Official Israel Shuts Down to Mark Tisha B'Av SYNAGOGUE SERVICES CONG. BETH TEFILO EMANUEL TIKVAH: Sabbath services 7:30 p.m. today and 8:30 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Levin will speak on "The Sabbath of Comfort." CONG. SHOMREY EMUNAH: Sabbath services 7:30 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Saturday. • Rabbi Gerald Weiner will speak on "Comfort Ye, Comfort Ye, My People." The Bar Mitzvah of Arthur Weiss will be observed. TEMPLE ISRAEL: At Sabbath services 8:30 p.m. today, Rabbi Fram will speak on "The Psalms of Ascent." At services 11 a.m. Saturday, the Bar Mitzvah of Ross Kravitz will be observed. CONG. SHAAREY SHOMAYIM: Sabbath services 7:30 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Goldman will speak on "The Sabbath of Comfort." The Bar Mitzvah of Michael David Shell will be observed. CONG. GEMILUTH CHASSODIM: Sabbath services '7:30 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Litke will speak on "The Four Dimensions in Jewish Life." The Bar Mitzvah of Jeffrey Westheimer will be observed. ADAS SHALOM SYNAGOGUE: Sabbath .services at 6 p.m. today and 8:45 a.m. Saturday. The Bar Mitzvah of Robert Daniel Biller will be observed. BETH ABRAHAM SYNAGOGUE: Sabbath services at 7 p.m. today and 8:40 a.m. Saturday. The Bar Mitzvah of Dennis Langwald and Mordecai Mishori will be observed. BNAI MOSHE: Sabbath services 7 p.m. today and 8:45 a.m. Saturday. The Bar Mitzvah of Kenneth Helfer will be observed. CONG. AHAVAS ACHIM: Sabbath services 7:30 p.m. and 8:40 a.m. Saturday. The Bar Mitzvah of Bruce Patrick will be observed. BETH AARON SYNAGOGUE: Sabbath services 6:30 p.m. today and 8:30 a.m. Saturday. The Bar Mitzvah of Harvey Dennis Halperin and Robert Gary Zimmerman will be observed. CONG. BNAI DAVID: Sabbath services 6:30 p.m. today and 8:30 a.m. Saturday., The Bar Mitzvah of Marc Allan Fishman and Steven Levine will be observed. CONG. MISHKAN ISRAEL NUSACH HARI: Sabbath services at 7:40 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Saturday. The Bar Mitzvah of Jeffrey Mendelson and Robert Bankirer will be observed. CONG. BETH JOSEPH: Sabbath services at 7:30 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Saturday. The Bar Mitzvah of Mark B. Sperling and Allen Perchikoff will be observed. CONG. BETH MOSES: Sabbath services at 7 p.m. today and 8:45 a.m. Saturday. The Bar Mitzvah of Michael Pickens will be observed. CONG. BETH SHALOM: Sabbath services at 6 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Saturday. ISAAC AGREE DOWNTOWN SYNAGOGUE: Sabbath services 5:15 today, 8 a.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. Sunday. TEMPLE EMANU-EL: Sabbath services 8:15 p.m. today. TEMPLE BETH EL: Sabbath services 5:30 today and 11:15 a.m. Saturday. CONG. BETH YEHUDAH: Sabbath services 7:30 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Spiro wil speak on "The Shema." The Bar Mitzvah of F. B. Horwitz will be observed. JERUSALEM—All banks in Israel were closed and most gov- ernment offices were manned only by skeleton staffs as the country observed Tisha B'Av Tuesday fasting and praying in commemoration of the destruc- tion • of the two temples. Opening the observance at sunset Monday, all theaters, moviegoers and cafes were shut down Monday night. At mid- night, some 7,000 Israelis and tourists massed atop Mount Zion, where prayers were re- cited and the traditional la- mentations chanted. Earlier, the usual decorations orna- menting the Tomb of King David on the mountain were removed, being replaced tem- porarily by broken rocks. Among the pilgrims to this shrine was Prime Minister Levi Eshkol. President Z a 1 in a n Shazar went by automobile to the vil- lage of Mar Habad, near Tel Aviv, where he worshipped with the Habad Hassidim, a sect of which he has been an adherent all his life. Like all the worshippers there, he sat on a low bench, shoeless, wear- ing a black yarmelke. His white khaki-clad guards sat beside him, similarly in mourning. In observance of this day of mourning, when Jews recall Israeli, British Rabbinates Will Deal with Divorces of Bene Israel (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) JERUSALEM—Divorce