[ e news that fits... COMPILED BY ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM 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.) To order, send $16.95 to Herruth Publishing, P.O. Box 1140, Bronx, NY 10471, or call 1- 800-392-7489. Orders can 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 B 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.