41

IF YOU KEEP
CLIMBING THE HILL,
YOU'LL NEVER
GO OVER IT.

You've paid your dues at the
other clubs. Now join the JCC
Health Club during November
1994, and we'll pay your dues
for the first month. With our
95% membership satisfaction
rating, you'll not only climb the
hill, but conquer it.*

FIRST MONTH

FREE

CC

HEALTH CLUBS

Voted #1 in Member Satisfaction

Call (810) 661-7622 or (810) 967-4030
* Must not have been a JCC Health Club member
in the past year. Some restrictions apply.

SHIRT
N3•X

by Felix Cruz

Men's furnishings and accessories

Hearing Aid Specialist

WANING WAX

U)

LLI

C/)

L.1-1

F-
LU

w

76

If left alone, ear wax (medically
known as cerumen) will migrate its
way out of the ear canals of most
people on its own. Because the skin
of the ear grows in an outward
direction (from the eardrum to out-
side the ear), it acts as sort of a con-
veyor belt to clear the wax, dirt, and
dead skin. However, some people
produce ear wax that is overly moist,
necessitating removal with com-
mercial preparations that contain
vinegar. Other people have ear wax
that is so hard and dry that it leaves
the ear canal itchy. If so, ear canals
should be treated with a few drops of
hydrogen peroxide, followed by a
water flush. If the ear canals are
afflicted with persistent feelings of
fullness, the trouble could be due to
an infection fhat requires treatment
to prevent possible hearing loss.

At CRUZ HEARING AID SERVICE,
we are committed to helping people
achieve better hearing. Visit us to
learn more about some of the excit-
ing new developments in hearing aid
technology. Our certified audiologist
will be happy to answer any ques-
tions that you may have. You can
count on us to provide on-going care.
We offer check up appointments and
consultations, and semiannual clean-
ings. We are conveniently located at
18899 W. 12 Mile Rd. in Lathrup
Village (424-8450). All major credit
cards are accepted. We would like to
take this opportunity to wish our
readers and their families a safe and
happy Thanksgiving
P.S. Moisturize dry ear canals with
a few drops of baby oil applied by
fingertip. Cotton swabs may tamp ear
wax down and damage the ear canal.

Paid for and brought to you as a public service by Felix Cruz.

19011 West Ten Mile Road
Southfield, Michigan 48075

(Between Southfield and Evergreen)

352.1080

Hours: Mon.-Sat. 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m.
9:30 a.m.-7 p.m.
Thursday

PARKING AND ENTRANCE IN REAR

BIRMINGHAM

1489 S. Woodward

646.8477

ROCHESTER HILLS

3140 Walton Blvd.

375-9707

Find It All In
The Jewish News
Classifieds
Call 354-5959

Foundation Opens
Two European Schools

Vienna (JTA) — In keeping with
its goal of rekindling Jewish life
in Eastern and Central Europe,
the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation
inaugurated two Jewish schools
in Warsaw and Prague in Sep-
tember and broke ground for a
new school campus in Budapest.
"Today we are beginning a job
that never ends because educa-
tion has no end. It is my dream
that what we undertake today
will live on and on," Ronald Laud-
er said at the opening ceremonies
for the new school in Warsaw.
The Lauder-Morasha School,
which has 15 students in the first
grade, is the first Jewish school
to be established in Poland in a
quarter-century; it is the first to
open in Warsaw in 45 years. It
joins schools sponsored by the
foundation already established
in Budapest and Vienna.
The school's director, Ameri-
can-born Helise Lieberman, said
the school curriculum will offer
the basic requirements of Polish
primary schools and will meet the
standards set by the Ministry of
Education.
It will also, she said, include
the teaching of Hebrew and Eng-
lish, as well as offer classes in
Jewish tradition and culture. In
addition, there will be classes in
computers, music, fine arts, the-
ater arts and sports, as well as
numerous after-school activities.
"Savaged by genocide and con-
tinuing repression, the Eastern
European Jewish communities
have only barely survived to see
the changes of today," Mr. Laud-
er said at the opening in Warsaw.
"But they have survived, and as
renewal begins here and in Jew-
ish communities across Eastern
Europe, we must see to it that the
chain of faith is unbroken."
Mr. Lauder attended the in-
auguration ceremonies in the
three cities within a two-day pe-
riod in early September.
The ceremonies were timed to
coincide with the 55th anniver-
sary of the start of World War II
on Sept. 1, 1939. They were de-
signed to show that the spark of
Jewish life in Eastern and Cen-
tral Europe still glowed, despite
the Nazi efforts at eradicating all
traces of the European Jewish
community.
Mr. Lauder, a former U.S. am-
bassador to Austria, became
deeply interested in his Jewish
roots and in preserving Jewish
religion and culture in Eastern
and Central Europe during his
posting to Vienna.
A day after attending the
school's opening ceremonies in
Warsaw, he traveled on to
Prague, where the Lauder Foun-

dation was opening a Jewish
kindergarten — 55 years after
the forced shut-down of the city's
Jewish school.
The Lauder kindergarten in
Prague is located on the premis-
es of a state-run kindergarten,
where some 150 children ages 3
to 6 already attend morning
classes.
Twelve children have enrolled
so far in the Jewish kindergarten
While they will be supplied with
kosher meals and will be taught
about Jewish holidays and tra-
dition, they are expected to take
part in activities with the chil-
dren in the state-run kinder-
garten.
"We can easily compare our 12
children with the 12 tribes in the

Twelve children
have enrolled so far
in the Jewish
kindergarten.

Bible," said Zeno Dostal, presi-
dent of the Jewish community of
Prague. 'They would have gotten
lost altogether, if we could not
have offered any Jewish educa-
tion to them."
Thirty-five thousand Jews
lived in Prague at the outbreak
of World War II. At least two-
thirds of them perished in the
war.
Mr. Dostal estimated that
there are now between 5,000-
7,000 Jews living in the Czech
Republic.
"Today, the true victory be-
longs to us and our children. Just
a few years ago, the foundation
of a Jewish kindergarten like this,
marked with cooperation and
support from the government,
would have been impossible," Mr.
Lauder said in his opening re-
marks.
Mr. Lauder arrived the same
day in Budapest to break ground
for the construction of a new cam-
pus for the Lauder Javne School
in the Hungarian capital.
Established in 1990, the Laud-
er Javne Community School cur-
rently has three schools operating
separately in Budapest — a
kindergarten, elementary school
and high school.
The new campus, for which the
Lauder Foundation has commit-
ted $4,250,000 for construction
costs, will permit the three
schools to operate as one unit in
one location.
The municipality of Budapest
has provided a free 99-year lease.

4

