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VOLUME LXXV I, NUMBER 38 THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1990 35t PER COPY Israel Ready For Attack JERJJA~~td0t;;~~ Prim voice~ warm support fo~ the centration of international Minister Yitzhak Shamir as~ Amencan a~d mternat1onal forces around Iraq, an~ the d th I r I d effort to contam Iraq. boycott measures by the mter- ::;ned ~h!~:ee~~~~~se ~ :hnat " W~at can . stop Saddam nati_onal community, ca n Israel possesses "the capacity, Hussem today 1s only _a large ac~1 ev.e the goal. . th ·11 th bTt d th and strong force that will put a This force, coupled with 1 ed.w, ',. ~ a~ l ~n .1 I~ brake on his wildness and ag- determination on the part of all O 1 rea _m~ ss th ten 1 se gression," Shamir said of the those who oppose totalitarian agamsh a f real rom raq or Iraqi president in an address to dictatorship, can become a ring an~;t s;k:e.shortly after his graduates of the National De- of. steel aro.und Saddam_ Hus- ff , d" 1 y . fense College. sem that will get ever hghte r, ~ IC~~ irector gener~' o;si The Israeli premier acknowl- until it breaks his aggressive- ls~:~I r:~~~-be ";.:r:~ed f~ r a~ edged that Iraq's moves .in -~he ne_ss once and for all," Shamir h · 1 k P P Gulf present Israel with an said. c ;~~~/;tac r~marks were aggressive t~rea~, to its security ~n lra9i spokesman re~ently 1 I' f t ff . 1 t" and well -bemg, but that the agam claimed that Israeli war- t~r::ife 1~:io~s 1 ~~:e~~~c ~n ~~ Israel Defense Force " is ready plane_s disguised with ~ .S. . ~-t k Y Yh to face any threat or develop- markmgs were arrayed against 1raq1 m11 ary _s po .esman t. at ment." Iraq. ls~ael was a~tmg m collusi_on Earlier, at a meeting with the Deputy Foreign Minister Greeting each other at the recent dedication of the Judge Zev ~~~h s~:~ ~~'.t:~aS~a~~s,g:~1~~ heads of local authorities in his Binyamin Neta.nyahu said W. Kogan Road and the Martin Elliot Kogan Plaza at the Jew forces to defend Saudi Arabia office here, Shamir said that ls_rael ~as actmg through ish National Fund's Jabotinsky Park, northeast of Caesaria, against a possible attack b while " Israel is not ignoring d1pl omahc channel~ to assure Israel, are (left to right) Judge Kogan, president of the JNF 1 Y these threats, it is not deterred the world community that the Southern Region; Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, and raih 1 1" • . . t and is certainly not cowed." Iraqi charges were a baseless Dr. Samuel I. Cohen, JNF executive vice president. e srae I pnme mims er He observed that " The con- (continued on page 15)
Herald." True enough. In 70 years, IDF Will Not Distribute All He Really Wants Bruce Sundlun's life is the stuff legends are made of. Or at least Gas Masks to do is Sin g a television mini-series. From his daring exploits as the leader by Hugh Orgel One is to convince the Arab A closer look a t B ruce Sundlun of a World War II fighter pilot TEL A VIV UTA) - The states that Israel is their com squadron, to his years as a Israel Defense Force has de mon enemy, and that they Washington attorney and in cided not to begin the general should therefore join Iraq in confronting Israel and its sider (h e was named by John F. distribution of gas masks to Kennedy to a key national civilians at this time in order to American supporters. The second objective is to board), to his stint as corporate avoid provoking hostile action chief of Rhode Island's Outlet by the unpredictable Iraqi warn Israel to take no action Communications, Sundlun has President Saddam Hussein, against Iraq. amassed quite a resume. Gen. Dan Shomron, !OF chief Under these circumstances, But despite the accolades and of staff, announced recently. Israel should refrain from hasty achievments, his later life quest He spoke after near panic action which might engender a for public office has proved elu gripped some parts of the warlike atmosphere, the chief sive. He has Jost two bids for country, following threats by of staff said. governor in 1986 and I 988. Hussein to use chemical war Without offering details, he This year he announced his heads against Israel if Iraq were suggested that the situation is candidacy late and failed to re attacked by Israeli warplanes not as dire as many Israelis ceive the Democratic endorse masquerading as American. thought it was earlier in the ment. He is facing Providence Shomron explained on Israel day. But the situation was not Mayor Joseph Paolino and Television that the decision to helped when the director gen Warwick Mayor Francis X. Fla defer the general distribution eral of the Prime Minister's herty in a primary. of gas masks and anti-chemical Office, Yossi Ben-Aharon, And along with his accom warfare kits was made because by John Chadwick stranger, less than half his age, warned recently that Israel plishments comes a reputation if they were distributed to Herald Editor to grill him on anything from must be prepared for an Iraqi for lavish living - Jaguars, Israeli civilians now, Saddam religion to politics. chemical attack at any Part of an occasio 11al series 011 houses in Newport and Jamaica Hussein might assume an With his years as a corporate moment. Jewish candidates for public - and for being aggressive and attack by Israel was imminent, big shot, it is not something In some areas, concern ap office. pompous. A 1988 Providence Shomron observed. that comes easy. He had t0 proached panic when it was Su nday Journal Magazine fea Shomron said the Iraqi work at becoming a viable charge of Israeli coll usion with learned that civil defense He arrives 30 minutes late ture on him was entitled " Bruce candidate, work at making the United States seems to organizations would not com- and without apologies. He Sundlun - Very Rich, Very himself more accessible. " I had have two objectives. (continued on page 16) shines in a double-breasted to change my entire method of Smart, and so Very Brash." jacket but the humidity today is thinking, method of speaking," While the article was generally .------ stifling and his usuall y glowing he told the Herald last week. complimentary, it mentioned face is creased in irritation. He O nce he gets settled though, he that Sundlun is commonly per- greets me only with a glare that responds to questions with a ceived by others as a "success seems to ask, "You're the rea self-assured mix of history, per aholic," and in some cases, "a A NEW MONTHLY FEATURE son I had to cut lunch short?" sonal anecdotes and homilies stuffed shirt." But Bruce Sundlun - war that seems remarkably free of But if that's true, he also hero, millionaire, gubernatorial campaign rh etoric. possesses this weird integrity. PROPERTY ON DISPLAY candidate and perhaps Rhode But the only time he lightens He is not a ca reer politician and Island's most famous living up and smiles is after noting he tends to give the impression public figure - has learned to gleefully that his endless list of he would be an effective gover SEE PAGE 13 accept the requirements of po honors and accomplishments nor simply because he couldn't litical ca ndidacy. And that are, "more than you could fit stand(conti beingnued pe ronceived page asII ) any- .______...J means allowing total on one page in the Jewish 16 -T~HE RHODE ISLAND JEWISHr HERALD, - T~RSDAY,~;~;i;;:;, AUGUST 16, 1990------·-·
2 - THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1990 Inside the Ocean State
Russian Immigrant Finds Work At Beth-El The Perishable Theatre Names New Cranston-Warwick Artistic Director Chapter of Hadassah - The new membership party ' Mark J. Lerman has been Conservatory from 1981-1989, for the Cranston-Warwick named the new Artistic Direc overseeing its growth from a Chapter of Hadassah was held tor of The Perishable Theatre local institution to a national on Monday, July 30 at the Villa starting August 20, 1990. Mr. program. Mr. Eliet was also a Del Rio Clubhouse in War- Lerman replaces David F. Eliet, founding member and past wick. Shirley Schreiber, presi- the founder and artistic direc president of the Rhode Island dent, welcomed the members tor of the company since 1983. Playwright's Theatre, and and prospective members prior Mr. Eliet is leaving Providence founding board member and to the serving of a buffet to become the Director of Edu past Vice-President of the All luncheon. The entertainment cational Programming for the Children's Theatre Ensemble. was the portrayal of the life of Cleveland Playhouse. Mr. Eliet began The Perishable Henrietta Szold, the founder of Mark Lerman is from New Theatre in 1983 with Cathy Hadassah. Miss Szold was por York City, where he worked Cabriele, and has developed it !rayed by Dawn Pollock, a with Mabou Mines and the into a multi-faceted operation drama student at Northwestern Wooster Group. He has assis that includes a touring pro- University in Evanston, Illinois tant directed for Anne Bogart gram for young audiences, and a granddaughter of Hadas Felix Berardis (left), maintenance supervisor at Temple Beth- in San Diego and David Uitz at classes in theatre for the com- sah member Stella Pollock. El with Russian immigrant Anatoly Magidin. the Theatre Royal in London. munity, the Uncommon Lunch, Miss Pollock concluded her He has directed in Philadel the Director's Lab, an art gal- superb performance with the Anatoly (Toly) Magidin ar to find a job, Toly has provided phia, New York, San Diego lery, and main stage produc- singing of Hadassah, joined in rived at T.F. Green Airport in his services as a house painter and Edinburgh. A graduate of tions. The company is well by many of the guests. Warwick on March 1 to be for several members of the the Trinity Rep Conservatory, known for its original shows Judy Trieff, Western New welcomed by Temple members Temple and has worked stead- Mr. Lerman spent the past year for young audiences, which England Regional President of Judith and Joseph Lubiner, ily at Temple Beth -El since working closely with Mr. Eliet tour year round throughout Hadassah, spoke about the their children Anna and Aaron, early July. at The Perishable Theatre, di- Southern New England, giving inner workings of the Hadas and Irena Goldgaber and her Toly is pleasant, friendly, recting the young audience over a 150 performances a year sah organization. She brought two daughters, Faena and and has a _wonderful sen~e '!f _tours of " Aesop's Fabulous to an estimated audience of information from the recent Debra. The Magidin family, humor. t-:t1s workma_ns~1p IS Fables" and " Aesop's Animal 30,000. A playwright and National Convention in N.Y. Toly and his wife Rita, their superb, h,s work ethic is_ un- Fables." He also directed The director, Mr. E\iet's scripts have Susan Smoller, Area Vice two children, Dimitri, 7, who is surpassed, and .he has quickly Perishable Theatre's produc been produced both in Provi- President, greeted the chapter attending the Hebrew Day become a well,-hked n:iember of lions of " Nain Rouge" and dence and at theatres across as its immediate advisor. School and Eleina, 2, and the Temples . mamten~nce "The Highway." His work last the country. Recent Providence Co-Chairpersons for this Anatoly's mother, Rosa, are staff.. ~oly will contin.ue year also included Alias Stage's productions included "East of event were Ruth Ross, Nellie formerly from the Ukraine. ~orkm~ 1':1 the Te~ ple, i::irov1d- production of "The Dragon" the Sun/West of the Moon" Lobello, and Miriam Bosler. There, Rita was employed as a mg pamtmg services m the and Wickenden Gate's "The and "Salome Danced." , Program chairwoman was data entry operator and Toly building and at other sites Dumb Waiter." Mr. Eliet will continue to Goldie Greene. The Hospitality was a professional house owned by the congregation in- David Eliet came to Provi work with The Perishable Committee consisted of Lillian painter. cluding some painting at the dence in 1978 when he co Theatre as an advisor and Gilstein, Chairwoman Hilda Both Toly and Rita are cur Temple'~ historic ce1!1etery o.n founded the Trinity Rep Con member of the Board of Di- Oinerman, Co-Chair, Martha rently enrolled in English Reservoir . Avenue m Prov1- servatory with Larry Arrick. He rectors. Saunders, Lillian Goldstein classes at the Jewish Commu dence, until October. served as the Director of the and Rosalie Gilstein. nity Centl;'r. While Rita has vet
