Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1985 — Page 5

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In Reoding Son's Bar Mitzvah

When The Woman Zionist Met Castro

When Evelyn Sommer, who is the WIZO representative to the United Nations, was a delegate to the meeting in Cuba of the committee preparing for the forthcoming Nairobi conference which will conclude the U.N.’s Women’s Decade, she met Fidel Castro, and from a report in The Jerusalem Post found the Cuban ruler “charming”. When the attractive Spanish-speaking WIZO delegate was introduced to him, he asked her whom she represented, and she told him: the Women’s International Zionist Organization. He then asked, “Where do you come from?” “The U.S.,” she replied, summoning up the courage to ask him: “What can I tell my women Zionists on your behalf?” Replied Castro: “Give them my most cordial regards.” When he encountered her at the Havana reception for the delegates, he hailed her with “Ah, here’s La Hebraia (The Jewess).” In his speech, the Cuban leader declared: “Discrimination against women in Cuba has its roots in our Arab and Spanish tradition. ”

African tourney by the score of 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 over native Garry Miller.

The Hanukkah Parakeet Isaac Bashevis Singer’s charming story about Dreidel, the Hanukkah parakeet who could say, "Zeldele, gay shloffen”, is getting to be something of a holiday legend. The story tells of a lost parakeet trained to tell the little girl in the household to go to sleep. He winds up in another Jewish home, and helps unite in marriage the real Zelda with the son of the second household. The story appears at this time of year in a national women’s magazine. •

Potok's Next Novels

Burg Or The Messiah The Member of the Knesset who has served in the Cabinet longest is Yosef Burg of the ’I National Religious Party, and his long tenure has evoked some good jokes. One asks, JP V “What’s the difference between Burg and v mipm the Messiah. The answer is: One won’t f Tj come and the other won’t go." To which E| v /J| Knesset Member Menahem Hacohen adds, IL “There’s more chance of the Messiah .JgB coming than of Dr. Burg ever going.” Burg has now served in Burg his 22nd Cabinet. • Beautiful Israel And Jules Styne Lyricist Jules Styne, of Gypsy and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes note, has composed a song called “Beautiful Israel,” which will be introduced by either Frank Sinatra or Barbra Streisand with proceeds to go to U.S. Friends of the Council for Beautiful Israel, whose international president is Auro Herzog, Israel’s first lady. Styne was the main attraction at the Council’s recent bash at Regine’s in Manhattan, whose owner’s maiden name is Zilberberg and who donated use of her posh club for the Council’s recent annual fundraising affair at which Mrs. Herzog spoke. Besides offering the premises, Regine brought in a kosher caterer for the affair.

Publicity-Shy A marked difference between Mrs. Shimon Peres and her predecessors, Shulamit Shamir and Lea Rabin has been noted. She avoids the limelight and when her husband recently was welcomed in France, she was notably absent. The publicity-shy wife of Israel’s eighth Prime Minister even was reluctant to move into the official residence in Jerusalem from their Ramat Aviv apartment. She has let it be known that she will zealously guard her family’s privacy.

Chaim Potok’s next novel, due to be published this spring, is entitled, “Davita’s Harp” and is about a girl ^^^^^^Hand her mother who in the novel are Marxist but end up as Orthodox. Potok is ■ already at work on his succeeding novel, (which he said on his recent visit to Israel will be set in Jerusalem. A columnist for The Jerusalem Post found a hole in filial loyalty but common American independence when he asked Potok’s 16-year-old son, Akiva, 1 if he had read all his father’s books, and got the Potok answer, “No, only The Chosen and The Promise, with the excuse “I prefer science fiction.”

The Marathon Winner

When the Arab terrorist commandeered the Jerusalem Bus travelling towards Ashkelon last year in which one of the terrorists escaped in the shootout but was killed by Israel gunfire later, one of the many injured in the crossfire was Yehezkel Halifa, who at that time was the favorite to win the Maccabi Jerusalem marathon to take place a week later. The 20-year-old soldier, now fully recovered, finished first in the eighth annual Amzelig Run through the streets of Jerusalem. The mini-marathon commemorates David Amzelig, a leading Jerusalem athlete who was among 54 paratroopers killed in the 1977 army helicopter crash in the Jordan Valley.

2 Maccabiah Champs Are Winners Starved for a tennis crown for several years, Andrea Leand, who divides her time between Princeton and the tennis courts, teamed with Andrea Temesvari to win the European doubles tennis crown from Hana Mandlikova and Claudia KohdeKilsch. Another Jewish star, Brad GUbert, 23, all-American college champion, won the third major title of his career when he captured the Tapei International for the second time. Gilbert was a Maccabiah finalist in 1981, and Leand was the Maccabiah champion the same year.

Perkis, Mansdorf Moving Ahead While Shlomo Glickstein, Israel’s first tennis player to make his mark in international play, suffered badly and finally returned home abruptly from the Australian tennis tour, his partner in doubles play, Shahar Perkis went on to improve his world standings and in one tournament lost in the semi-finals. The gangling Perkis, 22, is a second favorite, behind American Robert Green, for the Association of Tennis Professionals’ “newcomer of the year” award. Perkis said that his prize money earnings during 1984 will amount to some $50,000. Glickstein and Perkis are entered in tournaments in mid-January in Philadelphia and Memphis and also in the inaugural Lipton International Players Championships in Delray Beach, FI. Perkis’ success in 1984 are expected to raise his international standing from almost 300 to 75. The two are not the only Israelis faring well on foreign courts. Amos Mansdorf won his first pro-tennis single title in the $25,000 South

U.S. Never Christian Nation A challenge of “the heightened effort of Christian fundamentalists to impose their sectarian moralities on the entire American people through the manipulation i of the powers of the state” was made by Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum as he was presented with M ^ the Earle B. Pleasant Interreligious Award of J Religion in American Life. He was the first Jew to receive the award from the interfaith k group composed of 52 national organizations of -5^ A all faith. He told a luncheon group of leading business and religious personalities that the notion that America was formerly a great nation because it was a Christian nation was a Tanenbaum “myth.” He said “the only time America was a ‘Christian nation’ was during the period of the Massachusetts Bay Colony founded in 1629 and that experience collapsed after 60 years.”

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A local Lutheran church, which has a full time media department, had the Bar Mitzvah videotaped. They gave my son the original and they made several copies with our permission. They will be using the tapes as a teaching tool, both in their congregation and on their TV programming. MY SON mentioned during his speech that he will be contributing money to help the needy both in Israel and in our country. The president of Alvemia, a Catholic College, sent him a contribution asking that it be sent to his favorite charity. The scenario goes on and on. A great deal of goodwill was created. Our experience has reinforced for us the value of including our Christian friends in lifecycle ceremonies. If you are in doubt as to whether your non-Jewish friends will appreciate the ceremony, be assured they will. It is a most meaningful type of sharing. (Rabbi Alan Weitzman can be reached at Temple Oheb Sholom, 13th & Perkiomen Ave., Reading. PA 19602.)

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