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VOLUME LXIV, NUMBER 49 CHESHVAN 22, 5755 /THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1994 35¢ PER COPY Treaty Signed 8:09 EDT, October 26 by Alison Smith In Jerusalem, meanwhile, Herald Editor Arab protesters were in the At8:09 a.m., Eastern Daylight streets, responding to a call for a Time, this morning, Israel and general strike by P L O head Jordan signed a peace treaty at Yasser Arafat. Arafat is incensed Wadi Araba Crossing, on the over the fact that King Hussein Israel-Jordan border. will be the Arab custodian of the The site was a hot, dry stretch Arab holy sites in Jerusalem, of desert n,mning to the sea. The which Arafat feels is a betrayal of flags of Israel, Jordan and the the spirit of his agreement with United States billowed in a Rabin. Israeli police and troops strong breez-e as each nation's were keeping a low profile in the national anthem was played. hopethattheycouldavoidblood President Bill Clinton, repre shed on this very historic day. Mourning Halfway Round The World senting all of us who will be Although there is confusion Students leave a Yizkor service in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack on a bus in Tel helping to bankroll the new and doubt, and outright protest Aviv, at Manning Chapel on the Brown University campus, Sunday evening. Story on page 18. peace and resulting growth in inthepopulationsofbothparties Herald photo by Alison Smith both nations, stood tall in the to this treaty, Rabin's commit sun with his right hand over his ment to this treaty was finally heart. It was a golden moment approved by a 106 to 3 vote of Syrian Rabbi for everyone there, and for those confidence in the Knesset. Internet 'Cyber-Nazis' Spew watching. (Continued on Page 16) Arrives 'Home' by Cynthia Mann JERUSALEM (JT A) - Syr Anti-Semitic Venom Online ian Jewry's spiritual leader ar by Larry Kanter "It was like being attacked," rived at Ben-Gurion Airport on -Jewish Bulletin of recalled Griesman, 46, a San Oct. 18, marking the end of a Northern California Francisco software engineer and dramatic and secret exodus of SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) - the son of Holocaust survivors, most of Syria's Jews. Irving Griesman sat in front of and the experience was akin to "Only a week ago, I sat with his computer terminal enjoying having someone physically step the rabbi for three hours (in New a recent online chat with some into the middle of a conversa York) and he told me his dream" Israeli friends on the Internet, tion and spit anti-Semitic epi to make aliyah, said Uri Gordon, the vast network of intercon thets in your face. head of the Jewish Agency's de nected computer sytems that Boosters of the Internet often partment of immigration and allows people from across the claim the global computer net absorption, as the airplane globe to communicate with the work is creating a new kind of landed. "Now his dream has touch of a button. community- a "virtual village" come true. It's a historic day." But his conversation was in where dive_rse people at t~rmi At a ceremony inside an air terrupted when someone by the nals around the world can share port hall, Hamra, who arrived name of "Jewkill" logged on. knowledge, pool insights and with his wife, mother and six ''HITLER WAS RIGHT, JEWS forge new bonds of kinship. children, recited the AREPARASITES!!" Jewkillex But that "virtual village" - Shehecheyanu blessing - claimed over and over again. like so many actual ones - is which thanks G-d for "sustain Soon the computer screen home to its share ofanti-Semites , ing us and bringing us to this was flooded with the message. Holocaust deniers and white su day'' - and gave thanks in flaw ltbecameimpossiblefortheoth premacists. less Hebrew for the help given ers to carry on their discussion. (Continued on Page 13) the Syrian Jewish community over the years. ' He said he believed his ar Israel Puts on a High Tech Face rival in Israel marked the start Israel's rapid expansion be cannot possibly meet the de ofa waveofSyrianJewishaliyah gan in 1990, shortly after the mand in such a short time, Fi from New York, ''because this is first wave of massive immigra nance Minister Avraham our home." tion began, primarily from the Shochat has appointed a blue Since 1948, the AmericanJew former Soviet Union. Since then ribbon committee, headed by ish Joint Distribution Commit the high tech field in Israel has Arnon Mantver, director gen tee helped sustain the Syrian been expanding at the rate of 10 eral for immigration and ab Jewish community with more percent a year and is expected sorption at the Jewish Agency, than $10 million in grants raised to continue to increase for at to coordinate the recruitment of Taking Root by the United Jewish Appeal. least the next three years. potential candidates. Since April ofl992 , 3,800 Jews Recent studies show that be Teams of company recruit Lesley Urgo, street tree coordinator, recently assisted some left Syria, most of them for the cause of its rapid economic ers will visit New York, Boston students of Providence Hebrew Day School in planting three UnitedStates,and 1,300ofthem growth, Israel will be faced with and San Francisco in December new trees on Elmgrove Avenue, Providence. The students were then brought to Israel by a shortage of more than 6,000 to interview job applicants and were members of Jani Rosen's fourth-grade class and the trees the Jewish Agency in a covert jobs in high tech fields as early make concrete offers to success were donated from the Mary Elizabeth Sharpe Street Tree operation. as 1995. Since Israel's universi ful candidates. The first team of Endowment. (Continued on Page 16) ties and technological institutes (Continued on Page 24) 2 - THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERA~D, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1994 INSIDE THE OCEAN STATE Four Bits a Week Comes to $25 a Year Even in this uneven econ competing national health care omy, most people can afford to bills. donate 50 cents a week to sup - At the Gray Panthers, port the nonprofit community which concentrates on eco groups in The Fund for Com nomic and social issues facing munity Progress. seniors, it is enough to pay the Although that amount is too monthly office electric bill. small for a cup of coffee or a - At Shelter Services, which gallon of gas, it can provide the operates Tanner House for low following as determined in a income, single adults, it makes brief survey of the beneficiaries. the telephone available far all of that constant giving. For ex residents for a month. ample: - At Elmwood Neighbor - At Amos House, the hood Housing Services, which homeless shelter and food does housing and microbusi kitchen, it pays for lunch for ness development, it pays for a one person for one month. month's supply of copy paper. - At the Providence Family All for only 50 cents a week., Leaming Center, which trains single parents in literacy and obtaining diplomas, it covers Roses Are the cost of three General Equiv Always alency Diploma study books. - At the Coalition for Con Appreciated sumer Justice, which is working The Arthritis Foundation, on health issues, it finances RED ALERT! RED ALERT! - Signs of the times on a shelter at George Washington State Park. part of a major mailing on the Rhode Island Chapter, is offer ing roses, boxed, and wrapped, Herald plroto by Alison Smit/, and ready for gift-giving, for! Out of the Closet! just $15 per dozen, delivered to the buyer on Dec. 15. ' Is there on old fur Your purchase of roses helps hiding in your closet 'If You Go l"to The Woods Today ... ' For Men the Arthritis Foundation, you wish you could by Alison Smith Rhode Island Chapter raise or blood is dangerous. do something Herald Editor Who Cook much needed funds for local with? Lei us give A factor you might not have services such as support As the signs indicate in the It new l~e! We'll thought of is the danger from The Langston Hughes Cen groups, exercise classes and picture that accompanies this hunters. You'll notice that the put It Inside an article, our state parks are not ter for the Arts and Education elegant leolher or self-help courses. sign says you must wear 200 will hold its sixth annual Men There are nearly 40 million as safe as they used to be. square inches of phosphores oil weather fabric Rabies, of course, is spread Who Cook Festival on Oct. 30 shell, and present Americaps who have arthritis, cent orange in the woods. ing throughout the state. If you at 6 p.m. at the Roger Williams you with o fashion· and 153,000 of those individu That's just a swatch 12 inches Park Casino. are walking through a wooded able new fur-lined als live in Rhode Island. The by 17 inches - an orange ca p, Vincent A. Cianci, Jr. , mayor area, and a normally wild ani or reversible coot Arthritis Foundation is the only perhaps, and a vest - or a of Providence, is honorary mal approaches you, back off or jacket. The price? national, not-for-profit organi patch of cloth on your pack, or chair of the event. Committee and leave. Do not try to help a Remarkably reason· zation which supports research pack. It makes travel through members include Marianne wild animal that appears to be able. Coll us at 821-6000. to find a cure for and preven the woods even safer if you Heimbecker, chair, and in distress or ill. 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Cook With Natural Foods Rabbi Carlebach Harmonic On Nov. 16, the HOPE Cen ter will present its fourth edu Will Be Missed Vibrations cational program of the 1994 series on Cooking with Natural by Rabbi J. Hershy Worch In Warren Foods. Rabbi Carlebach was a scion Katherine Wheeler, R.N., The newly formed Mount of a noble rabbinical family, fa. MIRROR IMAGE - a windless day at Tefft Bog, a pond/bog will demonstrate how to cook Hope Bay Chorus is looking for mous for its leadership role in complex which is part ofthe Beaver River area just purchased by organic, natural, whole foods women who like to sing. This Jewish history. His family the Nature Conservancy. Tum the picture upside down. as well as how to eat a healthy, new woman's chorus meets traced its lineage through the supportive diet. .Wheeler is a every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. greatest of the Ashkenazic graduate of the Natural Cook at the Warren Baptist Church in Ownership of 55 acres along m Rhode Island alone, The sages. To Rabbi David Halevi the Beaver River is being trans Nature Conservancy has se ery School and 'owner of the Warren. Its members sing four Grateful Heart in Wickford. (1586-1667), of Ostroh and part harmony. Any interested ferred to The Nature Conser cured protection of nearly Lemberg known as the T A"Z, The presentation will be held woman is invited to visit and vancy, for eventual conveyance 9,000 acres of the state's most and Rabbi Joel Sirkis (1561 - in the kitchen of St. Martin's enjoy a night's singing. · to Rhode Island's Department unique natural areas. The Na 1640) known as the BA"CII . Church, 24 Orchard St., Provi For details, call Betty at 245- of Environmental Manage ture Conservancy is a member His own scholarship w_as phe dence from 6 to 8 p.m. Call 2216, or Linda at 247-0386. ment. The property consists of ship organization. For more in nomenal. Rabbi Moses Fein a varied land~cape of ecologi formation about its programs in 454-0404 to reserve space. The stein (1895-1986) called him a _cally significant wetlands, in Rhode Island, call 331-7110. public is welcome. A $5 dona sublime scholar, (Lamdan Nis Bazaar to Benefit cluding a pristine southern tion is requested. Space is lim- gav), whose breadth of knowl New England level bog, an'! it ited. · edge . defies ·comprehension, Geriatric Center provides habitat for the un and a leader of world Jewry, usual bog copper butterfly (ly A fund-raising bazaar will be (Manhig Yisrael). caena epixanthe). THE CHILD CARE CENTER, INC. held for the East Bay Geriatric The impact of his musical ge Its 55 undisturbed acres en nius will be felt for the foresee- Center on Oct. 29 between 9 345 Blackstone Boulevard a.m. and 3 p.m. at the St. Bren close several streams a~ trails, . able future. There is no facet of a bog pool, a shrub swamp, dan's School, 55 Turner Ave., Providence, R.I. 02906 Jewish life which has not been areas of decidous forested wet Riverside, R.I. (401) 272-3959 touch°ed and changed through land, and mixed oak forest with Baked goods, crafts, local it. His melodies have become occasional dense, shrubby un standards, woven into the crafters' tables, and food ser NOW ENROLLING vice will be available to the derstory. liturgy of syangogues, temples The Champlin Foundations public. FOR PRE-SCHOOL and shtieb'ls all over the world. have funded the property's Proceeds will benefit the Jewish wedding and Simcha purchase until its transfer to the Adult Day Care Center. Limited Space Available music is permeated with his Rhode Island DEM. tunes. His Sabbath songs are "On behalf of all the citizens sung around tables· every of Rhode Island, The Nature where. IYou saw it in the Hera;d! r Conservancy would li~e to ex- He considered it his job to rekindle the light of joy and passion in the heart of the Jew ish people after the Holocaust. 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Avraham sent Eliezer life, too young to be success- Speaking at a news confer ~eek's Torah portion, Vayeira. this narrative? If Sarah's intent his faithful servant, to his rela'. fully transplanted to the holy ence following the meeting, And Abrah~m was 100 years had been only to prove that tives in Mesopotamia, where environment in which she be- Assad said Syria would not old when his son Isaac was I h b Eliezer was destined to meet longed, Rivka was surrounded b t h' saac ~as er iological son, agree to swap or lease land as om O • Im ... and Sarah said would it not have sufficed for Rivka, Yitzchak's intended bv unholiness. On the very day Jordan had done with Israel. ... 'Who would have said to h t hi I Rashi, the great Torah c~m- she turned 3, when _ ac- According to the draft treaty Ab ra h am t h at . Sarah would doeser oRashi nurse stressm a thatone? SarahWhy men ta tor, explains that cording to Jewish law she could signed Oct. 17, Israel agreed to have nursed children?"' Rashi, "nursed them all"? Eliezer's actual journey was be betrothed - Abraham return ·most of the land Jordan the great Torah commentator, In answer, one must look at miraculous. "I have come to- sensed that the proper time had had demanded, with the un ~xp!ains !~~, use of the plural the global picture, and under- day," Eliezer declared to arrived to free the rose from its derstanding that it would be children : On the day of the stand a seemingly radical con- Rivka's father and brother prickly environment. Eliezer leased back to Israel. !ea~t, ma~y princesses brought cept: the entire world was ere- Betuel and Lavan. "Today I set was dispatched without delay, _" An:i:one_ who thinks Syria theu babies to Sarah, and she ated solely for the purpose of out, and today I arrived," com- and a miracle was wrought so will relmqmsh land is making a suc_kled them. For they did not the Jewish people. After the ments Rashi, noting that that Rivka would not have to serious mistake," he said, refer b~heve _that she had actually founding of the Jewish nation Eliezer reached his destination spend even -one extra moment ring to the Golan Heights, the given birth to Isaac, insisting and the giving of the Torah, Is- - a journey of 17 days in an- in an improper atmosphere. jssue that has deadlocked Is that he was a foundling they rae! became the means through cient times - on the very day Eliezer's task was to convince raeli-Syrian negotiations. had brought home from the which all of mankind is af- he embarked. Betuel and Lavan that G-d had In Damascus, Foreign Minis mar_ketplace. By nursing other fected; no commandment from Why was it necessary fqr G-d destined Rivka to be Isaac's ter Farouk al-Sharaa said that babies as well as her own, G-d can be conveyed to the to make a special miracle for wife, and that they had no without peace with Syria and Sara~ demon~trated._that she world except through the Eliezer? Furthermore, why did power to prevent her depar Lebanon, there would be no had mdeed given birth. And Torah and Jewish people. It is Ehezer find it necessary to ture. "I have come today!" he pe~ce in the region. for this reason that the Seven mention it to Betuel and Lavan? declared, knowing that they Noahide Laws must be obeyed Rivka, matriarch of the Jew- ~oul~ try to delay her leaving. .AA . A Calls For A Fresh solely because G-d has so com- ish people, is described in the Destiny cannot wait! Today I Look at Smog manded, and not because one Midrash as ''a rose among the have come, for I must bring her finds them intellectually com- thorns." Righteous and pure, back with me at once!" shows that autos and light pelling. Rivka lived the first few years "The deeds of the fathers trucks currently represent less The Jewish nation's existence of her life surrounded by provide instruction for their The A_merican Automobile than one~third of the overall as a people commenced with "thorns," the wicked Betual sons," our sages teach. From Association has announced emissions that lead to severe the supernatural birth of Isaac, and Lavan. Eliezer's journey we learn that that the automobile is no longer ~zone problems in Atlanta, Bal- at whifh point its influence in As anyone who has plucked when the moment for redemp the main cause oI summertime tlmore, Boston, Chicago, Hous- the world began to be felt. The a rose knows, it is not easy to tion arrives, it cannot be de ozone smog in major cities, and ton, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, miraculous birth of Isaac there- free the rose from its prickly layed for even one s~cond. If urged that clean air controls be New York, Philadelphia and fore marked the beginning of surroundings, Indeed, the need be, miracles will be r~:directed toward industry, Washington, D.C. an era of miracles and abun- thorns exist solely in the merit wrought to ensure that the re- big trucks and other mobile "It's time to put the blame for dance for all of mankind. The of the rose, for it is because of demption occurs at exactly the sources. ozo~e _smog where it should most tangible symbol of this the rose that the gardener culti- proper time. AAA has released a study . (Ca.ntinued on Page 23) ~ occurred when Sarah was able vates and nurtures the plant. We must therefore not be dis- "Clearing the . Air," which to physically provide milk for Similarly, the holy Zohar de- heartened by the length of our r------the multitude of children who scribes the spiritual struggle ex- present exile, for just as the RHODE ISLAND JEWISH were brought to her to suckle, erted by the forces of evil Jewish people· were redeemed confirming the centrality of the against the pure and G-dly soul from Egypt' "on the selfsame Jewish people as the key to of the Jew. For, like the thorns, day" when the exact moment HERALD- G-d's blessing. "Many barren these forces derive their suste- for liberation arrived, the final women were able to conceive· nance precisely in the presence redemption with Moshiach will (USPS ~760) . many sick were healed on that of the greatest holiness. Betuel likewise take place immedi Published Every Week By The Jewls~ Press Publishing Company day [in Sarah's merit)," Rashi and Lav.an rightly understooq ately and without delay at the adds. 