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J THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1990 - 3 Feature Some Jewish Groups Upset With Spike Lee by Allison Kaplan Semitism among black people. NEW YORK - Filmmaker But he also wa rned that it Spike Lee's portra yal of two was dangerous to pin ]a bles Jewish jazz club owners in the li ke "misogynous," " racist" or new film " Mo' Better Blu es" is .. anti-Semitic" on fil ms, be being called anti-Semitic by ca use "you get to the point both the Anti-Defamation where you can't say anything," League of B'nai Brith and some Denby said. leading film critics. Time magazine critic Richard In his previous three movies, Schickel panned Lee fo r his including last year's " Do The constant stereotyping of char Right Thing," Lee vividly ex· acters in all his films, but did plored the black ex perience not specifically touch on the and the effects of racial Flatbush issue in his review." prejudice in America. In " Mo' " I didn't take this to be anti Better Blues," his central char Semitism on his part," Schickel acter is a black trumpet player said. "These guys are fringe who tries unsuccessfully to characters who operate mar wheedle a raise from the two ginal show business enterprises Jewish owners of the jazz club with a shrewd eye to the main where his band performs. chance. The type is fam ilia r to The two-dimensional depic anyone in show business tion of the two brothers, name and not particularly Jewish. Moe and Josh Flatbush, who We 're not talking Shylock appear in brief scenes through here. " out the movie, was sharply oiti Though Lee has not re cized by Abraham Foxman, sponded to the criticism direct national director of the AOL. ly, he told Variety columnist "GETTING TO KNOW YOU": Monica, a youngster from Peckwood - an inner-city neigh "Spike Lee's characteri za Army Archerd last week that borhood in Atlan ta - poses with new-found friends from the Reform movement's South East tion of Moe and Josh Fl at bush his own father played fo r jazz Federation of Temple Youth (SEFTY) during weekend at Camp Jenny Rosenthal in Cleve as greedy and unscrupulous clubs that were owned by Jews land, Ga. At left is Carrie Goldman of Congregation Schaarai Zedek, Tampa; at right is Joui club owners dredges up an age and that he did not intend the Hessel of Miami's Temple Beth Am. The Florida teenagers were among 50 counselors in the old and highl y dangerous form Flafbush brothers as an indict program. They are members of the SEFTY Mitzvah Corps, organized to perform needed of anti -Semitic stereotyping," ment of all Jew ish cl ub owners. communal services. Some 125 deprived children were guests of the Mitzvah Corps at "Camp Foxm an said . " But the facts are that black Jenny," w hich is located on the site of the Coleman Camp-Institute of the Union of American "AOL is disappointed that artists have always had to Hebrew Congregations. The annual camping weekend for poor children was started in 1988. Spike Lee - whose success is struggle to be pa id what their white counterparts were paid," "We understand the con- largely due to his effo rts to cerns," she said, "but we are break down racial stereotypes Lee said. Lee also questioned in the not in the business of censoring and prejudice - has employed filmmakers. We didn't try on the same kind of tactics that he interview whether the Jewish " The Last Temptation of supposedly deplores.'' top executives at Universal Pic tures, Lou Wasserman and Sid Christ" and we aren't now. We Foxman told the Jewish Tele stand behind freedom of phic Agency that he issued ney Sheinberg, would have gra speech. Once you start censor the statement in the same spirit released the film if it struck them as obviously anti-Semitic. ing, where do you stop? Who that the National Associ ation makes these judgments? Any fo r the Advancement of Colored The two executives were quoted in Varie ty as defending portrayal is the film ma ker's People and the Urban League choice." have protested stereotypical Lee's right to crea tive freedom, and a studio spokeswoman re (JTA corrrspondeut Tom Tugmd m portrayal s of blacks. LosAn8rlescontribull'dlothisreport.) " Here's a man who's crea ite rated this point. ti ve," Foxman said of the black fi lmmaker, "yet he fa lls back JOIN Dorothy Ann Wiener on these stereotypes that are so simplistic and crude. There are 2 WEEKS ISRAEL/EILAT many ways to portray greedy N OVEM BE R 7 - NOVEMBER 21 people. He had all kinds of choices. That's the choice he KING DAVID HOTELS made." Susan Fowler, a spokes woman at Lee's Forty Acres and a Mul e production com pa ny, said the writer/ director was not issuing a statement in response to the AOL's charges. Lee fee ls that "the movie speaks for itself," Fowler said. Recently, The Los Angeles Times surveyed leading film critics, and while many agreed with the AOL charges, some NEW DISHWASHER OR MICROWAVE, also defended Lee's right of .·.·· PRE .. . ·. free artistic expression. ON THE HOUSE. 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Ge1 lhe teel ol a roll-out shelf Discover lhe James also described the two FRIDAY, AUGUST 17 convenience ol an appliance garage And lake advanlage o1 our special oiler on whlte Krall Maid cabmels It's lor a hm1 led club owners as " money-gru b SPECIAL SALE HOURS ONLY: 10 AM - 6 PM time only, so stop by soon bi ng, devious, ugly stereotypes with sharks' smiles," and asks, REG. STORE HOURS 9,30 AM - 7 PM "What could have been going COSTUMES • DECORATIONS • PAPER SUPPLIES, ETC. th rough Lee's mind when he invented the Jewish cl ub The "Only" Party Warehouse owners?" 3 10 East Ave nue• Pawtucket, RI David Denby, the cri tic for 726-2491 ' Ntw York magazine, agreed that Lee was feeding the cur Hours Monday-Thursday 9,30·6:00. J ean ne c ,an~ton 467-3250, Pawluckel 722·2966. N Da11rnou1h 508·996·3511 Friday 9:30.7.00. Saturday 9,30-5,00 Stein IICall l01dnect10ns rently " fa shi onable" anti- - • u - 1 nr: ~nu u t 1!::oLANU / F WIC:W .._,,....,, .• _ _
4 - THE RHODE ISLAND ,JEWISH 'HERALD, TH!JRSDAY, AUGUST"l6, 1990 Editorial ======Social Security - The Tax Scapegoat by trimming Social Security kowski, chairman of the House benefits, but for programs that When FDR unveiled Social by Martha McSteen benefits. Ways and Mea ns Committee, should come from general Security more than half a cen WASH INGTON - Fifty But this strategy, which sin would eliminate next year's revenues, like stealth bombers. tury ago, ii was never expected fi ve years ago, President gles out one segment of our cost-of-living adjustment for And this process will continue that trust funds would be Franklin Roosevelt signed into society to shoulder a dispro· Social Security beneficiaries. until Social Security funds are counted alongside general tax law what has become the most portionate part of the budget Over fi ve years, that would removed fro m the bu_dget revenues. They were to be successful social program in pain, would be unfair and cost single beneficiaries an process, as Sen. Daniel Pa trick sacrosanct, to pay for this most American history - Social makes no sense. After all , average of more than $1,660 Moynihan, 0 -N.Y., and others successful trust program be Security. Social Security didn't create and married couples more than on Capitol Hill are seeki n~ to tween government and the Ovei the years, Social Secu the deficit. Why should it be $2,800, according to the Con do. American worker. rity has provided a strong the solution? gressional Budget Office. In Let me make one point per That tradition must con measure of economic dignity to Many Americans, young and addition, it is estimated an fectly dear. America's seniors tinue. Americans, young and tens of millions of seniors and old ali ke, are confused. They additional 400,000 benefici aren't seeking specia l treat old alike, should send a strong, disabled Americans and has see the continued chipping aries would be pushed below ment in this fi scal mess. They d ear message to their elected become the cornerstone of away of Social Secu ri ty bene the poverty li ne. want to be part of the solution, representatives: Hands off planning for tomorrow's re fi ts and wonder how much will These and other benefit not part of the problem. Social Security. tirees. be left fo r their children and reducing ideas are being raised But many of them barely are Martha A. McSteen, forme r But Social Securit y, as we grandchildren. at the same time the White getting by. One-fourth of Social acting commissioner of th e Socia l know it, fa ces serious chal Their fears aren't unfo und House wants to cu t capital Security benefi ciaries 65 and Security Administra tion, is pres lenges. ed. As recently as eight years gains taxes. older depend on Social Secu ident of tire almost 5 million With the federal budget defi ago, Social Security benefits Why is Social Security bei ng rity for at least 90 percent of member Na tional Committee to cit expected to top $160 billion weren't taxed at all . Now, 50 singled out in the name of defi their income. Cutting Social Preserve Social Security and next year, budget experts, des· percent of those benefits may cit reduction? One reason is Security benefits or raising Medicare. perate for new revenues of any be. taxable and some of our beca use Social Security tru st taxes on them would not be kind, are targeting the Social leaders would like to raise that funds are counted as general asking seniors to do their fair Securi ty Trust Fund as a way to 85 percer,t. revenues, just like income share to reduce the budget Call for advert ising rates. out of their financial mess. Another idea being floated, taxes. They are being used to defi cit. It would be fo rcing sen Th ev want to reducP thP deficit this one by Rep. Dan Rosten- pay not only Social Securi ty iors to do their unfair share.
