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VOLUME LXXVIJ, NUMBER 34 THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1990 3St PER COPY Messianic Movement Already A Star Lures Soviet Jews by Bette Keva This seemingly well-mean· as a subterfuge to get names The Jewish Advocate ing gesture is something that and addresses of members of BOSTON (JTA) - Messianic Jewish organizations have the Jewish community whom movements have expanded been engaged in ever since they subsequently bombard their efforts and are now Gorbachev opened the gates to with their literature or with targeting themselves toward freedom for Soviet Jews; but personal telephone calls. newly arriving Soviet immi­ help from this source comes as "The newly arriving Russian grants. Unknowing and un­ anything but welcome to the community is so vulnerable suspecting Soviet Jews are fall­ Jewish community. because they are culturally ing prey to the highly organ­ disoriented. These Jews for ized ranks of Messianic Jews. .. In Russia they Jesus groups present them­ In one example, a messianic selves as either Jewish or congregation from Massa­ never heard of Jews Jewish/Christian, but either chusetts sets up a table with for Jesus ... " way they present themselves the Israeli nag draped over it, as helping the Russians adapt solicits names and addresses, Even though Messianic Jews to American society, and it's a and d isseminates booklets use the outward symbols that false picture. This has to be entirely in Russian at Coolidge Jews use - kipot, tefillin, Star countered," said Sendor. Corner in Brookline. of David, the use of Hebrew Michael Skobac of the New According to several reports, and Yiddish words - their York chapter of Jews for an individual at the table asked beliefs are virtually the same as Judaism, a counter-mission­ people walking by if they certain Protestant denomina­ izing organization, returned wanted to sign a petition urg· tions. from a two-week trip to Russia ing President Bush and Soviet 'Tm very suspicious of their in February where he warned leader Mikhail Gorbachev to motives," said Rabbi Meir Jewish communal leaders in relax quotas allowing Soviet Sendor of Young Israel of Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev Jews to immigrate to the Sharon, Mass. " I believe that that the messianic groups United States and Israel. they use these kinds of issues (continued from page 8)

===Midwifery Gets a Boost=== Misha Grandel, who recently arrived in Israel from the Soviet Union, has already appeared as a soloist at the Jerusalem student wanting to learn more Theater. Misha and his family, like thousands of other new - set out to gain some experi­ immigrants, ue assisted in their resettlement by the UJA's ence working in 0.B. nursing in Operation Exodus Campaign. a " high risk nursery for sick ba­ bies" and then she went out west to Oregon. A Memorial Candle " I got in touch with a mid­ wife who did some home births and I became an apprentice," In Summer says Morningstar. " I worked by Michael Fink conducts the prayers. As I with her for about a year before Special to the Herald motored round the roads I I started delivering babies my­ This report drifts and mean· heard a soft dull thud in my self." ders out from my honeysuckle car. Did someone throw a At the age of 24, Morningstar cabin on Narrow River. Read small stone? No, a field spar­ began her own private practice it, if at all, over a long iced tea. row flew in and got knocked in home deliveries with a part­ Each July and August I wait out. It came to and fluttered ner in Oregon. Her practice for the Temple postcard from nervously. I stopped, opened {they didn't name it) lasted four Providence announcing the the hatchback and doors. My years before she returned to yahrzeits of my mom and dad. bird took oU, skimming low Sue Morningstar has been a midwife for nine years. midwifery school at Yale Uni­ I bring down a pair of memo­ over the street. Could I make versity in New Haven Connect­ rial candles. It's hard to get it this little event mean some­ by Kathy Cohen daughter, but Morningstar feels icut. Morningstar feels that she just right, even merely to light thing for myself? Your guess Herald Assistant Editor her desire came from within, gained a different aspect of the wick in the jar once a year. would do better than mine. A midwifery from working in Or· I was driving over from trap safely sprung, a peril sur· Sue Morningstar, originally too. "My mother emphasized the egon. Middlebridge to check out the vived, a wild omen of panic from New York, has been a hours of the services at Temple and hope, a yahrzeit event. midwife for almost nine years. beauty of the natural process of a woman's body. She never New Bill Passed Beth David. Mr. Adler mails Al Beth David, till last sum­ She lives in Providence with me my notices. His son, Etan, her husband and two children, made anything out to be dirty. Up until July this year, when (continued from page 8) and works at St. Margaret's She always made things out to a bill was passed into law al­ Hospital in Dorchester, Mass. be beautiful," says Mom· lowing midwives to bill their She's been there for close to a ingstar. " I remember convinc­ patients directly, the midwives year. ing her to breastfeed my sister of Rhode Island needed to be For Morningstar, midwifery when she was born. I was six associated with a hospital or a A NEW MONTHLY FEATURE was "just always something I years old. So I think there was private doctor in order to bill wanted to do. I always had this something there. I can't really their patients directly. Through strong feeling about it when I explain it." these affiliations, the midwives PROPERTY ON DISPLAY was a kid. I knew that's what I After high school, Mom· sent out a third party billing. wanted to do." ingstar attended Columbia The bill that was passed al­ Her mother might have had UnivE:rsity in New York City, lows midwives to charge their SEE PAGE 13 some influence over her daugh· specializing in Obstetric nurs­ own fees which, because of the ter as she discussed the female ing. After graduation, the loss of the middle man, will be anatomy openly to her young young registered nurse - still a (continued from page 8) i _ ,1 ,· 1 '\ 'i,tll-:~,·-~~,,~~f-•IP•:;_,..i'',':j;!:, '.f-~ ,~'J:n 2 -THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERAL D. THURSDAY, JULY i9. 1990 Inside the Ocean State

BJE Honors Excellence In Classroom The Bureau of Jewish Education of Rhode Island recently cele­ brated excellence in the classroom at its Annual Meeting. Among Ihose honored for th eir contributions were: •I ~ AND

The mentors who worked with new teachers from left to right are: Lonna Picker, Leonore Sones, Minna Ellison, Penney Stein, Barbara Zenofsky and Fania Gross.

Winners of the Edward and Florence Goldberg Memorial Award for Creative Teaching which is funded by an Endow­ ment Grant of the Jewish Federation of Rhode Island were: I The recipient of the B'nai B'rith Plantations - Roger Williams Lodge Prize for an outstanding seventh grade student was Kayla Pliskin.

Edith Grant who accepted for the Rhode Island Chapter of the Association of Jewish Libraries, Cathy Berkowitz Crash Course In Hebrew Available A crash course in reading Hebrew will be given next KNOW SOMEONE month at the Young Israel affiliated Congregation Ohawe Shalam in Paw­ tucket. The class is being GETTING MARRIED? offered by the National Jew­ ish Outreach Program and there will be no charge. Rabbi Jay Jacobs stresses that the class is open to Tell us their name and address and we'll send them a everyone regardless of ob­ servance or denomination. one-year complimentary subscription to the "The class is going to be a very unpressured, friendly Rhode Island Jewish Herald. atmosphere," Jacobs said. " Whether the student is the person who stopped study­ ing after bar mitzvah or an I incoming Soviet Jew with no I Couple's Name ------­ Hebrew experience; they are ! all welcome. Address ------The cl ass will last five ses­ sions and will enable the ------Zir ----- student to participate more fully in worship services. Wedd ing Date ------­ The class will meet Wednes­ days at Ohawe Sholam located on the comer of East Your Name ------­ Avenue and Glenwood. For more in formation, call 1- Address ------800-44 - Hebre(w) or ca ll Rabbi Jacobs at 724-3552. ------Zir ----- Tliis offer good only for new subscribers. Poetry Reading Mail this coupon to: Poetry reading featuring the music and poetry of Leonard Rhode Island Jewish Herald Cohen and the art work of P.O. Box 6063 Rhode Island Jewish Robert Dohar, Ju ly 21 , Satur­ Providence, RI 02940 = HERALD day, at 7 p.m., Architect's Gal ­ leries, 259 Water St ., Warren, R.I ., 245-9690. THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1990 Feature Israel's Transcendental ______Meditation Movement by Ava Carmel a valley about thirty miles from promise in my life. I knew I (WZPS) " If one percent of Harari!; " a transit camp," as could forget about a well-paid the population of a country members jokingly call it. Many job in the city, but I decided to practiced transcendental medi· have since married and there go in the direction of spiritual ta tion, there would be 15 to are now twenty children in development.'' 20% fewer road accidents and Yahad. Flying Together incidents of crime, arson, rape While in Hararit the empha­ While Yahad was searching and divorce,.. claims Helen sis is on individuality, in for a permanent home, the Daron, a teacher of the tech­ Yahad, togetherness is defi­ Jewish Agency's settlement nique in Israel. nitely the key word. The sev­ department offered them a site Combining Meditation enty members meditate to­ adjacent to Hararit, assuming and Work gether twice daily, eat their that the only two TM settle· "Tikvah" - hope - is the title of the quilt depicted on this ments in Israel would want to ~oster dis~ributed by the Reform movement to encourage pub­ Israel's transcendental medi­ vegetarian meals in a commu­ tation movement reached its nal dining hall and work to­ be neighbors. Members of both he educahon and sensitization about AIDS. The project was communities, however, are sponsored by the joint Committee on AIDS of the Union of peak in the early 1970's. Says gether in an electronic and Israel Dvir, 38, "We used to computer factory, a CAD apprehensive about the pend­ American Hebrew Congregations and the Central Conference ing marriage. Although they o_f American Rabb~s, co-chaired by Dr. Boris O'Mansky of Bal­ hold weekend courses and feel (computer aided design) so wonderful together, that studio, a ceramic jewelry work­ will share municipal services, hmore and Rabbi Joseph Edelheit of Chicago. The quilt, each settlement will be econ­ designed by Dr. John Hirsch of New York City, is bordered by every time a course ended, it shop and a health clinic broke our hearts to seprate. employing the Maharishi Ayur­ omically independent. rectangular shapes representing Jerusalem stone, suggesting One reason that both settle­ that all Jews, includin~ AIDS victims, are part of the unbro­ The idea of forming a nucleus vedic medical techniques, ken chain of Jewish history. Inherent in the work, say the group slowly evolved and we which include vigorous mas· ments have agreed to this project's sp_om9rs, is the q uestion, "Who Will Say Kaddish for began looking for a place to sage and herbal remedies. unique symbiosis is that after morning and evening medita­ Me?" and the