Vatic Horabonim Fete in Plan Stage
Weekly Quiz
By RABBI SAMUEL FOX
(Copyright 1964 JTA, Inc.)
Julius Rotenberg (center) will be general chairman of the 27th
annual banquet of. the Council of Orthodox Rabbis of Detroit (Vaad
Horabonim) March 7 at Cobo Hall. He was host at a recent planning
Meeting, attended by, among others, Rabbi Chaskel Grubner (left),
executive director of the Council of Orthodox Rabbis, and Morris
Brandwine, -co-chairman of the banquet.
SYNAGOGUE
SERVICES
CONG. GEMILUTH CHASSODIM: Services at 5 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m.
Saturday. Rabbi Litke will speak on "The Foundation of a People,"
and the Bar 3fitzvah of Steven Neuberger will be observed.
TEMPLE BETH EL: Services at 8:30 p.m. Friday. A pulpit symposium
on "Where My Religious Education Succeeded and Failed" will
be held. Rabbi Kanter will speak on "The 'You' in Leadership" at
11:15 a.m. services Saturday. (See Youth Page.)
TEMPLE ISRAEL: Services at 8:30 pm. Friday. A college youth panel
will discuss `The Crises of Our Time," and the Bar Mitzvah of
Stuart Jay Fealk will be observed. At 11 a.m. services Saturday
the Bar Mitzvah of Richard David Leebove will be observed.
CONG. AHAVAS ACIIIIII: Services at 4:50 and 8:30 p.m. Friday.
Rabbi Panitz will discuss "On Being a Jew Among Jews." Bnai
Mitzvah of Alan Winston and Gary Allen Yancon will be observed
at services 8:40 a.m. Saturday.
CONG. BETH YEHUDAH: Services at 5:40 p.m. Friday and at 9 a.m.
Saturday. Rabbi Spiro will speak on "Shines."
BETH ABRAHAM SYNAGOGUE: Services 5 p.m. Friday and 8:40 a.m.
Saturday. Rabbi Halpern will speak on "Shepherds of Yesteryear
and Today," and the Bar Mitzvah of Jeffrey Allen Robbins will
be observed.
TEMPLE BETH JACOB: Services at 8:30 p.m. Friday. Rabbi Conrad
will speak on "From Bethlehem to Rome."
TEMPLE EMANU-EL: Services 8:15 p.m. Friday. Rabbi Rosenbaum
will speak on "Shall We Be Shrewd or Wise?" and the Bar 141itz-
vah of Eric J. Siegel will be observed.
CONG. BNAI DAVID: Services 4:45 p.m. Friday and 8:30 a.m. Satur-
day.• The Bar Mitzvah of Steven Ritten will be observed.
CONG. BETH MOSES: Services 4:45 p.m. Friday and 8:45 a.m. Satur
day. The Bar Mitzvah of Peter Berg will be observed.
CONG. MISHKAN ISRAEL: Services 4:50 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m.
Saturday. The Bar Mitzvah of John Cymerint will be observed.
CONG. BNAI ISRAEL: Services 8:30 p.m. Friday. and 7:30 a.m. Satur-
day. The Bat Mitzvah of Beverly Rae Bletstein will be observed
Friday.
CONG. BNAI MOSHE: Services 4:30 p.m. Friday and 8:45 a.m. Satur-
day. Bnai Mitzvah of Alan Feldman and Howard Schwartz will
be observed.
CONG. BETH JOSEPH: Services 5 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. Saturday.
The Bar. Mitzvah of Phillip Appelbaum will be observed.
CONG. BETH SHALOM: Services 8:30 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. Satur- human experience.
day. The Bar Mitzvah of Bruce Salinger will be observed.
CONG. SHAAREY ZEDEK: Services 4:50 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m.
Saturday. The Bar Mitzvah of Jerome D. Weinberg will be ob- Oak-Woods Synagogue
served.
Will Mark 10th Year
Regular services will be held at Cong. Shaarey Shomayim, Beth
Young Israel Center of Oak-
Tefilo Emanuel Tikvah, Young Israel Center of Oak-Woods, Isaac
Agree Downtown Synagogue and Livonia Jewish Congregation. At Woods will held its 10th anniver-
sary banquet 6:30 p.m. Jan. 31, at
Temple Beth Am, Paul Doner will conduct services.
the Young Israel building. The
first minyan organized in • Oak
Park, Young Israel has conducted
services for more than 10 years.
The present building however, was
dedicated in February 1955.
Israel, many of them would not be re-
The congregation is making
Rabbi David Polish of Beth Emet garded
as Jews, were they to accept
plans for expansion to the north
The Free Synagogue, Evanston, M., the invitation, and settle in IsraeL
As a consequence of the existing
of the present structure. Land is
announced the adoption by the con- situation,
there is danger that deep
gregation of a resolution urging divisions between various types of now cleared for a new sanctuary
communities will take place in Jewish
and school building.
freedom of religion in Israel
life. The imposition of standards by
The resolution calls upon vari- one group upon all others, with the
support of the government, must lead
011a bodies 'within the Reform to
Hebrew Culture Center
dissension within the Diaspora and
movement to press the State of even more, between large segments of
Inaugurated in Brazil
Diaspora and the state of Israel.
