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t.A-nd the Lord said unto Moses: "Wherefore cries! thou unto Me? Speak unto the children ofIsrael, that they go forward And lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thy hand over the sea, and divide it; and the children of Israel shall go into the midst ofthe sea on dry ground "
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\ " A Modern Exodus to Israel With the Olim from Uzbekistan
by Richard Wexler descent. Today, after the wave Uzbekistan. We arrived in National Chair, Operation Exodus, of aliyah leaving in 1989, the Tashkent to be given a warm United Jewish Appeal Jewish commu nity numbers greeting by Baruch Gur, the di "Where are you going on this some 60,000, down from 95,000. rector for our Jewish Agency for Mission?" Uzbeki Jews practice our reli Israel's unit for Eastern Europe "Uzbekistan." gion freely and are able to leave and the former Soviet Union, "Where, Pakistan ?" for Israel with freedom (so long and Chaim Chesler, the head of "No. Uzbekistan." as they leave with only what the JAFI delegation to the CIS, "Oh .. . Where?" they can carry). Georgia, Azarbidjan and the "Uzbekistan ... Uzbekistan. With the advent of promised Baltics. These two dedicated One of the new Central Asian democratic reform in Uzbeki professionals would travel with Republics of the former Soviet stan, the Jewish communities, us, introd ucing JAFI workers Union." mainly centered in Tashkent, throughout the ·country, and "Oh .. . Uzbekistan ... Why?" Sammarka nd a nd Bukhara, providing their own insights originally seemed determined into the condition of the Jewish On Feb. 19, Lois Zoller-Mills, to build renascent Jewish com people in Uzbekistan. the Jewish United Fund's Opera munal life. tion Exodus chair, I, and 43 other Arrival in Tashkent, A leaders from around the United Ghost Town of 2 Million StatesandCanada beganaUnited Thirteen time zones from We found Tashkent, with a Jewish Appealmissionto Uzbeki population of 2 million, the stan that would culminate in an Chicago, Uzbekistan, fourth largest city in the former I Operation Exodus freedom flight with close to 20 million Soviet Union, to be like a ghost I , to Israel. This was to be a true residents, has the largest town. We could find few people journey to the Third World and in the streets, no cars, no activity I from that world we would fl y population in the Central to speak of. Jewish activity is with 176olim (and three dogs) to Asian republics of the centered around the work of the new lives in Israel. AlmostS00,000 former Soviet Union. Jewish Agency, the facilities of ofourmishpacha haveemigrated Lishkat Ha' Kesher (the govern to Israel already, in a modern ment of Israel's operation in the exodus. It soon became apparent to former Soviet Union) and those Thirteen time zones from these communities that Jewish of the American Jewish Joint Chicago, Uzbekistan, with close life and Jew ish freedoms would Distribution Committee. to 20 million residents, has the be better discovered in Israel, Our group met with the largest population in the Cen where the bulk of the Jewish United States ambassador in the tral Asian republics of the former population is now resettling at a American Embassy - itself be Soviet Union. rate of almost 500 a month, and ing renovated from a former Uzbekistan is made up of a through family reunification in "disco" complete with red car number of large ethnic minori the United States, where rela pets, garish red painted walls Richard Wexler, national chairman of United Jewish Appeal's ties - the Jewish minority, tively large Bukharan Jewish and mirrors on the ceiling. We Operation Exodus, meets with olim in Bukhara, a former Soviet though not among the largest, communities can be fo und in then proceeded to a briefing by republic in Central Asia. UJAPlroto © RobertA . C1m 1i11s consists of Jews mainly of Euro New York and Los Angeles. the Israel ambassador, who pean origin, who arrived in would travel with us on the rest These were the historic cir the local synagogue to learn of Uzbekistan fleeing in front of ity populations in Uzbekis tan cumstances in which we found of the journey. the community's needs. Then it the ad va nci ng Nazi armies, and Both explained the human a nd neither expressed much ourselves through the severe was on to a Jewish Agency facil a smaller minority of Bucharian winter d ays of ou r time in ri ghts problems facing minor- hope tha t there would be a quick turn to democratic re ity to see the olim with w hom fo rm. Jewish communal lead we would be traveling getting ers were constantly circu m their pre-aliyah briefing - what spect in how they talked to us to bring, what to expect at cus - quite d ifferent from our vis toms,attheairport. Tension and its on the other missions and anxiety were running high. travels of the last few years and A dinner with Jewish com months (for example, Moscow, munity leaders turned into an the Baltics or Ukraine). opportunity for aggressive Is raeli dancing and a close exami Meeting the Olim nation of Uzbeki cuisine - not Late in the afternoon of our highly recommended . Where Convenience and Quality Cost Less. first day in Tashkent, we visited (Continued on Next Page)
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More than most holidays, Passover, or Pesach , is celebrated at home.
This eight-day holiday recalls the deliverance of the Jews from Egyptian slavery. At the Seder meal, the Haggadah (story of liberation) is read and unleavened bread , called Matzah, is eaten along w ith other symbolic foods, enabling the members of the Jewish fa ith to relive their ancestors' experiences.
Ri ch tradition flavors every bite of the Passover feast.
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Rhode Islanders Join Olim on Their Journey to Israel
by Alison Smith in the last four years. Herald Co-Ed itor Speaking for himself, he said Four Rhode Isla nde rs "Thank G-d my father, at age Steven A. Rakitt, executive di 16, left and came here." rector of the Jewish Federation Life is extremely harsh in of Rhode Island, Mr. and Mrs. Central Asia. In the Jewish Harris Rosen, and Norman Quarter in Bukhara, Tilles no Tilles - accompanied Richard ticed that although the winter Wexler on his recent trip to Cen weather was severe, no one was tral Asia. wearing gloves. People's hands The Herald asked Tilles to tell were red and raw. Finally he us how it felt, to be part of this realized that no one had the modern exodus. money to buy even such a basic He said that on the flight from thing as gloves to protect their Samarkand to Bukhara he wrote hands. Fortunately even those a postcard to his granddaugh whose health has not held up ter in America. It said, "Every under such conditions are still night, when you go to bed, thank welcome in Israel. FROM RHODE ISLAND WITH LOVE: Norman TiJles (left) with the olim at the airport in Tel Aviv. your ancestors for having come Tilles said "Even if they are U/A Photo © Robert A. Cumins here in 1905." ill, Israel will welcome them." His enthusiasm fo r the move H e spoke of people w ho ment came across the phone line looked much older than their Modern Exodus ess advised us the both Sam dously active community, sti ll clearly. He believes it is impera real age, who needed help just markand and Tashkent airports with some 3,000 to 5,000 Buk (Continued from Previous Page) tive that the Jews in the United getting on the plane, but who were now closed because of bad haran Jews, the community is States raise a billion dollars more knew they would still be al We awakened at dawn on weather - would we become already committed to aliyah and to continue moving Jews from lowed to settle in Israel. T uesd ay to find Tashkent the "Flying Dutchman" of the concerned about who will main distressed countries to Israel. He Again a nd again, Tilles bathed in the white of newly skies? The Bukhara airport was tain the beautiful Jewish cem spoke with pride of the 500,000 stressed the need to raise more fallen snow. The city took on the still open and beckoning and so etery there when " ... there is no who had already made the trip money fo r this modern exodus. aura of a fairy tale in the midst we proceeded there, flip-flop one left here." of a blizzard as we gathered at ping our visit to this ancient Down streets too narrow to the Tashkent airport fo r a char Moslem outpost by 24 hours. accommodate a car, let a lone our We are accompanied now A Tour of Bukhara, An ter flight on Uzbekistan Airways buses, we wandered through the by Israel Schiff, the American Invitation to a Wedding to Sammarkand. Bukhara-Bound: Jewish Quarter, seeing our kids Jewish Joint Di stribution Com Theday grows.short. A visit to The tarmac was awash with 'Real Life' in Uzbekistan being taught Hebrew and about mittee's dedicated profes the local market, which leaves what appeared to be a graveyard On arrival in Bukhara, a way Israel by dedicated teachers and sional in the Central Asia n Re most of us aghast at the lack of of used airplanes-ours among station on the Silk Road of an young people from B'nai Akiva, publics. The warm embraces foodstuffs and the quality of that them. It was with no small de cient times, we were taken off to sponsored by the Jewish Agency that Schiff receives wherever which is for sale, does produce, greeof trepidation that our hearty the Bukhara Hotel to stow our and the government of Israel. All we go is fu rther indicati on of as if by mi racle, manna in the band of travelers boarded the overnight bags. The hotel, a typi activities feel as if they are taking the love and respect the com form of baguettes, hot out of the plane with the hope that some cal Soviet disaster, appeared to place outdoors, even those in munity has for the work of our ovens - sustenance! where in this decrepit facility de be welcorni ng in the sub-freez rooms heated by boilers inad agents on the ground, who also A tour ofa uniquelyBukharan icingequipmentcould be located. i ng temperature until we got in equate to the task. Beautiful chil work agai ns t tre m e ndous Jewish cemetery, filled with me Fatalistic jokes were the order of side and found the lobby to be dren, hard into their studies, odds and obstacles in the most morials bearing the photographic the morning and I found myself colder than the outside tempera greeted us. difficult of p laces. (Continued on Page 8) whistling the hoary tune of 'The ture and our rooms to be colder High and Mighty." still. In fact, my own room, ac The snow was fa lling as hard cording to the thermometer, as in a Chicago winter when we never got above 40°F. took off, after being told of the A dead giveaway of the con need for all ofus tositin the fi rst d ition of the heati ng system was 20 rows of the plane "for take the fac t that the key ladies wore off only," and after the co-pilot the "layered look, " such as it is Best wishes to you and your came up the aisle toward the in the former Soviet Union. The cockpit with a pan of raw gaso frigid temperatures were offset line in his hands. by the warmth of the greeting The applause on take-off was we received from the Bukharan family for a joyous Passover short-li ved w hen the steward- Jewish community. A tremen-
At this season of our freedom may all your blessings increase and may those who share your Seder know peace and happiness.
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By Stacey A. Pacheco This custom is of biblical thy life," Deuteronomy 16:3. The WHY IS RED RATHER THAN WHY IS THE FRONT DOOR OPENED Herald Co-Editor foundation and based on Exo matzah is a constant reminder. WHITE WINE SERVED DURING THE FOR ELIJAH DURING THE SEDER? Passover is a particularly dis dus 12:21-28, where all Egyp SEDER MEAL? Opening the front door ex WHY AREMOSTMATZOTSQUARE? tinctive and meaningful holiday tian firstborn were slain and the Red wine is traditionally pressed the willingness and - a holiday that symbolizes in firstborn of Israel were spared. Originally all matzot were served at the table because the readiness of the seder partici words and deeds the ideal of To commemorate this, it is es shaped round. In 1875,amatzah Talmud considers red wine su pants to bring the Messianic Age freedom. Originally, Passover sential that firstborn fast. bakingmachinethatmadesquare perior. into their lives. It reflects their was two separate holidays. One, matzah was invented in England. beliefs that the Messianic Age WHY MUST THE JEWISH HOME WHY IS SALT WATER PLACED ON an agricultural holiday called BE SCOURED CLEAN BEFORE THE WHY DO JEWS SELL CHAMETZ TO THE SEDER TABLE? might come at any time. Chag Hamatzot (Festival of NON-JEWS BEFORE PASSOVER? p ASSOVER HOLIDAY? In Jerusalem of the first and IS A PASCHAL LAMB NO Unleavened Bread) and the WHY To find charnetz in a home Because of the hardship it second centuries it was custom LONGER OFFERED ON p ASSOVER, other was a pastoral holiday after the holiday has begun is would be on a family to discard AS PRESCRIBED IN THE BIBLE? called Chag Hapesach (Festival ary at mealtime to dip a veg considered a serious breach of all non-kosher Passover prod etable in salt water. A popular of the Paschal Lamb). Both holi The practice of sacrificing ani Jewish law. From biblical times ucts, a procedure was created explanation for the use of salt mals was in vogue only while days developed independently onward, the law requires that whereaJewcansell chametz toa water at the seder table con in the springtime and related to the Temple in Jerusalem was in every crumb of unleavened rabbi, who in turnsellsittoa non nects the practice with the many existence. With its destruction G-d leading Jews out of the bread and all materials and Jew with the understanding that tears(salty)whichwereshed by by the Romans in 70 C.E., the clutches of the Egyptian Pha products associated with it be the sale is only symbolic. Once the Israelites during their years sacrificialsystemcametoanend, raoh. In the course of time, these removed from the house before the holiday is over it is under of bondage in Egypt. two festivals came to be associ and prayer services replaced it. Passover, so it will not even be stood that for some monetary ated withoneanotherandeven seen during the holiday. consideration the transaction is tually merged. to be nullified and that the WHY IS IT NOT PERMISSIBLE TO Passover Preparation WHY ISP ASSOVER OBSERVED FOR chametz once again becomes the MAKE CAKES OUT OF ORDINARY SEVEN DAYS IN ISRAEL, BUT FOR property of the origi nal owner. Saturday, March 26, 1994 FLOUR ON PASSOVER? EIGHT DAYS IN OTHER COUNTRIES? Flour is subject to fermenta WHY ARE FOUR CUPS OF WINE This year, the day before Passover is Shabba t. Because it's Shabbatand the The Bible commands that tion (chametz); it may not be SERVED DURING THE SEDER? first seder comes Sat urday night, there are a number of things to Passover be observed for seven used on Passover. Cakes can be Several explanations have remember when you're preparing for Passover. days. After the exile from Pales made out of matzah-£1our. been offered for this custom. The 1. The home must be completely prepared for Passover prior to tine (in 70 C.E.), when Jews most popular states that the four the Shabbat, and there must be no Passover cleaning, or washing moved and lived in other coun WHY IS MATZOT EATEN ON cupsaredrunk because the Bible PASSOVER? . of chametz dishes for use after Passover. In addition, the prepara tries throughout the world, an uses four different verbs in de tion of seder food, usually done on Passover Eve, must therefore be extra day was added. This addi Matzah is eaten to satisfy the scribing the drama of Redemp done before Shabbat. tion was necessitated by uncer biblical commandment com tion found in the Book of Exo taintyof the calendar. The Jewish memorating the hasty departure 2. The Bidikat Chametz (search for chametz) should be done dus: "I will bring you out of Thursday evening and the charnetz burned on Friday morning. (lunar) calendar was based on of the Children of Israel from Egypt, I will deliver you from theappearanceoftheNew Moon, Egypt: "They took up their their bondage, I will redeem you 3. Matzah should not be eaten on Saturday, March 26. which was officially announced dough before it had time to with an outstretched arm, I will 4. Chametz may be eaten until 9:40 a.m. on Shabbat. after witnesses testified to its ar leaven," Exodus 12:34. take you to Me for a people." a.) All meals for the Shabbat should be prepared kosher for rival. Since errors could easily be Passover in Passover utensils. No chametz foods should be WHY DO SOME JEWS HANG A WHY IS WINE SPILLED FROM THE made, especially in transmission PIECE OF MATZAH ON A WALL IN used for the Sabbath except for the challah (bread) itself. of this information from the CUP WHEN THE TEN PLAGUES THEIR SYNAGOGUES? ARE RECITED? b.) Since challah will be eaten at the Friday evening meal, source in Jerusalem to djstant This custqm prevails in some A small amount of wine is paper plates and plastic eating utensils should be used places in outlying areas, an extra Oriental and European commu spilled from the cup when the and then discarded. day of observance was added to nities. The Bible says, "Seven name of each of the Ten Plagues c.) All crumbs should be carefully collected and flushed Passover in order to avoid pos days shalt thou eat unleavened is recited. It is explained as an down the toilet. sible desecration of the holiday. bread ... to remember the day expression of sorrow for the pain d.) On Shabbat morning, the same procedure should be WHY IS THE FIRSTBORN REQUIRED when thou cometh forth out of suffered by the Egyptians from followed. However, sincechametz may not be ea ten after TO FAST BEFORE PASSOVER? the land of Egypt all the days of each plague. 9:40 a.m., the Shabbat morning meal with challah must be finished before that time. To expedite this, Shabbat services should take place in the very early morning. 5. The Bitul Chametz (prayer nullifying chametz) is said after the morning meal, at 9:40 a.m., and not later than 10:40 a.m. 6. Seudat Shlishis (The third meal on Shabbat) may be fulfilled by eating fruits and vegetables. 7. Preparation of the seder table and meal may start only after the Shabbat is over, 6:40 p.m. Providence time. 8. ln as much as the problems faced in each home vary, the homemaker is advised to seek the guidance of a proper rabbinic authority as to specific problems. · Submitted by Rabbi Yehoshua u:111/er, Director of R.I. Chabad Lubavitch, Providence Happy Passover from all of us at
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Passover Seders Humanistic Jews Celebrate Passover When Humanistic Jews gather for their Passover seders on Around the World March 26, they will honor the human freedom, human courage, and human ingenuity that led their ancestors from the despair of slavery to the dignity of freedom. Unlike traditional seders, which celebrate the biblical story of divine intervention, Humanistic seders honor the human quest for freedom and the spring renewal of the human spirit. In places like New York and Phoenix, Detroit and San Francisco, Boston and Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, Secular and Humanistic Jews will tell the story of the Jews' exodus from Egypt. They will also tell the stor_ies of their grandparents' exodus from Eastern Europe to Israel and the United States in the first half of the 20th century. And they will tell the story of the current exodus ofJews from the former Soviet Union to Israel and the West. They will remember oppression that exists today in much of the world. They will rejoice in the hope that comes with the greening of the earth in spring. And they will affirm their continuing commitment to work toward freedom for all people. "Passover is a time to celebrate the modern, as well as the ancient, quest for freedom," said Miriam Jerris, executi ve director of the Society for Humanistic Judaism. "It has become a celebration of human dignity and of the freedom that makes dignity possible." Humanistic Judaism embraces a human-centered philosophy that combines rational trunking with a celebration of Jewish cul ture and identity. It affirms the power and responsi bility of human beings to shape their own lives independent of supernatural authority. Humanistic Jews value their Jewish identity and the aspects of Jewish culture that offer a genuine expression of their PREPARING FOR PASSOVER - A Russian family learns the customs and symbols of the contemporary way of life. Humanistic Jewish communities cel Passoversederfrom a member of the AmericanJewishJoint Distribution Committee Soviet Union ebrate Jewish holidays and life-cycle events (such as weddings and Team, with holiday items. Approximately 500 Passover kits were sent to schools, synagogues and bar and bat rnitzvah) with inspirational ceremonies that draw organizations in the former Soviet Union that will be sponsoring communal seders. Each kit is upon but go beyond traditional literature. designed to serve 40 people and includes a seder plate, kiddush cup, matzah cover, an audio The Society for Humanistic Judaism is a national organization cassette of Pesach songs and 40 haggadot. Plrotoby Vera Etzio11 founded by RabbiSherwinT. Wine of Detroit in 1969. ltisaffiliated with the Jerusalem-based International Federation of Secular Hu Jewish children in the Czech tribution Committee. They rep manistic Jews. pleted in February, in time to For information, contact Miriam Jerris, 28611 W. 12 Mile Road, and Slovak republics will learn resent only a few of the Pass bake two tons of matzot for Pass Farmington Hills, Ml 48334, (810) 478-7610. "the four questions" from a new over preparations undertaken over. Czech/Hebrew haggadah being by JDC in 1994. Public seders will be held in published in Prague, in time for As the overseas arm of the eight communities in Poland will help the recently recognized erywhere - those overseas trus year's services. Rabbis will American Jewish community, trus year. In each of these com communities of Santiago de whom we help to observe the also be conducting seders in JDC, with funding from the regu munities, the Jewish Religious Cuba, Cienfuegos and Havana holiday appropriately and those Prague and in Bratislava and lar campaigns of the United Jew Community of Poland and the hold their own seders. here at home who make our ac Kosice in Slovakia. ish Appeal, serves Jewish popu local TSKZ (Jewish Socio-Cul Ambassador Milton A. Wolf, tivities possible." Thrty tons of matzot will be lations throughout the world by tural Association) will hold president of the JDC, said, "As Activities of the JDC are funded shipped from Israel to 68 Jewish providing social welfare assis separate or combined seders. we join in celebratiAg the festi In; the regular campaigns of the communities throughout Roma tance and maintaining their reli The Jews in Latin America val of Passover, we send our United Jewish Appeal and Federa nia, and 24 Jewish communities gious and cultural needs. will also hold public seders. JDC greetings to our fellow Jews ev- tions throughou t the United States. will hold public seders through Jewishcommunitiesinplaces out Transylvania, Romanian as diverse as Hungary and Tu Moldavia and the Bucharest area. nisia have come to expect their Jewish communities in the srupmentsof Passover supplies. former Soviet Union will con ButamatzahbakeryinthePenza duct their seders with Passover Synagogue in Russia is new trus kits that include a seder plate, year. After the synagogue was kiddush cup, and audio cassette given back to the Jewish com of holiday songs and 40 munity last December, JDC pro Life Home haggadot. vided half the funds to restore • Each of these activities are the bakery, and the Penza Jew made possible by the work of ish community provided the the American Jewish Joint Dis- rest. Restoration work was com- Auto • Business For All Your Insurance Needs HAPPY PASSOVER FROM
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A Strange Nevv Land: Jevvish Emigrants, Nevvport and Touro Synagogue By Stacey A. Pacheco of power over spiritual matters. An exodus in its' own right, gregati on they fo ll owed the cemetery. They could properly Herald Co-Editor This experience was pro· ships from Rhode Island's busy Sephardic observance. perform three essential func· For over two centuries on a claimed in the colony's Code of ports soon carried Sephardim The Newport Congregation tions of Jewish communal life: quiet street in Newport, li es a Laws of 1647. "These laws are - Jews of Spain and Portugal. turned to the dean of America's Worship, religious instruction small synagogue with genera· Some called Marranos, had be· colo nia l architects, Peter of children and burial in sancti· tionsof memories. It was started come Christian converts to es· Harrison, who volunteered to fied ground. by those who were seeking eter· cape persecution. design their synagogue. Prepared before the days of nal truths in their own particu· Rhode Island's first Jewish Ground was broken in 1759 Passover was matzah, unleav· lar religious ways without h.in· community was founded by a and four years after the laying of ened bread symboli zing the de· drance from the ci vii govern· groupoftheseSephardim. They the cornerstone, the synagogue li verance of the Jewish people ment that embraced all in equal ca me to Newport, perhaps as was ready for dedication. On from ancient Egypt. In Newport harmony - Touro Synagogue. early as 1658,and were accepted. December 2, 1763, Rev. Isaac the Jews were free. On th.is Passover we recog· Soon they formed a congrega· Touro conducted the first spiri· "Still in existence," says nize through Roger Williams, tion according to their religious tual service at Yeshua t Israel - a Touro's Historian Bernie Kusi· founder of the colony that be· tradition. name given by the congregation, nitz, is a matzah board pur· came Rhode Island, who be· At first, unable to build a it was derived from the meaning, chased by the synagogue in the fieved in reli gious liberty. His synagogue, they held religious ''The Sa lvation of Israel." This year 1871. It is made of hard· own banishment from Puritan services in private homes or in historic event was attended by wood and the size is described Massachusetts had convinced rented buildings. In the same Jews and non-Jews ali ke. as larger than a card table; it him that religious intolerance the lawesthatconcerneall men ... manner they provided space to The peak period of Colonial rests upstairs in the Synagogue's was a threat to civil peace and a and otherwise that ... what is educate their children in ways Newport's Jewish communi ty Community Center. barrier against the search for herei n forbidden, all men (and of Judaism. came wi th their new synagogue A few years before the Revo· truth. So he used his influence women) may walk as their con· In 1677 the Newport Jews and their previously acquired lution, the Jewish community in Rhode Island to shape a new sciences persuade them, every· carved a place for themselves kind of civil government, one one in the name of his G-d." when they bought a cemetery plot, their first community project. By 1770, Newport was burst· ing and the Jewish population OUR BEST WISHES FOR A HAPPY contributed to thi s as merchants, AND JOYOUS PASSOVER sh.i ppers, craftsmen and prod uc· ers - they grew as a commu· nity with the city. Throughout the years more Sephardim arrived in Rhode ls· Barrett & Co. land. Along with them came the INVESTMENT SECURITIES AshkanazimJews from Central and Eastern Europe. Theses two Albert J. Benharris groups differ in traditions and Gary S. Siperstein in Europe usually maintained separate congregations. THE WILCOX BUILDING In the 18th century, the vari· 42 WEYBOSSET STREET, PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND The walls of Touro Synagogue hold two centuries of memories ety of Jews of Newport became for the Jewish population. Hera ld File Photo 351-1000 one community and as a con·
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Another exodus for the Though Touro Synagogue strange new land was about to was occasionally used for wor embark upon Newport. ship or special services, it was Reverend Touro had gone to not permanently reopened un Jamaica after the Revolutionary til 1883. By that time the second War and there he died in 1784. exodus occurred as new immi His sons, Abraham and Judah, grants from Central and East made fortunes while nurtured ern Europe had again brought in commercial life by their uncle, Jews to Newport. Moses Hays of {loston. In the 18th century Peter One object of the brothers' Harrison, born in England, ar charity was the Newport syna rived in Newport in 1740 and gogue and Jewish cemetery. became one of the most notable Upon Abraham's death in 1833 architects in mid-18th century he left a $10,000 fund for the America. care and preservation of the His work included Touro synagogue. This money was de Synagogue, built to the specifica scribed as the "Touro Jewish tions adopting the Georgian style Synagogue Fund." Perhaps this of Er:gland with the modifica was the origin of the now com tion to accommodate the monly used name for the build Sephardic ritual. The building ing, Touro Synagogue. faces eastward toward Jerusalem JudahTouro,whodiedin1854, so that worshippers can pray dedicatedanother$10,000forthe looking onward toward their salary of reader or minister to roots. He often referred to the officiate in the synagogue, and synagogue as his masterpiece Touro Synagogue, the first Jewish house of worship in America, reopened its doors in 1883 after also for care of the cemetery. where it stands today in 1994. architect Peter Harrison created his masterpiece of Georgian style. Herald File Photo
pursued commercial ventures celebratedevenduringthattime everlastingly happy." (From withnewvigor.Oneman,Aaron iri history. Washington's letter to the He Lopez, was called the Merchant During a visit to Newport in brew congregation in Newport, Prince of New England. His August 1790, President George dated August 17, 1790). ships and agents were known Washington was presented with Washington's recognition in throughout the trading area of an address from the Newport 1790 came at the end of the event the Atlantic. congregation, prepared by Moses ful history of Newport's earlier Today, located at the syna Seixas, wardenofthesynagogue. Jewish community. A few years gogue is the home of an "origi In return, the president replied: afterward regular services nal bill for bacon and Passover " ... May the children of the ceased and thedoorsofthesyna bread," recalls Kusinitz, a na stock of Abraham, who dwell in gogue closed. Time passed and tiveofNewportand retired from this land, continue to merit and the buildings decayed . the family mom-and-pop busi enjoy the good will of the other When the last survivors of ness. This receipt was a bill to inhabitants' while every one Congregation Yes huat Israel Aaron Lopez fr om a local bak shall sit in safety under his own moved to New York, title to the ery where the goods were pur vine and fi gtree, and there shall Newport synagogue passed into chased, sometime during the be none to make him afraid. May the hands of New York's Con colonial period. "Kosher butch the father of all mercies scatter gregati on Shearith Israel. It ers and bake shops" were in light and not darkness in our seemed that the Newport syna existence back then and now paths, and make us all in our gogue would soon disappear, there is a piece of paper that severa I vocation useful here, and only to merely ponder as a links the idea that Passover was in his own due time and way shadow over the harbor.
