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of South County
Volume 11 Number 1
Serving Boca Raton, Delray Beach, and Highland Beach, Florida Friday, January 13, 1989
Price: 35 Cents
Knesset Rejects
PLO Talks
Opposes Palestinian State
By GIL SEDAN
JERUSALEM (JTA) The
Knesset issued a statement
ruling out the Palestine Liber-
ation Organization as a negoti-
ating partner and affirming
Israel's rejection of a Palestin-
ian state.
The statement, which wound
up a session on political mat-
ters, including the PLO's
recent peace offensive, had
wide support from Likud,
Labor, Agudat Yisrael and the
National Religious Party.
But some Labor doves and
members of leftist opposition
parties accused the govern-
ment of not wanting peace.
Divisions in the Knesset
deepened when 32 right-wing
members signed a letter urg-
ing the law enforcement agen-
cies to prevent four of their
colleagues from going to a
meeting in Paris that will be
attended by PLO representa-
The Knesset statement,
adopted by a substantial
majority, made clear that poli-
ticians here believe the PLO
still aims at Israel's destruc-
tion, American opinions to the
contrary not withstanding.
It stated that Israel is pre-
pared to negotiate with Pales-
tinian representatives who
recognize Israel, reject terror-
ism and accept UN Security
Council Resolutions 242 and
The United States main-
tained that the PLO met pre-
cisely those conditions when it
decided last month to open a
dialogue with the PLO.
The Knesset insisted, how-
ever, that "the PLO, which is
based on the Palestinian Cove-
nant, and any other organiza-
tion which negates the exist-
ence of Israel and the national
existence of the Jewish people,
or which exercises terrorism,
cannot be partners to negotia-
According to the Knesset
statement, "Israel will insist
that the solution of the Pales-
tinian problem be within a Jor-
danian-Palestinian frame-
"Israel negates the estab-
lishment of an additional sep-
arate Palestinian state in the
territory between Israel and
the Jordan River," the state-
ment said.
Foreign Minister Moshe
Arens told the Knesset he
believes 1989 will be a year of
progress in the peace process.
He said Israel is preparing a
series of proposals to advance
the process.
Arens said at a reception
here for foreign ambassadors
that Israel is considering a
number of peace initiatives,
none of which has yet passed
through the decision-making
The right-wing members'
letter, addressed by 32 Knes-
set members to the minister of
police, the minister of justice
and the attorney general,
refers to a trip planned by Ora
Namir and Arieh Eliav of
Labor, and Shulamit Aloni and
Yossi Sarid of the Citizens
Rights Movement.
It urges the authorities to
bar their departure from the
country on grounds that the
law forbids Israelis from hav-
ing contact with the PLO.
Eliav told reporters that the
Paris meeting would not
violate the ban.
He said the four Knesset
members do not intend to
negotiate with the PLO, only
to participate in an interna-
tional conference that would
also be attended by Palestini-
ans, including PLO represen-
Three other Laborites,
Knesset member Haim
Ramon, former Knesset mem-
ber Abba Eban and Haim
Zadok, reportedly are consid-
ering an invitation to a confer-
ence in The Hague that will be
attended by two members of
the Palestine National Council,
Edward Said and Walid Khal-
idi. The conference is titled
"The Palestinian-Israeli Prob-
lem From A European Point of
Re-examination Of Plastic Bullets
By HUGH ORGEL
TEL AVIV (JTA) Attor-
ney General Yosef Harish will
re-examine the use of plastic
bullets to quell disturbances in
the West Bank and Gaza Strip,
in view of the sharp increase in
Palestinian fatalities since
they were introduced, Davar
Harish informed the defense
establishment of his inten-
tions, the Israeli newspaper
Plastic bullets were
approved to prevent the loss of
life. The orders governing
their use were issued to Israel
Defense Force officers and
ranks only after they were
examined and approved by
Harish, Davar recalled.
During last July, before the
bullets were introduced, seven
people were wounded in the
Gaza Strip. In August, when
their use began, seven were
killed and 90 wounded in the
AMERICAN JEWISH AND ISRAELI LEADERS MEET at a dinner in Jerusalem. From
left, are: Israeli Finance Minister Shimon Peres; Morris Abram, outgoing president of the
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations; Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak Shamir; and the conference's new president, Seymour Reich. (APIWide World
Supreme Court
First Menorah/Creche Case
By WILLIAM SAPHIRE
NEW YORK (JTA) Amer-
ican Jewish organizations are
getting involved on both sides
of the first case to come before
the U.S. Supreme Court that
examines the display of a Jew-
ish religious symbol on public
The high court will probably
hear oral arguments in the
case during the spring session,
according to Samuel Rabinove,
legal director of the American
Jewish Committee.
Arguments in the case
almost certainly will be heard
before the court recesses for
the summer, he told the Jew-
ish Telegraphic Agency.
The plaintiffs in the original
case, the American Civil Liber-
ties Union and the Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai-
B'rith, are asking the Supreme
Court to affirm a U.S. Court of
Appeals decision barring pub-
lic displays of a Christmas
nativity scene and a Chanukah
menorah on government prop-
erty in Pittsburgh during the
holiday season.
Friend-of-the-court briefs in
support of the plaintiffs have
been filed jointly by the Ameri-
can Jewish Committee and the
National Council of Churches,
as well as by the American
Jewish Congress on behalf of
the National Jewish Commun-
ity Relations Advisory Council
and itself.
The Supreme Court in
recent years has dealt with
complaints against the display
of a nativity scene or creche on
public property, but never a
menorah or other Jewish reli-
gious symbol.
The menorah in question
belongs to the Chabad-Luba-
vitch organization, a Hasidic
movement. The creche is the
property of the Holy Name
Society, a Roman Catholic
organization. Both are seeking
to overturn the lower court
Nathan Lewin, a Washing-
ton attorney, is representing
Chabad. Lewin is a vice presi-
dent of the National Jewish
Commission on Law and Pub-
lic Affairs, widely known as
COLPA informed JTA it,
too, has filed a friend-of-the-
court brief on behalf of several
national Orthodox Jewiih
organizations in support of the
Continued on Page 6
Page 2 The Jewish Floridian of South County/Friday, January 13, 1989
On board the cruise ship 'The Holiday,'' members ofNa 'amat USA's Palm Beach region sailed the
Caribbean as they raised money for their organization's day care centers in Israel. Among those
enjoying the ship's various amenities were: seated, Palm Beach Council President Sandra Cohen;
Frexdel Frank, president and cruise chairperson of Sharon Club, Royal Palm Beach; Rose
Kreiner, cruise chairperson, Zipporah Club, Delray Beach; standing, Marge Tepperman and
Sylvia Goldstein, cruise chairpersons. Beersheba Club. Delray Beach; Harriet Herfield, cruise
coordinator; Elsie Meyers, cruise chairperson and Ella Nadrtch, president, both ofEzrath Club,
Lake Worth; Tess Teller, Palm Beach Council Jundraising vice president; Raye Shaya, president,
Cypress Lakes Club, W. Palm Beach; and Esther Alper, cruise chairperson, Rachel Ben Zui,
Concern For
Armenia Victims
The Jewish community of
South Palm Beach County will
gather at the Armenian
Church, 2300 Yamato Road,
Sunday afternoon, Jan. 15, to
demonstrate concern for the
victims and survivors of the
recent earthquake and their
relatives in the Boca/Delray
Sponsored by the Central
Agency for Jewish Education,
Theodore Herzl Institute, in
cooperation with the Commun-
ity Relations Council of the
South Palm Beach County
Jewish Federation, the musi-
cal program, 3 4 p.m., will
feature Cantors Karen Bloom
of Jupiter; Elliot Rosenbaum,
Wellington; and Elaine Shap-
iro, Delray Beach. Also partici-
pating will be the Kings Point
Glee Club, with Iz Siegel,
director and soloist, and Yid-
dish singer Nat Zumoff.
Is Aronin will moderate the
program which will also
include speakers Esther Adler,
Rev. Dr. Zaven Arzumanian,
Dr. Abraham Gittelson, Tom
Katz, Dr. John Lowe, Albert
E. Ostrick, Rabbi Samuel Sil-
ver, Rabbi Bruce Warshal and
Marvin Zale.
Donations for the Armenian
Relief Fund will be taken at
the door.
TODD McFLIKER RYAN COLKER
Todd David McFliker, son of Ryan Matthew Colker, son
Penny and Henry McFliker, of Elaine and Terry Colker,
will be called to the Torah of
Temple Beth El of Boca Raton
was called to the Torah of
Temple Beth El of Boca Raton
as a Bar Mitzvah Saturday,
Jan. 7.
as a Bar Mitzvah Saturday,
Jan. 14. As an ongoing Temple
A seventh grader, Todd also Project he will be "twinning"
attends the Temple Beth El with Vladimir Gnnberg of the
Religious School.
Cruising the Caribbean and raising funds for youngsters in
Na'amat'8 day care centers in Israel were, from left, Naomi
Frankel, cruise chairperson and Blanche Gottlieb, co-president of
Kinneret Club of Delray Beach; Florence M. Kaufman, president
ofShoshonna Club in Delray Beach; and Pearl Epstein, president
ofPenina Club, Boca Raton.
Cruise Raises $ 15,000
For Na'amat
More than 360 members,
husbands and friends
of Na'amat USA Palm Beach
Council cruised the western
Caribbean last month aboard
Carnival's "The Hobday."
