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 larvn 1al\1 111V2 to all our friends and relatives. ADELL & HERMAN OZROVITZ tanan nalz nacn van= rvan2 naV2 to all our friends and relatives. HARRY, ANDREA, JASON, STEPHANIE & BRANDON POTACH vann nalz to all our friends and relatives. to all our friends and relatives. THE NORBERS JOE, DENISE, JOSH & JEFF SAM & MICKIE ORECHKIN vanDri Ton rn I ISRAEL nalz nativ.2 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