***¥--,:********~ ****** **~-DiGT 0~1h6 Inside: .2"9 'l / _.. )/ 9 ll-* ob Local News, pages 2-3 R.. •. ~tW.SH Hl TOR,rHL ASSO[!A,,r~ Opinion, page 4 1 _v SES3IQNS S - FD" ENCE, RI '). '1. t Around Town, page 8 THE ONLY ENGLISH-JEWISH WEEKLY IN R.I. AND SOUTHEAST MASS. ,_ VOLUME LXXVI, NUMBER 9 THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1989 :lr,¢ PER <'Ol'Y Ruth Schaffer Dialing For Dollars Volunteers Converge For Super Sunday Donations Participates In Hadassah by Andrew Silow Carroll Not all of the communities will Cincinnati, where the theme is NEW YORK (JTA) - On hold their telethons on January 29. shaping up as a little more sublime. Familiarization Tour January 29, phones will be ringing In Ottawa and Vancouver, wher• The ,Jc"'"" ·at ion hopes to in the homes of thousands of many leave tor warmer climates in raise about $350,000 on Super Jewish families around the the winter, Super Sundays are held Sunday, which they're calling "A country. And while they can expect in the early fall. Time for Giving." to hear just about anything on the And in Honolulu, Super Sunday "Last year we had a 'magic' other end, there's one sound that won't happen until March. Why? theme, so we had a magician,'' said Gary Hill particularly dreads, and "Because we're an island in the Judy Zakem, Super Sunday it goes something like this: middle of the Pacific and we sort of coordinator. "Hello, Sadie? What are you make up our own calendar,'' said This year, the Super Sunday gonna give this year?" Janet Bergstein, administrative committee nixed a Super Bowl Hill, of Lincoln, Neb., is national assistant of the Jewish Federation theme, even though the Cincinnati Super Sunday training chairman of Hawaii. Bengals will play the San for the United Jewish Appeal. As a But in cities from Seattle to Francisco 49ers in the national result, he knows a thing or two Philadelphia, the day after that football championship. about telephone solicitation. other Super Sunday, football's "We thought people wouldn't For instance, you don't stray Super Bowl XXIII, will serve as a want to be reminded, in case they From the script. "Especially one kickoff for the annual campaign lose," said Zakem. that has been this carefully tested and as a pep rally for the Jewish Another city with a more serious and written," said Hill. "We're community. theme is Miami. At one point the teaching our people exactly what In Washington, which is theme was to be "Can We Afford professional telemarketers tell generally credited with devising Not to Give? You Decide," but that Ruth Shaffer, of East Providence, Region Aliyahfl'ourism their groups." the Super Sunday concept, the has since been changed to "4200 Chairman of the Western New England Region of Hadassah Hill is in charge of training football theme is being taken to its Biscayne Boulevard The (center), is made warmly welcome in the Jerusalem home of Roz programs for what is in many limit. Central Address of the Jewish Brecher, veteran member of the National Board of Hadassah Jewish communities the single Jewish families have already Community." (right), and her husband, Walter Brecher (left). Mr. and Mrs. largest fund-raising day on the begun receiving a special "Every Gary Silverman, Super Sunday Brecher have two homes, one in New York and one in calendar. Call Counts" brochure in the mail, coordinator at the offices of the Jerusalem. Mrs. Brecher says: "Every time we come back to Annually, some 36,000 featuring two burly players Greater Miami Jewish Federation Jerusalem we are glad. Our lives are full here. We have many volunteers take part in Super high-living it across the fold. at 4200 Biscayne Boulevard, said Israeli friends. Coming here gives us a completely different Sunday telethons nationwide, When volunteers arrive on Super the telethon will target those who pe rspective on Israel; we find optimism and a belief that peace usually telephoning those who Sunday to place some 55,000 calls, contribute less than $1,000 to the will come." contribute less than $500 to the they'll find a giant scoreboard and campaign. As in most Ms. Shaffer is a member of Hadassah's Familiarization Tour, annual UJ A/Federation cam­ a pair of goal posts, and baskets of communities, the big givers get a whose aim is to enable Hadassah Tourist Chairmen from all over paigns. kosher chocolate footballs. personal solicitation. the United States to become familiar with the great attractions Last year, Super Sundays raised Melissa Hecht, Super Sunday "This 1ear we are going to which Israel has to offer. She says that her visit to the Brechers more than $42.9 million on behalf coordinator for the United Jewish concentrate on getting more was most inspiring