Beautiful Calendars To All Our Relatives and Friends, Our wish for a year filled with happiness, health and prosperity. To All Our Relatives and Friends, Our wish for a year filled with happiness, health and prosperity. ROSE KLEINER - A Special to The Jewish News Jewish calendar is an essential part of every Jewish home and pro- vides a basic reference for every member of the family. This year there are a variety of desk, wall, and children's calendars in many designs and styles. All Jewish calendars recognize important dates for , Jewish as well as civic holidays, and list times for candlelighting. But besides # being informational, calen- dars have become decorative, with beautiful art reproduc- tions from collections all over the world. The following is just a sampling of the many Jewish calendars now available. Biblical Images from the Jewish Museum from Pome- granate Publishers includes photographs of drawings and artifacts from New York's ' Jewish Museum collection. Works by Rembrandt and Chagall are featured. Fine Judaic objects decorate the pages of the Jewish Calendar 1990 published by Hugh Lauter Levin Associates. The illustrations here are based on the collec- tion of the Hebrew Union Col- ' lege Skirball Museum and in- clude an 1867 punched paper embroidery of the Akedah, a 1602 woodcut on the same subject, along with a magnifi- cent silver etrog container from 19th century Germany. Especially striking is an il- luminated 19th century megilla scroll with its silver , case, from Central Europe. Hebrew calligraphy is celebrated in this calendar with a colorful 18th century Venetian ketubah. Also, this calendar highlights dates of Jewish holidays through the year 1995. 1 The Jewish Calendar 5750 (1989-1990), from Universe publishers, has been prepared. by Michael Strassfeld and in- cludes a handy and unusual chart. The chart lists all ma- jor and minor holidays, as' well as fast days, and provides a number of columns with basic descriptions for each. , There are column headings for the theme or major. elements of the holiday, can- dle blessings, historical ; significance, seasonal, significance, mood and selected customs This is an excellent reference for a busy family. The varied illustrations in- clude a 1954 Korean New THE NUDELLS HOWARD, LINDA, SHERI, WENDI, TAMMY 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. DR.. & MRS. LOUIS HIRSCHMAN & FAMILY RICHARD, JANICE, ADAM & RACHEL KAY 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. RITA & IRVING LIPSKY DR. MARK A. MULLER & FAMILY 1111311 13.111 711t13`2 iaran rvalz to all our friends and relatives. to all our friends and relatives. MEYER & MINNIE LESHMAN MR. & MRS. BENDET LEWKOWICZ To All Our Relatives and Friends, Our wish for a year filled with happiness, health and prosperity. MR. & MRS. LESTER ROSENBERG 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 RALPH, SANDY & KIRBY JOSEPHSON Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year. Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year. We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year IRVING LARKY ROBERT & PAULA MARQUART MR. & MRS. SZMUL & HELEN JUTKIEWICZ & FAMILY Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year. Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year. MR. & MRS. SIMON LEFKOWITZ We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year MRS. DAVID MENDELSON FRED. & BEVERLY KANDEL THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 89