The more than $15,000
raised by the event will be used
for the children in Na'amat's
800 day-care centers in Israel.
The project was chaired by
Fund Raising Vice President
Tess Teller and coordinated by
Program Vice President Har-
riett Herfield.
Chairpeople of the partici-
pating clubs were Sylvia Gold-
stein, Beersheba Delray
Beach; Betty Sider, Cypress
Lakes West Palm Beach;
Elsie Meyers, Ezrat Lake
Worth; Naomi Frankel, Kin-
neret Delray Beach; Sally
Lebovitz, Penina Boca
Raton; Esther Alper, Rachel
Ben Zvi Maryland; Ida
Rosenzweig, Sharon Royal
Palm Beach; Emelia Davidoff,
Theodore Herzl West Palm
Beach; and Rose Kreiner, Zip-
porah Delray Beach.
Family members sharing in
the simcha were his sister,
Nancy; brother, Dean; and
grandparents, Eva and Joseph
McFliker and Judith and Mor-
ris Baker, both of Winnipeg,
Canada. Mr. and Mrs.
McFliker hosted a Kiddush in
Todd's honor following Shab-
bat morning service.
Jason Scott Wahl, son of
Sherri and Sandy Meade and
Jonathan Wahl, was called to
the Torah of Temple Beth El
of Boca Raton as a Bar Mitz-
vah on Saturday, Jan. 7.
An eighth grade student at
Boca Raton Community
School, Jason also attends the
Temple Beth El Religious
Family members sharing in
the simcha were his brothers,
Martin and Robert; sister,
Lauren; and grandparents,
Edythe and Nat Tollner of
West Hempstead, NY and
Sara and Isadore Krassen of
Jason's parents hosted a kid-
dush in his honor following
afternoon service's.
Soviet Union.
A seventh grade student at
A.D. Henderson School, Ryan
also attends the Temple Beth
El Religious School.
Family members sharing in
the simcha are his sister, Wren
and grandparents, Jean and
David A. Colker of Ft. Lauder-
dale, and Eleanor and Frank
P. Rothstein of Forest Hills,
Mr. and Mrs. Colker will
host a kiddush in Ryan's honor
following Shabbat morning
Danny Wurtenberger, son
of Kenny and Mara Wurten-
berger of Plantation will be
called to the Torah on the
occasion of his Bar Mitzvah
Saturday, Jan. 21 at Temple
Kol Ami of Plantation.
A student at Nova Middle
School, Danny's hobbies are
tennis and basketball.
Sharing in the simcha will be
Danny's brother, Michael; and
his grandparents, Seymour
and Martha Gross of Lyn-
brook, NY and Sylvia and Fred
Wurtenberger of New
Rochelle, NY.
Temple Coffee For Membership
Boca Temple, Black
Church Joint Service
B'nai Torah Congregation,
1401 NW 4th Avenue, Boca
Raton, will sponsor the first in
its series of winter member-
ship coffees, Monday, Jan. 16,
8-9:30 p.m.
Non-affiliated members of
the community are invited to
attend the informal gathering
at which coffee and dessert
will be served.
For information: 392-8566.
will be represented by Deacon
Edie Ceasar and a selection of
lay ministers. Rev. Anthony
Holliday will also be present.
The two groups have agreed
to meet together to maintain a
dialogue that would help to
revive their faith and trust in
* Rabbi Richard Agler, spiritual one another, joining in song
r leader of B'nai Israel, will con- and prayer in expression of
their yearning for peace and
| peace and understanding
? between the two groups. The
~ Ebenezer Church, which is
_ currently between pastors,
the fifth consecutive
year, Congregation B'nai
Israel of Boca Raton will hold a
joint service with the members
gof the Ebenezer Missionary
2 Baptist Church at 11 a.m. Sun-
sday, Jan. 15, during Martin
Luther King Weekend.
From the church pulpit,
abbi Richard Agler, spiritua
w leader of B'nai Israel, will con
vey his sentiments for eternal
Ebenezer Missionary Bap-
tist Church is located at 200
NE 12 St., on Glades Road.
WILMINGTON, Del. (JTA) Richard Karfunkle has
been elected president of the National Federation of
Temple Brotherhoods, the national organization of brother-
hood affiliates of Reform congregations.
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Friday, January 13, 1989/The Jewish Floridian of South County Page 3
On Friday, Jan. 13,
8:15 p.m., Rabbi Nathan Zel-
izer will deliver a sermon titled
"Society and the Individual."
An oneg will follow the ser-
On Saturday, Jan. 14, 9:30
a.m. Rabbi Zelizer will teach
the weekly portion, Bo and
deliver a sermon on "Time and
the Jewish People." Kiddush
will follow services.
Services on Friday evening,
Jan. 20, will begin at 8:15 p.m.
Rabbi Zelizer will deliver a
sermon titled "A Time To Be
Silent and a Time To Speak."
An oneg will follow services.
Saturday morning, Jan. 21,
at 9:30 a.m. services, Rabbi
Zelizer's sermon will be "The
New Year For Trees." Rabbi
will teach the weekly portion,
Beshalach and kiddush will fol-
low the services.
Congregation Beth Ami ser-
vices are held at the Mae Volen
Senior Center, 1515 W. Pal-
metto Park Road, Boca Raton.
For information: (407) 276-
Sabbath morning service
Saturday, Jan. 21, will start at
8:30 a.m. Rabbi Dr. Louis L.
Sacks will preach the sermon
on the theme "The Divine
Symphony." Kiddush will fol-
Daily classes in the "Judaic
Code of Religious Law"
(Schulchan Oruch), led by
Rabbi Sacks, begin at 7:30
a.m., preceeding daily minyon
services, and at 5 p.m., in
conjunction with daily twilight
minyon services.
A D'var Torah in Yiddish is
presented by Rabbi Sacks in
conjunction with the Seu'dat
Shli'sheet celebrated each Sab-
bath between the twilight ser-
Anshei Emuna Orthodox
Congregation is located at
16189 Carter Road, Delray
For information: 499-9229.
Sabbath services Friday
evening, Jan. 27 and Saturday
morning, Jan. 28, are desig-
nated as "Sisterhood Sab-
bath" and the women will par-
ticipate in the service.
Temple Emeth of Delray
Beach is located at 5780 W.
Day Care For Elderly
Shared Care, an interfaith
day care program of activities
for the elderly, is open to the
community by registration.
Sponsored jointly by Temple
Beth El, St. Joan of Arc Parish
and First Presbyterian
Church, all of Boca Raton, the
program which also offers
respite for caregivers of the
elderly is run at Temple
Beth El, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Area Deaths
Estelle, a resident of Delray Beach,
died Saturday, Dec. 81. She is sur-
vived by three sisters, Rose Fischer,
Elsie Winter and Evelyn Schwartz;
and a nephew, Jerome Nudelman. A
graveside funeral service was held at
Ht. Nebo Cemetery under the direc-
tion of Riverside, No. Miami Beach.
Atlantic Ave.; for information:
On Friday evening, Jan. 20,
services will begin at
8:15 p.m., under the leadership
of Rabbi Sheldon J. Harr and
Cantor Seymour Schwartz-
On Saturday, Jan. 21, ser-
vices will begin at 10:30 a.m.
At that time, Danny Wurten-
berger, son of Mara and Kenny
Wurtenberger, will be called to
the Torah in honor of his Bar
Friday evening services,
Jan. 20, will begin at 8 p.m.,
following a Shabbat family din-
ner for Grade 6 at 5:45 p.m.
Temple Beth El of Boca
Raton is located at 333 S.W. 4
Ave. For information: 391-
Cantorial Soloist Karen
Blum of Miami will lead Shab-
bat evening services Jan. 13
and 27.
Temple Beth Am is located
at 759 Parkway St., Jupiter.
For information: 747-1109.
The B'nai B'rith Women's
chapter of Boca Raton will hold
its ninth birthday celebration
Monday, Jan. 16, 12:30 p.m.,
at Temple B'nai Torah. The
entertainment part of the pro-
will feature Bert Shel-
Branch 1051, Delray Beach,
meets the second Wednesday
of every month, October-May,
1 p.m., in Temple Sinai, 2475
W. Atlantic Ave., Delray
Beach. For information: 499-
3433 or 499-7155.
Nathanya South chapter will
hold its annual paid-up mem-
bership brunch Tuesday, Jan.
17, 10 a.m., at Patch Reef
Park Community Center, Boca
Raton. A brief business meet-
ing will precede the brunch,
which will be followed by a
program. Information: 495-
2230. :.:>.'
The Boca Raton Aviva Chap-
ter is sponsoring a night at
Royal Palm Dinner Theater
Thursday, Feb. 9, for a per-
formance of "Gigi." Dinner is
at 6 p.m.; the show at 8 p.m.
Cost is $33 per person. Infor-
mation: 391-7995 or 483-1164.
The Aviva chapter's paid-up
membership luncheon will be
held Wednesday, Jan. 25, at
Patch Reef Park Clubhouse,
Boca Raton. Couvert is $5 plus
paid-up dues and there will be
Reservations, by Jan. 18:
395-9533 or 392-7745.
The Shalom Chapter of Del-
ray is planning a theater party
at the Sheraton Bal Harbour
to see "Masquerade" Wednes-
day, Jan. 18. The price of $33
per person includes show tick-
ets, bus transportation, and
gratuities. For information:
The Shalom Chapter will
hold its annual "Hadassah
Medical Organization" lunch-
eon Tuesday, Feb. 7, noon, at
Boca Golf & Tennis Club.
