. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, September 13, 1985 171nn ► 11111 Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year Tropics Tribe? Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year Mr. & Mrs. Paul Frank & Family We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year to all Gizelle Baker & Daughters Lenore & Dave Shapiro, Coconut Creek, FL our friends BY DR. MARC TANENBAUM Are the Polynesians in the South Pacific one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel? That pos- sibility struck me as I travelled through the islands of Maui, Kauai, Oahu, and the Big Island of Hawaii recently. When the intrepid Polynesian sailors and their families sailed from Tahiti over 1,000 years ago and landed on the idyllic Hawaiian Islands, they brought with them a priest-dominated religion that had some of the features of the earliest forms of the Hebrew religion in the Bi- ble. Polynesian priests were called "kahuna," suggesting the He- brew term for the priestly class, "kohane." Analagous to the Bi- blical theocracy, the Polynesian "kahuna" played a central role in upholding the authority of the kings and the royal aristoc- racy. In turn, the kahuna were given special privileges. In the Polynesian religion, a system of rules, called "kapus," dominated every aspect of Polynesian daily life, not unlike our own revered "halacha." If a Polynesian commoner violated the kapus, he or she could be put to death. Especially fascinating is the fact that Polynesian societies created a series of "sanctuaries of refuge," similar in some ways to the Biblical cities of refuge. Polynesians were also polygam- ous as were our Biblical ances- tors. Utlimately, of course, Polyne- sian religion differed radically from Biblical' ethical monotheism in that it was a pa- gan, nature religion, dominated by worship of idols and even human sacrifice. (In the 18th Century, Christian missionaries converted most of the Polyne- sians from paganism to Chris- tianity, while gobbling up much of their beautiful land in the process. But these Biblical sounding terms, practices and institutions suggest that the mists of history might have covered over some frail linkages between the Polynesians and our wandering ancient Israelite forbears. ru U3'7 and relatives 4. ,. 1, :, v ., 4,7m4r:o.t ' Wishing all our family and friends a year of health and happiness t ,‘,. Adele Mondry & Family We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year Wishing all our family and friends a year of health and happiness We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Rossen Daniel, Kim & 'David Max We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year • Wishing all our family and friends a yeaT of health and happiness Marvin & Rhoda Perlin, Steven, Andrew, Mitchell We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year Allan, Mary, Mark & Laurie Silverman • Harry & Ann Schwartz IttfOSI • Mr. & Mrs. Lester Rosenberg to:,,,,., . ,..,..,i.. , :. ,t Iiir 4 '4. Dora Kaner & Family . 139 A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family j' ''''' Wishing all our family and friends a year of health and happiness Dr. & Mrs. Davis A. Benson Joe, Gertie & Debi Grossman A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family Mandy & Joel Fisher, Ari & Kevin Clearwater, Fl. Joe & Rena Berman A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family Tom & Esther Nesse! & Family Mr. & Mrs. Erwin Kepes A Seven Arts Feature Protocols' Sale Nets Apology New York — Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme has ex- pressed his "deep regret" to the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL) for the un- authorized sale of copies of the anti-Semitic tract, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, at a government-sponsored Islamic exhibit at the Stockholm Histor- ical Museum last month. In a letter responding to a protest made by ADL Associate National Director Abraham H. Foxman, the prime minister said that a private exhibitor had "abused the trust of the musiiem" by offering the volume for sale at its own stand without the knowledge of museum offi- cials. A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family A Very Happy and Healthy NeW Year to All Our Friends . and Family Rudi's Barber Shop Mary. Joes's Beauty Salon Bernard & Irene Schlosser & Family 13805 W. 9 Mile Rd. Oak Park, MI. 48237 , , ■ 2. it 4_, C ,,V1,;•kir , 1,t t Ofqtarkt, - it l'..:••1:- .,11i442:fie.:.Lti;vt.1.. ■ ai4,._- .4.3Skg•. ■ t V+ 114.41,4 4 ‘4 is ' igat,;k4., 406- 4 ,■ 40e.1.1\•;+ttti:4%. 4 0.4.- • 4014,!10k , •■ 4 ",.414 X • • 41.0011111 .