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Israeli P rime Minister Shimon Peres (left) with (1-r) Morris Abram, Rabbi Joseph Sternstein and David Hermelin. The banner proclaims: "Declaration of Jewish Unity-This Year In Jerusait!'m.'' Successful politicians have to be minister, and to do everything I good a,:i,Ms. can to make his tenure in office a For four grueling days and success. The issue for me now is nights last week in New York, not ego gratification, of being Shimon P.e.res_pr.oved the truth of prime minister for the sake of that adage, closing out his being prime minister. However, two-yea-r run as Israel's prime two issues stand above everything minister by giving a series of else for me, including the polished speaking performances continuation of the unity before packed houses. He spoke government. proud!¥ of the .accomplishments of "Above all, we have to make his coalition government in sure t hat our economic recovery dealing with Israel's economic continues on the right track, and woes, ~ lsrael's relations we have to do everything in our with the U.S. to new heights and power to keep the peace process moving the peace process forward. moving forward. If we can keep His audiences, members of a strengthening our economy and coterie of leading Jewish moving toward reconciliation with organizations, responded with our neighbors, then Israel can be a Temple Shalom Gov. DiPrete Issues rapt and ~ applause for a truly lovely place. Celebrates Simcha 25 Proclamation man whom, everyone seemed to "As long as I am satisfied that Honoring Yeshiva U. agree, had accomplished far more (S hamir) is doing everything he than anyone had expected two can to maintain the progress on Governor Edward D. DiPrete of years ago. the economy and on peace, I will Rhode Island has issued a Late one I.ecent night, an do everything I can to make his proclamation honoring Yeshiva exhausted Peres sat in his hotel tenure a success. But if I were to University in New York City on room, his tie loosened and jacket determine that he was not doing the occasion of its 100th off. He was talking in a low voice what was necessary to continue anniversary. with " ~ --group of reporters what we began over the last two T he University - America's from Israeli newspapers about the years - especially in the area of oldest and largest university under subject that had been on nearly the peace process - then I would Jewish auspices, will celebrate its everyone's mind all week but have no choice but to consider Centennial throughout the coming tactfully undiscussed amidst the leaving the government. Once the academic year. orgy of congratulations and peace process is allowed to stall, it In his proclamation, Governor self-congratulations. would begin a retrogression DiPrete said the U niversity Straight Talk toward a climate in the region of "stands today as the foremost For once the actor's mask hatred and hostility leading expression of the American Jewish appeared to slip a bit, and the toward war. We cannot permit community in educational prime minister, who is soon to that to happen." excellence." become foreign minister, uttered Speaking privately to the As part of the University's words that seemed to come Jewish World, Peres said that if Centennial celebration, a United straight from the heart. Shamir will attempt to build States postage stamp honoring the "Someone asked me just now settlements on the West Bank, first president of the institution, how long I expect to have to wait outside of an accord with Labor, Dr. Bernard Revel, has been before I become prime minister "it would be an attempt to break issued. the (National Unity) agreement Reviewing the Simcha 25 program are Freyda Feldman and again," Peres said. "The honest Doris Fischer, co-chairpersons of the year long celebration, T he University dates its truth is I.bat whether or not I am (and) that would clearly endanger founding from the establishment the existence of the government." Rabbi Marc S. Jagolinzer and Robert A. Hicks, Temple prime mirus1u Js not the main President. of Yeshiva Eitz Chaim on issue -for me ~-ight -now. I said all ' In addition to his appearances September 15, 1886. That along that I had made a here before a cross section of Simcha 25, designated as the was the special tribute paid to all institution - a small school on commitment to carry out the leading Jewish groups Peres also observance to be celebrated by the past presidents of the New York's Lower East Side - terms of the National Unity met with an assortment of Congregation of Temple Shalom, Congregation, Sisterhood and later merged with the Rabbi Isaac government and to trade places American politicians, including the Conservative Congregation of Men's Club. A festive Oneg Elchanan Theological Seminary. with (Foreign Minister Yitzhak) former President Richard Nixon, Newport County, marking its Shabbat followed the services. Yeshiva University grew out of Shamir, and I was determined to Gov. Mario Cuomo, Mayor Ed silver anniversary, commenced its On Saturday evening, a dinner that merier. carry that out. I made that Koch and Congressman Stephen opening weekend of festivities dance was held in the social hall. In addition to its extensive commitment not only to Shamir Solarz. recently with a Late Shabbat Eve Future plans include a concert, teaching programs, the University but to the people and the State of Peres was too exhausted to join Worship Service. Rabbi Marc S. dedication, the publishing of a maintains a network of affiliates, Israel, as well .~ his entourage recently for a J agolinzer, spiritual leader, souvenir journal and another conducts widespread programs of Clenching his fist to emphasize matinee of the hit Broadway play officiated and preached the dinner dance to culminate the research and community outreach, his point, Peres stated, " I intend I'm Not Rapaport. He did manage, Simcha 25 sermon. President of celebration. Throughout the year, and issues publications. lt is also to work as cl08ely as possible with however, to squeeze in an the Temple, Robert Hicks, aleo one Shabbat per month will be the home of the Yeshiva Shamir once he becomes prime (Continued on page 20) a~f~,t .,~t pf tbe eve~ dedicated If_ Si"?c~P:, , .~· .~~-tv,~itl.• ~useum .

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2 -THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1986 High Holiday Services Cong. Shaare Zedelc­ Ohawe Shalom Local-News Sons of Abraham Rabbi Jacobs of Congregation Ohawe Sholam will officiate at the Rosh Hashanah 6747-1986 high holiday services this Friday, October 3 weekend. The sermons will be Lighting of the C:andles 6:00 delivered at approximately 10:30 p.m. a.m. each morning. On the first Beth-El Cong. Mishkon Tfiloh Mincha-Maariv 6:10 p.m. day the sermon is entitled " It's Saturday, October 4 Congregation Sons of Israel and "The Sacrifice That Should Not The Little Things That Count." Rosh Hashanah Shacharith 8:00 a.m. On the second day the sermon is David, Temple Beth-El, will greet Have Been." Sermon 10:30 a.m. the New Year with services Children's Services and a festive Friday evening, October 3 entitled "The Meaning Of The Light Festival candles 6:05 p.m. Musaf 11:30 a.m. Ram In Our Lives." beginning on October 3 at 8:15 reception sponsored by the Young Mincha-Maariv 6:10 p.m. p.m. Rabbi Leslie Gutterman will Families committee will be held at Mincha and Maariv 6:10 p.m. Services will be chanted by Saturday morning, October 4 8:00 Lighting of the Candles 7: 10 David Pliskin and Rabbi J acobs. give a sermon entitled "The Boys 3 p.m. The community is invited p.m. of Summer." Services for the New to this service. a.m. David Pliskin will blow the shofar. Sunday, October 5 Dr. Lillian and Ephraim Gerber Year continue on Saturday, For more information on Reading of Torah (Genesis 21) 9:30 a.m. Shacharith 8:00 a.m. will be the gabaim. The following October 4 at 10 a.m. when Rabbi -services and membership, call Sermon 10:30 a.m. Lawrence Silverman will speak on 331-6070. Sermon: 10:15 a.m. "What is the list of services. During the About Our Lives" Shofar 11:00 a.m. week between Rosh Hashanah and Musaf 10:30 a.m. Musaf 11:30 a.m. Yorn Kippur morning services will Saturday evening, October 4 Mincha-Maariv 6:05 p.m. be 6:30 a.m. Evening services will Mincha 6:15 p.m. Yorn Kippur 6746-1986 be at 6:05 p.m. On behalf of the Best Wishes For The New Year Maariv 6:45 p.m. Sunday, October 12 · congregation we wish a healthy Light Festival Candles 7:05 p.m. Lighting of the Candles and happy year to the whole Sunday morning, October 5 8:00 First Light Yahrzeit Candles Jewish community. a.m. 5:40 p.m. The following services will take Reading of T orah (Genesis 22) Kol Nidre 6:00 p.m. place. 9:30 a.m. Sermon· 6:45 p.m. First Day Rosh Hashanah: May the New Year Bring Sermon: 10:15 a.m. "What Is A Monday, October 13 October 4 - Morning Services, Good Year?" Shachairth 8:00 a.m. Sa.m. Peace and Good .Fortune Blowing of Shofar 10:35 a.m. Sermon 10:30 a.m. Mincha Services, 6 p.m. I -- . .. . < l Yiskor 11:30 a.m. Musaf 11:00 a.m. Maariv Services, 7 p.m. Sunday evening, October 5 Musaf 11:45 a.m. Second Day Rosh Hashanah: Mincha and Maariv 6: 15 p.m. Mincha 4:30 p.m. October 5 ~ -Morning Services, · T ashlich N'eelah 5:45 p.m. Sa.m. Fast of Gedaliah Conclusion of Fast 6:55 p.m. Shofar Blowing, 10:30 a.m. \ im~ 11i,s Monday, October 6 Tashlich, 4:30 p.m. 216½ ATWELLS AVE. PROV. . FH ~ 02903 Shabbos Shuvah Mincha Services, 6 p.m. Sabbath of Repentance Beth Sholom Havdalah, 7:06 p.m. Friday evening, October 10 Congregation Beth Sholom will · October 12 - Kol Nidre, 5:45 Light Sabbath Candles 5:52. p.m. be holding services for Rosh p.m. -+ SHOES Friday evening service 6:00 p.m. Hashana according to the follow­ October 13 - Yorn Kippur . , Saturday morning, October 11 9:00 Morn, 9 a.m. ARTFUL ACCESSORIES ;: ' ing sc}:iedule: + am. Friday, October 3, Erev Rosh Yizkor, 12 p.m. ' ":~ ; (Parshas Haazinu) Hashana, Selichot and Shachrit Ne'ilah, 6 p.m. Sermon: 10:45 a.m. will begin at 6 a.m. and Mincha will Havdalah, 6:53 p.m. '-' Saturday evening, October 11 be at 6:15 p.m. "~~- Mincha and Maariv 6:00 p.m. Saturday, October 4, the First Yorn Kippur Day of Rosh Hasbana, Shachrit Temple Am David Sunday evening, October 12 will begin at 8 a.m., the rabbi's ser­ Light Yorn Kippur candles 5:50 mon will be at 10:30 a.m. and Min­ Rosh Rashenah p.m: cha will be at 6:00 p.m. Friday, . October ., 3: Mincha­ Kol Nidre 6:00 p.m. Sunday, October 5, the Second" Maariv 6 p.m:- - ~- . - Sermon: "We Are Promising" Day of Rosh Hasbana, Shachrit Saturday, October 4; Sbacbairit 6:15 p.m. will begin at 8 a.m., Shofar Blow­ 8 a.m.; Junior Congreation and Maa·riv .6:30 p.m .. ing will be at 10:30 a.m. and Min­ pre-Hebrew School Services 10 Monday morning, October 13 cha at 5 p.m., followed by Tashlich a.m.; Rabbi's Message 10 a.m.; Shacharis 9:00 a.m. and Maariv. Special Junior Congregation 3 p.m.; Mincha-Maariv 6 p.m. Sunday, October 5: Shachairit 8 a.m.; Junior Congregation and pre­ COFFEE EXCHANGE Hebrew School 10 a.m.; Rabbi's Message 10 a.m.; Tashlich-Min­ Over 40 varieties offr esh cha-Maariv 5:45 p.m. whole bean coffees. Shabbat Shuva plus water processed Friday, October 10: Evening Ser­ vice 8: 15 p.m, decaffeinated coffees. 