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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, March 23, 1984
Brodhead to address forum on U.S. policy in Mideast
Con-
Former U.S.
gressman William M.
Brodhead will address the
next session of the Einstein
Luncheon Forum at noon
April 2 at Southfield Char-
ley's, announce Judges Ira
G. Kaufman and Norman
W. Feder, co-chairmen of
the forum.
Brodhead will discuss
"American Policy in the
Middle East."
Currently a practicing at-
torney in Detroit, Brodhead
was elected to the U.S. Con-
gress in 1974 and re-elected
in 1976, representing
Michigan's 17th Congres-
sional District. He has
served on the House Ways
and Means Committee, the
House Budget Committee
and was chairman of the
Democratic Study Group in
1981-1982.
Prior to his election to
Congress, he was a member
of the Michigan House of
Representatives in 1971
and 1972, having served as
chairman of the urban af-
fairs and city government
committees.
The Einstein Luncheon
Forum is sponsored jointly
by the Metropolitan Detroit
District, Zionist Organiza-
tion of America, and the
Zionist Cultural Center.
For reservations, call the
ZOA, 569-1515.
"Apples of Gold," a full-
length feature film portray-
ing the Zionist struggle to
establish the state of Israel
from the days of Dr. Theodor
Herzl to the present, will
have its premiere showing
in Detroit at 8 p.m. Thurs-
day at the Zionist Cultural
Center.
Produced by Crossroads
Christian Communication
Inc., the film includes inter-
views with Abba Eban, the
late Sen. Henry Jackson,
`A Late Divorce'
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By CHARLES MADISON
Special to The Jewish News
In all the arts, the urge to
avoid the traditional and es-
tablished forms of expres-
sion has been general for
over a century, with some
practitioners yielding to the
experimental to the point of
obscurity. In the verbal arts
this urge has motivated the
work of numerous writers,
from Joyce and Faulkner to
their contemporary
emulators.
A. B. Yehoshuah, a
highly gifted Israeli writer,
has been strongly influ-
enced by this trend, espe-
cially the writings of
William Faulkner. In A
Late Divorce (Doubleday) he
has resorted to the "stream
of consciousness" form of
writing. Again and again he
avoids punctuation and
quotation marks, so that the
reader has to guess what are
inner thought, speech and
the identity of the narrator.
The interested reader,
however, soon perceives the
intent of the author, his
vivid perceptions, and is de-
eply moved by his
psychological insight into
the mental working of his
characters. They emerge be-
fore the reader as three-
dimensional individuals
enmeshed in the com-
plexities of human behavior
and reacting to their stimuli
in accord with their particu-
lar character.
The novel depicts the
Kaminka family in a period
of crisis. The elder Kaminka
arrives in Israel to complete
the legal separation from
Naomi, the mother of their
three adult children. He had
left Israel some years ear-
lier shortly after Naomi, in
a moment of anger, had
stabbed him in the chest
and was placed in a
psychiatric hospital. He had
gone to Minneapolis and
made his living as a teacher
of Hebrew. In time, he had
become intimate with Con-
nie, a woman around 40,
with whom he lived conge-
nially. When she became
pregnant, he decided to
legitimize the child and
correspond with Naomi and
their children until he
gained Naomi's consent to a
divorce. His visit was to
make the divorce final in
accord with rabbinical pro-
cedure.
Reunion with his children
was a joyous occasion. Yet
all three, while accepting
the situation requiring di-
vorce, were nevertheless
deeply troubled by the
severance.
The narrator of each
chapter is a different
member of the family, and
each is delineated with
vivid artistic perception —
making evident their indi-
vidual differences, their ac-
tivities and particular
characteristics. When
Kaminka visits Naomi to
prepare her for the coming
of the rabbis, he finds her
mentally relaxed but un-
willing to keep her 'agree-
ment to the divorce.
In the process of the nar-
ration, Yehoshuah inti-
mates the life of crisis in Is-
rael — the acute religious
and antagonism and the
deep economic difficulties of
the harassed and besieged
land.
Most of all, however, we
are made intimately famil-
iar with the Kaminka fam-
ily. One ends the novel feel-
ing a cathartic experience
about life in general and
about Israel in particular.
Yossi Harel, General Uzi
Narkiss and Yossi
Hochman.
The showing is sponsored
by the Zionist Organization
of America, Metro Detroit
District, in cooperation with
the Ecumenical Institute
for Jewish-Christian
Studies, of which Rev.
James R. Lyons is executive
director.
Admission is free, and re-
freshments will be served.
Sinai names two to posts
Lillian Skidmore has
been named director of the
newly established depart-
ment of medical staff serv-
ices, and Deborah Shug-
dinis has assumed the posi-
tion of director of the de-
partment of medical records
at Sinai Hospital of Detroit.
Since 1980, Mrs. Skid-
more has served as adminis-
trative assistant to the med-
ical staff. She came to the
hospital in 1951 from New
York's Mount Sinai Hospi-
tal with Sinai's first direc-
tor, Dr. Julien Priver, as his
secretary.
Mrs. Skidmore is the im-
mediate past president of
the Michigan Association of
Medical Staff Services, an
organization she has been a
member of since 1980. She
is also a member of the Na-
tional Association of Medi-
cal Staff Services, a found-
ing member of the Detroit
Chapter of the association,
Lillian Skidmore
Deborah Shugdinis
and is a certified medical
staff coordinator.
