest scholar Rubenstein delivering the behind so that their children SEMBLER, BASIC, FORTRAN, tions include 2 breakfasts, 1 could have a better life," said lunch and 2 dinners. Also en in-residence was Rabbi Jacob keynote addr_ess and members JCL. Rubenstein, former Rabbi of of the Gladstone and Saltzman Maureen Fielding, also an ESL tertainment and sightseeing. • Russian language and litera Beth Sholom and presently families sharing prayers and teacher in the program. " Now, We offer, August 4 through ture teacher. Ra bbi of the Young Israel of memories with a large gather because of their age and their August 11 , eight days at the • Professor, logic and Rus Scarsdale, New York. ing of friends and relatives. The language skills, they face diffi beautiful Pines Hotel Resort in sian philosophy, Ph.D., pub The weekend began with a weekend was sponsored by the culties being hired." lished. the Catskills. Plenty of activi Temma Holland, resettle ties, entertainment nightly, 3 cozy gathering at the home of Bernard C. Gladstone Memo There are also several indi Grace and Ed Beiser on Friday rial Fund and Beth Sholom ment/job and volunteer co meals daily and excellent ac viduals who have completed evening, for an Oneg Shabbat. hopes to continue to sponsor ordinator at Jewish Family commodations. coursework in computer Rabbi Rubenstein shared some such Scholar-in-residence pro Service, also expressed the graphics through Rhode Island Offered September 25 is I night and 2-days to New York thoughts on love and hate grams in the future. need for the community to hire College and are ready for em within the context of halacha. from the pool of skilled and ployment. City for the unequaled " Phan qualified emigres. " When the Employers who have posi tom of the Opera." The trip in economic situation was easier, tions available should contact cludes accommodations at the NCJWRI Workshops----- we were quickly able to place Temma Holland at Jewish Omni Park Central Hotel, visit The National Council of NCJW members and their people," she commented. Family Service, 331-1244 for to Ellis Island, Statue of Lib Jewish Women R.I. Section, friends. " Now, we need to increase the further information. erty, Battery Park and the in conjunction with the R.I. The first workshop is sched World Trade Towers. This will Jewish Family Service, will uled for Wednesday, March 20, be a very exciting 2 days. Make presen·t a series of workshops at 9:30 a.m. and the second Alperin Schechter Science Fair Winners your reservations as soon as on " Parenting and Grandpar workshop will follow on possible as seating is very lim enting in the Interfaith and Wednesday, March 27, at 9:30 ited. For fu rther information on The Ruth and Max Alperin " Nitrification and the Amount lntercultural Family." a.m. Both workshops will be any of these trips call Pearl Bryna Bettigole, clinical di held at 39 Harwich Rd., Provi Schechter Day School Middle of Available Carbon" by Stayman at 738-0225, Dorothy School Science Fair Competi Gordon Liss won second place. rector of the R.I. Jewish Family dence, R.I. Dickens at 823-7687 or Etta Service, which lead the discus For additional information tion has yielded a large crop of Pamela Sinel's "Going Ba Swerling at 463-7166. Bro prize-winning entries, many of nanas" took third and Honora sion on this timely subject call Kay Kaplan, Vice President chures on these trips will be which, year by year, will touch of Public Affairs, at 942-5807 which will go on to compete m ble Mention was given to available at the next meeting. the Rhode Island State Science Melissa Mann for " Memorize an ever increasing number of or Judith Litchman, Program Don't delay and be sorry. Act families in our area. Chairman, at 274-2311. Fair. It." today. In Grade 8, first place went In the sixth grade, Ari Alex The birth of a child evokes Inadvertently the date for the the deepest of emotions for to Debbie Bojar for her project, ander took first place with luncheon and installation of of " Fast Food Trash Race." Mimi " Probability." Lisa Silver was parents and grandparents. ficers that appears in your most When the child is born to a Ryvicker's project, " Reflective awarded second place for recent bulletin is wrong. The Properties," took second place. .nixed marriage, the feelings of " Moral Choices in Different correct date is Tuesday, June love, pride and heritage, are In third with " Photosynthesis" Age Groups." Third place went 25, not June 26 as printed. often coupled with questions was Jessica Schiffman and to Leslie