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Rosh Hashana FOR A CASUAL FRIENDLY ATMOSPHERE ; ! \ Morning Service 8:00 a.m. Shofar 10:30 a.m. .with the CRANSTON SENIOR GUILD Festival Ends 7:07 p.m. Monday, October 6 Fast of 1987 Winter Holiday Vacation Gedaliah Slichos 5:30 a.m. JANUARY 20 - MARCH 17, 1987 Mincha 6:00 p.m. Fast Ends 7:06 p.m. Friday, October 10 2-4 -6-~ week pa ckages Mincha 6:00 p.m. 5:51 p.m. Saturday, October 11 Shabboe Tesbuva I HAPPY ROSH HASHANAH TO ALL CONTACT Morning service 8:30 a.m. Mincha 6:00 p.m. Hy Jacobson 274-9586 Maariv 6:45 p.m. 220 Meeting St., at Thayer, Providence 273-1066 Shabboe Ends 6:57 p.m. THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1986- 3 Emanu-EI Temple Shalom Lishma Courses Opening services for Rosh Rosh Hashanah, the beginning At Brown/RISO HIiiei Hashanah will begin as the of the Jewish New Year of 5747, Informal classes in Torah Lish­ congregation gathers for worship will be ushered in commencing man, studying the Torah, are avail­ We are pleased to announce that at 5:45 p.m., Friday, October 3, in with services on Friday, October 3, able this semester at the Brown the Main Sanctuary of Temple at 8 p.m. in the Main Sanctuary of University/Rhode Island School of Mildred -.M. Chase Emartu-El for Ma'ariv. Rabbi Temple Shalom of Middletown. Design Hillel. These non-credit Wayne M. Franklin, Senior Rabbi, Rabbi Marc S. Jagolinzer will classes are free of charge. No prior will preach the sermon, "A Year of chant the liturgical portions of the knowledge of the subject matter or has joined the staff of Mixed Blessings." services and preach the sermon of Hebrew is required. For more in­ On Saturday, October _4, and entitled, "The Spiritual Life." formation, contact Rabbi Alan The Travel Shoppe - Sunday, October 5, three On Saturday, October 4, the Flam or Mark Mulgay at. Hillel simultaneous services for adults First Day of Rosh Hashanah, (863-2805). The classes offered are:· will be conducted. In the Main services will commence at 9 a.m. "Basic Judaism." Taught by Cranston, RI 943-6620 Synagogue Rabbi Franklin and Rabbi Jagolinzer will officiate and Rabbi Alan Flam of Brown/RISD Cantor Ivan E. Perlman will deliver the sermon, "The Sounds Hillel. Wednesdays 9-10 p.m. In­ officiate. Debra Ramsey of Silence." Mr. Mervine Levine cludes historical, religious and cul­ Dickensheets will be at the Eva will assist the Rabbi with the tural aspects of Judaism. Bader Memorial Organ and also conduct of the services. Youth "Participating In and Leading a will conduct the Temple Services will be held in the Temple Synagogue Service." Taught by Emanu-El Choir. Board Room for young people Mark Mulgay of Brown/RISD Hil­ ~~~R2,~~ Rabbi Daniel H. Liben, between the ages of 7 and 12, lel. Tuesdays 4-5 p.m. Includes Assistant Rabbi, will lead services commencing at 10:45 a.m. Leading how to participate in the service, As we enter a new year in the New Synagogue. Joining these services will be Andrew study of the melodies used and the him again this year will be Cantor Eckstein, Kris Mayes, Jonathan content of services.· . may the blessings William Walton. There will be no Eckstein arid Jonathan Blumen. "Maimonides and Modem Ju­ organ in the New Synagogue. Children's Services will commence daism." Taught by Rabbi Avi of health; Ju;Lppiness and peace Once again, Rabbi Yaakov G. at the same time and will take Shafran. Wednesdays 7-8 p.m. In­ Rosenberg, Vice-Chancellor of the place in the Library. Evening cludes the works of Rabbi Moshe Jewish Theological Seminary of services will begin at 7 p.m. hen hen Maimon (Maimonides), embrace you and your loved ones. America, will assume the pulpit in Services for the Second Day of scientist, scholar and saint, who the Alperin Meeting House. Rosh Hashanah 5747 will lived 800 years ago. Sections from Accompanying him will be Cantor commence on Sunday, October 5, Maimonides' "Mishna Torah" will Dorothy Ann Wiener Travel Jules Rosenberg, who returns for at 9 a.m. The Rabbi's sermon for be studied and discussed. his ninth year. He will be that morning will . be "Can "Gemora Shiur." Taught by and Staff accompanied by the accomplished Terrorism Be Abolished?" Dr. Rabbi Shmuel Singer. Mondays 5- 766 Hope St. Providence, R.I. organist, Elena DeNitto. David Nemtzow will sound the 6 p.m. This Talmud class is for Junior Congregation Services Shofar. Young people's services those with experience in studying 272-6200 for children ages 7 -11 will be held will take place at the same time Talmud. from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in and in the same locations. "The Arab-Israeli Conflict and the Bohnen Vestry each day. Tashlich, the ceremony which American Politics, Past and Holiday stories and games for involes going to the water's edge Present." Co-ordinated by William children ages 5-6 will be held at and making a drama of casting Tilchin, Ph.D. Thursday 7-8 p.m. the same time in Room 24 of the ·one's shortcomings into the Includes aspects of the history of Persona1 1~ -:::-n·b ICJ\ school building. Babysitting will depths of obscurity will take place this conflict, its current complexi­ be available for youngsters below on Sunday at 4:30 p.m. at Green ties and the prospects for its reso­ the age of 5 in Room 11. End Pond. lution. Classes will be conducted by Worko~~ ,~ _IA At 3:45 p.m. on Sunday, October a number of different people. 5, members of the congregation Amos Oz To Speak will gather outside of Temple Amos Oz, Israeli author, will Melvin Smalley ·. by~~~ Emanu-El for a walk to the speak at Brown University's Wil­ Seekonk River for the Tashlich son Hall, Room 102, on November Exhibit Ceremony, which will begin at 4:15 17at 8 p.m. An exhibit of the art work by p.m. at the bottom of Loring Ave., Mr. Oz, who studied philosophy Melvin Smalley will take place at "Develop ajltness program that's rtghtfor on the bank of the Seekonk. and literature at the Hebrew Uni­ the Providence Art Club, 11 you in the corrifort qf your home." versity in Jerusalem, now resides Thomas St., Providence. The Art Temple Sinai at the Kibbutz Hulda in Israel. He Club is open daily from 10-4 and Specializing In Aeroblce, Weight Tralnlng, fr Body Toning writes, farms, and teaches at the on Sunday from 3-5. The public is Kibbutz secondary school. welcome to attend. CALL CANDITA FOR A FREE CONSULTATION Rosh Hashanah services at Mr. Oz fought in two Israeli AFAA Certified 463-9374 Reasonable Rates Temple Sinai, 30 Hagen Avenue, wars, the Six Day War of 1967, and Dr. Libo To Speak Cranston begins on Friday, the Yorn Kippur War of 1973. He is October 3, at 8:15 p.m. Rabbi author of many articles and essays AtSMU Astrachan will deliver a sermon about the Arab-Israeli conflict, and Dr. Kenneth Libo will lecture entitled "Making No Apologies." he campaigns for a compromise be­ on Jews in Colonial America when Rosh Hashanah morning tween Israelis and Palestinians, a Southeastern Massachusetts services begin on Saturday, compromise to be based on mutual University's Center for Jewish October 4 at 10:30 a.m. Rabbi recognition and co-existence be­ Culture presents the first annual Astrachan's sermon is entitled "A tween Israel and a Palestinian Samuel and Sadie Feinbert Matter of Choice." Youth services homeland in the West Bank and Rusitzky Memorial Lecture at for those children nine and over Gaza. He is one of the leading fig­ 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, October 22, will also begin at 10:30 a.m. ures in the moderate "dove-ish" in SMU's Fine Arts Building Children's services for children Zionist sector of Israeli public Recital Hall. under nine years of age will be opinion. Since 1977, he has been Libo is "one of the foremost held at 2:15 p.m. active in the Israeli "Peace Now" historians of the American Jewish All services except the youth movement. experience," said Professor Robert service will be conducted by Rabbi Mr. Oz is author of several nov­ P. Waxler, who, with Rabbi George Astrachan and Cantor els, essays and articles which have Bernard Glassman, is co-director Remmie Brown. The youth service won him literary acclaim and made of the Center. "This is .the first in will be conducted by Student him a controversial figure. His a series of lectures endowed by the Rabbi Susan Freeman. Rabbi newest work, published in 1982, is Rusitzky family." Freeman will also assist Rabbi "The Land of Israel," set during Astrachan at the evening and the Lebanon War. It is a combina­ Rosh Hashanah children's services. tion of documentary interviews Greetings and personal observations. JOIN ... "The Best Deluxe Tour To Israel" escorted by Dorothy Ann Wiener NOV. 12 to NOV. 26 The Round Trip El-Al Israel Airli11n from Bost1111 - Nor, St0/1 1tlD0.e 5 STAR HOTELS - ' SllnwttM ICi"6 &loaoll i• Jnrutlln, ~ To Dot1 PIIIIO,_ i• Hllifa - Oulta. Hold i• Td Ari, Learning •AU/aru it«:hl,u,l•lhufr- Proritlaa•F.U lmid B,w/f/Gt Dllil:, • TrtUU/en • Fi""1 ...,,d • Mu:, Extnu • Si611.t.ei"6 ,er itiaetra7! .....-.1~ Aa,,s ALL THIS AND ISRAEL, TOOi SJ43900 per peno• ~~ •i. 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' ,,., J • ., ',1 ', '' r l ,1,·.!J k: f. ~,---··· -~- - i:Jfr '.:: t '' l ~( ~''. ) I 'IJ(f1flf 1 I Jb (' f~1lJJ L1 =1 r r, 1:i 1 -"' 4 - THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1986 Greeting The New Year From the Editor by Chaim Herzog unmitigated Arab hostility, we see a It is in the shadow of the recent striking change in the political by Robert Israel unbelievably savage attack on Sabbath environment of the Middle East. Where worshippers in Istanbul, that I send you the very thought of understanding or these heartfelt greetings and hopes for the communication with Israel was taboo, New Year 5747. Memories of t he dark dialogue is now clearly accepted. pages in our old and modern history have The change is not all-encompassing or been revived for us, and the contemporary immediate, but it is there. So, too, Interview With A Hibakusha effort to rebuild Jewish life on new apertures are opening to Eastern Europe, almost hermetically closed to Israel since In August of this year, this nat ional foundations takes on additional you, because ,when you speak to meaning. Once more we are forcibly 1967. Relat ions with Poland are taking newspaper ran a news item from the someone personaliy, that is t he best reminded of the vulnerability of the shape; there has been initial official Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) that way· to get them to understand what Jewish minority position and the need for contact with the Soviet Union. To every reported the visit of two Japanese men your experiences have been. I speak the base and strength the Jewish State change of this sort we are all necessarily to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust around · t he world - at the United provides. most sensitive, fo r the fate of Soviet memorial in Jerusalem. In a solemn Nations, in Europe and in America - Jewry remains a major and burning ceremony, the men said a prayer for