2B Friday, September 28, 1984 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family MR. & MRS. MAX BRUMER HELEN & STEWART GOTTLIEB We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prospdrous New Year NEWS N.M. church had Jewish supporter ALBERT, EDITH & JAY CIMMER We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family HENRY, RIVA, ANN, GEROLD, ERICKA & BONNIE DAVIS JOY & ABE OLIWEK We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year PHIL & ANN DEMBS & FAMILY IIIIIIEETWW1 - 11111111111 May the coming year be one filled with health, happiness and prosperity for all our friends and family. SHIRLEY & EDDIE ROSENBERG - BRENDA & HOWARD ROSENBERG We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year MAX & SALLY DREW & FAMILY . We wish our family and friends a very healthy; happy and prosperous New Year MR. & MRS. ALEXANDER FRANK We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year MARILYN & JERRY FLACK To All Our Relatives and Friends, Our wish for a year filled with happiness, health and prosperity SHELDON, MICHELLE & JEFFREY BROSS We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year SAK - BLANCHE, HARVEY & CHERYL FREEDMAN We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year BENJAMIN & ESTHER HALPERN & FAMILY We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year NORMA & LEONARD LEVITIN May the New Year Bring To All Our Friends and Family Health, Joy, Prosperity and Everything Good in Life We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year BERNARD & RUTH MIDDLEMAN We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year ADELL & HERMAN OZROVITZ 4 - , MARILYN & LARRY WAYNE & FAMILY Santa Fe, N.M. (JTA) — Vis- itors to this city's St. Francis Cathedral with a keen eye for ar- chitectural details are often sur- prised to see Hebrew letters in- scribed in the sandstone above the main entrance. Enclosed in a prominent triangle are four He- brew letters spelling Yaheveh, or God. How the Hebrew inscription came to be placed on this Roman Catholic church is a question which goes back to the time of the construction of the church. But the answer to this question is not easily found and remains a source of controversy. One frequently heard tale about the inscription involves the original construction of the cathedral in 1869. Building was started under the direction of Ar- chbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy, who, parenthetically, earned notoriety as the subject of a 1926 novel by Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop. Legend has it that the ar- chbishop ran out of construction funds, and it appeared for a time that the cathedral' could not be completed. Abraham Staab, a Jewish businessman in Santa Fe, who was a friend of Lamy, is often credited with having helped fi- nance the completion of the proj- ect. It is said that there was under- standing between Lamy and Staab in which Staab would make available the funds necessary to complete the building by cancel- ing a loan which he had prev- iously made to Lamy. In return, Staab could place an inscription of his own choosing over the entrance of the cathedral during construction. Lamy agreed, and the inscription suggested by Staab was placed according to the agreement: the Hebrew word for God. Wishing all our family and friends a year of health and happiness LILLIAN BENESON & FAMILY Salonika Jewish past recalled Salonika (JTA) — It was one of the most illustrious Sephardic Jewish communities, and it was at the epicenter of Greek Jewry. Then, the Nazis laid waste to it. On the eve of the Holocaust, the port city of Salonika was very much a Jewish city. The 5,000 Jews, who comprised about a third of its population, occupied a place of importance comparable to the Jews of New York today. "The Jews were the kings," says Chris- tos Stathopoulos. "The kings." Stathopoulos, who manages the Capsis Hotel, is not old enough to remember Salonika's distinct Jewish flavor. But he has heard stories from his father, who had good relations with the Jews. Albert Naar, the 37-year-old secretary of the Jewish commu- nity, can only read about the greatness of the Jewish Salonika. But he, too, is impressed. "An Ita- lian poet from Ferrara called Salonika the Mother of Israel, and he was right. This was a city that