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ever mind that she makes
a living telling people how
to have better sex. Dr. Ruth
Westheimer is, above all, a
tiny Jewish grandmother who
likes kvelling about her children

and would rather hear you're get-
"Every time they said 'HIPPY,'
ting married than you completed I had the typical Jewish mother's
a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering sentiment: Too bad she couldn't
and have been chosen to orbit be here," Dr. Ruth said.
Neptune on the next NASA space
Ms. Rosenberg said Dr. Ruth
mission.
didn't talk about sex after all on
That was my first impression Saturday. Instead, she talked
of the renowned sex therapist, TV about how, as a child in Ger-
personality, author and columnist many, she'd been yanked away
as I made my way over to her from her parents, who perished
table at the convention.
in the war. She grew up to be-
She's voluble, which you al- come a kindergarten teacher, and
ready knew, and surprisingly her daughter, she said proudly,
modest for a woman in her line of also chose early education as a
work. Dr. Ruth was invited to career.
speak and receive a Women Who
Dare award at a Saturday
aturday afternoon, after the
evening reception.
hoopla passed, convention-
I asked Dr. Ruth for a preview
eers scattered to study ses-
of her own presentation. "Veil,"
sions, including one led by
she answered, "I figure Ill be talk- Deborah Lipstadt, an associate
ing about you-know-vot." That, professor of Jewish and Holocaust
and her new book, Heavenly Sex, studies at Emory University in
and how her own work, preach- Atlanta.
ing to the ordinary, fits in with the
Dr. Lipstadt said, with a
Jewish tradition of midrash, she straight face, that Jews are di-
said.
vided between the "Judaism of joy
But really, Dr. Ruth noted, she versus the Judaism of oy." She
was at the convention as a proud used the phrase to introduce her
mother. Her daughter, Miriam subject, living Jewishly, and she
Westheimer, is the executive di- reminded the overflow crowd that
rector of HIPPY U.SA , an NCJW it's not easy to do.
program that was started at the
Living as a Jew means more
Research Institute for Innovation than being active in the commu-
in Education in Israel some 20 nity or remembering the past or
years ago. HIPPY (Home In- protecting the vulnerable or de-
struction for Preschool Young, fending other Jews against attack
sters) teaches mothers how to or observing the mitzvot. It means
prepare their children at home be- all of those things and more, she
fore they enter public school. said.
Hillary, who got hip to the pro-
It's not good enough for Jews
gram when she traveled to Israel to be happily mainstreamed.
in 1969 and brought it back to
Being Jewish is about listen-
Arkansas, devoted some of her ing and doing, she concluded. It's
speech to HIPPY.
about making sure our commu-
Dr. Ruth's daughter, Miriam,
nities, institutions and homes are
was too pregnant to make it to the shechina, holy and glorious
convention.
dwelling places. ❑

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Two survivors tearfully record their Holocaust memories in
tribute to their grandson's bar mitzvah.

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ited the Clintons at the White
House with her son, David Her-
melin. Mrs. Clinton interrupted
Chelsea, who was baking cookies
in the family quarters, bringing
her downstairs to meet Florence
Hermelin, Ms. Leemis said.
"I told her who I was and she
gave me a hug and told me how
special my mother was."
Ms. Leemis is a past president
of NCJW's Greater Detroit Sec-
tion and a member of the nation-
al board.
"It's very important for Hillary
to stay in the forefront of these is-
sues, and that's what I said to her
when I shook her hand," said Ca-
role Levine, president of the
Chicago Section of NCJW.
Judy Rosenberg, president of
the Greater Detroit Section,
called Hillary's speech "rather
amazing." She was equally
moved by the personal touch the
first lady brought to her conver-
sation. Before she took the stage,
Ms. Rosenberg introduced her-
self, to which Mrs. Clinton
replied, "This must've been so
much work for you."
Friends and supporters do, ap-
parently, come first for the first
lady. Rather than breaking bread
with the crowd, she disappeared
into a room behind the Renais-
sance Ballroom at the Westin Ho-
tel to have lunch with David and
Doreen Hermelin, who earlier in
the week had hosted a $50,000-a-
plate fund-raiser for Bill Clinton.

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s Hitler's army closed in on
the Polish town of Lvov, a
Jewish tailor talked
somberly with his five chil-
dren about the need for them to
flee.
"One of you might survive
Hitler's fascism," the youngest
daughter, Bertha, then a teen, re-
calls her father saying. "He hoped
we might survive and have a bet-
ter tomorrow."
More than 50 years later,
Bertha Haberkorn — the only
member of her family to survive
— and her husband, Joseph, are
passing the same message of hope
and perseverance to their
youngest grandson, Joshua
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rial Center in West Bloomfield.
For Joseph Haberkorn in partic-
ular, the interview was wrench-
ing, his recollections of two death
camps remain too raw for him to
recount comfortably to a stranger.
He did it for Joshua. "He's the
last grandson," Mr. Haberkorn
said at the couple's home in Oak
Park. "I decided now is the best
occasion for me to give something
to his generation."
The gesture humbled the sev-
enth-grader.
"I respect them even more,"
said Joshua, of West Bloomfield.
"I had always thought I'd experi-
enced a lot more than they had."
But after learning about their
wartime experiences, he said he
can't begin to compare his own
achievements with his grandpar-

ents' "ability and endurance and
stamina."
In the videos, the couple is
transported in their memories to
1941. They recall their mounting
terror as Gel many tightened its
grip on Poland and as they were
separated from parents and sib-
lings they would never see again.
Their stories are horrific, but in
the end say as much about the ca-
pacity of a young couple to love as
they show an enemy's ability to
hate.
Bertha Haberkorn, the
youngest of five children, recalled
a cheerful adolescence in a pre-
dominantly Jewish neighborhood
in Lvov. She dreamt that she
would some day become a nurse.
When Germany invaded, she
joined the Russian army as a bat-
tlefield aide, helping carry wound-

