Shavuot Quiz
SYNAGOGUE
BY RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX
SERVICES
(Copyright, 1965, JTA, Inc.)
Why is it customary to begin
the education of a Jewish child
on Shavuot?
TEMPLE ISRAEL: Services 8:30 p.m. today and 11 a.m. Saturday.
Rabbi Syme will speak on "The Importance of Routine," and the
Bar Mitzvah of Richard Ross will be observed.
TEMPLE BETH EL: High school graduation exercises and consecra-
tion services 8:30 p.m. today. Dr. Hertz will speak on "The End
of Pediatric Judaism." At 11:15 a.m. services Saturday, Rabbi
Kanter will speak on "Are You a Jew?" and the Bar Mitzvah of
Richard Leonard Grinstein will be observed.
CONG. SHAAREY SHOMAYIM: Services 7:45 p.m. today and 9 a.m.
Saturday. Rabbi Goldman will speak on "People and Numbers."
TEMPLE BETH JACOB, Pontiac: Consecration services 8:30 p.m.
today. Rabbi Conrad will speak on "Thus Shall They Link My Name
With the Children of Israel."
BETH ABRAHAM SYNAGOGUE: Services 7 p.m. today and 8:40 a.m.
Saturday. Rabbi Halpern will speak on "How to Be Happy Through
Discontent."
CONG. BETH MOSES: Services 6:45 p.m. today and 8:45 a.m. Saturday.
The Bar Mitzvah of Paul Schpre will be observed.
CONG. BETH JOSEPH: Services 7:45 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Saturday.
The Bar Mitzvah of Andrew L. Rubin will be observed.
YOUNG ISRAEL OF OAK-WOODS: Services 7:50 p.m. today and 9 a.m.
Saturday. The Bar Mitzvah of Fred Reischer will be observed.
CONG. MISHKAN ISRAEL NUSACH HARI: Services 7:15 p.m. today
and 9 a.m. Saturday. The Bar Mitzvah of David Shapiro will be
observed.
CONG. SHAAREY ZEDEK: Services 6 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Saturday.
Jeffrey Arnold Sucher and Jo Steven Rosenberg, Bnai Mitzvah.
Regular services will be held at Congs. Bnai Jacob, Bnai David,
Adas Shalom, Beth Shalom, Ahavas Achim, Bnai Moshe and Livonia
Jewish Congregation. The annual installation of synagogue officers
and boards of directors will be held at Beth Aaron Synagogue at
Saturday morning services.
Conservative Rabbis Would Remove
Chaplaincy Commission from JWB
KIAMESHA LAKE, N. Y.—The
Rabbinical Assembly of Conserva-
tive rabbis took steps to remove
the Commission on Jewish Chap-
laincy from the National Jewish
Welfare Board.
The resolution, voted after a
heated debate, instructed the as-
sembly to enter into negotiations
with other rabbinical organizations
"to the end that the Commission
on Jewish Chaplaincy be placed
under responsible religious aus-
pices such as the Synagogue Coun-
cil of America."
It declared that the assembly
should be prepared to indorse
chaplains uniterally and, "to-
gether with the United Synagogue
of America, support their activi-
ties, if a cooperative plan cannot
be effected on an intra-denomina-
tional basis." The United Syna-
gogue is the congregational arm
of the Conservative movement.
The Chaplaincy Commission con-
sists of representatives of the Rab-
binical Assembly, the Central Con-
ference of American Rabbis (Re-
form), the Rabbinical Council of
America (Orthodox) and of the
major rabbinical seminaries.
The dissatisfaction with the
present system, as expressed in
the debate, in general was not
centered on the Jewish Welfare
Board. The consensus was that
a national religious body would
serve the chaplaincy moreade-
quately.
All-Day Hebrew High
to Be Set Up in Memphis
MEMPHIS (JTA) — Plans to
establish a Hebrew day high
school to be known as Yeshiva of
the South were announced here,
following an organizational meet-
ing approving the new institution.
To be opened next fall, the new
Yeshiva high school will offer an
integrated curriculum for boys
and girls starting with the 9th and
10th grades this year with a new
grade to be added each year.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
16—Friday, June 4, 1965
COME TO
HEAR AND
MEET
The action was taken as the
Rabbinical Assembly wound up its
five-day, 65th annual convention
at the Concord Hotel here, and was
one of several resolutions voted by
the more than 600 delegates in at-
tendance.
One resolution declared the 27th
day of the month of Nissan as
Yom Ha-shoah, the Day of the Holo-
caust, when special prayers are to
be said in synagogues and special
material introduced into Jewish
schools in memory of the six mil-
lion Jews destroyed by Hitler. They
also called on the United States
government to ratify the UN Geno-
cide Convention, and pledged full
support for the repeal of the cur,
rent discriminatory immigration
laws and the substitution of new
legislation as asked by President
Johnson in his message to Con-
gress.
The Assembly also extended
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Why do some people pour
honey over the Hebrew letters
so that the children would lick
the honey from the letters?