cases of members of the Bene Israel community still in India will be dealt with by the Israeli or Brit- is Chief Rabbinates, according to arrangements completed with Bene Israel leaders by Rabbi Zev Gotthold, director of the Diaspora Department of the Is- rael Ministry for Religious Affairs, who returned here Tues- day after a two-month visit to India. The visit was sponsored FENCE Nobody UNDERSELLS GREAT LAKES FENCE CO. DON'T EVER FORGET IT!! ASK FOR "Morrie Sherman" Sales Manager GREAT LAKES FENCE 16540 GREENFIELD BR 3-2900 jointly by the British Chief Rabbinate, the Union of Ortho- dox Rabbis of the United States and Canada and the Jewish Agency. The marriage and divorce practices of the Indian Bene Israel community had resulted in difficulties in some cases of members of the Bene Israel living in Israel seeking to marry Israelis of different origin. Rabbi Gotthold told a press 1.‘-onference here Tuesday that recent incitement here among members of the Bene Israel com- munity regarding directives of the Chief Rabbinate on Bene Israel marriages were based an misinformation. During his visit to India, Rabbi Gotthold said that he set up a provisional Beth Din to deal with some 30 divorce cases still pending. Baptists from 70 Lands Tour Israel (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) the destruction of the temple whose remaining west wall is now unaccessible because it is in the Old City section ruled by the Jordanians, Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim issued a call to world opinion Monday night requesting such access. He Position of Russian Jews Discussed with Soviet Clergy MONTREAL, JTA)—The po- sition of Jews in the Soviet Union, in the light of the ex- periences of other faiths there, was discussed here by leaders of the Canadian Jewish Congress with a group of delegates of the Orthodox Church of Soviet Russia, who came to Montreal to participate in the fourth World Conference of Faith and Order, being held here under the aegis of the World Council of Churches. The CJC leaders expressed concern over the fact that the Jews in the Soviet Union have no opportunity of developing a collective life as a religious group, and seem to suffer from a specific policy different from that applied to other denomin- ations, which leads to an en- forced disintegration of the Jewish community. They also expressed concern that syna- gogues are being closed and that facilities are denied to Soviet Jews to establish na- tional organizations for com- mon religious purposes along the lines available to other religious faiths, and that they cannot maintain contact with Jewish communities outside Russia and participate in world Jewish gatherings. Also discussed was the in- ability of Jews to obtain matzohs for Passover, and the practicability of each family baking matzohs on its own, which apparently is permissible in Russia. The availability of religious articles and prayer books and the training of re- ligious personnel were also a matter of discussion with the Soviet clergymen. The position of Jews was analyzed by the Soviet visitors in light of the basic approach of Moscow's policy toward religion generally. They claimed that no religious denomination is treated either with special favor or being discriminated against, and that Jews have the same opportunities as followers of other faiths to practice religion. Michael Garber, president of Canadian Jewish Congress, and Lavy M. Becker, chairman of the national foreign affairs committee of the Congress, led the Jewish group. JERUSALEM (JTA) — About 2,200 young Baptists from 70 countries toured Israel, com- prising the largest group of Christian pilgrims ever to visit Israel. The visitors, ranging in age from 17 to 25, are making a Holy Land pilgrimage or- ganized in connection with the Baptist Youth World Confer- ence, being held in/ Beirut, Lebanon. Three sunrise services were conducted for the pilgrims on the shores of Lake Tiberias. The services consisted of the There are 1,027 different kinds reading of the Sermon on the Mount, hymn singing and medi- of forest trees growing in the U. 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