Heating and Air Conditioning Ask about our Preventive Maintenance Program Phone 810-335-4555 24 HOUR EMERGENCY SERVICE Atitiques Your Upper End Antique Shop 32315 Grand River Avenue (1/2 Mile east of Farmington Road) 12,000 Square Feet Of Fine Antiques (810) 4 77- 6630 OPEN DAILY 10 am-6 pm • Thursday & Friday Till 8 pm I SABLE LINCOLN Tracer Mystique c Grand Marquis Villager Our Price Makes You Happy! Our Service Keeps You Happy! WE'LL MEET OR BEAT ANY PRICE. Ask For Ron Klarin Town Car Continental Mark VIII DIAMOND LINCOLN-MERCURY INC. 221 N. Main Royal Oak A Phone (810) 541-8835 DAVID ROSENMAN'S T H E D ET R O IT J E W IS H N E WS A111110 am& PlUIRCHASIERS 84 NEW & USED CAR BROKER Sales • Leasing • Buying (810) 851-2277 (810) 851-CARS Sam's 11_) -tal1 Shop "The Ultimate in Automotive Appearance Care" (3 13) 855-5600 A Guide To Conversion, Seasons Of Captivity, And Ten Little Rabbis ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR 4,01111V it MERCURY About Books Finally, each decides to "do of Intimate Relationships hoshana Stubin became in- terested in Judaism be- something special in our very (North Star Publications). A foreword advises readers the cause of anti-Semitism. own way!" One becomes a taxi My father is Jewish; his driver, another becomes a baker, book is not for anyone "looking family came to America in the a third finds work as a tailor. In for a warm, cuddly book on rela- 1840s to the 1860s and has al- the end, they all reunite under tionship" or those who want to most completely assimilated. the mezuzah tree and return "live only in stardust." Instead, Knowing and caring little about home, singing as they sail on the authors say, their work is Judaism, he married my mother, their "shofar boat": "The years aimed at "couples who have cho- a devout Catholic. As he had flew by so fast! All things in sen relationship as their pathway nothing religiously to pass on to the world grow old in time, yet to increased consciousness." Dancing in the Dark his children, he agreed to her profiles various cases desire to raise us as Catholics. in which the authors I encountered frequent anti- SC" YAA consider the many , Semitic slurs in parochial sides of the human per- school from other children who sonality: from the part knew my father was a Jew, that needs to be loved and this made me very defen- RA 881 M051-19 , "?A 38.1 to that part that has no 5ARUCH . sive, as well as curious to know NeR e! interest in being in a more about Judaism. Say "Shalom!" relationship. Susan Weisberger's con- to Mrs. Moseley is a The Ten Little Rabbis version to Judaism followed and join them graduate of Wayne the 1985 hijacking of a TWA as they sail away State University and in their giant shofar jet: to the land of former host of the TV When I heard the flight at- the Mezuzah Tree: show "No-Nonsense Enjoy their tendant's account of sorting adventures as Exercise." She and her Jewish-sounding names on each one does a Mitzvah, husband have a private each in his very own way! passports from the others, I counseling practice found myself asking where I based in New Mexico. would be in that situation. I author sraeli decided I wanted to be count- Aharon Appelfeld's ed with my husband and son latest novel, Kate- as a Jew. rina (Norton), tells These women, and others the story of a woman who chose to convert to Ju- reflecting on her long daism, are featured in the new life. Conversion to Judaism: A Katerina left her Guidebook (Jason Aronson COPYRIGHT 1994 DAVID SOKOLOFF, CONTEMPORARY DESIGNS home when she was a Inc.) by Lawrence Epstein. Chapters focus on why people the goodness of a mitzvah will teen, then found work as a ser- vant with a Jewish family. After convert to Judaism, conversion last." The rabbis also are featured in initially regarding the family to Judaism in Jewish thought and history, and the role of fam- The Ten Little Rabbis Celebrate strange, she comes to love them. During an outbreak of anti- Chanukah. ily in the conversion process. Semitism, the parents are killed Author David Sokoloff is a na- The book also offers a guide to conversion, with a brief overview tive of Kansas City, where he and Katerina, bringing their two of Jewish history and Jewish worked for Hallmark Cards be- boys with her, flees to the coun- texts, and a description of the hol- fore moving to Chicago in search tryside. The boys are later taken of a larger, more observant Jew- away from Katerina, but she idays and daily life. The final third of Conversion ish community. Mr. Sokoloff also clings to her new Jewish beliefs. Another new novel with roots to Judaism is dedicated to life af- teaches Jewish values through ter conversion: how to get in- his act "Mense the Clown," which in the Holocaust is The Man Who Was Late volved in Jewish life and pick a he performs at (Ballantine) by synagogue, as well as informa- kosher restaurants Louis Begley. in Chicago. tion about popular culture and The Man Who ormer Detroi- education for children. Was Late tells the Naomi ter ne little, two little, three lit- story of Ben, a sur- Dworkis Mose- tle rabbis can be found in vivor who rebuilds ley and her the new The Ten Little his life as a financier Rabbis (Contemporary husband, Douglas in the United Designs) by artist David Sokoloff. Moseley, consider the States. He is a man The children's book tells the complex relation- of control whose story of "ten little rabbis who did ships between men every move is fantastic things." In addition to and women, mother threatened by the and son, father and studying Torah and davening possibility of pro- every day, they sail across the sea daughter in Danc- found feeling and and discover a "mezuzah tree" ing in the Dark: unchained emotion. The Shadow Side Aharon Appelf eld where they eat bagels and lox. FyYi I 7