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i PAGE 14 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE August 15, 1986 , For your special day we ’ll create; the perfect atmosphere. Visit our facility and discuss! 'your needs with Mary Helen\ * Smith—Bar or Bat Mitzua or{ Mother special event. Then we’ll create our very best( \for your special day. Ill HOLIDAY INN’ POWERS FERRY 955-1700 Different kind of camp Jewish kids have ‘Indian’ summer by Margie Oister NEW YORK (JTA) —Some Jewish youngsters go to summer camp. Others go to work camps and spend six weeks of their summer vacation repairing houses on Indian reservations—and for fun, they catch a sun dance or a pow wow. The American Jewish Society for Service (AJSS) recruits and sponsors the teenagers who attend this unusual summer camp. This summer, one group of 14 and an other of 15 high school juniors and Try Traditional Prayer in Hebrew and English 633*0551 NURSING CENTER 373-2858 — Decatur 351-0009 — Brookwood 767-7721 — S. Fulton Hospital A rea seniors are spending six weeks working on a Yankton Sioux Indian reservation in South Dakota and in low-income neighborhoods in Cincinnati, Ohio. Wherever the AJSS work camps take the teenagers, they become involved with the surrounding cul ture. “Our program calls for com plete immersion in the area in which they are located,” said AJSS chairman Henry Kohn. On the Yankton Sioux Indian reservation, the volunteers prepared the pow wow grounds, fixed a fence and repaired grandstands for the annual Yankton Sioux pow wow held the first weekend of August. Another project involved repair ing the individual homes on the reservation, painting, roofing and renovating. The group lives in the Marty Indian school on the reservation and has also undertaken to paint Homemakers Live-in Companions Elderly Person Aides Critical Care /. V. Therapy one of the dormitories in that complex. In their spare time, Kohn said, the teenagers attended pow wows and traditional Indian cere monies including a sun dance and piercing ritual. The volunteers hear talks about the alcohol and drug problems of the Indians and even had the oppor tunity to visit the Yankton Sioux by Joseph Polakoff TSI's Washington correspondent WASHINGTON—The U S. Chess Federation has warned the International Chess Federation that while it will attend the world con gress and take part in the chess tournament in Dubai late this year, it will not tolerate exclusion of Israel’s representatives from future congresses and chess olympiads. The American group’s decision came at its meeting of delegations Aug. 9 in Somerset, N.J., where, by a 64-34 vote, it decided to bypass a RIDE THE TRAIN NOV. 15 program has Jewish content with Friday services, Kohn said. The second group of volunteers this year lives in a Chabad House run by Lubavitchers in-Cincinnati. The local hosts supply the build ing materials, tools and technical supervision and the AJSS supplies the manpower and food to feed them. motion to reconsider its seven- member policy board’s six-to-one vote to attend the forthcoming congress and olympiad in the Uni ted Arab Emirates. The day before the Somerset meeting, a bipartisan bloc of 40 congressmen signed a telegram initiated by Reps. Tom Lantos(D- Calif.) and Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.) urging the U.S. organization to boycott the Dubai event. Their message asks that it “make known its strong and principled opposi tion to the exclusion of the Israeli federation” from the congress scheduled in late November and early December. Federations of Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Holland have decided not to par ticipate because of Israel’s exclu sion at Dubai’s behest. Some 90 other countries are expected to participate. Tender Loving Care — 1 1 Professional & Personal Home Health Care • RN’S, LPN’S, NA’S spiritual leader’s sweathouse. The U.S. chess group going to Dubai; warns against future ban on Israel How come weYe so good at kosher catering ? AXfc know how to observe the laws tastefully If only it were enough to be Atlanta’s only hotel with a completely kosher kitchen! After all, ours is sanctioned by Orthodox rabbinic authority. And a mashgiach’oversees every superb dish our chefs create. But who knows how kosher is kosher? We do. We know the original laws so well, we can follow them faithfully and still prepare exciting dishes that will be the envy of all your friends. Our catering department at 659-1400, extension 2458, can tell you all about our kosher catering. They can also tell you about our excellent facilities for bar mitzvahs, bas mitzvahs, weddings, receptions, fund raisers —whatever. You could simply make your next event a kosher one. Then again, you could make it kosher and have it at The Westin Peachtree Plaza. The Westin Peachtree Plaza Atlanta