even required, to play an active skins into parchment. Onto the to G-d's commandments . ..; Adapted fro m th e wo rks of th e Trends In Ed ucation role in their own education; parchment, Rabbi Chiya wrote and the curse, if you will not Lubavitcher Rebbe. Subm itted by Accountability, whole lan one student teaches and the out the enti re Torah . After all hea rken to G·d's command Rabbi Y. Laufer. guaie experiences, individ other student learns from him. this was completed, he still was ments (Deuteronomy 11 : ualized guided instruction. In the end, both students bene not finished. Rabbi Chiya him 26-28). Even though it 's summertime, fi t from this one-on-one ar· self, a great sage and scholar, Why did . G-d create the topics in education still find rangement. went to a town that had no world so as to necessitate bl ess their way into the news, re A slightly different version ings and curses? Why did G-d States Battle minding us how important we of peer tutoring, appearing in create something to stand in consider education in this the Gemara, credits its founder the way of good, to ma ke it dif Workplace country. with keeping Judaism ali ve! fi cult fo r us to do what is ap Even if we don't have Rabbi Chiya succeeded in propriate and right? Discrimination Evil alternatives exist to school-age children, we are keeping Torah alive among the A trend is emerging in many allow fo r free choice. If there often at least familiar with Jewish people. How did he ac state legislatures toward enact some of the trends in the fi eld. complish this? He sowed and 1 was only good in this world - Take, fo r instance, a teaching reaped fla x, then spun the flax no chance fo r a person to ing legislation to protect work method that has been receiving into threads which he wove behave in a questionable man ers fro m employers who try to praise, known as "peer tutor· into nets. With the nets he ner - he couldn't freely comrol personal behavior dur ing." In peer tutori ng, both stu trapped deer, feeding orphans choose to do good; he would ing non-working hours. dents involved are expected, with its meat and preparing the be fo rced to do good for lack of alternatives, by defa ult . In In Colorado . a law that pro order to have options, there hibits the firin g of employees have to be at least two different for legal. off-duty activities that RHODE ISLAND JEWISH routes. Then, a person can use do not re late to bona fide teachers and taught a different the free choice to choose the one of the five books of the occupational requirements or HERALD correct path. cause a conflict of interest with Torah, and the six books of the Freedom to choose one pa th Mishna to eleven different job responsibilities becomes ef (USPS 464-760) of action over another is a fun Publlshed EveryWeek8y l he children. Then he said to them, damentaT principle of Judaism. fe cti ve on Jul y 1. 1990. JewlshPress PubHshlng Company " Until I return, teach each It is at the very core of the And Kentucky Gov. Wallace EDITO R: other the Torah and the JOHN CHADWICK advantages of a human over Wi lkinson signed legislation. Mishna." ot her created beings. Other ASSIST ANT EDITOR: Rabbi Chiya enjoined the effecti ve Jul y 8. 1990. that pre KATHY COHEN creatures don't ha ve this children to teach each other option of free choice; their vents employer discri mina1ion SALES MANAGER: even before they themselves agai nst employees who smoke. DON HULL actions are based on natural had mastered all the other The law makes it illegal fo r em ACCOUNT REP : instincts and environmental parts of the Torah and Mishna . training. Only man has such an ployers to di scriminate against JEANETTE HIDALGO Each child's first obligation GRAPHICS: was to teach what he knew to advantage . smokers in terms of compensa JOHANNA BULICH The concept of reward and tion and cond itions of employ LORAINE BRAGA his friends. punishment revol ves around Today, we must be the ment. to requ ire a current em MAILING ADDRESS: choice. If there is no choice, Rabbi Chiyas and his students. there is no room fo r reward ployee to refrain from smoking Bo• 6063+:~:~~C:;RI 02Wl Th ere are many Jewish chil and punishment. A person can off the job. or 10 fire or refuse to (40~:;::,200 dren without even a minimal tw,aldWay. ottWebsle< Street receive a reward fo r his good hire people who smoke . Pawtu<:ket, Rl02861 Jewish education. By using deeds beca use he has free OFFICE· Rabbi Chiya's methods, we can Wi1 h these new laws. 1l75WanenAvenue choice. Colorado and Kentucky join EH tProvidel'ICe. RI02914 be instrumental, in our own It is therefore understood Seoond dass postagepa,da1Provl(len(:e, Rh0de way, in keeping Judaism and Oregon. Virg ini a and Tennessee lslandPostmas1e
In This Corner . Sharon Battles Moda'i, Olim Stranded In The Middle by Gil Sedan year aga.inst Shamir's peace ~the government-owned Ami JERUS ALEM OTA) - The initiative, which called for dar housing company. He clash between two ambitious Palestinian elections in the would temporarily house some Likud ministers over priorities West Bank and Gaza Strip, and of the immigrants in hotels, for Soviet olim is as much a virtually brought it to a halt. guest houses, hostels, army matter of hard facts as it is of Now the former allies are at camps and kibbutzim. strong wills. swords' point. The housing minister went Ariel Sharon, the retired Sharon, bitterly criticized for on television recently to con general whose brilliant tactics his incursion into Lebanon in vince the public. He warned made him the only hero to 1982, now wants to achieve a that if there is no immediate Cantor Alberto Mizrahi of Cleveland (third from right) leads emerge from the 1973 Yorn quick solution to the pressing solution to the housing prob members of the American Society for the Advancement of Kippur War, believes in quick, housing shortage. He wants to lem, aliyah may be halted. Cantorial Arts recent cantorial mission to Europe in a memo bold action. achieve this by unorthodox " Employment is very im rial service at the grave of Salomon Sulzer in Vienna to mark As minister of construction means, such as the massive portant," he said. " I am also the 100th anniversary of the renowned cantor-composer's and housing, he has staked his import of temporary housing. for employment, but first we death, political career on a crash pro Impatient with bureaucra have to give the people a roof gram with a $13.5 billion price cies, he also wants to circum over their heads." Homeless Occupy No move was made to evict tag, which will provide hous vent the planning and zoning Sharon maintained that Absorption Center them. ing for 1 million immigrants laws and grant tax incentives. within a few months, thous They are typical of the hun expected over the next five After the High Court of Jus ands of imported prefab homes by Gil Sedan dreds of Israeli families made years. tice abrogated Sharon's emer could be assembled in Israel, JERUS ALEM ()TA) homeless by soaring rents. Without it, Sharon warns, gency powers earlier this providing both jobs and Twenty homeless families con Voice of Israel Radio mean Israel will be consumed by month, he appeared recently shelter. tinue to occupy the Jewish while, reported recently that a social unrest. before the Cabinet and asked Moda'i, who claims credit Agency's absorption center in company in Luxembourg pres Moda'i, a former and present for Knesset legisation to rein for reducing inflation from tri Jerusalem's Gilo neighbor ented a plan to the government finance minister, is a tireless state those emergency powers. ple to double digits while he hood, which they seized over recently to build 60,000 new politician who does not leap at He underscored his need to was finance minister in 1985, the weekend despite an offer to apartments in Israel, to be let at quick solutions. He has an expedite or override the var does not want galloping infla make housing units available low rents. nounced his opposition to ious local permits needed to tion to return while he holds to them. According to the report, the Sharon's program on grounds build in various areas of the that office again. The offer was made by Meir apartments would be leased to it will lead to devastating infla country, and received from the But Sharon fears the poten Shetreet, acting chairman of the government, which would tion and unemployment. local authorities permission to tial of a social explosion is so the World Zionist Organization rent them at a deficit to low As far as Moda'i is con build in the south of the great that one cannot wait for Executive and treasurer of the income families. cerned, jobs take precedence country. gradual solutions. Jewish Agency and the WZO. A four-bedroom apartment over housing. In his view, until Among Sharon's plans are He sees not only the press He proposed that the agency would rent for under $300 a they find adequate employ the purchase of 50,000 mobile ing needs of the immigrants would tum over 64 apartments month, the radio report said. ment, the newcomers can live homes and 40,000 prefabri but also the growing tension at the center to the Housing It said the unnamed com in tents or tin huts if necessary. cated homes over the next two among the settled Israelis, Ministry. The ministry agreed pany intended to fund the proj Moda'i, like Sharon, has years, at an estimated cost of especially young couples who to allot them to needy young ect with $2 billion, to be raised based his political future on $3 billion. cannot find affordable housing. couples at a public tender. in Israel and abroad. this issue. His plans also call for the He is shrewd enough a But the squatters refused to He and Sharon, fierce hard government to build 45,000 politician to know he does not leave. After meeting with min Advertising in liners on most policy matters, apartments this year and about have much time. He must istry officials recently, they for share the ambition to replace 60,000 more every year for the show some results by the 1992 tified themselves at the absorp The Herald gels results. Yitzhak Shamir as leader of next fou r years. Knesset elections or be blamed tion center and insisted they Cal I 724-0200 would not leave until assured Likud and prime minister. Sharon would refurbish for the housing crisis. for de1ails. They allied themse\ ves last some 8,500 units belongin to (continued on page 9) of proper housing.
