7 magazine, The Jewish Mon- thly, features a consumer's guide to 14 Haggadahs. Reviewer Penny Kaganoff is unstinting in her praise, fearless in her criticism. Among those haggadahs reviewed: • The Maxwell House Hag- gadah: Distributed free by the coffee company, these are "decidedly no frills, with on- ly a few elementary pictures and no commentary." • Passover Haggadah, published by Artscroll: "Seder directions are com- prehensive, but sexist and basic terms are not translated into English... Many inter- pretations will offend readers." • The New Union Hag- gadah, distributed by Central Conference of American Rab- bis: "Marred by Leonard Baskin's graceless water- colors... The English transla- tion, but not the Hebrew, is nonsexist." • Feast of Freedom, publish- ed by the United Synago. gue Book Service: "The most practical guide for the Seder table" is this Conservative text. The Heck With Hell? Maybe So "Jews have been through \D the Holocaust. There's just no need to talk about hell." This explanation about the disappearance of hell from Jewish theology appears in a Newsweek article about Americans' beliefs in heaven and hell. It came from a Beverly Hills rabbi, Daniel Landes. Given the locale of Landes' congregation, it is no surprise that he knows more about heaven than about that other H-word. But according to a Gallup Poll commissioned by Newsweek, Jews are not alone in focusing on heaven, not hell. Seventy-seven percent of those polled believe in heaven. Only 58 percent believe in hell. Seventy-six percent thought they had "a good or excellent chance" of going to heaven. Six percent thought they had the same odds of going to hell. "If hell has, for all its old in- tents and purposes, disap- peared from modern con- sciousness," asked Newsweek writer Kenneth L. Woodward, "can heaven be far behind?" Far behind, apparently thinks Rabbi Terry Bard, director of pastoral services at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital. "Dead is dead," he said, and what lives on are one's children and a legacy of good works. Your gift to the Allied Jewish Campaign helped these agencies and institutions make it happen. B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundations: Michigan State University, University of Michigan, Wayne State University • Fresh Air Society • Hebrew Day Schools: Akiva, Hillel and Yeshiva Beth Yehuda/Yeshiva Gedolah • Hebrew Free Loan Association • Jewish Community Center • Jewish Community Council • Jewish Family Service • Jewish Federation Apartments • Jewish Home for Aged • Jewish House of Shelter • Jewish Information Service • Jewish Vocational Service • Resettlement Service • Sinai Hospital • Transportation Services • United Hebrew Schools/Midrasha/ Shaarey Zedek High School • American Jewish Committee • American Jewish Congress • Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith • Association of Jewish Family and Children's Agencies • Baltimore Institute for Jewish Communal Service • B'nai B'rith National Youth Services (Hillel) • Brandeis University Hornstein Program in Jewish Communal Service • Center for Jewish Community Studies • Council of Jewish Federations • Hebrew Union College School of Jewish Communal Service • International Conference of Jewish Communal Service • JWB • Jewish Education Service of North America • Jewish Labor Committee • Jewish War Veterans • Joint Cultural Appeal: 9 agencies • Large City Budgeting Conference • National Association of Jewish Communal Service • National Association of Jewish Vocational Services • National Conference on Soviet Jewry • National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership • National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council • North American Jewish Students Appeal • Project Interchange • Synagogue Council of America • United Jewish Appeal and its beneficiaries: Joint Distribution Committee and ORT • New York Association for New Americans • United Israel Appeal/Jewish Agency for Israel • America-Israel Cultural Foundation • HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) • Jewish Telegraphic Agency Keep up the great work. Make your 1989 pledge today. OU MAC THE - Y DIFERENCE Allied Jewish Campaign of the Jewish Welfare Federation 163 Madison Avenue • Detroit, MI 48226-2180 • 965-3939 Everyone is invited to the Jewish Community Center DAY CAMP OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY, APRIL 16, 1989 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Maple Drake Building Rain or Shine Refreshments Entertainment N ❑ THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 33°