Luncheon, entertainment and
a national speaker will be on
the program for a donation of
$25 per person. Information:
Lakeside Chapter will hold
its annual paid-up membership
luncheon and auction Monday,
Jan. 23, 12:30 p.m., at the
Boca Raton American Legion
Hall. For information: 276-
1524, 272-4336, 243-0391 or
Oriole Chapter will hold
their meeting on Thursday,
Jan. 26, 12:30 p.m., at Ameri-
can Savings & Loan on West
Atlantic Avenue, Delray
Youth Super
Bowl Party
BOFTY, the senior youth
group of Temple Beth El of
Boca Raton, will hold a Super
Bowl party Sunday, Jan. 22, 5
p.m., in the BOFTY Lounge.
Men's Club Meets
The Men's Club of Temple
Anshei Shalom, Delray Beach,
will sponsor a breakfast meet-
ing Sunday, Jan. 15,9:30 a.m.
Guest speaker will be Joan
Braler of the Rand Eye Insti-
For information: 495-0466.
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Page 4 The Jewish Floridian of South County/Friday, January 13. 1989
Tightening Resolve;
Changing Resolve
While the new Israeli government is
attempting to tighten its collective belt in a
move toward fiscal austerity, the Israeli peo-
ple seem to be loosening their resolve vis-a-vis
the Palestine Liberation Organization.
A new, and reportedly surprising, poll just
released suggests that the people of Israel are
moving forward faster than their administra-
tion toward dealing with the PLO.
A slight majority of 54 percent believes that
the State of Israel should negotiate with the
PLO as long as its chairman, Yasir Arafat,
abides by his renouncement of terrorism. Of
those, 21 percent strongly support the move
and 33 percent are in favor of doing so.
Whether or not the resumption of contact
between the United States and the PLO
affects the national Israeli attitude is immater-
What is worthy of note is that, after a year
of the intifada in the administered territories,
there is some movement toward approaching
new avenues of dialogue between the adver-
saries in the Middle East.
That the U.S. made the first bold move
and is still considered an honest broker can
be considered catalytic.
While not endorsing the PLO, Israelis are
acknowledging that practicality and neces-
sity both may be the mother of reinventing
the peace process.
Good news, bad news
Good is that international pressure on Israel
has lessened as a result of the renewed
identification of Palestinian terrorists with the
threats against world airlines and airports.
Although there is not definitive evidence that
Palestinian extremists destroyed an American
airliner, they are the principal suspects.
In addition, greatly tightened security provi-
sions for all western airlines call attention to
the ongoing linkage of Palestinians and terror-
Bad news of course is that hundreds are
dead and the costs of the belated security will
mount into the millions of dollars.
Of course, PLO leader Yasir Arafat is being
looked to for assistance in bringing to justice
the Palestinian factions which oppose both
Arafat and recognizing Israel and UN Resolu-
tions mandating ti;e 1967 borders as the
highest possible goal of an Arab state in the
one-time Palestine Mandate.
Arafat knows that even if he knows which
Palestinian terrorists are involved in specific
acts, he cannot inform on them without sign-
ing his own death warrant.
m "y I he Jewish ^^ y
Diffusing Potential Conflict
After the annual church/state conflict of
every December fought on city hall lawns
across the country, there is a refreshing
approach to mixing religion and public schools
being advanced.
Scholars are suggesting that while the wall
of church/state separation cannot be breached,
further consideration of learning about reli-
gion could be appropriate to a school syllabus.
The Supreme Court, in fact, validated that
approach while rejecting prayer in public
Perhaps, the new move afoot to put religion
in its proper cultural and historical perspec-
tive might well diffuse the particularistic
efforts of fundamentalists whose sole goal is to
put their version of God in the schoolhouse.
Fateful Ambiguity
By RABBI MARC H. TANENBAUM
The decision of the United
States government to legitim-
ize the Palestine Liberation
Organization through direct
dialogue is fraught with fateful
It is either a crisis that could
become an opportunity for
peace, or ii is an opportunity
that could explode into an even
greater crisis.
There should be no confusion
about Jewish attitudes. The
majority of American Jews, I
believe, trust President
Reagan and Secretary of State
George Shultz. They are true
friends of the Jewish people
and of Israel.
The real issue is that prac-
tically no one trusts Yasir
Arafat or the PLO. Arafat
spent weeks working on a joint
agreement with King Hussein
of Jordan, and then publicly
rejects their written under-
Arafat, in a circus of pub-
licity, announces that he
accepts America's conditions
for a dialogue, specifically re-
cognition of the State of Israel
and a rejection of terrorism.
At the very same time, the
radical Marxist PLO factions
of George Habash and Nayef
Hawatmeh tell the Arab press
they will never give up terror-
ism or accept Israel. So wh >
does Arafat really represent?
The critical issue, as I see it,
is how to discover true mod-
erate Palestinians who will
work unambiguously for peace
and not just engage in prop-
aganda warfare.
America and the world have
a great stake in being com-
pletely realistic and in not
being trapped in verbal decep-
tions and massive hype.
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I, for one, have severe reser-
vations as to the long term
viability of the Middle East
peace which has apparently
been engineered by the major
powers and is being forced
upon the parties directly
involved in the conflict.
I feel it is no coincidence that
within the last year we have
had an end to the conflicts in
Nicaragua, Afghanistan,
Namibia, Angola, and Cambo-
dia which have been brought
about by agreements in which
the United States and the
Soviet Union have both played
a major part. If, in fact, the
Cold War is now winding
down, that the super powers
are seeking a resolution to
regional conflicts is part of
that process.
If a peace is forged on Israel
and the Palestinians which
does not have wide ranging
grass root support among the
people who would be expected
to live among one another in
peace, than that peace will not
be long-lasting. Even if the
Soviets and the Americans are
not supplying new weapons
and support for aggressions on
both sides, that does not mean
that the historic hates and
fears will disappear overnight.
Much of the U.S. positioning is
meant to put pressure on
Israel which is a change in the
long-standing U.S. policy not
to interfere with the wishes of
a democratically elected sover-
eign government.
I don't think Israel, whose
entire existence and security
relies on strong and vigilant
defense of its national interest
can afford to just depend on
the good faith of the PLO
leadership or, for that matter,
the Soviet leadership that is in
a politically tenuous position
and could be overthrown by
hard-liners within their own
regimes at any time.
I would suggest that the
U.S. and Israel wait to see if
the desire for the realistic com-
promises that must be made to
achieve a real peace will flow
down to the individual inhabit-
ants of the area who have to
live with one another every
Our government should
allow Israel enough time to
wait and see how sincere the
PLO leadership really is and if
they really can speak for the
Palestinian people on the very
important issues that will have
to be decided for peace to
become a long-term reality for
Israel and her Arab neighbors
Friday, January 13, 1989/The Jewish Floridian of South County Page 5
Conference Seeks
Alternative Voice
"We need a conference of presidents of
minor Jewish organizations."
NEW YORK (JTA) When
1,500 Jewish progressives
conference, no votes were leaders to ^ downKfor ^ those whose objects are to
undermine Israel."
no votes were
no leaders were
taken and
elected. .
Nevertheless, the "Tikkun"
conference, sponsored by the
liberal, Oakland-based Jewish
magazine, took on the air of a
political convention.
Wild applause saluted stump
speeches by such stars of the
Jewish and political left as
Irving Howe, Abba Eban,
Letty Cottin Pogrebin and
Todd Gitlin.
Back-slapping delegates
boasted of party unity, while
others bemoaned irreconcila-
ble differences.
with the Palestine Liberation
Organization. In a remark that drew hisses
But other speakers coun- ^ bs> Gordis warned par-
seled prudence in forming a tjcipants of being "branded as
new organization.
Henry Siegman, executive
director of the American Jew-
ish Congress, said he shared
many of the participants' criti-
cisms of the "status quo" in
Israel. But he wondered if the
formation of a new organiza-
tion was more than just a bid
for publicity.
David Gordis, former execu-
illegitimate because of the fel-
lowship in which they find
Gordis was hinting at the,
kinds of criticism of the left,
including charges of anti-
Israel bias, that led many for-
mer Jewish liberals to run into
the arms of neo-conservatism.
Nan Fink, publisher of Tik-
kun, acknowledged those criti-
cisms earlier in the conference
when she said, "The left has
tive vice president of the
And special interest groups ^er|can Jewish Committee, ver fuTl/foc'ed the implied
inotioH fnr attpntinn nn a said there must be guidelines *;^^o ~t *u i i--------/a.
followed in criticizing Israel.
"The tone of our criticism
cannot partake of Israel-bash-
ing,** he said. "We have to
crowded agenda: students,
feminists, animal rights activ-
ists, gays and lesbians.
Most telling of all, there was
a "platform." Its first main
plank was contempt for what
speakers called the conservat-
ism of the organized American
Jewish community.
The second plank was a
belief that Israel's administra-
tion of the West Bank and
Gaza Strip, in the words of
Tikkun editor Michael Lerner,
"is irrational, destructive,
immoral and must be termi-
But this was no political con-
vention, and participants won-
dered again and again if the
energy of the conference could
be channeled into an organiza-
tion to rival establishment
voices, such as those within
the Conference of Presidents
of Major American Jewish
"I feel that the mainstream
Jewish organizations in the
United States and the main
thrust of the organized Jewish
community in Baton Rouge
don't represent my views,"
said Steven Weintraub, 37, a
professor of mathematics at
Louisiana State University.
