58 Friday, March 30, 1984 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS New look for Tel Aviv seafront Music By The follovving 4 questions SHEL ROTT and WHY SEDERAMA 84? WHEN SEDERAMA 84? WHAT SEDERAMA 84? WHO SEDERAMA 84? VICKIE CARROLL • • • • Weddings Bar/Bat Mitzvas Dances, Shows Radio & T.V. Commercials "PROFESSIONAL ENTERTAINMENT" 3540770 will be answered on page 32 Member Detroit Area Retail . Kosher Meat Dealers Assoc. 21/2 Weeks To Passover! Starting Sun., April 1st thru Thurs., April 5th Pre-Holiday Special TURKEY LEGS & WINGS 691b. Cohen & Son Kosher Meat Market 26035 Coolidge, Oak Park Dexter Davison Kosher Meat Market 24760 Coolidge, Oak Park Harvard Row Kosher Meat Market 21780 W. 11 Mile Rd., Southfield Franklin Kosher Meat 5564 Drake Rd., W. 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They could be millionaires on the boardwalk of the Cote d'Azur but this is in fact the Tel Aviv seashore. Following an all around face lift, it is providing thousands with relief from heat and city streets, offer- ing facilities to match the wide expanse of the blue sea and glorious skies which nature has provided. It is practically a new seafront since architect Yaakov Rechter designed the broad pedestrian path- way of brown and sand- hued pebbles, arranged in curves to echo the wavelike curve of the current, its pat- tern impressing itself on the onlookers' eyes. The sea has been pushed back, the beach cleared and 50 to 100 meters of land have been reclaimed. Breakwaters 800 to 1,000 feet out have been built into the sea parallel to the seashore, to make for calmer, more enjoyable swimming, Rechter ex- plains. The breakwaters serve as a buffer to the cur- rents of water which come in waves, carrying sand particles to the land. „It takes up to three years until sand is retrieved suffi- ciently to become beach, he points out. What could we do if the founding fathers of Tel Aviv (the city was founded in 1909) conceived of the sea only as a place for dumping debris? Rechter asks rhetor- ically. They never dreamed the seashore would one day serve residents and visitors for relief from the heat or as a marvelous swimming, beaching and surfing facility. Now one of the best known beaches in the world, Rechter points to its uniqueness in day and night alike. Year round swim- mers may be seen there in winter and summer, dip- ping at the crack of dawn into the Mediterranean waters to refresh them- selves before starting their day's work. Tourists looking out of their windows at seafront hotels stand fascinated at the sight of young all night campers or men and women of all sages doing calis- thenics on the beach. "You don't see that anywhere else," they say. Typical too is the ongoing paddle ball play now relegated by the beach control to certain areas only. The Tel Aviv beach is now unique in another way. Its pedestrian pathway is part Egyptian and made more durable by addition of round brown pebbles transported from Egypt in truckloads to add to the white and black local stones of the pave- ment. Those responsible for the ,• ,• beach say • lceeping its .10 03 waters clean remains a major problem. Until a few years ago, raw sewage was dumped into the Mediterranean seafront at points along the southern Tel Aviv coast. Then the city started channeling the waste to new oxygenation lagoons making much of the sea "pollution-free." The Tel Aviv beach is still not as clean as it should be, and the black flag warning swimmers from dipping in still goes up all too often. Life-guards on duty dur- ing the summer at 12 sta- tions along the coast work from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. (there have been frequent labor disputes between them and the municipality over their working conditions). Each is responsible for an area of about 150 meters in front of his station. The boundaries of permitted bathing areas are marked with large billboards. Sand gets a se- curity check as well as a sweeping every morning. In the absence of shade, large umbrella shaped shel- ters in yellow and red have been provided for relief from the sun. However, there aren't enough of them yet. On the new promenade this problem is intense during the day as the sun beats down. Plans are, therefore, under way for covering the benches with latticed wooden awnings. This proj- ect is expected to be com- pleted by end of summer, Rechter promises, so that High Holiday visitors will gain at least another month on the beach and prom- enade. Derivation of "Jew' BY RABBI SAMUEL FOX It is generally under- staood that the name Jew is short for "Judah," the name of one of the 12 tribes of Is- rael. (Judah was one of the 12 sons of the patriarch Jacob.) The territory ofIsrael was divided among the 12 tribes. The tribes Of Judah, Benja- min and Levi were the only tribes and territory left after the Assyrian attack on the northern section of Is- rael. The remaining south- ern territory was named Judah. Golfer cited New York — Amy Alcott is the recipient of the first Samaritan Award to "a Ladies Professional Golf Association member who exemplifies the qualities of a good samaritan." Amy has been active with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society by donat- ing time and her talents in fund-raising efforts. She has staged four Amy Alcott MSS tournaments netting $91,900. Some claim that the name Judah was the one general title remaining for the Jewish people because Judah was the tribe from which the traditional roy- alty of the people came and thus the people were called Judaens. Still others claim that the name Judah has the basic letters of the name for the Almighty God with the addition of the letter "Daled." Since Jews are the believers in the one and only AlMighty they are called Jews (the believers in God). Copyright 1984, JTA, Inc. Price decrease Tel Aviv (ZINS) — The economic supplement to Haaretz reported that in re- cent weeks the prices of older apartments in Israel have decreased 5-15 per- cent. According to the.1983 Is- raeli national census, taken last June, there are 75,000-80,000 vacant apartments ,in Israel.