Architect Percival Goodman to Join
Dedication Services at Beth Shalom
CONG. BETH ABRAHAM: Services 6:30 p.m. today and 8:40 a.m.
Saturday. Rabbi Halpern will speak on "Light and Darkness: Con-
trast and Comparison," and Bnai Mitzvah of Steven Bruce Grosser
and Phillip Lee Sternberg will be observed.
CONG. BETH SHALOM: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Halpern will
speak on "Telephone Calls a Rabbi Receives—Chapter Eleven,"
and Bnot Mitzvah of Ellen Kahn and Shelly Kurz will be observed.
At 9 a.m. services Saturday, Bnai Mitzvah of Spencer Minns and
Ronald Siegel will be observed.
TEMPLE BETH EL: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Dr. Hertz will speak on
"Can Faith Survive?" and the Bat Mitzvah of Catherine M. Babbin
will be observed. At 11:15 a.m. services Saturday, Rabbi Kanter
will speak on "Sol Bloom: Congressman and Fighter."
TEMPLE ISRAEL: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Dr. Fram will deliver a
book review sermon on "The Man," by Irving Wallace, and the Bat
Mitzvah of Sandra Toby Kraus will be observed. At 11 a.m. services
Saturday, the Bar Mitzvah of Randall Bruce Greene will be
observed.
TEMPLE BETH AM: Services 8:45 p.m. today. Rabbi Jessel will speak
on "Isaac M. Wise: Father of Liberal Judaism."
CONG. BETH TEFILO EMANUEL TIKVAH: Services 6:45 p.m. today
and 8:30 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Levin will speak on "A New
Calendar."
CONG. GEMILUTH CHASSODIM: Services 6:45 p.m. today and 9 a.m.
Saturday. Rabbi Litke will speak on "Purity—A Lost Concept,"
and the Bar Mitzvah of Howard Feldman will be observed.
TEMPLE BETH JACOB, Pontiac: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi
Conrad will speak on "With Your Loins Girded and Sandals on
Your Feet."
CONG. SHAAREY SHOMAYIM: Services 6:40 p.m. today and 9 a.m.
Saturday. Rabbi Goldman will speak on "National Pride and Na-
tional Responsibility," and the Bar Mitzvah of Martin Ted Mayden
will be observed.
YOUNG ISRAEL OF NORTHWEST: Services 6:40 p.m. today and 9
a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Prero will speak on "What Price Freedom?"
CONG. AHAVAS ACHIM: Services 6:40 p.m. today and 8:40 a.m. Satur-
day. The Bar Mitzvah of William Stern will be observed.
CONG. BNAI MOSHE: Services 6:30 p.m. today and 8:45 a.m. Saturday.
Bnai Mitzvah of Paul Blauer and Lawrence Niss will be observed.
CONG. SHAAREY ZEDEK: Services 6 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Saturday.
Bnai Mitzvah of Mark Weisberg and Kenneth A. Bruss will be
observed.
CONG. BETH AARON: Services 6 p.m. today and 5:30 a.m. Saturday.
Bnai Mitzvah of Steven Kort and Kenneth Casden will be observed.
CONG. BNAI DAVID: Services 6:40 p.m. today and 8:30 a.m. Saturday.
Bnai Mitzvah of Robert Lipsitz and Stuart David Wish will be
observed Saturday.
ISAAC AGREE DOWNTOWN SYNAGOGUE: Services 5:15 p.m. today
and 7:45 a.m. (instead of the usual 8 a.m. services) Saturday.
Regular services will be held at Adas Shalom Synagogue, Cong.
Beth Moses, Cong. Beth Joseph, Cong. Mishkan Israel Nusach Hari
Lubavitcher Center, Cong. Bnai Jacob, Cong. Bnai Israel of Pontiac,
and Temple Emanu-El, which will observe its Sisterhood-Youth Group
Snbbath.
Public Affairs Committees Formed
at Over Half of Detroit Synagogues
Over half the synagogues in the
Detroit area have now established
Public affairs committees with the
responsibility of developing a
greater awareness within their
congregations of the social and
civic issues confronting the Jew-
ish community.
The Jewish Community Council
has recently embarked on a pro-
gram aimed at the development
and strengthening of these syna-
gogue groups.
Making this anouncement at a
meeting of synagogue representa-
tives, Dr. Samuel Krohn, chairman
of the Council's internal relations
committee, expressed the hope
that eventually every congregation
in the city will be able to partici-
pate in this communal endeavor.
The Detroit effort to draw to-
gether and to coordinate the work
of the synagogue public affairs
committees could well set a na-
tional example, Dr. Krohn stated.
Participants in the meeting,
which was convened by the Coun-
cil, were provided with resources
materials to assist them in their
programatic activities.