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The weather is economicsdelegationinterested numbering as few as 100 Jews) kippah board the bus, quiver at the Bukharan synagogue. threatening Bukhara and, as we in investment in Uzbekistan. As to prepare them for aliyah. ing with emotion. He doesn't There, the "Otief Rabbi" (a arrive in Sammarkand, a bliz the group's leader, I make the Eachoftheseadvisorshascon see us, he sees no one. He mut community leader elected to the zard isblowingthroughthatcity. judgment that it is probably not tracted with our agent, the JAFI, ters, "Baruch h'shem," and he post in 1974), resplendent in a in our best interests to disabuse to make aliyah themselves in not turns his back to us as he stands This is truly a city ofgreat beauty. full handlebar mustache, edu Our first stop is at the Palace them of this notion. Then, as we less than two years. It is antici in the d oorway looking out cates us on a variety of subjects of Avraham Kalandrov, the race to the airport through the pated at the end of this time, each ward, emotion evident in his related to Jews coming to snowdrifts blowing across the of these communities will have body language. We can' t tell ifit magruficent residence of a Jew America, the magruficent 2,500- ish merchant who, according to streets, I am confronted by completely moved to freedom. is anger at having waited so long year history of the BukharanJew the government guide, "do Sammarkand's Jewish commu Now we proceed to the Tash to leave, frustration, or the pure ish community and, ultimately, nated the palace to the govern nal leaders who request our as kent airport for one last time. joy of almost being free, but he the desire for direct flights from mentand then retired to the Jew sistance in getting them suffi Here we have the opportunity personifies for us the emotion Bukhara to Israel. It is a mag ish ghetto." We view the story cient funds for the restoration of to see the olim going through that this trip evokes in all 176 nificent balancing act, recogniz · the communal synagogue, and with appropriate cynicism, ex Uzbeki customs, excited, fear olim. ing that government represen acerbated when, at the far end foreign newspapers that would ful and anxious at one and the The bus leaves for the £lane tatives may be listening. of the home, we enter what is provide some contact with the same time at the prospect of and we see with horror, as we As night falls, we are sponta board, that as the olim mount described as the "assembly outside, free world. uprooting from their present neously invited to a Bukharan room," and note, with its raised We are determined that our Jives to the unknown in Israel. the stairs for their trip to free Jewish wedding where all of the dom, Uzbeki customs officials platform at the far end and its flight will get to Tashkent so we We communicate with the joy of the traditional ceremony balcony above the niches on the can meet up with the olim who olim with smiles. Theluckyones are ripping bags containing the is celebrated out-of-doors in back wall, whatwasclearlyonce will leave that night with us for in our group who speak Yid treasured possessions from our subfreezing conditions which a synagogue, with mechitzah Israel. Yet when we get to the dish are better able to commu new friends, almost indiscrimi have negative impact on the and a now-vanished Torah ark. airport, the winds are howling, nicate. Some of us, in basic He nately, apparently telling them music, the celebration, the ulu snow is blowing, and we fear an that they are allowed but one Then it is off to the Askhenazi brew, speak to welcoming ears. lating and the costume. Synagogue where we are enter extended delay. Our fears are We attempt to reassure those piece of hand luggage. Now we are off to a Bukharan tained and moved by a beauti not realized. The plane takes off who appear the most fearful, There is a sad impotency to Jewish merchant's home for din and we admire their courage. their rage and ours, but we are ful children's choir presentation, and struggles for altitude. We ner. In a magruficent house, we worry now about landing in Children are children - they leaving together. The three dogs, singing songs of our people and dine on shish-kebob with assur Tashkent. race through the airport, throw treasured pets of Uzbeki fami songs of Uzbekistan, secure in ances that the grilled lamb that the knowledge that within two ing each other around, no fear, lies who thought they could be Back to Tashkent no worries. Some of them speak brought onto the planes, are weareeatingwaskosherslaugh years they will have made new and the Olim taken from their owners and tered that day by the local homes in Israel. English and we qvell. schachet. With fear and trepida We arrive safely in Tashkent thrown in their boxes into the tion, we dive in. When.the great A Bizarre Luncheon and travel through empty streets Homeward-Bound: bowel of the plane next to the meal finished, we returned to our Our schedule is then inter to attend a remarkable meeting Cold Farewell from luggage compa rtment. The rooms, most of us lying frozen to rupted with a forced municipal convened by the Jewish Agency Uzbekistan families are beside themselves our beds in rooms with tempera- luncheon where the mayor of of "Regional Aliyah Advisors" Now we go to board the worrying that their dogs will . tu~es hovering around freezing. Sammarkand and- the deputy - newly hired Jewish commu- plane. We can clearly see the not survive the fl ight. proud script of "El Al" in the Finally, we are aboard some familiar blue and white letter fourhours late,andwetakeoffto . ing and we know that we, and great cheers as the safety film is' the olim, are almost home. It is, played, with English and Hebrew BEST WISHES as it always seems to be in the narration and Russian subtitles. FOR A Passover Tashkent winter, dark and freez- (Continued on Next Page) Greetings ~ II Best Wishes for a FROM In Memory Of Joyous Passover LINCOLN CHAFEE Aaron J. Oster MAYOR OF WARWICK Jeanne Stein and the . Party Warehouse Staff 310 East Avenue Happy Passover Pawtucket, Rhode Island from Best Wishes for Passover IJNITED SURGICAL CENTERS and its employees 380 Worwick Avenue, Warwick, RI 02888 781 -2166 846-3400. "Headquarters For All Your Home Health Care Needs" MEMBER FDIC ..' PASSOVER ISSUE THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1994 • A9 Passover Seders at the Jewish Ho"1e for the Aged PHOTOS FROM THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Modern Exodus our reward as participants in have seen the fulfillment of the to complete the Operation Exo Richard Wexler, a partner and Operation Exodus. There could promises that we made when we dus campaign. real estate attorney in a Chicago law (Continued from Previous Page) be no greater reward for us than stood on the Capitol Mall in We ha ve seen the miracle that finn, is also chaim1an of both the to have been with them at their we have helped to create. At the National Conference on Soviet Jewry Arrival in the Homeland: Washington in December 1987, departure, on their arrival. and demanded: "Let My People Passover seder tables of the 45 and the Jewish Community Rela The Exodus Ends in Israel Laterthisdaywewillseesome Go." Wehad promised that when Jews from across North Amer tions Co uncil of the Jewish United Israel, 3:00 a.m. Three time of the absorption success real our people found freedom, we ica, who participated in this Fund of Chicago. Mr. Wexler is im zones to the west, but in reality ized in Israel by the Jewish would be there to help them. mission, we will relate the Exo mediate past president of the Jewish a whole new world away from Agency, but it is this moment And so we have ... and so we dus that we saw in 1994 to the Un ited Fund and the Jewish Federa Uzbekistan. The 5-1/2 hour that brings it all home to us - must be as we conclude this Exodus that Moses led to our tion of Metropolitan Chicago. He flight ends. Our mission races and the tears of joy of these little wonderful chapter in Jewish people's freedom. has served in leadership roles in the down the El Al stairs so that we kids when they see that their dogs history; as we raise an additional We are all much richer for Council of Jewish Federations and can be ahead of these new Is are alive and, well, new olim too. $400 million by May of this year our participation. 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AGE7 AGE5 Rachel Cooper Dinosaurs Made Passover THE PASSOVER STORY STONY LANE Passover passes the chickens 3, AGE1O Passover is a day to be happy and passes Ji ttle chi ckie babies, because we're not slaves in and chickies go buck, buck, 1ST PLACE PASSOVER 1ST PLACE Egypt any more. buck, buck Passover is coming in three days. I know why they named this I want it to be a hockey puck. Mordechai Shafran Start cleaning quick before holiday Passover. Hockey stick. Sit! PROVIDENCE HEBREW DAY SC HOOL time is up, Tehilla Shafran Because the angel of death AGE9 Buy new foo ds and take the PROVIDENCE HEBREW DAY SCHOOL passed HONORABLE old out. AGE7 I love Pesach. over all the Jewish houses. In MENTION The holiday of the spring Be very ca reful in cl eaning the Pesach will come the fi rst lots of simchah house. and we'll have lots plague you might, not thi nk this holiday will bring. You ask why? of fun singing and it's so bad Eli Nissel Togetthecrumbsout, that'swhy! dancing and playing much even though it's blood, PROVID ENCE HEBREW DAY SCHOOL Why do we have Pesach? Two days past one more day left, more and at the seder wine but can you imagine brushing AGE5 ~~-~ this is the reason why So hurry up time is running out, cups of fo ur matza we bake your teeth I get d ressed Hashem took us out of Mitzrayim Wash the dishes and the fl oor, the afi koman we take with a glass of blood? fo r Pesach wi th a hand so high. You fi nished your work, no1;¥ we'll hide it and find it Do you think the seder is a l ask my Mommy, On Pesach we d rink go to sleep. and we'll get a prize good way "Is it the seder?" fo ur cups of wine. Passover is here, it's time fo r for that afikoman to celebrate Passover? No, the In a house so clean, seder, that did not rise I do. I absolutely do! seder's later! in which everything wi ll shine. Be sure to hide the afikomen! 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''We'll eat, have fun, and go to shul fo r prayi ng, "MY REFLECTION OF My Very Favorite Holiday The Cup of Elijah is fu ll of wine, We'll get a week off from school, PASSOVER" PESACH! It's on the seder table when we dine. Thi s vacation is just so cool! " My favorite Passover song is Dayen u, But we must reali ze that's not the way it should be, When I first learned of Everyone says the 4 questions, too. We were saved from Parah the Mitzri. Passover, 8 days is how long this holiday lasts, Moshe took us out, and Hashem split the sea, many years ago Each day we think about the Past. But we are still in exile, every Jew, you and me. I knew that the Israelites When fo r 40 years Moses led the Jews Now you know the real mea ning, what Pesach is fo r, crossed the Red Sea, from Egypt through sand, And therefore you ca n enjoy it even more. All this seemed hazy, And wound up in the Promised La nd. as refl ecting upon the past attempting to remember 3RD HONORABLE MENTION the sedarim - PLACE how long they last. Dina Krakowski Thi s thought, now, appears to be clear, Abbey PROVI DENCE HE6REW DAY SC HOOL AGE 13 and no longer will the HONORABLE Weintraub sedarim TEMPLE TORAT YISRAEL Pain Surely you have was the firs t to go be thought of as "how MENTION AGE 11 fe lt this so maybe into the Red Sea. long will it last" you can understand Happiness is fe lt by every Jew but of remembrance of Shmuel Gold LET MY PEOPLE GO Egypt held our on Pesach because we our past! Passover is a time of year, to celebrate ancestors in bond are proud of our ancestors PROVIDENCE HE6REW DAY SCHOO L our free ness and fear. age who were so Herald Photos on Pages 10 AG E 10 G-d split the Red Sea you know, to let Suffering but strong, stro ng and so brave. & 11 by Stacey A. Pacheco Pesach all my people go. they made their We ea t a lot Before Pharoah let the Jews leave, G-d way through. Find the afekomen told Ki ll all the Jewish Seder makes me feel like a king Moses through a burning bush to tell males Pharaoh Pesach Pharoah couldn' t do HAPPY Slavery What he would receive. Anger was directed at The Jews were slaves Then the first plague hit, which was him by Hashem PASSOVER To the bad Egyptians. dam, blood, that became a huge fl ood. Courage was shown Because of Hashem's The rest of the story you will read later, by Nachshon ben from miracles .. . You' ll find it out at the First Sedar! Aminadav when he Freedom Jill and Steve Sholes HAPPY PASSOVER FROM of Warwick Best Wishes for a JOYOUS PASSOVER DORIC DAY SCHOOL NURSERY & KINDERGARTEN THE 145 PONTIAC AVENUE , CRANSTON 02910 • 941-6051 MEADOWBROOK A CCREDITED B Y R.I. 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The plates have 5 different Mrs. Blumenthal, Mrs. Shafner, Moses and the Jews were like Sherman. sections for 5 different foods. and Mrs. Kaun(er, we have been Harriet Tubman and the black The pages are exquis To make a studyingabouttheExodusfrom slaves of the American South. itely detailed with a , ~ seder plate, you Egypt. In the past month or so, Harriet Tubman helped the whimsical touch by Sher - "' ·.. have to use we have been learning about man (who was inspired ''"-'~- con.:' special paper. the Israelites who were enslaved by the haggadahs of the ,.·· ··. The paper is in Egypt and the birth of Moses. Middle Ages), depicting '/0 ·very thin so you Eventually, G- Dupuis Oil Company 208 Wayland Avenue 401 Walcott Street, Pawtucket, R.I. Wayland Square "----- 722-0080 Providence -~ 421-2712 Abotfae HEATI NG INSTALLATI ON • FUEL OIL • lul:a,dt.... M ike Rufful, Proprietor -~..._ -~ PASSOVER -~ SHALOM! 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Jewish Education Library sion of the video, The Four Sons: For just plain fun, with a little has a vast array of Pass A Guide to Passover, teaching learning thrown in, we recom over materials for celebra about the significance of Pass mend: tion of the holiday. Below over and the preparation of the • The30-minutevideo,Jerusa is just a sampling. Passover seder. lem Jones and the Lost Afikoman, Help in planning and To learn the history of the one of the Shalom Sesame Series preparing for a seder in Passover celebration through which combines adventure with cludes: the ages, we recommend: information about Passover. • A 13-page write-in • The 30-rninute video, Pass • The 42-minute video, Pass booklet Making Pesah: over History, narrated by Ed over at Bubbe's for children ages Passover Incentive Project Asner and filled with stunning 4 to 7, which uses puppets to tell for Kids and Their Families, artifacts from all periods of his the history and traditions of written by BJE's Educa tory. Passover. tional Services Coordina • The book, Haggadah and • Dozens of children's pic lor, Minna Ellison and History, by Yosef Yerushalmi, a ture books, including the Carp in available for purchase at beautifully illustrated study of the Bathtub, by Barbara Cohen, the Bureau ofJewi sh Edu Passover haggadot through the The Mouse in the Matzah Factory, cation for $5. ages. by David Goldstein, Only Nice • Bright-colored pages· This poster, put out by the Bureau of Education on behalf of Soviet • Thebook,A Feast of History: Chairs, a Tall Tale for Passover, by help children and their Jewry, illustrates the route of exodus out of Russia. Although the BJE no The Drama of Passover Through Deborah Miller and a number families learn about the longer has any copies, other wonderful educational items for Passover the Ages by Chaim Raphael, of heavy board books for the preparation for the holi- are listed on this page. which contains both the Hebrew very young child. day,theorderoftheseder, ------ the symbols on the seder plate, the four questions, the giv ment of children in the rituals. a four-page exercise enabling MR. and MRS. ing of tzedakah. • The four-page pamphlet, children to read and compre IRVING A. ACKERMAN • The 15-minute video, The 15 Steps to Freedom, by Joel Lurie hend the four questions. Joy of Passover: How to Create the Grishaver, which explains the Numerous haggadot, some and family Passover Seder You'll Never For meaningofeachstepofthePass with cassette tapes, for all ages. Wish all their Relatives and get, gives step-by-step instruc over seder. The Animated Haggadah , a tions and includes a booklet of • Mastering the Four Questions, book using beautiful clay ani- Friends a customs and recipes. Happy and Healthy Passover • The 30-minute video, Ev- eryday/Holiday, Preparing for Passover, using the Sesame Street approach to emphasize family Joyous Possovur Grootings preparation for Passover. PASSOVER GREETINGS • The book and workbook, FROM The Passover Seder, by Ron Wolf son with Joel Lurie Grishaver, TEMPLE AM DAVID which gives the history and con 40 GARDINER STREET, W ARWICK 463-7944 OD EAST SIDE cepts of each step of the seder, NECHAMA D. GOLDBERG , RABBI ~ PRESCRIPTION as well as all of the blessings and ETHAN ADLER, R ELIG IOUS SCHOOL DIRECTOR songs. 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Pacheco who have kept alive the vision burning buildingsofEuropeand Michael Lerner, editor of Tik From generation to genera Herald Co-Editor of freedom inherent in the Pass unintentionally landed on the kun, wrote the supplement in the tion, family stories and experi In 1994, Jews from many lands over story. We proudly affirm backs of Palestinians. We did March/ April 1994 issue to in ences live as they are handed will read from thehaggadahdur that we are the descendants of not intend to hurt them, and clude readings during parts of down from great-grandparents ing Passover. SomeJew s will also slaves- the first group of slaves when we did hurt them we the seder. He was born in 1943 to grandparents to parents to do something a little different in recorded history ever to wage couldn't hear their cry of pain and shaped by the experiences of child. this year - they will add their a successful rebellion against their because our pain was so much the Jewish people in that year. The branchesoflife hold eter own updated remembrances slave-holders. Ours was the first greater. For the next 46 years, You may choose to recall or nal memories rooted to fa mi during the seder. historical national liberation we denied their existence be re-create family stories or other lies, as we must remember the The following is adapted struggle, and the prototype of cause we had such trouble rec times in history to include. dur past and never forget nor allow from the liberal Jewish Maga manystrugglesthatothernations ognizing that we had uninten ing your seder. our children or children's chil zine Tikkun, which includes a tionally hurt them, and because Perhaps you have something dren to forget - lest it happen Passover Haggadah Supple our own painstillremajned cen to add to the section when you again - to the Jewish popula ment for 1994. The branches of life hold tral in our consciousness. But dip the parsley or greens of the tion or any other culture. Ever since Rabbi Akiba used eternal memories rooted now, the State oflsrael has taken earth in the salt water or an idea Passover is the holiday of the seder to plan a revolution the courageous step of recog toconveyina personal message freedom-as it is written, so it is ary struggle against the Romans, to families nizing the existence of the Pal before reciting the Ten Plagues. done. theJews have used theseder as estinian people and its legiti a time to grapple with their cur would wage against those who mate rights. rent reality. They have used the oppressed them. "We can not shut our ears to haggadah not as a sacred text, "We a re proud that our the cries of pain from Bosnia. The Lessons of Passover but as an inspiration to address people has clung to its vision of We 'Jews have often shouted by Cindy Halpern What is this awesome respon their own reality and to imagine itself as a slave people and has "ne'ver again." Although there What should Passover sym sibility that we as Jews have and concretely how to change it. It insisted on telling its story of ar¢ relevant differences between bolize to those of us fortunate must continue to undertake? is in this spirit that you are liberation as the central found tl,e Holocaust and ethnic cleans enough to have achieved self One only has to sit at the seder encouraged to make any seder ing event around which its cul i i;ig in Bosnia, the slaughter there determi nation in our own ljves? table to find the answer: you attend a lively and spirited ture was built. is outrageous and a violation of As slaves in the land of As we taste bitter herbs not occasion. "We celebrate tonight the the image of G- Passover Tastes and Traditions by Joan Nathan four cups of wine represent the They also refrain from len nual seder for over 40 people elude the following symbolic Excerpt from Jewish Cooking in fourdivinepromisesofredemp tils, chick-peas and other dried each year. Mrs. Goldberg would foods: lmerica, Alfred A. Knopf, publisher tion by G-d showing them the beans that either rise or ferment prepare a freedom haggadah KARPAS. Celery, parsley, or Even the most assimilated way out of Egypt. when mixed with water. and everyone sang labor songs. chervi, to be dipped in salt wa \merican Jewish family cel To my mind, haroset, the last Just as each civilization has "We moved the furniture out to ter, recalls the "60 myriads" of ~brates the ancient home festi- symbolic food, represents not left its mark on the Passover the garage and set up chairs in Israelites oppressed with diffi 1al of Passover in one form or only the mortar with which the seder, so has America. We are side," said the Justice shortly cult labor and is also symbolic mother. Most Jews remove all Israelites, as slaves, used in the first with packaged foods to before his death. "The story of of rebirth in the springtime. leavening from their homes and building Raamses and Pithom makecookingmoreconvenient. the Exodus is the longest strike ZEROA. The roasted shank ea t only matzah for eight days. in Egypt, it also shows the di This country probably has more in history." bone is symbolic of the pascal A reading of the Haggadah versity of the Jewish people. varied Passover observations bthersedersareequallywon sacrifice in theTempleinJerusa - a narration of the Exodus - than any country but Israel. derful. There are neighborhood lem and of the miracle when is a central part of the first (and No matter how assimilated community seders where a new G-d passed over the Jewish second) nights of Passover and Haroset represents not American Jews have become, cooperative haggadah is made houses and slew the firstborn of takes place in homes. While any most have attended or regularly each year. There are gay seders, Egypt. Before the last plague, scholars of biblical history feel only the mortar with attend a Passover seder. lesbian seders, singles seders. the Israelites were told to smear that the fi rst seder was cel which the Israelites, as Whereas in the old country, it There is a seder for Trappist the blood of a lamb on the door ebrated in Egypt in anticipation slaves, used in building ... was a family event with few monks led by a rabbi. post of their houses, so that the of the exodus, elements of the outsiders, the American way of A tour home-seder, which we Angel of Death would passover Passover seder spring out of it also shows the diversity life has created extended and have been holding for the past their homes. agricultural festivals and cus of the Jewish people. combined family seders, each 10 years, we include about 25 BETZAH. The roasted egg rep toms of the day. with a character of its own. familymembersand friends. Ev resents the festival sacrifice Originally it was a nature fes Certainly there are still fami eryone contributes a dish and brought to the Temple and is a tival, with a roasted sheep or With the dispersion of Jews lies like the Smelkinsons of Bal the children, between the main symbol of both fertility in the goat as the central food. "And throughout the world there timore, Maryland, who have course and the dessert, prepare spring and mourning for the they shall eat the flesh in that must be 70 variations of the been holding an ever-growing a play for us on the story of destroyed Temple. night, roast with fire, and un harosets with new ones being family seder for the past 30 Passover. MAROR. Horseradish or ro leavened bread; with bitter created every year in America years with, at last count, 90 rel For me, despite all the work maine are the bitter herbs recall herbs they shall eat it." Exodus by our Jewish superstar chefs. atives. Jackie Smelkinson, with entai led in preparing my house ing the bitterness of slavery in 12:8. Centuries later, the peas Regionaldjspersalshavealso a battalion of family volunteers, and themeal, itisalwaysamong Egypt. ants of Israel had a spring grain created differences in the foods makes the meal, from scratch our year's most memorable HAROSET. The fruit and nut observance, the Festival of Un that were eaten. Although and includes old family recipes· evenings. mixture symbolizes the bricks leavened Bread where the un Sephardim eat all vegetables for gefilte fish, harosets, and One of the essentials of the and mortar with which the Jews leavened matzah was served. and some even eat rice at Pass matzah balls. seder is the plate that must in- worked as slaves. 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All dishes, u ten tribute to how Jews readings from the prophets and charoset and lettuce. sils and foods that are not ko sing "Let My People Go." Other Another familiar sight is a tall Grate the apples and mea sher for Pesach are put away grabbed bread before it families change the custom of cup of wine for the most wel sure 1 cup of grated apple into a it's pre-Passover clean-up time. could rise and ran out of having the seder leader hide the comed guest - the prophet bowl. Add the nuts and cinna The house must be sparsely Egypt to find freedom. afikomen; instead the children Elijah. According to tradition, mon and mix. Slowly add clean in time for the seder- the hide it and theadultshuntforit. Elijah visitseachsederand takes enough _wine to hold the mix special meal where the story of When everybody gathers a sip of wine. When the time ture together:_ usually 2 table Passover is told. 