Weintraub's complaint was
typical of that of many partici-
pants, and so was his prescrip-
tion. "It's necessary to find a
counterweight to the main-
stream, and I have hopes of a
movement," he said.
"We need Tikkun, as a way
of unifying all the splinter
groups left of center," said
Ruth, 46, of New York, who
asked that her last name not
be used. "The Israeli right has
lost touch with reality, and
they have not been opposed"
by American Jews.
Hopes for unity on the Jew-
ish left were discussed at a
plenary session. Letty Cottin
Pogrebin, founding editor of
Ms. magazine, quoted Eban
when she said, "We need a
conference of presidents of
minor Jewish organizations."
She described some of the
institutional initiatives that
were being discussed at the
conference. They included the
Committee for Judaism and
Social Justice, which Tikkun is
promoting as an alternative
voice on Jewish public policy,
and J-PAC, a Jewish lobby to
counter the influence of the
American Israel Public Affairs
Lerner spoke of organizing a
national campaign for "negoti-
anti-Semitism in the Commun-
ist Party or the degree to
which it tolerates anti-
Semitism within its own
However, said Lerner, an
observant Jew who wears a
chest-length beard and a pie-
sized yarmulke, "This is not an
assemblage of self-hating Jews
or people alienated from
Commentator To
Speak on
Palestine Problem
Hirsh Goodman, a Strategic
Fellow at the Washington
Institute for Near East Policy
and a consultant for CBS Tele-
vision, will speak on "The
Palestine Problem and the
Chances of Peace" Sunday,
Jan. 22, 9:30 a.m., at Temple
Beth El of Boca Raton.
Goodman is a regular contri-
butor to The New Republic and
a special correspondent for the
Sunday Times of London. His
articles have also appeared in
the Los Angeles Times and the
Atlantic Monthly. He studied
history and international rela-
tions at the Hebrew University
and was a defense and political
commentator for the Jerusa-
lem Post, 1969-88.
Basing their criticism of
Israeli policy on a "profound
insistence of our love for the
people of Israel," he said,
"many of us will no longer
accept organized Jewry's cri-
teria for how we have to talk
or what tone to take. We are
not the periphery."
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Scholar-In-Residence At Anshei Emuna
First Menorah/Creche Case
Rabbi Herschel Schacter, a
former chairman of the Con-
ference of Presidents of Amer-
ican Jewish Organizations, is
this year's Eleanor Goldblum
Memorial Scholar-in-
Residence at Anshei Emuna
Congregation, 16189 Carter
Road, Delray Beach.
Rabbi Schacter will speak on
Saturday, Jan. 28, at the 8:30
a.m. Shabbat service and at
Seudat Shli'sheet, 4:45 a.m.;
and at Sunday breakfast, Jan.
29, 9:30 a.m.
The Scholar-in-Residence
program is sponsored by Ern-
est Goldblum and family, and
Anita Penzer.
Simon Schwartz, national president of MERCAZ, the
Zionist organization of the Conservative movement, was
elected president of the American Zionist Federation along
with the rest of the executive slate, at the AZF's biennial
convention in Baltimore. Immediate past treasurer of the
AZF. Schwartz, was president of United Synagogue of
America 1977-1981.
Bloomfield To Head Holocaust Council
Sara J. Bloomfield, deputy director for operations of the
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council since 1986, has been
appointed the council's acting executive director. More
than $55 million of a $147 million goal has been raised and
construction of the museum will begin shortly.
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Chabad position.
The ADL, co-counsel with
the ACLU in the case of
ACLU v. County of Allegheny
(Pa.), represents Malik Tuna-
dor, a Moslem. He testified
that as an Allegheny County
taxpayer, he felt excluded by
the erection of a menorah on
the steps of the Pittsburgh
City-County Building and the
annual placement of a creche
in the Allegheny County
The U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Third Circuit in Phila-
delphia ruled last March 15
that the establishment clause
of the U.S. Constitution's
First Amendment prohibits
the display of religious sym-
bols in or near buildings that
house government offices.
The Supreme Court agreed
four months ago to hear the
Donald Mintz, chairman of
ADL's Civil Rights Commit-
tee, pointed out that "religious
symbols at these locations
communicate the message that
the represented faiths are
endorsed or approved by the
state." He said the message
violates the establishment
clause "because it diminishes
the political stature of those
who do not adhere to the rep-
resented religion."
Rabinove said the "constitu-
tional principle of separation
of religion and government
means the government should
not become involved with reli-
gions unless there is a religious
need that cannot otherwise be
met," such as chaplains for the
armed forces.
"There is no religious need
to place sacred symbols of any
faith in government build-
ings," he stressed.
But Rabinove recalled that
in two previous cases, the
Supreme Court decided
against plaintiffs and upheld
the display of a creche on
public property.
One, in 1984, involved a
creche in Pawtucket, R.I., that
was city property. The court
was influenced by the fact that
it was part of a larger Christ-
mas display that contained hol-
iday artifacts which carried no
religious message.
The other case, the display
of a creche on public park land
in Scarsdale, N.Y., was
decided in 1985 on freedom of
speech grounds.
In the present case, Chabad
argued that government has a
responsibility to counterbal-
ance "the overwhelming
Christian message delivered
by municipal displays that fea-
ture Christmas trees."
But the AJCongress brief
rejects this reasoning, saying
that the Christmas tree is a
secular rather than a religious
symbol and therefore not
bound by the strict rules
placed on religious arrays. The
brief also argues that by high-
lighting the symbols of the
Christian and Jewish faiths,
"other religious groups with-
out a December holiday would
be discriminated against."
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No Other Sessions Set:
U.S. Acknowledges
PLO Meeting
By HOWARD ROSENBERG
WASHINGTON (JTA) The United States said that its
meeting with the Palestine Liberation Organization last week-
end was initiated by a low-level PLO official who "asked to come
and introduce himself."
"There are no other meetings planned at this time," State
Department spokesman Charles Redman said. Redman had said
before the initial U.S. contact with the PLO on Dec. 16 that no
other meetings were likely before President-elect George Bush's
inauguration on Jan. 20.
A State Department source dismissed reports from Madrid
that a PLO official was to meet with the United States this week.
"That's wrong," the source said.
U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia Robert Pelletreau, the sole U.S.
official authorized to speak with the PLO, did meet for 45
minutes with Hakam Balaoui, the PLO's representative in
Tunis, Redman said.
Pelletreau used the occasion to say the United States "would
welcome any information the PLO is able to develop" on the
terrorist downing of Pan American World Airways Flight 103 on
Dec. 21, Redman said.
Pelletreau told Balaoui that finding the perpetrators of the
bombing is a "high priority for the United States," he added.
Redman refused to discuss other details of the meeting, except
to say the agenda was much smaller than that at the Dec. 16
meeting. Redman added that he will not divulge any information
provided by the PLO to the United States, citing the need for
investigators to work on a "confidential basis."
Frank House To
By HENRIETTA BOAS
AMSTERDAM (JTA) The
Anne Frank House will unde-
rgo extensive reconstruction
due to the ever-increasing
number of visitors. The house
has become the second-largest
tourist attraction in Amster-
dam, exceeded in popularity
only by the Rijk Museum with
its famous collection of
Amsterdam's foundation for
the protection of monuments
is concerned that the recon-
struction may damage the
original characteristic of the
A house at the back of the
Anne Frank House at 263
Prinsengracht, now separated
from it by a garden, will be
connected with it and made
accessible through a covered
passage through the garden.
Because of the cramped situ-
ation, tourists now endure
long waits outside the house
before they can be admitted.
There were 534,000 visitors
to the Anne Frank House in
1987, and 560,000 are
expected by the end of 1988.
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student at Florida Atlantic
University, and a resident of
Boynton Beach, has been
selected as the recipient of the
J.E. Miklos Exceptional Stu-
dent Education Scholarship
for the 1988-89 academic year.
The amount of the scholarship,
as stipulated by the Boca
Raton Society for the
Retarded, is $500.
Established in 1981 by the
Boca Raton Society for the
Retarded, the scholarship is
named for the late Dr. John E.
Miklos, a professor of adminis-
tration at FAU. The scholar-
ship is awarded on a need and
ability basis to FAU students
in exceptional education,
whose interests are in working
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Gordon is majoring in FAU's
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instruction of students who
are mentally retarded or have
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She is currently a special edu-
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Lunch And Fashions
The Sisterhood of Temple
Anshei Shalom, Delray Beach
will hold a luncheon/fashion
show Monday, Jan. 30, noon.
Donation is $7. For informa-
tion: 495-1300.
Lecture Series
The free Monday morning
lecture series at Temple
Emeth of Delray Beach will
continue on Monday, Jan. 16,
with Uzi Garni, consul for tour-
ism affairs and director of the
Israel Government Tourist
Office, speaking on "Israel and
the Modern Tourist."
On Jan. 23, Michael Alexan-
der will speak on "The Horses
and the Handicapped."
The lectures begin at 10:30
a.m. in the Rimai Auditorium,
5780 West Atlantic Ave.
Medical Center
Located one block from
the Mediterranean Ocean,
the Sanz Medical Center is
the only hospital in the
Israeli city of Netanya.
Within its five block com-
plex is the Jaques Tache
Out-Patient Clincs, which
treated 32,381 out-
patients during the last 12
Tache's 18 clinics
include a wide diversity of
specialities, ranging from
obstetrics to plastic sur-
gery and from ophthalmo-
logy to pulmonary care.
