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. vanon navz 711V2 ianon ra mi.13`2 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.