Best wishes for a
happy, healthy
New Year.
MARCIA & DONALD DAVIS
& FAMILY — FAR & NEAR
Best wishes for a
happy, healthy
New Year.
MRS. NICHOLAS FENAKEL
& FAMILY
W. Palm Beach, FL
We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
MR. & MRS. DAVID A. GOLDMAN
We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
THE ISHBIAS —
RENEE, EARL, HOWARD, LESLIE, JOEL, JASON, DAVID & SCOTT
We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
GERALD & RUTH ISKOW
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.
SONDRA, LESLIE, BRANDI &
MATTHEW GOODMAN
May the coming year be
one filled with health,
happiness and
prosperity for all our
friends and family.
HENRY & MALA DORFMAN
Best wishes for a
happy, healthy
New Year.
Best wishes for a
happy, healthy
New Year.
ALFRED GOLDSTEIN
ROSE & MARK HECHLER
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to all
our friends
and relatives.
ADELL & HERMAN OZROVITZ
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to all
our friends
and relatives.
HARRY, ANDREA, JASON,
STEPHANIE &
BRANDON POTACH
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to all
our friends
and relatives.
to all
our friends
and relatives.
THE NORBERS
JOE, DENISE, JOSH & JEFF
SAM & MICKIE ORECHKIN
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to all
our friends
and relatives.
to all
our friends
and relatives.
PAULA & NORMAN MILLER
KAREN & DEBBIE
THE NEFF FAMILY
KEVIN, JODI, ADAM,
ALLISON & EMILY
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.
MORRY & BETTY STARKMAN
ARON, HANNA &
BRYAN WEINSTEIN
To All Our
Relatives
and Friends,
Our wish for a
year filled with
happiness,
health and prosperity.
SANDRA & RONALD MOSS
School Trains
Gifted Students
ELANA SHAP
Special to The Jewish News
0
n a site where asbes-
tos shacks for immi-
grants of the '50s and
'60s once stood, now stands a
residential high school in the
arts and sciences for 120 of -'
the country's most gifted
students.
The Israel Arts and Science
Academy, a hot house for nur-
turing teen-agers with special
abilities, houses modern
laboratories, a library, a com-
puter room and art studio. Its
advanced curriculum in
science and math was
developed by the Weizmann
Institute and is carried out by
one specialist teacher to four
students. Although condi-
tions for intensive concentra-
tion on a specific subject are
ideal, these ninth-, 10th- and
11th-graders, exceptionally
gifted in either math,
chemistry, biology, physics,
music or the visual arts, must
divide their time between
these disciplines. "An isola-
tionist isn't going to con-
tribute much to the world,"
says Mary Jane Asher, one of
the school's founders.
The idea for the school
began 10 years ago in the
mind of Rafi Amram, now
Director of the Society for Ex-
cellence through Education,
at a time when education for
the academically limited was
the priority. "People
automatically objected to the
concept of a school for the
gifted, believing it would be
elitist. This, however, is not
the case. Arabs and Jews from
both privileged and disadvan-
taged, secular and religious
backgrounds make up the
student body and no
youngster who qualifies for
the school is rejected because
he can't pay."
Mrs. Asher and husband
Robert, who recently com-
pleted a four-year term as
president of the American-
Israel Public Affairs Commit-
tee (AIPAC), began mobiliz-
ing support for the project.
several years ago. With back-
ing from the Israeli govern-
ment, the American Agency
for International Develop-
ment and a number of Cana-
dian and American Jewish
organizations, an interna-
tional guidance panel was set
up, including leading scien-
tists, artists and educators,
three of whom are Nobel
laureates. The years of plan-
ning were now a reality. Aside
from academic evaluation,
the arduous student selection
process includes a personal