One of its busiest units is
the Hasenfeld/Kupferman
pediatric clinic which, in
cooperation with area
schools, uses state-of-the-
art methods and technol-
ogy to maintain the health
of the city's tens of thou-
sands of children.
The Freundlich Urology
clinic is the only facility of
its kind in Israel, sensitive
not only to the medical
needs of patients but to
their specific halachic
needs. '-
The American Friends
of Sanz Medical Center
will celebrate the hospi-
tal's 13th anniversary with
a gala dinner March 26 at
the New York Hilton.
OUTLAWED PLO SYMBOLS. The "Day of Escalation"
was marked in the West Bank by such symbols as a map of
Palestine spray painted on a house in Bethlehem and the
flying of outlawed Palestinian flags. "The Day of Escala-
tion" is the anniversary of the PLO's first attack in Israel
2U years ago. (AP/Wide World Photo)
Singles Dinner
Temple Beth El's Solos, ages
49 and up, will hold a paid-up
membership dinner Sunday,
Jan. 22, 6 p.m., at the Boca
Raton temple, 333 SW 4 Ave.
Admission is $4 for members
and $10 for non-members.
Reservations are necessary.
For information: 395-2226.
Letters To The Editor!
Twenty-two people were kill-
ed in Mexico!
What were their names?
What their ages?
And why did the article (in
the New York Times) land in a
short story with a tiny head-
line at the bottom of p. 4 of the
Dec. 25 edition?
Is it because the killing
wasn't done by Israeli soldiers
defending themselves against
homicidal stone-throwers?
Recommended re-reading:
the book, "Beyond Belief."
Rabbi Samuel M. Silver
Temple Sinai of Palm Beach
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I prepared a documentation about this for a company and I thought I might as well post it here (modified a bit). I had to make sure the setup worked from scratch so I tested it using Sun's VirtualBox.
Table of Contents
- Ubuntu Server
- Package Manager: apt-get
- Ruby
- RubyGems
- Apache 2
- MySQL
- Merb + DataMapper (+ SQLite 3?)
- Phusion Passenger
- Deploy the Merb App
1. Ubuntu Server
This setup was tested on the Ubuntu Server OS Hardy Heron, the latest version with LTS as of writing. Go to the Ubuntu website to download the installer of the Ubuntu version you want, preferably the latest with LTS.
The following instructions may work in other Debian-based OSes because it relies mainly on the apt-get package manager.
2. Package Manager: apt-get
Attribution: The content of this section, Package Manager: apt-get, is copied from Configure the Package Manager section of this Slicehost wiki page.
Ubuntu's package management is done through apt-get. But it starts out handicapped. You need to edit a configuration file to add some additional sources.
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
Uncomment these lines (remove the "# "; ignore if not commented out).
# deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted universe # deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted universe ... # deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted universe # deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted universe
Now update the repository index and upgrade your built-in software:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
3. Ruby
To install Ruby, execute the following in the server's command line:
sudo apt-get install ruby1.8-dev ruby1.8 ri1.8 rdoc1.8 irb1.8 libreadline-ruby1.8 libruby1.8 libopenssl-ruby sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ruby1.8 /usr/local/bin/ruby sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ri1.8 /usr/local/bin/ri sudo ln -s /usr/bin/rdoc1.8 /usr/local/bin/rdoc sudo ln -s /usr/bin/irb1.8 /usr/local/bin/irb
4. RubyGems
First, install the essential tools for compiling:
sudo apt-get install build-essential
Then, install RubyGems (latest is version 1.3.1 as of writing; update the script if necessary):
mkdir sources; cd sources wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/45905/rubygems-1.3.1.tgz tar zxvf rubygems-1.3.1.tgz cd rubygems-1.3.1 sudo ruby setup.rb cd ~ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gem1.8 /usr/local/bin/gem sudo gem update --system
5. Apache 2
To install Apache, simply execute the following in the server's command line:
sudo apt-get install apache2
6. MySQL
To install MySQL:
sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client
Note: During installation, specify the root password for the MySQL when it's asked.
7. Merb + DataMapper (+ SQLite 3?)
Unfortunately, installing the latest version of Merb (1.0 as of writing) requires SQLite 3. So for the moment,
sudo apt-get install sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev
Then, to install Merb and make it work with MySQL:
sudo gem install merb sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev sudo gem install do_mysql
8. Phusion Passenger
To install Passenger, do the following (from Phusion Passenger's install page):
- Open a terminal and type:
sudo gem install passenger
- Type:
sudo passenger-install-apache2-module
And follow the instructions.
Re-run 'passenger-install-apache2-module' if you were asked to install other dependencies. For example, if you followed the instructions in this document, you will probably be asked to install development libraries of apache2, so:
sudo apt-get install apache2-prefork-dev sudo passenger-install-apache2-module
After that, you will probably be asked to edit your Apache configuration file (see /etc/apache2/httpd.conf) to add the following (note that version numbers may vary):
LoadModule passenger_module /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.0.3/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so PassengerRoot /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.0.3 PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby1.8
Since a Merb app is a Rack-based Ruby application, check out section 4 (or "Deploying a Rack-based Ruby Application" section) of the Phusion Passenger User's Guide. From section 4.2 (or "Deploying to a virtual host's root" section),
Add a virtual host entry to your Apache configuration file. The virtual host's document root must point to the application's public folder. For example,
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName www.yourdomain.com DocumentRoot /var/www/apps/my_app/public </VirtualHost>
Your Merb app needs to satisfy a certain directory layout for Passenger to work. This is described in section 4 of the User's guide. In the root directory of your application, you need a public folder (which a standard Merb app should already have), a tmp folder (simply create an empty one), and a config.ru file containing the configuration detailed in section 4.5.4 of the User's guide.
The Phusion Passenger User's Guide is quite a comprehensive documentation. If you encounter any problems, be sure to check its other sections like the one on Troubleshooting. For example, if you have static assets (such as stylesheets) in your application's public folder, you are likely to encounter the problem described in section 6.3.4. The solution is also there.
9. Deploy the Merb App
Basically, to get your Merb App to running you only need to do the following:
- Make sure the gem dependencies are satisfied by either installing the gems in your server, or freezing them in your app.
- Make sure your app satisfies the requirements of Passenger (i.e. tmp and public folders and config.ru file, see Phusion Passenger section above).
- Place a copy of the application in an appropriate directory such as /var/www/apps/my_app. Wherever it is, make sure that it is consistent with the specified directory in the Apache configuration file (see Phusion Passenger section above).
- Prepare your database: create it, configure your database.yml, and migrate your tables and data.
- Start your Apache server.
sudo apache2ctl start
Note that with Passenger, restarting your app is done by creating a restart.txt file in the Merb app's tmp folder.
That should get you started. If you want more, there's a great talk about Deploying a Merb App by Lindsay and you can download it from the MerbCamp videos page. It talks about freezing Merb and other gems, web servers, restarting your app, monitoring, configuration management, exception handling, and some other tips.

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This early 20th-century wooden machine with its electric motor and a reversible wringer promised to take the work out of the weekly laundry chore. The wheels allowed the housewife to move the machine to a better spot. The wooden tub needed to be filled with hot water and then drained when the washing was done. The combination of water and electricity could be dangerous.
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Don't trash ANYTHING as of yet. Aftermarket replacement stuff can make you crazy. Things will be missing or not quite right and you'll need an original reference. I recently bought a new set of front seats "complete and ready to install--just bolt them in". The seatback lock on the driver side didn't lock and needed tweaking, and the passenger seat was completely missing the cable that keeps it from hitting the dash and both seats sit about 2" too high. Ditto for door panels. My "exact replacement" high-dollar door panels had incorrect stainless trim that I had to swap from the old panels. The "correct" pillar post molding screws were wrong. The armrests didn't come with the stainless trim pieces. Lakeholme is so right--keep all hardware and I'll expand that to keep it all until you've finished the interior. You just never know.
It almost looks like a cover plate / skid plate or something, I just dont remember my 68 having that.. Ill try to get a pict at lunch.


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Trio reprimanded for painting old glory on chests for school-sponsored lip-dub video
Paul Joseph Watson
December 7, 2012
A Kearney High School senior was suspended and his two friends reprimanded after school administrators punished the trio for displaying American flags in their chests during a school-sponsored lip-dub video.
"Dylan Eckstein, Taylor Snider and Jackson Specker decided to mark their appearance in a school-sanctioned lip-dub video, where students mime to a popular song, by emblazoning their chests with patriotic American flags.
After initially being praised by one school administrator for their efforts, the boys were told by another, "That's not okay, you have to put your shirts down."
A third administrator then saw the students taking photos of themselves and that's when, "it all started to get blown out of proportion," said Specker.
Eckstein attempted to reason with the administrator but was hit by a suspension for the remainder of the day. Specker and Snider were not suspended because they agreed to put their shirts back on.
The administrators' claim that the students were punished for violating the school dress code doesn't hold water. During the same event last year, other students were allowed to bear even more flesh without being told to cover up.
"A video the school made last year featured several male students with bare chests and even the swim team in Speedos, leaving the students confused if the punishment was more for patriotism," reports KSHB.com.
School officials failed to respond when asked to comment by 41 Action News.
This is not the first instance of school kids being reprimanded and censored for displaying the American flag.
Back in 2010, students were told by a principal and assistant principal that they couldn't wear American flag t-shirts at a school in California on Cinco de Mayo, the Mexican holiday. After the students filed a lawsuit, U. S. District Court Judge James Ware ruled that the school district did not violate the students' first amendment rights.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.