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The honorary doctorates to cultural Economics at Ohio Rabbi Brenner and other Those tomatoes amazed a State University, lauded the delegation of 28 non-Jewish alumni were conferred by Dr. strong work ethic in Israel_and Alfred Gottschalk, President of farmers and farm officials from " the dedication of lsraehs to the Buckeye State, who re· HUC-JIR, at Founders' Day putting a nation together and Exercises in New York City. cently went on Ohio's "first making it work." _ _ ever" fact-finding agricultural Founders' Day commemorates That kind of patnohsm the establishment of Hebrew mission to Israel. impressed Bruce Buurma, who Delegates were in fo~. ~ore Union College and the Jewis_h operates a 2,000-acre ve~etab},e Institute of Religion by Rabbis surprises when the saw Zion farm in Willard, Ohta. I ist" cows that produce more Isaac Mayer Wise and Stephen couldn't get over the fact t~at S. Wise, respectively. The two milk than other cows, peanuts when you discuss Israel with with four nuts to the shell, institutions merged in 1950. an Israeli, it's like talking about Rabbi Brenner, who is nowers being exported to Hol one's mother." land, high oil-content co~ known for his endeavors on According to Freda Dailey, behalf of the disabled, is the seed and sophisticated dnp vice president of the ~attle irrigation systems. inventor of a new sport called men's Association, Ohto has Bankshot™ Basketball, the When the Ohioans took a more cattle than Nevada and firsthand look at the Holy Land fastest growing sp0rt in Ameri Utah combined, and ranks ca. Bankshot was designed by and met their Israeli counter 19th in beef and cattle farming parts the two groups literally Rabbi Brenner in Israel for the in the country. handicapped in connection found "common ground" and Dailey and two other mis learned from each other. with the International Year of sion participants were escorted the Disabled in 1981. There are " Everyone came away w!th to cattle ranges in the Golan positive feelings," rep_orts Tim now some 60 Bankshot courts Rabbi Reeve Robert Brenner, who was aw~rded the honor~ry Heights along the Syrian bor across America in sports Doctor of Divinity degree from Hebrew Union College-JewHh Wuliger, mission chamnan'. a der by the executive director of volunteer leader at the Jewish centers, waterparks, mini-golf Institute of Religion, demonstrates Bankshot_ (tm) Basketball, a the Israeli Beef Organization. faci lities, malls, campgrounds sport he invented for the handicappe~ which can be played Community Federation of Dailey said the Ohioans felt Cleveland. . and recreation centers. , by everyone regardless of age, sex, or size. a "sense of kinship" with farm The sport is played with a The group included the di ers at three kibbutzim where rector and deputy director ~f conventional basketball and disabilities restrictions. published Jewish thinker. cattle are raised. They both rim. The "twist" is that all of Rabbi Brenner, who was Before he invented Bankshot, the Ohio Department of Agn face the same problem of wild culture, four legislators a~d the backboards are unique and born in New York, was he received Israel's scholarship animals preying on the cattle. unconventionally configured, ordained at Hebrew Union award from the Ministry of several professors from Ohio But Dailey also cited a pro~ State's School of Agriculture requiring different shooting College-Jewish Institute of Culture and Education and the lem unique to the lsraehs: and working farmers. The~e strategies for banking the ball Religion in 1964. The au~hor of VIVO Jewish Scholarship Sometimes the cows step on off the " Bankboard" in order to the prize winning The Fait~ and Prize. Sports and scholarship were also leaders of the states land mines and get blown up. most powerful agricultural score points. The object of the Doubt of Holocaust Sun11vors, have been the rabbi's passions game is to master the angles of he is a scholar and widely since his Brooklyn childhood. the Bankshot boards much like I" billiards with a basketball. The Ethiopia Not So Terrible, lsrae I bankshots become inc,easingly Leader Claims difficult as one progresses through the course of 18 to 24 JERUSALEM OTA) - Ab at a rate of about 500 ~ month, stations. Each court accommo sorption Minister Yitzhak slowed down appreciably re- dates a large number . of Peretz claimed that news cently. players, over 100 at once: m a reports of harsh conditions The reason was_ a l~eged to space approximately the size of endured by Ethiopian Jews have been the_ E~h1op1an go~- half a tennis court. The g~me waiting to come to lsrae! are emment's retah_aho~ fa~ Israel S requires intense concentration, inaccurate and excessively refusal to provide 11 w~th du~- keen accuracy, touch, and downbeat. ter bombs to use agamSt En- shootingstrategy. Nevertheless, Israel will trean separatists and rebels The Bankshot Recreation send a doctor to Addis Ababa, from Tigre provi_nc~. . System challenges the skill of the Ethiopian capital, to look But the Eth1op1an foreign all individuals and the after the would-be emigrants, minister, Tesfaye Dinka, sai_d at wheelchair athlete can play many of whom are reported !o a news conference in Washing- with 00 disadvantage agains\ be seriously ill, Israel Radio ton that the pro~lem had noth- anyone else. The visually excit reported. ing to do with weaponry, ing fiberglass boar~s have _been The doctor will work out of attributing t~e re_Ported dr~p-of recognized in two mt~~at1onal the Israel Embassy. Two large Jewish emigration to JOmt museums and exh1b1ted as tents are being sent to facilitate Ethiopian-Israeli efforts . to Sportsculpture in the lsra_el health and other services for weed out non-Jews attemptmg National Museum of Art m the Ethiopian Jews, Israel to flee to Israel. . Jerusalem. . Radio said. Meanwhile, a group of Ethi- Bankshot Basketball 1s the Peretz said the Jewish peo opian Jews demonst~ated ~ut- essence of a Family Sport in ple are doing "everythi~~ pos side the Cabinet office buil~- that ii is Total-Mix (nonrun sible" to help those watttng to ing, demanding more energ~tic ning, nonexclusionary). Bank immigrate. He insisted, how measures to hasten the reunion shot has no age, sex, size or of their families. ever, that these efforts should Are you 65 or older? not be publicized in detail. Peretz spoke after the we~k Rhode Island resident? ly meeting of the Absorption e h n g • Cabinet, the ministerial co~ • f You may be eligible mittee established to coordin ate immigration and abs~rp Edward D. DiPrete for a 60" discount tion. The committee is chaired Governor for prescriptions by Minister of Construction and Housing Ariel Sharon. RHODE used to treat: One of the big problems I SLAND • Diabetes discussed here and abroad has • Heart Problems been the thousands of Jews, COOL SUMMER SA LAOS RARMACEUTICAL perhaps as many as 15,000, • High Blood Pressure stranded in Addis Ababa. They BAR FROM 5:00 PM A ss1sTAN'cE • Parkinson's Disease have poured into the ca_pital, • Glaucoma mainly from the impovensh~d DINING ROOM S:10- 10:00 PM Et~E':~v Goodar province, to await T UESDAY- SATURDAY • Cholesterol transportation to Israel. 401·751-0lSO • Cancer But as their wait lengthened, • C irc ulatory Insufficie ncy their condition has been said to have deteriorated for lack of 7 STEEPLE STREET CALL THE RI DEPARTMENT OF ELOERL y AFFAIRS food and shelter and the rav- PROVIDENCE, RI 02901 ages of disease. . 277-3330 Their emigration, which had Adeleide Lvbtr, Di rector been proceeding since last fall r
AROUND TOWN Camp Spirit High At Jori by Dorothea Snyder
Singing folksongs in a cobblestone hiduway .ue fronl from left, counsellor Ina Bochner, Julie Berstein, Lisa Schneider, Meredith Fink, Diana Bronstein, Time out from a relay race that required sponges and buckets of water are the Loren Rappoport. In the rear are Jessica Stern, Joanna Levitt, Heather sophomore boys, who have their own nom de plume, the Glamour Boys. Homonoff, Ilana Kahn, Debbie Mann, Shayna Kulik. Watch out New Kids on the Block! Seated from left are Daniel Mer, Jonathon Hodgson, Eric Rosenthal, David Scheraga, Stephanie DeBlecourt (counsellor from Holland), Jarret Klein, Eric Hochman. Standing from left are Roman Altshuler, Seth Presser, counsellor Adam Wasserman, Evan Saltzman, Howie Cardoza, Josh Caplin, Seth Corin. It was more like summer at the starting gate rather than summer simmering down for ~HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHrlH~d.t::(dbb::::10 campers and counsellors at Camp Jori this week! The camp pulsed with enervating energy from all the bustling activity on the Point Judith site. Aerobics, relay races, soccer, swimming were all in progress. Even voices singing folk songs could be heard vibrantly throughout the camp. Camp spirit was at a top-level high!
A recuperating Nadav Mer rests in "the hammock" outside the infirmary at Camp Jori. Photos by Dorothea Snyder
Lea.ding this active group in aerobics are Cara Krilzm.a.n ilnd Amy Margolis. A few minutes of free time and Anna Sirota surfaces from a refreshing dive. Anna is a first-year counsellor in the arts and crafts program. Originally from the Soviet Union, she was a camper at Jori. I THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, I 990 - 9 Arts and Entertainment
