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BREDE'S HORSERADISH 59c California CRISPY LETTUCE 59cea.. Borden's 1 /2% ILK 79C 1/2 gal. ctn. All Specials Good Through September 23rd, 1987 86 FRIDAY, SEPT. 18, 1987 Holiday Reverie Continued from Page 84 assortment of four to eight variously sized children gathered around it to hear discussed, for the umteenth time by whichever mother whose turn it was to teach, the opening chapters of Genesis. Decades before I ever heard of Bruno or Vico or any of the philosophical theorists of cyclical history, or had read Nabokov's Pale Fire or Joyce's Finnegan's Wake, I knew all about cycli- cal patterns and repetitive structures. Each fall we started Genesis again, creat- ing the world anew, getting the apple to Eve, dispatching Abel, helping all those pairs of animals up the gangplank before the rain started. We hardly ever found out any- thing that happened after- ward, except for poor Isaac who had a close call. Now, every Rosh Hashanah when the Akeda — the story of the binding of Isaac — is read, I am automatically turned into a little boy again, sitting close to that coal stove, si- lently pondering Isaac's fate. Years afterward when I set about selecting a writer whose work I wanted to analyze for my PhD disserta- tion in English literature, I was attracted to Wilfred Owen, the World War I poet who brilliantly articulated his protest against war in a handful of peoms of which one, "The Parable of the Old Men and the Young," in- volved a retelling of the Akeda. Writing my dissertation on Wilfred Owen catapulted me into my career in academe. I had long been familiar with its rhythm of cyclical re- newal, with classes resuming every fall. The celebration of Rosh Hashanah and the be- ginning of the new school year were to me not merely contiguous happenings, they soon became synonymous. Over time, they have emerged into a single cyclical experience with a singular emphasis upon creation and renewal. Consequently, I've never felt suspended as a Jew in America despite my hav- ing been in my youth one of a very tiny community sur- rounded by vast numbers of non-Jews. Reading David Daiches' Between Two Worlds many years ago, I found my- self unable to relate totally to his experience of being sus- pended as a Jew in Scotland. Neither can I presently take too seriously the title of Herman Wouk's recently pub- lished novel, Inside, Outside, because the religious and secular linkage of the New Year with the school year has always precluded any need to dwell on personal alienation. Having to choose between the inside and the outside is not in my view a necessary un- dertaking. I'm not compelled to do it. The older genera- tions of my family, I know, had to do it because their origins were in Eastern Europe and America was an enormous adjustment for them. But growing up Jewish Rosh Hashanah and the new school year soon became synonymous in a little Southern country town was somehow for me a synthesizing experience. Of course, those older gen- erations have all passed to their rewards But one of the sustaining pleasures for me this Rosh Hashanah will be to recall those past celebra- tions of the New Year, of cre- ation and renewal, I shared with them so long ago. Tradi- tion tells us that ... NEWS Im"•••1 Naamat Against Judge Bork's Nomination New York — American Af- fairs chairwomen in 500 Naamat clubs across the na- tion were asked "to involve all club members" in an effort to prevent the appointment of Judge Robert H. Bork to the United States Supreme Court. This followed the unanimous decision by delegates attending the organization's recent national convention in Los Angeles to oppose the nomination because it "could jeopardize some of our basic freedoms, as well as the progress American women have made in the last thirty years towards achieving equal rights." Israeli Cricket Team Tours U.S. New York (JTA) — The Israeli cricket team (yes, there is one) was scheduled to arrive for its first U.S. visit last week for a match with the American All-Stars Cricket Team of Brooklyn, N.Y. According to Berth Smith, president of International Cricket Matches Inc., which owns the American team, the Israelis will play against the All-Stars in St. John Univer- sity in Queens. Smith said that he decided to invite the Israeli cricket team to the U.S. after he watched its 11-member play in the world cricket competi- tions in previous years in London and Australia.