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Zeiger Lodge-Michigan Region BBYO Advisors & Staff-AND The Parents & Members Of Levi Strauss AZA #939 Of Micti igarz Fteg cs irk Eit EtIrC.) I Prince Charles: On The Cutting Edge What your son and Di's ex have in common. ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR Q: I miss Moshe_ Arens, Israel's former foreign minister, now retired. Unlike most Israeli diplomats, his English was excellent, and he al- ways expressed with eloquence and sensibility his country's positions. I was curious about his English, which sounds American. Where and how did he acquire his language skills? A: The same way you and I did Q: I'm a big movie buff, and I've seen many "Jewish" films from the 19605 to the present. But what about in the early part of the cen- tury? Were any Jewish films made then? A: According to Patrick Robinson's Guiness Facts & Feats, the first film with an en- tirely Jewish cast was Satan, — right here in America. Mr. produced in Poland in 1912. Arens was born in 1925 in Also out that year was The Kovno, Lithuania Two years lat- Jewish King Lear, a British er, his family moved to Riga, film. The first American Jewish Latvia, then, in 1939, immi- grated to the United States and movie was A Passover Miracle (1914), with English and Yiddish subtitles. Q:Is it true that baby boys born into the British royal family are circum- cised by a mohel? A: It is true in at CANTOR SAMUEL GREENBAUM Cl) w (1) w F- - C) CC L1J w 108 — Certified Mohel — Expertise • Trust • Caring (810) 855-A BOY (2269) Office: (810) 547-7970 SERVING THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY Get Results! Place Your Ad in The Jewish News! (810) 354-6060 least one case. Prince Charles, born in No- vember 1948, was cir- cumcised by Dr. Jacob Snowman, the official mohel of the London Jewish community. What's interesting about this is that most male gentile ba- Moshe Arens: Where'd you learn to talk like that? bies born in Eu- rope, both past and present, settled in the Washington are not circumcised, Heights section of New York while most in the City. Mr. Arens graduated from United States George Washington High School are. (where one of his classmates was Both a Henry Kissinger), then entered physician the Massachusetts Institute of and sur- Technology. He interrupted his Dr. geon, studies to serve in the U.S. Snowman Army Corps of E _ ngineers, where he remained until 1947. He was an M.D. went on to graduate from MIT, and a fellow of with a degree in mechanical en- the Royal Soci- ety of Medi- gineering. In 1948, Mr. Arens moved to cine. He also was Israel, where he fought in the Is- rael War of Independence as a active in the member of the Irgun. He re- Jewish commu- mained in Israel, where he and nity, where he his American-born wife became served as vice members of a moshay. In 1951, chairman of the he returned to the United States Jewish Health Or- for studies at the California In- ganisation and as a stitute of Technology, from councilor of Jews' Col- which he earned a master's de- lege in London. Dr. Snowman also was the gree in aeronautical engineer- ing. He worked in the U.S. author of several books in- aircraft industry until 1957, cluding Surgery of Ritual Cir- when he returned permanently cumcision and Short History of Talmudic Medicine. to Israel. Q: Tell Me Why recently ran a question and answer regarding Mt. Carmel in Israel. I know about Mt. Carmel from the Tanach. It is the place the Jewish prophet Eliyahu (Elijah) defeated the pagan priests of Baal. Where I live, there used to be a Catholic hospital called Mt. Cannel. Why would Catholics want to name their hospital after a mountain famous in Jewish histo- ry? A: First, classic Christian theology regards the Land of Israel, the ancient Jewish holy places and the biblical prophets as the heritage of Christians, part of their "new covenant," inherited after the Jews refused to recognize Jesus as God incarnate. Because the Tanach notes that Elijah lived nomadically and wore a haircloth shirt and wide leather belt, early Christian writers depicted him as a monk and the founder of monasticism. In the early Middle Ages, former Christian pilgrims anti crusaders took to living as monks in the numerous Mt. Carmel caves to be near the traditional fountain of Elijah and to continue the prophet's way of life (minus his Judaism, of course). By 1226, Pope Honorius III officially recog- nized the men as the order of Carmelite monks. In 1452, an affiliate of Carmelite nuns was established, with residents de- voted to teaching and taking care of the sick. The hospital in your town probably was run by Carmelite nuns — hence the name. 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