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SATURDAY 9- 1 A18 • THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1994 PASSOVER ISSUE ,1' ,I Healthy Passover Recipes During the exodus from apples with wine, represents the "l substituted egg whites for l . In a large bowl, combine all vegetable oil spray for pan Egypt, the Jews had no time to clay used by the Jews to make whole eggs, poultry for beef and of the ingredients. Marinate 1 tbsp. matzah meal bake bread and therefore were bricks under Pharaoh's enslave I recommend using skinless overnight. Preheat oven to 350°. onlyabletoeatunleavened bread. ment; karpas, a vegetable such as chicken which cuts down con 2. One hour before you begin 1. Drain spinach in a colan Thus, no chametz, foods that con celery or parsley dipped in salt siderably on fat. The changes I to cook, remove the marinating der; squeeze out any extra wa tain leavening, can be eaten dur water, suggests the tears shed by made are subtle enough not to chicken and vegetables from the ter and set aside in a large bowl. ing Passover. The foods served at theancientJewsduringtheircap affect taste, but they significantly refrigerator and bring to room 2. In a skillet, saute the leeks thesederand throughoutthenine tivity; and zeroa, a piece of roast reduce the fa tand cholesterol lev temperature. and/or onions in oi l until soft. days of Passover are dictated by meat or chicken neck, symbol els," she says. "In addition, these 3. Preheat oven to 375°. Place Remove from heat and add to these dietary laws. A plate is pre izes the Paschal sacrifice made recipes will provide interesting chicken and vegetables in a drained spinach. pared that holds six symbolic on the night of flight from Egypt. meal options for Passover." single layer into a large 2" deep 3. In the work bowl of a food foods: matzah, unleavened Along with these symboli c roasting pan (a n oven-to-table processor fitted with a metal bread; maror, or bitter herbs such foods, most Passover celebra ROAST CHICKEN WITH FENNEL ANO TOMATOES dish works well). blade, chop the herbs, add the 2 as horseradish and romaine let tions include main courses that 4. Place in oven and roast 45 whole eggs, salt, pepper and tuce, signify the cruel suffering are laden with fat and choles SERVES 8 2 chickens, cut in eighths, skin minutes. Garnish with addi nutmeg. Process for 2 minutes. of the Jews in ancient Egypt; terol. Katja Goldman, Empire's removed tional parsley and serve. Scrape down sides, pulse chop beitzo, a hard-boiled egg, com official chef and recipe devel until greens are specks. Pour 6 cloves garlic, crushed M ATZAH S PI NACH K UGEL memorates the festiva l sacrifice oper, has created recipes that into the spinach mixture. 2 tbsp. full-flavored olive oil MAKES ONE. 9-INCH ROUND at the Temple in Jerusa lem; reduce fat and cholesterol lev 4. Mix in matzah farfel. 1 tsp. crushed fennel seeds KUGEL charoset, a paste of walnuts and els but maintai n their good taste. 5. Beat egg whites, fold into 1/2 cup fresh squeezed lemon juice 2 10-oz. boxes of frozen chopped 4 bay leaves spinach, defrosted mixture. salt and pepper to taste 2 cups chopped leek (white part 6. Spray pan with oi l, dust Sol and Miriam Selinker 4 fresh fennel bulbs ( removed only) or chopped onions lightly wi th matzah meal. fronds , set aside), cut in eighths 1 tbsp. vegetable oil 7. Pour mixture into pan and bake at 350° for 45 minutes. and JERRY SCHNEIDER of 2 large onions, peeled, sliced very 6 egg whites 8. Cut into wedges and serve. 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In a nother shallow bowl, tions of world class varietal se microclimate. rich, almost spicy aroma. Full 1992 CHARDONNAY, BARON whisk egg whites until light in lections, are featured in leading Three popular selections in bodied, yet delicate, the wine is EDMOND DE ROTHSCHILD: One of color. Dip chicken breast pieces retail shops just in time for particular clearly demonstrate ideal as an aperitif or sipping the shining jewels in the historic in egg whites, then dredge in seder celebrations from Maine the quality breadth of Carmel's wine. It will enhance a myriad Carmel Rothschild series, this is matzah meal. Place in lightly to California. wines in all styles and price number of foods such as a classic rendition of the world's oiled baked dish (9x12); lightly The wines faithfully con ranges. Each underscores the poached fish, li ghtly sauced most prized white table wine. spray one side of breasts with forms to all religious regulations seder dining experience with chicken, salads and mild cheese The grapes come from Carmel's oil and place in 400° oven for 3 of Kosher wine making. Yet particular flavors and taste selections. Carmel's White most prized vi neyard proper minutes. Remove from oven and these new style wines staunchly characteristics. Zinfandel is semi-dry. Its finish ties. The emerald, gold color is turn oven down to 350°. mirror the extraordinary shift 1993 WHITE ZINFANDEL: This is clean and brisk. herald to the full-bodied aroma 3. In a large skillet, saute gar in the tastes and habits of a new delightful, fruity wine, native to 1990 CABER ET 5AUVIGNON: and crisp finish of this noble lic and onions in olive oil until generation of consumers. California, has found a new Another of Carmel's popular table wine. It can be served with the onions are translucent. Add These are "food wines," vini- home in Carmel's Vineyards' priced wines, this easily ap complete assurance, harmoniz mushrooms and saute for3 min proachablered tablewinecomes ing with a wide range of foods. utes. With a slotted spoon, re from the Valley vineyards that A sophisticated blend and un move mushrooms and spoon 1. In a large bowl, whisk to sired.Spoon mixture onto a large stretch almost the entire length derlying strength make it a uni over breast. With remaining gether oil, broth, eggs and egg flat plate. Holding the plate in of Israel. The lengthy growing versal food wine. juices still in the skillet, return whites, salt, pepper and ginger. one hand and a blunt knife in the skillet to the flame, pour in Stir in grated onion, dill and the other, cut teaspoon-size sherry, stock, orange juice a nd matzah meal. Cover. Refriger pieces of dough into the water. paprika. Simmer for 3 to 5 min ate overnight or for a few hours. 3.Simmer for 20 minutes. 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A20 • lHE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1994 PASSOVER ISSUE Fifty Years Ago: Passover in the R.I. Jevvish Herald EXCERPTS FROM THE RHODE lsLAND J EWISH H ERALD April 7 through April 28, 1944 JERUSALEM - A consign ment of eight tons of matzah was dispatched by Jewish Pal estine, in route to liberal Italy and will reach them well before Passover. ALGIERS-The Jewish com munities of North Africa are planning to hold special Pass over services for thousands of FIRST SEDER AT MIRIAM HOSPITAL, APRIL 8, 1944: This Jewish soldiers serving in the picture was taken at the start of the Seder. In the upper left allied forces. portion of the photograph are Maurice Stollerman, super intendent of the Hospital, and Alter Boyman, vice-president. RHODE ISLAND - In re sponse to therequestof theSyna- FROM THE RHODE ISLAND J EWISH HERALD, APRIL 14, 1944: gogue Council of America, the "A Holiday Spirit At Miriam Hospital" Selective Service System will permit registrants of the Jewish by Alter Boyman watching Mr. M sitting in the faith to appear for pre-induc Truthfully speaking, when I was King's chair (Melech), you could tion physical examination or for told by Mr. Stollerman on last see for yourself that the holiday induction before or after the Thursday afternoon that he was spirit was created. The group of week of April 8 to 15, 1944, in planning to have a Seder in the patients that attended the Seder order to enable them to observe ward for Jewish patients who were forgot all their ailments, for the Passover holidays with their able to attend, I was doubtful if it moment at least, and the spirit of families. would be possible to change the joy prevailed. When Mr. Tasked RHODE ISLAND - Paul J. atmosphere of a floor full with sick the Four Questions, you could see Robin, chairman of the Provi patients to that of a holiday spirit. he felt, at the time, like a real Prince, dence Army and Navy Com As soon as I entered the hospital even if he wore the bathrobe;and so mittee of the Jewish Welfare Friday afternoon about 5 o'clock, felt the other patients. Board announced that arrange however, for which time the Seder /t was interesting to see the pleas ments for Passover will include was scheduled, I noticed a change ant smile on the face of Mr. homeseders for servicemen and in the entire atmosphere; everyone Stollerman, the group of nurses "Hundreds oft housands oflewish servicemen and women abserved women. was busy with one or another prepa and the dietitian for being success the Passover in the camps and battlefields of the world. These RHODE ISLAND- The Jew ration to make it as pleasant as fu l in creating a joyful hour and a photographs are among the first to arrive at the office of the ish Community Center will possible. When I stepped into the holiday spirit. National Jewish Welfare Board, which supervises all military and sponsor a Passover service and male ward and saw the way the Once more I have learned how naval Jewish religious services and provides religio11s material." dinner for servicemen and table was set and the patients sit true is the saying that "where the!e women on April 8, 1944. ting around the table, especially is a will there is a way." Maurice Glicksman, Ph.D. Chairman Steven D. Baron President The Miriam Hospital Our Heritage is staffextends to all its Quality Health Care friends warm wishes for a Joyous Passover. THE MIRIAM HOSPITAL Amajorteaching affiliateof the Brow n University School of Medicine 164 Summit Avenue, Providence, Rhod e Island 02906 11111:*1*********'**•1**5-DIGIT 02906 241 1/31/75 ik u~ n.I. JEWIS}l HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 130 SESGIONS ST. PROVIDENCE. RI 02906 Rhode Island Jewish Passover Issue HERALD SPECIAL SECTION The Only English-Jewish Weekly in Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts VOLUME LXIV, NUMBER 18 NISAN 12, 5754 /THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1994 35t PER COPY Soldiers' Accounts on Hebron Contradict Israeli Army Version by Dvorah Getzler According to officials with JERUSALEM (JTA) -Two the Israel Defense Force, Israeli soldiers who were on Goldstein had acted alone. guard duty at the Tomb of the Army investigators, who Patriarchs on the day Baruch had found shell casings on the Goldstein murdered at least 29 floor of the mosque after the Palestinians have come forward killings, said all the casings withtestimonythatcontradicts had come from an Israeli-made the Israeli army version of what Gali! assault rifle. No shells took place on Feb. 25. •from an M-16, an American "We saw (Goldstein) with made weapon, were found at anM-16," Sgt.KobiYoseftold the scene. University Exchange Program Agreement the official commission investi The two soldiers further tes BEER-SHEY A, Israel - An exchange program agreement between Ben-Gurion University of gating the ki llings at the Hebron tifi ed that they had fired to the Negev and the University of Massachusetts was recently signed. The signing was witnessed mosque. ward the crowd of Muslim by Massachusetts Governor William R. Weld, who was leading a trade mission to Israel. "About five minutes after worshipers thatcamestamped The agreement will enable students and faculty from BGU's campuses in Beer-Sheva and Sde him, another man entered with i ng ,from the mosque after Boker and from U. Mass.'s five-campus system to study, teach and collaborate in research at their a Gali! (assault rifle) strapped Goldstein opened fire. counterpart institutions. It is an expansion of an existing program between the U. Mass. Medical against his body," Yosef said. Drori testified that he shot School in Worcester and BGU's community-oriented medical school, which has been supported His testimony, was sup three or four times, and Yosef by the Fredenck Krupp Foundation for Medical Education. ported by Pvt. Nir Drori who, said he fired one bullet. Both along with Yosef, had been po denied that their fire had struck At the signing ceremony, Governor Weld accepted a gift book on Israel from BGU President any worshipers. Dr. Avishay Braverman. Also present (from left to right) were Albert Sherman, vice chancellor for sitioned atone of the gates lead The soldiers said they had University Relations, Dr. Aaron Lazare, Dr. Peter Cressy and BGU Rector Dov Babat. ing into the mosque on the day of the killings. feared for their lives, believing a Theirstatements directlycon Palestinian was shooting inside tradicted the official army ac the mosque. Their gunfire, they counts, and provided some sup stated, had been intended to stop French Minister Refuses to port to statements by Palestin the worshipers from pouring out ians that more than one man had of the mosque. Reschedule Passover Vote been involved in the shooting. (Continued on page 5) by Michel Di Paz make exceptions," Pasqua stated. the stance of French Orthodox PARIS (JTA) - Jn a situation Sitruksubsequentlyissued the Jews, but he nonetheless re highlighting the tension be call in the Tribune Juive £or French mained firm about the date of tween religious belief and na Jews to refrain from voting. the municipal elections. tional rights, France's chief rabbi A similar situation recently The French interior minister and the country's interior min surfaced in Italy, where general has recently been attempting to ister are at loggerheads over the elections had been scheduled limittheinfluenceoffundamen timing of municipal elections, for the same day. The Italian talism among the country's which fall on the first day of government later decided to ex Muslim community, and appar Passover. tend voting byadaytotakeinto ently he wished to keep his secu After Interior Minister Charles consideration the religious larist stance consistent when it Pasqua refused to accommodate needs of the country's small came to the country's Jewish religious Jews, who cannot vote Jewish community. constituency. ona religiousholiday,ChiefRabbi Pasqua said he understood (Continued on page 12) Joseph Sitruk issued a call in the Jewish weekly Tribune Juive that French Jews should not vote in the March 27 elections. 'We Accept Every Jew' "We had sought a special ar by Alison Smith worked for the agency in South rangement," Sitruk announced Herald Co-Editor Africa and Rome, and traveled in the newspaper. "But if the Jonathan Davis is the Jewish in the former Soviet Union. date cannot be changed, then it Agency for Israel's aliyah direc It is Davis' job, and his goal, is regrettably my duty to call on tor of the Department of Mu to encourage Jews in other coun Jews to not vote on this particu nicipal and Settlement Projects tries to move to Israel, and to larly important day of the Jew in Israel. He is currently visiting facilitate their settlement and ish calendar." the United States, and the Her absorption when they get there. But his words were slightly ald was able to interview him on His particular interest right now changed in French newspaper March 16 at the Jewish Commu is with those Jews still living in accounts and appeared to flout nity Center of Rhode Island. the former Soviet Union. French law. Born in the United Kingdom, When he was asked if the Sitruk had previously asked raised in the United States, edu aliyah realized ahead of time how Pasqua if observant Jews could cated at Columbia University difficult settlement could be, at vote by mail or be exempt from a nd the Jewish Theological least initially, he said they were signing the attendance sheet at Seminary, Hebrew University fully aware of the realities. They the polling station. and Tel Aviv University, Davis talk and correspond with fami But Pasqua, a staunch secu has the bearing and confidence lies and friends who have gone larist, said this was not possible. of someone at home wherever before them, they read Israeli "There is no state religion in he lands. newspapers, and listen to radio France, where freedom of wor H e has served as a para broadcasts from Israel. Jonathan Davis, Jewish Agency for Israel's Aliyah Director. ship is absolute, but we cannot trooper in the Israeli army, (Continued on page 3) 2 ti-ti, RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1994 INSIDE THE OCEAN STATE Local Group Represents R.I. Operation Clean Govern zens may introduce statutory ment asks ... why aren't voters legislation or constitutional of this state able, when neces amendments. The carefully \.~ s~ sary, to shape their own legisla constructed process is accom ;:jNEWS~ tion dealing with the issues of plished by the collection of substance that concern them enough signatures on a petition e> BRIEFS b:'.-, and the future of Rhode Island? to equal a specific percentage of ~ Would you like to prevent ex the total votes cast for governor cessive taxation? Reform the in the previous general elec state pension system? Have the tion. The legislation or amend right to recall elected officials? ment will then appear on the March 24 through spring - Limit and define the powers of ballot in the next general elec Roger Williams Park Zoo state government? Eliminate tion for overall voter approval needs "Dinoguides" to bonding that does not have or rejection. staff dinosaur exhibit start voter approval? 1 The Voter Initiative legisla ' { ing May 14. Volunteers The ability to accomplish tion that is supported by Oper r :. - will work 12 hours a these is available through Voter ation Clean Government was month, or more, helping Initiative. Rhode Islanders drafted after an extensive and First Day of Spring public enjoy and under need to bring issues to the elec careful study of legislation The ice is leaving the pond, at last, at the Audubon Powder stand the exhibit. Call 785- torate, and to send clear mes which currently exists in 23 Ledge Refuge, off Route 44 in Smithfield. A 15- to 20-minute 3510 for details. sages to the legislature that in states. This study was done by easy-walking trail winds past the pond. . .. effectiveness and failure to GAP (Government Account Herald photo by Alison Smith represent and respond to the ability Project) and the positive March 24 through April, wishes of the people is not ac aspects of legislation from sev Boston Billiard Club wel ceptable. eral states were included in the comes beginner and ad Voter Initiative is not a new proposed Rhode Island legisla Small Business Offers vanced players for spring concept, it has been around for tion. league play. Coaching almost a century and the pro Our founding fathers, in their available. Warwick, Route cess is now available in 24 wisdom and cognizant of the Loan 'Hot Line' 5, club reached by dialing states. It is a way in which citi- (Continued on Page 19), One-on-One Guidance Available 732-POOL.... Apr ii in-par is F F . . The Small Business Ad minis- Each lending institution will March 27, 9 a.m.- 2:30 p.m. ~ un air tration has set up a "Hot Line" make an independent credit de the spring Greater Boston International House of at 528-4591 for all individuals cision and then submit the loan Antique and Collectible Rhode Island, 8 Stimson Ave., , EAST PROVIDENCE -The interested in its $5,000 to to the SBA for concurrence. Toy Show at Holiday Inn, Providence, will present " April upcoming Fox 64 Fun Fair is ex- $50,000 Small Loan Program. Should a lender decline fund Dedham, Mass. Two halls in Paris" a dinner of French cui- pected to be a fun time for the Free start-up business assis- ing, another lender will be se full of collectibles. Call sine on April 9 at 6:30 p.m. family. tance and counseling will also lected by OSBDA for consider (508) 379-9733. This will be a gourmet dipner The Fun Fair will be at the be available from the Service ation. prepared by Hungarian master Providence Civic Center, Corps of Retired Executives. Applications approved under chef Louis Szathmary, former March 26 from 10 a.m. to 5 The hot line will be manned this program will be eligible for March 30, 7:30-9 p.m., at owner of The Bakery in p.m. by SBA/ SCORE representa- an' SBA guarantee of up to a the CCR! Observatory, vis Chicago, and will include pate Almacs is sponsoring the tives who will advise callers to maximum of 90 percent. itors' night (clear skies maison, asparagus soup, pore World Wrestling Federation su- visit the SBA Providence dis Legal fees for closing the loan permitting). Escorts leave Normandie, and a special perstars. The wrestlers will be trict office and SCORE loca will be minimal. main lobby of Warwick dessert of Paris brest. there to meet their fans and tions throughout the state. At In addition, servicing will be campus (near bookstore, After dinner there will be a sign autographs. "The these intake sessions, individu- provided by OSBDA under second floor) at 7:30, 8 and talk and slide presentation on wrestlers have been a big draw als will receive technical advice agreement with the participat 8:30 p.m. Call 825-2178 for "Hidden Women in the French at the past Fun Fairs," says Al- on how the program works and ing lenders. As part of the loan directions. Kitchen." macs Vice President of Com- what information is needed to closing documents, technical Seating is limited. Reserva- munications and Marketing, apply for a loan. assistance in the form of tions will be accepted on a first- Dave Paulhus. All business loan applica SCORE counselors will be pro March 30, 7-9 p.m., at Has paid basis till March 30. To Other activities include a live tions will be submitted and re vided. bro Children's Hospital, make a reservation, call 421- taping of the Bozo Show, the viewed by the Ocean State SBA, in an effort to provide Providence, Conference 7181. American Gladiators, appear- Business Development Author assistance· to the lenders partic Room 1518, a meeting of ances by Fox 64 cartoon charac- ity for eligibility under the ipating in this program, will as FACCT (Families About ters, a photo ID booth for chii- Rhode Island Area Small Busi sist in the event of a loan de Cardiac Children To PROPERTY dren, contests, games and ness Loan Program. fault and foreclosure. gether). New members prizes, face painting and the list Upon approval of the credit The OSBDA will administer welcome. Share support ~PLUS goes on. Almacs, along with package OSBDA will submit the Rhode Island Area Small and information. Call 245- Garelick Farms, will also have the loan application to one of Business Loan Program under Management Co., Inc. 5232. cookies and milk available. the 15 participating lenders on the direction of the area policy General Contractor Lie. 10815 Tickets for the event can be a rotating basis. board. MA Reg. # 115436 FULL SERVICE MAINTENANCE tionpurc hasedor at Cityat any Ti cAlmacsket. The Joca ad- ca11·1ng All "D·1nogu1·des" Gay Bill • Authorized vance ticket price is $2 for By a 9 to 8 vote, on March 16, Dealer GORDON Roger Williams Park Zoo is Discovery Area, an interactive adults, $1 for children. The the state House Judiciary Com REPLACEMENT price per ticket goes up on the looking for friendly, enthusias section for children. WINDOWS, BIRD mittee rejected a bill which day of the event. tic dinosaur lovers to become Applicants must have an in VINYL SIDING "Dinoguides" for the exhibit terest in dinosaurs, conserva would have outlawed discrimi • Windows Start at For more information, call "Dinosaurs Return to Roger tion and the environment. nation on the basis of sexual $145 - Any Size ~?~~ 726-0088. orientation. Williams Park Zoo," May 14 to They also must enjoy work In spite of poorly attended Sept. 5. ing with the public (especially Pl3fJPl3~~ The zoo is recruiting 300 vol children) and possess good in committee hearings earlier in unteer "Dinoguides" to act as terpersonal communications the month, the entire House :E[;Remodel1.,, mg .. ~ FOR ALL YOUR CERAMIC NEEDS was present for the vote. exhibit interpreters and guides skills. Volunteers 15 and under Free Estimates J.