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VOLUME LXIX, NUMBER 21 NISAN 22, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1999 35¢PER COPY The Journey Home by Emily Torgan-Shalansky "As I was helping Ida Rae, I she had lived tfuough. "And Jewish Community Reporter thought about my first Passover you who got life instead, What Alice Lok Cahana wanted to after the Liberation," she said will you do with the memories get out. carefully. While recovering in a of that long night," she wrote. Graceful despite her haste, Swedish hospital immediately "Will you listen to casual chat she pulled on her jacket and after the war, Alice remembered, ter, Orwill you scream, thatdoes walked through the dooorway she had been delighted to re not matter!!" of the East Side home where her ceive a seder invitation from a son and daughter-in-Jaw, Rabbi Stockholm family. Spielberg Approaches Michael and Cantor Ida Rae "I was so excited - can you Over the ensuing decades, Cahana, were preparing a huge imagine?" she said. "I had very Mrs. Cahana, an artist and seder table for relatives and Ii ttle hair and one dress. When I painter, fulfilled her self-issued friends. arrived at the address I challenge by working with Ho Once in the car, Mrs. Cahana trembled. I walked up the stairs locaust-related themes. explained why she needed to go instead of taking the elevator At an exhibition of her work out to discuss her testimony as because I wanted to face free at the Holocaust Museum in one of five Hungarian Holocaust dom head-on." Houston in the mid-1990s, she Alice Lok Cahana survivors featured in Steven But when she realized that hardly noticed the man in the the guests who surrounded the sneakers and the baseball cap Spielberg's Oscar-winning When Spielberg told Mrs. Spielberg's assistance with her seder table were discussing the who kept asking questions. documentary "The Last Days." Cahana that the five contribut- 53-year-Jong search for her sis price of gold on the international . "No one knew that he wa-s "I wanted to speak in a-coffee - ing survivors would be asked to ter, Edith, whom she had last market, she began to cry. Spielberg until we saw the sig shop so we would not contami testify at the sites of their Holo seen in a Red Cross ambulance "A terrible thought then came nature in the guest book," she nate Michael and Ida Rae's cimst experiences, she initially two days after the liberation of into my mind," shesaid. "I won remembered. house with such a sadness," she told him she wasn't interested. Bergen-Belsen in 1945. "Edith dered if last year, when the cre After a museum docent told said. "I told him that no one was with me the whole time in Spielberg that Mrs. Cahana was Seated in a Hope Street cafe, matorium was at full blast, if wanted to go to Auschwitz twice the camps," she said. "After the originally from Hungary, he the tall, striking, wife, mother, these same people had sat in one lifetime," she said. "But liberation I didn't want to go to called her and informed her that grandmother and artist from around the same table and dis then I remembered my poem. I Sweden because I was looking hisShoahFoundationwasfund Houston, Texas, seemed com cussed the price of gold. I left, had challenged myself as to for her. For years and years, I posed as she crossed her legs and later that night I wrote a ing a documentary by James what I would do with my life." looked for Edith Lok. Every time and stirred her coffee. poem." Moll about the Jews of Hun Mrs. Cahana told Spielberg a new list was found or an gary. As executive producer, But at the first mention of the In her "The Shadows at she would take part if she could archive was opened up, I Holocaust, tears screened her Night," Alice challenged her Spielberg invited her to partici bring her family with her. searched for her. But the an eyes. self never to be silent about what pate in the upcoming film. "I wanted my husband, swer was always the same." Moshe, and my daughter, Rina, Shortly before she departed to come," she said. "I wanted for Europe, Alice sent a Jetter I'da Rae and Michael and their about her search for Edith to 'And Should The Wonder son, David, with me. My son, Bergen-Belsen. This time, . the Ronnie, who is a rabbi in archivists responded, saying Toronto, his wife, Karen, and that although they did not know Happen And I Live On ... ' their four children had to come of Edith Lok, their records as well. I could not have gone shows that an Edith Schwartz stressed the importance of an admission could be gained, it by Cindy Halpern back to those places without had died six weeks after the education. was far too expensive for the son Morris Gastfreund is a Holo them." camp was.liberated. caust survivor who tells his life's One of Morris's few memo of hard-working Jews. Mrs. Cahana also asked for (Continued on Page 3) story on videotape. I borrowed ries of his father was of him Times got worse. In 1938, his tape from the R.I. Holocaust taking him to Jewish religious many Je_ws were expelled from Museum. It wasn't easy listen school at age 3 1/2. His father Germany and dumped on the ing to what he had to say, but as died of pneumonia when Morris Polish frontier. These refugees Orthodox Union Supports Military the daughter of another Holo was only 4. His mother, Janet, were provided with food and caust survi'vor, it has become wasleftwithsixchildren to raise. shelter by the Polish Jewish com Action Against Yugoslavia my duty to hear every word. But Morris's paternal grandfa munity. The Grynszpans were The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, Morris's story began in a ther lived with the family and one of the unfortunate. It was the largest mainstream Orthodox Jewish organization in the small city located on the road became a surrogate father to the their son who murdered the United States, reiterates its horror at the continued acts of that connects Warsaw to children. Those were difficult third secretary of the German violence and brutality occurring in Yugoslavia. As reports Cracow. Today, you could-take years, but they survived because consultant in Paris in response continue of murder, expulsion, and genocide conducted by a high-speed train from War they worked together as a fam to his parents' forced deporta Milosevic and his allies, we can only emphasize our outrage saw to Cracow and never notice ily. tion. The murder touched off at this horrific slaughter which evokes that dark period in our this town at all. But in 1916, the Morris,despiteall these hard Kristallnacht, the Night of the own history 50 years ago. year of Morris's birth, the main ships, became an avid reader. Broken Glass, in Germany and In the past, we have appealed to the United Nations and to form of transportation was horse Yiddish was the language spo Austria. NA TO to intervene decisively and urgently to end the aggres and wagon. ken in the home, Polish was the Morris, by now a young man, sion. We strongly support the NATO airstrikes to increase the The town had a large syna tongue of everyday life, and was recruited to serve in the pressure on Milosevic and to call a halt to the murder and gogue, one of the oldest in Po Hebrew was chanted in prayer Polish army in Galicia. One day cruelty of the Milosevic regime. We stand in strong solidarity land. TheGastfreund family had in the shut. the men were assembled in the with and pray for the NA TO forces and their allies whose lives lived in this town for genera Morris completed the sev mess hall where the officer in are risked in the defense of innocents and in the effort to end tions. It was a Jewish center enth grade, the highest level