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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, March 28, 1852
At Home in Israel
A Costume for Purim
WITH ANITA ENGEL
Exclusive in The Southern Israelite
I’m afraid I haven't any new as delinquent parents.
grouses this week. I’ve been too
busy getting my kids ready for
Purim. Don't think that Purim
in Israel is a take-it-or-leave-it
affair, like Hallowe’en in Ameri
ca. Here the children are backet!
up by centuries of tradition—
and the whole of the education
al system.
I don’t let the centuries of
tradition weigh on me too heav
ily, but when I get a summons
from the ladies who supervise
my sons’ education I know I had
better step in line—or else.
Actually, my husband and I
are quite used to being regarded
We be
lieve in keeping our lives sim
ple. When one of the many elab
orate directives from the school
or ganon (pre-kindergarten)
don’t seem essential, we just ig
nore it.
However, when it comes to
imperilling your child’s future in
the ganon Purim performance,
you don't take any chances.
Last week, Jonathan, who al
ways gets David from his school,
in the next block, came back
with a message that I must go
and see Sonya right away. Da
vid was to be a clown, and I
had to go to a dressmaker.
AT THEIR SIDE
It’s a Long Hop
Between Services
Frozen tundra in the Arctic
or torrid jungle in the Pacific
don’t faze Jewish chaplains in
pursuit of their round-the-clock
service to Jewish GIs.
Chaplain Zusehya Freedman,
who covers all of Alaska, makes
it his business to get to every
outpost where there are Jewish
men. Last month he pulled in at
Cold Delta where he gathered
his flock of seven Jewish service
men for a service which was fol
lowed by the distribution of JWB
food delicacies.
Chaplain Kalman Levitan, who
is assigned to an area covering
all of Southern Japan, thinks
nothing of a 3,000 mile flight to
see his boys. Next time you
hesitate about attending syna
gogue because it's too far, or the
weather is a little rough, think
of Chaplain Levitan officiating
in the Philippines for Rosh Ha-
shanah, on the island of Guam
for Yoon Kippur, and somewhere
in Japan for Sukkoth.
Chaplain Norman Feldheym,
stationed in Hawaii, has the same
kind of itinerary for Jewish men
scattered at bases in the Pacific.
On one trip he arranged to trans
port Jewish GIs from Kwage-
lein to Honolulu for a special
service.
Chaplain Elihu Rickel's front
line congregation in Korea “ran
THE
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ORCHESTRA
Henry Sopkin, Conductor
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FAMILY
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Rhapsody In Blue Gershwin
Soloist: Emanuelina Pirzuto
Intermission
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and dug in” twice during Rosh
Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
Chaplain Meyer Goldman, in Ja
pan, has eight widely scattered
areas to cover. Unable to be in
eight places at once, he set up a
school to train Jewish GIs to of
ficiate at High Holy Day and
festival services when lie could
not reach them in time.
JWB Team ‘Majors’
In Aiding GI
"Majoring" in problems of the
individual Jewish GI, the JWB
team—the Armed Services work
er, the chaplain, and the local
volunteers—aid servicemen's mo
rale and welfare by helping them
in a variety of family problems.
When the family of a GI was
hospitalized following an acci
dent, JWB volunteers in Hamp
ton, Phoebus and Newport News,
Va., organized a visiting squad
whose members took turns sit
ting with the GI’s family. Each
group of visitors brought a sack
ful of gifts for the injured
youngsters of the GI.
In Baltimore the JWB com
mittee made a GI happy by go
ing to bat for him at the Immi
gration Department and arrang
ing for the admission of his fam
ily from Austria.
At Kingsbridge VA Hospital,
JWB worker Lazar Grossman
helped a veteran’s family over
a tough spot by getting scholar
ships to a veshiva for his chil-
drn, thus enabling the mother
to seek work without worrying
over her youngsters.
So many GI wives crowd the
office of Chaplain Samuel Lerer.
at Fairchild Air Force Base.
Washington, seeking his help in
getting jobs, that he’s thinking
of hanging out an employment
agency shingle.
It was 6 a m. when Sam Gor
don. JWB worker in Kentuckv-
Indiana area, was called to the
bedside of a GI victim of polio.
Gordon spent the day with the
patient at Fort Knox hospital
and arranged for one of his staff
to drive the boy’s parents be
tween Louisville and the hospi
tal.
