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111UR;SDAY, AUGUST 24, 1989 35t PER COPY Touro's 225th Birthday Celebration by John Chadwick eran, Fred Friendly. On the first trip up Touro Street "This synagogue was here before in Newport, it's easy to miss the George Washington crossed the Touro Synagogue. Delaware, before the (U.S.) consti Hidden in a cluster of colonial, tution was written, before Valley museum-like buildings in the his Forge; almost everything else from torical district, the oldest temple the colonial era has vanished ex in America is inobtrusive to the cept for the idea that all men and first-time visitor - just another women were created equal,'' Mr. bus tour stop in the old seaport. Friendly said. It stands set back in from the Built in 1763 by Sephardic Jews street, fenced off and bears little from Portugual and Spain, the syn resemblance to the sprawling agogue is now the home of Congre American temples of the suburbs gation Jeshuat Israel, an Orthodox or the red-brick shuls of the urban congregation consisting of mainly past. Ashkenazim Jews and numbering Nonetheless, there's a story in about 150 families. It has been de side and around the beige building, clared a national shrine and is - an entire chapter of Jewish his cared for by a number of historical tory that's still being written and a groups. Both congregation and the lesson in religious freedom that its historical preservationists were on supporters and adherents want hand this weekend offering com known. mentary, reflection and a number Last weekend, the synagogue of events to mark the occasion. turned 225 years old and visitors The building is essentially a sim from across the country came to ple, straightfoward structure that pay tribute. Among the dignitaries is set off the road diagonally so it The 225th anniversary of the Touro Synagogue drew hundreds of people from acrou the nation. on hand was former CBS News faces due east toward Jerusalem. (continued on next page) President and World War Il vet- Peace, Love And Torah: Marblehead Forms Task Force by Susan Birnbaum dented was the community's re NEW YORK (JTA) - One sponse. Woodstock Remembered Sunday morning last month, more For instance, the AOL's offer of by Ellen Bernstein took some time out from Torah impressionable, anxious to listen than 1,000 persons, Jews and non $1,000 reward for the capture of Atlanta Jewiah Times study on a recent Tuesday and hear," Fishbain said. Jews, black and whites, clergy and the vandals was matched by equal BETHEL, N.Y. (JTA) - For afternoon to reflect on that August Fishbain continued communi just plain folks, held a rally in contributions from a group com the hundreds who flocked to this weekend. cating with the travelers, finding Marblehead, Mass., that included posed of members of the vandalized tiny Catskill Mountains township Fishbain is the Orthodox leader common ground in the sphere of cleaning .up the virulent anti Jewish institutions and tbe inter this week, the 20th anniversary of of Beth Sinai, a 13-year-old music, a source of spiritual Semitic graffiti that appeared on denominational Ministers Alliance. the Woodstock music festival was congregation situated next to a sustenance for Hasidim. "The fact the walls of three of the town's The ADL has begun a program an opportunity to recall a glorious shimmering mountain lake called they were attracted to music here Jewish institutions. to educate the police and the dis weekend of peace, love and rock Kayenoga. Back in 1969, this - we believed they could also be The rally was the first activity of trict attorney's office on the ways and roll. father of 13 children was a teacher attracted to spiritual values." a newly-formed task force, designed and means of the racist youths But for the Orthodox Jews who in New York at a rabbinic Quoting Jewish sources, the to help combat anti-Semitism in known as Skinheads and other live or vacation near by, it was ~minary. With his wife, Sarah · rabbi drew parallels between the, the aftermath of a spray paint anti-Semites. time to remember the day when Rivkah, he summered in the spiritual realms of music, alom attack earlier that week on the Zakim said he was heartened by the men missed Shabbos. Catskills. haneginah, and the world of North Shore Jewish Community the community response. Ten "The town was in no way On Friday, Aug. 15, an endless repentance, olam teshuvah. Center, the adjacent Hillel Acade years ago, he said, the response of equipped to handle that kind of stream of cars and people, in halter "They are very close, so if you my and nearby Temple Emanuel. both non-Jews and Jews would gathering," said Rabbi Samuel tops, flannel shirts, headbands and are involved in one of the worlds, The words "Skin heads" were re have been to sweep ugly incidents Fishbain, now 50, of the 400,000 bandannas, jammed the town's you might be carried to the next," peated in several places, accom under the rug. young people who converged on main intersection, where a kosher Fishbain said. panied by swastikas. Now,localclergyandcommunity the town on Aug. 15, 1969, enroute butcher and kosher grocery store Two decades later, the media "They knew what they were do leaders have reminded the Jews to the grassy concert site a few stand today. and tourists are deluging this ing," said Leonard Zakim, director that there were still bastions of tra miles away. ThQugh accustomed to being otherwise sleepy town. Residents of the New England office of the ditional anti-Semitism in the area. That weekend, he said, outnumbered - by gentiles, the and local merchants of Bethel are Anti-Defamation League of B'nai And as if they needed proof, one Orthodox men working in New austere community was repelled by being interviewed about their lives B'rith, in Boston. active anti-Semite picketed a York got caught in the concert what Fishbain called "hippies." now and back then. The attack wasn't the first meeting of Jewish and non-Jewish traffic and had to turn back for Not so much for their immodest One reporter from a Boston instance of anti-Semitism in the leaders who gathered to discuss the fear they would arrive after dress, he said, but "for the way television station admitted more community. What was unprece- vandalis~. and was later arrested. sundown, the start of the Jewish they attended to their bodily needs confusion when, on July 9, he Sabbath, Fishbain said. "Some urinating anywhere like captured on tape a different sort of New Lobby Is were stranded and never made it." children." processional through the streets of Since the 1940s, the entire area But the indecent behavior didn't Bethel. The dedication of Beth has been the annual summer prevent Fishbain and other Sinai's second Torah scroll spilled Viewed Skeptically destination of religious Jews from Hasidim from offering kosher food into the streets, where revelers by Andrew Silow Carroll Whether it is the purported pro New York. As many as 200,000 to and drink to tie-dyed sojourners sang and danced beneath a NEW YORK (JTA) - Organi Palestine Liberation Organization 300,000 come to spend their who they ascertained to be Jewish. wedding canopy, or huppa. zations and individuals on the philosophy of the new group or its summers here. Quite a few, Fishbain recalled, It may be 20 years later, but at Jewish left have never been shy assumption of turf already staked Fishbain, a year-round resii:lent accepted his offer to put on tefillin. the site of Woodstock, the about criticizing the American out by their own groups, leftists of Bethel's quiet Hasidic enclave, "Some of them seemed very celebration goes on. Israel Public Affairs Committee, and other critics of AIPAC say the the large and powerful lobbying new group doesn't deserve the kind of attention it has received in actively intercede to guarantee the Among those listed as endorsing states. force in Washington. the group are Robert Friedman, Toby Dershowitz, a spokes Its Jewish critics have accused recent weeks. human and civil rights of Pales graduate dean of the Baltimore woman for AIPAC, said her group AIPAC of being too closely aligned The Jewish Peace Lobby is tinians in the administered terri headed by Jerome Segal, a research tories, and to devote a portion of its Hebrew University; sociologist has not commented on the Peace with conservatives in this country Lobby specifically. However, scholar at the Institute for aid to Israel to the work of Israeli Nathan Glazer of Harvard Univer and unwilling to challenge the poli not seek to quash Philosophy and Public Policy at private organizations that promote sity; New York rabbis Balfour "AIPAC does cies of a right-wing Israeli govern Brickner and Marshall Meyer; any voices or any opinions," she ment. the University of Maryland. "reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians.,, actor Edward Asner; and writers said. But these same critics are skep The new lobby supports an inde Segal said that on some kev pendent, but demilitarized, Pales Segal claims the group's sup Anne Riophe, Grace Paley and tical of a newly formed group, the issues, the Jewish Peace J.,obhv ~ tinian state. porters include 125 rabbis and Gloria Steinem. Jewish Peace Lobby, that is pro Segal also claims coordinators in ·'lot in conflict with AIPAC moting itself as an alternative Jew To achieve that end, the lobby "several dozen prominent Ameri 50 congressional districts in 22 (continued on page ish lobby. calls on the United States to can Jews." (' .,1 ,1 -J 1rrr;,,·•,· r , t , _- ,- ,r ,,., ,,11-r-~ ,- , , ,n , , ,,,. , - ?.,- , , r rr , , .. .,, ,rr• .. .- 2 - THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1989
( Local News ) £n~ur~s~~th ..___.,....______C_o_n_g-,e-g_a_t_io_n__ Ohawe Shalam Congregation Sons Of Jacob (continued from previous page) Inside, however, a breath of som Friday, August 25 - 24 days in Beth Sholom lasts until early Sunday morning. Young Israel bre Sephardic mystique casts shad the month of Av. Candlelighting is That afternoon the women, Conl(regation Beth Sholom Of Pawtucket ows of 2000 years exile along the at 7:12 p.m. The minchoh service dressed in holiday clothes, visit Sons of Zion cordially invites the We invite you to join us for the sanctuary walls. A trap door in the will begin at 7:20 p.m. friends, acquaintances, even the community to a Kiddush in honor High Holidays featuring the floor leads to an underground tun Saturday, August 26 - 25 days in boy's playmates, and invite them of Rabbi and Mrs. Shmuel Singer melodious voice of cantor Mark nel which exits behind the temple. Av. Torah reading today is P'Ree. to the celebration held in the immediately following Shabbat Berger from Boston. Mass., a The bima stands in the center and The maftir is regular. Also, please evening of the same day. They services on September 2. 1989. professional who will add around it are 12 wooden columns note that this Sabbath we will be bring a barber who cuts the hair of Services begin at 9 a.m. Our guest inspiration to our services. Rabbi made from tree trunks that hold up blessing the new month of Elul the Bar Mitzvah. Those who are speaker will be Rabbi Joseph ,J ay D. ,Jacobs. our spiritual leader the balcony known as the women's (Birchat Hachodesh). Rosh present contribute a coin to the Szendro. will conduct services and deliver gallery. Chodesh is . on Friday and barber for payment. Rabbi Singer is leaving the se rmon. Tickets are only But the anniversary celebration Saturday, August 31 and Monday morning the Hakhamin Providence lo take a position with $,50.00 for a nonmember. But why this year was more than a tribute September 1. The Molech is and teacher go to the home of the the Union of Orthodox not be a member for the low cost of to the skills of the colonial archi Friday evening at 8:41 p.m. and 11 parents, and wrap the boy in a Congregations in New York City, $2,50.00 per family which includes tects and more than the retelling Chalokem. Morning services are at Tallit and crown him with Tefillin. where he will be the Director of High Holiday tickets!! of historical facts and anecdotes. 8:30 a.m. Then he is led to the synagogue in Kashrut for Passover products. ,Join our vibrant synagogue "There's something very remark Ethics of the Fathers Number a candlelight procession with During his tenure as the able and important here," Mr. Five. Kiddush follows the morning accompanying songs. spiritual leader of Congregation which is a "full service institution" and includes 1) An N.C.S.Y. Friendly told the Herald before ad service. Minchob this afternoon is In the synagogue, the father, Beth Sholom-Sons of Zion, Rabbi dressing the crowd gathered in the at 7 p.m. Maariv will be at 8 p.m. members of the family, are called Singer has enriched the life of his Youth Group (Shabbatonim); 2) .Junior congregation; 3) Adult sanctuary. The Sabbath is over today at 8: 11 to the Torah. The Hakhamin congregants with his lectures, As a G.I. in World War II, Mr. p.m. Havdalah service will be at education classes; 4) Community blesses the boy, who, then presents adult education classes and Friendly was among those soldiers 8:!6p.m. wide events and parties centering his address, after being called to inspiring weekly sermons. Rabbi who liberated a Nazi concentration Sunday, August 27 - morning around the holidays: 5) Teaching the Torah. This is followed by Sinl(er has been instrument.al in camp called Mathausen near the services at 7:45 a.m. followed im and training for bar and bat mitz distributing charity to the poor the l(rowth of the religious life of Austrian town of Linz. A dozen mediately, as usual, with coffee and vah (A Hebrew school is in for and members of the family. Beth Sholom-Sons of Zion years prior, Friendly, as a budding refreshments. Minchoh for the mation.); 6) Daily and Shabbat After the service, all go to the through its daily Minyanim and newsman had to discard his real entire week is at 7 p.m. Morning boy's house. In the afternoon, the holiday workshops. service: 7) Active Sisterhood. I name - Wachenheimer - in or services for Monday and Thursday Bar Mitzvah, wearing Tallit and We of Congregation Beth Services this Friday night are 7 der to speak on the airwaves, for are at 6:30 a.m. Tefillin calls on the women of the Sholom-Sons of Zion wish Rabbi p.m. Shabbat morning services are radio station WEAN in Provi For Tuesday, Wednesday and family. Every relative unwinds Singer and his family the best of 9 a.m. with a Kiddush to follow. dence. Friday morning services are at 6:45 once, the Tefillin from around his luck as he undertakes his new and Rabbi Jacobs will give his class at Now, at aged 74, a celebrated a.m., with the exception of Friday, arm, and presents him a coin. challenging position. We ask the 6:30 p.m. Mincha will be at 7: 10 journalist and a respected profes August 31, when we will start at IN SOME SEPHARDIC community to join in this tribute p.m. Followed by the Third sor at Columbia University, Mr. 6:30 a.m. COMMUNITIES. Among to a truly dedicated professional Sabbath meal. Maariv will be at Friendly acknowledged the tri Sephardic Jews, boys begin to put whose presence in our midst will be 8:10 p.m. Havdalah is at 8:30 p.m. umph of Judaism in the American Bar Mitzvah on Tefillin a year (in the case of an missed. diaspora, telling the crowd that (Part Three of Three) orphan, two years) before the age "Jews today are an important and Unusual Bar Mitzvab of thirteen, and the parents hold a essential part of America and this Customs big family feast. On his thirteenth synagogue is a living testament to When a boy MOROCCO. birthday, he carries the Tallit and that." reaches twelve his father or Tefill in all day. On the following The synagogue was estab teacher prepares him to deliver a Sabbath he is permitted to go lished by 15 Spanish-Portuguese talmudic lecture with rabbinical around the synagogue, followed by commentaries. The boy reviews boys of his age, who snap their Jewish families who had arrived in the lesson every night until he fingers in rhythm. Newport in 1658. The historians disagree as to where exactly they knows it by heart. Since in Yemen even YEMEN. set sail from, but they do agree that When the boy becomes thirteen, children who are not of Bar the hakhamin, or scholars, they were seeking, above all else, a Mitzvah age are called up to the freedom to practice Judaism with examine him at length. After the Torah, the calling up to the Torah out fear of persecution or reprisal. examination they all go to the is not as special a ceremony as Bernard Kusinitz, the current family feast in honor of the Bar elsewhere. On the morning of his president of Jeshuat Israel de Mitzvah. Invited are the rabbi, the Bar Mitzvah day, the son goes to scribed the building of the temple heads of the community, relatives the synagogue with his father, and as the fullfillment of the dreams of and friends. On Thursday morning puts on Tallit and Tefillin. After ~ the wandering Jew of Europe. all congregate at the home of the the service, the boy is led home "They had a dream of religious Bar Mitzvah for morning prayer. I like a bridegroom with song and freedom in a dualist state where re The rabbi binds the · Tefillin The 225th anniversary of the Touro Synagogue drew hundreds dance. A big feast awaits him at ligion and government were seper armpiece on the arm of the boy of people from across the nation. home. ated," he said. and his father the headpiece. This Although Bar Mitzvah has gone ff According to the History of the is done to the accompaniment of through many changes through the Touro Synagogue, by Rabbi Dr. song. The Bar Mitzvah is called to centuries, on this day the boy has Theodore Lewis, some of the origi the Torah. come into possession of his nal families had been Marranos - After the Torah is returned to religious heritage. For the first Jews forced to convert to Chris the Ark, the boy delivers his time he has the right to lead a tianity. speech, translating it into Arabic congregation at services, the duty so that the women too may to recite a passage when called to After the American Revolution, understand. When he finishes, the the Torah, the privilege of being there was fear among the Jewish Hakhamin engage him in counted as a member of a community that anti-semitism questions and discussions. On the minyan, and the opportunity to would rise again with the new following Sabbath the boy is called thank G-d for being a member of govenrment. In 1790, the warden on to chant the Haftarah in the the Jewish people. of the synagogue, Moses Seixas synagogue. sent a letter off to George Wash OTHER NORTH AFRICAN ington asking him if the new coun COUNTRIES. On the Sabbath Patronize try would indeed respect the free before the Bar Mitzvah, which is our dom of religion. called Sabbath Tefillin, the advertisers! In response, Washington wrote relatives gather for a party which back, "For happily the Govern ment of the United States which gives to bigotry no sanction, to per Violist Rivka Golani delighted the crowd at Touro Synagogue secution no assistance requires last weekend with a stirring performance of Eastern European Home Health Care Insurance only that they who live under its melodies, protection should demean them and selves as good citizens in giving it on all occasions their effectual sup Nursing Home Insurance IS~Jl'EL port." A copy of Washinton's letter Now Available 'Dear :Friena.s, 'Be an 'Eady 'Birt£! 