Ljay. December 24,1982
The Jeutinh Fiorididn of Tampa
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Women's Wednesday is Coming
I Mark your calendar now 
fednesday, Jan. 12. You won't
nt to miss the Third Annual
Women's Wednesday" spon-
by the Tampa Jewish Fed-
ition Women's Division.
|Co-Chairmen Ellen Crystal and
lichele Goldstein are heading up
year's exciting "Semester In
[Day" Borth Ellen and Michele
[ve been on the committee for
years and both serve on the
(omen's Division Board of Di-
Ictors.
(Muriel Altus, Vice President of
Immunity Education for the
(omen's Division, stated, "The
nmittee has been working dili-
ntly for several months to
ne up with excellent work-
ops and lectures. We expect a
ge attendance as the past two
ars have been very successful
urge everyone to mail their
ervations as soon as they re-
ive them."
UJA National 'Yachad'
Mission Will Bring 1,500
'Young Americans To Israel
Ellen Crystal
Also serving on the committee
areFranci Rudolph, Karen Ber-
ger, Marsha Sherman, Bonnie
Solomon. Nancy Verkauf, Lucille
Michele Goldstein
Falk, Leah Davidson, Lili Kauf-
mann Anne Margolin. Becky
Margolin, and Bobbie Taub
?deph Sholom Sisterhood
Valued Vounteer of the Month
[At the November Executive
[mmittee Meeting, President
ana Siegel announced that
jinie and Becky Margolin are
)DEPH SHOLOM SISTER-
)l)s VALUED VOLUN-
EKR OF THE MONTH. This
|ognition is awarded to Annie
Becky for their love and
Ikation given to help Sister-
k! achieve its goals.
The Margolin Sisters moved to
ipa from New York in 1946.
fcnif and Becky are RNs, and
Irked at Tampa General until
\y retired in 1971 and 1972 re-
tively. They became inten-
tly involved in Sisterhood's
bjects and activities. They were
lirmen of the Library for many
irs. Now they work three days
i'kly at our Judaica Shop.
Inie serves as Community
/ices chairman.
The Magolins are members of
herhood's Catering committee,

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Anne Margolin
Tampa Jewish Federation
Women's Division Board, the
Senior Citizen Council Board,
where Becky is president.
Becky Margolin
We congratulate and thank
Annie and Becky for their perfor-
mance, dependability and
devotion.
Singer Pours Out His Love in Letters
By BEN GALLOB
In real life, there is only one
fiford Pinsker. a young
kfessor of English at an eastern
Vtoard college, but for Isaac
khevis Singer, there will
pys apparently be two Pin-
mi: Pinsker the Poet and
Jsker the Professor.
\nd, according to the young
^olar, not only is Singer con-
mi there are two Pinskers but
is also convinced that Sanford
laker is the son of Pinsker the
1st. How this came about has
kn explained by Professor
Jisker, who teaches at Franklin
Marshall College in Lan-
kier. Pa., in a vignette in a
lent issue of Moment
gazine.
Hie scholar met Singer before
noted writer won a Nobel
for Literature, a famous
"on who was then still able to
Mr his own phone in his
knhattan apartment.
PINSKER WAS living in
knhattan during the summer of
S for a variety of reasons. He
a job at a nearby school, a
timer grant to cover his Uving
pen scs, and a dissertation to
fise for publication as a book,
I chapter of which dealt with
tar'a writings.
Vhen Pinsker mentioned that
It to an older academic friend.
1 latter urged him to call Singer
fa lunch date, assuring Pinsker
}l s'nger was always interest-
I'n meeting his reviewers. After
l** of hesitation. Pinsker
"*{ Stag*, who "listened
>'look my name" and "we
agreed on a time to meet later in
the month."
All went well on the appointed
day. The young scholar met
Singer at the writer's apartment
and they walked to one of
Singer's favorite dairy
restaurants. Pinsker described
how he told Singer about his
project, a book with the unlikely
title, "The Schlemiel as
Metaphor." Singer did not seem
particularly impressed.
AFTER A pleasant but
uneventful hour, Pinsker decided
the time had come to say
goodbye. Singer broke in to say:
"Tell me, what is your name
again?" The scholar described his
disappointment: "evidently, the
meeting was more uneventful"
for Singer "than I had
imagined." He replied: "Sanford
Pinsker, but everybody calls me
Sandy."
Excitedly, much to the
scholar's surprise, Singer said
"Yes, that's it. Pinsker. When I
saw you, I wondered if you might
not be perhaps the son of Pinsker
the poet. A couple of months ago,
I saw a wonderful poem written
about me by Pinsker the poet.
And I said to my wife, 'See,
poems they write about me
now." "
The scholar asked: "Was it in
The Reconstructionist?" Singer
replied he thought it was.