"Fiddler On The Roof" Comes To PPAC Sharon Battles (,ontinued r.om page si "Fiddler on the Roof" the poverished village in Czarist Broadway, Off-Broadway and On the other hand, if the cri Israeli society and end the now musical which has garnered an Russia, minutes before the regional theatre stages. sis is averted, the credit would of immigrants. impressive array of Awards, in Revolution. The story focuses Tickets for " Fiddler on the be mostly his. His prime target therefore is cluding the Tony Award for on Tevye and his five daugh Roof" are $35.50, $33.50, But there is more than the creation of more job op Best Musical in 1965, Oscars ters; the story's lesson speaks $31.50 and $29.50. Call the ambition. portunities. and New York Drama Critics to the world and its genera Box Office at (401) 421 -ARTS For Sharon the former Theoretically, the country Awards, will be performed tions to come. or Teletron at 1-800-382-8080; soldier, the housing crisis is a can be flooded with prefab Tuesday -Sunday, September Both the music by Jerry Bock tickets are also available at battlefield which must be ap ricated houses within a rel 18-23, at the Providence Per and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick Ticketron locations. proached as such. atively short time, but job forming Arts Center. Theodore earned Tony and Academy There is a special 25 % off Turning his back on his for opportunities are not easily Bike! stars as Tevye in all per Awards. Among the most pop discount package available to mer constituency when he was come by. formances except Wednesday ular and beloved songs groups of 20 or more and cor minister of industry and trade To create jobs requires a and Thursday, September 19 featured are " If I Were a Rich porations for the Tuesday and in the last government, he now revival of the faltering econ and 20; Mark Zeller plays the Man," "Matchmaker," " Sun Wednesday evening perform wants to import houses against omy, which requires time. role at these performances. rise, Sunset" and "Tradition." ances. Some restrictions apply. the immediate interests of local That was behind Mod.a'i's Tickets are on sa le now and Theodore Bike! is a very well Call the box office at 421-ARTS manufacturers and builders. blunt statement recently that may be ordered by calling known veteran actor and or the telemarketing depart It is "the only way to cope immigrants could just as well (401)421-ARTS. singer who made his stage ment at 521 -4040. with the situation," he told the live in temporary housing, like Now completing its 25th debut as Tevye, the milkman, The 10% discount for groups television audience. the hideous ma'abarot of the Anniversary year, "Fiddler on in " Fiddler on the Roof" and of 20 or more is in effect for the Moda'i, strictly a man of early '50s, when waves of im the Roof" opened on Broad considers it among his favorite Thursday 8 p.m. show, the Sat finance, warns that Sharon's migrants were pouring in from way on September 24, I 964, at roles. Due to the observance of urday 2 p.m. show and the Sun demand for an immediate $3 North Africa. the Imperial Theare. It is Rosh Hashanah, he will not day shows at 2 p.m. and billion addition to the state Yuli Edelstein, a former pris adapted from the stories of perform in the September 19 7p.m. budget for absorption purposes oner in the Soviet Union who Russian-born Sholom Aleichem and 20th shows. The role on " Fiddler on the Roof" is part could cause an 8.5 percent came to Israel three years ago, by special arrangement with those evenings will be per of the Bank of New England/ budget deficit. said recently that he was sur Arnold Perl. The story takes formed by Mark Zeller, an Old Colony Broadway Series. "There is no Western econ prised by both Sharon and place in Anatevka, an im- actor with numerous credits on omy that is capable of living Moda'i and their "Solomonic with such a deficit," he said judgment" of aliyah. recently. "Whoever lives in a tent and Michael Feinstein At Great Woads Moda'i is also well aware does not have proper work will that even if the housing short not be content, and vice versa," Michael Fei nstein will His program with the Pops series. age is relieved, an unstable said Edelshtein in a radio inter perform with the Boston Pops will include selections from his Tickets for Pops are $27.50, economy could still shake view recently. Esplanade Orchestra on latest recording, "The MGM $25.00 and $22.50 for reserved Sunday, August 19, at 8 p.m. at Album," featuring great songs seating in the pavilion and Great Woods. Leading the and rediscovered classics from $15.00 for the lawn, which is Pops will be assistant the great movies of Metro general admission. The No gain.No pain. conductor Ronald Feldman. Goldwyn Mayer. pre-concert series is free with 1 Considered to be the bright A pre-concert performance the purchase of a ticket for that Keeping your weight at a moderate level may scale young star of cabaret, Michael featuring Ron Della Chiesa and day's performance. To charge down your risk of heart attack. So maintain a healthy Feinstein's interpretations of the White Heat Sw ing tickets by phone, call (617) diet and lighten up on your heart. romantic music by composers Orchestra will begin at 6:30 931 -2000. such as Gershwin, Berlin and p.m. as part of the Overture Kern have reintroduced millions to American popular music of a bygone era. After the completion of a nationwide tour of his Broadway show, "Michael Feinstein in Concert," the dynai;nic performer plans to return to Broadway th is fall . t Iii 0 American Heart Association City Nights Dinner Theatre City Nights Dinner Theatre BOSTON'S NEWEST AND MOST EXC ITING ORGANIZATION FOR JEWISH PROFESSIONALS announces open auditions for the award winning "Steel UNITED JEWISH SINGLES Magnolias.'' Performance dates presents are October 12, 13, 19, 20, 25, Haim Wiener (right), president of the American Society for the 26, 27, 28, November 1, 2, 3, 4. Advancement of Cantorial Arts, presents the Society's insig B; ~:;;~~~~ at the ~E.Q~H, s~;:~::.m. Auditions will be held at the nia pin to then-Prime Minister Milos Nemeth of Hungary, _____SUND__ A_Y_-_A_UGUST 26, 1990 theatre Sunday, August 5 at 7 who attended the first cantorial concert ever given in the and Monday, August 6 at 7. UJS i~ co mmitted lo bringing you I IAdvan ce ticke t,i available al HA IMS Budapest Opera House with other officials and members of FUN EVENTS at DELI , 1657 Beacon St .. Brookline The show is directed by Peggy the diplomatic corps. AFFORDABLE PRICES $6 Advance • $9 at the doo~ Pires. PROP~:R DRESS REQUIRED NOMEMOERSHII' FEE Needed for the cast are the For information on UJS events call (617) 232-4085 six female roles aged 20 to 60. ------~ Those people auditioning fo, The Dick Shore Combo ~ the first time are encouraged to For your listening and dancing pleasure. bring, if possible, a resume and , Weddin~s, Bar/Bat _M_ itzvahs •Anniversaries • Parties recent photo to be kept on ac- • Solo Piano (can bnng keyboard)· Violin/Piano Duo tive file. Auditions for new shows are approximately every .____ F_o, _;n_,o_,m_a_1,_on_c_a_11 ;..(s_aa-")-67_3_-a_•7_7______., six weeks. "Steel Magnolias" is the sec ond play of the theatre's sev enth season. City Nights is one HAIR of the few theatres in the state STRANDS SALON that provides a stipend pay ment to cast, crew and produc- tion staffing. Inquiries are al ways welcome for all areas of participation including perfor WElCOMES mance, instrumental, director ial, technical and production SHERRI SMITH staffing. Apprentice positions Hair & Nail Technician are often available. For further information or to let the casting department For Appoinlmenls Coll know of your intention to audi tion, call the Box Office 723 - 421 - 1975 6060, leaving name and tele phone number. Calls will be 485 Angell Street confirmed. Pr avid enc e , R. I . 16 THE RHODE ISL~.,!"D JEWISH HERALD. THI n;,cnAv .. ,- ,~- ..-,- - . -_ ------'!"'-----. LocalJO-THE RHODE ISLANDNews======JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1990 ------Congregation Sons of Jacob Synagogue------Friday, August 17 - services 6:30. Rosh Chodesh ceptible young children, asth children encounter foreign pro erev Rosh Hashonah) the sho Twenty-six days in the month Elul - Tuesday and Wednes ma has a significant genetic teins that can cause allergic far is sounded after shacharig of AV. Candlelighting 7:23 p.m. day, August 21 and 22 - component, and presently symptoms and asthma. If a (morning services). Teki'ah, Saturday, August 18 - morning services at 6: 15. there are no " miracles" to alter mother is breast feeding it is shevorim-teruah, tekl'ah follow Twenty-seven days in AV. The Thursday morning services this fact. However, doctors sensible for her to make an with Le-David Ad-noiri (Psalm Torah reading today is Parshas at 6:30. believe that the parents of effort of a controlled diet. Re 27) and mourners kaddish. The RE'EI. Also today we will bless Friday morning services at these diagnosed children may searchers felt that minimizing shofar calls: " Awake you the coming month of Elul 6c45. be able to control these risk dust pollens and animal dan sleepers from your slumber which falls on Tuesday and Minchah for the entire week factors to some extent. Al der were helpful in delaying and you drowsy ones from Wednesday, August 21 and 22. is at 7:40 p.m. though testing is far from fin asthma. Foods that they found your napping, search your The molad, (appearance of the Asthma -To Reduce Risk ished, preliminary finds by two to be highly allergenic were ways and repent" (maimon new moon) Occurs on Tuesday An extremely interesting doctors studying 150 asthmatic milk, com, soy products, eggs, ides). In Elul it is important to morning at 5:30 a.m. and 17 article on asth matic children mothers and their children for nuts, and fish. study texts dealing with Jewish seconds (or 5 chalokim). Morn appeared in the spring issue of five years, have uncovered a Some physicians suspect ethics as these instruct a man ing services 8:30, Kiddush fol New Direction, a public affair number of statistically signifi that upper-respiratory viral in the ways of repentance and lows immediately. Minchah bulletin published by the cant indicators for asthma infections are also a significant help him in his.self-evaluation. 7:30 p.m., Se'vdah Shelishis National Jewish Center for onset. factor in starting asthma. It is customary to pay respect at follows, with Z'mirot. Ma' Ariv Immunology and Respiratory For families where there is a Early detection of any sus the graves of our departed rela 8:17 p.m. Havdolah 8:30 p.m. Medicine. chance of asthma, researchers picious respiratory ailments in tives and righteous ancestors. Sabbath concludes at 8:26 p.m. In part is discussed how re are in the process of discover young children should be All questions can be easily Sunday, August 19 - searchers at National Jewish ing that early family distress is immediately addressed for answered by the shul or calling Morning services at 7:45. Center in Denver, Colorado are one strong predictor for a child medical attention. Rabbi Y. Dubovick. Monday, August 20 - researching how to prevent or to develop asthma in the first Elul Tefilas Yorn Kippur Koton is to delay the onset of asthma in two years of life. A child's diet During the whole month of Moving? Let US know, recited a t Minchah. Morning children. In genetically-sus- is one of the major ways young Elul (except on shabbos and I. I.
