CLOSE-UP True Kindness Continued from. Page 18 MARKET STREET SHOPPES ON NORTHWESTERN Accessories brcAo, presenting the very latest in costume jewelry, fashion belts hair ornaments and many gift ideas. Goldenberg Photography 359-2420 • Ristorante Di Modesta 358-0344 • Accessories By. Ann 356-3959 • Platinum Blond 353-7279 • Market Street Florist 357-5810 • All Your Travels 354-8000 • La Cache 352- 5552 WOMEN OF JEWISH NATIONAL FUND invite you to attend their 57th David Techner of the Ira Kaufman Chapel; "We put all our emphasis on the living." ANNUAL DONOR EVENT SHIRLEY KRAFT BEA FEIGELMAN President Women of Jewish National Fund Vice President of Fund Raising Women of Jewish National Fund Please help by supporting our BEIT BLUMA -SPORTS FIELD AND RECREATION FACILITY Join us at 12 noon Tuesday, December 9, 1986 CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK 27375 Bell Road, Southfield Musical Program Featuring CANTOR CHAIM NAJMAN for information call: JEWISH NATIONAL FUND 18877 W. Ten Mile Rd. Suite 104 Southfield, Mich. 48075 557-6644 Bea (Mrs. Julius) Feigelman — President Bess (Mrs. Jacob) Axelrod — Program Chairman Shirley (Mrs. Jules) Kraft — Vice-President of Fund Raising ISRAEL NEEDS YOU NOW! 22 Friday, November 21, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS " 'What is the proper thing to do?' is the mourner's first question," Rabbi Schwartz explains. But Rabbi Schnipper coun- sels against taking on tradi- tional habits and respon- sibilities all at once. "Be yourself, don't become some- thing you're not. You don't suddenly switch on. You learn. And through learning you become." Judaism is a vast civiliza- tion, rich in tradition and ethics. What is so special about the Jewish way of death and mourning? "I see a preponderance of traditions and customs given to the comfort of the mour- ners ..." says Rabbi Schwartz. "That is a marvel- ous thing." Kaufman Chapel's Techner relates what a non-Jewish colleague told him of her ex- perience in mourning: "She said, 'You know, I've gone through this whole ex- perience. Three days of mourning and then the fun- eral. It was the one time in my life that I really wished I was Jewish.' "We put no emphasis on the body," Techner continues. "She said they spend three days grieving over the body. Not over the loss, over the body. She said it was tor- ture." Rabbi Levin has only re- cently entered the funeral business. "It takes time to get used to," he says. "But death is a part of life. Now I don't fear death as much as I used to." ❑ Poll Says Jews Still Support Democrats New York (JTA) — Jewish voters seemed generally to have stayed with the Demo- ratic Party, but they also voted for Republican can- didates with records of sup- port for Jewish concerns. This was the evaluation of the Jewish choices in the Nov. 4 elections by Dr. David Gor- dis, executive vice president of the American Jewish Com- mittee, last week. "Moderation appears to be the order of the day among Jewish voters and the Amer- can electorate as a whole," he explained. He said that American Jews "appear to have main- tained and even intensified their liberal political stance and Democratic party orien- tation." He pointed to ABC News reports of Jewish votes for Sen. Alan Cranston (D. Calif.), 85 percent; Gov. Mario Cuomo (D. N.Y.), 84 percent; and newly elected Sen. Bob Graham (D. Fla.), 76 percent. Meanwhile, he noted that conservative and Republican candidates with "strong records supportive of Jewish concerns, particularly the welfare of the State of Israel ... garnered significant sup- port American Jews. He cited ABC News reports of the Jewish voting for Sen. Arlen Specter (R. Pa.), 55 percent; and Sen. Alfonse amato (R. N.Y.), 34 percent.