L'Shana Tova Wishing all our family and friends a year of health and happiness. STUART AND MARLENE BASS AND FAMILY A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family. May the coming year be one filled with health, happiness and prosperity for all our friends and family. THE ARONOFFS Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year. Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year. DAVE & EDITH AGAUAS RUTH AVERBUCH 17 I\D11 17\11 nar2 111.113T1 nal\a Tin3`2 to all our friends and relatives. to all our friends and relatives. LORRIE & BOB ABROMOVIWI THE ADELSTEINS RON, FERN & DAVID 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. JACK & ROWE BERMAN ALLAN, LORI & GARRETT BROOKS MERV, SHEILA, STACY & JEFF To All Our Relatives and Friends, Our wish for a year filled with happiness, health and prosperity. THE BAUMHAFTS ROBERT, HELEN, DAVID, GLORIA, JIMMY, SHELLEY, MICHAEL & SANDY • • M/1 JEFF, ALISA, MICHAEL & CORTNEY AMBROSE May the coming year be one filled with health, happiness and prosperity for all our friends and family. ISADORE, EDITH & SUSAN AVERBUCH May the New Year Bring To All Our Friends and Family — Health, Joy, Prosperity and Everything Good in Life. BABY & ME LORETTA & RITA & ALL THE GIRLS 134 A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family. Friday, October 3, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS To All Our Relatives and Friends, Our wish for a year filled with happiness, health and prosperity. JEAN & SAMUEL CASCADE NEWS Technique Alters Spice Harvest Jerusalem — Saffron, the most expensive of spices, will be brought within reach of the general population as a result of techniques developed at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The wholesale price of true saffron (not to be confused with Indian Saffron or turmeric, which is prepared from the root of an East Indian plant) is cur- rently about $5 per gram due to the great difficulties of its pre- sent day commercial cultiva- tion which is still labor inten- sive. The spice, which has a strong exotic aroma and a bitterish taste and is used mainly in rice and fish cooking, consists of the orange colored stigmas (the part that should receive the pollen) of the showy purple crocus flowers, which are painstakingly picked from the flowers and then dried. As flowers do not all bloom to- gether, picking must be re- peated daily for more than two weeks. Prof. Moshe Negbi of the De- partment of Agricultural Botany at the Hebrew Univer- sity and Dov Basker of the Ministry of Agriculture have developed a technique for mass cultivation of concurrently . flowering saffron crocuses. This makes it possible to har- vest all the flowers mechani- cally at one time. In the past, saffron was used in perfumes and in the compli- cated medicines of ancient China and medieval Europe. Its modern therapeutic use remains largely unexplored, although it is known to contain a heart stimulant, and it also apparently reduces atherosclerosis, a degenerative disease of the arteries. China Nixes Formal Ties ml Aviv (JTA) — Chinese scholars and scientists want to develop technical and scientific cooperation with Israel, but the government in Beijing is not interested in formal diplomatic ties at this time, Prof. Josef Singer, presi- dent of the Haifa Tbchnion, said last week. Singer, who just returned from an 11-day visit to the Peoples Republic of China at the invitation of the Chinese authorities, said the deans of universities, scholars and engineers plan to attend the next convention of the Inter- national Council of Aero- nautical Science (ICAS) to be held in Israel in August, 1988. Singer is the current president of the ICAS. He told a press conference here that while China is prepared to receive Israelis at any in- ternational conferences there, it is not prepared to establish formal relations with the Jewish State.