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PAGE 4 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE February 14, 1986 The Southern Israelite The Weekly Newspoper For Southern Jewry Since 1925 Vida Goldgar Editor and Publisher Leonard Goldstein Advertising Director Luna Levy Associate Editor Eschol A. Harrell Production Manager Lutz Baum Business Manager Published every Friday by The Southern Israelite, Inc Second Class Postage paid at Atlanta, Ga tISSN 00388) (UPS 776060/ POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Southern Israelite. P O Box 77388. Atlanta. GA 30357 Mailing Address. P.O box 77388, Atlanta, Georgia 30357 Location: 188 15th St., N.W., Atl., Ga. 30318 Phone (404)376-8248 Advertising rates available upon request. Subscriptions: $20.00, 1 year; $35.00 2 years Member of Jewish Telegraphic Agency; Religious News Service; American Jewish Press Assn.; Georgia Press Assn.; National Newspaper Assn. The Southern Israelite A Prize-Winning Newspaper Better Newspaper Contests Make a miracle happen It's that time of year when volunteers from every facet of the community gather before banks of telephones to solicit contribu tions tor the Atlanta Jewish Federation's Super Sunday facet of the 1986 Campaign. This Sunday, Feb. 16, efforts will be made to reach thousands of Atlanta's Jewish households. Super Sundays take place in communities all over the country. Last year almost 40,000 volun teers nationwide raised close to S38 million. The national goal this year is $40 million Only in Israel by C arl Alpert HAIFA There is no one Israel. 1 he coun try is a polymorphous, hetero geneous land ofdiversified peoples who frequently have less, rather than more, in common with each other, vet they are all Israelis. I he clashes and conflicts of many cul tures often result in flying sparks. The experiences ot daily lite run the gamut from humor to tragedy, from absurdity to sophistication in a rough and tumble kaleidoscope of the unexpected and the improb able. Else, how to explain the cra/y quilt pattern of events'.’ Feminism in reverse. A plan to train newly arrived Ethiopian girls as seamstresses has failed com pletely. Not one girl turned up at the first class session. It appears that in Ethiopia dressmaking is considered a male occupation, and the girls would have none of it. Intermarriage opposed. Haifa's chief rabbi. Shear-Yashuv Cohen, has been asked to use his influence to prevent a grow ing trend of inter marriage between Druze boys and Jewish girls. The complaint came from Druze elders, who held this was contrary to Druze tradition. The rabbi promised to help. Exercise is good for you. Break down of the elevators at the Finn Clinic of Kupat Cholim in Haifa made it necessary for mothers bringing infants for examination to climb seven flights by foot. “1 came to get an EKG test to deter mine it 1 have a heart problem, one man said, "and I II probably have a heart attack before I finish the last flight." You don't have to be Jewish. Detention of the Lebanese Shiite prisoners in Atlit prison coincided with the Passover holiday, and critics of Israel made much of the fact that during that week the pri soners were given no bread, only matzo. to eat It turned out, how- e\er. that the prisoners acquired a taste for the Jewish “delicacy” and continued to ask (or it long after the holiday. f athers and sons. When Israel's Minister of Labor Moshe Katzav paid an official v is it to the Marbek industrial plant near kiryat Mala- chi. the company watchman who opened the gate for him was his father. Shmuel. Qualification or embarrassment?. The new national prison commis sioner is Rafi Suissa. Aside from having been the mayor of Maz- keret Batya. he has previously been in the news as the father of David Suissa, who is at present serving a prison sentence in France for drug offenses. Kibbutz life. A reader observes with some interest the advertise ments appearing in the special supplement of A! Hamishmar, which circulates among the kib butzim. There are ads for trips to the Far East, South Africa and the U.S.; ads for stereos, videos. sophisticated telephones, satin bridal gowns; ads for purple porno cassettes, which promise "daring" and specific entertainment. The human spark. Residents of the home for aged in Rishon l.ez- lon were filled uuth praise for the "wonderf ul boys” who visited them cleaned up. painted, repaired and engaged the old folks in warm and friendly conversation. A similar report was received from the home for retarded children, which was also visited by teams of 10 or 15 composed of hardened criminals and long-timers, sent on their mis sions of mercy from the local prison. An Israeli epidemic • Barents in the Gilo suburb of Jerusalem com plain