because it is my hope that each person Israel in this past year has been deeply concern of the Jewish world and the State the victims of the Nazi holocaust and that listens will tell another, one to involved in the strengthening of its of Israel. A trickle of aliya sometimes the victims of the atomic bombs in one, about the importance of economic and political position; in social brings us precious individuals, but the life Japan. They concluded t heir prayer eliminating nuclear weapons." reform; in the difficult effort to realize its and future of many thousands of others with a stirring message to all of I asked Mrs. Shimohira, as a cultural and scientific potential; in the are gravely threatened. There can be no humanity: "Never again Auschwitz survivor of t he most terrible bomb that struggle against international terrorism; relaxation in the effort to liberate them. and no more Hiroshimas." has ever been invented, if she has hope in the search for peace. This is a very full Last week, that message was for humanity. and most demanding national agenda, and There can be no relaxation, either, in repeated when Holocaust survivor Elie "I have hope," she said, t hrough her the conditions are not easy. Yet we can Israel's effort to absorb its Ethiopian olim Wiesel appeared before a capacity interpreter, "I have hope because I look back with some gratification on wisely and effectively. As in their case, crowd at the George Sherman Union at believe p~ople can be educated. I think definite progress during the year. every group that makes up the mosaic of Boston University with Carl Sagan, a the mission of the hi.bakusha is to tell Israel's life, mirroring the diaspora of t he teacher at the Center for Radiophysics the world t hat never again should this The National Unity Government has ages, must, without losing its identity, and Space Research at Cornell disastruous experience happen. Never functioned with a substantial measure of contribute to the cultural consensus of t he University who is best known for his again should t here be such success, proving t hat cooperation in the reassembled Jewish poeple. Education is "Cosmos" series on PBS. In a destruction." general interest can overcome ideological thus one of Israel's highest priorities, conference entitled, "Judaism, War and political differences. The economic while it is increasingly recognized by and the Nuclear Arms Race," recovery program has succeeded in Jewish communities everywhere as the Professors Wiesel and Sagan each conquering galloping inflation and in key to the preservation of identity and concluded that we must wo rk toeether introducing a sober and reasoned commitment on the part of the younger for a bilateral reduction in nuclear approach to the problems of the economy. generation. To the members of that weapons. "I have hope," Though hardship and strain affect many generation I issue the call to come and The two Holocausts have been Mrs. Shimohira, a survivor individuals and an era of growth has not join us in Israel and help to build the land compared and contrasted by many, but of Nagasaki said, "because yet begun, the road ahead seems clearly that is the center of our people's life. that is not the purpose of this column. marked. I believe people can be We look to 5747 in the hope that it may When writers compare and contrast, The road ahead is not totally blocked be a year of peace and growth, aliya and ve ry often they unintentionally educated. Never again even in the sphere of Arab-Israeli cultural enrichment, a year indeed where diminish the importance of one event should there be such understanding towards peace. Prime in the great phrase of the Rosh Hashan over the other. That is not my purpose. destruction." Minister Peres' official visit to Morocco, liturgy, all men will come together in Both events - t he atomic bombs that and his summit meeting with President unison to respond wholeheartedly to the fe ll in Japan and the ovens of Mubarak of Egypt in Alexandria, have Divine Will. Auschwitz - achieved the same been decisive steps forward towards a To.all of you a good New Year! results, the annihilation of people. And more normal relationship with the Arab Chaim Herzog is President of the State both are important historical events "As a Jew," Elie Wiesel said last world. Looking back on t he decades of of Israel. that we must never forget and never week at Boston University, " l must see allow to be repeated. the nuclear war as my greatest Israeli Poet To Read priority." He described his ·feelings This week I interviewed a survivor of when he participated on a discussion At Brown the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, panel televised after The Day After, t he Mrs. Sakue Shimohira. In Japanese, Yehuda Amichai, Israel's leading television movie about life after poet, will read from his works in the word that describes her experience nuclear war, was screened last year. and her survival is hi.bakusha. Mrs. Brown Unive rsity's Crystal Room . " We watched the film which was on November 5 at 8 p.m. Shimohira, age 51, __;,as in Providence , frightening," he said, " but · we wer.e with her· interpreter to address a group Mr. Amichai's poetry is essen­ much more frightened by the debate tially autobiographical, concerning from Women for a Non-Nuclear that followed." He explained that the Future. We spoke at the WFNNF the private individual affected by panel featured military advisors who war, politics, and religion. Many of office where she told me about her were so , well-informed about the his poems have been translated experiences,- her purpose, and. her after-effect o f a: nucle.ar wa~ that "I had hopes for the future. : from Hebrew into as -many as 20 the fee ling. that, l n t heir minds, we languages. "On t hat unforgettable day, Augu'st: already were waging the third World 9, 1945," Mrs. Shimohira said, ·- ~an War/" · · · - . :atomic · bomb was dropped on When he was asked to speak, Wiesel Nagasaki. I was in an air-raid ·shelter, said, " I had the feeling that the whole ~""'1W11!f''r"""'r'~:-v~-I ,~~ !~ &¥ ~ ® ~ ~ about 1 kilometer from the hypocenter. · wc,rld - .became Jev.:ish. There is i I No sooner baa I seen a flash than I was lf somet hing of t he Jew in' air men when --4 _t hrown down there by the blast. I was ~~~ti'.!t~l~ men-are in danger," he said. . . (USPS 464-760) brought to··myself1 so I sensed, w.fien I Wiesel, like· Mrs. :sh,mohira, . is a Published Every Week By The heard someone asking 'Is there anyone hibakuslia, a survivor - of a deadly Candi.lighting Jewish Press Publishlng Company here from group 8 of Komaba-cho whirlwind. And his message is the • EDITOR: (n~1ghbonng group)? 1 ·~' Asame as Mrs. Shimohira's: we must all October 3, 198,6 ROBERT ISRAEL Looking out of the shelter, I saw work together to prevent a future people walking this way and that, catastrophe. 6:07 p.m. • ASSOCIATE EDITOR: mostly undistinguishable whether they · .... SUSAN BOSTIAN were male or female, with their On a fin al note: Last week this eyeballs pushed out, their viscera newspaper reported that t he United • ADVERTISING DIRECTOR: hanging out, and their hair gone. Synagogue of America, with two BRUCE WEISMAN ... Once a residential quarter, t he city million members, nas designated was turned into heaps of debris, • ACCOUNT REP .: October 25 as Yorn Atzeret LeHayyim MARY FITZPATRICK literally in a moment. 1 tried to locate - · a day of synagogue attendance and Letters To The Editor my house but there were no prayer, a gathering devoted to Mailing Address: Boa 6063, Providence.' R.I. identifiable marks or traces ... .'What Are Welcome ..... preserving life and reaffirming the Telephone: (401) 724-0200 has become of my mother? Either my The R. l. Herald welcomes PLANT: Herald Wey, off Webster St., Pewt. • dignity of each individual human A.I. 02861 elder sister or elder brother will surely being. Dr. Morton K. Siegal, director, letters to the editor. OFFICE: 172 Taunton Ave., EHi Providence, R.I. 02914 come to find and take me with them.' I said, "On this day, the 850 United If you have a response to an Second class pos1age paid at Providence recall these thoughts 1 had t hen as if I Synagogue congregations throughout editorial, or would like to express AhOde Island Postmaster send address had them only yesterday." your opinion on any news or changes to The A.I Herald, P O Box 6063. North America, both young and old, Providence, A.I 029•0-6063 When Mrs. Shimohira did locate will be call ed upon to deliberate on the feature story published here, put her house, it was destroyed, Her family it in writing. If there are issues of By~OOR~ a=~~:~.~ threat of nuclear catastrophe which soothea s1em Mass $14 00 per annum Bulk was also annihilated. importance to the community rates or, request The Herald assumes sut>­ might occur by accident or design. scrIptK>ns are COfltinuous unless notihed to the "The purpose of traveling in this Through prayer, meditation, sermons that you feel Herald readers cootrary ,n wnting country and in Europe, is to tell people and additional programs, Conservative would know about, write to us. The Herald assumes no hnanoal respons,. bthty !or typographrcal errors in advertise­ of my experience," Mrs. Shimohira Jews are asked to consider ways and We want to hear from you, ments. but wrn repnnl lhat par1 of the adver­ said. " I have seen horrible t hings means whereby each individual and Letters to the editor should be tlSement ,n wh,ch the typographrcat error because of nuclear weapons. And 1 feel congregation can contribute towards typed or printed legibly and ~~!nt:1m~:,~;'~f'a":vs:~'Jm':,m:;; by my presence, having survived addressed to the Editor, Rhode occu, avoiding such cataclysmic UnsoltCtted manus<:npls Unsohcited something so terrible, I must destruction." Island Herald, P.O. Box 6063, manuscnpts are wek:ome We do not pay !or communicate to people never to allow One way would be to heed the worda Providence, R.l. 02940. Include bes~ this tragedy to occur again." your telephone number and ~~~ME=::'~~-=drl'!Ssed envelope 11 you want the manuscnpt of the hibakushas, and to make that returned letters to the editor repnt58"1 the I asked Mrs. Shimohira if the message known, 'again and again, to address for verification, please. opint0ns ot the wnters. no1 the edltor"l;, and The purpose of a newspaper is shoukl include the letter wntef s telephc)ne hi.bakusha movement has captured the our elected officials. number !or v-enhctt,on interest of people and if she has sensed to provide a forum of ideas and The Herald Is a membet' ol the New England Press Assoaaoon and the Amenan Jewish that people have taken a genuine (Robert Israel will be taking a leaue of opinions. Express your opinion Press A.sSOClabOn, and a subs.cnber to the interest in reducing nuclear weapons. absence until October 27. His column today by writing it down in a ~~~gency and the JewtSh " It is impoSBible to convey to will appear as ususal, howeuer, until his letter to the editor. ~=t everyone, one to one, what I have told return.) THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1986 - 5 You're In The Army, WOW!

