68 Friday, December 28, 1984 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS your advertising dollars do better in . THE JEWISH NEWS NEWS Jewish Gerona revealed BY MILTON JACOBY Special to The Jewish News What News? A student writes . . . and is answered with scholarships Education: bringi The joy of learning a life-long experience — —.Patrick C. 61.0*1140 Education is a life-long process. not something which can contained within the walls of any school. however dininguis It is as much a territory for adults as children — there is limit on curiosity : Pity the person who truly believes that she has nothing more to kern, because that person has ce gmw! People learn by a variety of methods. Book-le course. chief among them — as is the interchange of facts among people, teacher to pupil. pupil to Mile mostly. people karn by opening themselves to them. by allowing their senses to interpret leaving their pores open, metaphorically, that nature and art and erudition have tQ Whether your interests lie in specific areas, Of whether you are enthralled by everything the world has to offer. there's one precept always to keep in mind: There is nothing so small its not worth learning, nothing so large, it 's not worth tackling. believe it. •• Mary Ann Maxis. Execu- ne,,Oneccor the Student • air said that hundreds rats have a s ranging 10.000 a year t;if Scholarship of awards 900:000 compute r- bank con- 4:40nor awards. ri*-ate ly - funded *nil sources tutorust funds, taa, religious Nil' and social it . unions. • lonal and Perfect pie Capturing the spirit of sun:; mer in photographs can be easy as frolicking in the sun when you follow a few sim tips on picture-taking. No matter how ideal lighting and other condit ultimately the quality of pictures depends on the: q' you handle your c Although many o new cameras are what appears in the is the Insult of how y pose the shot. One of the greatest adv Cages of an instant camera that you can see your results immediately. You can tell right away when you took the time to compose a shot in the viewfinder or when you need to try again. The new Kodiunaties. 970L cific money sources. A modest additional computer process- ing fee is required at the time the student sends in his or her application form. Applicants can often qualify for privately-donated college funds in the Scholarship Search data base, because cer • lain eligibility factors are im- ixmiant, such as religion. eth- nic background, career interest. college majors. extra- curricular school or civic ac- tivities, parents unions. mili- iary service. etc. She said, "Millions and millions of dollars of school aid have gone unclaimed and unused in the past 10 years, because the money was not claimed. Computers are es- sential to find the myriad of ailable scholarships. atching a high school orsenior with a scholar- manually would be virtu- impossible. especially n dealing with hundreds thousands of students, each one very, very dif- said the Council has aided *loin Than 100,000 mu- desTli in theiga-12 years. lo- tesing,.-30cets of college • for information rmation and assist- tcacking down money . 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There are no Jews left now in Gerona, but both the mayor of the city and its delegate for tourism have said that they would assist in every way possible in the crea- tion of a Jewish museum and re- search institute there, and in the development of Gerona as a center for Jewish tourism from all parts of the world. Their sentiments were echoed by civic officials in Barcelona which, in its own right, is a trea- sure trove of Jewish influence and the remains of a great Jewish community annihilated in the 14th and 15th Centuries. An internati.pal association has been founded to preserve and to restore the Jewish riches of Gerona. The Friends of Gerona's Call (call is derived from the He- brew "kahal" or "community") was initiated by a non-Jewish civic leader of Barcelona, Joan Dexeus, who said that it was his duty as a Catalan "to do all I can to rediscover- our common heritage and to make known the great con- tribution the Jews made to Spain." He said that he had Jewish blood, "as do most Catalans, and we are proud of this element in us, which makes us more open and receptive to other peoples and cul- tures. We owe the Jews of the past, and also the present, a great debt for what they have given and suffered on our behalf. We, the non-Jews from Catalan (the northeast region of Spain) also admire Israel and all it is achiev- ing for humanity." The new organization has al- ready acted upon its recent pur- chase of the Isaac el Sec cultural center in Gerona's ancient Jewish quarter, named after a prominent Kabbalist who died in 1235. It is the site of Gerona's third and last synagogue (14th Century), a mik- vah and a Jewish hospital. Some 700 miles from Gerona down the southern coast of Spain, in fashionable Marbella, is an- other Jewish "jewel," the first synagogue to be built in southern Spain in 600 years. Another ex- traordinary aspect of this place of worship is that it is the creation of a family. Three brothers, Meier, David and Simon Ohayon arrived from Morocco several years ago and found that there was no syna- gogue in which they could express their religious convictions. So they built their own — not only for themselves, but for any and all Jews who already resided there or might come to live in this part of Spain. The synagogue, called Beth El, is small but exquisite, and it has already proven to be a haven for residents and tourists alike. Further tangible evidence of governmental concern for its 12,000 Jewish citizens is its fund- ing of a film now being produced by the Ministry of Tourism on Jewish life in Spain, past and pre- sent. It will be widely distributed in the United States next year. For the first time, American Jewry will be able to view ancient Gerona, the sparkling new syna- gogue in Marbella, Toledo and many other sites constituting the glory that was once Jewish Spain, and its remarkable renaissance after centuries of dispersion. RCA marks its 50th year New York (JTA) — The ability to integrate tradition with the present; the establishment of a rabbinic court; the active support and manning of the chaplaincy in the American Armed Forces; the supervision of Kashrut; the estab- lishment of day schools; and the growth from 35 member rabbis in 1935 to over 1,000 in 1985, were cited as accomplishments of the Rabbinical Council of America, on the occasion of its 50th anniver- sary. Rabbi Louis Bernstein, president of the Rabbinical Coun- cil of America, announced that in honor of the 50th anniversary, the Rabbinical Council would launch a special "Torah Tour," groups of Rabbinical Council rabbis to visit American Jewish communities to bring the message of Torah Judaism to small and medium- size cities. Ariel Sharon a winner at NJ track New York (JTA) — Ariel Sha- ron achieved his first win since coming to New Yoik last month for his libel suit against Time magazine. The former Defense Minister's victory was not in court, but at the Meadowlands racetrack in New Jersey. Sharon ventured to the racet- rack two weeks ago and placed a $2 bet on a horse dubbed "Power Witness." He came up a winner, taking home $39. Reporters said he appeared slightly embarassed last week when asked about the excursion to the racetrack. He ex- plained, however, that he has had a long-time love of horses and has been breeding them for 18 years at his farm in Israel.