answer," All of us." Photographic Color prints of live together." One would think that with In I 980, Harari!, the first TM so much togetherness, they tion, many members practice the 16" x 20" quilt panel, suitable for framing, are available for what are known as the siddhi a minimum contribution of $18 to further the work of the communal settlement in Israel, would get on each other's was established. The site was nerves, but they claim other­ techniques. These are ad­ Reform movement's AIDS Committee. Checks, payable to the vanced practices, the most con­ UAHC-CCAR Committee on AIDS, should be sent to Rabbi Mount Netufa in Lower Gali­ wise. Dvir, head of the CAD lee, where the air is clear, the studio says, " Everyone here is troversial of which is " Oying," Sanford Seltzer, UAHC, 1330 Beacon Street, Suite 335,, Brook­ which actually consists of ef· line, MA 02146. environment unspoiled and very tolerant. There are no the panoramic view magnifi­ explosive arguments and peo­ fortlessly hopping about cross­ Jewish Inca Indians cent - a very conducive envi­ ple don't speak badly of their legged on a soft mattress. The ronment for meditation. neighbors. Coming to a kib­ aim of the technique is to Eighty -six Inca Indians from Spanish prayer books as well David Daron continues, butz of meditators was a com- (continued on page 6) Peru recently made aliya to as mezuzot, tefilin and other "We were naive then. We Israel. They are part of a com· religious objects. thought we could earn our li v­ munity of nearly fi ve hundred How did these people first ing as TM instructors, but every· HERE WE GO AGAIN! s1889 ~,.7;,~ people in the villages of Trujil· become interested in Judaism? _one in Hararit already knows lo and Cajamarca who convert· The .. patriarch" and fou nder of how to meditate." Daron now ISRAEL LEISURE TOUR I via + I ed to Judaism and live their the community, who recently grows organic herbs on the FEBRUARY 20'-" - MARCH 20'", 1991 El Al moved to Israel, was a simple Galilee hills surrounding lives according to the laws of ESCORTED BY JACK & RHODA MOSSBERG the Torah. Catholic carpenter. Twenty· Hararit whilst Helen, his wife, ~ Rabbi Dr. Mendel Zuber, a five years ago, on his way to teaches children English using Call for Brochure ~ retired biochemist and Luba­ church one day, Zerubavel a program of tapes and work­ vitcher chasid living in Mon­ Villanueva - as he now calls books she herself created. WINKLEMAN TRAVEL himself - was singing the sey, New York, visited these Other members work in com­ 720 Reservoir Ave nue, Crans1on, RI verse from Psalms: " Behold puter software, insurance, two Peruvian cities this past 943-7700 • Outs;de Ri c 1-800-234-5595 year. He went with the bless­ the Guardian of Israel neither clothing manufacturing and ings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe slumbers nor sleeps." By the sever;al are artists. and under the auspices of Ami time he got to church, he was obsessed by the thought of Individuality and Shav - an organization in Togetherness Israel that helps small , out-of­ becoming part of the people of Israel who are so careful ly In 1983 the single members ~ Viamonds !Jly --,, the-way Jewish communities. broke away to form their own The two small communities guarded by G-d. When he spoke to his priest about this settlement, a kibbutz named of Jewish converts live on a "Yahad," which means "to­ cSammarlino cSis/ers diet of fish, milk products and matter, the priest did not give him any satisfactory answers. gether." Since that time they fresh produce since they do not have been living in caravans in "JEWELS OF THE SEA " have the benefit of a shochet. {continued on page 16) SUMMER PEARL SALE Therefore, while Rabbi Zuber ,------.. was there he rituall y slaugh­ JULY 2 / -JULY 3/ tered for them a cow, two FREE! 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Bo,,.,,,, I,,.., $/X5'"~:.:,d ~ ' 22" Gf(ldumed fc'(JI "/ Nf1 ~lorf ul $4/6'"1 All MaJor Credit Card~ Welcome Wcekdar 10-9, Sa1urday 10·5 ~ 43 Reservoir Ave., Cranston (401) 942-122 T HE RHO DE ISLAND J EWISH HERALD, T HURSDAY, J ULY 19, 1990 Editorial The Legacy Of Zeev JabotinskY======by Morris Gastfreund loved the Jewish people, and hard labor for organizing that involved in them ahead of longer bear the great tragedy Sunday, the 29th day of like Theodore Herzel, he saw underground organization. time. that had befallen the Jews of Tammuz, which this year falls no alternative - especially for Jabotinsky also organized the Truer words never were Europe. He died on the 29th of on July 22, will mark 50 years the European Jewry - but to illegal Jewish anny, the Irgun spoken. Jabotinsky saw in his Tammuz 1940 in Hunters, since the death of one of the end the Diaspora and build a Tzwai Leumi, which fi nally prophet-like vision the forth­ N.Y. , before he reached the age greatest Zionist leaders: Zeev Jewish homeland in Pa lestine. drove the British out of coming destruction of Euro­ of 60. He could not see with his Jabotinsky. Th is occasion pres­ It was to this cause that he Palestine; he also started illegal pean Jewry. In the summer of own eyes the establishment of ents an excellent opportunity sacri ficed all his energy and immigration called Ally+Beth, 1937, I had the great privilege the Jewish state to which he to recount some of the traits talent. and thanks to it, thousands of of listening to a speech of his, had devoted his entire life. His­ and achievements of th is great During World War I, he Jews survived the Hitler in which he insisted on mass tory has proven that his vision man. A man whose memory organized the first Jewish Holocaust. evacuation of European Jews to and actions were the correct commands both reverent legion which fought on the Jabotinsky was enthusi­ Palestine. He urged the Jewish path for the redemption of the loyalty and fie rce hatred at the side of the allies to liberate astically follow'ed by hundreds people to escape from Europe Jewish people. same time, he is most certainly Palestine from the Turks. Jab­ of thousands of Jews, especial­ by all means possible before Now 50 years fo llowing his one of the giants of modern otinsky was the first to cross ly those in Europe, but at the the storm would break loose. death, Jews around the world Jewish history. the Jordan with his battalion, same time he was attacked To our sorrow, his words fell hold him in the same rank as Jabotinsky was a man of and was awarded a British bitterly by his political ad­ on deaf ears. The European Herzel - a visionary and vision and action, a pursuer of empire medal, but 12 yea rs versaries. To many, he was a Jewish tragedy came too architect of the Jewish state in truth, a fighter who never later he was permanently prophet; to his opponents, he soon. Israel. For the Jewish people, admitted defeat, a political barred from Palestine by the was an irresponsible adventur­ After the outbreak of World he is placed in the same rank as leader and a poet. He was a British because he disagreed ist. War II, Jabotinsky came to Lincoln is for America, soldier, a publicist, a diplomat; with their policies in Palestine. Jabotinsky was always America and worked with all Churchill for England and he was a brilliant orator and an How great a tragedy for a man ahead in his thinking. After his his energy toward the organi­ Ghandi for India. The name extraordinary linguist, who who fought for the land he death, Dr. Chaim Weizman, zation of a Jewish army to fight Zeev Jabotinsky will remain a delivered speeches in over a loved with all his heart, to be his lifelong political opponent, Nazi Germany. Even for this beam of light for future genera­ dozen different languages and barred from that land for the sa id in a speech delivered in holy undertaking, he was at­ tions to come, because his also translated many great clas­ rest of his life. London in Jabotinsky 's tacked as an irresponsible teaching led us on the way sics into Hebrew. The author of In 1920, he organized the memory, that the only differ­ adventurist by the official from bondage to liberty. many books which today are Hagana to defend the Jews of ence between himself and American Zionist leadership, Jerusalem against Arab attacks, Jabotinsky was that the latter considered masterpieces of including Rabbi Stephen Wise, Have an opinion? literature, Jabotinsky also was and he acted as its first com­ was more farsighted than lie Louis Lipsky and Dr. N. Gold­ Express it in a letter to the man who translated mander until the British was, that he saw things before man. TNEI-/ERAtO. Bialik's work into Russian. He sentenced him to 15 years of lie did, and therefore was Jabotinsky's heart could no Three Pillars,======Imagine, if you will , stand­ Let's see how "sturdy" our "Now, for that third pillar, ing on a three-legged stool. individual worlds are. Torah study. Well, actually, I'm Destroying And======You 're reaching into a high "Deeds of kindness - yes, quite busy. Also I can never Rebuilding need reminding of it, the con­ cabinet to get something out I've helped at least one little seem to find the right level This week, we read two por­ when all of a sudden one of the old lady cross the street this class on the right night in the cept of "destroying in order to tions from the Torah, Matot rebuild." Destruction may be legs breaks and . ooops . week and I gave some coins to right place. And then there's and Masei. In the opening well, the stool is only sturdy that man on the Bowery. I even parking to deal with, if I do go for the sake of replacing a verses of Matot, we encounter building with a better and when all three legs are at­ carried a neighbor's groceries to the class, even if it 's in the the laws of making and annul­ tached. in from the car. One sturdy pil ­ wrong location. Anyway, peo­ stronger one. The Baal Shem ling a vow. Whereas a person Tov taught that salvation is Shimon the Righteous, who la r coming up. ple might think I'm just there not ca nnot release himself from his something which simply fol+ lived during the times of "The service of God - to try and meet someone; I pledges, in certain cases, others wouldn't want anyone to think lows trouble: it is an implicit Mordechai (of Purim fame) Hmm, I say the "Shema" can do it for him. component of it. Just as the used to say: "The world stands before going to bed. Never I have ulterior motives for Masei begins with an portion of Masei combines two studying Torah. Besides, I on th ree things - on \the miss a night, in fact. It's short account of the 42 journeys by conflicting concepts; here, too, study of] Torah, the service [of and to the point. And it doesn't never really liked Hebrew which the Israelites left Egypt we find the fu sion of two op­ school so I don't even know G-d], and deeds of kindness." interrupt any part of my day. and came to the borders of the posites - destroying and re­ (Ethics of the Fathf'r<: I :.1) the Hebrew alphabet. I just Chosen Land. The opening don't see how Torah relates to building, afflict ion and salva­ verse, however, suggests that tion - which comes only me, a modern, high-tech, all 42 of the journeys were an when we leave the confine­ RHODE ISLAND JEWISH unin.