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SPORTING -GOODS
Secrets Of A Jewish Baker,
A Protest Theology
And Common Cents
ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR
T
eddy Gross has plenty of
pennies from heaven.
In 1991, Mr. Gross, of
New York, began asking
his friends and neighbors for
their pennies. One year later,
he had collected more than
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turned in a wooden cigar box),
then her mother (who died of
starvation in the Lodz Ghetto)
and finally her sister (who was
taken away and never seen
again). Yet Cecilia, at 16, sur-
vived three years in the Lodz
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snacks for Shabbat and the
Jewish holidays (including
Purim costumes and sukkah
decorations); and Thank You,
God! A Jewish Child's Book
of Prayers by Judyth Groner
and Madeline Wikler, with
prayers in Hebrew, phonetic
transliteration and English.
Thank You, God! has blessings
for a new day, life and health,
comfort and forgiveness and
Shabbat and holiday rituals.
Danny Siegel
$70,000 worth, all of which he
donated to help the poor and
homeless.
Then Mr. Gross convinced
schools in New York to gather
pennies and donate the collec-
tion to mitzvah projects around
the world. He called his pro-
gram Common Cents.
The work of Mr. Gross and
other mitzvah men and women,
along with ideas on how to get
started in the work of doing
good deeds, is the focus of Tell
Me A Mitzvah: Little and Big
Ways To Repair the World
(Kar-Ben Copies Inc.) by Dan-
ny Siegel.
Mr. Siegel, who has spent a
lifetime tracking mitzvah he-
roes, also profiles in his book
Jeannie Jaybush, who set up
a baby corner in her church to
collect blankets, clothing and
food for infants, and Bracha Ka-
pach of Jerusalem, who recycles
wedding dresses and loans
them to brides who cannot af-
ford them.
Directed to children, Tell Me
A Mitzvah features drawings by
Judith Friedman, who also il-
lustrated Jeremy's Dreidel.
Other books new from Kar-
Ben include Jewish Holiday
Crafts for Little Hands by
Ruth Esrig Brian, with more
than 150 crafts, games and
n Facing the Abusing
God: A Theology of
Protest, David Blumenthal
discusses one of the most
troubling questions: where is
God when people suffer?
Focusing on Holocaust sur-
vivors and victims of child
abuse, Professor Blumenthal,
of the Judaic studies depart-
ment at Emory University in
Atlanta, postures that while
God is loving and protecting, He
also must be seen as capable of
acts so terrible they can only be
considered abusive. He uses
Scripture and survivors' testi-
monies in his formation of a
"protest theology" that both ac-
cepts God and defends the in-
nocence of victims.
Professor Blumenthal begins
his book by asking, "How do you
love the Lord, your God, with
all your heart?" The answer:
"By allowing yourself to be si-
lenced by the presence of God,
a silence of amazement and of
receptivity. And by not allow-
ing yourself to be silenced by
God, by speech which is strong
and just."
L
ucille Eichengreen sur-
vived the Lodz Ghetto,
Auschwitz and Bergen-
Belsen to identify and tes-
tify against her former Nazi
captors. In the new From Ash-
es to Life: My Memories of
the Holocaust (Mercury
House, San Francisco), she tells
the story of her life, from her
awareness of growing hostility
toward Jews during her child-
hood in Germany and ending
with her new life in the Unit-
ed States.
A native of Hamburg, young
Cecilia (she changed her name
when she settled in the Unit-
ed States) watched as the Nazis
first destroyed her father at
Dachau (his ashes were re-
Lucille Eichengreen
Ghetto before being taken to
Auschwitz.
It was while working for the
Nazis at the Sasel workcamp
that Cecilia had access to the
names and addresses of the 42
Germans who ran the camp.
She knew the information
would one day be important,
and so set out each day to mem-
orize one more detail about the
Nazis' lives.
In her book, Mrs. Eichen-
green also writes of facing the
American uncle who, despite
the Nazis' growing power in Eu-
rope, refused to help bring the
family out of the country.
T
wenty years ago, two
American diplomats —
U.S. Ambassador Cleo
Noel and Counselor
George Curtis Moore —became
the victims of Palestinian. ter-
rorism.
Mr. Moore and Mr. Noel
were kidnapped at gunpoint in
Sudan by members of Black
September, the secret terror
arm of Yassir Arafat's Fatah.
The kidnappers demanded the
release of fellow terrorists
awaiting death in Jordan. Af-
ter a series of misunderstand-
ings and miscalculations, the
kidnappers decided their de-