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Ingredients: 2 sticks light string cheese 3/4 cup canned crushed tomatoes 1 tsp. garlic powder 1/2 tsp. Italian seasoning 1/2 cup frozen ground-beef-style soy crumbles (like the kind by Boca or MorningStar Farms), thawed 2 large green bell peppers 1 cup sliced mushrooms 1/2 cup chopped red onion 2 tsp. reduced-fat Parmesan-style topping 2 tbsp. sliced black olives Directions: Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Spray a 9" X 13" baking pan with nonstick spray. Break string cheese into thirds and place in a blender or food processor -- blend at high speed until shredded. (Or pull into shreds and roughly chop.) Place crushed tomatoes in a medium bowl. Stir in 1/2 tsp. garlic powder and 1/4 tsp. Italian seasoning. In another medium bowl, mix thawed soy crumbles with remaining 1/2 tsp. garlic powder and 1/4 tsp. Italian seasoning. Slice bell peppers in half lengthwise, and remove seeds and stems. Lay pepper halves in the baking pan, cut sides up. Bake until slightly softened, 16 - 18 minutes. Remove pan, but leave oven on. Meanwhile, bring a skillet sprayed with nonstick spray to medium-high heat. Cook mushrooms and onion until softened and lightly browned, 4 - 6 minutes. Blot away moisture from pepper halves. Evenly fill with seasoned tomatoes, followed by cooked veggies and seasoned soy crumbles. Sprinkle with shredded cheese and Parm-style topping, and top with olives. Bake until filling is hot and cheese has melted, 8 - 10 minutes. Dig in! MAKES 2 SERVINGS
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S. Anthony looked at B. Goodman's face and smiled—in spite of himself.
At first glance, Goodman seemed an exceptionally good guy to date. With tired gray eyes, a scruffy beard, and a handsome face, Anthony felt that Goodman fell right into the "dorky cute" category. Goodman worked as an educator and a queer activist, professions that Anthony held in very high regard.
And if his endearing personality wasn't enough, Goodman also had the gift of the gab, peppering his words with the most random, ridiculously funny things that left Anthony in stitches. Anthony loved a good sense of humor. With an almost perpetual smile on his face, Anthony was easily prone to anything from quiet giggles to loud guffaws.
With a slight stubble on a boyish face and short, close-cropped hair, Anthony didn't look anything like his 35 years. He could have easily passed as yet another twenty-something on the streets of New York City. Goodman may have been easy on the eyes—but Anthony wasn't too bad either. While the good looks came in handy in his career as a theater actor with a flair for music and dance, Anthony also had a day job as a paralegal at a law firm.
It was a June night, and Anthony and Goodman (full names have been withheld as per request) had started their date with dinner at Vynl, a popular and relaxed bistro in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan. They had then crossed the street for dessert at a coffee shop, where they continued to make conversation over some exceptionally good chocolate pie. As third dates went, Anthony knew that this one was going just great.
Later, Anthony and Goodman walked toward a little park between West 49th and 50th streets, between Ninth and Tenth Avenues, where they sat, talked, and eventually kissed. Anthony was a little taken aback by the public display of affection—as a naturally shy guy, kissing in public made him feel "dirty," in a strange, unexplained way. But with Goodman, Anthony was surprised at how natural and easy it felt.
The two men then went on to watch a Broadway show with singers performing covers of Tori Amos hits. Through the concert, Goodman's steady whisper of funny, snarky comments kept Anthony thoroughly entertained. After the concert, they made plans to meet again soon and parted ways on the subway. On the train ride back to his home in Queens, Anthony felt excited and happy.
But there was also a persistent, nagging feeling in the back of his head. After all, it had been his third date with Goodman. And Anthony was fully aware of the complexities of the "Third Date Rule."
The third date in the process of courtship is often considered to be the "decision point" in a new relationship. Dozens of discussion boards on the Internet run amok with simultaneously nervous and excited people looking for advice on what to do on the third date; and the validity of "Third Date Rule."
Although Wikipedia.com dismisses the "Third Date Rule" as a mere "dating rule of thumb," UrbanDictionary.com blatantly calls the third date the "sex date: it is the average number of dates until it is deemed proper and acceptable to have sex with a new mate; therefore, the Third Date Rule is the implementation of this theory."
But for Anthony, sex would have to wait until he revealed an important truth about himself. Anthony would soon have to tell Goodman that besides being a perky, multi-faceted Virgo, he also happened to be HIV positive.
In a November 2011 report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that 1.2 million Americans are living with HIV infection. The report says that, despite increases in the total number of people in the United States living with HIV infection in recent years, the annual number of HIV infections has remained relatively stable. Gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM) of all races and ethnicities remain the population most severely affected by HIV, with white MSM accounting for the largest number of new HIV infections.
But, contrary to the early eighties when being HIV positive was deemed to be a death sentence, being HIV positive now is considered a "manageable chronic disease," thanks to the advent of anti-retroviral drugs. Although a cure for HIV/AIDS remains elusive, these drugs, or a cocktail of such drugs, have been able to successfully help HIV positive people live longer lives, by keeping the amount of the virus in the body at a very low level while boosting the number of T-cells, the white blood cells that fight infection in the human body.
Anthony has been HIV positive for more than six years now, and he swears by the drug he takes, a combination drug called Atripla. "I take one pill a day, and I've never been sick a day of my life because of it. I've been sick for other reasons, but not anything ridiculous tied to that," he says. When saying "ridiculous," Anthony is referring to exotic diseases like cat flu that struck, and killed, people with the disease in the '80s when people were just beginning to learn about HIV and AIDS. "It's not like that now," he says. "It's so manageable."
While figures and studies in the United States validate Anthony's view, there still seems to be a stigma attached to people who are HIV positive, despite strides made in treating the disease and information on the same being more readily available on the Internet and elsewhere.
As an HIV positive man dating in the city, Anthony has been subject to a number of varied reactions when he tells this truth about himself to a potential mate.
"Some people have no problem whatsoever; they're like, 'No biggie,'" Anthony says. Then, there are others who don't want to seem uncomfortable and so, turn apologetic instead. What irritates Anthony further are people who turn him down and then go on to tell him that there are "tons of other positive people" he can date, just so that they feel better about themselves.
"I would respect them if they say, sorry, I am not interested," Anthony says. "But if you go on this litany, this whole list of reasons why they don't want to, I'm like, okay, I got the no! I'm okay with a no! You don't have to tell me why, you don't have to assuage your guilt with me!"
Anthony pauses for a moment, before his grin returns to his face. "Dating is hard," he says. "It is hard for anyone. With me, I just have that one additional moment to handle."
A Gettysburg, Pa. native, Anthony is a man of varied interests and talents. He is a performer, looking to get back into the world of arc lights, now undergoing a strict training regimen with a voice coach. The day job chains Anthony to his desk when his law firm assigns him to a particularly difficult litigation trial. Besides being a yoga and gym aficionado, a creative writer and a loving uncle to his young niece and nephew, Anthony is also learning sign language to better communicate with a hearing impaired friend.
Despite such appealing qualities, Anthony is still single. Anthony uses the extremely popular online dating site, OkCupid, to find people to date. Besides being "completely free," OkCupid, billed by The Boston Globe as "the Google of online dating," calls itself the fastest growing online dating site, aiming to match people based on their profiles and interests.
Anthony's profile on the site, while informative, seems to be geared more at showcasing his sense of humor. For instance, under the section "the first thing people usually notice about me," Anthony writes: My charming personality or maybe my hunchback. It's a tossup.
On scrolling further down the profile, under "the most private thing I'm willing to admit," Anthony writes: I was lying about my hunchback!
Although Anthony says he doesn't have a formula to look up potential dates on the website, he does showcase a few tricks that make him seem a master of sorts at using the website. When he is logged in to the site, he edits his profile a little bit every now and then, which ensures that his profile appears in the "Recent Activity" section of OkCupid users online at that moment. This means his profile gets more visibility and increases his chances of being checked out by a potential date.
Anthony taps slowly on his laptop, checking out different profiles. His small eyes narrowed at the screen, he quickly dismisses profiles that contain pictures of people in states of undress. He also frowns at people who seem full of themselves in their profiles. For his own profile, he has made a conscious attempt to keep it funny, and not too serious.
Anthony realizes that on OkCupid, you need to sell yourself as a kind of prop and while doing that, Anthony prefers to be comical and self-effacing rather than be like people who are vain and boast about their suitability as a potential mate in their profile. "And, I'm like, really?" says Anthony. "If you need to say it, then it's really not."
"I'd rather be funny and make someone laugh, because that's just who I am, that's what I like to do. And if someone likes that, if someone gets it…" his voice trails, as he points at a section in his profile where he says he should have been a part of Cop Rock, a short-lived American musical police drama TV series in the early '90s, ranked eighth on TV Guide's list of the 50 Worst TV Shows of All Time list in 2002.
The show "was so bad, that it was absolutely genius," Anthony says, laughing. "If someone gets that reference, they're in!"
However, there is no mention of his HIV positive status on the profile, and Anthony says that he likes to keep it that way. While he admits to having told a few people about his HIV positive status even before meeting them for the first time, Anthony prefers to wait until at least after a few dates before talking about his disease.