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I I educators in Conservative schools Rhode Island can take pride in I cm ______STATE __ zIP___ I throughout the United States, and its educators as they continue their Israel in pursuing text studies as profeaaional growth. ·------· 4 - THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1989 Letter To The Editor To The Editor: illness, it is morally wrong. A In response to the letter to the preference or desire for unnatural editor published in your paper on sex is not licensed to act on that Friday, August 11, to my article urge. People have the capacity to [__ o_p_in_i_o_n ______J about sexual orientation laws restrain their behavior and must to printed July 30, 1989, in the 1989 not only obey the law but also for General Assembly, I believe the the benefit of society. author has missed the point. 5. Such legislation would Observations On American Jews______First, there is nothing in the prohibit the barring of sex perverts proposed legislation concerning by Danny Siegel whether heterosexual and/or I cannot think of a town I have developing a 13-week course called ''sexual orientation" and "sexual homosexual around school An expert is anyone who comes been in in the last 25 years where I the National Hebrew Literacy preference" that limits the children in schools that are from more than 50 miles away. Program, which taught 60,000 or haven't met at least one or two of meaning of this legislation to admittedly places of "public In that sense, I am an expert on them. They are the Builders and more people how to read Hebrew. "consenting homosexual adults." accommodation" as defined in the the American Jewish community Sustainers, the Quiet Ones, and He boiled it down to one-day while Therefore, one must conclude that proposal legislation. since I spend my life traveling they are everywhere. simultaneously recognizing the the plain meaning is all the various 6. The attempt by those from community to community - need for the longer course. 2. The Adult Bar and Bat types of sexual aberrations and advocating sexual orientation and teaching, preaching and most of all Mitzvah People: No question Does the one day marathon includes things from "peeping sexual preference law to piggy back learning about mitzvah work. work? Yes. On the Shabbat about it: the single most powerful Toms," rapists, prostitutes, etc. of onto the Civil Rights movement is As a speaker on the Jewish and long-lasting Jewish afterwards, can people follow what which homosexuality is onlv one absolutely wrong. There is a clear Circuit, I am always meeting is going on in synagogue? Yes. educational program in America is type depending on one's "orienta distinction between a voluntary inspiring Jews and picking up Rabbi Golinkin admits a follow-up the adult bar and bat mitzvah tion" or "preference." chosen life pattern and those who hints about the Jewish community program. session is beneficial but they are 2. The author overlooks the fact might be discriminated against by by being one day in • ~ and All I need to do at one of my over the hump, all those people that sodomy, i.e. oral sex, is not reason of race, color, creed, two days later in New Lona., •. ,.,,ograms is ask, "Have any of you who said, "I'll just never learn to only a crime in most states but also religion, and handicap. Civil rights By listening and watching while read Hebrew." ·er had an adult bar or bat a felony in R. I. Most of the other do not destroy the social fabric of on the road, I have come up with a Call 301-964-ALEF and see for mitzvah, and, if so, what was it above sexual aberrations are society and while immoral yourself. The Hebrew readers few positive and negative trends like?" Boom! Hands go up, faces misdemeanors or felonies in Rhode behavior does burden society. benefit, their families benefit, the and emphases - nothing formal or light up, the flow of words begins: Island and as they are in most 7. All the Jewish sages in the scientific - that might be worth community will benefit. the excitement for many of countries and civilizations Torah and Talmud are explicit in noting. Here are three of the learning Hebrew at long last, of The Bad News throughout history. Thus, such treating sexual perversion as So much for the good news. juiciest pluses and three of the being able to follow the practitioners are law breakers. prohibited. They categorize such Three items of bad news. worrisome minuses: prayerbook, to stand before family, 3. The author charges "Bigotry" conduct as an "abomination" and The Good N ewe friends, and the congregation and 1. Oy, The Russians are Coming: to those opposed to such repulsive and beneath human l. The Plethora of Fine Jews: It announce, "I have begun my These are exciting times, and they legislation which would give dignity. Is the doctor bigoted makes no difference if the journey. I feel good." should be reminiscent for many of special rights and priorities a class himself against everyone who a1.1dience or seminar attendees One such, a certain Barbara us of the immigration of our own of "law breakers." Logically then believes in the teaching of the number 250 or 25, everywhere I go grandparents and great Bermack of Pomona, New York, drug addicts could demand such Bible? Are the Vilna Goen, - everywhere - there are so began by secretly learning Hebrew grandparents. But something is special treatment. Other categories Maimonides, and Hillel all bigots many fine people, unsung, to surprise her son on his bar awry when it comes to settling the of law breakers should get the and all wrong? The psychiatry unpublicized, sustaining the mitzvah, then celebrated her own new Soviet Jewish immigrants. benefit of the Anti-discrimination society itself has many who agree Jewish community. bat mitzvah, then became For years we kvetched the legislation, such as kleptomaniacs, that moral standards are They are all ages, both sexes, in president of the synagogue. Russians wouldn't let our people philanderers, gamblers and other absolutely essential for proper every shape and height and weight. Another - a great-grandmother (continued on page 10) categories of law breakers who human conduct and to maintain They are the seller of JNF trees on - joined her granddaughter and have impulses to do "their thing." the family and civilization. a one-to-one basis, they are the became a bat mitzvah on the same 4. Just as adultery may not be an Thomas W. Pearlman finders of the fine quality couch for day. Courageous people, and recently arrived Soviet Jewish glorious benefits for them, their immigrants, they are the ones who circle of friends and relatives, and Where There Is tutor the special-education adult the entire Jewish community. No who wants to be part of a longer will they complain, "I got a No Debate _____ confirmation class in a synagogue. lousy Jewish education as a kid." by Abraham H. Foxman Some 30 different experiments decompression to see at what They are the minyan-makers for They are doing something about it. Mr. Forman is national director were conducted by the Nazis on heights man could go before the shivas of people who otherwise Universally, they recommend the of the Anti-Defamation League Jews, Gypsies, the mentally ill and passing out or dying. would not have a minyan. They experience to others. For two years, scientists and others whom the Nazis deemed As recorded in the transcripts of pick up the flowers the day after a They take seriously those concerned with medical racially unfit. They were not only the Nuremberg trials, Nazi doctors bar mitzvah or right after a Jewish Maimonides' ruling and the ruling ethics have been intensely unfit, the Nazis and their defended their behavior and it is community dinner and take them of everyone from the Talmud until debating the question of whether supporters believed, they the basis of their defense that to the old age home or hospital. modem day Jewish law codes: If a or not researchers today should use undermined the "body politic." forms part of the present debate. They are the ones who make sure parent wishes to study Torah, and data from deadly Nazi medical Experiments included exposure of They claimed that many citizens , the rabbi's discretionary fund has a child wants to learn, the adult experiments. especially if the data death camp inmates to toxic gas of the state were helped by enough money to bury with dignity takes precedence. Adult Jewish could save lives. " If I were faced phosgene to test for an antidote; sacrificing only a few; that these a Jew who dies without enough of education is not a side issue, an with an eight-year-old child who cold-water experiments to see how few were already targeted for an estate to afford a decent adjunct tacked on to other might die," observed Robert L. long Nazi pilots, whose planes death; that the fate of the doomed funeral. budgets. It's THE i88ue. Berger, a physician and professor were shot down into the icy waters was not the concern of scientists, 3. While standing on One Foot at the Harvard Medical School of of the North Sea, could live under who transcend politics in pursuit of - How to Learn to Read Hebrew Medicine, "and I went to the such conditions; the infliction of value-free truths; and that, in any RHODE ISLAND JEWISH in One Day: It's been done in more library and found (the results of gunshot wounds to test the case, they conducted these than 25 different locales, this Nazi experiments) and it might effectiveness of drugs, and the experiments according to state Hebrew Literacy Marathon. More help, I would have a real dilemma." simulation of high-altitude orders and during wartime when HERALD than 1,000 people have been the norms of morality had to be through the program. Rabbi Noah suspended. The ideological (USPS-.780) Golinkin, my childhood rabbi from motives should be acknowledged as - E-,, WNII By Tllo A Rapidly Aging Jewish World Arlington, Va., storms into town well: Nazi doctors, half of whom ---Ing Company with his wife, Dvora, and the class The Jewish world is aging more as the symposium's major theme, joined the Nazi party, believed ASSOCIATE EDIT0AS: settles in for a long day of Alef-Bet, rapidly than any comparable the concrete problems addressed that murdering "undesirables" KAREN J. BUASTEIN complete with · calisthenics, Western population group, with included: The best way to deal restored the nation's health. This JOHN CHADWICK nosherei, and lots of humor. one out of every six Jews currently with the rising number of disabled brutal paradox was noted by After years in congregations, over the age of 65. In the Diaspora, elderly; the implications of the Robert Jay Lifton in his book, ACCOUNT REP: the percentage of elderly Jews is changing family for community Nazi Doctors: Killing was an act of PAM TCATH Golinkin is "retired" and living in Columbia, Md., and doing what he even higher, with almost one in ten service needs; how to harness the healing. IIWUNG AJJOAESS, expected soon to be over the age of potential contribution of the many Box IOl53, Provtdllnce, RI 02SMO has wanted to for years. First Lest we dismiss these arguments TELEPHONE, 75. And while the total world able-bodied elderly and the as specious reasoning contrived by (401) 724-4200 Jewish population is expected to increasing number of young the defendants to save their lives. PUNT, Herald W1y, off Web11er StrNt decline from some 13 million today retirees; and how to advance or as beliefs that only miscrean~ Pawtucket, RI 02861 to 12 million by the year 2010, the inter-generational ties and would entertain, it is important to OFFICE, number of elderly Jews over the promote a feeling of solidarity in 305 W1tennan Avenue note that they are articles of faith East Providence, RI 0291• age of 75 is increasing. meeting total community needs. that continue to influence medical Second dass postage paid at Providence, Rhode A special evening session was practitioners to the present day. tsland. Postmaster send address changes to the A.I. "This aging process has held to honor JDC for its 75 years (continued on next page) Jewish Herald , P.O. Box 6063, Providence. AI02940- profound social and economic of assistance to the Jewish elderly. 6063. implications for Jewish Bert Rabinowitz, member of Woodsy Owl says Subscription Rates: Thirty-five cents the copy. 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Israeli's Answer To cold -water experiments, believing they have scientific validity. "I No Fault Terrorism------believe the data can save lives," he and disrupt its activities for the paralyzed by Western norms of fair by Harry Wall military and political echelons - says. "To save a life is the highest future. The frequency of attempted play in its battle against terror. Director of the Israel also took into account the i:oal." Jerusalem ADL Office fate of the others held hostage in terrorist infiltrations across In recent years. the terrorist Now that the hostage crisis Lebanon. The possibility of Israel's Lebanese border posed a organizations have gotten away But the question is not only seems to have settled into a period retaliation and blackmail was grave security concern. Some 50 with international murder. The whether or not to save a life: we of diplomacy, it is worthwhile considered. It would not be the Israeli soldiers were killed by sabotai:e of the Pan American must also ask at what costs. And taking a look back at Israel's first time, however, that threats Hezbollah terrorists and their airplane over Lockerbie, Scotland there are costs - heavy costs - J, approach to the situation when it were made against the lives of the allies during the last few years is a case in point. Reliable evidence involved in using Nazi data. Some seized Sheik Abdul Karim Obeid. hostai:es. In previous cases they while i:uarding the northern points lo an Iranian-supported have shown that the hypothermia Israel, more than any other were made without any connection border. Palestinian group as being re- data is questionable and was even A country, understands what a mean to the Arab-Israeli conflict. By its daring commando sponsible for this barbaric act. deliberately falsified. Beyond that NE and nasty business is the war The decision, nevertheless, was operation, Israel accomplished the Yet there has been no retribution are the moral costs and these, t
Rhode Island Chapter Association of Jewish Libraries Upcoming Book/ Author Events of Note The members of the Rhode Island Chapter of the Association of Jewish Libraries haue compiled a listing of upcoming book talks, book fairs, and educational euents. All of the euents are free and open to the community. The Rhode Island Chapter is sponsored by the Bureau of Jewish Education of Rhode Island. October 28- A Children's Book Festival Lincoln School October 29 Meet authors and illustrators Providence, R.I. November 16 Building on Books Bureau of Jewish Education 7:30-9:30 p.m. Melody Allen, DSLS November 19- Book Fair Temple Torat Yisrael November 22 Cranston, R.I. December 7 Hugh Nissenson Jewish Community Center Evening Noted author December 7- Book Fair Jewish Community Center December 10 December 8 Doug Lippman Temple Beth-El Evening Famous storyteller Providence, R.I. R.I. Hadassah Welcomes Authoress------Rhode Island Hadassah Day will Hotel. Authoress, Gloria Goldreich Kent County Chapter; Sylv ia take place on Sunday. Sept. 17, will be the guest speaker and will be Baker, Newport Chapter; ,Jan Zeig 1989. The day will be celebrated available for book signing. Greet ler, Pawtucket-Central Falis with an 11:30 a.m. brunch to be ings from National Hadassah will Chapter; Erna Oelbaum, Claire held at the Providence Marriott be extended by Belle Simon, Chair Bell, Providence Chapter; Doris person of the National Organi Chaffee, Sylvia Lapin, South zation Department of Hadassah. County Chapter; May Levinson, The Brunch is sponsored by the Sylvia Dashef, Woonsocket Chap Cranston, Kent County, Newport, ter; Fran Mendell ex-officio, Presi Mrs. Charles B. Dressler Pawtucket-Central Falls, Provi dent, Western New England Region dence, South County and Woon of Hadassah. The wedding of Ellen Lynn Holly Lesser, cousin to the socket Chapters of Hadassah, in Guest speaker, Gloria Goldreich Gaines and Charles Barry Dressler bride, served as maid of honor. cooperation with Western New is an internationally acclaimed took place on July 16, 1989, at Other attendants were Beth England Region of Hadassah, and authoress of such novels as Leah's Temple Beth Israel in West Dressler and Jodi Dressler (sisters is open to all paid up Hadassah Journey, Leah's Children, and Hartford, CT. of the groom), Frances Wasserman Members and Associates. most recently, West to Eden, along The bride from West Hartford is (cousin of the groom) , Sandy The September event will be the with critical essays and short stories the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hamchick and Christine Lima. result of a first time cooperative which have appeared in Commen Normand A. Gaines, and the David Wasserman served as best effort on the part of the Rhode tary, Midstream, Moment, Ha das granddaughter of Morris Kamen man for his cousin. Ushers were Island Hadassah Chapters. Com .,ah Magazine, Congress Monthly, and the late Clara Kamer of Howard Gaines (b rother of the mittee members are Chairman: McCall.,, Redbookm Mademoiselle, Bloomfield, CT. bride), Alan Smith, Robert Lesser Rosalind BoluJky, Secretary: and Ms. Ms Goldreich was edu The groom from Warwick, R.I., (cousins of the groom) , Michael Frances Sadler, Invitations: Aud cated at Brandeis University, Rad is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Max B. Klein (cousin of the bride), and rey Hirsch, Arrangements: Ruth cliffe College, and Hebrew Univer Dressler of Warwick and Palm Richard Spector. Blustein, Frances Sadler, Norma sity. She has served as Public Beach, FL., and the grandson of After a wedding trip tu Hawaii Friedman, Publicity: Lorraine Relations Director of the Baruch Mollie Snyder and the late Samuel and San Francisco, the couple will Rappaport, Decorations: Judy College of the City University of Snyder of Pompano Beach, FL. reside