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 nsnzri rizu: rov5 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. 13=1 =It 11311 . JOE & ERZSI ROTH MR. & MRS. JERRY BLAZ ALIZA & NEAL T neui gear ► 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- (Continued on Page 101) tisnzri riZIto rut)5 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 A. - IllepPlInelligear I I Wishing all our friends and relatives a happy and healthy New Year Ilsrizrt rtzste m3v5- - 1 i - 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 • nzrizn `islet rue75 • MR. & MRS. BEN SHWEDEL 11-srizn.risigt ruir.5 ' Shen Tim 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 • " .,:: . _. :_....__. - 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 • _ .„;,. Wishing all our friends, and relatives a year of health and happiness 1Alocare-lac. Haaith Can &wake s