42 Friday, December 24, 1982
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Editor, The Jewish News:
The article in The Jewish
News of Dec. 10 eulogizing
the late Benny Friedman
was very interesting. How-
ever, your writer, Mr.
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statement about Benny
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(Editor's Note: Mr.
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Editor, The Jewish News:
President Reagan, par-
ticipating in a White House
season's broadcast did an
act, sitting around a fire-
place with young children,
of an age amenable to fairy
tales, and reading to them a
story, whose moral was
equally relevant to adults.
The story began some-
thing like, "Many years ago
in a remote, little village
there was born to a Jewish
family a baby boy." It then
proceeded to delineate the
traditionally-known career
of the season's celebrant, to
its climactic conclusion of a
profound influence on the
lives of a large portion of
mankind.
This writer paused on the
Jewish overtones of the
chronicle ; Bearing in mind
that a President does not
speak off the cuff, and that
his public utterances are
carefully weighed and
measured before they are
pronounced for their calcu-
lated effect, the reference to
Jewishness was not inci-
dental, and we cannot but
feel gratified that the
President chose to associate
the name of our people with
the excellencies which the
story extolled.
However, perhaps the
Jewish sensitiveness of
this writer is unduly
exercised when he
suggests that our
mechutoneschaft with
the subject matter of the
story could have been
enlarged a bit. For what
cosmic irregularity
would have resulted if
the opening were some-
thing like this, "Many
years ago, in a little vil-
lage, in ancient Judea,
modern Israel, there was
born a Jewish baby boy
to a humble family."
The object of Mr.
Reagan's adoration was
born a Jew, lived as a Jew,
and his life was taken be-
cause he was a Jew, no
different than the lives of
millions of our people com-
paratively recently taken
because they were Jews by a
bestial regime placed in
power by a nation that wor-
ships at the shrine which
President Reagan so touch-
ingly and beautifully pre-
sented.
Name Withheld
Mid-Life Planner in Detroit
Dr. Sol Landau, a former
congregational rabbi who is
now president of the °Mid/
Life Services Foundation in
Miami, Fla., will be in De-
troit next month to appear
on television with Dr. Sonya
Friedman.
His organization is a
tax-exempt
non profit,
foundation dedicated to
exploring and solving prob-
lems of the middle years. As
Rabbi Landau, he was the
spiritual leader of Beth
David Congregation in
Miami for the last 17 years
of his 30-year career as a
rabbi.
The foundation assists
business and industry in
preventing mid/life crisis
and in alleviating execu-
tive stress and "burn-
out."
Dr. Landau's programs
promote "positive passage
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