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May 22, 1942

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Shevuoth Festival at
Bnai Moshe

by

AL SEGAL

The Shevuoth festival will . be
observed by Congregation Bnai
Moshe with devotion twice daily,
Friday and Saturday, at 8:45
a. in.,. and 8;15 P. m.
Rabbi Jacob J. Nathan will
deliver the sermon on Friday,
entitled "The Light of the
World". Rabbi Moses Fischer
will deliver his address Satur-
day morning, preceding the spe-
cial memorial services for the
repose of the souls of the de-
parted. "Why Has Shevuoth,
This Feast of Feasts, the Birth-
day of the Torah, No Symbols
and Ceremonials?" is the sub-
ject of Rabbi Fischer's discourse.
The prayers will be led by
Cantor David Katzman.

"Gilbert"

M y idely known friend, Mr. Zilch, has been
feeling very happy at the wayour Shevuoth
holiday has been coming on, getting closer day
by day lie had been waiting for this particular
Shevuotir for many years.
Shevooth, as every one should know, is tra.
ditionally the birthday of the Ten Command-
ments, the anniversary of that momentous oc-
c asion when Sinai shook the thunder and Moses
came d o w n with the tablets. But it is not the
matter of celebrating the Ten Commandments
that has caused Mr. Zilch to look so eagerly
forward to this Shevuoth.
The relationship between Mr. Zilch and the
Ten Commandments is about the same as that
which prevails generally in the human race.
It's so hard to keep all the Commandments and
Mr. Zilch does the best he can with them.
He does think, though, that the Ten Com-
mandments are a great institution and that
this would be a grand world if everybody obeyed
them. Then there wouldn't be any Hitler, he
says.
The special significance of this Shevuoth is
that it's a sort of happy ending. After this
Shevuoth Mr. Zilch will be allowed to. sleep
late every Sunday through the bitter winter
months.
For seven long years Mr. Zilch had to be up
every Sunday as early as eight o'clock. On all
these Sundays before eight, Mr. Zilch has opened
one eye, squinted at the gray winter day and
thanked God it was Sunday and he didn't have
to go to work. Gratefully he compose his bones
and gave body and soul to the ineffable pleasure
of hanging between heaven and earth in the
happy state of drowsing.
It was even then that the sharp voice of
Mrs. Zilch let him down.
"Harvey!"
"Can't you let me sleep?"
"Harvey, you know you've got to get Gilbert
to Sunday school."
Mr. Zilch turned over on his left ear. Yes,
that's the way it always was every Sunday, he
thought. All his Sunday ruined. Having to get
up to haul the kid to Sunday School. Why
couldn't he walk? It wasn't like in the old days.
He, Zilch, used to walk a mile to school and
did it hurt him? Couldn't the kid walk, too?
No! He had to be taken to Sunday school in
the car and had to be called for and taken
home afterward. It was a hell of a note.
"Harvey!"
Mr. Zilch groaned. 'This was the way it was
every Sunday. Didn't a man have a right to his
sleep on Sunday, at least? They were just going
to ruin that kid coddling him that way. Carry-
ing him to Sunday school! And carying him
back!
Mr. Zilch became aware of certain sounds
that indicated that Mrs. Zilch was herself get-
ting out of bed for the purpose of waking Gil-
bert and making him ready for Sunday school.
Shortly she would be calling to Gilbert to get
up. Her insistent voice would fall with the
deadly rhythm of drops of water falling on Mr.