~ibited, upwardly mobile exodus from Egypt; whereas in ments of human reasoning and Jew. fact only the first journey was, journey towards the all­ HERALD when the Jews literally left the encompassing expanses of land. To understand this seem­ faith. At this level, everything (USPS464·760) Publlshee ing contradiction, we must rec­ is drawn into our fa ith. JewlshPressPublishingComJWlny ognize that Egypt is not only a Seen from the eyes of a son, EDITOR: place but also a state of mind. punishment is an evil. In the JOHN CHADW ICK Mitzrayim, the Hebrew word eyes of his father, it is for his ASSISTANT EDITOR: fo r Egypt, also means 'confine­ son's own good. Our goal is to KATHY COHEN ment'; which is an obvious see history through the eyes of SALES MANAGER: contrast with the land of Israel, G-d. And by so doing we are DON HULL which is called the "good and able to turn G-d's hidden ACCOUNT REPS: spacious land." mercy into open kindness, and JEANETTE HIDALGO In fact , the entire time that change the darkness of exile GRAPHICS: the Israelites were not in their into the light of the Time to JOHANNA BULICH Land, they were in confine­ Come. MAILING ADDRESS• ment; each journey was, in From Torah Studies by 80• 6063f:~:;~i;:=:; RI 02940 Torah study is nothing to be rea li ty, leaving the "confine­ Jonathan Sacks, adapted from the afraid of. 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Behind the Headlines: Modern Orthodoxy Shifting to Right by Elena Neuman doxy, as represented by Agu­ nominational organizations as the American Jewish scene," NEW YORK UTA) - What­ dath Israel of America. the Synagogue Council of said Shoham. "Centrist, liber­ ever happened to Saturday Lamm admits, however, that America or CLAL, it would be al, halachically committed night dances at the neighbor­ the "majority of the pressure" possible for the modem and Orthodox rabbis are becoming hood Young Israel, where the he faces today at the university more traditional elements of a dying breed." girls wore pink taffeta and the " is coming from the right." the Orthodox movement to Lamm "is leading a battle boys their best blue blazers, The focus of the conflict is unite, said Rabbi Shmuel not only at Y.U., but at the where young Orthodox Jews epitomized by the university's Bloom, executive vice presi­ RCA as well," said Rabbi Avra­ drank punch and danced the slogan, "Torah U'Madda," dent of Agudath Israel. ham Weiss, religious leader of foxtrot to the tunes of Frank emblazoned on the school's "There's room to talk," said the Hebrew Institute of River­ Sinatra and Cole Porter? crest. It is a philosophy that Bloom, "but we won't compro­ dale, a modem Orthodox syna­ You won't find a teen-age espouses the synthesis of a reli­ mise on what we believe in." gogue in the Bronx. dance at a Young Israel syna­ gious and secular education, The problem, he conceded, is "There are tremendous pulls gogue these days. In fact, you the study of both Talmud and that "they won't either." coming from the roshei yeshiva, would be hard-pressed to find non-religious texts. Bloom appears to be right. as well as from certain individ­ mixed dancing, much less Elements within Agudath Interdenominational dialogue uals within the RCA," he said. course, because you're not with mixed seating, at an Orthodox Israel have questioned the ef­ does not seem to be an issue "You're going to see a battle God." wedding today. fectiveness and the prudence that the RCA leadership is will­ emerging within modem Peer pressure within the Things have changed in the of such an approach, insisting ing to back down on at this Orthodoxy." RCA appears to be very strong. modem Orthodox movement that the lures of secularism will time. Rabbis who 20 years ago either in America, with the emphasis entice students away from a " It's got to be they (Agudath " ... Centrist, ignored or tread lightly on such shifting from modem to Ortho­ traditional Jewish lifestyle. Israel) who make the break," liberal halachically issues as mixed dancing, wom­ dox. And while some rabbis They also question the Lamm said in an interview. en covering their heads, shatnes question whether the changes necessity of having a slogan at "We believe in the klal Yisrael committed Orthodox {the prohibited mixture of linen are going too far, others con­ all . "The modem Orthodox (one Jewish people) approach. Rabbis are becoming and wool) and the necessity of tend they are not going far seem to be staking out their It means stretching out our a hashkakchah (kashrut certifi­ enough. own territory," said Rabbi hand to the more intense as a dying breed ... " cation) on cheeses, fis h prod­ "There is a new force in the Nissan Walpin, editor of The well as the less." ucts and paper goods are now Orthodox Jewish community,'' Jewish Obseroer, an Agudath Lamm, however, does not The shift to the right, said much more outspokenly right­ said Rabbi Pinchas Stolper, Israel publication. have the backing of all modem Weiss, is part of a trend occur­ wing. executive vice president of the " It is appearing to look like Orthodox rabbis on this issue ring throughout America, in A number of sociological Union of Orthodox Hebrew another free-standing denom­ or, fo r that matter, many religion and politics alike. " It 's fa ctors have contributed to the Congregations of America, the ination, with its own ideol­ others. In fact, the modem a cycle, a tide emerging on its rightward swing, according to congregational arm of the ogy: Torah U'Madda. That Orthodox movement is facing own," which is pushing mem­ a 1989 study conducted by Orthodox movement. makes us nervous and leads us pressures not only from with­ bers of organized religion to Professors Steven Cohen and " It's a force that's pulling the to say things that may seem out but also from within. the right. "Rabbis are looking Sa muel Heilman. movement not so much to the like pressure," he said. Individuals within the RCA over their shoulders" with con­ "We have seen that tradi­ right as toward consistency," At the center of the debate said to be under the unofficial cern, he said. tionalist tendencies are grow­ he said. "Public deviations leadership of Rabbi Da vid Hol­ Rabbi Joseph Ehrenkranz of ing more pronounced in many from the very nature of the lander have be

In Minnesota, a number of Jews Battle Arabs pro-Palestinian resolutions proposed by various "left·wing At State Level fringe groups" were defeated, said Ted Mondale, a candidate by Howard Rosenberg men ts from ·1988 with pro­ for state Senate. WASHINGTON UTA) - In Israel ones. Nevertheless, Mondale, son of former Vice the heat of state political party Zogby said this year's party President Walter Mondale, said conventions across the conventions have been "a pro-Palestinian activists were country, Jewish and Arab wash, and I feel comfortable more organized than they were groups have been working to­ about it. in 1988, when he said a gether to negotiate mutually "We won some victories in "moderately pro-PLO" plat­ acceptable platform planks some states," he said, citing a form was adopted. dealing with Israel and Pales­ dear-cut win in Washington He credited a key Jewish tinian rights. state but claiming wins in supporter of the Rev. Jesse While they squabble for Iowa, Maine and Texas, too. Jackson in Minnesota, Paul Some 700 young people gather at the Lincoln Memorial in public opinion in the media "All we did was hold the line Wellstone, for not "actively Washington for Havdala services marking the end of Shabbat. and the halls of Congress, the at the point we thought it was organizing against our plat· pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian acceptable to hold the line," he form." Wellstone, who was Youth Leader Offers Prescription groups are forced to work to­ asserted. Minnesota's Jackson campaign gether by state party leaders Explaining AAl's satisfaction co-chairman in I 988, is the Terming members of Jewish world. They are not mystics; youth groups "wonderful they are into bread and butter. who want to achieve unity by in Texas, Zogby said the lan­ Democratic nominee challeng­ young people who represent a Personal achievement keeping bruising fights over guage in the platform preamble ing incumbent Sen. Rudy potential for what might be," highest on their list. largely symbolic measures off "was close enough to (Pales· Boschwitz (R-Minn.) in elec­ Rabbi Smith nevertheless cau­ "Despite this," he added, the convention floors. tinian) self-determination to tions this fall. tioned that "only 15 percent of " they do show themselves The Arab-American Institute make us happy." Self-deter­ Had Minnesota's Rainbow Jewish teens feel sufficiently at willing to be part of a meaning­ claims that this year it reduced mination is the codeword for Coalition fought the pro-Israel home in a synagogue environ­ ful group." its level of state activism from Palestinian statehood. language, the odds that it In negotiations in Texas, ment to participate in youth To support his argument, the that of 1988, when it succeeded would have been adopted activities under the aegis of a UAHC youth director cited an in getting a half-dozen or so pro-Palestinian groups realized would have been "much less synagogue. article in the June issue of pro-Palestinian measures that the pro-Israel platform likely," Mondale said. A Low Priority For Religion Moment magazine titled "Gall­ adopted by state conventions. was going to be adopted, so Mondale said he worked as they focused on stripping the "While most young people up Looks at American Jews," It decided that building grass­ an ad hoc organizer of the pro­ today are not afraid of or hos­ which explored the influence words "administered terri­ Israel groups at the convention, roots support for Palestinian tile to their Jewishness, they do of demographics on the be­ tories," and the phrase because " I don't want a plat­ positions is much more impor­ havioral patterns of contempo­ "legitimate rights" for Pales­ form that's pro-PLO. I don't They lived in Jewish neighbor­ tant in a presidential election rary American Jews. tinians from the platform. think it's right morally, issue­ hoods, went to school with year. "Jewish young people today_ " Administered territories" is wise or politically." large Jewish populations and James Zogby, the institute's no longer live in Jewish clus­ executive director, charged seen by Palestinians as a pro­ Washington was the only had only Jewish friends. Israel euphemism for what Things are very different ters as their parents did in the that, by contrast, the Jewish state where Democrats re­ past. Rabbi Smith said. "Most they call the "occupied ter­ affirmed a pro-Palestinian plat­ today. The Jewish population community "poured in, from Jewish adults over 30 grew up best we can tell, major ritories." The phrase "basic form from 1988. across America is thinning out. rights" is more palatable to Everywhere, Jews Jive in close thinking and behaving as if the amounts of money and staff to Pro-Israel activists in the whole world were Jewish. kind of undo all of the (pro­ Palestinian supporters than Evergreen State had drafted a proximity to their non-Jewish Palestinian) resolutions of " legitimate rights." That was platform that called for "direct neighbors. Emulating The Peer Culture '88." the codeword Israel accepted negotiations first between not see religion as a high As a result of these demo­ priority," Rabbi Smith said. He "The pro-Israel people were in the 1979 Camp David Ac· Israel and duly elected repre­ graphic changes, Rabbi Smith mobilized at a much earlier cords with Egypt, which al­ sentatives of the Palestinian added: noted, Jewish youth have "Today's adolescents - stage" this year, acknowledged lowed for limited Palestinian people from the West Bank and begun to emulate - though Jewish