charge asked for answers about human rights violations and save lives. where book reviews and lec possible. He dreamt of higher Polish history. When Morris We reiterate our call upon the prosecutor of the UN War tures took place. Surrounding education, but such opportuni gave the correct answers, the Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia to warn Milosevic the town were farms owned by ties did not exist for him. Jewish officer shamed the other soldiers and his followers that they will be held responsible for geno Polish peasants. They were the enrollment in the universities for a Jew knowing the answer cide and any other crimes against humanity committed by customers of the Jewish mer was restricted. The few who they didn't. The soldiers re their forces in Kosovo. chants, tailors,and shoemakers. were pemtitted to attend had to sponded by beating him up. Our community remembers the brutality suffered by our Extended families lived in sit on separate benches, segre After three months, Morris was people during the Nazi era and cannot sit idly by as this three-room homes, sleeping, gated from Polish students, for released from duty due to rus slaughter and genocide persist. We pray that the United eating, working, and praying the Jews were second-class citi near-sighted vision. States and allied forces engaged return safely and that all the together. Even under these con· zens in a land they had lived in The German pact with Russia people in the region will be able to live in peace and security. ditions, the Gastfreund family since the 10th century. Even if (Continued on Page 11) _ - - . • , • -r.-r.TT O "'IQQO
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~ Calendar: April 8th thru April 14t E rtt=.t·rta i nm=.t·nt 8. Art exhibit "Earthworks,'; an open juried show of works in clay. South County A Association, 2587 Kingstown Road, Kingston. Thursday through Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m Thursday 7 to 9 p.m. Call 783-2195. f@r Ch,ildr=.t·n The Wang/Shubert Center for Performing Arts presents, "Jekyll & Hyde," April 8 throug 11. Tickets $28.50 to $68.50. Call (617) 482-9393 for information orTelecharge (800) 447-7401 The Providence Children's Museum, 100 South St., Provi 9 Common Fence Music featuring Natalie McMaster. Common Fence Community Hall, 93 dence announces the following activities. Call 273-KIDS. Anthony Road, Portsmouth. Call 683-5085. . • April The Providence Bruins take on Hartford at the Providence Civic Center, One LasalleSquan Providence. 7:05 p.m. Call 273-5000. . . 11 Mellow Cello. From 1 to 3 p.m., kids 7 and up listen to the "STOMP" takes the stage at the Providence Performing Arts Center, 220 Weybosset St soothing sound of the cello and attempt to make the cello's Providence. Call 421-ARTS. strings sing, as they investigate the history of this expres The national touring company of "Meet Me In St. Louis" brings the musical to the Stadiur sive and soulful instrument. Same-day registration for Theatre, Main Street, Woonsocket, for one performance only. Tickets $24, 8 p.m. Call 76, these 20-minute sessions is available at admissions desk. 4545. There is no additional fee beyond the price of admission Trinity Repertory Theatre, 201 Washington St., Providence, presents "Master Class," Apr for this program. 9 through 30. Call 351-4242. 13 Bowl-A-Rama! From 3 to 4:30 p.m ., kids ages 5 and up 10 Festival Ballet of Rhode Island performs "Firebird" at Veterans Memorial Auditoriurr learn bowling basics with help from Steve, a bowling Brownell Street, Providence. April 10 and 11. Call 272-4862. master from Providence. After Steve demonstrates how to WSNE Kids Fair at the Rhode Island Convention Center, One Sabin St., Providence. Call 45E bowl a perfect strike, kids try their luck and bowling skills 6000. . on the museum's specially constructed bowling alleys. 11 Providence Art Club Exhibit, Dodge House Gallery, 11 Thomas St., Providence. Juried ope: 14 Tumbling Fun. From 3 to 4:30 p.m., tumbling kids ages 5 pai nting show of Southern New England artists. April 11 through 23. Call 331-1114. and up jump,, flip and spin as they learn the "fun-damentals" AJP sponsors Back Roads Bike Ride, 13 challenging miles through the back roads o of gymnastics. Guided by coaches and team members Newton, Mass. Bring lunch to enjoy lakeside. Meet at the Waban Center T-stop off Beaco1 from M and M Company, a local gymnastics training Street in front of Starbucks. 11 a.m., members $5; non-members $7. Helmet and wate center, kids learn and practice tumbling skills. Same-day mandatory. registration for these two, 30-minute sessions is available 12 Yorn HaShoah Service and vigi l at Temple Emanu-El, 99 Taft St., Providence. A candleligh at admissions desk. There is no fee beyond the price of walk to the RI. Holocaust Memorial Museum will follow. Service starts at 7 p.m. Call 331-16H admission. Join the URI Hillel for a special program in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day. One B: 15 Play & Learn. From 3 to 4:30 p.m., toddlers ages 2 to 4 let One brings together a descendant of a Holocaust survivor and a descendant of the Thin their imaginations run wild as they explore the wondrous Reich to share their stories. The event is free and open to the public. 7 p.rn. in Union Ballroom nooks and crannies of Littlewoods. Kingston campus. Lighthouse Promotions presents the Springtime Antiques Show and Sale at the Venus d, Milo, Rte. 6, Swansea. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission $5 per person; early buyers' preview 11 a.m. is $10 per person. . . 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Continued Head Needed The Shadows (Continued from Page 1) "I began to remember what knew that the war was lost. But wondered, what do you take?" Others testified as well. Moll at Night had happened," Mrs. Cahana rather than using desperately Mrs. Cahana asked on the filmed retired U.S. army veter whispered. "Aftertheliberation, needed resources to prolong the screen, shifting her weight just ans whose faces still showed the by Alice Lok Cabana there was a lot of confusion and war effort, the Nazis, instead, as she had in the coffee shop. horror of the sights of Dachau the fear didn't go away. Because intensified their efforts to carry "Do you take your pillow? Your and a Nazi doctor who called The Shadows in the dark sisters wer~ always separated, out the "final solution" as blankets? Your dishes? How Auschwitz a "thankful work question me we decided at one point that quickly and effectively as pos much is 25 kilos?" place" for those who wished to Are you defeated? Edith would use 'Schwartz,' my sible. Edi ting down the testimonies experiment on humans. I answer - no! not me! mother's maiden name. That is After establishing the Nazis' to stories that would resonate, By pairing visceral, never why I never found her." insatiable genocidal desires, Moll presented Ms. Zisblatt' s rec seen archival footage of camp . I Then you must be mad, ; child! Inadeeplymovingscenecap Moll presented the five indi ollections of her transport to activities and executions with Don't you see the long tured in "The Last Days," Mrs. viduals who lived through and Auschwitz wearing a skirt that images of elderly survivors cry line ... Cahana and her family gathered despite them. her mother had sewn a few dia ing at the sites of internment Children, grown-ups, in at a mass grave to say Kaddish The youngish, appealing sur monds into. Routinely strip with their families, ''The L.tst the endless night for Edith. vivors included Mrs. Cahana; searchedatthecamp,Ms.Zisblatt Days" imparted a new dimen The