18B Friday, September 28, 1984 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year LOUIS & FLO BLOCH & FAMILY We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year MOLLIE & LUDWIG BORAKS Largo, Fl A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family BERNARD & IRENE SCHLUSSEL 1111111111iP51M71111111 May the coming year be one filled with health, happiness and prosperity for all our friends and family. JULIUS ROSS MOVING CO. CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER—JULIUS ROSS CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD GLORIA ROSS To All Our Relatives and Friends, Our wish for a year filled with happiness, health and prosperity Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year DAVE & ETHEL NATINSKY MRS. ZAL AARON & SON larnn nalkl Ill t13 62 Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year to all our friends and relatives MR. & MRS. HYMAN ARONSON FAY, LEO & LORI SCHOENFELD, Piano, Tx. MR. & MRS. JOSEF BERKOVIC 1211DI1 n21l3 t13`? 'to all our friends and relatives LARRY WIZEL & FAMILY 1211011 naili M t132 to all . • our friends and relatives • May the New Year Bring To All Our Friends and Family Health, Joy, Prosperity and Everything Good in Life JACK & CAROL COHEN & STAFF SHOE TIME - HARVARD ROW MALL Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year STEVEN, LISA & JAMIE BINDER Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year MILDRED & RALPH FRIEDMAN Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year MR. & MRS. MAX GELMAN & FAMILY Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year ANITA, JOEY & DARRYL GOLDBERG May the coming Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year year be filled with health and all our family and friends AgE5REEziliil Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year MR. & MRS. HARRY YAFFE happiness for SALLY & BEN PASMAN & DARIN Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year JULES & ANN DONESON LILLIAN EFROS KAUFMAN & JUDIE Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year MARSHA & HARRY KORN & FAMILY Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year HERMAN & YETTA OPATOWSKI Wishing all our family and friends a year of health and happiness MR. & MRS. NORMAN ADELSBERG & SANDY Wishing all our family and friends a year of health and happiness EVELYN, HARRY, ILENE & JONI BERM NEWS The Jews of Chalkis, Greece BY SHELDON KIRSHNER Chalkis, Greece (JTA) — Sixty miles northeast of Athens, on the island of Evia, is a Jewish com- munity that is the • oldest continuously-inhabited one in all of Europe. It is quite a distinction for the 100 Jews of Chalkis, the capital of this green, pleasant island which has been ruled by the Persians, Thebians, Romans, Crusaders, Venetians, Turks and Nazis. But Leon Levy, the 48-year-old president of Chalkis Jewry, takes it all in his stride. By now, he is accustomed to the Jewish visitors from abroad who come here to be at one with history. A merchant, Levy has no idea how long his family has lived in Chalkis, (which is also known as Halkida and has a population of 60,000). But Levy says the Jews here can trace their roots back at least 2,250 yearg. Local records indicate that Jews were brought to Chalkis as captives of An- tiochus, but some scholars believe they arrived as followers of the returning soldiers of Alexander the Great. • Chalkis' white-washed syna- gogue, the foundations of which go back some 1,500 years; has been rebuilt six times. On Good Friday, 1845, a Christian fanatic set fire to the building and it was not reconstructed until 1849. Strangely enough, the walls of the synagogue, on Kotsou St., are embedded with ancient Jewish gravestones. During the Venetian era, the Italian overlords used the Jewish cemetery as a quarry to build castle walls. And when the ruined walls were demolished 23 years ago, the stones were re- turned to the Jews. They, in turn, placed them into the synagogue walls. Chalkis' Jewish communal cen- ter is small, and replete with framed photographs of Theodor Herzl, David Ben-Gurion, and three Israeli Presidents. Leon Levy was barely out of diapers when Italy invaded Greece, but he knows that the first Greek army officer to fall in battle was Col. Mordechai a Jew whose family has lived on Evia reportedly for 13 genera- tions. A marble bust of Frizis stands today in Chalkis' Military Square. World War II was a terrible time for the Jews, yet the Levys were lucky. At first, Evia and environs were under Italian occu- pation — a fortuitous stroke be- casue italy did not harass the Jews, nor attempt to ship them off to concentration camps. Later, the Germans replaced the Italians, and the tragedy began. All told, the Germans managed to kill two Jews from Chalkis and about 25 from the vicinity, Levy says. In the wake of the war, 120 Jews emigratd to Israel and the U.s. Intermarriage is still an un- known phenomenon in Chalkis. A hazzan conducts regular services. On the major holidays, a rabbi from Athens leads the congrega- tion in prayer. A butcher in