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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, December 9, 1983 69

Senior Adults Show Creativity in Writers' Journal

The 1983, Book Fair edi-
tion of the Writers Journal
of the senior adult division
of the Jewish Community
Center is currently avail-
able.
This year's paperbacked,
sprial-bound edition, which
features Haiku poetry,
stories, reminiscences, Yid-
dish adages, Yiddish poetry
and translations and a
variety of other creative
pieces, is compiled by Prof.
Norma Goldman of Wayne
State University, who is the
staff adviser to the seniors'
Writers' Corner.
Mina Stone is the
Writers' Corner secretary
and Bernice Konikow and
Claire Konikow, typist and
artist, respectively.

The editorial board is
comprised of Mrs.
Goldman, Bernice
Konikow, Sara Littman,
Mollie Pitzak, Ethel
Silber.

Littman, Bessie Lopatin,
Regina Mantel, Pearl Mil-
ler, Bertha Mishcovsky,
Ann Paul, Mrs. Pitzak,
Hilda Reed, Jean Rubach,
Joseph Shapiro, Fani
Siegel, Ethel Silber, Helen
Singer and Ms. Stone.
Guest contributors are:
Judith Goren, Meriam
Margolis, Scott Saxon and
Alan Silber.
Some samples of the
seniors' creative efforts fol-
low:

Haiku

By BESSIE LOPATIN

The alarm clock rings
One awakens
And their day is on the way

* * *

More Free Time

hold chores and many other
things that we now do for
ourselves.
It seems exciting to envi-
sion so much luxury, but
somehow it can't be all gain.
As with other inventions,
there will be another side to
deal with and cope. We are
aware that in order to feel
fulfilled we will have to
learn to use the "time" made
available constructively,
and that is something to
think about.
However, it's certain we
can't stop the "wheels" of
progress and I doubt if we
would want to.

Really Me

By MINA STONE

am still around!
For a while I go back, way
back to my Bobe's and
Zeide's house where my
childhood years were taking
place. There were many
grandchildren in the family,
but I was the local resident
and the youngest and small-
est. So I received a great deal
of attention from the uncles
and aunts and from
Grandma and Grandpa.
How clearly I remember a
Hanuka evening — the
house all lit up — the
Hanuka lamp with its can-
dles burning brightly and
telling me that I belong there
in that room. What a happy
and warm feeling you get
when you really belong.
I know it all happened
long ago and far away, but I
am still dreaming about it
and I still like to belong
somewhere sometimes. Yes,
I dc.

Today is the first day of
Hanuka. How lovely and
By PEARL MILLER
deserted it is around here. I
Among the vast number of had to look in the mirror to
changes that have taken make sure it is, really me. I
place in our lifetime, the
* * *
Contributors are: Marion latest thing that comes to
Elizabeth Blondy, Emma mind is the computer. The
. ns are that the
Cass, Eve Dishell, Frances predicti o
By BERNICE KONIKOW
Driker, Esther Frances "home" computer will com-
Friedman, Mrs. Goldman, pletely revolutionize our way
Stitch by stitch in meticulous fashion
Rose Goldsmith, Phillip Go- of life.
In and out the needle goes,
We are told that it will do
ren, Gertrude Gray, Stella
Until detail by minute detail,
Himmelstein, Rose Jaffe, our shopping, banking,
The canvas picture grows.
Rae Kendler, Sarah King, make plane reservations,
Needlepoint is exacting,
Bernice Konikow, Sara maybe some of our house-
In patience demanding much,
But relaxing and rewarding,
Greenberg Opens JWB Series
If one craves the creative touch.
Bright cotton strands are deftly threaded,
Through colorful objects that reveal,
A likeness to a beautiful painting,
It has the - same appeal.
Loving sentiment has been woven in,
With hours of enjoyment to recall,
Every prideful glance a reminder,
Now that it is framed and on the wall.

