Temple Israel Lecture Series to Dwell
on Controversial Areas in Relations

"Controversial Area in Human
Relations in Detroit" will be the
subject of a series of lectures to
be delivered at Temple Israel by
a group of local civil rights and

Weekly Quiz

By RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX

(Copyright, 1965, JTA Inc.)

What is the festival of Tu B'Shvat
(occuring this year on January 18?
The Talmud considers this date
of the 15th day of the Hebrew
month of Sh'vat as the New &Tar's
Day for trees. The date for this
festival according to the school of
Beth Shammai was said to be the
first day of the Hebrew month of
Sh'vat. The lalmund explains
(Rosh Hashanah, Bavli,) that this
date is one of legal significance for
the tithes which were given. The
tithe of produce which became ripe
enough after this date is to be con-
sidered in the same year as Mat
which ripened befoe this date. The
reason for selecting this date is
explained by the Talmud in one of
two ways. Either the bulk of rain
for the season has already passed
by this date and thus a new season
begins, or the fruits are sustained
by the moisture of future days
after this date.

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Why has it become customary

to eat a variety of fruits on this

holiday?
Since tithing of agricultural.pro-
duce is not done in the diaspora
and since most Jews were exiled,
a means of celebrating or marking
the meaning of this day in the
diaspora was sought. Furthermore,
this sort of tied the people of Israel
together with the land of Israel
even though they were not phy-
sically present on the land. Some
felt it a duty to consume fifteen
kinds of friut on this day to match
the number of days of the month.
The Kabbalists devoloped the prac-
tice of eating thirty fruits on this
day. Ten were eaten of those which
had no outer shell or inner seed to
throw away. Ten, were eaten of
whose inner pit was thrown away.
Ten more were eaten of those
whose outer shell was thrown
away. These were symbolic of the
three steps of formation through
which the world passed, or the
three types of individuals accord-
ing to the moralists—one whoe in-
ner soul is pure ; but whose outer
deeds were imperfect. Another
whose outer deeds appeared pure
but whose inner spirit was imper-
fect The thrid, most preferred of
all, who was pure both within and
without.

LA Home for the Aged

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will

Expand; Plans
Told in Two Staten

community relations leaders. The
series begins. 9 p.m. Monday in
the second hour of the temple's
college of -Jewish studies.
The first of three talks on reli-
gious involvement in human rela-
tions in Detroit will be given Mon-
day by Robert Hoppe, director of
the office of race and religion of
the Detroit Council of Churches.
His topic will be "Protestant In-
volvement in. Human Relations."
The second lecture, Jan. 25, will
be by Father James Sheehan, exec-
utive secretary of the Archbishop's
Committee on Human Relations, on
"Catholic Involvement in Human
Relations." The third lecture, Feb.
1, by Dr. Leon Frain, will focus
on "Jewish Involvement in Human
Relations."
"Civil Rights and Housing" will
be. the subject of the lecture by
Burton I. Gordin, director of the
Michigan. Civil Rights Commission,
Feb. 8.
"Police - Community Relations"
will be discussed by Reverend
Nicholas Hood of the Plymouth
Congregational Church, Feb. 15.
On Feb. 22 there will be a dis-
cussion of the Genocide Conven-
tion and other human rights con-
ventions, led by _Earl Mandell,
director of the Michigan Coun-
cil of the American Jewish Con-
gress. "E duc a tio n, Another
Dimension in Civil Rights," will
be aired March 1 by Judge Wade
H. McCree, Jr. of the U.S. Dis-
trict Court for ' the Eastern Dis-
trict of Michigan.
Rabbi M. Robert Syme will be
final speaker March 8.
This series has been organized
by Louis Rosenzweig of Temple Is-
rael's commission on social action.
His co-chairmen are Mrs. Arthur
Gould and Mrs. Irving Kramer.
The first-hour classes at 8 p.m.
will consist of courses in the field
of Bible and religion. Dr. Leon
Fram will present a course on
"Judaism in America," comparing
Reform, Orthodox and Conserva-
tive Judaism, Reconstructionism,
secularism and other cults.
Rabbi M. Robert Syme will pre-
sent a course in "Great Ideas in
the Book of Genesis," an introduc-
tion to the study of Scripture from
the • Reform point of view. Cantor
Harold Orbach will present a
course in "Hebrew for Beginners,"
a continuation of the fall session in
the Hebrew class, emphasizing the
origin and translation of prayers in
the Union Prayerbook.
Dr. Fram will begin a series of
sermons on "The Authentic Beliefs
of Judaism" 8:30 p.m. today at
Temple Israel.
"Judaism Worships God, not
Man" will be the first topic in the
series, designed to clarify the Jew-
ish—and Reform—beliefs on God,
man and morality.
Dr. Frain, a member of the theo-
logy group of the Central Confer-
ence of American. Rabbis, will
point out authoritative Jewish trad-
itions on the principles of faith -as
well as the most recent theological
explorations of the more liberal
rabbis of America.

LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Plans
for the construction of a new com-
plex of six buildings, at a cost of
more than $3,000,000, have been
announced here by the Los Angeles
Jewish Home for the Aged. The
new facilities will be built on the
nine-acre site of the Home's pre-
sent San Fernando branch.
Ancient French Synagogue
The new project will include
252,000 square feet of floor space, Is Target of Arsonists
PARIS (JTA) — Unknown van-
or 10 times as much floor space
as exists today in the one-story tried to burn down the century-
nursing hospital on the site. The old Jewish synagogue of Thion-
two branches of the Home now vine in the vicinity of Metz. The
care for 375 persons, while the new local fire brigade managed to put
facilities will make possible the out a fire in the synagogue before
care of more than 700 aged men too much damage occurred to the
building after a passerby turned
and women.
In e w Brunswick, N.J., the in an alarm before daybreak.
Police found that gasoline had
Jewish Federation Assembly de-
cided in favor of establishing a been poured over the building be-
Jewish home for the aged to serve fore it was set afire in an appar-
Middlesex and Union Counties, and ent premeditated arson attempt.
In. Brooklyn, a unique program de- Although police have not yet traced
signed to overcome the speech the culprits, they are believed to
handicaps of aphasics, elderly per- belong to a neo-Nazi movement.
Mayor Ditsch of Metz sharply
sons suffering from acute speech
r ects due to previous illness, has condemned the outrage and called
e e n launched by the Menorah for speedy action by police and
Home and Hospital for the Aged asked the city's inhabitants to co-
operate with the authorities in ap-
and Infirm.
prehending the vandals as soon as
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS possible to prevent a recurrence
Friday, January 15, 1965-17 of similar incidents.

European Rabbis receive
OK 'in Principle' on Claim
During Talk With Erhard

U.S. District Court at Grand Rapids.
Allows - Praying 'Before, After School'

NEW YORK (JTA)— A delega-
ton from the World Center of Eu-
ropean Rabbis met in West Ger-
many with , Chancellor Ludwig
Erhard and other West German
officials on a number of Jewish
issues last week.
The organization said that Dr. M.
Hirsch, chairman of the repara-
tions committee of the Bundestag,
told the delegation that his com-
mittee approved in principle claims
proposed by the rabbis for funds to
restore cemeteries in Europe de-
stroyed by the Nazis. The rabbis
added that they had been informed
that this claim would be presented
to the Bundestag for action.

GRAND RAPIDS (JTA)—Chit- Fox also denied the board's re-
dren attending schools in a district quest for summary dismissal of
near here may pray or read scrip- the suit.
tures on school property but they
He ruled also that such exer-
can do so only before or after cises, which he left to the indi-
regular school hours and in a sepa- vidual student to accept or reject
rate room, under a federal court must be completed at Ieast five
ruling. minutes before the regularly
U.S. District Court Judge Noel scheduled opening of classes, or at
P. Fox issued the ruling in reject- least five minutes after completion
ing a motion by nine parents in of the regular school day. He also
the Jenison School District for an ruled that the school board must
injunction against the school not in any way promote a particu-
board. lar religious doctrine.,
The parents filed suit last
The ruling was considered a
June complaining that the school
board had violated constitutional court effort to accommodate re-
rights in permitting classroom ligious exercises in a public school
Bible reading and prayer. Judge where objections had been raised.

The rabbis said they had in-
formed the West German officials
they were concerned about the re-

PEOPLE

fusal of West Germany to extend
the deadline for the prosecution of
Nazi war criminals and its inaction
on the recall of West German sci-
entists working in Egypt on ad-
vanced weapons systems.
They added that they estimated
the number of Jewish cemeteries
destroyed by the Nazis as about
2,000.

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