100 Friday, September 25, 1981
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
11ZriZil riZ110 n2V5 'Jewish Life Without
Halakha Is Incomplete'
BYRON, REBECCA & JANICE UEBERWITZ
wish all their friends and relatives
a happy and healthy New Year
I. wish my family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
JOE SINGER
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IRVING & BRENDA ALTUS
& FAMILY
would like to wish all our family
and friends a healthy and happy
New Year
SAM AND BARBARA PRESS AND FAMILY
Wish Their Family and Friends
A Happy & Healthy
New Year
HELEN & JOE GOODSTEIN
GAIL & STUART GOODSTEIN
& FRANCI-LYNNE
wish all their family and
friends a year filled with
health, happiness, joy
By RABBI SIMON DOLGIN
(Copyright 1981, JTA, Inc.)
(Editor's note: Rabbi
Dolgin is chairman of the
World Mizrachi-Hapoel
Hamizrachi Organiza-
tion. Before emigrating to
Israel in 1971 he was na-
tional vice president and
a member of the execu-
tive board of the Rabbin-
ical Council of America.)
JERUSALEM — I recall
that some 40 years ago,
when I came to the West
Coast of the U.S., the
Jewish population of the
area was about 100,000. At
that time there were var-
ious kinds of schools for
Jewish children: religious,
Zionist, secular and Yid-
dishist.
As the decades rolled by,
changes in the educational
establishment took place.
Religious schools of various
kinds multiplied. The
Zionist secular and Yiddish-
ist are virtually extinct, de-
spite a five-fold increase in
the Jewish population and
other attempts to accommo-
date parents demands for
Bar Mitzva and other reli-
gious observances.
The development de-
scribed above is not unique.
WE WISH OUR FRIENDS
AND RELATIVES A
HAPPY HEALTHY
NEW YEAR
MR. & MRS. BARIE1T ABROMOVICII
& FAMILY
NE WISH OUR FRIENDS
AND RELATIVES A
HAPPY HEALTHY
and peace
A very Happy, Healthy
and Prosperous New Year
to all our family and dear friends
NEW YEAR
MR. L MRS. IRVING BITTERILAN
Margate, Fla.
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JOE & ERZSI ROTH
MR. & MRS. JERRY BLAZ
ALIZA & NEAL
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TO ALL OUR
FAMILY AND FRIENDS
It is a re-enactment of
Jewish history. Nowhere
did the Jewish community-
survive for long (three or
four generations) where it
forsook its religious com-
mitment.
From this writer's view,
this general statement can
be reduced even further.
Nowhere did the Jewish
community survive for long
where it forsook its com-
mitment to Halakha, to the
written and oral Torah way
of life.
Even deviationist reli-.
gious movements, which
have more tenacity than:
secularism, Zionist or
otherwise, ultimately dis-
integrate. Intermarriage,
mixed marriages, apos-.
tacy overtake their ranks'
in due time. Witness the
developments on the
Jewish scene in the U.S.,
European and South
American countries
where erosive forces in-
crease by the way. .
It is interesting to note
that, while the Orthodox
synagogue in the various
parts of the world was the
first to be rejected in a
dynamic, secular world,
today it remains the last
vestige of Jewish life.
Where do young Russian
Jews, raised on atheism, as-
semble to demonstrate their
Jewish identity and unity,
except at the synagogue?
David Ben-Gurion, who
fled the synagogue at an
early age and did not attend
it in Israel, made sure to
attend it on Shabat and fes-
tivals whenever in the dis-
persion. When asked why,
he responded that at the
synagogue Jew could meet
Jew. Apparently, no other
meeting place in Jewish life
was adequate.
The issue remains
whether Jewish life can
long endtire in Israel with-
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LILLIAN & SEYMOUR GALLANT
wish all their friends and relatives
ahappy and healthy New Year
We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
ADELINE and ABNER ROSENZWEIG
BERNICE & DONALD GOLDE
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
THE KATZMAN FAMILY
PAUL & LOIS
DAVID, STEVEN'& HEIDI
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Wishing all our friends
and relatives a happy and
healthy New Year
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- SOL & MAE .MOSS
wish all their friends and relatives
a happy and healthy New Year
MIKE & IDA AARON, JODY & SHERI
We wish our family and friends a •
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
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MR. & MRS. IRVIN I. 'TEVLO & FAMILY
wish all their friends and relatives •
a happy and healthy New Year .
Wishing all our friends and
relatives a year of health
and happiness
JACK and MIRIAM
SHENKMAN
and FAMILY
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We wish our family and friends a .
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
JERRY & HARRIET TRAGER, NEFF, ROSIN & MITCH
We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
MR. &
MRS. PAUL WORM
& LINDA • _
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Wishing all our friends, and
relatives a year of health
and happiness
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