~ ADULT & CHILDREN'S CLASSES Debate over amendments to t~ for this outdoor exhibit of life must bring a parent or guardian the bill as it was offered in • Insured ~ Its Made to Order size, realistic robotic dinosaurs. with them. Come Visit Our Showroom "Dinoguides" will work a min Those interested in volun 1993, parliamentary procedure, SEE OUR NEW GIFT SHOP and questions about how the 289 PAwnICKET AVENUE 15 Cora Ave., East Providence imum of 12 hours per month in teering to be a "Dinoguide" PAWfUCKET. R.I. 02860 should call the Roger Williams measure would affect sexual (401) 729-1782 (401 I 435-3303 three- or four-hour shifts. Daily tasks will include interpreting Park Zoo Docent Council at orientation information in the the exhibit for the public and (401) 785-3510 for further in educational curriculum of the assisting with the Dinosaur formation. state, dominated the commit tee's deliberation. JACK M. MINKIN dba/Tile-Set The committee spent only a Arts Council Offers Specials on B.S.O. Concert Trips few minutes actually discussing CERAMIC TILE INSTALLATION AND REPAIRS the merits and questions re Cleaning, Repairing, Regrouting - Leaks Fixed The Pawtucket Arts Council Gabrieli and Harbison. garding the bill. still has space available on its Sea ts for the pops concert are TUB ENCLOSURES • GLASS BLOCK INSTALLATION The most significant data trip to a Boston Symphony among the best on the floor. presented since the 1993 vote CARPENTRY • INTERIOR PAINTING Concert on April 8, and a pops Contact the Pawtucket Arts LEGAL COVERING OF ASBESTOS PIPES was a poll conducted by a concert on June 5. Council at 725-11 51 for more group within Brown University ELECTRICAL • PLUMBING details or to reserve space. The April 8 performance will which showed, statewide, vot All High Quality Guaranteed Work feature Josef Sak on the violin Prices will include round-trip "A TROUBL ES HOOTER WITH IDEAS" ers supported passage of the and Yo Yo Ma on the cello, bus fare, concert admission and leg1s1at1on oy a w1cte margin ot INSURED • R.1. UCENSE NO. 4210 •REFERENCES• 724-3114 , playing, , works . , by , ,Brahms,, gt11tµity for ,the ,bus, diiver. , 60 percent. THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, JHURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1994 - 3 FEATURE Davis ing every day. By the turn of tragedy of boatloads of Jews (Continued from front page) the century, there will be more who approached the shores of Beyond the Davis pointed out that 81 Jews in Israel than there are in Israel as refugees from perse percent of them are employed, the United States, Davis says. cution and were turned back, are living in their own apart This has to make an impression frequently to their deaths. Is Secret Door ments or houses, and are work on Israel's neighbors. Israel is rael is determined that that wi 11 ing in their career fields within becoming a force they must never happen again to any Jew. by Mike Fink a year. reckon with - they cannot af Davis feels very optimistic Herald Contributing Reporter He said, "We have no magic ford to ignore the arithmetic of about the current peace pro wand - to do something that the situation. cess because "it will be of ben the United States couldn't do. Furthermore, Arabs living in efit to everyone." He says, ''You When immigrants first came to Israel have a much higher stan can't always be looking back. the United States they couldn't dard of living than thoseinsur The vast majority of Jews are There's a dream that came to unlock the portal to the little just step into jobs at the same round ing areas. However, interested in peace." me sometimes. I open a hidden gallery that houses the trove of level as they had in their home when I wondered out loud if Speaking of the rising tide of door into a wonderful room, a · beautiful things that Natalie land." this might be a major reason for violencebythosewho woulddo cave of treasures. It's like a fan Percelay started to gather over almost anything to derail the tasy of flying. You ask, why 40 years ago. First you see a CUMULATIVE ALIYAH FROM THE FSU* process, he said, ''You can mur didn't you do it sooner? portrait photo of our founding BY YEAR SINCE 1986 der an individual, but you can't Natalie Percelay sat on a curator, Natalie Fisher Perce 600,000 murder the peace process." small upholstered throne in the lay, with the mild smile and the He is convinced that this temple vestry. I kept her com warm eyes, the masterpiece of (peace between Israel and her 500,000 ~ - pany on a matching sofa. We her own collection. Samovars, neighbors) is an idea whose waited for Abe Gershman to crowns, embroideries, spice time has come .. . that those on bring the key to the Emanuel boxes, odd items used to 400,000 ¥ --- al sides of the negotiating table Museum. This charming, ele scratch the lines in matzot or to know what it is in their own gant, lively lady wearing a silk hold wine or water all crowd best interests to make the peace scarf like a stole gave me a little the miniature oblong cave. " I process work. background on the collection of know where everything is with 200,000 Judaica which she began. a photographic memory," HERALD ADS GET RESULTS! "My only daughter had died brags Abe Gershman with a in childbirth. She had been a good-natured laugh. 100,000 spy for the state of Israel. Rabbi I pick up on many names. Bohnen in the early '50s asked The modern Torah crown was me to take on the museum pro sculpted by my late renowned 1986 RISO colleague Elbert Wein J. ELLIOTTS ject. It was a godsend for my ·Form• So-.11'1 Union spirits. These spiritual objects berg. My aunt, Edith Salhanick, ( 1) lnch,d" I .I IM .,;va1, • inu.lanuwy 1, 199.f formerly Cassie's Cafe took on life for me, like chil decorated that memorial chal OPEN DURING dren." I won't be ungallant and lah cloth to her mother, Clara An aliyah who was a doctor their staying put in such a tu RENOVATIONS Cohen Fink, though her hus might have to retrain to be a multuous situation, Davis im state Natalie's age. But her ,., "'"' ~ ... ,.., ...... ,. glowing presence makes time band Gershon is listed as the biology teacher. Retraining is mediately corrected me. He take on the quality of blessing. donor, and Clara's name is not made available. He said there said, "They stay because it is C!c~S<,,c""'! The temple staff treat her like a printed on the card. Natalie is a determined effort to place their home!" countess, but only from bright brings a bag of silver polish to top scientists in theirown fields He pointed out that Jewish BREAKFAST affection. make the sterling pieces shine - to absorb them into Israel's numbers in the United States DELI LUNCH "My father signed the origi and sparkle for student tours at scientific structure. are diminishing. Marriage out DINNER nal deed for this first Conserva Passover. " Put it away," says Every year, 70,000 immi of Judaism is one reason for tive temple in town." Natalie Abe. " By the time the grants from the former Soviet this. Davis said that, "If you walked as she talked, over, un Schechter kids show up, I'll Union come to Israel. The want to marry a non-Jew in Is ~ der, around and through the have the whole place gleaming United States limits immigra rael, you really have to try GOURMET COFFEE passageways of the synagogue. from my spring cleaning." tion fro m the former Soviet hard ." The numbers are such CAPPUCCINO She knew all the stairways and " After 20-odd years of Union to40,000annually. A few that almost everyone you meet ESPRESSO corridors and made our way searching out the finest works go to other countries, perhaps in college is Jewish. briskly, stopping only for a of art and design, I let other su countries in Europe. He said, "We accept every ~~-.1).L! drink at the bubbler. We perb and devoted people take By the turn of the century, Jew in the world. That is the Davis is confident that a mil 959 HOPE STREET, PROVIDENCE popped in at the gift shop and over. But I still care deeply law." He was referring to the 861-0200 stared in wonder at the paint about everything on every lion Jews will have settled in Law of Return, from 1948, ings, plates, tapestries and shelf," Natalie tells me as she Israel (during the 1990s) from whi~h was a response to the pretty items from Israel that opens a locket, touches a can the former Soviet Union. One decorate the cases and alcoves delabrum, goes over a story. out of every four Israelis wi 11 be of our inner sanctum. I admire Pulled in by her charisma, I feel from that area in the year 2000. the yads and the mezuzahs as that the noblest soul in the Right now, one out of every we bend our heads together. group is that of Natalie herself, eight Israelis is from the region. They had to push my sofa lovely, lyrical, and imbued He said, " It takes a tremen and her chair out of the way to with meaning. dous, deep breath- but I think we're continuing to maintain our enthusiasm to absorb this Jewish Chaplains Meet many He admitted that it was a tremendous burden. It costs the ., !~ ~1·1·~.• ,. ~m••1·1 I ;···· Special Passover Needs government oflsrael billions of -v \ lf( i r -~ .,• .- Radical changes in the struc over chicken soup with matzah dollars to absorb the immi grants. But, as a result, there is . ' ! 1111•'. ~ ,:: I ture and mobile posture of the balls, matzah meal, matzah ball '1'1 \ o II I U.S. Armed Forces have posed mix, macaroons and other ko spectacular growth in the in special challenges to "Operation sher-for-Passover goods. Con frastructure of Israel. Passover" for the JWB Jewish tributions by the JWB Women's One important side effect of ChaplainsCouncil,sponsored by Organizations' Services help this is that the Arabs in the area GRAND OPENING the Jewish Community Centers underwrite the program. see so many new Israelis arriv- Association of North America; SUNDAY, MARCH 17 for jewishmilitarychaplains,and On the National Register, the Taunton Antiques Cen for Jewish military lay leaders ter is a beautifully renovated brick structure in the heart throughout the world. of Historic Taunton. Our expansive showroom features While Jewish chaplains on active duty, and in veterans hos over 125 showcases of antique porcelain, fine glassware, pitals, will be conducting sera pottery, china, jewelry and silver. There are collectibles dim at their installations, many of every kind. dispersed Jewish personnel at The 35,000-sq. remote locations will be relying Mother and Newborn Home Care ft. showroom featur on solo seder kits shipped by IN-HOME CHILD CARE ing an eclectic selec JWB to military units for further tion offurniture and distribution in time for the first Nannies • Mother's Helpers decorative accesso night of Passover. Babysitters • Nurs ing Support ries should satisfy The solo seder kits contain Light Housekeeping • Meals most any taste. sufficient Passover items for two seder mea ls, plus leaflets and 751-2229 19 MAIM STREET, ROUTE 44, TAUNTON, MASS_ greeting cards. Additional food 249 WICKENDEN STREET, PROVIDENCE (SOB) 811· 3333 packages shipped by JWB in N e wport 849-2229 • Wakefield 783-4690 clude gefilte fi sh, _mat~ah'. Pass- ,, , .. ' ,"\\,,; .- .·, -, .. ,-, ...... - -.. .. 4 - THE RH.ODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1994 OPINIONS perus israei, is it not imperative ADefense of Yossi Beilin to reorder t•ur priorities? In the Unitl'd States, the criti by Ammiel Hirsch cal need is not to absorb a Rus Midrash of the Month,, is Rabbi Hirs ch executive director tion and the jewish Agency sian oleh who is going to be by Rabbi Vicki Lieberman of the Association of Reform Zionists know that these institutions are housed anyway by the Israeli Special to the Herald of America. not what they used to be. We government. Rather, the critical Give Yossi Beilin a break. all know that they are in need need is to absorb American The issues he raised at the re of radical reform. In fact, the Jewish children and adults into Sometimes a Midrash, how ters into blood. cent Women's International Jewish Agency itself, acknowl the House of Jacob, who would ever brief, is able to capture and G-d teaches Moses to repay Zionist Organization gathering edging the crisis, resolved last otherwise be Jewishly home convey a great teaching of Ju kindnesses. If Moses was to - the chamtine relationship year to appoint a high-level less. daism. An ~xample of one such have so much appreciation for between Israel and the dias committee to begin restructur pearl of wisdom comes from what the waters had done for pora, Jewish cotinuity, assimi ing the agency. Exodus Rabbah: him, how much the more so is lation - are not new. They So why the outrage? We Israeli leaders are Rabbi Tanhum taught why Moses to appreciate what his have been discussed for years should be grateful that Beilin is concerned about Israel's G-d instructed Aaron to bring human saviors did for him. in the United States, and since only the most visible of a host security, but what really the plague of blood upon the The Midrash beckons us to publication of 1990 CJF Popula of Israelis who have recently waters. It was because G-d said remember those · in our lives tion Survey, have been at the told us the truth about Ameri terrifies them is to Moses, " It is not proper that . who have shown us kindness, top of our communal agenda. can Jewry. Israeli leaders are assimilation in the the waters that protected you who have helped us and who The women of WIZO and oth concerned about Israel's secu when you were cast into the have saved us. ers do protest too much. rity, but what really terrifies United States. river should now be smitten by As Passover draws near, may Beilin reflects a growing sen them is assimilation in the you." G-d will not allow Moses you be reminded of the kind timent in Israel and America. United States. When support of a belea to bring harm to what once nesses of others and may you That Israelis, especially Yitzhak Rabin, Yitzhak guered Jewish State is removed saved him. Thus, it is Aaron respond in kind. younger ones, resent their im Shamir, Shimon Peres, Yossi from the top of our agenda, Is and not Moses who performs I wish you a healthy and age as beggars or recipients of Beilin and others have all come rael will become more impor the plague of changing the wa- happy Passover. charity; that Israel is no longer to these shores recently and tant than ever because dias a poor country; that in an era of pleaded with us to get our act pora Jews, in the original Ahad peace Israelis will enjoy pros together before it is too late. Ha'am sense, will increasingly Requiem for a Fighter perity unparalleled in their his They have urged massive in look back to the Jewish State tory - all these are undeni vestments in Jewish education, for cultural and spiritual inspi by Warren Eisenberg Through his activities he en able. To say these things is not the study of Hebrew and Israel ration. Israel will then begin to Director, International Council livened a flaccid Jewish syna to denigate the past and contin experiences for every Jewish fulfill its true destiny of not of B'nai B'rith gogue life, established day uing contributions that Ameri youngster - not necessarily to only saving Jewish bodies, but Passover is the time to re camps for children and, most can Jews have made to the up make them potential olim, but also preserving the Jewish soul. member Moses leading the significantly, trained a corps of building of Israel. to make them better, prouder How Jewish communal funds Jewish people away from the young rabbis who would serve Jews when they return home. are spent should be reevalu oppression of Pharaoh. What congregations throughout Hebrew, the ancient and Demographers tell us that as ated. When the entire universe follows is the story of another Latin America. He was a mag suming current trends con is changing; when Israel will man who stood up to save lives netic figure who made Judaism modern language of our tinue, by the end of the 20th soon take its rightful place and souls. attractive to Jews who had been people, is being studied century there will be more Jews among the world's technologi I first met Rabbi Marshall either too fearful or disinter living in Israel than in the cal elite; when American Jewry Meyer in Buenos Aires at the ested to identify. more intensely today in United States. And by the end is racked with assimilation and (Conservative) Seminario Ra But he was also a controver many Arab countries of the first decade of the 21st Jewish illiteracy, how can our bin ico Latino-Americano sial figure. He was religiously century there will be more Jews fund-raising establishments. which he founded. liberal, and outspoken. This than by American Jews. in Israel than all other places justify not adapting to new re It was I 981, a dark, danger characteristic gave him prob"'-0 combined. Israel is the only alities? ous period in Argentina. The lems with other Jews. In 1966 We are living in an era of growing Jewish community in If, for example, studies sup junta was in control. Young the military took over, and tremendous change. We must the world. port our own intuition that Is people were "disappearing." Meyer moved onto the political not be paralyzed by evolving Under these circumstances, rael experiences make a signifi Most Argentines had their front. As the excesses of human realities. Those of us who labor and assuming a peaceful, pros- cant impact on a young heads down. The rabbi, an rights abuses grew, he became in the World Zionist Organiza- person's connection to Israel American citizen, was reaching more critical of the junta. ..------·· and Judaism, how can we con- out to those whom everyone He counsled families. He vis tinue to allow generations of else seemed to desert. ited the imprisoned. He orga RHODE ISLAND JEWISH young Jews to grow up without We talked about people in nized a broad-based human spending time in the Jewish the clutches of torturers whose rights group and a Jewish one. HERALD ==- State? walls bore portraits of Hitler, He went public in denouncing There is enough money to and about concentration the growing atrocities, much to (USPS 464-760) create a universal scholarship camps. the discomfort of many Argen Published Every Week By The Jewish Press Publishing Company fund. It is only a matter of pri He spoke of families whose tinean Jews, gentiles and espe orities. children had "disappeared," cially, government officials. CO-EDITORS ALISON SMITH The idea is not to disconnect the euphemism for kidnapped, Meyer engaged many others STACEY A. PACHECO Candlelighting from the Jewish State. Quite the maimed and probably killed, in rescuing souls and in spread CONTRIBUTING REPORTER contrary, the point is to invest and bodies washing up on the ing the concept of Pikuach Ne MICHAEL FINK communal funds that will so banks of Rio de La Plata, and fesh, the saving of lives literally AROUND TOWN COLUMNIST DOROTHEA SNYDER lidify a greater attachment be the need to provide succor to and spiritually. ADVERTISING ACCOUNT REPS March 25 tween Israeli and American those who did not know if their With the collapse of the Ar JEANETTE HIDALGO Jewry, by acknowledging the children were alive. gentine junta in 1983, and the MYRNA H . DRESS 5:45 p.m. changing circumstances and democratic election of Presi GRAPHICS dent Raul Alfonsin, Marshall JOHANNA SPARLING needs. Why, for example, should not more money be "If you accept the Bible, Meyer received recognition for MAILING ADDRESS: his ethical and moral commit Box 6063, Providence, R.I. 02940 spent in America teaching our then human rights is TELEPHONE: (401) 724-0200 children Hebrew? Hei;>.rew, the ments. He was appointed to PLANT: ancient and modern language an obligation." Argentina's national commis Herald Way, off Webster Street sion to investigate the disap Pawtucket, R.I. 02861 of our people, is being studied Rabbi Marshall Meyer OFFICE: more intensely today in many peared. They published a re 1175 Warren A venue Arab countries than by Ameri He had faced the dilemma of port titled Nunca Mas, Never East Providence, R.I. 02914 Again. He endured threats, as .. ~ can Jews. telling a grandfather that he Seconddass postage paid at Providence, Rhode· It is time to lay the founda could not say Kaddish for a did his wife and three children, Island. Postmaster, send address changes to the but he continued to fight. Rhode Island Jewish Herald, P. 0 . Box 6063, Provi tions of a new road, a 21st cen grandchild who might be alive. dence, A.I. 02940-0063. tury superhighway of commu People were not being impris While he understood the Subscription rates: Thirty.five cents per copy. nication and inspiration, with oned because they were Jewish, fears and silence of the Jewish By mail $10.00 per annum. Outside Rhode Island community he disagreed with and southeastern Massachusetts; $14.00 per traffic flowing both ways be but once inside Jews were annum. Bulk rates on request. The Herald as tween Jerusalem and the dias treated more harshly. it. And because the message sumes subscriptions are continuous unless noti· was carried outside of Ar fled to the contrary in writing. pora. Yossi Beilin and others Marshall linked the overt The Herald assumes no financial responsibility nave begun to clear the brush. anti-Semitism - the swastikas, gentina the disappearances for typographical errors in advertisements, but will For this alone we owe them our the telephone threats - to the stopped, but not before at least reprint that part of the advertisement in which the 9,000 died and thousands more typographical error occurs. Advertisers will please thanks. high percentage of Jews among notify the management immmediately of any error the "disappeared." He thought were imprisoned and tortured. which may occur. At the most critical period in Unsolicited manuscripts: Unsolicited manu· he saw a tendency to make the scripts are welcome. We do not pay for copy If you are celebrating a Jew a scapegoat for the eco Argentina, the word went printed. All manuscripts must be typed, doubla. special anniversary, nomic ills of the country. around that Marshall's life was spaced. Enclose a stamped, self·addressedenva. - - charmed because he was an lope if you want the manuscript returned. Letters to - - announce it in the Herald. He arrived in Argentina in the editor represent the opinions of the writers, not Include a photo with the 1959 to serve for two years at American. That may have im the editors, and should include the letter writer's munized him from the junta's telephone number tor verification. Netice: The opinions presented on this announcement. Black and the German synagogue of The Hmald is a member of the New England Buenos Aires. He stayed 25 (Continued on Page 14) Press Association and a subscriber to the Jewish page do not necessarily represent the white only, please. Telograph<: Agency. opinions of this establishment. years. 1 1 f t 4. I I • J • I I I j I I • f ~ I 1 • .1 J I f ~ t e I • • t f t l t I II l. • .• I ~ I I I l I I I • 1 I I t t. o I f • • _. I f • • _. t • t. I t f 1 1 t. t I I I t t • • • ~ .... 11 f THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1994 5 EDITORIAL Soldier's Accounts (Continued from front page) We Knew Four Questions About "We wanted to create~ jam by Alison Smith at the door," said Yosef. "We Herald co-editor At that time, pictures did not Four Israeli Sons thought it was an Arab who fired. We were afraid he would I sat down to watch " America lie. They can be made to lie to Israel's MIAs Remembered at the Seder Ritual come out." and the Holocaust," Tuesday day - mare's the pity - but night. what you see happening then, Lt. Rotem Ravivi, the only • Why are these sons different missing in action, some for as Israeli officer who was inside I got up, 90 minutes later, a did happen. long as 11 years,and to mobilize No one in my house had ever fro m other sons? the Tomb of the Patriarchs at the lot older and wiser. support fo r their release from even whispered that someone • Why are these prisoners differ time, contradicted portions of I sat down one of those who captivity. While officially listed knew what was going on over ent from other prisoners? Yosef and Drori's testimony. could say, about the Holocaust, as Ml As, they have been treated seas. When it all came out, at • Why are these hostages differ According to Ravivi, w ho " How could people stand by as hostages, denied the basic the end of the war, all the ent from other hostages? saw Goldstein at the gate to the and let that happen!", mean rightsaccorded prisonersofwar adults in my family were so mosque, the settler was carry ing, of course, other people. • Why do we raise the issue of and ransomed from one terror shocked! Genuinely shocked? ing a Galil rifle. He furtherstated Not the people in this country. Israeli soldiers missing in action or ist group to another. G-d, I hope so. that Goldstein was dressed in I'd heard rumors, and been being held as prisoners of war on Ron Arad parachuted from But not as shocked as I was army uniform and had a bag told about witnesses ignored, Passover? his Phantom jet over Lebanon last night. and two-way radio. reports buried, but I never When Jews gather at their in October 1986. In 1989 he was A conspiracy, not just of si Ravivi said he g reeted could believe that my country seder to celebrate the festival of handed over by his captors to lence, but of actual complicity, Goldstein in the entrance to the - this country - was one of freedom, these four questions the Iranian Revolutionary duplicity and connivance ex cave and noted that he was in those that stood by and let it will be asked by the American Guards, reportedly in exchange isted in this country and the IDF uniform. happen. Zionist Movement and the Uni for a large sum of money. United Kingdom. A dozen - "He said he was on reserve When Morris Gastfreund versity Services Department of Zachary Baumel, Zvi Feld two dozen - chances to save duty," the officer told the panel, said, at the dedication of the the American Zionist Youth manand YehudaKatz were cap thousands of European Jews which met in Jerusalem's High Holocaust Memorial, that peo Foundation on behalf of Ron tured fo llowing a tank battle were deliberately or negli Court of Justice. ple in every major Western Arad, Zachary Baumel, Avi with Syrian forces in Lebanon gently missed. Goldstein then went into the capitol knew what was going Feldman and Yehuda Katz - in June 1982. When I stood up to retrieve complex, and the officer, who on, I could not doubt Gastfre Israel's MIAs. In many homes, my review copy of " America ..." was not in the prayer hall when und, but I imagined maybe an empty chair will symbolize three sleazy types, meeting in a I felt about a hundred years the hope for their safe return to Goldstein opened fire, said he older and a lot heavier. That Are you celebrating a had no further contact with him. phone booth in Washington or their families. collective guilt - it weighs you Nor had Ravi vi any reason to London, exchanging bloody se The haggadah supplement is major event in your life? crets. down. suspect anything amiss, he told part of an ongoing nationwide Let us know about it! If you are an American, and the court. Goldstein had never The evidence that a lot of campaign launched by AZM to Black and white people knew is utterly damn over 50, I believe it is more im drawn the soldiers' attention to focus public attention on the photos welcome. ing. We knew. Not every portant for you to see " Amer plight of the four Israeli soldiers him in any way, he said. ica ..." than to see "Schindler's Ravivi further described one ... but too many. The gov ernment knew. List." Watch fo r it on April 6, 9 Goldstein as a "good guy," a p.m., on Channel 2. man who could be trusted . The grimmest moment of the film, for me, was the footage of Let me put that more He a lso testified that Allied bombs falling away from strongly. If you are an Ameri Goldstein's car was one of only the bomber on their way to a can over 15, I think you should three civilian vehicles permit Nazi fuel processing plant, see this documentary. It is not ted to park in an IDF area near against the backdrop of the cre dull and dry, it is as gripping as the mosque. matoriums and gas chambers "The Fugitive" - infinitely A total of 11 soldiers recently of Auschwitz far below. more gripping. testified before the five-man The picture was excruciat And whenever someone sug panel, which is chaired by Chief ingly clear. gests censureship as a solution Justice Meir Shamgar and in Jews who begged this gov to a social problem, remember cludes an Arab judge and a ernment to bomb the death this program. If censureship former IDF chief of staff. chambers, to put an end to the were a real force in this country easy slaughter, were told it was today, " America .. ." would be There