THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Rabbi Reflects on Holiday
By RABBI MARC
H. TANENBAUM
(A Seven Arts Feature)
"A Rabbi Looks at
Christmas" is the title of an
article by this commentator
published recently in a New
York newspaper. While the
article deals at length with
the impact that Christmas
and Hanuka festivals have
on the spirit of New Yor-
kers, I'd like to tell you
about my first memorable
Christmas experience.
Vhen I was a child, I lived
`._--Baltimore, Md., and my
parents owned a grocery in
a poor, working-class
neighborhood. My father
and mother were immig-
rants from Russia and as
devout Orthodox Jews, they
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took their religion seri-
ously.
All of us in that
neighborhood — Irish, Ita-
lians, and Jews — had suf-
fered desperately through
the Depression years to-
gether.
On the afternoon of
Dec. 24, 1940, I found my
mother in the back of our
store taking groceries
from half-bare shelves.
She was packing them
into baskets and tied red
and green ribbons
around them. I asked her
what she was doing, and
she answered that she
had just found out that
several 'of our Christian
neighbors were stone-
broke and did not have
enough money to buy
food for a Christmas
dinner.
"It is Christmas," my
mother said, "and would be
terrible if Mrs. Kirby and
her family, and the other
neighbors, would go hungry
on their holiday." And this
Orthodox Jewish woman
went out into the neighbor-
hood handing out Christ-
mas baskets.
I often think of that lovely
moment as I walk the
streets of New York at this
season of the year and won-
der why this spirit of people
caring for other people pre-
vails mainly from De-
cember to January, and why
not from January to De-
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Friday, December 25, 1981 43
Isratech Show Has Long-Term Benefits
By RICHARD COHEN
(Copyright 1981, JTA, Inc.)
Following the success of
Isratech '81 in Jerusalem —
Israel's major industrial
exhibition, featuring the
country's latest high-
technology products — Is-
raeli trade officials are look-
ing forward to a double
dividend; higher sales
abroad and greater foreign
investment at home.
More than 200 American
companies sent representa-
tives to look at Israel's
newest line of products in
electronics, solar energy,
Medical technology and
other science-based indus-
try.
While no official statistics
have been released, indica-
tions are that the American
visitors were actively plac-
ing orders for Israeli goods
and particularly eager to
learn about the in-
ducements Israel offers to
encourage foreign
businessmen to enter into
joint ventures with Israeli
firms or to set up their own
manufacturing plants in Is-
rael.
The government offers a
wide range of grants, loans
and tax incentives to inves-
tors from abroad.
"But that is just icing
on the cake," according
to one American busi-
nessman who already
has a plant in Carmiel,
near Haifa, and is plan-
ning to double his factory
space. "What we really
come for is the pool of
skilled workers —includ-
ing engineers who are
equal to the best we have
in the U.S. — at costs con-
siderably lower than
what we have to pay.
"It's getting to the point
that if you want to keep ab-
reast of developments in
products like lasers, semi-
conductors, new computer
applications, and so on,
you've got to have an Israeli
connection."
Some of the Israeli prod-
ucts on view at Isratech '81
were enhanced and updated
models of items that have
already won wide ac-
ceptance in the European
Common Market (where Ise -
raeli goods enter duty-free)
and in the U.S. as well.
Among them are:
Neurogar, an electrical
pain relief device the size of
a pack of cigarettes which
blocks pain signals from
reaching the brain. De-
veloped by scientists at
Hadassah Hospital and
Kibutz Ginosar, Neurogar
has proven effective on
many ailments, from ar-
thritis to backache and ten-
nis elbow. It is now being
used in hospitals and pain
clinics throughout the U.S.
Neurogar is distributed by
Inter Med Industries of New
York.
Telrad, a telephone sys-
tem developed especially for
small business by Tele-
communications and Elec-
tronics Inc. in Israel and
Pentacom in Yonkers, N.Y.
Telrad can perform a
variety of functions, such as
automatic redialing and
preventing
unwanted
phone interruptions.
Vaultlock, a specially
designed lock based on the
principles of a bank vault.
One turn of the knob bolts a
door to the floor, ceiling and
both sides. It can be used for
entrance doors as well as
closets to create a veritable
bank vault for keeping
jewelry, antiques and other
valuables safe. Vaultlock is
distributed by the Vau-
ltlock Co. in Baltimore, Md.
"We, are increasingly op-
timistic about our ability to
understand the needs of the
American market and the
requirements of the Ameri-
can consulter — and the
significant increase in our
exports this year proves it,"
Ben-Tovim said.
Particularly significant,
he said, was that the $1 bil-
lion figure will be reached
despite the worldwide de-
pression in diamonds, a
major Israeli export. "This
new record," Ben - Tovim
These and other new continued "will mark a 50
products will help Israel ex- percent increase in exports
ports in 1981 exceed the $1, of industrial products, other
billion mark for the first than diamonds, to the U.S.
time, according to Shmuel since last year."
Ben-Tovim, Israel's Trade
Israel expects to be reap-
Commissioner to the U.S. ing the benefits of Isratech
'81 for years to come — in
sales of Israeli products, in-
vestment in Israeli industry
and increased exposure for
Israel as the "high technol-
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