"Just as the hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountains, so the routine of everyday life can keep us from seeing the secret wonders that fill the world." Chasidic 18th Century HAPPY NEW YEAR from the MICHAEL LEVEY FAMILY Sydney Jews Unveil Munich 11 Memorial AIR-MASTER STEFAN BIALOGUSKI Australian Jewish News HEATING & AIR CONDITIONING CO. RESIDENTIAL 6- COMMERCIAL SERVICE • SALES • INSTALLATIONS QUALITY WORK • EVERY TIME • NO EXCUSES! BERKLEY W. BLOOMFIELD GROSSE PTE. NORTH OAKLAND 682-9090 882-4870 788-9073 399-1800 A moment of silence was asked for every Olympics. ATTEND OUR FREE SEMINAR IS YOUR RETIREMENT PLAN DEVELOPING AND GROWING THE WAY YOU PLANNED? Sarah K. Rosner, CFP Vice President Thursday, October 19 DATE: 1:00 p.m. or 7:00 p.m. TIME: PLACE: Conference Room In Our Office For Reservations Call 1-(800) 933-2411 A.G Edwards & Sons., Inc 43097 Woodward Ave. Suite 100 Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302 Investments Since 1887 RPS730901EPO Member SIPC ISRAEL 6 Specials Round Trip From Detroit WINTER & PASSOVER 2001 10/6 2000 98 BEST MILEAGE PROGRAM PRIVATE TV FOR EVERY SEAT TOUR ISRAEL 8 DAYS • 7 NIGHTS HOTELS & TOURS from CAR RENTAL PER DAY + INSURANCE Call for upgrades Sydney, Australia/JTA — Twenty- eight years to the day after Arab ter- rorists murdered 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, a memo- rial was unveiled at a Jewish school in Sydney. Israeli Sports Minister Matan Vilnai was among 800 guests who gath- ered around a plot in the heart of Moriah College, where an 11-sided white mar- ble base bears the names of the victims. Around it are 11 cypress trees, and topping it is a block of Israeli basalt volcanic rock in the shape of an extinguished Olympic flame. Another memorial to the slain ath- letes was unveiled last year in Sydney's Olympic Park. Among the guests at the Sept. 27 ceremony were members of the 1972 Australian Olympic team; Walter Troeger, who was mayor of the Olympic Village during the Munich Games; representatives of numerous countries, including Germany, the United States, Argentina and France; and Israeli Olympians participating in the Sydney Games. As a light drizzle fell, Vilnai called on the International Olympic Committee to institute a minute's silence in memory of the Munich 11 at the opening ceremony of every Olympic Games. echoed throughout the grounds, the cypress trees were planted. A consortium of public organiza- tions and private donations helped make the memorial possible, and a similar memorial will be erected in the Australian Olympic Forest near Jerusalem. In the crowd on Sept. 27 was Shlomit Nir. A for- mer swimmer, she was one of two female members of the Israeli Olympic team in Munich. "When our athletes were killed, I thought the Games would stop. I thought it was impossible to continue after such a tragedy. But the world went on. Years later, I understood that the Games had to go on so as not to allow the terrorists to use the most unifying event in the world as a political stage. "Today, I feel so good, so proud that the Sydney community did this. This is something I will never forget." 0 589 14 from LOWEST PRICES HOTELS & TOURS *Plus tax, restrictions apply, prices subject to change without notice. Guaranteed upon ticketing only. ELITE TRAVEL& -800-354-8320 216-514-9000 Flames Of Memory Candles for the 11 — Andre Spitzer, Mark Slavin, Yaacov Shpringer, Kehat Shor, Amizur Shapira, Yosef Romano, Eliezer Halfin, Yoseph Gutfreund, Ze'ev Freedman, David Berger and Moshe Weinberg — were lit around the memorial by current Israeli Olympians and young Sydney Jews. At the same time, while the somber strains of the Metarim String Ensemble JAMD Teams Are In Action The Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit's inaugural fall sports season is well underway. In its first girls' basketball game, the JAMD girls defeated the Southfield Yeshivat Akiva girls 25-18 on Sept. 25 at the West Bloomfield Jewish Community Center. High scorers for JAMD were Sarah Sallen, 10; Fallon Garfield-Turner, 6; and Rachel Lachover, 5. Illana Goldberg had 8 assists, and Lachover had 6 rebounds. While games are still being sched- uled, JAMD will play at Bloomfield Hills Andover 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 10, and play Akiva again at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 24, at the Oak Park Jewish Community Center. In boys' golf, JAMD competed against Andover on Sept. 26 at Knollwood Country Club in West