youngsters included - Martin Raffel, director of the autonomy with no mention of Gaza." They also proposed not yet to the same extent - are not very studious, but they Israel Task Force at the Na­ statehood. language that said " the legiti· the behavioral patterns of their are very sophisticated. They tional Jewish Community Rela­ Zogby applauded the inclu­ mate rights of the Palestinian non-Jewish counterparts from sion of language in the Maine are quick learners and they tions Advisory Council. people can be realized in the know the realities of this (continued on page 12) But he said he saw no dimi­ and Texas Democratic plat­ context of negotiating a just nution in pro-Palestinian activ­ forms that called for an end to and lasting peace with Israel." ism at the conventions. U.S. aid to countries that sup­ But that language was too Pro-Palestinian and pro­ ply military aid or nuclear tech­ mild for pro-Palestinian JEWISH DATING SERVICE nology to South Africa. Israel activists alike pay more activists, who succeeded in Personal Service at its Best But Leonard Zakim, a politi· gaining the adoption of attention to state Democratic Call Bernice 508·998· 1233 Party conventions, since state cal analyst who is also New language recognizing "the Republican Party platforms, England regional director of right of the Palestinian people "Find Your Guy in July" because of their closed rules, the Anti-Defamation League of to safety, self-determination are more difficult to change B'nai B'rith, claimed that since and an independent Pales­ from their traditional pro-Israel Saudi Arabia could just as eas­ tinian state." ily be doing that as Israel, " I tilt. How can today's Jewish MASSAGE THERAPY Zogby said, for example, don't think Zogby should be teenagers be motivated to take that no state Republican plat­ hailing that as a victory." part in synagogue-sponsored Home Visits forms this year have backed a California and Minnesota youth activities? proposal by Senate Minority adopted pro-Israel planks at The answer, according to Proctice Limited to Women their Democratic conventions, Leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.) to Rabbi Allan L. Smith, director cut foreign aid to Israel and where no negotiations oc­ of youth activities of the Union MARY DARBY other top recipients by 5 per­ curred among Arab and pro­ of American Hebrew Congrega· Israel groups, for different cent. tions, lies in "taking control of (401) 831-6264 Because of the open rules at reasons. the peer mechanism that is the In California, AAI liked Lil'cnsi•d Massagt> Tlwrapisl Democratic Party conventions, major factor in transmitting Ci•rtified Muscular Tlwrnpisl there is more potential for free­ AIPAC's proposed language cultural values to today's wheeling debates on Mideast better than that introduced in youth." issues, but also more risk of the platform committee by for­ And that, he says, "requires upsetting party unity. mer Gov. Edmund Uerry) consistently good program­ To avoid destroying that Brown, the party chairman. So, ming and a skilled and moti­ unity, pro-Israel groups do not an Arab American offered it in vated staff. Anything less is necessarily object to language the committee as an alteina­ destined to fail ," he told supporting basic Palestinian tive, where, with a few modi­ UAHCs board of trustees, rights, as long as there is no fications, it was successfully meeting in Seattle. mention of a Palestinian state. adopted. For their party, the Arab-Ameri­ HOME STYLE TAKEOUT can Institute does necessarily object to language supporting "security for Israel," Zogby said. In Iowa and Texas, the insti­ ! smP OR SHORE ! tute and groups supporting its EXTERIOR IMPROVEMENTS DISCOUNTED Prepared entries make your weekend position negotiated directly • Vinyl Replacement Windows • C ustom Draperies easier. with the pro-Israel community, • Storm Windows • Cornices • Valances Fill a eooler with ~hin• you need for the including the American Israel • Storm Doors wee•end and lust relas! Public Affairs Committee. A • Awnings • Designer ShaJcs pro-Israel source confirmed 7Z7·:l997 7z7EastAvenue that there were "a couple of SAVE ON FINE FURNISHINGS negotiations" directly between AND ACCESSORIES AAI and AIPAC. AFFORDABLE WINDOW TREATMENTS In those states, as well as in FOR HOME AND OFFICE Maine, pro-Israel activists Garden Ci1y Shoppinl! Center ®:~~~ow Hillside R,md • Cr,ms111n, Rhode 15bnd succeeded in supplanting pro­ Palestinian platform state· 11111\~ESIGNS 401 944-0033 8-THERHODE ISLANDJEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY. JULY 19, 1990 try that missionaries are infil­ Teenagers Join High School Science Midwifery Messianic trating Jewish resettlement Achievers (continued from page I) programs, English-as-a­ Second-Language classes and lower than if they were affili· Movement Big Brother programs. ated through a hospital, where (continued from page 1) "The Messianic Jewish Alli­ their fee would be shared with would soon be coming. ance of America is now starting the doctor and/or hospital. " In Russia, they never heard their own rabbinical school to Morningstar says, "We of Jews for Jesus," said Skobac. ordain rabbis in either Virginia wanted to be more indepen­ "They see people with or Pennsylvania." dent and not have to bill yarmulkes and they think The initial cost for a pam· through a physician. Every they're Jewish. So we ex­ phlet translated into Russian midwife has to have a physi· plained to them who they are by Jews for Jesus is $150,000, clan who backs her up in case and what they were going to according to Skobac, who esti­ of an emergency, but now mid· do. We gave them training ses­ mates that all of the messianic wives can bill independently." sions and we brought pictures groups together spend $100 Historically, the women in· and left them in each city. In million yearly to convert volved in this field were usu· Kiev, we were later told that Jews. ally immigrants who assisted they did come but the leaders In contrast, Jews for Judaism . births without having had any threw them out. In each city has 12 employees, not all of medical education. At that time we trained the leaders who them full time, and has an (prior to the twentieth century) would then train others." annual budget of $300,000. it was the norm for women to A great deal of money is Barry Shrage, president of go through a midwife instead being spent on printing bibles the Combined Jewish Phil­ of a doctor. Doctors didn't de­ in Russian or Yiddish and anthropies of Greater Boston, liver babies, they just handled Hebrew, said Skobac. expressed some skepticism that NEW YORK, N.Y. - Twenly-one outstanding U.S. high operations and internal "They are printing thou­ the missionizing groups had school science achievers departed last week for the Weizmann medicine. sands of them. Every single made significant inroads Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, to take part in an exclu­ As the medical schools be­ day I get more calls about what among Soviet Jews. sive summer program of science lectures and laboratory work. came more established and they are doing for Soviet Jews. Although Jews for Judaism They were selected from students nationwide for the experi­ doctors more educated in the There are whole (messianic] has not given a figure as to ence at one of the world's foremost research centers. birthing field, relying more on synagogues just for Soviet Jews how many Russian Jews have Now in its 22nd year, the Bessie Lawrence Summer Science scientific knowledge, midwives in Toronto, Los Angeles, New been converted, they state that Institute program brings together an international group of were looked upon by the medi­ York, Haifa. There are about 60,000 to 80,000 people world­ talented future scientists. "This year the competition reflected cal field as something unethi­ six in the whole world. wide belong to such cults. an enormous amount of enthusiasm and devotion by the en­ cal. Eventually, midwifery be­ "That's how bad it has be­ " We must provide Jewish trants," said Bernard N. Samers, Executive Vice President of came a service offered only to come, and we are getting education for all Jews. I don't the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of the poor and by 1930 only reports from all over the coun- think anything fights this bet­ Science. ''Enthusiasm for the Institute and the program, and about 15 percent of deliveries ter," said Shrage. devotion to their plans to become the scientists-of-future," he were performed by midwives. concluded. The information furnished Memorial Candle======The boy, who had some­ through the medical schools (continued from page I) was not available to these th ing of his mom's pisk, grew Support For The Pollards women, who relied more on mer, men sat apart from wom­ up. He went on to Brown. The beliefs and morality. Doctors en. Dads and their boys kept to day he stepped onto the plat­ Grows viewed childbirth as an illness the right. One lone lady, who form in the quadrangle and that required medical interven­ has lived here in Rhode Island touched the magic diploma, by Allison Kaplan pied guilty to similar crimes. tion. throughout the twentieth Johnny, watching from the NEW YORK OTA) - Jona­ He believes a key reason Pol­ It wasn't until the 1920's that century, sits all by herself on bleachers, fell down dead. He than Pollard's family and sup­ lard received unfair treatment feminists started fighting for the left. After the service she died, I thought, of happiness, porters are meeting with in­ was his Jewishness and the fact their rights. By 1976, midwifery greets me with an outcry of of ful fill ment. Like a summer's creasing success in bringing that he was spying for Israel. started coming back into popu­ welcome and a kiss. moth-butterf1 y done with its their case to the American Jew­ In the wake of Pollard's con­ larity. Today in Rhode Island Over 25 years ago Lil played duty, its drama. ish community, as a federal viction in 1985, most of the there are 18 midwives. bridge with my folks. She had Coming back to thoughts of court reviews his move for a organized Jewish community Now that this new bill has a daughter named Avis. In Beth David before my yahr­ withdrawal of the guilty plea avoided involvement in the passed into law, there may be Latin, that means faygola, bird, zeits. ~his little building, that resulted in his life sen­ case. But last month, after its an increase amongst midwives of course. She had a son, too, a shaped hke a house on Baltic in tence in prison. Commission on Law and not just in practicing, but prac· few years my junior. Her hus­ a lazy game of Monopoly, itself Winning recognition from Social Action heard a pres· ticing independently under band, Johnny, smoked a curved serves as a memorial candle. It mainstream Jewish groups has entation by Dershowitz, the their own billing. pipe and wore a hat with fish­ keeps on going throughout the been a long-sought goal for Amencan Jewish Congress Morningstar says she may go ing lures on it. His pleasures summer for us. It tells on these supporters of Pollard, a U.S. cautiously advocated a re­ back into private practice and were quiet, not like Lil's. Her long but ever dwindling twi­ naval intelligence analyst who examination of Pollard's sen­ she believes, now that the bill voice carried. She played a lights that we are Jews. Even was convicted of spying for tence. has passed, that eventually sharp game of cards. Johnny barefoot - my