Page 4—THE NEWS—September 1980
WORLD BEAT
•ditod by Marte Gttmllk
SPEAKING OUT
Joggers To Compete
In Marathon
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
Thousands of runners and
joggers from Israel and around
the world are expected to com
pete on Jan. 4, 1981 in Israel’s
Fourth International Sea of
Galilee Marathon. The annual
race is recognized by the Inter
national Amateur Athletics
Federation and follows a stan
dard 26-mile course along the
scenic shores of the Sea of
Galilee.
Soy Bean Found
To Have Medicinal
Value For Diabetica
TEL AVIV (JTA) - The ubi
quitous soy bean has been found
to have important medicinal
value for diabetics, researchers
of the Haifa Technion’s medical
faculty reported. According to
Dr. Yoram Kanter, a senior lec
turer in medicine who heads the
research team, a by-product of
the soy bean, known as sobit,
can reduce the sugar content of
the blood and is otherwise help
ful in diet control.
The product, already
available to consumers here,
does not replace insulin, Kanter
stressed. But taken in small
quantities it reduces the after
meals glucose response. Kanter
described the research that led
to the discovery of this property
in soy bean fiber in a paper
presented recently at the annual
meeting of the American
Diabetes Association in Wash
ington.
The research extended over
the last three years. Patients
with soya extract added to their
diets showed a smaller sugar
concentration compared with
those who were not given the
soya.
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doing business in the Arab
countries,” it was reported in the
latest issue of Southern
Israelite.
Charles Wittenstein,
Southern counsel for the Anti-
Defamation League of B’nai
B’rith, called the booklet “a
shameful practice.”
Bi-Weekly Cargo
Service Begins Between
Israel and Egypt
TEL AVIV (JTA) - The
Jasmin, the first Israeli
freighter to call at an Egyptian
port, docked at Alexandria
recently to discharge four con
tainers, two of them with
general cargo and the others
with fresh apples and apricots.
Her arrival marked the begin
ning of a bi-weekly cargo service
between Israel and Egypt
operated by the ZSm Lines,
Israel’s national shipping com
pany.
Swiss-Israel Exports
And Imports
GENEVA (JTA) — The Swiss
Israel Cham W of Commerce in
their July bulletin stated that
imports from Israel to
Switzerland during the first five
months of 1980 totaled $111.8
million. This amount is the
same as that for the first five
months in 1979. Exports firom
Switzerland to Israel for the
first five months of 1980 totaled
$408.7 million, of which $305.8
million was in uncut diamonds.
Life*8 Tomorrows
Life goes on its merry way
Crossing bridges every day
Sometimes up and som-etimes
down
Sometimes with a smile
Sometimes with a frown.
We can laugh with the good
times and
Cry with the sorrow.
But there is one thing you must
remember.
The past was, the present is, and
then
There is always tomorrow.
The following is an interview
between Dr» SomUBrenner and
Raphael I. Panitz, new direc
tor of the Hebrew Academy.
Q.: What impresses you
about the day school in
Charlotte?
A.: I was fortimate to be able to
spend a week in the school
during the month of June.
On the basis of that visit, I
received a number of
favorable impressions of
the school. I was happy to
find a warm, kind, friendly
atmosphere in the school. I
was also taken by the
camaraderie that exists
between the children of the
school. The children’s
desire to be educated in all
aspects of Judaism stands
out. I could not help but
notice the active and
vigorous role that the
parents play in making the
school the excellent kind of
institution that it is today.
Finally, one must not forget
that the children are happy
and pleased, even though
they ^1 carry a double work
load of E^nglish and Judaic
studies.
Q.: What are your goals as
director of the Hebrew
Academy?
A.: The goals for this coming
year are many. Obviously,
the staff and I must ensure
that our students obtain a
secular education com
parable, if not superior, to
what is taught in both
public and private schools
in Charlotte. Equally im
portant, we must see to it
that the children receive a
thorough Judaic education.
This includes the ability to
speak, write and read
Hebrew, and a familiarity
and knowledge of the Sid-
dur, the prayer book. Judaic
education at the Academy
will also include the study
of the festivals, Jewish
customs and practices and
the Jewish life cycle. Apart
from these goals, attention
will be placed upon the Bi
ble, rabbinic Judaism,
Midrash, the history of the
Jewish people and the
modem stote of Israel.
Q.: What do you say to
parents who argue that
the Hebrew Ac^emy is
too parochial?
A.: There is nothing parochial
about the rich cultural
heritage of Judaism.
History shows that when
Jews have stopped educat
ing their children in
Judaism, the nation has
died out. Moreover, a
knowledge of Jewish ways
and ideals facilitates a
valid perspective of the
world around us. It needs to
be said that if parents are
serious about the future of
their children as Jews, they
have to give considerable
attention to giving them an
intensive Jewish ^ucation.
