Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1972 — Page 33

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Friday, March 31, 1972

THE JEWISH POST AND OPINION

ONE WOMAN'S OPINION

The New Tennis Champ

Teen Seen

More Alienation

By HELEN MINTZ Would you believe I have a torn gastrocnemius? Well I have, (and it’s very painful). In plain tennis talk, I tore a muscle in the old leg. And it was my sexiest one at that. I went back to playing a year ago and have systematically proceeded to destroy myself. So far I’ve gone through a whole set of appendages and am now working on what’s left. The trouble with me is, when someone says, “tennis anyone?” I’m always the “anyone.” FOR THOSE of you who don’t play, I’ll explain the game. Tennis has a caste system that makes the middle aged look good. Every player wants to team up with someone better than them. How else can you improve? Taking lessons and paying a pro is one sure way

By JAN L. GOLDBERG

which applies to Jewish isola- I

to get a partner. He becomes an expensive gigolo but if you have the proper accountant maybe it can be deducted from your income tax. Maybe there is a gigolo category. Times have changed. It’s worth a try. Now that you have your partner, it’s most important to look the part. So you wriggle into the cutest, briefest little tennis outfit you can find, put sweatbands on your head and wrists, (who cares if it’s indoors and wintertime. It creates a psychological advantage over your opponent) and you take your position, carefully flexing the knees that are being supported by twenty-five dollar sneakers.

balls can take over your life. You worry about where they go, and why they go where they go, their life expectancy, losing them, finding them again and if their color is good. I don’t worry that much over my kids. What you really need, that you don’t get, is a “ball boy.” Unless your last name is Goolagong, and your last known address is Australia, forget it. You’re destined to retrieve them one by one. It’s good for the waistline. All that attention can spoil you rotten. You know something? Spoil me, spoil me. Meanwhile I’ve forgotten about my torn gastrocnemius, and it’s so painful too.

j That Jewish youth are be- tionism must be reconsidered m | ing alienated, and that Jew- in light of today’s world I ish leaders where Jews are not isolated § are trying and do not wish to become f

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out what to if Jewish leaders are to | do about it appeal to the alienated youth, || was stress- fh e y must stop thinking 1; ed in the about Jews as a unique peo- | Post and p} e> an( j S f art worrying about |j 0 f> i n - jews as worthwhile partici-

ion’s head- p an ts of a total society.

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17 about^^the ^United Syna- “leaders” failing in this J

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Jewish Living.

SO FAR YOU look good and Anyone for tiddlewinks? maybe you should quit while you’re ahead. From here on in, Helen Mintz can be reached it’s utter frustration. It’s abso- at 3408 Frederick St., Oceanlutely amazing how three little side, New York, 11572.

leaders praise the city’s lead- §

It appears that among the j n g slumlords as “fine out- 1 I suggestions seriously con- standing members of the | sidered was to replace the Jewish community,” they arc | traditional emphasis o n failing. When they do not I

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Student Publication Challenges Xmas Ads In Jewish Paper

AUSTIN, Tex. - The University Jewish Voice will not be issued again at the University of Texas, and there is no connection between the lack of funds and the attack in the final issue on Christmas advertising in The Texas Jewish Post, of Dallas and Ft. Worth. “TO SAY THE least,” the Voice said editorially, “we were

offended and annoyed by the appearance in The Post of ads for Christmas dinner hams, preChristmas sales of merchandise to be placed under your tree, and one bank’s ad which featured a Santa Claus and reindeer.” Continuing the editorial asserted, “Everyone knows

Jews don’t celebrate Christmas (right?), and we don’t eat ham (do we?), and don’t put gifts under trees (or bushes even), and especially Jews don’t buy a Jewish paper to read Christmas commercials which, in the winter months, hit Jews and non-Jews alike from every other medium.”

Hebrew with a stress on the encourage mass transit, and f “ ‘uniqueness’ of Judaism” f a k e no action about the f i and also halting interfaith ac- ecology, they are failing. H 1 on a social level and when they did not provide j H discouraging the open door their youth with draft counpolicy for non-Jewish youth seling> w hen they did not l in Jewish Community Cen- take a strong stand in oppos- I | t ers an d a l so synagogues. j n g the war in Vietnam while 1

SHOULD THESE sug- they continue to take no ac- i

gestions be carried out, it tion in opposing this war, If

ip would be difficult to see how j.j ie y are failing

such force-fed Jewism and IT IS N0T enough to I : brainwashing would solve the „ h Torah and a 1 problem of making Judaism 1(}ve {or jts values „ Those j | mo ^ meaningful for today s who teach va]ues must dem . | I i , onstrate the values they 4 - ladc^of "exposure "to things are teachin ^ lnstead ’ the * I I? f CK . ?f ou ,? t0 , g f r are emphasizing the “unique- I 8 Jewish, but rather a lack . a

aewisn, uui lamer a iacK „ f T d : mean- i of exposure to things rele- jnglece ov „ r , ico \ w will |

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oi exposure to tnmgs reie- • , pvpreise that will i vant. Few young Jews will ^ ali ™ y ol even I

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ism for just that reason, just Judaism approach may solve as others will love and other problem faced by engage in unique studies: Conference: whether to Sappho, Milton, Teotihuacan discourage the open d^or || pottery. For most youth, policy for non-Jewir however, the uniqueness of in Jow 15 * 1 community 0 Judaism is simply a moot anc * synagogues. As JewiMi II roint. Instead they look for youth become alienated from ' a meaningful and workable S5magogue, it will make |

1 ethical system, for leaders little difference, as far as m- :

who can provide them with terfaith activities are con- | 8 relevant guidance for today’s cern ®d, whether non-Jewis problems y° uth are there or not 11 | And today’s youth finds mi g ht hel P however, to en1 neither in Judaism. courage a shut-door policy THE ETHICAL system f or Jewish youth in non-Jew- | that youth seeks today is one isl1 community centers. I M that will guide them in a wonder ^why no one suggest- I

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