12 Friday, August 3, 1984

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

PURELY COMMENTARY

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ALBERT A.

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KRAMER

Democrat

As Your

State Representative

67th District

(Oak Park, Huntington Woods, Royal Oak
Township, Berkley and Ferndale)

EXPERIENCE COUNTS!

• Three-term member Michigan House of Representa-
tives

• Legal Counsel, Michigan House of Representatives,
Committee on Insurance
• Special Assistant Attorney General

• Arbitrator, American Arbitration Association
• Mediator, Circuit Court
• Graduate Wayne State University, LLB. 1949. Prac-
ticing Attorney, 35 years
• Former public member of the Executive Managing
Board of Directors of Blue Shield
• Former Member of Vocational Rehabilitation Plan-
ning Committee — a United Foundation Agency

RATED "Well Qualified"

Civic Searchlight, Oakland Citizens League

• Former Bnai Brith ADL Board Member
• Member Jewish War Veterans
• Former Vice-President, Zionist Federation Met-
ropolitan Detroit
• Member & Former Officer, Cong. Bnai Moshe
• Married to Sydell Kramer
• Jewish Home For the Aged
• Hadassah
• Pioneer Women
• National Council of Jewish Women

Family of Three Children
Maxine, Rhonda and Matthew

WE SUPPORT & ENDORSE ALBERT A. KRAMER

*Partial Listing Only

Ray Abrams
Bernie Adelson
Janet Adelson
Mary Adler
Edie Albion
Marcia Anstandig
Ron Anstandig
Iry Ashin
Irving Barit
Nita Barit
John Barsdorf
Marion Bates
Milton Bates
Dr. Herbert Bean
Judy Beitner
Bess Berris
Barbara Berris
Charles Berris
Karen Berris
Marvin Berris
Morris Berris
Max Biber
Pearl Biber
Jack Bindes
Susan Bindes
Dr. Aaron Blake
Ruth Blake
Sidney Blitz
Arthur Boschan
Doris Boschan
Sidney Brand
Ann Brand
Matilda Brandwine
Betty Brown
Dave Brown
Dr. Joseph Carp
Bess Carp
Gloria Chadwick

Irving Chadwick
Jean Climstein
Joe Climstein
Anna Curtis
Ted Curtis
Irving B. Davis
Ralph Davis
Eve Dishell
David Dombey
David Dystant
Pat Dystant
Charlott Edelheit
Philip Edelheit
Freida Faigen
Dolores Fishman
Marcia Fligman
Arthur Frohlich
Harriet Frohlich
Shirley Ginsburg
Harry Glassman
Margarie Glassman
Jack Goldfarb
Helen Goldin
Steven Goldin
Aaron Goff
Evelyn Goff
Michael Grand
Rosalie. Grand
Ike Grodsky
Lee Grodsky
Leonard Gurwin
Martha Gurwin
Maxine Gutfriend
Sander Gutfriend
Louis Gutter
Marilyn Gutter
Martin Hackelman
Mary Belle Hackelman

Maimonides pledge more in keeping with modern
times and free of outdated concepts contained in
the oath of Hippocrates.
When medical school Dean E.M. Papper gave
the students a choice of reciting either of the two
oaths at their graduation, the vote was unanim-
ously in favor of the "prayer" composed by Rabbi
Moses Ben-Maimon, a Spanish Jew who lived
from 1135 to 1204, and practiced medicine in
Morocco and Egypt.
Therefore, the accepted principles enunciated by
Maimonides, who was as much physician as he was
philosopher and theologian in the modern sense, should be
shared with the generations. Re-printed here are the texts
in Hebrew and the English translation.
Such is the remarkable Maimonides record that is
being perpetuated, with a renewed interest during the
Maimonides Year that has become a long period for re-
newed studies in the philosophies, medical lore and theol-
ogy expounded by one of the greatest figures in Jewish
history. That's what emerges from observing an anniver-
sary.