in West Warwick, R.l. Lafferty, Reservations: Fran Weis New York and was an Education man, Library Coordinator: Lillian Department coordinator at Na Schwartz, Greeters: Bella Werner, tional Hadassah. Presently, Ms. Rosalind Boiusky Members at Large: Sara Frank, Goldreich resides with her fam ily Cranston Chapter; Susan Smoller, in Westchester County, New York. It Happened China Scholars, Journalists, Student Activists Focus On Once Tiananmen Clash At Brandeis University Conference Two Jewish businessmen settled in a remote province of Russia, far An international conference, the prospects for democracy in away from any of their brethren. "Perspectives on Tinananmen China. The event is jointly spon As the years passed they prospered 1989," will convene next month at sored by the China Scholars Co greatly. But, too, they started Brandeis University. It will bring ordinating Committee (Cambridge, observing fewer and fewer mitzvot together scholars, journalists, busi Mass.), the China Info rmation until they lived just like their ness and government figures con Center (Newton, Mass.), and gentile neighbors. cerned with China, as well as Brandeis (Waltham, Mass.). After some time they decided to Chinese students, including leaders The conference will be held in return home. On their way back, of the pro-democracy movement Levin Ballroom on Brandeis Uni they stopped for the night at a who fled tu the United States. ve rsity's Waltham campus. Ad village in Kursk. The gentile The two-day conference, Sept. mission to all panel discussions is inn-keeper offered them tea and 16 and 17, will examine the historic free and open to the public. prepared a place for them to sleep. confrontation between students For furth er information contact The two travelers were hungry and and government forces and assess Robert Mitchell at (617) 736- 4200. requested a full supper. L-R: Rachel Rakatansky, Sandra Simon, co-chairpersons of "But my meat isn't kosher." room, they were filled with a one of them wants to eat meat that profound sense of regret for their is not kosher, threaten them the Miriam Hospital Gift and Coffee Shop present a check for their host said. $71,000 to Dr, Alfred Parisi, Chief of Cardiology. "That doesn't bother us," they past behavior. How could they harshly. They will come to repent laUKhed. have strayed so far from the path, and return to their faith through they asked themselves. And now, this. The holy Jew passed awav A little later, they were shocked they were to die out here in this soon after and he was buried by An Active Winter Vacation For People Fifty Years to see their host pointing an axe place, with no relative11 around, his family. I locked this room up, And Older: Volunteer, Study And Tour In Israel menacingly in their direction. nor any reminders of where they and I never let anyone in, unless ·it "Prepare to die. I am going to had come from - where they is a Jew who wants to pray. People fifty years of age and up geography, archaeology, social life. kill you," he screamed at them. who are looking for an active, ,JNF, Israel's land reclamation really belonged. They recalled bits "So now you know why I "What have we done wrong?" meaningful winter vacation may agency, has crafted special itin and pieces of the daily prayers threatened to kill you," explained cried the shocked men. find it in the " Israel Work/Study eraries for both the first-time and which had, at one time, been so the inn-keeper. "Don't waste your words," he much a part of their lives. Humbly, Vacation," arranged by the Jewish veteran visitor to Israel. Program told them."( rob my rich guests." they recited the prayers of The two businessmen were National Fund (JNF). dates are November 15, 1989- He stomped out of the room and confession and wept bitterly. awestruck. They immediately This program offers a variety of January 11, 1990; December 11 , locked the door behind him. They Some time later, the inn-keeper began to investigate who this great two and three month vacations 1989-February 8, 1990; December heard him tell his son how he was appeared at the door. No longer rabbi was. They found out it had during the winter of 1989-1990, 11 , 1989-March IO , 1990; January planning to dispose of them at was his face distorted with anger. been Rabbi Shneur Zalman of solely for people in the 50 plus age I -March 1, 1990. daybreak. "You are both free to go," he told Liadi (the first Chabad Rebbe). He bracket. Costs range from $3,150 per per There was no way out for the them with a smile. "I never really and his family had fled from the son lo $4,250. These include two men. As they looked back over intended to kill you, G-d forbid. onslaught of Napoleon and his They can spend a month explor rnundtrip airfare from New York the past few years of their lives Let me explain to you what this armies in 1812. He had died in his ing ,Jerusalem, the Galilee or a with El Al Airlines, hotels (four they asked themselves why they was all about. village and was buried in Haditch. Kibbutz; care for young trees in star). :l meals (Kosher) per day, had traveled so far from their "Many years ago, a certain holy The two men went straight to ,JNF forests; teach English to chil tours. transportation to volunteer homes. Jew passed through our village, Haditch, where they poured out dren; help needy Israeli families; jobs. tips and more. The inn-keeper entered the and stayed in my inn. He took their hearts at the resting place of study archaeology and go on newly A brochure or additional infor r
h~ Oot11tht•:1 Sn~drr (__ w_o_rl_d_a_n_d_N_at_i_on_a_I_N_e_w_s __ ) Dorothea Snyder's page will resume next week.
Lay Volunteers As Israel-Trained Cantors To Conduct Rabbinic Aids High Holiday Services In To help meet a national USSR, Hungary, Romania shortage of rabbis, an When the sound of the shofar Foundation for the Advancement experimental two-week course has of Cantorial Art. It is staffed by been given for the first time by the (ram's horn) calls Jews to prayer on the Jewish New Year next prominent music teachers and Union of American Hebrew cantors. Congregations that trains rabbinic month, religious services in the aides and provides them with the USSR, Hungary and Romania will Restoring The Art skills and self-confidence they be led for the first time by cantors Of The Cantor need to fulfill their roles trained in Israel, it was announced In announcing the effectively. this week by the American precedent-setting program to send The program, believed to be the foundation that will fund their Israeli cantors to major first of its kind undertaken by any mission to Eastern Europe. Eastern-bloc communities, Mr. Jewish denomination, was The announcement was made by Wiener said: initiated last month when 15 men Haim Wiener of Miami, president "We are committed to and women, active in their local of the Gila and Haim Wiener maintaining an international Reform synagogues across the Foundation and the American effort to strengthen Jewish country, completed two weeks of Society for the Advancement of identification by restoring the art lectures, classes and practical Cantorial Arts, which are of the cantor to its pre-war glory in exercises in which they performed dedicated to rejuvenating and the lands where hazzanut rabbinical duties under simulated preserving Jewish liturgy. (cantorial singing) came to flower. conditions. The cantors, all students or "As the Jewish year 5750 begins, The program was conducted at graduates of the Israel Institute of the chants of our cantors will Kutz Camp in Warwick, N.Y., Cantonal Art, will lead Rosh inspire our fellow-Jews in the national leadership center of the Hashanah and Yorn Kippur Choral Synagogue in Moscow, in North American Federation of prayers at synagogues in Moscow the Choral Synagogue in Temple Youth (NFTY), from July and Leningrad, Debrecen in Leningrad; in Debrecen, Hungary, Hungary, and six cities in 15 to 29. as well as in Bucharest, Jassy and "We are so pleased with the Romania. four other cities in Romania." results that we plan to double the The Israel Institute of Cantorial Master Cantors Toured size of next summer's class and Art, located in Tel Aviv, is a joint Eastern Europe make it an annual event," said venture of three institutions: The Earlier this summer, a group of Rabbi Daniel Syme, vice president Tel Aviv Foundation(rel Aviv master cantors from the United RABBINIC AIDE: Stephanie Aaron of Congregation Cha Municipality; the Jerusalem Great of the UAHC, who helped plan the verim, Tucson, Ariz., conducts a Shabbat service as part of a States, Canada and Israel under course and supervised the project. Synagogue - Hechal Shlomo and two-week training course for Reform rabbinic aides sponsored the Gila and Haim Wiener (continued on page 11 ) He added: by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. The program, "Lay volunteers who serve believed to be the first of its kind undertaken by any Jewish Orthodox Split In Jewish communities or synagogues denomination, consisted of lectures, study sessions and "practi where there are no rabbis, or who cums." The students were 15 lay volunteers who serve Jewish Land-For-Peace fill in when the rabbi is busy with communities or synagogues where there are no rabbis or the by David Landau accentuate the difference between other pastoral duties, are a Jewish rabbi is busy with other pastoral duties. The program, designed religions Zionism and haredism," tradition. They are especially to help meet a critical shortage of rabbis, will be repeated next JERUSALEM (JTA) - The re meaning ultra-Orthodoxy. needed today, when there is a summer. ligious bloc is sharply divided over The party's national secretary, critical shortage of Reform rabbis. the land-for-peace issue. Shaul Yahalom, said speeches this "Although rabbinic aides are not aide may conduct the religious workers, teachers and The National Religious Party, week by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the certified to sign wedding ceremony, provided that a judge or administrators. The oldest trainee which speaks fo r religious Zionism, Shas party's spiritual guide, and certificates or perform other public official is present to was James Glazman, 62, a baker has taken exception to recent pro Rabbi Eliezer Schach, who has the conversions, they can lead sign the necessary civil from Minnesota, who has served nouncements by the spiritual same role in Degel Hatorah, are the religious services and ceremonies documents," he explained. for many years as a volunteer at mentors of the ultra-Orthodox product of a discredited anti such as naming a new baby, Students Aged 29 to 62 Temple Israel in Duluth. The class Shas and Degel Hatorah parties, Zionist line. presiding at a circumcision or The students ranged in age from was made up of nine women and who favor territorial compromise if Yosefs lecture, which opened conducting a funeral. When a 29 to 62. They included lawyers, six men, including two married it leads to peace. the annual Oral Law Study con marriage takes place, a rabbinic business executives, social (continued on page 12) The NRP announced that it will ference at the Mossad Harav Kook mount a public campaign "to here, climaxed a fortnight of in --:-,, tense controversy and speculation in religious and political circles fol lowing Yosefs meeting in Egypt last month with President Hosni Mubarak. Yosef, a former Sephardic chief rabbi, had told the Egyptian leader KNOW SOMEONE that in Jewish law, the value of saving lives could supersede the value of retaining all of the Holy Land. GETTING MARRIED? Yosef, considered the foremost religious leader of the age, repeated his theme in his lecture, citing copiously from Talmudic and TELL US TIIEIR NA.i.'ffi AND ADDRESS halachic sources. Like Schach, Yosef upheld the AND WE'LL SEND TIIEM A ONE YEAR halachic principle of "pikuach nefesh," or saving human life, over CO:MPLIMENfARYSUBSCRIPTION the sanctity of the Holy Land. TO TIIE HERALD He maintained that in exchange for true peace, territorial con cessions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be acceptable by halachic standards. r------, But Yosef declined to issue a for mal halachic "psak," or ruling, to I Couple's Name ______this effect, "since it is not presently I Address ______practicable." Israel's two chief rabbis, the I Ashkenazic Shapiro and the I ------Zip---- Sephardic Mordechai Eliahu, hold I Wedding Date ______an opposing view on land-for Your Nam...______peace. They recently issued a joint I halachic ruling that forbids any Address ______territorial concessions. I In opposing Yosef and Schach, I Yahalom said the NRP would ------Zip _____ undertake a countrywide campaign ~ ~~ I to stress the values of patriotism "'./\ I Mail this coupon to: and supreme sacrifice for Jewish Rhode sovereignty. , -~,:";:~ I Rhode Island Herald He said the NRP would also urge 1 • , ~.---,. .-_~, P.O.Box 6063 Island Herald parents to think twice before they · ~r; -f,-t;j:--'.::' ~ Providence, RI 02940 send their children to the rapidly
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Jewish Television in Rhode Island Jewiab Programming 011 Interconnect Cbannela Channel 49 in every city except those served by Heritage Cable (__ A_rt_s_a.....,n_d_E_n_te_r_ta_i_n_m_e_n_t ______J (Lincoln, Woonsocket). Heritage Cable station 57. AlrTlmea Thu™1ay evenings 7 p.m., Sunda)' Morning 10:30 ·a.m. The Dybbuk To Be Presented ______One of Judaism's most fascin ating and unusual literary works, Jewish Television Magazine "The Dybbuk" (Der Dibuk), was made into a Yiddish feature film in lirs Program On Anne Frank 1937. Following World War II, the film existed only in an incomplete NEW YORK - "Jewish Tele happened to Anne Frank and her family, as well as interviews with version. Reels were missing and vision Magazine," the monthly the quality of the prints were poor. magazine-format program pro people close to her or involved in preserving her memory and the The National Center for Jewish duced by the Council of Jewish Film at Brandeis University in values for which she has come to Federations, will devote its entire Waltham, Mass., has spent the last half-hour program in September to stand. For example, there are inter views with Otto Frank, her father, five years piecing the film together. "The World of Anne Frank." This A who was the only member of the newly restored version has been special edition of "Jewish Tele completed and family to survive the war and who will be shown at a vision Magazine" was produced by private screening Sept. died in 1980 at the age of91 ; Miep 14 at New W.JUF, an affiliate of the Jewish York's Museum of Modern Art, fol Federation of Metropolitan Chi Gies, the last surviving member of the group of "helpers" upon whom lowed by a limited two-week run cago. beginning Sept. 15 at Festival the desperate Jews hiding over Mr. The TV program is based on an Theatre, 6 W. 57th St., Manhattan. Frank's business office depended, extraordinary exhibition of photo The film will also be featured in and Bauco van der Wal , Executive graphs of Anne Frank and the the Boston Film Festival on Sept. Director of the Anne Frank Center. world in which she lived, including 21, with a planned run immediately Interspersed throughout the pro some never before seen, which has after. It will be seen Sept. 5 at the gram are appearances by an actress been ·touring the United States. Venice Film Festival in Italy. And who dramatizes the writing of While the exhibition was shown at the film will be among five Yiddish Scene from The Dybbuk Spertus College of Judaica in Chi some of the most memorable Mancia said. "Its black and white turally diverse audience. passages of Anne Frank's diary. feature films to be shown at the cago, WJUF decided to create a Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, images are filled with drama. "One of the reasons I fmd the documentary including many of The monthly programs, now in Calif., and at Boston's Museum of There is an underlying sense of translation wofk and research these rare and moving photo the fifth year, which make up the Fine Arts in November and De tragedy to the film because of what work on the film so important is graphs. "Jewish Television Magazine" cember. ultimately happened to the Jewish because I'm retrieving a resource The documentary includes not .series are made available to local "The Dybbuk," based on the people during the Holocaust. The that was previously inaccessible to only photographs but historical Jewish communities affiliated with celebrated play written by S. Museum of Modern Art is inter modern audiences," Fried said. footage that provides the back the Council of Jewish Federa Ansky during 1912-1917, tells the ested in the film because so much "With the restored print made by ground that set the stage for what tions, which then obtain air time story of .two lovers in a 19th cen of that culture was lost and so NCJF at Brandeis, the film is on their local television stations. tury Polish-Jewish village. It deals many wonderful people were lost. opened up to an entirely new with the themes of broken vows, Whatever we can preserve from audience." Books~------eternal love, piety, possession and this era is important to us." At the premiere of the film at the shows that transitions are not only exorcism. Shot on location in According to Sharon Rivo, Museum of Modern Art Sept. 12, Between Berlin and Slobodka. personal but intellectual. What NCJF's executive director, "We two of the surviving actors of the Jewish Transition Figures Poland in 1937, during the height makes the book interesting is not of the Jewish cultural activities were fmally able to do the recon film, Judith Berg and Leon Lieb from Eastern Euro~. Hillel only the problem but also the struction by putting together five gold, will be honored. Also being Goldberg. Hoboken, 1989: and artistic freedom which pre topic. Goldberg writes about not ceded World War II, the film cap separate prints of the film that we honored will be Arnold Picker, Ktav Publishing House. 