that their young children have been doing extremely poorly in the first three years of their schooling. For the past three years each of the main teachers in their school was pregnant, and adequate replacement could not be found. The principal's only hope: a search for middle-aged teachers. Join the U.N. and see the world. More that 40 girls from Israel's northern town of Nahariya. which has been a popular hangout for U.N. troops in Lebanon, have married U.N. soldiers, attracted in large part by a desire to "see the world." Most of the marriages ended on the rocks, and the girls came back home alone or with babies. Shalom, Sholom! To be sure Atlanta does its part. Super Sunday will be fol lowed by Super Week, through Feb. 23. for follow-up calls. Federation has set a goal for this year's campaign of S8.5 million, with another S4 million sought to complete our commit ment to Project Renewal in Israel. With the growth of Atlanta’s Jewish population, more and more services are required in social service, educational and cultu ral agencies. We take pride in our community and what it offers. That doesn't happen by accident. It takes dollars. And we hardly need point out how much our help is needed in Israel. The campaign slogan this year is Miracles Can Happen. Indeed they can. if each of us says “Yes, I’ll help." by Stanley VI. I.efco Of Sholom. Frume the Maid said. “Just mark my word, no thing good will come of him. He's growing up to be a nobody, a nothing, the devil knows what! He's going to be an outcast, a drunkard, a glutton, an apostate, a scoundrel, a kna\e, the worst you can imagine!" Frume was the pockmarked and one-eyed maid to the Rabinowitz family, which counted a dozen children, including Sholom. who lived in kasrilev ke. w hich was really Qiusstfs —Believe Jt or Else/ ONLY OUT OF me GOODNESS Of ALL OUR. cooeonue swier hlerts, MJ/SH TWUBL&WHER, mrocY SHCH/RANSKY. (Jf\s GIVEN PERMISSION TO 60 TO me UJEST... eeuevE it or Else, comrades ? called Voronko, which is in Little R ussia. in the prov ince of Poltava, near the town of Pereyaslav. Frume was a devoted servant. Of her. Sholom wrote. "She woke them (i.e. the children), bathed them, gave them breakfast, brought them to and from school, beat them, gave them supper, said the nighttime She-ma with them, whacked them again and bedded all o t them down (including herself don't think it a shame!) in one bed. the children next to each other while she slept across the foot of the bed." Liberation came for the children the day that Ideleh the Ganev fell in love with Frume and took her as his bride. Ideleh had a "wild shock of hair greased down with goose fat and a flat nose with fused nos trils w hich he could never properly blow even if he had 18 heads.” I he Rabinowitz children partied happily on the wedding dav, for they were "celebrating not so much because a horse thief took a blind maid in marriage but because they were getting rid ot Frume forever and ever." Sholom. who featured himself the rascal, described how the children laughed at the way he mimicked the groom whistling through his nose and the way the bride looked at the groom with one eye. licking her chops like a cat who had swiped some sour cream.” Of course. Sholom is the re know e d humorist Sholom Aieichem. I he story of Frume is in the opening chapters of his autobi- ographv. "From the Fair." Born in 1859 as Sholom Rabinowitz. he grew up to become one of the grea test writers in the Yiddish lang uage. He began his autobiography in 1908 and continued writing it until his death in 1916. He is cre dited with giving the world lev ye the Dairyman and Mot tel the Can tor's Son. Curt Levaint edited and trans lated the autobiography and in the introduction noted that Sholom Aieichem suffered from tuberculo sis. He was a “living legend, a cul ture hero among Jews, (who)could not even afford to go to Arizona for the winter. Ill, forlon. and in poor financial circumstances, he was nevertheless able to look back in time, to his memories of Eastern Europe, and re-create his youth at the bitterest period of his life. At his death on May 13, 1916. 150,000 people attended his funeral. He titled his book "From the Fair,” for, as he wrote, it "impliesa return trip.... A man heading tor a fair is full of hope. He has no idea what bargains he will find and what he will accomplish. He flies toward the fair swift as an arrow, at full speed. Don’t bother him. he has no time. But on the way back he knows what deals he has made and what he has accomplished. He's no longer in a hurry. He s got plenty of time. No need to rush. He can assess the results of his \en ture. He can tell everyone about the trip at his leisure whom he has met and what he has seen and heard at the fair.”