COMPILED BY ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM
The Perfect Taste Sensation
For Your Favorite Dinosaur
A
fter a full day out
- terrorizing small
mammals, a
dinosaur needs something
he can really sink his
teeth
into.
Jurassic
Park
Dinosaur
Cookies
are just
t h e
thing.
Avail- '
able at American Bulk
Food in West Bloomfield,
the cookies are kosher
(certified 0-U) dairy. They
are produced by Creative
Confection Concepts in
Fox Point, Wis., with sup-
port from Amblin
Entertainment, Steven
Spielberg's production
.
rg
company. Mr. Spielberg is,
of course, responsible for
that monstrous new hit,
Jurassic Park, which has
everyone running to study
t h e
apato-
saurus,
para-
saurolo-
phus
a n d
dilopho-
saurus.
T h e
graham cookies come in a
variety of dinosaur shapes
and feature a dinosaur
report on the back of
each box. (The dilo-
phosaur is nicknamed the
"Spitter" because he
s would "spit out a lethal
venom."
of
spray
Charming creature.)
Franz's 100th What Does It Mean,
( And What Is The Existential Reality?
I
iterature fans every-
where are feeling the
an
of •
angst
approaching event: the
100th anniversary of the
. birth of Franz Kafka.
Kafka, born July 3,
1883, in Prague, was the
author of such works as
The Trial, Metamorphosis
and The Castle.
He started out working
in a law office, then
moved on to- an insurance
company. He wrote in his
spare time. In 1917,
Kafka was diagnosed with
tuberculosis; he spent
most of the rest of his life
in a sanatorium.
Kafka's novels focus on
the protagonist's search
for his identity and his
struggle in extraordinary
circumstances. In The
Trial, the hero never
learns the crime of which
he is accused.
For years Kafka had lit-
tle to do with his Judaism.
But through his friend
Max Brod he became
interested in Zionism and
then Chasidism. In his
later years Kafka began
studying Hebrew and con-
sidered moving to
Palestine with his sweet-
heart and nurse, Dora
Dymant.
After years of illness,
insomnia and migraine
headaches, Kafka died in
1924.
Usr
el Aviv (JTA)
Israel's national
telephone company
is set to open a Christian
prayer line at the end of
this month, enabling
Christians throughout
the world to phone
priests and church lead-
ers in Jerusalem for joint
prayer sessions.
Former U.S. President
Ronald Reagan is to be
among those taking part
in the open'na festivities
com-
e 3 000
callers a di will use the
new line, The Christian
prayer line comes after
Bezek recently intro-
duced a new service for
Jewish customers: a fax
number enabling callers
from abroad to transmit
prayers and messages
that are inserted in
cracks in the Western
,
Wall.
:
Jewish-Muslim
Guide Created
heUnion of
American Hebrew
Congregations has
just published Shalom I
Salaam, a guide aimed at
paving the way for dia-
logue between American
Jews and Muslims.
Consisting of articles by
Jewish and Islamic spe-
cialists, the 120-page vol-
ume also contains a
detailed, step-by-step
account of how Jewish and
Muslim groups can orga-
nize and conduct effective
dialogues in their local
communities.
The manual was edited
by Rabbis Gary Bretton-
Granatoor and Andrea
Weiss of the UAHC's
department of interreli-
gious affairs. Copies may
be ordered by sending - a
check for $12.50 (includes
postage and shipping) to
UAHC Press, 838 Fifth
Ave., New York, N.Y.
10021.
T
1.A. Law' Star
Receives Award
L
A. Law"
t a r
1 a n
Rachins,
who plays
Douglas
Brackman,
recently
received the
Bar-Ilan
University Young
Leadership Circle Golden
Microscope Award.
Accepting his award,
Mr. Rachins praised Bar-
Ilan for its role helping
integrate Russian and
Ethiopian immigrants
into Israeli society. He
also noted the university's
Yiddish program. "I could
have used those classes
when I was a kid," he
said. "In my house,
Yiddish was the secret
language. I didn't under-
stand it."
Historical Society
Seeks Women's Stories
he Chicago Histor-
is
Society
ical
seeking exhibits
and stories for an upcom-
ing exhibit, "Becom-
ing American Women:
Clothing
and the
Jewish
Immigrant
Experience,
1880-1920,"
to open in
March
1994.
The show
will explore
the ways
Jewish
women
from East-
ern Europe
trans-
formed
themselves
into Ameri-
cans. It
will look at
the role of dress in this
process, and at the ways
changes in women's
appearances both reflected
and contributed to changes
in their lives.
The society is especial-
ly interested in the
following items: clothing
worn on the passage
to the United States;
clothing worn by first-
and second-genera-
tion immigrant women;
shoes; outer garments
like hats, coats, furs
and wraps;
toiletries
and cosmet-
ics; para-
sols; jewel-
ry; hair
ornaments;
wigs;
trunks and
valises used
by immi-
grants;
women's or
girls' cloth-
ing worn in
Eastern
Europe.
Exhibit
organizers
also would
like to hear
stories and
memories of the immi-
grants' trip to America
and of their experi-
ences in their adopted
country.
Contact Carla Reiter or
Joanne Grossman at
the Chicago Historical
Society, 1601 N. Clark
St., Chicago, IL 60614.