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HEALTH
DR. S.M. TEPPER
Center. Such activities as
water exercise, arthritis water
exercise, a fitness class, rec-
reational jogging, dance exer-
cise and yoga are scheduled by
the JCC staff.
Sinai Hospital, which has
conducted successful health
fairs the past two years, is
scheduled to offer various
health services for anybody in
attendance. Sinai personnel
will offer hearing tests, vision
testing, EKG, oral cancer
screening, Wheel of Wellness,
blood pressure testing, a nutri-
tion center, information con-
cerning the back and answer
other health-related questions.
"This is part of our philos-
ophy of reaching out to the pub-
lic, and the Jewish community
is part of this," said Barbara
Lewis, director of hospital and
community relations at Sinai.
"The JCC established the
Wellness Fair and we're help-
ing them out with it."
"Wellness is the popular
term for the 1980s," said Oliff.
"We would like to expand our
programs here at the JCC and
can see Sinai as a major part of
this venture. We are pleased
with the way things have been
going. Sinai has been very
helpful." There is no pre-
registration or fee for any of
the Wellness Fair events.
Participation in the competi-
tive activities require a fee of
$12. The bridge and maj Jong
tournaments have entry fees of
$15 and pan is $35. The fee in-
cludes participation in one or
more competitive events, a
T-shirt, lunch, dinner and
prize money. There is no
charge for spectators.
Registration for all events is
being handled by the JCC staff,
661-1000, ext. 239. ❑
Cuban Jews Face
Precarious Future
New York (JTA) — Jews in
Cuba face no discrimination,
but the lack of teachers and
rabbis for the tiny communi-
ty points to a precarious
future, a leader of Cuban Jews
told American Jewish leaders
here recently.
Moisis Asis, of the Comi-
sion Coordinadora de las
Sociedades Religiosas
Hebreas de Cuba (Coordinat-
ing Commission of the Jewish
Community of Cuba), told
representatives from 30
American Jewish organiza-
tions at the World Jewish
Congress that since the
Cuban revolution, Jewish
emigration and the decaying
communal infrastructure
have meant that "one genera-
tion has been lost and we are
now trying to spiritually
rescue the new one."
Asis pointed out that
through the years of political
turbulence, the Cuban Jewish
community has maintained
its membership in the World
Jewish Congress.
Since the revolution, some
85 percent of the island's
Jews have emigrated, leaving
a population of about 1,000
persons, mostly in Havana.
The same five synagogues
that existed 30 years ago still
stand although they are sus-
taining very serious physical
deterioration.
The Cuban government,
Asis noted, is very careful in
distinguishing its political
pro-PLO stance from any
form of anti-Semitic attitudes
or actions toward the com-
munity. The real threat to the
community, he said, was that
its shrunken membership
now has "no rabbi, no cantor,
no mohel, and no teacher."
There remains, however, a
kosher butcher shop in
Havana and the community
pays for a shochet.
The Cuban government has
evidenced a new openness
toward allowing the Jewish
community to find the means
to sustain its Jewish identity.
Asis noted he had for the first
time in many yars met with
the head of the Ministry of
Religious Affairs who ex-
pressed agreement to allow
visiting rabbis, to permit the
community to send Jewish
students abroad — even to
Israel — to receive religious
instruction, and to cut
through red tape so as to
allow money to be brought in
for the repair of the
synagogues.
In the face of very rapid
assimilation, two small but
remarkable events have oc-
curred just in the last month:
they had begun to teach a
small group of children
Hebrew at a communal cen-
ter; and had brought young
people together for their first
involvement in Jewish ac-
tivities.
Stamp Honors
Talmud Scholar
New York — A U.S. post-.
age stamp honoring Dr. Ber-
nard Revel, the first
president of the institution
that later became Yeshiva
University, will be issued by
the U.S. Postal Service in a
special ceremony Tuesday at
the university's Midtown
Center.
The $1 stamp honoring Dr.
Revel, is the first in the
"Great American" series to
cite a Talmudic scholar.