Q.: Is the day school the
only way to attain that
education?
A.: No, it is not, but it is the best
and the most natural one.
Apart from the day school,
time spent in a summer
camp, such as Ramah, can
provide a Jewish education,
as can a prolonged visit to
Israel. Ideally, a Jewish
child should experience all
three. But not every Jewish
child will be that fortunate.
Possibly a Jewish child can
be knowledgeable about
Judaism without receiving
any of these three ex
periences, but that would ^
an unusual situation.
Q.: You have apparently
prepared yourself for
two careers: college
teaching in Judaic
studies and teaching in a
day school; why did you
choose the latter?
A.: The university setting, even
when one teaches Judaic
studies, is not an ideal place
to express one’s Judaism. In
addition, there is very little
sense of community in the
university. In a small day
school, on the other hand, a
person can have a con
siderable impact on the
lives of a number of
children. One teacher can
greatly contribute to the
growth and development of
Judaism.
Q.: What are your im
pressions of the Jewish
community in Char
lotte?
A.: I have had only positive ex
periences here. The people I
have met at temple and at
the Hebrew Academy care
for the future and the sur-
vival of Judaism in
America. Common to them
all is the urge to remain
committed, knowledgeable
Jews.
Q.: Why do you emphasize
knowledgeable Jews,
instead of people who
are proud of their
Jewish background?
A.: You cannot be proud in the
abstract. You must know
what to be proud of Indeed,
it is difficult to remain an
active member of the
Jewish people without
knowing its heritage, its
practices and its language.
Judaism was not meant to
be a robot religion in which
people provide knee-jerk
responses to words and
rituals. Jews should know
the contents and reasons
for the rituals in which they
partake.
Q,: Did you ever think of
becoming a rabbi?
A.: I grew up in a rabbinical
family. My father, uncle
and older brother are
practicing rabbis; my
younger brother is current
ly a fourth year rabbinical
student at ^e Seminary. I
may be considered the
“black sheep” of my family.
Although my knowledge of
Judaism is rather exten
sive, I have never really
given serious thought to
becoming a rabbi. My
preference is the class
room, not the pulpit.
(Ed. note: Mr. Panitz is
available to local groups to lec
ture on the following topics:
Dead Sea Scrolls; The Growth of
the Hebrew Language; Sexual
Laws in the Ancient World;
Archaeology and the Bible; An
cient Jews and Their Neighbors;
How We Became Monotheistic;
The Art of Interpretation; A Day
in the Life of a Medieval Jew.)
Food For
Thought
If dinner-time conversation
has languished of late in your
home, try serving yogurt, aged
cheeses, sour cream, ripe
bananas and avocados, soy
sauce, aged beef, cola, coffee.
According to Dr. George R.
Schwartz, assistant professor of
medicine at the University of
New Mexico, these foods con
tain either caffeine or tyramine
— both powerful stimulants to
the central nervous system.
Accordingly, they tend to make
you talk. Dr. Schwartz’s book.
Food Power, also picks out cer
tain foods as inhibitors of con
versation: if you’re too polite to
stuff a napkin in the mouth of
an overly garrulous dinner
guest, try plying him with salad,
fruit and nuts. Of course, we’re
not competent to judge the good
doctor’s theory, which is based
on ten years of research. But it
does have the merit of explain
ing the phenomenon of the
Jewish gift of gab: high on the
list of talk-fueling foods are
chopped liver and pickled herr
ing.
— Anita Miller
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Holiday Recipes
BANANA DATE-NUT CAKE
Vi cup vegetable shortening
l-'/4 cupe sugar
2 large eggs
1 tap vanilla
V4 cup lemonade
2 cups flour, sifted
Vi tap, baking powder
% tap. baking aoda
V4 tap. salt
2 m^um maahed bananaa
6 dates, diced
% cup (topped walnuta
powdered augar (optional)
Blend ahortening, sugar, eggs and vanilla. Add lemonade and 1 cup flour.
Mix well. Add other cup of flour, salt, baking powder, baking so^ and
maahed bananaa. Mix about 1 minute. Add datea and walnuta. Mix a few
aeconda. Greaae a 9zl3-inch pan well..Poar batter into pan and bake for 40
minutea at 350 degrees. SptinUe top with powdered sugar (optional) and let
cool before aerving.
CARROT KUGEL
3 cups grated raw carrots
^ cop bread cnanbs
2 eggs, aUgfatljr beaten
V4 cap minced (toion
1 tap. salt . . V .
2 tblapa. oil
1 cam oondcDaed diicken soup
2 tape, minced parsley
Combine all ingndMnts and mix weU. Poor into graaaedl-M qoait baking
diah. Bake 60 minvtaa at 325 iegrsee. Sarvea 6.