"Most of the times now, I wait till after like the third date to make sure that there's a connection there first," Anthony says. "Because, if there's no connection there just as people, then why bother telling them if we're not going to go further in the relationship, to get to that point where something sexual might happen. Because until then, my HIV positive status doesn't matter."
"There are challenges to [HIV positive] dating; but the thing I like to emphasize is that we really have a public health education issue on our hands," says Ken Howard, a therapist based in Los Angeles with a clientele that focuses on HIV positive issues and on gay men. Howard, who has been HIV positive himself for more than two decades, says that a lot of HIV negative people have a "disturbingly profound misunderstanding" of HIV/AIDS.
"There's a lot of stigma and extremely irrational fear that the virus is easily transmitted. And this goes back to public health misinformation," says Howard. "There really needs to be a call for education. Most people just don't know that having protected sex [with an HIV positive person] is not a high-risk activity."
Citing examples from the beginning of the AIDS crisis in the eighties when people were afraid to use public water fountains or shake hands over fears of contracting the virus, Howard says that the lack of public education has allowed such hysteria to trickle through to the present day. This has therefore led to issues when HIV positive people look for relationships with HIV negative people.
"It's a myth to say that serodiscordant relationships don't work or don't exist, because they certainly do," says Howard, using his decade-long relationship with his HIV negative husband for ten years as an example. Howard says that he and his husband have had a very happy life together, with no major complications due to Howard's HIV positive status.
In fact, Howard says, "We have been more affected by the recession than by my HIV status!"
"It's very common for HIV positive people to date, marry, have children, et cetera," says Jennifer Morton, managing editor at Smart + Strong, a publishing house that brings out a number of health-focused magazines and websites including POZ magazine, billed as the nation's leading publication and website about HIV/AIDS. POZ has, in a number of articles, reiterated the fact that if safer-sex techniques are practiced, HIV positive people can have an intimate and sexual relationship with anyone.
In September 2011, the magazine featured an article titled, "Finding True Love with HIV," where the author, Tim Murphy, encouraged HIV positive people to be fearless while in the quest for love and relationships. Murphy writes that "though isolation and stigma—not to mention the challenges facing ongoing health concerns and navigating how and when to disclose your status—can be obstacles, they are not closed doors."
Anthony's dating life since becoming HIV positive has had its share of closed and open doors. Shortly after he tested HIV positive, he got into a relationship with a HIV negative man in Philadelphia, with whom he had a healthy, but safe, sex life. While the relationship lasted only three years, the reasons for their break-up had little to do with Anthony's HIV status.
The experience of having had such a long-term relationship despite being HIV positive added to Anthony's exasperation at dates that would cut ties with him once they knew of his HIV positive status. "I just don't think people are educated enough in the fact that they don't know what it means to be positive," Anthony says. "They don't understand how you can protect yourself against it. Like I said, I was with my ex for three years, and he's not—he's still not positive."
In December 2010, Anthony went on a series of dates with a number of people with whom he thought he felt "real good connections with." But, as soon as he reached the third or fourth date with them, and told them about his HIV status, each of them totally cut him off, giving him the apologies that he has since become used to.
"After the fourth one of those [in a row], I just got so fed up, I was, like, are you serious? Are you serious, right now? And it was driving me insane," Anthony says, a desperation still reeling in his voice as he remembers.
The breaking point, Anthony recalls, was when he told the aforementioned date about his HIV positive status. "He came back to me and said, 'Why does this keep happening to me? Everyone that I've been interested in has been [HIV] positive, and this keeps happening to me…' And I was, like, to you? This keeps happening to you? This is not about you, this is about me!! I found that whole thought process so absurdly funny… That was the straw that broke the camel's back."
And that's when Anthony began chronicling his life and dating adventures on an online blog, Positively Dating. In the blog's "About Me" page, Anthony writes:
I am a 34 year old HIV positive, single, gay man living in New York City. Any one of those would be daunting on their own, but adding them all together makes for quite an interesting dating life. I have decided to journal my dating life because we as a community do not really talk about HIV any more. If we do we talk about it, it is how to prevent it or how to live a "normal" life with it. Never do we talk about how it affects us socially. So I send my trials and tribulations out through the web not only to help spark a dialog that I think we are desperately missing but to help with the stigmas about being HIV positive that are put on us from other people and more importantly the stigmas that we put on ourselves. Also, it gives me an outlet to rant about my dating woes.
Although Anthony says that the blog came out of "real frustration," Anthony's early posts on his blog deal mostly with his dating escapades. His writing is simple, friendly and easy; a facet of his shy, but endearing, personality shines through his very personal style of writing. The early posts have a commendable mix of entries that include reminiscences about the yoga instructor he fancied, his "walk of shame" from a hotel in Mexico, and scenarios with dates who had issues with his HIV positive status.
But, in an entry from March 2011, Anthony writes an emotional post about the mini breakdowns he has every now and then. An excerpt:
Sometimes, out of the blue, I will be hit with a single thought. I am HIV positive. This thought strikes fast and strikes hard. The reality of living with this disease presses upon my entire being. Everything that I have ever seen or heard about HIV or even worse, AIDS, begins to fester in my mind. Feeling like an outcast in my own community. Feeling like I will never get my Jane Austen happy ending, which I, being a hopeless romantic, am desperately looking for. For me, it is almost like reliving the day that I tested positive.
The blog has offered Anthony a place to talk freely about his life while being HIV positive to a receptive audience. While he did have his friends, Anthony used to be closeted about being HIV positive because they, being HIV negative, couldn't understand his troubles. But thanks to the blog, he now had a new community to talk to.
In fact, Positively Dating became so popular that PositiveLite.com, a Canadian website for HIV positive people, picked up the blog and began featuring it on their website and affiliates in July 2011. With the help of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, the blog began to get a larger audience and Anthony was suddenly in a community of "friends," where he could talk and write about being HIV positive with ease.
"And that's probably the best thing that has happened with me," Anthony says. While he enjoys and appreciates the actual writing of the stories and people liking his stories, it is his own self-acceptance, to be able to talk about being HIV positive without cringing every time he thinks about it—"that's the best," he says. "It makes me feel very a part of—no, I don't want to say a part of something. Basically, I am normal. I am just like everyone else."
Self-acceptance has also made a significant change in the way Anthony told dates about his HIV positive status. He used to be apologetic about his status, telling dates that he would understand if they didn't want to continue dating. "It was, like, 'I know there's something wrong with me, so it's okay if you don't want to date me.' It kind of made me seem a little unworthy."
But, once he started writing his blog and getting a community of like-minded individuals, Anthony began to change his outlook on himself, and the way he decided to tell people about his status. "I knew this whole group of people who know me from this blog, and it makes me feel very a part of—no, I don't want to say a part of something. Basically, I am normal. I am just like everyone else." And from then on, Anthony stopped being apologetic about it.
"I am still understanding about it," says Anthony. "But to say, I am so sorry I am HIV positive? That's ridiculous for me to say." Anthony now has a "here, this is me, take it or leave it, and I am okay with it" attitude and he is happy about the change in the tone of his HIV status disclosure. He also feels that it has helped him in his dating expeditions as well.
"It's funny," Anthony says. "I have no idea if there's a relationship between the two. But ever since I made the switch—and I don't know if it's just because I've just been meeting the right guys—but, everyone I had dated after that, I haven't had that many denials because of it. I am not saying there's a relationship between the two, and I haven't been dating as much as I was when I started this blog. But, you know…"
It was through OkCupid that Anthony met Goodman. They exchanged emails for a while before they actually went out with each other on a date. After their third date where they watched Broadway singers doing Tori Amos covers, Anthony had fallen for Goodman's "goofy goofball" personality and wanted to take things further.
As he put it on his blog, Anthony wanted their relationship to "evolve past the goodnight kiss and into the land of carnal knowledge."
Since Goodman was HIV negative, this meant that Anthony would have to reveal his own status, and "the art of telling" is something he's still trying to master. It's a difficult thing to say face-to-face for both parties, since while Anthony is faced with the prospect of instant rejection, the other is put in a difficult situation if they are uncomfortable. "So, that is weird; it's just weird all around," he says.
It is because of the weirdness involved that Anthony has resorted to another method of confessing his status, which he calls "the coward's way out." After a really good third of fourth date which ends with a potential for "something" to happen in the next date, Anthony tells them of his status via an email or text.
"Because it's easy for me to tell them, and it's also much easier for them to reject me," he says. "When you are with someone face to face, then it's different, because they want to save face, they want to be nice about it. But when you're doing it online or text, they don't care, they are not seeing you, and they're not seeing your reaction."
With Goodman, Anthony took the coward's way out. As he walked back to his apartment after his third date with Goodman, he opened his phone and sent a message to Goodman:
I am really having an amazing time with you (and your Jew fro) but before anything goes any further, I need to tell you that I am HIV positive. I am always upfront about my status.
But despite Anthony's apprehensions, Goodman responded just as Anthony hoped he would.
"I wrote back to him almost immediately," Goodman remembers. "I said I really appreciate you telling me, that I'm sure this is not an easy thing for you to have to do, but this doesn't change a thing. I have some questions for you. I said we should talk about it more, it doesn't change a thing and I think you are great."
Goodman thinks that he reacted well to Anthony's positive status because of his own circle of friends, some of whom were HIV positive as well.
"I have a decent amount of friends who are HIV positive, and I work with a bunch of people who are. I also have one very good friend who is positive and he talks about dating all the time," says Goodman. "And so, I have some insight into what it must feel like to date and sort of have to come out that way and how badly people can react. It was important to me to react the best way I could."