was some disagree not strategically possible to buried somewhere, like those mentamong thesoldiers regard bomb that area. bloody secrets of the 1940s. ing the controversial standing orders to never open fire on Jew ish settlers. Farrakhan Does Not Reflect True State Some claimed to be aware of WASHINGTON, D.C. - Re Black and Jewish members of the orders, while at least one lations between the Black and Congress have remarkably said he was not. Some added Jewish communities are in no similar voting records. And in that they would nothave obeyed way defin ed by the hate-fill ed election after election, we see the orders because they were statements of Nation of Islam that Blacks and Jews vote over illogical. minister Louis Farrakhan, the whelmingly for Democratic director of the National Jewish candidates." That political be Border policemen, accompa Democratic Council said re havior stems from shared be nied by attorneys, also testified cently. liefs about the role of govern- before the commission. The law " If you look at the political ment, community and yers were present because the behavior of African-Americans responsibility, said Steve men had fai led to be at their and Jews, you see a pattern of Gutow, executive director of posts on the morning of the ki ll cooperation, not confrontation. NJDC. ings, and the policemen re quired the presence of counsel to prevent them from implicat ing themselves w hile testifyi ng before the panel. PASSOVER One man asking to be heard by the panel is reserve officer. Shlomo ldelstein. On the morn SUPPLIES ing of the killings,ldelstein said, FOR YOUR SEDER TABLE ... he received an urgent phone call from Goldstein's wife, Miriam. PLASTIC AND PLASTIC-COATED DISPOSABLES Miriam Goldstein, Jdelstein Pa ssover Plates • Napkins• Cups• Table Covers• Serving Trays said, asked hi m to intercept her Heavy-Duty Tableware• Plastic Wine Glasses• And More! husband, whom she said had not gone to the Tomb of the PACKAGED PASSOVER GREETING CARDS Patriarchs - a site holy to Jews and Muslims alike - simply to ALSO••• .QARIBAT MffZVAH pray. INVITATIONS & SUPPLIES ldels tein tried to locate Goldstein, but fa iled to reach him on an emergency beeper. The "Only" Party Warehouse ldelstein has written to the 310 EAST AVENUE, PAWTUCKET• 726-2491 panel asking to give testimony about the month of reserve ser ALWAYS DISCOUNT PRICES• JEA NNE STEIN M ONDAY- THURSDAY 9:30 AM- 6 PM, FRIDAY 9:30 AM-7 PM vice he spent in Kirya t Arba, SATURDAY 9:30 AM-5 PM, CLOSED SUNDAY where Goldstein lived . I I j ' ~ ~---~-~----~----~~------~---- ., 6 - THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1994 ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT Actress, comedienne and NEW YORK - The National dancer Daena Giardella brings Foundation for Jewish Culture her one-woman show, "Bare is conducting a national search Essentials" to the dance com · for audiotapes whose subject plex in Central Square, Cam matter relates to Jewish culture. ······ ·BR IEFS bridge, Mass., April 1 to 30, " Because of the popularity of with performances every Fri ... portable and car cassette play March 27, 2:30 p.m., by Mike Fink day, Saturday and Sunday at 8 ers, we believe that audio tapes "Pinocchio" at the Provi Martha Coolidge's latest film, p.m. are an ideal medium for sharing In dynamic collaboration dence Performing Arts " Angie," casts Geena Davis as the vitality and diversity of with musician Alizon Lissance, Center by American Fam a pregnant, unwed Italian cul Jewish culture. Giardella improvises an electri ily Theatre. Call 421-ARTS ture-vulture. Before a Degas In recent years, there has fying gallery of characters who painting in a museum she been an explosion of programs for tickets. transform upredictably as they meets a guy with class. He being created in an audio for ... experience the many facets of turns out to double as a fancy mat - from award-winning ra March 27 at 3 p.m., at being human. Daena Giardella lawyer who holds out the dio programs, to lectures by Aquinas Hall Lounge, promise of a finer life. After she Ranging from zany and out Alter spending a year and a great figures in Jewish life, to Providence College, a con has her baby, though, he leaves rageous to touching and inti half in Israel during the Gulf the treasures found in Jewish cert by the R.I. Saxophone her flat. Stephen Rea, a great mate, Giardella's high-energy War, Giardella presented " Mo archives," explained Richard Quartet, featuring David actor, brings the personality he performance is inspired by the ment to Moment" in Jerusalem Siegel, director of the NFJC. Key, J. Michael Leonard, projected in "Crying Game," news-of-the-day. Audience in -and Tel Aviv. It played to sold For more information, con Stephen Correia and Bruce terplay also provides material the type who loves but can't •out audiences in the States also. tact Nan Rubin or Elijah Abbott. Call 865-2183 for assuring that no two perfor Siegler, Audio Research Pro cope with what comes along. In Tickets are $15; group, senior more information. the book Coolidge translates mances are ever the same. and student discounts are avail ject, National Foundation for onto the screen this fellow's Her innovative style of im able. For reservations and fur Jewish Culture, 330 Seventh (Continued on Page 15) provisational performance has ther information, call 497- Ave., 21st Floor, New York' March 28, at 8: 15 p.m., at ' evolved over 18 years. 7070. City, N.Y. (212) 629-0500, FAX Roberts Hall Auditorium, (212) 629-0508. R. I. College, a concert by the RIC Symphony l~©)l"YOUR TABLE IS READY" rr__ V II Orchestra, with violinist brush of lemon pepper vinai John Sumerlin. Call 456- grette, a swirl of a mashed 8244. potato blend with chopped ... Audrey's: A Delightful onion, green and red peppers, March 29, 7:30 p.m., at the and a stack of cooked carrot Barrington Public Library, Mix of Food and Song strips bundled · by a circle of a showing of Leave Her to by Dorothea Snyder zucchini. Heaven starring Gene State Light Opera, he worked I had the veal oscar, lightly OPERA TO DINE BY - Eric You can enjoy all three .. . Tierney, followed by a dis out details for that perfect sauteed in oil and lightly Bronner entertains at Audrey's Puccini, Verdi and Bizet along cussion of the film led by evening. And thus was formed breaded, topped with aspara as guests enjoy an exquisite with Gershwin, Mozart, Michael Fink. Call 247- Opera Ad Hoc with Levine as gus and several strips of dinner. Rossini, and more. 1920 for more information. It's all happening through its founding director. The opera seafood in a light sauce. My dish came with the same veg Opera at Audrey's within Au company is composed of 10 to March 30, 7 p.m., at the 12 singers from Massachusetts etables as was on the salmon drey's Grille inside the Johnson Zeiterion Theatre, 684 Pur D 8 MANTIQUES and Rhode Island. entree. Upon request, the & Wales Inn in Seekonk, Mass., chase St., New Bedford, Single Items On the night we went, the seafood can be deleted from on Route 44. Mass., a performance by or Estates This wonderful concept in program began with the Anvil this order. Litsedei, The Russian Appraised or dining came from Dan Little of Chorus a la Audrey's singing II Service and flavors aren't Clowns - 20 performers Purc hased . Johnson & Wales University. Trovatore. missing ingredients on an ~ skilled in family entertain Furniture • Paintings • Clocks Little's idea was that a mix of If my ear was right, the opera evening out at Audrey's. Both Dolls • China • Glassware gourmet food and light opera menu·was sung from appetizer enhance the dining pleasure. ment. Call (508) 994-2900. Oriental Rugs could spice up a perfect to dessert. Desserts change along with 337 NO. BROADWAY evening. . · Before you're ready to order, EAST PROVIDENCE 431-1231 Along ~ Marilyn Levine, diners have a chance to relax, TOLL FREER.I. UIOIM>7S•1230 the artistic director of Ocean sink into their chairs and drink Marvin Rubin. Proprietor in the surroundings. Johnson & Wales Inn is a practicum facility for students studying hospitality and culi nary arts. We watched them fl y into ac tion, attentive wait staff who sped with wings of mercury carrying yummy dishes from kitchen to dining room, eye catching hot and cold dishes and plenty of smiles. The menu is a fixed price of $24.95 per person, which in cludes the entertainment - beverages are extra. Menus vary from one Saturday night to another, which satisfied din ers and light opera buffs who want to come back again. DO RE MI, STAY ON KEY - Audrey's singers Mary Beth Appetizers consisted of McGrath (left) and Jill Boyd practice for the evening's w~~~6f.1994 grilled seafood salsa, baked performance. brie with strawberry coulis and :._th-e-re_s_t_o_f_t_h_e_m_e_n_u_o_n_S_a_tu- r---d-i-sc_o_v_e_r_t_h_e_a_c_c_o_m_p_a_n_i_st_t_o_be 11AM.- ,5 P.M. quenelles of chicken with a day nig h ts so t h ey, re not foun d none other than Richard Cum- wild mushroom sauce. on the menu. Instead, our ming, composer-in-residence at No major decisions were J ff d d Trinity Square Repertory Com- needed in choosing from two waiter, e , ren ere a menu types of salads, caesar salad monologue (without sing- What especially stood out v™~e•R~~ and spinach salad with ginger ing) ... cheesecake with vari- were the faces of Audrey's pa- ous fruit toppings, peanut but- trans, who were truly enrap- soy dressing an d orange seg- ments. ter pie, apple crumb cake and tured by the gracious evening. 'fiouta 6-,$W-04't6JU¾~· A champagne sorbet fol- chocolate truffle cake - all fit In an exchange with soprano lowed to ready our palates for for lovers of sweets. Julie Boyd, she said the opera the entrees. We had our own I had originally visualized and dining concept began at four questions about the four the musical set-up as a staging the Colonnade in Boston. Eart~ buy~r.s privicW-10AM. t10.00~a.dv entrees offered. area in a separate part of the Opera at Audrey's was ·ngers launched in October and con- Being gallant, I gave my p~rt- res taurant · Not So · Sl Ad.mis.si on-$4.00eadi, ner in this gourmet adventure moved about and burst o~t into tinues_ through May on Satur- the go ahead to pick first. song from different spots m the day nights from 8 to 10_p. m. 50 With th(.s ad-,admit z at $3. ca..ch- Poached salmon it was and dining room. . For more information or , 'f.JJ'"• ,prej~Qwl, ,with . .a., •. ~. p\t;a.s~n! .su! pnse was t': _re_se~~at~o~s! call 45_6-]848. , , .,. ,Z:1._ , .._.,. • ., , , , " t. ., ., ., • , \ '- 1, 1, ~ I • • \ \ 1 \ , ' \_ \ 'T) \ i 1. 1 I"\ t, \ I ' ' I ' ' • \ \ I 'i: \ \ l, \ I) • 1r,. • 0 ~•r • ,., ,,r ,. ·~""t'( ~ THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1994 - 7 WORLD AND NATIONAL NEWS France Heightens Security Memorial Service at as Pro-Nazi Trial Begins Avery Fisher Hall by Michel Di Paz tions and for which pardons do As they have done every year Public officials and Israeli VERSAILLES, France OT A) not apply. since the end of World War II, leaders are expected to address - Four hundred policemen Touvier went into hiding thousands of members of the the commemoration. The pro and elite forces surrounded the again. He was arrested after he_ Jewish community, including gram will include: Versailles courtroom where the was discovered in May 1989 survivors of Nazi concentration • A choir singing songs of the first trial of a French citizen in hiding out in a Nice monastery. camps, members of resistance ghetto. groups and their families, will INTERNATIONAL dicted for crimes against hu The only person brought to • Solemn candlelighting cer -manity was about to start. trial in France before now for gather April 10 to honor the emonies conducted by_ women memory of the six million Jews AMSTERDAM (JTA) - Police marksmen were visi crimes against humanity was survivors of the Holocaust and who perished at the hands of Dutch authorities an ble on the roofs of the Ver Klaus Barbie, the German the second generation of sur the Nazis. nounced they will free a sailles Court of Justice. More Gestapo police chief in Lyon. vivors; The date, which marks the 74-year-old Nazi collabo than 100 journalists from Barbie was sentenced to life im • The chanting of Kel Mole 51st anniversary of the Warsaw rator who was jailed for life around the world packed the prisonment in 1987. He died in Rachamim - the traditional Ghetto Uprising in 1943 - the in 1992after being deported courtroom where Paul Touvier, jail of cancer in 1991. memorial for the dead; first instance of an armed revolt from Canada. Jacob after years of hiding from the Three other Frenchmen have • The recitation of the Kad Luitjen's life sen.tence was authorities, was to go on trial. been charged with crimes by a Jewish community against dish - the prayer for the dead the Nazis - and the 50th an commuted and he will be Touvier, the 79-year-old for against humanity, but their - by the entire assembly, and freed in March 1995, based mer head of intelligence for the cases never went to trial. niversary of the destruction of • Brief remarks by leaders of Hungarian Jewry, will be com on his age. pro-Nazi French militia in Ger Rene Bousquet, who was Jewish Holocaust survivor or man-occupied Lyons, entered Vichy's police chief .between memorated with a memorial ganizations and their children. ... service starting at 3 p.m. in Av JERUSALEM (JTA) - The the courtroom, walking with 1942 and 1944 and was apparent difficulty. He has charged with the deportation of ery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, Bank of Jordan received a New York City. prostate cancer. 2,000 Jewish children, was license to open its doors Some 3,000 persons are ex Only 15 seats were made killed by a deranged gunman again on the West Bank. pected to participate in the available to the public, and last June at the age of 82. This enables the bank to re commemoration - largest of they were occupied mainly by Jean Leguay, who was in establish a presence since many that will be taking place SPRING relatives of Touvier's victims. dicted in 1979 for organizing the 1967 Six-Day War. throughout the country. On June 29, 1944, Touvier the first mass roundup of Jews Co-sponsors are the United personally picked seven Jewish in France in 1942, died of natu CLEANUPS SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA Commemoration Committee of hostages and had them exe ral causes in 1989 at the age of (JTA)-A study of Austra Metroplitan New York, New WEEKLY LAWN MAINTENANCE cuted in retaliation for the as 79. LANDSCAPE CONSTRUCTION lian Jews reveals that inter sassination the previous day of York Holocaust Memorial marriage remains far be The court was recessed, and Commission, New York Jewish Sod• Seed• Plants • Etc. Philippe Henriot, the propa it took almost three hours ·for low that of American Jews. ganda minister of the Vichy Community Relations Council, the three judges to reach American Gathering of Jewish regime. their conclusion: International NATIONAL Holocaust Survivors, WAGRO Touvier was condemned to treaties on crimes against hu death twice in 1946 and 194 7 and Workmen's Circle. LOS ANGELES (JT A) - manity supersede national The event comes exactly SO for war crimes, but he managed laws. The plaintiffs were al The Simon Wiesenthal years after most of the Hungar to elude French authorities. He lowed to sue Touvier. Center has asked the U.S: subsequently took shelter in ian Jewish community was Jewish groups tried to rounded up by the Nazis and Department of Justice to various French convents and demonstrate outside the court permanently bar Franz monasteries until President their collaborators and sent to room, but they were kept at bay concentration camps. Schonhuber, leader of Georges Pompidou pardoned by the police. Germany's far-right Re him in November 1972. French Nazi-hunter Serge publican Party and former Touvier emerged from hid Klarsfeld's organization, the member of Hitler's Waffen ing, but Jewish and French vet Sons and Daughters of Jews SS, from entering this coun erans groups initiated charges Deported from France, dis Hand in hand for a more try by putting his name on against him of crimes against played banners that included a honest, more responsive the U.S. "watch list." humanity, a charge that is not quote of Charles de Gaulle: Operation sub1ect to the statute of limita- "Touvier? Twelve bullets!" and a more responsible NEW YORK (JT A) - The State Government. Lubavitcher rebbe is un Clean conscious and in very criti cal condition. Doctors for Israeli-Latino Community Operalion Clean &ouernmenl Rabbi Menachem Mendel Government by Tom Tugend Schneerson say the condi siderable importance in its own needs uour support tion of the 91-year-old has LOS ANGELES OT A) - The right, he added. Latinos, and deteriorated as a result of a Latino community in the mainly from Mexico, Central For further information, contact: stroke he suffered on United States, which has been America, Cuba and Puerto Chas. M. Silvennan, 253-5868 March 10. growing steadily in demo Rico, now make up nine per Voter Sid Green, 331-0039 graphic and political strength, cent of the U.S. population, or now has its own Israeli envoy. roughly 22.5 million people. Mailing Address: NEW YORK (JTA) - Sen. He is Avraham Setton, who The percentage is expected to Operation Clean Government, John Rockefeller (D-W.V.) recently visited southern Flor rise to 13 percent by the begin Initiative P.O. Box 8683, Warwick, R.I. 02888 received the 1994 medal of ida and Los Angeles to inform ning of the next century. merit from the Jewish War his new constituency about the Setton said he found an in Veterans of the USA for his Middle East peace process and tense interest in Israel on the efforts on behalf of the vet to meet with Hispanic leaders part of_ the Hispanic media in erans' community as chair and the Spanish-language me Florida and California, based man of the Senate Veter dia. on the biblical link to Christian Vrivate C9hauf{euring ans' Affairs Committee. · · In part, said Setton, he hopes ity, a general interest in foreign that the Latino community in countries and Israel's specific this country will serve as a expertise in immigrant absorp bridge for Israel to the countries tion, language instruction, .1finnbnn 1fi i&eru 1fitb. !call for advertising rates. I of Latin America. health care and agriculture. 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In Haifa, entry to the campus been developed by scientists at The country's 100,000 stu- was barred to all but student the Weizmann Institute. dents fear that the entire aca- union members, with the stu- The treatment, described in demic year will be lost. dents insisting that their teach- the March issue of Ophthalmol Throughout the country stu- ers' research work no longer ogy, is expected to alleviate the dents burned tires and played continue as normal if they condition through a simple ,-' havoc with the campus phone could not study as normal. procedure based on an enzyme lllt. and computer systems. Overall, the teachers have al - that does the work of a surgical . ~ In Beersheba students briefl y ready been promised a 40 per knife. ______- ....,!c:.__J imprisoned the rector of the cent pay increase. The scientists, Professor Arieh HELPING NO MATTER WHAT - Deborah Kaplan, Hadassah Ben-Gurion Uni versity of the Bu t the complicated negotia- Yaron and eye surgeon Dr. Ja Negev. tions which pit the university National president, visits with one of 11 patients wounded in the cob Dan, did the research Heb~on massac~e hospitalized at Hadassah-Hebrew University At Bar Ilan Upiversity, near teachers and the _government within the framework of the In Medical Center mJerusalem and Hadassah University Hospital Tel Aviv, they forced their way against the heads of the coun stitute's Department of Mem on Mount Scopus. into a university senate meet- try's universities remain stuck brane Research and Biophysics, ing and insisted that the harm on the deta ils. where they conducted success ful tests on laboratory animals. Glaucoma affl icts an esti mated two percent of the Hadassah Treats Palestinians world's adult population and is particularl y prevalent among Shot in Massacre the elderl y. The condition oc curs when the fl ow of eye fluid JERUSALEM - On Feb. 25 , number of wounded admitted known as aqueous humor is the day of the tragic Hebron to Hadassah's hospitals, and obstructed, causing an increase massacre, 11 wounded Pales offered medical assistance in in in traocul ar pressure. This ex tinians were brought to Hadas the for m of drugs, medical sup cessive pressure may damage sah-Hebrew Uni versity Medi plies and equipment. Israeli the intraocular portion of the cal Center in Jerusalem and also offered to send Hadassah optic nerve, leading to im Hadassah University Hospital surgeons to Palestinian hospi pai red vision and, if untreated on Mount Scopus. All of them tals and informed Steti that to blindness. had been shot. more of the wounded coul d be There is no known cure for While teams of Hadassah admi tted to Hadassah's hospi glaucoma. Standard proce medical staff were taking care tals. Steti told Israeli that they dures - which include drugs of the wounded, Arab physi (the Palestinian doctors) did as the first choice, foll owed by cians from Hebron and not need Hadassah's help and laser treatment and finall y con Jerusalem and, in particular, could manage on their own. ventional surgery - all have Dr. Abed El Razq Steti from Hadassah Medical Organi za major shortcomings. Drugs are Makased· Hospital, told the tion rel eased to the Israeli gov Young Moroccan researchers learn agricultural techniques problematic because many pa press that Israeli Jewish hospi ernment press offi ce the names at Ben-Gurion University. Their internships are made pos tients do not adhere to the regi tals refu sed to give medical care of all the wounded admitted to sible by joi nt fu nding by the U. S. Agency fo r International men which ca lls for a number to the Arabs wounded in He Hadassah's hospitals. Development and the Israel Foreign Ministry's Department of of different types of medica bron. Hadassah Medical _Orga Deborah Kaplan, Hadassah Internati onal Coopera tion. tion, taken several times a day. nization immediately took national president, visited each Laser treatment is not com three courses of action: · of the wounded Palestinian pa pletely safe or effective, and it Dr. Avi Israeli, deputy direc . tients. lowers pressure for only limited tor general of Hadassah Medi To date, there are still 10 Knesset Bans Non-Kosher periods. cal Organization, telephoned wounded undergoing medical The surgical procedure in Steti informing him of the_ care in Hadassah's hospitals. Meat Imports volves creating a perforation in the eye through the sclera, the by Dvorah Getzler The bill came in the wake of hard coat of the eye, so as to JERUSALEM UTA) _ The a recent government decision form a type of " window" cov- Knesset recently approved a to privatize meat imports. Is- ered by a thin " flap" through bill banning the importation of raeli religious leaders had been which the aqueous humor can non-kosher meat and seafood, concerned that privatization escape. thereby clearing the way for the would ·enable businesses to im- Surgery entails many compli- fervently Orthodox Shas party port nonkosher meat. cations, such as cataract forma- -to return to the governing coali- In °rder to ban such imports, tion, scarring that accompanies SINGLE? tion. the Knesset first had to amend surgical failure, bleeding, infec- Place an ad in the In marathon sessions before one of the basic laws that serve tion and sudden visual loss. ! the Knesset recessed for the Israeli society in lieu of a conS!i- Even when surgery is success- Rhode Island Jewish Herald's Passover holiday, Israeli legis- tution. Under the demands of ful, intraocular pressure may Personal Classifieds la tors finally voted their ap- coalition politics, the Labor increase again after a few years. proval of the ban at 4:15 a.m. Party pushed through the The new technique devel- March 16_ change in Basic Law: Freedom oped by Prof. Yaron and Dr. 15 WORDS: $3.00 Shas left the coalition in the of Occupation to permit reS tric- Dan is based on the application 12¢ each additional word fall when its political leader, tions on economic freedom of a specific enzyme called col former Interior Minister Aryeh rooted in religious values. lagenase to a small, well-de- Message Deri, was indicted on charges Meretz swallowed the ban on fined area of the sclera by of bribery, fraud and breach of non-kosher meat and even means of a specially designed public trust. agreed to the shelving of the delivery system. This enzyme The return of Shas to the other proposed basic laws after selectively destroys collagen, a coalition is significant because much deliberation, in order to protein that forms the basis of it assures Prime Minister strengthen the coalition. this hard coat of the eye. But Name Yitzhak Rabin of a parliamen- But in the actual Knesset roll unlike conventional surgery, in Address tary majority of 62 Knesset calls, most Mertz Knesset mem- which a piece of the sclera is members. When Shas left the bers voted against the bill, fore- actually cut out and removed, coalition last year, Rabin had to ing Labor to rely on the votes of the enzyme only thins the depend on the support of Arab the religious parties that intend layer, forming a filter through Phone members of the Knesset for a to remain outside the coalition. which the fluid can drain. No. Words ______Date(s) Run ____ majority. Rabin hopes to have as much This minimally invasive pro- Personals .. . Personals., .Personals. , .Personals ... Personals. .. The bill ran into some last- broad support in the Knesset as cedure limits the development minute snags, when Shas lead- possible as he attempts to con- of scar tissue and should pre- To include abo_x number, send an additional $5.00. All responses will be mailed ers realized that the proposed elude negotiations successfully vent the complications associ- to the Herald v,a box number, and forwarded to classified advertiser. legislation only banned the im- with the Palestine Liberation ated with conventional All Classiied ads are pre-paid. Payment must be received by Monday port of non-kosher beef. At Organization for implementing surgery. Moreover, the re- afternoon, prior the the Thursday o~ which the ad is to appear. their insistence, the bill was Palestinian self-rule in the searchers anticipate virtually Thank You! R.I. Jewish Herald• P.O . Box 6063 • Providence, RI 02940 amended to bar imports of all Gaza Strip and the West Bank no risk of blindness, impaired _.