SYNAGOGUE
SERVICES
To Get UOJCA Honors Reform Jews' Attitude Beth Abraham Groups
Toward Synagogue
Plan Annual Meeting
Worship Is Surveyed
CONG. BNAI JACOB: Services 4:50 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Saturday.
Rabbi Isaac will speak on "Israel Loved Joseph."
CONG. BETH TEFILO EMANUEL TIKVAH: Services 4:45 p.m. today
and 8:30 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Levin will speak on "Mind and
Soul Cannot Be Hidden."
CONG. SHAAREY SHOMAYIM: Services 4:45 p.m. today and 9 a.m.
Saturday. Rabbi Goldman will speak on "Misunderstanding
Among Brothers." The Bar Mitzvah of Bruce Shlain will be
observed.
YOUNG ISRAEL OF GREENFIELD: Services 5:45 p.m. today and
9 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Joshua Sperka will speak on "Joseph,
the Man of Dreams."
BETH ABRAHAM SYNAGOGUE: Services 5 p.m. today and 8:40
a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Halpern will speak on "Nature and Value
of Tradition."
TEMPLE BETH AM: Services 8:45 p.m. today. Moshe Heit, National 1
Federation of Temple Youth exchange student, will speak on
HERBERT TENZER. New York
"Youth in Israel Today."
congressman - elect, has been
BETH
JACOB,
Pontiac:
Services
8:30
p.m.
today.
Howard
TEMPLE
named the recipient of the 1964
Green of the Ford Motor Co. will speak on "The Changing Face
National Leadership Award of
of America."
the Union of Orthodox Jewish
('ONG. GEMILUTH CHASSODIM: Services 5 p.m. today and 9 a.m.
Congregations of America to be
Saturday. Rabbi Litke will speak on "Fate and Freedom."
presented at the organization's
66th Anniversary National Bi-
TEMPLE ISRAEL: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Charles H. Tobias and
will
speak
on
"Youth-
ennial Convention this weekend
Richard Heideman, of the youth group, -
s Link to the Past and the Hope of the Future." Services 11 a.m.
in Washington, D.C.
Saturday. The Bar Mitzvah of Mark George Weingarden will be
observed.
TEMPLE BETH EL: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi 'Banter will
speak on "Be Thankful! For What?" At 11:15 a.m. services Satur-
By RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX
day, Rabbi Kanter will speak on "How to Understand the Talmud."
Why do some people insist
('ONG. BETH SHALOM: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Halpern
will speak on "Can We Live in Tranquility?" and the Bat Mitzvah upon using oil for lighting the
of Rhonda Isner will be observed. At 9 a.m. services Saturday. Hanukah lights?
the Bar Mitzvah of Bruce Markman will be observed. This is done mainly because the
BIRMINGHAM TEMPLE: Services 8:30 p.m. today at Birmingham Hanukah lights serve as a re-
Masonic Temple. Rabbi Wine will speak on "The Value of Being minder of the lights in the Temple
which were lit from oil in the
a Puritan."
p.m. today. Rabbi Rosenbaum Menorah of the ancient sanctuary.
TEMPLE EMANU-EL: Services 8:15
There are some who claim that oil
will speak on "Shakespeare. Anti-Semite?" and the Bar Mitzvah
of Robert Elliot Borson will be observed. is preferred because of the clarity
of its flame. Basically, wax or tal-
CONG. AHAVAS AtIIIM: Services 4:45 p.m. today and 8:40 a.m. law which give clear flames are
Saturday. The Bar Mitzvah of Glenn Liebowitz will be observed. permissible for Hanukah • lights.
BETH AARON SYNAGOGUE: Services 4:50 p.m. today and 8:30 a.m. The requirement is that the flame
Saturday. The Bar Mitzvah of Mickey Harold Stein. will be ob- be a clear one and that the base
should not be displeasing to the
served.
ADAS SHALOM SYNAGOGUE: Services 5 p.m. today and 8:30 a.m. eye.
Saturday. The Bar Mitzvah of Steven Michael Lesse will be
- Why do many eat "latkes" on
Hanukah?
observed.
