For Openers
For her, Daniel Pearl's death at the hands of
Osama bin Laden sympathizers magnified the mur-
derous attacks on Israelis by Palestinian terrorists.
"I only know that I find myself feeling intense
aren Melaas didn't know Daniel Pearl,
grief for the senseless loss of yet another of us, yet
the Wall Street Journal reporter slain by
another Jew," she wrote in a letter to the Jewish
Islamic fundamentalists in part because
News last week.
he was Jewish.
She believes the collective display of pearls "will
But the Congregation Shir Tikvah member was
honor the memory of Daniel Pearl, and show sup-
moved by the brutal -way he died in Pakistan,
port for a child, soon to be born, that will miss the
where he was stationed to cover matters involving
inestimable importance of knowing the kiss, hand-
the Afghanistan war. He left a pregnant
shake, embrace and warmth of his
wife, his parents, two sisters, shocked co-
beloved father."
workers and a grieving nation.
Meanwhile, she has asked the New
Melaas is part of the Temple Divas, who
York City-based Wall Street Journal to
organize a Kabbalat Shabbat (Welcoming
consider promoting March 22 as a
the Sabbath) music service each month at
national day of mourning for Pearl.
the Troy synagogue. The next such service
"In my heart," she wrote, "my deep-
will be Friday, March 22, led by Rabbi
est wish is that all Jewish women, all
Arnie Sleutelberg. She has asked women
over our nation, will find pearls — in
congregants to wear pearls then — "as
their jewelry boxes, in their mothers'
they pray, as they sing, as they dance and
closets, in their grandmothers' cedar
as they let God find a place in the center
chests — and that they will wear them
of their- being."
and stand proudly together to recite
Karen Malaas
To build on that solidarity, the Oakland
Kaddish for Daniel Pearl."
Township resident is asking Jewish
Her heartfelt letter arrived March 5,
women throughout the community to also wear
the same day Pearl's Israeli relatives remembered
pearls that day.
their grandson and cousin in a service at the
Pearls To Pray By
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"Hineinu: We are here tonight. for Israel
— to be informed, to respond and to
connect."
— Barbara Cook, co-chair of the Jewish
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fixes added to their names.
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Pearl's parents, Ruth and Judea, now of Los
Angeles, came to America prior to his birth in
Princeton, N.J., in 1963.
Before he was kidnapped
on Jan. 23 and later mur-
dered on videotape, he told
his captors:
"My name is Daniel Pearl.
I am an American Jew from
California. I come from a
Zionist family. My father is
Jewish, my mother is Jewish.
I am Jewish. My family acts
I according to the ways of
Judaism. We made many
Daniel Pearl
family visits in Israel. In the
I city of B'nei B'rak; there is a
street in the name of my grandfather's father,
Chaim Pearl, who was a city founder."
May his pearls of Wisdom touch the soul of
every Jew next Friday, when many Detroit Jews
unite through the beauty of the pearl to memorial-
' ize Daniel Pearl, who, in the company of Jew-hat-
ing savages, wore his beloved Judaism as a badge of
I honor. ❑
— Robert A. Sklar, editor
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Yiddish Limericks
Whenever a cold's what I've got
One remedy helps me a lot.
A shot of Kahlua
Is just the refuah*
I've needed more often than not.
— Martha Jo Fleischmann
* cure; remedy
"To suggest that PLO-sponsored terror
is somehow different from other types
of killing, and may therefore be accept-
able on some level, is to say that Jewish
lives have less value than other lives."
— Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the 1
Union of American Hebrew I
Congregations, in the winter issue of
Reform Judaism magazine.
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