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Gay nor Lecture To Focus
On Jewish Princess Myth
For several generations,
American Jewish women
have been portrayed in film,
novels and at the hands of
comedians as nagging Jewish mothers or whining Jewish princesses (JAPs).
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Dr. Pamela Nadell
Dr. Pamela S. Nadell will
discuss this phenomenon in
her upcoming presentation,
"Debunking American Jewish Mythology," the Rabbi
Holy Day of Joy
in the Torah
Celebrates   the   completion of the annual j
cycle  of reading  the
Torah —the   Five
i Books of Moses—and
the beginning of read-,
ing the Torah anew.
The Torah ends with
the death of Moses
and begins with the
creation of the world,
underscpring the idea
that out of J seeming
death comes life.
October 4, 1988
23Tishrei
Nathan Gaynor Memorial
Opening Lecture of the Community College for Adult
Jewish Studies' fall semester. The lecture will be held
on Sunday, Oct. 9, at 7:30
p.m. at the Leo Yassenoff
Jewish Center, 1125 College
Ave. Community member
Sylvia Gaynor has endowed
this opening lecture in
memory of her late husband,
Rabbi Nathan Gaynor.
Associate professor of
Jewish studies and history at
the American University,
Dr. Nadell will analyze the
chief themes of stereotypes
of Jewish women, consider
their origins and" discuss
their anti-Semitic components.
The author of Conservative Judaism in America,
Dr. Nadell has also published numerous articles on
Jewish immigration and
Jewish women; In addition,
she has won recognition for
outstanding teaching from
both The Ohio State and
American Universities.
The lecture is free and
open to the entire community. For mpre information, contact Reuven Spero
at the Center^ 231-2731.
Montreal Newspaper's
Portrayal Of Hasidism
Seen As Anti-Semitic
MONTREAL (JTA) - Opposition to a local Hasidic
community's attempts to
build a second synagogue in
the largely French-Canadian
Outremond neighborhood of
Montreal has led to charges
of anti-Semitism against a
major newspaper.
La Presse, the largest
French language newspaper
in North America, was accused of playing to racial
prejudices and fears in a
front-page story Sept. 13,
headlined "Outremond Discovers a Jewish Problem."
The, article, written by
Roch Cote, defined the proiV
lem less in terms of the so
far unsuccessful attempts by
the Hasidim to obtain a
zoning variance than by
their appearance and large
families.
Use of the phrase "Jewish
problem," moreover, has
ugly connotations for Jews
here because of its Nazi coinage in the 1930s. Michael
Crelinsen, executive director of the Canadian Jewish
Congress, called the article
"the most serious example
of hostility against Jews in
years."
Cote was quoted later as
saying he described the situation as a "Jewish problem" in order to inject a
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Mubarak Says Iraq Might Seek Peace
With Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Iraq could be the second Arab
country to negotiate peace with Israel, according to President Hosni Mukbarak of Egypt, whose country under theJate
Anwar Sadat was the first. Mubarak offered that upbeat assessment during a recent conversation last week with the
new Israeli ambassador to Egypt, Professor Shimon Shamir.
Israel And Czech Diplomats
Raise Glasses In Toast
ROME (JTA) — An exhibition titled "Marvels, of the
Ghetto," which opened in the northern Italian town of Fer-
rara last week, became the background for an unexpected
show of cordiality and good will between Israel and
Czechoslovakia. The opening of the exhibit, devoted to Jewish culture and art, including a segment from Czechoslovakia, was attended by the deputy prime minister of
Czechoslovakia, Matei Lucan. He and Israel's ambassador to
Italy, Mordechai Drory, joined in a toast, in Hebrew.
Czechoslovakia severed diplomatic ties with Israel following
the 1967 Six-Day War and they have not been restored. Later,
the Czech ambassador to Italy, Norbert Zudek, was quoted in
the newspaper La Republics as saying the will exists in his
country to improve relations with Israel.
New York School Children
Receive Lesson In Bigotry
ORT Plans Technology Institute In Chicago
NEW YORK (JTA). — Women's American ORT plans to
build its third ORT school in the United States, an advanced
technological institute in Chicago that will integrate courses
in sophisticated technology, Jewish studie§ and life skills to
help improve the employment prospects for local youth. The
school will join the 11-year-old Bramsori ORT in New York
City and the Los Angeles ORT Technical Institute established
two years ago. Ah associate ORT program also operates in
South Florida. The Chicago school, officially named the
Zarem/Golde ORT Technical Institute in honor of its benefactors, received $1 million in seed money from Jeff Zarem,
president of Zarcb Industries and executor of the Golde estate.