by Y osef Gershman there might be a dog in my future. local matchmaker to H. I guess that it's okay for such a I even had hopes of getting a local matchmaker to surreptitious­ Hal". close confidant as you to know. I yellow Labrador. How was I to ly arrange the marriage of the mili­ dim am to be a part of the cleverest know that it also means "gun?" tary chief of staff to a sweet young alw1 Israeli military scheme yet. That Did I ever claim any aptitude as an thing who is as enchanting and me<' is, should they ever need to put it armorer? I even flun'ked an alluring as her name - Lysistrata. kne into play. ancient history test once because I Perhaps you know her. s Remember, this is supposed to answered that "chain-mail" is an And I can stand to practice my can be hush-hush, so I trust that you'll outlawed bunko scheme. delivery a bit, too. Rochester! Oh, Joyce F. Starr, Principal N~ burn this when you're through Would you excuse me for a Rochester! reading. Un! moment? I've got to practice Yosef Gershman, a former Rhode Wileen Rosner Snow, Associate sel' Should hostilities break out, I "sucking-in that gut" - more Islander, is the Herald's Israeli ye1 am going to the front line. In fact, properly called a "spare tire" in correspondent. Karen W. Seeche, Associate est I will be the entire front line. All my case. ne alone will I be, with my canteen of One thing about the Israeli draft are pleased to announce en water, packets of K (osher )-rations, personnel must be said. They're de tallis (large size, to do double-duty all very nice and polite. Not at all Youth Services the fonnation of Starr Properties. st as a pup-tent), 1913-model Spring­ what I remember from my brush g1 field rifle, and Coke-bottle eye­ with the U.S. Selective Service At Temple Sinai glasses for my 20/400 astigmatic System way back when Vietnam tc vi~ion. , was the lead story on every night's For the third consecutive year Oh, yes. And my copies of "Jack 6 p.m. news. Temple Sinai will have a student ti Benny Jokes for Arab Audiences" Here, everybody actually says Rabbi conducting the High Holy I and "Developing Better Timing "please" to you. Pretty civilized, Day worship services fo r the youth t for Standup Comedy." Those are for a military outfit, you'll have to of our congregation (ages 9 and most important. admit. up). This year we welcome Rabbi Tactically, it's brilliant beyond But, I digress. Not only have I Susan Freeman. words - even mine. And, in these been classified as "serviceable" by Rabbi Freeman, a native of Den­ days of the beginnings of the service, but somehow I ver, is a second year student at He­ "rapprochement" with our managed to receive, after an brew Union C0llege-Jewish Insti­ Starr Properties neighbors (some of them, anyway) exhausting exam that, in the tute of Religion. Rabbi Freeman and attendant military budget main, consisted of a lot of waiting, has a degree in Religious Studies Real Estate Sales retrenchment, it's - or, rather, I a physical capability rating that from Oberlin College. During this Two Fox Place am - a good deal for the price. heretofore I thought was assigned past year she studied at Hebrew I have merely to drive myself to to 18-year-old bodybuilders and Union College in Jerusalem. Her Providence, Rhode Island 02940-6186 the front, get out of my jeep, and karate belt-holders. speciaf skills include music, dance (401) 751-0818 set up a portable P.A. system. Of course, I also have several and creative writine:. Pretty light military hardware, belts, including a newly acquired eh? one which will better In retaliation for my assault on accommodate the aforementioned their sense of humor, the enemy increase in girth of my midsection. begins to lob RPTs - rocket That it is black, however, in no propelled tomatoes - at my way relates to any ability to position. Most of them miss, of disable an aggressor. To illustrate course; but, Israeli artillery-types this, let me point out that the only calculate whence the missiles nelsons I know of are among came, and reduce them to mere Ozzie's clan and some cousins of puree. I am helicoptered back to mine in Providence, Rhode Island. my base. Except for a few Not that I won't do my best for marinara stains on my uniform, the corps, of course. But I think it's proclaimed a clean operation. that they're making some kind of At least that's what I think the mistake here. Probably a digit army has in store for me. What transposed somewhere. As I have a else could it possibly be? I've touch of dyslexia, I can already passed 36 years on this understand. Earth. I can't run fast - or far - Next spring or summer is when any more. Not only am I unable to they'll be calling me for "tiranut" read from the blackboard, I also - boot camp - but I can go in have to ask which direction it's in. sooner if I'd like, I'm told. But the army wants me. So I've No hurry, I figure. I'll be "in" gotta go. No matter that I honestly until I reach 55, anyhow. And I've thought that, upon hearing that got business and housing concerns each soldier is issued a "roveh~ to attend to. I also want to see the M ~ Rosh Hashanah Greetings From General Paint & Paper Co. TI@ffi IB ~;}[ij;} ~ ~ FROM THE STAFF OF THE A.I. HERALD

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Department. Jeremy is an honor student in The Reverend Dr. Heyward will This system replaces the the 8th grade at Beth Shalom offer a lesbian feminist hospital's previous equipment and Academy. He has entered the perspective on how dynamics of accurately measures how fast Board County Science Fair for power affect both our sexual and patients breathe while also several years, winning awards for our spiritual experiences. She will identifying breathing problems. his Science projects. also suggest how these power The new system is smaller and He loves sports and especially dynamics are shaping United more automated, permitting baseball and the Cincinnati Reds. States history today. efficient use of precious hospital Heyward was ordained an He has two younger brothers, space. Episcopal priest in 1974, and is Zachary and Marcus. Jeremy is The Miriam Hospital's currently on the faculty at the the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Women's Association, whose Episcopal Divinity School in president is Mrs. Claudia Deutsch, Meyer Haas of Cleveland, Ohio Cambridge, Massachusetts. She and Mrs. Esther Rothberg of has held the Equipment Event has written extensively on Warwick, R.I. and the late since 1926, and each year the Maurice Rothberg. feminist theology and liberation proceeds have been used to A reception and dinner dance in theology, including a forthcoming purchase new equipment. book, Revolutionary Forgiveness: the evening was attended by Through the combined guests from California, Ohio, New the Call of Nicaraguo, and a fund-raising efforts of the York, New Jersey, and Rhode collection of essays, Our Passion Women's Association's Gift Shop, for Justice: Images of Power, Island. Equipment Event and Simply Sexuolity and Liberation. Delicious cook-book sales, over This talk is part of the lecture one million dollars has been raised series, Women of Faith and within the past 20 years alone. Warwick Social Wisdom, and is sponsored by the Chaplains' Office, the Sarah Doyle Seniors Women's Center, and the The Social Seniors of Warwick Religious Studies Department. ·It Dr. Smith To Speak will hold a meeting Wednesday, is free and open to the public. A At URI October 8, at 1 p.m. at Temple Am reception will follow the lecture. David. The Speakers Bureau will Dr. Donald Smith, professor of provide the guest speaker. A political science at the University bazaar will be held at the Knights of Pennsylvania, will present a of Columbus, Sandy Lane on lecture on "Anti-Americanism in October 26. Plans are being made the Third World: Root Causes and to go to Whites in Westport with Possible Cures" at The University lunch, dancing and entertainment. of Rhode Island on Monday, The wedding of Sherri Faye (sister of the groom), Amy Payments on November 12 for October 20 at 7:30 p.m. in 277 Dressler, the daughter of Mr. and Horovitz and Cynthia Galavich. this function should . be made to Chafee. Mrs. Abbott Dressler of Cranston Ushers were Gary Dressler, Sara Greene, treasurer. Professor Smith will discuss the and Goat Island, Rhode Island, Lawrence Dressler (brothers of Refreshments will be served. sources of anti-American and Gary Joel Klein, the son of the bride), Burton Hersh, Barry sentiment in parts of Asia, Africa, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Klein of Finnette and Kevin Bradshaw. and Latin America, and what can Leominster, Mass., took place on The bride is in the accounting be done to improve the situation. 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Around Town· They Still Tug hy Dorothea Snyder At My Heart Of Hearts

(The following story first appeared in could have seen the Shabbos then. My Grandpa had played clarinet for the the Rhode Island Herald on September My hand searched in my coat pocket sisters and I spent most of the day Russian band. Perhaps the music of 9, 1983. It i.s a story, my grandparents' for the key to the back door through preparing for Shabbos, baking challah tubas and French horns had provoked story, that continues on in my scrapbook' swabs of tissue, and when I touched the and helping my mother to make gefilte his desire for quietude. With the ear of of memories. At thi.s time of the year, cold metal finally, I was relieved. fish and cholent. And then my father a Dorothy Dix, he would wave aside his especially, an inner restlessness stirs of Inching a key along the lock in the and brothers would come home." "Forward" and listen to ell the news nostalgia for what was, and can never be dark was a task. With patience the key I thought about the two oval pictures my grandmother related. again. Yet the beauty of daydreams slipped jaggedly into the keyhole. of my great-grandparents which had Grandpa treaded with a soft shoe. re-kindles that eternal glow of our. What was only a procedure of two hung over the old clock for forty years. His happiness was filled with quiet precious loved ones whose gentle touch minutes seemed much longer. All My great-grandfather had a prophetic contentment from within. Even when we can no longer feel, whose soothing bundled up in a warm loden coat, my face with a pointed beard. I could Grandpa filled his thermos with coffee voices we can no longer hear, whose forehead sprouted a few beads of imagine him pouring the red wine into to take to his business, it was a task kind faces we can no longer see. The perspiration. the glasses of his family ready to done silently. light of their lives i.s a warm and I opened the door. An ethereal glow commemmorate Shabbos night. My grandfather was a slight man. All welcoming beacon to our lives, shining warmed the room. On the kitchen table "Oy," my Bubie added with a nod. grandfathers, it seemed, were thinner over and over within our minds and our shining as it did every Shabbos eve was "So beautiful were those Shabbos than grandmothers. But, I decided, this hearts. The remembrance of our loved my grandmother's candelabra. I closed nights. And then, my honey, we sat was the result of being at the stove all ones i.s a powerful switch. They still tug the door quietly, fearful that the down with prayer and a good appetite." day cooking and tasting, cooking and at our heart of hearts. impact would extinguish the flame. I understood the faraway look in my tasting. I did so love to see them wink softly. grandmother's eyes. I once wondered if my grandparents Minnie and Samuel Rapkin were my The candles' reflection on the brass "Bubie, I wish I could have sat at were well suited to each other. grandparents. candelabra gave me such a peaceful that table, but here I am sitting at Isn't that funny, I thought? One If the man who scribbled my Bubie's feeling. The challah freshly made only yours, waiting for you to hand me should not question if two elderly name properly on the dotted line of hours before was a work of golden art another piece of challah." people are compatible. Does one ask if entry into the United States at Ellis to my grandmother. Very pleased with my request, my two pillars in an ancient ruin are alike? Island were more tuned to phonics, Crumbs were scattered around the grandmother sprung out of her chair. I dismissed this ridiculous idea at perhaps she would have remained half-eaten challah and on the base of "Is Grandpa asleep?" I asked. My once. Yet, I often thought about it, but Minya. the candelabra. I inhaled slowly to grandmother sat down and said, "After always to myself. But Minya, Minnie, my dearest allow the delicious fragrance of challah Gabriel Heater, is it necessary for him Bubie, and Samuel, my dearest and burning candles to linger. It was to stay up?" Grandpa, tug at my heart of hearts like a breath of fresh air. My Grandpa was always a very quiet My "Unfinished Symphony" about each year at Rosh Hashanah time. I sat down at the table and admired man, and a contrast to that of my my Bubie and Grandpa ended here. It is with each new Rosh Hashanah this still life scene. Or was it still life. extroverted grandmother. Bubie's hour My beautiful memories and feelings that a tinge of loneliness closes in. Inanimate objects, but it expressed a of shopping was always prolonged into fo r my grandparents are not unique. I They are very much missed. It doesn't particle of life to many