fire around them "There was no marker," Alice Tom Lantos, a U.S. Representa repeatedly swallowed and re sionality in the story. engulfs their faces: remembered. "Right after the tive from California and the only trieved the diamonds; Mrs. The film ended by touching But they still whisper service, little 4-year-old David Holocaust survivor ever elected Firestone recalled having to part upon the valuable, meaningful prayers. picked up a reed and put it next to Congress; Renee Firestone, a with a beloved bathingsuitwhen lives the survivors have been to the yartzheit candle. We all mother and teacher who works she arrived in the camp. able to create, and chronicled And you who got life followed him and did the same." with the Simon Wiesenthal Cen Juxtaposed against black and Mrs. Cahana's story of how she instead When asked if she knew how ter; Bill Basch, a Los Angeles white pictures of massive lines had gone to Israel, met and mar What will you do with the Edi th had died, Alice shook her businessman, and Irene Zisblatt, of Jews arriving on trains, these ried Rabbi Moshe Cahana, and memories of that long head and cried. a mother and grandmother. stories imparted a tremendous had started a family and career. By chronologically weaving sense of the human loss that the Afterwards, Mrs. Cahana night. The Last Days Will you listen to casual pieces of their testimonies to scale of the Holocaust dimin stepped to the microphone. chatter, "It was amazing to see this gether, Moll created a realistic ishes. There she told the audience Or will you scream, that film," Mrs. Cahana said. ''We sense of how Hungary's Jews Further connecting the past the story of the first Passover does not matter!! [the five featured survivors] had must have felt as they were and the present by showing the she spent in freedom, and about The people ... the people in never met before, but our sto stripped of their rights, forced survivors with their families, the poem in which she had chal the line, ries were one story. We could from their homes, hunted, "The Last Days" showed Mrs. lenged herself never to be silent. Their eyes and faces; they finish each others' sentences." herded onto trains, and forced Cahana and her son, Rabbi "But my voice was not pray for help On April 4, at a sold-out pre into gas chambers. Michael Cahana, as they walked enough," she said. "A young They pray for forgiveness view featuring addresses from "Judaism was our religion, through Auschwitz. man named Steven Spielberg Of sins they never commit Mrs. and Rabbi Cahana at the but we felt very much Hungar "Oh, my G-d," she said as decided that he would use ted! Avon Cinema in Providence, in ian," Mrs. Cahana explained in she came upon a crumbling the money he made from They hoped for an answer, conjunction with the Rhode Is the film as the towns and cities brick structure. "That's the la "Schindler's List" to interview they hoped for help land Holocaust Memorial Mu where the survivors were born trine. One night I was WJth my 50,000 survivors in50 countries. And their eyes pierced seum, ''The Last Days" made its flashed by. "People would come sister, Edith, and she reminded I forced myself to speak in the through the iron gates Rhode Island debut. and tell us what was happening me of how we used to celebrate memory of the 1.5 million chil Their hands reached to The audience sat silently as in Poland, but we didn't really Shabbatathome.Shesaid, 'Why dren who will never be able to heaven with request: they saw how, within a running believe them." don't we celebrate in this la tell their stories, and the film Where are our brothers timeof88minutes,JamesMoll's But the evocative accounts trine?' and we started to sing will always testify." The strong free men? penetrating documentary showed how that changed, and 'Sholom AkhE:m.' Other chil Mrs._Cahana urged the audi formed a bond between the al spoke of fue yellow stars, mass dren from Germany, Holland, ence to learn from "The Last But the silence was most unimaginable horrors of deportations and terror that and Czechoslovakia came Days." "When I open the paper and Choking and bold the Holocaust and the human came next. around and sang too. The Shab And the rain brought ity of those who endured them. "They said 25 kilos, and we bat united us." (Continued on Page 15) The unexpected cold Yes, there were searing color The flames killed the soul images of staggering skeletons of all men and black and white footage of. Silence was the answer of mass graves and deportations, the free man. but Moll's method of interlac The shadows at night talk ing them with humanizing de to me. tails from the survivors pre Why are you not mad? vented the viewers from retreat They question me ... ing to either a historian's per spectiveormind-dullingnumb Written in Sweden while in ness. rehabilitation directly after the The film began with a grim war. overview of the historical facts - by the time Hitler invaded Hungary on March 19, 1944, he
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www.elal.com 4-THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1999 OPINION Israeli Settlements vs. Visions of Jewish Learning Palestinian Settlements by Velvel 'Wally' Spiegler source of creativity, imagina posites: male and female, giv As a child growing up, I used tion, and art. Today, I under ing and receiving, left brain and by Rudy Boschwitz mindset among the State to spend hours by myself. You stand that both kinds of learn right. Judaism relies heavily on If an Israeli family living in Department's Middle East ex might say I was a loner, and ing are essential for complete -right brain thinking which is the town of Elon Moreh, in the perts, according to which Israel perhaps I still am. In my soli and profound understanding. reflected all throughout Jewish northern West Bank, builds an can do no right and the Palestin tude I spent an inordinate Interestingly our society values literature. How refreshing it was additional bedroom in their ians can do no wrong. Even amount of time imagining, fan the streams of thought from the to encounter the composers of house for their new baby, that when the Israelis and Palestin tasizing, daydreaming, and per left side above the right. Midrash imaginatively closing harms Middle East peace. But if ians are doing the same thing haps I still do. The period just Educational psychologists the gaps that Torah left open a Palestinian family living down in this case, building houses - before and during World War II have identified a variety of tech ended. In other texts I found the the road in the city of Nablus the State Department still man was my growing up years, and I niques to integrate left brain rabbis' visionary comments pro adds on a bedroom for their new ages to denounce what Israel is imagined everything from fly learning with right, which may viding optimism for a .Diaspora baby, it does not undermine doing and ignore what the Pal ing B-17s, spotting enemy air include guided imagery, visual filled with despair and local peace. estinians are doing. craftwithmy five-and-dime bin thinking and reflective meta political upheavals. It was ex Does that make sense? Not The idea that Israeli settle oculars to single-handedly pro phors. I represent many, maybe citing to discover imaginative really, but it is, nonetheless, the ments are an obstacle to peace tecting Brooklyn from invasion. even half the population, who visualizations in the prayer implication of the recent state implies that before there were It was like the daydreams of had difficulty with the educa book. The Kedushah, for ex ment by U.S. envoy Dennis Ross settlements, there was peace. Walter Mitty. Needless to say, tion system. I struggled all the ample, the holiness section of on the subject of what he calls We all know that's not true. school was a bore. I can recall way from grammar school the Amidah, contains a vivid "settlement activity." Accord There was no peace in the 1950s gazing excessively out the win through college, always protest description of angels minister ing to Ross, the construction of or 1960s, when the Arabs ruled dow of Mrs. Barsh'ssixth-grade ing the disciplined a_nd rigid ing in the heavenly realms. houses, buildings, or even addi the West Bank and "settle class with greater interest in the curriculum. Hebrew school was The narrative material, par tions on existing homes in Is ments" did not exist. There was scenery than what was on the the same thing, so after becom ticularly throughout Genesis raeli settlements is "very de no peace in the 1920s, 1930s, or blackboard. I would actually ing a bar mitzvah I never went and Exodus, is filled with innu structive to the peace process." 