Ross for her project Please keep the· correct date in concerning cultural and relig Carla Miler was awarded Hon " How People React to Colored mind, JUNE 25. ious boundaries. Will the child orable Mention for her project, Water" with Honorable Men be raised with no religion, both "War and Children." tion awarded to Jacob Feldman religions or a non-Jewish Seventh grade winner was for " Rust and Corrosion of Don't drink and drive. Support I I religion? Josh Ellison with a project enti Metals." How are the family religious tled ''.Buffering Cai::acity." holidays to be handled? What our about the relationships be tween the generations: grand Advertisers Alperin Schechter Faculty Attends Regional Conference parents to parents; grand parents to grandchildren? The faculty of the Ruth and ference gave teachers and ad and individual needs: "Strat What is the role of the grand Max Alperin Schechter Day ministrators a much-welcomed egies for Teaching Students parents? This factor is often not TELL THEM School participated in an excit chance to exchange questions, with Attention Deficit Dis addressed since there are few THAT YOU SAW ing Solomon Schechter Day ideas, problems and solutions order, Study Skills." " norms" and role models are School Association Regional with colleagues and friends. Rabbi Reuben Kimelman, still in the process of being THEIR AD IN Conference hosted by the Workshops dealt with cur Senior CLAL Scholar at the formed. These workshops will -THE HERALD Solomon Schechter Day riculum issues: " Progressive National Jewish Center for seek to share the issues and School of Greater Boston. Math Education, Teaching the Learning ·and Leadership and explore approaches with all Also attending this con Bible with Values, Hebrew lan Associate Professor of Talmud ference were faculty members guage"; communication and and Midrash at Brandeis Uni from the Solomon Schechter professional growth: "Adviser versity, gave the keynote ad Joseph Rubiano, Sr. Joseph Rubiano, Jr. Andrew Galasso Day School of Greater Boston, Advisee - a New Model for dress, entitled "The Impact of Haverhill, Stoughton, Worces Middle School Teacher-Stu the Jewish Day School Teacher ter, MA, West Hartford, Conn. dent Interaction, Personal on the Future of Jewish Life in and the Cohen Hillel Academy Growth in the School Setting"; America." of Marblehead, Mass. The con- Congregation Ohawe Shalam------MOUNT FUJI GARDENS, INC. The Young Israel of Paw- open to the public. forget to state what chometz We Specialize In All Landscaping & Oriental Pruning tucket will have services this The Rabbi will begin acting you have, where it's located Japanese Gardens • Lawn Maintenance . Friday evening at 5:40 p.m. as your agent to sell your and its approximate worth in 7 Carl Avenue, North Providence, RI 02904 • 353-5268 Shabbat morning which is chometz. This Sunday don't the sale. Shabbat Ha-Choesh and Rosh- Chodesh we will begin services at 9 a.m. with an elaborate Kid dush to follow . Mincha will be PASSOVER-STYLE HOME HEALTH CARE at 5:35 p.m. Shabbat afternoon. Laws of Pesach will be dis SPONGECAKES • MACAROONS • ALMOND CRESCENT COOKIES When Home Care Is Needed cussed between Mincha and HOME HEALTH AIDE• HOMEMAKERS Ma -ari v. Ma-ariv will be at REGISTERED NURSES • LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSES 6:35 p.m. Havdalah will be at Personnel BONDED & INSURED - Supervised by a Registered Nurse 6:45 p.m. This Wednesday evening, Available 7 Days A Week, March 20, at 8 p. m. Rabbi 24 Hours A Day Jacobs will give a class in the laws of kashering one's house Licensed RI Agency for Pesach and the various products which are forbidden b reads • bagels • desserts • soups • sa lads • sandwiches CATHLEEN NAUGHTON ASSOC. or permitted. On the following 727 East Avenue Phone 727-1010 Cathleen Naughton RN BS Wednesday, March 27, the Pawtucket Fax 724-0075 249 Wickenden Street • Providence, RI Rabbi wi ll discuss themes of HOURS: MONDAY-FRIDAY 7-6, SATURDAY 7-5, SUNDAY 7-1 751-9660 Passover as related during the CLOSED SUNDAY. MARCH 31. 1991 .•• ~wport 849-1UJ . seder. T,he ~e."'!i.nar is free and ' . , ,. 