Sydney Harris
Aaron Katzman
Archie Keltz
Saul Kirzner
Billie Kramer
Jack Kutnick
Pearl Kutnick
• Elaine Lacoff
Gerson Lacoff
Dr. Sidney Z. Leib
Marion Leib
Bess Levin
Irving Lipson
Bess Lipson
Leon Lucas
Hilda Lucas
Mildred Madven
Dr. Theodore Mandell
Yvette Mandell
Gloria Michelson
Harry Michelson
Anetta Miller
Roberta Milner
Ellen Modell
Jerry Modell
Dolores Paul .
Dr. Howard Parven
Marcia Parven
Belle Platt
Sam Platt
Henry Politzer
Helene Politzer
Doreen Raskin
Eliot Raskin
Selma Raskin
Seymour Raskin
Betty Rath
Norbert Reinstein

Marianne Reinstein
Alice Ross
Ben Rothstein
Charlotte M. Rothstein
Rose Ann Sachs
Mollie Sayles
Henry M. Scharg
Pam Scharg
Dr. Benjamin Schwimmer
Al Selter
Belle Selter
Hy Shebowich
Donn Shelton
Isadore Shrodeck
Leah Shrodeck
Erwin Siporin
Ruth Siporin
John Small
Shirley Small
Morris Smith
Bertha Strauss
Harold Strauss
Rose Ann Swerdlen
Mitzi Traurig
Edward Traurig
Barbara Wachler
Norman Wachler
Leonard Wagman
Lee Wagman
Bernard Weisberg
Helen Weisberg
•
Regina Weiss
David Wolock
Ida Zabel
Joyce Zack
Robert Zeman
Magdaline Zeman
Carol Zumberg
Mort Zumberg

EXPERIENCE
COUNTS! • VOTE FOR
•

ALBERT A. KRAMER

Tuesday, August lth (Primary Day)

Paid for by the Committee to Elect Albert A. Kramer State Representative, 14711 LaBelle, Oak Park, Ray J. Abrams, Treasurer.

OP-ED

JAPs and Jewish mothers

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their accomplishments, and high expectations that were in
earlier years considered attributes have now been
caricaturized into the American Jewish Mother, that
guilt-producing, over-protective interfering force to be
dealt with as long as her child shall live.
While these good "Jewish" qualities were taken and
twisted to create the Jewish mother, a different dynamic
was at work in the creation of that most negative of
stereotypical images of Jewish women — the Jewish
American Princess. There, with help from some Jewish
novelists, negative traits were blended together and affixed
to Jewish women. As a result, today a young Jewish woman
may be caring, serious and conscientious, but if she is even
minimally well-dressed and well-groomed, chances are she
will be labeled — by Jews and non-Jews alike — as a JAP.
That implies she is a spoiled, self-centered, materialistic
and shallow creature — a manufactured product that
somehow got a Jewish label. Of course you don't have to be
Jewish to be a JAP or a Jewish mother, but these are
images that floated in our society with a distinct Jewish
tag.
It is ironic that the Jewish community, which has
worked for years to fight the destructive stereotyping of
minorities in this country, are so passive about raising
their voices against negative stereotypes of Jewish women.
Clearly, it is time to end the proliferation of Jewish mother
and JAP "jokes," and we need to apply the same energies to
fight this stereotyping that we have used for others.

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NEWS

Archive seeks mementos

Tel Aviv — Beth Hatefut- films will be used for histor-
soth, the • Nachum ical research of the period
Goldmann Museum of the and. will make up a bulk of
Jewish Diaspora in Tel the exhibit.
Aviv, is planning an exhibi-
Senders should label the
tion in 1985, the 40th s an-
niversary of the liberation back of each photo with the
of Europe from the Nazi re- name, address an telephone
gime. The exhibit will re- number of the sender, the
count the story of the many year the photograph was
Jewish refugees who sur- taken and a brief descrip-
tion of the subject matter.
vived the Holocaust.
In preparing for the
Persons who have such
event, Beth Hatefutsoth is materials should send them
collecting photographs and to the Holocaust Survivors
films from around the world Documentation Campaign,
which relate to the sur- Beth Hatefutsoth, P.O.B.
vivors.
39359, Tel Aviv 61392; Is-
The photographs and rael.