IRO
We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year.
Best wishes for a
happy, healthy
New Year.
Best wishes for a
happy, healthy
New Year.
PHYLLIS ZUSMAN & FAMILY
MURRAY &
MARLENE A. CHESS
JAY & BLANCHE JOSEPH
I wish my family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year.
LILLY & MICHAEL WEISS
We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year.
MEL & BARBARA RYCUS
Sedona, Arizona
We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year.
MARCUS & PAULA LAST
A Very Happy and Healthy
New Year to All Our Friends
and Family.
NORMAN & NAYDA SCHWARTZ
IRV & FREYA ISAACS
A Very Happy and Healthy
New Year to All Our Friends
and Family.
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to all
our friends
and relatives.
to all
our friends
and relatives.
FREYA WEBERMAN, RICHARD
& PHILIP HELFRICK
SOL AND CHANNIE ZEILER
VICKI, MOSHE, ITZY,
SHIFRA, FRUMIE & CHAIM
May the coming
year be filled
with health and
happiness for
all our family
and friends.
May the coming
year be filled
with health and
happiness for
all our family
and friends.
SUSAN, BENNETT,
ARIANA TEREBELO
HARRY &
SHIRLEY TANKSLEY
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.
May the coming
year be filled
with health and
happiness and prosperity for
all our
family and friends.
MADELON, LOU, MELISSA
& ADRIANNE SELIGMAN
To All Our
Relatives
and Friends,
Our wish for a
year filled with
happiness,
health and prosperity.
ABE & SYLVIA PEARLMAN
History Is Focus
Of Israel Schools
GEORGE PROCHNIK
SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
j
erusalem is 3000 years
old — give or take a few
years — and in honor
of the city having sur-
vived from the rule of King
David to the reign of Mayor
Teddy Kollek, the Education
Ministry last Jerusalem Day
declared "The Year of
Jerusalem" in the public
school system.
Numerous special events
and programs designed to
help young people across the
country learn more about the
city have been implemented
throughout the year. One of
the most creative is the
"Avenues of History" recent-
ly developed by the Youth
Wing of the Israel Museum to
familarize students with five
key phases in Jerusalem's
early history. The names and
dates may sound dry — the
Davidic kingdom (1010-970
BCE), the Assyrian siege
(app: 700 BCE), the Roman
conquest and building cam-
paign. (37-4 BCE), the High
Priesthood's political ascen-
dancy (1st century CE), and
the reign of Hadrian (117-138
CE) — but this history lesson
is about as dry as Jerusalem's
summer is wet.
Consisting of short talks
delivered in various locations
throughout the museum's ar-
chaeology wing, the program
is topped off by one climatic (if
not apocalyptic) panel discus-
sion in the museum audi-
torium. Students aged 9-17
find the speakers in the
"Avenues of History"; not pro-
fessor this or that, but King
David, Herod, Joseph the
High Priest, Hadrian and
King Sennacherib of Assyria
— actors from Jerusalem's
professional street theater,
dressed in striking period
costumes.
Herod is clothed in toga and
sandals and is found standing
before a marble pedestal and
actual fragments of Roman
statues. With clenched fists,
he angrily addresses the
wide-eyed youngsters, be-
moaning the fact that
although he filled the city
with magnificent marble
monuments and ruled for 33
years with even-handed im-
perial justice, he never suc-
ceeded in conquering the
hearts of his people. After
pleading his case, he drops his
head and trudges grimly back
behind the pedestal, waving
the students on with a
flourish of his hand.