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Telograph,c Agency. 11230 THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1994 5 OPINIONS Pearlman and AJCongress President Silverman Oppose Denounces Bombing ---- .0 L tt The following is an excerpt for the first time r~ached into within the areas it controls ... AbortI n e er from a statement by David V. the heart of Tel Aviv .. ... {The recent) bombing inci Kahn, president of the Ameri- We are deeply distressed dent, overwhelmingly tragic, is Thomas W. Pearlman and gyman condemn a fellow reli can Jewish Congress, following about the possible impact on only the latest in a series of out Harold Silverman of the Rhode gion for upholding vigorously the recent bombing in Tel Aviv: the peace process. We affirm as rages which in their totality Island Federation For Orthodox its well-founded and fundamen We are heartbroken by the we have so often in the past our amount to ·an attempt . to· Jewish Organizations issued a tal beliefs. Respect and admira events that happened in Tel support for the peace process. wage a war against the Peace statement Oct. 18 stating that tion should be the reaction in Aviv recently. We mourn the We believe that it is critical for Process .... they felt clergymen had no right stead. deaths of those who were so the well-being of all the peo .. . In all these events, the to participate in condemning Pearlman and Silverman ar brutally murdered. We grieve pies oHhe region and must be Palestinian Authority and the another church for vigorously gue that any religious philoso with their families. But we are mamtamed and furthered even Israelis need the sincere and ac fighting for its fundamentals. pher must agree that the argu running out of words of sor- in the face of this terrible event. tive support of the nations and "We should respect, even if one ment of the Catholic Church on row. To allow this violence to de- leaders now committed to the doesn't support, the position of abortion and when the incep We did not expect that the stroy the peace process would peace process. the Roman Catholic Church in tion of life begins, and the sa new accords between the Is- be to hand Hamas the victory it firmly upholding its religious credness of life, are well raelis and the PLO would put seeks. principles and convictions that founded both scientifically and an end to all terrorism or ran- But we also understand and life is sacred from its inception. logically. dom violence, but we had ev- sympathize with the outrage "When it comes to traditional "The church should be com ery reason to expect that it and anguish of an Israeli public 'Be Wise - principles majority rule and mended and not condemned for would at least bring about a still confronted with these atro temporary fads of any majority upholding the highest standards diminution in the number and cious incidents. Immunize' are not what should reign. It's of morality as well as their be frequency of these events. In- In the face of many doubts Local visiting nurse agencies shocking to have a group of cler- liefs." stead Hamas terrorism has now and criticisms from within, the are organizing hundreds of flu Israeli public has endorsed and shot clinics throughout Rhode HebreW University Survey Shows is patiently supporting the pro Island this fall to help minimize cess and politics of peace. They the incidence of influenza in Opposition to Golan Heights Withdrawal are deserving of a demonstra our communities. According to tion that the politics of peace the American Lung Associa Seventy-eight percent of Is shows that the majority of those surveyed displayed an are indeed now wholeheart tion, millions of Americans are raeli Jewish youth believe that youth is still thinking in tradi overall negative attitude, with edly adopted by Yasir Arafat, afflicted with influenza and its 77 percent saying there is noth the PLO and the new Pales- Israel should not withdraw tional terms of Israel's security most deadly complication - ing wrong with making the ma tinian Authority. . from the Golan Heights, ac needs rather than having pneumonia - each year. "The jority of Arabs leave the terri This requires at a minimum cording to research done by a adopted new thought patterns flu is a highly contagious, po tory of the land of Israel and 56 that the Palestinian Authority branch of the National Council as a result of the peace process. tentially life-threatening, lung percent believing that what first, unmistakenly and loudly of Jewish Women in coopera The peace process has been disease," said Tina Ragless, ever Israel does, the Arabs will denounce the Hamas leader tion with the university's de selected as this year's central lung health associate at the always hate Jews and want to ship and second, proceed deci partment of psychology. educational theme by the Min American Lung Association of annihilate them. sively to put an end to Hamas The survey shows that 70 istry of Education and Culture. Rhode Island. percent believe that the agree The survey was carried out in , (Continued on Page 23)~ ment with the Palestine Libera January to May of this year tion Organization endangers among 642 Israeli Jewish Israeli security, and 73 percent youths from 26 classes in Center For Humanistic Judaism· feel that Palestinian terror acts Jerusalem in grades 8 to 10, 61 will continue even in the event percent from nine state secular To Be Dedicated schools and 39 percent from of peace between Palestinians The International Institute seven state religious schools. the leadership program for and Jews. for Secular Humanistic Judaism As for attitudes towards ceremonialists, professional In general, the professor who Rabbinic Seminary, the first Arabs generally, 65 percent of leaders, and educators for Sec-.· directed the survey said, this seminary to be established in ular and Humanistic Jewish the Detroit area as well as the communities around the coun- AOL Declares Radio Program first seminary in the world to try. train rabbis for the Secular Hu Secular Humanistic Judaism manistic movement, will have embraces a human-centered Unconscionable and Outrageous a new home in the Ben and Lor philosophy that combines ra Union Watch & Clock Anti-Defamation League "Smith operates as the 'Com raine Pivnick Center for Hu tional thinking with a celebra leaders declared "uncon- mittee for Open Debate on the manistic Judaism. Faithfal Restorations and Expert Repairs tion of Jewish culture and iden Housecalls, Baneries and Bands scionable and outrageous" the Holocaust,' to which he ap The 5,800-square-foot tity. It affirms the power and 793 Hope Street, Providence, R.I. 02906 recent weekly broadcasts of pears to be the only member. Pivnick Center, located in res~onsibility of human beings Bradley Smith on Providence's Smith works in concert with Farmington Hills, Mich., will (401) 273-5266 the Institute for Historical Re Vincent V. Cherico, CMW radio station WALE (990 khz) be dedicated at a special cere (Continued on Page 17) CmifitdMast"Watdunaur denying the Holocaust. view, a pseudo scholarly entity mony at 8 p.m., Oct. 29. Nu According to Sally J. Green with close ties to the Liberty merous community, govern berg, the AOL's civil rights Lobby. The Liberty Lobby has ment and civic leaders, as well counsel, "Bradley Smith is a been the most active anti as many leaders and supporters long-time white supremacist Semitism propaganda orgqni of the Secular Humanistic and anti-Semite who has been zation in the country. The movement, are expected to at JEFF'S KOSHER KITCHEN the prim.ary promoter of Holo broadcasting of historical lies is tend. The center is named for caust denial. Denying the facts irresponsible." Ben and Lorraine Pivnick, long announces its of the tragedy of the Holocaust ADL calls upon all listeners time supporters of Secular Hu is per se anti-Semitic," said and community leaders to con manistic Judaism. Greenberg. demn these hateful programs, The center will provide THANKSGIVING MENU Leonard Zakim, executive di to insist that WALE allow the headquarters and a campus for rector of the AOL asserts that, history of the Holocaust to be all of the programs of the Inter "While the First Amendment told accurately and to take ev national Institute for Secular protects freedom of speech, in ery opportunity to speak out Humanistic Judaism, which cluding offensive hate propa against anti-Semitism and serves as the intellectual center ganda, it does not mandate the racism. for Secular Humanistic Ju broadcast of racist and anti The radio programs are aired daism. Currently, four students Semitic programming. The on Tuesdays from 5 to 6 pm. are enrolled in the rabbinic pro plan and implementation of the When contacted, WALE, re gram of the institute and more • Fresh Roosted Turkey • Honey-Glazed Brisket 'final solution' which resulted fused to comment. than 50 people are enrolled in • Apple Almond Stuffing • Fresh Homebaked Pies in the Nazis' murder of 6 mil • Hor5 d'Oeuvres ... • Fresh Vegetoble of lion Jews is well documented Spinach Puff Pastry Your Choice by the Nazis themselves. The Sun-dried Tomato Puff Pastry • Sweet Potato Pudding movement to deny the Holo caust is not only refuted by eye WE'VE NOYED! Sherried Stuffed Mushrooms ... and much, much more! witness accounts, the historical find Michael lacks, formerly of Camera Werks, doing FAST record, but also has been camera repairs at 791 HOPE STREET, PROVIDENCE ORDER DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 17 specifically acknowledged and condemned by the German Or c,JI (401) l•REPA·- All orders must be pkkecl up by 9 a.m. Thursday, November 24 government. To suggest it did not happen is as ridiculous as JEFFREY INGBER • 80 BROWN STREET, PROVIDENCE • 273-0210 alleging that there was no U.S. Civil War." ~ UNDEl !HE SIIICI SUPEIVl5ION OF !HE VWI tt.WSIIIUIH Of IIIODE ISIAND According to Greenberg, 6 - Tl;iE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY; OCTOBER 27, 1994 -woRLD AND NATIONAL NEWS
This led to an aid channel Secret U.S. Jewish Aid Is which was to continue for 30 Latest Terrorist Attack Ignites years: The JDC allocated Instrumental to Syrian Exodus money to the Aid Society, which wired the funds to bank Rage Against Government accounts in Beirut or by Naomi Segal A Story Behind a Story Damasacus. reprisal for the killing of JERUSALEM (JTA) - A po Waxman's captors during the by Larry Yudelson This method of aid was to point to Stephen Shalom. litical firestorm has erupted here Oct. 14 rescue attempt. NEW YORK OTA) - With Shalom is the son of a Syrian continue until 1977, when JDC in the wake of the terrorist at representatives were finally Prime Minister YitzhakRabin the completed emigration of emigre to Brooklyn who in re tack on thebusinTelAviv, with cut short a trip to the United Syrian Jewry recently, the book cent years traveled to Syria to able to travel officially to Syria the opposition blasting the gov to allocate aid to the Jewish Kingdom upon learning of the has ·been all but closed on a aid the Jewish community ernment for not cracking down attack. Rabin, who first heard Jewish community that traced there. community. enough on the Palestinians. By the time the JDC was able about the attack during an in its history back more than For many years, Syria barred Four opposition Knesset fac terview on a local radio station 2,000 years. Jews from selling their homes to end its assistance last year, tions submitted no-confidence its aid had totaled more than in London, blamed Islamic radi The publicized arrival of Syr or cars, and from traveling out motions in the government. cals for trying to destroy the ian Chief Rabbi Avraham side their hometowns, in an ef $10 million. The JDC is fi Likud Party leader Benjamin nanced by the United Jewish peace process. Hamra in Israel has lifted the fort to keep them from emigrat Netanyahu warned that if Rabin President Ezer Weizman, curtain on an operation that has ing. Appeal, which raises funds did not crack down on the Pal through local federations. who visited the wounded in Tel quietly brought 3,800 Jews out Despite the ban, most Syrian estinians, he will be "personally Aviv's Ichilov Hospital, ap of Syria since President Hafez Jews desired to leave, and But with the exception of the · responsible for a wave of disas leadership of the JDC and a few pealed for calm. Assad permitted free emigra throughout the years, Jews ters that will follow." "We must continue with the tion in 1992. tried to cross the border. Some other Jewish organizations, this Hamas, the Islamic funda aid was kept secret. peace process," he said. "I ap Hamra's arrival has also per succeeded; others were ar mentalistmovementopposed to peal to the citizens of Israel to rested and tortured. The JDC archives show that mitted publication, for the first peace with Israel, claimed re take a deep breath. time, of the 46-year story of the At times, opportunities arose the failure of Syrian Jewry to sponsibility for the latest attack, reach the public communal "We have to remember how American Jewish Joint Distribu for the illegal emigration to be as it had two earlier ones. An in the past 100 years we have tion Committee's secret aid to more than a trickle. In 1962, ac agenda reflected a deliberate anonymous caller to Israel Ra policy decision. reached this point, in spite of Jews in Damascus, Aleppo and cording to hitherto confidential dio said the bombing was in wars, attacks," said Weizman. elsewhere in Syria using files of the JDC, 620 Jews left " It is fair to say that publicity money it received from the Syria for Israel. focused on this community United Jewish Appeal. But it was not until 1977 that would worsen rather than help An estimated 230 Jews have the first legal and public depar their plight," is how one JDC Death of Rescuer Sparks Campaign chosen to remain in Syria, the tures took place. official reassured a Springfield, remnants of a community Following public interven Mass., rabbi who had written for New Combat Group Rules which was thriving by the time tion from then-Rep.· Stephen his local federation in 1964 ask by Naomi Segal of Ezra the scribe, and contin Solarz (D-N.Y.) and President ing why Jewish newspapers Under current regulations, a were not carrying stories about JERUSALEM - The death of ued through the rise and fall of Jimmy Carter, Assad allowed child from a family that has al Syrian Jewry. Capt. Nir Poraz, who was Roman, Byzantine and various the release of 14 unmarried killed in a failed attempt to res ready lost a son or a parent in Muslim empires and rulers. women. They were part of a It was learned, many months cue abducted soldier Nachshon the line of duty must have Without question, its harsh group of 400 young women after the fact, from a letter for Waxman, has prompted a cam parental permission to join a est period came in the past half who could not be married be warded by Isaac Shalom, that paign to re-evaluate Israel De combat or elite unit. Those who century, as Syria, ruled by a cause of the hundreds of young Syria had greeted the birth of fense Force procedures for ac are only children must also ob succession of military dictators, men who had sneaked out of the State of Israel by arresting cepting into combat or elite tain permission. became the standard-bearer in the country. several hundred Jews, closing units the children of those who Ofra Friedman, the chairman the war against the State of Is Following this first gr~mp, in their businesses and leaving have died in the line of duty. of Na'amat, the women's rael. a · quiei exodus that is' being 600 families penniless. Poraz, 23, of Rama! branch of the Histadrut Labor The Jews were allowed to publicized only now for the These reports led the JDC to Hasharon, was the only son of Federation, sent a letter to continue their religious life. first time, two or three women · approve a monthly allocation Maoz Poraz, a pilot who was Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin Synagogues and schools re departed each month, until to the Near East Jewish Aid So shot down during the 1973 this week calling on him to find . ciety which was to remain, for mained open, and the Jewish . more than 350 had left. Yorn Kippur War. Nir Poraz was another way of classifying children of Syria learned He "I always saw them Oewish decades, at about $10,000 per two years old at the time of his these soldiers. brew as proficiently as their familes in Syria) as pawns the month. father's death. His mother, "These parents are tom be cousins in Brooklyn, home to it Syrians were using" in their If the situation had grimly Mati, raised him and his two tween the entreaties of the large Syrian Jewish commu dealings with Israel, Shalom stabilized around 1951, when sisters alone. child to serve in a fighting unit, nity. But at the core of said in an interview this week. emigration became almost im "He insisted that he be and their fears of the implica Syria's policies toward its Jews "Nothing ever happened until possible for most, it grew worse drafted into an elite unit," Ra tions of the signature," the let was a fierce opposition to emi the (current) peace process in 1956, as tensions in the Mid mat Hasharon's mayor, Efraim ter said. gration. started going" in 1991. dle East heightened, eventually Hiris, said at Nir Poraz's fu Friedman said that in such "If we let them go, they will It was his father, Isaac leading to war between Israel neral recently. "He came from cases, if the child is killed, par go to Israel. They will- marry, Shalom, who first approached and Egypt that October. a family like that; it couldn't ents feel tremendous guilt on have children, and 20 years the JDC on behalf of the New All the Jews homes in have been any other way." top of their loss. from now their children will be York-based Near East Jewish Kamichli were marked with red fighting our