Included among the topics
which were considered to be of
immediate concern were:
church-state problems relative
to a proposed federal aid to edu-
cation bill; civil rights; rela-
tions between Israel and Ger-
many; the question of Jewish
inentity and support of commu-
nal institutions , and proposed
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changes in U. S. immigration
policy.
An architect will help to dedi-
cate his own creation April 10
when Percival Goodman joins
Cong. Beth Shalom, in the dedica-
tion of their new sanctuary.
"Percival Goodman's design as
well as his spiritual and artistic
values contrib-
uted so much to
our new building
that we wanted
him to have an
active role in its
formal dedica-
tion," said Rabbi
MordecaiHal-
pern, spiritual
leader for the
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tion.
Goodman, professor in the Col-
umbia University School of Archi-
tecture in New York, has built an
international reputation for his
work in institutional, educational
and religious architecture.
He will give the sermon during
the Saturday morning services
April 10 at Beth Shalom. His topic
will deal with the manner in which
modern architectural forms express
man's values. The services will
mark the midpoint of a three-day
dedication program.
In other events, Dr. Robert
Gordis, professor of Bible at the
Jewish Theological Seminary will
speak at a dinner dance Sunday
evening.
The program will begin with
Friday evening services where
Rabbi Bernard S.
Raskas of St.
Paul, Miss., will
speak.
Goodman's de-,
sign for the
$600,000 building
centered around
a unique semi-
circular seating
plan within the
sanctuary that
enables over 500
Raskas
people to worship within 35 feet
(11 rows) of the pulpit.
The sanctuary also features
10 stained glass windows de-
signed by Efrem Weitzman in
vivid orange, red, yellow and
royal blue.
A 225-square foot tapestry woven
by Efram Weitzman hangs over the
ark of the sanctuary, setting off an
Eternal Light of natural quartz
crystal.
In addition to the sanctuary, the
new building includes a youth
lounge, a small chapel for daily
worship, library, stage, classrooms
and offices. The building was add-
ed on to the congregation's origi-
nal building completed six years
ago.
Formed in 1953 under the leader-
ship of the late Sol Brown, who be-
came its first president, the syna-
gogue fashioned its membership
around new families living in a
new community with mutual needs.
The name, Beth Shalom—House of
Peace—connotes the intent of the
original congregation to develop
successfully the spiritual and so-
cial interrelationships of the mem-
bership.
Prominent Detroit contractor
J. A. Ferguson was cited by
Rabbi Halpern for his role in the
building of the sanctuary.
Following a series of interrup-
tions which slowed down construc-
tion, Ferguson volunteered to help
make available the materials and
tradesmen to speed construction to
meet the target date.
Literally hours before the eve of
the Jewish High Holy Day of Rosh
Hashanah, internal scaffolding still
laced the synagogue as workmen
hurried to install the final perma-
nent fixtures. On the holiday eve,
more than 400 synagog,ue families
worshiped in the completed build-
ing.
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Attending the meeting were:
Alex Colvin, Temple Beth Am; Mar-
vin Frankel, Shaarey Shomayim; Louis
Rosenzweig, Temple Israel; Hubert J.
Shaarey Zedek; Mrs. Joel Litke
and Mrs. Elsa Mosbach, Gemiluth Chas-
sodim; Rabbi Mordecai Halpern and
Mrs. Gerald Rosenbaum, Beth Shalom;
Mrs. Leanor Reizen, Temple Emanu-El;
Mrs. Dorothy Bodzin, Ahavas Achim;
Mrs. Kalman Bruss, Beth Moses; Paul
Masserman, Beth Aaron; Dr. Harry
Newman, Burton London and Dr. Men-
dal Ettinger, Beth Abraham.
Lubavitcher Rebbe Links
Dialogues, Intermarriage
NEW YORK (JTA)—Opposition
to "interfaith dialogues" which,
he charged had been largely re-
sponsible for "the alarmingly grow-
ing rate in intermarriage," was
voice by Rabbi Menachem M.
Schneerson, the Lubavitcher rebbe.
Replying to a request by 250
Jewish leaders who had asked him
for his views on interfaith dia-
logues, Rabbi Schneerson declared:
"There is no need for us what-
ever to have any religious dia-
logues with non-Jews, nor any
interfaith activities in the form
of religious discussions, inter-
change of pulpits and the like. The
brotherhood of mankind is a posi-
tive concept only so long as it is
confined to commerce, philan-
thropy and civil and economic as-
pects of society.
"Unfortunately, brotherhood has
been misconstrued to require mem-
bers of one faith to explain their
religious beliefs and practices to
members of another faith."
Noting the increase of inter-
marriage, the Lubavitcher rebbe
said that interfaith dialogues have
created confusion in the minds "of
the young as well as of their
parents."
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