1940s, when Israel did not yet "play hooky" on some days to back. Years later as an adult, I merable imaginative possibili Oddly, Ross has said nothing even exist, but "settlements" go to the public library to allow became captivated with bibli ties and among the most strik about the construction activity like Tel Aviv were greeted by my mind to joyously romp cal exegesis and rabbinic com ing includes the revelation at that is taking place in Palestin waves of Arab violence. Which throughwhatevermomentarily mentary. Not only did I find in Sinai, the Exodus from Egypt, ian towns throughout the dis brings us to the heart of the attracted my whims. the writings of the rabbis, crisp, and the binding of Isaac. Jewish puted territories. problem - many Arabs still More sensitive teachers might incisive thinking, but what as tradition richly employs sym An Israeli government offi hope to destroy Israel regard have adapted their teaching tounded me was an overwhelm bolism and metaphor to teach cial has said that the Palestin less of the settlements issue. methods to accommodate my ing burst of imagination, per deeper spiritual truths than the ians are building 10 times as Talking about settlements is thinking inclination, but I don't fectly suited to my kind of sen Torah seemingly presents. One much as the Israelis. Media re a convenient way for those who think they had the tools that they sibility. I couldn't believe it; af way we can approach this is to ports have indicated that the fi dislike Israel to divert attention have now. Scientists tell us that ter years of linear, analytical randomly select a specific To nancing for the Palestinian con from the fact that the Arab world the brain consists of two hemi learning I discovered that my rah narrative and try to deter struction campaign comes from has not yet really reconciled it spheres. The left side is analyti childhood musings were an ac mine the hidden meaning be around the Arab world, includ self to the existence of the Jew cal and linear (words, written or ceptable mode of thought. hind the story line. (Hint: Why ing Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and ish state. spoken, following one another). Jewish tradition advocates does the Torah always refer to Morocco. Yasser Arafat's Pales One could argue that Israeli The right side combines those the principle of uni_ty, oneness, going to Egypt, as "going tinian Authority both finances construction in the West Bank is parts to create a whole; it excels and balance from which the down": and going to Caanan, as and directs much of this Arab actually a force for peace. After at visual and spatial processes, kabbalists derive the principle "going up"?) "settlement activity." all, Israeli construction reminds but more important it is the of yichud, the integration of op- (Continued on Page 15) Ross says that Israeli con the Palestinians that Israel is here struction is bad for peace be to stay, thus compelliRg them to cause it is an attempt to impose lower their expectations. More Israeli control over parts of the over, Israeli construction offers Holiness-as The Art of Making Distinctions territories, rather than negoti the Palestinians an opportunity by Joel Oseran holy and the unholy and ... And so we have reached the ate the final status of those ar to get to know their Israeli neigh The reader who carefully fol the unclean and the cl ean." heart of the matter. Our essen eas. Why, then,doesn'tRosssay bors, an opportunity they woulq lows this week's Torah portion, (Leviticus 10:10) In other words, tial duty in life, the test of our the same thing about Palestin cherish if they were sincere Shemini, from beginning to end the priests must be able to dis humanity, if you will, is to dis ian construction? about living in peace with Is may quite reasonably come to tinguish between a holy (valid) tinguish between categories and Ross's double s tandard rael. People with sincere peace the conclusion that this portion a·nd an unholy (invalid) sacri properties in life: lehavdil, to makes no logical sense. But then, ful intentions should not be can be better understood if it is fice. (Refer to the episode of make a distinction between right very little the State Department bothered if some Jews move in regarded as two seemingly un Nadav and Avihu and the and wrong, good and evil, clean does with regard to Israel fol down the block. It is only those related sections: section one "strange fire" they brought.) and unclean, pure and impure lows any logic. There is a certain (Continued on Page 15) (Leviticus 9 and 10), which de In Hebrew the word for "to - between the holy and the scribes the process whereby the make a distinction" is lehavi'.lil, unholy. priests (Aaron and his sons) are which has the same root as the The extent to which we learn RHODE ISLAND JEWISH consecrated and be~ome puri more fa miliar word Havdalah, to make distinctions between fied to do G-d's holy work, and the ceremony we observe on opposing properties is the ex section two (Leviticus 11), which Saturday evening that ushers tent to which we truly realize HERALD consists of a rather detailed ac out the Sabbath. When reciting our godlike potential. 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THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1999 - 5 FEATURE At Alex's Place.----- Voice of by Mike Fink persons camp. My father had younger brother died suddenly, Herald Contributing Reporter lost his wife and three children. and the heartbreak and grief The Turtle Alex' place is right next door [He went to an enforced job killed my father. There's still to a postal box. I can walk there detail and came home to find more. It turned out, my dad by Mike Fink with my slim hound. Or drive them gone.] Meanwhile, in an wasn't the last of his family. He Herald Contributing Reporter up to drop off my letters and other part of Poland, my mother wrote to a brother in Russia, but bills. But it's also place where had also returned to her house they never met again. Instead, I the past and the future meet on to find only flames and ash. She managed to get his children, my The voice of the turtle is heard new song drifting in from the the sofas and love seats, with walked across the world and cousins, out of there and safely in our land. As a kid I thought yard and the sunrise. It wasn't the steamship trunks and the landed like a wounded bird in a here to Providence. It wasn't maybe some land tortoise found the customary caw of the crows old lamps forming little islands gutter in Russia. In the postwar easy, but it was a