•
CONG. .BNAI DAVID:'Services 4:40 p.m. today and 8:30 a.m. Satur-
A variety of reasons are offered
day. The Bar Mitzvah of Richard Feldman will be observed.
for this practice. Some claim that
CONG. BNAI ISRAEL, Pontiac: Services 8:30 p.m. today. The Bas one eats these pancakes fried in oil
Mitzvah of Rozanne Lee Monson will be observed. Services 7:30 because of a desire to remember
the oil used- for the Menorah in the
a.m. Saturday.
Temple of old and the miracle that
Regular services will he held at Cong. Shaarey Zedek, Cong. occurred with the cruse of oil on!
Beth Joseph, Young Israel of Northwest. Cong. Beth Moses, Cong.
which the Hanukah celebration is
Final Moshe. Young Israel Center of Oak-Woods and Isaac Agree
based. Others claim that the
Downtown Synagogue.
,'omen of Israel brought hastily
heated flat cakes to the warring
soldiers during the battle of the'
Hasmoneans, and that the "latkes"
NEW YORK (JTA)—An appeal ! cation of the conscience." The din- commemorate this. Others claim
for "Jewish ecumenism" and a new ner marked the first quarter-cent- that this serves to remind us of the
approach to Judaism as an "evolv- ury of Reconstructionism as well heroism of the Jewish heroine who
ing religious civilization" was voic- as the thiertieth anniversary of the cunningly tricked the foreign com-
ed by Dr. Mordecia M. Kaplan, movement's magazine, The Recon- mander by feeding him some type
famous religious philosopher and structionist. Sharing the platform of cheese delicacy (possibly fried)
funder of the Reconstructionist with Dr. Kaplan was Dr. Oscar Jan- to make him thirsty, after which
movement. The 83-year-old rabbi owsky, historian and educational she filled him with wine, enabling
her later to cut off his head while
and exponent of Judaism „As a advisor to Jewish institutions.
he was in a drunken state, so that
faith of "naturalism" rather than
she demoralized his troops when
"superaturalism" spoke to more
they saw the result of her trickerY-
than 400 guests at the Hotel Pierre
*
*
attending the twenty-fifth annivers-
By MORRIS ROSENFELD
ary dinner of the Jewish Recon-
Why
is
it
customary
to play
Translated from the Yiddish
structionist Movement.
with the Hanukah dreidle?
by Helena Frank
Judaism as a religious civiliza-
A number of reasons are offered
Little candles glistening,
tion, Dr. Kaplan stated, is now on
for this practice. Some claim that
Telling
all
those
listening
the threshold of a new stage in its
this reminds us of a clever ruse
Legends manifold,
4,000-year history, "a stage in the
used by the scholars of old who
Many
a
little
story,
conception of God as that aspect
had a game top on a table which
Tales of blood and glory
of the cosmos which impels and
they spun to give the impression
Of the days of old.
helps man, both individually and
they were playing while in reality
As I watch you flicker,
collectively, to achieve salvation or
they were studying — at a time
As I list you bicker,
self-fulfillment."
when study of the Torah was for-
Speak the ancient dreams—
The Jewish faith, he said, is not
bidden. Others claim that the drei-
"Jew, you also took the field,
the
only
religious
civilization
dle is used on Hanukah because
• o.
Jew, you made the foreman
"whose very existence is being
of an intent to allow the children
yield,"
challenged" and whose "purpose
time to play—as if to say that at
God, how strange it seems!
and meaning have become irrele-
other times they should concen-
Little flickering glories,
vant to the lives of those who pro-
trate on their studies and not play.
fess it." Dr. Kaplan also advocated All your little stories
There are some who claim that the
Wake the sleeping pain.
the idea that Jews outside of
dreidle is used to.point out great
In my heart it stirred and cried, distractions the Greeks would pose
Israel should reorganize them-
Asks, and will not be denied:
selves "into organically function-
to the Jewish youth in the form of
"Shall this be again?"
ing communities and as links in
gymnasiums and games in order to
the chain of the Jewish people
\i
distract them from studying the
which is anchored to Zion, the Pittsburgh Temple to Expand Torah. We play the dreidle, they
Jewish majority in the State of
PITTSBURGH (JTA) — Temple claim, to show that in spite of our
Israel."
