Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year. Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year. Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year. Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year. CAROLE ROBINER.SHAW MARY & NORMAN ROBINER MANNY & RAE SCHANE ANNE & SAM SUKENIC EVELYN TOBIAS & HER FAMILY We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year THE LEVITINS JEFFREY, LINDA & RICK We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year MR. & MRS. ROBERT RICHMAN & AUDREY MR. & MRS. GREGORY EPSTEIN & ALANA & MEGAN We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year THE KRITZERS — LARRY, FAY, MELISSA & SAMANTHA We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year THE NADLERS JOYCE, BILL, KASI & ROBIN We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year BOB, VIVIAN & KAREN KORT We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year JERRY, MARSHA, STEVEN & MARC MOSS TONY & JULIE EMMER We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year HARVEY F. & DAHLIA KLEIN JODIE & AMY We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year Venice, FL A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family. LEONARD, JANICE AND DANIEL MALACH We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year THE LEVITINS LEONARD AND NORMA 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. RENEE & JOE KASH May the New Year Bring To All Our Friends and Family — Health, Joy, Prosperity and Everything Good in Life. CAROL & SIDNEY LIPTON A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family. To All Our Relatives and Friends, Our wish for a year filled with happiness, health and prosperity. SANDY & BILL LEFKOFSKY THEIR CHILDREN & GRANDCHILDREN ISRAEL Spirit Is Seen Even In TIrivia CARL ALPERT Special to The Jewish News he land of the unex- pected and the unusual — that's Israel. From my deep drawer of the odd and the surprising: Messiah Causes Controver- sy. The haredi Jews of Meah Shearim are not the only ones who object to advertising which they consider offensive. Christian residents of the village of Yafiah, near Nazareth, have demanded that a large Chabad poster, proclaiming "Prepare for the coming of the Messiah," be removed. They say it offends their sensitivity as Chris- tians, who believe the Messiah has already come. The Rose by Any Other Name. Of late there has been a trend here to give children odd and unusual names. Rabid fans name their kids after football players. Names which sound well overseas are also proving popular, like Dean, Sean, Jan, Shirley, Eleanor and the like. Ilana Gaash, writing in Hadashot, urges that the government draw up a list of acceptable Hebrew names, and all parents must choose from that list. She claims that such is the case in France and Holland. Kibbutz Keeps Ivy League Clean. Kitchens in the dining rooms of such universities as Harvard, Princeton and Cor- nell now wash their dishes us- ing equipment purchased from the Palbaum Metal Works, owned by Kibbutz Ein Harod. Israel Business Today, the economic newsletter, reports that the company has earned a million dollars from these exports. Customers also include the Marriott chain of hotels. Attention Margaret Tut- wiler. During the Gulf War, Israel transferred updated in- formation to the U.S. showing that the computer program of the Patriot missile tired after eight hours of continuous operation and caused devia- tions when making its calculations. The American military began to make im- provements in the program leisurely, but if they had reacted more quickly they might have prevented the tragedy at Daharan in Saudi Arabia, where an Iraqi Scud killed 27 American soldiers and wounded 98. The Patriot. battery there had been work- ing for 100 hours continuously. An Overlooked Problem of Russian Aliyah. Tens of