'i''' ' 18-THE RHODE ISL.AND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1991 Obituaries SADIE BAKER BESSIE FISHBEIN Smith Memorial Chapel, 458 were by the Sugarman-Smith Moose and The Broward Radi EAST PROVIDENCE PROVIDENCE Bessie Hope St., Providence. Memorial Chapel, 458 Hope Club. Sadie Baker, 76, of 550 Fishbein, 97, of the Jewish St., Frovidence. He is survived by a daugh Taunton Ave., a sales clerk for Home for the Aged, 99 Hillside ter, Myrna D. lndell and a sor Cherry Webb & Touraine Ave., a bookkeeper for a phar EDITH LENZ JEANNETTE R. PORT Sandford J. Rodyn;-a brothe, since 1973, died Tuesday, maceutical house in Brooklyn, EAST PROVIDENCE PROVIDENCE - Jeannette Merlyn Rodyn, and a siste, March 5, 1991, at Rhode Island N.Y., for many years before Edith Lenz, 61, of 29 Church R. Port, 74, of 112 Indiana Judith Ritter. Hospital. retiring, died Monday, March St., died Thursday, March 7, Ave., died Sunday, March 3, Memorial contributions ar, Born fn Providence, a 4, 1991, at the home. 1991, at home. She was the 1991, at Miriam Hospital. She suggested to the Debora! daughter of the late Samuel Born in Austria, a daughter wife of Joseph J. Lenz. was the widow of Hyman R. Heart and Lung .Foundation and Ida (Granovsky) Horowitz, of the late Samuel and Eva Born in New York City, a Port. 156 lnagua St., Dania, Florid; she lived in East Providence (Silverman) Fishbein, she lived daughter of the late Louis and Born in New York City, she 33004. Memorial services wen since 1973. in Providence for three weeks. Ruth (Fried) Rouffe, she had was a daughter of the late held at 3 p.m. Friday, March 8 She leaves a daughter, 1st She previously lived in East lived in East Providence for Solomon and Freda (Rose) at Riverside-Gordon Memoria Lt. Ruth S. Baker, serving in Greenwich and Cranston. She five years, previously residing Eisendorff. She lived in Provi Chapels, 2230 Hollywooc the Army Nurse Corps at Cut lived in Brooklyn most of her in Pawtucket. dence more than 60 years. Blvd., Hollywood, Fla. ler Army Hospital, Fort life. Mrs. Lenz was a member of Mrs. Port was a member of Devens, Mass.; a son, Charles Miss Fishbein was a member Congregation Mishkon T'filoh. the Ladies Auxiliary of the Jew Lecture At L. Baker of Fullerton, Calif.; of Hadassah, and a member of She was a past president of ish War Veterans. Besides her two sisters, Anne Garber of ORT and Temple Sinai, and its B'nai B'rith, a member of the husband, she leaves a daugh Miriam Hospital Pawtucket, Minnie DeGrass of Sisterhood. League of Women Voters, the ter, Susan Port, and a sister, Warwick, and a brother, She leaves a nephew, Jewish Home for the Aged and Grace Eisendorff, both of Provi Potential ethical problems in Jerome Horowitz of Provi Eugene Glock of Richmond, PAR! Inc. of Rhode Island. dence. relations between physiciam dence. Va ., and two grandnieces, Joan She was a volunteer at A graveside service was held and drug companies will be thE A graveside service was held Perlmutter of Cranston and Women & Infants Hospital. Tuesday, March 5, at Lincoln subject of a joint lecture by a Thursday, March 7, at Lincoln Ann Miller of East Greenwich. Besides her husband she Park Cemetery, Warwick. Ar physician couple at The Mir· Park Cemetery, Warwick, and A graveside service was held leaves two daughters, Amy rangements by the Sugarman iam Hospital's Sopkin Audi was coordinated by Mount Wednesday, March 6, at Sinai Lenz of North Providence and Smith Memorial Chapel, 458 torium, 164 Summit Ave., Sinai Memorial Chapel, 825 Memorial Park, Warwick. Ar Toni Tinberg of South Attle Hope St., Providence. Providence, at 11 a.m. March Hope St., Providence. rangements by the Sugarman- boro, Mass., and two sisters, 2 1. The lecture is titled: Myra Cutler of Bronx, N.Y., " Doctors, Drug Companies and Gertrude Dennis of ANNA REZEPTER and Gifts." Yonkers, N.Y. PROVIDENCE Anna Delivering the hospital's Graveside services were Rezepter, 92, a resident of the Lichtman Oration on that topic held Friday, March 8, in Lin Jewish Home for the Aged, 99 will be Charles Seth Landefeld, coln Park Cemetery, Warwick. Hillside Ave., an assembler at M.D. and Mary-Margaret Monuments and memorials Arrangements by the Sugar W & H Jewelry Co. for many Chren, M.D. Both are from the ,. . years before retiring in 1949, in !he finest iranite and hronze. 1?