boys," is how a Aid Society in 1947, asking for (C:ontinued on Page 24) Syrian Foreign Ministry official emergency relief in the wake of Army Rescinds Letter Urging explained the policy at one the Aleppo riots. Cadets to Join Christian Groups by Jennifer Batog WASHINGTON OTA) - Togo West Jr. on July 21 , after CHILDREN'S MEDICAL GROUP The U.S. Army has rescinded the memo was brought to the an ROTC memo suggesting attention of the Jewish group, that cadets join certain Chris Pelavin said. James R. Bonner, MD tian organizations. Kahn noted in his letter that The move came in response AJCongess had no problem Robert Eden, MD to a complaint filed by the with the memo's proposition American Jewish Congress, that the Anny's future leader Carine Leconte, MD whose Washington representa ship should understand the im Stephanie Penchuk, MD tive, Mark Pelavin, said he was portance of religion to mem "pleased" with the decision. bers of the military. Specializing in pediatric ~ A July 15 memo from an The congress was concerned and adolescent medicine ",;;;, Army ROTC commander said, with the memo's singling out in part, that the "Officer's Christian organizations to the ANNOUNCE THE 0PENINC. OF THEIR NEW PRACTICE Christian Fellowship and Cam exclusion of others, Pelavin pus Crusade for Christ's Mili said. at tary Ministry offer religious ac "The original memo clearly SUITE #190 tivities that stress values went well beyond the bounds 2 DUDLEY STREET essential to effective leadership of Army practice or govern PROVIDENCE, RI 02905 development." ment practice," he said. The memo, signed by ROTC In a Sept. I 6 letter to Kahn, First Region Commanding Of Sara Lister, assistant secretary Adjacent to Rhode Island Hospital and ficer, Maj. Gen. James Lyle, of the Army for manpower and Hasbro Children 's Hospital also gave the organization's reserve affairs, said the memo Accepting new patients immediately phone numbers and said partic was rescinded because of "le ipation in them was voluntary. gitimate concern." The First Region is based at Ft. The Army rescinded the orig Bragg, N.C. inal memo and any memos that 401 • 444 • 3400 AJCongress president David may have been prompted by Kahn wrote to Army Secretary the original memo, Lister said. THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1994 7 WORLD AND NATIONAL NEWS Showings of 'Schindler' to Lubavitch Britain Blasts Tikkun Help Fight Anti-Semitism Student Group Conference by Lisa Glazer by Valerie Monchi peace is by retaining all territo- on Renewal MOSCOW UT A) - Before Synagogue, following discus The London Jewish Chronicle ries under Israeli control." "Schindler's List" arrived in sions during the High Holidays LONDON UT A) - The "The rebbe's views are not A national conference onJew Russia, the Holocaust epic was about "how to make the atmo Lubavitch Foundation in shared by Prime Minister Ra ishren ewal sponsor¢ by Ti/dam eagerly awaited as a weapon sphere for Jews here more com Britain has denounced its Ox bin, and it is therefore felt it magazine will be held at Con against ingrained anti fortable." ford-based student society for would not be appropriate for gregation Ansche Chesed, 251 · semitism. Instead of offering tickets planning to co-sponsor a visit the Lubavitch Oxford Univer W. 100th St. in Manhattan, on Then director Steven Spiel only to religious Jews, Cunin by Israeli Prime Minister sity L'Chaim Society to co-host Nov. 4to6. berg canceled his plans to visit wants to present the film to as Yitzhak Rabin, whose stance the visit of the prime minister," The conference will explore Russia, the premiere was post similated· Jews and Russians on territorial compromise is Vogel said. new alternatives in Jewish life poned and the police nabbed from various walks of life. vigorously opposed by the forthosewhohavebeen"turned members of a neo-Nazi gang He chose military students Chabad Lubavitch movement. off" by what they perceive to be that had allegedly planned for some of the first free tickets Rabbi Shmuel Boteach of the the materialism, conformism, bomb attacks on theaters because "these are the people Oxford L'Chaim Society said "He was distinguished lack of democracy, sexism and/ scheduled to show the film . who are going to be influencing recently that he had been sum primarily by his love for or spiritual deadness in the Ju By the time the film eventu the country, who will be hold moned to a disciplinary hearing daism to which they were ex ally opened, it was a low-key ing the guns years from now." after refusing to revoke his every Jew, and I cannot posed as children. event that generated minimal The results were heartening. group's involvement in the imagine he would want It will also explore new ap attention. Even after the applause follow visit. proaches to G-d, prayer, Jewish Now, finally, the film's full ing a recent screening, there us to humiliate the prime history and the Holocaust de veloped in Michael Lerner's new educational potential is being were several minutes of "The rebbe maintained minister of Israel, by explored. thoughtful silence from the au withdrawing our book Jewish Renewal, current Recently, more than 1,000 dience. Afterwards, teen-age that the way to a full and tensions between blacks and people - Russian military stu military students dressed in participation . ... " Jews, and ideas about prayer, dents, concentration camp sur green wool uniforms left the lasting peace is by new rituals, and Jewish femi vivors, World War II veterans theater beside elderly concen retaining all territories nism developed by "Aleph - and Jewish families - packed a tration camp survivors and under Israeli control." To do so, the statement sug the Movement for Jewish Re large theater in central Moscow Jewish families. gested, would be "disrespect newal'' in Philadelphia. for what may be the first in a Since the initial event was or ful" to the memory of the For registration and informa six-month series of free Sunday ganized, Cunin said, a Jewish rebbe. tion, call (212) 846-4110 or write: The Lubavitch Foundation's Tikkun Conference, P.O. Box screenings. businessman has offered to pay U.K. director, Rabbi Faivish Boteach, noting that he was The event was organized by for free weekly screenings of "shocked" by the statement, 1178 Cathedral Station, New Vogel, said the grou·p should York, N.Y. 10025. Rabbi Yosef Cunin, an Ameri "Schindler's List" for the next not have sponsored the Rabin said in an interview, "The can who oversees the Chabad six months. The logistics are visit out of respect for Rebbe rebbe was the inspiration of my Lubavitch Bolshaya Bronnaya still being finalized. Menachem Mendel Schneer life, and the greatest Jewish son, the spiritual leader of the leader of the millennium. Vin . Word from Israel Bonds Conference: Lubavitch worldwide move " He was distinguished pri ment, who died earlier this marily by his love for every Investing in Israel Makes Good Sense year. Jew, and I cannot imagine he t "The views of the late Lubav would want us to humiliate the ~. by Robert Eshman portunity, efficiency and itcher rebbe on territorial issues prime minister of Israel, by The Jewish Journal competitiveness, said Giora and compromise are1 well withdrawing our participation, Meyuhas, Israel economic min LOS ANGELES (JT A) known," Vogel said in a state especially since the order to do ister to North America. BUYOHE, They came from all over the ment. so came after I had met Mr. Ra United States and Canada, The ongoing peace process "The rebbe maintained that bin and the visit was con between Israel and its Arab nearly 500 successful business the way to a full and lasting firmed," said Boteach.
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GOVERNING "I/you use a gun to rob somebody in "The idea behind the Gun Court is Rhode Island, there's a good chance you'll to bring about swift and tough encounter the newest idea in justice." jurisprudence: Gun Court." CABLE NEWS NETWORK, GOVERNING Magazine, October 1994 October 7, 1994 Gun Court works. "When legislation, which I proposed, was enacted creating the "Gun Court" it became the first of its kind in America. This special state,court, funded by the city, will hear serious crimes involving guns in one third the time it typically takes for gun cases to come to trial." .
MAYOR Paid by Friends of Cianci, F. Corrente, Treasurer JO - THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THU~SDA,Y, OCTOBER 27, 1994 ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT The Leipzig Choir ARussian Nutcracker Is Coming Performs in Brookline The Moscow State Ballet of The premiere performance of throughout Germany. They the Natalia Sats Theatre will be the Leipzig Synagogal Choir in have also performed in Paris, appearing at the Veterans this area will be hosted by He Warsaw, Krakov, Prague and Memorial Hall on Dec. 7 a_nd 8. _ brew College, a trans-denomi Israel, receiving excellent me Prima ballerina Tatyana Frol national institution of Jewish dia reviews in all cities. ova, 1994 People's Artist of studies, on its Brookline cam Until this year, when its U.S. Russia, stars in the role of pus on Nov. 9 at 7:30 p.m., coin tour caused a conflict in dates, Masha. ciding with the 56th anniver the Leipziger Choir has com This is a new " Nutcracker," sary of Kristallnacht. memorated Kristallnacht anm; choreographed by Natalia The unique ensemble of 26 ally by singing in the Leipziger Ryzhenko, a former soloist non-Jewish men and women St. Thomas Church, where with the Bolshoi Ballet. was formed 30 years ago in East Johann Sebastian Bach served The Natalia Sats Theatre's Germany to perform synagogue as cantor 250 years ago. classical symphony orchestra, music of the East European and Klotz said concerts such as under the direction of Andrei German traditions as well as those on Kristallnacht "express Yakovlev, will accompany the Jewish and Hebraic folk music the clear human position of the performance. of the 18th and 19th centuries. non-Jewish choir having its roots The company owes much of The underlying aim remains to in an active ecumenical · con its inspired characterizations to promote healing between the sciousness." The group, com the techniques of Konstantin German and Jewish communi posed of professionals and Stanislavsky. ties, according to its conductor, highly trained albeit amateur Natalia Sats is a legendary Helmut Klotz. musicians, is supported by the figure in the Russian theatrical The repertoire of the Leipzig City of Leipzig and the Federal world, and her career spanned Choir is drawn from extant State of Saxony. the decades from the days ,music found in the once well The Leipziger Choir concert when she worked with conduc established Jewish communi and ·reception hosted by the tor Otto Klemperer in the '30s ties of Latvia, the Ukraine, Po German Consul General after to the construction. of the Na land and Romania. The choir the concert are open to the pub talia Sats Theatre iii Moscow in has performed extensively lic without charge. For further 1979. 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Herald Editor such a sense of celebration, that asked to review Lifecycles: Unmarried Jewish Woman"; by Alison Smith Favorite books and tapes re any family that has experi Jewish Women on Life Passages "Intermarriage: The Price of Herald Editor main in children's memories enced "The December and Personal Milestones, be Modernity and the Power of cause the names of the authors The Stars of David met last when they have children of Dilemma," will probably love it Choice"; "Spiritual Meno week at the Jewish Community their own. They may have an and read it over and over again. who contributed to it and the pause"; "Mourning a Suicide"; comments of the feminists Center. This group welcomes impact on a child's mind, a po The illustrations are different, "Confessional Before Dying." all those Jewish parents who tential to comfort or explain and may be off-putting to those quoted on its cover seemed to It offers tactful, but clearly ar offer something fresh and of have adopted children who something to him, that even his unfamiliar with folk painting, ticulated opinions on commu were not Jewish, or people who parents or rabbi don't have at but they grow on you. You'll high quality. nity or rabbinical attitudes that This book is different, and it are thinking of doing so, or are that particular stage in his end up loving them. need correction. Just because in the process. Meetings are growth. Therefore, we're going There are three audiocassette is packed with excellent writ we love something does not ing, but more than that, it is an once a month, and anyone in to suggest that you look around tapes I would like to recom mean that we think it is perfect terested is urged to contact Re for a couple of books that will mend, with the caution that I essentially feminine, almost as it is. We all have moments tender book. Even when the nee Goldstein at Jewish Family make Chanukah an even richer have not heard them person when we are painfully aware of Services to learn more or sign experience for your children. ally, but they have excellent women who wrote it found the imperfections in ourselves, things in Jewish law that dis on. I, personally, bought the fol credentials. our parents, mates, children At this most recent meeting, lowing books because they The first, "Chanukah, A tressed them, that they felt ur and friends. gently required re-examina Deborah Siegel, professor of seemed outstanding examples Singing Celebration with It is necessary to face, name social work at Rhode Island of three different approaches to Cindy Paley," comes with its tion, their words were full of and ventilate a negative emo love for being Jewish. This is College, spoke on empowering Chanukah, artistically and eth own songbook, lyrics in He tion or memory in some way yourself as a parent to answer nically. .brew and English. There are 19 not a recitation of grievances or before you can proceed with bitter recollections. difficult questions about your The first, Hanukkah! by Roni modem and traditional songs the healing. It seems to me that child's adoption. Schotter, illustrated by Marylin included, and they are not All the important moments in almost any Jewish woman a woman's life are mentioned Siegel set out a dozen or so Hafner, takes place in a town or kiddy songs ... they should de would find something in this guidelines for the group's con city, and is for the very young light the whole family. It's by in this volume, and new ways book that comforted her, or en of experiencing them or inten sideration and discussion. The child - a warm, relaxed, Koleet Productions. couraged her, or made her feel topic was obviously of impor retelling of celebration within The second, "A Sesame sifying their expression are sug as if she was among friends and gested, usually within the tance to everyone there. How the family. It won the National Street Chanukah" is becoming could now speak to herself to speak to a child about his or Jewish Book Award. It was a classic favorite. I don't need framework of Jewish tradition. more freely about some crisis in There are letters, poems, her own circumstances of published by Little, Brown and to introduce anyone to the her life. adoption, or how to handle the Company. Sesame Street gang. prayers and invocations. Every Because it accomplishes word seems to have come from subject with teachers and The second, Latkes and Apple The third tape is called "Tales something, it is strong enough, neighbors or even in-laws,. are sauce, by Fran Manushkin, il and Scales," and it is a collec someone's heart. and takes enough risks to run There are guidelines for mak complex issues. lustrated by Robin Spowart, is tion of stories of Jewish wis the further risk of offending Siegel cautioned against fol set in Russia, and happened a dom, told by Karen Golden. ing up a ritual celebration of some - but the statement that your own, hints about mo lowing "conventional advice." long time ago. The pictures are The stories come from Old bothers no one is not much of a For instance, whether or not beautifully done in pastels. World favorites, and Golden ments not already set aside for statement. ritual observance that you may poverty was a factor in the birth There is a touch of mysticism in adds her own special humor, Not all feminists are militant. parents' decision to choose to this book, and the warmth of charm, and modem twist to consider deserving of it, and This is an example of feminism, descriptions of personal reac have their child adopted, it is very close family relationships. them. This tape will probably with love. better not to explain his adop It was published by Scholastic, be played all year round. There tions to important and familiar Lifecyc/es: Jewish Women on female observances such as the tion to him on the basis of fi Inc. is some musical background on Life Passages and Personal Mile nancial problems. If a child is The third, Elijah's Angel, was the tape. It's available from mikvah. stones is edited by Rabbi Debra The book tackles topics like told that he was released into written by Michael J. Rosen, Karen Golden, 6152 W. Orenstein and published by the care of another family, no and illustrated by Aminah Bre Olympic Blvd., #9, Los Ange conversion, intermarriage, sex Jewish Lights Publishing, P.O. ual abuse and divorce head-on. matter how lovingly and re anda Lynn Robinson. The set les, Ca., 90048. Box 237, Sunset Farm Offices, gretfully, because his parents ting could be a small town in For tapes and books, check Consider these titles: "A Prayer Route 4, Woodstock, Vt. 05091. for Parents of Babies with Dis- couldn't afford to keep him, the Ohio. It is an unusual book be out Ben Eisenberg's collection $24.95. next time his adoptive dad wor cause it tackles the differences at Tikva Traditions on Hope ries about the effects of a reces between Christian celebration Street. He tells me he has about sion or says they can't afford of Christmas and the Jewish 30 Chanukah children's book Jewish Book Month Kit Available something, he is going to won celebration of Chanukah di titles in stock, and carries the der, with terrible anxiety, if rectly, with such respect for first two tapes I've described. A creative and colorful Jew with anno_tated listing of chil ish Book Month kit, in celebra dren's books, and 50 book poverty will once again cause tion of the 1994 Jewish Book marks with annotated listing of him to be turned over to some Month, Oct. 27 to Nov. 27 (22 adult books. Also included are one else. The Start Of A Judaic Library Heshvan to 24 Kislev), is now new publications: Grandparents Better, Siegel suggests, to say, available from