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five-course meal, the kosher
equivalent of Maxims of
Paris. It is no wonder,
therefore, that whatever the
vagaries of my religious
observance, my taste buds
have remained decidedly
Orthodox.
My mother is also an artist.
Her shawls, tablecloths and
challah covers are a blaze of
individually designed pat-
terns hand-embroidered with
the richest colors. Chagall
himself would have admired
their artistry.
But my "bonding" with my
mother goes way beyond food
and color. Of all her children,
I am by all accounts and her
own, the one most like her —
which may be a mixed bless-
ing, as it has frequently led to
the butting of heads.
But these character traits
were learned at her knee. We
would sit and talk together
for hours. She would tell me
stories of her youth; we would
argue over trivial matters;
and she would share her fami-
ly concerns with me.
For these reasons,• and
although I have lived away
from home now for many
years, my mother can still
pull at my heart strings —
even without being there!
Every charmingly irritating
little old Jewish lady creates
her anew for me; every Yid-
dish accent reminds me of her
voice.
But the line that cuts the
deepest was her statement to
me as I got ready to leave
after my most recent visit:
"Every time you go, it feels as
it did the first time you left."
It is a line brewed of a com-
bination of hurt and love as
only a mother can feel and I,
tinged by my guilt at never
being able to love quite
enough, carry it with me as
an unforgettable echo down
the ages. ❑
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Cars Marred
At Palace
Officials at the Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith said this week they
have received reports that
cars parked at the Palace of
Auburn Hills were vandaliz-
ed by anti-Semitic graffiti.
ADL Michigan Region
Director Richard Lobenthal
said he received the reports
from police sources. The
police do not have suspects in
the case.
Auburn Hills police con-
firmed a recent incident in
which a woman found the
word "Jew" scratched into her
car. The woman was not
Jewish.
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University of Michigan Pro-
fessor Zvi Gitelman has been
nominated in the 1989 Na-
tional Jewish Book Awards
visual arts category for his
work A Century of Am-
bivalence: The Jews of Russia
and the Soviet Union, 1881 to
the Present.
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The American Arabic and
Jewish Friends in Detroit
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May 11 dinner in an effort to
obtain a high-powered politi-
cal speaker for the event.
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Israel, Estonia
Sign Exchange
Tel Aviv (JTA) — The Soviet
Baltic republic of Estonia has
signed an agreement with
Israel for an exchange of ex-
perts, beginning next year.
The pact, believed to be the
first of its kind with a Soviet
republic, was announced by
the Estonian first deputy
minister of agriculture, Vello
Lind, as a 12-member Esto-
nian delegation wound up an
official visit to Israel, the first
ever from a Soviet republic.
Lind invited an Israeli
delegation to visit Tallinn,
the Estonian capital, for the
opening of Israeli Culture
Week there next year.
Lind praised Israel's
"remarkable development"
and said this was one of the
most important and in-
teresting of his visits to 28
countries.