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Garden has trees representing
varied tropical regions around the
worked, including South Amer-
ica, Africa and Australia.
"Our climate is very good for
tropical trees and plants," says
Mr. Elias, as he pauses to pick off
a fruit from one of the palm trees
and pops it into his mouth. The
fruit of pundi palm from South
America, is quite edible he ex-
plains.
We're now in an area with
palm trees of many varieties, all
of them neatly labeled. There are
Alexander palms from Australia,
trees with very delicate leaves;
pundi palms; date palms from the
Middle East, and fish tail palms
from Southeast Asia, with leaved
shaped like fish tails.
In a separate section are re-
cently planted papaya trees from
Africa. "You need a special per-
mit to bring these trees," says Mr.
Elias, who planted a total of 50
papaya trees.
When he first started to work
on the tropical garden in 1975,
there were only canary palms in
Hayarkon Park, which had been
planted during Shavuoth 1952
by local students. Mr. Elias de-
cided to build his garden where
the canary palms were growing.
Now there are over 2,000 dif-
ferent tropical plants and trees,
and Mr. Elias knows the histo-
ry of all of them.
As we walk, he points to a
group of very tall and striking
trees. These are tropical palms
known as hoviah palms, and Mr.
Elias' success with them is a spe-
cial source of pride.
"When I fist planted these,
some people said, 'It's not possi-
ble. They won't grow here be-
cause they need special shade,'
" he relates. But he was confident
and attentive. He even built a
special roof to protect the trees,
Celebrate
In Israel
Children who wish to celebrate
their bar or bat mitzvah in Israel
with their parents or guardian
are invited to attend an informal
meeting at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 15 at
the Max M. Fisher Building's
Butzel Conference Suite.
Co-sponsored by the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan De-
troit, the bar or bat mitzvah op-
portunity is part of the United
Jewish Appeal Family Mission
to Israel program.
Boys celebrating their 13th
birthday and girls celebrating ei-
ther their 12th or 13th birthday
within the calendar year are el-
igible to take advantage of the
subsidized air travel to Israel of-
fered through the family mission
program.
Several mission dates for 1995
are available. For details, call
642-4260.
but They became so tall and
strong they broke right through.
Over 120 of them are now
thriving, tall and stately, in the
Tel Aviv garden, which, like the
cactus garden, is often visited by
students of botany and agricul-
ture from other countries.
The sight of the stately palm
trees is just one of the daily sat-
isfactions he feels in this lush gar-
den. "This is such a special place,
so peaceful and beautiful," he
says. "It's where I can forget
everything except the trees. I
don't think even the Garden of
Eden could be more beautiful." LI
Interfaith
Program Set
Temple Israel and the Detroit
Unity Temple will host a joint
program on Chanukah and
Kwanzaa Dec. 11 from 2:30-4
p.m. at the Detroit Unity Tem-
ple. The purpose of the program
is to bring together people from
btoh the Jewish and the African
American communities in order
to develop a better understand-
ing of their religions, histories
and traditions.
The Dec. 11 program will in-
clude a panel discussion with
people from both congregations.
Temple Israel representatives
will Be Rabbi Joshua L. Bennet;
Suzy Kaplan, youth group ad-
viser; and Risa Heller, youth
group member. In addition, there
will be Israeli and African food,
music and dancing.
The program is free of charge
and open to the community. A
caravan of cars will leave Tem-
ple Israel at 1:45 p.m. and arrive
at Detroit Unity at 2:30 p.m. The
congregation is located on Second
Street, just north of McNichols at
Woodward. For information and
directions, call Nancy Gad-Harf,
661-5700.
IRP Hears
Dr. Baumgarten
"Is Age Based Health Care Ra-
tioning Morally Appropriate?"
will be the topic of a talk given by
Dr. Elias Baumgarten. The talk,
sponsored by the Institute for
Retired Professionals, will be
given Dec. 8 at 1 p.m. at the
Maple/Drake Jeiwsh Community
Center.
Dr. Baumgarten is an associ-
ate professor of philosophy at the
University of Michigan-Dear-
born. He has served as a medical
ethics consultant at the Univer-
sity of Michigan Medical Center.
For information about the talk
or about the Institute for Retired
Professionals (IRP), contact the
IRP office, 967-4030.
GJ