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'Cowabunga,' Baby Boomers
Edward Keane, the head writer for the
Howdy Doody children's television
show in the late 1940s and early 1950s,
died Aug. 13 in West Bloomfield. He
was 85, had lived in the Detroit area
since the 1990s and was buried at
Nusach H'ari Cemetery in Ferndale.
Keane wrote the scripts, the songs
and created the characters for the pio-
neering show, which began broadcast-
ing in December 1947. It ran five days
a week through the 1950s, mesmeriz-
ing children for 30 minutes while their
mothers prepared dinner.
Howdy Doody was a cowboy-clad
marionette. "Buffalo Bob" Smith was
the human host, who started each
show by asking children in the New
York studio's Peanut Gallery: "Hey kids,
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September 2 s 2010
NEW YORK (JTA) — The head of the
Manhattan JCC is advising the effort to
build an Islamic cultural center two blocks
from Ground Zero. Rabbi Joy Levitt, exec-
utive director of the Jewish Community
Center in Manhattan, is calling on Jewish
and Christian institutions to accept the
couple behind the project.
She discussed her institution's con-
nection to the project in an appearance
on ABC's "This Week With Christiane
Amanpour:' She appeared alongside Daisy
Khan, the wife of Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf,
who is the religious leader associated
with the controversial project, which will
include a mosque.
"The JCC has invited Daisy and the
imam to come speak at the JCC in
September, and I hope that we'll be able
to do that:' Levitt said on the program.
"They've certainly accepted our offer, and
I hope that JCCs and other community
centers in the Christian and Jewish com-
munity and in the secular world will come
to do that, because clearly what this whole
controversy has unleashed is a tremen-
dous amount of misinformation, lack of
knowledge about Islam, that we need to
address." Levitt confirmed that the JCC
has been advising Khan and Rauf.
"Well, we got a call from Daisy when
they began to think about this project, and
said, `We want to build an MCC just like
the JCC:" Levitt said. Many Republican
lawmakers and several Democratic ones,
a slew of conservative pundits and some
people who lost loved ones in the Sept.
11 attacks oppose the project, saying that
opening a mosque so close to Ground
Zero is a slap in the face to those who died
there and their families.
what time is it?" Those in the audience
and those at home would shout, "It's
Howdy Doody time!"
Other characters were the mute
Clarabell the Clown, who would honk a
horn to communicate and spritz other
characters with seltzer, Flub-A-Dub,
Mayor Phineas T. Bluster, Dilly Dally,
Princess Summerfall Winterspring and
Chief Thunderthud, who used the cow-
abunga greeting.
Keane left the show in the mid-
1950s and worked as a stockbroker and
in public relations. He wrote a news-
paper column called the "Consumer
Madvocate" and, in later years in both
Florida and Michigan, played piano
in hotels and restaurants. The Howdy
Doody Show ended in 1960.
Howdy Doody and Ed Kean
- Alan Hitsky, associate editor
Some of the opponents also argue that
the symbolic location of the project will
embolden anti-American Islamic forces.
Khan said that when she and her husband
begin to raise money for the estimated
$100 million project, they will be seeking
more advice from Levitt and the JCC.
"Well, this is where my counselor on my
right is helping us, because our funding is
going to pretty much follow the same way
that JCC got its fundraising',' Khan said.
"First, we have to develop a board. Then
the board is going to have a financial com-
mittee, fundraising committee, that will be
in charge of the fundraising."
Many critics of the project express con-
cern that the money to pay for the Islamic
cultural center might come from overseas
sources with ties to terrorism. Khan said
that she and her husband have pledged to
work with U.S. authorities to alleviate such
concerns.
In the interview, Levitt slammed former
U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich — one
of the most prominent critics of the proj-
ect — for comparing the project to Nazis
putting up a site next to the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum in Washington. She
also invoked periods in early American
history when some colonies outlawed the
building of synagogues.
Services On Cable
NEW YORK — For the first time on
national cable television, Jewish High
Holiday services will be carried on Shalom
TV, the free video on demand Jewish cable
network available in more than 38 mil-
lion homes. Designed for those unable
to attend a synagogue service, the Rosh
Hashanah and Yom Kippur congregational
programs begin airing on Shalom TV the
week of Sept. 5.
The High Holiday services will be avail-
able online as well at
www.shalomtv.com .
Shown are ser-
vices that Rabbi Mark
S. Golub, president of
Shalom TV, leads in his
home in Connecticut.
Because Shalom TV
Rabbi Golub
benefits by being video
on demand, different
parts of the services
are being presented as individual pro-
grams and the viewer can choose to watch
whichever portions of the service are of
interest (liturgy, Torah readings, shofar
service on Rosh Hashanah, Kol Nidre,
Yizkor, N'ilah and martyrology on Yom
Kippur as well as any of Rabbi Golub's
sermons).
"Whenever there is congregational par-
ticipation," Golub said, "the Hebrew will
be on the screen for our viewers to read,
along with transliteration and the English
translation."
There is no cantor or choir. Most of the
liturgy is sung by the entire congregation,
including Kol Nidre on Erev Yom Kippur.
Golub plays the accordion as a prelude
to the start of the Rosh Hashanah service.
Chasidic School Opening
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel's Education
Ministry will allow the establishment of
a private Chasidic school in the settle-
ment where a controversy erupted over
Ashkenazi-Sephardi segregation.
The school in the West Bank settlement
of Emanuel will be privately funded, but
will be bound to follow certain guidelines,
including no discrimination.
The ministry said it approved the par-
ents' request to open the school after "tak-
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