the Jewish Book in Jewish Children's Literature: "At the time you were born, by Alison Smith Council. A Historical Overview, a new your birth parents did not feel Herald Editor The Jewish Book Council is and expanded Selected List of they could take good care of Usually, when we buy books Particularly moving or ap an independent agency repre Books for a Jewish Book Fair, any bab_y. You have a 'forever' these days, we are content if propriate selections from the senting the literary voice of the 1994, Something for Hanukkah, family, now ... us." That way, the contents prove to be worth writings of Jewish men and American Jewish Community. and A Taste of Jerusalem. The it's clear that his parents just reading. Beauty of layout and women of letters in this country The 1994 poster was de latter title is only available with couldn't keep HIM. It wasn't artwork, quality of paper and are included, so that you can signed by Leonard Everett the Jewish Book Month kit. specifically a decision made on design are above and beyond sample one author after an Fisher, an award winning au The council is also offering an the basis of how good or cute or what we look for, now. But in other, and perhaps find one or thor and illustrator. The poster all new publications list with 28 lovable he was. It was a deci The Jews In America, edited by two you want to pursue further illustrates the theme "Adven new and updated items. sion that would have been Abraham J. Karp and published and further, outside of this vol . ture With Jewish Books" and Among the new titles are Ages made about any baby they had by Hugh Lauter Levin Associ ume. depicts a community beginning and Stages: A Developmental at that time ... and had nothing ates, Inc., (distributed by Simon. Taking the reader from 1644 an adventure, something we Approach to Reader's Guidance to do with anything he did or and Schuster) you get the to the present, through the can all do through books. The and The Jewish Family in Litera didn't do. A "forever" family keeps whole package. This is a book: written word and visual im liottom of the poster has the ture. you, whether they're on wel to start a library with. ages, this book will give you a Hebrew translation of the The complete Jewish Book There are color plates of solid background of the Jew in theme. Month kit is priced at $27.50 fare or out of work or not, so beautiful and historic syna America. The poster measures plus $5 for shipping and han there is no need for him to lie awake at night wondering gogues (two pictures of Touro It costs $ 75, which is a lot of 15"xl 9" and is ideally suited dling. For order forms and fur when they'll tell him that they Synagogue), stained glass win money, but three new hard for display throughout the Jew ther information, contact the can't afford to keep him any dows, ketubbahs, Torah man cover science fiction books, or ish community: in centers, syn Jewish Book Council, 15 East tles and curtains, arks and romantic novels, or mysteries agogues, libraries, classrooms, 26 St., New York, N.Y. 10010, longer, either. If the birth parents had a his tablets and Torah crowns will cost you almost that much bookstores and homes. (212) 532-4949, ext. 297. tory of abuse of some sort and if gorgeous reproductions in money, ~nd you will not be The 1994 Jewish Book Month The history of Jewish Book the adoptive parents let the glowing colors. reading and rereading them 20 kit contains two copies of the Month goes back to 1925, There are black and white 1994 poster, 50 bookmarks when Fanny Goldstein, a child know that his birth par years from now, like you will ents were considered abso photographs of Hester Street at this book. Boston Hbrarian, set up a Ju the tum of the century, and daica book exhibit to mark the lutely unfit for parenting, he or It gives a person a new per she is going to wonder, some Jewish Union soldiers during spective to read letters more borhood that doesn't practice first Jewish Book Week. The day, how worthwhile he could the Civil War, and the old Jew than 100 years old that tell of assimilation, or even tolerance idea later gained national ac ish section in Boston, and por or compassion. ceptance and popularity and struggles with intermarriage, (Continued on Page 23) traits of people like Louis Bran and assimilation, and growing Treat yourself to this book for was expanded into Jewish Book deis and Emma Lazarus. up poor and Jewish in a neigh- Chanukah. Month. THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1994 13 FEATURE Gandhi's Grandson to Home Away Sentimental Speak in Providence From Home Arun Gandhi, the grandson help them understand their of India's late spiritual leader anger and tum it into positive Yankee Travel of Wakefield, Journey Mohandas K. (Mahatma) action, and teaching alterna R.I., has opened a new division, by Mike Fink Gandhi, will speak in Provi tives to violence. Vacation Homes Abroad, offer Herald Contributing Reporter dence on Oct. 29, at 7 p.m. at Gandhi spent 10 days this ing the European traveler the the First Baptist Church in . past summer in South Africa opportunity to rent a vacation America, 75 N. Main St. conducting workshops on non property in England, Wales, I could have danced all night Bette Davis at the Hollywood Gandhi will address the topic violence and mediating peace Scotland, Ireland, Italy, France, in that "surprise downstairs Canteen. A group of young "From Chaos to Community: between . warring factions of Spain, Portugal, and the space" of the Vets' Audi tori um. marines carried flags, little girls Building a Non-Violent Soci youth. He hopes in the future Mediterranean islands. " We To raise money and just show in ballet skirts pranced to the ety" at an interfaith program to establish an M .K. Gandhi have seen an increase in the off its new zone, the Veteran's tunes, and Mayor Cianci sang sponsored by the Rhode Island Non-Violence Institute in number of travelers wanting to Memorial Auditorium Founda some songs in tandem with Mary Committee for Non-Violence South Africa. rent their own cottage or villa," tion held a Stage Door Canteen AnnSorrentino.JackLafond who Initiatives. Accompanied by his wife, said Frankie Sanders, vice pres Gala, a 50th birthday of World shaped this canteen and saluted There is no admission fee to Sunanda, Gandhi's visit ·to ident of Yankee Travel. "Trav War II big-band dance halls. its launching, played host among the program; a free-will offer Rhode Island is sponsored by elers can have more privacy, They even got some ballads from the tables and the buffet offer ing will be received. the Rhode Island Committee more space, and an opportu "My Fair Lady" yanked back a ings from wine and cheeses As a native of South Africa of for Non-Violence Initiatives, a nity to shop with local people decade to fit it. through desserts and coffees. Al Asian descent, Gandhi early in newly formed group which for their daily bread if they are I' m glad to stand tall for our Sims played piano, life experienced racial prejudice plans to establish a Center for so inclined. ." Star Spangled Banner, to and Wayne Paten and physical attacks by both Non-Violence Initiatives to ad Groups from two to 30 can be cheer a med aude led his quartet white and blacks. "The agony dress what Gandhi called the accommodated. All of the ley of George through the war of being despised by everyone " passive violence" of discrimi properties listed are offered by M . Cohan pa time lyrics whose except your own race turned to nation, oppression, exploita well established European triotic rallying magic may be disgust and humiliation with tion, hate, and anger which ex companies who have been cries, to clap lost to anybody the physical beatings," Gandhi plode into physical violence in renting to Europeans for years. like mad for who wasn't alive has written. "I was seething our society. Call 789-9728. kids tapping to then as a wit- with anger and secretly wished the sweet melo ness to an ex I could muster the strength to dies of tne dura tr a ordinary retaliate in kind. The anger Cyber-Nazis no one overseeing its transmis tion. Nobody gets chapter in our· manifested itself in other ways. (Continued from Page 1) sions! and no established poli as caught up in the - national and I was becoming inconsiderate. I cies regarding its content. fervor as I do. local history. "Cyber-Nazis" are finding Rather than being routed You enter the I put on hated all whites and all blacks that the information superhigh for the misdeeds of a few." through a central command - past, and the future my FDR pin, way offers a useful way to com as they are on Prodigy or theater within a the my oldest red, At age 12, Gandhi was sent municate among themselves by his parents to live with his America Online-messages on ateratVMA, via a steel white and blue neck and spread their ideas to others. the Internet travel freely stairway from the tie, and my vaguely nautical grandfather to learn how to With a simple keyboard com control his rage and deal with through the web of intercon lobby. Still life displays were set blazer and got quite hypnotized mand, they are able to bypass nected computers. up at each landing, balcony and by the haunting refrains among prejudice through non-violent nearly all obstacles and trans means. With an estimated 15million alcove. An old military type: the masonry and girders of a mit their incendiary theories people using the Internet's hun writer, a khaki-colored table noble structure. At age 23, Gandhi returned directly to millions of computer to India, where he worked as a dreds of bulletin boards each model radio, a pile of booklets, We left to the ghostly strains users around the globe. day, monitoring online behav magazines, musical scores, and of a player piano in the street reporter for The Times of India. Discussion groups with In 1960, he and several col ior is nearly impossible. army/ navy gear all waft your level lobby. We perched briefly names such as "alt.skinheads" "It's anarchy," says mood back to a red-white-and on the fenders of a vintage car leagues started India's Center or "alt.revisionism" are for Social Unity, whose mission Griesman. "There are no rules blue era of bittersweet recall. offered by Ted Leonard and had crowded with conversations except the rules we make for Those things, so new then, so our pictures taken. We touched was and is to alleviate poverty about white supremacy and and caste discrimination by ourselves." old now, evoke a time of terror, base with Bernie and Claire Bell, Holocaust denial. Back in 1991, for example, doubt, dread, and loneliness all co-sponsorsoftheevent. "What providing members of the "un And there are "Jewkill" touchable" class with self-help the Anti-Defamation League mixed in with belief, hope, and did you think?" asked Bernie, networkers who take pleasure began receiving numerous com shared enthusiasm. and I told him, "I love the build models of commerce. in disrupting chats on the Arun Gandhi is the author of plaints about anti-Semitic and Evelyn Leach wore a hostess ing, the music it holds within its Internet's Jewish-oriented extreme anti-Israel messages on dress that glittered, and she heart, and the entire restoration four books and is currently groups, such as "channel editing a collection of essays, Prodigy bulletin boards. The moved among the crowd like effort!" · #israel" or "soc.jewish.culture." ADL successfully confronted poetry and artistic renditions Such online activity is the on non-violence and his grand Prodigy, arguing that the com most significant and troubling puter network was not enforc Happy Feet father's "seven blunders of the development in the worldwide world" (wealth without work, ing its own guidelines against by Mike Fink effort to fight anti-Semitism, "offensive" messages. They are former disciples of pleasure without conscience, according to "Anti-Semitism Herald Contributing Reporter Brian, who now has cropped knowledge without character, Although troubling material Duncan Avenue isn' t 42nd World Report 1994," a 270-page - including Holocaust denial silver hair. He holds court with commerce without morality, document issued during the Street, but the Carriage House serene poise. Ina duetwithJohn science without humanity, -continues to appear on occa- Theater hoofers were tapping summer by the Institufe for Jew sion, complaints on Prodigy called "Hands/Feet" the black worship without sacrifice, and· ish Affairs, based in London. away to a happy crowd in a drummer and white tapper politics without principles). have dropped off significantly, miniature version of Manhat "The use of electronic mail according to Tom Halpern, as compete withJohn slapping the In 1987, Gandhi came to the boxes and computer bulletin tan and Hollywood. walls and Brian jumping on United States to do research at sociate director of fact-finding My wife sat next to Rose boards has enabled neo-Nazis for the AOL. chairs from the audience, a the University of Mississippi to establish an international net Pavlow and I waved at Joel mock rivalry sweet as honey. But no such option exists on for a comparative study of work more or less inaccessible Cohen and Ralph Beckman, In a sort of break, the dancers th~ Internet, says Halpern. racism in South Africa, India, to law enforcement agencies," neighbors and colleagues who explain and demonstrate each and the United States. He lec In fact, about the only thing the report says. gathered to watch Brian Jones tapstep-withquiethumorand tures widely to business, civic Jewish groups can do on "the One. anti-Semitic group re and his troupe do "Rhythm ease. and college audiences on such Net" is simply make sure that portedly used electronic mail to Spasm" - a review ofour popu There'snocurtain,and back topics as "Why the King and their own information is readily transmit detailed instructions lar music from the dawn of the stage is the lobby itself. But with Gandhi Dreams Remain Unful available - in effect, fighting for preparing bombs. '30s through boogie-woogie, the smooth polish of the artists, filled" and "Non-Violence or "bad" data with "good" data. In Griesman's case, it was rock and roll, and rap. their fun and their fever, they Non-Existence: Options for the Michael Stein, a 38-year-old discovered that "Jewkill" had Brian once took my Rhode take you into a toy Gotham right 21st Century." computer programmer from the Island School of Design fresh below the community garden logged on from a terminal in Washington, D.C., area, says Gandhi also works with Norway. Fortunately,Griesman man writing class, a mere slip of on Pleasant Street, round the he was not really aware of the alad.Heclaimedhishighschool corner from your own house on young people on how to use was able to contactJew kill' s sys extent of Holocaust denial until their anger effectively. He tem operator - his "on-ramp" English teacher had shown an easy weekend. This garage he went online. "42nd Street" in class and turned dancehall offers a treat not to served on the Memphis City for logging onto the informa "I had heard about them, Schools Violence Task Force tion s uperhighway - and him into a student of dance. He bemissed.It'sintimateasasup (but) I only really saw them told this tale to tile jammed perclub, but its charm lies in its but felt he was a "lone voice" Jewkill lost his access to the net crawling out from under the in suggesting that more elec work. crowd at the Carriage House goodwill towards one and all. rock on the Net," he says. like a sentimental scene from a tronic devices to detect Or course, there is no way to By using the extensive re weapons and expelling stu prevent Jewkill from simply Busby Berkeley spectacle. sources of the nearby Holocaust John Belcher arranged the dents doesn't solve the prob finding another system opera Are you celebrating a Museum and the Library of music and labelled a solo piece lem but merely puts the vio tor to continue his hateful ti Congress, Stein has compiled a major event in your life? lence out on the streets. He rades. And there is not much "Drip" because he tries to make potent database of material for tubs of water beat out a drum Let us know about ii! advocates a major focus on dia that anyone can do about it. refuting the myriad claims of logue with young people to rhythm. Black and white photos Unlike commercial computer Holocaust deniers. find out why they are so angry, networks, such as Prodigy or The troupe works together welcome. teaching children techniques to America Online, the Internet has (Continued on Page 15) in straightforward friendship. 14 :-- ~THE.lll:!0DE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1994 -·MILESTONES Rozanski and Spraragen Wed----- Gabriela Rozanski and David New York Lity. Temple Gates of Heaven in L. Spraragen were married June The bridegroom holds a Sche nectady. He currently 19 at Agudat Ac him Synagogue, bachelor's degree from Brandeis teaches Yiddish, Hebrew and Schenectady, N.Y. The bride is University and a master's de adult education in these syna the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. gree from Hebrew College. He gogues. Moises Rozanski of Buenos is employed by the Schenectady After a wedding tri p to Aires, Argentina. The bride public school system as a third Buenos Aires and Argentina, the groom is the son of Dr. and Mrs. and fourth-grade teacher and couple will reside in Sanford Spraragen of East C. by the Agudat Achim and Schenectady, New York. Greenwich, R.I. Rabbi Jon Konheim, assisted by Rabbi Samuel l(jeffer and Rabbi Bernard Bloom, per formed the ceremony. Cantor Yanoun Bitan sang the Sheva Brachot a nd the Birchot HaMazon were lead by Cantor Emeritus Chaim Picker. The ketubah was witnessed and signed by Dr. Carol Diamant, Hadassah International educa tion director, and Rabbi S. l(jeffer. The reception immedi ately fo llowedatAgudat Achim Synagogue. Maid of honor was H ila Malul, from Israel. The brides maids were Lisa Spraragen and Susan Spraragen, sisters of the Kaplan and Mittleman Engaged groom. Mr. and Mrs. Joel Kaplan of The bride-to-be graduated Best man was Joseph Woodmere, N.Y., announce the from the University of Michi Spraragen, brother of the groom. engagement of their daughter, gan. She is currently employed Usher was Ariel Rozanski from Pamela Jill, of San Diego, by the San Diego Opera as a Israel, brother of the bride. Calif., to Marvin Jay Mittleman, production manager. The bride is a Revson Fellow son of Aaron Mittleman of Her fia nce is a graduate of ship recipient pursuing a doc Hackensack, N.J., and Sheila Northeastern University. He is torate in Jewish literature at the Mittleman of Pawtucket, R.I. currently employed by Custom Jewish Theological Seminary, Mr. and Mrs. David Spraragen Logos, a silkscreening and em broidery firm in San Diego. An August 27, 1995, wed Varlas and Alperin Engaged Freedman-Berger ding is planned. