Best wishes for a
happy, healthy
New Year.
Best wishes for a
happy, healthy
New Year.
AGI & ZOLTAN RUBIN
& FAMILY
MERLE & SELMA SILVERMAN
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
FANNY SILVER
SHIRLEY SILVERMAN
BERNICE & NATE SCHECTER
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our friends
and relatives.
to all
our friends
and relatives.
MARLENE & BERNARD TOFT
MIKE, KEN, ALYSSA
THE WANDERS
SEYMOUR, JAN, MARC, LISA
& JACQUELINE
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CHARLES & BARBARA TOBIAS
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our friends
and relatives.
GOLDA J. HARTZ
(MRS. MURRAY) & FAMILY
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We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
MAUREEN & BOB SHAPIRO
SANDRA & MICHELLE
We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
SAM & FAY ROTBERG
We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
RENEE & MORRIS ROCHLIN
We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
FRANK RADZINSKI
FAY RADZINSKI
A Very Happy and Healthy
New Year to All Our Friends
and Family.
to all
our friends
and relatives.
MARK, JOANN, EVAN &
LAUREN KAYLIN
Coral Springs, FL
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.
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Relatives
and Friends,
Our wish for a
year filled with
happiness,
health and prosperity.
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FANNY STERN & FAMILY
DR. BERNARD H. STERN & FAMILY
Sal Harbour, FL
A Very Happy and Healthy
New Year to All Our Friends
and Family.
SIDNEY & TRACY KATCHEM, MADDISON & TATUM
Upland, CA
A Very Happy and Healthy
New Year to All Our Friends
and Family.
ISRAEL
Organic Farms
Are Not New
AVA CARMEL
Special to The Jewish News
W
hen the Holy One,
blessed be He, cre-
ated the first man,
he took him and led him
around all the trees of the
Garden of Eden, and said to
him, "Behold my works, how
beautiful and commendable
they are. All that I created,
for your sake I created it. Pay
heed that you do not corrupt
and destroy my universe, for
there is no one to repair it
after you."
(Midrash Ecclesiastes 7):
Organic agriculture took
root in Israel when Haim
Feldner of Kibbutz Beit
Alpha in the Jezreel Valley
came to Israel from Galicia
with the dream of ploughing
the fields of the Holy Land.
But as young pioneers work-
ed enthusiastically draining
the swamps and transforming
them into fertile, agricultural
land, helped by chemical fer-
tilizers and insecticides, Mr.
Feldner was experimenting
with compost and other
natural methods in a 15-acre
vegetable garden.
Although kibbutz members
enthusiastically ate his pro-
Young pioneers
worked
enthusiastically
draining swamps
and transforming
them into fertile
land.
duce, which included the new
varieties of onions, cauli-
flower and sesame seeds he
developed, Mr. Feldner was
considered an eccentric and
organics never really caught
on in Beit Alpha. His belief in
organic agriculture, however,
served as a source of inspira-
tion for many other farmers,
including Mario Levy, 69, of
nearby Kibbutz Sde Eliahu
who introduced it to his kib-
butz in the 1960s. Now with
350 acres of organic fields,
mostly carrots and dates, the
kibbutz recently established a
breeding facility for insects
which are natural enemies to
pests.
Michael Ben Zvi of Moshav
Kfar Yehoshua, editor of the
Israel Association of Bio-
Organic Agriculture's
"Renewed Agriculture," feels
that organic agriculture is
the wave of the future in com-
munal settlements. The in-
fluence of ecological
literature and contact with
other organic growers," he