THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 20 Friday, December 22, 1918 HAPPY 40th BIRTHDAY SANDY WOLOK To a Great Dad & Husband . Love, Harriet, Mark, Robert and Lori • • • • • • prestige laminates • glass, mirrored • lucite • upholstered tables, • benches brass, wicker headboards • tables desks credenzas wall units cabinets special discount prices We Come To You!!! CREATIVE TABLES, ETC. Muriel Weisman 354-4126 Vicky Leebove 851-0789 Israeli Humor in French? Mats Qui! Among the offerings this year from book publishers is a gem from Stock (France), entitled "0 Israel — 30 Ans d'Humor (Oh Israel — 30 Years of Humor). Printed in French, the paperbacked book contains stories and anecdotes about Israelis, olim and tourists to Israel. Author Mark Hillel includes the following, which appear here in rough translation: "On the kibutz, one eats chicken on two occasions: when one (a person) is sick, or when the chicken is sick." "What is a Zionist? It is a Jew, who, with the money of a second Jew, tries to send the son of a third Jew to live in Is- rael." "What's black and white, has two eyes and is Jewish? Moshe Dayan and Sammy Davis, Jr." "At customs. A man comes through proclaiming he has five refrigerators to declare. The customs agent asks, 'What do you plan to do with them?' "The immigrant: 'I must have them — one for meat, another for dairy products because our religion pro- CONG. WHAI DAVID Sisterhood & Mens Club 24350 Southfield Rd. At 91/2 Mile Rd. - presents . ■ NEW YEAR'S EVE EXTRAVAGANZA!! Sunday, December 31, 1978 8:30 till ? Donation - $25.00 per person includes: Hors D'oeuvres Cocktail Punch Full Course Gourmet Dinner Set ups all evening (B.Y.O.B) Champagne toast at Midnight Hats, Noisemakers & Favors Continental Breakfast Door Prizes Dancing to the music of Sam Barnett & Orchestra 10. Other Surprises. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS NOW For This Gala Evening. Limited Seating Call: Synagogue Office 557-8210 Iry Abramson (chairman) 355-4051 Bernard Mannes 557-4051 hibits the mixing of these two foods.' "The customs agent: know. You cannot cook a lamb in its mother's milk.' "'You also know then that on Passover, we use different utensils than we use all year long. I need two more (refrigerators), milk and meat, for the eight days of Passover.' "The customs agent: 'Absolutely. But the fifth?' The immigrant, whisper- ing: 'And if one day I have a desire to eat a slice of ham, where will I put it?'" On another topic, a woman's coming of age, author Judy Blume is creating a sensation. Al- ready a best-selling author of juvenile fiction, Ms. Blume has just pub- liShed her first adult novel, "Wifey." Pub- lished by G. P. Putnam's Sons, the book is a novel about a suburban Iranian Rebels Reject Israel NEW YORK (ZINS) — Ayattollah Ruhollah Kho- meini, the exiled Iranian religious leader who is lead- ing the groups opposed to the rule of the Shah of Iran, told a CBS interviewer re- cently that "We reject Is- rael." He said, "We are opposed to- Israel as long as Israel is at war with the Arab states. We will not send oil to Is- rael." honsewife's search for her identity. Acclaimed by her young readership for the accurate reflection of their own lives in her books, Ms. Blume captures in "Wifey" the pic- ture of marriage in the '70s. She states: "My books deal with situations that are familiar to me. I tell a story by putting myself in the character's shoes and ask- ing, how would I feel . . what would I do . . . if this happened to me." The candidness of "Wifey" surely will cause a wave of introspection among the adult readers of her new novel. 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