268 only well-known figures such as tures the rich cultural heritage, found from Australia, the United chairman of the board of NCJF, pp. Heschel and Wolfson, but also folkways, superstitions and prac States, Canada and England. Total who, along with his wife Ruth, Reviewed by Jacob Neusner those who are not well-known in tices of traditional Jewish life. cost of the project exceeded have created a preservation fund Scholar and journalist, Goldberg non-Orthodox Judaisms, such as According to Adrian Mancia, $50,000." that will enable NCJF to continue writes in a very engaging way. His Soloveitchik (a mere name to most film curator for the Museum of Like film curator Adrian Man its important work_. people outside Israel Salanter: Text, Structure, of Yeshiva Modern Art in New York, the film cia, Rivo sees the film as an im Idea, is the best book in the University Orthodoxy) and is "extraordinary." portant historical and artistic English language Hutner and Lipovitz, whom many on that "As a film, 'The Dybbuk' is ex achievement. Advertise in THE HERALD. important figure. Goldberg taught cannot identify at all. tremely moving and exotic," "When the film was first re Call 724-0200 at the Hebrew University, This should not be dismissed as viewed," Rivo said, "the press Jerusalem, and is now editor of the an academic book. It is anything viewed it with disdain, because it Intermountain Jewish News, but academic, though it is learned. was riddled with Orthodoxy, tradi Denver. It is a very engaging, attractive, these six figures define what we tion and mysticism. Today, those Goldberg has chosen a very highly readable, narrative book, in can mean by moral authority, are the exact elements that people •II interesting problem in the history which the author's gifts as gained through intellectual in are attracted to, because they are of Judaism in the twentieth story-teller compel the reader to particular. These all were great visual images of a way of life that THE•• century, and it is a very original follow his story. It is a great story, men, and all of them have left a has almost totally been destroyed. choice. He takes a variety of beautifully told, about important model and a heritage of ideas of The film was shot in Warsaw, but significant East European and significant figures. It also incalculable value. it starred the great actors and CAMERA intellectuals and follows them on treats an important and exemplary Goldberg has written a great actresses of the Vilna Troupe, one their journey to the West, a subject, so if you read this book, book for a vast Jewish reading of the finest Yiddish theatrical WEAKS journey that was in part you find you understand more public, the most important book troupes of its time." biographical, in part intellectual. about yourself and your ideas on the intellectual history of the The film has been restored with His figures are Salanter, Harry A. about the world than you knew Jewish people in the first half of a new translation of the Yiddish Camera -~ Wolfson, Isaac Hutner, Joseph there was to understand. What the twentieth century that I have into English subtitles by Sylvia Repair Baer Soloveitchik, Abraham these people went through in their ever read. Fuks Fried, an instructor of Yid Joshua Heschel, and Joseph Zev minds, the answers of nearly all of Jacob Neusner is Member of the dish at Brandeis. Fried has recently (401) 273-7247 or Lipovitz. Some of these names are us went through in their everyday Institute for Advanced Study, been awarded a grant by the Massa dial 2-REPAIR familiar, others unknown to us. lives: transition from one world to Princeton, New Jersey, and chusetts Council on the Arts and But all of them represent truly another, loss of one world, but no University Professor at Brown Humanities to write program notes distinguished figures educated in gain of another. University, Providence, R.l. on the film. According to Fried, the 764 Hope Street the Yeshiva world, and all came to True, none of these figures can new print of the film should enable Providence, RI 02906 Berlin. give much guidance to the it to be seen by a larger, more cul- Goldberg's thesis is this, in his generations to come, for their basic own words: "Underneath the situation - transition from one complexities and subtleties of culture to another - hardly speaks THE AMERICAN HEART cross-cultural figures who to ours. American Jews in no way ASSCUATION originated in Eastern Europe, are transitional, fully settled as MEMORIAL l'RG;RAM, there rests an elemental fissure. they are in one language, one This fissure, an experience of life, culture, one society, one politics. gave a distinct force and But each of these figures defined a WERE FIGHTir;;:; FO?\OJl LIFE fascination to intellectual work. way of making a move from culture Thinkers who set forth complex to culture, and the stories of their VAmerican Heart Association ideas, eloquently expressed in lives and the portraits of their languages not their mother tongue, thought so ably composed by This space provided as a public service. found their primary nurture in a Goldberg from an unusually simple, searing decision . . . to interesting account of courage and blend received tradition with conscience. In a profound sense, unheralded ideas . .." The method of the book is biographical and r SPEND A MONTH THIS WINTER IN ISRAEL "' narrative, because, as Goldberg says, "Their thought grew from February 21 - March 21, 1990 life, responding to its crises .. . Escorted by Jack and Rhoda Mossberg of Winkleman Travel Their thought - psychological, theological, philosophical, political $1889.00 per person, double occupancy - pressed through a prism that from Providence, El Al, 2 meals a day, sightseeing refracted idea from action, CAPTAIN'S CATCH SEAFOOD Call for brochure persuasive formulation from WE SEH\ ICE 'JIHI: WllOI [SAi I & RITAII TRADI personal struggle." WINKLEMAN TRAVEL Open Da1h 9-6 fn 9-7 We tend to think of the NORl H PR0\'11)1 NCI ll!A~S I 0:\ immigrant generation to the USA, 720 Reservoir Ave., Cranston, RI 943-7700 l 706 Mm<.>r,,1 Spnng Au• 661 Oakl.mn A\c> from 1880 to 1920, as the Outside RI 1-800-234-5595 i.'.'>J 6 l'iO 1 \II HIil i \._, 1111111._ 110,, 9•t t 6280 transitional one. But GoldberE Unveiling synagogues. An unveiling will be held in 3. No Significant Progress with memory of the late Agnes E. the Big Numbers: I've been warned Goldberg-Reingold on and fail to heed the warning - Sunday, September 3 at 10:30 what about the thousands 01 [~_o_b_it_u_a_ri_e_s ______] a.m. in Lincoln Park thousands of others who remain Cemetery, Warwick. Rela uninvolved, totally assimilated? tives and friends are invited to Israelis have a point about that: FRANCES DIAMOND years. NATHAN EDELMAN attend. you can be very secular and still She leaves a daughter, June PROVIDENCE Nathan PROVIDENCE Frances very Jewish in Israel. In America Diamond, 95, a resident of the Bazar of Cranston; two Edelman, 78, a resident of the Observations you can be very secular and Jewish Home for the Aged, 99 grandchildren and a great-grand: .Jewish Home for the Aged, died (continued from page 4) nowhere Jewishly in the Diaspora. Hillside Ave., died Thursday, daughter. Monday, August 21 at Miriam out. Now big numbers are coming You don't give to Jewish causes, August 17 at home. Hospital. He was the husband of and we are raising funds to help you don't affiliate with Jewish Graveside services were held the late Esther (Ackerman) pay for the settling-in. organizations, you don't have to Born in Dudley, England, a Sunday, August 20 at Lincoln Edelman and the late Anna (Box) But I hear the rumblings, the care in any way about the destiny daughter of the late Israel and Park Cemetery, Warwick. Services Edelman. grumbling, the undertones that of the Jewish People. Annie (Rickles) Kaufman, she had we re coordinated by Mount Sinai A lifelong resident of communal leaders pass on to me: You read about the mixed lived in Providence 30 years. She Memorial Chapel, 825 Hope St., Providence, he was a son of the some people don't want to give for marriages in the Sunday society previously lived in Boston for 35 Providence. late Louis and Rose Edelman. the local campaign for settling the page of The New York Times. Mr. Edelman was a truck driver immigrants. They say, "The last You hear about them when you for 45 years for the former Max ones - look what we did for them, ask Federatiops how many are · ~ ...... ,. .... -.. ~c:.~~~\i~i::;· .:.,. . t·.·. · . Silverstein Compa{ly, local 1 and now that they are here for a givers out of how many in the newspaper distributors, retiring in .,,, .. , ;.~;<~1:·~.-.·.·· '. few years, they're not involved. Giving Pool. 1978. He was a member of the They stay to themselves, they Teamsters Union Local 251 You know about them when you don't want to integrate into the announce the adult education RUBIN MEMORIALS :~i~~f AFL/CIO. community." courses in a 1,750-member t'·::- An Army World War II veteran, To that, my only response is synagogue and 79 people sign up. ·Monuments and memorials ;\:. he was a former member of that, as I understand the mitzvah I have no panacea. I have seen a in the finest granite and bronze. ::· .· Congregation Sons of Jacob. of pidyon sbevuyim (redeeming little progress in the area of The In-house consultations by appointment He leaves a son, Malcom captives), it is up to US to help Big Numbers since I hit the road Edelman of West Warwick; a bring them to freedom and get 25 years ago - but not much. LEffERING • CLEANING • REPAIRS brother, William Edelman of them started in the new life, and ... Warwick; two sisters, Ann Leon J. Rubin up to THEM to decide what to do Perhaps what is needed is a Kaufman and Hilda Brodsky, both 726-6466 with that freedom and that new meeting of the leaders, lay and of Warwick, and three life. We owe them everything and professional, and the wealthy grandchildren. they don't owe us anything, though movers-and-shakers to review and The funeral service was held everyone would be delighted if they evaluate the Jewish agenda. Wednesday, August 23 in Mount got more involved. The mitzvah is If the good news is so good in Sinai Memorial Chapel, 825 Hope OUR obligation. certain areas, let's beef these St., Providence. Burial was in How sad that so many of us - programs up on a massive scale. If In time of need Lincoln Park Cemetery, Warwick. Russian descendants - do not call the bad news is so bad in certain there is no to mind the boats, the steerage, the areas, let us set our minds and MIL TON PERLOW ancestors with their pushcarts, resources to stemming the flow substitute for EAST PROVIDENCE their dry-goods stores, their with new and different insight. Milton Perlow of 33 Church St., an junkyards, all to put us through To quote the Book of Job, Compassion optometrist in Central Falls for 40 college and medical school. "Though your beginnings be small, years before retiring in 1980, died How soon we forget. the end result will be exquisite." and Integrity. Wednesday, August 16 at home. 2. The Still Slower-Than- Danny Siegel is an author, He was the husband of Lillian Desired Response to Growing lecturer and expert on identifying (Rosenberg) Perlow. Problems in Special Segments of · and supporting grass-roots Born in Pawtucket, a son of the the Community: That means When we face the sad need to arrange for mitzuah work in the United States late Max and Jennie (Webber) battered spouses, Jewish adult and Israel. This article was made the funeral of a loved one, it is a time of Perlow, he lived in East alcoholics and drug abusers, possible by a grant from The Fund Providence since 1980. runaway Jewish kids, poor and for Journalism on Jewish Life, a overwhelming grief. It is a time when the hungry Jews, and Jews with strongest of us needs a Haven of Trust. Mr. Perlow was a World War II project of The CRB Foundation ot Army veteran. He was a graduate disabilities. Montreal, Canada. Any views I am dedicated to meeting this need with of the Massachusetts College of I didn't say we are doing expressed are solely those of th Optometry. He was a member of nothing. author. compassion and integrity. Temple Emanu-EI, its Men's Club, I just said "Slower-Than-Desired." Alkaline Batteries MICHAEL D. SMITH and the Touro Fraternal EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Association. For all the battered women's Cost More Besides his wife he leaves two shelters in North America, I can If you have any battery operate~ MAX SUGARMAN daughters, Gail Perlow, a secretary still count in 30 seconds how many equipment (toys included) ym in the circulation department of are for Jews and run by Jews: Los aren't surprised to be told th MEMORIAL CHAPEL the Journal-Bulletin, of East Angeles, New York, Montreal, alkaline batteries cost more. B Providence, Mary-Ellen Leer of Toronto, Baltimore, Chicago and 458 HOPE STREET • PROVIDENCE.• Cor. Hope & Doyle did you know that they also las Stoughton, Mass., and two maybe one or two more. And two lunger? In fact, they last up to 11 grandsons. or three of those began in the past times longer than regular batterie LEWIS f. 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Fifty Years Ago In JTA Rhode Island Herald - Classifieds History 15 words - $3.00 12 ¢ each additional word Palestine Girds For War JERUSALEM,Aug.25,1939 I (JTA) - Preparations to put Category ______Palestine on a full war footing went I forward rapidly today as heavy Message ______I movements of British troops to I Egypt got under way. To replace the troops, the government pre I pared for mobilization of all cate I gories of Jewish supernumeraries, I whose number is estimated at 20,000. I I Jews Give Polish Army I MASTER CANTORS ENTHRALL HUNGARY - A wildly War Equipment As Sign Name ______Phone ____ I enthusiastic audience of 7,000 persons, including Hungary's Of Loyalty Address ______I President Bruno F. Straub, filled Budapest's Dohany Synagogue WARSAW, Aug. 25, 1939 I to capacity for a stirring performance of hazzanut by five of the (JTA) - The Jewish Merchants world's foremost cantors. The group recently completed a six Union today turned over to the I city mission to the Soviet Union, Hungary and Israel under the Polish Army an anti-aircraft gun, No. Words _____ Date (s) run______I aegis of the American Society for the Advancement of Cantorial three anti-tank guns, three ma Arts (ASCA) and the Gila and Haim Wiener Foundation. Stand chine guns and one tank. High PAYMENT I ing (I. to r.) in front of the ark of the Budapest synagogue - government officials and repre Payment MUST be received by Tuesday afternoon, PRIOR to the I largest in Europe - Mr. Wiener, the world's leading supporter sentatives of the Polish Army were of hazzanut; Cantor David Bagley of Toronto; Cantor Louis Thursday on which the ad is to appear. 10% discount for ads running I present at the ceremony. continuously for one year. I Danto of Downsview, Ont.; Cantor Moshe Stern of Jerusalem; Ex-Senator Raphael Szereszew Cantor Arie Braun of Tel Aviv; Cantor Daniel Gildar of Phila ski, prominent Jewish banker, in Thank You I delphia, accompanist; Cantor Pinchas Rabinovicz of Los An L _ ff.I. JEWISH HERAID, P.O. BOX 6063, PROVIDENCE. RI 02940 _ _j geles, and Irving Kuttler. ASCA vice president. (continued on page 12) 12 - THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1989 (continued from page 11) Land-For-Peace MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS BRIG~TEN turning over the gift, pointed out (continued from page 8) THE WORLD! LIGHT SHABBOS CANDLES! the readiness of Polish Jews to Yosef and his supporters a180 sacrifice their lives in defense of were criticized by right-wing poli· Poland. ticians. Geula Cohen of Tehiya went as far as to link Yosers posi· Candle Lightfng Times For: ~·. 'I · Fifth Of 50,000 Jewish tion to a terror attack in Ramallah. Providence, Rhode Island 5750-1989-1990 · • Doctors In World Hit By Cohen noticed that Yosef had Anti-Semitic Laws, said that the Jews did not really 5750-1989 • Q exercise control over the Arab Parley Told cities in Judea and Samaria. "Our r; GENEVA, Aug. 25, 1939 enemies are encouraged by such ~ , (JTA) - A world conference of statements to take action demon September October November Jewish physicians was informed by strating their validity," Cohen said 1 7:02 6 6:02 3 4:20 Dr. Julius Brutzkus of Paris today bitterly. 8 6:50 •s YOMKJ 5:58 10 4:12 that 10,000 of the world's 50,000 But Yosef has been strongly sup 15 6:38 •13 SUKKOT 5:50 17 4:06 Jewish doctors had been deprived ported by Minister of Interior Arye 22 6:26 •14 SUKKOT 6:51 24 4:01 of their livelihoods in recent years Deri of Shas, who is known to •29 ROSH HA 6:14 •20 S.ATZ 5:39 by discriminatory legislation. favor a Shas alliance with Labor •ao ROSH HA 7:15 •21 S. TORAH 6:40 Rabbinic Aids rather than Likud. Deri, who 27 5:29 (continued from page 8) Britain, Agency Map Plans traveled with Yosef to Egypt, couples. · attended the rabbi's lecture and Rabbi Gary Bretton-Granatoor, For New Jewish Legion was seen vigorously applauding. Eastern Standard Time Resumes Nov. 3 dean of the program and director To Defend Palestine According to the ultra-Orthodox of adult Jewish studies for the PARIS, Aug. 27, 1939 (JTA) daily Yated Ne'eman, organ of 1989 5750-1990 UAHC, noted that all of the - The British government is ne Degel Hatorah, the views expressed students were already serving as gotiating with the Jewish Agency by rabbis Yosef and Schach were December January February rabbinic aides. "Some have been for Palestine for creation of a new not merely intellectual hypothe 1 3:58 5 4:11 2 4:44 doing it for years," he said, "but Jewish Legion, particularly to de sizing, remote from reality. 8 3:57 12 4:19 9 4:53 their knowledge varied widely. fend Palestine in the event of war, Granting that there is no im 15 3:58 19 4:27 16 5:02 That's why they enrolled. They it was learned here today. Pales mediate possibility of trading land 22 4:01 26 4:35 23 5:11 wanted to learn more about how to tinian Jewish youths would play for peace, the newspaper said that 29 4:05 fill their roles." the leading role in such a force, but the two rabbis made it crystal clear The two-week training period Jewish youths from other lands that the halacha would favor such a Eastern Standard Time consisted of lectures and might also be considered. trade if and when the possibility workshops given by leading figures arises. March April May of Reform Judaism, including Polish Jews Join In Meanwhile, two newspapers of 2 5:19 6 6:58 4 7:29 Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, Defense Work: Many Dig secular Israel rapped the Orthodox 9 5:27 •9 PESACH 7:02 11 7:36 president of the UAHC, central Trenches, Work On rabbis for bringing their religious 16 5:35 •10 PESACH 8:03 18 7:43 body of Reform Judaism; Albert Sabbath authority to bear on the land-for 23 5:43 13 7:06 25 7:50 Vorspan, senior vice president; WARSAW, Aug. 28, 1939 peace controversy, whether for or 30 5:51 •15 PESACH 7:08 •29 SHAV 7:53 Rabbi Syme, Rabbi Jack Stem, (JTA) - The Jewish population is against concessions. • 16 PESA CH 8 :09 •so SHAV 8:55 former president of the Central actively participating in special Ha'aretz and the Jerusalem Post 20 7:14 Conference of American Rabbis; defense measures throughout the argued in editorials that the rabbis 27 7:21 and Dr. Norman J . Cohen, dean of country. Old and young Jews, are not better qualified than other the rabbinic program at Hebrew many of them wearing traditional thoughtful citizens to participate in Daylight Sevlngs Time Resumes April 6 Union College-Jewish Institute of garb, are digging air raid pre the debate. Religion. caution trenches, of which Warsaw " If they have no special status in June August The course of study covered 120 alone has 250 covering several this field, it would be better that July hours of instruction in Hebrew, they kept out of it," Ha'aretz said. 1 7:56 6 8:05 3 7: 44 kilometers. Torah study, commentaries and Many Orthodox Jews are work The Post was critical of the state 8 8:00 13 8:02 10 7:35 Midrash, liturgy, Jewish law, ing even on the Sabbath, holding appointed chief rabbis. Their 15 8:04 20 7:57 17 7:25 pastoral care, marriage and family that the danger of war and the duty "attempt to decree halachic 22 8:06 27 7:51 24 7: 15 counseling, synagogue music and standards of judgement as authori 29 8:06 31 7:03 of defending their country absolves social action. The students were them from observing the Sabbath tative on the great state issues of Daylight Savings Times required to conduct daily services rest. peace and war, and thus superior to and officiate at simulated events the secular judgement of our demo· such as a brit, a bar- or Editorial and Advertising cratic institutions of governance, bat-mitzvah, a wedding and a constitutes a wholly unwarranted funeral. Deadline is Tuesday Noon rabbinical interference in matters 'An Intense for Thursday's Paper. of state," _the Post said. Learning Experience' Many of the participants expected this to be a survey course, Rabbi Bretton-Granatoor observed. 