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COMPILED BY ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM

Funds Collected
For Lapid Family

riends of Mordechai Lapid,
who was killed with his
son, Shalom, by terrorists
late last year, are collecting
funds to help support Mr.
Lapid's widow and the 13 re-
maining children.
The late Mr. Lapid was born
Marc Bloom in Riga. Only as
an adult did he learn he was
Jewish; he later became a
leader among the refuseniks.

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Pope Will Host Holocaust Concert

When Mr. Lapid was 36, he
was given permission to im-
migrate to Israel.
Mrs. Lapid's children range
in age from 2 to 20. Donations
are tax-deductible, and checks
should be sent to the Chesed
L'Avrohom Tzedakah Fund.
Send to Dr. Yitzchak Heching
(Mrs. Lapid's brother-in-law),
3420 W. Arthur Ave., Lincol-
nwood, IL 60045.

Hippity Hoppity Easter Candy
Is On Its Way — From Israel

ittle chocolate rabbits
and eggs are hopping all
the way from Israel to
Easter baskets at Christian
homes across the world.
Elite Industries, Ltd. is one
of the world's largest produc-
ers of Easter chocolate treats.

It is exported under the brand
names of overseas chain out-
lets including Pathmark and
Rite-Aid in the United States,
Marks & Spencer and Tesco
in Great Britain, LeClerc and
Promedes in France, and
Hema in Holland.

Cold Weather Makes Good Friends

eah Rosenstein had
little hope for a nice
habbat.
Several weeks ago on Fri-
day afternoon, Mrs. Rosen-
stein was taking her son and
seven classmates from the
Lubavitch cheder to a bar
mitzvah in West Bloomfield.
"I planned to drop the boys
off at Rabbi Silberberg's, then
return home for Shabbos,"
Mrs. Rosenstein says.
But by 4:30, she found her-
) self caught in the middle of a
blizzard. Not only would she
never be able to get home to
Oak Park, Mrs. Rosenstein
didn't think she would even
make it to Rabbi Silberberg's.
Then her car slid into a
ditch, and everything turned
around.
First, a stranger stopped
and helped the boys push the
car out of the ditch.
It was candle-lighting time

when the group finally
stopped, right in front of
Congregation Beth Abraham
Hillel Moses.
Soon, it was time for Min-
chah. But there wasn't a
minyan, and one congregant
needed to say Kaddish for a
Yahrtzeit.
"He asked if the boys would
help make the minyan," Mrs.
Rosenstein said. "Orthodox
Siddurim were available and
the small sanctuary was used;
the boys participated in the
service."
The caretaker, Yaakov Mer-
melstein, invited the guests to
his home for dinner, but the
boys were eager to make it to
the Silberbergs' house so they
could be sure to see their
friend's bar mitzvah. So Mr.
Mermelstein equipped them
all with boots and scarves as
they went on their way into
the night.

n an historic first for the
Vatican, Pope John Paul II
will host a papal concert
April 6, the eve of Yom
HaShoah, in commemoration
of the Holocaust.
Sponsors of the event in-
clude the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations, the
National Council of Catholic
Bishops in the United States,
and the Tines Center for the
Performing Arts of Long Is-
land University.

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The concert, to be held in
the Vatican's Paul VI Hall, is
being underwritten by private
donations from organizations
and individuals. Guests will

include an international au-
dience of Catholics and Jews,
Holocaust survivors and Rab-

Bark If You're Kosher

ebbles is a dog of dis-
cerning taste. Pebbles
is the pet of Bernie
and Fran Goodstein of Oak
Park, and you'll be barking
up the wrong tree if you of-
fer her food she knows is not
for her.
Mr. Goodstein has trained
his pet to begin eating only
after she hears the word
"kosher."
"She'll stand there and
drool, but she won't touch the
food" unless she hears the
magic word, Mrs. Goodstein
said.
A shepherd-Dalmatian,

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bi Elio Toaff, chief rabbi of
Rome.
The artistic director and
conductor for the concert is
Gilbert Levine of the Cracow
Philharmonic, who will lead
Britain's Royal Philhar-
monic Orchestra and inter-
national soloists in a
program that includes
Leonard Bernstein's Kaddish,
Mahler's Sons on the Death of
Children and Schubert's
Psalm 92, sung in Hebrew.

Pebbles is quite popular be-
cause of her amazing skill,
Mrs. Goodstein said. "Every-
body who comes over wants
to see it."

Pebbles: Going to the dogs.

Where Christmas
Meets Purim

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ver wonder what's inside
a grogger? Maybe its a lit-
tle Yuletide surprise. A
child attending Purim services
at a local congregation was
surprised when his grogger ac-
cidentally broke open and re-
vealed just that.
The grogger's insides fea-
tured Santa's happy face be-
side a Christmas tree.
The real story? One can only
guess. Most likely, the grog-
gers were made from recycled
Christmas cookie fins.

Wallenberg Lecture Features Dalai Lama

he Dalai Lama of Tibet
will address issues of hu-
man rights, freedom and
peace when he speaks 7:30
p.m. April 21 at the Crisler
Arena for the University of
Michigan's annual Wallen-
berg Lecture.
The Buddhist leader and
1989 Nobel Peace Prize win-
ner will receive the U-M Raoul
Wallenberg Medal, estab-
lished in honor of the U-M
alumnus and Swedish diplo-
mat who saved the lives of
thousands of Hungarian Jews
during World War II. Tickets
to the free, public lecture are
available at the Michigan
Union ticket office, or by call-
ing (313) 763-8587.
The Dalai Lama, who has
lived in exile in India since
1959, has worked for the
restoration of the rights and
independence of the Tibetan

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people and the preservation of invaded Tibet in 1950.
Tibetan culture since China