ILANA RUBENFELD, music di- 8:30 p.m. May 10 at New York
rector and conductor of the New Town Hall. The program also 1 411
York Lyric Ensemble, will present include the world premiere of Mi-
one. Remember last year, some of the New York premiere of "Letter riam Gideon's "The Habitable
from a Birmingham Jail," with Earth," a cantata based on the
you got sick."
If they heard him, they didn't text by Martin Luther King Jr. Book of Proverbs.
show it. The smiles of joy swept
around the room as platters of
chicken and kugel were passed
around and consumed quicker than
you could say carrot tzimmes.
For one Ypsilanti patient
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there, it was the first meal he
had eaten voluntarily for six
months. Up to that time, hos-
pital attendants had to force
him to eat. Now he was asking
for seconds.
Indeed, it was the first time out
of the hospital for some. Two sis-
ters and a brother from Lapeer
shared their first venture outside
We do complete jobs in-
since 1941.
cluding carpeting — drap-
If the reaction to this meal is
Irving Rosen, N.S.I.D. eries — bedrooms and
anything like that of last year,
(National Society of
they will be talking about it for
family rooms.
Interior Designers)
weeks afterward.
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As for Rabbi Gruskin, he had no
time to relish the memories of the
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afternoon. That evening, he was
at Milan Federal Prison, conduct-
ing a seder for 32 Jewish inmates.
`And You Shalt Teach Them Diligently
By CHARLOTTE HYAMS
The door opened, and 160 faces
brightened as though the sun had
just come up. "Rabbi! Rabbi!"
several called to the man who en-
tered. Three grabbed his left hand,
two his right.
"Norman, how nice to see you,"
he said, wringing one of the hands.
"Martin, how have you been?"
The party at Imperial Kosher
Caterers was under way. It was
the second annual seder luncheon
for patients of Ypsilanti and
Northville mental hospitals, the
mentally retarded from Lapeer
Home and Training School, the
transients from the House of
Shelter.
Its guide and mentor, Rabbi
Solomon Gruskin, had just come
in. He apologized to a reporter
nudging his elbow. "Please can I
talk to you in a little while? My
patients must come first."
That's the way it is with Rabbi
Gruskin. And they know it —
Every one of the 160, plus those
who could not come, knows it.
Who else would bother to learn
every name and greet each like
a close friend? Some haven't
heard from their own families in
25 years.
They were seated at tables set
with gefilte fish and . salad and
matzo at every place. There were
gleaming silver, and white table-
cloths, and good china. One woman
from Northville sighed with pleas-
ure. "Have you ever been to some-
thing like this before?" she was
asked. A vague smile .crossed her
face, "Long, long ago," she replied.
"Rabbi." a volunteer aide called
out, "they're not waiting for the
seder to begin! They're already
starting to eat!"
"They're h u n g r y," said the
Orthodox rabbi, who never would
allow such imprudence in his own
home, "so let them eat. We'll ex-
plain the seder later."
The dinner went on. Rabbi
Gruskin cautioned his friends:
"Now, don't eat too fast, every-
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An - article in the current issue
of Esquire Magazine summarizes
the scientific techniques now avail-
able for sustaining •human life in-
definitely. The article is subtitled,
"Die Now, Freeze, Thaw Later;
Yours for $50,000."
The article, "Lasting Indefinite-
ly," is written by Oak Park resi-
dent Robert C. W. Ettinger of High-
land Park College, author of "Pro-
spect of Immortality."
In the article, it is claimed that
death can be arrested, with a hope
of future cure, and of rejuvena-
tion, by freezing the body and stor-
ing it to await the advance of
science; that when a human body
is frozen immediately after death
by the best methods now available,
and stored at liquid-nitrogen tem-
peratures, it can be kept more or
less indefinitely in its dying con-
dition, except for some freezing
damage. The extent of this dam-
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The author explains that the spe-
cial preparations and procedures
for freezing will probably be read-
ily available fairly soon to people
of ordinary means through com-
panies now being formed for this
purpose.
S. LEONARD SINGER of Florida
Atlantic University has been ap-
pointed director of learning re-
sources at Brandeis University, ef-
fective in September. He will de-
vote his first year to analyzing
Brandeis' educational philosophy
with the aim of determining how
technological learning resources in
existence or under development
may best be utilized to enrich the
University's teaching and research
program.
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