I OPINION YOU'RE COVERED With Our T-Shirt! For Mom Continued from Page 7 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. ❑ I LOCAL NEWS I 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. 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The awards, which will be announced May 30, are given by the JWB Council to authors of Jewish books of scholarly and literary ex- cellence in the United States and Canada. The American Arabic and Jewish Friends in Detroit postponed until next fall their May 11 dinner in an effort to obtain a high-powered politi- cal speaker for the event. The group asked some heavy hitters to work both sides of the aisle in Washington. They are look- ing for someone of Arabic des- cent to follow last year's Jewish speaker, Sen. Carl Levin. Levin has agreed to search the Democratic side of Capitol Hill for the group; Judge George Bashara and state GOP Chairman Spencer Abraham are working the Republican side. I NEWS I 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.