MEDIA MONITOR ii013SE OF DENMARK rt1111C1i1,0A1)/TENT EATEN't LIVONL4 LOCATION ONLY! •=9:9:9Proxigad4=VA Vanity Fair Profiles Redgrave & Levinger ARTHUR J. MAGIDA Special to The Jewish News 40-70% OFF Hundreds of Selected Items. Like... O Bookcases as low as $42. Reg. $58. No limit! In White or Black. Stock Up Now! O White Melamine and Beech IV Cabinet with Swivel $177. Reg. $539. Factory Buy Out! Thursday, June 20, Friday, June 21, Saturday, June 22, Sunday, June 23 @ Sleeper Sofa $283. Reg. S4,95. Only 30 to Sell! O Canvas and Beech Frame Chair $138. Reg. $199. factory Buyout!! Stressless Vather ns decliners & Ottoma Oil!! Hurry! Quantities are limited. Delivery extra. house of denmark Knowledgeable staff and expert service Livonia 35555 Plymouth Rd. (11/2 Miles West of Farmington Rd.) 425.4040 Sale Hours: Thursday and Friday 10.9, Saturday 10.5:30, Sunday 12-5 Most major credit cards accepted. INSTALLATION SPECIAL $100 OFF With This Ad RICK WALD (Expires 6/28/91 Double your closet usage si b e l l 489 5862 Arthur J. Magida is a senior writer for the Baltimore Jew- ish Times. FREE DELIVERY II INSTALLATION Post Scores Coup With AIPAC Story Factory Direct Sale 10% OFF CLOSET SYSTEMS Lill Sale ends June 30th Call for a free-at-home consultation or visit our showroom aoscrec - 7+Cese 34 dcacteArce 4Aue arc traa.I.A FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1991 473-0700 24407 Halsted Rd. Farmington Hills, MI 1 Bik. N. of Grand River V anity Fair is often all things to all people especially to people who are rich or famous — or who aspire to be. Its current issue shows the breadth of its swath: from the left, comes PLO sup- porter, actress Vanessa Redgrave; from the right, comes Rabbi Moshe Lev- inger, whom the magazine calls "a fanatic willing to martyr himself for the right of the Jews to rebuild an an- cient civilization on the oc- cupied lands of the West Bank." In his profile of Ms. Redgrave, Stephen Schiff notes that "for nearly two decades," she has poured "much of her money . . . into hard-left causes," including "unstinting support for the Palestine Liberation Organ- ization." For much of that time, Ms. Redgrave has outraged many Jews. On Oscar night in 1978, when she won an Oscar for Julia, protestors from the Jewish Defense League burned her in effigy outside the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. In her acceptance speech, she congratulated academy members for refus- ing "to be intimidated by a small bunch of Zionist hoodlums whose behavior is an insult to the stature of Jews all over the world." Although, says Mr. Schiff, the phrase "Jewish hoodlums" "branded her as an anti-Semite," her ex- husband, director Tony Richardson, says, "She's totally unrealistic in her at- titude: when she says `Zionism' she thinks she isn't talking about Jews. But there isn't a single bit of anti- Semitic blood in Vanessa." Mr. Schiff agrees. "What anti-Semite," he asks, "would present the first appearance outside the Soviet Union of the Moscow Jewish Shalom Theater, as Redgrave did in 1989, would bring the Moscow Jewish Musical Theater to New York (in the same year), or would speak out, as I have heard her do, against Soviet anti-Semitism?" The profile of Gush Emunim leader Rabbi Levinger was penned by Robert I. Friedman, who re- cently wrote a book about Meir Kahane and is now working on one about the West Bank settlers' move- ment. "No one in Israel has a reputation for being pushier than Levinger," writes Mr. Friedman. Even the rabbi's own attorney calls him "a very difficult client." "Many Israelis," said Mr. Friedman, consider the rabbi "the direct descendent" of Elazar ben Yair, the leader at the Dead Sea fortress of Masada who had ordered his 900 followers to commit suicide rather than endure Roman captivity. "Zionism is mysticism," the rabbi told Mr. Friedman. It "does not think in rational terms . . . but in terms of divine commandments. What matters only is God's promise to Abraham as recorded in the Book of Genesis." ❑ FUN\ 'on selected models 74 Dell V,4 ■ 4frit4/ ?of Soidiet Sitefr Mon.-Sat. 10.5 • Friday 10.8 m,A1 3947 W. 12 Mile Rd. • Berkley Yi.).3 • The night before an Reporter Lloyd Grove at Federal Election Commis- the Washington Post's Style sion decision about whether section deserves a raise: AIPAC had violated federal Anyone who can get top- campaign spending limits, staffers at AIPAC to talk on- Toby Dershowitz, AIPAC's the-record is a master of per- director of media liaison, suasion. And anyone who writes a 150-inch story about I tried to persuade Andrew the pro-Israel lobby that ' Silow Carroll, the editor of doesn't make the eyes glaze . the Washington Jewish Week not to assign the paper's over deserves at least an crack reporter, Larry autographed copy of The Cohler, to the story. She Elements of Style. claimed that Mr. Cohler's Among the highlights o previous AIPAC articles had Mr. Grove's story: been inaccurate. - amasusida..1