41. 1NEWS I THE GIFT OF BREAD Q: What is the difference between a slice of bread and a present? A: Both are gifts. The difference between them is a difference in World view. Most peo- ple look and see the slice of bread . . but the person who says a berakka looks at the same piece of bread and sees a gift. (The berakka teaches us to see the bread as if it were gift wrapped.) Bread is the staff of life. Its importance is reflected in the fact that it has its own special berakka and because it has come to sym- bolize all food, it is the berakka said before a meal. Saying the berakka can transform "bread" into "gift," and thus change the ex- perience of eating itself! Enjoy The Gift Of Bread Detroit, MI 353-4186 Available at Detroit Area Delis and Supermarkets is now under strict rabbinical supervision PARVE GUESS WHO'S COMING TO COLONY INTERIORS SUGAR TREE • W. BLOOMFIELD SPECIALIZING IN • Wall Units • Tables • Dining Rooms • Custom Bedrooms C.C.C. Cabinetry 58 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1989 941-3050 Tel Aviv (JTA) -- What does the scientific breeding of cattle in Israel have to do with building the Third Temple? A great deal, say officials of the Temple Institute in Jerusalem, who concern themselves with prepara- tions for the coming of the Messiah. Last week, they persuaded the. Sephardic chief rabbi, Mordechai Eliahu, to visit the G and G ranch on the Carmel range to see an - almost pure red cow. The in- stitute has been searching the world for embryos from red or almost pure-red cows. The institute's head, Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, explained that according to tradition, work on the Temple and obser- vances inside can only be performed by people who are ritually pure. An entirely red heifer is needed for the purification rites. If ritually slaughtered and burnt on a fire made of cedar wood and hyssop, no more than a drop of its ashes mix- ed with water can purify anyone who has become unclean by, for example, contact with a corpse. To be suitable for the sacrifice,- the cow must be pure red, without a single hair of another color. So far, none has been found. But the Temple Institute is intrigued by the breeding experiments going on at the G and G. Ranch owner Danny Greenberg explained to the chief rabbi the com- plex process whereby a 7- day-old embryo can be frozen and implanted into the uterus of a cow. Only three weeks ago, the ranch laboratory perfected a process to determine the sex of the unborn beast. Accor- ding to the Bible, unblemished first-born male cattle may not be slaugh- tered. By determining the sex of the implanted embryo,- ranchers can ensure that the first-born to any particular cow is female, which, if pure red, would be kosher for purification rites. 110 `Sex Discrimination Is Widespread In Israel' New Modern Bakery LCUSTOM LAMINATED FURNITURE—.! Science Helping Hunt For Pure-Red Heifer Breast self-examination — LEARN. Call us. SOCIETY Tel Aviv (JTA) — An Israeli educator believes Israel is at least 10 years behind the rest of the de- veloped world in abolishing sex discrimination. According to Judith Abrahami-Einat, it begins in school, but most Israelis aren't even aware that it ex- ists. They cling to the "myth" of sexual equality, because the secular school system is coeducational and Israel once had a woman prime minister, says Abrahami-Einat, author of the recently published "He and She in the Classroom." But although boys and girls study together, except in the Orthodox religious schools, girls are shunted to traditional women's occupa- tions at an early age. Abrahami-Einat, who works as a consultant on ca- reer choices to academic counselors in junior high schools, said that when girls have to decide their high school majors, they are steered toward "women's. work." For example, while boys are channeled into engineer- ing or science, girls are en- couraged to learn word pro- cessing. "The difference between the two is signifi- cant," Abrahami-Einat says. Another source is the Or- thodox religious estab- lishment. Rabbi Baba Salah, the so- called "wonder rabbi," was interviewed on Israel Radio by a male reporter last week. It took a long time to ar- range the interview, the reporter explained, because the rabbi would not speak in public to a woman reporter. 4 Doctors Needed For Ethiopia Washington (JTA) — The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism is recruiting physicians to vol- unteer for at least three months' professional service in the Gondar region in nor- thern Ethiopia. That region, home to 10,000 to 14,000 Ethiopian Jews, is ravaged by a meningitis epidemic. For more information, write Project REAP, Religious Action Center, 2027 Massachusetts Ave. N.W., Wash., D.C. 20036, or call (202) 387-2800.