eyes. I pressed an entire afternoon. By the time she am not alone in this ancestral love. seem like Rosh Hashanah without my finger in staccato rhythm from the had stepped into the fish market, my What is unique is that Minnie and them. crumbs to my tongue. grandmother had met and spoke with Samuel Rapkin were my grandparents. When Bubie and Grandpa walked to My grandmother caught me in the several women, each of whom had They will always live in my mind and the Chai Odom Shu! on Nightingale act. "Nah, my honey, here," she related and confided to her about their heart. Street in Dorchester to daven, their insisted as she gave me a hunk of daughters and daughters-in-law, sons The people we love and cherish are gait was quick, their heads held high. challah. "You have to eat crumbs?" and sons-in-law, and grandchildren. life's richest treasures. They looked ten feet tall. I smiled in agreement. How I loved So much of what we feel about this woman who had known so many special people loved in our lives is held Shabbos nights! Without saying dear and private. As easy as it may another word, my Bubie walked into seem to write about our loved ones, it is', the pantry. The water in the kettle was just the opposite. warm, since the pilot on the stove had It is difficult, I can see, to feel been turned on before sunset. whether you have truly captured the My grandmother stepped out of the essence of that very special human pantry clutching two large white cups, being. her face shining with olive oil which My grandparents did not make she patted on each night before going headlines singularly. They did make to bed. The best cosmetic salons in the history by being among a courageous world couldn't have convinced her group of pioneers wlio crossed the anything was better than olive oil. North Atlantic and arrived in a strange I love her with an ancient feeling, I new land. thought. Will I ever be this old? I In Boston, my grandfather built a observed my grandmother as if it were business. My Bubie, the epitome of the first time I had ever seen her pour motherly devotion, raised two sons and tea. I reached over and pulled out the two daughters, each wonderfully clumsy light blue kitchen chair for her. individualistic with that Rapkin spirit. "Nah," she said, "good heiss tea. My mother is the eldest. See, Dottie, see," as she nudged me to My grandmother was a very look into her cup. "I'm going to get a altruistic woman. Never would she letter from your uncle this week. The turn away the peddler with the long tea leaves are many," she sighed. scraggly grey beard who frequented "Bubie, you sound like a fortune their neighborhood off Blue Hill teller. Were there any when you lived Avenue in Dorchester. in the old country?" Answering his long and piercing "Oy, the old country," my ring, Bubie would step out her back grandmother said, cupping her chin, door to the garbly throated sounds of nodding her head repeatedly like a "Caif, Mrs., caif gum, caif shoelaces, praying woman in the synagogue. Up caif pencils, caif thread, caif buttons." and down. Up and down. And then Bubie was never short of notions. with more thought, she nodded her I can't remember a time when the head from side to side. No No No No blue box wasn't a fi xture in her pantry. No. My grandmother always expressed The Jewish National Fund pushke box herself with forward and sideward constantly rung with the tinkle of coins motioning. before Jewish holidays, Shabbos and "That was when I was a very young occasions when Bubie heeded the call made(," she said wistfully. "It is like a of charity. dream so long ago." My grandparents were so much_ a I watched my grandmother intently, part of my life growing up. Because and wished I could project into her they had come to America from images of "so long ego." It was hard to another country, they represented an believe that she was once a girl of my aura of mystique to me. I was very age. curious about the land and culture "Bloz heiss," she said to me as I from whence they came, and sipped the tea. I pantomimed her questioned my Bubie endlessly. ge ntle command. When I was in the seventh grade, I "Bubie, what was the old country read Sholom Asch's "The Mother." I like?" I had tried so many times to can sti ll experience the awe of reading envision the village in Minsk she that book and feelini the life and walked through each day. breadth of Asch's characters. I was "I was happy. How I loved my drawn to the plight of the immigrant mother," she said. I know she loved her people who had settled in the lower father, too, but she spoke mo re of her east side of New York. Survival was a wonderful mother whom she still daily challenge. missed dearly. Tears would come to While my Bubie and Grandpa were Hubie's eyes whenever she spoke of her My Dubie and Grandpa, Minnie and Samuel Rapkin. (Photo taken by Dorothea living, I felt the urge to write about mother. "My mother was so wonderful, Snyder in 1950). them. I began a short story vignette a wonderful woman." about 25 years ego. The light from the candelabra no ;. -,s,."I\Jd"'6Mdt •, danced weakly. 8 r-:: ..,

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Governor·s Office State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Paid foe by: F~iends of DiPrete 2 - THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1986 Brown To Stage Visiting Othello Photographer Faunce House Theatre will be Series Arts & Entertainment filled with the energy and Photographer, writer and critic intensity of Shakespeare's Othello Max Kozloff will kick off the when the Brown University 1986-87 Visiting Photographers Theatre production of this tragedy Series at Rhode Island School of takes to the stage in late October Design when he speaks about his ~ISD Presents Collection Of American Prints and early November. Eight work at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. performances are scheduled for Public and Private: American contemporary American prints 7 in the RISD Auditorium, 2 associate curator at the Brooklyn Thursdays through Sundays 'riots Today, the 24th national include Vito Acconci, Jennifer Canal Street, Providence. All Museum · responsible for October 23-26 and October ,riot exhibition organized by the Bartlett, Richard Bosman, Elaine lectures in the series are free and organizing Public and Private, will 30-November 2. The box office - open to the public. lrooklyn Museum, will open at De Kooning, Martha Diamant, address the topic of "Brooklyn which is maintained weekdays lhode Island School of Design's Jim Dine, David Hockney, Jasper Kozloff, who studied at the Printmakers: A Curator's View" from 11 to 5 in Leeds Theatre - ,luseum of Art on Friday, Oct. 3. Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert University of Chicago and at at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 9 in will open in Faunce House each of NYU's Institute of Fine Arts, was t will continue through Motherwell, Robert Rauschen­ the Museum's galleries. Artist these performance evenings at 7 fovember 9. berg, James Rosenquist, Julian art critic for The Nation magazine Vito Acconci whose works are p.m. for an 8 p.m. curtain. from 1961-68 and executive editor Artists represented in this Schnabel and Andy Warhol. included in the exhibition will John Emigh is directing a cast of Artforum magazine from ravelling exhibition of The Brooklyn Museum's speak about his work at 4 p.m. on of twenty-two in this powerful 1974-76. Since then, he has national print exhibition, an Thursday, Oct. 16 in the RISO ongoing venture since 194 7, traces tragedy; his cast includes Brown written numerous freelance Auditorium, 2 Canal St., and students and Gilbert McCauley, articles and books about contemporary currents in Martha Diamond, another " ... offers the best formerly of the Rites and Reason photography, including Render­ American printmaking by zeroing participant in the group company, in the title role. ings, Photography and Fascination in on a brief period and abiding by of traditional exhibition, will do the same at 4 The play is a fine example of and his most recent, The a particular viewpoint in selecting p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 6 in the Shakespeare creating at the height Priuileged Eye, which will be Frenchfood.." works. Public and Private: Museum's galleries. All lectures of his powers; the playwright released in January, 1987. Providence Journal Bulletin . American Prints Today surveys are free and open to the public. probes the depths of the human the field of printmaking in Kozloff has received the squl. Written and originally National Endowment for the Arts America during the past three produced at the beginning of the years, laying particular emphasis Critical Writing Fllllowship as 17th century. Othello is a well as the Dave and Riva Logan bfl FRflNeE·! on~·how,:prints are perceived. At "domestic tragedy" set against the Award from the Photographic french restaurant : the exhiliition duplicate sets of ominous background of war. Resource Center in Boston. seve1-a1 . portfolios and artists' . Spurred by the insinuations of During his week-long stay at available for hai)d-held books are Iago, Othello evolves from a RISD, Kozlotrs works will be on viewing in an attempt to enhance courageous and respected man of view at tlfe ·"school's Red Eye the perceptual process by allowing honor to an enraged husband, the Gallery in Benson Hall, 235 for a more private experience than killer of his devoted wife, Benefit St. is often afforded in the traditional Desdemona. museum setting. Brown Theatre is presenting In conjunction with the another view of this tng,edy - a Best Wishes exhibition, Barry Walker, the new play by Paula Vogel, called Desdemona, October 15-19 in For The Leeds Theatre. Wannest Wisltn for• Hqpy New Ye,ir New Year ~ New Inspiration! New Management! \ fJf; We are a food boutique! p _... A ... S ... T ... I ... C "H ... E The Secret ln..-ient lnc. 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The members of the Department from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Bedford's Zeiterion Theatre gets Brown on Friday, October 10, at ticket outlet: Brock Avenue Paint group are Charles Sherba, first or at the door on the day of the underway Wednesday, October 15, 8:30 p.m. in alumnae hall. at 8 p.m. with the performance of & Wallpaper and The Music Box violin; Lois Finkel, second violin; concert beginning at 7:30 p.m. The program for the evening Consuelo Sherba, viola; and the Helsinki Philharmonic in New Bedford; SMU Ticket consists of Haydn's Quartet in F Orchestra. Tickets for the event Office located in the SMU Daniel Harp, cello. Major, Op. 77, No. 2; Tickets are $6 general. are $20.00, $17.50 and $15.00, with Campus Center, and at all ~~ a $2.00 discount for seniors and Ticketmaster locations in students. Massachusetts and Providence, The Helsinki Philharmonic R.I. comes to the Zeiterion just prior to a specially commissioned engagement at the United Nations. The orchestra, founded in 1882, is on its third tour of the United States. The Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra has enjoyed the privilege of being the first ~ performer of several works by Sibelius, with the composer himself conducting the premieres of the works. Conducted by Okko Kamu, the orchestra is currently if«tttJe~ - recording all of Sibelius' symphonies and other works for RISTORANTE an EMI nine-record set. (~!raistav9. ri) The program at the Zeiterion will include Tchaikovsky's This Historic Section of Overture Fantasy to Romeo and Juliet, MU880rgsky's Pictures at an Rome has been recreated E:,chibition, and Aulis Sallinen's on the East Side. Symphony No. 5, (Washington Experience the Nuvelle · Mosaics). Okko Kamu has conducted the creations of veal, fresh major orchestras of Europe, seafood, poultry and pasta. Japan, Israel, New Zealand, and Takeycu South America. 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WISHING ALL A HAPPY AND HEAL THY Sincerely NEW YEAR KATHLEEN CONNELL Democratic nominee for Secretary of State mu,,ay1 SEEKONK PROVIDENCE WARWICK IIITl, II IAYWlll!Y ~ 1287 NOl!Tl< _., IT. IIITl. 21 NO IIAUI HU IID . as.-,.Atwtl.... ---~ o...... J, 1 I 33&-4900 711- 7000 ua-uoo• 1 • SJ!hJJu.11r",rrrrrr.rr,,nr.1:rr1;1n-EZ.. w ...... -= -::r::----•e : --~-,_.,... - --····--- ·- d THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1986 - 17 Beth-El Presents "A Day In Newport"------The Adult Education College faculty. An informal covering transportation and Committee of Temple Beth El will brunch will be served. lunch. Participation will be conduct "A Day in Newport" on The group will then travel to the limited, of course, to bus capacity. //opp!/ Sunday, November 9, according to Newport waterfront to participate Registrations may be sent to the Dr. Henry Litchman, committee in the dedication of a memorial to office of Temple Beth El, 70 chairman. the ten U.S. Marines from Rhode Orchard Ave., Providence, 02906. .,r; The all-day event will provide Island who were killed in the For additional information, call at;; · 7:r · A an opportunity for participating terrorist bombing of the Marine 331-6070. ::~'t Temple members to become barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. This familiar with the U.S. Naval War will be the third anniversary of the College in Newport and some of its bombing. lfi.1 JD!I""' N,,,, y• strategic thinking, and time to Time will then be permitted for enjoy a brief period of sightseeing exploring and shopping in at the Newport waterfront. downtown Newport, after which 53 Hope St., Providence • 861-4950 Departing Beth-El by bus at 9 the buses will make the return trip a.m., the group will travel to the to the Temple. War College and will be given a The day's program will be open brief tour of the facilities by the to all adult members of the day's host, Rabbi Arnold Temple. Advance registration is * Resnicoff, Chaplain. required, with a deadline of Following the tour, there will be Thursday, November 6. two strategy briefings on the Registration fee for the entire day subjects of "Terrorism" and will be $5 per person, payable at "Nuclear Thinking" by War the time of registration, and The rc1· Rainbow most rewa 1ng Bakery reading 800 RESERVOIR A VE., CRANSTON, R.I. • 944-8180 1n this paper. Happy Fleet Certificates of Deposit give you all of the rewords of the best Rosh Hashanah investments with none of the risks. From For as little as $500, you can buy a CD at a high, guaranteed interest rate, The Kaplans then sit back while your money grows. And with terms of deposit ranging from At 6 months to 5 years, you can gear your savings ~~! plan toward short- or long-term goals. ~!!!:_:.:'II:-======Rainbow Bakery For more information on Fleet CDs, Fleet National Bank call US at 1-800-433-4636 today. Membe, FDIC OPEN EVERY DAY 7 TO 7

