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I ja MANHAHiTAN NEIGHBORHOODS e-S k'" Phone Items to (21 2) 303-2850 MANHATTAN CLOSEUP UPPER WEST SIDE A Party To Fight for Landmark Theater Keeping up its fight to keep a nightclub out of one of the citys landmark theaters, the Save the Beacon Theater Committee will hold a benefit party and art exhibition Dec. 7. Cartoonist and playwright Jules Feifier, who lives near the theater, is donating a signed drawing for sale. Twenty-five signed and numbered copies of the drawing, created especially for the committee, will be sold, along with posters. Jazz pianist Dave Keyes will entertain, and wine and cheese will be served.

For nearly a year, the committee has tried to block the conversion of the theater, on Broadway between 74th and 75th Streets, into a nightclub. In 1979, more than a half-century after it was hiii1t ih Boamn was designated a city landmark and entered in the National Register of Historic Places. Despite opposition by the committee and West Side legislators, the dty Landmarks Commission approved the theaters conversion. "To date, however, no certificate of appropriateness has been issued by the commission," said Dan Meltzer, chairman of the committee. "And they do not comply with the zoning law which prohibits a dance floor on the ground floor of a building unless it is at least 50 feet from the street wall, and therefore have no permit from the Buildings Department to proceed." The benefit will be held at the Art Insights Gallery, 205 W.

72nd from 5 to 8 p.m. There will be a $5 contribution requested at the door and annthar $5 contribution will buy a chance to win a Feifier print. For further information, call (212) 744-3958. HnevMuo HmiI Menachem Brayer, a professor at Yeshiva Unverstty, talks with some of his students. Brayer has written a book on Jewish women in rabbinic literature.

After 18 Years of Study, He Writes Book on Women EAST HARLEM A Chance To Learn All About Board 11 East Harlem residents will have the opportunity to about their community board and its responsibilities at a special seminar Tuesday night. "All too often, community boards are anonymous. The people dont know how the board works and what it can do for them, said Board 11 district manager Glenn E. Williams. "Were trying to get closer to the residents and bridge that gap" Manhattan Borough President David N.

Dinkins will be the guest speaker at the Know Your Community Board Seminar. Hie meeting will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. in the basement of the Coral House, 307 E. 116th St. Refreshments will be fltifVftd i Further information is available at (2119 831-8929 or (212) 831-8924.

NEWSDAY, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, Yet the couples union has produced a home and partnership of so much more. "My wife is humble, modest, unassuming a real lady I love her now more than when I married her, Brayer said. He said he dedicated the two-volume set of books to her "because she spent eighteen years of labor, giving me all the time I could devote to writing. Soft-spoken and articulate, Mimi Brayer calls her husband "understanding, and very lovable too. When I married him, I knew I would never be bored with him around.

"I have always done some research for him, she said. "And I have helped him do, sort of, well, the dirty work. I call it the dirty work, because its reading through papers and finding mistakes or anything like that, in spelling. The intellectual things, I leave to him." Brayer, the son of a rabbi, is a man who learned early both by upbringing and unfortunate circumstance of history to Beek a rich life within the pages of Jewish law as well as within himself. In 1940, Brayer, who was born in Poland, was separated from hi family and confined to labor camps until his liberation in 1944 from a camp on the Russian border.

His lifelong studies showed that throughout 4,000 years of history, Jewish women have always been "strong leaders, educators, promoters and the disseminators of knowledge. He has studied the prophetesses, the post-biblical heroines, "and I was always aware as an educator of Jewish history and appreciative of womens role in Jewish society." He nid that the role has also included the capacity to infuse lives with warmth and a capacity for caretaking. "He feels women should have the right to do what they can," said Mimi Brayer, "that they can find a balance." By Caryn Ere Wiener Theres something intimately revealing about the way Menachem M. Brayer has dedicated his recently published book: "To Malka, my dear wife. Beneath that, he Vm tddd a quote from the book of Proverbs: "A valiant woman is her husbands crown." Call him a feminist, if you will.

More accurately, call him a humanist. Hell gladly embrace either title. For both embody the essence of his two-volume book, "Hie Jewish Woman in Rabbinic Literature," published by Ktav Publishing House. The work is a product of hia 18-year study of the rights and privileges accorded Jewish women in society, under correct interpretation of Jewish law, known as Halakha. "A man haa to respect his wife more than himself.

He is not to take advantage of her. He is to treat her as an equal at the least," Brayer said recently, during an interview in the small, book-lined office in Midwood, which he reserves for his private psychotherapy practice. Brayer haa another office at Yeshiva University, in Manhattan, where the 64-year-old scholar has been a professor for 38 years. He currently teaches courses in biblical literature and serves as a consulting psychologist for students. His wife, known as Mimi, who is trained as a chemist, is from a fimnmia Hasidic Jewish dynasty.

Mimi Brayer was wedded to her husband in a full Haaidie Orthodox ceremony in New York City on June 18, 1952. Menachem Brayer is a husband unlikely to forget his wedding anniversary, the day commemorating a marriage produced two sons, a daughter and seven grandchildren. CHELSEA Girl Scouts Offer Takes the Cold in Hand Through a program known as Helping Hands, Girl Scouts are distributing thousands of woolen gloves to New Yorkers in need this year. The program is made possible by an arrangement with one of the countrys largest producers of gloves. Thousands of scouts from the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York donate gloves by contacting a group or organization serving the needy and offering to work with them in the distribution of gloves, -officials say.

Hie gloves are being donated by Aris Isotoner, which has given more than $2 million worth of its products during the past year to organizations involved with those in need. Hie scout Hwmeil has a membership of more Hin 51,000. Further information about Helping is available at (212) 645-4000. The organizations offices are at 43 W. 23rd St.

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