4111111111111110 , We wish our family andfriends a very healthy, happy andprosperous New Year. We with our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year. MR. AND MRS. ROBERT RICHMAN MR. AND MRS. GREGORY EPSTEIN, ALANA AND MEGAN ROSE AND LEO NEUMAN We with our family andfiiends a very healthy, happy ant prosperous New Year. JERRY AND ROBERTA SPRAGUE BOCA RATON, FL A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family. i r HILLARD JOANNE AND JOEL FEALK GAO( AND SHARRY FEALK A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family. y. Aif Our if a claim' and cirriends wish GT a- pear /nag, with kh a- traspenip. -,; , JUDIAND JOE SCHNEIDER BRYAN, BRAD AND BRANDON HEATHER, BRETT, CAIDEY AND ZACK SCHNEIDER MAy T H E D E TR O I T J E W I S H N E W S ANd R1 6 LAS VEGAS, NV I -wish our famil y andfrietufs a prosperous New Year. very healthy, happy MR. AND MRS. HARRY TUCHKLAPER AND FAMILY 1111DT1 Tiny? 1111.311 raiz illt13`2 to- a& oa" ,,ientk, ow.dePienc& and tcelatioes, ant Petatioes, MR. AND MRS. NORMAN ADELSBERG ANN AND PHIL DEMBS May the coming Year be filed with health and happiness for all our family and friends, Max the coming Year be filled with health and happiness for all our family and friends, GAYLE AND ARNIE GOODMAN RICHARD, JACLYN AND NICOLE CINDY AND RON GOODMAN JORDAN AND AMANDA May the cowling year be filled with health and happi ness for all our family and friends, May the coming Year befilled with health and happiness for all ~family and fri ends. ROSE AND LARRY EVANS BERNARD AND RHODA FRIEDMAN TILE NEW YEAR BRiNg To All OUR FRIENdS Fl .fly — JO HEALTH, ROSPERITY E VERyTIIINq IN LIFE. Israe l M Al Our Gelatires a- nd cirrie0 ► ur wishfe a pear with happiness, Ii,eakh and trapentp : NORMAN AND KATHY STRICOF Dual Exercise In Coexistence "The dog ate my homework" cannot serve as an excuse in a course where the dog may very well be the homework. Broadening its scope, CHAT, Concern for Helping Animals in Israel, has recently completed its first experimental program to promote pluralism amongC\ children. Through learning about animals and their care, 40 Jewish and Arab children have been learning to care about each other. Twice a month for six months, 20 Jewish 9-year-olds from the Gabrieli School in af- fluent North Tel Aviv met with 20 Arab nine-year-olds from the Hassan Arfeh School in Jaffa at the SPCA (Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals) shelter in Tel Aviv-Jaffa in the framework of the "Living To- gether" program. With the approval from the Ministry of Education's Unit for Democracy and Coexistence and the involvement of each class's teacher, the children em- barked on an adventurous ex- periment. Questionnaires were filled out which sought to get a reading on the children's atti- tudes both toward animals and each other: 'There is something good in each animal — even those I don't like. Expand and explain." "Could you have an Arab/Jewish friend?" "What if we all had one, identical cul- ture?" Since only about one-quarter of the children had pets at home, attitudes toward animals ranged from indifference to fear. Many had never even touched an animal. Also, the Jewish children, who had had no con- tact with Arabs, tended to be hesitant, whereas the Arab chil- dren from Jaffa, which is about 60 percent Jewish, were more open to their counterparts. During the program, the film Protecting the Web was screened, which explained the place and value of every living creature in the balance of na- ture. After its showing, the chil- dren were told to hold hands and form a giant web. The child in the center represented the sun; the others represented plants and animals. One by one, children were removed from the web to illustrate how quickly it is weakened, to the detriment of the whole, whether through lack of respect or careles- sness. In another exercise, each child was asked to make an an- imal mask. He then had to pre- tend to be that animal and try to project how the animal feels when it is abused, neglected or caged. "This helped the children