HE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS ch 21, 1975 • 4 4 4 C aterin g b/ „I T h e \\GlitelW in Catering A Yiddish Tam -Will Have for Your Holiday Pleasure THE FINEST IN COMPLETE PASSOVER DINNERS Place Your Order Now 543-.3585 Hall Available 541-7940 Wilson Dairy Co. proudly announces that as a special service to The Jewish Community we will be offering Kosher for Passover MILK Made Under Strict Supervision of The Michigan Conference of Rabbis . We Wish To Extend Best Wishes For A HAPPY PASSOVER To The Entire Jewish Community 4 4 4 4 4 Slurs to Jews Spoil Novel Memoirs. They're usually light reminicences of the good ol' days and the bad ol' days and often evoke a tear or two. But rarely do they feature subjective judg- ments on particular reli- gious groups. And if they do then the book is a failure. That is why Dorothy Scannell's "Mother Knew Best," is a failure. Mrs. Scannell's little au- tobiographical piece is in- sulting — insulting not only to the intelligent adult reader, but to the Jewish audience alone. Published by Pantheon Books, it is an account of the author's younger days on London's east side, an area which is dominated by the poor. One of nine children, Mrs. Scannell details her girlhood in a poor imitation of the popu- lar "Cheaper by the Dozen." However, what is disturb- ing about this piece is the distorted picture of Jews it presents. The author achieves this by detailing unattractive features of the Jewish persons with whom she comes in contact. To make matters worse, only the Jewish characters are labeled by their religious affiliation; none of the oth- ers' religious denominations are alluded to at all. Following are some of the Jewish characters and their descriptions: Look for this Kosher identification on the caps of Faygo 16 oz. bottles. We have five Sugar Free flavors that are Kosher for Passover. All in pint bottles. All delicious. • Abelson the chemist: "He was a very charming, very polite Jewish gentle- man with thick pebble glasses, very guttural and adenoidish. We would wait excitedly for, on completion of our business, he would say, 'And ith there anythig elth?' and this never failed to amuse us." • Mo Finer, the dentist: "He was a large brutal- looking man with a red face and thick lips. He ways appeared to be eat- ing and wiping his mouth on a grubby white overall. He pulled teeth free if the victim was willing to sit in the window for a public extraction, a novel if noisy way of advertising . . . I believe Mo removed teeth free without anesthetics of any kind. We never went to Mo Finer." • Annie, "mother's Jew- ish friend": "Mother had a Jewish friend, Annie, a dark-haired lady who would bring us sheets of hard bis- cuits with little holes in them. I couldn't stop eating them but Mother said they would dry up my blood. Mother was very proud of having Annie come to see us. She said if a Jewish per- son is your friend, you have a friend for life. Therefore I thought I must try to get a Jewish friend." • Selina Lipshitz, class- mate: "Her name was Selina Lipshitz, but the teacher never liked to say her name and always called her, very firmly and obviously so we wouldn't be mistaken, 'Lip- sips.' So I couldn't take such a name home if even the teacher couldn't speak, it because it was rude." On Miss Lipshitz, Mrs. Scannell writes, "there was the problem of her name, which was a pity for she was always so nice to me and would have made a lovely bosom pal." Imagine not being able to develop a friendship with someone just because that person's name couldn't be spoken at one's home. Better still, imagine the teacher's stupidity in modifying it to her own .needs! Reviving from the slurs pointed at her Jewish char- acters, one may find bother- some the level of intellig- ence needed to read such a book_ that of a 10-year-old child. But even then, it would be insulting to give a book with such distorted images to children, because in 1975, they know better. —HEIDI PRESS Arabs Studying Israel Problems Five Delicious Sugar Free Faygo Red Pop Root Beer Frosh Pineapple/Orange. Passion Fruit Punch "Prepared under the supervision of the Council Of Orthodox Rabbis of Greater Detroit' TEL AVIV (Zins) — Gen- eral Yehoshafat Harkavy, one of Israel's foremost ex- perts on the Arab world, has advised that in the last few years a number of special institutes have been estab- lished in various Arab capi- tals to study the problems of Israel. All sorts of subjects are researched in these insti- tutes that have a relation- ship to the Jewish state, m aspects of Israel's mili- tary strategy to women in Israel. Arafat Doubts That Kissinger Can Help Egypt; Threat Issued He said the Palestine Lib- NEW YORK — Tomor- row's issue of the Saturday eration Organizatidn will Review will carry a story mount more raids on Israel quoting Palestine Libera- aldng the lines of the Savoy tion Organization leader Hotel attack and would Yasir Arafat as saying that "strike at any Israeli target Egyptian President Anwar wherever we can reach it, in Sadat is "misguided" if he ,Israel, or in Japan or in the believes U.S. Secretary of United States." State Henry Kissinger can help Egypt recover lands held by Israel since the Six- BINGO Day War. CONGREGATION 1111AI DAVID Saturday Review editor EVERY THURS. 7:45 24350 SOUTHFIELD RD. -Norman Cousins inter- SOUTHFIELD, MICH. viewed Arafat in Beirut re- cently, while Arafat held a machinegun on his lap. 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