THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, August 15, 1975 21 `Soap Operas' Combines Roth J. D. Salinger, Chaim Potok Mix a little bit of Freud, a lot of four-letter words, a Jewish family with three brilliant children, and place it all in the mixing bowl of the trials and tribulations of growing up in contemporary New York. 26001 COOLIDGE HWY OAK PARK 543.3343 That's what Joel Gross has done in "The Young Man Who Wrote Soap Op- eras," published by Charles Scribner's Sons. Gross revolves his fast- paced story around young Dan Bergson's battles with the "real world" after he decides to leave the protec- tive walls of his Yeshiva and attend public high school. The .reader is taken through Dan's first con- tacts with the opposite sex, his battles with his CONGREGATION BAIS CHABAD OF WEST BLOOMFIELD HIGH HOLY DAY SERVICES At the EALY SCHOOL Maple Road Between Middlebelt and Orchard Lake Roads $15 per seat — $25 per couple Children, Youths and Students FREE For Reservations Call 851-9457 or 851-3690 SHOLEM ALEICHEM INSTITUTE will hold its HOLIDAY ASSEMBLIES at the PEPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 24301 CHURCH (AT DARTMOUTH) OAK PARK ROSH HASHANAH SEPTEMBER 6 10:00 A.M. KOL NIDRE SEPTEMBER 14 8:00 P.M. YOM KIPPUR SEPTEMBER 15 10:00 A.M. SECULAR MAKHZORIM — NEW CONTENT FOR INFORMATION CALL: 626-9565 WORKMEN'S CIRCLE SCHOOLS Advance Registration for Sept., '75 NURSERY PROGRAM 3, 4 and 5 year olds Sunday Classes for older children Sept. 14, 1975 "Our Reputation Is Our Best Advertisement" 18340 W. 7 Mile, Detroit KE 7-5440 - classmates for being bril- liantly different, and the resultant problems of being a misfit in a society that demands conformity. Gross' excellent novel de- tails Dan's education in the world and the family trou- bles revolving around the marriage of older sister Eleanor, the loss of the fath- er's job and the later deaths of the parents. All of these are intri- cately woven around the central character's conflicts between the hypocrisy of contemporary society and his cherished upbringing within a warm Jewish home and education. The author, who has writ- ten novels, magazine arti- Iraqi Jew's Diary Describes Harassment of Jews There NEW YORK — A diary, secretly kept by a Jew who fled Iraq in 1970, documents three years of official Iraqi policy of harassment, ar- rests and executions against Jews in that nation. Portions of the diary of Max Sawdayee, who now lives in Israel, appear in the current issue of Present Tense: The Magazine of World Jewish Affairs. The 40-year-old Sawdayee, his wife and their two young daughters, after escaping to Iran with the help of Kur- dish tribesmen came to the United States and then emi- grated to Israel. The magazine, edited by Murray Polner, is pub- lished by the American Jewish Committee and is sponsored by the Bergreen Institute of Foreign Policy Studies and Publications. Following are excerpts from the Sawdayee diary, privately published in Tel Aviv under the title, "All Waiting to Be Hanged:" "July 17, 1967: Arrests among Jews are indiscrimi- nate. They include physi- cians, pharmacists, lawyers, engineers, merchants, shop- keepers, commission agents and university students. All are huddled together in jail. Their parents, wives and children cannot contact them by any means. Anx- iety is at its peak. "Aug. 23, 1967: The ways of making our livelihood are thinning out . . . There's almost no means at our dis- posal to make money even to cover our current expenses . . . The police, the state security and army intellig- ence headquarters arrest or kidnap Jews at will. It's enough that anyone should inform the police or the se- curity authorities that this or that Jew is a Zionist, and within a few hours he'll land in jail . . . There's a spirit of evil and revenge, encouraged and fed by the government." Sawdayee relates the dramatic story of the es- cape from Iraq during which he and his family faced danger both from Iraqi soldiers and from the wild, mountainous ter- rain. The Sawdayee diary pro- vides the fullest first-hand account of the ordeal of the Iraqi Jews that has yet