6 Friday, January 5, 1919 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS RENAISSANCE JEWELERS Pal, I, \ Golda Tribute—Yom Hashloshim 20% to 40% OFF DIAMONDS and FINE JEWELRY (Continued from Page 1) than Golda, who is the dearest present which American Jewry has pre- sented us." * * * Extracts from Golda Meir's autobiography "My Life": On the Holocaust -- "I have sometimes wondered how we got through those (World War II) years with-- out going to pieces, but per- 14 & 18K Gold Expert Watch & Jewell )/ Repair We also service Pulsar watches Greenfield Plaza, suite.313 968 0450 - 21700 Greenfield, Oak Park 48237 All Bankards Honored Mon.-Fri. 9-5:00, Sat. 9-3 "Operation Galilee" Needs You To Insure a Jewish Stronghold in this Vital Area 49th Annual Donor Tea 12 Noon, Tuesday, January, 9th Congregation Shaarey Zedek 27375 Bell Road Southfield GUEST ARTIST EZRA One of Israel's most sparkling personalities! Sings, dances, plays the drums and has charmed audiences around the world; Huge success in Town Hall, Carnegie Hall, and Israeli movies. QUEST SPEAKER RABBI WILLIAM BERKOWITZ of Congregation B'nai Jershurun, New York and National President of Jewish National Fund. Noted author and lecturer. for information call: JEWISH NATIONAL FUND, 27308 Southfield Road, Southfield, Mich. 557-6644 Reba (Mrs. Irving) Bloom President Shirley, (Mrs. Jules) Kraft Fund Raising Chairwoman Anna (Mrs. Philip) Slomovitz Program Chairwoman without hating those haps physical and emo- tional stamina are mostly a who want to destroy them matter of habit. People, and without abandoning especially my own family, their own vision of peace. To have charged me for almost have learned this is a great as long as I can remember art, the prescription• for with driving myself too which is not written down hard, whatever that really anywhere. It is part of our means . . . But during those way of life in Israel. "And now I have only this war years I learned a very important lesson: one can desire left: never to lose the always push oneself a little feeling that it is I who am bit beyond what only yes- indebted for what has been terday was thought to be the given to me from the tigft that I first learned abgl. absolute limit . ." On the United Nations Zionism in a small room in partition plan (1947) — Russia all the way through "The-state of Israel! My eyes to my half-century here, filled with tears and my where I have seen my five hands shook. We had done grandchildren grow up as it. We had brought the free Jews in a country that Jewish state into existence is their own. "Let no one anywhere — and I, Golda Mabovitch Meyerson, had lived to see have any doubts about this: the day. Whatever hap- our children and our chil- pened now, whatever price dren's children will never any of us would have to pay settle for anything less." * * * for it, we had recreated the . The following excerpts Jewish national home. The long exile was over. From are from a New York Daily this day on, we would no News article by Dr. Bernard longer live on sufferance in Gifford, civil rights activist the land of our forefathers. and former deputy chancel- Now we were a nation like lor of the New York City other nations, masters - for school sy s tem, who met the first time in 20 centuries with Mrs. Meir in Israel last year: - - of our own destiny. "As minister of labor and "The dream had come true - too late to save those subsequently as foreign who had perished in the minister, Golda Meir played Holocaust; but not too late a key role in formulating Is- for the generation to come." rael's wide-ranging de- To grow up as free Jews — velopment assistance pro- "Like my generation, this grams in Black Africa that 'generation of sabras will st- began in 1957, just nine rive, struggle, make mis- years after Israel achieved takes and achieve. Like us, its independence. The pro- . they are totally committed gram resulted from a re- to the development and se- quest by Ghana's new curity of the state of Israel president, Kwame and to the dream of a just Nkrumah, who sought Is- society here. Like us, they rael's assistance in estab- know that for the Jewish lishing Ghana's merchant people to remain a people, it marine and organizing is essential that there be a Ghana's trade union move- Jewish state where Jews ment .. . can live as Jews, not on suf- "Only after persistent ferance and not as a minor- questioning did she express ity. I am certain that they disappointment in the ac- will bring at least as much tions of the African nations credit to the Jewish people who had indicted Israel for everywhere as we tried to racism. At no point did she bring. depart from her position 'As for me, my life has that in the long run, 'the been greatly blessed. Not interests of the developing only have I lived to see the nations of Black Africa and state of Israel born, but I those of Israel would bring have also seen it take in and them together' again. successfully absorb masses "Hers was not the boast of of Jews from all parts of the the do-gooder or of the world. "When I came to this paternalist. It was the voice country in 1921, its Jewish of one who understood the population amounted to virtues of peaceful coopera- 80,000 and the entry of each tion because she had spent Jew depended on permis- so much of her life bearing sion granted by the Man- witness to the stupiditill datory Government. We are violent conflict. "As Golda Meir left the now a population of over three million, of whom over meeting, I thought: The one million are Jews who Jews are a better people be- have arrived since the es- cause Golda Meir struggled tablishment of the state to maintain the Jewish tra- under Israel's Law of Re- dition of humanism. I now turn, a law that guarantees know that all of us, Jews the right of every Jew to set- and blacks, are greater than what we were because her tle here. "I am also grateful that I commitment to freedom and live in a country whose equality for all was as deep people have learned how to as her commitment to her go on living in a sea of beloved Israel." '"IraMMF 47;11.1Mv.- ..1111WITA* . JEWISH nnTion AL FUND 27308 Southfield Rd . 557-6644 Southfield, Mich . . 48076 -- Prff-