THE DETROIT JEWIS H NEWS — Friday, Octo ber 3, 1958- 18

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The Suburban Community

Growth in Suburbia Is Gain
for Jewish Identification

By the Oak-Woodser
Anyone who pooh-poohed the
suburban- trend when it all be-
gan some eight years ago re-
cently received a rude awaken-
ing when it was indicated statis-
tically that the suburban areas
of development are still on the
increase, while urban commu-
nities are beginning to show a
slow decline.
And it's interesting to see
how much the Jewish commu-
nity itself is playing in this
suburban development.
Oak Park, with a population
today of over 33,000, has grown
from 5.250 people in 1950 to
lead all of the Detroit area
suburbs in percentage increase.
with an astounding 528 percent
gain.
Also among the top gaining
communities are Redford Town-
ship and Livonia, where there
recently have been added sub-
stantial Jewish areas of devel-
opment.
At one time the very word
"suburbs" carried anti-Jew-
ish overtones. Today, because
of efforts made by govern-
ment agencies and private
Jewish organizations, the Jew-
ish family can feel free to
select a home in almost any
community without fear of
attempts to block this settle-
ment.
And Jews are moving to all
areas of suburban development,
whether its Oak Park. Livonia
or rapidly developing South-
field.
This High Holy Day season

Emanu-El Sabbath,
Simhat Torah Services

At sabbath services of Temple
Emanu-El at 8:15 p.m., today.
Rabbi Milton Rosenbaum will
preach on "Nothing New Under
the Sun: A Consideration of the
Thought in the First Chapter of
Ecclesiastes."
Participating in the service
will be Mr. and Mrs. William
Zack, Harold Haas, Sidney Fac-
tor and Dr. Leonard Haking. An
oneg shabbat will follow.
At Simhat Torah services at
10:30 a.m., Monday, 63 first
graders in the temple's religious
school will be consecrated, after
which they will lead other chil-
dren in the processional follow-
ing the Torahs around the
sanctuary.
Immediately following the
service, a reception will be held
in honor of the children who
will be consecrated. Rabbi
Rosenbaum will speak on "The
Scroll and the Sword."

Hebrew Academy Students
Visit Sukkot of Classmates

During the celebration of
Sukkot, students of the Hebrew
Academy will visit the homes
of classmates in Oak Park,
where they will view the various
Sukkot that have been erected.
Students will act as hosts and
hostesses in the respective Suk-
kot.
Parents and friends of stu-
dents attending the school have
been urged to collect old clothes
and other usable items for a
rummage sale which will take
place in November. For pick-up,
call LI. 7-2773 or DI. 1-1183.

`Nature and Human Nature'
Is Rabbi's Sermon Topic

"Nature and Human Nature"
is the sermon topic of Rabbi
Nathan Hershfield, of Pontiac's
Temple Beth Jacob at 8:30
p.m. sabbath services today.
On Shemini Atzeret, services
will begin at 10 a.m., Monday.
Rabbi Hershfield will officiate.

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Bnai Moshe Sets
Cornerstone Rites

Bnai David Plans J 0-vv Young Israel Sets
Holiday Services
Adult Institute
Sabbath services of Young

Israel Center of Oak-Woods
will be held at 6 p.m., today,
and at 9 a.m., Saturday, when
the Bar Mitzvah of Sheldon
Shebowich will be observed.
Holiday services in celebra-
tion of the concluding days of
Sukkot will be held at 6 p.m.,
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday,
and at 9 a.m., Monday and Tues-
day. Rabbi Yaakov I. Homnick
will officiate and preach the
sermons.
A Simhat Torah children's
party is scheduled at 4 p.m.,
Monday, with a special service
and refreshments to be fea-
tured. All children in the com-
munity are invited.

Registration for adult classes
of the Bnai David Institute for
Jewish Studies is being accept-
ed until Tuesday, it was an-
nounced this week by Emil
Spilman, chairman.
The
10-session
institute,
which will begin formal ses-
sions that evening, at the syn-
agogue, 24350 Southfield, will
continue to meet each Tuesday
through Dec. 2.
Classes meet in two sessions,
from 8 to 9 and 9:15 to 10:45
p.m., and include such topics
as Hebrew reading, Siddur com-
prehension, synagogue proced-
ures, Bible and Jewish philos-
ophy and thought. The Bible
course will deal with the Book
of Leviticus.
Leading the classes as in-
structors will be Mrs. Emil
Spilman, Cantor Hyman J. Adler
and Rabbi Hayim Donin.
Working with Spilman in pre-
paring the institute are Jack
Lieberman, Harry Koltonow and
Morris J. Brandwine. Non-mem-
bers are welcome to attend the
institute, which is a part of the
Yeshiva University department
of adult education. For informa-
tion, call EL 6-8210.

