UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, March 10, 1997
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Hillel House dwellers dwindling
By Sarah Chadwick Special to the Kansan
The Hillel House, the KU Jewish communal living organization, has been left with half its usual residents for the spring semester.
Carrie Fleider, director of the KU Hillel Foundation, said that six residents usually live at the Hillel House each year. In the fall semester the usually coed house was full of women, but this semester the house is in search of new residents. One woman graduated, one moved and the third left to study abroad. Fleider said.
Recruiting was done to find spring residents, Fielder said, but has proved unsuccessful so far.
"Most of the time we let students find us, but we'll put fliers out and advertise within our own internal organization," Fleider said.
The loss of rent money has not affected the Hillel House, Fleider said.
"The largest impact of not having those three residents is that the house members put on our Shabbat dinners, and it's kind of hard with only three people," she said. "We've had to get outside help, but that's been a positive thing because it got more people involved."
The Hillel House, Fleider said, was designed to provide a Jewish communal living experience, which includes keeping kosher and living among other Jews.
Shabbat dinners, the Jewish celebration of the Sabbath, occur biweekly at the house on Fridays. Residents are required to coordinate the dinners as well as shop and cook for them, while keeping everything kosher. Fleider said.
Kosher meals are prepared in accordance with Jewish dietary laws, including keeping meat and milk products separate and choosing meats that were slaughtered in a more humane, kosher fashion.
The house has six private bedrooms, a complete kosher kitchen and full laundry facilities.
Molly Ackerman, Minneapolis junior, has lived at the house since August.
"It's a lot like The Real World on MTV," Ackerman said. "When we had men here it was really chaotic. It's kind of like a family."
Ackerman decided to live at the Hillel House after experiences in a sorority and an apartment. One of the advantages, she said, was that everything was Jewish.
"You don't have to deal with Christian holidays like you would in the dorms or a sorority," Ackerman said.
The first floor of the house is open to the public. Rent is $150 per month, including all utilities except phone service. In exchange for low rent, residents are expected to perform a certain amount of work for Hillel.
Applications can be picked up at the house at 940 Mississippi St., across from Memorial Stadium.
Jews avoid Sabbath laws by selling stores weekly, buying them back the next day
Israeli stores stay open
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Every Friday afternoon, Amos and Alice Meroz sell their art gallery in northern Israel to a Muslim friend for 10 shekels or about $3. On Saturday night, they buy it back.
In this way, the couple bypasses an Israeli law barring Jewish-owned stores from staying open on the Jewish Sabbath, which lasts from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday.
Their clever tactic may please Saturday visitors to the gallery, located in the picturesque town of Zichron Yaacov. But ultra-Orthodox government officials are not impressed.
The Meroz, however, are not breaking the law—at least, not technically.
So the town's deputy mayor, Itamar Ben-Ezer, retaliated Saturday by parking a hearse in front of the gallery's entrance. Ben Ezer said Meroz was tampering with a balance between religious
The Antikon Gallery stayed open, though, and hundreds of Israelis came to show their support, Amos Meroz said yesterday.
and secular relations that has long existed.
The incident highlights how tensions between secular and observant Jews in Israel have grown since last year's national elections, when ultra-Orthodox parties made significant gains.
The ministry responsible for enforcing the Sabbath law is controlled by the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, which has ordered that violators be fined.
The Sabbath issue has taken a different twist in Tel Aviv, where Mayor Roni Milo has threatened to support a boycott of a new shopping mall being built in his city if mail owners force a McDonald's restaurant there to close on the Sabbath.
Tel Aviv is predominantly secular, and when city officials granted the building
license for the mall they understood it would be open Saturdays. Since then, an ultra-Orthodox multi-millionaire bought a controlling share in Africa-Israel, the company that owns the mall. And he says it will be closed on the Sabbath.
Ironically, it was Sabbath religious customs that gave Meroz the idea of selling his gallery to avoid the Sabbath law.
Every spring, with the approach of the Passover holiday, Jews are forbidden to eat or even possess leavened bread. So all of Israel's leavened bread is symbolically sold to an Israeli Arab for the duration of the eight-day festival.
In its crackdown, the labor ministry avoids forcing Jewish inspectors to work on the Saobath by sending Druze Arabs to impose fines on stores that stay open.
Meroz said that he does the same by selling his gallery every Friday to his Muslim friend.
"They send Shabbas gogoyi (Sabbath non-Jews) to fine me," Meroz says. "So I have my own shabbas gogoyi."
Cardinal says Clinton misled on late-term abortion issue
O'Connor quoted from a letter to the president signed by the U.S.-based cardinals and the national Conference of Catholic Bishops, who urged Clinton and Congress to support a bill banning the late-term procedure.
"These abortions may actually endanger a woman's life," the cardinal told a packed St. Patrick's Cathedral during yesterday's morning Mass.
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Cardinal John O'Connor led the nation's seven Roman Catholic preides yesterday in urging President Clinton to admit that he was misled into believing most late-term abortions save a woman's life or health.
The bishops' conference said that the message was to be read beginning yesterday in Catholic churches across the United States as well as at the Vatican.
White House representative Kathleen
"These abortions may actually endanger a woman's life."
John O'Connor Roman Catholic cardinal
McKiernan said yesterday that Clinton's only concern was to protect the health of some women.
On the contrary, O'Connor said, specialists now acknowledge that such abortions may actually pose a risk. The cardinal cited the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which recently reversed itself by saying that late-term abortions may not be safe.
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