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 laron ran t1 W'? We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year lann nalz 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 varimi ran riacn lawn ran i1] W'2 to all our friends and relatives. to all our friends and relatives. DOROTHY & HAROLD HABER BERNICE JACOBSON & LEONARD JACOBSON lann yaw niv? 1211D11 i1;1\1 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 144 SIMON & ESTHER TABACHNIK . 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.