All the news that fits... COMPILED BY ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM A Candle For Grandpa he Union of Ameri- canHebrew Congre- gations Press has published a new book by David Techner, of Ira ) Kaufman Chapel, which serves as a guide to Jewish funerals. A Candle for Grandpa, co-written with Reform Judaism copy editor Judith Hirt-Manheimer, tells the story of the death of a family's beloved Grandpa Morris. It dis- cusses the Chevrah Kadisha, burial prepara- tions like tahara and the different emotions chil- dren may be feeling about the funeral. The book also includes responses to the five ques- tions parents most often ask, such as, "Should a child be allowed to attend a funeral?" A Candle for Grandpa features illustrations by Joel Iskowitz, whose previ- ous works include Joshua's Dream: A Journey to the Land of Israel and Emma Ansky- Levine and Her Mitzvah Machine. To order, contact UAHC Press, 838 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 1002. British. More Knowledgeable Than Americans About Holocaust / J . dults in Great Britain have signifi- antly more knowl- edge about the Holocaust than do Americans and are far less likely than Americans to be open to the idea that the Holocaust never took place, according to a new survey conducted by Gallup of Great Britain. The survey questions were identical to those asked of Americans in an American Jewish Committee survey last April. Gallup of Great Britain last month interviewed 1,025 respondents who constitute a representative national sample of'British men and women. When asked what the term "the Holocaust" referred to, 33 percent of British adults, compared to 24 percent of American adults, men- tioned the Nazis' murder of Jews. In addition, 41 percent of British adults, compared to 35 percent of American adults, knew that 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust, while 76 percent of British adults and 62 percent of American adults knew that Auschwitz, Dachau and Treblinka were death camps. Older Moms And Dads: Unite ou were the talk of the town after you threw a bowl of Jello at your neighbor when she gasped, "At your age!" following the announcement of your great news. But be assured more than a handful of local parents support you. Now you can meet them. A support group for first-time parents 35 and older is forming under the auspices of the Shaarey Zedek Parenting in West Center Bloomfield. The group will consider such topics as handling the stress of parenting young children when most of your friends' sons and daugh- ters are in high school. The Parenting Center also is interested in forming a group for par- ents of premature infants. For information on either group, call Ruth Beresh at the Parenting Center, 681-5353. Seminary Of The Deaf Adds Students' C A Temple You Can Bank On ou began your day by making a deposit in the drive-thru at your bank. Then you picked up a cup of coffee at the drive-thru at the fast- food joint. Next you hur- ried to your neighborhood drive-thru synagogue for some early morning daven- ing. Yes, i t ' s really true. The world's first drive-thru synagogue is located in the California Club Mall Outside North Miami, Calif. The facility is housed in a former bank, where the lobby became the sanctuary and the tellers' cages now serve as book repositories. Rosh "During Hashanah and Yom Kip- pur we're especially busy," Rab- bi Dovid Bryn told Philadelphia's Inside magazine. "At other times, congregants pass through the outdoor teller's window, ring the bell for the rabbi, deposit a donation and receive a receipt and a prayer." No word yet on whether the bank offers this time-saving feature: drive-thru sermons. Just send your Visa or Master Card (the one that's so worldly, so welcome) through that little plastic tube and get back a ser- mon on any number of top- ics! hicago's Hebrew Seminary of the Deaf has just corn- pleted its first semester of classes and is expect- ing 12 full-time students for the fall enrollment. Established in 1992, the seminary will train Jewish men and women, both deaf and hear' work ,as rabbisinga'nth d within Jewish communities. The five-ye s. course of study, leading to rabbinical d ordination, includes Torah, Halachah, Jewish history, Hebrew and deaf culture and deaf studies. "Although there are deaf Jews virtually everywhere, they have not had an outlet to learn and express their Judaism," said the school's founder, Rabbi Douglas Goldhamer. For information, con- tact Rabbi Goldhamer at (708) 677-3330 (voice), or (708) 674-0327 (TDD). Rally Recalls Rosenbaum, Graziosi e ir ewish and Italian through Crown Heights in groups are set to host a Rally for Justice, to be held June 16 at City Hall Park in Manhattan, in memory of Jewish and Italian victims killed in Crown Heights. Yankel Rosenbaum, a researcher from Australia, was murdered in 1991 rioting following the acci- dental death of a black youth named Gavin Cato. Anthony Graziosi, a salesman in Queens, was murdered while driving 1991. Mr. Graziosi, who was Catholic, had a white beard and was wearing a dark black suit at the time of his death. "He was killed because he looked Jewish," the Graziosi fami- ly lawyer said. Cosponsors of the event include the Jewish Action Alliance, the Associazione Catholica Italiana in USA, the Order Sons of Italy in America, the Congress of Racial Equality and the Guardian Angels. PBS-Rejected Series On Israel Now Available On Videocassette 44 I srael: A Nation Is Born," a five-part series produced by the nonprofit organization Israel Heritage Inc., gained fame ear- lier this year when PBS de- clined to show it because officials claimed the program was privately funded by a special inter- est group. Now Israel Heritage Inc., which raised $5 mil- lion from corporations, public and private founda- tions and individuals to fund the series, is making the program available to the public. "Israel: A Nation Is Born" tells the story of the history of Israel through newsreel clips and inter- views with such states- men as Richard Nixon, Harry Truman and David Ben- Gurion (pictured, with Abba Eban), Anwar Sadat, Winston Churchill and Golda Meir. It is narrated by Abba Eban. To order, call Israel Heritage, 1-800-553-8857.