______..,;,_.;.._.,1 . _0011=kusher .meat and .seafoo.cl.. . _gf _J. e!Lc,!,_o, ______.. ______y(s]?~ _o_r _c _a_t~r_ac~ !?r_n_i~t_i?1: ·. THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, MAKLn ,.~, ,,n MOSCOW, 1993 (REUTER) For Jews in the former Soviet Union, the exit signs are clearly marked. The signs are all too familiar. Brown-shirted But there is hope. Operation Exodus. fascists march. Synagogues mysteriously go So far, the UJA- Federation Operation up in flames. Right-wing extremist Vladimir Exodus Campaign has helped rescue 500,000 Zhirinovsky rants against Jews and "Zionist Jews from the former Soviet Union-69,132 plots." And his party wins more votes than in 1993 alone. And brought them home any other in Russia. to Israel. Once again, opportunists blame terrible Yet, 1.4 million Jews remain. With your conditions on their traditional scapegoat support, they can leave the hatred and the Jews. despair behind. Before it's too late. And for Jews, anti-Semitism just adds to Please give generously to Operation the misery of life in the former Soviet Union: Exodus and the Annual Campaign. This Severe economic hardship. Political instability. time we can clearly see what's happening The depressing lack of opportunity for an over there. And all the signs point in the education, for a better life. same direction. Out. Call the Jewish Federation of Rhode Island now at 401 421-4111. Jewish Federation I G1j rhodelsland IIIffiI!lJ United Jewish Appeal • - • : ' I I • C r ~ ,( • JOYOUS PESACH ~ Mishkon Tfiloh Congregation Sons of Jacob The Fifth Son Thursday, March 24 Congregation Mishkon Agudas Achim Shacharis followed bv a Siyum of what the L-rd did for me Tfiloh, 203 Summit Ave., Prov A Pesach Message for the firstborn, 6:30 a.m. when I went forth from idence, announces the follow Congregation Agudas Achim Search for chometz by evening. Egypt."' ing Passover service schedule. at 901 N. Main St., Attleboro, During the seder service we Friday, March 25 - Last read in the Haggadah that ... ••• First days: Thursday, March wi ll hold services for the first day of Passover on March 27 at chance to sell chometz by the Torah speaks of four sons, While the four sons differ 24, Shacharis - 6:25 a.m. with 9:30 a.m. All are welcome. noon. Shacharis, 6:30 a.m.; one wise, one wicked, one sim from one another in their reac siyum for firstborns. Regular Friday night services Candlelighting, 5:45 p.m.; Min ple, and one who does not even tion to the seder, they have one Friday, March 25 , Mincha - will be held during the interme cha, 5:45 p.m.; Maariv, 6:45 know how to ask a question. thing in common: they are all 5:50 p.m., followed by Ma 'ariv. diate Sabbath of Passover at p.m. The Haggadah then proceeds present at the seders. Even the Saturday, March 26, 7:30 p.m. Services for the last Saturday, March 26 - Shab to tell us the questions posed by "wicked son" is there, taking Shacharis 8 a.m. No day of Passover will be held on bos Hagodol. - Shacharis, 7 each of these "sons," and the an active, though rebellious, in chametz may be eaten after April 3, at 9:30 a.m. and Yizkor, a.m. The chometz meal must be reply which we are to give to terest in what is going on in 9:48 a.m. the traditional memorial eaten by 9:30 a.m. No chometz each of them. Jewish life around him. This, at Rabbi Berlinsky's class is at 5 prayers, wi ll be recited. may be eaten after this time. The wise son inquires about least, justifies the hope that p.m. with Mincha at 5:45 p.m. For further information, con Any leftover chometz must be the special mitzvos of Passover some day also the "wicked" Do not light Yorn Tov candles tact the synagogue at 222-2243. thrown out in the trash. Can and we are to tell him in detail one will become wise, and all or start seder before 6:49 p.m. dlelighting, 6:46 p.m.; Mincha all the laws and customs of the Jewish children attending the Sunday, March 27, Shacharis (followed by Maariv), 6:15 p.m. fes tival. The wicked sons asks, seder will become conscien - 9 a.m., Mincha - 5:50 p.m., First seder begins no earlier "What is this service to you?" tious, observant Jews. followed by Ma'ariv. Please do Touro Synagogue than 7:15 p.m. By saying " to you" he excludes Unfortunately, in our time not light Yorn Tov candles or Sunday, March 27 - First himself from the Jewish com of confusion and spiritual start seder before 6:50 p.m. Since this year's Passover holiday commences on Satur Day Pesach - Shacharis, 8:30 munity, and we are told to re bankruptcy, there is another Monday, March 28, a.m.; Prayer of Tai recited, day evening, March 26, a spe ply to him sharply. The simple kind of a Jewish child - "a Shacharis - 9 a.m., Mincha - 10:30 a.m.; Candlelighting, son asks: "What is this all fifth son," who is conspicuous 5:55 p.m., Ma 'ariv - 6:45 with cial pre-Passover Sabbath ser vice will be held in the main 6:47 p.m.; Mincha (followed by about?" In reply we are to tell by his absence from the seder; Havdalah Maariv), 6:15 p.m. Preparations sanctuary, at 7 a.m. The service him of the Exodus from Egypt. the one who has no interest Chol Hamoed. Tuesday to fo r second seder may not start whatsoever in Torah, the seder is scheduled to be completed at As for the son who does not Friday, March 29 to April 1. earlier than 7:15 p.m. Counting shel-Pesach, or the Exodus 9 a.m. to allow for special know how to ask, it is for us to Shacharis - 6:25 a.m., Min of Omer begins. from Egypt and the subsequent Passover preparations. open the conversation with cha - 5:50 p.m. - Ma 'ariv Monday, March 28 - Sec revelation of Sinai. The traditional Passover syn him, as the Torah says, "You 6:10 p.m. ond Day Pesach - Shacharis, A challenging and pertinent agogue services will be con shall tell your son on that day, Last days: Friday, April 1, 8:30 a.m.; Mincha (followed by question is what brought about ducted by Rabbi Shapiro on as follows: 'This is on account Mincha - 5:50 p.m., followed Maariv), 6:15 p.m. Yorn Tov this regrettably all-too-com Saturday and Sunday evening, by Ma'ariv. ends at 7:30 p.m. mon phenomenon of the "fifth at 6:45 p.m. and Sunday and Saturday, April 2, Shacharis Tuesday, March 29 to Friday, son"? Monday mornings, starting at 9 - 9 a.m. Mincha - 5:50 p.m. April 1 - Choe! Hamoed Pe Rabbi Berlinky's class after a.m. Due to the holiday celebra sach - Shacharis, 6:15 a.m. The 'fifth son' is the result of Mincha, followed by Ma 'ariv. Friday, April 1 - Sixth Day tions, the usual Sunday syna an erroneous psychology and Do not light Yorn Tov candles Pesach - Shacharis, 6:15 a.m.; gogue tours will be cancelled misguided policy on the part of before 6:57 p.m. Candlelighting, 5:50 p.m.; Min on the two Passover Sundays, some immigrants arriving in a Sunday, April 3, Shacharis - cha (followed by Maariv), 5:55 new and strange environment. 9 a.m. Daylight Saving Time, but there will be special tours on Tuesday, Wednesday and p.m. Yiskor - Approximately 10:30 Saturday, April 2 - Seventh (Continued on Page 14) Thursday at 1 p.m. The public a.m. Day Pesach - Shacharis, 8:30 is invited to attend, with no ad Mincha - 7 p.m. Daylight a.m.; Candlelighting, 6:54 p.m.; mission fee. Saving Time with Seudas Mincha (followed by Maariv), Mashiach, Ma'ariv and Hav The final days of the holiday (April 1 to April 3) will also 6:20 p.m. dalah, Yorn Tov ends at 7:58 •Daylight Savings Time! have religious services in the p.m. Sunday, April 3 - Eighth main sanctuary . The evening HAPPY PASSOVER Day Pesach - Shacharis, 8:30 Wishing You a service on Friday will be at 6 am.; Yizkor, 10:30 a.m.; Min MATARESE p.m. and the Saturday evening cha, 7:20 p.m.; Maariv, 8:20 BEST WISHES FOR A service will be at 6:45 p.m., LANDSCAPE p.m.; Havdalah - end of Pe HAJ>py p ASSOVER while morning services will sach, 8:30 p.m. Chometz may CONST. INC. start at 9 a.m. Happy not be eaten earlier than 9:30 Over17Years ol STATE TIRE The Yizkor memorial service Professional p.m. Experience SERVICE INC. will be at approximately 10 Former Partner of A UTHORIZED DEALER FOR RHODE ISLAND a.m. on Sunday. These services Passover ' Fully-Insured M & M Landscaping Bob Cimino, Presidmt are open to the community. Temple Beth-El 944-9334 • Cranston, R.I. FIRESTONE AND For further information, call The festival of Passover will 847-4794. · DUNLOP TIRES be celebrated at Temple Beth-El 11 02 JEFFERSON B OU LEVARD, W ARWICK beginning March 26 with a 5:45 738-4366 PATRONIZE OUR p.m. festival service preceding ADVERTISERS. the firstseder. Services continue PASSOVER GREETINGS FROM on March 27 at 10 a.m. when Rabbi Gutterman will speak. Jim's Hair Salon Happy Passover Happy Passover Passover services conclude on 706 Reservoir Avenue, Cranston FROM April 1 at5:45p.m.ataKabbalat 943-1166 NARRAGANSETT Shabbat and on April 2 at 10 Dcwld and Armand Lemol LUMBER CO. a.m. Yizkor prayers will be re "' AlilSRah cited at both services. For more All Type s of information on Passover at ~ENTER Building Materials Temple Beth-El, call 331-6070. 1x1w•1 i11'1~i1 r:nn 550 Jefferson Blvd. Stader Office Building, Suite 1020 Warwick, RI Shared Seder at Boston, Mass. 02116 739-4000 (617) 423-0868 Temple Torat Yisrael Temple Torat Yisrael will be holding a shared seder on the Tel. (401) 884-0400 • Fax (401) 884-0720 second night of Passover, P.O. Box 310, 105 Frenchtown Road March 27. Wishing you and your family The seder, featuring a catered East Greenwich, Rhode Island 02818 meal, will begin at 7 p.m., and a very Happy Passover C1i> will be conducted by Rabbi Rosen and Cantor Gewirtz. BUDLON)/CORR f/ll.ilUYUICe' B'rouj> Tickets must be purchased by noon, March 25. The cost is $20 ROBERT J. CORR, AAI, CIC per adult, and $10 for children REGENCY PLAZA under 12. All are welcome. One Regency Plaza, Providence • 861-0400 Best Wishes for Passover Call 785-1800/ 1801 for more ______....,....,...... J , ,, '' ~=-----:------__,I information. THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HE~ALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1994 - 11 JOYOUS PESACH Last year students, teachers and parents from Temple Am Model Seder Involves David and other congregations from Middletown, R.I. , and Three Communities New Bedford, Mass., gathered by Marty Cooper " Puff The Kosher Dragon." at Congregation Adas Israel in More than 120 people at The song seemed appropriate Fall Ri ver, Mass., for the first of tended the Second annual as it mentioned a certain what now has become a tradi Model Seder March 20 at Tem " Rabbi Goldberg" which also tion model seder. pl e Am David, Warwick, R.I. happens to be the name of Students, parents and teachers Temple Am David's rabbi. from the Greater Fall Ri ver He Cantor George Liberman of brew School and South County Congregation Adas Israel also Hebrew School, as well as host led the group in a variety of Temple Am David gathered to songs and prayers. Students gether to enjoy and learn more from each school were respon about Passover. sible for various portions of the In addition to the traditional seder which included prayers Passover songs and prayers, and lots of songs. PROUD TO BE JEWISH- Ethan Adler, principal ofTemple Am Ethan Adler, principal of Tem What's a seder without fes David's religious school led the group in singing of non ple Am David's religious school tive food? The group feasted on traditional tunes for Passover. Plr oto by Marty Cooper led the group in the singing of matzah, charosis, eggs, celery, non-traditional tunes such as macaroons and of course gefilte fish . Joanne Matise, parent leader for the South County Hebrew School, coordinated the efforts of preparing the students from that school and also organized transportation. Anne Dansicker of Temple Am David was re sponsible fo r setting up the seder plates and other organi zation required to make the program a success. LEARNING ABOUT PASSOVER- Students, teachers and parents joined together in a model Original Styl seder at Temple Am David in Warwick last Sunday. Plroto by Marty Cooper Syphon Bottle Local 'P' FREE HOME & OFFIC DELIVERY Wines FLOUR SH ES ENVIRONMENTAU: by Mike Fink FRIENDLY "I can't find the kosher for ~ ,?6/i J/io./b ,//>, ,FU,4,,e,,;. RETURNABLE BO Passover label on this Chianti," SODIUM-FREE said Gary Saucier, who owns WISHES You A HAPPY PASSOVER Swan Liquors on Hope Street. FAT-FREE " It's a Kedem wine. They own ~ CALORIE-FREE vineyards everywhere. But I HOURS: TUESDAY-SATURDAY 10 AM-6 PM can't put my finger on the P! " I _ 769A HOPE STREET, PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND 02906 401-273-689 1 pointed to the Hebrew charac ters and reassured him. Your roving reporter checks out a different store each year for seder sippings. We did the Day School collection, East Side Pharmacy, Hall's, Way land s·pirits, and Town Liquors. This time we popped at the sign of the swan. 838 Reservoir Avenue, Cranston• 941-7800 • Fax: 941-7815 Gary and his wife Vera had set up a small taste in the Passover Greetings charming backroom of their "SPECIALISTS IN CHOICE AREAS"® shop. Debby Straus, a pilot and "A LEADER IN SALES OF PRESTIGIOUS HOMES IN RI FOR OVER 50 YEARS" flying instructor, joined us at Sales-Mortgages-Appraisals• Statewide MLS • Referral and Computer Service MLS table and at glasses at 10 in the morning. " We're orthodox and 800 Reservoir Ave., Cranston, RI 944-8180/944-7171 keep kosher, but we don't drink much wine," she declared. This Chianti, soft and some what light, has a fine flavor. I hadn't sipped a kosher Chianti,;, Happy Passover Passover since our year in Rome in 1979. Like poetry, the brew brought back fond memories and im Greetings ages. We talked about the rules to all our friends of kashrut and touched the let from ters for mevushal in Hebrew on From the Hofjbergers and Staff the Bartenura sticker labels. Murray, Deborah " Israeli wines don't have to Scott, Melissa promise that they have been boiled," Gary said. "I thought and you just couldn't add yeast to Valerie Anne's Anne Kaplan make the grapes ferment. They R E s T A u R A N T have to turn to alcohol by na 727 East Avenue, Pawtu cket • 727-3620 • Tuesday-Saturday 6-3, Sunday 7-1 ture." As Always, lngredient~.Are Strictly Kosher (Continued on Page 12) 12 - THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1994 ~ .JOYOUS PESACH Passover Food Local Wines Shipped to Jews (Continued from Page 11) We moved right along to the Jews in Cuba, Russia, French Bordeaux, a Herzog se Ukraine and Belarus will lection from the Pays d'Oc, a have kosher-for-Passover food Cabernet Sauvignon. " I can de thanks to the Appeal of Con- , tect the bouquet of blackberry science Foundation and Man and of cedar from the branches hattan's Park East Synagogue. and the barrels," noted our Some 3½ tons of Passover host with a delighted pursing of supplies, contributed by the the lips and glint of the eye. " It synagogue, have already been has body and complexity." I al airlifted to the three republics ways like to hear the word of the former Soviet Union. "complex" used in a positive Three-quarters of a ton pro way, a virtue of art and of wine. vided by the ecumenical Ap I trusted Gary, a newfound peal of Conscience Foundation friend and ally right up on have gone to Cuba, according Hope across from CVS,under to Rabbi Arthur Schneier, se the graceful sign of the swan, nior rabbi at Park East and the logo of his liquorstore. He president of the foundation. ca res about details. He can "These shipments enable swish a glass with flair, but he Jews in hardship areas where can also set a bowl of plain wa RELAXING AT LAST - Bonnie Ryvicker,standing left,and Esta Yavner, standing right,compare Passover food is not available ter on the floor for his pet dog notes while the intergenerational Passover seder at Providence Hebrew Day School gets started. to properly celebrate the holi and mine, his guest dog, with a Patiently waiting are guest Sonya Dwyer, seated on the left, and Esther Feuer, on the right, in her day," Rabbi Schneier said. "For fancy flourish. "Don't worry, mother's arms. Herald pl,oto by Alison Smit/, the members of the synagogue, it's Poland Spring. They add it is an act of sharing with fel too much chlorine to city proless10nal acted as host or low Jews. For the Appeal of faucets. In our Smithfield, we Passover is a Time of Bitterness hostess at each table. Conscience Foundation, it is a draw our water from a deep Plates of matzah, dishes of symbolic as well as a tangible spring, it's pure and perfect." and Joy - Literally horseradish, bowls of salt wa humanitarian act among mem You can also get a great selec cer, ana cnaru!)tl wert: set out. bers of different faiths. '.' tion of California Passover bot Jewish Eldercare of Rhode Is under the direction of Rabbi Four or five babies and their The Passover shipments tles from Swan, Chardonnay, land, under the direction of Daniel Goodman, held an in mothers were centers of atten were made po as'Jle through Gamay, white Zinfandel, from Bonnie Ryvicker, and the Prov tergenerational model Passover tion - were a group of the cooperation 01 several food Weinstock, Yaden, Golan. If idence Hebrew Day School, seder on March 21 at noon. first-graders, who sang a cap industry leaders in the you like whites, try a Pinot Gri The dining room was warm pella, and recited in voices metropolitan New York area, gio Italian from Bartenura. and filled with reflected spring hushed by the importance of including Mel Weitz, president Check out the bins, and have a sunlight. Long tables had been the occasion. covered in orange, green and of Mel 's Market Foodtown; blast. Drop by your local vint The event was truly intergen Moe Kolpen of Kolpen Distrib HAPPY white tablecloths. Van by van, erational. It was also, Rabbi ner, wherever you are, they utors, and Herman Hochberg, a probably lay down lovely bot the guests - elderly Jew_ish Goodman said, "an instruc leader in the liquor industry. residents of nearby nursing tional aid" to the children. Jews tles of delightful drops from the PASSOVER Passover wine was contributed four corners of Eden on some homes - arrived and were led are charged with telling their by Kedem Wine and the into the hall. children about their heritage. rack. So see what the boys in Schapiro Wine Co. the back room may have and books A volunteer or health-care Every element of the seder rep Jack Rosen, a vice president resented either the joy of tell them you're having the of Park East Synagogue and a same. spring, of liberation " when G-d trustee of the Appeal of Con HAPPY PASSOVER took us out of Egypt," of the science Foundation, used his French Jews moment when Israel was born private plane to transport the (Continued from front page) as a nation, or the bitterness of food to Havana. slavery, of suffering and grief, The Cuban Passover pro CRIF, the umbrella body rep ~; which Jews must always re square GREENE,_(!) gram was initiated in 1988, resenting French Jewry, refused WICKPOIU> n.o~JNC. member and pay homage to. A when Rabbi Schneier headed to comment about Sitruk's call model Passover seder "says it an Appeal of Conscience dele on observant Jews not to vote. 471 Angell Street All Occasion Florist all. " gation to Havana to discuss hu "We do not comment on the Providence, Rhode Island man rights and religious free declaration of France's chief 170 West Main Street dom in Cuba with Fidel Castro. North Kingstown, RI 02852 PASSOVER GREETINGS rabbi," said Jacqueline Keller, 331-9097 As a result of that meeting, the director of CRJF. (401) 295-5900 I D[IJEI I Monday-Thursday 9-9 Cuban leader and the U.S. gov But sources close to CRJF Friday, Saturday 9-10 OPEN MONDAY SENERCHIA ernment granted special per made it clear that the declara Sunday 12-5 THROUGH SATURDAY mission for the foundation to tion of the chief rabbi was an 9AMT05 P~ BROS., INC. ship Passover supplies despite embarrassment. WE SPECIALIZE IN: the trade embargo between the Sitruk's aides told the Jewish Tennis• Basketball Courts two countries. Permission has Telegraphic Agency that the • Asphalt & Asphalt Products been re-granted annually since chief rabbi had been misunder Seal Coating • Parking Lots then. stood. Happy Passover Driveways "He acted because he is very 821-0565 • Free Estimates attached to the republican du to all our friends & customers from all of us at READ THE HERALD! ties: Jews must vote and he him self never misses a poll. This time, because the date of the 'HAPPY PASSOVER TO ALL 'MY CUSTOMERS vote will make it impossible for Orthodox Jews to accomplish "THE INTERNATIONAL DELICATESSEN" 'Van 'Dyke Jfair Salon their duty, the chief rabbi tried 256 'EAST STREET, CRANSTON• 463'7706 to find a solution," a senior rabbi 521-0368 • 774 HOPE STREET, PROVIDENCE 'Ric6artf said. Sitruk's statement also prompted an angry answer in the influential newspaper Le PASSOVER GREETINGS TO Monde. "In spite of the chief rabbi, I'll OUR MANY FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS vote on March 27," wrote Guy Konopnicki, a Jewish writer and a former communist leader. "This day, as a Jew, I'll ob- . serve the feast of Pesach. Ac ~~·-~G1D>J1R~ \. cording to the tradition, I'll tell RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE my children about slavery in Egypt. 'We were slaves in the 1134 Bald Hill Road • Warwick, Rhode Island • 828-2311 land of Egypt,' says the OPEN 7 DA VS A WEEK Hai;ga~ah,,, h~ wr_o,t~. . THE Rl-lODEISLANDTEWISf'.(HERALo'," rnuRSDAY: MARCH 24, 1994 13 MILESTONES study par.els, including the Brandeis Names New panel on child care policy of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Advisory Board Dean of Heller School for the Head Start Evaluation A leading expert in policy for ident of Massachusetts General Design Project, Zero to Three, children and families has been Hospital. " Dr. Shonkoff brings and the Action Team on School the understanding of a pediatri appointed dean of Brandeis Readiness of the National Gov cian with the knowledge and University's Heller Graduate ernors' Association. vision necessary for the ardu School for Advanced Studies in In 1993, he was appointed Social Welfare. The appoint ous task of training individuals vice chair of the newly estab ment was approved by the ex who can address the country's lished Board on Children and ecutive committee of the board social ills." Families of the Institute of of trustees, and will be pre Besides a background in the Medicine and the National Re sented to the full board April 8. clinical aspects of health care, search Council. He also has Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D., is Shonkoff has broad knowledge been a visiting professor at currently professor of pedi and experience in social policy more than 12 institutions in the atrics and chief of the Di vision issues. The recipient of a Kel United States and abroad. David L. Spraragen and Gabriela E. Rozanski of Developmental and Behav logg National Fellowship, "These a re not times for busi ioral Pediatrics at the Univer Shonkoff earned his M.D. from ness as usual in the worlds of ,Rozanski to Wed Spraragen sity of Massachusetts Medical New York University School of social policy and human ser School in Worcester, a position Medicine in 1972, and has vices," Shonkoff said. "We David L. Spraragen, son of taught primary-secondary level he has held for the past decade. worked at several medical insti- need places like the Heller Dr. and Mrs. Sanford C. Judaica/ Hebrew language in "The significance of this ap tutions, including Boston Chil School that are able to blend Spraragen of East Greenwich, Buenos Aires. pointment cannot be over dren's Hospital and Harvard the passion of the advocate, the R.l. , and Gabriela E. Rozanski Her fiance holds a master's stated," said Brandeis Presi Medical School. skepticism of the scientist, and of Buenos Aires, Argentina, an -degree in Jewish education and dent Samuel 0 . Thier, who is He has served on numerous the wisdom of the scholar in or nounce their engagement. She attended Brandeis University. leaving May 23 to become pres- national advisory boards and der to generate creati11e re is the daughter of Moises and He teaches in the Schenectady sponses to complex social prob Dora Rozanski of Buenos Aires. City School System and at the Local Named in Presidential lems." The bride-to-be is a doctoral Temple Gates of Heaven and ca ndidate in Jewish literature at Agudat Achim synagogues in Scholars Program the Jewish Theological Semi Schenectady, N.Y. nary in New York City. She A June wedding is planned. Yitzchak M. Gottlieb, son of performance on either the SAT Berg-Gorden Professor David and Esther of the College Board or the Gottlieb, and a graduating se ACT Assessment of the Ameri Engagement nior at New England Academy can College Testing Program. Arlene and James Berg an of Torah, has been named one Further consideration is based nounce the engagement of their of approximately 2,600 semifi on students' essays, self-assess daughter, Alicia Shana Berg to nalists in the 1994 Presidential ments, descriptions of activi David Scott Gorden, son of Scholars Program. The semifi ties, school recommendations, Pearl and Irving Gorden. nalists were selected from more and school transcripts. A distin The bride-to-be resides in than 2.5 million students ex guished panel of educators will Colts Neck, N.j., and is in her pected to graduate from U.S. review these submissions and fourth year of Pharmacy high schools in 1994. select 500 finalists in April. School at the University of From these semifinalists, 141 Final selection of the scholars Rhode Island. She will be grad will be selected as the 1994 will be made by the White uating in December. presidential scholars. The House Commission on Presi Her fiance is from Provi White House will announce dential Scholars, a group of dence, R.I. and is a graduate of their selection in mid-May. some 30 citizens appointed by the University of Rhode Island Now in its 30th year, the the President. They will select and is attending the University Presidential Scholars Program one young man and woman of Massachusetts at Amherst. is the highest federal honor be from each state, the District of He is completing a master's de stowed upon graduating high Columbia, Puerto Rico, and gree in environmental sciences. school seniors. Scholars are se U.S. students living abroad; up An April 1995 wedding is be lected on the basis of superior to 20 students from the creative ing planned. academic achievements, lead and performing arts; and 15 ership qualities, strong charac students at-large. Debra Rones and Charles Fierstein ter, and involvement in com Scholars will be invited to munity and school activities. Washington, D.C., for several ·~·· · , Nathan The 2,600 semifinalists were days in late June to receive the · <:t · Scott Rones to Wed Fierstein selected for their exceptional Presidential Scholar medallion ~ THE J at a recognition ceremony and · · Saslavasky Mr. and Mrs. Tony Rones of Executive Named to participate in activities with Essex, England, announce the JWADJMA Israeli Prime Minister their elected representatives, engagement of their daughter, Yitzhak Rabin has announced educators, and others. in public Debra, to Charles Fierstein, son J BAND ~ the appointment _of well-re life. of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Fier garded political consultant, ed Mr. anq_ Mrs. Michael stein, formerly of Providence. Personalized Event Planning He is the grandson of Mrs. • BAR/ BAT M ITZVAH ucator, and business leader Saslavsky of Austin, Tex., an • WEDDING Amos Eiran, 58, as the general nounce the birth of their first Barney Silverstein and the late • ANN IVERSARY chairman of the Golda Meir As Lauren son, Nathan Scott Saslavsky, Barney Silverstein. He is also • BIRTHDAY sociation, an Israel-based edu on Feb. 9. the grandson of the late Mr. • AN Y OCCASION ca tional organization created Nicole Maternal grandparents are and Mrs. Lester Fierstein of Featuring Vocalist/MC 10 years ago to promote demo Gertz Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kleinman Providence. Hal Katzman cratic values and Jewish-Arab of Chicago, Ill. Paternal grand A June 5 wedding is planned in Essex, England. Performing Jewish Music, Rock ond Roll, coexistence among Israeli parents are Mr. and Mrs. Top 40, Jozz ond Swing, ond More! youth, especially those among Arnold Saslavsky of East Announce your wedding LARRY NELSON immigrants from non-demo Sandra and Barry Gertz of Greenwich, R.I. Great-grand (S08) S86-7382 • (61 n 963· 1696 cratic countries. Warwick, R.I., announce the parents are Mr. and Mrs. Morris in the HERALD. Making the announcement in birth of their daughter, Lauren Saslavsky of Florida and Mr. the United States was Robert C. Nicole, sister of Jeremy Austin and Mrs. Bennett Kleinman of Klutznick of Boulder, Colo., · Gertz. Florida. who serves as the president of MEDICARE & MEDICAID -= NURSING PLACEMENT::: CERTIAED AND LICENSED the North American organiza HOME CARE INC. ~ tion supporting the work of the =. SKILLED NURSING STAFF association. CASE MANAGEMENT "We are delighted to wel ·. ~.S.'V:P'. 