Past affiliations include
the National Secretaries
Association, International
and the Greater Detroit
Area Association of Hospi-
tal Administrative
Secretaries.
Mrs. Shugdinis was the
manager of medical records
at Lansing General Hospi-
tal before coming to Sinai.
Prior to this she was the di-
rector of medical records at
St. Joseph Memorial Hospi-
tal.
In 1982, she received a
Master of Management de-
gree from Aquinas College
in Grand Rapids. She
earned a Bachelor of Sci-
ence degree from Mercy Col-
lege of Detroit in 1975.
She is currently a
member of the American
Medical Records Associa-
tion.
Generation to generation
Singles Events
JEWISH SINGLES/
PARENTS NETWORK
OF ANN ARBOR will host
a discussion on "Single Par-
enting: Trials and Tribula-
tions" at 8 p.m. Saturday in
the home of Marilyn Fried-
man, 1405 Westfield, Ann
Arbor. Participants are re-
quested to bring a dessert.
There is a charge. For
reservations, call Ms.
Friedman, 662-9352.
The group will meet at 8
p.m. April 7 in the home of
Milly Ostrowsky, 2501
Meade Ct., Ann Arbor. Syl-
via Hacker, a professor at
the University of Michigan
Schools of Public Health
and Nursing, will speak on
"Is There Sex After Di-
vorce?" There is an admis-
sion fee. Participants
should bring a snack or des-
sert to pass. For reserva-
tions, call Ms. Ostrowsky,
6'63-1035; or Adrienne Kap-
lan, 662-1817.
* * *
YOUNG JEWISH
ADULTS ASSOCIATION
(age 18-25) will see "Fiddler
on the Roof' at the Redford
Theater Saturday, meeting
at the Jimmy Prentis Mor-
ris Branch of the Jewish
Community Center at 6
p.m. There is a charge.
The group has canceled
its trip to the Long Horn
Rodeo originally planned
for Sunday.
At 7:30 p.m. Monday, the
group will meet at the Mor-
ris Branch for carpools to
the Wing Hong Restaurant
for dinner.
For reservations by
Saturday, call Jane Sklar,
552-0265; or Pam Zweigel,
557-8172.
YJAA will go to the
Shrine Circus on April 1,
meeting at the Morris
Branch at 3:30 p.m. For
reservations by Saturday,
call Miss Sklar or Miss
Zweigel.
* * *
COMMUNITY NET-
WORK FOR JEWISH
SINGLES will sponsor an
* * *
Singles service
Set at temple
The Birmingham Temple
will have a singles service
8:30 p.m. today in the tem-
ple. Theme of the service is
"Personal Happiness — Be-
yond the Me Generation."
A special oneg Shabat
will follow the service. For
information, call the tem-
ple, 477-1410.
Melissa Kuretsky thanks her great-grandmother, Bessie
Kuretsky, for inviting her to the first annual Purim
Grandparents - Grandchildren's Brunch held last Sunday
at the Jewish Federation Apartments in Oak Park. Two
hundred sixty members of three- and four-generation
families were treated to brunch and entertainment provided
by residents.
Inflation
Jerusalem (ZINS) — Re-
tail prices in Israel jumped
207.9 percent during the
last 12 months, according to
the Central Bureau of
Statistics.
"Serving the Jewish community with traditional dignity and understanding"
evening at the Detroit Sym-
phony Orchestra at 6:30
p.m. Thursday. There will
be a special lecture and hors
d'oeuvres and cocktails. The
concert will begin at 8 p.m.
There is a charge. For
reservations by today, call
the CNJS, 661-1000, ext.
219.
CNJS, Jewish Parents
Institute and Temple Israel
Single Parents will have a
program on Passover for
single parents at 11 a.m.
April 1 at the main Jewish
Community Center.
The film, "The Empty
Chair," will be shown. Fol-
lowing the -film, Harlene
Adiv, director of family life
programs at Cong. Shaarey
Zedek, will speak. Admis-
sion is free.
Philip Elving
Philip J. Elving, a full
professor in the chemistry
department at the Univer-
sity of Michigan, died
March 16 at age 71.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y.,
Dr. Elving was on the fa-
culty of U-M for 32 years.
He was graduated from
Princeton University and
earned his doctorate in
1937. He was a member of
Cong. Beth Israel.
He leaves his wife,
Beulah; two daughters,
Mrs. Abraham (Elizabeth)
Bass of DeKaib, Ill. and
Mrs. Stephen (Louise) Carr
of Cambridge, Mass.; a sis-
ter, Mrs. Joseph (Eleanor)
Schwartz of Springfield,
N.J.; and two grandsons.
Edward Cole
Edward Cole, a retired
bar owner, died March 18 at
age 85.
A native Detroiter, Mr.
Cole was a member of the
Old Newsboys Association,
the Native Detroiters Club,
Schiller's Masonic Lodge,
Elks, and was the founder of
the Table Toppers, a bar
owner's association.
He leaves his wife, Mar-
ion; nieces and nephews.
Yizkor rites
Radomer Mutual Society
of Detroit will hold its an-
nual Yizkor services at 1
p.m. Sunday at Cong. Bnai
David. Rabbi A. Irving
Schnipper of Cong. Beth
Abraham Hillel Moses will
officiate.
Other
Deaths
Prof. Solly Cohen, 63, of
the Hebrew University and
a pioneer in the field of ex-
perimental nuclear physics
research in Israel, died
March 1 in Jerusalem.
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