triumph for a secret melody, like a cactus that have taken over the terrain of sociability. A narrow aisle, days, my father was moving the spirit. We aren't cousins in that comes out with a gorgeous from the songbirds, drawn to which serves as an art gallery, over borders in search of a fel culture, but in blood and a bloom once in a lifetime. dumpsters. No, it was the deli connects the chess room in back low survivor. He came across shared past." On the last snowstorm of the cate, brooding, melancholy coo with the front reception hall. the refugee on the verge of death, I stared in wonder as the waningwinter,ourdecklayout of the turtle, I mean the pigeon, There's a separate scene in each tended and healed her. They meaning of Alex's cafe changed beyond the kitchen door-a per the mourning dove. In its sweet space. married in thed.p. center, where for me. I looked not only at my fect white square like a mystical sadness, it captured the tone of -In the rear chamber, a kid I was born. They helped other friend's profile and features, but sheet or scroll. "Look at the post my own temperament. Hope named Mike in a wheelchair orphans of the war to find heal th also at the youthful Russian in the center," noted my wife as and regret, a new chant for a reads his poetry, with his group and passage to places of peace. couple who were deeply inter she pointed to a still shape: it fresh springtime. Maybe Pesach home assistant standing nearby Finally they got visas to ested in this story. Which, of was a lovely mourning dove, is passing over, but we count like a guardian angel. The tele America. course, wasnotastoryatall, but the omer like a string of pearls vision blares, but nobody pays "I wasn't really happy in a a moment of unguarded truth. in a ballad by Glenn Miller. a ttention. There's too much Providence tenement, as a small When I steered my brief In the month of Nisan we good talk going on, with a gang boy. I must have been trouble. I course home, I felt that I had clean house and make room. As of schoolkitls and a gatherirtgof recall that a kindly Irish tenant journeyed with a laser intensity I do the best I can to shuffle Russians mixing accents. I ca n taught me to sing 'Goodnight, beyond my own sphere. I write papers and put the records of almost imagine J'm travelling Irene.' I liked her. But it was this account to acknowledge the yesterday behind me, I find the in time and space to my own only later that I came to under- welcome that a privately owned shards and shellsofold troubles, origins, with those as well as the joys of yore. Like trunks holding ancient a sundial J seek to measure lore and cargo. mostly the sunny hours. Sometimes I stay for A thought that haunts me but a moment, just tast reminds me relentlessly that ev ing soli tudealong with erything we throw away lasts the sweetened java. forever in the eternity of the Other evenings offer landfill, the dump, whatever it's more extrao rdinary called these days. The coffee surprises. gives you its pleasant aroma and I sat ensconced on lively jolt, but then it's gone, like an upholstered divan, Audubon's Doves us. Butthepapercupyou toss in and a Russian couple the trash gets life ever after, be joined meon the couch. cause it doesn't breakdown. It A _gentleman came shining in its rosy-beige plum almost makes me believe that over from another age a soft light and lighthouse disappearance is a sort of spiri group of seats, leaving crowning the perfect rectangle. tual blessing. Only the things his fami ly for a few I knew she could make it out you seek to get rid of once and moments, and took the more clearly and distinctly than for all outlast and outlive. Fol corner cushions facing me over the table. "I A Sphinx at a local cafe crossroad. Herald plroto by M ike Fink I could, squinting through my low me? Think about it. It's my reading glasses. sermon of the season, my dvar know you like stories. But then, next morning, as I to rah against _an economy of You tell them and you awoke at dawn to do my early waste, my homily about a thrift listen to them. Here is stand my parents. My dad and run coffeehouse gives to a chores of the day-let the dog that protects the environment, mine.0 worked hard. a nd did well neighborhood, and to thank my out, wake the boy up, squeeze the delicate voice of the turtle My new acquaintance went within an atmosphere of trust fellow voyager for his words an orange and slice a banana, that preaches peace among the on. "I was born in a displaced and freedom. But tragically, my with the value of gems. bring the paper in-I heard a screams of m_odern life. Je\Nish Gen Dot Org et Voila by Mike Fink tling resemblance from genera pered, they tended to vote liber counterpart for clown: he's just name of the village in Rumania, Herald Contributing Reporter tion to generation through time, ally and hopefully." following in the footsteps·of his Podul Jloiae, where my personal The Academic Havurah ca r a nd from cousin to cousin Dick Plotz told equally amaz forebears. Plotz researched the people· lived Iongago, and the ried off the orange crates and around the planet earth. It was ing and revealing anecdotes. grandparents of his wife, who various surnames under which the magic video boxes from the like the trick photos was an only child. they dwelt there. Nothing came JCC conference room to the people made in studios, He located an Israeli out of that silence. The spirited home of Judith Romney using mirrors to show a cousin with the iden liveliness of Romney and Plotz Wegner.Themigratorymonthly person playing ca rds tica l fami ly history gave forth a saving energy to meeting brought together two with a table complete on another branch. embrace the havurah, not only projects on Jewish fami ly roots, with just yourself. You The almost-siblings of academics but of all Jews, Dick Plotz' quest and Judith couldn't help but be met, stayed friends, Mediterranean and Asian, east Wegner's dig. li eve that Jews are kin and formed a bond ern and western, Ashkenazic Wayfarer Wegner gathers wherever and when that was begun on and Sephardic, lost and found. stories from South Africa, Aus ever. the keyboard of a If the penny postcard started tralia, England and Holland, I asked a distracting computer. ''All you out as a searchlight for fresh catching treasures in her web question of our hostess. have to do is press marriages, there's a straight line site and collecting photographs, "What was the position 'Jewish gen dot org' from there to the personals on documents, letters and post of the Jews of South Af• and a tree will grow the processor. Good luck on the cards. "It was the custom to send rica in the wake of the before your eyes." · road to romance. off a cousin to marry a cousin in Boer War and during At this moment in another land. You found a safe World War II?" I knew the evolution of my haven af.ld a new but familiar that the Dutch South own dynasty, I am life wherever you might wend Africans often took the more deeply fasci your way in periods of immi side of the Germans nated by new pros STAFF SHIRTS • T-SHIRTS gration. A pair of brothers often rather than their former pects. Who will join SWEATSHIRTS myoak, myelm,and CUSTOM SCREEN married a duet of sisters. The foes the British. Judith PRINTING AND result of this close connection answered with the ex Look up your lineage who will grow from EMBROIDERY can be clearly seen." ample of H elen mytaproot?What fa SPECIAllZING IN As Judith passed wonder Sussman. "Most Jews miliartraitsfrom the BAR/BAT MITZVAHS & fully clear antique portrait pho went there well after the Boer "My son is a summer clown in past will emerge into the fu CORPORATE SCREENING tographs in elegant frames era, in flight from Europe. They the circus. When I looked up his ture? Like most Americans I look 421-3268 round the parlor by the hearth, understood the plight of the ancestor's names and trades in to tomorrow, perhaps especially I 1'8- 1164 NORTH MAIN ST. you could not mistake the star- outsider. Al though they pros- Europe, I found the Yiddish at Y2K. Even so, I put down the PROVIDENCE, RI 02904 ·- V~f 7' .f; .1. 51·1/. Y ''-l.T;l}, ,r-rr r J.P~~·.. n r f-~!:>1 ·V ~i OC··"' ~'"'r ":Irrr,,.:,.. ·.--rr ~ · 6 - THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1999 JEWISH COMMUNITY