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We ,. • Master Social Work are certain that his knowledge, Monday thru Friday, 10 to 5, or by appointment • Pediatrics experiences and network will 'D,66i, J{a,11/11 O(/e1116a( We can provide you with expand the work that is accom 100 Lafarette Street, Suite 303, Pawtucket, Rhode Island '· a comprehensive program plished in Israel and propel our (Off East Avenue at Providence line) Providence North Kingstown Brookline, MA to help you 1,,eep your fund-raising efforts in the 40 1-727-3 100 (4011453 -4474 (4011885-6070 (6171738 -5030 loved ones at home. United States to new levels." 14 THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1994 THE JEWISH COMMUNITY Women's Hearts Topic Centenarians, The Fifth Son What About (Continued from Page 10) of Association Meeting Where Are You? Finding themselves a small mi Today? nority, and encountering social The 53rd annual meeting of An exhibit about recent de the American Heart Associa and economic difficulties, some parents had the mistaken no velopments regarding racism tion, Rhode Island Affiliate will The Rhode Island Depart tion, which they transmitted to and anti-Semitism, developed be held April 11, from 5 to 9:30 ment of Elderly Affairs has an by the Anne Frank House in p.rn. at Rhodes-On-The Paw nounced the · annual search their children, that the way to overcome these difficulties is to Amsterdam, and sponsored in tuxet in Cranston, and the em for Rhode Islanders age 100 North America by the Anne phasis will be on women's and older. become quickly assimilated into the new environment by Frank Center U.S.A. will be on heart health. Rhode Island centenarians display from April 5 through 24 Judith Reichman, M.D., of will be invited to the 17th an discarding the heritage of their forefathers, and abandoning the at the Jewish Community Cen Los Angeles, Calif., will deliver nual Governor's Centenarians Jewish way of life. Finding that ter of Rhode Island, 401 Elm the main address. Brunch scheduled for May 3 at this process leads to the dis grove Ave., Providence. Reichman is an internation Pocasset Lodge, 12 Old Pocas comfort of inner spiritual con The exhibit opens at 7:30 ally recognized specialist in set Lane in Johnston. flict, some parents resolved to p.m. with a reception for Holo women's health and has ap Any Rhode Islander who will spare their children this conflict caust museum members and peared on "Hour Magazine," tum 100 before Dec. 31, 1994, altogether. They simply gave members of MATIV: the Tem the nationally sydicated televi is eligible to participate in the their children no Jewish educa ple Beth-El Young Adults. At 8 sion program "Woman to brunch. For more information, tion or training. p.m. that evening, the public Woman," "Live With Sonya," contact Marian Beckman at will be welcomed to the display "The Horne Show" and health 277-6159. By this attitude these parents Judith Reichman, M.D. hoped to assure their children's and a discussion of it. programming on the Public Throughout the month, Broadcasting System, carried existence and survival in the new environment. But what events relating to the display locally in Rhode Island. are scheduled. Call 861-8800 " Heart disease is the number ANew Jewish Holiday Handbook kind of existence is it if every thing spiritual and holy is for more information. one cause of death in women. A grant from the Temple Yet, research on women is in its Sacred Celebrations: A Jewish Jewish holidays and festival traded for the material? What Holiday Handbook, recently celebrations, Sacred Celebra kind of survival is it, if it means Beth El Young Adults group infancy," said Marc Weinberg, has made all this possible, and M.D., president of the AHA, published by KT AV Publishing tions: A Jewish Holiday Hand the sacrifice of the shul for the House, was written by Rabbi book divides each chapter into amenities of the body? to cover expenses, the group Rhode Island Affiliate. will sponsor a performance of Weinberg also notes, " We Ronald H. Isaacs, spiritual the following sections: Words The tragic consequence of his leader of Temple Sholom in of Torah (an introduction to the utterly false approach was that the Ocean State Follies later in need to encourage boys, and the month. girls to be physically active and Bridgewater, N.J., and Rabbi holiday by means of an expla thousands upon thousands of to help promote this in families Kerry M. Olitzky, director of nation of a key theme state Jews have been severed from and through opportunities in the New York School of Educa ment from Jewish tradition); their fountain of life, from their Requiem organized sports. tion of Hebrew Union College Back to Basics (the basis for the true faith, and from th~ir fellow "As the tobacco industry Jewish Institute of Religion. holiday and its celebration); Jews. Deprived of spiritual life. (Continued from Page 4) The book is a response struggles with more and more Calendar (the holiday in the there has risen a generation of criminal actions. It didn't ex to the growing desire by more Americans quitting smoking, it context of the Jewish calendar, children who no longer belong plain the ethos of a man who aggressively - and success to the growing desire by more providing historical back to the "four sons" of the Hag made a difference at a difficult fully - targets young girls - and more American Jews to ground as well), Celebrations gadai, not even to the category time. What does explain him is and wins. guide their own Jewish learn (In the Synagogue, In the of the "wicked" one. They are his most fundamental belief in "The one group that is smok ing and religious observances, Home), Making Family (family almost a total loss to their fel Judaism. " If you accept the ing more and starting earlier - especially within the context of activities for the horiday, in low Jews and to true Yid- bible," he said, " then human are girls. We must counteract family. cluding fun, games, and food), dishkim. • • • rights is an obligation. You can Designed to provide a basic Basic Blessings, and a Glossary the advertising messages with The Exodus from Egypt and not take the thrust of the bibli understanding of the majo~ of key words and phrases. messages of good health to the festival of Pesach are force cal literature and keep quiet. " help girls remain smoke free. fu l reminders that an attempt to In 1984 Meyer returned to While we do this we must work New Reform ·Prayerbook Available emulate the environment does the United States to serve as diligently to stop th_e tobacco not lead to survival, deliver vice president of the University A new prayerbook contain from the Halle! (psalms of industry." ance and freedom. These come of Judaism in Los Angeles. That ing a creative Sabbath service praise), and Hatikvah, Israel's The importance of a healthy from staunch loyalty to our tra year he also received B'nai for the celebration of Yorn national anthem. diet, and the need for more ditions and the Torah way of B'rith's Dor L'Dor Award (Gen Ha' Atzma'ut (Israel Indepen Interspersed among the eration to Generation) for "out young women to enter the sci dence Day) in Reform Jewish life. Our ancestors in Egypt prayers are writings by Abra were a small minority, and standing achievements in the ences, should also be stressed, congregations has been pub ham Joshua Heschel and the Is lived in the most difficult cir service of humanity, which up Weinberg believes. lished by ARZA - the Assoda raeli poet S. Shalom, the poetry cumstances. Yet they preserved lift us and enable us and gener Reichman will be joined on tion of Reform Zionists of of Haim Nachman Bialik, trans their identity, and with pride ations to come." He later re the program by three local America. lated by Rabbi Citrin, and a and dignity, tenaciously clung turned to New York to serve in Rhode Island women. This year Yorn Ha'Atzma'ut song by Dan Menossi - all Tickets are $25 per person, to their own way of life, tradi the pulpit at B'nai Jeshurun fall on April 14. dealing with Israel and the re synagogue. $20 for paid AHA members. A The 25-page, soft-cover vol tions and uniqueness. Precisely turn to Zion. in this way was their existence Meyer died on Dec. 29, 1993, heart healthy gourmet dinner ume was produced by Rabbis Copies of the Yom will be served. Advance regis assured, and eventually their at the age of 63. Paul Citrin, Shelton Donnell Ha' Atzrna'ut Sabbath service This Pesach we can honor tration required by April 1. For and Robert Loewy. deliverance from every slavery, ($1.25 per copy, including physical and spiritual. him by continuing to reach out further information, call the In addition to the regular Re postage and handling) may be AHA at 728-5300. to the forgotten and the op form Sabbath eve service, the obtained by contacting ARZA Adapted from a letter of the pressed, and by reminding our ARZA prayerbook contains al at 838 Fifth Avenue, New York, Lubavitcher Rebbe. Submitted by own Jews of the humanity and Correspondents wanted: 724-0200 ternative readings from Deu N.Y. 10021; telephone (212) Rabbi Y. Laufer. spirituality of Judaism. teronomy and Ezekiel, excerpts 249-0100. Calendar of Jewish Events On-Going Exhibition Monday, March 28 The National Museum of American Jewish The Jewish Community Center will be closed History permanently exhibits 'The American today due to Passover. Jewish Experience," the story of Jewish settle ment in this country from 1654 to present. For Friday, April 1 more information, call (215) 923-5984. 8:15 p.m. - ''First Frida( late services at Congregation Mishka n Tefi la m Chestnut Hill Saturday, March 26 will continue with Rabbi Michael Meni toff. He 10:30 a.m. - E. Z. Tot Shabbot for children - will be joined by special guest, Dr. Leonard ages 4 to 6, Temple Am David, 40 Gardiner Fein, writer, teacher, and founder of Moment Street, Warwick. For info, call 463-7944. Magazine. All are welcome. For more informa tion, call (617) 332-7770. Sunday, March 27 National Merit Finalists 6:30 p. m. - Members of the Kosher Mealsite Members of the Jewish community are encouraged to program at the JCCRI are invited to attend a submit events for inclusion in the Jewish Calendar. Seven Moses Brown students have been named finalists in PassoverComrnunitySeder.Thecostis $10for Please mail to R.I. Jewish Herald, P.O. Box 6063, the National Merit Scholarship Program. From left to right, adults and $5 for children. (Regular Meals1te Providence, R.J. 02940 or fa x to 726-5820, before the they are John Doll, Daniel Birch, Brian Panoff (rear), Joyce will not be held today.) Friday prior to publication. Chang (center front) Carl Haning, Nicholas Sherman and Lisa Perlman. ______. ______. ___ _ ··------·-·· ·------THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1994 15 . THE JEWISH COMMUNITY Joining him in the concert Emanu-EI Kicks Off 70 Years will be the Temple Choir, the Congregational Choral Club, Temple Emanu-El is plan the Synagogue in the Land of and the synagogue's Youth ning a weekend of special Opportunity." Choir, all conducted by Cantor events April 8 to 10 to begin the During the Shabbat service Brian Mayer. celebration of its 70th anniver on April 9, she will give the Dr. After retiring, Cantor Perl sary. Two nationally known Joseph G. and Beatrice Fishbein man moved with his wife, guests will be at the temple for Family Lecture, " The Syna Muriel, to Boca Raton, Fla., the weekend, Professor Rela gogue as Kehillah/ Commu where he has been hazzan at Geffen and Cantor Ivan E. Perl nity: Yesterday, Today & To Temple Beth Shalom. man. morrow." In 1988 he was appointed Geffen, of Gratz College, will acting cantor of the great syna deliver a series of lectures on gogue in Stockholm, Sweden, the role of The American Syna where he served for some six gogue, giving a sociological months. perspective to Emanu-El's While in Europe that year, he growth and development. and his son, Josh, also a cantor, There will be two other high toured Scandinavia for the lights during the weekend: the Scandinavian United Jewish dedication of the temple's Ju· Appeal, giving a series of con daica Museum, which will be certs. Their tour included Oslo, named for Natalie Percelay and Helsinki, and Stockholm. her late husband, Abraham, He was recently appointed to and an exhibition of photos the National Rabbinical Advi and memorabilia reviewing sory Cabinet of the Jewish Na Emanu-El 's 70 years. · tional Fund. Perlman has always re mained an active leader in pro fessional and community ser· vice. While in Rh ode Island, he was chaplain to the Rhode Is Geffen served for the last fiv e land Chapter of the Jewish War years as dean for Academic Af Veterans of America, served on fairs at Gratz College. In 1992 the Advisory Committee of the she was a Skirball Fellow at the Rh ode Island Child Welfare Oxford Center for Post-Gradu Center and on the board of the ate Hebrew Studies, and is a Meeting Street School, and was Fellow of the Jerusalem Perry Rosenthal, Guest Soloist Center a founder and chairman of the for Public Affairs and serves on Friends of the Rhode Island the Advisory Committee of the School for the Deaf. National Jewish Family <...enter AShowcase Evening of Chamber Music In 1981 he was elected vice of the American Jewish Com president and, in 1983, presi This spring semester's con The program for the evening mittee. She is vice president of dent of the Cantors Assembly, cert in the Clair-endowed Uni includes music by Albinoni, J.S. the Association for Jewish the world's largest body of haz versity Artists Series has been Bach, Britten, Loeffler, and Professor Rela M. Geffen Studies, the major organization zanim. developed by oboist Jane Mur Kalliwoda. Faculty musicians In addition, a Sunday morn· of professors of Jewish Studies In the fall of 1994, Cantor ray, the director of URl's Music are soprano Margaret Swan ing breakfast will feature a mul in North America. Perlman will receive an hon Preparatory Program. son, John Dempsey on violin, Perlman, hazzan emeritus of timedia presentation on 70 orary doctorate from The Jew " An Evening of Chamber Ann Davis on viola, Mary Scott years of Rhode Island Jewish Temple Emanu-El, retired in ish Theological Seminary, in Music with Jane Murray and Spry on piano, and Jane Mur experience and Emanu-El's role 1986 after serving 22 years as recognition of his distinguished Friends" will take place in the ray on oboe. Joining them will in it, including music, slides hazzan of the temple. He will service in the cantorate. Fine Arts Recital Hall, Kingston be guest artists Steve Mar and stories. be the featured performer at the Events for the weekend are Campus, on March 26 at 8 p.m. torella on harpsichord, Perry At the Rabbi Morris G. & Benton A. Odessa Concert on free except the Friday dinner "This series is designed to Rosenthal on cello, and URI Rebbitzen Diana Silk Memorial April 9. Perlman will sing a va and the Sunday breakfast. For showcase our faculty talent - graduate student Lori Madru Lecture on April 8, Geffen will riety of musical selections, more information, call 331- we are musicians as well as on violin. bringing back some favorites speak on "The American Jew 1616. teachers - so I used as many Tickets are $5 and are avail ish Experience and the Place of from earlier years at Emanu-El. faculty members as I could," able at the door. Hadassah Hosts said Murray. Barbara Long to be Honored Travel Reunion Movie Review------The Rhode Island section of fund and community service Participants in any of Hadas (Continued from Page 6) seen the obese mom on TV the National Council of Jewish projects. sah's Winter in Netanya or playing a Jewish wife who Women will host a kick"off cof- · Barbara Coen will chair the Spring in Netanya travel pro· Jewish. Coolidge m.:ikcs him an crushes her beloved husband to fee hour for the organization's event with the assistance of grams are invited to a WIN / Irish immigrant. The character death in bed - just by rolling Community Service Award Marcia Blacher, Carol Brook SPIN reunion on April 26 at never develops. He's the stock over on him. The grotesque is luncheon on April 7 at 10 a.m. lyn, Marilyn Friedman, Marion 1:30 p.m. at Hadassah House, figment of feminist rhetoric, the in these days. in the home of Robin Homin- Goldsmith, Evelyn Gompertz, 50 West 58th St., New York, bum you bump off and get on "Grumpy Old Men" gives off. Rosalind Gorin, Irma Gross, N.Y. For information, call with your life. Walter Matthau a chance to Barbara Long will receive the Robin Hominoff, Abigail Leav- Selma Mammen at (212) 303- In interviews, Martha strut his stuff and cram his 1994 NCJW Community Ser- itt, Nan Levine, Judith Litch 8133. Coolidge, a RISO graduate, lets homely puss into the camera's vice Award May 10 at the Mar- man, Karen Seeche, Hinda us in on how much her · films · fish-eye lens as a Jewish wid riott Hotel, Providence. Pro- Seminoff, Florence Tillis, Lau· Pawtucket Arts Council tell her own life story, how ower with a mezuzah on the ceeds from the luncheon will rette Trager and Doris Zaid Sponsors Classes for much the love of paintings took door of his snowy retreat. He benefit the NCJW scholarship man. over her heart and soul. has a son who runs for mayor. Kids and Adults Another movie moved to This boy hoards a crush on Hearing on Sundlun Proposal The Pawtucket Arts Council town in the last days of winter, Darryl Hannah, the Christian will sponsor classes for chi!- "What's Eating Gilbert Grape," next-door neighbor, daughter to Close Wards dren and adults this spring. All a Swedish film in English. of Jack Lemmon, who wins the lie and health care profession classes are eight to 1O weeks in Johnny Depp reprises his role hand of Ann-Margaret. For this Lt. Gov. Bob Weygand and als are expected to testify be· duration. Classes being offered as Edward Scissorhands. An review, the point is, why is ro· the Long Term Care Coordinat fore the council. A. Kathryn include: angel from a haunted house on mance between Jew and Gen- ing Council will hold a public Power, director of Mental lntroduction to dance styles the edge of a flat town brings tile a cause for a victory cele hearing on Gov. Sundlun's Health, Retardation & Hospi· (ages 4 to 6), instructor, JoAnn goodness and love, along with bration? The film has some proposal to close four wards at tals will be among the state of Enander. some bite, and some lyrical charm, with Burgess Meredith the state's Slater Hospital in ficials expected to monitor the Drawing for adults, instruc- mood. Gilbert has two pals, in a small but funny part, but Cranston, March 28. hearing. tor, Linda Francis. one in the funeral game, the the theme goes way back to Closure could displace more The hearing will start at 2 Beginning art (ages 5 and 6). other into the fast-food burger Hollywood's earliest talkies. than 100 Jong-term care pa p.m. in the Arnold Conference Discover art (ages 7 to 9), in- business. It's a cartoon world of Abie needs an Irish Rose. Free- tients, forcing them into private Center at the Slater Hospital, structor, Linda Francis. satire, but cuts into some pain dom for a Jew means, as it has facilities which are not ade Cranston, R.I. Mixed media art (ages 10 to along the way. always meant, to uproot his be- quately equipped to care for All interested parties are 12), instructor, Lindsay Adler. Gilbert has to choose be· liefs and embrace somebody their needs. urged to attend and make their Beginning photography (ages tween his very, very fat mama else's. All you can keep is the Members of the general pub- views known. 10 to 12), instructor, Gregory with her idiot son, his brother, "kloles," the Yiddish cuss· Le Blanc. No camera is required or a skinny gal who travels in a words, which pepper and salt Announce your graduation, new job for this class! trailer with her grandma on the the script. " Putz!" "Shmuck!" or promotion in the Herald. Please call the council at 725- roads to freedom. A brother's yells Walter. Black and white photos welcome. 1151 for class details. Classes keeper, a Reuben, or a Jacob on What are we saying about '-.------~~------'' starJ .April -4:, .....••••.• . ••• • _t_h_e_tr~iJ pf!9y~?. Y9~,l!'~Y .'1a,".e. . .ci~r~\'l.v .e~L •• ••. •....•. . . 16 - THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1994 / NOAH'S ARK A newspaper for Jewish ehlldren VOL. XVI, No. 7 MARCH. 1994 / ADAR-NISSAN, 5754 Passover Maze Another Exodus! Start at the front door and find all eight pieces of chametz Once again, the president of -Syria, Hafez Assad, promised (leavened bread, used to describe any foods not allowed that all of the Jews living in Syria would be allowed to during Passover). You may start at the beginning for each leave at last. Could this finally be the end of the Jews' ter item. rible days in that country? About 1,250 Jews are left in Syria. About 200 elderly people probably will not leave. There are hundreds of Jews who do have their travel permits who will probably leave as soon as they can. Most will be going to Brooklyn where a large Jewish community from Syria lives. Why do Jews want or ne-ed to leave Syria? While the problems of Jews living in the former Soviet Union were well known, fewer people knew about the terrible lives of Syrian Jews. Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Syrian Jews lived in fear. They were beaten or arrested without cause. Many were tortured in prison. They were not allowed to leave the country and had to live in a small area, called a ghetto. They could not go beyond three miles of their homes with out special permission. They had to carry special cards which were stamped "Jew" in red. They could not vote, enter the university, or even apply for a driver's license. As peace discussions with Israel improved, President Assad began allowing Syrian Jews to leave in small groups. Now he has said that all of them could leave. Is the final exodus of the Jews of Syria nearly over? When these Jews leave, few Jews will live in any Middle Eastern country except for Israel. This will be the first time that Jews did not live in those countries since before the destruction of the First Temple, more than 2500 years ago. Before Israel's War of Independence in 1948, nearly one million Jews lived in Arab lands. Now, most of the twenty t Jne Arab countries have very few Jews left. When the Syrian FRONT Jews go, the end of an important period in Jewish history DOOR will go with them . .-----~------·-··-··------·------·------, I I I The family all gets together The Seder We fill Elijah's cup with wine I 1 To hear the four questions asked. ~ - j i· And sing as we open the door. I , The youngest child at the seder Will the prophet leave us a sign I 1 Is the one who performs this task. That he visited us once more? I 1 After our Passover blessings The afikomen hunt begins We finl.sh our Passover seder, !, I And all of the prayers are said, And all over the house we look. After singing a chorus or three. We eat lots of turkey and dressing 'Ti! finally somebody wins - We notice the seder ends later 1 l -~~_:~~=:~~~~:~:~---~~-~~:~.