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BRUCE SUNDLUN Democrat for R. I. Governor 18 - THE l'UIODE ISLAND HERALD. O.R. T. Region Career Women Board Meeting Plan Event Career Women's Affiliate of the Best \Nishes for a The Providence Chapter of JFRI will hold its first meeting on ORT's (Organization For Wednesday, October 15, at the Rehabilitation Through Training) Jewish Community Center, 401 annual paid-up membership Elmgrove Avenue in Providence. Happy and Prosperous function will take place on Addressing the group's theme October 16. This happy social for the year "Images of the Jewish evening honoring our Woman" will be Rabbi Sholom membership's continued support Strajcher, Dean of the Providence New Vear of the ORT program will take Hebrew Day School and the New place at the home of one of our England Academy of Torah, and members in Cranston and begin at Dr. W.R. Varieur, a clinical 7:30 p.m. psychologist and family therapist. The evening will feature a buffet Rabbi Strajcher will discuss the dinner and shopping boutiques. Torah perspective of the Jewish The boutiques will include: leather woman while Dr. Varieur will handbags, pottery, personalized speak on the internal images of gifts and clothing, personalized the Jewish woman. stationery, handmade and Career Women's Affiliate is imported toys, quality, open to all Jewish career women in one-of-a-kind jewelry that Rhode Island who donate to combines estate jewelry with new Federation in their own name. It pieces and gems, collectibles, affords women the opportunity to Fuller Brush merchandise, explore their Jewish identity, to wrapping paper and cards, and exchange personal and Entertainment discount books. professional experiences and to The Providence Chapter is one develop new social relationships of five chapters in the within the Jewish community. R.!./Southern Mass. Region of Program committee for CW A Women's American ORT. consists of Barbara Resnicoff, Women's American ORT is the chairperson; Sheryl Bernstein, largest volunteer organization Barbara Binder, Faye Mandell, within the ORT family with about Charlotte Penn, Eileen 145,000 members. The 800 ORT Rosenberg-Black, Shelley Sackett vocational/ technical schools can and Marilyn Schlossberg. Eileen be found in 31 countries including Rosenberg-Black is chairperson the United States. for the opening meeting. ORT is the vocational and Dinner will be served at 6 p.m. technical and technical training with a charge of $4.50. The program of the Jewish people. By meeting will begin at 7 p.m. For Representative providing the tools of mind and further information call Sharon hand, ORT has enabled over 2 Rosenfeld at the Federation office, million people to become 421-4111. productive members of society. Though ORT schools foster Claudine Schneider Jewish identity, they are open to Cranston anyone r~gardless of religion. West Membership in Women's Reunion American ORT is open to any woman who supports its cause. All Cranston H.S. West, Class of paid-up members, old and new, are 1971 will be holding its 15th year invited to join the celebration with reunion on Saturday, November the Providence Chapter on 15, at the Sheraton Islander in October 16. To R.S.V.P. call Newport. Efforts have been made 943-8934. For further information to reach as many classmates as regarding membership call possible. If you have not been 822-4737. ~ contacted, please call Paula Rosh Hashanah Greetings From (Silverberg) Goldberg at 941-2042. JCC Seniors Emanuel-El Every Wednesday afternoon Garden Club from 12:30-3 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center, 401 Elmgrove Emanu-El Garden Club will Eastland Avenue in Providence, free craft have a "Meeting in the Park' on instruction is being offered to se­ Thursday, October 9, beginning at nior adults. noon at the boat house in Roger Providence Department of Williams Park. A brown bag lunch 1 Recreation crafts expert Tessie will be followed by dessert and , Pulio is conducting the class, coffee. After a business meeting at Main Office which is being sponsored by the 1 p.m. a hands-on workshop, 25 Cummings Way , Woonsocket , R.I. 02895. 767-3900 Senior Adult and Adult Services "Creating a Topiary," will take Departments of the Center. place in the greenhouse. 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Best Wishes for the A Joyous and New Year Mayor Henry S. Kinch Prosperous CITY OF PAWTUCKET Senator Claiborne Pell New Year from

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,;,c'""K ,1,c-,.-, n 1~c,;;., -iJ;'i VAAD HAKASHRUTH /\ OF RHODE ISLAND ~K7 The Vaad Hakashruth of Rhode Island certifies only the following businesses as Kosher: Beirut Bakery - Lincoln (pocket bread) Charles Gilbert Catering - Providence Izzy's Kosher Catering - Warwick Klein's Kosher Katering - Providence Klein Kosher Meat Market - Providence Fred Spigel's Kosher Meat - Providence Marty Weissman Kosher Meat Market - Cranston We also certify: Sweenor's Open Fire Candies - Cranston (Special Orders Only) Kaplan's Hope St. Bakery - Providence (Supervision of ingredients only) Miriam Hospital - Providence (Kosher Kitchen only) Culling House - East Providence (Frozen Dinners only) Hillel House - URI-Kingston Hillel House - Brown-Providence SUSAN L. FARMER Th e Vaad Hakashruth Maintains: Community Mivah - Providence Secretary of State and We Wish E•erv-• Happy a H_,...., New Y- Candidate for Lieutenant Governor bbbi l•Y luobt A1ron Segal b-~ ,-w.m ---·------.... ------·. ... ------20-THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1986 180 degree turn from his charges can execute Perez de Cuellar process and dealing with the before the Security Council less reassured the Israeli leader that re· Soviet Union; and with New N.Y. Visit than 18 hours before: that Israel e:ardless of what he had just said York's Cardinal John J. (continued from page 1) Talks At The U.N. was the primary culprit in the . before the world body, his true O'Connor. After the meeting, obligatory quotient of culture by One of Peres' most important increasingly probable termination belief was that the people O'Connor emerged in front of St. visiting the Metroplitan Museum · meetings was a discussion over of the United Nations Forces In · primarily responsible for the Patrick's Cathedral with the of Art to view the Israel Museum's lunch recently with United Lebanon (UNIFIL). apparent collapse ofUNIFIL were prime minister to announce that travelling exhibit, "Treasures of Nations Secretary General Javier In recent weeks, several French ' not the Israelis but rather the he had accepted Peres' invitation the Holy Land," which will open Perez de Cuellar. The top U.N. UNIFIL soldiers have been killed Shiite extremists. to visit Israel. September 29. official appeared to execute a brisk and wounded in bombings and While tactfully not pressing the Speaking about his discussions ambushes carried out by Shiite Secretary General to explain why with President Reagan, Secretary At your service ... ; extremists. The U.N.'s inability to he had spoken so differently the of State George Shultz and other assure the security of UNIFIL night before, Peres made clear leading U.S. officials, Peres told - MAID AR@UND THE CL@CK Inc. contingents, despite recent that although the Government of reporters, "The overwhelming meetings of U.N. Under-Secretary Israel looks favorably on the warmth shown to us in General Marek Goulding with continuation of UNIFIL, neither Washington was both moving and Best Wishes for a Happy various factions in Lebanon, he nor Shamir would be willing to surprising for me. I have been and Healthy New Year makes it appear increasingly likely accept its redeployment along the coming to Washington for . that France, the most important international frontier. Peres also discussions with U.S. officials for of the nations contributing to asserted that Israel will continue 35 years, and for the very first UNIFIL, will pull out of the force. to support and train Gen. Antoine time in all of those meetings I did During a Security Council Lahad's South Lebanese army in not-hear a word of criticism of Susan and David Smoller debate recently, the Secretary the absence of any other Lebanese Israel from the Americans. We did and family General had shocked Peres by force that could help assure that not even have to press our .______. 1 chargingUNIFIL thawot tuldhe Shiite never attack haves on attackedNorthern b y Israelguerrillas will opera nottin g bein demands because the administration people were the happened had Israel not blocked southern Lebanon. ones who were bringing up the the U.N.'s determination to move Peres also held substantive proposals we wanted to discuss." the UNIFIL forces out of their meetings with U.S. - · "' - 't"~/ GARY'S PARK AVE. DELI positions in the Shiite area of Undersecretary of State for southern Lebanon and redeploy Mideast Affairs Richard Murphy, ,' • \\!) \ 840 Park Ave., Cranston them along the Israeli-Lebanese with whom he d:scuss~d scenarios -~ 785-0020 border. for continuing the Mideast peace * * * * Complete Turnaround As a result of Perez de Cuellar's Rosh HashQna~ Greetings uncomprom,smg speech, some members of Peres' entourage Wishing Much expected the meeting between the i two men the following day to be a Health & Happiness To You ' tough encounter. Perez de Cuellar, however, proved considerably For The New Year more conciliatory in his "four We will be closed Saturday 10·4, and Sunday 10-5 eyes" meeting with Peres. for the Holiday. In one of those political pirouttes only trained diplomats

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Israel's Women Welders in a gate or doorframe. The ourselves doing their work again, Nancy does forge work and on our own was very difficult. Who women are always turning down or finishing it ourselves." Nancy practical items such as furniture. by Wendy Leibowitz can start a business without offers. "If we take on too much admits she has a tendency to Naomi, whose wire and metal HAIFA (JSPS) - Nancy capital?" business, and don't finish a job on "mother" young men who worked sculptures are well-known, is Harris of Deland, Fla. was a Twice the women gave up, sold time, the whole world gets angry at for them, especially if they'd just drawn to design, branching out to different type of nurse. "I was their equipment, and tried to us. We've found a level that is finished the army, or been recently experiment in copper and glass. always fixing the wheelchairs or forget the whole idea. "But we good for us," says Naomi firmly. married. "They take advantage of Some customers are still hesitant meddling with the oxygen tents. I enjoy the work," says Naomi, the They have had generally bad me," she laughs. to commission them even though knew I wanted a change." more talkative of the two. experiences with hired help and After over 10 years in the field, their work is recommended. "They So she retired from nursing and "Anyway, we'd gotten used to apprentices. "Maybe we demand they've found their own walk past us looking for a man," came to Israel, where she met eating." too much, but we always find independent work methods. Nancy says with a smile. Naomi Niram, who was trying Naomi is a trained welder who unsuccessfully to support herself has taught art at various art selling homemade jewelry. 10 institutes in Israel. Nancy had years ago the two teamed up and always enjoyed making things - FLY and RELAX established a welding business her grandfather was a carpenter - Your car delivered to Florida by our transport service near Haifa, now a profitable · and does not enjoy the business enterprise specializing in intricate end of the work, dealing with SAFER and CHEAPER THAN DRIVING - decorative ironwork for gates, clients, phoning, worrying about No gas, no tolls, no troubles stairways, window frames and iron finances. "I work, and Naomi garden sculptures. protects me from all the stuff that "The banks were very hesitant takes away from the pleasure of Call for to lend us money," recalls Naomi. working," Nancy says. " It's a very Fully insured Reservation "If we were running a dress shop, good relationship - really more of and and Information there would have been no problem. a way of life, rather than just a Ralph or Jerry But women welders? We went to business." bonded the Ministry of Industry and Welders - mazgerim in Hebrew Trade. They told us we were crazy. - are not very respected in Israel Actually, in retrospect, their - "It's like street cleaning," refusal to loan us any money Naomi says bluntly '- but the fine actually rebounded to our benefit. work the women do is appreciated, FRONT STREET AUTO (401) 725-5355 When inflationary times came, as the demand increases for and interest rates shot up, we were delicately curved bars over Pawtueket, R.I. not in debt to anyone. But doing it windows, or Islamic-style patterns Saluettes by Sal G. Have a Happy and ...... Healthy NevV Year