"That's my poem." Pinsker
shouted. "That's my poem."
Pinsker shouted. "That's your
poanf" Singer repeated, in
amazement. "You are Pinsker the
Poet'1 But how can this be?
You're so young to be a poet."
It was immediately clear to
Pinsker that, for Singer, poets
came in only one condition old.
"And the Yiddishist in him
treated 'poets' with utmost
respect."
"To think," Singer added,
"that Pinsker the Poet should be
in New York City and I should
miss the chance to thank him for
a lovely poem. I tell you, it would
have been terrible, a shanda
(shame)."
THE "dutiful lunch" became
"a long exciting afternoon, one of
the many I spent with Singer in
the years since he 'discovered'
Pinsker the Poet," the scholar
wrote. "Of course, Singer refused
to believe that Pinsker the Poet
and Pinsker the Professor were
one-and-the-same. By him I was
always the Son of Pinsker the
Poet."
He recalled that, "a week after
our first meeting," Singer told a
hook reviewer, a friend of Pin-
sker, that he (Singer) had met
"the son of Pinsker the Poet, and
t hen he proceeded to describe me.
I heard about it the next morn-
ing"
But, Pinsker added, when
Singer and he met at the end of
that summer in 1966. "I was too
thrilled to correct him. And al-
though I saw Singler less than I
used to. occasionally I get a
letter, in his child-like scrawl,
addressed to 'My Dear Friend,
the son of Pinsker the Poet."
"I've learned to cherish them,"
the scholar remarked.
JTA Feature
NEW YORK, N.Y. More
than 1,500 American Jews be-
tween the ages of 25-40 will visit
Israel April 10-20, 1983. as par-
ticipants in "Yachad," the Unit-
ed Jewish Appeal Young Leader-
ship Mission, David S. Greene,
chairman of the UJA National
Young Leadership Cabinet, and
Nita Levy, Young Women's
Leadership Cabinet chairperson,
have announced.
Carl Kaplan, Young Leader-
ship Cabinet Missions chairman,
and Karen Adler, Mission chair-
person of the Young Women's
Leadership Cabinet, both of
Washington, D.C.. will lead the
Mission, which is jointly spon-
sored by the two Cabinets.
'Yachad' is the Hebrew word
meaning'together,' "Greeneand
Levy said in their announcement,
"and we look upon this Mission
as a time for young American
Jews to stand together with the
young Jews of Israel, an historic
opportunity to express their soli-
darity with them.
"Together," they continued,
"Americans and Israelis will
share their pride in our history
and proclaim the readiness of the
next generation of Jewish leader-
ship to assume its place in the
long and proud continuity of
Jewish life as we celebrate the
thirty-fifth anniversary of the
Jewish State."
The joint announcement said
that this is the only National
Young Leadership mission UJA
is offering this year and that it is
being designed for those who
have never been to Israel before
or who have never been on a UJA
mission to the Jewish homeland.
The Yachad Mission itinerary
will begin on April 10 with
Art of Massage
Class Begins Jan. 12
The Art of Massage, as taught
by massage therapist Mary Van
Eepol, will begin on Wednesday,
Jan. 12 at the JCC. The basis
strokes necessary to give an en-
joyable and healthy massage will
be taught. This is a four-week
program concentrating on vari-
ous areas of the body each ses-
sion. Classes will be held on Jan.
12, 19, 26, and Feb. 2. Fees are
$12 for JCC members and $16 for
non-members. Sign-up now 
this class filled early last session!
special Holocaust Day remem-
brance ceremonies at each of the
gateway airports throughout the
U.S. from which participants will
depart for Israel.
Highlights of the Mission in-
clude a celebration of Israel's
thirty-fifth anniversary on April
18. Yom Haatzmaut, Israel Inde-
pendence Day: participation in
Israel's commemoration of the
Warsaw Ghetto uprising on April
19. and home hospitality with the
next generation of Israeli leader-
ship.
Also planned are a torchlight
ceremony atop Masada and in-
tensive Project Renewal pro-
gramming.
Further information on costs
and extensions in Israel and
Europe is available from local
federation offices or from Carl
Kaplan and Karen Adler at the
Young Leadership Cabinet and
Young Women's Leadership
Cabinet. UJA. 1290 Avenue of
the Americas, few York, N.Y.
10104.
Pre-Natal and Post Part urn
Classes Offered by
the JCC-Kol Ami
The Center is proud to an-
nounce that, in cooperation with
Congregation Kol Ami, pre-natal
and post-partum fitness classes
will be held beginning Jan. 11.
The classes will be taught by
Lorraine Kushner, an ASPO Cer-
tified Childbirth Educator.
for more information on this
and other classes offered by the
JCC. contact Danny Thro at 872-
4451.
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