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Wheelchair Team
Will Tour U.S.
Freeman's 'Portraits' Issued as Bantam Super Release
Best-selling novelist
Cynthia Freeman will add
another • honor to the
acclaim she has already
seen when Bantam Books
publishes her "Portraits"
novel in October as a "super
release" with an initial
printing of one million
copies.
A former San Francisco
designer, Mrs. Freeman
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bestseller for Arbor House stranglehold of poverty
while, at the same time, try-
for over five months.
"Portraits" is a genera- ing to keep itself together.
tional saga of an immig-
"In many instances,
rant family struggling to `Portraits' hits home as it
gain a foothold in touches on familiar rites
America without losing of passage — growing
step with its spiritual through the adolescent
heritage.
years, marriage, having
According to Heidi Press, children, success in busi-
whose review of "Portraits" ness, grandchildren.
"The best part of the book
appeared in the May 23 edi-
is the ending. Yes, it's
tion of The Jewish News:
"To say Cynthia happy, considering the cir-
Freeman's new novel 'Por- cumstances at hand, but it
traits' is hamisheh is an un- brings with it a pleasant
derstatement. It is a very surprise.
CYNTHIA FREEMAN
"Cynthia Freeman's
warm tale embellished by
gave up her career to be- pathos, happiness, adven- `Portraits' is a refreshing
come a novelist. Among her ture and history, all of novel in that is free from the
books are: "A World Full of which combine to provide shock value of excessive sex
Strangers," "Fairytales" all who read it with a sense and violence of contempor-
and "The Days of Winter." of appreciation for their ary mass market publica-
tions. As a gift which will
Following the publication of families.
"Published by Arbor certainly be treasured or for
the paperbacked "Portraits"
her fifth novel, "Come Pour House, the 677-page one's own pleasure, 'Por-
the Wine" will be issued by hardback book describes traits' ranks high among
several generations of a the acclaimed works of
Arbor House.
"Portraits" was a New Jewish family's struggle to modern American and
York Times and Publishers free itself from the American Jewish fiction."
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Basketball Team which
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pics for the Disabled last
July in Holland and which
gained first place in the
hoop competition, will tour
the United States next
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Kapparot Ceremony Explained
By RABBI SAMUEL FOX
(Copyright 1980, JTA,
Inc.)
The "kapparot" ceremony
is one which many Jews per-
form on the night before
Yom Kippur or on the morn-
ing before Yom Kippur.
Originally, people took a
white fowl swinging it alive
over one's head pronounc-
ing a formula stating "This
is my forgiveness. This is
my atonement. This is my
substitute . . . This fowl will
be killed Soon and I will pro-
ceed to a good long life . . ."
Some Jews use coins instead
of the fowl and give the
coins to charity.
This ceremony dates at
least as far back as the
Ninth Century. Some
sources claim that it stems
from the scapegoat cere-
mony once performed in the
ancient temple whereby a
goat (Azazel) was used over
which the priest confessed
the sins of his people and
which was later taken to the
wilderness and stoned be-
fore being thrown over the
cliff (Leviticus 16:9).
'The Talmud relates a
similar ceremony where a
pot of greenery was thrown
into the river on the eve of
the New Year's holiday
while its owner declared it
to be a substitute for him
before the bar of judgment.
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NEW YORK (JTA) —
Burton Levinson, chairman
of the National Conference
on Soviet Jewry, announced
the creation of a special
"Crisis Committee" to deal
with a critical situation fac-
ing Jewish emigration from
the Soviet Union. He also
announced the appointment
of Richard Maass, former
NCSJ chairman, to chair
the committee.
Levinson said the rate of
Jewish emigration from the
Soviet Union has been
slashed to about half of its
1979 level, and new restric-
tions have prevented
thousands from applying.
Maass said the committee
will formulate a plan of ac-
tion to sensitize the Ameri-
can people to the critical
plight facing Soviet Jews
who wish to emigrate.
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