mom always Israel. " It has been brought to our there may be an independently took her to Florida in the cold made us wear socks. Tempie But despite these victories, notice," reads a resolution ap­ run midwifery center in R.I. seasons. One winter Lll held Beth David stands as an out­ there appear to be growing ten­ proved by the group's govern· Also, Morningstar believes out. " If I don't get a new fur, post at the very edge of our sions within the Pollard clan. ing council, "that substantial that there's a resurgence in too, I'm not going." Imagine Judaism among the dogdays, Pollard and his wife, Anne, allegations have been made midwifery today because that! My mom was impressed. among the lobsterpots. Does have been estranged for the that the fairness of the sen­ "women are becoming more We liked Lil for her spirit and HaShem, too, take off two four months since she was re­ tence imposed upon Jonathan aware and they want to partici­ spunk. weeks in August? leased on probation, after serv­ Pollard and the manner in pate more in the birthing pro­ ing two-and-a-half years in which the government has cess." Congregation Sons Chodesh Av - Morning serv­ prison, according to Dr. Morris dealt with his case were af­ The service of a midwife in· ices at 6:15 a.m. Pollard, Jonathan's father. fected by the fact that Pollard is eludes thorough all-around Of Jacob Synagogue Morning services for Tues­ Dr. Pollard said Anne had Jewish and the nation he is care for both the mother ;tnd Friday, July 20 - Twenty· day, Wednesday, and Friday not visited her husband in charged with aiding is Israel. her baby including prenatal seven in Tammuz - Candle­ are at 6:45 a.m. For Thursday prison nor written him since "Because such allegations care with an emphasis on nutri­ lighting is at 7:56 p.m. Min­ at 6:30a.m. her release, though she has raise questions of concern to tion and maintaining health. chah 7p.m. Minchah for the entire week had -permission to do both. the American Jewish Congress, The midwife will care for the Saturday, July 21 • Twenty­ is at 8: 10 p.m. " It's disturbing to Jonathan we support the call for full, woman when she goes into la­ eight days in Tammuz • The The Sabbath and disturbing to us," he open and fair hearings before bor until she has her baby and portion of the Torah reading Only one of all the Jewish said. appropriate tribunals on these offers support to her and her today is, of course, P'Matos/ holidays is observed every Anne is currently a patient at issues," the statement said. family and sometimes children Mas'ei. week throughout the year, it is Mount Sinai Hospital in New A resolution containing even if they are there too. Also, sup­ Shacharis (morning services) the Sabbath, the day of peace York. She was admitted after stronger language was passed port and care after the baby is begin at 8:30 a.m. Kiddush fol­ and rest. an attack of pancreatitis, which July 4 at a convention of B'nai born - postpartum care - un· lows at approximately 11 :15 In the Ten Commandments, is related to the digestive disor­ B'rith's District Four in Long til he or she is six months old is a.m .• at the conclusion of the which are the cornerstone of ders that plagued her in Beach, Calif. District Four cov­ included. morning service. Minchah 8: 10 the Jewish faith, the Sabbath prison. ers the western United States. A physician usually leaves p.m., Ma'ariv 8:55 p.m. The alone of all of the holidays is As a result of the attack, she The resolution declared une­ the woman under the care of Sabbath concludes today at mentioned. If you look at the postponed a trip to Israel. quivocally that Pollard's treat­ nurses and comes to check on 9:04 p.m. Havdalah service is Ten Commandments, the which had been set recently. ment "was unduly harsh and her sporadically and comes in 9c07p.m. Fourth Commandment says, in Dr. Pollard credited the excessive in that his sentence at the end to deliver the baby. Today is the blessing of the part: recent flurry of activity related was unprecedented and far "The more you are aware, new month of AV (Birchot "Remember the Sabbath to the Pollard affair in the Jew­ more severe than those histori­ the less frightening it is and the Hachodesh) which falls on Day to keep it holy. Six days ish organizational world to the cally meted out to most per­ more you can really enjoy it." Monday Uuly 23). The Molad shalt thou labor, and do all thy involvement of high-profile sons convicted of espionage." (appearance of the new moon) work. But the seventh day is attorney Alan Dershowitz in The convention resolved occurs on Sunday Uuly 22) the Sabbath of the L·rd thy his son's case. that it would present a resolu­ afternoon at 4:46 p.m. and 13 G-d: in ii thou shall not do any Dershowitz, who has taken tion at the B'nai B'rith Interna­ seconds (or 4 chalokim). work, thou, nor thy son nor thy on Jonathan Pollard's cause tional covention in Dallas at Dorothea Snyder will Sunday, July 22 - morning daughter, thy manservant, nor pro bona, contends that his life the end of August that, like the be back next week. services, 7:45 a.m. Yorn Kippur thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, sentence for spying was AJCongress measure, would Katon is recited at Minchah. nor thy stranger that is within grossly disproportionate to that call for a review of the case Monday, July 23 - R01h thy gates." received by spies who have -- - -- ~------~~------~

THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, J ULY 19, 1990 Arts and Entertainment

Kidrock Comes To Zeiterion Stage years she did gigs singing pop August 1 and Top-40 numbers. Ad ­ Rory is not your average crazy for you); The infectious ditionally, she wrote and sang children's performer. She " Bubblebath" (done a cap­ commercial jingles fo r local doesn't do nursery rhymes or pella) with lyrics like "Most of and national corporations - folk m~~ic. Instead,_ Rory sings all, don't get soap in your eye!' even political candidates. about greasy, gnmy, slimy to the feel-good-about-your­ While raising her sons, Rory worms and purple slime," and self, 'Tm Gonna Be Some­ began to listen to children's children listen. Her debut body." music and saw the need for a album sold more than 3 000 Onstage, Rory is often greater variety. copies in the first three mo~ths joined by "The Incredible Pig­ Tickets are $4 .50, general - making her the hottest ris­ lets," her life-size puppet side­ admission and are on sale at ing star in children's entertain­ kicks created by Sal Dinaro, the Zeiterion box office, 684 ment. originator of Miss Piggy. The Purchase St. in downtown, his­ Rory performs at New Bed­ piglets echo Motown s Su­ toric New Bedford, (508) 994 - ford's Zeiterion Theatre August premes as they cruise throush 2900. Group rates also avail­ I at 10:30 a.m. as part of Sum­ their list of favorite vegetables. able. Individual tickets are mer Youth Theatre Festival While the kids will love their available through TICKET­ 1990. "A vocalist with Pied antics, parents will be equally MASTER, at (61 7) 931-2000 Piper appeal" (according to entertained by the familiar and all TICKETM ASTER out­ The Baltimore Sun ), Rory brings Motown beat in this very '60s­ lets. Summer Youth Theatre her young audiences songs that sounding song. Festival '90 ends Aug. 8 with are an upbeat blend of pop, In 1989, Pa rent 's Choice " Th e Adventures of Peter rock, '50s do-wop, Motown, magazine awarded Rory its Rabbit." jazz - even a little bit of Parent's Choice Award gold The Zeiterion Thea tre, country. This is the third install ­ rating fo r her debut album, Southeastern New Engla nd's ment in this year's festi val, 'Tm Just a Kid ." Rory's music historic theatre for the per­ fo rming arts, is fully accessible, For the 12th consecutive year Ray Nelson is King Richard, the sponsored by Shaw's Super­ excites and inspires children, colorful, jolly king who clearly delights one and alJ at KING markets. encouraging them to believe in air-conditioned, and there is plenty of free parking. RICHARD'S FAIRE. Located in South Carver, Massachusetts, Rory's Kidrock (she coined themselves, while it respects · the Faire opens Labor Day Weekend, September 1, 2, 3, and th e term) fill s th e nowhere parents ' needs and concerns. The Zeiterion is funded in part by the Massachu setts Cul­ runs_ for eight consecutive weekends through October 21, in­ land of children's music be­ The daughter of a big band cludmg, Monday, Columbus Day, October 8. tween nursery rhymes and singer, Rory studied piano and tura l Council; The Arts Lottery rq_ck 'n' roll. From witty lyrics voice while growing up in Councils of Acushnet, Dart­ mouth, Fairhaven, Freetown, wit h a dri ving beat to more Washington, D.C. Du ri ng her The Diefi Shore Combo ' tuneful ballads, her music is undergraduate years at the Marion, Mattapoisett, New For your listening and dancing pleasure. happy and singable. She sings University of Maryland, she Bedford, Rochester and West­ • Weddin~s • Bar/Bat Mitzvahs • Anniversaries · Parties about the "delightful" chore of considered becoming a music port; the city of New Bedford; • Solo Piano (can bring keyboard) • Violin/Piano Duo the New England Foundation rousing sleepyheads in the teacher or music therapist. But For informalion call (508) 673-8477 morning in " You 're Driving the pull of the spotlight was for the Arts; and the Na tional Me Crazy!" (Even tho' I'm too strong, and for the next 10 Endowment for the Arts. Stephen Lehew To Star At PPAC JOIN Dorothy Ann Wiener PROVIDENCE - Stephen Bless You Mr. Rosewater" by 2 WEEKS ISRAEL/EILAT Lehew has been selected to Kurt Vonnegut and "Sweet NOVEMBER 7 - NOVEMBER 21 play the title role in the Will," the songs of William Twentieth Anniversary tour Shakespeare. KING DAVID HOTELS production of Andrew Lloyd Lehew played in the na­ Webber's "Jesus Christ Super­ tional companies of two star," which will visit the Stephen Sondheim hits as Providence Performing Arts Anthony Hope in "Sweeney Center for one week, July 24 Todd" and Henrik Egerman, through 29 . Lehew was highly opposite Jean Simmons in "A 'v\11:1'?E FIGHTIJ'-.G~ praised for his portrayal in the Little Night Music." \OJlUFE acclaimed Houston Grand The Superstar Twentieth Opera production earlier this Anniversary Tour, a full y American Heart ft year. Lehew is also highly re­ staged version of the show, Association V garded by theatre audiences for features 34 professional per­ his work in outstanding hit formers from the Actors Equity musicals - in New York and Association. Performances are on tour. at 8 p.m. nightly except for Lehew's Broadway debut Sunday, July 29, when there is was an auspicious one: he was a 3 p.m. matinee and a 7:30 selected by composer Richard p.m. evening performance. Paintings Wanted Rodgers to appear in the musi­ Tickets are priced from $18- cal revue, " Rodgers and Hart." $30, with discounts of 10% He subsequently won critical available to groups of 20 or 19th & Early 20th Century and public acclaim as Charlie more. Call (401) 421 -ARTS. Dalrymple in the Broadway Tickets may be bought at Rhode Island Fall River revival of " Brigadoon" and the Ticketron locations or through Off-Broadway musicals, "God Teletron at 1-800-382-8080. Artists School Artists Rhode Island Fall River School Mabel M, Woodward Robert S , Dunning H. Cyrus Farnum Frederick Batcheller Sidney R Burleigh Bryant Chapin Edward M, Bannister Edward C Leavitt E Usher DeVoU Frank Miller William T, Richards Mary Macomber Nancy Dyer w1d many others and many others

