THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 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 OAK PARK BARBER SHOP 13710 W. 9 MILE Just W. of Coolidge 545-9387 Specializing In Hair Styling & Layer Cuts UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT MIKE NOVETSKI OWNER 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." Weekly "Top Five" fiction Al's Foreign Car Service Specialist in • Toyota • Audi Porsche • Volkswagen • Datson • Honda Cars 1018 W. 9 Mile Rd. Alfons G. Rehme CALL . 548-3926 548-4160 FERNDALE Between Livernois & Pinecrest MICH. APPRAISAL S DONE WHILE YOU WAIT CALL FOR APPOINTMENT 356-2525 Daily 10-6 Thurs. 10-8 Creative Jenelers 29173 Northwestern Hwy. / Southfield, MI 48034 / (313) 356-2525 at 12 Mile Rd., Franklin Plaza Re-elect 23 years of Integrity, Dignity & Experience .. . Re-elect Senior District Judge Clarence A. Reid Jr 46th district court NEW YORK (JTA) — The Israel Ilan Wheelchair Basketball Team which participated in the Olym- pics for the Disabled last July in Holland and which gained first place in the hoop competition, will tour the United States next month. TI ft 1111. .• if DIRECT MAIL- BUSINESS CARDS LOGOS -FOLDERS- MI POSTERS • NEWS. ADS IIII INVITATIONS- CALL AFTER SIX. 626-1868 Michael, Aaron, Caroline and Stephen Wish you a very happy, healthy and prosperous New Year! 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. . A U C T Soviet Jewry's Plight Focus of Committee 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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