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With most to effectively clean carpet, a clean interior furnishings regu the physical therapy program graduate research projects be people spending a majority of vacuum cleaner should have larly and effectively, monitor the at the University of Rhode Is ing conducted by the physical their time indoors, "something good suction,.adjustable brushes humidity, andmaintainitslevel land, will be held April 10. The therapy students. This year's in the air" could mean trouble. and an enclosed vacuum bag. A below 65 percent. road race will feature a 5-mile research pr.ojects include treat- . One way to cut down on al high-efficiency filtration, dis The key to-preventing aller run and a 3.1-mile fitness walk. mentofmusclespasticity,lower lergies is to install and regularly posable bag should be used to gic reactions ins containment of The event will also include a extremity rehabilitation, vacuum carpet, which can help minimize the possibility of dust the allergens and keeping aller post-race health screening and intersegmental stability of the reduce the amount of dust in becomingairborneduringvacu gens from becoming airborne massage for all participants, T lumbar spine and comparative the air. The Carpet and Rug In uming. High-traffic . areas into the breathing zone. Remem shirts for the first 200 entrants, studies of different types of car stitute offers this advice to al should be vacuumed frequently. ber, only those allergens that refreshments, prizes and a raffle. diovascular equipment. lergy sufferers and their fami When cleaning, it is most im are in the breathing zone can Prizes will be awarded to the Fast Facts-Race date, April lies: portant that all moisture, clean affect nasal passages. top three male and female over 10. Holding Characteristics ing agent and soil be extracted all finishers, top male and fe Time: 10 a.m. (wheelchair from the carpet. male runners in each age group, race starts at 9:30 a.m.) In general, allergic reactions and the top male and female Registration: 8 a.m. (race held are caused by dust and dirt Dust Mites wheelchair racer. The grand rain or shine) found in the air. 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Multiple Sclerosis: Know The Facts Harvard Pilgrim The health and life-style of managing symptoms (84 per Louis Harris and Associates Health Care of New thousands of Americans could cent), tracking progression (77 and presented at a University be affected by the findings of a percent), or treating the actual of Maryland-sponsored con England Provides recent survey of neurologists disease (76 percent). However, sensusconferenceofMSexperts who treat people with multiple the study showed that while 40 designed to reassess and rede Support to Members sclerosis. percent of neurologists believe fine the system for diagnosing A critical issue among MS there is a distinct transitional and treating the d i_sease. Providence Health Centerof sation support brings together specialists is classifying MS pa phase between the two forms of Symptoms of MS include a Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of those who understand the chal tients at high risk of MS, only two percent were able temporary feeling of tingling, New England offers education, lenges individuals face. Harvard transitioning from the well to characterize patients in this numbness or weakness in one counseling and support to Pilgrim members can call 331- documented mild and severe phase when presented with pa part of the body, a temporary Harvard Pilgrim members on 4034, ext. 43398 for information. forms of the disease. As a result tient symptoms and history. blurring of vision, incontinence the health issues of breast can Asthma Hotline - Harvard of this gap, they say, many The survey also found that and slurred speech. Emotional cer, HIV services, smoking ces Pilgrim members with ques people with MS may not be di half of the neurologists surveyed volatility also characterizes the sation, asthma and nutrition tions concerning asthma man agnosed or treated appropri (47 percent) are dissatisfied with disease. There may never be a through the following support agement can call 331-4034, ext. ately and may even risk pro available MS treatments, and recurrence but people who have groups and Hotlines. 42377, leave a message, and a gressing more rapidly to a more almost all others (51 · percent) repeated attacks usually expe Breast Cancer - For more pulmonary case manager will serious stage of the disease. are only "somewhat satisfied." rience less complete recovery information, Harvard Pilgrim return their call. The survey discovered that "A better understanding of after each attack. While in rare memberscancallCelesteConlan Nutrition Hotline - The 98 percent of all neurologists the classifications of MS sub instances the condition can be at 331-4034, ext. 42738. nutrition hot line provides surveyed are "very" familiar groups, and refinement of meths fatal, most people with the dis HIV Services-Harvard Pil members with an opportunity with the clinical aspects of diag ods for measuring disease ac order can lead normal lives for grim members can call the con to ask a nutritionist questions nosing multi pie sclerosis. Some tivity, will enable us to have a much of the time for many fidential HIV information line about food, meal preparation what fewer were as familiar with more objective and accurate as years. at 331-4034, ext. 42398. and dietary guidelines. sessmentof the disease, and help The neurological exam is the Smoking Cessation - This Harvard Pilgrim members us to tailor treatment to a tool relied upon most by re support group is for persons who can call 331-4034, ext. 42064, patient's disease course," said spondingphysicians making an are smoking, struggling to quit, leave a message, and a Harvard Arthritis Exercise Kenneth P. Johnson, M.D., pro initial diagnosis of MS, as well or experiencing some success. Pilgrim nutritionist will return fessor and chairman of neurol as when measuring disease pro Meeting monthly, smoking ces- their call. Program to be ogy at the University of Mary gression. land School of Medicine, and Nearly 350,000 people in the Offered director, Maryland Center for United States have this disease. The Arthritis Foundation's Multiple Sclerosis at the l)ni It generally strikes between the Southern New England Chap versity of Maryland Medical ages of 20 and 40. If you think ter and Elmhurst Extended Care Center. you may have MS, see your Center, the nursing home affili The study was conducted by doctor. ate of Roger Williams Medical Center, will co-sponsor PACE, Cantor Sam Pessaroff a recreational exercise program designed specifically for people SHMUEL TAITELBAUM CERTIFIED MOREL with arthii tis. 1'he six-week pre CERTIFIED MOHEL (978) 532-6068 . .,, "' gram will begin April 26 at Elmhurst Extended Care Cen Trained al Bi/cur Cbolim. Hodpital, JerUJal.e'm. ter, 50 Maude St., Providence. PACE classes will meet