We are also intereste d in any Early American or European Paintings for purchase, Call collect or send photo and infommtion to: Roger King Fine Arts 21 Bowens Wharf Newport, Rhode l slw1d 0284-0 I (401) 847-4359. (401) 846-4096 :~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ r I 10 THE RHO DE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, T HU RSDAY, JULY I 9, 1990 Milestones======Miriam Hires Assistant Pat hologist Lisa J. Goldstein, M.D., has joined the staff of The Miriam Hospital's Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine as an assistant path­ ologist. Dr. Goldstein is a native of Providence and is well known by many members of The Miriam Hospital/ Brown Uni­ versity fam ily. Dr. Goldstein attended Brown University's Program in Medicine, receiving her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology in 1978 and her M.D. in 1982. She trained in the Rhode Island Hospital Pathology Residency Program from 1982 - 1986 serving as Chief Resident in 1985 - 1986. Dr. Goldstein was then selected for a one-year surgical pathology fellowship at Me­ morial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York with Myron Melamed, M. D. Dr. Goldstein was certified in Ana­ tomic and Clinical Pathology by the American Board of Pathology in 1986. Swartz-Cole Following completion of her fellowship, Dr. Goldstein The wedding of Carol Swartz and Robert Cole took place June joined the staff of Huntington 17 in Cafe-in-the-Barn, Seekonk. Rabbi Wayne Franklin of Tem­ Hospital in New York as an ple Emanu-EI, Providence, officiated. . assistant pathologist, resigning Krasner-Sussman The bride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leo L. Swartz of Provi­ last month to join the staff at dence, is a graduate of Classical High School and the University Lisa Shari Krasner and Andrew Jay Sussman were married on The Miriam Hospital/Brown July 1, 1990, at Temple Beth-El in Providence. of Rhode Island. She has a Master's Degree from Portland State University. University in Oregon and is the director of Kenai Peninsula Col­ Krasner, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Krasner of Dr. Goldstein will share Rehoboth, Mass., attended Bay View Academy and graduated lege, a division of the University of Alaska in Homer, Alaska. responsibilities for Anatomic The bridegroom, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Cole of Simmons College with honors. The bride's fat her is a professor of and Surgical Pathology and biology at Providence College; Mrs. Krasner is a vice president at Portland, served in the U.S. Air Force four years and is employed teaching of residents with Rog­ by Alaskan Airlines. Hospital Trust National Bank. ers Griffith, M.D., director of The groom is the son of Michael and Barbara Sussman of Dyann Ross was matron of honor and Jeffrey Swartz, brother Anatomic Pathology; Jacob of the bride, was best man. Staten Island, N.Y. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard Dyckman, M.D., pathologist; University and is currently a fourth year student at Harvard The couple visited Newport and Cape Cod on their wedding and Thomas King, M.D., Ph.D., tri p. They live in Homer. Medical School. assistant pathologist. She will The wedding ceremony was performed ~y ~abbi Leslie also have responsibility for the Gutterman and was followed by a dinner reception m the temple Hematology Service. meeting hall. . IJlslltgi rEtizabetli, !]eweters I In addition to Dr. Gold­ The maid-of-honor was Charmene Prescott and the bndes­ stein's appointment at The maids were Lopa Shah, Dana Greenstein and Kimbe~ly ,Li ndopp. Miriam Hospital, she is expect­ The nower girl was Katherine Alison Morley, the bnde s second Fine 14K and ed to be appointed as instructor cousin from Flagstaff, Arizona. in Pathology at Brown Univer­ The best man was Kevin Sussman, the brother of the groom. Sterling Jewelry sity. The ushers included Daniel and Brian Sussman, brothers of the A national search was con­ groom and Jon Krasner, brother of the bride. Free Estimates on ducted by The Miriam Hos­ The Chupah bearers were Mr. and Mrs. Harold Krasner, Dr. pital/ Brown University. to Alvin Krasner and Daniel Sussman. all Watch & Jewelry select a qualified pathologist. After a wedding trip to Florida, the c_ouple will res(~e ~n Repairs Boston. HOURS OCITIZEN. Beth Sholom Welcomes======Tues. - Sat. 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM w..,. .,,,,-.,1 ,.,,~ •. y,,.,.2001 New Rabbi• Jewish Studies and a Maste, of Science degree in Medieval 325 WATERMAN AVENUE • EAST PROVIDENCE (n011.t to Joseph's Restaurant) Congregation Beth Sholom- Jewish History. He spent two Sons of Zion is proud and years studying at Yeshivat .Har 435-4488 excited to announce that Rabbi Etzion in Israel. He received Chaim Marder with his wife his rabbinical ordination Susan have arrived to start his (smicha) from the Rabbi Issac tenure as the Rabbi of our Ekhanan Theological Semin- congregation. ary of Yeshiva University in Bamsider's Mile~ AO!!_arter Rabbi Marder was born and June, 1987. raised in Richmond, Va. He Rabbi Marder comes to us attended Yeshiva University after spending three very sue- INVITES YOU TO PLAY where he rec?ived a B.A. in Rabbi Chaim Marder cessful years as the Associate ,-:...:....c______7 ' Rabbi at the Hebrew Institute Ar Your Borl of Riverdale in Riverdale, New Your Check Is On Us Bot Mirzvah Pany York. He has received high f f make your praise from those involved in Each child receives a his work these past three Every Monday & Tuesday evening, b eginning. June 4, tape of their perfom1ance years. 1990, a t three specified times (our secre t), we will d~aw a own The Marders are both very tab le number from our dining room. The luc ky winners Personalized, interested and committed to will receive their c urrent c heck total on us. It could be making Jewish life accessible just cocktails or it could be your entire dinner - drinks to affordable,Jun and desirable to the entire Jew­ d esserts. It's all in the luc k of the draw. entertainment. ish community. They have Are you feeling lucky? We hope you will join us. been very active with the less A greal way to involved Jews in New York l'>arnsider's Mile © A Qi_arler keep your guests and with the youth in their 375 South Main Street occupied and community. Beth Sholom in­ Providenc e , Rhode Island entertained. vites any member of the com­ 35 1-7300 munity to come to services any Bob Lerner (401) 467-4686 time to met the Marders. HOURS· Mondoy-Thursdoy 5-10 pm 1lALL MAJOR CRED IT Frldoy & Soturdoy 5-1 1 pm • Sundoy 4.30-9 pm C A.RDS ACCEPTED Call 110w for a demo11strario11 rape. THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1990- 11 JCCRI Senior Programs for July African Dream Samuel Shaulson Graduates Valedictorian The Kosher Mealsite at the Comes To Barrington From Boston University's School Jewish Community Center of Rhode Island, 401 Elmgrove Nancy Messinger, who calls Of Management Ave. in Providence, offers sen­ herself the "African Queen," Samuel Scott Shaulson of iors activities at 11 a.m. daily will bring her slide program Cranston was honored as the Sunday through Friday fol ­ titled the "African Dream," to the Barrington Public Library highest ranked student at lowed by a hot kosher meal at Boston University's School of noon. The meal is sponsored on Tuesday, July 24 at 7:30 in the evening. Management commencement by Project Hope. on Sunday, May 20. He gradu­ For the month of July, the Ms. Messinger's slide trave­ logue features live narration ated summa cum laude and following special activities are first in his class of more than planned: and classical music. "The Afri­ can Dream" takes the viewer five hundred students. For his achievement Sam was pres­ Monday, July 23 through Yiddish Eldercamp at the on a trip to Namibia, Botswana and the Cape of Good Hope. ented with a Boston University Friday, July 27. Center July 23·27 Highlights of the journey insignia captain's chair. He • Yiddish Eldercamp The Jewish Community include a sail in Table Bay and majored in Management and • Co-sponsored by the Center of Rhode Island and the a safari in the bush. Animals had a concentration in Manage­ Bureau of Jewish Education. Bureau of Jewish Education sighted include elephants, ment Information Systems. • Call 33 1-0956 for more will hold their fifth annual Yid­ crocodiles in the Okavango While at Boston University, information. dish Eldercamp on July 23 -27, Delta and a pride of 30 lions in Sam received numerous Tuesday, July 31. 1990 at the Center, 401 Elm­ the Savuti. honors for academic excel­ • Speaker - Mr. Harvey grove Ave. in Providence. This "The African Dream" is the lence, including the May Com­ Cohen. nationally recognized program third program in a series of pany Scholarship, the College • "Consumer Aspect of began with 40 participants; this seven slide travelogues to be of Business Administration Living" - a management pro­ year registration is open to 70 Herald, and was a member of shown at the Library this sum­ Class of 1924 Memorial gram for seniors. students. the Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity. mer. All are free and open to Scholarship, and the Dean The fo llowing activities are An exciting array of courses Sam currently works as a tax the public. Everett Lord Memorial Scholar­ regularly scheduled: will be taught by qualified and ship. specialist for The Thomson • Shabbat traditions on innovative teachers. Four lev­ He was also a resident advi­ Corporation in Boston. This fall Fridays. els of Yiddish language and lit ­ A~er School Day sor for two years and served on Sam will be attending law • Friend to Friend, Israeli erature will be offered fo r the Care Holds Boston University's Racial school at the University of VCR programs, film series, first time this year. The classes Awareness Committee and the Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. health checks. will be held daily from IO a.m. Registrations Dean's Advisory Board on Dis­ Sa m is the son of Gerald and Green Thumb Club (for sen­ Sheila Shaulson of Sheffield 1 School's Out, the after cipline. He worked as a com­ iors interested in working with ~~~ b;':,1~~ b~:~t:ir~r\:~:~:!~ School Day Care Program at puter consultant fo r University Road in Cranston and the plants), Arts & Crafts and exer· coffee and dessert will be pro­ the YMCA Parent Child Information Systems for three grandson of William and Etta cise are offered on various vided each day. A closing pro­ Center, is now holding reg- years, was a periodic contribu­ Gerstenblatt also of Cranston. days; cal l for information on gram will take place on Friday istrations fo r the Fall Program tor to the Rhode Island Jewish dates and times. after morning classes. The fee For further information on for the five-day program is $40. bet~:i;~sS~E!·:~~:~~~es chil- If you arc celebrating a special an ni versary. programming fo r seniors or for Details on classes will fol ­ dren 6-12 years old from announce ii in the Herald. transportation, call Sandy Bass low; for further information, or school dismissal to 5:45 p.m., Include a photo wiih 1hc announcement. at 861 -8800. to be put on the Yiddish Elder­ Monday through Friday. The Black and white only. please. camp mailing list, call Ruth Page at the BJE, (401) 331 -0956. ety of activities including · Summer Day Camps games, sports, outdoor play, swimming lessons, crafts, trips, Th e Jewish Community children are involved in a vari- open swim and more. Lll!!!!!!!!!!!!!l!