70 Friday, September 9, 1977 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Best Wishes For A
Happy New Year
Special Care Taken to Provide Israel Soldiers
Best Wishes To An for
a happy, healthy New Year
CELIA, MADELINE & VIVIAN
BELKIN
6020 Shore Blvd. S.
Apt. 104
Gulfport, Ha. 33707
CANTOR and MRS.
HYMAN J. ADLER
and FAMILY
17280 Anna
Southfield, Mich. 48075
New Year Greetings
MR. and MRS.
J. BERKOWITZ
Best Wishes For A
Happy and Healthy
New Year
MR. AND MRS.
HYMAN BLUMENSTEIN
AND FAMILY
With High Holiday Materials This Month
By ILAN SEIDNER
From the World
Zionist Organization
MR. & MRS. JAY JOSEPH
AND FAMILY
W. Bloomfield
wish all their friends and
relatives a happy and
healthy New Year.
To all our friends and
relatives best wishes for a
happy, peaceful New Year
MR. & MRS.
HARRY A. KOMER
Southfield
Wishing all our relatives
and friends a very happy
and prosperous New Year
MOSHE & MOLLY
LEVIN
Oak Park
ESSIE FINE
Southfield
Wishes all her friends
and relatives a happy,
healthty New Year
Dr. and Mrs. Alex
Friedlaender and Family
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Bet wishes lor a year
of health, happiness
and peace to ull Irr y
relatives and friends
8530 Lincoln Drive
Huntington vvovas,' micn. 48070
MRS. PAULINE MAX
Extend Best Wishes for a Happy
and Healthy New Year to All
Their Relatives and Friends
Southfield
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RS. GEORGE
Mr. and Mrs. David Pitt
and Susan
16607 Ilene, Detroit
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healthy, prosperous
and peaceful year.
Dorothy & Mike Glick
& Family
Wish All Their Relatives & Friends
A Happy, Healthy & Prosperous
New Year
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JERUSALEM—In the eve-
ning of Sept. 12, 1977—Elul
by the Hebrew calendar—
the sound of prayer will be
heard throughout the house
of Israel, cries of repen-
tance and murmurs of quiet
meditation. For most it is a
time for family gatherings,
a joyous reunion around the
holiday dinner table, and a
blessing for a sweet and
prosperous New Year.
Yet there are Jews who
find themselves far away
from the warmth of home
and friends. They can be
seen in pup tents under the
roasting Sinai sun, along-
side tanks on the windswept
Golan plateau, or keeping a
vigilant watch on important
military stores somewhere
in central Israel.
Because the Israel De-
fense Forces is an integral
part of the Jewish people
and the spiritual well being
of its fighting men the "ar-
my's secret weapon" ac-
cording to Maj. Gen. Rabbi
Gad Navon, head of the mil-
itary chaplaincy, and for-
mer combat fighter -- (he
was a part of the famed
"Beasts of the Negev" unit
that took part in the 1948
War for Israel's independ-
ence), "it is up to us to pro-
vide each and every soldier
the means to perform the
Commandments and cele-
brate the High Holy Days."
Preparations in the army
for the High Holy Days be-
gin more than a month be-
fore the first night of Rosh
Hashana. On the first of
Elul (this year Aug. 15)
the army chief rabbi issued
an order of the day, calling
for a convergence of all ar-
my chaplains, to, begin a
month long session of dis-
cussion, soul-searching and
Torah reading.
Each soldier receives a
calendar of events for the
coming year, detailing the
daily obligations of a Jew-
ish combatant. A special
prayerbook is also printed
that, like the military reli-
gious service, combines the
various customs of each
community into one homo-
geneous "Israeli pray-
erbook."
Gen. Navon said,
"Though the Yemenites
have their special way of
praying, the Moroccans an-
other and the Americans an-
other, in the army we
merge them all into one, an
Israeli one. Thus we have a
symbol of the _unity of the
Jewish people."
Prior to the holiday, the
army chaplaincy has al-
ready seen to it that thou-
sands of prayerbooks have
been distributed and that ap-
ples and candies have been
delivered to the soldiers to
ensure a sweet and prosper-
ous New Year. The day be-
fore Rosh Hashana eve,
work in the military posts
stops and training activities
Ben Morreale knows the
Sicilians. He is intimately
acquainted with the Italian
immigrants in this country
and with their Jewish neigh-
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t winy Peace, Actit4 and
Jiapp ineiJ to you
HEARTIEST GREETINGS ON THE NEW YEAR, 5738,
TO ALL OUR RELATIVES AND FRIENDS,
TO THE ENTIRE JEWISH COMMUNITY,
TO ISRAEL AND THE ISRAELIS AND TO
THE DEDICATED SUPPORTERS OF THE CAUSE
OF JUSTICE FOR JEWRY ANDMANKIND.
