Clothing For An Active Life Style. Tell Me Why What Would Vidal Sassoon Have Done With Golda Meir? ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR 44: What's the origin of term "anti-Semite"? A: the yachtsman Michigan's largest selection of Patagonia apparel. 4316 N. Woodward Ave. * South of 14 Mile Road (313) 549-5070 )*0 1[IIT yet 4" 4 Antiques 32315 Grand River Avenue (1/2 Mile east of Farmington Road) Special Savings for Our Valued Jewish News Readers! Priced Merchandise 15% OFF Any regular Mention This Ad 12,000 Square Feet Of Fine Antiques (810) 4 77- 6630 OPEN DAILY 10 am-6 pm • Thursday & Friday Till 8 pm PASSOVER TORTES UNUSUAL AND DELICIOUS w Cr) w CC 1- LU LL1 100 ORDER EARLY! 29229 Northwestern Hwy. Southfield, MI 48034 pronunciation). (In 1781, Hebrew already had been designated a "Semitic" language by the German historian, Al. Schlozer.) In 1879, German political agitator and propa- gandist Wilhelm IVIarr coined the term "anti-Semi- tism" when he founded the League of Anti-Semites. Thereafter, the idea of the Jews as a separate race of humanity entered all as- pects of European learning and filtered down to the mentality of the common folk. From there, it was a short distance to the Nazi -theories of race promulgat- ed in the 1920s and '30s. A recent best -seller in Japan: the anti-Semitic tf You Understand the Jews, You Can Comprehend the World. 44: Are Jewish newspapers a relatively new concept? Your Upper EnctAntique Shop ENTREES & SIDE DISHES ALSO AVAILABLE In the mid- to late- 19th century, an- thropology developed as an academic discipline, and scholars and writers began to think of humanity in racial terms. In the late- 1870s German-speaking world, thinking shifted from the concept of Jews and Christians to Jews and Aryans. That is, Jews were no longer viewed as a reli- gious community, but as a race. According to the Torah, after the great flood the three sons of Noah — Ham, Shem and Japheth — repopulated the world. The Jews, via the patriarchs, descend from Shem. This interpretation was adopt- ed by the Christian world and thus arose in the late 19th century the designation of the Jews as Semi- tes, or descendants of Shem ("Sem" by the Greek • onnie's PATISSERIE (313) 357 4540 - Advertising in The Jewish News Gets Results Place Your Ad Today. Call 354-6060 Not at all. The oldest extant Jewish news- paper is the Jewish Chronicle of London, founded in 1841. and still widely circulated today. One of its earliest editors was Abraham Benisch (1814-1878), who settled in England in 1841. A na- tive of Germany, while attending the University of Vienna he founded a secret society whose goal was to reestablish a Jewish state in Palestine. Under Benisch's leadership, the Chronicle be- came the first to publish Herzl's the Jewish State. It also was the first newspaper to report on the Bal- four Declaration, in which the British government expressed approval for a Jewish homeland in Pales- tine. Q. Did Golda Meir ever visit a beauty salon? No. The former Israeli prime minister nev- er made it even once in her long life (1898- 1978) to a beauty parlor. 44: Is the Kaddish strictly a prayer for the dead? Kaddish is a doxology, a prayer of praise to God. It makes no mention of death or the deceased. There are various types of Kaddish: The com- plete Kaddish, the half Kaddish, the scholars' Kaddish, the mourners' Kaddish, burial-service Kaddish and the Kaddish recited at the conclu- sion of the study of a talmudic tractate. Generally, Kaddish functions as a conclusion to a portion of the synagogue service. In 13th-century Germany, during persecutions by the Crusaders, Kaddish came to be associated with mourning. Until then, the usual practice for a male mourner was to lead one or all of the three daily prayer services in the synagogue. Leading others in prayer was (and still is) considered an appropriate manner of public mourning because it reflects well on the mourner's parents: that is, they cared enough for their son to have him well- educated, and thus able to serve as a shaliach tz- ibur, a leader of prayers. Jewish law states that only a bar mitzvah, a male at least 13 years old, may lead prayers. But the Crusades left many children without parents. To include minors in the synagogue service, the rabbis instituted the recitation of a special Kad- dish at the conclusion of the service and at the end of certain psalms. And because the text of the Kaddish calls on the congregation to answer "amen," this could serve as a child's equivalent to leading a synagogue service. Later, the practice was taken up by all mourn- ers, adults and minors. Send questions to "Tell Me Why" c to The Jewish News, 27676 Franklin Rd., Southfield, MI 48034