NEW YORK (JTA) - A
group of New York's public
school pupils, reflecting this
city's broad ethnic mix,
stood on the charred floorboards of a burned-out shul
in Brooklyn last week to
learn a lesson about bigotry.
"Bigotry, hate, the words
are abstractions. Here you
Sfee the pain and ugliness bigotry can cause," the youngsters were told by Abraham
Foxman, national director of
the Anti-Defamation League
of B'nai B'rith.
He spoke in the fire-gutted
interior of Orthodox Congregation Rabbinical Institute
Sharai Torah in the Midwood
section of Brooklyn, the target of arson, desecration and
vandalism in the early hours
of Saturday, Sept. 17.
His audience was solemn
and attentive under the
bright lights of television
camera crews.
They stood in a rough
circle amid the charred debris of scorched woodwork
and waterlogged furnishings
in what had been a classroom, with a small pulpit for
worship in the center. The
distinctive mildew stench of
fire damage was all pervasive.
More than a dozen of the
visitors were teen-agers
from three high schools in
the district — Midwood, Ed-
ADL To Hold Americanism Award Dinner
The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith will hold
its 75th Anniversary Americanism Award Dinner on
Thursday, Oct. 6, at 6 p.m. at
the Hyatt Regency in Columbus. This year's honoree is
W.S. "Pete" White, Jr.,"
chairman and chief executive officer of the American
Electric Power Co., Inc.
White is being honored for
his commitment to the Columbus community.
Donald R. Mintz, chairman of ADL's National Civil
Rights Committee and a
member of its National
Executive Committee, will
be the keynote speaker.
Mintz is a lifelong resident of
New Orleans and is a senior
partner in the i law firm of
McGlinchey, Stafford,
Mintz, Cellini and Lang. A
Fulbright scholar, Mintz received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University and attended Tulane
University Law School. His
active involvement in the
Jewish community dates
back to his youth when he
served as president of the
National Federation of
Temple Youth (NFTY). He
is a past-president of the
Jewish Federation of
Greater New Orleans, past-
chairman of the United Way
for Greater New Orleans and
currently serves as chairman of the United Negro College Fund Louisiana Advisory Council.
has upheld those principles
of democracy that have
helped make the nation
great.
The dinner chairmen are
N. Victor Goodman of
Benesch, Freidlander, Cop-
Ian and Aronoff; Lewis R.
Smoot, Sr., of the Sherman
R. Smoot Company; Samuel
H. Porter of Porter, Wright,
Morris and Arthur, and
Frank Wobst of Huntington
Bankshares, Inc.
For further information,
contact Michael Geller at
621-0601.
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Donald Mintz
The Americanisn> Award
has been established to be
presented to a man or woman who has personified in
word and deed the noblest
traditions of the United
States of America and the
Anti-Defamation League. It
is presented to a citizen who
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ward R. Murrow and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
About twice that number
were sixth graders from P.S.
99, a neighborhood elementary school within walking
distance of Sharai Torah.
They were brought together with the consent of
the New York City Board of
Education, and the personal
blessings.of school Chancellor Richard Green, to view a
disaster that sent shock
waves through the city.
The unusual trip, barely
two weeks into the new
school year, was proposed
by the ADL.
All of these youngsters
were aware of the outrage
perpetrated in their
borough. Foxman ahd Carol
Lister, ADL's New York regional director who escorted
them, believe that seeing the
havoc would have a greater
impact — ahd be remembered longer — than
fleeting images on a TV
newscast.
Moreover, the students, all
of, whom volunteered after
their teachers explained the
nature of the trip, were of
roughly the same age as the
suspected perpetrators.
A 12-year-old and a
15-year-old have been arrested and confessed to the
arson and destruction. Because they are juveniles,
their identities have been
withheld. They were released in custody of their
parents pending an appearance in Family Court.
But Dionne Boissiere, an
articulate 16-year-old from
Midwood High, found it hard
to believe that the two could
have planned and carried
out the destruction.
"Where did it come from?
All of that hatred?" the
black teen-ager asked, in a
conversation with a reporter.
Boissiere, who is president
of her junior class, is convinced there was adult
instruction.
The sheer ferocity of the
crime had led others to suspect as much. The intruders
systematically wrecked the
sanctuary and study rooms
and spray painted swastikas
and anti-Semitic obscenities
on the walls.
Their final act of blind
hate was the destruction of
the congregation's six
Torahs. The offenders pulled
the Torahs from the Ark,
stripped off their vestments,
rolled them out on the floor
and then set them on fire;
Adam Friedman, a husky
junior from Midwood,
repeatedly shook his head in
disbelief.   The  16-year-old
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