~::~:: ___, ,._____ ~-B~:~~:h, "~:~:: __ J Each song in the collection contains melody lines, chords Jewish Music for Kids and translations. It was edited The Children's Museum Mangino/ (Hebrew for of Transcontinental Music Pub by Cantor Stephen Richards. The song selections were made Make It and Take It fee beyond the price of admis " melodies"), a 308-page com lications, the music publishing sion. A reception will follow pilation of Jewish music in He division of the UAHC. by members of the American On April 5, 3 to 4:30 p.m., kids will drop into the Chil and refreshments will be brew and English designed for Manginot can be used from Conference of Cantors. served 5 to 6 p.m .. use in religious schools, has pre-school through bar/ bat Richards describes the com dren's Museum of Rhode Is just been published by the mitzvah. A companion manual, lation as " music for the class land to have fun creating a trea Scienterrific Union of American Hebrew Project Mangin ot: Guidelines for room and the home," whose sure to take home using On April 8, 9:30 to 1:30 p.m., . Congregations. Mu sic Edu cation, provides les purpose is to help teach Ju innovative and colorful materi pre-schoolers (age s 3 to 5) will The volume contains 201 son plans and learning activi daism and encourage children als during Make It and Take It. celebrate spring and explore songs and represents the first ties for religious school teach " to see the world through Jew This popular program is for botany by potting marigolds for new comprehensive collection ers, although the songs can also ish eyes." ages 3 and older. their gardens and spider plants of music for religious schools in be used as a stand-alone music One or both volumes may be Where's Marvin? for the indoors during Scienter ordered through Transconti more than three decades, ac curriculum, Tischler noted. It On April 6, 3 to 5 p.m., a new rific. Same day registration is cording to Dr. Judith B. Tis also includes songs for different nental Music Publications, 838 required; please call 726-2591 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. activity called Where's Mar chler, directo! and senior editor holidays. at 8:30 a.m. to register. There is 10021. vin? will begin. Marvin from Mars will be landing, and chil a $ 1.50 fee beyond the usual dren will search for Marvin in price of admission. 10 mysterious locations around The Children's Museum of the museum during a bilingual Rhode Island, located at 58 " Find the Martian" hunt. Clue Walcott St. in Pawtucket, is sheets for the search will be in open Tuesday through Satur Spanish and English. In a sepa day, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and rate program, kids will see Mar Sunday, 1 to 5 pm. Admission vin in a Martian puppet show is $3.50 per person, museum and create their own space members free. First Sunday of aliens. Same day telephone each month is Fleet FREE Sun registration is required for the day - no admission fee - program; please call the mu sponsored by Fleet Bank. For 9 seum at 726-2591 beginning at directions and more informa (' 9 a.m. to register. There is no tion, call 726-2591. Local Student Marches to Israel WASH IN GTON - A schol derstand why it must never arship from B'nai B'ri th Women happen again." will enable Mark Naparstek of BBW awarded nine scholar 8th Grade Winners Foxboro to tour Nazi concen ships for this year's march to (From left to ri ght) Marian Levchinsky, Sair Peiser, Debbie Mann, Jaime Singer, Eitan Miron tration ca mps to better under the B'nai B'rith Youth Organi and Oleg Tukh were among the Science fd·;r winners at Alperin Schechter Day School recently. stand the Holocaust through zation international officers. the "March of Living" project. Naparstek is Grand Aleph Many Middle School stu Marian Levchinsky's project, Debbie Mann and Jaime " It's essential that young Shaliach. Singer entered with "Bottle dents at the Ruth and Max "The Effect of Vibration on the people understand what the During the two-week-long Alperin Schechter Day School Growth of Crystals" won first Boosters." Holocaust was and what a terri venture, teen-agers will visit Th.e community and the won prize grants and honor prize for eighth graders at the Je w ble price was paid in the loss of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and ish Hera ld wish Maza! Tov to able mention at the Rhode ls ASDS science fair. so many lives," said BBW presi other sites in Poland. The jour these students and commend land State Science Fair held on Ben Rotenberg and Andrew dent Joan Kort. " As the sur ney ends in Israel to commem them for their fine work. March 11 to 13 . Sorkin collaborated on "The vivors of the Holocaust pass orate Yorn Ha'atzma'ut - Is Efficiency of Word Processors." away, we lose the actual wit rael's Independence Day - on nesses to the horror. The march April 14 . ensures that Jewish youth un- Israeli Theater and Schools Team Up tributed by Universal Pictures. by Michele Chabin According to the arrange JERUSALEM OT A) - The ment, which is being finalized Globus Group, a film produc with Israel's Ministry of Educa tion and distribution company tion, Globus will open its the best known for its blood-and aters to high-school students guts action flicks, took a more and their teachers several serious turn last week when it mornings a week. began inviting local teen-agers to watch Steven Spielberg's film "Schindler's List" in many of its 30 movie theaters. Under a new project co-spon sored by Globus Group and the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memo rial, thousands of Israeli stu dents will have the opportunity to see the acclaimed film as part of their studies. Globus had no connection to any facet of the film , which was produced by Spielberg's Am blin Entertainment and dis- 7th Grade Scientists (From left to right) Ben Rotenberg, Andrew Sofkin, Samantha Braverman, Amy Peiser, Drnitry Meyerzon, Ilan Goodman and Adam Berman were all winners at the Alperin Schechter Day School Science Fair recently. Immersion at Hebrew College The Kerem curriculum will BROOKLINE, Mass. - The classical texts and Hebrew lan span the broad range of Jewish Kerem Summer Institute, for guage. Students will be housed history and culture, starting undergraduate students from in nearby Boston University with the biblical period in week across the country, is being dormitories. one and moving through rab launched at Hebrew College "This program is the only binic, medieval and modem Ju this June in Brookline, Mass. one of its kind in the United daism. The common denomi The intensive four-week States today," said Dr. David nator of all four weeks will be a "learning and living" program, M. Gordis, president of the close reading of Jewish texts in provides an overview of Jewish trans-denominational college their original (classical) He civilization and an exposure to of Jewish studies. brew, as well as in translation. 18 - THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1994 OBITUARIES the Women's Associations of MARYCOKEN March 15 at Mount Sinai Meritorious Service Award. He Miami Beach, who founded the Miriam Hospital and the Jewish PROVIDENCE - Mary Co Memorial Chapel, 825 Hope was a member of St. Paul's former Household Co. in Lynn Home for the Aged, the Na ken, 84, of Steere House, 100 St., Providence. Burial was in Lodge No. 14 and the Palestine and Lowell, Mass., which he tional Council of Jewish Borden St., died March 14 at Lincoln Park Cemetry, War Shriners. Mr. Horvitz was a owned for 30 years before retir Women, and Hadassah. the home. She was the widow wick. member of Touro Synagogue. ing in 1970, died March 16 at Besides her husband she of Albert A. Coken. Besides his wife, he leaves a Parkway Regional Medical leaves a son, David Cokin of Born in Providence, she was / FLORENCE GERTZ brother, Daniel Horvitz of Fall Center, North Miami Beach. He Las Vegas, Nev.; a brother, a daughter of the late David PROVIDENCE - Florence River. was the husband of the late Robert Diamond of Silver and Minnie (Stoloff) Orliansky. Gertz, 86, of Rosewood Manor, The funeral was March 18 at Rose (Anderson) Silverman. Spring, Md., and a sister, Fay She was a member of the for Pitman Street, died March 13 at Hoffman Jewish Memorial Born in Russia, he was a son Goldwyn of Deerfield Beach, mer Temple Beth Israel, and a the home. She was the wife of Chapel, Fowler Avenue, New of the late Nathan and Lena Sil Fla. member of Temple Torat Yis the late Harold M. Gertz. Born port. Burial was in Beth Olam verman. He lived in Lynn and rael and its Sisterhood. She was A graveside service was held in New York City, a daughter Cemetery, Middletown. Lowell for 40 years, before a member of Hadassah, the March 21 at Lincoln Park of the late Nathan and Fannie moving to Florida 25 years ago. Women's Association of the Cemetery, Warwick. The ser Harris, she had lived in Provi FRIEDA NULTY He previously had lived in Jewish Home for the Aged, and vice was coordinated by Mount dence for most of her life. WESTLAKE, Ohio - Frieda Providence. the Chopin Club. Sinai Memorial Chapel, 825 She leaves a daughter, Bar Nulty of 29505 Detroit Rd., While a resident of Lowell, She leaves a son, David Co- Hope St., Providence. bara Salk of Cranston, three died March 16 at the Rae-Ann he was the parks commissioner ken of Westfield, N.J.; a daugh grandchildren and three great Surburban Nursing Home, and was a past president of Ro J ter, Libi Warren of Canoga HYMAN "CY" GELLER grandchildren. A graveside fu Westlake. She was the widow tary International. He was a Park, Calif.; a sister Rose Sil- CRANSTON Hyman neral service was held on of William Nulty. member of Temple Beth-El in verstone of Larchmont, N.Y.; "Cy" Geller, 84, of 455 Me March 16 at Lincoln Park Born in Providence, a daugh Fall River, Mass. three grandchildren, and a shanticut Valley Parkway, died Cemetery, Post Road, War ter of the late Benjamin He leaves a sister, Lillian great-granddaughter. March 13 at Rhode Island Hos- wick. The service was coordi Ehrenkrantz, and Mary (Rodin Alpert of Miami Beach; a niece, The funeral service was held pita!. He was the husband of nated by Mount Sinai Memo ,> sky) Ehrenkrantz-Wexler, she Selma "Honey" Silverstein of March 17 at the Max Sugarman Marian (Stone) Geller. Born in rial Memorial Chapel, 825 lived in Westlake for 35 years. Providence, and two nephews, Memorial Chapel, 458 Hope Chelsea, Mass., a son of the late Hope St., Providence. Mrs. Nulty was a World War Sumner Alpert of Fall River and St., Providence. Burial was in David and Ann Geller, he had II Army veteran and served in Walter Greenwald of Riviera Lincoln Park Cemetery, War- lived in Florid_a for the past 25 / WILLIAM HORVITZ the WA Cs. She served in the Beach, Fla. He was a brother of wick. ,/ years, mamtammg a summer BRISTOL William Quartermaster Corps in this the late Sylvia Greenwald, and home in Cranston. He previ SARAH COKIN Horvitz, 79, of 5 Sheri Lane, country and the European The A. Robert and Irving Silver ously lived in Providence and owner of Wilby's Fabric Shop ater. man. PROVIDENCE Sarah Cranston. on Broadway in Newport for 25 She leaves a son, William A graveside service was held Cokin, 78, of 151 Fifth St., died He was a graduate of Bentley years before it closed in the Nulty of Zurich, Switzerland; a March 18 at Temple Beth-El March 19 at home. She was the College. Mr. Geller was early 1980s, died March 17 at daughter, Rosemary Adams of Cemetery, Highland Avenue, wife of Jacob Cokin. founder and past president of the Rhode Island Veterans Indianapolis, Ind.; three sisters, Fall River. The service was c·o Born in Providence, a daugh Geller Shoes, Inc., of Provi Home, Bristol. He was the hus Zelda Horvitz of Barrington, ordinated by Mount Sinai ter of the late Oscar and Rachel dence, a company in operation band of Beatrice (Gurwitz) Bertha Weinert of North Provi Memorial Chapel, 825 Hope Diamond, she had been a life since 1954. He retired to Flor Horvitz. dence, Janice Kopelowitz of St., Providence. long resident of Providence ex ida 25 years ago. Born in Fall River, Mass., he Hollywood, Fla., and a grand cept for the few years that she Besides his wife, he leaves daughter. was a son of the late Louis and LOUIS A. WEISS had resided in Pawtucket with two sons, Phillip Geller of Bessie Horvitz. A graveside service was held PROVIDENCE - Louis A. her husband after their mar- Cranston and Larry Geller of Mr. Horvitz previously was March 18 at Lincoln Park Weiss, 87, of 44 Stephen Hop riage. Easton, Mass., and Boca Raton, employed at the former New Cemetery, Warwick. Arrange kins Court, an employee of the She was a buyer for the for Fla.; a daughter, Esther Weitz port Torpedo Station. He was ments were by the Max Sugar New York Transit Authority for mer Kay's-Newport Store, man of Cromwell, Conn., an Army veteran of World War man Memorial Chapel, 458 Providence, and retired in seven grandchildren and two Hope St., Providence. 40 years before retiring . 22 II. years ago, died March 16 at the 1948. She was a member of great-grandchildren. He was a 32nd degree Ma Temple Beth-El, its Sisterhood, A funeral service was held DEVERA ROSIN Hospice Care In-Patient Cen son, and was presented the ter. He was the husband of PROVIDENCE - Devera Blanche (Kalman) Weiss. Rosin, 72, of 311 Taber Ave., Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., a son died March 21 at Miriam Hos of the late Martin and Lillian pital. She was the widow of Dr. (Moscow) Weiss, he lived in Robert Rosin. Providence for 10 years. Born in St. Louis, Mo., a Mr. Weiss was a member of Who wouldn't want to be remembered daughter of the late Max and Temple Beth-El, the Leisure Ethel Grossman, she lived in Club of the Jewish Community permanently ... in stone. Providence for 36 years. Center, the Temple Emanu-El For many years Mrs. Rosin Senior Citizens Club, and the Make a Lasting Impression ... for a mere $50 commemorate the was a medical secretary for her Krivozer Fraternal Society. NAME of your choice on a monumental BRICK which will become husband. She had been a mem Besides his wife he leaves ber of Temple Beth-El. two sons, Stanley Weiss of ''TIIE WALKWAY TO HEALTII" at the Miriam Hospital. She leaves three daughters, Providence, and Dr. Raymond Andrea Mattia of Chepachet, B. Weiss of Dedham, Mass., a Memorials • Birthdays • Anniversaries • Special Occasions Paula Rosin of Jamestown, Providence dentist; a daughter, Marian Rosin of Providence, CALL TIIE MIRIAM HOSPITAL WOMEN'S ASSOCATION, 401-331-8500, EXT. 2520 Brenda Lundin of New York; and three grandchildren. two brothers, Abraham Weiss The funeral service was held of West Palm Beach, Fla., March 21 at Mount Sinai Bernard Weiss of Van Nuys, Memorial Chapel, 825 Hope Calif., and three grandchildren. St., Providence. Burial was in He was brother of the late Lincoln Park Cemetery, War William and Irving Weiss. For over 40 years, the owner of Mount Sinai Memorial Chapel .. . wick. The funeral service was held Mitchell ... has served Rhode Island Jewish families over 8,000 times .. . MAX V. SILVERMAN March 18 at Mount Sinai as a professional Jewish funeral director. .. as did his father and NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Memorial Chapel, 825 Hope Fla. - Max V. Silverman, 94, of St., Providence. 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Donna. 942-0615. 3/24/94 TUTORING IN Spanish or French by retired (401) 723-9101 . 5/6/ 94 3/ 24/ 94 teacher. References available. Call 433- This newspaper will not, knowingly, accept 4305. 3/ 31 / 94 any advertising for real estate which is in ENTERTAINMENT violation of the R.I. Fair Housing Act and MONEY SERVICES RENDERED CLASSBOX Section 804 (C) of Title VIII of the 1968 Civil STEVE YOKEN ENTERTAINMENT - Profes CORRESPONDENCE TO: Rights Act. Our readers are hereby informed sional master of ceremonies and disc WE PAY CASH for your mortgages/ annu COPPERFIELD'S PAINTING & PRESERVA ClassBox No. that all dwelling/ housing accommodations jockey. Bar / bat mitzvah specialists. ities. Any size. Referral fees available. TION. Top-quality workmanship. Reasonable The R.I. Jewish Herald advertised in this newspaper are available on N.Y. laser light Show Plus Male/Female 1-800-872-0834. 6/9/ 94 exterior/ interior power washing, carpentry, P.O. Box 6063 an equal opportunity basis. 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"ONE STEP CLFANING Professor on summer leave. 421 -1288 or AHEAD IN SERVICE TREE REMOVAL 454-6577. 4/ 7/ 94 C LEANING" • Housrckaning Programs SOUTH COUNTY HEBREW SCHOOL • Specializing in Spring/Fall Ckaning • Family Businro FOR 1994-1995 ACADEMIC YEAR: Local Group • Satisfaction Guarant«d • Cuswm Carpet & Upholstery Ckaning SENIOR CITIZENS' DISCOUNTS Part-time Postilion. Administrative ex (Continued from Page 2) UC. # 10003 DIRECTOR perience, knowledge of Judaic culture 726-6702 131-6105 and cu rriculum development requ ired. Constitution's shortcomings, to implement Hebrew School programs adopted on Sept. 25, 1789, the TEACHERS (Wednesdays & Sundays) Bill of Rights which was subse quently ratified by Rhode Is SEND RESUMES TO: SEARCH COMMITTEE, land on June 15, 1790. In that 290 LAUREL LANE, WEST KINGSTON, R.I. 02892 Bill of Rights the First Amend ment to the Constitution of the United States clearly states that CARPET & UPHOLSTERY CLEANING the people have the right to " petition the Government for a RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL WEATHERGUARDr INC. redress of grievances." Article 1, Section 21 of the Constitu VINYL REPLACEMENT WINDOWS• VINYL SIDING/ROOFING tion of the State of Rhode Is i ~' t• Jt ,, J =i 1,,,1 fii land and Providence Planta CLEANWELL, INC. • 785-4133 ~ 'ifJ~ ~ 'P~ SeJUtice tions provides for similar '1)1tia4, guarantees. Although the at A~ United States and the Rhode Is Free Estimates • Insured • Financing Available land Constitutions clearly de Lifetime Warranty • 20 Years Experience "The Tree People" lineate the right to petition, the · 828-7677 • Lie. # 1700 citizens of Rhode Island have 1664 Cronston St., Cronston, R.I. Michael S. Sepe, President continually been denied access to that constitutional right. ( ii - ·.f That access can be made avail able through Voter Initiative. I RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD : Voter Initiative is used only when government fails to act in Complete Cara & Beautification of Treas accordance with the general will of the people. The process RESIDENTIAL • COMMERCIAL • MUNICIPAL i ®lliffi&5&5DllD!Eill&5 ! in no way usurps the legitimate . · Pruning• Hydraulic feeding • Tree Removal • Bracing • firewood • Stump Removol day-to-qay duties of lawmak ·.. '. LICENSED ARBORIST • FREE ESTIMATES• INSURED ~ 15 words: $3.00 ~ ers. It is a valuable tool in the :,: Reosonoble Prices - Consistent with High Quolity Professionol Services ~ 1241 each additional word V)l hands of the people, for in ";'. I Category ______I creasing legislative responsive 941-7204 I Message - --,------I ness and bringing about more . I effective governing. I All the officers and directors ~~-----~------~ I are 100 percent volunteers who GRASSLEY ROOFING AND I put in hundreds of dedicated I hours each month at the state Name house, at city halls, and at orga CONSTRUCTION, INC. Address nization and committee meet RICHARD GRASSLEY ings - all with one common goal in mind - to create and Roofmg • Siding • Gutters • Slate Repairs foster a better quality of life for Complete Home Improvements Phone every citizen and taxpayer of "'~--No. Words ___ Date(s)--- Run ______Rhode Island. ALL TYPES OF "We truly love what we are · CARPENTRY TO INCLUDE A BOX NUMBER, SEND AN ADDmONAL $5.00. ALL RESPONSES doing and all we ask is for the WILL BE MAILED TO TME HERALD VIA BOX NUMBER, AND FORWARDED TO CLASSIFIED ADVERTISER. support of all Rhode Island citi Lie. No. MA.110907 Payment MUST be received by Monday afternoon, PRIOR to the Thursday on which zens - we love what we do for Lie. No. 554 R.I. the ad is to appear 10% discount given for ads running continuously lor one year. you - Rhode Island," says Sid Green dedicated member. For more information, call 331-0039. I l • 20 - THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, I 994 The store offers a plentiful se If you're looking for classy lection of classic and conserva men's suits, sport coats or tive clothing - the excell ence slacks - look no further. It ap that is expected and in demand pears that this fashion boutique is in the business for quality, BUSINESS PROFILES from their customers. The " trendy" items that go not competition. out of style before they are in Alterations and tailoring are ca nnot be found here. How available on the premises by Tailored to Suit Your Needs ever, if you are looking for a experienced garment employ custom design, there is a lim ees. by Stacey A. Pacheco ited edition in stock. Always Vin Donnelly Menswear is Herald Co-editor ask - perhaps it can be or conveniently open Monday Rhode Islanders, want to find dered. through Friday from 10 a.m. to the right men's outfit for you or In order to run a successful 8 p.m. and Saturdays until 5 someone you know? There's a men's clothing business " you p.m. men's clothing boutique " tai need the right merchandise," For further information, call lored" to "suit" your needs - explains Charles Tsonos, 946-9977. Vin Donnelly Menswear. owner of Vin Donnelly The dapper men's clothing Menswear. store is tucked away down a "We are a men's specialty staircase in a quaint area lo IT MAY BE OLD, but it works store carrying different price cated at 993 Oaklawn Avenue like new. ranges and don't exclude any in Cranston and is celebrating Herald Photo by Stacey A. Pacheco one," Tsonos continued. their first anniversary this year. 1ST ANNIVERSARY Charlie Tsonos, owner of Vin CELEBRATION Donnelly Menswear. Sansabelt Trousers by Louis M. Pulner, Esq. Herald P/roto by Stacey A. Pac/reco 2 FOR $85* "ALTERATIONS IN CLUDED Dear Attorney Pulner: that matter, does not have the voluntarily and continue to try We have a son in his early wherewithal under the laws of to reason with her that it is 30s who has devoted himself the state of Rhode Island to liti clearl y in the best interests of Announce your wedding, bar to his career and who has be gate this matter and prove his the child that there be two lov 8'£~ paternity. ing and caring parents who can or bat mitzvah, anniversary or come extremely successful in a child's birth in the 'f\..Memwewt that regard. He remains un Any woman, however, who provide not only financially, Rhode Island Jewish Herald. CHARLIE TSONOS married because, as he puts it, has given birth to a child out of but emotionall y as well - dur The community is interested he "just hasn't found the right wedlock is permitted to bring a ing what are sure to be difficult in what happens to you! (401) 946-9977 complaint to establish pater childhood years. 993 Oaklawn Avenue (Rte . 5) girl." Black and white photos are nity. In fact, any woman, child, Of course, all of this assumes Cranston, R.I. 02910 However, my son did have welcome. Send submissions to:· Monday thru Friday 10 am to 8 pm an extended relationship dur or appropriate public agency that your son truly is the father RI Jewish Herald, P.O. Box 6063, Saturday 10 am to 5 pm Providence, RI 02940 ing the last several years has those rights - while a man and that he is not just making a Hart Schaffner & Marx and John Weitz which ended rather abruptly in the circumstances such as complete nuisance and/or fool aproximately one year ago. your son, cannot. While it of himself. Come to find out, his ex-girl would appear that the laws in By the way, should your son ,------, "' friend had a child out of wed volved herein impermissibly be in terested in verifying the PROVIDENCE BASED lock, and this child bears a discriminate on the basis of information I have provided to Recommended by local physicians and rabbis striking resemblance to my gender in violation of the you here, tell him he should son. He has asked her repeat equal-protection clause of the feel free to ca ll me and I will edly if he is the father, be 14th Amendment, the fact is, provide it to him. cause if he is he wants to not that this matter has been liti Dr. Im ber is a professo r of Special only assist in supporting this gated in the Supreme Court of Education at Rhode Island College, child, but to be acknowledged the state o( Rhode Island. The past president of th e Interna tional on the birth certificate, and particular statue I am referring Council for Children with Behavioral further, to play an integral to, the Uniform Paternity Act, Disorders, a member of th e profes SHMUEL TAITELBAUM role in the child's rearing. has been upheld as constitu sional advisory board of th e Rhode CERTIFIED MOHEL His ex-girlfriend continues tional. Island Learning Disabilities Associa 274-3298 861 -1403 to deny that he is the father, I could, on behalf of men ev tion and president of Psychoeduca but is also unwilling to state erywhere, (and perhaps most tiona l Consultants, In c. Questions who the child's father actu women would agree) argue about lea rning and behavioral prob ally is. My son doesn't just that none of this makes any lems may be forwarded to him at 145 want to walk away from this sense whatsoever. The best Waterman St., Providen ce, R.I. 02906 situation, but he is also afraid that your son can do at the (401) 421-4004. All communication of being made to look like a present time is come forward will be held strictly confidential. fool if he goes on any further in light of her denials. I keep telling him he should go to court in order to get to the bottom of this, but ===LOUIS M.=== he is reluctant to do so. Isn't it best that he make a determi BUSINESS PROFILES nation now, as opposed to P•U•L•N•E•R waiting until the child gets much older? Besides, if I'm a Wishes you and your family a grandmother, I want to know it now. Happy Passover Anonymous DOES YOUR BUSINESS PROVIDE Dear Anonymous Mom: First and foremost, I agree No Charge rm• Initial Consultation OUTSTANDING OR UNIQUE with you that if your son is the SERVICES TO THE COMMUNITY? natural and biological father of DIVORCE his ex-girlfriend's child, then he Why not let our readers know about it? CHILD CUSTODY & VISITATION should seek to make that deter The llhode Island Jewish Herald takes mination and accept all of the CHILD SUPPORT • ADOPTIONS obligations and joys incidental "A CLOSER LOOK" to being a parent. However, • Personal Injury • Medical Malpractice at business in Rhode Island and you are not going to believe • Automobile Accidents • Wills & Probate Southeastern Massachusetts this, but in the state of Rhode • Wrongful Death • Criminal Matters in every issue. Island there exists no legal mechanism for your son to be Evening Appointments Available A story on your business, complete with photos, will let our readers know all about your work able to Fress the issue of his pa and what you hove to offer the community. ternity if the ex-girlfriend is not willing to cooperate. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON What is clearly one of the "A CLOSER LOOK" more bizarre set of legal cir CALL MYRNA OR JEANETTE AT cumstances that I have come across in some time, the fact is 2 Williams Street, Providence 724-0200 that your son, or any man for