THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
24 Friday, December 26, 1980
Mezuza Position Is Compromise'
Danny Raskin's
By RABBI SAMUEL FOX
(Copyright 1980, JTA, Inc.)
LISTENING
POST
THEY SAY THAT if you
search long enough, it is
possible to find something
looked for so many times .. .
Remember those eye exam-
inations optometrists who
knew their business used to
give years back? . . . No
rushing to crowd in other
appointments ... no taking
shortcuts to "get it over
with" . . . The "factory"
setups of today in so many
cases, with patients just
more people on a so-called
assembly line, need not al-
most always be the case .. .
There are still some needles
in the optometric haystack.
One of them is Goldie
Hendelman, an optometrist
for 50 years, who plies her
trade for Iwanow Optical on
Greenfield and Nine Mile
. . . Goldie is from the old
school of complete examina-
tion regardless of the time
amount it takes . . . She
doesn't want to know any
other way . . . Then for sure
it would be a waste of that
time for her and the patient.
Using George
Iwanow's modernistic
equipment (he likes only
the best), Goldie without
a doubt gives one of the
most thorough examina-
tions possible ... To her,
eye care is important,
and the right glasses can
sometimes correct many
other body ailments.
Goldie should know quite
a bit about health . . . both
physical and mental . . . she
is the wife and mother in a
medical family . . . Her hus-
band, Dr. Manuel Hendel-
man, is chief of staff at
Saratoga Hospital on
Gratiot . .. Their eldest
daughter, Beverly, is a resi-
dent in psychiatry at Stan-
ford University Hospital in
San Francisco . . . Their
middle daughter, Phyllis, is
married to Dr. Nathan Tol- -
chin, both residing in
Fayettville, N.Y. . . . and
their youngest daughter,
Joann, recently received a
doctorate in psychology
from Cornell University in
New York.
Isn't it nice to know there
are still dedicated people
around like Goldie Hen-
delman?
ERRATA ... It's 36
years for'Molly and Murray
Grushoff of L & T Flowers
. . ("It cost me a buck," says
Murray, "I only got 35 silver
dollars.")
MAIL DEPT.... "There
are a great many former De-
troiters in the San Fran-
cisco Bay area. You write
about Florida, Los Angeles,
Arizona and Palm Springs
having former Detroiters
living in those areas, so I
thought I would put in a
plug for San Francisco.
"In fact, one of my
neighbors is Marion Glantz,
who is manager of the Bel-
mont branch of the Santa
Barbara Savings & Loan
Bank. Her brother is Sam
Ginsburg, former Detroit
florist now living in Los
Angeles. Marion and her
husband Leo have lived in
this area eight years. Cora
and I have been here 18
years.
"I graduated from Cen-
tral High, Tuxedo and Lin-
wood, and attended Detroit
City College (now Wayne
State University) at the old
Central High building on
Cass and Warren. My wife
Cora was very active in
Bnai Brith. She was
president of the Bnai Brith
Council in 1959-1960.
"I saw your article about
Bernie Frant and Steve
Petix. I know them both
well."
Dave Grosberg
Belmont Clothes
915 Ralston Ave.
Suite B
Belmont, Calif. 94002
(415-591-8760)
(Their son, Sheldon Gros-
berg, married to the former
Judy Stammel, is head of
the Congressional Place-
ment Servide in Washing-
ton, D.C. . . . He graduated
Mumford and Wayne and
was waterfront director at
Camp Tamarack. She
,graduated Mumford and
University of Michigan.)
DR. RICHARD AND
RUBY SCHAEFER have
been living in La Jolla,
Calif. for four years . . . He
is on the staff of Scripps
Clinic in La Jolla and Ruby
has a men's store in Del
Mar, Calif. called Gentle-
men's Quarter.
Iiichard sends first novel
written by an associate of
his at the Scripps Clinic, Dr.
Bernard Michelson, physi-
cian and ophthalmologist
Titled "The Perfect
Weapon," it tells about a
Jewish doctor who spe-
cializes in hereditary dis-
eases and discovers a new
enzyme which might pro-
vide a cure for susceptibility
to fatal illness among Jews
. . . Comes a series of events
involving it falling into the
hands of the PLO who use
the info to develop a gas
which kills Jews also . . . Is-
raeli intelligence sending
one of its best agents to find
the source of the new
weapOn . . . the doctor and a
black friend becoming
targets of PLO assasins, etc.
LOOKING BACK AT
Columns Of Yesteryears .. .
Dec. 5, 1969 . . . "Herman
`Turk' Prujansky was re-
cently given a certificate
with the seal of California
by Governor Ronald Reagan
for his philanthropic
endeavors as one of Ameri-
ca's leading composer-
artists, and introducing him
as an ambassador of good
will without portfolio."
—
Ballads are the gypsy
children of song, born under
green hedge-rows, in the
leafy lanes and by-paths of
literature, in the genial
summer time.
—Longfellow
The Talmud contains two
opinions regarding the posi-
tion of the mezuza scroll on
one's doorpost.
One opinion states that it
should be placed in a per-
pendicular position. The
other requires it to be placed
in a vertical position. The
slanting position is thus a
compromise.
Some look at this kind of a
compromise as a symbol of
compromise which is often
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necessary to preserve the
peace of the home and the
world at large. The slanting
position of the mezuza re-
minds the Jew to be willing
to compromise for the sake
of peace instead of being ob-
stinate to the point of dis-
turbing the peace.
GUT
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