ss. WWf WOULD AWONE WANT To Buy LEumnis.. FROM ANYWHERE ELSE Bur HARPER? Three piece sectional as shown / N began on whether to continue the festival. "All due respect to tragedy," cried one disappointed teen, "but why do the rest of us have to have our summer ruined?" As the be- reaved parents got ready to bury their children, the mayor of Arad accused the angry public of "pun - ishing his city" by closing down the festival. Shocked mothers flooded the lines of radio talk shows to voice their concern about what has be- come an annual Woodstock-like rite-of-passage for the nation's youth. President Ezer Weizman criticized the rampant "Ameri- canization" of Israeli culture and wanted to know what thousands of unsupervised 15-year-olds were doing at a three-day rock concert in the first place. It's no big secret that Israel's Zionist lifestyle has long gone out of fashion. Singing around the campfire, hiking in the desert and roughing it are out. MTV, ear- rings on teen-age boys and going to the Cineplex are in. OK, big deal. It's 1995 and you can't expect people to live in 'a time capsule frozen somewhere between the good old days of the Palmach and the filming of "Exodus." But the question is, what kind of values are coming to replace the na- tionalism and self-sacrifice that once guided the country's youth? In the weekend edition of the Hebrew daily Yediot Aharonot, a story caught my eye. Invoking a non-existent municipal law against entering nightclubs with crutches, the doorman of a Tel Aviv disco told a devastated 20- year-old ex-soldier that he "didn't care what kind of cripple he was" and that "he and his friends should go somewhere else." Perhaps it was the tragic events of the previous week that made this item jump out at me and gave it such an edge. Grant- ed, the bouncer was a jerk, the owners of the club were properly embarrassed and the story was unusual enough to get in the pa- pers. But it was one small step into previously unheard of behavior: to ostracize and humiliate a wounded IDF veteran in order to protect the sanctity of a night- club. And it reminded me of oth- er new trends around: to send in more police to break up a tiny demonstration, for example, than to control thousands of unsuper- vised teens at a rock concert. Or to accept that two boys hiking in the Judean desert is unsafe be- havior, and that the norm is to join the others in Arad. Jane Siegel Medved is a free- lance writer living in Israel. Compare at '5450' NOW $2,495" Compare at $149000 NOW $750" • Living Room • Family Room • Dining Room • Bedroom Natumi LEATHER *Prices may vary depending upon grade of leather selected; matching loveseat & chair available HARPER FURNITURE The Comparison Shopper — Buys At Harper 545-3600 Whatever the size, angle or dimension of the room you want to furnish, Natuzzi offers any number of options to make that space your "special place." 916 N. Main, Royal Oak, N. of 11 Mile Rd. • HOURS: Tues., Wed., Sat. -10-5 • Mon., Thur., Fri. —10-8 "C A RT2 W " 'W•\ 7,`Wlk%. Beth Abraham Hillel Moses Sisterhood P "1"719- 30% OFF STORE WIDE* Fri., Sat. & Sun. (Nov. 24, 25 & 26 only) presents a r. INTIOTIVI1 13707114 W Sunday, December 3, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Beth Abraham Hillel Moses 5075 West Maple, West Bloomfield 0) CY) w ART • JEWELRY • JUDAICA • HAND MADE ITEMS • AND MUCH, MUCH MORE... CO w CD 39