· man-Smith Memorial Chapel, University Hospitals of Cleve , :_ 458 Hope St., Providence. died Wednesday, March 6, land. Jn ./umse nm.rnlwtions hy appoi11t111em 1991, at the home. Dr. Landefeld received his LETTERING • CLEANING • REPAIRS Born in Russia, she was a medical degree from Yale in TILLIE LEVINE daughter of the late Meyer and 1979 after graduating from Leon J. Ruhin 726-6466 NEW BEDFORD, Mass. Rose (Ostroff) Rezepter. She Harvard in 1974 and Oxford Affiliated with Charles G. Morse Granite Company Tillie Levine, 95, of 200 Haw had lived in Providence most University in 1978. He is an thorne Ave., died Sunday, of her life. attending physician at Cleve March 3, 1991, at the New She was a graduate of a busi land's University Hospitals and Bedford Jewish Convalescent ness college in Denver, Colo. is director of fellowship in gen Home. Miss Rezepter was a mem eral internal medicine, the MT. SINAI MONUMENTS She was born in Lithuania, a ber of Congregation Sons of clinical analysis project and the daughter of the late Harris and Jacob and its Sisterhood. clinical epidemiology section in Our owner, Mitchell ... his father and Bessie Levine and had been a She leaves two sisters, Ida the division of general internal grandfather. .. have been privileged to provide New Bedford resident for over Zuckerman of Pawtucket and medicine. He is medical co 80 years. Etta E. Malinou of Providence. director of the unit for acute over 8,000 monuments in RI Jewish Cemeteries Besides being a resident She was the sister of the late care of the elderly. He is assis since the 1870s for 2 reasons ... the quality is member of the New Bedford Louis and Hyman Rezepter. tant professor of medicine at the finest and the price is the lowest. Jewish Convalescent Home, A graveside service was held Case Western University. she was a member of the Con March 8, at Lincoln Park Dr. Chren is in the depart Call 331-3337 for assistance. gregation Ahavath Achim. Cemetery, Warwick. Arrange ment of dermatology at Uni She had been a clerk at the ments by the Sugarman-Smith versity Hospitals. She is a 1974 Pairpoint Glass Co. Memorial Chapel, 458 Hope graduate of Smith College in There are no immediate St., Providence. Northampton, Mass., and re survivors. ceived her medical degree from A graveside service was held IRA E. RODYN Yale in 1978. Her medical prac on Monday, March 4, at Plain DANIA, Florida - Ira E. tice has included the role of The Smith family tradition ville Cemetery in New Bed Rodyn, 73, formerly of Provi director of health services at The Smith name has been known and ford. dence, died Wednesday, March Case Western Reserve Uni Contributions may be made 6, 1991. He was the husband of versity. She is a former chief respected by Jewish families for many years. to the Congregation Ahavath Zelda Rodyn. resident in dermatology at The late Rev. Meyer Smith was Rhode Island's Achim, 385 County St., New Mr. Rodyn was active as a Cleveland's University Hos revered mohel for generations. Cantor Jacob Bedford, Mass. Arrangements member of the Masons, Elks, pitals. '1ack" Smith prepared countless children for Bar and Bat Mitzvah and later sang at their U.S. Federal law now requires all funeral homes weddings. Now, in the true spirit of his to provide itemized pricing. Mount Sinai Memorial Chapel grandfather and father, Michael D. Smith c;ontinues his family's tradition of service to the has provided this courtesy for over fifteen years. Jewish community as Executive Director of the Sugannan-Smith Memorial Chapel MOUNT SINAI Sugarman-Smith MEMORIAL CHAPEL Memorial Chapel The only RI Jewish funeral home that is a member of the Jewish Funeral Directors of America."· · The Rhode Island Jewish funeral home that can be trusted... for its honesty.. .integrity. .. and compliance with the highest standards of Jewish ethics and conduct. Over 110 years service to R.I. Jewish families by our director, Mitchell, his father and grandfather. HOME OF YOUR FAMILY RECORDS. 331-3337 Please call 825 Hope Street at Fourth Street for your 458 Hope Street, Providence, Comer of Doyle Ave. From out-of-state call : Telephone:331-8094 Out of State: 1-800-447-1267 Pre-need counseling with tax-free New Year Michael D. 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PRIOR to the Thursday on which the ad is to appea r. 10% discount for ads running continuously for one year. I J1 . . Thank You ...... 1 . , ... MaH «heck -ta: Rhode ls.land Jewish Herald, PO Box 6063., .Prov.jdeni::e., RI. 0 2940 1.:_R~~~J~H_:l~~~ -~:_B~X__:6~~-~~J~E~;~:3::~#..:_1- , ...~ ... MIMIIIMMIIIIIMIIIM '~' .•. ,.. ..,.,.. _ _...,______• ~- Ir 20- THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1991 by Kathy Cohen Herald Associate Editor Now, seventeen years into new airlines are born. Talk There are numerous travel the business, Winkleman has about hectic! agents in Rhode Island, and yet found the bulk of his business How does he handle all this there is one that stands out to be in his immediate area. change? Winkleman says that more than others. This close Things have changed a bit, having had a Fax machine for knit family of special agents is however, since the new 800 three years has helped and he L like a team of secret agents get Watts line was installed. This offers another feature. Instead ting the job done, no matter line extends Winkleman's ser of mailing his customers tickets what it takes. They will go the vices all over the country and Winkleman has them deli v extra mile to find suitable travel even to the Caribbean. ered. BUSINESS PR.