48 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, June 11, 1982 FRUIT BASKETS FOR ALL OCCASIONS WORLD-WIDE DELIVERY Jewish Historical Society to Have Election Meeting The Jewish Historical Society of Michigan will have its 23rd annual meet- ing noon Sunday at Cong. Beth Abraham Hillel Moses. The meeting features a talk by Norma Goldman, adjunct assistant professor of classics, Wayne State University. She will speak on "Digging Up the Past: Caesarea." The president's annual report will be read, and offi- cers and board members elected and installed. Luncheon will be served. Guests are welcome. For in- formation, call Gertrude Edgar, 352-1798. Renovation of Masada Look-Alike Herodion Sparks Tourist Boom fortress was excavated luxury. by Franciscan monks In 25 BCE Herod build The Judean desert's during the 1960s. Israeli Herodion in the desert some 15 kilometers southeast of "newest" tourist attraction archeologists and the is actually some 2,000 years Jewish National Fund Jerusalem. A natural hill have since taken over the was heightened by heaping old. debris on it, erecting on its Due to intensive de- restoration efforts. 2666 COOLIDGE • Berkley Herod was among the last top the four round towers velopment work recently undertaken by the Jewish of the Judean monarchs and the circular wall which give Herodion its distin- National Fund, an even who reigned during the Sec- Income Rises larger flow of visitors — ond Jewish Common- guishing features. Within TEL AVIV (ZINS) — In both local and foreign' — wealth. Although he was a the wall were built several spite of an inflation rate of will be drawn to a locale courageous soldier and magnificently decorated 103 percent last year, the which may be called the energetic administrator, palaces, a vast rectangular Israeli's real in- younger sister to Masada: Herod's loyalty to the oc- courtyard and a Roman for ALL occasions average come rose seven percent. Mount Herodion. cupying Roman rulers was bathhouse. Earthwor' LIQUOR-WINES - CHAMPAGNES White-collar workers saw Originally designed by complete and absolute and surrounded these buildir, NATION WIDE DELIVERY their pay increase by 118 King Herod the Great as a he used his great diplomacy making the entire structure percent during the year. appear from the distance to governmental center and and personal charm to re- At the start of 1981, the his eventual burial place, main consistently in their be a cone with its peak lop- - tottooth average monthly wage in Herodion's history contin- good graces. He allowed no ped off. Israel was 3,863 shekels. At ued long after the death of opposition to his rule and Only after climbing the the end of the year the aver- its builder. During the was ruthless in the pursuit 200 steps were the splen- age monthly wage was Jewish uprising against the of his goals, often at the ex- dors of the palace visible. 744 W. MAPLE RD. BIRMINGHAM, MICH. 48009 8,410. Romans in 70 BCE — the pense of the, Jewish people An elaborate aqueduct — - system brought water uprising which made and their traditions. Herod, however, is re- from sources eight Masada famous- - and dur- ing the Bar Kokhba rebel- membered for the scope of kilometers away, and a lion 60 years later, it served the building program he number of other build- Phone Lincoln 7-8111 13721 W. NINE MILE RD. as the headquarters for the undertook which saw the ings and an ornamental OAK PARK 37, MICHIGAN Zealots until they were rebuilding of the Temple pool were constructed at overcome by Roman and the Temple Mount in the base. Upon Herod's death in 4 legions. Left in ruins for Jerusalem, and the king's hundreds of years, it then palace there. Additional BCE he was buried in this We Carry Only Kosher Meat and Poultry became a refuge for Chris- palaces were erected in desert showplace as he had We Kasher Only On Request tian monks and hermits Caesarea on the Mediterra- planned. 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Other honorees were Yehuda Assia, Justice Haim Cohn, and Prof." Shmuel Sambursky from Israel, Prof. Elvin A. Kabat from the United States, and Dr. Regina Feigl from Brazil. Opera's Savior? TEL AVIV (JNI) — Can the musical "Oklahon- " save the Israel Natic„ Opera? The company hopes that their Hebrew produc- tion will attract a large and young audience, and thus keep the curtain from com- ing down permanently. The Education and Cul- ture Ministry recently de- cided to stop funding the opera on the grounds that it does not attract a sizable audience.