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We wish our relatives
and friends health and
happiness throughout
the New Year
MR. & MRS. MAURICE
NEEMAN AND FAMILY
MR. & MRS. PHILIP KATZ
Oak Park - .
wish all their'family and
friends a healthy New Year
Best wishes for a year of health
and happiness to all our friends
and relatives
Moishe and Molly Levin
wish all our friends and relatives
a healthy, happy New Year.
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Mr. and Mrs. Morris Kuper
and Family
Mr. and Mrs. George Lubin
North Miami Beach
extend best wishes for a happy
and healthy New Year to all their
friends and relatives
wish their friends and family a
year of good health and happiness
To all our relatives and friends
a happy, healthy & prosperous New Year
Barbara and Sam Press and Family
New Year Greetings to our family
and friends
Sidney & Shirley Riger and Family
22140 Church, Oak Park, Mi. 48231
Best wishes for
a happy New Year
MRS. LOUIS' (TILLY) ROSE
Sigmunt & Hadassa Rubin
wish all their family and friends
a year of good health and happiness
Dr. and Mrs. Jack D. Singer
and Daughters
wish their friends and family a
year filled with health and happiness
May you and your loved ones enjoy
a year of health and-happiness and
peace and prosperity
Spitz Family Robinson
Sam and Marge Sweet
wish their friends and relatives
a happy, healthy and prosperous
New Year
Best wishes for a year filled with
health and happiness and peace
to all our family and friends
Mr. and Mrs. Alan S. Tilchen
and Family
HAPP9,13‘9"*EARE
to all our friends and relatives
Rosa & Julius Schaumberg
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Israeli Moslems are pictured in front of Jerusalem's
Al Aksa Mosque. Arab worshippers in Israel and
throughout the world face Mecca when praying. This
year, for the first time in 30 years, Israeli Moslems will
be allowed to make their annual pilgrimage to the
Moslem faith's holy city, Mecca.
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spring is reputed to be the
By JERRY CHESLOW
body of water which ap-
World Zionist
Press Service
peared in answer to Hag-
While the Jews are celeb- gar's prayers, when she aid
rating Rosh Hashana, Is- her son Ismail were
raeli Arabs are preparing banished from Abraham's
for the first time in 30 years home by Sarah.
to participate en masse, in
According to Islamic
the Haj annual pilgrimage law, every adult Moslem
to Mecca.
must make the pilgrim-
Applications for the No- age at least once in his
vember event are already life, provided he is not ill,
being made at Interior infirm or insane. • It can
Ministry offices throughout also be carried out post-
the country. Travel agents humously, by willing
in Acre, Nazareth and East money to allow another
Jerusalem are selling seats person to make the trip..
on buses for the trip, which The word Haj may have
will take three days each come from the same root
Way.
as the Hebrew word Hag,
The prime minister's ad- or festival which was also
viser on Arab affairs, Moshe a time of pilgrimage to
Sharon, estimates that be- Jerusalem.
tween 5- and 10,000 Israeli
Since the Moslem calen-
Moslems will make the dar is lunar and does not
journey, which commemo- provide for a leap year, it
rates Mohammed's pil- loses 10 days annually.
grimage nearly 1,400 years Therefore, scholars ha-ve de-
ago. This is in addition to termined that the first Haj
the thousands who ' attend was at the harvest time,
annually from the West around which the Jewish
Bank and the Gaza Strip.
festival of Shavuot was tak-
The Israel government ing place. Like Moslems the
began preparations for the world over, Israeli Arabs
trip after announcements have always prayed facing
from Amman that the Jor- Mecca.
danian authorities and
Saudi Arabia had reached 1948 Exhibition
an agreement, by which Is-
raeli Arabs will be allowed — JERUSALEM — Hebrew
for the first time to make University has opened an
the pilgrimage, using Jor- exhibit at its Givat Ram
campus on life in Israel at
danian travel documents.
Among the problems the time of independence, in
the Israel government 1948.
Two of the major attrac-
has to deal with are
foreign currency, cus- tions in the 800-item ex-
toms and immunizations. hibition are • President
Saudi Arabia charges Harry S. Truman's letter of
$450 a head for entrance May 14, 1948, in which the
into Mecca during the U.S. recognized the state of
Haj. Most of the fee is for Israeli and Chaim Weiz-
lodging. The Israel gov- mann's letter of May 13,
ernment estimates that 1948, to President Truman;
each traveller will need requesting the recognition.
Both letters were pre-
at least three times that
amount in spending -sented to Israel by U.S. Vice
President Walter Mondale
money.
Customs regulations for during his recent visit to Is-
the trip are the same as rael.
those for West Bank Arabs
crossing the Allenby Bridge Sephardi Tales
(over which the buses full of
NEW YORK — The •
pilgrims will pass). The Sephardi community of
main restriction is the pro- Jerusalem has published a
hibition on the import of small volume, "Before the
large electrical appliances.
Start: Jerusalem Sephardi'
Immunization will be con- Tales," by Saul Angel-
ducted in accordance with Malaachi. The author re-
restrictions published by minisces about his child-
the Saudi government.
hood in the Jerusalem of the
Mecca can only be entered early 20th Century, under
- by Moslems. Its Zamzam Turkish and British —
Sandy and Arnie Oleinick
Marcie, Jeffrey and Debbie
wish all our friends and relatives.
a happy, healthy & prosperous New Year
Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Fishman
and Family
wish all their friends and family
a year filled with good health,
happiness, peace and prosperity
A sincere wish to all our relatives
and friends for good health and
happiness in the New Year
The Schecters
Bernice, Nate and. Karen
ESI1011a TOVa
1978-5739
to all our family and friends
may the New Year be filled with
health and happiness
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Charlupski
and Family
Mrs. and Mrs.
Henry Dorfman
and Family
.
wish the entire community,
their family and friends
a year of good health and happiness
MEMBERS of
NEGBAH CHAPTER PIONEER WOMEN
Wish to extend to the community and friends a
prosperous and HAPPY NEW YEAR.
_ Mr. & Mrs. JULIUS ALENCO Mrs. FREDA METZ
Mrs. CHARLOTTE BALDWIN Mrs. ROSE KLEINBARD --
Mr. & Mrs. MAX GELMAN Mrs. EVA RIVKIN -
Mrs. LILIAN GOLDMAN
Mr. and Mrs. MORRIS ORDER
Mrs. GETTY GOLD
Mr. & Mrs. BEN PRESS
Mrs. ROSE GAYER'
Mr . & Mrs. ABRAHAM PRIMAK
Mrs. IDA TONE
Mrs. DORA HARRISON
Mr. & Mrs. SOL SCHWARTZ Mrs. REVA LAHR
Mrs. ILIENE WINKELMAN
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