<>FILES agendas fo r your business, Before Winkleman became a No one ever said being an pleasure, or undercover assign travel agent, he attended agent is easy, but this business ments. George Washington University is Winkleman's life. He must Winkleman Travel Home Of Winkleman Travel in Washington, D.C. His goal at find that perfect price, informa they're the 007 of the travel the university was to success tion, and schedule for his client. The Special Agents business, gathering informa fully bring home a B.A . degree He is constantly digging, in tion on a global level. in sociology. No sooner did the search of that bit of information C Choose from any one of Joe resourceful Winkleman com to keep him on the forefront of ij Winklman's top agents: Jack plete the task than he fo und the business. He says it helps to Mossburg, Ida Bochner (who's himself fully submerged into belong to Action Six where a soon leaving for a special as the travel business in 1972. consortium of agencies can get signment - becoming a new This agent juggles all airline the better and lower group lywed), or Rachel Duprey. schedules, constantly hunting rates. They all specialize in getting fo r the best and cheapest route When asked about the Mid what the customer wants, a to your destination. It's a tough dle East war, Winkleman hassle-free travel arrangement. job, but someone has to do it. shrugs and admits to the diffi In 1974 Winkleman opened He says that the constant culties the war brought to his his operation next to Spigel's change in this business is business as if he's used to the Delicatessen on Reservoir Av tough, but he knows how to ups and downs in his field. He enue in Cranston. He then relo deal with the travel industry - says that he wasn't the only cated his headquarters about by never giving up. He strives one affected and since the ten years ago to a more suitable to find new ways of getting in cease-fire, his business has address at 72 Reservoir Avenue formation to his customers. been steadily rising. He urges '"'I where they eventually ex One minute there's a whole everybody to show their sup panded to accommodate in airline going under (Eastern) port by visiting Israel, because ' ll.u. creased demand. Luckily, the and the next, schedules are be in doing so, Israel will directly Winkleman Travel's team members from left to right include: tenants next door were moving ing rearranged, new air fares benefit. And Israel's almost Ida Bochner, Jack Mossburg, Joe Winkleman and Rachel out - probably too much are added on, new rules and non-existent tourist trade will Duprey. travel action to suit them. regulations are created, and . fl ourish once again. Dvorah-Dayan Na'Amat USA SPRING CLEANING? FLY NON-STOP PREPARING Boston/Tel Aviv/Boston Dvorah-Dayan Club of check to Tess Hassenfeld, 310 Na'Amat/USA will hold the Blackstone Blvd. Program for FOR PASSOVER? VIA EL AL next meeting on Monday, the evening of March 18 will REMEMBER US! Every Monday Starting March 18th March 18, at 7:45 p.m. at the be guest speaker Samuel For Reservations & Tickets Call home of Elaine Levy, 31 Taft Primack who will di scuss We are now buying Avenue, Providence. "What is Meant by Masoretic Old Jewelry• Paintings• Antiques We will finalize plans for our Text." All members and fri ends lflHIE IE~\IPiOIRlllUt~\ WINKLEMAN TRAVEL Theatre Party on April 21 a\ are invited to attend. 738-8824 720 Reservoir A venue, Cranston, RI Rhode Island College at 2 p.m. Joyce Shatkm • Marcia Stern 943-7700 • Outside RI : 1-800-234-5595 featuring " Pippin." Tickets are available by calling Ceil Emanu-EI Krieger at 351 -2139. American Jews - Where Will We are looking fo rward to We Be In The Next Decade? our Giant Yard Sale this spring Tuesday evening lectures at and would appreciate your co 8:30 p.m. will be held at Tem operation in collecting mer ple Emanu-EI, 99 Taft Ave., chandise - furniture, dishes, Providence. pictures, pots, pans, etc. Ceil March 19 - Jews On The Krieger would appreciate your Fringe - Who are the Jews that ca ll if you have any items to don't fit the stereotypes? Bryna · contribute. 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