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Cali (313) 559 8860 for an appointment - .11111111•111==11111111111111•11 Multiple Choices Exist For Shanah Tova Salutes PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor Emeritus S hanah Tovah is heard again as the greeting by many millions of our people and many mill- ions of others inspired by Rosh Hashanah to hope and pray for the welfare, peace and security of all peoples everywhere. There are numerous designations and solem- nities associated with Rosh Hashanah. They provide for scores of spiritual salutes. In Jewish Concepts by Philip Birnbaum, we find explained some of the glories of Rosh Hashanah: Marking the Jewish New Year with which Jewish chronology begins, Rosh Hashanah occurs on the first day of the seventh month (Tishrei), the holy month of the year just as the seventh day in the week is a holy day. The sabbatical year and the year of jubilee were likewise designed to begin on the seventh month, cor- responding to September or October, when the an- nual agricultural cycle began in Eretz Yisrael. Since early times Rosh Hashanah has been regarded as a day of reflec- tion and repentance, essen- tially concerned with the individual and his ideal way on earth. Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kip- pur are characterized by special solemnity and referred to as Yamim Nora'im (Days of Awe) when all mankind stands before the divine throne for judgment. Rosh Hashanah tradi- tionally marks the creation of the world. Medieval writers noted that the let- ters with which the Book of Genesis begins the ac- count of creation, could be rearranged to read as the first day of the month Tishrei, when the Jewish New Year is celebrated. The Talmud emphasizes the importance of Rosh Hashanah not only as the birthday of the world, but also as the festival com- memorating some of the most dramatic events in Israel's history. We are told that God remembered Sarah on the first day of Rosh Hashanah; Isaac was born on Rosh Hashanah; Hannah was remembered on Rosh Hashanah, and her son Samuel was the answer to her prayers at the sanctuary of Shilo. The characteristics of Rosh Hashanah merge into a uni- versalism that makes our festivities of great value and inspiration to all mankind. Every individual's life should strive to create pro- ductively as well as be humanly elevating. An explanatory characteristic from The En- cyclopedia of the Jewish Re- ligion adds the following: Four different dates in the calendar are mention- ed in the Mishnah as being the New Year for different specific purposes. One of these dates had acquired the religious significance of an annual day of judgement and the Mishnah states: "On Rosh Hashanah all that comes into the world pass before Him like flocks of sheep?' The Talmud connects this reference to Tishrei 1, the beginning of the ancient agricultural year. Tishrei 1 is the only one of the four New Years to be specified in the Bible as a festival although no men- tion is made of it there as the New Year. The soun- ding of the shofar is one of the distinctive features of the religious celebration of the festival, and has large- ly determined the charac- ter of the liturgy of the day, particularly the Additional Service. Entire libraries have been compiled with consideration of the life-inspiring idealism of Rosh Hashanah. The many millions of words in- corporating them keep uplif- ting our spirits and humanizing our devotion commencing with the fes- tival which Hebraically is the "head of the year." It is with the salute to all on this sacred occasion that we keep reasserting the message of Shanah Tova. ❑ NEWS) Russian Anti-Semite Won't Quit Post New York (JTA) — Jews and academics have ex- pressed dismay and conster- nation at a Russian anti- Semite's refusal to resign his position as a foreign associ- ate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. But the protesters seem to have no legal recourse to force Igor Shafarevich, who heads the mathematical in- stitute of the Russian Acad- emy of Sciences, to quit his American post. Responding to a written request to consider stepping down, Mr. Shafarevich sent a letter to the U.S. academy acknowledging he has criticized in writing Jewish groups and Jewish nation- alism in Russia. He said this did not con- stitute anti-Semitism, however, and refused to give up his position with the U.S. academy. He said that resigning his membership, which he has held since 1974, would vali- date the accusation of anti- Semitism contained in the letter to him signed by Frank Press, president. of the National Academy of Sciences, and James Wyngaarden, its foreign sec- retary. Replying to Mr. Shafarevich's refusal to resign, the National Acad- emy issued a statement say- ing the organization "stands by its earlier letter" to the mathematician. Mr. Press said he would take no further action against Mr. Shafarevich be- cause the academy has no rules to govern this situa- tion. In fact, the academy could not even ask Mr. Shafarevich to resign but only to consider the move. "We would be pleased if he would resign. But we cannot force him to do so." In their letter to Mr. Shafarevich, Mr. Press and Mr. Wyngaarden pointed out that the Steklov Institute, Russia's premier mathematical institution, which he heads, discrimina- tes against Jews. They also wrote of their "strong aversion" to Mr. Shafarevich's anti-Semitic writings.