Sinai announced plans for a new awareness of all these distractions
The future for Jews in the building and expansion program and our enjoyment of some of
United States, as well as abroad, costing an estimated $500,000. The them, we still remained faithful to
Dr. Kaplan declared, lies in a re- plans include the building of a our religious studies.
interpretation of the "contents of new 500-seat sanctuary, remodel-
their religious tradition into terms ing of the present chapel and
of modern ethical and spiritual constructon of additional classroom
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
values that are relevant to the edu- and administrative facilities.
22—Friday, November 27, 1964
Hanukah Quiz
Jewish EcumenisinPlea by Dr.. Kaplan
Hanukah Lights
•
NEW YORK (JTA)—The results
of a survey on the attitudes of
members of Reform congregations
toward synagogal worship, the-
ology and liturgy—undertaken by
the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations — were presented
here at a two-day meeting of the
UAHC board of trustees. They
were not made public.
The survey shows the reaction
to Sabbath and festival services,
and deals with the question wheth-
er or not prayer today meets the
needs of modern man.
A number of programs being
initiated by the UAHC's depart-
ment of interfaith activities, to
follow up the adoption by the
Catholic church's Ecumenical
Council of a declaration absolv-
ing the Jewish people of deicide
and condemning anti-Semitism,
was announced at the same meet-
ing by Irvin Fane of Kansas
City, chairman of the UAHC's
board of trustees.
Under the guidance of Rabbi
Balfour Brickner, director of the
department of inter-faith activities,
a number of person-to-person dia-
logues have been arranged be-
tween Christians and Jews, said
Fane.
In Long Island, he said, repre-
sentatives of Reform congregations
and of the Episcopal church are
discussing the theme of worship
and the goals and methods in the
respective Reform and Episcopal
liturgy. Other confrontations have
been scheduled with Protestants
and Catholics in Chicago, Boston.
Philadelphia and in the south-
eastern section of the United
States.
Greenfield Young Israel
Elects Eisenberg Presiden
The Beth Abraham Cemetery
Association and Torah Study Soci-
ety will hold their annual joint
meeting and Melaveh M a 1 k a h
Supper 8:30 p.m. Saturday in the
social hall.
Louis Ellenbogen, honorary pres-
ident of the congregation, is presi-
dent of the Cemetery Association,
and William Genser, past presi-
dent of the congregation, is the
association's administrative vice
president. Rabbi Israel I. Halpern
and Cantor Shabtai Ackerman are
president and treasurer of the
Torah Study Society.
Rabbi Simon Kramer
Heads Rabbinic College
CHICAGO (JTA)—The board of
trustees of the Hebrew Theological
College here, the largest rabbinical
seminary in the Middle West, an-
nounced the election of Rabbi
Simon G. Kramer of New York
as the new president of the insti-
tution.
He succeeds Rabbi Oscar Fas-
man, who is retiring from the
post. Rabbi Kramer is a former
president of the Synagogue Coun-
cil of America, and of the New
York Board of Rabbis.
Knesset Rejects Motions
to Debate Bonn Decision
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Knes-
set, Israel's parliament, rejected
separate motions introduced by
Herut, Mapam, the Liberal Party
and the Communists, calling for
general debate on the announce-
ment by the West German gov-
ernment that it would not extend
beyond the May 8, 1965 cutoff date
the statute of limitations for Nazi
war crimes.
The House then decided unani-
mously to refer the matter. to the
Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Se-
curity Co mmittee.
Officers recently installed by
Young Israel Center of Greenfield
were Sanford Eisenberg, presi-
Great is hospitality:
greater
dent; Mike Weiner and Rev. Wolf
Gold, vice presidents; Iry Hersh- I even than early attendance at the
I House of Study, or than the re-
man, secretary; and Paul Kelman,
ception of the Holy Spirit — Sab-
treasurer.
bath.
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Rabbi Hanan ben Raba said:
"Everyone knows why a bride en-
ters the bridal chamber. But if
a man sullies his lips by speaking
of it, then even if seventy years'
prosperity have been decreed for
him, it is reversed."
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