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Yarlas · areJuliusand Ruth Weinberg of Engagement Announced Cranston. Marci Kortick of Narragansett announce the agementcertificate from Bryant Her fiance holds a B.A. in Mrs. Merrill Bailey of engagement of their daughter, College. She is employed with education from Northeastern WarwickandMr.Stanley Freed Called to Robin Tracy, to Charles Mat the Visiting Nurse Service of University and a master's in man ofWest W arwickannounce thew Alperin of Brighton, Mass. Pawtucket, Central Falls, Lin clinical social work from Boston the engagement of their daugh the Torah The bride-to-be graduated coln and Cumberland. College. He is currently work ter, Leslie Robin, to David Marci Lynn Kortick was with a B.S. in business from Her fiance is a graduate of Ithaca College and a master's in ingasanindustrialsocial worker Jonathan Berger, son of Fred called to the Torah on Oct. 22 at Berger of Bethpage, N.Y., and the University of Hartford with elementary education from for the Mt. Auburn Employee Temple Beth-El in Providence. Nancy Scoliard of Pawtucket. a bachelor of arts and is attend Rhod_e Island College. She is Assistance Program. A kiddush luncheon followed The bride-to-be graduated ing the Southern New England now teaching in the Brookline The couple will be married the bat mitzvah service. from the University of Hartford School of Law. school system. on July 9, 1995. A celebration continued in with a bachelor of arts and re The date of the wedding is Her maternal grandparents her honor that evening at the ceived a human resource man- Sept. 3, 1995. American Union Postal Work ers Hall in Johnston. Guests ar Roger Williams Oflers Support Group 1 rived from Rhode Island, Mas sachusetts, Florida, New York, EHTEHTRIHIHG? For Women With Breast Cancer ------and Nevada. Temple Beth Sholom Offering Volunteers Needed For Food Bank Cyber-Nazis The Rhode Island Commu day hours which are 8 a.rn . to 3 the B'eginyan Again nity Food Bank, which pro p.rn. The food bank is also open (Continued from Page 13) vides food for more than on Monday and Thursday Due to popular demand, Beth to the needs and interests of Stein also saves virtually ev 106,000 hungry people every evenings. Sholom is once again offering those who attend services regu erything the deniers post among month, is in need of volunteers More than 40,000 pounds of the Beginyan, a special six larly but want to know and un- themselves. "That way," he to help sort donated food prod salvage food items (unsalable week workshop on prayer. This . derstand more. The program says, "lean use their own words yet perfectly wholesome) are program is designed to explain will provide a pressure-free op ucts. to confront them, show . their The food bank is now open donated to the food bank every the ins and. outs of the tradi portunity for learning. logical inconsistencies." for volunteers on the first and week. This food needs _to be tional Shabbat service. Key Rabbi Arnold Sarnlan, direc According to Stein, the dan sorted and checked very care concepts and principles of Jew tor of the Bureau of Jewish Edu third Saturday of every month, gers of such online activity are fully for quality before it can be ish prayer will be discussed and cation of R.I. will run the work in addition to its regular week- most potent in the former So described. The settiryg is meant shop. The Beginyan will meet East Side. distributed to the thousands of viet bloc. countries, where hungry people who are served to encourage discussion, and Saturday mornings from IO to The next session will meet on people "have a huge level of through over 450 social service prayer too. 11 :30 a.rn. at Congregation Oct. 29. mistrust about the official sto agencies, such as · soup Although this is a beginners Beth Sholom, 275 Camp St. Call the synagogue office ries they've heard for the past kitchens, homeless shelters and workshop, it will also respond (corner Rochambeau), on the (331 -9393) to let them know 50 years." that you are interested. Drop emergency food pantries. Scholar-in-Residence ins are surely welcome as well. Call Joe Ryan at 826-3073. Speaks at Temple Am David Rabbi William H. Lebeau, crrnarriage. He pointed out that Independent Candidate for vice chancellor of the Jewish changes in contemporary Theological Seminary and dean American life have led to un Mayor of Providence of its Rabbinical School served precedented levels of intermar as scholar-in-residence at riage among Jewish Americans. Temple Arn David in Warwick Because marriage is considered recently. Over the course of three sacred and because families in days, he engaged the congrega which the partners are of differ tion in a discussion of several ent faiths most often lead to an aspects of Conservative Juda erosion of identity with Juda ism. ism, the Conservative Jewish movement is strongly opposed to interfaith marriages. The Paul abour rabbi suggested that couples who are anticipating such a The Conservative union be encouraged to study Jewish movement is Judaism so that they can make a truly informed choice. He ad strongly opposed to vocated great sensitivity to the interfai~h marriages. feelings of both the Jewish and non-Jewish partners of such pro posed marriages while also firmly uphold ing the Conser On Friday evening and Sa t vati ve Jewish position on inter urday, Lebeau considered Jew marriage and to reach out those ish theology and law from a already intermarried to provide Conservative perspective. He them with a more in-depth un pointed out that Conservative derstanding of what it means to Judaism is firmly rooted in and be a Jew. thoroughly based on the Torah Lebeau's depth of knowl (the Five Books of Moses). None edge, informal style of presen theless, sensitivity to changes in tation, and use of anecdotes to community needs may lead to enliven his talks provided an interpretations of the text and, experienceforthecongregation in tum,of the law, but only after that was stimulating, thought very careful and informed de provoking, and enjoyable. bate among the rabbinic experts. The temple is grateful to the These ongoing discussions Katzman family for their initial have been an important ingre endowment which established dient in maintaining the dy the scholar-in-residence pro namic nature of traditional Ju gram and to Steven and Jill daism over the centuries. Sholes whose contributions On Sunday, Lebeau turned made this year's event possible. his attention to the issue of in- FISCAL MANAGEMENT Providence.is at the edge of a financial precipice. In 1993 the Mayor's Task Force projected a deficit of $75 million in the next four years. Here are some of my proposals to remedy our fiscal problems: • Cut the non-educational portion of the budget by 6%, or $9 million • Aggressively pursue more than $20 million in delinquent taxes • Assess - in detail - conlractors' original bid specs before awarding change orders (costing the city millions) • Ensure that all payments to the city are deposited and collect full interest • Impose strict standards for all expense accounts And we Q1USt put people before politics - Paul Jabour, candidate for Mayor For more information on Paul 1abour's stand on the issues, SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE a!Ternple Am David recently, Rabbi William H. Lebeau, vice-chancellor of the Jewish Theological call Lorraine Silberthau at 453-1500. Seminary, speaks to members of the congregation on issues of Jabour in '94 • 371 Broadway• Providence, RI 02909 Conservative Judaism. Photo by M•rty Cooper 16 - THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1994 THE JEWISH COMMUNITY ous communities were pos sible," Bubis said in a telephone Treaty Signed Arrives Home (Continued from Page 1) interview. -It was Germany that (Continued from Page 1) gave birth to Reform Judaism in There has been a stable rela During the ceremony, Hamra the 19th century. tionship between Israel and Jor "I don't think this is possible sat at a table in front of a big dan for decades now, and the welcome banner, flanked on one with 43,000 Jews. It can't lead to treaty isa whole-hearted,hope anything good." side by Gordon, and on the other ful, even warm statement of by Foreign Minister Shimon Members of the new c9ngre peaceful intention for the fu gation complain that traditional Peres, Jewish Agency Acting ture. Chairman Yehiel Leket and Ab German services are too formal Rabin looked alert, endur and are often difficult to follow. sorption Minister Yair Tsaban. ing, tired. Hussein was radiant. Peres praised Hamra for care They also seek a more egalitar It must be remembered that his ian service than is offered in fully navigating Jewish life "in grandfather was martyred in a land in belligerent relations German synagogues, where this cause many years ago, and ,men and women sit separately with Israel. He did it so as not to so this is a moment, for Hussein, endanger Jewish lives, or and where women rarely get of fulfilling his grandfather's the chance to participate in the Jewishness, and to provide d..ream and charge. hope" to his flock to come ''back service. Rabin said, at one point, Jews in Germany who want home." "President Clinton, thank you _"The redemption of Jewish to belong to a synagogue do not for your support through out join a temple. Instead, they must life begins again," said Peres. Slom Brings News To Hadassah this whole process which was . The occasion signals that "Is From the left, Doris Chaffee talks with Rita Slom, president register with the community, vital to its success." At the con prove they are Jewish and then rael is the state of the Jewish of the Rhode Island chapter of Hadassah, at a brunch recently, clusion of his address, Rabin people, open to anyone who where Slom updated the group on Hadassah projects and pay annual fees, a so-called said, "Shalom. Salaam. Peace.". church tax, in line with their wants to come, especially those current events, and programs sponsored by Hadassah in Warren Christopher spoke under oppression," said Leket. Israel and the United States. incomes. briefly, and said, "At this very With the collected funds, the "It is our responsibility to save spot, barely 90 days ago, there them, rescue them and bring community ~dministers all as was an 9pening of the Israel pects of Jewish life, paying rab them back to our homeland." and Jordanian border. This Leket said that in talks wjth German Jews Seek bis and teachers and running place, which had been a field of community centers. Elections in Assad on behalf of his people, mines, became a field of Hamra had displayed "com More Liberal Judaism cities where there are commu dreams." nities .take place to determine bined leadership,qualities and . by Miriam Widman group of Frankfurt Jews has es Israeli Foreign Minister Peres who will run the boards and the Jewish wisdom" and that "this FRANKFURT {JT A) - Fed tablished an alternative congre finished his talk with, "Let's Central Council for Jews in Ger allowed us to bring out (Syrian) up with what they say is a tradi gation that offers service's, dis dream together - we got the li many, the top supervisory board Jewry." tional, rigid and non-spiritual cussions and thechanceforboth cense." Michael Schneider, executive of German Jewry. service offered by the main sexes to participate. President Clinton said, "As vice president of the JDC, lauded stream Jewish community, a Some of the founding mem To date, most members of you seize this moment, be as Hamra foroverseeing the use of Kehilah Chadashah are also bers of Kehilah Chadashah, or sured that you will redeem ev UJA aid to the community over New Congregation, say they are members of the traditional com ery life sacrificed along the way the years. also con temp la ting a separation munity. They pay an additional to peace." He closed with, "He took care of the disad from the Jewish community to fee of about $60 a year to their "Blessed are the peacemakers, vantaged and the· needy with HOPE form a communal organization own group, since it receives no for they shall inherit the earth." ·courage and integrity and pre of their own-a move that was tax monies from the central ad The treaty is a big book of a served Jewish continuity, some TRAVEL criticized by Ignatz Bubis, chair ministration. document, with large, clear times at great risk to himself." man of the Central Coun;:il of print. As Clinton watched, "You have now come home Jews in Germany and a leading Think Chanukah Rabin signed several times, on with your mission accom member of the Frankfurt com different pages. What had taken plished," Schneider said. !o~P~~"the Big Difference + munity. Posters, Now! decades to achieve was finished, "When Germany had 600,000 Chanukah is early this· year on the desert, in less than one Want to reach the right Jews(before World War II), vari- minute. And symbolic of the • INTEGRITY - Nov. 28 - so it's time to audience? Advertise in • DEPENDABILITY start thinking about entering moment, as pages of the treaty • REPUTATION the Jewish Herald's annual turned in the wind, a new page the Herald. • SAVINGS D 8 MANTIQUES Chanukah contest. of Israeli-Jordanian history was Call 724-0200. turned and_begun. Fq_r Business T.J::ips & Single Items We will welcome entries Vacation Travel or Estates from children ages 4 through ===-:==-=== Appraised or 13. Deadlines, prizes and date Group Travel Specialists ~ Purchased. of judging will be announced Nationwide 1-800-367-0013 Furniture • Paintings • Clocks soon in the Herald. The theme Dolls • China • Glassware this year will be Chanukah Oriental Rugs Around the World. We hope all 337 NO. 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R.I. 800-672-3751 ~WALLPAPEI\CO. produce delectable eggrolls, A student at Alperin Schechter Day.School waits for the Ma. 508-672-3751 iih=IIHIH 1€fi blintzes, and more. next development after catching a length of rope thrown to her Reserve a space_ by calling from the stage by magician Bruce Kalver, Oct. 25. Kalver 762-3651. combined his own slight-of-hand tricks with tales and slides of the late, great Harry Houdini. Herald photo by Alison Smith 50 and UpClub Meets Guild to Hear Health T KVA·TRAD T ONS Jewish Heroes Insurance Talk Your Local Source for JUDAICA The 50 and Up Club of the The Cranston Senior Guild Jewish Community Center of will meet on Nov. 3 at 1 p.m. at Rhode Islana, 401 Elmgrove Temple Torat.Yisrael, 330 Park GREETING CARDS & GIFT ITEMS FOR ALL OCCASIONS Ave. in Providence, will hold a Avenue, Cranston. ' program entitled "Jewish He Will Speck, of the .Depart ¢ KETUBAHS ¢ IMPRINTED KIPOT ¢ JEWISH COOKBOOKS ¢ KIDDUSH CUPS ¢ CANDLE STICKS ¢ roes in Liti;>rature and the Me ment of Elderly Affairs, who FREE GIFT WRAPPING • WE SHIP ANYWHERE • SPECIAL ORDERS WELCOME dia" on Oct. 27 at 7 p.m. It will writes a weekly column, "Se be led by Toby Rossner, media niors Ask" in the Providence coordinator at the Bureau of Jew Journal, will speak on the topic: BENJAMIN EISENBERG• ELLEN EISENBERG SHAFNER - a ish Education, and is free and "How to Save Money on 727 HoJ>e Street, Providence • 421-0309 • Monday-Thursday 9:30-5:30, Friday 9:30-2, Sunday 10-2 op~n to the community. Health Insurance." ------·------~------·----~··························~----·· THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1994 - 17 . THE JEWISH COMMUNITY Brush With Passion Dressler Family by Mike Fink ternationally syndicated and Herald Contributing Reporter versatile in her talents_of pen to Host "I strive to release the abso and palette. Don't miss this lute joy, ecstacy and delight of a wondrous show, among the JFRI Event sun-filled day in the garden. The many galleries about town this The Dressler family will be flowers, trees, have a sense of month. hosts to the members of the timelessness and power, heal Theopeningitselfwasa work Pacesetter Division of the Jew ing, nourishing. Such moments of art, with her daughter Lind ish Federation of Rhode Island can not remain. They are like say at guitar, singing a medley in the rotunda room of the the flowers themselves, a spiri of tunes in a pure and lovely Convention Center on Nov. 1 tual happening." Jane Adler voice,and the weather outdoors for a briefing by Michael Bar pens a note to you, the viewer perfect for an exhibit of water Zohar, Ph.D., special advisor reader, at her show at the Jew colors as light and lyrical as they on political affairs to Israeli ish Community Center named are professional and poetic. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. "A Passionate Brush in the Gar Mark Taber at the Po Gallery Highlighting the evening will den." in the Arcade turns old time key be a special tribute in memory ''Please note how I control board ivories into sculpture, of the late Sidney Dressler. the glazing, creating puddles of Elinore Holinshead of the Dressler was a long-standing color to suggest shadows within Rhode Island School of Design member of the Pacesetter Divi the leaves and figures." Paint Illustration Department mixes sion. A native of Providence, · ers don't usually speak so ar figures from British letters and former state chairman of Israel ticulately about their work. lore with gorgeous landscape Bonds as well as temple bene Jane is best known locally as drawings in a superb show at factor at Temple Beth El, the garden columnist for the Dodge House on Thomas Street, Dressler was president of Col Providence Journal, but she is in- (Continued on Page 23) fax Packing Company for more than 20 years. The Dressler TOUrD National Heritage Trust Presents family founded Colfax Packing Company. He is survived by his wife, Yvonne, his son, Programs of Historical Importance Stephen and his grandson, The Touro National Heritage Trust include Brown Univer Alexander. Trust of Newport is presenting sity, Brandeis University, the The program is for donors to noted scholar Jay M . Eidelman Newport Historical Society, Campaign '95 who make an in speaking on "The Jews in and the American Jewish His dividual minimum annual gift North America, 1790-1830" at torical Society. GOING WAY INSIDE - scientists at the Benjamin and Mae of $10,000, including one-third Volen National Center for Complex Systems, at Brandeis Touro Synagogue on Oct. 30 at The John Carter Brown Li- of their commitment to Contin 2:15 p.m. brary is now planning a travel- University in Waltham, Mass., will be studying the brain and uing Exodus. The general public is invited ing exhibit in 1997 to commem intelligence. Bar-Zohar immigrated as a to attend. A reception will fol- orate the 500th anniversary of child to Israel in 1948 from low. the final flight of the Jews from Sofia, Bulgaria, and grew up in Eidelman, a native of Mon- the Iberian peninsula in 1497. Jaffa. He published his first treal, has degrees from McGill The focus of the exhibit will be Brandeis University and Paramount book, Suez Top Secret, in 1964. University and Yale University. the history of the Jews in rela It won the Sokolov Prize, the Pictures Will Explore Inner Space He has done scholarly research tion to the Americas, North and Israeli equivalent of the at Hebrew University as well as South, before 1800. Pulitzer. He has written several Brandeis University and "Star Trek Generations" at Yale. He is the current Touro The exhibit is part of a larger other non-fiction books and Paramount Pictures will take brings the cast of the award National Heritage Trust Fellow project of events and publica on a new enterprise with the winning television series to the novels. at the John Carter Brown L1- tions on "The Jews and the Ex From 1981 to 1984 he was a world premiere of "Star Trek big screen for the first time with brary at Brown University. pansion of Europe to the West, member of the 10th Knesset Generations." Johnathon Frakes, Brent Spin This fall marks the fifth year 1450 to 1800." One of the from the Labor Party, serving The premiere, on the ner, LeVar Burton, Michael that the Touro National Her- events planned is a symposium on the defense and foreign af Paramount lot Nov. 17, will . Dom, Gates McFadden and itage Trust has sponsored a fel- at the library in 1995 to report fairs committee and the educa benefit the new Benjamin and Marina Sirtis joining Patrick lowship at the John Cuter on the research of many schol tion and culture committee. He Mae Volen National Center for Stewart aboard the Enterprise Brown Library for research on ars in this field, including sev was re-elected to the 12th Complex Systems at Brandeis, in reprising their famous roles. the history of the Jewish experi- era) Touro National Heritage Knesset, chairing two commit a facility dedicated to the inter Malcolm McDowell plays a ence in the Americas before Trust Research Fellows of past tees, and headed the French-Is disciplinary study of the brain dangerous alien, Dr. Soran. 1860. Other academic affiliates years. rael Friendship League. and intelligence. Redstone, Brandeis visiting of the Touro National Heritage Scientists at the Brandeis cen professor, will chair the event ter, which has been called one with Brandeis graduate Gates of the most comprehensive in McFadden who stars as Dr. SUPPORTERS OF stitutions for brain research in Beverly Crusher, the chief the world, are conducting basic medical officer on the USS En RITA WILLIAMS research to better understand terprise-D, and Brandeis Rep. Edie Ajello Sanford Kessler diseases like Alzheimer's, trustee and alumna Barbara C. Jeffrey Berman Susan W. Markoff stroke, and schizophrenia. Rosenberg. Marlene Berman Michael R. Marra "With the establishment o( Connie Bissonnette John McElroy the Volen Center, Brandeis has Maurice Bissonnette Daniel Mechnig accepted the challenge of solv Humanistic Judaism Anna Biswas Kathy M. Mechnig ing some of the most puzzling Harik Biswas Herb Meister and important questions facing (Continued from Page 5) Rochelle Bleecher Melba Meister researchers today," said Sum Stanley Bleecher Natalie Miller ner M. Redstone, chairman of to shape their own lives in.de Or. John Montgomery pendent of supernatural au Cynthia Braca the board of Viacom Inc. ,;We Edward Brookner Marjorie Montgomery thority. Secular Humanistic are happy to lend the support Margaret Brookner Liz Morancy Jews value their Jewish identity of Paramount's popular Star Irene Daniels Mary Moore and the aspects of Jewish cul Trek franchise to the univer Stephen Daniels Marjorie Moskal ture that offer a genuine ex sity's efforts in this important Alice Eichenbaum Sen. Rhoda Perry pression of their contemporary scientific area." Or. Frank Faltus Ray Rickman way of life. Secular and Hu The "Star Trek" generations Charles C. Fox Mani Rosenberg manistic communities celebrate converge in "Star Trek Genera Rep. Gordon Fox Hilary Salk tions," which stars Patrick Jewish holidays and life cycle Victoria Giantsiaris Steve Salk Stewart and William Shatner. events (such as weddings and Edward Goldin Bonnie Sekeres In the futuristic adventure film, bar mitzvahs) with inspira Maxine Goldin Lorraine Silbenhau tional, nontraditional cere a mysterious astronomical phe RE-ELECT Harry Goldstein Anita Stein nomenon bridging different monies. Ruth Goldstein JamesTobak time frames brings face-to-face For information about the Sidney Green Jill Tobak Captain Jean Luc Picard (Stew Pivnick Center and the Secular Tedi Green Bob Walsh art) and Captain James T. Kir·k Humanistic Jewish movement, Herman Gross Ruth Whitford contact Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine, (Shatner) - the two famous Rita Williams Irma Gross Ruth Winograd captains of the Enterprise in the (810) 477-1410. Sunny Johnston Scott Wolf 24th century. . FOR CITY COUNCIL Alan Kerzner Margaret Whitman Rick Berman is the producer, Advertising in WARD2 Linda Kerzner Harriet Wrenn David Carson directs from a Paid for by lht Commilltt lo R,-,/ecl Rila Williams Or. Shirley Kessler James Wrenn screenplay written by Ronald The Herald gets results. D. Moore and Branon Braga Call 724-0200 which is based on a story by for details. PLEASE VOTE GZf" NOVEMBER STH Berman, Moore and Braga . 18 -THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1994 THE JEWISH COMMUNITY JCCRI Adds Social Worker Lori Silverstein Broomfield migrants and develop programs will soon be joining the Jewish with senior adult coordinator Community Center of Rhode Sandy Bass Comen. Island, 401 Elmgrove Ave. in "I want to fill any needs that Providence, as the senior adult the center may have," social worker. Broomfield states. An MSW candidate in ad vanced standing at Rhode Is Chabad Bringing land College, Broomfield is a certified social worker with a L.I.F .E. to West Bay BSW in social work from RIC and an associate's degree in Rabbi Eliezer Y. Levy, of human services/ substance Chabad of West Bay, CHAI abuse from the Community Center, lectures every Wednes College of Rhode Island. day evening on the Torah por An active member of several tion of the week at the center, social organizations including 15 Centerville Road, Warwick. Right to Recovery and Rhode He offers an analysis of the weekly Torah portion with in Island Coalition Against Do mestic Violence,she has had five sights from past and contempo years of experience in the social rary commentaries, and brings work field including healthcare, the relevance of our ancient Torah to meet the challenges of substance abuse and individual · modem life. Classes start at and group counseling. 7:30 p.m. They are open to A CALL TO POLITICAL ARMS- was issued last Sunday by, from the left, Rita Slom, Barbara Although Broomfield has worked in various areas of so everyone. Simon, Esq., Skip Porteus, June Walker and Karen Dannin at a program sponsored by Hadassah In the near future, the CHAI cial work, her experiences when at the Jewish Community Center of Rhode Island. Hnald photo by Alison Smith Center will also be starting her grandmother fell ill led her classes in Talmud and Jewish to focus her attention on assist ing seniors. Al the JCCRl, she mysticism. For more information or to =='Freedom Is AConstant Struggle' will do outreach, work with im- set up a study group on the by Alison Smith Community Center on Oct. 23, Jewish topic of your choice, call matic leader. dren. An individual case does Herald Editor featured speakers of a program 884-4071. Porteus spoke of his first ex not necessarily indicate sponsored by the Rhode Island a There is a collection of black/ perience with the election pro trend." He grinned. "There'll chapter of Hadassah, and folk/gospel music, heard cess, when he was persuaded be prayer in public schools as "No Man Is talked about the struggle to sometimes on WGBH, called to register, vote and run for the long as there are math tests." "Freedom Is A Constant Strug preserve freedom. The program local school board. The group Walker was concerned about An Island ... " dealt with one of the most viru gle." he was affiliated with planned involving the American Jewish by Alison Smith lent threats to freedom of It was composed and created to repeat this process, election woman in the struggle too. She Herald Editor thought and expression in this during the days of the civil after election, until enough said, inchAmerican Jewish Sunday night, at 9 p.m. in decade - the radical right. rights movement. The music is evangelicals were on the board women have to be citizens of Manning Chapel on the Brown It is a growing threat. Porteus so stirring it has outlasted some to begin the systematic take this country and have to partic University campus, there was a of the movement, but the title is warned that only about 30 per over of the curriculum and ipate in every aspect of Ameri vigil service of remembrance as true today as it was then, and cent of the evangelicals are moral climate of the county can life. We have to be total and mourning for all those who even registered to vote, right will be true as long as there is a school system. The slogan of people. perished in the bus explosion in republic called the United now - so the potential for a the group was, "Serve the Lord "As Americans and as Jews, Tel Aviv recently. States of America. sizeable voting bloc is there by running for public office." we have thrived because Amer The chapel was almost two Skip Porteus and June and can be called into action It is such a simple scheme, ica has the First Amendment." thirds full, which, considering Walker came to the Jewish any day by the right charis- and so easy to put in place if Every attendee at the confer the weather and the hour, you're patient, that it could be ence got a folder with informa demonstrated a strong emo WewillBuyor highly successful. Fortunately, tional material. There were tional link between Brown and LIFETIME. for him and for the county, Por samples of publications that those who died in Tel Aviv. Consign One Item teus lost. might be of interest on a contin Not all of the mourners were mor a Full House WINDOWS; He told his audience that he uing basis. Freedom Writer, a Jewish. Vinyl Replacement Windows believed that the religious right newsletter published by Por Melisa Berkowitz, of the f]Jlre~ifputwd, 826-7880 would do away with the Bill of teus and Simon, is available Brown/RISO Hillel, was in Rights, if they could. They re from P. 0. Box 589, Great Bar strumental in organizing and 9Jcvut fllUY gard the Bill of Rights as some INSUIID rington, Ma. 01230, at $25 an leading the service. It was the 392 FALL RIVER AVENUE sort of Communist-inspired nually. right thing to do, and it was SEEKONK, MASSACHUSETTS 02771 document. And they felt the June Walker, who is the done as soon as possible after Nancy RGSMssea • (S08) 336-3228 First Amendment gave people All prices include installation. Hadassah national chair of the tragedy - before the DAILY 10 TO S, SUNDAY 1210 S Any size. double hung. too much power. American Affairs, writes regu clamor of everyday student life R.I . UC. 12186 Regarding the latest Pat larly in The American Scene, a had blurred the images of death Robertson epidsode (see Phil Hadassah publication. on a Tel Aviv street. Baum' s letter on the front page ALL EL AL FLIGHTS TO ISRAEL of the Herald, Oct. 20 edition) Porteus, Walker and Barbara Victims of Terror Attack Named GREATLY REDUCED! Simon, Esq., president of the by Naomi Segal Yadger, 56, of Givat Ayim; Institute for First Amendment Call Dorothy Ann Wiener ••. 272-6200 JERUSALEM (JTA) - Is Tsipora Ariel, 64, of Tel Aviv; Studies, agreed that Robertson raelfofficialshaveidentified the Ofra Ben-Nairn, 33, ofLod; Shira belieyes that anti-Christian big 21 people killed in the recent Meroz-Kot, 20, of Kibbutz Beit e Dorothy Ann ~~~~~r:cg:~rs~~~~~'i,RS otry is rampant in this country terrorist bombing of a bus in the Hashita; Galit Rosen, 23, of W 766 Hope Street. PO Box 6845 and in order to substantiate this I ener Providence, Rhode Island 02940 heart of Tel Aviv. Holon; Miriam Adaf, 44, of "YOUR TRAVEL AGENT, INC... (401) 272-6200 belief he creates stories that They are Anat Rosen, 20, of Sderot. Also Habib Tishbi, 59, of support his point of view. Ra'anana; Ela Volkov, 21, of Tel Aviv; Moshe Gerdinger, 83, Porteus said, "The fact is that Safed; Ayelet Langer-Alkobi, of of Tel Aviv; Dalia Ashkenazi, prayer is allowed in school Kibbutz Yiron; Renye Yurist, a 62,ofTelAviv;PaulaRappaport, now, and a lot of people don't 23-year-old student from Hol MEDICARE & MEDICAID 74, of Tel Aviv; Pierre Atlas, 59, :::.NURSING PLACEMENT=: realize that. The Supreme land. of Kiryat Ono; Esther Sharon, CERTIFIED AND LICENSED Court has taken the state out of Also Tamar Carlibach-Sapri, 21, of Lod; David Lida, 74, ofTel -= HOME CARE INC.~ SKILLED NURSING STAFF the business of teaching state 24, of Masuot Yitzhak; Pua Aviv; Alexandra Shrapstein of CASE MANAGEMENT sponsored religion to our chi!- Bat Yam; and Salah Ovadia, 52, "Home Care You Can Rely On" • AN Assessment of Holon, who was the driver of • 24-Hour Supervision Serving M,wacbusetts anlJlbode Island the bus. • Registered Nurses JACK M. MINKIN dba/Tile-Set The name of one other per Providing Qaall.'l'. 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THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1994 19 ~ ~ School Beat ~cA-r Homecoming Events Scheduled at URI On Oct. 27, in front of Keaney corning king and queen. Gym, there will be a pep rally Tickets are available through featuring the music of New the Athletic Ticket Office, Brown Hat, a bonfire, a barbe Keaney Gym, at $10 for adults, cue, and announcement of the $5 for children. homecoming king and queen. There will be an alumni so The barbecue will start at 5:45 cial hour and buffet dinner at p.m., the band at 6 p.m. the Narragansett Ocean Club On Oct. 29, there will be an from 5 to 8 p.m. open forum at 10:30 a.m. spon Tickets will be $20 and in sored by the Political Science clude admission to the All Alumni Chapter. The homecom Alumni Dance which will be ing football game - URI vs. emceed by Rudy Cheeks, '72. UNH - starts at 1 p.m. Dance to the music of Didi Half-time will include the Stewart and Friends at the introduction of the new mem Narragansett Ocean Club, at 8 bers into the Athletic Hall of p.m. Cost is $10. Fame and crowni_ng of the home- For tickets, call 792-4535. URI Hosts "Meet the University" On Nov. 12 high school se will begin with a welcome ad niors and their families are in dress by URI President Robert vited to the University of Rhode L. Carothers in Edwards Audi Island's Kingston Campus to torium followed by tours of the "Meet the University." colleges and the campus. A Show of Hands The program is designed to The program begins at 9 a.m. Through the use of song, Rina Holtzman teaches her first grade class at Providence Hebrew give prospective students and and ends at noon. Registration, Day School the Hebrew names of the different fingers on the hand. Herald photo by Neil Nachbar their parents the opportunity to at which refreshments will be learn more about admissions, available, will take place from financial aid, special services, 8:30 to9 a.m. Reservations must internships, study abroad offer be made in advance by writing Music School Announces New Programs Lincoln School ings, and academic advising. to: Office of Undergraduate . . Holds Lego Day The informational sessions Admission, Green Hall, URI, The Mustc S~hool, of Provi- A loose advisory committee dence, has received ~ substan- comprised of artists and corn Lincoln School will hold its willfeatureallofURI'scolleges, Kingston, R.I. 02881-0807 or by , ttal grant to expand its student rnunity leaders from a diverse fourth annual Lego Day on including University College in calling the Undergraduate Ad base. . . cross section of Rhode Island Nov. 5, from 10 a.rn. to 4 p.rn., which all first and second year missions Office at 792-7100. on the main campus at 301 But students are enrolled. The day hThle schhoolf is now offenn_g neighborhoods is being sc o ars ips or pnvate rnu5ic formed. The first gathering will ler Ave. on the East Side of lessons and group classes. Stu- be a potluck supper when Providence. The event is free ?ents can study c_las5ical, folk, prospective members can meet , and open to all children ages 5 Jazz and roe~ music on an array and talk. Out of that, it is to 11 and offers them the op of music~! instruments. They hoped, will come an advisory portunity to design and build a can play _in rnu_s1cal ensembles, committee, which will provide community as a group. or partmpate in a dance _Pro- advice and guidance for the Over 150,000 lego system gram that includes ballet, Jazz, school so it can more broadly blocks will be available to chil a_nd Afncan and Braztl_ian tradi- serve the needs of the state. dren, who are encouraged to tion~l dance. There 1s ?!so _a The advisory committee will work in teams to create their musical instrurnent-lending h- meet three or four times a year, ideal community. Parents are br~ry avatlable to our scholar- and guide the school in "plug encouraged to assist in the pro sh1p students. . ging in" to the needs and assets cess and help Lincoln build The school would hke to of diverse constituencies in the their biggest Lego village yet. bring its music faculty to neigh- state. In past years, Lego Day has borhood areas and give free Individuals who can come to brought over 500 children and community _concerts. All that is ·a potluck supper and discus their parents to Lincoln School. n necessary 15 a pl?ce to perform, sion about forming an advisory Refreshments are available for a:and some publicity_. Concerts committee should contact Mar sale throughout the day. For could be an opportunity for lo- cia Taylor at 331-0865 for more more information on Lego Day, cal musicians to perform as information. call 331-9696. well. Occassionally the school re- ceives free tickets to various cultural performances around the state, and would be willing FUTURE KIDS® to pass them on to community COMPUTER LEARNING CENTERS groups. Contact the school if interested. At Futurekids. we specialize in making computer The Knee Bone's Connected To The ... instruction fun for children 3 years and up. Fourth-grade students at Providence Hebrew Day School learn to identify the various bones of the skeleton system, with tecture, will begin the Rhode the help of their