and filled her with renewed hope for Israel's of Israel and local needs, according Appeal Federation of Greater quality-minded volunteers" said future. to the UJA. Washington, said they hope to Hill. To that end, the federation raise over $2.5 million on the way has urged its board members to to an annual campaign of over $20 serve as the primary volunteers Sharansky Receives U.S. Medal, Opposes million. and to take part in intensive phone Concessions To Soviets The goals are more modest in training. by David Friedman Hebrew and English, and feature a Reagan for being strong, stubborn 50 Years Ago In History: Jan. 13-19, 1939 WASHINGTON (JTA) picture of the Western Wall, were and consistent on human rights, 6,000 Palestinians Want Natan Sharansky, the former authorized by Congress on May 13, and he urged Bush to continue this Child Exiles Soviet prisoner of conscience, 1986, three months after effort. LONDON, Jan. 13 (JTA) - Miss Henrietta Szold, director of the warned that the Reagan Sharansky was allowed to leave the He said, while he could not Youth Aliyah (immigration) movement, informed the Jewish Agency for administration's decision to attend USSR in an East-West prisoner predict what Bush will do, the Palestine in a letter today that 6,000 Palestine Jewish families have a human rights conference in exchange. He had served nearly president-elect "has a very good registered their readiness to adopt a refugee child. Palestin_e Jewry, Miss Moscow in 1991 could result in a nine years in Soviet prisons and record on Soviet Jewry, Ethiopian Szold said, is continuing its efforts for admission of 10,000 refugee major public relations coup for the labor camps. Jewry and other questions of children from Germany. Soviet Union. Sharansky said that Reagan told human rights in the Soviet Union." 2 Noted Violinists Plan "With all those nice changes him that his struggle for human He noted that both he and his wife Concert Tours For Refugees that are taking place, the Soviet rights and Avita] Sharansky's had met several times privately NEW YORK, Jan. 16 (JTA) - Yehudi Menuhin hopes to raise a Union is still very far from those effort to free him were "important with Bush. quarter of a million dollars for Jewish refugees through benefit norms of civilized societies," as a symbol of the struggle of the On other issues, Sharansky said performances that he will give in the course of a world tour on which he Sharansky told reporters at the people of the world for human he did not think now was the is embarking February 24, his father, Moshe Menuhin, informed the White House, after a meeting with rights." appropriate time for the United Jewish Telegraphic Agency today. President Reagan. Sharansky said he had not States to consider a waiver of the Meanwhile, Mischa Elman will open, with a Carnegie Hall recital this He said that, during the next two expressed his criticism of the 1974 Jackson-Vanik amendment, Saturday, a three-month tour of 25 cities in the United States for the years, the West must press the Moscow conference to Reagan, which denies the Soviet Union benefit of refugees of all faiths. Soviet Union for increased because the Oval Office ceremony most-favored-nation trade privi­ "Send Me No Food: improvements in human rights was short, but had given his views leges until it makes substantial I Want No Pleasure," and to ensure that the Moscow to the State Department. progress on increasing Jewish Grynszpan Says conference is open to human rights This was unlike what happened emigration. NEW YORK, Jan. 17 (JTA) - Herschel Grynszpan, slayer of a groups. in 1985, when Reagan presented a "I don't think the time has come German Embassy official in Paris, wants no one to send him food because At the brief Oval Office meeting, congressional gold medal to Elie to change the Jackson "I don't want to have any pleasure out of life,'' and he would like to have attended by President-elect George Wiesel, the Nobel Prize winner, amendment," he said. "There are been taken back to Germany to die, telling the Nazis at the last moment Bush and Secretary of State who then criticized Reagan for quite clear conditions." "that they are cruel beasts and torturers." A letter written to a friend from George Shultz, Reagan presented planning to go to a cemetery in While he did not spell out those his prison cell is published in Liberty magazine and was enacted on the Sharansky with identical Bitburg, West Germany, where SS conditions, Sharansky has said True Story radio NBC hour tonight. congressional gold medals for soldiers were buried. previously that annual Jewish himself and his wife, Avita!. Sharansky said he did tell emigration would have to rise to H.G.