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Zilch's poor, tired head.
He waited in horrid suspense for this and,
sure enough: "Gilbert, it's time to get up."
Yes, he thought, that's what a man has to
take. Sunday after Sunday. They had started
wrong with that kid. The first Sunday they
should have told him, you walk, and he would
have walked. It was all in the way you started
a kid off. •
"Gilbert, get up! You'll be late for Sunday
school!"
It was evident that her patience was coming
to an end. Mr. Zilch knew that shortly she
would appeal to him and shortly indeed, she
was at this bedside.
"Harvey, I just can't get that boy up, and
you lying there as if nothing mattered to you.
I've almost screamed my lungs out trying to get
him up and you just lie there, as if he weren't
your son at all. Your sleep's more important to
you than anything, I suppose.
Mr. Zilch turned back on his left ear. Yes,
that's the way it always was, he thought. She
always threw the - whole matter on him. The
woman wasn't firm enough had no determination
at all. Was always putting her problems on his
head, as if he didn't have enough already.
"Harvey, how many times do I have to tell
you? What kind of a father are you? What
respect can your son have for you? He defying
me and you just lying there, doing nothing about
it."
As on every Sunday Mr. Zilch finally had to
get out of bed at 8:30 and deliver ultimatums
to Gilbert . . . "Gilbert, why don't you obey
your mother when she tells you to get up" . .
"Gilbert, don't you know you've got to be at
Sunday school at 9 and it's now exactly 8:37"
. . . "Gilbert, you've got only 17 minutes to get
to Sunday school; it's 8:43" . . . Until, at 8:45,
Gilbert sat up, rubbed his eyes, yawned . . .
"Gilbert, you have only 15 minutes."
After that, it was a matter of hurrying Gil-
bert into his pants and shoes, of rushing his
face through its ablutions, of pouring a glass
of milk down his throat, of speeding him through
the streets to Sunday school (One Sunday morn-
Mr. Zilch was arrested for speeding at 50 miles
an hour while carrying Gilbert to Jewish learn-
ing.
But after this Shevuoth it's all over. Gilbert,
who has arrived at the age of 13, is being con-
firmed in the temple which amounts to being
admitted formally into the house of Israel. By
confirmation Gilbert becomes a man in Israel
and Mr. Zilch feels his Jewish education is com-
pleted, thank goodness. No more being awakened
at 8 on Sunday, no more wrestling with Gilbert
to get him out of bed, no more of having to
fly through the streets with hint to the seat
of Jewish education. Mr. Zilch will sleep late
every Sunday. He is very grateful for this
Shevuoth.
(I have gone so deeply into the intimacies of
Zilch life on Sunday morning for the purpose
of presenting a portrait of Jewish education a
In mode in many a family.)

Joseph; Mr. and Mrs. T. Moss
in memory of L. Goldstein; Mr.
and Mrs. Lyle H. Rogers in
memory of Fanny Sable; Mrs.
Harry Satovsky in memory of
father Julius Burnstine and in
memory of mother Yetta for
mother's day; Mrs. Ralph D.
Schiller in memory of Meyer
Barnett and Mrs. Idzal; J. W.
Webber in memory of parents
Hyman B. and Rachel L. Web-
ber; C. P. Weil in memory of
Evelyn Schubot; Mrs. • Agnes
Yarrows in memory of Louis
Smith.

The following have made con-
tributions to the Home: Mrs. S.
Abramsohn in memory of mother
Mrs. Jennie Greenberg; Mrs.
Sue Baum in memory of father
Hershel-Yeetche; Mr. and Mrs.
Harry J. Biederstein in memory
of Mrs. Fanny Sable; Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur A.Caplan in honor
of the confirmation of Suzanne
Stander and Barbara Prentis;
Arthur Cohen in memory of
father Benjamin; Ben and Lou
Cohen in memory of mother
Rive-Shayndel; Mr. and Mrs. PONTIAC NOTES
Bert Colman in memory of Mrs.
Fanny Sable; Mrs. Rose Cowan
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Harris of
in memory of husband Fyvel-
62
Waldo St., will be at home
David; Mrs. Adolph Deutsch in
honor of Morris Reinitz; Mrs. Sunday, May 24, from 2 to 5
R. Epstein in memory of mother p. m. in honor of their daugh-
Esther; Mrs. J. Friedberg in ter June's confirmation.
memory of father Judah-Layb;
Dr. and Mrs. M. Freedman in
The annual meeting of the
memory of Mrs. Katzman and Sisterhood Temple Beth Jacob
Mrs. Isaacs; L. and R. Friedman will be held Friday, June 5, at
donation; Wm. A. Goldberg Knollwood Counary Club. Miss
In memory of wife Rose and Jane Evans, executive secretary
Henry A. Hecht; Mr. Goroff, of the National Federation of
donation; Mr. and Mrs. Morton Temple Sisterhoods will be the
Grass in memory of Dr. Morris guest speaker. A musical pro-
D. Silver; Mrs. F. Greenberg in garm will also feature the meet-
memory of mother Jennie; Mr. ing.
and Mrs. Louis Gvorman In
memor y of Fanny Sable; Ben
The annual meeting of Con-
Haldy in memory of mother; gregation Beth Jacob will be
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Harris in held Sunday evening, June 7.
memory of Mrs. Fanny Sable; A buffet supper will be served
Mrs. Jacob Kabaker in memory preceding the business meeting.
of mother; Ira Kaufman, dona- Plans for the coming year will
tion; Mrs. Frances C. Kay in be announced at this time and
memor y of sister Dora Cohen; election of officers will be held.
Mr. kind Mrs. H. Kessler in
Mr. Harold Goldberg, vice
memory of L. Goldstein; Mrs.
Alfred A. Klunover in memory president of Temple Beth Jacob,
of mother Rosa Isacs; Mr. and conducted the Friday evening
Mrs. Daniel Mendelsohn in mem- services. He spoke on the sub-
ory of Robert Jaffie; Mrs. J. ject, "A Layman Looks at the
Molloy in memory of husband Synagogue."

