80 Friday, September 12, 1980 L Z/1.511 rmt Y 3I 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 11ZrIZT1 r1211: T13V5 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 I itapptf fled war I I A very Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year to all our family and dear friends MR. and MRS. JOSEPH HACKER & FAMILY Lauderhill, Florida IPPPlf ileuniear 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 (Copyright 1980, JTA, Inc.) 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 By GERSHON FREIDLIN ilzmn mtle: ruv5 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 nznzn mzle rov5 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 . 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 VPPlinetthiear l T A very Happy, Healthy and Prosperous. New Year to all our family and dear friends MR. and MRS. BEN PASMAN & FAMILY IL " Itappti neat war* II r - T