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sion of mah-jongg was, and re-
mains, a game used to raise
money for good causes. "A
large portion of the league's
fees are contributed to chari-
ty," explains Unger.
Though nobody can explain
exactly how mah-jongg
became transformed from an
old gambling game to a game
for very low stakes, it appears
that mah-jongg was intro-
duced, in much altered form,
into the clubs of Canton,
Shanghai and other foreign
settlements in China some-
time around the turn of the
century.
"Not long afterwards, it
spread to Europe and North
America. "It was all the rage
during the '20s," says Unger.
And interestingly, at that
time it was almost invariably
played by WASPs. When the
league was formed, strictly
for charitable purposes in
1937, most of its officers hap-
pened to be Jewish women.
Evidently that's how the
game became associated with
Jewish social life.
But even that is changing.
"We have members in every
corner of the world," says
Unger. "It's thriving." ❑
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Activities For Kids
Is JEFF Topic
Ellyce Field will present a
workshop at Cong. Beth
Shalom on Sunday at 10 a.m.
The workshop is titled, "The
Summertime Blues — How to
Survive Summer Vacation
with the Kids in Metro
Detroit." She will cover such
topics as where to go, what to
do, free tours, day trips,
weekend trips, annual
festivals and traveling
strategies.
Field is the "Kid Stuff' col-
umnist for the Detroit News
and writes for several
Michigan newspapers and
magazines, among them the
Oakland Press, Jewish News,
and Michigan Living. She is
co-author with Susan Shlom
of Kids and Cars: a Parent's
Survival Guide to Family
Travel.
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Kaplan To Speak
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Beaumont
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nationally-recognized paren-
ting expert, Dr. Leonard
Kaplan, in "How to Survive
Your Kids," on Tuesday at
7:45 p.m. at Adlai E. Steven-
son High Schol, Sterling
Heights.
Dr. Kaplan is professor of
Education at Wayne State
University.
Pre-registration is re-
quested. There is a fee. To
register, contact Beaumont-
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