on Mon days and Wednesdays, 3:30 to 4:30 p .m. There will be a $3.50 program fee. For the special needs PACE instructors Diane Ri Providence- Based • Reco~~ended by Local Physicians & Rabbis of women of all ages ... chard and Colleen McGee will 861-1403 lead participants through a se • Well-woman care & family planning ries of exercises and activities • Pre-natal care designed to increase mobility • Midwife services and function. This recreational Rebecca Rofman_LICSW • Alternatives to hysterectomy exercise program is designed to • Laser surgery help people with arthritis keep • Ad olescent to menopausal patient care joints flexible, maintain muscle Solution Focused strength, and build overall Coimscliug Kathleen Delfino, CNM stamina. In addition, people Michael Economos, MD who participate in PACE classes 272-0557 often report that they feel bet Call today ter, have more energy and are for an appointment. On the East Side 769-MOMS (6667) morecapableofdoingtheirdaily Sliding Scale activities. Day and Evc11iug Hom·s 206 ( uii -~ rr , II oomocket, RI , AJ]iliated 1rith Landmark \frdical ( i Illa Ten people will be accepted into the class, and preregistra tion is necessary to participate. For more information or to reg The care seniors need now. ister, contact Colleen McGee at EAST SIDE The added care they may need later. Elmhurst Extended Care Cen PRESCRIPTION CENTER ter at 456-6451. For more infor mation about arthritis, contact 632 Hope Street • Providence, RI • (401) 751-1430 Beechwood the Arthritis Foundation at 434- BLUE CROSS 5792. Just the right amount of personal The Arthritis Foundation is ALL (I BLUE SHIELD assistance for today ... with the the source of help and hope for a security of enhanced care if + • BLUECHP nearly 43 million Americans needed tomorrow. Beechwood who have arthritis. PRESCRIPTION PLANS INCLUDING: ., c-,m,1o1....i'"""""'·'"'- offers a gracious residential pREFERRED Rx AND SCRIP setting in Providence's East Side. 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10 - THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1999 FEATURE Who Will ·be Our Leaders For The 21st Century? by George Bonin and the Bill of Rights, they set changing the face of journalism. He proved the process would Owens-Corning Fiberglas, The recent passing of Fred the standards that formed the Together with Ed Murrow he cost untold military casualties, Ashton, had a wildcat strike Friendly, a former Rhode Is foundation for a better democ used the sound and visual me at a cost to the government of called by five workers, and 750 lander, moved me to think about racy. dia to inform the people of the millions of dollars. At the war's jobs were at stake. Glassman, as his greatness as a leader. Here Today, are we fulfilling those world they lived in, and chal end he received a commenda Chamber President, rented St. was a man whose entire life was dreams and aspirations? In a lenged them to change what tion from the Chiefof Ordnance. Joseph's Hall, Ashton, to ad dedicated to illuminating "the leaderless world, we view with they did not like. His weapon Returning to Pawtucket
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And Should The Wonder (Continued from Page 1) inAugustof1939sealed the fate clearbyworking24hoursaday. to the train station. A mother ofsome3millionPolishJews. In Worshipping in the synagogue slipped on the snow and the what Poles call their "Golden was forbidden, but prayer took Gestapo shot her and her two September," World War II be- place at great peril in private screaming children to death. gan. homes. A selection took place at the Gestapo and S.S. units sur- In November, 1941, a ghetto station. Morris and Kalman rounded the town. The people was formed i'n the west side of were forced to one side as work were told to assemble in the town: Morris's family, now ers: The rest of the family were marketplace where Jews were - numbering five because his put on the train to Treblinka's separated from their non-Jew- older sister married and his gas chambers. ish neighbors. Five men were grandfather was deceased, The brothers were sent to a taken ftom the crowd and shot moved to a room with a single laborcampthatwassurrounded on the spot to instill fear. People window. by electrical wire of 10 to 12 feet. ·11 fainted from the terror and the In July of 1942, Morris and Men armed with machine guns terrible heat. The Jews • were his brother, Kalman, were sent guarded the camp from two ~a~d!ti
lmprov Jones Presents Sportsmanship, Ethics of 'Primetime With The Joneses' Sport to Be Examined at To commemorate their five years of late night com Brown Symposium edy m Rhode Island, Improv Jones is delighted to Mike Tyson, Lutrell Spree in the Salomon Center forTeach announce a three-week, primetime run at Perishable well, the Utah Olympic Orga i ng, located on the College Theatre in April. Shows run every Thursday, Friday, nizing Committee - it's as if Green. and Saturday at 8 p.m. In addition, on April 16, the sports and scandal are on the group will once more be collaborating with Everett same team. Wha lever happened Symposium Schedule Dance Company for an exciting synthesis of improv to fair play, teamwork and good (All sessions in the Salomon dance, theater, and comedy. sportsmanship? An interna Center for Teaching) Each night of the run will focus on a different aspect tional group of experts will offer April 9 - 7:30 p.m., "Issues of the improv experience. On Thursdays, "Im prov Play some answers at a symposium of Ethics and Sport," Modera Night," the group will stage an hour long play based on on ethics of sports and the val tor, Brown President E. Gordon audience suggestions. On Friday, "Pick-A-Theme ues of athletics April 9 through Gee; panelists, Andrew Edgar, Night," the audience chooses a single theme that will 10 at Brown University. Richard Hoffman, Mariah Bur influence the improv games performed that evening. "Fair Play or Foul Ball" will ton-Ne lson, and Richard On Saturdays, "Games On Request Night," the audi examine the social valuesofath Lapchick. ence will control the show, determining what games letic competition and feature a April 10 - 9:30 a.m., "Issues they see and when they see them. . leading sports ethicist, nation ofEthicsinintercollegiateSport," Come join us in Providence for a dynamic evening of ally recognized sportswriters, Program leader, Howard comedic theater!. commentators, coaches and ath Chudacoff; facilitator, Frederic Showtimes are April 7 through 10, April 15 through letes participating in panel dis Reamer; panelists, Mariah Bur 17 (16th with Everett Dance Co.), April 22 through 24. cussions and conversations with ton-Nelson, Richard Hoffman, All shows are at 8 p.m. All tickets are $5. Shows will be symposium participants. Robert Lipsyte, Larry Farmer, held at Perishable Theatre, 95 Empire St., Providence. Open to the public without and Eli Abarbanel-Wolff. Call Improv Jones at 751-3671 for reservations and charge, the two-day symposium 2 p.m. "Sportsmanship: Where information. is sponsored by the University's has it Gone?" Program leader, And remember ... Come see Im prov Jones at 10 p.m. Thomas F. a nd William J. Howard Chudacoff; facilitator, every Thursday at AS220, 105 Empire St., Providence Primetime with the Joneses Gilbane Presidential Fellow Frederic Reamer; panelists, An- and every Saturday at Perishable Theatre. ship, with support from the -drew Edgar, Richard Lynch, Brown University Sports Foun Kathleen McElroy, Tara Moun Blackfriars Theatre Presents 'Blood Brothers' dation. All meetings will be held sey, and William Reynolds. Blackfriars Thea treannounces up at different ends of the social days and Saturdays, and 2 p.m. the opening of Willy Russell's spectrum, the boys' genetic bond for the Sunday matinees. Tick Exhibit of Paintings by "Blood Brothers." The Broadway pulls them together even as the ets are on sale at the box office. and Lo ndon musical, wi th a run adoptive mother, fearing the at The Blackfriars Theatre box of Priscilla Cane at Bert Gallery of more than lOyears, is the story traction of her son's lower-class fice is located on the first floor of Come celebrate the new one-woman shows in Rhode Is ofa poor Liverpool single mother birth family, tries to keep them Harkins Hall on the Providence Providence with an exhibit of land. Her paintings are dis who ca n barely support her seven apart. Filled with open-hearted College campus. The box office paintings by Providence artist played in public !