Israel to enact laws recognizing all the
This issue cannot be settled by reli-
SAO PAULO (JTA)—A Hebrew
Jews, not just those of the Ortho- gious authorities, but by the state of
Israel. Only the state can determine language and culture building was
dox denomination.
that citizens or would-be citizens who
The resolution reads as follows:
do not comply with Orthodox authority inaugurated here in the presence
Increasingly, .incldents. are arising in are nevertheless to be regarded as Jews. of Dr. Shaul Levin, cultural attache
We recognize the right of Orthodoxy
Israel where the Jewish identity of in-
dividuals and groups is questioned by to legislate for its own adherents, but of the Israel Embassy, and Leon
rabbinical authorities. This often affects not for those who do not accept its au- Feller, the Israel consul general in
their legal and marital status. These are thority. We urge that the Government Sao Paulo.
who would be regarded as Jews of Israel take all necessary steps to
Situated in the finest residential
ould not be subject to such and prevent the further impairment of close
other restrictions if they resided in other and fraternal relations within Jewish quarter of the city, the new build-
life.
lands.
that
the
various
bodies
also
urge
We
ing
will serve to strengthen the
This matter is of serious concern be-
cause, first, the restrictions affect those within the Reform movement make earn- cultural links between Brazil and
who do not consider themselves to be est representations to the government
under Orthodox jurisdiction and, second, of the state of Israel. These representa- Israel, and will offer Brazilians
because the legal instruments of the tions should include the request that the opportunity to study Hebrew.
government are employed to enforce laws be enacted whereby the adherents
,
1
Is there a tradition which re-
quires a synagogue to have win-
dows?
There is a statement in the Tal-
mud which claims that a man shall
not pray in a house which has no
windows (Babli, Berakoth 34b).
This is derived from the passage
in Daniel where the Bible, in de-
scribing Daniel's prayer, writes:
. . . His windows were open in
his upper chamber towards Jerusa-
lem" (Daniel 6:11) . . . Rabbi
Kook, of blessed memory, once of-
fered a most interesting explana-
tion for this tradition . . . Prayer,
which is meant to uplift and puri-
fy the individual soul, has fallen
short of its goal if the individual
withdraws from society as a result
of his mode of prayer . . . Prayer
is considered effective only if it
integrates an individual with the
world or the community around
him. If anything, it should bring
him closer to the world or the
community around him, making
him shoulder the responsibilities
for the consequences of the world
around him. The absence of the
windows indicate a feeling of seg-
regation from the. rest of the
world, while the presence of the
windows indicate a feeling of in-
tegration with the community.
a
Is there any , tradition requiring
a synagogue to have a vestiliule
thus creating a chamber between
the outer doors and the inner
doors of a synagogue?
The Talmud writes that a man
should enter the -s y n a go g u e
through two sets of doors (Jerusal-
mi, Berkaoth 5:1). This is based
upon the passage in the Book of
Proverbs which states: "Happy is
the man who hearkeneth to me,
watching daily at my. gates, wait-
ing at the doorposts of my doors"
(Probers 8-.34). Since the verse
speaks of doors' in the plural the
sages of the Talmud require that
one pass through at least two sets
of doors. This practice is a com-
memoration of the architecture
of the Temple of old where one
passed through the outer chamber
before entering into the inner
chamber. Some have explained
this requirement by reasoning that
one does not arrive at a state of
purity by a leap from one condi-
tion of impurity into another of
purity. Rather one should expect
to approach the state of holiness
and perfection through a gradual
process of improvement and up-
lifting. Happiness, purity or per-
fection which is achieved by grad-
ual change in the human experi-
ence is far more lasting and re--
warding than the revolutionary
changes that come about under
the spur of the movement, only to
disappear at the next crisis in the
.
.
World Jewish Congress Statement to UN Presses
for Adoption of Draft on Religious Tolerance
NEW YORK (JTA) — Although by the World Jewish . Congress.
The WJC, with affiliated corn-
16 years have elapsed since the
Universal Declaration of Human rnunities in 64 lands, called upon
Rights , was adopted, millions of the current UN General Assembly
people in UN-member states con- to expedite a Declaration on Re-
tinue to be deprived of their rights. ligious Tolerance. The r -
That charge was made on the Assembly in 1962 asked that , a
16th anniversary of the declaration draft be prepared for action at its
1963 session.
"We are at the end of 1964, and
this text has not yet been drafted,"
Dr. Maurice L. Perlzweig, director
of tale WJC's department of in-
VIENNA
A former French ternational affairs, said in a state-
Foreign Legionnaire was hired by ment to the UN.
wealthy German and Austrian bus-
inessmen to kill Simon Weisenthal,
Plot to Kill Nazi Hunter
Is Revealed in Vienna
.
Nazi hunter. it was disclosed in the Soviet Yiddish Bimonthly
Vienna Abend Express.
to Appear as Monthly
Weisenthal, head of the Jewish
LONDON (JTA) — The fmal
Documentation • Center in Vienna, edition of Sovietish Heimland, the .
confirmed the report, which quoted Soviet Yiddish publication, as a
the ex-legionnaire as saying he was bimonthly, appeared on newsstands
hired for $25,000 to kill Weisen-
thal.
The "killer for hire" had told
Weisenthal of the plot, and Weis-
enthal informed state police, who
trailed the legionnaire and learned
the name of the Austrian business-
men behind the plot. Four other
German businessmen also were in-
volved.
Weisenthal Played a leading role
in the capture of Adolf Eichmann
and other Nazi war criminals
religious law.
The issue is aggravated by the fact
that while urgent appeals are made for
Jews in the Western world to settle in
of all denominations in Jewish life who
are regarded as Jews by recognized de-
nominations, should likewise be re-
garded as Jews by the state of Israel.
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