LETTER BOX Ingle Adults Map uture as Group Editor, The Jewish News: I am writing as a member of the planning committee of the Jewish Center Single Adult Group and the offshoot, the Jewish Social Singles. The feeling that we have of being "maligned and misunder- stood by the community at large" gnvitations B HATTiE SCHWARTZ 356-8563 THE NEWEST iN WEDDING • BAR MITZVAH CONFIRMATION AND PARTY A- ccessortes BAR MITZVAS SWEET SIXTEENS Plan your party for your friends at PREMIERE DANCE STUDIO 22111 COOUDGE OAK PARK We take care of all the details .. Food, Music, etc. Check our prices first LI 7-4470 FASHION HOUSE BEAUTY SALON 4113 W. 13 MILE RD. Royal Oak 3 Elks. E. of Greenfield LI 9-1230 Open Thurs. & Fri. Eves. ALL BEAUTY SERVICES WIG STYLIST We Are Proud to Announce That CUSTOM CRAFT UPHOLSTERING Is Again Taking Orders. Same workmanship, Same Management. Call 547-8526 "ISRAELI COMMEMORATIVE PLATES" Start your collection now—get in on the ground floor: 1967 (First Issue) Wailing Wall—$10.00; 1967 (First Is- sue) Tower of David-410A0; 196$ (Current Issue) Masada—$7.50; Com- plete set (1 each) $25.00. 20% Dis- count on 6 or more plates. All plates postpaid and Insured. "MY GRANDFATHER' SHOP" . 1405 Caddington Avenue Silver Spring, Maryland 20101 A BEAUTIFUL CARPET AND FURNITURE CLEANING Satisfaction guaranteed — Mothproofing free. Wall- to-wall c a r pet cleaning. Five cents a square foot, minimum $15. 542-4735 (See JN, Dec. 13) needs a certain amount of explanation. The planning committee was formed in January 1968 at the Cen- ter. It is comprised of members of other clubs and represents a col- lection of people who have been throwing stag parties for the past few years. In addition, there were some new people who came with new and rather "strange" ideas for the formation of a group. We all knew that in the 30-age group. the Center as a meeting ground had a stigma—a "losers" image— in the community. The party throwers felt that more needed to be done for this age group, some way to meet that was less brutal than the rating-dating, acceptance- rejection of the parties ... The problem is that while par- ties are fun and always success- ful, they appeal to a set of needs the satisfaction of which may be necessary but not sufficient for a productive, meaningful life. Many people realize this and subsequent- ly avoid the "circuit" like the niague . . . Others are afraid of the circuit and feel too inadequate and threatened to come out and subsequently their legitimate so- cial needs go unmet . . The problem we have had as a planning committee was exactly what type of activities should be nlanned. We decided to have two activities at the Center a month and tested out a number of different ideas for the past few months. Most of these activities have fallen flat. The experience has suggested to the planning com- mittee the idea that nothing "works" other than parties and perhaps (this is untested) con- crete cultural programs. In other words, we feel that to finish out the season successfully, we should plan a series of hard- core lecture-socials on such topics as the sexual revolution and the family, divorce and intermarriage problems and causes, psychothera- peutic adjustment for single adults and survival of marriage as an institution . . . given by doctors, professors, ministers, rabbis and Merrill Palmer types whom we might have some success in lining up. The next planning meeting scheduled for sometime early in January will determine the future course the club will take, hope- fully with more success and sup- port from the community than we have had in the past. Cordially, KARL GORDON (Editor's Note: Rabbi Sherwin Wine will be speaker at the group's next event, 8:30 p.m. Jan. 23 at the Jewish Center.) • Postmaster's Appreciation Editor, The Jewish News: On behalf of the 9,500 employes of the Detroit Post Office, and my- self, I would like to express heart- felt thanks to you and your paper, to your readers, and to the public in general, for the excellent coop- eration we received from all of you during the holiday rush, and throughout the past year. Despite the flu epidemic that took its toll among our employes, as it did in the community as a whole, we enjoyed another smooth and successful holiday postal operation. Without your help, however, we know we could not possibly have handled the millions of pieces of holiday mail we did without any serious problems. Early mailing, good packaging, and the extensive use of ZIP Codes by Detroiters helped tremendously in providing an even flow of mall through our office and in permit. ting a more expeditious handling of it. Again, many thanks for the gen- erous helping hand, and from all of us here at the post office, best wishes for a thoroughly Happy New Year. Sincer ely, EDWARD L. BAKER Postmaster Wisdom of Sages The sage Nahum was called "Gimzo" because, no matter what befell him, he would say, "This too (gam zeh) is for the best." It is related of him that he was blind in both eyes, crippled in both hands, that he had lost both his feet, and that the whole of his body was covered with leprosy. He lay stretched out in a tottering house, and his legs were thrust into pots of water so that the ants might not be able to get to him. One day his pupils said to him: "If you are so just a man, why do all these evil things overtake you?" "My children," he answered, "I have brought them all on myself. One day as I was going to the house of my father-in-law, leading with me three donkeys, one laden with provisions, one with wine, and one with rare fruits, I chanced on a poor man who stopped me and said, 'Master, give me something to eat.' " 'Wait,' I said, 'until I have un- loaded my donkey.' But before I could finish doing that, the man gave up the ghost. Then I went and threw myself upon him, saying: 'May my eyes, which had no pity on your eyes, lose their sight; may my hands, which had no pity on your hands, be crippled; may my feet, which had no pity on your feet, be cut off.' And my spirit was not at rest until I had said: 'May my whole body be covered with leprosy.' " His pupils replied: "Woe to us, that we see you in this condition." But he said: "Woe to me if you were not to see me." — Ta'anit, 21a. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, January 10, 1969-33 Alien Address Forms Are Available at Post Office According to Walter A. 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