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!- Center of Rhode Island, 401 Plantations Unit The program is licensed by Elmgrove Ave. in Providence, 1 B'nai B'rith #5339 DCF and meets the National is still accepting applications YMCA guidelines for childcare fo r its six summer day camps. Plantations Unit #5339 is programs. Call our 24-hou, Confidential Hotline. Camp season is from June 25 planning a trip to Tanglewood There are two programs, one through August 17, 1990. for an all Mozart Concert, centered at Martin Luther King ,,.,,::::. .,,. 272-4044 .:-:::. 1·800-365-4044 Grandparents who have grand­ Andre Previn conducting on School on Camp and Carring­ children visiting for the sum­ Sunday, August 12. The price ton Streets and one at the Par­ mer and would like to enroll is $28 per person and it ent Child Center at 438 Hope them in one of the camps are The ·t includes ticket to music shed St. Transportation }s provided Samar1 ans welcome to call. and transportation. A dinner to the programs from the fol­ Camp K'ton is for preschool­ stop will be provided on the lowing schools - Flynn, ers ages 2½ to three. Camp return trip. Pack a picnic lunch. Sackett St., Holy Name, At your service... Yeladim is for children ages Please R.S.V. P. by Jul y 30 to Nathan Bishop and Martin three to five years. Children in Carole Millman at 831 -6200 or Luther King. Other schools MAID AR©UND THE Cl@CK Inc. grades K-4 can enjoy Camp Rhoda Fischman at 831-1573. may be considered if 5 or more , Haverim or Sports Camp. For Another great trip back by children enroll. INSURED • BONDED • PROFESSIONALS preteens entering grades 5-7, popular demand: the Planta­ Financial Aid is available on Camp Bogrim is beginning its tions Unit #5339 is planning a • Residential Cleaning • Party Preparation a sliding scale basis. Weekly • Serving And Cleanup• Specialty Services second year. CIT Camp is for trip to New York's Lower East fee for members is $37, for high schoolers entering grades Side on Sunday, September 9. nonmembers is $49. Daily • Weekly • Whenever You Like 8-10. The price for the trip is $25 per Call the Experts for an estimate For information and applica­ person. Coffee and danish will 24 Hours a Day• 7 Days a Week tions on the camp season please be served on the bus. Lunch 885-0003 • New Number 732-5555 call the Center at 861-8800 and and dinner not included, but a brochure will be mailed out time is alloted for both For Correspondents Wanted to you. information and reservations If you would li ke 10 call: Carole Millman at 831· 6220 or Betty Kotlen at 274- correspond for the Herald by JCCRI Golf Tournament 1990 7113. Please respond before writing about whal is THE THRILL OF DRIVING Golf Tournament 1990, August 20 . A guided tour of happening in your sponsored by the Jewish Com­ the Lower East Side will be communit y, conlact munity Center of Rhode Island, provided for an additional $5 the editor at 724-0200. ASAAB. THE JOY OF USING 401 Elmgrove Ave. in Provi­ per person if 20 or more people dence, will be held this year on are interested. Monday, July 23 at Crestwood SOMEONE ELSE'S MONFl Country Club in Rehoboth, Mass. There will be a buffet lunch at noon followed by the tee off promptly at 1 p.m. There will also be prizes, awards and gifts; two Hole in One prizes will be ~~~~:,.Gounut•I Busll'l.f a,, Affimluhlt• P~,~~o~nn•.1/or all. awarded: an automobile and a cash prize. Following the tour­ nament there will be an action, • BABY BASKETS • WEDDINGS open bar and hors d'oeuvres. • ANNIVERSARIES • BIRTHDAYS Entry fees are: $125, individ­ • GET WELL • THANK YOU ual; $700, corporate sponsor­ • ANY OCCASION ship (includes foursome); $250, WIGWAM CALL: Sheryl Carlin or Rhonda Labush 915 CHARLES ST. corporate non-participant; and 722-570C> $25, auction only. For details 351-9620 ... MON.-FRI. 711.,5 ca ll Elliott Goldstein at 861 - 739-7807 ,,,NIGHTS & WEEKENDS 8600. DELIVERY AVMLARLE OR HAVE IT SHIPPED 12 - THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY.JULY 19, 1990 Modern Orthodoxy group. Approximately half the members of the FTOR are Bernstein-Shaw Trinity Theater (continued from page 5) members of the RCA. The marriage of Ellen Sue Bernstein, daughter of Or. and Mrs. Trinity Repertory Company, Orthodox) movement and the Both the Orthodox Union Donald Bernstein of Providence, R.I. and Sanford Harold Shaw of London Arts Discovery Tours increasing political and moral and the RCA acknowledge Cranston, R.I. was held Sunday, July 1, 1990, in Temple Am and Pearson Travel are an­ influence of Orthodoxy in their hostility to the FTOR. David, Warwick. He is the son of Mrs. Dorothy Shaw and the late nouncing their sixth annual Israel. Stolper of the O.U. described it Louis Shaw of Cranston, R. I. theater tour guaranteed to Geography may also explain as "a tiny fringe group of peri­ Jane Hartmann was the matron of honor while Mrs. Roberta please both the theater lover the strength of more tradition­ pheral congregations" that Gosselin and Miss Diane Lynne Shaw, daughter of the groom, and traveler. alist elements in Orthodoxy. finds itself out of place as the were bridesmaids. The best man was Arthur M. Desmarais. Ush­ It will take place November Rabbis with pulpits outside Orthodox movement becomes ers were Howard L. Pedlikin and Rene Gosselin. 1 to November 11, 1990. You New York complain that the " more consistently Orthodox.'' The bride received her Bachelor of Science Degree from North­ will enjoy the most exciting right-wing pressure is coming There was a time in America, eastern University and her Master of Arts Degree from Teachers: theatrical productions in En­ predominantly from New Stolper said, when modem College of Columbia. She works for the Warwick Public Schools. gland and Scotland. Possible York, where, they say, it's far Orthodox Jews were Sabbath The bridegroom graduated from Hope High School and the Man­ plays you may see are "Jean easier to be strictly observant. observant but less conscien­ hatlan School of Printing. He is the owner of Pro-Type Inc. The Paul Sartre," " Man of the " It's easier to be Orthodox in tious about covering their couple plans to live in Cranston, R.I. Moment," 1'Hidden Laughter," New York by osmosis," said heads, avoiding shatnes or re­ "The Homecoming," " Racing Ehrenkranz. "Rabbis in Brook­ fusing to carry items on Shab­ Temple Emanu-EI Demon," "Moscow Gold," lyn and Queens have ready­ bat. Modem Orthodoxy was an Tapestries and "Three Sisters." Other made congregations that are emerging community in which On Display At The Leisure Club highlights include: Richmond­ already consistently observant. a certain amount of laxity was Library on-Thames, Hever Castle, Citi­ But once you're out of the con­ accepted as the norm. On Sunday, July 22, 1990, zens' Theater, visit to Edin­ fines of New York, your Ortho­ Indeed, for the modem Or­ Local artist Seija Floderus the Temple Emanu-EI Leisure burgh, Burrell Collection, dox constituency is minimally thodox, wherever Jewish law has a display of tapestries and Club will take a trip to Great Charles Rennie Mackintosh observant. appeared to be neutral, indi­ oil paintings currently on ex­ Woods to hear an " Americana" Exhibit, the Glasgow 1990 Fes­ "These Orthodox Jews need vidual choice seemed to fill the hibit at the Barrington Public Family Concert. Join us to hear tival, and much more. Orthodox leadership, too," he vacuum. Library. One of the oils and this beautiful concert with the For more information please said. But this is no longer the case. two of the tapestries take their Pittsbur'gh Symphony Orch­ contac.t Jamie Costello at the In the summer of 1988, a "Orthodox Jews are becoming inspiration from the Provi­ estra. Leonard Slakin will con­ Trinity Rep Development Of­ group calling itself the Fellow­ more committed, and so are dence skyline. duct and Jeffrey Siegel will be fice at 521-11 00 extension 235. ship of Traditional Orthodox we," said Stolper. About three Ms. Floderus graduated this the piano soloist. Gene Shalit Space is limited, so make your Rabbis was formed in reaction years ago, the O.U. decided to spring from the Rhode Island will narrate " A Baseball reservations soon. to right-wing pressure within take an activist stance on the School of Design. A three-year Cantata." the RCA. mechitzah issue and similar resident of Barrington, Seija The bus will be at Temple " There was a feeling of iso­ issues. grew up in Finland and has Torat Yisrael at 1:30 p.m. and lation that a fa ir number of rab­ " A congregation that refuses also spent time in Sweden, the at Temple Emanu-EI at 1:45 Youth Leader bis had within the RCA," ex­ to cooperate on the mechitzah country of her husband's birth. p.m. Return will be at approxi­ (continued from page 7) plained Rabbi Juda Mintz, an issue is generally a congrega­ Seija has four children. mately 6 or 6:30 p.m. FTOR member whose syna­ tion that does not have a future Her exhibit will remain up Please call Anita Stein for the same socio-economic levels gogue, B'nai Torah in Atlanta, as an Orthodox congregation," through the month of July. reservations at 351-9717. The in such areas as sexual activity does not have a mechitzah sep­ Stolper said. "Mechitzah has cost is $30.50. and drug and alochol use. The arating men from women. become a weather vane of reasons are understandable, he "They did not subscribe to the whether the congregation takes said. Many Jewish young peo­ Conservative ideology nor its Orthodoxy seriously or not." ple have only limited or no were they accepted by the Modem Orthodox rabbis are Copies of the Herald are available from: Jewish experience while their Orthodox movement," he said. deeply concerned about the fis­ Barney's on East Avenue, Pawtucket integration into the general The FTOR advocates mutual sures developing within the Somethin's Cookin' on East Avenue, Pawtucket culture has increased signifi­ dialogue among the major RCA and the O.U. Ea.st Side Pharmacy on Hope Street, Providence cantly. movements of Judaism; sup· "There must be more under­ Hall's Drug on Elmgrove Avenue, Providence "Young people will behave ports women's prayer groups, standing," Rabbi David Stav­ based on what is in their gut. If such as Women of the Wall; sky of Temple Beth Jacob in Gary's Park Avenue Deli on Park Avenue, Cranston they found litlle or no satisfac­ fa vors the approach of the con­ Columbus, Ohio, remarked at Phred's Drug on Oak\awn Avenue, Cranston tion in their religious school troversial Denver plan to have the RCA convention last Garden City Drug on Reservoi_r Avenue, Cranston years, nothing they are told Orthodox, Conservative, Re­ month. "There are too many about the temple youth group form and Reconstructionist personal power plays and will help. rabbis rule jointly on conver­ agendas, and not enough em­ "Yet these youngsters are sion; and advocates a liberal phasis on ahavas Israel," or ready, open, willing and search­ Orthodoxy that will tolerate love of fellow Jews, he said. ing," Rabbi Smith told the synagogues without mechit­ Rabbi after rabbi at the con­ THE FRUITWORKS UAHC trustee. ''Jewish adoles­ zahs. vention called for greater unity cents are very much in the fore­ The organization's formation within the RCA and in the front of whift is good and right was precipitated in the summer Orthodox rabbinic community in America. They are con­ of 1985 " by a movement in general. cerned about the quality of life on the part of the Orthodox " A certain religious civility and its values. They look for Union" to eject those member must exist," said Rabbi Jeffrey support to groups that under­ congregations that did not Bienenfeld of Young Israel of stand who they are, how they have mechitzahs, said Rabbi St. Louis. live today and how they will Shoham of Kansas City, who is "There can be legitimate 666Fancll Baskets & Produce live in the future. They want to executive director of the FTOR. · diversity, but only if it operates 751-6257 be fully integrated in American They were told to erect a within a broad halachic frame­ society and they are willing to mechitzah or else risk dismissal work," he said. " If it breaches 79 Burlington St. (Off Hope St.) Providence, A.I. participate in it as an expres­ from the Orthodox Union. that framework, than the label Fruit Baskets Sent Nationwide sion of their Jewishness. Rabbis of these congregations of Orthodoxy will no longer be "The Reform movement, felt threatened and worried viable. But it must also learn to Mon.