LETTERS May the coming year be filled with health, happiness and prosperity for all our family and friends The Schlafer Family Julie, Steven Brad & Scott A VERY HAPPY & HEALTHY NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR FRIENDS & FAMILY. Judy Gregor Alana & Megan Epstein We wish our friends and family a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year. Eugene & Mirle Perlstein We wish our friends and family a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year. i c0,7:-- ;z. Lenore & Pinky Salomon 4 We wish our friends and family a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year. --- Sydney, Evan & Chuck Seigerma We wish our friends and family a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year. The Agrest Family eg3ifilarty, Kevin, Sandra, Jason, Rosita & Da vid „We wish our friends and family a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year. The Greer Girls" Arlene & Goldie Greer 401. 1 Best Wishes for a happy, healthy New Year 10/ 3 2003 6 ill Helene & Gil Friedman L' Shanah Tovah 1 aileyrvareethliernrii tgehdt rtoo eneerres rite eris u s. gW inedth.eLjeetztveir's/\)vN porrefre rjelcetttleertstetrhsa. tBrreelvaittey tios ea lritcicoluesrag w ediet one letter per 4-6 week period, space permitting. Letters must contain the name, address and title of the writer, and a daytime telephone number. Original copies must be hand signed. Mail to the Jewish News at 29200 Northwestern Hwy., Suite 110, Southfield, MI 48034; fax to (248) 304-8885; or e-mail to: rsklar@thejewishnews.com Kever Avot Was Well Supported On Sept. 21, Temple Israel Family Life Center held its sixth annual Kever Avot program — the biggest and best yet ("Morning Mitzvah," Sept. 26, paAe 24). More than 150 volunteers escorted 65 residents from area assisted-living facilities and resi- dential apartments. A van and nine buses with 20 bus captains visited 15 cemeteries. This event would not have been possible without our fabu- lous co-chairs, Ida Nemzin and Marc Siegler, the volunteers and bus captains. We'd like to express our appreciation to the Ira Kaufman Chapel and the Susan & Hanley Yorke Builder Endowment Fund at Temple Israel, which support this important program. Our thanks, also, to the Fleischman Residence, which donated snacks or lunches to all of the participating residents, as well as Jay Korelitz, who donat- ed flowers, and Hiller's Market and Kroger for their kind dona- tion of gift certificates. This truly is the mitzvah of a lifetime. Kari K. Provizer Family Life Center director, Temple Israe West Bloomfie Be On Guard For Attacks Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon visited India in August and received an extremely warm welcome. Unfortunately, his trip was cut short by another tragic terrorist attack on the Jewish people. While most Indians were thrilled by his visit, a major break with India's past, India's leftists downright opposed it. I expected no better from India's so-called leftist parties. While they all visited Pakistan recently to show solidarity with a dictatorial jihadi fundamental- ist regime responsible for creat- ing the Taliban, funding the fly- ing of planes into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon two years ago and 60,000 deaths in India's Jammu and Kashmir state, they refused to accept the visit of the prime minister of Israel — the only democracy in the Middle East and a nation that offers its Muslim citizens more rights than most of the Islamic world! Their condemnation of Sharon's visit as a welcoming of Hider is the terminology they have thrown on other Indian leaders — particularly those who have taken a strong stand against jihadism. I am once again saddened by the terrible terrorist attacks on Israelis, including the murder of a baby girl on erev Rosh Hashanah. No doubt, these attacks are targeted at Jewish civilization itself, to raise fear and uncertainty in life. Such attacks should raise solidarity and strength among Hindus and Jews, for we seek not world domination in thought, conver- sion to our way of religious and spiritual practice or political hegemony. We simply want to "live and let live." Today, America, Israel and India — true pluralist democra- cies — are under attack. India and Israel, two of the world's ancient lands, are facing daily terror and rhetoric. Both are the only real democracies in this region where they are surround- ed by Muslim nations. The only question remaining is: when and where will the next attack be: India, Israel or America? Tomorrow? Dr. Mihir Meghani former Detroiter and president, Democracies Against Terror, Fremont, Calif. Peace From Fashion, Faith Your story on the launch of my jewelry collection Wings for Peace ("Wearable Hope," Sept. 19, page 13) has had amazing impact. • I sold out of my initial pro- duction, have taken numerous special orders and will have more pieces in stock on Oct. 10. I have also received enthusi- astic phone calls and e-mails from around the world. In our community, phone calls came from people wanting to volunteer, from temples and sisterhood groups interested in organizing interfaith programs and from several reverends who want to plan programs and fund-raisers. A Toronto UJA woman called to set up a show- ing of the jewelry to create part- nerships for peace. From the Holy Land, I have received e- mails from Israeli Jews, Christians and Muslims. Myriam Abukalaf, an Israeli Arab, sent me her project "Children of the Earth"; 30 children of different religions and nationalities sing together in each other's languages for peace. Lyrics include: "I am just a little child as you can see, here in this wide world peace can start with me. I will love my neighbors every where I go and pass the love along and peace can grow." Sadly, the world mostly sees and hears the angry, destructive voices of the violent minority. My vision is to move our world from cultures of violence to cul- tures of peace. With your sup- port, Wings for Peace Jewelry is becoming a symbol for peace, a symbol of how we can stand in our own faith as we reach out to others to create an inclusive future. Brenda Naomi Rosenberg Bloomfield Hills. One Day Or Tvvo? L ast week's Jewish.com sur- vey question asked: Do you think that American Jewry should take an example from the Reform move- ment and observe Rosh Hashanah for one day instead of two? Of 161 respondents, 63 (39 percent) said yes, and 98 (61 percent) said no. Next week's question: Will you fast on Yom Kippur? To vote, click on vvvvvv.jewish.com