The Al Goldberg -----Tauro Institutes Daily P.M. Service------Touro Synagogue of New- ices came mainly from many Rabbi Shapiro expressed his Memorial Foundation------port, R.I., the oldest synagogue Orthodox visitors and frequent satisfaction in the success of in continental North America, tourists who were mourners, this new project, pointing out rial Foundation Scholarship for has started a new program of the participants in these serv that the only synagogues con the academic year 1990- I 99 l. aftem oon weekday " Mincha" ices have come from a broad ducting these services in this Carol studied music as an services, announced Rabbi Dr. spectrum of Jews. The Mincha area are in Fall River, Mass., or undergraduate at the Univer Chaim Shapiro, the congrega- services are conducted Sunday Providence, which are close sity of Cincinnati College tion's spiritual leader. This new through Thursday at 5 p.m., at to an hour's driving time Conservatory of Music focus program was started recently the conclusion of the busy away. Although this is only a ing on classical guitar. A mem to accommodate the large daily program of synagogue summertime program, Rabbi ber of the Alpha Lambda Delta number of tourists who visit tours. Since Rabbi Shapiro nor Shapiro hopes to expand it in Ho nor Society, Carol was grad the historic synagogue and are mally conducts the last daily the fut ure. Touro Synagogue is uated from the University. anxious to pray in the sanctu- tour at 4 p .m., he is able to lead located at 85 Touro St. in After many years of teaching ary. Rabbi Or. Shapiro in ex- the prayer service at 5 p.m. On Newport. Further information .J and performing Jewish m usic plaining this new project, Fridays and Sabbath, the Min is available through Touro's in Cincinnati, Chicago, St. pointed out that although the cha services are part of the office at (40 I ) 847-4794. Louis and Jerusalem, and original requests for these serv- regular Sabbath services. working for Hillel, she decided to become a Cantor. Carol is presently working as a Cantor ------Heth-El Concert Series------at the Jewish Home and Hospi In I 988 Mr. Jakoulov left the tal for the Aged in Manhattan. A Patio Concert Series will worked as a composer for The be held at the Temple Beth-El Moscow Artistic Theater Soviet Union. First he settled in Carol Reeman Chesler pres She is looking forward to Biblical Garden and pallo (MKhat) and wrote numerous West Germany where he be ently studying at the Cantors graduating in 1992, and per- located on the comer of scores for over twenty stage came a member of the Free Institute of the Jewish Theolog 1:iaps sharing a pulpit with her Orchard and Butler Avenues productions. Since 1980, Mr. Center of Contemporary Music ical Seminary of America in husband, Barry, who is study on Providence's East Side. Jakoulov made frequent ap and wrote several chamber New York is the proud recipi ing to become a Rabbi. pearances as a piano soloist pieces. His works for orchestra The Board of Director of the The series will be conducted ent of the Al Goldberg Memo- with The Moscow Philhar were accepted by Bavarian Al Goldberg Memorial Foun on Wednesday evenings monic; he has performed in Radio to be performed in the dation is proud to be able to August 15, 22, and 29 at 8 p.m. numerous chamber ensembles contemporary music series help students such as Carol to Admission: $6.50 per concert. Wine and cheese will be and has directed various choirs "Musica Viva." ALBRIGHT further their education in Can In 1989 Mr. Jakoulov moved torial studies, in behalf of the served. and orchestras. DRIVING SCHOOL August 22, Elizabeth Mona Mr. Jakoulov has toured ex to Israel. Upon his arrival he memory of Al Goldberg for completed two works for the whom the foundation was celli, violin, Mark Tukh, tensively in Europe, introduc ing his own theater production Jerusalem Symphony Orch established. viola. A mostly Mozart cham ber program performed by and performed solo recitals. In estra. The first piece, "The early 1988 he was commis Diamonds," was written for Want IO reach the right internationally acclaimed musicians. sioned by the Swedish Theater the opening cere monies of the audience? Advertise in August 29, David Azarian's " Lilla" (Helsinki, Finland) to Jerusalem Art Festival " Hudzot-Yozer." The second " Ym,r focal i11s1ructor i.~ 1ml The Herald. Jazz Trio. Boston based re write the score for a play based mi11111es away." on Chekhov's novel " Ward piece, Concerto for Cello and Call 724-0200. cording artist David Azarian in an evening of jazz. #6" which was performed later Orchestra, will be performed in 274-0520 the 1990 season. J.akov Jakoulov that year. During the same year - he participated in the Interna Mr. Jakoulov came to the Jakov Jakoulov was born in tional Theater Festival in States in September 1989 hav l 958 in Moscow, U.S.S.R. He ing been invited to participate studied at and graduated from Munich, West Germany pres enting his work " A Heart of a in the Louisville festival of arts fflNITED Gnesin Moscow Institute in "Classics in Context." Since 1979. After graduation, he Dog" based on Bulgakov's Sl R(,ll .\L CL\ I I RS story. then he has been residing in Boston, Massachusetts, where he has been composing a ballet Quality Health Care At Home score for The Vienna Opera Theater and a violin concerto THE FRUITWORKS for the Ensemble of Contem Oxygen • Patient Supplies porary Music in residence at Hospital Beds • Wheelchairs • Walk Aids Boston University. Currently he is giving piano and organ Bath Safety Equipmellf • Ostomy Supplies recitals throughout New En 24 Hour Emergency Service gland. Recordings of Mr. Jakoulov's piano and organ recitals are , , '6 available for sale after the Fancy Baskets & Produce program. 751-6257 79 Burlington St. (Off Hope St.) Providence, A.I. Patronize 380 Warwick Ave. Fruit Baaket1 Sent Nationwide our Warwick, RI Mon.-Fri. 10 8.m.·6 p.m. • Sat. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. advertisers! 781-2166 Pawtucket Arts Council The Norm Lacaille Sextet ed to bring blankets or chairs will play Sunday, August 26, at for seating. Slater Park, Pawtucket, in the The festival is sponsored by the Pawtucket Arts Council, The Sisterhood of Congrega ninth of a series of Blackstone tion Beth Sholom will be hold- Valley Sumffier Music Festival the Music Performance Trust ing its annual rummage sale on f concerts. The group will per Fund of the American Federa Sunday, August 19, 1990 from form Big Band and Dixieland tion of Musicians, the Black l stone Valley Chamber of 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The sale will music, show tunes, and, as take place "rain or shine" at Lacaille puts it, " maybe even a Commerce, and the City of Pawtucket and the Recreation 275 Camp St., (comer Rocham polka or two." beau) in Providence. Lincoln resident Lacaille, a Department. Attleboro Paw tucket Savings Bank is a co A varied and interesting ar tenor saxophonist and clarinet ray of second-hand merchan ist, will be joined by Dick sponsor of the August 26 concert. dise at bargain prices will be Parent, horn and vocals; Gerry displayed, including clothing Deragon, trombone; Phil The last concert in the series will be held at Salter Mill, Sun for the family, books, toys, Morrison, drums; Bill Moretti, household items, etc. Baked chordovox; and Bill Carter, day, September 2, as part of The Israeli, English and French BBYO delegates stopped two the Labor and Ethnic Heritage goods will also be available for weeks ago to sightsee at the oldest synagogue in America - bass. purchase. The concert, free and open Festival celebrating the Cotton the Touro Synagogue. This stop was part of an overseas study to the public, begins at 2 p.m. Bicentennial. Eddie Zack and tour throughout North America. at the bandstand near the duck the Hayloft Jamboree will pond. The audience is request- perform. Ohawe Shalam Offers Hope For Chronic Pain Sufferers Services this Friday evening NORTH ATTLEBORO, MA. phoresis, the electronic pulsing Temple Emanu-EL Leisure Club at the Young Israel of Paw - Dr. David Satloff recently of medication through tissue, is tucket will begin at 7:30. Shah completed a post-doctorate often a succesful therapy in an On Wednesday, September than 100 photographers and bat morning a Kiddush will fol certification in Neurology and integrated pain treatment pro 26, 1990, the Temple Emanu touches upon every period and low services which begin at 9 Orthopedics from the National gram." Currently, Satloff is the El Leisure Club will visit the every kind of photography. Saturday morning. The rabbi Cranio-Facia\ Pain Center in only dentist in New England De Cordova Museum in Linc "Odyssey" is a stunning will give his class at 6:40 Satur Bethesda, MD. The year-long trained to use this advanced oln, Mass., to see the National glimpse into cultures across the day evening. Mincha will be at program focused on chronic technique. It is most frequently Geographic Exhibit, "Odys globe, the achievements of 7:20 p.m., followed by the pain disorders of the head, used in his practice for innamed sey." many of the world's most tal Third Sabbath meal. Ma'ariv face, and neck. TMjoints. Curated by the Corcoran Gal ented photographers, and, in will be at 8:20 p.m. Havdalah Chronic pain symptoms can "Many neurological syn lery of Art, Washington, D.C., deed, the history of photogra will be at 8:30 p.m. be quite varied - headaches, dromes typically have second· for the centennial celebration phy itself. In addition, we will There will be a regular neck pain, dizziness, ringing ary pain patterns stemming of the National Geographic have time to enjoy the many schedule of services this com ears, nausea and depression. from trigger points - a restric Society, the exhibition includes fine pieces of sculpture on the ing week. Morning services "While pain may be very de tion within the tissue that can more than I SO black-and grounds. will begin at 7:10. Evening bilatating, a proper diagnosis refer pain elsewhere," Proper white and color photographs The bus will pick up at Tem services will be at 7:25. with effective integrated treat· treatment of trigger points is a from the 1880's to the present, ple Torat Yisrael at 12:15 p.m. Wednesday evening the ment can manage most pain key to pain management ac selected from among hundreds and at Temple Emanu-El at crash course in reading Hebrew problems,'' Satloff reported. cording to Dr. Satloff. of thousands of images in the 12:30 p.m. and will return at will continue at 8 to 9:30. Satloff, a dentist specializing This certification of advanced Geographic's vast photo approximately 6 or 6:30 p.m. in cervical-crandimandibular study follows Satloff's recently graphic archives. More than For reservations please call dysfunction therapies for head, awarded board certification by Announce your child's half of the works in the show Charlotte Primack at 75 1-9286 face, and neck pain, works the American Academy of Pain are on view to the public for to reserve a seat. The cost is bar or bat mitzvah with many patients who are Management. the first time. The exhibition $14 . in the Herald. also under the care of neurolo Dr. Satloff maintains a pri includes the works of more Black and white photos gists or orthopedists. vate dental practice in North are welcome. "Joint innammation mav be Attleboro and Somerset. an orthopedic problem. JOnto- He Wants------to Sing ground in an airplane (Sund Classical High School. After But while he has a breath in thor is espionage writer Tom · (continued from page 1) lun's plane was shot down over earning a purple heart in the him, he will remain "a who, Clancy. Nazi occupied territory), now war. Sundlun attended Har what, where, and how type Like his hero, Sund.Jun also is thing less than great at a partic maybe God helped me, but the vard Law School and worked person." His heroes include not the least bit hesitant about ular task. Most everything be's reason I didn't get killed was for his fa ther's law firm. The Harry Truman: " He wasn't the letting everyone know where done - from being a Boy because I controlled the air next stop was Washington least bit hesitant about letting he stands: 'Tm not trying to Scout leader to a CEO - he's plane." where he served as an attorney everyone know exactly where make a lifetime career in poli done pretty well. For all his . Later on, he says, 'T ve come for the Department of Justice. he stood." Sundlun's favorite tics, I can do what I have to do corporate bluster, he is said by dose to dying too many times; He eventually went into pri book: The Wise Men, a book in four years and the state will others to value fa ir play and he there was a certain finality to vate practice. about Truman's staff who be better off." appears deeply sensitive to the what was about to happen." In May 1976, he was named helped shape the former presi· needs of minorities. At 70, he But he does see his Jewish president of the Outlet Com dent's policy. His favorite au- remains robust and energetic background as more than that pany. Under his leadership, the and undaunted by previous earlier liability to " making it" company expanded rapidly, defeats. in America . " (Being raised as a gaining radio and television Jew) has made me conscious of stations around the country. BERNARD J. BERSTEIN, M.D. ''I've always been a competi proudly announces his tor," he said, after being asked individual rights; it's made me Today he runs Bruce Sundlun how his successive electoral de aware of those who are down Company in Providence, an in new associate feats affected him. " I was a run trodden and excluded and re· vestment firm. JASON A. BERSTEIN, M.D, jected." While it's easy to see Sund ner, I won most of my races but Comprehensive Obstetrics and Gynecology I lost a few. I played a lot of In his years as president of Jun as the consummate "can MICROSURGERY INFERTILITY LASER SURGERY football and came up against the Outlet Company, he is said do" over-acheiver, he does teams I knew would wipe up to have hired minorities at have a less pragmatic side. " If I Total Health Care For Women company affilates around the could be born again and choose the field with us." Hours by Appointment 608 Woonasquatuckel Avenue my talent - above everything Sundlun was born and raised country. (401 ) 231 -9360 Norlh Providence, RI 029 11 in Providence. He was not As a member of the Provi else in the world I would raised in a religious family; his dence Housing Authority he choose to be a singer," he says. Jewish identity is rooted in his says he introduced a living He has been a big supporter experiences of growing up in skills program for needy, single of the arts in Rhode Island but Providence in the 1930s. " My mothers. " Ask any of those when asked if he listens to mu father was not a very religious poor, single mothers living in sic, he replies, "Yes, but I don't • the Providence Housing Au understand it. - ~ 00 man, but he always made it very clear to me that I should thority if I made a difference, " I have no talent, I can't even IF YOU OWN THESE ... always remember who I was not only in the bricks and mor sing in the shower. What an and to never deny what I was, tar they lived in, but in the amazing emotional relief it II YOU SHOULD KNOW us ... and to be proud of my origin (way they lived.") must be to be able to convey feelings to other people." and my background. Sundlun graduated from - WE OFF~~~~~~~~RVICES " He made it clear to me that ON YOUR EUROPEAN CAR I would have to do better than average to get an even break." MASSAGE THERAPY • ENGINE REBUILDING & MODIFICATION Today, Sundlun, just as his ., • ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS Rover fa ther did, serves as president Home Visits • MECHANICAL RESTORATION • NORMAL MAINTENANCE PROGRAMS of stately Temple Beth-El (Re Practice Limited lO Wome11 form) in Providence. Any spiri tual beliefs he might have are MARY DARBY tempered strongly by his own MODENA LTD. accomplishments and experi (401) 831-6264 LAMBORGHINI NORTHEAST ences as a man. "Yeah, I be 803 TAUNTON AVE. (RTE. 44) Li1·1·11 s1·1l Mi1s.~agr Tlwrupist lieve in God; but I'll tell you EAST PROVIDENCE, RI • (401) 438-4341 what, I've been headed to the C1·rtifi1·1 I Mu"r ular Tlu:ru11ist ------"'-'-_:_-:.,- •_:_· ·c,~""...,V ~ I JO, J'!l'!IU
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Freedmans Women & Infants Receives Gift From Have Twins Wasserman Family Joel and Cindy Freedman, of Cranston, had twin sons on August 2, 1990. The boys are named Joshua Michael and Nathan William. Maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Romeo Doire of Pascoag. The paternal grand parents are Stanley Freedman of West Warwick and Phyllis Bailey of Cranston. The pater nal great-grandparents are Mr . and Mrs. Michael Freedman of Warwick and Mr. and Mrs. Leo Cohen of Cranston.