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Ladies of Yeshivath Beth
Yehudah Excursion June 21

HERSCHEL S. ZACKHE1M

Herschel S. Zackheim, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice II. Zuck-
heim of Webb Ave., will receive
his doctor's degree Saturday
evening, May 30, at which time
he will graduate from Medical
School of University of Mich-
igan. He received his Bachelor
of Arts Degree Cum Laude
from New York University, is
a member of the Phi Delta
Epsilon Fraternity of Jewish
Medical students of Ann Arbor,
Mich., a national fraternity of
which many prominent Detroit
doctors still retain their mem-
bership.

Mrs. Hyman Rottenberg, pres-
ident of Ladies of Yeshivath
Beth Yehudah announces that
tickets are now on sale for the
excursion to Bob-Lo, for Sun-
day, June 21, there are chil-
dren's and adult's tickets and
the general public is asked to
attend. Another excursion to
Bob-Lo is being planned for
Sunday, August 16. Tickets can
be purchased through members,
through the Yeshiva, or by call-
ing Townsend 5-1171.

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Church to Give Premiere
Of Cantata

Marian Van Liew, choir leader
and organist, will give the first
performance of "Jerusalem"
(Isaiah), Contanta for Solo,
mixed voices and organ, by
Julius Chajes, in the Central
Woodward Christian Church, of
which Dr. Edgar DeWitt Jones
is minister, at a Sunday morning.
service on May 24, at 11 o'clock.
The English version was writ-
ten by Hugh Ross, conductor of
the New York Schola Cantorum.
Mr. Chajes, a native of Poland,
is director of music at the
Jewish Community Center in
Detroit.

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The last regular meeting of
the Home Relief Society will be
WINDOW SHADES
held on May 25, at the home
MADE TO ORDER
Mrs. Harry Rosman of 2234 W.
Cleaned and Repaired
Boston Blvd.
Professor Kelly of Wayne
LINOLEUM
University will be the guest
Inlaid
and Battleship
speaker.
Mrs. Ralph Levy, chairman of
Rugs and Furniture
the "Ways and Means" com-
VENETIAN BLINDS
mittee, will announce the plans
Drapery Hardware
for the fall project of the Home
Relief Society.
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Members and guests are urged.
to attend this open meeting at
Elects Officers
8625 LINWOOD
which the benefit for Russian
CALL
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and
Chinese
war
relief
will
take
The Naomi Auxiliary of Bnai
Brith held their election of offi- place.
cers last week and here are the
results. President, Eileen Kap-
lan; 1st vice president, Rita
Goldin; 2nd vice president, Sara
Matz; recording secretary, Syl-
via Modiest; corresponding sec-
retary, Irene Pillot; financial
The utmost care is exercised in planning our
secretary, Pearl Klein; treasurer,
menus to insure sufficient variety to please the
Gertrude Wilson; sentinel, Libby
Davis; conductress, Dorothy Ber-
most exacting taste.
enson; trustees, Anita Edelson,
Betty Weinberg; counselor, Ger-
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aldine Hamburg. Under the
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supervision of these new officers
the club held a weiner roast
which was held on Saturday,
May 23, 1942. Here are a few
who attended: Sara Matz, Mar- .
yin Goldman, Esther Jean Mil
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lan, Eugene Letvin, Rhoda Lip-
schutz, Arthur Reimer, Sylvia
Modiest, Sam Tessler.

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MOGEN DOVID UNIT

The Mogen Dovid Unit of the
American Red Cross held a soc-
ial gathering Monday May 18,
at 4090 Cortland Ave. for its
volunteer workers and friends.
Mrs. A. Singer, chairman of the
unit, introduced the Red Cross
speaker for the evening, Mrs.
David Painter, who gave a very
interesting talk on the activities
of the Red Cross.
The Mogen Dovid Unit meets
every Tuesday and Wednesday
from 10 to 3 p.m. at the Simon
Hebrew School. 4000 Tuxedo
Ave. and all women in the neigh-
borhood who want to do their
share are requested to participate
in this worthy cause, knitting or
sewing. For further information
call Mrs. A. Singer, HO. 0385.

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