THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, Sept. nzrizn 2s, 1973-59 rIzIrt ruv5 RABBI AND MRS. EUGENE GREENFIELD of Ramat Gan, Israel Extend New Year's Greetings and Best It 'ishes to all their relatives and friends ° On the Whole, Some Folks Would Rather Be in Newark By DAVID SCHWARTZ (Copyright 1973, JTA, Inc.) My teen-age nephew and niece have returned after a year's stay in Israel. They loved the country. Before the days of modern Zionism, only the aged Jews Helen & Morris Greenberg 17285 Lee, Southfield wish their relatives and friends a happy New Year frflopyci)(erieffil I 1973 • 5734 401 ■ • Wishing All Our Family and Friends A Very Healthy and Happy New Year ABE and CLARE HELLER aiemiememe • elme ■ ini. To Our Relatives and Friends MR. & MRS. NATHAN I. GOLDIN Best Wishes for a healthy, peaceful New Year to all our relatives and friends Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Leach and Daughter 20501 Westmoreland Detroit Mr.& Mrs. Morris Meyers and Family 301 No. Farrell Dr. Palm Springs, Calif. 92262 extend best wishes to all their friends and relatives for a happy, healthy New Year DON & MAXINE WEINGARDEN Wish All Their Friends & Relatives A Happy & Healthy New Year the coming year he one filled with health, happiness and peace for all mankind May LE SHONO TOVO TIKOSEVU llat•Ihr Nett' I ear (I full meuvir• uf rtNlr tree Mb, lice . ' if trnr 11011111 ROVNER-LACHOWITCHER AID SOCIETY Jacob Gubow, President Abe Young, Vice•President Nathan Wiss. Treasurer Molly Saginaw, Fin. Secy Sam Man's, Recording Secty Joseph H Siegal. Comes Secy. Alex Begun, Arthur Cutler, Charlie Cohen, Trustees Abe and Gertrude Applebaum, Ray Cohen, Sam and Sadie Lerman, Hospitalers Rayner Free Loon Assn 16500 North Park Dr., Southfield, Mich. 48075 Meyer Lewenthal. Chairman Abe Saginaw, Treasurer Joe Siegal. Fin. Secy. Abe Applebaum. Sam Bassin and Harry Stone. Trustees went to Palestine. Their great-great-grandmother tried to settle there, when she was 80 years old, but the Turks wouldn't let her. Despite her age, she had a will of her own, and the Turks no doubt figured it was best not to take chances. With both Herzl and grandma to fight, they were bound to lose. It is reported that 40,000 Russian Jews entered Israel the past year, many of them having problems of adjust- ment. It is not easy for an older person to accept a new coun- try. There was the man from Newark who went to London. It's a great city, he agreed, but not like Newark. And Paris had great charm but it was not like Newark. Finally. he arrived in Heaven. Ah, here it was different. It was intoxicating, a fairy land but alas, it, too, was not like Newark. King James had made life miserable for the Pilgrims, as they were to be called, and after a strenuous voyage on the Mayflower they reached the coast of Massa- chusetts. Beautiful country, beautiful trees, beautiful harbor. They settled there, but their hearts longed for old England and they named their cities, Boston and Wor- cester after the English cities they left behind. Some of them, too, were good Zionists. They gave bib- lical names to some towns. That's why we have Salem, Mass., and Jerusalem, R.I. The Jews coming from Russia to America said, "A klug zu Columbus." They liked the new world but there was nostalgia for the little towns they had left behind. Here, they could put all the sugar they wanted in the tea. They missed the joy of hav- ing to drink the tea with only one piece of sugar. Here, they had gas and electric light and they missed the candles. And there was the problem of language. They were called "greenhorns." Children are never "green- horns." They take up a language easily. But aside from the diffi- culty of acquiring the lan- guage is the nostalgia for the old home roots. "Mid pleasures and palaces Though we may roam Be it ever so humble There is no place like home." Home, Sweet Home—what American has not felt the anguish of this song by John Howard Payne, whose mother was Sarah Isaacs. We think it was the Jewish part of Payne that wrote Home Sweet Home. Jews have been the eternal wan- derers and that perhaps is the explanation of the strength the Zionist idea. It just means that Jews also are entitled to a homeland. Midrash on Slander Rabban Gamaliel com- manded his slave, Tobi, to buy the best edible in the market. The slave brought home a tongue. The next day Rabban Gamaliel command- ed him to buy the worst thing in the market and again Tobi brought home a tongue. When asked for an explanation, the wise slave replied: "There is nothing better than a good tongue, and nothing worse than an evil tongue." — Vayikra Rabba. - - `The S6letide b irteledorii his Lose no time: be Aways the equipment of the inter- employed in something use- national mind. — Horace M. ful; cut off all unnecessary Kallen. action.—Benjamin Franklin. THE OFFICERS OF Berdichev-Keshenev-Zhitomir Aid Society wishes to express to their members and their families and friends best wishes for a Ilappx. and Prosperous New lear Sam Cohen, Pres.; Victor Sherman, Vice-Pres.; Jacob Resnick, Hon. Vice-Pres.; Arthur Parker, Treas. ; Abe Elman, Fin. Sec.; Harry Handler, Rec. Sec. Izmn nzm nstr To all our relatives and friends a very happy, healthy and prosperous New Year Mr. & Mrs. Erwin Friedman and Harold 13329 Winchester, Huntington Woods I LIIIMIATOVA To All Our Family and Friends Dr. and Mrs. Davis A. Benson 16253 Mayfair Dr., Southfield • • ........... To All Our Relatives and Friends MR. and MRS. BENNETT NATHAN AND FAMILY 21081 Dartmouth Dr. Southfield To All Our Relatives, Friends and Customers ROSE & IRVING GUTTMAN (of Irving's Restaurant) AND FAMILY Harry E. Citrin (Living in San Diego, Calif. for Health Reasons) EXTENDS HIS HEARTIEST WISHES FOR A Happy and Prosperous New Year To His Entire Family, His Friends and All the People with whom he was associated in the following Detroit organizations. Officers, Directors, Members, Personnel and Staff of the Hebrew Benevolent Society and Hebrew Memorial Park. Congregation B'nai Moshe Yeshivah Beth Yehudah Mishkan Israel-Nusach Hari (Chabad Lubavitch) Mizrachi Organization of Detroit Jewish National Fund Congregation B'nai Da .vid Pisgah Lodge, Bnai Brith Congregation Beth Tefilo Jewish Community Council Emanuel Tikvah and the rabbi—Rabbi Leizer Levin Jewish Welfare Federation