ap- peared. Iles, and an X-rated movie, uses X-rated language in "The Young Man Who Wrote Soap Operas" in a cinvincing- ly realistic flash- hack to the "shocking" lan- guage of teenagers during the late 1960s. The language may be Correction on Aliya The Jewish Telegraphic agency has corrected the story that appeared on Page 1 of The Jewish News last week. describing efforts to recruit laid off Jewish em- ployes in New York City for jobs in Israel. The The fund also has per- suaded a number of Amer- ican zoological institutions to give or trade these spe- cies for desert reserve. PSYCHO CYBERNETICS Winners Group Starting Shortly Our Rules Are 1. You must be a Dr. Maxwell Maltz Follower in agreement with his philosophy. 2. You must have applied his philosophy in your business past or present. 3. If you meet the above requirements then you must have had numerous successful accomplishments and that's what a group of winners want to share. Call Shirley Cash 543-6488 The story of the endan- gered biblical animals is described in a booklet re- cently published by the group. For a copy, write the Holy Land Conservation Fund, Inc., 150 E. 58th St., New York, N.Y. 10022. Duty-Free Stores Close in Israel JERUSALEM — Nearly every duty-free household goods purchasing agency in Israel has closed within the last year — another sign of the scarcity of immigrants from the West, according to the Jerusalem Post. One dealer asserts that those immigrants who have money to purchase customs- free household items are ei- ther buying directly from agents of specific foreign companies, purchasing lo- cally made goods or are picking out bargains at pri- vate homes of immigrants who are preparing to leave the country. The number of immi- grants from the U.S. and Canada in June was 226, compared with 252 in June, 1974. The total from those countries in all of 1974 was 3,393, compared with 4,786 in 1973. JOE MILLER agency conducting the drive is the Israel Aliya Center sponsored by the World Zionist Organization-Amer- ican Section. and HIS ORCHESTRA Music For All Occasions L15-1244 TEMPLE ISRAEL (A Congregation of Liberal Judaism) ANNOUNCES • The extension of its Mid-Week Hebrew School classes to the Hillel Day School on Middlebelt Rd. in Farmington Hills • Classes also continue at the Lederle School, 9.Mile Rd., in Southfield • Sunday Religious School classes at Lederle School and the Temple We invite parents to inquire about our fine edu- cational program for children and youth of all ages from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. An exciting program taught by enthusiastic, pro- fessional teachers and administered by our Edu- cational Director, Cantor Arthur Asher. WE REMIND YOU ALSO THAT THE HIGH HOLY DAYS COME EARLY THIS YEAR U.S. Group Seeks to Save Biblical Animals in Israel NEW YORK — Nearly four years ago a group of Americans concerned with conservation organized the Holy Land Conservation Fund in Israel. Working with a private, counterpart organization— the Hai Bar Society—the American fund initially con- centrated its efforts on sup- port for an 8,000-acre desert wild life reserve in the Ne- gev north of Eilat. The fund has financed the acquisition of rare desert animals discussed in the Bible and other threatened desert species. offensive to some readers, but the book as a whole will undoubtedly be popu- lar, and has a far more meaningful theme. Dan Bergson's mental breakdown, career in soap opera writing, and ultimate reconciliation with his fam- ily, his friends and himself make an interesting story, written by a man who might be described as a combina- tion of Philip Roth, J. D. Salinger and Chaim Potok. —A. H. • Rosh Hashanah Is Sept. 6 • Yom Kippur Is Sept. 15 r HELP US USHER IN THE NEW YEAR SEASON SELICHOT SERVICES Saturday Night, August 30 Beginning at 10:30 P.M. With a Reception and Social Reunion Service Follows at 1 1:00 P.M. THE COMMUNITY IS INVITED Rabbis Dr. M. Robert Syme Rabbi Harold S. Loss Dr. Leon Fram Cantor Harold Orbach For Information on Membership in Temple Israel, Call Frank L. Simons, Administrator TEMPLE ISRAEL 17400 Manderson Road, at Merton 863-7769 1