teacher Jani Rosen. HeraldphotobyNeilNachbar Island School of Design fall lec I Starting Week of November 7 I ture series on Nov. 3, at 7 p.rn. in the RISO Auditorium, 17 WORD PROCESSING CLASSES Renowned Holocaust Scholar Named Canal St. The lecture is free to the public, but seating is lim FOR ALL AGES Visiting Professor at Yeshiva · ited. ~ -/ ARide to Rehabilitation: How Horsing Around Can Help the Handicapped by Neil Nachbar riding. While having fun, stu Horseback riding can be chal Herald Associate Editor dents can benefit psychologi lenging to even the most coordi cally, behaviorally, socially and nated athlete. Somehow, when ehabilitationcanoftenbe physically. the disabled student climbs into a very painstaking and Narragansett Pacers has of the saddle, the horse seems to Bfrustrating process. Even fered riding lessons since 1990 know instinctively to take care the most determined in to students age 2 to 60-some of its rider. dividuals may have difficulty thing who havedisabili ties rang ''The horses chosen for the enduring therapy from time to ing from spina bifida, cerebral program have the right disposi time. palsy and mental retardation to tion," said Executive Director of The road to recovery can be Down's Syndrome, Attention Narragansett Pacers Randi made a little bit s moother Deficit Disorder and sensory Stanford. ''They are trained to through therapeutic horseback integration. handle any tugging and irregu GETTING READY TO RIDE-Instructor Gean Trafford (left) and lar movements by the student." Al Cardi prepare Venture prior to a lesson. Cardi, 10, has been one In turn, the students are very of the Pacers' quickest learners. Herald plroto by Neil Nachbar responsive to the animals. It usually only takes a few lessons for them to feel comfortable on Cardi, also 10. Cardi, who has. animal on his own at a trot. the horse. been taking lessons twice a week However, most students A good example is 10-year- since August, has a hard time need the assistance of three vol old Cara Boyajian, who suffers with long-term memory and unteers, a leader and two side from static encephalopathy, a paying attention. walkers, to ensure the student's neuromuscular disease. As with every student, safety. The volunteers seem to ''When Cara was 3 or.. Cardi 's sessions are get almost as much out of the yearsold, shewasdeathly geared specifically to- program as the students. afraid of horses," said ward his handicap. "It's a great feeling to see the Diane Boyajian, Cara's :-; Each week he is kids get up on the horse," said mother. "Now she really , asked to memorize Vicki Phillipi. "I get more out of looks forward to it." parts of the horse's it than I give." Boyajianhasnoticed anatomy, grooming The Pacers operate out of two the dramatic effect horseback techniques and any other facet locations: Springhill Farm in East riding has had on her daughter. of the sport. He is given home- Greenwich and Hilltop Equestri "She gets on the horse and work relating to the material ans in Foster. The cost of each she feels good and looks good," covered. lesson is on a sliding scale. stated Boyajian. "When she's on Although Cardi has only To find out more about Nar thehorse,she'sdoingsomething been riding a short while, he is ragansett Pacers, or to become anybody else can do." one of the more advanced stu- involved as a student, volun Another success story is Al dents, as he's able to control the teer or sponsor, call 397-2332. STUDENT AL CARDI enjoy;, a ride aboard Venture. Cardi, who Table Tennis has had difficulty with long-term memory and paying attention, has benefited from the Narragansett Pacers. Anyone? I Saw A Child Herald photo by Neil Nachbar The 1994 Rhode Is la nd by John Anthony Davies Closed Table Tennis Champi I saw a child who couldn't walk, onships are slated to be held on Sit on a horse, lqugh and talk. A Job Nov. 19 and 20, at the RI. Table Then ride it through a field of Daisies '1,no·s Tennis Association club in the And yet he couldn't walk unaided. ., OWING SERVICE Well Done Manville Community Center, 24-Hour Towing Congratulations to Moses Manville, RI. (about 10 minutes I saw a child, no legs below, and Long Distance Brown's Llsa Silver, who along from Lincoln Mall). Sit on a horse and make it go "We Do w ith partner Niki Shah The tournament is open to Through wooils of green It All" Hosseini, won the Rhode Island any Rhode Island resident, re And places he had never been RIMC27 To sit and stare, ICC MC 160708 Interscholastic League state gardless of age or playing abil ity. Special discounts on entry Except fro_m a chair. 942-0084 doubles tennis championship last weekend. fees apply to juniors under 18 rsaw a tl,ild who could only crawl, Or la - ·-1-*M>t7H488 Silver was featured in the years of age. Mount a horse and sit up tall. Sept. 15 edition of the Herald. The RI.T.T.A. club operates Put it through degrees of Paces leagues on Monday and Tues and laugh at the wonder in our faces. day nights, and is open for prac tice on Saturday afternoons. I saw a ch,ild bom into strife, Those wishing to participate Take up and hold the reigns of life in the tournament or seeking And that same child was heard to say more information can call Brian Thank G-d_for showing-me the way. Conti at 826-8863, before 8 p.m. JCCRI Announces Fall II Session The Jewish Community Cen ter of Rhode Island, 401 Elm Tire Discounts & Road grove Ave., Providence, will Hazard Warranties begin its Fall II Session of classes AvaHable the week of Nov. 13. A wide range of courses will Call for your appointment NOW! S21-2240 be available to preschoolers, teenagers, adults and everyone in between. Three new courses, Calligraphy, Drawing and Fit ness Swimming have been (JJ;Wt.e added this session. If registered by Nov. 3, $3 OVER 50 YEARS IN AUTO SERVICE The ''Only" Party Warehouse will be deducted from each class. The session will run until Dec. 2 10 Allens Avenue, Providence, RI 02903 310 EAST AVENUE, PAWTUCKET• 726-2491 23. For more information, call I] (401) 521-2240 • 521 -2241 ALWAYS DISCOUNT PRICES • JEANNE STEIN Hours: Monday thru Friday 8-5 • Saturday 8-12 861-8800. NATIONAL ACCOUNTS ACCEPTED .-. REGULAR HOURS: MONDAY-THURSDAY 9:30 AM~ PM, "'9PI .... FRIDAY 9:30 AM-7 PM, SATURDAY 9:30 AM-5 PM• CLOSED SUNDAY loili,I GIFT CERT/FICA TES AVAILABLE ISUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERS! I CCRI Offers Five-Week J&W Professor Computer Courses Cooks Up Horror The Community College of and Integration of Graphics Not only does Providence Rhode Island is offering soft and Data Bases and Word Pro · have its own native son of hor ware courses for personal com cessing (WordPerfect). ror fiction, H.P. Lovecraft, it puter users: The five-week Classes at the Lincoln cam also has, presently, Dr. Jim An classes begin Nov. 7. These pus include: Spreadsheets (123 derson from Johnson & Wales courses, sponsored by the de for Windows and Excel), Desk University, whose research and partment of computer studies top Publishing (Pagemaker), analysis on Lovecraft has and information processing, are Introduction to Word Process gained him international atten designed to help individuals ing (Word for Windows), Ad tion. upgrade their computer skills, vanced Word- Processing According to Anderson, prepare them for the competi (WordPerfect for Windows and Lovecraft was an inspiration to tive job market and provide the WordPerfect), Records Process the late Robert Block, author of flexibility to adapt to the differ ing (WordPerfect), Charts and Psycho, and Stephen King. In ent career requirements of the Graphs (Freelance), Electronic fact, Lovecraft and Block used future. Mail (Internet) and Database each other as characters in their Software course offerings at Use (Access). stories. the Warwick campus are: In addition, Advanced Word "Lovecraft is not often Spreadsheets (Lotus and Excel), Processing (Word for Win thought of as a scholarly sub Desktop Publishing (Page dows) will be taught at the ject," said Anderson in a recent maker), Introduction and Ad Providence campus, and Ad interview. "However, he really vanced Word Processing (Word vanced Word Processing is the father of modem-day for Windows), Introduction (WordPerfect) will be offered at horror fiction, the precursor to and Intermediate Windows, the Middletown satellite loca- Stephen King, and is becoming Microcomputer Operating Sys tion. increasingly more acceptable in Back to School tems (DOS), Assembler for IBM For additional information, the literary circles than ever be A delegation from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, - PC, Charts and Graphs (Pow call 825-2155. fore." headed by President Avishay Braverman, met recently in erpoint), Basic Programming Anderson will publish a criti Gaza with Chairman Yasser Arafat and leading Gazan scien cal study on Lovecraft, ex tists. Pictured is Braverman shaking hands with Arafat. Martial Arts Demonstration/Workshop pected in 1995. The Martial Arts Center will efit the Meeting Street School. present a one-day demonstra The demonstrations begin _at Kempo, Tai Chi, Yoga, and Antioch New England Hosts Session tion/ workshop in a variety of noon and run until 5 p.m. other arts. martial arts on Nov. 12 at the Visitors will be able to see For more information, call On Master's and Doctoral Programs Martial Arts Center in the Wan and participate .in workshops The Martial Arts Center at 454- KEENE, N.H. - Antioch the Antioch New England Ad skuck Mills, 725 Branch Ave., on Aikido, Karate, Kung Fu, 3325. New England Graduate School missions Office, 40 Avon Providence. will host an information ses Street, Keene, N.H. at (603) Admission is a $5 donation, To All You Youngsters in the Hasbro Building sion on its master's and doc 357-6265. and all proceeds will go to ben- toral programs in applied and by Lenny Chemack clinical psychology, education, Although I have never seen you environmental studies, and My thoughts are on you each day management at the graduate Whatever I do in my daily chores school's Keene, N.H. site. I leave some time to pray The program will take place I pray for your well being at Higgins Armory Museum, To get out of your strife 100 Barber Avenue, Worcester, To get out of the Hasbro building Mass. on Nov. 2 at 6 p.m. To live a normal life Provost James Craiglow will Don't give up the battle provide an overview of the Don't you ever give in graduate school and its 30-year Let us pray together history of adult education. With your fight, witl:i G-d's help Those attending can learn A good life you will win about the various degree pro So get in there all your youngsters grams, meet faculty and stu Life now is just a bad dream dents, and have their questions Look ahead for a better life answered in an informal atmo You will make the "all star team" sphere. You can call me Uncle Lenny People working full-time will If you need me, I'll be there find that the course work is I want you all to enjoy life structured so that they can Because I care complete master's programs within 15 to 20 months without interrupting employment. Doc toral programs are generally completed within five years. ~ ROCKY HILL SCHOOL For further information, call ~ 530 Ives Road, East Greenwich, R .I. 02818 • 884-9070 Camp Jori . Honors Gerstenblatt Tucker To Lead Ben-Gurion Drive Kenneth Tucker of Chicago is the new national president of OPEN HOUSE On Oct. 16, Camp JORI, Ben-Gurion University's American Associates for the next SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6TH, 2-4 P.M. Rhode Island's only Jewish year - the university's 25_th anniversary year. overnight camp, held its 57th annual Dinner Meeting at the Seekonk, Mass. The meeting honored Marshall Gerstenblatt, Eli and Bessie· Cohen Foundation who is retiring this year after sponsors of serving as camp director for 22 years. · Camps Pembroke, Tel Noar, Tevya Camp JORI President These leading N ew Engla nd Jewish cultural Samuel K. Suls commended resident camps anticipate the following staff Gerstenblatt for his contribu openings for the 1 995 season: tion to the camp. "Marshall's Program Director, Head Counselor, Nurses, many years of selfless service Become a participant... have identified Camp JORI as Cooks , Department Heads for: the warm and caring Jewish Waterfront, Judaica, Mus ic, Drama, instead of a spectator. camp that it is today," Suls Arts and Crafts said. "Over· the coming years, Excelle nt salary and working conditions. Kids /eam more by doing than by 11,atd,i,,g. At a small 5thool /ike Rocky Hill, w/,er, we look forward to preserving everyone has ,m opportunity to play a sport, every aspiring actor gets a part, a11d ead1 child the goals that Marshall and the Contact: gets a d,a,,ce to lead, our studems disc01Jtr tl1eir streugtlis a,id develop tlrtir tme potential. board have shared." Mr. George Marcus, Executive Director Give your child a chance to excel! 30 Main Street, Room 1 6 A s hland, MA 01 721 Nursery-12, Co-Educational, College Prcpar.uion • Tr.msporcmon & Fmancial A1d Available:: IAdvert ise in THE HERALD! I (5 08) 881 -1002 ROCKY HILL SCHOOL ADMITS STUDENTS OF ANY RACE, COLOR , NATIONAL Oil ETHNIC ORIGIN 22 - ·THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY,_OCTQBER 27, 1994 OBITUARIES HERBERT M. COHEN tery. Arrangements were by the Women's Association of the GARDEN GROVE, Calif. _ Max Sugarman Memorial Miriam Hospital, and the Jew New York Breaks Ground Herbert M. Cohen, 76, of . Chapel, 458 Hope St., Provi- ish Home for the Aged. 13830 Hoover St., Westmin- dence. She leaves a daughter, Phyl for Holocaust Memorial ster, Calif., a computer operator lis Cardozo of San Francisco, by Rochelle G. Saide! BERTHA LIPSEY The new memorial museum, for the McDonald-Douglas Air_ Calif.; a sister, Natalie Emers; a .NEW YORK {JTA) -Some designed by Kevin Roche, will craft Corp. for 20 ·years before BRONX, N.Y. - Bertha brother, Archie Fain, both of 1,000 Holocaust ·survivors and be built on the shoreline of the retiring 15 years ago, died Oct. Lipsey, 95, of the Daughters of Providen·c!!; six grandchildren, their families, elected officials Hudson River, opposite the 16 at the Garden Grove Hospi Jacob Home, the Bronx, N.Y., and 10 great-grandchildren. and community leaders gath Statue of Liberty and Ellis Is tal in Garden Grove, Calif. He died Oct. 18 at the Bronx She was the mother of the late ered at Site 14 at the .southern land. An 85-foot memorial will Deborah Isaacson, and the sis was the husband of Gladys Lebanon Hospital in the Bronx. end ofBattery Park City recently rise from the center of a 20,000 ter of the late Irving, Jack and B. (Benoit) Cohen. He was the She was the widow of Maurice to break ground for its Holo . square foot structure. The husband of the late Barbara Lipsey. Alfred Fain, Bertha Jacobs, Jen caust museum. museum's design is simple and (Scherer) Cohen. Born in Austria,-a daughter of Kaufman and Beck Sandler. The museum, known offi austere, with six sides represent 1 the late Jacob and Shendal A graveside servke was held I Born in Providence, a son of cially as A Living Memorial to ing the six million Jewish vic the late Louis and Rose (Green (Korn) Tannenbaum, she lived Oct. 20 at Lincoln Park Ceme the Holocaust - Museum of tims of the Holocaust. Sculp i berg) Cohen, he lived in Cali in New York for 12 years. She tery in Warwick. Service was Jewish Heritage, is expected to tured bronze doors will lead fornia for 35 years. previously lived in Warwick coordinated by Mount Sinai open in late 1996. visitors to two (loors of exhibi Besides his wife he leaves a and Providence. Memorial Chapel, 825 Hope UJA-FederationofNewYork tion space. The roof_of the gran St., Providence. son, Bruce Cohen of San Diego, She leaves two daughters, executive Ernest Michel, a long ite building is steeped louvre, Sylvia Sackett of Cranston, and Calif.; a daughter, Linda time activist for the project, be designed to catch suntight dur S_AMUEL S. SCHWARTZ Newby of Incline Village, Nev.; Edith Fleisig of Boca Raton, gan his remarks by saying "I'm ing the day and· to be illumi Fla .; a son, Rabbi Eugene a stepson, Robert Baker of War PATERSON, N.J. - Samuel Auschwitz number 104995." nated at night. Lipsey of Great Neck, Long Is wick; three stepdaughters, S. Schwartz, 86, of Paterson, "Why, after the success in Expected to attract more than land, N.Y.; eight grandchil Karen Baker of LaMirada, former owner of the Cadillac Washington, should we have a . 50,000 visitors annually, the dren, and 12 great-grandchil Calif., Janice Pivo of . Atas Textiles· Co. in Cumberland, memorial in New York?" he museum. ·"will teach people of dren. 0 cadero, Calif., and Gloria So died Oct. 4 in New Jersey. He asked. Answering his own ques all ages and backgrounds about A graveside service was held pher of Stanton, Calif.; a was the husband of the late Es tion, he said he "would like to the unique tragedy of the Holo Oct. 20 at Lincoln Park Ceme brother, Max Cohen of Fuller ther Schwartz. be able to come to this place and caust," according to David tery in Warwick. The service ton, Calif.; three sisters, Born in Paterson, he was a say Kaddish for my parents who Altshuler, director of the mu was coordinated by Mount Blanche Litowitz, Florence Bel son of the late David and Nettie have no grave." seum. Sinai Memorial Chapel,. 