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BLESSINGS FOR HOLIDAYS that the effort should be expanded in coming years," he said. Select the - ending lor dM -roprlate Vom Tov: We reserve the right to limit quantities and are not He explained that the course responsible for typographical errors. Baruch Alo Ado-noy Elo-hay-nu Melech Ho-olom was not intended to replace A-sher Kid-shOnu B'mttz-w-sov V-Tzi-vonu ordained rabbis but "to help meet L 'had-Ilk Ner Shel the needs of congregations where (on Friday add - SHA-BOS V-SHEL) no rabbi is available or the rabbi Pesach. Shavuos. and Succos: Yom Tav needs assist.ance." RickMisbin Rosh Hashanah: Yom He-11-Koron A number of students in the INVESTMENT Yom Klppur: Yom He-Ktppurtm program were from congregations Add thlo W..,,. lollowlntl uch of the abow blaNlngo: in small or isolated communities PLANNING acept for the lat Holldayo of Paach. that have no rabbis. Others assist Boruch Alo Ado-noy Ela-nay-nu Melech Ho-olom rabbis in synagogues that cover so FOR THE NOT SO She-heh-Che-yonu V'kN-mo-nu V'h9911N-o'nu wide a geographical area that the LNz-man-Ha-zeh. rabbis are unable to fulfill all their S pecial lnatructlono for Holld•yo (But not on Shabbat). II is forbidden pastoral obligations themselves RICH AND to create a n- lire t,y striking a match. hghler. etc. However. it 1s oer and must depend on volunteer mlssable to use a flame already burning since before the inception of assistants to lead Shabbat and Registered Financial Planner FAMOUS the holiday, such as a pilot ltght, gas or candle !lame. holiday services when they are ' Whether you are busy accumulating money for retire CAUTION FOR FRIDAYS: unavailable. In these communities, volunteers also officiate at ment or are already retired and trying to increase your DO NOT light candle alter sunset so as not to deSecrate the ShabboS life-cycle events, lead adult study tt Is lorbkldm to tight the candles alter sunset groups, comfort the bereaved, visit return, INVESTMENT PLANNING is a necessity. • Spaces marked by asterisk denote Holiday schedule. Candlelight1ng the sick and offer support and Call for a confidential appointment. No fee or time for the second night of the Hottday 1s usually about one hour assistance to members of obligation. alter the candlellghtlng lime of t~e previous nigh•~ congregations in personal pain. The idea for the rabbinic aide (401) 943-2210 ".------, \ ;· /r '·...,----...__::, program grew out of a INVESTMENT & TAX PLANNING ...,...,. 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A2 -· THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1989 Parent Involvement At South County Hebrew School South County Hebrew School is Temple Habonim a community school located in Southern Rhode Island. The Temple Habonim is a growing faculty meetings, parallel school is supported by tuition, a institution that refuses to become Education Committee meetings, grant from the Bureau of Jewish "institutional." The synagogue is and a front-page article in the Education of Rhode Island and small enough to permit its rabbi Temple Habonim Bulletin, the donations. We cover the needs of and school principal, James B. Parent Involvement Day program the Jewish community from North Rosenberg, to know every family last March 12 evolved into "The Kingstown South. Our school in the congregation and every Israel Experience." On that meets at URI Hillel in Kingston on student in the religious school. Sunday morning students in Sunday mornings and Wednesday The Temple Habonim grades one through six along with afternoons. Students in grades Education Committee, the their parents had the opportunity Kindergarten through second religious school faculty, and Rabbi to look at the Israel that exists grade have classes once a week and Rosenberg are all committed to beyond the front page. After those up to seventh grade have helping parents become more viewing an introductory video, classes twice a week. Our involved in their children's Jewish Temple Habonim families heard a curriculum covers such subject education. They are convinced story about Israel, wrote a prayer areas as Hebrew, bible, Jewish that what children learn in the to be placed in the "Western history, holidays, customs and synagogue's school must be Wall," completed a map of the ceremonies and Israel. Our A South County Hebrew class: Jessica Perlman, Brooke German reinforced in the home setting. For Middle East, and learned some teachers are both community and Ariel Bender with teacher, Amy Berger. the past three years the school has conversational Hebrew. To members and URI students. This sponsored a Parent Involvement conclude the morning, Rabbi past year we have had close to 40 Bar/Batmitzvahed there. Some of has written a complete new Day in order to help address these Rosenberg and Cantor Daniel students (up from 19 a few years these programs over the past year curriculum for the entire school. concerns. Each of the three Parent Marwil led the group in the singing ago) and we anticipate an even have been Shabbat family services School Board members under the Involvement Days has been a time of Israeli songs. larger enrollment in the coming with dinners; Channukah party leadership of Robin Nelson, when parents learn alongside their Though the two and one half year due to the increase in Jewish with entertainment and President, put many hours into children; hopefully these shared hours on Sunday morning, March families moving to this area. Most refreshments; Purim megillah this process. The school is run by learning experiences will lead to a 12, were crammed with activities, of our students are from the reading and party; Simchat Torah Linda Zell, Principal, who was also fuller and deeper practice of this particular program could only Kingston and Narragansett areas. services; Yom Ha'Atzmaut very instrumental in working on ,Judaism in the homes of Temple give the participants a brief In addition to classes we do hold celebration, Passover Model Seder, this process. For more information Habonim families. glimpse of that richly complex special programs for our students Community 2nd Seder, graduation about the school in general, Because the first two Parent society we know as Israel. What is and their families. Most of these exercises and several more. The registration, etc. please call Involvement Days focused on arts certain is that parents and activities are held at Congregation students and their families are 789-9047 or 783-5465. and crafts, the Temple Habonim children left the temple Beth David in Narragansett and active participants in all these faculty decided to give their most strengthened in their commitment we are very thankful to them for programs. This past year our South County Hebrew School is most recent program a more to learn more about their Jewish affording us this opportunity. The school has gone through the looking for staff people. If cognitive focus. After several heritage - together. majority of our students are accreditation process with the interested, contact Linda Zell at members of Beth David and are Bureau of Jewish Education and the school. Friday School Fine Children's Clothing Friday Group is a offers clasaes in Hebrew language. gather to do some Israeli dancing, Books & Toys family-cooperative organization, The Friday School teachers are ...... DLittle Infants, Toddlers, 4-6xn lead by one of our teachers. We all started over twenty years ago, by students from Brown University 1 Girls 7-14 Boys 8-14 then sit in a circle, drink wine and -~~sc~s some families who wanted to who have shown a wonderful juice, eat Challah, and sing Jewish 782 Hope St.• Providence• 401 -274-0464 celebrate and practice their commitment to Judaism, and are songs, also lead by a teacher. An Judaism with no synagogue eager to share this in very creative evening's songs might include, affiliation. There are now 45 ways with the children. There has Shabbat Shalom, L'Chah Dodi, 9 families who celebrate the holidays been a retelling of the Hanukkah Shalom Rau, Shauuah Tou, WE RE READY together, share Shabbat dinners, story by children in nursery school Shalom Chauerim, and Hineh Ma partake in the "adult activities" and kindergarten, using a book Tou. It's a relaxing, enjoyable, and FOR SCHOOL! which might be a lecture, they had written. One class made inspiring way to begin the Shabbat discussion, or movie, and send puppets out of white socks, and and the weekend. their children to "Friday School." put on a puppet show at the Friday School is a flexible ARE YOU? Friday School meets each Friday Hannukah party. Masks and program which forms its classes to afternoon at the Hillel House of graggers were made for the Purim meet the needs of the group. Some THINK ABOUT IT Brown University. Children of all party, in which one of our teachers of the older children, who have • • • ages take a class which covers the read the Megillat. The third and graduated from Friday School, ON PROVIDENCE'S EAST SIDE• MC, VISA. AMEX Jewish holidays, history, Israel, fourth graders performed skits and often come back to be aides in FALL HOURS: MON - SAT. 10-5, THURS EVE 'TlL 8 PM Bible stories and heroes, and songs at the Jewish Home for the classes with the younger children. current issues. Friday School also aged twice this year. For any further information, Each Friday, after the classes contact Naomi Schwartz, at are over, parents and children 272-6189. Full Religious Education TORAT YISRAEL SCHOOL Temple Beth-El, W~ are looking forward to many Kindergarten - 7 330 Park Ave. more Family Educational Family Education Programs at Temple Beth-El in Family Workshops Cranston At Temple Beth-El. Family future years. For information on uur Religious School. Continuing 785-1890 Eduration is one of our highest Pre School Programs priorities. Past fam ily programs Education or Family Education, ha,·e induded workshops on rnntal'l Lisa Goldstein. Director of Extension School Warwick Passover and Shabbat. as well as Educal ion at ~~ 1-6070. rel(ular Tot Shabbat and family East Greenwich holiday programs. Last year was Temple Emanu-EI highlighted by our Religious Sl'hool's Fam ily Havdalah Religious School Workshop. Held during re!(Ular Temple Emanu-El's Religious Sunday School hours. students in School is delighted to announce a grades pre-school through 6 new and innovative program for Let 'I'orat Yisrael join hands gathered with their parents lo children entering the Bet level create and lea rn together. Rabbi class (second grade). Educators Susa n Miller spoke about the have noted that young children with your family oriidns and customs of the have a great capacity and thirst for Havdalah se rvice. after which. a learning. Our experience as Jewish sl ide show about Havdalah created educators has shown this to be Every step of the way by our second ~rade class was true. With this in mind, we are shown. Families then worked instituting a Mechinah (Hebrew tog:ether to make Havdalah for preparatory) program on rnndles and spiceboxes which they Tuesday afternoons from 3:45-5:45 were able to take home with them. p.m. This will complement our Finally. the entire group Sunday morning class from Professional staff includes 3 Goldberg Award participated in a Havdalah service 9:00-11:00 a.m. winners for creative teaching. toge( her. using l he candles and In addition to library and spi,·eboxes l hey had made. holiday learning, students will now Our sernnd family program last have the opportunity to learn vear was a Seder held on the Hebrew language as preparation Sunday during Passover. Upon for their formal Hebrew studies in arrh·a l. families were assigned to the Gimel level (third grade) . The one of three tasks - makint! program will also include music, Haroset. preparing the Seder Hebrew games and Jewish Plat e. or setting a festive holiday computer skills in a relaxed and table. Once all was ready. our casual atmosphere. We know that Seder began. The Haggadah was Temple Emanu-El's Mechinah presented by students. with each program will be a model for other DAVID 8_ ROSEN da:-.~ ha\'ing prepared a different synagogues throughout the purl or the Passover story. We are Rabbi country. We are pleased to be in liirtunate at Temple Beth-El to the forefront of such innovative LONNA S. PICKER haw had a fund established which Jewish programming. ,, ill ~pon:--or n family Passover Emanu-El's Religious School Director of Education prnl,{rnm !',llrh us our Family Sede r (•adt vear. (continued on next pa!(e) THURSDAY 1 AUGUST 24, 1989 THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERACD - A:i1--~-- e Creation Of A Homemade Torah Scroll---- ffhe best way lo challenge others were steadily sanding younger students. On June 8, 1989 dents is lo learn while doing. dowels that were to become their th is Torah was dedicated lo he G imel Class at To rat Y israel, Torah rollers. Designs were Temple Torat Yisrael at a Family 1der the !(l.lidance of their holiday selected and students began Shabbat Service. The students /d milzvot teacher, Martha ereat ing. The classroom became were bursting with pride as they holes, have experienced the very diversified: a library, a study, marched into the sanctuary and up ft imale in learning. Mrs. Sholes a wrn,dworking shop, an art room, to the bema with their own sacred 1ilored an entire project to the or whatever was appropriate for Torah Scroll. imel level and her class created a that particular phase of Torah. It Mrs. Sholes assures us that the 3cred Torah Scroll. was truly a combination of class now fully understands the The project evolved out of the research, learning and creativity. process, planning and uriosity and an interest level of Using papier mache, the stu commitment in writing a Torah. he class. From Simhat Torah on, dents covered soup cans for the The knowledge of Torah, gained e study of Torah became a focal rimmonim and later added bell through this unit, definitely roots oint. When .Jewish Book Month ornaments with wire through the this class more firmly in Jewish ·ame. rather than doing individual crown. They also covered a wooden tradition. 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Worcester Polytechnic Institute obsolete. w·I· 100 Institute Road Worcester, Mass. 01609 * (508) 831 -5286 • •• .::O •n&VLJ&:. h:JLl'U.,U cJ~YYI::>M nl!ift.ALU THOR:SDA , AUGUST 24, 1989 Don't drink and drive. Beit Midrash Holiday-Oriented Adult Temple Am David's Beit Education Midrash Adult Education Temple Am David also holds Program will commence on programming aimed at educating Thursday, November 2, this year, Jewish adults about the tradition's and will be held each following holidays. Workshops and lectures Thursday evening (except are held in conjunction with the Thanksgiving) from 7:30 to lO Religious School during the p.m. at the Temple through holidays of Passover and Tu December 14. b'Shvat. In addition, parents and This year's program is built children co-participate in Seders around a double-theme. The first associated with each holiday. class sessions will be devoted to Interfaith Education Hebrew studies, with classes at Starting this Fall, several basic and more advanced levels. members of Am David will begin Following a short break for meeting regularly with members of refreshments, the second session Spring Green Memorial Church to will offer classes devoted to discuss the Jewish and Christian clarifying Jewish perspectives on religions. Rabbi H. Scott White Jewish family issues. These classes and Rev. Paul Backlund will be will deal with subjects such as: I) facilitating the group, whose aim is building and maintaining healthy to serve as both a learning family relationships; 2) coping experience and to strengthen with stressful and traumatic understanding between Christians situations within the family, such and Jews. as bereavement and illness; and 3) Temple Am David Chorus managing mixed-faith situations And Music Education within the family, including The Temple Am David Chorus intermarriage and interdating. will begin its sixth season Youth Chorus Scholar-in-Residence following the High Holy Days. The Shabbat musical repetoire will be expanded Hebrew language skills and grade 3, will be provided with The Adult Studies program's to include popular Israeli and History. Music, drama, arts and individualized support as needed second theme will lead up to the contemporary music. Harry Elkins crafts along with family holiday in consultation with the Bureau of Temple's third annual Midrasha students in grades I 0-12 programs and Junior Congregation Jewish Education. scholar-in-residence weekend to be are invited this year to join the Am on Shabbat and Festivals are Students who have completed held December 15 and 16 at the David Adult Chorus and integral components of the the Am David Religious School Temple. The featured scholar will "sing-for-credit!" Rehearsals will religious school. program attend the Harry Elkin be Dr. Benjamin Entine, be held on the second and fourth For children aged 4, 5, and 6, the Midrasha. Am David teenagers Manhattan psychoanalyst Monday evenings of each month Eunice Zeidman Sunday School voluntarily frequent Cantor specializing in Jewish family - 7-8: 15 p.m., under the