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Page 16/The Battalion/Friday, May 3, 1985 Funky Winkerbean It) WAVE A JfWMeMT from Thf FDrrr>{? by Tom Batiuk from ■j - r 11 1 1 YEARBOOKS WE D LIKE TO SEE - 1 'fr: ^ success and hapP-oes, in the (uturel tonon CN.w, A „., lto j yBd , (( w. p-" r»XS® ."p b ,r'S.p■, i didn t ge or pafty t iing'e « arn ., 0P id school N0b0dY t a Hwe oTdle. and C * teS 1 me the feeling •* believe rne h wo uld mutual'. Why on eaj^ bucks I want to pay ^ pictures ( jq,,’, want lor a bo °M'having lunl ^ idiots I « en ' ot other w.ds ha- n« d me of the anything around to school with. S-3 Conservative Jews end era Woman to be ordained Associated Press DALLAS — Nina Bieber Feinstein’s dream was to become a rabbi, even though her religion told her not to challenge the centuries- old laws of the Talmud. And now, Bieber Feinstein has found that a dream can be stronger than religious tradition. In May 1986, the Dallas woman, 29, will become one of the first 19 fe male rabbis in the Conservative branch of Judaism, an event so con troversial that many of the 1.5 mil lion members of the country’s larg est Jewish movement are thinking about leaving the branch. The sex barrier will be officially torn down this month when Amy Eilberg, 30, of Bloomington, Ind., is ordained. Bieber Feinstein is a mem ber of the second class of women to be ordained. Her ordination, she said, will be the culmination of 14 years of deter mination and disappointments. “I’ve always been a very stubborn person,” Bieber Feinstein said. “I al ways hoped I would become a Con servative rabbi. I just never gave up my dream.” She grew up in Los Angeles, where one of her earliest memories is attending synagogue with her par ents when she was 3. She also retains vivid memories of the way her parents kept a kosher home in accordance with Jewish laws of the Talmud. “By the time I was in the upper grades of elementary shool, I was the only Jewish kid in school,” she said. “I could have become assimi lated and not shown my Jewishness, but I chose to go the other way.” As a teen-ager in Hebrew High School, she heard several young, re cently ordained rabbis who had come to teach. Soon, they became role models for her. “They had such a wonderful way of life tnat I decided I wanted to be like them,” she said. “They comfort ably observed tradition yet were rais ing families in the 20th century.” Bieber Feinstein and her sister be came the first teen-agers to lead Sat urday morning services at Los An geles’ Sinai Temple. She later was the congregation’s first woman to read from the Torah on Yom Kippur, Jews’ holiest holi day. In 1977, she entered the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York. For the next three years, Bieber Feinstein worked toward a master’s degree in the Talmud and rabbinical literature, where she met and mar ried rabbinical student Edward M. Feinstein. In 1980, she enrolled in the semi nary’s doctoral program, but left in 1982 to come to Dallas with her hus band, who is associate rabbi at Con gregation Shearith Israel and direc tor ol the Solomon Schechter Academy. T he assembly gave her permission to complete her course work through correspondence. In Novemeber 1983, before she finished her studies, the seminary faculty voted to ordain women rab bis. The Rabbinical Assembly fol lowed suit this February. Bieber Feinstein was able to transfer several of her course credits to a rabbinical degree. She will return to New York this summer to complete her last courses at the seminary and present her “se nior sermon” to the faculty and stu dents before being ordained there in May 1986. Bieber Feinstein does revel in the fact that she’ll be a role model for young Jewish girls, but she has an even greater interest in making women feel more comfortable par ticipating in services. “Some people think this will split Judaism apart,” she said of the ordi nations. “I’m one of the people who thinks it will help. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have done it.” Cambodian teens use art to illustrate violent history Associated Press AMES, Iowa — Vouen Ghent remembers one pond shaded by her beloved mango tree and another full of blood ana bodies. Underat Nou remembers people being shot for pick ing up fallen fruit. These pictures of life in Cambodia are being drawn by a dozen teen-agers who still remember the terror. While one boy draws only cheerful pictures of Iowa, another talks of playing in the sand and finding a human head. “Yet he’s doing fine,” said Ed Ruppert, a specialist in foster care at the Beloit Center, an agency of Lutheran Social Services of Iowa, where the kids meet to draw. The children have survived battles that spilled out of Vietnam, secret U.S. bombings of their homeland, years of civil war followed by four years of murderous frenzy by the Khmer Rouge Communists and the 1978 invasion by Vietnam. Try explaining it all to a 10-year-old. Or ask that 10- year-old to explain it to you, years later. The art therapy program helps them deal with the enormous pain. Listen to their stories: • VOUEN CHEM, 17: The picture is from 1975, “a really sad year, really a sad place.” An explosion derailed her train as her family was escaping from their village. “So we had to get down from the train and find the water. And when my dad found this pond, all we see was dead bodies and blood ... just like they kill a couple of days ago. ... Economy tiring; spending on rise Associated Press NEW YORK — In an economy as unusual as this one, odd behavior and expectations don’t rattle the at mosphere as they might in more normal times. There is plenty of odd behavior, especially the high level of consumer spending at a time when the econ omy seems to be tiring. Over the five months that ended in February, for instance, personal consumption spending jumped nearly $74 billion, while disposable income rose only $47.1 billion. The difference was made up by savings and loans. “Have consumers lost their minds?” asks Edward Yardeni, econ omist at Prudential-Bache. Are they trying to maintain a living standard they cannot afford, he asks? Or are they simply optimistic about the fu ture? If it is the latter they have lots of professional company. 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