52 Friday, September 28, 1984 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Alicia & Matt Prentice and their employees Heartily Wish All Their Friends & Customers A Very Healthy & Happy NEW YEAR VERY BEST WISHES TO OUR FRIENDS & CUSTOMERS FOR A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR We will be closed Wed., Sept. 26 at 3 p.m. Reopening Sat., Sept. 29 at 11 a.m. We will close Fri., Oct. 5 at 3 p.m. Reopening Sun., Oct. 7 at 3 p.m. We Are Accepting Tray Orders to Break Fast TIU MAHAL INDIAN RESTAURANT Deli Unique 25290 GREENFIELD North of 10 Mile Rd. 967-3999 3354 W. 12 MILE EAST OF GREENFIELD 543-2218 LARCO BROS. COMPLETE ITALIAN CARRY-OUT Happily Wish Their Customers and Friends A Healthy and Joyous NEW YEAR 20097 W. 12 MILE RD. 353-5121 Corner of 12 Mile & Evergreen COUNTRY VILLAGE CENTER NOT SO' 1402 S. COMMERCE (near the intersection at Maple/15 & Pontiac Trail) 624-6660 And Norm LePage's Entire Staff Heartily Wish All Their Customers and Friends The Utmost In Health, Happiness and Prosperity On The NEW YEAR AND Neighborhood Gathering Place NEWS Bush lauds Peres Washington (JTA) — Vice President George Bush last week told Jewish supporters of President Reagan that newly sworn-in Premier Shimon Peres' call on King Hussein of Jordan for peace talks without preconditions is "a good sign." "I hope that progress can be made," Bush said to more than 200 Jews attending a luncheon sponsored by the Greater Wash- ington Jewish Coalition for Reagan-Bush. "Finding a path to real peace for Israel and its neighbors has long been a central objective of Ameri- can policy," the Vice President stressed. He said that Reagan's Sept. 1, 1982 peace initiative "must go forward" to achieve "the day when the Israeli people can live within secure and recognized boundaries, at peace with their neighbors, and when all the peoples of the region can live to- gether free from terror." As he did in a speech to the Na- tional Jewish Coalition during the Republican National Conven- tion in Dallas last month, Bush noted that former Premier Yit- zhak Shamir, now Israel's Foreign Minister, said in a Time magazine interview, "Relations with the United States are better than ever before." However, Bush conceded that the United States and Israel do have differences, such as the ef- fort to move the United States Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. "We are worried about that for a lot of reasons," he said. But he stressed that these are "honest differences" between "friends and allies." Bush predicted that the Repub- lican ticket is "going to do better than the 40 percent of the Jewish vote we got last time." A similar prediction was made both by Richard Fox of Philadelphia, chairman of the National Jewish Coalition, and Josep Gildenhorn, chairman of the Greater Wash- ington Group. Fox noted that Jewish Demo- crats from the conservative wing of the party headed by the late Sen. Henry Jackson of Washing- ton state feel the Democratic Party "has moved away from them and are joining us in large numbers." In his speech, Bush reiterated that the Administration "stands against the obscene anti- Semitism that has infected United Nations debates," stressed that "I cannot imagine any realis- tic circumstances under which this President would entertain the notion of the United States voting for UN resolutions con- demning Israel," and that "If Is- rael is ever voted out of the UN, the United States will walk out with it." Bush said he was repeating the last statement "over and over so that every country up there gets the message." The Vice President said a "fun- damental hallmark" of United States foreign policy is that the United States will never "recog- nize or negotiate" with the Pales- tine Liberation Organization as long as the PLO "refuses to recog- nize Israel's right to exist and to George Bush accept Security Council Resolu- tions 242 and 338." Bush stressed the close strategic relationship that has developed between the United States and Israel and noted in particular the effort now going on to create a United States-Israel free trade area. "We believe this will be a major step toward help- ing our friend in that part of the world and in the same context, helping ourselves," he said. All in the family Afula — For the past year, syn- agogue congregats in this Jezreel Valley community have been praying with one less Torah. The reason, they say with pride, is that the missing scroll is being used by Jews in West Hartford, Conn., a gift from the Afula resi- dents after nine Torahs were de- stroyed in a series of arson attacks in Hartford area synagogues. "Every Jew winces when a Torah is destroyed maliciously," said Afula's mayor, Ovadia Eli, who presented the Torah to the West Hartford Jewish commu- nity. "But when it happened to our friends, it was especially pain- ful. For us the Jews of West Hardford are family." Afula Illit and Givat Hamoreh are neighborhoods in Afula which have established "family" ties to a cluster of Connecticut Jewish communities, including West Hartford, through Project Re- newal, a comprehensive partner- ship in which Diaspora Jewish communities help Israelis in dis- tressed neighborhoods to improve the standard of living. "We have benefitted a lot from the relationship," said Eli. "Now the two neighborhoods have health facilities, community cen- ters, libraries and employment programs. But it goes much de- eper than that. The American Jews want to be involved in our town. They want to understand our problems. They want to be our friends. "And we feel the same say," he ' quickly added. "The relationship is a two-way street. When we heard about the arson and saw photographs of the burned syna- gogues, the people came to me and said something must be done. "We know the people of West , Hartford could have bought their own Torah," he said. "But this was a way for us to show we care about them too."