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Happy Rosh Hashanah 1 5 9 CD 7 BANK OF NEW ENGLAND® 8 OLD COLONY 4 6 Rhode Island, you're the heart of our business. 7 Mnnht-rFDIC 22-THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1986 The Shofar - A Cry From The Heart by Rabbi Y esoshua Laufer and beat him so badly that he Obituaries Rabbi Yisroel Baal Shem Tov, became bruised and wounded from founder of Chassidism, related the head to toe, until he came to the following famous parable about courtyard of his father's royal the blowing of the Shofar: palace. Again he attempted by sign A King had an only son who was and ge·sture to indicate to the the very apple of his eye. The guards that he was the King's son, IDA KRAMER-GILMORE CLARA HOFFMAN-KRAVIT SHEPARD G. SAUNDERS prince was well educated, and both but they ignored him. NORWICH, Conn. - Ida NEWPORT - Clare Hoffman­ CRANSTON - Shepard G. he and his father decided that he In desperation, the prince began Kramer-Gilmore, 84, of 206 Kravit, 81, of 400 Bellevue Ave., a Saunders, 66, of 24 Rockland should travel to other countries to to cry out and scream and shout in Washington St., co-founder in real estate broker for more than 40 Avenue, died at home on further his studies and become the hope that his father, the King, 1959 of the Gilmore-Kramer Co., years in the Boston and Hyannis September 29, 1986. He was the familiar with other teachings and should recognize his voice. When Providence, a material handling areas, died September 28 at New­ husband of Martha (Manishefsky) customs. His father gave him the King heard the shouting he equipment company, which she port Hospital. She was the wife of Saunders. servants and ordered nobles to exclaimed, "Is that not the voice of operated until her retirement in the late Harry Hoffman. He was active in real estate accompany him, - so that the my son, crying out to me in 1972, died Friday, September 26, She was born in Kiev, Russia, a investments for 26 years. prince would be able to travel in distress?" The great love for his 1986 at the Backus Hospital, daughter of the late Harry and Previously he was a salesman for luxury and roam over all the son welled up within him and he Norwich. She was the widow of Miriam (Atoman) Tolman. She the Xerox Corp. for 25 years. He countries and distant islands. All ran and embraced and kissed his Stanley H. Gilmore. Her first lived in Newport for nine months, was an Army veteran of World this so that through his travels, son. husband was the late Israel J. previously living in Boston, Hyan­ War II. While in the Army he was the prince would attain a higher Kramer. nis and in Manchester, N.H. regarded as a pioneer in aerial level of wisdom and knowledge. The King is the A-mighty - the She previously had been She was a member of Hadassah photography. After the war he was Many years passed. All the Supreme King of Kings. The proprietor of the former Eas~rn and Temple Israel of Boston. a chief petty officer in the Naval wealth that the King had Jewish people is G-d's only son, as Wholesale Grocery Co., She leaves a son, Dr. Herbert J. Reserve. supplied his son for the journey the Torah says, " My son, my Providence, for 11 years. Hoffman of Cambridge, Mass.; a He was a member of the Coast had been spent by the prince on firstborn son, Israel," and again, Born in Russia, a daughter of sister, Celia Tolman of Providence; Guard Auxilliary with the rank of the luxuries to which he had "You are children to G-d, your the late Aaron and Lena (Roy) four grandchildren and two great­ division captain; the Herbert J. always been accustomed. In fact, G-d." G-d caused the soul to Uditsky, she had lived in grandchildren. Woolf WFW Post of Brighton, in the course of his travels, the descend into the body, and just as Connecticut since 1983. She had The funeral service was held at Mass.; a former member of the prince had acquired an even the purpose of the prince's travels previously resided in Rehoboth, the Hebrew Memorial Chapel of Providence Police Auxilliary and greater taste for luxuries than (in the parable) was to further his Mass., for 32 years and in the Anshe Sephard Cemetery, was a licensed amateur radio before, and his father's wealth was education, in the same way the Providence for 48 years. Manchester. operator. squandered in an attempt to soul enters the body so that She leaves a son, Bernard He was born in Boston, a son of satisfy these newly-acquired through performing Mitzvos and Kramer of Lincoln, a daughter, BENL.ROSEN the late Saul and Ethel desires; things came to such a pass good deeds it should become Marjorie Mandell of Norwich; (Seserman) Saunders. He had that the prince had sold every last refined and elevated to a level three sisters, Eleanor U. Gomel of COCONUT CREEK, Fla. lived in Cranston for a year, Ben L. Rosen, 77, of 2001 Grenada thing he possessed. higher than it enjoyed previously. Warwick, Rita Leavitt of previously living 20 years in Drive, a jewelry sales The prince now came to a However, through the love of one's Amherst, Mass., and Doris Providence. representative until retiring four country so far away from home own -body, greed and other Kessler of West Palm Beach, Fla.; Besides his wife he leaves a that the inhabitants had not even material desires, the person five grandchildren and four years ago, died Wednesday, brother, Robert Saunders of October 1, 1986, at Northwest heard of his father, the great king, wanders far away, to a "place," great-grandchildren. Brockton, Mass. Regional Hospital. He was the and when he said that he was the (i.e. a state of mind), where the A funeral service was held at the A funeral service was held at the husband of Beatrice (Potash) son of King so-and-so, they did name of his Father (G-d) is Mount Sinai Memorial Chapel, Mount Sinai Memorial Chapel, not believe that he was a prince altogether unknown. As Pharaoh 825 Hope St., Providence. Burial Rosen. 825 Hope Street., Providence. He was born in New York City, nor had they ever heard the name of ancient Egypt declared: "Who was in Swan Point Cemetery, Burial was in Lincoln Park a son of the late Louis and Sophie of his royal father. When the is G-d that I should obey his Providence. · Cemetery, Warwick. prince finally saw that there was command? I do not know G-d." ANN FEIT Rosen. As a young man he lived in Portsmouth, Va. GRACE V. ROY AL no h~pe for him there, no ~eali~g On hearing this cry, the PROVIDENCE - Ann Feit, 72, his for his tortured_ soul, h~ decided ID Supreme King of Kings, the of 35 Sessions St., a bookkeeper at Besides wife he leaves a PROVIDENCE - Grace V. daughter, Linda Rubinstein of the ?epths of his despair to _return A-mighty blessed be He, becomes Realm Industries for three years Royal, 91, of the Jewish Home for Providence; a son, Dr. Stephen M. to h~s homeland - to the country aroused and displays His great before retiring last year, died the Aged, 99 Hillside Ave., died DI.; of his royal father. love for His only son. He forgives Wednesday, October 1, 1986, at Rosen of Deerfield, a sister, Tuesday, September 30, 1986, at Lillian Kestenbaum of Miami In the c?urse of the many Y~!lrs His son for past misdeeds _ 88 Rhode Island Hoepital. She was the Miriam Hospital. She was the and six grandchildren. of wandenng, however, the pnnce signified by Yom Kippur which is the widow of Jack Feit. Beach, Fla.; widow of Boardman A. Royal. !J'be funeral service was held at h!d forgotten even the language of_ -the Day of Forgiveness and Mrs. Feit had previously been A lifelong Providence resident, Riverside Memorial Chapel, his country! When he returned; her Atonement (so that we celebrate employed by Temple Emanu-El in she was a daughter of the late Mount Vernon, N.Y. ~taJ'te? to . geSture to the the festival of Sulws "with a clean the, same capacity for 25 years. Harmon and Anita Rubin. She leaves a daughter, Hope 1Dhab1tants ID _an . attempt to slate"). And just as, in the parable, She was also a Sunday School convey to them, ID sign la_ngu~ge, the King embraced his son, so does teacher at the temple for 10 years. MINNIE MARER Meiselman of Providence; and VROVIDENCE - Minnie three grandchildren. that he was the son of th~,r ~ID~- the A-mighty embrace us and A lifelong Providence resident, Marer, 97, of the Jewish Home for A funeral service was held at the But ~he people mocked him. . ls it encompass us with the Suka. she was the daughter of the late possible that the son of our i:iughty Adapted from the works of Rabbi Lewis and Bessie (Cohen) Stepak. the Aged, 99 Hillside Avenue, died , Mount Sinai Memorial Chapel, October 1, 1986 at the home. She , 825 Hope St. Burial was in monarch should be dressed ID rags Menachem M. Schneerson She was a member of Temple and tatters?!" They struck him Emanu-El and its Sisterhood, was the widow of Arnold Marer. Lincoln Park Cemetery, Warwick. Hadassah and the Jewish Home Born in Hungary, a daughter of the late Morris and Mathilda hi.======71 1 for the Aged. (Weiss) Katz, she had lived in She leaves two sons, Irving Feit Providence 17 years. She of New York City and Dr. Elliot U.S. Federal law now requires all funeral homes to previously resided in Bayside, Feit of Providence; a daughter, New York. provide itemized pricing. Mount Sinai Memorial Chapel Barbara Nair of Silver Spring, She leaves a son, Clarence Md.; two brothers, William Stepak has provided this courtesy for over eleven years. Marer of Johnston; two of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Samuel Stepak of Providence; a grandchildren and a great-grandchild. sister, Rose Feit of Providence; A graveside service was held at and five grandchildren. the Mt. Hebron Cemetery, I. MOUNT SINAI A funeral service was held at the Max Sugarman Memorial Chapel, Flushing, New York. Arrangements were by the Max 458 Hope St. Burial was in MEMORIAL CHAPEL Lincoln Par!_ Ce_!Detery, Warwick. Sugarman Memorial Chapel. The Rhode Island Jewish funeral Max Sugarman home that can be trusted .. . . for its honesty ... integrity ... Memorial Chapel and compliance with the highest standards of Jewish ethics Family records for three generations are in our files, and conduct. making our staff better prepared to maintain our Over 100 years service to R.I. high standards of service with Reverence and Dignity Jewish families by our director, In the Jewish Tradition. Mitchell, his father and grandfather.

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BlST WI SHES FOR THE NEW YEAR Cuba's Jews Face Assimilation Best Wishes Far The New Yea, ST ATE TIRE SERVICE INC. by Larry Yudelson The Jewish community has WE SIT BETTER AUTHORIZED DEALER FOR RHODE ISLAND (JSPS) - The · Cuban Jewish received visits and support from & SOURCES INC.] I Bob Cimino, President community is threatened by the leaders of the Catholic and 1005 Fleet Bank Building FIRESTONE & DUNLOP TIRES . apathy · · and· · • assimilation, Protestant Churches, which Asis Providence 1177 Jefferson Blvd., Warwick 738-4366 according to Moises Asis, one of welcomes as sending a messag~ to 42J.1213 the community's leaders. Asis was unaffiliated Jews that their in the U.S. recently to attend the heritage is respectable. I Conference for Alternatives in Asis says there are currently DR. and MRS. JEFFREY HANZEL Jewish Education. 1,000 Jews identified with the New Year's Greetings For Jewish children in Cuba, community (other estimate it at and sons, MICHAEL and WU.LIAM Asis is the only Jewish educational 800) down from an estimated and alternative. He teaches Sunday 15,000 Jews before Fidel Castro I. SHALOM School for 10 children, ranging in took power in 1959. Almost all of DR. and MRS. MELVIN HANZEL age from 4 (his daughter) to the Jews live in Havana, where the CO., INC. l:: XT l::N D BEST WISHES eleven. His curriculum includes five synagogues are located. Not FO R A HAPPY NEW YEAR Hebrew, Jewish traditions, and all of the synagogues are 569 Main Street TO l HEIR Rl::Li\ TIVES AND FRIENDS history. functioning; and in those that are, By training, Asis is an Asis said about 35 people show up WARREN, R.I . information scientist, preparing on a typical Shabbat morning. For abstracts and writing reports for a Passover Seder last year, 120 the Ministry of Agriculture. He's people turned out. also interested in parapsychology, Not many young people are New Year's Greetings researching hypnosis and involved in Jewish activities, but MR. dermatoptic perception, the Asis hopes that the trend of from ability to identify colors by touch. younger attendance at Church ISRAEL KOFMAN But he decided to devote his one may spread to the synagogue. One and THE FORE COURT1ENNIS & free day each week to the next - disincentive is that Communist RACQUETBAU CLUBS he hopes not the last - generation Party members must be atheists MR. & MRS. of Cuban Jews because "it was - and only Party members can Cumberland Lincoln necessary.'' hold top government and SOLOMON Asis has been involved with the diplomatic posts. Nonetheless, KOFMAN 333-4480 333_-~644 Jewish community for sixteen Asis pointed out only a small years. He picked up his knowledge minority of Cubans are Party W ish f riends and relatives of Hebrew from a teacher at the members, and that Jews hold top a Happy and Healthy positions in various scientific Zionist Union of Cuba, before it New Year was closed in 1978. societies. I Historically, Cuba has had . At the beginning of last year the WE DISH IT OUT better relations with Israel than Cuban government opened an have most Communist countries. Office of Religious Affairs. That, New Year Greetings Unlike the Soviet Union and most says Asis, has been good for the of its satellites which broke Jews, citing the office's approving =#§1"" "" . ::- ~ t11 relations in 1967, Cuba waited his present trip to the U.S. and a ;._· I ~ _· . . _9.