Painting With Thread

My Yiddisher Mama

By JOSEPH SHAPIRO

This beautiful Jewish song brings to mind
That many Jewish mothers, a new home will have to find
Her elderly years have come too fast
Leaving behind happy memories, which have now passed
As the mother grew older, soon she did learn
That her children today a living must earn
The father for some time has been at rest
While the mother surely did her best
But children get married, have families of their own
The mother realizes that eventually she will be left alone
The children helped her the best they could
Although the mother loved them, but she understood
To be a burden to her children, she must not be
Her home is now too big, she must look around and see
As living alone, she will make many a phone call
But her answer soon came from the Borman Hall
It will be like a new world, the children will visit their
mother
For after all, when all- is said and done, there will be no other
The new world for the mother, it surely appears
That her way of living will surely disappear
When we hear the song, "My Yiddisher Mama," emotion has
a way
For the mother, it will not be another old home, come what
may
She will live in a good kosher home for the aged day after day
She will be free to the Lord in her own way to pray

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ALL THE NEWS

*STA,

* * *

Crossroad of a Secularist

By PHILLIP GOREN

I) a

Rabbi Irving Greenberg of the National Jewish
Resource Center is shown opening a six-part seminar
for JWB professional staff in the New York area.

Fund to Aid Deaf Education

TEL AVIV — Is speech or
sign language — or a com-
bination of the two -- the
best way to teach the deaf?
According to Tel Aviv
University senior teacher
Dr. Jerry Reichstein there
is no "best" method; each
child must be approached on
an individual basis.
Dr. Reichstein, head of
the Program of Education of
the Hearing Impaired at
TAU's School of Education,
made this point in a lecture
at the inauguration of the
Sally and Lester M. Entin
Fund for the Research, Ad-
vancement, and Education
of the Hearing Impaired
and of Disadvantaged
Youths.

In the education of the
hearing impaired, the
major goal is to teach
children to communicate
with the world around
them, Dr. Reichstein said.
Authorities disagree on
which method to use to
achieve this end, whether
by the oral method
(speech and lip-reading),
the manual method (sign
language), or simultane-

ous oral and manual
communication.

Through some 400 years
of human experience in
education of the deaf each of
the three methods has been
in favor at different times.
"For the past 15 years, the
pendulum has swung in the
direction of the simultane-
ous method," Dr. Reichstein
said. "However, recent re-
search has begun to chal-
lenge this approach, and we
are beginning to think that
it gives the teacher so many
things to do — thinking
what to say, speaking and
signing — that he or she is
unable to communicate ef-
fectively.
"My philosophy is that we
should be more cautious and
apply the method to the
child on an individual
basis," he concluded.
Tel Aviv University's
program of education for the
hearing impaired is unique
in Israel. Since it was estab-
lished in 1978, some 40 stu-
dents have completed the
program and most of them
are currently working in
the field.

Spring and summer have vanished
Winds and storms are raging
Here I stand at life's crossroads
Searching to stretch my hidden impulses
And I feel a yearning to cry out
Neither your formulated slogans
Nor your assessment of humanity
Has fulfilled my dreams and hopes
To my regret nothing new nothing new
A loud pealing of bells
Nothing spiritual for the human soul
A lot of rhetoric not from heart
Regretfully a great to do nothing new
My mind is in constant uproar
My heart yearns for miracles
My soul cries out for the simple life
Alas nothing new nothing new
A synagogue for me is senseless
Tradition in my life is sheer mockery
Like a bird I fly free and high
In my heart I have a feeling and a sigh
Alas something is missing nothing new nothing new.

YIDDISH TRANSLATION

Der zumer iz shoin farbai
Di kalte vintin in der shnai
Bluzin shturmdig in frai
In ich shtai oif main shaiadvig in shrai
Nisht der furin nisht der gaingen
Gehert shaine raid shaine klaingen
In a nai vort is nisht faran
Epes failt es is hun a tam
Klingen gleker oiche klaingen
In zai machin a tararam
Un a bisel ruchniut nisht faran
Epes failt es iz un a tam
Der moich tracht tug in nacht
Dus harts zainkt nuch epes getlich
Di neshume vaint es iz tzu vochlich
Epes failt es iz un a tam
A bais amedrish far mir iz upgered
Traditzie far m it iz upgeshpet
Vi a foigel flei ich oich in frai
Tif in main arzin augich tzu zich ai ai ai
Epes failt es iz un a tum-un a turn.

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