•‘What!’’ I demanded in indig
nation (to myself), “does Sonya
expect me to pay a dressmaker
a king’s ransom, just for a Pu
rim costume for a four-year-
old - ?"
Sonya did. David couldn’t be
in the performance if he didn’t
have his costume. “That would
be a pity,” said Sonya with hea
vy cunning, “because he sings
his song so beautifully." She
knew t Hat nothing could stop
David from singing .bis song.
David may look like a Kewpie,
but he has the simple instincts
of an animal. When he wants
something, he goes after it. If
others are disturbed, or even
trampled in the process, that’s
their problem.
What Sonya was trying to safe
guard the photographs of the
Purim. They visit every school,
gan and ganoi\. taking group and
individual pictures of the chil
dren, and sell them to the par
ents. If the children look charm
ing and festive, that is a com
pliment for the person in charge
of them.
Sonya is quite a pleasant wom
an. actually. She’s not an edu
cationalist, of course, hut none
of the women who run the gan-
ons are. Unlike most of the oth
ers. her place is well-equipped.
She has full-sized Montessori
toys, like motor cars you can sit
in; boats in which you and a pal
can rock yourselves silly, and so
on. There is also a sun-drenched
garden where David grew right
out of the rickets he brought
from England.
If I hadn't time to make a
Carnegie Teaching Award
PITTSBURGH (JTA) — Prof.
David Moskowitz supervisor of
basic courses in mathematics at
Carnegie Institute of Technol
ogy. was one of four members of
the faculty this week to receive
the first Carnegie Teaching
Awards. The awards equal half
the annual salaries of the recip
ients plus travelling expenses
and. according to President J. C.
Warner, were given to the four
teachers “who were most out
standing both in the quality of
their undergraduate teaching as
measured by Carnegie’s educa
tional objectives and in their in
fluence upon the teaching of oth
ers."
I.R.O. LIQUIDATOR
GENEVA (JTA)—Col. Oliver
E. Cound of El Paso. Texas, has
been named liquidator of the In
ternational Refugee Organization
by the I.R.O. General Council.
S. Palme. Yiddish Poet
LONDON (JTA)—S. Palme,
author of more than a dozen Yid
dish books, died this week in the
London Jewish Hospital. He was
64 years old. His poems were
included in Yiddish text books
published in Poland before World
War II.
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Henry Sopkin, Conductor
cordially invites you to attend
The World Premiere
OF
“ATLANTA”
A Choreographic Set of Six for Symphony Orchestra
composed by
DONGILUS
by special commission of
The Atlanta Music Club
Tuesday. . April first—Municipal Auditorium half after eight o'clock.
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costume myself (like the othfer
mothers did, said Sonya, just
managing to keep the sting out
of her voice), why not a dress
maker? My final word was that
I couldn’t afford the time and
money involved, and David would
have to manage with a paper
hat.
David went capering around
the house singing his song with
the shrill insistence of birds in
the early morning.
“Ani letzen, ani letzen . . .’’
(“I’m a clown, yes, I'm a
clown,
Just dropped in on a visit . . .")
In spite of all my intentions
to the contrary, I began to hunt
out materials, and that very aft
ernoon, in the midst of a down
pour, I went off to find a dress
maker.
The dress maKer turned out to
he such a nice woman, and the
costume she made for David was
so adorable, the whole thing
seemed well worth the 1L 2 it
cost me.
Jonathan, who goes to the Re-
ali School, was much simpler.
The lovely pageants which we
watched with such envy last year
and the year before, have been
discontinued because most par
ents would find it difficult this
year to produce something spe
cial. Children were permitted to
wear fancy hats to school on
Sunday morning. In the after
noon, whtan the three-day holi
day started, tftfey could' get (into
whatzver costume they had rin
ged up, and parade the streets
as usual.
Jonathan, like all the other
children, had to bring a book to
school with him, to be sent to a
child in the Maabaroth. They did
the same at Channukah. I heard
the Principal making the an
nouncement to the children as
they assembled in the grounds
just outside my window. “When
we enjoy the holiday, he told
them, “We want to think of the
children in the Maabaroth who
are not able to enjoy themselves
like we are.”
Shalom v' L’hitraoth.
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