THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

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RUTH and JACK SCHWARTZ & FAMILY

wish all their friends and relatives
a happy and healthy New Year

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THE DETROIT CLUB OF NORTH MIAMI BEACH

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and friends a healthy and happy
New Year

THE DWORMAN'S
CHERYL, BOB & STEVEN

Wishes Their Family and Friends

A Happy & Healthy
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MR. and MRS. NATHAN FISHMAN & FAMILY

would like to wish all our family
and friends a healthy and happy
New Year

MICHAEL and NANCY
FORDONSKI & FAMILY

Wishes Their Family and Friends

A Happy & Healthy
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ANDY and JUDY MARTIN

would like to wish all our family
and friends a healthy and happy
New Year

ED and SHIRLY PERSIN

Wishes Their Family and Friends

A Happy & Healthy
New Year

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MR. and MRS. LEONARD WEINBERGER & HOWARD

would like to wish all our family
and friends a healthy and happy
New Year

CLAUDE and TERRY OSTER
LISA - ALLAN JAY - SCOTT

wish all their family and
friends a year filled with
health, happiness, joy
and peace

Yizhak Gruenbaum, Leader
in
the Causes for Zionism
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tion of the new Polish state.
He sponsored the forma-
tion of the "Minorities bloc"
(1922) and fought fiercely
for equal rights for the Jews
and against anti-Semitism.
His speeches in the Seym
were both powerful and
provocative. Through his
unceasing fight for Jewish
rights he won the hearts of
the Jewish masses in Po-
land, and restored their
pride and self-confidence.
He was elected chairman of
the group of Jewish mem-
bers of the Seym.
Gruenbaum was one of
the founders of the Tarbut
organization for the
encouragement of Jewish
education and culture and
the representative of the
Keren Kayemet in Poland.
When the radical
Zionist group Al Ha-
Mishmar achieved a
majority in the Polish
Zionist movement,
Gruenbaum became the
leader of Polish Zionism.
He fought fiercely against
the Mandatory Govern-
ment's White Papers and
objected to the enlargement
of the Jewish Agency
Executive (by the inclusion
of non-Zionists), fearing
that the movement would
lose its popular and demo-
cratic character. When his
objections proved unsuc-
cessful, he accepted the ver-
dict of the majority.
He visited Jerusalem for
the first time in 1925. At the
18th Zionist Congress
(1933) he was elected to the
Zionist Executive and until
1948 he held many impor-
tant administrative posts
on the Jewish Agency and
Zionist Organization
Executives. He also served
as head of the Bialik Insti-
tute.
It was at his initiative
that general labor ex-
changes were set up to settle
industrial disputes. He was
a member of Ben-Gurion's
committee that drew up
plans for the foundation of
the Jewish state.
On the declaration of
the state, Gruenbaum
was chosen as a member
of the Provisional Gov-
ernment and later as Is-
rael's first Minister of the
Interior. He was respon-
sible for preparing the
elections to the "Pre-
paratory Assembly"
which became the first
Knesset.
After leaving the gov-
ernment, Yizhak Gruen-
baum went to live on Kibutz
Gan Shemuel of which his
son was a member. He con-
tinued his interest in politi-
cal and social problems and
put forward his views
through the medium of the
Hebrew press.
His books written in He-
brew, Yiddish, Russian and
Polish included "The Wars
of the Jews of Poland 1905-
1912," essays on "the
Zionist Movement," "the
Pangs of Redemption," "the
Face of the Generation."
He died in Tel Aviv in
1970.

Gush Etzion

The Gush Etzion settle-

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ments were established half
way between Jerusalem
and Hebron. Modern Jewish
settlement of Gush Etzion
dates back to 1927 with the
founding of Migdal Eder,
but this isolated settlement
was destroyed during the
Arab riots of 1929.
In 1932, the El Ha-Har
group set up by Zvi
Holtzman made renewed
attempts at preparing the
land for planting orchards
and establishing a settle-
ment on the spot — Kefar
Etzion. Once again Arab
riots forced the workers to
abandon the site.
A third attempt at set-
tlement was made in 1943
when the land was re-
deemed by the Keren
Kayemet Le-Israel, and the
Abraham group founded
Kfar Etzion on the site. In
the autumn of 1945 a second
group of settlers reached the
area and established Mas-
su'ot Yitzhaq which was fol-
lowed in 1946 by En Zurim
and Revadim.
With the outbreak of
the War of Independence
in 1948, the area came
under siege and was cut
off from Jerusalem and
the Jewish hinterland.
Bitter fighting took place
over a period of six
months.
In the spring of 1949 the
defenders of the bloc could
no longer stand up against
the forces of the Arab
Legion and Arab irregulars
who were greatly superior
to them in numbers and
firepower and the settle-
ments were overcome one
by one.
Two hundred and forty of
the defenders, settlers and
those who had come to rein-
force them, fell in action and
the remaining defenders
were taken into captivity to
Transjordan where they
were interned until their re-
lease at the end of the war.
The settlements themselves
were all razed to the ground.
For 20 years the survivors
and their children gazed
longingly at the solitary
tree standing on the ridge of
Har Etzion which was visi-
ble for miles around and
dreamed of returning to
their former homes and re-
establishing their settle-
ments.
In the course of the
Six-Day War (1967) the
Etzion Bloc was recap-
tured and the children of
the original settlers of
Kfar Etzion organized
themselves into a settle-
ment group and made
plans to return to their
former home under the
slogan "and the children
shall return home." In the
autumn of 1967 their
dream was realized.
In the following year the
foundations of a regional
center — Allon Shevut —
were laid and the Har Zion
Yeshiva which had taken
up temporary residence at
Kfar Etzion was moved
there. This in turn was fol-
lowed by a new settlement
— Rosh Zurim — estab-
lished on the ruins of En
Zurim, and the settlements
Elazar and Migdal Oz.

Three kinds of dreams are
fulfilled: the dream of early
morning, a friend's dream
about you, and the dream

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that is
is interpreted within
the dream. To which some
add: the dream that is re-
peated. — Rabbi Johanan

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MR. and MRS. HENRY EPSTEIN

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NATE and SURA FEINSTEIN & FAMILY
Los Angeles, Calif.

would like to . wish_ all our family
and friends a healthy and happy
New Year

EDITH and ISADORE KOLODNEY

Wishes. Their Family and Friends

A Happy & Healthy
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MRS. HELEN SOLARZ & FAMILY

Wishes Their .Family and Friends

A Happy & Healthy
New Year

NORT, SHERRIE,
SCOTT & KEN STERN

Wishes Their Family and Friends

A Happy & Healthy
New Year

MR. and MRS. PETE YURA

Wishes Their Family and Friends

A Happy & Healthy
New Year

MR. and MRS. HARRY D. RICHMOND

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

GARRY and EBY KAPPY

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