825 lis _and Sylvia Myrow, all of Schwartz. The New York Holocaust Its purpose is also to convey Hope St., Providence. Providence; 12 grandchildren, He founded the Cadillac Tex Memorial Commission, which the rich diversity of Jewish life and a great-grandson. He was tiles Co. in I 921 and it re has been endeavoring to build a RUTHE. MILLER in Europe and North Africa prior the father of the late Michael mained in business until 1986. memorial museum since Mayor HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - Ruth to the devastation of those com Cohen and Mildred McNulty. He was a philanthropist and Edward I. Koch first appointed · munities a generation ago, and A graveside service was held E. Miller died Oct. 14 in Holly was president of the Daughters it in 1982, has received more wood, Fla·. She was the widow to depict the renewal of Jewish Oct. 20 at Lincoln Park Ceme of Miriam Cen\er for the Aged than $10.25 million in private civilization in Israel, the United ' tery in Warwick. Arrangements of the late Hai;ry M. Shupack. in Clifton, N.J. He was a past contributions and pledges, in Born in Providence, a daugh Statesand throughouttheworld were by the Max Sugarman president of the Barnert Memo cluding $1 million from Steven during the decades since the lib Memorial Chapel, 458 Hope ter of the late Jacob and Katie rial Temple in Franklin Lakes, Spie!berg's Righteous Persons (Tieman) Kahn, she moved to eration of the survivors of the St., Providence. N.J., a board member of the Foundation. death camps, he said. Hollywood, Fla ., where she Barnert Memorial Hospital in ALYCE H. GOLEMBA resided for 25 years. Paterson, and a member of She leav·es a daughter, San W ARWlCK - Alyce H. Planned Parenthood of Passaic Tomb of Patriarchs Will Reopen Golemba, 86, of - Greenwood dra Schupack Rose and son-in County, N.J . The Esther and by Hugh Orgel In the months since Dr. law, Leonard Rose of Pem- · House, 1189 Main Ave., an ele Sam Schwartz Building of the TEL AVIV OT A) - The Baruch Goldstein killed 29 broke Pines, Fla.; a sister, mentary school teacher in Daughters of Miriam Center for Tomb of the Patriarchs, closed Palestsinians praying at the Dorothy Mills of Palm Beach, Johnston for 15 years before re the Aged was named after him to Jewish and Muslim worship tomb, Israel beefed up security Fla.; three grandchildren and tiring in 1978, died Oct. 20. She and his wife. pers since the Hebron massacre at the site, including the instal six great-grandchildren. was the widow of Frank W. He leaves two sons, Bernard in February, is expected to re lation of closed-circuit televi A funeral service was held Golemba. Schwartz of Franklin Lakes, open by the end of October, sion cameras to monitor visi Oct. 16 at the graveside in Lin Born in New Haven, Conn., a and Philip Schwartz of Ho Ho Deputy Defense Minister tors. coln Park Cemetery. Arrange daughter of the late Robert and Kus, N.J.; six grandchil Mordechai Gur said recently. Israel's security plan also. ments were by the Max Sugar Pauline (Feitelberg) Hertz, she dren,and four great-grandchil Gur made the prediction Oct. · calls for the separation of Jew man Memorial Chapel, 458 had lived in Cranston before dren. 18 during a visit to the West ish and Muslim worshipers, moving to Warwick last year. Hope St., Providence. The funeral was held at the Bank town of Hebron, where who will be confined to sepa She was a graduate of the for LEILA ROSEN Barnert Memorial Temple; he visited the tomb, focus of re rate parts of the complex and Burial was in Mount Nebo mer Rhode Island College of EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. - peated unrest since the Febru will be required to pray at dif Education, now Rhode Island Leila Rosen, 93, of the Ever Cemetery in Totowa, N.J. ary massacre. ferent times. College. She was a member of green House Health Center, the -Cranston Republican Evergreen Drive, died Oct. 18 pressed his love of G-d and his Women's Club. at the center. She was the His music can be heard at al Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach Dies fellowman, and woman, with She leaves a son, Dr. Michael widow of Leo Rosen. most every major Judaic cere E. Gol~mba of Hampton, Va. Born in Providence, she was . The rabbi known to Jews all mony or celebration, embraced joy and energy. Rabbi Carlebach was Ortho She was the sister of the late a daughter of the late Barnet over the world as an inspiring by both the Orthodox and more dox, himself, and from 195 I to Dr. Aaron Hertz. and Ida Fain. composer and singer died a-t liberal branches of Jewry. 1954 acted as a traveling emis A gravesid~ service was held She was a member of Temple age 69 on Oct. 20 ... Rabbi To those who knew him, he sary for ·Rabbi Menachem Oct. 23 in Lincoln Park Ceme- Emanu-El, its Sisterhood, the Shlomo Carlebach. , was a charismatic, inspirational figure who constantly ex- Mendel Schneerson. For over 40 years, the owner of Mount Sin~i. Memorial Ch~pel. .. Mitchell ... has served Rhode Island Jewish families over 8,000 times ... UNVEILING as a professional Jewish funeral director ... as did his father and An unveiling in memory of RUTH L. SCHERZ will be held on Sunday, November 6, at 2 p.m. in Sharon Me1J!orial Park. grandfather since the 1870s ... with honesty · ,,.-,.-.-----, Family and friends are invited to attend. and integrity. One of the reasons why the majority of Rhode Island Jewish families call Max Sugannan MOUNT SINAI Memorial Chapel MEMO~IAL CHAPEL -:r·i~:~ Cerfi{ied by the d. -':) R.I. Soard of Rabbis 331-3337 Michael D. Smith 825 Hope at Fourth Streets · Rhode Island's Oldest Jewish Funeral Home Executive Director 458 Hope Street, Providence Pre: need counseling with tax-free Please call for your From out of state call: (Comer of Doyle Ave.) A payment planning is available New Year calendar I-800-331-3337 331-8094 Out of State: 1-800-447-1267 · Only R.I. Jewish Funeral Home that is a member of the national Je~ish Call Michael for our no111011eydow11, Pre-Need Plans ' Funeral Directors of America and certified by R.I. Board of Rabbis Call for your free 5755 (1994-1995) calendar _ THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1994 - 23 CLASSIFIED Answering 'Be Wise - years of age or older, you have Hard Questions long-term heart or lung prob ENTERTAINMENT SERVICES RENDERED Immunize' lems or high-risk medical con (Continued from Page 5) STEVE YOKEN ENTERTAINMENT -Profes "CLEANING DONE RIGHT." Free estimates. (Continued from Page 12) ditions that lower your body's sional master of ceremonies and disc References. 861-7879, 461-0681 . From Oct. 1 to late Novem immune system (including dia ber, visiting nurse flu shot clin jockey. Bar/ bat mitzvah specialists. 11 / 10/ 94 be if he came from those people betes, kidney disease, asthma, Featuring lhe sensational Cabaret Enter ics will be located at local com PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR, MA, offering originally. cancer, AIDS, etc.); you have tainers. THE PARTY PLANNERS ' CHOICE munity centers, residential (508) 679-1545. 4/ 28/ 95 therapy with individualized attention, ad There are some situations in contact with people at high-risk dressing special needs: relationships , self sites, pharmacies, and busi life that have no easy, totally for contacting the flu; or you esteem. weight control. depression. Free nesses where nurses at each painfree resolution. Adoption hav·e demanding family or first consultation. discount _prices . confi site will administer flu shots. CONDOMINIUM FOR RENT dentiality guaranteed. On-call visits ok. is one of them. Learn to use the work responsibilities and can Eight visiting nurse agencies 273-5309. 11 / 3/ 94 most positive language possi not risk being or taking sick have teamed together to form a PALM BEACH, FLORIDA. Lanai on the ocean ble when you talk about adop leave. with heated pool' Fully furnished! All ameni CLASSBOX "Visiting Nurse Flu Hotline." tion. Get together with people Today's flu vaccine is safe for ties! Security! Garage' From Nov. 1. Meriel CORRESPONDENCE TO: Individuals should call 1-800- Lee Cole. (401) 433-5957. 11 / 3/ 94 ClassBox No. in your situation so you can lis nearly everyone. Visiting 442-0033 to learn more about The A.I. Jewish Herald ten to each other, support each nurses and volunteers will be the date, time, and place of a flu P.O. Box 6063 other, and blow off steam available at the clinic sites to Providence, A.I. 02940 clinic in their area, as well as GUTTERS harmlessly. Watch for silent answer any questions. Visiting any questions regarding the flu signals from your child that he nurse public flu clinics will be R.I. Jewish Herald classified ads cost $3 for -vaccine. COMPLETE GUTTER REPAIR and cleaning 15 words or less. Additional words cost 12 needs to be able to ask, or talk, available to anyone over the service. All size homes. 25 years experience. cents each. Payment must be received by or even yell and cry about the age of 18. Call MR. GUTTER CLEAN and REPAIR . Monday at 4 p.m.. prior to the Thursday situation. These steps make Today's flu vaccine is 354-6725. when the ad is scheduled to appear. fielding adoption questions as 12/ 29/ 94 State Awards This newspaper will not. knowingly. accept painfree for everyone as it can safe for nearly everyone. any advertising for real estate which is in get, and greatly increase the Elder Care JOB WANTED violation of the A.I. Fair Housing Act and opportunities for joy and Jove Section 804 (C) of Title VIII of the 1968 Civil in the relationships._ The cost of the flu shots will Grants CHAUFFEUR: 10 years experience to drive Rights Act. Our readers are hereby informed If you are an adoptive parent range from $8 to $10, depend your car for groceries. doctor. errands. etc. that all dwelling/ housing accommodations Maureen Maigret, director of Frank. 944-0530. 11 / 3/ 94 advertised in this newspaper are available on candidate, read widely on ing on the location. The fee will be covered if one has Medicare, the state department of elderly an equal opportunity basis. adoption - there are dozens of affairs, has announced that the books available now. Spiegel Part B. Individuals should bring their Medicare (Part B) state has awarded more than $1 Advertising in and the other members of the Adult day care centers served card to the clinic and the visit million in grants to 12 agencies group had some favorites: Su an average of 854 clients daily the Herald gets results. ing nurse agency will bill Medi to provide adult day care and san and Gordon Adopt a Baby, (a during 1993. Respite care pro Call 724-0200 care. 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Always Settled in at one point that spring, and al " It was linked to Assad's atti though the marks were soon re tudes to minorities in the coun Small Claims Court moved - apparently at the or try, as a president himself from by Louis M. Pulner that caused the damage here, der of other, higher-up officials a minority," said Murphy. High Tech - the implied threat of a Dear Attorney Pulner: and negligence actions must be Assad is a member of Syria's (Continued from Page 1) heard in either the District Court pogrom was clear enough. Alawite minority. Back in July I was with my "talent scouts" representing or the Superior Court, depend At various points, Syria made In 1974, when Assad met 11-year-old son at Roger Will some overtures toward legaliz companies such as Intel, Softel iams Park not only to visit the ing upon the amount of money with a delegation of Jews in ing emigration. At the end of cluding not-yet-Chief Rabbi (an IBM subsidiary), Enco Sys zoo but to get some fresh air that is involved. Negligence ac tems, Sygma Chemicals, Teva tions wherein monies are being 1956 - perhaps in response to Hamra, he was "all ears," as and exercise. My son had the Western governmental Pharmaceutical, and a consor brought his bicycle with him sought in an amount up to Hamra related this week. pressure the Jewish groups had "From· that time, it got better, tium known as HiTec (Har that he had just received for $10,000 can be brought in the Hotzvim Technology Entrepre District Court, while actions sought - Syria announced a slowly slowly," he said. his birthday, a top-of-the-line policy of legalized departures. neurship Center), will be arriv racing bike and at one point seeking larger damages must Assad quickly dropped re But the terms were stiff. strictions on travel within ing in the United States in early during the afternoon we be brought in the Superior Court December. They will be inter for the State of Rhode Island. Syria demanded that those Syria, quotas in universities stopped and had some lunch. wishing to leave renounce their viewing candidates who have While doing so an automobile Small Claims Court entertains and restrictions on commerce. Syrian nationality, donate their " I look at Syrian citizens by experience in electronic engi was trying to maneuver into a matters such as those where neering, mechanical engineer people are dissatisfied with a real estate to the Organization what they do, not by their reli rather small parking space and of Arab Refugees of Palestine ing, computers, software, re while doing so his vehicle purchase of an item from either gion.'.' Hamra recalled Assad as and pay an indemnification of saying. search chemistry, microbiology, backed up over the curb, the an individual or a s tore; pharmaceutical research, breaches of contract for work several hundred dollars for And while Assad refused to back wheels crushing the rear males who were escaping mili project management, systems that has been performed, i.e., allow entire families to emi tire and a small piece of the tary service. grate, Jews were increasingly · analysis and marketing. frame of my son's bicycle. My services; and for forcing people For more information or to to make good ·on bad checks Reports told of a number of allowed to travel. son and I ran over and ex young people leaving the coun set up an interview, contact the and other similar negotiable in Throughout this time, Syrian plained exactly what he had try illegally who were caught, Israel Aliyah Center at (617) struments. If your claim does Jewry remained high on the done and the man was very brought back to Damasacus 423-0868. not exceed $1,500 exclusive of American Jewish, and Ameri apologetic for his mistake. He and tortured to terrify the rest interest and costs, then Small can diplomatic, agenda. told me that he would be re of the community. Claims Court is in fact a conve Former Secretary of State sponsible for fixing the bike, The illegal exodus had rami nient and expeditious forum for James Baker "would spend an and he gave us his name, tele fications in neighboring Beirut, obtaining satisfaction. The costs hour manv times in the five phone number and address which still had a very small, but involved for bringing suit in hour meetings with Assad, and told us to contact him with relatively stable, Jewish com Small Claims Court are nomi talking about the Jewish prob the amount needed to make munity. The JDC became in nal and hearing dates are usu lem," said Stephan Shalom. the necessary repairs. About volved in obtaining the release ally scheduled within 60 days The Israelis had at the time two weeks later I sent him the of Syrian Jews imprisoned for of the filing of the complaint. A begun raising the question of bill for $124 but then I never arriving in Lebanon without caution to all readers, however, Syrian Jews, both at the United heard from him. I tried unsuc proper papers. Nations and in the peace talks. cessfully to reach him by phone is that a plaintiff who brings his The organization also hired a complaint in Small Claims But "it was done for Wash for at least three weeks and I lawyer and posted bail for Al ington," said Reich, (who even wrote him another letter Court does not have the right to bert Elia, secretary-general of an appeal in the event that he or chaired a task force on Syrian asking for the payment that the Lebanese Jewish commu Jewry at the Conference of was due. I finally reached him she loses. Only the defendant nity, who was charged with Nathan's can appeal from an adverse Presidents of Major American Old Fashioned $}39 by telephone in August and he treason and faced the death Jewish Organizations). " It was told me that not only did he judgment in this court. penalty for aiding the Syrian HERRING t1-q1. i•rl 1b. Getting back to your prob American Jewry that pressed not have insurance at the time Jews. Washington that pressed of this incident, but things were lem, it is an unfortunate one Elia was acquitted, although ~ BBQ $ Syria." ~ Chicken. . .. . 1.89 lb. very bad for him right now indeed. It would be foolish to seven years later, he was re and he couldn't afford to make throw good money after bad by In April 1992, the State De Turkey Orums1icks ...... 99' lb. portedly kidnapped in Beirut partment was able to announce the payment that he had origi getting involved in the District Fresh Chicken $ by agents of the Syrian secret that Syria had promised free nally promised. He asked for Court, which by its very nature police. He is believed to have Cutlets . • • . . • • ...... • 4.39 lb. our continued patience. usually does require the assis travel for its Jews. died in prison in Damascus. It was a promise that was to Clearly, the amount of this bill tance of counsel. Seeking satis Packaged From the beginning of As be implemented in spurts. After All-Beef $219 · wasn't one that I wanted to faction in the District Court sad's regime, Syria's Jews con would have to be done solely on an initial rush of departures, FRANKS 112-oz pkg.I ea. contact an attorney for so I went sidered him an improvement there was a hiatus of several over to the Small Claims Court principle, and not for compen over his predecessors, accord- . in Providence and tried to file sation. I'm sorry your experi a small claims action against ence with the court system r------,.-111111111!!!!~--.. him. A man who works at the turned out to beso frustrating. I and, therefore, will vary from case office read over my complaint wish you well. to case. and then told me that I couldn't The answers provided above are Louis M. Pulner is an attorney bring my case in Small Claims based upon general legal principles with law offices at 2 Williams St. Court, and that I would have to (at South Main Street),Providence. file this action in the District Court, all of which will require greater expense and perhaps the hiring of a lawyer. What ===LOUIS M.=== kind of nonsense is this that I can't bring a small claim action BUSINESS PROFILES against this man? I thought P•U•L•N•E•R Small Claims Court was for people in circumstances ex actly like mine. If you ask me, '.'io Char~e for lnifial Consullation it just sounds like another ex ample of what's wrong with DIVORCE DOES YOUR BUSINESS PROVIDE our system. Bent Out of Shape CHILD CUSTODY & VISITATION OUTSTANDING OR UNIQUE Dear Reader: CHILD SUPPORT SERVICES TO THE COMMUNITY? Unfortunately, you have dis ADOPTIONS covered something that has Why not let our r~ders know about it? frustrated many a litigant for many a year. Clearly, you have • Personal Injury • Medical Malpractice The Rhode Island Jewish Herald takes an actionable claim against the • Automobile Accidents • Wills & Probate "A CLOSER LOOK" gentleman who struck your • Wrongful Death • Criminal Ma tiers at business in Rhode Island and son's bicycle, and are entitled to Southeastern Massachusetts compensatory damages to make in every issue. your son's bike as good as it Evening Appointments Available was prior to being hit by the car. A story on your business, complete with photos, Small Claims Court, unfortu will let our readers know oil about your work nately, is not the appropriate and what you have to offer the community. forum to have this matter re FOR MORE INFORMATION ON solved. Small Claims Court does "A CLOSER LOOK" not entertain actions that lie in CALL MYRNA OR JEANETTE AT tort, but rather serves the com 2 WIiiiams Street, Providence munity for breach of contract 724-0200 actions. It was pure negligence