7 777.77.77- roa=4,7=0,.. -"== WITYMEI,W.7...f, , 74 qr«er7: Friday, September 20, 1985 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS May the coming May the coming year be filled year be filled with health and with health and happiness for happiness for all our family all our family and friends and friends Joyce & Hank Booke Garin & Kelly Agoura, Calif. Jack & Rowe Berman Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year Rebecca Adaskin The Behrmanns Judy, Robin & Randy yawn naw3 rim' lann tun nlv2 to all our friends and relatives to all our friends and relatives Minna & Sam Chimoff Bruce, Hedy, Seth & Kayla Jacobson NEWS Immersion Protest Grows Jerusalem (JTA) — The Ethiopian immigrant commu- nity's week-long sit-in strike outside the offices of. the Chief Rabbinate Council was joined last week by dozens of members of the Reform Jewish commu- nity in Israel who brought with them food, cold drinks and flow- ers. Rabbi Asher Hirsch, world secretary of the Reform move- ment, said the fight of the Ethiopians for equal treatment as Jews was also the fight of the Reform community. The immig- rants began the sit-in strike a week ago to protest the chief Rabbinate's insistence that they undergo ritual immersion, a religious conversion rite, before they are allowed to marry. The Ethiopians, all devout practicing Jews, regard this de- mand as humiliating and insult- ing because it questions their authenticity as Jews. They voted last week to continue the strike despite appeals by Pre- mier Shimon Peres and the Di- rector General of the Religious Affairs Ministry to end it. Meanwhile, they have won an "order nisi" from the Supreme Court requiring the Chief Rab- binate to show cause why the Ethiopian immigrants must undergo ritual conversion. Rabbi Hirsch said, "We regard them as Jews for all intents and purposes. It was already decided they are Jews. We brought them to Israel and therefore we must treat them as full Jews." We wish our tam)/ and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year ' — Wishing all our family and friends a year of health and happiness Sophie & Harry Aronovitz , Sam & Minnie Berman We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year Rochelle & Eddie Chinsky A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year Henia & Miriam Ciesla The Blaz Family Jerry, Ilene, Alisa & Neal We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year The Dean's—Harold, Rosalie, Rhonda, Steven & Michelle To All Our Relatives r1.1e2 and Friends, nit Our wish for a :41:n ( --, year filled with happiness, • health and prosperity We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year ' Jack & Belle Epstein ,-, Fred's Drive-Rite Driving School Fred & Dolly Lax Saul & Bessie Rott • Children, Grandchildren & Great Grandchildren gi i i iKEERM . We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year "Fritz" & Alice Fridson May the New Year Bring We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year To All Our Friends Benjamin & Esther Halpern and Family Health, Joy, Prosperity .-, - / _..,-._.. Good in Life Mr. & Mrs. Gustav Berenholz - • r ' We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year Esther & Ben Kawer , and Everything $23 Billion GNP Possible We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year . : , .n. , ..,. Wishing all our family and friends a year of health and happiness The Goldman's Howard, Linda, Tracie & David . Jerusalem (JTA) — Israel's gross national product (GNP) for 1985 has been estimated at $22-23 billion, with one quarter of that going to defense and defense-related needs, by Prof. Eitan Berglass, a leading economist. Prof. Burglass made the estimate in a report to a joint panel of the Knesset's Foreign Affair and Security Committee and Finafice Com- mittee. Prof. Berglass pointed out that while the defense budget itself consumes a somewhat smaller proportion of the GNP, that is illusory because national defense includes many expendi- tures which are not in the de- fense budget. He cited several examples. One is payments to reserve soldiers for time spent on active duty which is paid out of the National Insurance Insti- tute's budget. Prof. Berglass noted that Is rael also pays about $1 billion per year in interest and princi- pal on military assistance loans from the United States. That burden has been eased. In the last two years Washington has provided military aid to Israel in the form of grants which are not repayable. But Israel con- tinues to pay back earlier mili- tary loans.