THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, Sept. 6, 1974-25 Earle Mostyn's NOSHERIE 1$3 Barbara Fabrikant is the New Jersey Reform rabbi, daughter of an overbearing, who is starting her first year at a 99 per cent non-Jewish college fighting her father's per person HOME-MADE JEWISH STYLE person teachings and her identity . almost every inch of the way. HOT HORS D'OEUVRES Brought To you In Chafing Dishes & Complete Set-Up For In Louise Blether Rose's "The Launching of Barbara • WEDDINGS • BAR MITZVAS • SHOWERS . T zA, A,A:ALS, ' A Kal tOR RY H L?i ORDE CILALgr STA Fabrikant" (McKay), the • ALL SIMCHAS story of a Jewish girl's first 26052 GREENFIELD ( Lincoln- Shopping Center) year away at college in the FOR FURTHER INFO early 1960s is detailed with ASK FOR EARLE OR LENNIE much sarcasm and a lot of humor. Barbara's first rebellion against her parents begins in the car on the way to • Harter College, a fancy, co-ed New England college CANTONESE-AMERICAN at which she, as a Jew, is RESTAURANT overwhelmingly outnumber- Mon.-Fri., 11 a.m. - 10 p.m. 1 TS . ••• g OPEN ed. Her parents have packed Sat., 11 a.m. - 12 mid. Cg her confirmation Bible, a 7 DAYS Sun., 12 Noon - 10 mezuza which her father • DAILY LUNCHEONS • FINE DINNERS plans to mount as soon as • COMPLETE CARRY OUT 4 7 1 they get to the dorm, and a wrE list of Boston area syna- 29295 SOUTHFIELD Just Nor,th of 12 Mile - gogues. 424-8765 IN THE FARRELL'S .PLAZA 0 She aski if she could just s a have the mezuza—to hide in 1 121 C her underwear drawer just in case her roommate is not 0 Jewish. However, the dorm prohibits making holes in 0 the doorpost and her worries 0 are ended. Rebellion Two: Barbara's mother suggests—with a lit- tle bit of "you should" as CATERING TO THE SOPHISTICATED SET! 0 Jewish mothers know how to do — that Barbara be an English major. However, Barbara decides on political science. 1 Mile West of Evergreen 20600 PLYMOUTH 0 As part of freshman initia- 0 For Reservations: 272 0730 tion into college life, the Co COMPLETE DINNERS INCLUDE dorm is invited to a frater- r•.• nity . get-to-know-you party. • HORS D'OEUVRES • SALAD BAR • SOUP There she meets Allan, A Gentile Boy, who is very nice but not Jewish. Her parents would never approve. How- -WEDNESDAY NIGHTS ONLY ever, she and Allan have a FOR STEAK OR PRIME RIB DINNER steady dating relationship WITH SECOND MEAL AT REGULAR PRICE until she meets Prof. Henry Appel. ENTERTAINMENT & DANCING WED.. FRI. & SAT. IN THE Appel is a political science V.I.P. ROOM . . . 7 NIGHTS A WEEK IN THE LINE instructor who is 40,. balding, • Valet Parking Available •• OF SCRIMMAGE ROOM. overweight, divorced, - anti- Semitic and Jewish — not exactly the image of the nice Jewish doctor which her parents had in mind for her to date. She becomes ob- t MII ND = ER MI IM ER MR En sessed with Appel, who in- vites her to his apartment and they have an Affair. • It would be unfair to detail d OR P.M. I, the outcome o the affair, but MI RN HERM IWI 1111 IN at its end all of the 15 or so' pounds she has lost previous- ly to it, are gained. Her biggest problem throughout the book is her expires 9A0/74 weight, which for a while I •11 (/) I NM NM • MI she controls with the little black pills from her room- mate's mother. Her need to eat declines, but her need to chew increases and her jaunts throughout Boston for expires 9/30/74• boxes . of dietetic . Double o 1 MN —MIN MI IN MN Bubble (chewing gum) are comical. After all, how would you look at an 18-year-old college freshman carrying a Harvard College -book bag who just bought two classi- expires 9/30/74 cal records and $5 worth of =111 bubble gum? The book is light and pleas- BEER AND WINE BEER AND WINE ant, without being sugar- 27250 CHERRY HILL 23639 WEST 7 MILE coated, and sprinkled with humor, sarcasm and things Corner Inkster 1 Block E. of Telegraph sexual which confront the uninitiated female college freshman. However, these don't overpower the book, 1452 WEST 12 MILE 15199 EAST 12 MILE they give it a touch of 2 Blocks W of Groesbeck 1 Block W. of Dequindre reality. Reading the book is an entertaining experience. — Heidi Press . 968-8666 . Enjoy the New and Different Mrs. Rose's 'Barbara Fabrikant' Filled With Humor and Sarcasm , g•MPRAI L ■ V .I.P. 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