32' fridiy March 26,1982 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Christian Club Claim Debated Freeman's No Time for Tears' Disappointing to Diehard Fans MIT By HEIDI PRESS The producers and distributors of are pleased to announce that this year, as in the past, the following of their products will be KOSHER FOR PASSOVER cr,E7 Iv= • SOUR CREAM • COTTAGE CHEESE • 2% Low-Fat Milk • GRAPEFRUIT JUICE • ORANGE JUICE at regular low prices, available at your favorite food store certified Kosher by Rabbi Jack Goldman of the Metropolitan Kashruth Council of Michigan MINIIINIIIIMINIMINEIMINIMEMINNION. 1.111.1111111.111.11111 Cynthia Freeman has let me down. A diehard Freeman fan, I couldn't wait for "No Time for Tears" (Ar- bor House) after having en- joyed "Portraits", "Come Pour the Wine" and espe- cially "Days of Winter." Yet, "No Time for Tears" was a disappointment. Perhaps it was the inclusion of so many historical inci- dents (real and others created for the story) that crowded the story, dragged it on. Whatever it was, it was not prime Freeman. The story revolves around the Rabinsky - Landau fam- ily, principally Chavala Rabinsky Landau. We are introduced to the pogrom- era Rabinskys who flee their native Russia for pre- state Israel. As the story unfolds, we are reacquainted with all the misfortunes our co-religiohists suffered under the Turks, the Mufti, the British and fi- nally, when statehood is declared, at the hands of the Arabs. The plot follows two courses: half of the charac- ters are devout Zionists who will sacrifice all for a Jewish homeland, while the other Kosher wine needn't be sweet just special half, not forgetting their roots, are not so inclined and even go to the point to hide their Jewish identities. For example, Chavala Rabinsky Landau, the heroine, so to speak, is ad- mirable for her pluck and her ambition, and ulti- mately for her unending support of the Jewish home- land. However, she is not that dedicated, and at the risk of her marriage, she goes to America eventually becoming a leading New York jeweler — a far cry from Chavala Rabinsky of the shtetl who scrubbed, cleaned and cooked for her motherless family. Chavala's husband, Dovid Landau, is to be ad- mired for his dedication to the Jewish cause. A sus- vivor of a particularly brutal pogrom, Landau fol- lows his Zionist ideal to pre-state Israel, where he becomes a leading force in fighting for Israel's inde- pendence. However, he and Chavala are two strong-willed persons — he can't leave Israel and she can't leave America — and so somehow, their marriage survives a dis- tance of thousands of miles. Chavala's sister Sheine becomes a "hider," chang- ing her name to the non- denominational "Elsa Beck." To attend a nursing school in pre-World War II Germany, she creates a fake ancestry to hide her Jewish 2rigins. She further marries a German who knows her true identity, but the couple keep the secret from her husband's very anti-Jewish family. Sheine and her husband have a son, Erich Hausman, whose story takes an odd twist. Eventually, Sheine's true identity is discovered and she and her son are sent to the death camps, where she dies.- The husband, so distraught, takes his life. Meanwhile, Erich becomes a nameless refugee on a ship, campained by, lo and behold, his cousin Joshua Landau, Chavala's son. When Erich is acquainted with his Jewish relatives he swears off his German background to become as Yehudah Rabinsky, a free- dom fighter for Israel. Perhaps in trying to make the story credible, Mrs. Freeman got bogged down in detail. Too bad. The characters are believable and the story has pos- sibilities, but the devotion to detail just drags the story on. To diehard Cynthia Freeman fans, be forewarned. To all others, make sure you have a lot of time. CHICAGO (JTA) — An assertion by the director of the Israel Aliya Center in North America that a Rus- sian Christian club in Chicago, operated by a mis- sionary church, had more than tripled its Russian Jewish membership during the past year has been chal- lenged by the Jewish Fed- eration of Metropolitan Chicago. , < _ Ban Is Disputec ' JERUSALEM (ZINS) — Some 53.4 percent of Is- raelis responding to a recent poll did not agree with the prohibition against Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount. Some 29.7 percent agreed with the ban and 16.9 percent offered no opin- ion. Under Supervision of The Council of Orthodox Rabbis STRICTLY KOSHER MEAT MARKET 13831 W. 9 Mile Rd., Oak Park 543-7092 OPEN FRIDAY TIL 4:00 Fruit, Vegetable and Delicatessen AT GREAT PRICES BREAST OF VEAL with pocket ROAST BEEF trim 5 lb. GROUND CHUCK FROZEN ROASTERS 5-6 lbs. 1.39 lb. '2 89 lb. $7 99 lb. PRODUCE LOW, LOW PRICES The manufacturers and distributors of PLO. 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