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By Uncle David

Dear Boys and Girls:
When you enter, or leave, your
own home, or the homes of your
relatives and friends, have you
stopped to inquire
about the meaning of
the little box with the
Hebrew' word "SHAD-
DAI" on the door-
post? This little orn-
ament is called the
Mezuzah. Literally, it
means "door - post."
It is nailed in a slant-
ing position. The word
"Shaddai" means
"Almighty." With in
the little casing is a
parchment, contain-
ing the sacred writ-
ing, which in English transla-
tion, means:
Hear 0 Israel, the Lord our
God, the Lord is one.
And thou shalt love the
Lord, thy . God, with all thy
heart, with all thy soul, and
with all thy might.
And. these words which I
commend thee this day shall
be in thy heart.
And thou shalt teach them
diligently unto thy children,
speaking of them when thou
sittest in thy house, when thou
walkest by the way, when thou
hest down, and when thou
risest up.
And thou shalt bind them
for a sign upon thy hand and
they shall be as frontlets be-
tween thine eyes.

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And thou shalt write them
upon the doorposts of thy
house and upon thy gates."
Those of you who remember
what you have learned in your
Hebrew schools will recognize
that this commandment, to
keep the words of God. in your
minds and in your memories,
also refers to the Tefillin—the
frontlets and the binding upon
the hand—which observing Jew-
ish men wear on week-days at
morning services. But the Me-
zuzah dates back thousands of
years—when the Jews in Egypt
were told to make signs on their
doors to distinguish their homes
from those who were to be smit-
ten by the Almighty for having
refused to grant freedom to the
Jews who were later taken out
of that land by Moses.
The tradition is to kiss the
Mezuzah ; and the kissing actu-
ally is done by kissing the
fingers of the right hand then
touching the Mezuzah with the
kissed fingers.
It is the parchment and its
contents that is, of course, of
major importance. And because
the message is one of prayer to
the Almighty, the Mezuzah is a
symbol of our Jewishness in our
homes.

14—DETROIT JEVv'iSH NEWS

'Friday, July 24, 1953 '

Sabbath Services

Services will be held today and
Saturday in all Reform, Con-
servative and Orthodox syna-
gogues. Congregations listing
their programs follow:
At 9 a.m., Saturday services,
at Cong. Beth Abraham. The Bar
Mitzvah of Leonard Zucker will
be observed. Adas Shalom Syn-
agogue will hold services at 6
p.m., today, and at 8:45 a.m.,
Saturday. The Bar Mitzvah of
Milton P. Rotenberg will be ob-
served.
Rabbi Isaac Stollman, of
Cong. Mishkan Israel, will
preach Saturday on "The Good
Things in Life Come by Grace."
Cong. Beth Aaron will hold
services at 6:15 p.m., today, and
at 8:45 a.m., Saturday when the
Bar Mitzvahs of Harvey Hauer
and Allen Glasser will be ob-
served.

Zionists-Revisionists Pay . Tribute to 4abotinsky

Honoring the 13th Yahrzeit of attested to the devotion of Jab-
Zeev Jabotinsky, the Zionists- otinsky to Zionism. M. Manuel
Revisionists last week adopted Merzen presided over the meet-
a resolution paying tribute to ing.
"the memory of this modern
Maccabee."
DETROIT
T h e organization expressed
OAK
PARK
regret that "the remains of Jab-
otinsky do not repose in the
sacred soil of the Holy Land,
for whose independence he had
sacrificed his career, health and
90-day written
guarantee.
security."
Sunday, day, night
It urged that the State of
TY. 7-1945
Israel transfer the remains of
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Jabotinsky to Israel. Dr. Moshe
Lev of Chicago, guest speaker,

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Some Interesting Facts
Here are a. few interesting
facts that are not generally
known.
The first white man to smoke
tobacco was Maestro Barna],
Columbus' ship doctor, who was
of Jewish ori g in.
Nahum Salomon, a London
Jew, established the first bicycle
factory.
The State of Vermont com-
pares in aloe to all of Palestine.

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vitation to write to me in care
of this newspaper. Perhaps
YOUR poem or story will be se-
lected for mention or printing
in this column.

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"BOY MEETS GIRL" opened
a two-week run at Will-O-Way
'Playhouse on Tuesday. Featur-
ing Robert Mryson and Gerald
Harrington, two well-known
Playhouse actors, the comedy
evolves around two pranksterish
nimble-witted Hollywood writers
who unwittingly get their own
lives twisted into a tricky plot
situation. Tickets are available
at the summer stock theater on
W. Long Lake Rd., near Tele-
graph. For reservations, call
Midwest 6-2222.
* * *
MISS C. KELLAR has been
named the winner of the Jean
Laufman SCholarship given by
District Grand Lodge No. 6, of
Bnai Brith. The brilliant young
lady complied an average of 4.9
out of a possible 5.0 during her
studies at Ohio University from
which she recently graduated.
The winner of a Fulbright
Scholarship and a member of
Phi Beta Kappa, Miss Kellar
will continue her studies for a
PhD in Germany. Miss Kellar
formerly lived at the Bellefaire
children's home in Cleveland,
supported by Bnai Brith. When
she came there, one of her
major problems was poor ad-
justment in school.

Edna Ferber's "Saratoga
Trunk" may be done as a musi-
cal if the authoress accepts
one of the four offers from pro-
ducers.

Breakfast is just a matter of minutes with today's
electric range. Surface units snap to the exact cooking
temperature fast. And you have the extra advantages
of a kitchen that stays cool, pans that stay clean and
sparkling through years of use.

Have you seen the '53 model electric ranges? They're
really wonderful. Stop in soon, won't you?

CHAS, N. WILLIAMS

City Treasurer