direction program introduces the concepts Dress's Hug T'fillah, a workshop issues. The weekend's theme will of Cantor Steven W. Dress and of holidays and traditions and in ritual leadership. Harry Elkin be, "Coping with Tragedy and Elena DiNitto. Bible stories through arts and Midrasha students in 10th-12th Loss in Jewish Life." crafts, drama, music, games and grades are invited this year to Dr. Entine holds a Ph.D. from stories. This program meets "sing-for-credit" in connection the Jewish Theological Seminary Temple Am David weekly on Sunday morning at the with Am David's adult chorus. of America in Counseling Religious School temple from 10 a.m. to noon. Temple Am David is a partner Psychology, a J.D. degree from Monthly, exciting Shabbat toddler in the Extension school that holds Northeastern University, and is a Temple Am David will be programs offer enrichment and mid-week classes in Warwick. licensed psychoanalyst. He has a conducting the congregation's introduction to ritual observances. Congregational membership is not private practice in Manhattan and annual Open House-Religious For children entering grade 2 in required for families with students is associated with the Jewish School Registration on elementary school, Temple Am in the religious school preparatory Home and Hospital for the Aged in Wednesday, September 6, 1989, David offers a transition program: programs. Membership is required New York City. from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the temple, Mechina. The Mechina program for families of students in public Beginning this year, this facet of 40 Gardiner Street, Warwick, R.I. meets on Sunday morning and on school grades 3-7. the Temple's programming will be 02888. As a conservative temple Thursday afternoon using a For further information contact known as the Frances Katzman affiliated with the United curriculum that begins to Cantor Steven W. Dress, Temple Memorial Scholar-in-Residence Synagogue of America, the Am introduce Hebrew language skills, Am David Religious School Shabbat, in loving memory of David Religious School program prayers for holidays and Jewish Director, at 463-7944. "Franny," who passed away earlier sponsors a six-hour per week culture through song, dance, arts, this year. program for students in and stories. elementary school grades 3 Children who are either in Jewish Family through 7. This curriculum focuses special education in elementary Education Conference on the subjects of Holidays and school or initially enrolling in the Traditions, Bible study, Prayer, program after elementary school The Board of Jewish Education of New York sponsored a two-day conference entitled "Jewish Family Education: Integrating Home, School and Congregation," bringing together more than 150 rabbis, lay leaders, and educators. These sesions focused on how to help families to once again become Jewish teachers of their children. It called upon the synagogue/school to assume a new role in educating families by strengthening the home as a base for religious observance and ritual. As the late A.J. Heschel says, "a Jewish home is one where Judaism is at home." While Jewish schooling does have some effect on long-term Jewish identification, there is wide-spread consensus that without the encouragement and reinforcement of the home, it is doubtful that Jewish schools will have any lasting impact on their Arts and Crans students. Various models of parent education include holiday workshops for parents and Jane Asprinio O'Brien children (i.e., Passover workshops), actual family M.S., C.C.C., P.C. celebrations and observances (i.e., Audiologist Friday night dinners), joint learning opportunities where Back to School Hearing Tests parents and children study the All Ages, All Grades same material in the same classroom, and extended family • Hearing Testing experiences (i.e., family weekend • Hearing Aid Evaluations & Fittings retreats or camps). • Pre-Employment Screening The bottom line, however, is for Jewish Community Center of Rhode hwad synagogue schools to build in a • Up Reading "transfer of training" which will • Counseling enable parents and families to 401 Elmgrove Avenue/ Providence, RI 029()6 activate learned skills in their own 220 Tollgate Road, Warwick, RI 02886 homes and lives. 401861-88oo 738-7004 Evelyn Brier RI & Aorida Licensed • Most Insurances Accepted READ THE HERALD. THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1989 THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HEHALD - A5 Torat Yisrael's Families Share In School Activities Staff Orientation Formally Initiates A New School Year Although bulletin boards are Sugerman, and Sam Vilker. Toby School Photographer. As the bell sounds to end the being made to offer· etrogim and covered, lesson plans are written, Liebowitz (Bureau of Jewish Orientation is a time when first day of Sunday School classes lulavim at a reduced rate so that and teachers have been in and out Education) will be returning as the friends and colleagues gather with at Torat Yisrael (on Sunday, every family may order ahead and of Torat Yisrael all summer, the Special Education teacher; Meryl enthusiasm to get the school year have its very own etrog and lulav September 10), families will head entire faculty will congregate at Woolf will be returning as the off to an exciting beginning. for Goddard Park to join in the to march in the procession. the Synagogue on Thursday synagogue's Annual Picnic. In March, another all-school evening, September 7, for their Memories of last year's day of fun "Hands on" Holiday Workshop is Annual Onentation. and collegiality are reminder in the making. This one will focus The evening's agenda, which enough of what a great day is in upon Purim and promises to be will combine administrative and store for one and all. filled with learning, fun, and a lot pedagogic issues, will include IJ#IQIJE I IJISTIIICTIVE Family education and of surprises. As with all family presentations by Art teacher, Judy CLOTH/• I Sim participation is a major part of programs at Torat Yisrael, Nagle; Librarian and Resource Torat Yisrael's over-all program. pre-registration is required. ~~ teacher, Hana Berman; and the Families will share in a special For further information about Synagogue's new Cantor, Shimon I ~~-~~' 1f'"'·t Back Sukkot service on Sunday, monthly family services, or special Gewirtz. { October 15. Arrangements are programs, please call the school This year's faculty includes ) .(:.))<~- To Class office, 785-1890. Wendy Adler, Ethan Adler, Hana Berman, Kayla Campbell, Tina /)\7/JFall Merchandise Fain, Ronni Guttin, Steve Jablow, \I ~ll_<;~':~ Amy Misbin, Judy Nagle, Daphna Now In Stock Rabinovich, Martha Sholes, Susan :_t:/1 ;<\ .1 t' --:~1} Sunday Morning garden city• cranston, ri • 942-7850 Shaharit Services At Torat Yisrael Once again students at Torat Yisrael will begin their Sunday mornings in song and prayer. At 9 a.m. each Sunday the entire BORED? student body gathers in the Sanctuary for a Shaharit service. The service has really become a . BROKE? "singing" service and is enjoyed by students and teachers alike. A Bar/Bat Mitzvah Club is being formed this year. Students in • With your job? Kitah Heh will meet with the Rabbi and Cantor before services. • With your career? At that time, they will share in "kibbutzing" and in a "nosh," and • With your college major? Students enjoying last year's picnic. boys will be instructed in the proper way to lay t'fillen. Kitah Heh students will, as in the past, take a leading role in conducting WE CAN HELP: the prayers and singing the songs Vocational/Psychological Testing of Shaharit. Following services, there is a Career Counseling brief time for announcements, and then everyone adjourns to class. No charge for initial consultation Correspondents Wanted If you would like to Most insurance plans correspond for the Herald by accepted writing about what is \ 'rtns happening in your _ n~ ,.c. (401) 941-1717 community, contact 01 Special Summer Rates the editor at 724-0200. Career Decision Consultants Torat Yisrael's teachers don't always look like this! 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They expressed their of performing mitzvol, and of Throughout the year, children seizing opportunities across the perform selections from a number delight, that after having been helping other .Jews. But in typical wrote letters and sent pictures to c-urriculum for language of Shakespeare's plays. Our school refused permission to leave the Schechter style, the lessons that the Zieman family in Moscow. enrichment. writing and· reading. also hosted students from the Soviet Union for 11 years. the the entire student body learned Students in the Stone Middle Through poetry, songs, rhymes, Gordon School for that special family had finally been allowed to last year about Soviet Jews wasn't Division organized a seven-hour drawing and writing the production. go. a theoretical study that ended in dance marathon last spring, which immersion of children in a Across the grades and ,Just two months after they the classroom. raised $7.000 towards efforts tu language-rich environment - we throughout the curriculum, our arrived in their new country, Yuri, Under the coordination of seek the release of Soviet teach children to love literature, students have been reading, Tanya. and 12-year-old Vera teacher ,Judy Gray, Schechter refuseniks. and instill in them a desire to be writing, interpreting, and most of Zieman visited the students at the students in kindergarten through This fall, Schechter students life-long readers, not just decoders. all, learning to appreciate language Schechter School, who had aided eighth grade participated in a adopted another refusenik family. This past year, Kindergarteners and literature in all its forms. in their resettlement. mini-rally in Washington, D.C. Natalia and Mikhail Kazanevich kept class creative writing The plight of Soviet ,Jews is a "Kial Yisrael, the community of and their two daughters. journals, while first graders acted nut stories and plays in their Dr. Jay Stern, a noted Jewish "Story Theater." educator, was sent by the national Schechter Alumni Pioneer New School During the past few months, Solomon Schechter Association Alumni of Alperin Schechter ''The South Area Alperin Temple Ahavat T orah in grades 2-5 read novels and short for a field visit to our school. Dr. Day Schools from Albany, Schechter Day School is one of the Stoughton. In September of 1989, stories as part of a nationally Stern, who visits almost all of the Brooklyn and Long Island have first day schools in the country lo students will be enrolled in grades acclaimed Great Books program. Schechter schools throughout the joined hands to recreate their own be started by alumni," stated K. I and 2 with one grade added This program introduces the United States, was impressed with positive experience in Jewish Doreen Kriegel, President of the each year through grade 8. Both young person to a love of reading the quality of our school. education for their children and South Area School. "That adds a partial and full day K classes are through quality literature. Dr. Stern called the school the children of their neighbors by great deal of excitement and available and extended care will he Part of the purpose of the Great "outstanding," citing both the establishing the new South Area credibility to our efforts." Doreen's available for all grades. Limited Books program is to involve excellent faculty and committed Alperin Schechter Day School in husband, Dr. Andrew Kriegel, is space is still available in all these students in interpreting and lay community. Said Stern, Stoughton, scheduled to open this also a Alperin Schechter graduate. classes. For more information, analyzing the literature they read "Elsewhere in the country coming September. He, along with Dr. Raphael Kieval, contact Doreen Kriegel at on several levels. Students not only integration of General and Judaic Marion Gribetz, one of the another parent involved with the 784-5120. learn to identify the plot and facts, Studies may be an expressed goal, founders of the South Area Alperin school, graduated from the Hebrew Third generation postscript: but also discuss varying but often falls short of Schechter Day School and a Academy of the Capital District in Both Andrew Kriegel and Raphael interpretations of the story, and achievement. Here, it is evident graduate of the Robert Gordis Albany, N.Y. Kieval have sons named Jacob offer personal evaluations of the throughout the school." School of Belle Harbor, N.Y., " l am watching history repeat who, in a few years, will he story and its characters. This Dr. Stern's report was explains, " l want our children to itself," stated Rabbi Hayyim attending the South Area School approach to interpretation and enthusiastic: "We were heartened receive the same quality Jewish Kieval, Rabbi Emeritus of Temple together. Look for a third critical thinking is parallelled in by what we found at the Solomon education that Rob and I did. To Israel, Albany, N.Y .. now residing generation Alperin Schechter in their Judaic Studies language and Schechter School of Rhode Island. do that, we need to have a Alperin in Brookline. "I worked with about 30 years! Bible classes. There our students Faculty, Principal, and Board can Schechter Day School in the Andy's father, Dr. Sheldon also analyze literature and offer be proud of what they have South area community." Kriegel, to start the Alperin their own evaluations of the created." Marion lives in Sharon with her Schechter Day School in Albany. conflicts between, for example, three sons and her husband, Dr. On a personal level, there i~ untold .Jacob and Esau or the character of Robert Rubin. who received his pride and naches in watching your Abraham and Moses. ,Jewish education at the Bialik children do for their children what Our middle schoolers have been Mail gets to us faster if you School in Brooklyn, N.Y. Dr. you did for them. On a professional read Edgar Allen Poe and use our post office box Rubin is serving as the South Area level, the start of this school by Shakespeare and enriched their number. School's Secretary and Marion. Schechter alumni affirms the reading with live productions. P.O. Box 6063 who is Director of Cultural Arts at success of the Alperin Schechter Sixth and seventh graders went to the Striar Jewish Community movement." the Providence Performing Arts Providence, R.I. 02940 Center in Stoughton, is leading the South Area Alperin Schechter Center for a performance of Poe's search for the School's director. Day School will hold classes al Jewish School Calendar 1989-1990 JEWISH SCHOOL CALENDAR AUGUST 28-30 Monday through Wednesday Bureau Bouquet: Workshop for Teachers 30 Wednesday Principals' Council 12:00 noon SEPTEMBER 7-10 Thursday through Sunday School Registration 10 Sunday Opening Day OCTOBER 1 Sunday Rosh Hashanah No Classes 8 Sunday Erev Yorn Kippur No Classes 9 Monday Yorn Kippur No Classes 14-15 Sunday through Monday Sukkot No Classes 18 Wednesday Principals' Council 8:45 a.m. 22 Sunday Simhat Torah No Classes NOVEMBER 5 Sunday Off to College program for high school juniors and seniors 12:00 noon Brown-RISO Hillel 15 Wednesday Principals' Council 8:45 a.m. 22-26 Wednesday through Sunday Thanksgiving Vacation No Classes DECEMBER 24-January 1, 1990 December Vacation No Classes JANUARY 10 Wednesday Principals' Council 7:30 p.m. 15 Monday Martin Luther King Day No Classes 16 Tuesday Israel Trips Forum 21 Sunday Leha and Joseph Zelniker Scholar: -- - Teachers' Conference No Classes i,j FEBRUARY 18-23 Sunday through Friday February Vacation No Classes MARCH 14 Wednesday Principals' Council 8:45 a.m. APRIL 8 Sunday No Classes 9-20 Monday through Friday Passover Vacation No Classes MAY 6 Sunday Interschool Program: No Classes: 6th and 7th graders 16 Wednesday Principals' Council 8:45 a.m. 21-24 Monday through Thursday Closing for most schools THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1989 THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD - A7 Looking Back, Alperin Schechter Salutes Looking Forward Classroom Volunteers by Penney Stein and 5, and a second grant will What is a classroom volunteer? Rochelle Port has been a Admissions Director, The talents and capabilities of enable teachers to develop a mainstay of the Middle School, Alperin Schechter Here are some random responses our volunteers, both in the curriculum fo r teaching Israel. to this question: organizing and chaperoning trips 1988-89 was a very good year at structure an classroom and out, are myriad. • In order to • "An extra pair of hands on a and special occasions, effectively Alperin Schechter. We can, in fact, educational program which Alperin Schechter salutes all those busy day." • "Someone who brings soliciting donations of needed point to several landmarks: meets the individual needs of our who have given of themselves and a special talent or expertise to equipment, and lending a helping have continued in a tradition of • the opening of our first double students, we have inaugurated enhance the school erperience." hand in the classroom whenever active participation in the Jewish kindergarten of 26 students, the EPSF program, Early • "A smiling face to help reward needed. education • a new name for the school, Prevention of School Failure, of our children. recognizing the generosity and which helps teachers devise hard wo rk." • "Patience, patience, commitment of Ruth and Max activities to enhance and extend patience!" • "A giving person who Alperin, each child's language and motor adds a special dimension to the • a doctoral degree from the skills. room." • "A special friend." Jewish Theological Seminary of • This year the Middle School will • "Sunshine . . . Heaven!" America for School Director assume responsibility for the Alperin Schechter faculty, Rabbi Alvan H. Kaunfer, School Store which, until now students and staff are profoundly • awards and recognition from the has been under the care of the grateful fo r the many volunteers Bureau of Jewish Education for Parents' Association. The who have shared their time and Judaic Studies faculty members students will gain valuable talents in the classroom throughout the school year. Susan Adler, Rosemary Brier, financial and administrative Dorit Oved, and Fraidel Segal, experience from this project. Maxine Bornstein has worked with Middle School coordinator • a Recognition Dinner honoring • Middle Schoolers will once again four outstanding women of the take part in a variety of Jennifer Miller to create an age -appropriate, effective health Jewish community: Ruth Ades, community service activities. In curriculum which would address Sheila Alexander, Ruth Alperin, the past students have tutored at