~ - ··-- . ~-- . until 1973. Asis explained, similar one last year. RUFFUL'S somewhat apologetically, that Last year, for the first time, the Custom Satellite Systems many anti-Israel moves were community was able to import a RESTAURANT ~ Home Antennas, MATV dictated by pressure from other rabbi for Passover. Although the AIITIIIIIA SERVICE countries - he attributed the government will not allow them to 208 Wayland Avenue FM Antennas closing of the Zionist Union to a hire a permanent rabbi from Provide rice Holiday Greetings Warwick 738-6369 desire for good will from the Arab outside the country, Asis said they delegates to the 11th World would allow a Cuban to study at a 421-2712 Festival of Youth and Students, rabbinic seminary abroad. which took place the following Besides the synagogues and month. Asis' Hebrew · school, the New Year's Greeting Even today, says Asis, "Cuba is community has a kosher butcher, NEW YEAR'S only , against the policies of. the a hevra kadisha (burial society), a GREETINGS Israeli government. The Cuban 22-member B'nai B'rith chapter, a · ' press never questions the women's organization, and a ABBY'S existence of the State of Israel." society to care for the sick. The \Nigwam, Inc. Articles denouncing Zionism Cuban community is poor by CONSTRUCTION occasionally appear, "but not American standards; the co. often." communist economy doesn't leave In his classes, Asis discusses them the extra funds to support a Israel both as the site of Jewish communal· network. Hebrew 1 Kaae Road history and as the location of a school attendance presents a Saltldield, R.I. 915 Charles Street, No. Providence, RI 02904 major Jewish community, neither problem, with interested children 231-3626 trying to erase the traditional scattered throughout Havana and Jewish connection to the land of transportation expensive, Asis Israel nor to preach Zionism. hopes to get a mini-van for the "We don't talk about politics in school. For expenditures such as NEW YEAR GREETINGS the Jewish community," he says, his travel abroad, Asis relies on SCHOOL BUS referring to both Zionism and contributions from U.S. Jews. Rental&' & Chartering Communism. HARBOURS/DE Unlike Eastern Europe, Cuba CALL has no history of anti-Semitism. ~ ~ 467-8844 LOBS TERMAN/A UNITED TRUCK :1 BARRINGTON LIQUORS INC. &BUS Water Street 618WARREN AVE. EAST PROVIDENCE SERVICE CO. East Greenwich 434-9556 325 Melrose Street J 884-6363 BEST WISHES FOR A HAPPY NEW YEAR Providence, A.I. 02907 'I fl I Best Wishes For a BEST WISHES FOR A HAPPY NEW YEAR Healthy and Prosperous LARCHWOOD ASQUINO'S RESTAURANT !1 New Year INN 584 North Broadwa y East Providence U.S. Route 1 A G E 4-97Z0 Wakefield, Rhode Island 783-5454 I FRANCIS J. BROWNING ,:1n~r, ;i:n~ ;,1~~ Innkeeper I Best Wishes for the Holiday

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MR. and MRS. JEROME HOROWITZ Jewish 183-SlrMt Bes/ Wishes Ji>r a H ea//hy , Happy Nell' Year MR. encl MRS. STEPHEN BAUTISTA R- Lff and Undaey Beth Librarians Kay's Newport MR. and MRS. SIDNEY CARL HOROWITZ ShafOft Beth and Jeffrey David Meet 469 Angell St. end MR. and MRS. STEVEN HOROWITZ Providence .....,,,, and Jaime by Shloime Perel EXTEND BEST WISHES FOR A HAPPY AND PADSP£AOUS NEW YEAR MONTREAL (JSPS) - Where 421-9043 on your shelves do you place a Best Wishes for a Happy & Healthy New Year book that denies the Holocaust took place? For the 150 people at BEST WISHES FOR A HAPPY NEW YEAR QUALITY CARE NURSING SERVICE the J une convention of the Dolores Dupre - Director Association of J ewish Libraries, KELLEY METALS CORP 187 Westminster St., Prov., R.I. 02903 it's a serious question. Shelves and card catalogues are their domain. JOHN J. KELLEY SR. 274-7300 "Cataloguing has to do with ways of seeing the world, with how we categorize the world," D' AMBRA TEXACO ST A TION explained outgoing AJL President SEASON'S GREET INGS Hazel Karp, head librarian of the .761 HOPE STREET 621-2348 Hebrew Academy of Atlanta. AMERICAN CARD CO., INC. But the confe rence was about WISH THEIR CUSTOMERS 35 BAKER STREET, PROVIDENCE more than the Dewey Decimal (or A HAPPY NEW YEAR the newer, and preferred, Library HOpkina 7-8278 of Congress) classification system; the librarians also discussed such BEST WISHES FOR THE NEW YEAR Beat Wiehe• for TIie New Vear issues as values in children's literature; the transmission of KING AUTO PARTS CORP. Providence Watch Hospital J ewish culture and values through Foreign and Domestic Makes THE SALTZMAN FAMILIES arts and crafts; controversial materials in Jewish collect.ions; 935 High Street Harold & Mary 50 EDDY STREET 27 TOWER HILL ROAD and CO!l)puter networking. Central Falls 725-1298 Sanford & Francine PROVIDENCE, R.I. WAKEAELD, R.I. The announcement of a future cataloguing service for synagogue, school and center Judaica libraries BEST W ISHES FOR A. Judge and Mrs. Jacob J. Alprin in southern California, made in a VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR and Family session on "Computer Networking in Small Libraries," reflected the ARMBRUST CHAIN CO. Wish Their Friends and Relatives trend - very visible at the A Happy and Healthy New Year convention - to upgrade Jewish 735 Allens Ave ., Providence 781-3300 library work at all levels. In one of many sessions on cataloguing, T heodore Weiner, Mrs. Sally Sal.tzman of Cranston, R .I. head of J udaica cataloguing at the a Library of Congress, brought BEsr WISHES FOR A HAPPY NEW YEAR wishes her family & friends welcome news to the convention. Happy, Heal.thy and Weiner told the librarians " revisionist" material will very EVERGREEN TREE Prosperous New Year soon he given a new subject & LANDSCAPE SERVICE heading separate from " Holocaust." T hese materials are currently categorized as SEEKONK, MASS. RUTH HELLMAN BERGER "'Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 670 No. Main St. 4-H, Providence - errors, inventions, etc." 761-SSOS Working for changes in the Wishes Her Friends and Relatives cataloguing of J udaica and related A Happy and Prosperous New Year materials constitutes a primary effort for the AJL. Since a classification system tries to organize all knowledge, and since NEW YEAR GREETINGS HAPPY NEW YEAR TO FRIENDS AND CUSTOME RS cataloguing a book places it in a specific place in the system, Private Fac:ilitics PETROLEUM HEAT & POWER CO. cataloguing is a highly contentious and topic, involving philosophical, 375 Providence The Perfect Setting Allens Avenue ethical, and political issues. 941-0050 "'Holocaust' was not a subject heading 10 years ago," said Ms. For Showers & Weddings Karp. "It was previously placed 333-1300 under 'World War JI.' In the NEW YEAR GREETINGS Library of Congress system, now, COUNTRY C1'SUALS 'Holocaust' refers only to Jews. This is an example of how we can Governor Francis Shopping Center have an impact." Warwick Cataloguing issues were also irl Sro~-0- "New Arri'fOI of Fa/I Fashions" extensively discussed in a session on "Controversial Materials in the country club Jewish Library," which dealt with Oki River Road. Lincoln, Rhode Island BEST WISHES FOR A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR Holocaust-denial literature. Vidor A. Gemma • WIiiiam R. Gemma Delegates held that it was urgent !1.;;;;::;;::;;::;;::;;;;;;;;::;;::;;::;;::;;::;;::;;::;;::;;::;;::;;::;;::;;::;;;;;;;;::;;::;;::;;::;;::;;::;;;!.I Gemologists GRAND JEWELRY 1535 Smith St., No. Prov. 353-0110 838 Reservoir Ave., Cranston 941-7800 • 421-881 4 Toll Free Number 1-800-241 -3330 ext. 1293

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" A TRA DITION OF O ff~RIN G PR ESTIGIOUS HOMES IN R.I. FOR U VtR 50 ) I AR Sal~s-Mortgagrs-Appraisals-State W1dr M1:-5_-Refrml ,nd Computtr Str,·1ct A4 - THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1986 Jewish NEW YEAR GREETINGS Librarians A Happy New Year New Year's Greetings MARBIL CLEANERS from Meet PAYETIE TRUCK SHOPPERS'TOWN, TAUNTON AVENUE BODY MFG. CO. China Star Continued from rrcc.:.:ding r age EAST PROVIDENCE 140 Newport Ave. 65 Dyerville Ave., Johnston 434-6155 to separate all " revisionist" E. Providence material from valid Holocaust 351-0711 438-5559 literature, so as to avoid any confusion among as yet BEST WISHES FOR A HEALTHY AND unknowing individuals. New Year Greetings Best Wishes For A Happy New Year HAPPY NEW YEAR Adaire Klein, librarian of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los SCHMIDT SANTAGATA Angeles stated t hat high school Electric Co., Inc. Engineering Inc. JANNEY MONTGOMERY students who ask for help on 137 Chestnut St., Providence 375 Atwood Ave., Cranston.RI papers about t he " revisionists!' are 421-3423 946-0170 SCOTT, INC. given the analytical, secondary Members of the New York Stock Exchange literature on the subject. It was not the role of the center, she said, New Year's Greetings 236 WESTMINSTER MALL to expose students to t he and PROVIDENCE .. revisionists." E.P. FOURNIER CO., INC. The AJL was founded in 1965 A.M.C. JEEP 274-8600 through the merger of two other New England's No. 1 American Motors Dealer Jewish library associations, one which served academic and 939 Newport Ave., Pawtucket 725-4556 archival institutions and the other BEST WISHES FOR A HEALTHY AND HAPPY NEW YEAR for communal libraries of all types. It currently has 690 members. NEW YEAR GREETINGS 1986 The organization. sees itself as . 74th year J. W. CORR AGENCY, INC . . having a distinct mission in t he Jewish world and perhaps in t he 105 FRENCHTOWN ROAD, EAST GREENWICH world in general. " Why would you join t he lowest paying profession A Complete Insurance Agency_For You in the U.S. if you didn't believe in it?" asked Karp. " It's a calling 884-0400 really. T oday, the librarians are Best Wishes For A Happy, Healthy New Year the keepers of the culture. We see J. William Con:, President ourselves .as the people who From the preserve Jewish books." GERALDS. GOLDSTEIN FAMILY At the convention, which KENT TOWN UNIFORM TOWN COUNTRY bustled with enthusiasm, I CLEANERS RENTALS CLEANSERS friendship and discussion, - Wayland - 1550 Warwick Ave. & librarians discussed t he need to Square 737-4567 Warwick Mr. Mrs. Max Fish extend work on subject catalogue - 220 Willett Ave. reforms, to increase AJL Riverside Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Fish membership and chapters, to expand internal education in and David, Jackie, and Jenny technical knowledge and to further interaction. among J ewish ,:in:>n i"\:i,u 'i\1'\l), Ors. Stanley & Jane Fish librarians. · ' "Our cataloguing grant covers a and Susan pilot project in the Southern THE BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION California area, initially;· OF RHODE ISLAND Peter & Jennifer Fish reported Rita Frischer, director of 130 Sessions Street, Providence L.A.'s Sinai Temple Blumenthal Library. But other AJL members 331-0956 !­ Rita & Elliott can "look forward to the day that Extends Best Wishes For A Happy New Year i Bonnie-Mindy & Frank this service will be available to the To The Entire Community and Cordially Invites All largely overworked and underpaid To Make Use Of Its Facilities For The WISH ALL OUR FRIENDS people cataloguing in small Advancement And Enrichment Of Jewish Education lihraries everywhere."· A HAPPY AND HEALTHY NEW YEAR "'A single library is limited and patron needs always exceed its limits,'' said Barbara Leff, director of L.A.'s Stephen Wise Temple library. "A library which WITH BEST WISHES cooperates and networks with FOR A NEW YEAR OF HEALTH, others appears unlimited." HAPPINESS AND PEACE October4 In another area, in children's is the start-of literature and art, the need to Rosh transmit Jewish culture and Hashanah values of caring and sharing was William K. emphasized. P resenters Vicky Zak and Marcia Posner elaborate on Toole Co. t he need to avoid polemicizing in children's literature and to instead int roduce social values as part of Industrial Supplies the ongoing process of literary and Hardware description. T he decision to publish Judaica 50 Division Street Librarianship, the technical journal of the Association, twice a Pawtucket year is a major commitment of the 723-9000 Association. HAPPY " It is the editors' opinion," said co-editor Bella Hass Weinberg, "that the technical article is NEWYEAR. precisely what the Judaica librarian needs. It is true t hat From Everyone at Stop & Shop! 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