=Ollections children. Pregnant with twin ballads and childhood verses that is open Monday through Friday Priscilla Cane. Cane, who excels throughout the state, including boys and facing the possibility chillingly foreshadow the adult 1 to 5 p.m., and one hour prior to in the medium of gouache, will Mayor Cianci's office; Hasbro that the state may take custody world, "Blood Brothers" is the performances. Ticket prices are be showing a selection of 15 Children's Hospital, and the of her children, she reluctantly story of a search for identity.and $7 regular admission, $5 senior works on paper depicting the Shepard Building, as well as in agrees to allow her wealthy, happiness in which each twin citizen and PC faculty /staff,and ci ty as it prepares for the new private collections throughout childless employer to raise one seesintheotherthemanhemight $3 for all studenls. Tickets may millennium. The exhibit runs the country. of the boys as her own. Brought have become. also be reserved by calling 865- from April 8 through "Blood Brothers" will be per 221 8. April 31, and a recep tion will be held on Gal THE formed six times over the span To receive information con o f two weekends, April 16 cerning advance mail order pur lery Night, April 15from PURPLE CAT through the 18 and April 23 chases, or to be placed on the 6 to 8 p.m. RESTAURANT through 25 at the Blackfriars Blackfriars Theatre mailing list, Cane has chosen to IN CHEPACHET SINCE 1929 Theatre of Providence College. call 865-2084. Website 14-IBE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, IBURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1999 OBITUARIES SADIE BARENBOIM was held on April 6 at Sons of the Jewish War Veterans Aux he was a big brother for more Besides his wife, he leaves a P ASCOAG - Sadie Baren Israel and David Cemetery, Res iliary. than 15 years and a former presi brother, Sidney Kramer of East boim, 91, ofBayberry Commons, ervoir Avenue, Providence. She leaves a daughter, Esther dent of the East Greenwich Ani Greenwich. He was the brother Pascoag, died March31 at home. Gold of Fall River, five grand mal Protection League. He was of the late Ralph Kramer. She was the wife of the late LILLIAN GOLDSTEIN childrenand 10 great-grandchil a longtime member of The funeral was private. Ar Abraham Barenboim. FALL RIVER - Lillian dren. She was the mother of the Potowomut Country Club and rangements were by Shalom Born in Boston, a daughter of Goldstein, 100, of Robeson late Theodore Goldstein. its treasurer and secretary for 10 Memorial Chapel, 1100 New the late Ezekiel and Ida Street, a restaurant worker until The funeral was held April 4 years. London Ave., Cranston, R.l. (Drucker) Yorshis, she-had lived her recent retirement, died April . at Temple Beth El, High Street. in Providence most of her life 3 at the Fall River Jewish Home. Burial was in Temple Beth El and moved to Pascoag six years Born in New York City, she Cemetery. Arrangements were ago. was a daughter of the late Moris by Max Sugarman Memorial She was a member of Temple and Anna (Levine) Mines. Chapel, 458 Hope St., Provi Emanu-El. She was recently honored at dence. She leaves a son, Dr. Eliot a celebration at Temple Beth El BarronofWestHartford,Conn.; attended by 350 guests marking AL VIN 'DOC' KRAMER a daughter, Myrna Lamb of Lin her 100th birthday. NORTH KINGSTOWN - coln; five grandchildren and She was a graduate of BMC Alvin "Doc" Kramer, 78, of 86 four great-grandchildren. Durfee High School. She had Cardinal Drive, died April 2 at ~~Everything's A graveside funeral service worked at her father's store, Kent County Memorial Hospi was held April 4at Lincoln Park Mines Shoe Store, the form tal, Warwick. He was the hus Cemetery, Warwick. er R.A. McWhirrs Co. and band of Helen (Gould) Kramer. Arrangements were by Max Andrew's Restaurant, Middle Born in Providence, a son of the A Miracle'' Sugarman Memorial Chapel, town, owned by her grandson, late Philip and Fanny (Elman) by Herb Brown 458 Hope St., Providence. until it was sold last year. Kramer, he had lived in North East Providence She took courses at Bristol Kingstownior the past 10 years, © 1998 MILDRED BLUMENTHAL Community College and the previously residing in East PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - University of Massachusetts, Greenwich.HewasaC.L.U.and Oh, when morning comes around, and I can open Mildred Blumenthal, 95, of Dartmouth, beginning in her 60s an insurance agent for Allstate up my eyes, Philadelphia, Pa., died April 2 and continuing well into her 80s. Insurance for 32 years, retiring Why, Everything's A Miracle to me. at Graduate Hospital, Philadel She was involved in numerous 13 years ago. And I am really hypnotized as the sun begins to rise, phia. hostel programs for the elderly, He attended Ohio State Uni Because that's a miracle to me. Born in Providence, a daugh serving for five years as resi versity before entering the U.S. I look around, and I am filled with wonder, tero f the late Joseph and Theresa dent coordinator at UMass Navy as a pilot during World And overjoyed by all that I can see. (Goldstein) Blumenthal, she had Dartmouth. War II. He was a lieutenant. He I can't begin to count the blessings that I have, lived in Providence for most of She was a life member and was stationed in the Pacific The Because Everything's A Miracle to ·me. her life before moving to Phila director ofBrandeis University ater. He worked for Sun Life delphia. National Women's Committee, Insurance Co. and was called A new-born baby reaches out to touch its mothers _She had b~en a legal secre Hadassah and the Sisterhood back for the Korean Conflict. He face, tary for many years before retir of Temple Beth El. She was a was commander of the State And you know, that's a miracle to me. ing 30 years ago. She was a mem member of Adas Israel Syna Department of Jewish War Vet And then my father, old and grey, he may look ber of Temple Beth-El in Provi gogue Sisterhood, serving as erans and a member of Post No. at me and say, dence. recording secretary for 22 years, 533 of the Jewish War Veterans "My son, you are a miracle to me." She was the sister of the late the Hand Club, serving as pub of Rhode Island. He was a past There are far too many miracles for counting, Helen Cohenciousand Cordelia licity chairwoman and trea president of the Warwick Com There's one for every star that you can see. Blumenthal. Her only survivors surer, Highland Heights Senior munity Guidance Clinic. He was With sight and sound, they're all around, and are a niece and two great-neph Citizens Club, serving as pub a member of the East Green that is why · ews. licitychairwoman, Temple Beth wich Board of Canvassers and That Everything's A Miracle to me. 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