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the men of Nantucket. For spe-
cial occasions, they wear their
Nantucket Red embroidered with
whales.
The tradition is well known
enough that one guest speaker at
Friday night services comment-
ed to Ms. Bernstein, "I thought
you'd all be wearing Nantucket
Red yarmulkes with whales."
That's all she needed to hear.
Soon the creative congregation
president was thinking of ways
of creating just such a yarmulke.
It wasn't easy. "It took us five
years, but we finally got enough
yardage of Nantucket Red for the
project," says Ms. Bernstein.
Then she enlisted a friend who is

a clothing manufacturer to do the
whale embroidery. The whales
are then sewn onto the
yarmulkes.
"They're a huge hit," she says
of the Nantucket Red yarmulkes,
which sell for a modest $10 each.
Orders keep pouring in.
Whether it's a scrimshaw mez-
zuzah, a Nantucket red yarmulke
or a Friday evening service near
the sea, this is a congregation
which takes pride in its identity.
"There's a wonderful sense of
community in our congregation,"
says Ms. Bernstein. "We've not
only enriched ourselves as Jews
but we've enriched the island as
well."

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nation's capital is the John F. on the steps of the Temple.
On the other walls of the room
Kennedy Center for the Perform-
ing Arts. A featured attraction in are handsome silk and nylon pan-
els with sepia sketchings that de-
the center is the Israel Lounge.
The lounge, a gift to the pict Israel's history from ancient
Kennedy Center from the gov- times to modern day.
The lounge, which is in the Con-
ernment of Israel, is used for meet-
ings, press conferences, luncheons cert Hall, is one of the stops on the
and receptions. It is open for pub- free daily tour of the Kennedy
Center. The guided tours are con-
lic viewing at no charge.
The attractive room has themes ducted daily from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
from present day Israel as well as They last about 45 minutes and I
from biblical times. African wal- recommend them because they let
nut panels on one wall take their you see a lot of things you don't see
theme from Psalm 150 and depict on your own.
Other things to see on the tour
the Israeli artist's (Nechemia
Azaz) conception of ancient musi- include: the Eisenhower Theater,
cal instruments and their Hebrew which seats 1,000 persons; the
Opera House, which seats 2,200
names in English letters.
The ceiling of the lounge is a persons; the Concert Hall, 2,700
splash of colors and shapes. The seats. Each of the areas contains
extravaganza is the work of the gifts and art objects from different
Israeli artist Shraga Weil. He used countries.
A highlight of the center's open
sparkling acrylic paints and 22-
carat gold leaf to paint 40 wooden area is a giant bust of Kennedy;
the bronze sculpture is 18 feet
panels.
The ceiling panels show musi- high. [1]
cal events vividly described in the