contemporary issues facing young and Shirley Aronson Goldberg, the Nathan Bishop School, aided • a highly successful Cultural in the JCC pre-school, visited people. Gert Hak lent a special warmth Enrichment Program sponsored residents at the Jewish Home fo r to the second grade where she by the Parents' Association, the Aged, assisted in the School assisted the teacher, especially in including performances by the Office. This year Middle School reading. Gert's ability to focus in Charleston String Quartet, Coordinator Jennifer Miller will Zoe Lev on the individual needs of each Ramona Bass, storyteller, and continue and expand the service child and her personal magnetism Shakespeare & Company, program. created a very special relationship • special events such as the • Math Their Way, the exciting with the students. Creative Arts Festival, Chumash "hands-on" math program has has long Ceremony, Science Fair, been a tremendous success in the · Elizabeth Kaplan been a volunteer in Schechter Zimriyah, Siddur Ceremony, kindergarten. Teachers are so classes. In fact, Liz pushed the Book Fair, School Picnic, pleased with the results that the library cart from room to room, Nationality Day, program will expand to the first cheerfully bringing research grade level this year. • arts projects such as the mural materials and reading matter, in • Great Books, the whole-language which hangs outside the school the "old days" before the existence office, the mummy which graces approach to literature and of a permanent library collection. reading, will play a large role in the Fishbein library, and the This year Liz worked with Freedom Quilt, displayed in the the Lower School language arts individual students in the Middle Temple Emanu-El Vestry, all curriculum this year. The goal - School to develop English student produced under the to teach not only skills, but also a language skills. love of reading, a love of fine guidance of art teacher Jan Zoe Lev, a senior at Classical literature, a love of learning for a Newman. High School, spent many hours in Yet, as exciting as the past year life of learning. the Lower School and Middle has been, we have much to look Middle School students will now School classrooms, working with forward to in 1989-90. have the opportunity to learn both individuals and groups. Her • Enrollment is now at a new high. Spanish beginning in 7th grade. energy, warmth and creative spirit This year marks our second were deeply appreciated by both double kindergarten, and our students and teachers. first double first grade. • Two grants have been awarded to Alperin Schechter by the Let the community know about your organization's Bureau of Jewish Education. functions. Announce them in the Herald. One provides for a special second Gert Hak Judaic Studies track in grades 4 Jewish Education Directory CONGREGATION PRINCIPAL CONGREGATION PRINCIPAL Temple Am David Rabbi Steven W. Dress Providence Hebrew Day School Rabbi Sholom Strajcher Warwick. RI 02888 450 Elmgrove Avenue 46:1 -7944 Providence. RI 02906 :1:1 1-5327 Am Oavid{forat Yisrael Extension School Donna Perelman (Meets at Cedar Hill School, Warwick, RI) 738-4222 Solomon Schechter Day School Rabbi Alvan Kaunfer Box 68 99 Taft Avenue East Greenwich. RI 02818 Providence, RI 02906 751-2470 Temple Beth El Lisa Goldstein 70 Orchard Avenue Temple Sinai Marilyn Mosko! Providence. RI 02906 ao HO!(an Avenue :t:11 -6070 Cranston. RI 02920 942 -8350 Temple B'nai Israel Rabbi ,Joel 0. Chernikoff 224 Prospect Street South C'ounly Hebrew School Linda Zell Wm nsocket. RI 0289fi Hillel House 789-9047 762-:16fi l Lower College Road Kin~slon, RI 0288 1 Friday Schm l Hillel House Tifereth Israel Congregation Avi Teken 80 Brown St reel l 4fi Brownell A venue Providence, RI 02912 New Redford, MA 02740 Contact Persons: 617-997-:11 71 Dr. Ma rga ret Fo~el 274-8256 Naomi Schwa rtz 272-6 189 Temple To rat Yisrael Lonna Picker :t:IO Pa rk Avenue Temple Emanu-EI Evelyn Br ier Cranston. RI 02905 99 Taft Ave nue 78fi- 1890 Providence, RI 02906 :1:11-1616 United Hebrew School Rabbi Chaim Shapiro 8fi Touro Street Greater F'a ll Rive r Hebrew Sch1K,I, Inc. Cantor George Lieberman Newport . RI 02840 P.O. Box 14 847-4794 Fall Rive r. MA 02722 617-674-976 1 Ktonton Rabbi Shmuel Singe r Templ e Beth Sholom Temple Habonim Rabb i ,James Rosenbe rg 'l.7:J Ca mp St reet 16fi New Meadow Hoad Pru\'idenre. RI 02906 Barrin!(!on. RI 02806 24/i-6/i36 Harry Elkin M1drasha Eve lyn Br ier (Mt-et~ at Temple Emanu-EI and Temple Torat Yi~rael) tao Se,;;!;ums Street ProvidencE'. RI 02906 :i:11 09;,s AB - THE RHODE ISLAND .JEWISH HERALD THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1989 New Religious School Opens On Aquidneck Island First in 40 Years education and youth. This religious works and personalities communal commitment which will also meet on Sunday mornings With the commencement of the building is a gift to the ,Jewish are explored. We feel that J udaism expresses the reality of Kial fo r two hours. coming school year, an exciting community of Newport County to must touch the heart as well as the Yisrael. The Weekday School for and innovative new school will perpetuate Mr. Bazarsky's ideals. intellectual creating within our It is our hope that our students children ages eight through 13. embark in a full range of ed According to the school's students a passion for and love of will be at home with their Judaism They will meet on Mondays, ucational programs to fulfill the principal, Rabbi Marc S. the .Jewish heritage and people. so that it will be informed with Wednesdays and Sunday Biblical commandment: .Jagolinzer,"the goal of the newly We feel that our school can insight, accepted with joy and be mornings. "V'sheenanton l'vanecha," "Thou created Samuel Zilman Bazarsky function effectively if it is a part of carried with appreciation. We The Post Graduate Class for shalt teach them diligently unto Religious School is to develop the life of the Congregation and wa nt our young people to sense post Bar/ Bat Mitzvah students. thy children." Through the among our youth a positive and the community. Strong family their bond of unity with the They will meet at a mutually generosity of Beatrice B. joyous identification with Judaism participation in all areas of the .Jewish people everywhere. We convenient time once a week. Bazarsky, a beautiful, fully and with the .Jewish people. The school and worship services will be want them to look upon their faith Students participating in this class equipped school building has been approach of our school is encouraged. as something to be inherited and for three years will be afforded the erected adjacent to Temple predicated upon an understanding We also emphasize the need for also something to be discovered." opportunity of celebrating their Shalom on Valley Road in of and sensitivity to our Jewish our families to take full advantage The classes at the new school Confirmation at a special service Middletown, dedicated to the heritage blended with an of the opportunities for will include: to take place on Shavuot. loving memory of her late awareness of contemporary needs educational development through The Toy Department for The Principal, Board, Parents husband, Samuel Zilman and concerns. We hope to create the Bureau of Jewish Education of children fou r and five years of age. and Students of the newly created Bazarsky. This new school facility, an atmosphere of inquiry which Rhode Island. It is our hope that They will meet on Sunday Samuel Zilman Bazarsky Religious known as the Samuel Zilman will assist our students to make our children can come to perceive mornings for two hours. School are grateful for this new Bazarsky Religious School, was responsible and informed their .Jewishness not only as a The Pre-School Department for facility. Rabbi Jagolinzer built as a labor of love for the decisions about their Jewishness. synagogal affiliation, but as Ii children ages six and seven. They (continued on page 9) .Jewish children of the community Our school will supply the who will attend to receive a resources of ,Jewish history, well-rounded, quality ,Jewish customs, ritual practices, education. The late Samuel Z. ceremonies and Hebrew. The Bazarsky always had a deep and an classroom will be the place where abiding love for ,Judaism, Jewish .Jewish values, literary works, 272 Thayer Street, Prov., R.l . 831-0174 l 17n7 / . J111L \ • LASSO Come to Berks for all your Back to School Needs! 272 Thayer Street, Prov., R.I. 831-0174 Parents, the new school year is fast (Reminisces from the Archives of pinafores on. There are inkwells on outside their school building, approaching, the Rhode Island Jewish the school desks. The use of pen standing at attention for the so plan ahead! Historical Association) and ink for writing may be photographer. by Eleanor F. Horvitz unknown to this ballpoint In the Archives of the Rhode September is "back to school" generation. But to the student of a Island Jewish Historical time. In the past or in the present past generation who sat behind a Association are many photographs children enter school for the first girl with a long braid, the inkwell of school classes, several Use the rest of this time; others look forward to a new posed a great temptation. T hink representing graduating classes summer to help your grade. They are dressed in new what fun it could be to dip the from public schools and temples. child's schoolwork attire, and look with mixed unsuspecting girl's braid into that We solicit any school pictures you emotions upon a new teacher or inkwell' might like to donate to the to improve. teachers. A new school may cause Also reproduced here is a Archives. They might just fill the "Bringing Families Together" new anxieties. photograph of the students of the gap of missing years' classes to From the Archives of the Rhode Hebrew Parochial School in South remind us of another generation's Steve C. Imber, Ph.D. Island Jewish Historical Providence, 1939. They pose school years. • Evaluation, consultation PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL Association are two photographs & advocacy for children, of classes of children. One was CONSULTANTS, INC. adolescents & adults donated by a descendant of Rabbi Louis I. Newman of Providence. 421-4004 • Behavioral problems He is in a third grade class of or if no answer 276-5775 • Learning disabilities Warren Street School, probably photographed around 1902. The 145 WATERMAN ST-, PROVIDENCE • Public & Private schools delightful looking little girls wear attractive dresses, some have 11El1t11ous sct1ool t1~ t€111pl€ l:111antt-€l Open to ALL members of the community Temple membership NOT required KINDERGARTEN - GRADE 7 UNIQUE FEATURES INCLUDE: • Special needs programs • Family education • Informal programming REGISTRATION SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1989, 9-11 A.M. For information ca/1331 -1616, Ext. 24 THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1989 THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD - A9 ==~Focus: The Bureau Of Jewish Education======;;;;;;;;;;;;; The BJE/RI Library And Resource Center BJE/RI: What It Is .Jewish education is the key to Bureau activities. These services, Trying to track down your The BJE Resource Center is a collection of Judaica clip art, used ,Jewish identity and continuity. along with school accreditation favorite religious school teacher? workshop for creation of to enhance the quality of The Bureau of .Jewish Education and teacher certification, set the Searching for that friend who is in educational materials that are community newsletters and flyers. of Rhode Island is entrusted with highest professional standards for charge of the bavurah program exactly geared to the user's needs. Lettering devices, stencils, a the responsibility of ensuring the institutions and educators. this Saturday night? Looking for Originally used only by the area·s laminating machine, and a binding highest quality of .Jewish The Bureau acts as a resource the chairman of your Hadassah J udaica teachers, the resource machine all help to make education for the community. for public and private schools on programming committee? center has grown to service all attractive and long-lasting In the belief that .Jewish .Jewish educational issues. It is a Chances are, they'll be visiting the educational groups in the materials . education is a life-long enterprise, clearinghouse for .Jewish Library or Resource Center of the community, including organiza Call the Bureau (331-0956) if the Bureau's constituency is the educational information for the Bureau of Jewish Education, tions, public and private schools, you wish to visit these facilities or entire .Jewish population of the entire community. accomplishing their appointed and havurah groups. The resource to borrow materials from the stale: toddlers, children, teenagers, Since .Jewish education takes task with the greatest of ease. center has a vast array of materials Library. A catalog of audiovisual adults. and senior adults.. Jewish place in a number of settings, the The BJE Library has over 450 for making and preserving games, materials is available to educational services are provided Bureau is committed to facilitating audiovisual items, including many posters, slide shows, and bulletin organizations or schools upon both directly and indirectly to both formal and informal new videos, which are in constant boards. It also has a large request. people of all backgrounds and educational opportunities. The demand for classrooms, meetings, ideologies. The Bureau serves the Bureau uses its resources to and even for individual education community directly through strengthen the .Jewish family, and enjoyment. The topics range back to school programs like a community high snyagogue, and school, cementing from "how bagels are made" to school of .Judaic studies (the Harry ties to the Jewish community, "who is a Jew?" Often user guides at Elkin Midrasha). the special locally. nationally, and in Israel. accompany the materials, and the education department, and senior To attain these goals, the Bureau Bureau's staff will help you to adult services. Dissemination of creates an educated laity, create an educationally sound and details materials and curricula, responsible for making Jewish interesting lesson for any age hair accessories consultative services and teacher education the highest priority of group. Lesson plans and tights & pantyhose training are a major focus of the community. ready-to-use teaching materials are our speciality. All materials are lingerie loaned free of charge. I-shirts The Harry Elkin Midrasha handbags The Synagogue bookbags Question: What makes the Harry studying and meeting new Jewish jewelry Elkin Midrasha so successful? friends. Elkin Midrasha Librarian participation enables students to for everyday & special occasions Answer #1 attend Israel programs with funds As Jewish Educator Approximately 100 teenagers from from the Leonard I. Salmanson Cranston, Pawtucket, East Fund of the Jewish Federation of by Lillian Schwartz, -details- Greenwich, Coventry, Warwick, Rhode Island. Librarian 211 thoyer st., providence Temple Emanu-EI Providence, Newport, West tues. - sat. 10:30 - 6 751 -1870 Warwick, and North Dartmouth, Answer #6 I am the Library. Massachusetts learning and Graduation from Elkin Midrasha I am neither trail.< open mondays starting sept. 11 socializing together. guarantees a college Nor .'ih<.>ll'e.'i nor recommendation that will show a El'l'/1 the books that Answer #2 commitment to learning and a Stand in rows; The finest Judaic faculty in the willingness to dedicate both time I am lite 11•1sdom of the st.ate, including rabbis and effort above and beyond your Unit•rr.,e l'aptured and representing Orthodox, Conserva years at public/private school. Arrnn;:erl for you, I am tive and Reform ideology. Our This is something that highly An open door . Judaic/Hebraic professional staff competitive colleges look for when t:nter. is dedicated to the highest choosing students. A synagogue library is a standards of learning while welcoming place. mindful of individual student Answer #7 Charged with the honor and needs. All of the above. responsibility of maintaining. The right answer is answer #7. administering and dispensing Answer #3 For more information on how you learning. a synagogue librarian has A selection of over 35 courses can be a part of Elkin Midrasha, a unique position. including Bible, Jewish history, Call 331-0956 today. Available from the library are Hebrew language (4 levels), works from Bible history to Talmud, Jewish thought and School Opens l'Ookbooks. from Talmud contemporary issues. There is a mmmentary to Yiddish music, 'You'{{ "LO'JJE" three-credit college course, On Aquidneck from medieval literature to current Themes in Jewish literature, Israeli lict ion. offered to 11th and 12th graders as (continued from page 8) Planning sessions for upcoming Our r.Back, to Scfwo{ Specials! well as a parent/teenager programs are often held in the mini-course on Great Jewish concluded by stating: "We are Temple Ema nu-El Library 'We carry al£ your atfiletic equipment, Personalities. privileged to have this school and because of the easy access to our precious students, for they information in every subject dotfi.ing & accessory supp{ies. represent the promise and the a nd for every age. Answer #4 hope of the future. May G-d grant The rnmplete spectrum of An outstanding array of informal His blessings to all who serve the l'ommunity interests is served by programs is available to students. cause of Jewish education. May l he projects developed with the EASTWINDTRADERS Past programs have included the the seeds of faith planted in the resources of our Library. Soviet Jewry Rally in Washington, hearts of our young grow into a If you have special interests. SPORTi!VG GOODS retreats at Camp Ramah in Nyack, mighty harvest of Jewish loyalty, whether academic research or 185 Wayland Ave., Providence New York, and meeting our commitment and achievement." holiday reading to inspire a congresspeople in Washington to A formal dedication of the new four-year-old, visit your Temple Mon.-Fri. 9:00 - 6:00 Sat. 9:00 - 5:30 discuss Jewish issues. Annual school facility is being planned for l.ihrary. You will be enlightened components of Midrasha the opening day of school Sunday, and delighted by this discovery. 