Cornerstone laying ceremo-
showed another interesting de- nies for the new sanctuary of
velopment. When Jewish fam- Cong. Bnai Moshe will be con-
ilies move to suburban areas, ducted at a special program
one of the first items of im- planned for 11 a.m., Oct. 12, at
portance is the establishment the building site, 10 Mile Rd.
at Kenosha, in Oak Park.
of a synagogue.
Plans for the event were an-
For the first time this holi-
day season, services were held nounced at a recent meeting of
in Livonia, where Jews from the congregation's board of di-
several communities banded to- rectors by Harry J. Gunsberg,
gether to mark Rosh Hashanah president. The program will
take place only a month after
and Yom Kippur.
In Oak Park, where Jewish contracts were signed with the
services are already far from contractor.
All 500 children who attend
being a novelty, services were
held as in past years at Temple the Bnai Moshe Religious
Emanu-El, Young Israel of Oak- School in Oak Park will partici-
Woods and Cong. Beth Shalom, pate in the ceremony, Gunsberg
the three original synagogues stated. He also invited mem-
bers, parents and friends to at-
in that city.
In addition, two other con- tend "this momentous occa-
gregations were established and sion."
held services during the holi-
Following t h e ceremonies,
days. They were Cong. Mishkan members and their children
Israel, formerly at Linwood and will assemble in the social hall
Blaine, and Cong. Shaarey of the present synagogue on
Shomayim, which has been re- Dexter and Lawrence for a
organized.
brunch in honor of the occa-
An interesting observation sion.
made by a casual viewer is that
Plans presently call for the
10 Mile Road, between Coolidge synagogue to vacate its sanc- Contemporary Art Show
and Greenfield, is dotted with tuary on Dexter by October of
Opens at Park Gallery
Jewish communal structures.
next year.
The official opening of Park
Already built is the 10 Mile
Gallery, 20960 Greenfield, Oak
Branch of the Jewish Commu- Bnai David Square Dance
Park, took place last weekend
nity Center, which also is the
Bnai David Mr. and Mrs. Club with a group showing of contem-
United Hebrew Schools' build-
ing and Temple Emanu-El. is holding a membership drive porary American artists.
The exhibit will run through
Nearing completion is Cong. square dance at 8:30 p.m., Oct.
Shaarey Shomayim, which still 18, at the synagogue, Southfield Oct. 12, and features paintings,
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1
/2 Mile. The dance is open sculpture and graphics. Over 40
was able to hold services dur-
ing the holidays in its new to the public at no charge. Re- contemporary artists are display-
freshments will be served.
ing their works during the show.
structure.
Cornerstone ceremonies will
be held next week for the new
Bnai Moshe Synagogue, which
held its suburban holiday serv-
ices at Northland Playhouse.
And near Greenfield, there is
a sign proclaiming that Young
Israel will one day build a syna-
gogue.
On Nine Mile Rd., there is
the Suburban Hebrew Academy
of the Beth Yehudah Schools,
which was dedicated last year
as the Peter and Pauline Gold-
stein Bldg., and this season,
Mishkan Israel opened its doors
to congregants with services in
the basement of its half-com-
pleted structure.
In neighboring Southfield,
Cong. Bnai David thus far
stands alone on Southfield
and 91/2- Mile Rd., as the sole
communal edifice, its beau-
tiful building having been
dedicated last year. Certain-
ly, however, with the city
just beginning to boom, there
will be other Jewish institu-
tions there, too, before long.
- So the suburban development
is more than just physical. Jews
are carrying their responsibil-
ities with them. And out of the
movement to the suburbs is de-
veloping more than social ga-
therings, but Jews with the sin-
cere desire to affirm the posi-
tive approach to Judaism.

Holiday Services
at Sh aarey Shomaim.

Sabbath services at Cong.
Shaarey Shomain will be held at
5:50 p.m., today and 9 a.m., Sat-
urday.
Hashanah Rabah services will
be held at 6:30 a.m., Sunday,
and 9 a.m., Monday, with the
Yizkor memorial- prayers being
said at 11 a.m., Monday. There
will be a congregational get-
together at 4 p.m., on Shmini
Atzeret.
Simhat. Torah services Mon-
day eve will be followed by the
Hakofoth and a children's party,
with morning services on Tues-
day at 9 a.m.

Cairo Calls for 'More
Rigorous' Israel Boycott

LONDON. (JTA) — A de-
mand for a "more rigorous"
economic boycott of Israel has
been voiced by Radio Cairo in
advance of next month's
scheduled meeting of Arab
League states to discuss the
anti-Israel campaign.

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Rabbi Attacks' Writers
in High Holiday Sermon

NEW YORK (AJP) — The
well-known Jewish authors Her-
man Wouk, Myron. Kaufman and
Jerome Weidman were the sub-
ject of bitter criticism during
the High Holy Days.
Speaking at Temple Emanu-
El, Elmhurst, Queens, Rabbi
Samuel M. Silver assailed. the
"erroneous notions" which these
writers hold about Judaism.
Rabbi Silver, on the staff of
the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations and editor of
"American Judaism," charged
that Wouk, Kaufman and Weid-
man are conveying "false or
grossly one-sided impressions
about the values, practices and
outlooks of authentic Judaism."

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