THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, September 5, 1975 77 2 Foreign-Born Jews Write 'White Line Fever' movie By HERBERT G. LUFT (Copyright 1975, JTA, Inc.) HOLLYWOOD — "White Line Fever," a hard-hitting action picture dealing with one man's fight against cor- ruption in the trucking busi- ness of Arizona, was writ- ten by Ken Friedman, a Jewish refugee from Ger- many who came with his parents to America as a small, child, and Paris-born J . flan Kaplan who has in London. With Jan-Michael Vin- cent portraying the central character, "White Line Fe- ver" was produced by John Kemeny for Columbia Pic- tures, in association with International Cinemedia Center of Canada, founded THE PIPPIN PUPPETS Delightful & Amusing Shows For All Occasions 479-0397 478-6497 by Kemeny with Gerald Schneider and Mort. Lit- wack who act as executives on the film. Irwin Allen who made a mint for himself and the studios with "The Poseidon Adventure" and "Towering Inferno," two technically brilliantly executed motion pictures lacking coherent and believable story plots, panned by the critics but praised by the public, now has signed a new, three-fold contract with 20th Century Fox. Following his own trend toward blockbuster action and terror pictures, Allen leads off his multi-million dollar schedule with "The Day the World Ended," based on the Literary Guild best-selling novel by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts to be adapted for the screen by Nelson Giddings. The Os- car-winning producer will follow his record-breaking grosser "Poseidon Adven- ture" with a sequel, tem- porarily titled, "Poseidon Adventure. II." The third production planned by Allen is "Circus," a gigantic under- taking to be photographed in conjunction with Ringling Bros.-Barnum and Bailey, based on a screenplay now being written by Academy Award-winning author Ed- ward Anhalt. Richard Roth is produc- ing for Fox, "Julia," with Jane Fonda in the title role and Sydney Pollack direct- ing on location in Europe. The script by Alvin Sargent is based on a true incident in young British actor who portrayed the title role in Ken Russell's "Mahler" and the father of "Tommy" in the current rock-opera film, is set to essay the part of "Jesus" in a six-part television se- ries to be presented on NBC during the 1976 sea- son. Peter O'Toole will play the part of John the Baptist, with Sir Laurence Olivier very likely as Pon- tius Pilate. Franco Zeffi- relli will direct the biblical epic for British-Italian in- terests. Lillian Hellman's book, "Pentimento," .a collection of portraits in the form of a memoir. Fred Weintraub and Paul Heller are producing for Paramount, "Comedy Ca- pers" from an original screenplay by Larry Tucker, who wrote, "I Love You, Al- ice B. Toklas," and the highly successful sexploita- tion picture, "Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice" — the latter catapulting Elliott Gould to fame and fortune. The forthcoming Wein- traub-Heller production is a contemporary comedy chase with locations in Hollywood and throughout the United States. Robert Powell, the Rosh Hashana Quiz (Copyright 1975, JTA, Inc.) CARPET CENTER Mrs. Sol Nusbaum Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Nusbaum Mr. & Mrs. Dov Loketch Eleven Great Stores to Serve You S incere wi3he3 for a new Year, it wig health, happine33 and pro3peri4y. Harry, Sally, Esther _ Alan, Marvin Tuchklaper of HARRY CUSTOM CLOTHIER Harry 13641 W.9 MILE RD. CUSTOM CLOTH 1ER LI 5-3558 OAK PARK Just West of Coolidge • What is the origin of the New Year's cards which people send each other for a greeting card on Rosh Hashana? The Maharil (Rabbi Jacob Molin), in his 14th Century work on Jewish customs, relates that during the month be- fore Rosh Hashana a person is obligated to extend good wishes to his friends and neighbors by saying, "May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year." He related also that his teacher (Rabbi Shalom ben Isaac) used to append a similar salutation to his letters dur- ing this period. We have on record Rosh Hashana greeting cards in German in manuscript form from the early part of the 19th Century. In the late 19th Century we already find printed Rosh Hashana greeting cards. In general, during the period of judgment, the rabbis stressed the need for unity and solidarity among the people. Sins often come from the lack of unity, and salvation is therefore the result of the resumption of unity. Thus, the greetings expressed verbally, in writing or in printed form tend to solidify the people. There are some writers who suspect that the popularity of greeting cards among other religions in some of their hol- idays and the commercialism of our times have helped promote the large amount of greeting cards exchanged at this period. 121;swiew5 . Rosh Hashana Joe Slatkin's i■ 534-1400 Our Promise To You: BETTER SERVICE! A HAPPY NEW YEAR Diamonds — Fine Jewelry — Diamond Setting All Kinds of Repairs JACK NISHANIAN Master Jeweler Tel. 559-7017 00C3C:300 cirzz Fa OC° 0 It is not really the act of blowing the shofar which is the reason for the prohibition but rather the possibility of a violation of the Sabbath which might be incurred in the preparation for the act. The rabbis were concerned lest one forget it was Sab- bath and carry the shofar out into the public domain — an act prohibited on the Sabbath. It is for this same reason that the lulav is not used on the day of Sukkot that falls on the Sabbath. The rabbis find some allusion to their ruling from the fact that the Bible mentions the day of Rosh Hashana once as being a "day of blowing" (Numbers, 29:1) and another time as a day of "remembering the blowing" (Leviticus 23:24). This means that sometimes on Rosh Hashana we ac- tually blow the shofar (when it is a weekday) and at other times we only remember that the shofa4. : is blown (when Rosh Hashana falls on the Sabbath). 20811 W. 8 Mile between Southfield a Telegraph Classic wfy eo. Why is it required to hear 100 notes from the shofar on the day of Rosh Hashana? The three explanations that are offered for this re- quired number have to do with three mothers. One rabbinic source claims that the 100 notes of the shofar represent the 100 cries uttered by the mother of General Sisera when she realized he was not to return alive from the battlefield. Another source claims that the 100 notes represent the 100 shrieks exclaimed by the biblical mother Sarah when she was informed by Satan that her son was brought up to the mountain for the purpose of being sacrificed. A third source claims that the notes represent the cries of a mother who is about to give birth to a child. What is somehow common to all of these reasons is that the shofar expresses the most basic form of the expres- sion of concern. There is concern over what the New Year will bring and there is concern over the past which can no longer return. DEXTER CHEVROLET To Our Friends & Customers 0 0 Why is it that the shofar is not sounded on the day of Rosh Hashana which falls on the Sabbath (as the first day does this year)? 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