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TO ALL OUR
FAMILY AND FRIENDS
MRS. DOROTHY AARON
& SON CHARLES
WE WISH OUR FRIENDS
AND RELATIVES A
HAPPY, HEALTHY
NEW YEAR •
MR. and MRS. MELVIN
EISENBERG & FAMILY
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Franciscan Becomes a Leader
in Jerusalem's Interfaith Efforts
JERUSALEM — "It is
important for visitors in Is-
rael to connect what they
see today in Israel, the Holy
Land, with what they know
from the Bible." That is the
philosophy of Prof.
Wolfgang Pax, Franciscan
father, teacher, author, in-
terfaith activist, and good-
LEONARD and
BARBARA BARRON
Wishes Their Family and Friends
A Happy & Healthy
New Year
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MR. and MRS. MORRIS MUSIC
would like to wish all our family
and friends a healthy and happy
New Year
JOANNE, LENNY, DANNY &
• DEBBY ROSENBERG
Wishes Their Family and Friends
A Happy & Healthy
New Year
NORINE & KEN ENGER
wish all their family and
friends a year fr i lled with
health, happiness, joy
and peace
A very Happy, Healthy
and Prosperous New Year
to all our family and dear friends
THE EPSTEIN FAMILY
HERSHEL & GAIL, DAVID & DENNY
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A very Happy, Healthy
and Prosperous New Year
to all our family and dear friends
MR. and MRS. JOSEPH HACKER & FAMILY
Lauderhill, Florida
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will ambassador for his cho-
sen home, Jerusalem.
He is a 'theologian with
boundless energy for the
human aspect of the holy
books and the Holy City.
Last June, Mayor Teddy
Kollek awarded Father Pax
the "Worthy of Jerusalem"
prize for his interfaith work
and his series of books on
the life of Jesus in
Jerusalem.
Fr. Pax has lived in
Jerusalem since 1960 at
the Franciscan Institute
for Biblical Studies in-
side the ancient walls of
the Old City. He is profes-
sor of the New Testament
and Judaism.
The Institute for Biblical
Studies, which Fr. Pax
headed from 1963 to 1969, is
a pontifical university for
ordained priests from all
over the world, who 'study
here for three years in order
to receive doctorates in bi-
blical science, archeology,
or Semitic languages.
Fr. Pax also teaches at an
institution run by the Be-
nedictine monks of the
Dormition Church of
Jerusalem.
But his teachings reach a
much larger audience, the
readers of his books on
Jesus and Jerusalem which
he estimates have sold ap-
proximately 300,000 copies.
The books are popular in Is-
rael and abroad as gift items
because of their vivid prose
and the extensive use of
dazzling color phOtographs
of Jerusalem.
His favorite activity, he
confides, is ecumenical
work — mainly through
the Rainbow Club of
Jerusalem and the Inter-
faith Committee of He-
brew University.
The Rainbow Club is a
closed society of aca-
demicians, 10 Jews and 10
Christians. Members must
be voted in, and meetings
are held in private homes.
"We get to know each
other very well under these
circumstances," Fr. Pax
says. "Some become lifelong
friends. The resulting inti-
macy allows for otherwise
too delicate subjects to be
discussed, such as anti-
Semitism."
A more public forum is
the Interfaith Committee,
which organizes confer-
ences and holds receptions,
at which Fr. Pax sometimes
addresses the participants.
In addition, he lectures in
the evenings to visiting
German-speaking groups
on the subject of "relations
between the religions."
The dynamic clergy-
man is one of Jerusalem's
enthusiastic
most
"When
spokesmen.
German-speaking gov-
ernment ministers come
to Jerusalem, Mayor Kol-
lek calls me, or some-
times I get a call from the
Foreign Office," Fr. Pax
explains. "I guide them to
the Christian holy sites
and assure them of the
free access to the sites. I
show them the good or-
der, and the self-
administration by the re-
spective churches."
What accounts for Fr.
Pax's belief in the impor-
tance of interfaith under-
standing and his feeling of
kinship with the Jewish
people? "For one reason, I
should mention that two of
my close relatives are mar-
ried to Jews, so we are one
family. But the real influ-
ence was my growing up in
Breslau, where the Jews
were a small, weak minor-
ity. I went to the largely
Jewish high school there. I
feel that I know, well the
milieu that the Jews came
from, and this makes me
feel comfortable in Israel."
Fr. Pax has become de-
eply involved in both
Jewish and Christian life in
Jerusalem and has
enhanced the meaning of
the city for all.
African Countries Benefit
From Special ORT Training
by a limited UBA training
staff, began to upgrade the
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skills of 593 managers and
ORT has, for the past 20 1,720 clerks — and to train
years, provided technical trainers among them, so
assistance and manpower that when ORT "phases
development programs for out" in 1981 local staff will
some 50 Third World coun- carry on. Skills taught
tries in Africa, Asia, South range from management
America and the Middle control and computer pro-
East. ORT technical assis- gramming to proper tele-
tance programs are funded phone response techniques.
In Senegal, West Af-
by governmental and
inter-governmental agen- rica, ORT, in collabora-
tion with the interna-
cies.
When United Bank of Af- tional division of the
rica (UBA), the largest YMCA of the United
States of America, trains
commercial bank in
200 young persons in four
Nigeria, recorded a 70 per-
cent growth in deposits and skill areas, plus 13 coun-
terparts to ORT in-
loans in 1977, it needed
structors who are to take
additional trained person-
over the program and
nel, barely enough-of whom
operate it on an ongoing
were to be found within the
basis.
organization. With recruit-
ORT training is now of-
ing from competitors going
fered in construction —
against tradition, UBA
which includes plumbing,
turned to the technical as-
sistance department of pipefitting and masonry —
electricity, mechanics and
ORT.
textiles.
An ORT team of six, aided
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BLANCHE and MANNIE BAUMAN
wish all their friends and relatives
a happy and healthy New Year
We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
MR. and MRS. MEYER I. COOPER & FAMILY
MR. and MRS.
MORRIE E. BLOOMBERG & ERWIN
Wishes Their Family and Friends
A Happy & Healthy
New Year
MR. and MRS. ELI FRIEDMAN
of West Palm Beach, Florida
Wishes Their Family and Friends
A Happy & Healthy
New Year
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THE STILLWATERS,
BEVERLY, LARRY, MICHAEL & STEVEN
would like to wish all our family
and friends a healthy and happy
New Year
LES & MARCIA WEINER
TECK CLEANERS
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wish all their family and
friends a year filled with
health, happiness, joy
and peace
A very Happy, Healthy
and Prosperous New Year
to all our family and dear friends
MR. and MRS. BERNARD L. JONAS &
MRS. MATILDA KRAUS
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and Prosperous. New Year
to all our family and dear friends
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