-Fri. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. • Sat. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. with its commitment to social that they would not be able to navigate within it, without hit­ justice and the equality of secure placement in other ting other allies' ships." women in every aspect of reli­ Orthodox pulpits. On the other hand, Rabbi gious life, is best equipped to Recently, a letter was sent to David Sladowsky of the Forest respond to these yearnings, all RCA members inquiring Park Jewish Center in Glen­ and thus help determine the whether they are in any way dale, N.Y., feels that the tight­ future of Judaism in America," affiliated with the FTOR. The ening up of Orthodox stan­ fflNITED Rabbi Smith concluded. implication was that such affili­ dards is a positive thing. "The S\IR(,ICAL CL \:TJ:RS ation would be grounds for ex­ parameters have moved, but pulsion from the rabbinic the principles of modem Or­ thodoxy have not been vio­ lated," he said. Quality Health Care At Home By defining the standards of WE EXPERTLY the modem Orthodox move­ Oxygen • Patient Supplies ment, he said, rabbis will now know where the middle is and Hospital Beds • Wheelchairs • Walk Aids CANE CHAIRS how far they can deviate from Bath Safety Equipment • Ostomy Supplies that point without overstep­ 24 Hour Emergency Service ping the boundaries of hala­ FiberRush Seats ' chah itself. The challenge for modem • Orthodoxy appears to be find­ : ::~::;u:•::;arr ~-1 , ing a happy medium between I two equally authentic halachic , _ • Re-S,luer Mirrors r traditions: the machmirim, those who are strict, and the 380 Warwick Ave. r,, maikilim, those who are more Warwick, RI ., •• permissive. 781 -2 166 I I 463-8262 THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY. JULY 19, 1990- 13 Support Grows AJCongress focused on the con­ Oershowitz concluded that abhorrent," Baum said. " What national organizations. (continued from page 8) trast between Pollard's sen­ "if comparable information they did is indefensible and ''I'd like to get Hadassah to tence and the "unbroken his­ had been provided by a totally wrong.'' come around. But they say before "appropriate tribunals." tory of lenient sentences for French-American to France or But such sentiments have they are not political," Pollard Robert Lifton, national presi­ defendants who have pleaded a Swedish-American to recently appeared to be over­ said. dent of AJCongress, said the guilty to spying for American Sweden, it is unlikely that the shadowed in the Jewish com­ ~upport from Jewish groups resolutions represent a general allies," the attorney wrote in a sentence would have been as munity by doubts over why he is important, Dershowitz wrote belief in the Jewish community summary of his key points. severe." was sentenced so severely in m the summary of his presenta­ that questions over the severity He pointed out that in a sen­ Phil Baum, AJCongress asso­ comparison to other spies. tion. " Indeed, efforts by grass­ of Pollard's sentence will not tencing memorandum, the ciate executive director and It has not been a purely roots Jews to engage in a d ia­ go away. government suggested that a chairman of a committee on spontaneous shift, but one fed logue with government of­ "There is a lingering doubt lenient sentence would encour­ the Pollards organized by the by pressure from a vocal and ficials about the Pollard case in the Jewish community that age others to engage in similar National Jewish Community tireless cadre of supporters, led have been hindered, because is not healthy," Lifton said. activities. And in public state­ Relations Advisory Council, by Pollard's family. such officials have noted the "We're not saying (Dersho­ ments, the prosecution had sug­ stressed that the passage of the Pollard's father said he has apparent lack of concern by the witz) has proved his case. But gested " that American Jews AJCongress resolution in no traveled throughout the major Jewish organizations," he presented enough material need greater deterrence against way implied his group's ap­ country, speaking to a number he said. to say it's worth looking spying for Israel than do other proval of the Pollard couple's of Jewish community federa­ into." Americans in relation to other espionage activities. tions and community relations I I-JERALD ADS GET RES ULT S! Dershowitz's presentation to countries," he said. " I think the Pollards are councils, as well as l_obbying

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l 11 - hmnc 1 1m,1d1011m11 /11 u111111111111w111 we re held Sunday, Jul y 8, at Lincoln Park Cemetery, Wa r­ LETTERING • CLEANING • REPAIRS wick, and were coordinated by Leon J . l<11hi11 726-6466 Mount Sinai Memorial Chapel, Affi liated with Cha rles c;. Morse c;ranite Compa ny 825 Hope St. , Providence.

JENNY FACTOR PROV IDENCE - Jenny Fac­ tor, 82 , a resident of the Jew ish Home fo r the Aged, 99 Hillside MT. SINAI MONUMENTS Ave. , died Monday, Jul y 9, Our owner, Mitchell. .. his father and grandfather.. . have 1990, at Mi riam Hospital. She was the wife of Benjamin been privileged to provide over 8 ,000 monuments in RI Factor. Jewish Cemeteries since the 1870s for 2 reasons ... the Born in Russia, a daughter of Zak Zarakov 1_903-1988 quality is the fine st and the price is the lowest. the late Isaac and Pearl (Gold ­ Call 331-333 7 for assistarice. stein) Singer, she had li ved in To lose a friend and mentor is always difficult. Providence for 63 years. But, to lose a critical influence in one's life, a person who has Mrs. Factor was a member of meant so much to me over an entire lifetime, is a loss that is the Providence Fraternal As­ particularl y di ffi cult to endure. socia tion. Endure we must, however, and contin ue in his spirit, with Besides her husband she his judgement and leadership as guidance and wit h his in ­ leaves a son, Attorney Alfred domitable optimism as inspiration. May all your loved ones Factor of Cranston; a daughter, All of us who were fortu nate enough to have known Zak Eleanor Zettel of Cranston; cannot ever forget him. His is a legacy to be cherished. live to a hundred and four grandchildren and two Richard Englander Kann grea t-gra ndch ii dren. twenty years. The fun eral service was held Wednesday, July 11 , at Sugar­ Federal Employees, the Super­ Jersey, and a gra nddaughter. Would th t1 t this could be. man-Smith Memorial Chapel, visors Orga nization of the The funeral service was held Would that we never had to face the s.:1d prospect of 458 Hope St. Burial was in Lin ­ Providence Post Office, the Monday, Jul y 9, at Mount Sinai arranging for the fun eral of a Loved One. coln Park Cemetery, Wa rwick. Providence Public Library Memorial Chapel, 825 Hope Because we ca n never truly be prepared for th is. Associa tion and the Touro Fra­ St. Burial was in Lincoln Park ternal Association. Cemetery, Warwick. It is a time of overwhel ming grief... when we are most SYLVAN R. FORMAN vulnerable .. . when thoughts of "arr;rngements" and Besides his wife he leaves a PROVIDENCE - Sylvan R. son, Jeffrey Forman of Cuper­ "costs" seem almost demeaning to the memory of the Forman of Tyndall Avenue, a CELIA PAULL Loved One. tino, Calif., two brothers, supervisor in the U.S. Postal Milton Forman of Warwick and PROVIDENCE Celia II is a time when the strongest of us needs a haven of Transportation Office for 30 Jerome Forman of San Diego, Paull, 86, of the Jewish Home trust. years before retiring 15 years Cali f. ; and two grand­ for the Aged, 99 Hillside Ave., W/11•ri' rn11 m· finrl //tis '1m•m? ago, died Wednesday, July 11, daughters. secretary-treasurer for the 1990, at the Heritage Hills The fun eral was Friday, July South Providence Hebrew Free First, in the counsel and guidance of a Rabbi. Nursing Home, Smithfield. He Then, in the integrily of your Funeral Director. 13, at Mount Sinai Memorial Loan Association for many was the husband of Helen Chapel, 825 Hope St., and a years, died Friday, Jul y 6, 1990, MICHAEL D. SMITH, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (Ginsburg) Forman. graveside service was held at at the home. She was the Born in Providence, he was a Lincoln Pa rk Cemetery, Wa r­ widow of Abraham J. Paull. son of the late Joseph L. and wick. Born in Russia , a daughter of Jennie (Cohn) Forman. the late Abraham and Fannie Mr. Forman was a graduate Botvin, she Uved in Providence 331-8094 of Bryant College. He was a FA YER. LONDON for8 1 yea rs. member of Temple Emanu-El's PROVIDENCE - Fa ye R. Mrs. Paull was a member of Oul ofst.11ecall t -800-447- 1267 Men's Club and its Minyanaire London, 72, of 196 Sharon St., the Congregation Sons of Abra­ LEW IS J. BOSLER, R.E. Club. He was a member of the died Saturday, Jul y 7, 1990, at ham, and president of its Sister­ National Association of Retired the Health Ha vens Nu rsing hood. She was a member of the Home, East Providence. She Women's Association of the was the widow of Harry J. Jewish Home for the Aged. U.S. Federal law now requires all funeral homes London. She lea ves two daughters, to provide itemized pricing. Mount Sinai Memorial Chapel Born in Philadelphia, Pa ., a Eileen Kotler of Warwick and has provided this courtesy for over fifteen years. daughter of the late Meyer and Ruth Wood of Okeechobee, Sa rah (G reenfield) Abowitz, Fla. ; two sisters, Bessie Talan of she lived in Providence for 43 Cranston and Pauline Mandell years. of West Palm Beach, Fla .; a MOUNT SINAI Mrs. London was a former brother, Max Botvin of War­ member of Temple Am David wick; seven grandchildren and MEMORIAL CHAPEL and Temple Emanu-E I. IO great-grandchildren. She leaves a son, Mark M. The funeral service was held The only RI Jewish (uneral home that is a member of London of Warwick; two Sunday, July 8, at Mount Sinai the Jewish Funeral Directors of America. sisters, Rose Lacritz of Sa lem, Memorial Chapel, 825 Hope Mass., and Esther Green of St. Burial was in Lincoln Park Baltimore, Md.; a brother, Cemetery, Warwick. The Rhode Island Jewish funeral home that Sydney Abowitz in New 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 Jewish Television in Rhode Island by our director, Mitchell, his father Jr11·lsh rrollr1mminll O n and grandfather. lnltrconncct Cha nnrls Channel 49 In enry cit)' exnpt thosr srned by lbrllage Cable (Lincoln, Woonsocht). HOME OF YOUR FAMILY RECORDS. Heritage Cable station 57. 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