273-2880 MIC • VISA • AE •Discover programming are activities with September 10. Enter. Amos house, Marathon House and For further information, please the Ladd School. contact Rabbi Marc S. Jagolinzer, Principal at 846-9002. The Samuel Zilman Bazarsky School is open to Answer #5 all affiliated and non-affiliated Temple Am David The place to be on Wednesday students of Newport County and -~S)' evenings and Sunday mornings, ;urrounding communities. Open House /Registration Wednesday, September 6, 1989 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Eunice Zeidman Preschool Program H. Scott White, Rabbi Full Religious Education Steven W. Dress, Cantor School Director Family Programs 40 Gardiner Street Extension School - Warwick Warwick Affiliation Inquiries Addressed 463-7944 ---=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-~-=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=------~~----,... AIO - THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1989 Reflections Of A BJE Director ------BJE/RI Sends Students To Israel ------by Carol lngall the education of the Jewish The Bureau of Jewish Executive Director of BJE/RI teacher across the denominations. Education of Rhode Island, Thirty years ago this month, the As a bureau we have been British scientist and writer, C. P. building bridges across the through its Israel Desk, has sent thirty-eight high school and Snow, shook the lite ary and cultures, bridges which help college students to Israel over the scientific world by their collective teachers learn from both worlds, past year. With the help of shoulders. In a slim volume the worlds of text and technique. incentive grants from the Leonard entitled The Two Cultures, he Our list for 5749 is impressive. I. Salmanson fund of the Jewish sounded the alarm for the • Lesson planning for day Federation of Rhode Island, ever-growing rift between the schools. students have participated in a world of science and the world of • A workshop in reading skills wide variety of study /travel the humanities. He depicted two for the Jewish schools, taught by programs. groups who had simply ceased to Ezra Stieglitz, a nationally communicate with each other. To recognized expert on the teaching High school students have use Snow's phrase, "Both had the of reading in secular schools. studied at the Alexander Muss future in their bones." Each • Teacher induction programs High School in Israel, Ramah culture was deadly concerned based on the best of what is Seminar, USY, Nesiyah Arts about a world armed to the teeth happening in the secular world. Program, B'nai B'rith in Israel, and bent on destruction. But each • A growing collection of secular and Let's Go Israel. College dismissed the other's solutions as pedagogic texts. students have attended several arcane and incomprehensible. • More classes and courses in universities: Hebrew University, I recently reread The Two Jewish subject areas than ever Tel Aviv University, and H/S level Salmanson Award recipients. Cultures. It stands up well over before. University of Haifa. They have time. It becomes even more timely • A growing list of Rhode also studied at Yeshivot: Neve Israelites," and " I can now better community service when they in the light of Jewish education. Islanders studying at the Hebrew Yerushalayim and Yeshivat understand the enormity of the return from Israel. Projects have For too long there have been two college and other nationally ha-kotel. Kibbutz programs have problem; it is not right for us to be included volunteering at the cultures in Jewish education: those recognized Jewish institutions. attracted many participants: judgmental about the situation Jewish Home, writing newspaper concerned with subject matter and • 93 teachers who honed their Ulpanim, temporary worker when we aren't there living it." articles, tutoring at a religious those concerned with pedagogy. Jewish skills at the New England programs, and political action The BJE/ RI Israel Desk is school, and speaking to people We had people with superior Mini-CAJE this past November. semmars. Students have also committed to sending as many about Israel. backgrounds, graduates of We are fortunate to have a staff studied at and worked for WU.JS students as possible to experience Studies have shown that Yeshivot and seminaries, who had committed to growing both (World Union of .Jewish Students). Israel and to see for themselves, students who have an "Israel no understanding of teaching " Israel: the myth and the reality." Experience" as part of their Jewish Jewishly and pedagogically to The feedback from these techniques. We had people who provide inspiration - for the education feel connected to Israel programs has been most positive. All high school students who were graduates of secular teacher community and for me. We are and remain so through the years; Comments ranged from " It was receive funding from the Leonard training programs with little blessed with officers and a board they return during college and -the best experience in my life" and I. Salmanson fund of The Jewish exposure to the Bible, Rabbinics, which has a vision of teachers rich beyond; and they become leaders "I never before felt it was Federation of Rhode Island Hebrew language or prayer. Both in both Torah and Derekh Eretz. of their Jewish community. The important to marry a Jew," to "I participate in seven hours of "cultures" were teaching in our Our president, Ron Salavon, has BJE/RI welcomes the opportunity was glad I was here; I saw day to orientation, and all recipients of schools. One rarely spoke to the proven to be a wonderful role to help continue this important day living goes on for the Salman son grants perform other. Each had much to learn model for both the staff and the tradition. from the 'other. board, expanding his Jewish The role of a bureau of Jewish horizons as he continues to learn education is to provide the more about the universe of Reaching And Jewish family education programs identity and education, analyzed meeting ground for one culture to education. nationally is to provide Jewish the relationships between the meet the other; to provide Snow bemoaned the insularity Teaching The Jewish enrichment, resources and family and Jewish institutions, cross-fertilization between the of his fellow scientists. "They had Family experiences that will help explored various models of Jewish cultures. Jewish education cannot the future in their bones," he said. The family and the home have strengthen the family. family education programs, and be taken seriously as a profession How much more so Jewish traditionally been the heart of The University of Judaism in stressed the need for research in until Jewish educators have teachers! We must continue to Judaism, nurturing and educating. Los Angeles brought together this newly emerging field. mastery of both. Our much touted bridge the two cultures, mak.ing Recently, Jewish family education educators and social workers from Jewish Family education is a teacher shortage will not be solved demands of both. Only this way has become an important focus, all over the western hemisphere to key to making Jewish education a until we produce a cadre of can we give our community the creating a partnership in the participate in the Summer meaningful enterprise. It will be Institute, "Reaching and Teaching educators with mastery of both. teachers it must have to guarantee process of Jewish family education the priority and strength of This will require a rethinkinl( of a Jewish future. and Jewish living. The goal of the Jewish Family." In a week of synagogues, schools and learning and dialogue, they institutions who are concerned explored the changing Jewish with the future of the Jewish ------Yiddish Eldercamp ------family, considered how the family community. works as a ve hicle for Jewish Minna Ellison The fourth year of Yiddish fathers . . . and theic mothers." attend Eldercamp. "Children" Eldercamp!!! It hardly seems With a cadre of teachers offering a have sent their parents who are possible that this unique program stimulating array of courses visiting from out of town. Brothers HARRY ELKIN MIDRASHA of the Bureau of Jewish Education including three levels of Yiddish and sisters living in different parts of Rhode Island and the Jewish language and literature, art and of the country attend "camp" OPENING PROGRAM/ Community Center of Rhode culture of Eastern Europe, book together as they have a week-long Island is already four years old. reviews on related topics, Yiddish reunion. This year there was a REGISTRATION Begun with a grant from the films . . . and more. The variety father/daughter team: father as Jewish Federation of Rhode Island and level of excellence was second teacher, daughter as Camper. WEDNESDAY Endowment Fund, Yiddish to none. Throughout the fall , winter and SEPTEMBER 13th Eldercamp has broken new ground Yiddish Eldercamp is held for spring months, the BJE continues in innovative programming. With five days during the summer its long-standing Senior Adult 6:00 · 8:00 P.M. an attractive educational theme months, a time when most other Film/Discussion Series. Themes and offered in a time period where adult education programs have ranging from "Rituals of Jewish AT TEMPLE TORAT YISRAEL no other study programs were suspended classes. Life Cycle" to "The Jewish being offered, YiJdish Eldercamp From an enrollment of forty Experience Around the World" are GUEST SPEAKER was bound to be a hit. students the first year to over discussed at Senior sites around from Yiddish speakers, readers and seventy in its fourth year, this the state. lovers of Yiddish longed for a place special educational experience has The BJE/RI with its variety of Marathon House, to study Yiddish language and become a great success. "Campers" educational options is on the a facility for drug rehabilitation literature. Non-Yiddish speakers, from all over the state, from the cutting edge of adult education or speakers of "kitchen Yiddish" Jewish Home, from programming. The BJE/RI 'DRUG ABUSE: A JEWISH ISSUE?'' welcomed the opportunity to Massachusetts, and -from points validates the maxim, "learning for rediscover the "Word of their North, South, East and West, Jews is lifelong." r..... HARRY ELKIN MIDRASHA ...... PEDAGDGIC LIBRARY ...... \ " . .IF NOT NOW, WHEN?" (Hillel) Special Education z z C ~ - ffl Education of our children !c THE BUREAU OF :P u ~ When will your Special Needs child changes from year to year. What = n does not change is the fact that all Iii JEWISH EDUCATION i!!i children, no matter what their begin his or her Jewish/Hebrew education? disabilities, should be given a ~ ~ ~ OF RHODE ISIAND ;I positive, constructive education. a. We can make a difference. The Special Education Department of the Bureau of : 1951-1989 ~ Let us help. Jewish Education of Rhode Island ~ services the learning disabled, behavior disordered, Downs ~ children, children and auditory !:;' PROMOTING EXCELLENCE I and visual processing problems, and many other special children. = ~ Programs are tailor-made to help ~ IN JEWISH EDUCATION ~ CALL 331-0956 the child with his or her Jewish/Hebrew education. THROUGH SERVICES AND PROGRAMS FOR = ~ ~ Various types of programs are set up at the respective schools we 1 SCHOOLS, TEAC:HERS, TODDLERS, TEENS, s Bureau of Jewish Education service. The contact person that can FAMILIES AND ADULTS Special Needs Department assist is Barbara Zenofsky at the ~ ~ Bureau. It only takes a telephone Barbara Zenofsky, M.Ed., Coordinator call to begin a process of a positive . . Jewish education for your child. j...... RESOURCE CENTER ...... TEACHER EDUCATION ...... : THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1989 THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD - All Books Are Only The Beginning A Week In The Life Libraries are a place to read, develop the Centers. The Learning Of A Jewish Educator find information, and check out Center is in its seventh year of books, but the Torat Yisrael operation, and the Listening "Summertime," "educators," "teachers," what do these words library has an added dimension Center in its sixth year. Both offer this year. Students will be able to unlimited avenues for connote? "Vacation," "leisure," "nothing to do." Right? ... borrow materials from the supplementing classroom learning. Wrong! For those in the field of Learning and Listening Centers to The Listening Center is education, some of whom "work" enjoy at home. equipped with audio input tables, ten months a year and some of "We are delighted to offer our head phones and tape recorders, whom have a twelve-month students this additional service," and an extensive collection of schedule, summer is a special time. stated Librarian and Resource tapes that include songs, prayers, It is a time to meet with other teacher, Hana Berman. "Both our and stories. The Learning Center educators from different parts of Listening and Learning Centers has a wide variety of materials the country to share successes and have developed to the point that including posters, games, to discuss problems, and to study we have sufficient materials to individualized activities, maps, circulate, and doing so is another picture files, a VCR, and a together. It is a time to re-energize, to learn more about the craft of way of expanding our students' collection of videos for home and teaching, and to enhance one's learning beyond the classroom classroom viewing, and holiday own educational background. clothing with doors." boxes equipped with "everything As a Jewish educator, I recently one ever needs to know" about a an attitude ... had the opportunity to fulfill many Both the Listening and particular holiday. of these goals. I spent a week not an age· Learning Centers at Torat Yisrael "Both Centers have enriched studying at "Ulpan B'kfar (Ulpan were products of Improvement our total Jewish educational grants awarded by the Bureau of program," stated Lonna Picker, in the Country), an intensive Jewish Education of Rhode Island. "and we are anticipating a lot of Ulpan located at Camp Yavneh in •••• Northwood, New Hampshire, and In both cases, seed monies were action and enthusiasm as we offer preeteen/Junior sponsored by the Hebrew College provided by the Bureau to initiate this added dimension and allow in Boston. The Ulpan method of party dresses the projects, and after the first our students to increase their language instruction, a total year of each, the synagogue has knowledge by bringing resource immersion process, allows you to 212 sumner street continued to fund and further materials into their homes." think, dream, play, and speak in newton centre Hebrew. In addition to some opp. post office Teacher Training Workshops traditional classroom teaching, all daily activities were done in (617) 964-4363 At BJE/RI Hebrew: eating in the M-S 10:00-5:30 "heder-obel," swimming in the Monday-Wednesday Bureau Bouquet "agam," taking a "tiyul" to a August 28-30 neighboring town, all B'ivrit. Thursday, September 21 "Making Menshen" Our Israeli teacher, Ilana, was 7:30-9:30 p.m. Toby Rossner, Cathy Berkowitz both a teacher to me, her student, Thursday, October 26 Using Madrikhim in Your Cl888room and a role model for me, a teacher. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Barbara Zenofsky Watching her teaching techniques r------, Thursday, November 9 "To Teach and to Learn" and skill was special. Seeing bow SAVE ON FAX AT WRAP & PAK 1 7:30-9:30 p.m. A Hebrew Teachers' Sharing she was able to take six students, I Wednesday, November 15 Lunch Time Make and Take: Gift of each at a different level of Hebrew, Send or receive 12:00-1:00 p.m. Shabbat and make each one feel I Hana Berman comfortable and capable, and still 1st page $2.50 I Thursday, November 16 Jewish Book Month allow each student to learn at his I 7:30-9:30 p.m. Building on Books: Choosing Enrichment or her own level was an art in itself. Additional pages $1.50 I Resources for the Classroom Each student had different Melody Allen strengths and weaknesses, but $1.00 per minute for sending I each could learn from the other. Monday, December 4 Explore and Create in the Resource Present this ad for fax savings good thru September, 1989 I 7:30-9:30 p.m. Center - Hanukkah This important lesson for me as a I Staff teacher was reinforced by my participation as a student. Being Wednesday, December 13 Lunch Time Make and Take: 1-2-3 WRAP& PAK I 12:00-1:00 p.m. on "the other side of the desk" Basic Games for All Subjects gave me a renewed perspective on 236 Meeting St., Providence, RI 02906 Toby Rossner a student's classroom experience. WHERE MEETING MEETS THAVER Thursday, December 14 Morim Class of 5749 Reunion Conquering fear and insecurity 7:30-9:30 p.m. Minna Ellison and developing a sense of purpose 861-0660 - VOICE• 351-2740 - FAX Wednesday, January 17 Lunch Time Make and Take: Incentive and community must proceed 12:00-1:00 p.m. Bulletin Boards successful learning. As a student, I Minna Ellison saw it happen. As a teacher, I will Sunday, January 21 Zelniker Scholar: Ruth Zielenziger endeavor to make it happen. 9:30-11 :30 a.m. Teaching Bible "Savlanut" ... patience ... Monday, January 22 Explore and Create in the Resource A midashic text states: "kol 7:30-9:30 p.m. Center: Tu B'Shevat hahathalot kashot." All beginnings Staff are difficult, but leaving my m~=-~PARCEL SHIPPING OVERNITE EXPRESS MAILBOX RENTAL PARCEL WRAPPING Monday, February 5 Using Israeli Stamps in Your "Ulpan B'Kfar" was difficult too. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Classroom Like all campers, I was sad to leave Daphna Rabinowitz my new friends, but I felt good - Monday, February 12 Explore and Create in the Resource energized, proud of my new skills 7:30-9:30 p.m. Center: Purim and insights, and anxious to show Staff them off. Wednesday, March 14 Preschool Hands-on Pesach That is what I did on my 12:00- 1:00 p.m. Hands-on Pesah "summer vacation" , .. "Zeh hu." LSHIPPING SUPPLIES MONEY TRANSFER FAX RUBBER STAMPS .J 7:30-9:30 p.m. Staff Ruth Page ------ALEXIS S. BUDLONG l.Jcensed by the State of Rhode Island MILLICENT BUDLONG Congregation Ohawe Sholam Assistant Director Director Young Israel of Pawtucket Join us for the High Holidays! NEW ARRIVALS Services conducted by Rabbi Jacobs INFANTS TODDLERS ~ and PLA V GROUPS ~ c~ 1 featuring the renowned \/ Cantor Berger 3 months - 3 years Tickets $50 per person Cedar-Hurst offers love, security and fun! Family Membership $250.00 Professional care givers, RN on staff. 11 Full Service II Synagogue The Cedar-Hurst School Inc. 1. Youth & Adult Activities 1179 Main Avenue 2. Junior Congregation Warwick, R.I. 3. Bar & Bat Mitzvah Classes 737-3415 737-3497 726-6633 Nursery, Kindergarten and Elementary Programs Available Al2 - THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1989 Give your child the PHD* Advantage ... The right start for the best future 2 Libraries Drama Computers Language Lab * PROVIDENCE HEBREW DAY * Where a caring, creative staff makes learning an adventure RABBI SHOLOM STRAJCHER, DEAN 450ELMGROVEAVENUE PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND 331-5327