6 Friday, July 18, 1980 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Shmitta Sabbatical for the Land We Make Our Own Glasses cipairtrilt , HEADQUARTERS FOR L LATE E SF TR A D x O i STI C A N AND - - IMPORTED ME EFASHIONS i _ \moo • • PRESCRIPTIONS FOR GLASSE S ACCURATELY FILLED ) I • 10% SENIOR DCIWZNEEN FRAMES Immediate Repair I • Reasonably Priced ROSEN OPTICAL SERVICE 13720 W. 9 MILE nr. COOLIDGE OAK PARK, MICH. - LI 7-5068 Mon.-Fri. 9:30-6 Sat. 'til 5 Closed Wednesday By RABBI MARC TANENBAUM (A Seven Arts Feature) How many Jews — and Christians who take the Bible seriously — know that the year 1980 (5740 in the Jewish calendar) is the Year of Shmitta, the Sab- batical Year? According to the Book of Leviticus (25:2), the Torah personifies the land of Is- rael, implying that it is due the respect and care that is owed to a person: "When CC LE3 U D I D you come unto the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a Sabbath unto the Lord." 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CALL TODAY: 933-6700 WINDOWORKS ELECT Unique Pair Patrol Jerusalem Streets JERUSALEM Sergeant Major Sasson Ovadia and First Sergeant Khalil Dibou are two dedi- cated Jerusalem policemen who share not only a patrol car but -a special kind of friendship. Sasson, 35, is Jewish, was born in Kurdistan and ar- rived in Israel in 1948. Khalil, 38, is a Moslem Arab who lives in Shuafat, a suburb of Jerusalem. Both men joined the police force after the Six-Day War in 1967. Sasson and Khalil have worked together for five years, their personalities and approaches to people meshing to help them perform an effec- tive law-enforcement job around the city. In every police pair there is the tough guy and the soft-hearted fellow. Khalil, sometimes called "the re- bbe," is the soft-hearted one and appears to spend a great deal of time getting people to talk rather than shout. "I believe my work is to help people, and it doesn't matter to me whether they're Jews or Arabs," Khalil says after being sent to a Ramot apartment to break up a screaming fight between a husband and wife. When he arrived, their shouting could be heard MICHAEL STEIN REPUBLICAN For STATE REPRESENTATIVE 65th DISTRICT WHOM DO THE PEOPLE OF THE 65th DISTRICT* NEED IN LANSING? • • • • • • • MICHAEL STEIN B.A.-M.S.U. INTERNATIONAL LAW STUDIES-PARIS J.D.-GEORGETOWN LAW SCHOOL L.L.M.-LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS 2 YEARS-Small Bus Adm., WASH., D.C. PRACTICING ATTORNEY — 5 YEARS MEMBER OAKLAND COUNTY BAR ASSN. • ST. JUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL BOARD MEMBER • ACTIVE MEMBER JEWISH WELFARE FEDERATION • MEMBER IVAN S. BLOCH LODGE, BNAI BRITH • MEMBER. AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HAIFA UNIVERSITY MICHAEL STEIN HE KNOWS THE PROBLEMS: Attracting Business, Better Education, Property Tax Reform. HE HAS THE SOLUTIONS! VOTE REPUBLICAN AUGUST 5th PRIMARY Pd. For By The Committee To Elect Michael Stein. 1986 Meadow Court, Bloomfield Hills, Mich. 48013 was a fundamental princi- is to be shared with all pie of the Torah, so was the members of the commu- freedom of the land from the nity, including strangers, absolute ownership of man. non-Israelites and even animals. During the Sabbath- In another demonstration year, the land is to lie fal- of how profound is the un- low and is to be "re- broken spiritual connection leased" (shmitta) from of the Jewish people with cultivation, thereby sav- the land of Israel, there are ing the soil from the today at least 70 settle- danger of exhaustion. ments comprising 1,200 And during this year, the farmers and over 100,000 "Sabbath produce"— the dunams of land where Sab- fruit and grain which batical laws are being faith- grows spontaneously — fully observed. * THE 65TH DISTRICT INCLUDES: FRANKLIN, BLOOMFIELD HILLS, BEVERLY HILLS, BINGHAM FARMS, BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, WEST PORTIONS OF BIRMINGHAM, WEST BLOOMFIELD, SYLVAN LAKE, AND NORTH SECTIONS OF SOUTHFIELD. down the road. When he left, the couple was sitting calmly at the kitchen table, talking over their problem. Sasson drives because, before 1967, Khalil was in a motorcycle accident on the road to Jericho. "You won't get me behind a wheel," Khalil says, and Sasson grumbles about having to bear all_ the responsibility for damage to the patrol car. Khalil laughs and Sasson's grumbling changes to laughter. "You aren't yourself today," Khalil tells Sas- son on their way to fill in for a patrol car that had broken down. Sasson shoots Khalil a look and then smiles. His wife is expecting their third child. "It's any day now, in fact any hour," the moustachioed cop says. Khalil, also mous- tachioed, has five chil- dren. The two officers have been working together for so long that they know automatically who'll do what when they are out on a case. And, as in any city, there is certainly enough to keep them busy — answer- ing calls on their car radio ranging from family dis- putes to burglaries, as well as the special problems that inevitably crop up where so many ethnic groups live side by side. Although they are con- stantly on the go, they still find time to joke and talk politics, and, in their off- duty hours, to socialize. They exchange invita- tions to traditional celebra- tions. When Khalil has Fri- day night dinner at Sasson's house, he wears a skullcap like the Jewish participants do. Sasson was recently in- vited to join Khalil at the slaughtering of a lamb for Id al-Adha, the feast marking the end of Ramadan, the Moslem feast. Khalil has a degree from the American University in Beirut and once planned to become a teacher. He also knows shorthand in English and Arabic. "We don't work for Arabs or Jews, we work for the state ... A police- man is a policeman," he explained. "You're hooked on it, and it's in your blood. I'd probably be a policeman wherever I lived." The fine teamwork and rapport Sasson and Khalil show are ample proof of the pride that both men take in their work. PD POL ADV OTE AUG 5TH PATRICIA A. 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