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. 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