I TRAVEL I A NEW YEAR lb All Our Clients & Their Families With Warmest Wishes FROM MAXINE WEINBERG And All The Staff At A St. Peter's fish from the kibbutz pond. * Israel's Fish: Color Them Red travel .ad/ lir ma Suzanne Kirschner Rose Laudicina Peggy Sanders Judy Goldman Stacey Weinberg Lynn Levine Jodi Denenberg Eve Ezmerlian Bede Epstein Kathy Wendell Stephanie Rudolph Steven Fish DANIEL ROGOV Special to The Jewish News S Judy Goldfaden Linda Gershenson Sharon Block Stacy Kurinsky Yona Nivy ******* *********** 4 r*** 4r********************************* Bloomfield Orchard Villa is proud to offer... + 24-Hour Nursing Care + On-site Physical, Occupational & Speech Therapy + Utmost in Personalized Care & Dignity 4. Limited to 50 Residents Sam's Detail Shop "The Ultimate in Automotive Appearance Care" (313) 855-5600 • Complete Car Cleaning • Pre-Sale Preparations • Accessory Sales and Installation • Customizing • Bonded and Insured • Pick-Up and Delivery Located on a wooded 3 acre setting, our warm homelike atmosphere is spacious and comfortable. We customize our service for family members as well as residents - convenient and streamlined move-in and open lines of communication. Family, spouse or guardian, we are here for you! 7277 Richardson Rd.-West Bloomfield Just East of Haggerty Rd. 313/360-4443 32671 Northwestern Hwy. • Farmington Hills Between Middlebelt and Orchard Lake Road Sam Rozenberg L'SHANA TOVA TIKATEVU JABOTINSKY HERUT ORGANIZATION presents a program in the memory of Jabotinsky, A Great Jewish Leader Saturday, October 3rd at 8:30 p.m. Jewish Community Center • 10 Mile Rd., Oak Park Guest Speaker: RABBI MILTON ARM, Congregation Beth Achim 50 Cantor Barry Ulyrich will chant memorial prayers Israeli Movies Shown • Donation $4 • Coffee/Cake Served For Reservations call: Elle Hornung 557-1847 Ruth Leham 546-5819 or Simon Cieck 548-3073 MARIETTA & ERNEST DRUCKER AND STAFF WISH THEIR CUSTOMERS AND FRIENDS A HAPPY AND HEALTHY NEW YEAR Executive Custom Shirtmakers, Inc. 223 S. Woodward Ave Birmingham, MI 48011 642-0460 everal months ago, a group of Japanese businessmen visited Lake Kinneret, the Sea of Galilee, there to taste St. Peter's fish and determine whether they could profitably be introduced to prestigious restaurants in Tokyo and Osaka. They were polite, but it was clear that they were disappointed. The fish, they said, "were pleasant but not attractive or tasty enough for the sophisticated Japanese palate." Not easily daunted, the group decided to follow up a somewhat outrageous rumor they had heard — that some- one in Israel was raising red St. Peter's fish. When they ar- rived at Kibbutz Nir David, three kilometers west of Beit She'an, the Japanese were astonished to learn that the rumor was correct, for here, as unlikely as it might seem, were exquisitely colored orange-red fish. Eighty-one-year-old Shmuel Swig, manager of the kibbutz fish ponds, netted several fish to show the visitors. "Before I knew what was happening," says Sarig, "they had whip- ped out long, sharp knives. With a quick flash of blades the fish were killed and scal- ed and within seconds our guests were devouring paper thin slices of raw fish." The Japanese made no attempt to conceal their delight and pro- nounced the fish to be nothing short of magnificent. That the Japanese have a passion for raw fish (sashimi) is not surprising. That St. Peter's fish can be red, however, might. For at least two thousand years, the St. Peter's fish or "amnoon," in- digenous to the waters of the Kinneret, and by far the most popular fresh-water fish in Israel, have been grey-black in color. Said Eran Lahav, the. head biologist at the Nir