and Dudley Streets within wa lking distance of Women & Infants Hospital. Hospital ad fro m Bernard and Ina Wasser ministrators are currently con man and their famil y. The gift sidering va rious uses fo r· the is the largest in the hospital's buildi ng. 106-year history. " Women & In fa nts is a won The transaction evolved ear derful hospital. It has served lier this year when chairman of my famil y fo r three genera tions the Women & Infants' Devel - my wife, my two sons and opment Foundation Board initi fo ur grandchildren were born ated inquiries into the leasing there," says Wasserman. " I of One Blackstone Place, an of hope that the future use of One fice building owned by the Blackstone Place benefit s the Wassermans. As discussions community as well as the hos progressed, Wasserman offered pital." to sell the building to Women & Goldberg - Brown Methot - Carichner Infants Hospital at his cost - Leslie Iris Brown and Samuel Bernard Goldberg were married Cohen Elected President while contributing more than Norbert and Bobbie Car at the Grand Summit Hotel in Summit, N.J. Rabbi Alexander Of Engineering Society $900,000 of his equity in the ichner of Tucson, Arizona, for Shapiro officiat ed at the ceremony. form of a gift from his family . merly of Providence and War The bride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Brown of South Jason H . Cohen was recently "The gift to Women & wick, announce the engage Orange, N.J., graduated from Columbia University, where she elected President of the Illumi In fants Hospital is the result of ment of Barbara Methot to was employed as Trust Administration Officer. nating Engineering Society of great generosity and real their son, David Carichner. Mr. Goldberg, son of Or. and Mrs. G. Marshal Goldberg of North America, Providence vision. The Wassennans have David's maternal grand Ma rblehead, Mass., and Palm Beach, Aa., and grandson of Jacob Chapter, for the term 1990- not only given the hospital parents are Inna and Leonard Frank of Providence, graduated from Tufts University and holds 1991. much needed space, but most Slavit of Warwick. His paternal a Juris Doctorate degree from Boston University School of Law. Mr. Cohen is President of importantly, an asset of grandfather, the late Henry He has been an Assistant District attorney in the Homocide Providence Electric Co., Inc., tremendous value to our en Carichner, was Director of the Bureau of the Kings County District Attorney's Office, Brooklyn, and has served in various ca dowment," says Thomas G. Cranston, R.l. YMCA. His N.Y. pacities at Kiwanis Interna Parris, Jr., hospital president. paternal grandmother is Mrs. Jolie Schulte-Solomon of Washington, D.C. was matron of tional, Temple Emanu-EI, Pro One Blackstone Place, a Arvil (Edna) Stone of Kissim honor and Brian Haubenstock of Brookline, Mass., was best man. Cap, R.S.V .P. and the Demo 24,000 square foot building, is mee, Florida. Bridesmaids were Mary Evans, Frances Nicosia, Linda Brunner, cratic Party. located at the comer of Eddy Miss Methot is a graduate of Laura Elwyn, and Cassandra Cook, all of New York and Rachel the University of Arizona Col Brown, sister-in -law of the bride from Silver Spring, Md. Ushers lege of Nursing's Bachelor were Andrew Horwitz of N.Y., Paul Burke, Jr. of Swampscott, JEWISH DATING SERVICE degree program, and is em Mass., Steven Altman of N.Y., Stuart Goldberg of Toledo, Ohio, Personal Service at its Best ployed as a nurse in pediatrics and the bride's two brothers, Dr. Stuart Brown of Silver Spring, at University Medical Center in Md., and Philip Brown of South Orange, N.). Ring bearer was Call Be rnice 508-998-1233 Tucson. Mr. Carichner is a Evan Brown of Silver Spring, Md. , nephew of the bride. 11 Love Is A Must In August" graduate of the University of The couple has just returned to Massachusetts and will reside Arizona College of Engineering in Brookline. In August, Mr. Goldberg will become an associate and Mines with a Bachelor of with the la w firm of Riemer and Braunstein in Boston. 32 Goff Avenue, Pawtucket, RI 02860 Science in Mechanical Engi neering, and is employed as a Tel 1 401 -728-3600 FAlfEL 1· 800-367-0013 mechanical engineer at FAX 1 401 -724-8076 Ari zona Portland Cement in New Member At Beth-El To Host Rillito, Arizona near Tucson. I • An autumn, 1991 wedding is Open House planned. For the third consecutive fo rmation provided by Rabbis year, the Membership Commit Gutterman and Helbraun, an tee of Temple Beth-El will host introduction to the Religious FOR FLIGHTS , CRUISES or TOURS .-- an Open House for prospective School by Director of Educa FOR BUSINESS or PLEASURE + tion Lisa Goldstein and the Suppon Temple members on Sunday FOR ALL YOUR TRAVEL NEEDS morning, Sept. 16, beginning showing of the outstanding research. at 10 a.m. The program will be 135 th Anniversary Film pre hosted by Jeffrey Kasie, a Tern- miered last May at the Temple's p I e vice· pres1'd ent an d ch a.ir - 135th Gala. man of the Membership Com- Child care will be provided. WE EXPERTLY (,AmertcanHeart mittee. In addition, guest passes for Association The agenda will include a High Holy Day services will be delicious breakfast, courtesy of distributed at the close of the CANE CHAIRS the Temple's Brotherhood, in - Open House to those individu als who have never attended - High Holy Day services at Temple Beth-El. FiberRush Seats ~ Rabbi Carl Astor Temple Beth -El is the largest • .... Certi'fied Mohel Reform Synagogue in Rhode Island and the oldest congrega : ::~::;u:•;:;a,r ~<1- "~ 15 years of professional experience .n'Jll'l'I• tion in the city of Providence. I For a DiQnified, Meaningful For more information about • Re-SilverMirrors f .,wt Religious Ceremony the Open House, ca ll Executive ~ Director Rob Goldberg at r, .• (203) 442-0418 (Wo,k) 33 1-6070. 463-8262 (203) 443-0760 (Res;dence) I I L..,' --.. ------~-----~-- -,,.,n,::nAV "-llr..!IC:T l h ]Q9Q- }5
THE RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUSTl6, 1990 - 13 Israel Successfully Tests Missile by Hugh Orgel weeks earlier, but was post Aircraft Industries. Yitzhak Rabin. The United States relies on TEL A VIV UTA) - Israel poned for technical and meteo The ballistic missile is part of Rabin, now a Knesset mem· the slower Patriot interconti successfully test-launched its rological reasons. the American Strategic Defense ber and No. 2 man in the oppo· nental anti-ballistic missile to American-financed Arrow In any case, the Arrow is still Initiative, known as "Star sition Labor Party, did not at shield against trans-oceanic anti-lactical ballistic missile, years away from being a deter Wars," the controversial proj· tend the Arrow's maiden attacks. convincing some well-informed rent to an Iraqi missile strike on ect for an anti-nuclear defense launch. But it is interested in the observers that Israel has the Israel, against which Israel says shield that originated with the Although he was one of the Arrow to deal with shorter· "great power capacity" to it has other means of defense Reagan administration but has initiators of U.5. -lsraeli cooper range nuclear missiles that design and construct highly and retaliation. since been scaled down for ation in the sphere of missile might be fired from enemy sophisticated technological and Development of the Arrow, technological and economic defense, he was not invited, submarines. defense equipment. initiated in July 1988, will take reasons. Rabin told reporters. Its first test coincided with another three years, and equip The United States, however, The Arrow has been de· the Persian Gulf crisis, precipi ping it with a warhead two or is underwriting 80 percent of scribed as a " flying rocket with tated when Iraq invaded Ku three more years before it be· Israel's $158 million long-term a computer brain which takes wait and threatened Saudi comes operational. design and development costs, off at some seven times the Arabia. The Arrow, known by its under an agreement it first dis· speed of sound to intercept and The test was actually sched Hebrew name Hetz, is a prod cussed more than four years destroy incoming medium- to uled and announced three uct of the state-owned Israel ago with then Defense Minister short-range missiles."
