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Now You, Too, Can Really
Enjoy Driving In New York
S
o, you're driving to
New York for a
week's vacation
(some might call it a trip
to hell, but that's another
story...) where you're
going to take in some
shows, check out the new
kosher Italian eatery,
hang out in the Village
and look for
stars (and
not the ones
who
host
infomercials.
I'm talking
REAL stars).
Of course
you'll be chal-
lenged trying
to find a
burger less
than $50 or a
street corner
where some-
body isn't
offering you a
"genuine Rol-
ex" for $10.
But the real
test will be
just getting
around the
city itself.
Let's face it.
There's noth-
ing quite like
a New York
city traffic
jam.
At last, help is here. No
Time for Tie-ups offers a
complete series of city
maps to help anyone out
of and around any traffic
jam on 31 major highways
Presidential Update
in the New York-New
Jersey (or, just "Jersey" as
the natives call it) area.
No Time was written by
Joshua Isaacson. He says
he doesn't expect the book
to be a best seller in
Detroit, "but it does make
a super coffee table con-
versation piece.
"And it's a
great Chan-
ukah gift for
your New
York mish-
pachah (not
to mention
Father's Day
and birth-
days)," he
says.
No Time
comes com-
plete with
296 two-color
maps cover-
ing such po-
tentially sen-
sitive traffic
areas as Yan-
kee Stadium,
Grand Cen-
tral West and
downtown
Newark. (Pic-
tured: Man-
hattan
to
LaGuardia
Airport.)
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send $16.95 to Herruth
Publishing, P.O. Box 1140,
Bronx, NY 10471, or call 1-
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be sent directly to friends
and family in New York.
New Postcard Features
Holocaust Memorial Museum
W
THE DETROIT JEWIS H NEWS
ashington (JTA)
— Collectors and
letter-writers can
now buy a 19-cent post-
card featuring the soon-to-
be-opened U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum.
The U.S. Postal Service
issued the card late last
month, at a ceremony at
the museum.
A museum spokesman
said it is "very rare for a
brand-new institution" to
be so honored before it
opens. Most postcards, he
said, display well-estab-
0 lished institutions.
Two images of the
n
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0
In Search Of
Holiday Horrors
ave you had prob-
lems with the
H scheduling of major
academic activities like
graduation or the first day
of school on Jewish holi-
days? Have teachers
refused to allow your chil-
dren make-up exams for
tests scheduled on Rosh
Hashanah or Yom Kippur?
If so, the Jewish
Community Council needs
you. The Council is work-
ing with representatives
in Lansing on legislation
to guarantee that students
will not be penalized for
taking off school on reli-
gious holidays.
Those with holiday hor-
ror stories may contact the
Council at 642-5393.
DP Camps
Set Reunion
A
fter World War II,
thousands of Jews
escaping to the West
from behind the Iron
Curtain found safe haven
in displaced person camps
in West Berlin.
Established by the Allies,
the camps were Schlach-
tensee, Tempelhof (Mar-
iendorf) and in the French
Sector. Some Jews lived
there up to two years.
The first reunion of the
DP camps in West Berlin
from 1946-1948 will be
held May 14-16 at the
Continental
Inn in
Lancaster, Pa. For infor-
mation, contact Michael
Gleiberman at
the
Continental Inn, 2285
Lincoln Highway East,
Lancaster, PA 17602.
ring out the cakes
document in U.S. history.
(not to mention a
General Order No 11 was
LOT of candles)! It's
issued while Grant was in
time for another report on
the Union Army during the
presidential birthdays!
Civil War. It expelled Jews
Celebrating birthdays
from the territory under
this month: Thomas
his control. The reason:
Jefferson (April 13), James
Jews were "violating every
Buchanan (April 23),
regulation of trade estab-
Ulysses S. Grant (April 27)
lished by the Treasury
and James Monroe (April
Department and also
28).
department orders."
Things you should kn ow President Lincoln revoked
about our fearless leader s: the order. During his presi-
* Thomas Jefferson w as dential campaign, Grant
the first president to
denied responsibility for
appoint a Jew to publ is
having issued the order'
office. In 1801, he nam ed despite the fact that he
Reuben Etting the U.S.
issued other military three-
marshal' for Maryland.
tives aimed at Jews.
Jefferson also was a vigor-
Ironically, in private life
ous advocate for the sepa-
Grant exhibited no anti
ration of church and state.
Jewish behavior. Nor did
* After taking office in
he as president. In 1870,
1857. Buchanan met wit h
he appointed 13enja.min.
a delegation of pron-iine nt
Peixotto (head of B'nai
American Jews to revie w
B'rith) consul to Romania.
their objections to a pr o-
Peixotto's mission was part
posed commercial treat y
of an effort to persuade the
with Switzerland. (Th e
Romanian government to
1850 treaty contained a
stop pogroms and other
provision that forbad e
anti-Jewish activities.
Jews the right to travel in
* James Monroe had a
Switzerland. Jonas
number of Jewish friends,
Phillips Levy — brother of
but he wasn't so friendly to
Uriah Phillips Levy, who
Mordecai Noah, U.S. con-
restored Jefferson's
sul in Tunis. Appointed in
Monticello estate — got in
1813
by
President
touch with his friend , Madison .
was
Michigan Sen. Lewis Cass,
recalled two years later by
who led the fight to delete
then-Secretary of State
the anti-Semitic portion of
Monroe because Noah'
the treaty). The 1857 pro
religion allegedly inter-
posed treaty still discrimi
fered with the performance
nated against Jews, but
of his duties. In 1976,
Buchanan made changes to
Madison's great-great-
eliminate the anti-
great-great-great-grand-
Semitism. i
daughter, Elizabeth Rogers
* Among Jews, Grant is
Gouverneur, married
perhaps best known for
Richard Arnold Cohen.
having signed the most
Their son, Aaron, was born
anti-Semitic government
in 1979.
Get Out And Volunteer
,
museum appear on the
card, one on each side.
The ceremony featuring
the postcard was part of a
series of events leading up
to the museum's opening
April 26. Earlier, soil from
39 Holocaust sites was
interred in the museum's
Hall of Remembrance,
where it will rest beneath
an eternal flame.
our neighbor has
been asking you for
years to come with
her to visit the elderly,
and you've given every
excuse in the book to get
out of it. You have to go to
the dentist. You have to
clean your basement. You
have to wash your hair.
Well, now is the week to
break that rotten habit.
Hundreds of men and
women in the Jewish com-
y
munity regularly volun-
teer — and this is the
time to join and laud
them.
April 18-24 is National
Volunteer Week, estab-
lished in 1974 by presi-
dential proclamation.
More than 94.2 million
persons volunteered last
year; of these, 69 percent
attend weekly religious
services.