Best wishes for a
happy, healthy
New Year.
Best wishes for a
happy, healthy
New Year.
MICHAEL, BARBARA, ROBIN
& DEBBIE BERGER
We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
EVELYN & AL BROOK
ROSALYN & RALPH STONE
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We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
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to all
our friends
and relatives.
to all
our friends
and relatives.
RANDY, BARRY, HALYE &
ROBYN MITNICK
SAM & TILLIE MYERS
We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
SYLVIA & JACK TAYLOR
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to all
our friends
and relatives.
to all
our friends
and relatives.
DOROTHY & HAROLD HABER
BERNICE JACOBSON &
LEONARD JACOBSON
lann yaw niv?
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to all
our friends
and relatives.
to all
our friends
and relatives.
JUDI, HOWARD, LESLEE &
LORI FRIEDMAN
Scottsdale, Az.
JACKYE & ALAN GOLDBERG
Overland Park, Kansas
May the coming
year be filled
with health and
happiness for
all our family
and friends.
May the coming
year be filled
with health and
happiness for
all our family
and friends.
LINDA & HARVEY ZALLA
LISA & STEVEN
LEE & JULIE WHITE
Newton Centre, Mass.
To All Our
Relatives
and Friends,
Our wish for a
year filled with
happiness,
health and prosperity.
.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1988
We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
HARRY & SALLY TUCHKLAPER FAMILY
A Very Happy and Healthy
New Year to All Our Friends
and Family.
MR. & MRS. SOL AMSEL & DAUGHTER
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.
JILL & ARNIE FINKEL, SCOTT, BRIAN & NICOLE
Cooper City, Florida
To All Our
Relatives
and Friends,
Our wish for a
year filled with
happiness,
health and prosperity.
SONDRA, LESLIE & BRANDI GOODMAN
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CINDY & RON GOODMAN
I PEOPLE I
Black Artist
Makes Aliyah
CATHRINE GERSON
Special to The Jewish News
erusalem — "If Ameri-
cans realized what the
PLO really stands for,
that it is only out to destroy
Israel and not to create
something positive, I am con-
vinced that most of them
would turn against the PLO."
These words were not
spoken by an Israeli politi-
cian, but by American black
artist Paul Collins, now con-
cluding a two-year working
period in Israel.
Collins, 51, grew up among
Jews in Rapid Falls, Iowa,
and says that he has always
felt that blacks have a lot in
common with the Jews.
"Growing up among Jews
taught me that the same peo-
ple that hate Jews also hate
blacks. That is a major thing
to have in common.
"I know what it is like to
grow up being hated and
shunned," Collins said. "That
is one of the greatest things
about coming to Israel. For
the first time, racism isn't
directed against me but
against Jews and Arabs.
"For two years, I haven't
heard the word nigger, and
that has enabled me to be an
observer, which I could never
be in America. There I was
always a participant, always
on the inside. Here I can look
at things from the outside,
which gives me another
perspective.
"You can't work in any area
— agriculture, theater, film,
literature or law — without
coming across Jews. Many
American blacks don't realize
that without the Jewish in-
fluence in the past, most jobs
would still be closed to
blacks."
That is why Collins decided
to come to Israel, "to express
my gratitude to the Jews of
America and its com-
munities, who have always
been at the forefront of the
civil rights movements and
have had an enormous in-
fluence on the improvement
of the blacks' conditions in
the U.S."
Collins has now completed
a collection of drawings and
paintings entitled "The
Voices of Israel," which is be-
ing exhibited in Jerusalem.
For two years he has travel-
ed all over Israel from his
home in the new Jerusalem
neighborhood of Ramot. He
has painted everything from
old Yemenite Jews to modern
young Israelis, from old Arabs
to Druze soldiers, and every
other aspect of life in Israel.