THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS May the coming May the coming year be filled Independence Honors Friday, September 11, 1982 91 ' May the coming May the coming year be filled year be filled year be filled with health and with health and with health and with health and happiness for happiness for happiness for happiness for all our family all our family all our family all our family and friends and friends and friends LEONARD & BARBARA BARRON BERTHA & JULIUS STOBINSKY SID & SHELLIE LEITSON & FAMILY and friends BABE & ROSE WOLFE & FAMILY We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year DAVE'S DELI 3258 Orchard Lake Rd., Orchard Lake, MI We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year MR. & MRS. SEYMOUR FURMAN & FAMILY We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year ADELE & RAYMOND GALPER & FAMILY We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year MURRAY & GOLDA HARTZ We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year LOTTIE & MAURICE JANOWSKI We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year BEN & ESTELLE MONSON Wishing all our family and friends a year of health and happiness Wishing all our family and friends a year of health and happiness EVELYN & JOSEF KLEIN Wishing all our family and friends a year of health and happiness Prime Minister Menahem Begin, right, is shown decorating an Irgun freedom fighters flag during In- dependence Day festivities in 1981. We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year PEARL & HAROLD AUGUST FLORI & LINDA SELTZER Israel Feminist Center Opens support group. A legal couseling service every Hidden away in the Monday evening is vol- labyrinth of Jerusalem's unteered by professional merkas ha'ir — the thriving lawyers for the nominal commercial center of the fee of 20 shekels (about city — at 4 HaHistadrut one dollar). The group is Street, up a winding, nar- also compiling a guide to row stairway in the back, non-sexist health care in are the offices of a unique Jerusalem. The monthly feminist and hard-working group: "Kol Haisha" (The Woman's newsletter encourages Voice.) feedback from readers — ar- It is part of the growing ticles, essays, letters, feminist movement in Is- poetry, and lists events and rael "fighting to change and on-going projects. Kol Haishah houses the to improve the reality of the situation for Israeli only feminist archives in women," according to Sara Jerusalem and is activist- Meyouhas, a founder of the oriented, going out into the group who is editor of its field to lecture at schools and kibutzim. newsletter: A Rape Crisis Center re- The women's activities cently opened in Jerusalem. include lectures, courses in Other projects include an self-defense, . "do-it- art exhibition of posters on yourself," Arabic and yoga. the theme of "Violence They also organize groups Against Women," and in- in consciouness-raising, ex- volvement with the organ- hibitions, and petition and ization of a Feminist Con- letter-writing campaigns. ference in Israel, a battered We run a bookstore, an ex- women's shelter, an organ- tensive library and a Satur- ization of unmarried day night coffee house. mothers, the annual semi- The Woman's Voice, nar of the Society for the which operates on a Protection of Personal shoestring budget, spon- Rights (Israel's gay activist sors a host of other activi- group), and a newly estab- ties. There is informal lished "Rainbow Pre- "drop-in" counseling at School" — a non-seixst nur- the center as well as per- sery in Talpiot using non- sonal counseling by qual- sexist teaching materials ified psychologists and and children's books from social workers and a the U.S. and England. By MICHAEL SABIN (Copyright 1982, JTA, Inc.) We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year ADELL & HERMAN OZROVITZ We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year . BEN, CHARLOTTE & SARAH ROTHSTEIN We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperouS New Year SYLVIA, DAVE & SUSIE SCHANE We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year DAVE & LENORE SHAPIRO & FAMILY We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year MR. & MRS. MARVIN SHLAIN & FAMILY Sabbath Tradition Explained By RABBI SAMUEL FOX Copyright 1982, JTA, Inc.) Wishing all our family and friends a year of health and happiness instituted to prevent one from following the forbid- den practice of the Karaites. The Karaites misinter- preted the scriptural prohibition of lighting a fire on the Sabbath as meaning that one is sup- posed to be without fire or light on the Sabbath. The rabbis ruled that sit- ting in the darkness on the Sabbath be prohibited be- cause it is effective in eliminating the spiritual meaning of the Sabbath. The mother thus makes these prayers for her chil- dren hoping that their lives will be spiritually illumi- nated on the Sabbath and that they will carry forth this spiritual flame of learn- ing and practice throughout the week and throughout their lives. It is customary for a woman to ask for a blessing for her children, so that they may become learned and practicing Jews in Torah and mitzvot, when she lights the Sabbath candles. It has often been said that the Torah is like a flame and the mitzvot (command- ments) are like lamps. When lighting the Sabbath candles one is asked to understand that it is not only a physical flame that is being ignited. It is actually a spiritual flame which the mother hopes will stimulate her children to become learned in Torah and func- tional in mitzvot. It might also serve well to remember that the rabbinic development of ritual on the occasion of lighting the can- Death never takes a wise dles on Friday evening was man by surprise. CHIC PARTY RENTALS, ORANGE, CA. SYLVIA & IRVING ROSS Wishing all our family and friends a year of health and happiness PHILLIP & ANNE ROSSEN 4^ -, ,: ,, Wishing all our family and friends a year of health and happiness , NORMAN, JASON &'JEREMY SAMSON