THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 12 Friday, February 9, 1919 Tuition and. books for an, Israeli high school student cost $700. The number of students who will have to YOU'RE BETTER OFF IN A MORRIS BUICK drop out partly depends on how many scholarships can be provided from local cam- paign funds. FAST DELIVERY GOOD SERVICE 14500 West 7 Mile . . . Block West of James Couzens m eait fid e M at ai help ale fspaet YES—to the Jewish .National Fund JNF land supports the whole Israel economy — it grows food — on it stands Israel's religious, educational and welfare institutions. A bequest to the JNF is a bequest to the entire Jewish people, linking the name of the Testator with Israel' in perpetuity. For information and ad% ire in .46(•1 confidence ap ► l ∎ Tu b'Shevat and The Wandering Jew' You water it. You feed it. It thrives. For a while .. . Sooner or later, it begins to' (A Seven Arts Feature) For me, ail. It begins to spread all NEW YORK the civil New Year means over, to tangle, to tear off, to Tu b'Shevat is not far off. forget its source. It can't And I invariably go to tend stay together as a lovely my plants. I like to cultivate unit. You have wayward my green thumb. (Tu breakoffs. You cut it back, hoping to b'Shevat, the New Year of Trees, will be on Monday.) contain and force new I feel I should tell you that shoots higher on denuded, after the installation of my abandoned stems, closer to husband as national the roots, to fill in a scat- president of Jewish Na- tered look. You put the cut pieces tional Fund I went home with several little plants. in water. Ah ha! The By FLORENCE BERKOWITZ I've nursed and coddled and temperament! Talk of tended them. Siime are still survival of the fittest! With me. Others, alas, are a Some sink. Some swim. lovely memory. . Some don't make the fine One plant intrigues me. roots you hoped for. You In fact, it has a scholarly try to root them directly reaction on me. I'm headed in soil. Some make it. for research. It's that Some don't. By that time you may - ubiquitous runner, The Wandering Jew. Where did have given up and thrown it it get such a -name? Of away. I never can. After all, course, it's not its botanical it's a Wandering Jew, and if name. But we should have a I don't care, who will? If you Tu b'Shevat ceremony hon- haven't given in to despair, oring the genius who gave it you say: "What am I going its familiar tag. to do? I'll have to relocate it." -Every time I water it, It's time for this unhappy feed it, look at it, work with it, I think that mys- Jew to move. He spreads out terious namer was a nuvi too far and it wasn't — a prophet! The name healthy. Bad surroundings, encompasses so many perhaps. Who knows what it moods and tempers of the came in contact with? You Jew! It the most exas- perating plant! 10 FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH NATIONAL FUND 27308 Southfield 557-6644 Southfield, Mi. 48076 know how Wandering Jews are; they get into every- You take it into your thing. Cut him back to size. midst and you think it will Squish him together and be simple. It's lovely. And into a more compact pot. varied. Different colorings, Take the no-longer useful sizes. It looks like you'll get ties to non-functioning, un- along. You put it in a good productive stems, feeders, spot — not too sunny, not and put it all into a new too_ cold. A comfortable locale and start afresh. environment is what it That's what you think! This crazy plant has a will seems to need — like its of its own. It will not be namesake. shoved and stuffed. You try to join all those parts of a common stalk and they ,snap and break! I'm exasp- erated. Solomon Schechter said, "That which will not bend will break." Just like a Jew. Push him, - force him,, stuff him into a bind and he rebels. These crazy stems even arch like a back when they are bent. "Eidel gepatch- ket." Talk of delicate, segsi- tive! I became like the goyim! I say, "Look, I gave you your freedom to move and grow as you please. You had sun and air and food and you spread all over, got ugly and spoiled my whole view of how you should look. You behaved badly. "So when I tried to fix you and contain you for your own good, you don't cooper- ate! You revolt. What do you Jews want? You're never satisfied! You're ungrateful and impossible to live with! I was so tolerant! You'll just have to try to readjust to this new spot that I'm put- tinglyou in.. It's not the first time. I'm sorry. "Unfortunately, you'll lose some. But if I know you and your kind you'll gain some." If you can even find the right combination, soil, land, climate, care, love, I'm sure you'll sink deep -roots and spread out and thrive beautifully. You'll find life! You have what it takes! Be- fore I go back for the fellow who gave you your funny name, I hear there's a place, a lovely land, where all kinds of wandering JeWs fi- nally settle down and grow! "I hear they do have the winning, correct combina- tion of Land and Life!" I think we Jews should look into this! 'Oh, yes, a Happy Tu b'Shevat! ORT President Yeshiva College 50th - Birthday Symposium Set NEW YORK — The 50th anniversary of Yeshiva University's Yeshiva Col- lege, the nation's first undergraduate liberal arts and sciences college under Jewish sponsorship, will be celebrated with a two-part symposium on the interac- tion of science and ethics, the ethics in law, Sunday, at the university's Mendel Gotteknan Library. SIDNEY LEIWANT NEW YORK — Sidney E. Leiwant of South Orange, N.J., has been elected president of the American ORT Federation. 0 en u our heart and ""VMPVW, \\ \ Delicate dangling 14K yellow gold hearts hang on "S" chain in front of ear lobe and in back. Matches bracelet at right. 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