Goodman reflects for a moment. "For him to acknowledge it, it sucks if he has to do that," he says. "I don't know why, I suppose it could have freaked me out, but it didn't. Maybe that's because I know people and I am somewhat educated."
When Goodman graciously accepted Anthony's HIV positive status, Anthony felt he had found his very own "happily ever after."
Anthony says that he has what he calls the "Cinderella complex" on his dream of an ideal relationship. "I know some people don't want to get married, or whatever, but I do. I want to get married. I want to have kids. I want to have a family. I like flirting with guys and whatever, but I would rather be in a relationship. I'd rather have that one particular person who kind of challenges you as much as they support you," he says.
But, as much as Anthony would have liked Goodman to be that one person, their relationship wasn't meant to be. Although they dated for a couple of months, they eventually broke up. "We had a lot in common, but we are very different people," Anthony says. "He is one person I wished we had worked out, but we just didn't have that chemistry, the spark, you know…"
"There was nothing wrong with him," Anthony says. "It was just something wrong with us."
But, although they didn't get to become a couple, Anthony and Goodman became, and remain, steadfastly good friends.
"I have only very positive feelings for Anthony," says Goodman.
It has been nearly a year since things cooled off with Goodman, and Anthony has been on a number of dates since then. His Cinderella complex remains as strong as ever, and Anthony refuses to allow his HIV positive status to change that. "Being HIV positive shouldn't affect what I want to do with my life, who I want to spend my life with. It just adds another component to who I am, it doesn't change what I like or what I am looking for," he says.
One suggestion Anthony repeatedly gets from people is that he should "find other HIV positive men to date." Barring the fact that he gets this suggestion mostly from dates who have said no to him, Anthony refuses to specifically look for such a dating subculture.
"I would never date someone because of it; I would never search for someone because of it," Anthony says, quite emphatically. "I am not going to date someone just because he is HIV positive. That's like me dating someone just because he has brown eyes. That's kind of stupid. I am sure there are other HIV positive people, but that doesn't mean I am going to fall in love with them," he says.
But, wouldn't dating a HIV positive mate possibly be easier? Anthony laughs at the question. "Maybe. But when has dating ever been easy?" he asks.
Anthony's grueling patience and persistence in the hunt for an ideal mate and family seems to be related to his own tenuous family life. Anthony has had a tough life even before he became HIV positive—his mother died while he was young, and his father and step-mother threw him out of the house when he was eighteen for being gay. Yet he seems insistent to brush off issues with his family, talking instead of memories of his mother teaching him to dance to Madonna.
Anthony says his writing helps him stay upbeat and look forward to the future. "The more and more I write, the less and less it is about me being HIV positive. And I think the whole growth of my blog kind of shows the whole growth of my self-acceptance. And at this point, I don't think it's no longer a big issue for me as much as it was before, which then allows me to handle things a bit differently, and allows me to handle rejection differently. Whatever some might have said to me before is now no longer blog-worthy!"
Reflecting on his blog, Anthony says he can see how much he has changed. "A lot of it has to do with finally accepting myself and finally feeling accepted into a community, not just bloggers, but this whole HIV community out there. It makes me realize I am not the only one; I am perfectly fine; I am okay with who I am."
And as Anthony gets on with accepting himself, he gets on with dating in New York City, looking for "that kind of everyday nothing that turns into a life."
He's on another first date today. And he is excited.


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1. Call to order.
2. Roll Call.
3. Approval of minutes from July 22, 2013.
4. Outcomes-Based Funding and West Virginia's Four-Year Institutions. Dr. Paul Hill, Chancellor, Higher Education Policy Commission.
5. Overview of Developmental Education Reform in West Virginia. Dr. Paul Hill, Chancellor HEPC, and Mr. James Skidmore, Chancellor, Council for Community and Technical College Education.
6. Other business.
7. Adjournment.


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Dr. Jill Biden (born 1951) is the wife of American Vice President Joe Biden. Dr. Biden, along with her husband, were honored at the 2010 Annual Sesame Workshop Benefit Gala.
In 2011, Dr. Biden and First Lady Michelle Obama appeared alongside Elmo and Rosita in a series of public service announcements promoting support to military families.


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This Week In Movies… 'Riddick,' 'Salinger,' 'Mission Park'
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Sixteen movie releases. This is one of the rare weeks where half of the new Hollywood releases are documentaries and my most anticipated viewing a documentary as well – Salinger. What is it? Perhaps its the Labor Day dates that aren't too kind to studio pockets, perhaps it's the public demand for more informative films and less escapism. "Why read a book when you can watch the documentary?" Or maybe it's just coincidence. Whatever the principal reason is, blockbuster films are about to become persona non-grata in the next few months when Oscar season rears its head for the Fall. Interesting to note is that after the success of the Latino movie "Instructions Not Included," Hollywood will have their eyes wide open for Tio Papi and Mission Park's results.
Below is the list of all the movies coming out this weekend and I rank them in descending order of my interest…


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If you read the mission statement of the Wilbury Group, you'll have a greater understanding and appreciation for the theatrical performances they are bringing to Rhode Island.
"The Wilbury Group is an ever-evolving collaboration of artists committed to creating the highest quality professional theatre."
They brought us the incredible "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "Exit the King." They have come up short on a couple of productions, but they are not afraid to tackle the unusual and the difficult.
Michael Friedman and Alex Timbers' 2012 Outer Critics' Circle Award winner, "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson," was also nominated for two Tony Awards. It is controversial, politically incorrect and totally outrageous….and it is great.
The Wilbury Group, under the direction of Josh Short and David Tessier, is staging the Rhode Island premiere of the rock musical in the spacious confines of the old Butcher Block Mill Building at 25 Eagle St., on the second floor of the huge mill complex.
While it was quite hot on press night, with perspiration drenching the bodies of many of the performers, most of the heat came from the talented band and the pulsating music they played, backing up more than a dozen actors, led by the incredible performance of Joe Short as Andrew Jackson.
The second floor space is set with tables and chairs and a small stage that serves as a starting point for actors and musicians to enter and bring the play right into the audience.
The 90-minute, one-act musical rewrites history, in this case the rise and fall of President Andrew Jackson, from his humble frontier childhood to his presidency. We witness the creation and expansion of the Populist movement, which led to the formation of the Democratic Party, told with a lot of poetic license.
Characters such as Martin Van Buren (Kelly Seigh), Henry Clay (Dave Rabinow), John Quincy Adams (Stuart Wilson), John C. Calhoun (Brien Lang), and James (Monroe Andrew Stigler) are portrayed broadly – very broadly. There is a hysterical running gag involving a narrator (Clare Blackmer) who enlists the ire of Jackson, who eventually wrests the narration from her.
The fast-paced action moves the politically incorrect and sometimes purposely inaccurate story along. The exaggerated references to history, such as the Battle of Horseshoe Bend and the Battle of New Orleans, whiz by at bullet speed. The Indians, Spanish, English and Washington bigwigs are all the enemies of Jackson, who claims to be the "Voice of the People," as he continuously asks for their opinions on matters of national policies…and then does it his way. Native Americans don't make out very well in this interpretation of history, and Jackson doesn't come across as the man I studied in American history. All this makes for outrageous satire filled with continuous laughter.
The cast and musicians are first rate, working well in ensemble. I must single out three of them. Joe Short, an equity actor, is terrific as Jackson. He is in constant motion, filled with emotion, and in good voice. Kelly Seigh as Martin Van Buren is outrageously funny. And Alyssa Gorgone as Jackson's wife gives a poignant performance as the wife of the bigamist who must choose between her and being the voice of the people.
The Wilbury Group is a group that continues to push the envelope, proving an alternative theatre experience. This production is not for children or people who do not like profanity in their plays. For those of us who like to be both challenged and entertained, "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" should be on the summer schedule. The play closes July 28, so get your tickets now. Check them out online at www.thewilburygroup.com. Tickets are $15 to $25.


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Paparazzi Scrutiny in Michael Jackson Case is Tough on the Kids, Cousin Tells Court
Scrutiny by paparazzi has made it more difficult for the children of Michael Jackson to grieve for their dead father, a family cousin who serves as co-guardian of the singer's children told a jury on Thursday.
TJ Jackson said the three children don't like the attention, and he supports any legislative effort to curb photographers from pursuing images of the sons and daughters of celebrities.
"In my opinion, I know it's making everything harder for the kids to grieve and recover and progress," Jackson said.
The comments came as Jackson testified during a civil trial involving the death of the pop star about his relationship with his famous uncle and the singer's parenting of his children.
He cited remarks made Tuesday by Halle Berry in Sacramento as the Legislature considers a bill that would change the definition of harassment to include photographing or recording a child without the permission of a legal guardian.
Anyone convicted of a first offense could spend between 10 days and a year in jail.
TJ Jackson said he had to consider whether Michael Jackson's youngest son Blanket should attend martial arts classes on Tuesday because photographers would be interested in getting a shot of the 11-year-old on the fourth anniversary of his father's death.
TJ Jackson is Tito Jackson's son and a member of the musical group 3T with two of his brothers.


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cheesesteakwithegg wrote:I watched the pilot of that HBO show "Girls" last night because I remember reading that it was nominated for a bunch of stuff. It was weird, probably won't continue to any more episodes.
i don't know anything about this show other than it's about girls, and the one main girl is apparently naked all the time. but judging from every commercial i've seen from it, i can't imagine myself every enjoying a second of it.