For our guests age 60 and over, daily after 11:00 A.M. ENTERTAINMENT Seniors' Menu at j0jOS 299 Served with garlic toast and your choice of a bowl of soup or a salad. Hot Roast Beef Dinner Thin slices of roast beef over white bread covered with brown gravy. Hot Turkey Dinner Grilled Ham Steak with pineapple rings. Hot Hamburger Dinner Our regular hamburger served on white bread and covered with brown gravy. Grilled Beef Liver & Onions Broiled Cod Dinner Broiled Sweet & Sour Chicken Thin slices of white meat turkey over white bread and covered with country style gravy. A portion of broiled boneless skinless chicken breast served with sweet & sour sauce. Above entrees (except spaghetti) served with choice of whipped potatoes or French fries, vegetable and biscuit. Soup or salad may be ordered with these entrees for an additional 69q. Senior discounts can not be used with these specials. Dining Room Only. 29069 Greenfield Road, Southfield (Just North of 12 Mile Road) 559-8587 No matter how you turn the globe 3 - The Jewish News keeps you posted on Jewish happenings everywhere! Call 354-6060 TODAY and order your subscription. 66 , Friday, March 13, 1987 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS MICHAEL ELKIN Special to The Jewish News N Hours Mon - Thurs 6 am - 10 pm 6am-11pm Friday Saturday 7 am - 11 pm 7 am - 10 pm Sunday Spaghetti with Meat Sauce & Cheese From Rabbi To Ribald ew York — On Satur- day, the rabbi went funny. Or at least Jackie Mason did. The erstwhile rabbi is serving a new congregation these days. Jackie Mason's The World Ac- cording to Me! has opened for a limited Broadway run. Mason's world is neither flat — definitely not flat — nor round. It is just hilarious. "This is a different show," he says of the one-man act he puts on. "There's no furniture." "Albert Einstein — he created the theory of relativity. He was one man." Given the accomplishments of Einstein, "tell me, a show like this needs two people?" What it needs it has: a spi- rited Jackie_ Mason delivering his lines with a staccato brav- ura, punch lines that hit not below the belt but right in the stomach, causing audiences to literally double up with laugh- ter. His is a performance of warm wit and wise wonderment. "I don't care if this show stinks," he says. "I got in for nothing." Not for nothing is he hoping that his World will be bought by many. Mason was a popular comedian who, in 1964, was fingered for hard times. While doing his shtick on The Ed Sul- livan Show, he allegedly made an obscene gesture with an er- rant finger. The welcome guest was soon given the boot from the show for his handiwork. He still made a living appearing on talk shows, doing club work and some films (The Jerk), but the former rabbi had lost a major congregation. He is back in a very big way. Did you ever notice, he asks his audience, that "in Beverly Hills they're always talking millions, billions. Then the check comes for a dollar and a quarter and everybody runs." Mason ran too — from the rabbinate, which "just didn't offer me the opportunities to exploit my personality, to ex- press myself. I was limited. People would think it was ir- reverent for someone in the rabbinate to say the things I wanted to say." His move from pulpit to play- ing clubs was viewed as some- what of a sacrilege by his fam- ily, whose roots include the chief rabbi of Minsk. "When I rebelled," said Ma- son, "it was as if I had decided to become a Nazi." His decision to play his life for laughs "vio- lated every one of his (father's) principles." But Jackie Mason, the former Catskills lifeguard, has found comedy is his lifeblood. He has toughed it out. He may be the only tough Jew he knows. "Jews were never fighters," he says. "Ever see four black people walk on the street and say, 'Watch out! There's a Jew over there'? They don't want to walk into a Jewish neighborhood because they're afraid of being killed by an accountant." But Israel's strength has surprised Mason, who is obvi- ously delighted that Israelis are viewed as strong and win- ning warriors. But there's a reason for that, he says. "They look like Puerto Ricans." He has other ideas on what makes the world the way it is. So much of the world, he tells his audience, is made up of • water. Why? "So people can charge more for oceanfront rooms." And he is not particularly enamored of Chinese people. "I hate Chinese," he says, tongue going futher in his cheek. "They never eat in a Jewish restaurant." What could rectify all this nonsense? A Jewish president! "We need a Jewish president," says Mason. "We need someone to show a profit. We haven't had one successful season yet." Mason, 55, is on a roll. In a moving coda to his wonderful performance, he thanks the audience for listening to him. "God bless you!" he says. "And God bless you!" a joy- ously overcome woman nearly sobs in response. "Please lady," says Mason the kibbitzer. "This is a one- man show. I work alone." Oak Park Plans Family Outings Oak Park's department of recreation will take a trip to see the Harlem Globetrotters at 12:30 p.m. April 4 at Joe Louis Arena. Ticket fee in- cludes transportation. A trip to the Muppet Babies Live is planned for 10 a.m. April 18 at Cobo Arena. Families are invited to both trips. For information, call the recreation department, 545-6400. Family Concert At Temple Israel Children and families are invited to a special concert to be held 7 p.m. March 22 at Temple Israel. Sponsored by the temple Couples Club, the concert will feature pianist David Syme. Following the concert, there will be an afterglow. Tickets are free. For infor- mation, call the temple, 661- 5700.