..:,:.<,*:- Page 2 The Jewish Floridian of Tampa / Friday, May 3,1985 Kvell and Tell By LORETTA SAFF kvell v.l. to beam with immense pride and pleasure; to be so proudly happy "your buttons" can bust; doting with a grin, conspicuous pride, uncontainable delight. Say It Isn't So, Mr. President' As you read this, Mother's Day is only a week away. All I can say to you potential celebrants out there is plan! plan! plan! Wishing does not make it so, no matter what Jiminy Cricket says. Last year I tried. (fantasy) 8 a.m.: Family up early, all except Mom, whose door they gently closed to let her sleep while they concentrate on preparing a lovely cheese and mushroom omelette with a hollandaise sauce, a lightly-warmed croissant, orange juice, and coffee. FACT 7:15 a.m.: The telephone rings. "Can you take the carpool to Sunday School Loretta? You wouldn't believe what's been going on. We can't find the pickled herring for the shul breakfast; and Irene, the maven, thinks we can get away with just serving the lox spread. Now, Bernice decided she won't pick up the bagels because she says it's not her job. You wouldn t believe it." I say yes to stop her from talking. (fantasy) 10 a.m.: After a lovely, leisurely breakfast, I step ifrom my Dior nightgown (a Mother's Day present given last night) into a lavender-scented bubble bath. My husband walks in, gives me a kiss, and whispers in my ear, "Honey, you look beautiful. Thank you for being the mother of my children. Lt s go somewhere for lunch overlooking the bay. FACT 10:30 a.m.: After the phone rings four times, I give up the idea of sleep and jump into a three-minute shower. I settle : on the couch with the Sunday paper and I hear breathing behind Ime. "Mom? What are you doing?" demands daughter No. 1. :"You cant read NOW. I'm supposed to meet ." "MOM! shouts No. 2 as she runs into the room. "Hurry up! I need potato chips! And Oreo cookies! For a party! At Sunday School! Let s go NOW!" Then, No. 3, not to be outdone, crawls up on my : lap and says, "Mommy, put on my sandals. We need go get me some gum." In the background, the dog is barking to go out. What else to do but reach for the car keys. BUT SOMETHING THAT IS JEWISH IS BBYO who ushered at the Tampa Theatre for the Tampa chapter of Hadassah which presented the Meaner Conservatory Band. BBYO offers their services any time. They had a great time. Also, BBG, who has moved its meetings to Sundays at 2 p.m. at the JCC, had a car wash on March 31. Thanks to all who let them wash. They even did windows! Any girls (13-18) wishing to join BBG should contact Shelly Pozin at 837-9892. (And they wish Diane Pozin, former President of BBG, now first vice-president, a happy sweet 16 on May 4.) THERE'S BABY NEWS kvelling in Dunedin are Marcia and Paul Molle whose baby. Matthew Benjamin arrived on Feb. 18. Grandma Doris Hyman is very proud in Tampa, and Grandparents Terry and Arthur Molle are beaming in Clear- water. Mazeltov! and best of luck with that fine young man. AND THERE'S FAMILY NEWS How happy Connie and Harold Spitolnick are at the news that Scott and Diana Spitolnick, formerly of Tampa, living in Charlotte, North Carolina, for the past year and a half, will be relocating to Tampa on April 15, with 10-month-old Benjamin. Happily welcoming the returning family is also Great-grandma Eva Spitolnick, also of Tampa. Kvellcome back to Tampa! OUR SPECIAL K n' T CONGRATULATIONS GO TO: Barbie Levy, daughter of George Levy and Lou Ann Levy who is a senior in The University of Florida Law School in Gainesville. Barbie was just tapped for the Florida Blue Key Society, the prestigious leadership organization whose mem- bership is based on service to the university. Keep up the good work. Barbie! We are very proud of you. I i 8 Paul Pershes, who was recently made Regional Managing Partner of the Southeast United States, including the Carib- bean, for the firm of Laventhol and Horwath. Paul has the responsibility of offices from Washington, D.C., to San Juan, Puerto Rico. His job is to supervise and overview all the offices and serve on the Executive Committee to the firm. How ex- citing! Kvell done, Paul! And while we're on the topic of Per- shes, Congratulations to twin daughters, Sharon and Merrill, juniors at Chamberlain High School who were just inducted into the national Honor Society. And while we're on the topic of the Pershes Congratulations to daughter Debbie who will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah this summer in Israel at the synagogue at Mt. Masada. She will share the day with a cousin, and much of the family will join them at the very special ceremony. Best of luck to you Debbie, and to your whole family. KVELLCOME to new Tampans Arlene and Marvin x Newman who have been in Tampa about a year and a half now. :: The Newmans come to us from Cincinnati. They have three : children, Andrew, 16, a student at Tampa Preparatory School; :: David, 21, a junior at Ohio State University; and Michelle, 23, x who lives and works in Chicago. After some serious research, x Marvin decided that the only place to open his own business v would be in a growing area like Tampa, and he bought Sir x Speedy Quick Print on Kennedy at Weatshore. Arlene is S: Training Manager for the Community Mental Health Center : which is part of the Florida Mental Health Institute at USF. She -i ;$also is on the Executive Baord for the American Society for 1 :|:: Training and Development. The Newmans enjoy bicycling and ? S have moved to north Tampa in Heatherwood Village. Kvellcome 8 > hope you are enjoying your new home. Do you have some news you'd like to share? Maybe just % something you'd like to kvell about? Please write the Jewish * Floridian at 2808 Horatio Street, Tampa, Florida 33609, (872- &.4470), and tell me all about it. %8oeflCeC08OCG0B0fl8C9l6Cfl08flfl800fte0090CW&:&OOX:-X-X-:-X-M-X By ABRAHAM H. FOXMAN Associate National Director Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith My first reaction was disbelief it was impossible. No President would honor Nazi SS murderers by placing a wreath on their graves. Not 40 years or 400 years after the Holocaust and Malmedy. Then shock. How could he do