NOTEBOOK I••••• 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. FRED & PAT ERLICH BRIAN, BARBARA & STEPHANIE IMRE & MARTA FLEISCHER 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. PAULA & LEONARD GREENBERG & FAMILY MRS. KIFF 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. MR. & MRS. MEYER LEVIN MR. & MRS. RUDI LEISER Rudi's Barber Shop Violence Continued from preceding page May the New Year Bring To All Our Friends and Family — Health, Joy, Prosperity and Everything Good in Life. HARVEY & DIANA STALBURG CAREN, BARBI, GRANDMA FAE & GRANDPA FRED 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. We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year SAM, MICKIE & LISA ORECHKIN May the coming May the coming We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year year be filled year be filled ADELL & HERMAN OZROVITZ with health and with health and happiness for happiness for We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year all our family all our family BRUCE, STEPHANIE & NICHOLE RUDOLPH and friends. and friends. RUTH & SIDNEY SIEGAN LEON & FAY SIEGEL & CHILDREN We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year STEVE & ANNA OLIWEK 100 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1989 BETTY & PAUL SHERIZEN & FAMILY We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year THE SUKENIC FAMILY ANNE, SAM, HARVEY, DOREEN & KAREN a society in decay, let me add a note of personal despair: While I think that there are ways to ameliorate the decay, they require money and will, and consequently I don't think they are likely to be undertaken. I don't know who killed Jerry Weber or who raped my daughter's roommate, or why they acted as they did. But I believe that they form part of a pattern that begins very far away. No doubt some people are simply wicked, violent, crazy or like being outlaws. That will not change. But most people, I think, given food, shelter, ladders of oppor- tunity in their lives, a sense that they matter to their com- munities and that their com- munities care about them — that there is some reason for their lives — do not turn to violent crime. Or maybe that thesis is totally wrong. Maybe $50 bil- lion or $100 billion directed to public works, family-renewal and community projects, as well as to increased police protection, would have no ef- fect on the citizenry's inner life and physical safety. But clearly we have not developed the moral outrage necessary to try it. Speakers at Jerry Weber's funeral service urged us to concentrate on the meaning- fulness of his life, rather than the senselessness of his death. Good advice, for the senselessness raises agoniz- ing theological, sociological and personal questions. But the senselessness is worth remembering too, and what is most senseless about the ran- dom murders, rapes and mug- gings that have become so common in our lives is precisely that nothing will change on account of them. 1=1 David Margolis writes from Los Angeles, where he is a contributing editor of the Los Angeles Jewish Journal. NEWS Budapest Office Opened By JA Tel Aviv (JTA) — The Jewish Agency for Israel has opened an office in Budapest to coordinate its activities and those of the World Zionist Organization in Hungary, Hadashot reported this week. The Jewish Agency has five emmissaries in Hungary, teaching at Jewish schools and working with Jewish youth. According to Hada- shot, the office is located in the Jewish community 1 building.