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REBECCA BOCHNER HARRIET C. BOROD Veterans Post 284. CRANSTON - Rebecca PROVIDENCE - Harriet C. Besides her husband she Un veiling "Betty" Bochner, 87, of 50 Borod, 65, of 117 Burlington leaves a sister, Sylvia Schoen An unveiling will be held in memory of the late Mina Birch St. died Sunday, August St., a bookkeeper for the law berg of Narragansett and Gastfreund on Sunday, August 19, 1990, at 11 a.m. in Lin~ 12, 1990, at Miriam Hospital. office of Norman B. Bolotow Cranston. coin Park Cemetery, Warwick. Relatives and friends are She was the widow of Morris for several years, died Sunday, A graveside service was held invited to attend. Bochner. August 5, 1990, at Brigham & Thursday, August 9, at Lincoln Born in Providence, a Women's Hospital, Boston. Park Cemetery, Wa rwick. daughter of the late Louis and Bom in Providence, she was Funeral arrangements were co Bessie (Blumenthal) Mushnick, a daughter of the late Morton ordinated by Mount Si nai she lived in Cranston for 20 and Pearle (Morrison) Borod. Memorial Chapel, 825 Hope years. She attended Brown Univer St., Providence. Mrs. Bochner was a member sity and was previously as August 12 at Mount Sinai Hochberg Memorial Chapel, 825 Hope of the Arlington Manor Build sociated with the law offices of (continued from page 5) ing Association and Temple Jarcho, Schwartz, Varlas and ELLEN DIANE GROBER St., Providence. Burial was in Sinai. WESTPORT, Conn. - Ellen Congregation Sons of Israel people, the true heritage of Sa ntilli fo r 25 years. She was a Rhode Island. She leaves a brother, Irving member of the National Wild Diane Grober, 36, formerly of and David Ce~etery, Reservoir Mushnick of Cranston, and a Providence, died Thursday, Avenue, Providence. "To me, this tiny state is the life Association and the Rhode crown jewel of the larger 49. sister, Mary Berg of Rochester, August 9, 1990, at Rhode Island Zoological Society. Here the clean ocean breezes N.Y. Island Hospital after an illness. She leaves three daughters, blow away all froth and pre The funeral service was held Born in Passaic, N.J. , a Deborah Rose of Providence, tense. In this small state we get Monday, August 13, at Mount daughter of Abraham and Joan MAUDE HARRIET Patricia A. Gibbons of War to know each other pretty well Sinai Memorial Chapel, 825 (Feldman) Grober of Provi PROVIDENCE - Maude wick and Susan Jones of South - something more than we Hope St., Providence. Burial Kingstown; a brother, Robert dence, she had lived in West Harriet, 89, of Jewish Home for was in Lincoln Pa rk Cemetery, should. Barad of New York; and a port five years, previously the Aged, 99 Hill side Ave. , " Li ttle Rh ode Island packs Warwick. residing in New York City and died Thursday, August 9, 1990, grandson. more vigorous and bizarre li v Providence. at the home. She was the Th e funeral service was held ing per square foot than any She was a 1976 graduate of widow of Arthur Harriet. Tuesday, August 7, at Mount other state in the union. Rhode Sinai Memorial Chapel, 825 Brown University and in 1978 Born in Russia, a daughter of Island is a small theatre for the late Abraham and Bessie Hope St. Burial was in Lincoln was graduated with honors great happenings - for hi storic from Wharton School of Fi (Vilker) Perelman, she had Park Cemetery, Warwick. celebrations, for educational HOUSECLEANING nance wit h an MBA. lived in Providence 15 years, institutions of renown, for all She was president and treas previously living in Pa wtucket Ladies, before you come the arts, crazy and cu lt ural, fo r fo r many years. home from work and ANNE COHEN urer of GGG Incorporated of everything from inter-col Fairfield, Conn., which deals in Mrs. Harriet was a life mem ride your broom .. CRANSTON Anne legiate sports to international estate liquidations. The comp ber of the Jewish Home for the LET US PUSH IT! Cohen, 74, of Pontiac Avenue yachting. any was recently recognized as Aged Women's Association, a died Tuesday, August 7, 1990, " It was the first civili zed light to medium one of the 2,500 best managed member of Hadassah, Temple at South County Hospital. She community anywhere that al household chores, was the wife of Samuel " Red " small privately held companies Emanu-E I and the Congrega flexible hours. lowed freedom of religion. For Cohen. in the nation. Miss Grober was tion Ohawe Shalam Sister ohe of my faith, it is mighty hood. EMPLOYEES Born in Providence, a daugh also a licensed gemologist and comforting to live in the same She leaves a son, Melvin Em SECURED ter of the late Louis and Rose a member of the International state where George Washing &BONDED. (Levine) Pedlikin, she lived in Society of Appraisers. She was Harriet of Boca Raton, Fla .; a ton assured a small Newport a member of the Brown daughter, Helen Kilberg of CATHLEEN Cra nston for 35 years. congregation that " Happily, Mrs. Cohen was a member Alumni Club, the Wharton Cranston; a sister, Eva Schiff the government of the United NAUGHTON man of Providence; five grand of Temple Am David and its Alumni Club, the Audubon States gives bigotry no sa nc ASSOC. Sisterhood. She was a member Society, and Greenpeace. children and fou r great-grand tion, nor persecution as Her father was fo under and children. 249 Wickenden St. of the Women's Association of sistance. Providence the Jewish Home for the Aged, president of Victor Electric The fun eral service was held " From the sunny sands of 751-9660 the Cranston Hadassah, and Wire and Cable Inc. until his Sunday, August 12 in the South County to the green hills the Auxiliary of the Jewish War reti rement in 1985. Sugarman-Smith Memorial of Smithfield, we are fiercely Her parents are her only Chapel, 458 Hope St. Burial independent - a vibrant people, immediate survivors. was in Lincoln Park Cemetery, diversified, individualistic - The fun eral service was held Warwick. each culti vating our own gar MT. SINAI MONUMENTS den - yet staunchly supported by families and friendships we Our owner, Mitchell ... his father and ...... ,····· ·'·'·c'rt-~-r.\~\.1).;.\<.·_·:· .: ; could not live without - rela grandfather... have been privileged to provide tionships that enrich but do not over 8,000 monuments in RI Jewish Cemeteries RUBIN MEMORIALS't.i't>$5;,;i~( infringe on our lives. 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ENTERTAINMENT Israel Ready For Attack (continued from page 1) EVE YOKEN ENTERTAINMENT - Profes ,nal Master ol Ceremonies and Disc attempt " to shift the focus of interpreted in some quarters to ckey. Bar/ Bat M1tzvah specialists attention." hint " nonconventional" - (Oplional - N.Y. Laser Ugh! He said he was sure the meaning nuclear - retaliation 10w) Boston Party Planne,s· #1 Enter other Middle East states under against a chemical attack on ner. 508·679-15'15 1/31/91 stood that. civilian centers. Israel has deliberately kept a Shamir's remarks, mean INTRODUCTION SERVICES low profile in the latest Middle while, seemed intended both East crisis, stressing that it to alert and to reassure the :WISH INTRODUCTIONS INTERNA would act only if it perceived a populace. IONAL Local and personaltzed. Ages 21- direct threat, for example the "All the citizens of Israel 01. Let us l1nd that special "someone." entry of Iraqi forces into neigh know that their state has its full all 1-600-442-9050. 7/91 boring Jordan. strength and does not stand But there is mounting con empty-handed in this region of Thousands of lovers of hazzanut flocked to the State Opera House in Budapest for a spectacular cantorial concert - the MAH-JONGG cern among strategic planners the world, full of dangers and and the public that Hussein, tensions," he said. first time the gold-bedecked theatre had echoed to the sound of Jewish music. The cantors were accompanied by the .OOKING lor an evening group in Cranston confronted by multinational " Anyone plotting to attack 1reato1om. 943-6434. 8/17 sanctions and military opposi Israel must know that Israel Hungarian State Opera Orchestra and conducted by Maestro tion to his invasion of Kuwait, has the capacity, the will, the Michael Recchiuti of New York. might act out of desperation. ability and the readiness to assistant secretary of state for Levy also made the point SERVICES RENDERED The fear is that he would defend its security with great human rights and humanitar that Yasir Arafat, leader of the seek to embroil Israel as a force and determination. Any ian affairs, praised President Palestine Liberation Organiza ANTIQUE REFINISHING: Furniture stopped. means of rallying Arab sup one seeking to harm Israel is Bush's response to the Iraqi tion, was one of the first Arab regrued, repaired. finished. Satislact1on port. likely to draw down upon him guaranteed. 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The 39-year-old designer got Eventually he realized that line of goods, but to expand his "When people come in for a his start in interior fashion dur· he wanted to stay in fashion floor space. miniblind, they might see a ing his ten-year employment at full -time. When his cousin of· vase or a wall hanging they've Window Fashions in Provi· fered him a job at Window been looking for. dence. Within those ten years Fashions, he stayed on and " If I make a sale on a drapery Altieri dabbled in other sales learned the ropes. and I'm in their house setting it positions and for a while he " He offered to let me come up, they may ask me 'What can I put in that comer to dress up that spot?' or 'What can I do in HERE WE GO AGAIN! $1889 Same as 1989T"P Gas Masks ISRAEL LEISURE TOUR (continued from page 1) FEBRUARY 20 - MARCH 20, 1991 4 WEEKS• 2 MEALS/DAY • BUS FROM PROVIDENCE plete the distribution of gas 10 DAYS SIGHTSEEING masks and anti-chemical war· ESCORTED BY JACK & RIIODA MOSSBERG fare kits until the end of the ~ Call for Brochure year. The kits contain disposable syringes with atropine, an anti· FJn WJ~}~c~,~~,!~c!an!o~Y,EL dote against nerve gas. '-U/ 943-7700 • o,1s;de n 1-800-234-5595 The fear was most pro· nounced in the densely popu· lated Tel Aviv area and Safed in Galilee, the parts of the country slated to receive gas masks first. 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