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Walk about Zion,
and go round about her;
tell the towers thereof
(Psalms 48, 12)
A festive atmosphere
spreads through the units.
Soldiers prepare them-
selves for the holiday and
are permitted to don dress
uniform. The army chap-
laincy sees to it that a hot
meal is provided and in
keeping with the spirit of
the occasion religious songs
are sung.
Because of the nature of
military work, it is not al-
ways possible for an individ-
ual soldier to fulfill the com-
mandments pertaining to
the holiday. Therefore, in
order to comply with the
mitzva that one should live
by the Torah, special "di-
nim" or laws were issued
by the chaplaincy and ac-
cepted as compatible to Ha-
lakha by the religious com-
munity excusing soldiers
from hearing the shofar if
it would endanger their liv-
es (for example those on
border patrol) and allowing
others serving in particu-
larly arid zones, to rinse
their months with water, an
act that saved the lives of
many religious fighting
men in the Yom Kippur
War.
Not everyone can resign
himself to being away from
home, though. A young man
wearing a knitted skull cap,
a new immigrant, said,
" t he atmosphere is definite-
ly special, but it takes a
while to get used to the Is-
raeli melodies of the pray-
ers. It's not like back in the
States at all."
All soldiers agree,
though, that the military
chaplaincy makes an excel-
lent effort to provide a prop-__
er religious atmospher
The chaplaincy also e._
sured that for the Sukkot
holiday, kosher lulavim and
etrogim are distributed in
the thousands, enabling
every soldier to perform
the commandment.
Special precaution is
taken so that pure etrog,
grown as a seedling and not
a hybrid, is sent to OrthoT
dox units such as Yeshivot
Hahesder, where soldiers,
in addition to performing
their military obligations,
are engaged in the full-time
study of the Torah. Booths
are also erected in every
base and soldiers are en-
couraged to have their
meals in them.
Dr.- and Mrs.
Sidney Friedlaender
and Family
Nottingham Lane
Southfield
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cease. A parade is called
and company commanders
remind their men of their
rights and obligations as
Jews. •
Fairly evenly divided,
friendships between Jewish
and Sicilian families such
as the one described in
"Monday, Tuesday ...
Never Come Sunday" were
not uncommon. Morreale
was not only introduced
into academic and in-
tellectual pursuits by the
older Jewish boy who be-
friended him; he fell in
love with and married a
Jewish girl.
Mr. and Mrs. Max Stollman
Mr. Philip Stollman
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Stollman
and their families
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hors. Therefore his novel,
"Monday, Tuesday
Never Come Sunday, -
(Scribner's), which throws
light also on the Mafia. is a
source for understanding
the peoples well portrayed
by an able novelist.
Morreale was - born in
New York City of Sicilian
parents, who brought him
back to Italy. When he was
12 the family returned to
live in New York — this
time in Brooklyn during the
1930's — the setting for
"Monday, Tuesday ...
- Never Come Sunday."
In the memory of many
Sicilian and Jewish immi-
grants who lived in Brook-
lyn at that time, relations
were not good between the
two ethnic groups, and
teen-age brawls were corn-
mon. But the street the Mor-
reales lived on was an ex-
ception.
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The character of Luigi,
the uncle in "Monday,
Tuesday ... Never Come
Sunday, - is a study of how
a Mafia-type develops in
America, and of how he at-
tracts the despairing immi-
grant to crime.
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Wish All Their Friends and
Relatives A Happy and
Healthy Nev Year
Best Wishes for the
New Year
MR. and MRS.
PETER HELMAN .
18877 W. _10 Mile Rd.
Southfield, Mich. 48075
Mr. & Mrs. Henry
Obron
and Family
Franklin,
Mich.
wish all their friends and
family a happy New Year
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Richman
and Dr. Harold Richman
Oak Park
wish all their friends and
relatives a happy, healthy
New Year
A happy, healthy
New Year
to all our
relatives
and friends
MR. & MRS. PAUL SILVER
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Sandy
Ashman
of Harvard How Barber Salon
357-0234
Wishes All His
Friends and
Customers
A HAPPY NEW YEAR
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