this? What motivated him? To me it was totally out of character for the man as well as the president. This cannot be, I thought, the Ronald Reagan who was so eloquent and tearfully moved at the Holocaust remembrance. I could not square it with the Ronald Reagan who is so staunchly building this nation's alliance with Israel. And then the news broke that, after all, the president would visit a concentration camp even though he still intended the military cemetery. The rethinking seemed more like the president I admired, I felt. But then, it was stunning when he equated the fate of young Webrmacht and SS soldiers with that of the six million Jewish victims of Hitler's Final Solution. I was appalled at the in- sensitivity, the mechanical question of victims and vic- timizers, murdered and mur- derers. Myself a survivor of the Holocaust, I wondered at the mind set of a man who could make such a connection between soldiers who goose-stepped off to do their duty in Hitter's mad attempt to conquer and sub- jugate the world and innocent men, women and children who were slaughtered in- discriminately because of an Dr. Greenberg Scholar-In-Residence For Young Leadership Confab Dr. Irving Greenberg, president of the National Jewish Resource Center, a unique Jewish institution dedicated to educating Jewish leaders, will serve as scholar-in-residence for the 1985 UJA-Florida Regional Young Leadership Retreat. The retreat will take place from Friday, May 3 through Sunday, May 5 at the Greenelefe Resort in Hsines City, Florida. The program titled Dor Hadash "A New Generation" will include workshops on campaign, leadership roles, American- Israeli political scene and community development. There will also be a shabbat experience developed by Dr. Greenberg. The program will be highlighted by an address given by The Honorable Thomas Harkin, United States Senator D-Iowa. "We are very excited about this year's young leadership retreat program." stated Robert C. Maland, co-chairman, "the response has been overwhelming and we are looking forward to a dynamic and exciting program led by Dr. Greenberg. We consider it an honor and a privilege to have Dr. Greenberg serve as our scholar-in-residence for our young leadership retreat." An eminent scholar in the field of Holocaust studies, Dr. Greenberg spent several years in Jerusalem at Yad Vashem under the fellowship of the National Endowment for the Humanities and has served as Director of the President's commission on the Holocaust. Prior to founding the National Jewish Resource Center, Dr. Greenberg was instrumental in the pioneering of numerous organizations in American Jewish life. These included Yavneh, the National Religious Students Association, the Center for Russian Jewry (which is the parent organization of the Students Struggle for Soviet Jewry) and the Association for Jewish Studies (the professional organization for Jewish studies in American universities). Linda Hoffman, co-chairman, stated "This conference will have something for everyone. Dr. Greenberg will provide us with the inspiration and commitment that we all need in our roles as Jewish communal leaders, and Senator Harkin will give us insight into the situation on Capitol Hill. We are fortunat have these distinguish* tlemen address us." Mel Pearlmau^o-chairman. added "TheipatCat program has been one^Hne highlights of the year for leadership development programs throughout the State and we are pleased that all of the Jewish Federations in the State have contributed to the success of this program. This retreat will also serve as a reunion for all members of the region who participated in the Gesher mission to Israel this past February." The young leadership retreat is sponsored by the United Jewish Appeal, the Council of Jewish Federations and the Florida Association of Jewish Federations, which include the communities of Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Miami, Orlando, Palm Beach, Pinellas, Sarasota- Manatee, South Breward, South County, Tampa, Volusia-Flagier. For information on the Young Leadership Development Retreat program contact Marc Terrill at the UJA Regional Office in Deerfield Beach (305) 428-6677 or Tampa Jewish Federation, 815-1618. imagined ancestral taint. As I wondered, a scene caJ into my mind out of Amer^T. legend. When the Black Sol scandal broke in 19ig disillusioned young newsboy i\ said to have approach^ Shoeless Joe Jackson, the erea, natural hitting star, and askJ him, "Say it ain't so, Joe." I I wanted to say. "Say it u,V so, Mr. President." But, unfortunately, it is so. The president knows that j there are some things that it j i best never to forget. The gnat philosopher Santayana pointed that out when he said those who forget history are doomed 11 repeat it. Whether or not the president I intends it and I believe that he does not the effect of ha words and his visit to the SS gravesite, if he still persists a I that folly, is to demean the Holocaust and diminish it ' scale to hte level of just anothi atrocity like the St. Valentine | Day's massacre in Chicago. What is lacking here, it seam, I is a sense of history, of per- spective. The past is full fa massacres, no doubt. No nation on Earth is without its shut of dark and bloody ground, oil actions of which it is ashamed and which it buries in tk| footnotes of oblivion. Nevertheless, the Holocaust I unprecedented not only in scale | but in conception. This was u . endeavor pursued relentlessly -1 even at the cost of the Germn I war effort to obliterate Jen from the face of the Earth. Ai far as Europe was concerned, it almost succeeded. One of every three Jews in existence at the time was killed in every con-] ceivable diabolic manner. How could an American | president, the ultimate symbol of our democracy and values, contemplate honoring men evo remotely linked to such i fiendish enterprise? It is an offense against our tradition and all those who M in our armed forces and thoa of our allies to make certta that such an evil did not readj our shores. Say it ain't so, Mr. President Think again! Travel the world the Jewish way WITH Kesher Kosher Tours **> e* . ONS \^K I OK Ol l< SPRING A si MMI l< HK