It is a symbol of the hope and
prayer that the words of the Torah
shall always be sweet for him as
the honey, i.e. that he shall al-
ways enjoy his studies and find
them pleasant. Secondly, the honey
itself is a most impressive pheno-
menon. The bee from which the
honey comes is an insect which
can cause harm to humans in its
sting which brings great pain. Yet
its issue of honey brings sweetness
and delight. This is a symbol of the
fact that any child has the poten-
tial of rising to greatness in Jew
ish scholarship regardless of the
background or nature of his par-
ents. Torah is thus displayed as the
possession of those who would take
an interest in it and cling to it
as a way of life, irrespective of
one's background.
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Why was the child kept under
cover on his way to the syna-
gogue or to the rabbi's house?
All Detroit congregations and
many organizations are being en-
listed as co-sponsors of the special
Maariv service and concert to be
given at the Shaarey Zedek 8 p.m.
June 17, by the Detroit Cantors
Ministers Association.
New music for the synagogue
will be published in Cantor Sonen-
klar's honor and patrons are being
enlisted for the project.
Cantors who will participate in
the concert include Shabtai Acker-
to be cantor of the West Galician
Tarnoff synagogue, in 1914.
Sonenklar became cantor of Tar-
noff and served there until the
end of World War I — with a two-
year intermission when he served
in the Austrian army. He was
stationed in Vienna and became
a student of the Vienna Conserva-
tory of Music where he specialized
in secular and operatic music. He
then took a position in Radautz,
Bukowina, and there he married
his first wife, Pearl, who died in
1958.
Cantor Sonenklar was called to
Congregation Dorshe Tov in Chi-
cago 43 years ago. After three
years with that congregation, he
was called to the post of Chicago's
largest congregation, Anshe Emet.
It was due to the depression, he
explains, that he left that large
synagogue to come to Cong.
Shaarey Zedek in Detroit 33 years
ago. The committee that called on
him in behalf of the Detroit syna-
gogue consisted of Maurice H.
Zackheim, the late Isaac Shetzer
and the late Morris Shatzen.
Cantor Sonenklar is an ardent
Zionist, devoted to the Jewish Na-
tional Fund and many causes, in-
cluding Allied Jewish Campaigns.
Memorial Plaque Honort
Jewish Chaplains of Wars
CANTOR J. H. SONENKLAR
BROOKLYN, N. Y.—A Memorial
Plaque in tribute to the Jewish
chaplains of all wars was dedi-
cated here on Armed Forces Sun-
day in the Jewish Chapel of the
Fort Hamilton U. S. Army Chaplain
School at a service conducted by
Chaplain (Major) Jack Ostrovsky,
a member of the Chaplain School's
faculty.
The plaque, commemorating the
There will be music by a spe-
cial quartet and new liturgical Jewish chaplains "who devotedly
compositions will be introduced. served their country in time of
Cantor Sonenklar began his peril," states that "their wise coun-
liturgical career as a synagogue sel, human understanding and
singer as a choir boy at the age deep affection for men of all
faiths in combat was truly an in-
of 10.
When he was 18 he was called spiration."
man, the president of the associ-
ation; Hyman J. Adler, Simon
Bermanis, David Basely, Henry
Blank, Ruben Boyarsky, Ruben
Eribaum, Nicholas Fenakel, Reu-
ven Frankel, Dan Frohman, Israel
Fuchs, Louis Klein, Harold Orbach,
Anton A. Rosenfeld and Larry
Vieder.
THE CANTORS MINISTERS
ASSOCIATION OF DETROIT
Presents A
MAARIV SERVICE AND CONCERT
Some say this was done to re-
its support "to all those syna- mind
us that the Almighty pro-
gogues and Jewish institutions in
tected the people of Israel as he
Israel which are unable to ac•
placed them under the mountain,
cept the monopoly of the con-
or under a protective cloud at
trolling religious bodies and yet Sinai. Some claim that it was so
are unwilling to abdicate their
that no brutal animals accost him,
search for a religious alterna- just as it was at Mount Sinai that
tive and spiritual identity."
the animals were kept away from
On civil rights, the Conservative the foot of the mountain on that
rabbis reiterated "the Jewish com- day, to indicate that the Torah was
mitment to the equality of men" a culture given only to the human
which "flows out of our Jewish race which was bestowed with in-
faith and our allegiance to the telligence by the Creator of the
principles of American democ- Universe.
racy."
What the Ecumenical Council NY Philanthropist Gives
does is primarily the concern of
its delegates, the assembly stated, to Israel Mental Center
NEW YORK (JTA) — Israel
but hope was expressed that the
Rogosin,
prominent Jewish phil-
Roman Catholic Church would find
means "compatible with its con- anthropist, has contributed 1,000,-
science to clarify its teachings on 000 Israeli pounds ($333,000) to
the Ezrath Nashim Mental Hos-
the relations between it and other pital
and Rehabilitation Center in
religions which will enable all men Jerusalem, it was announced by
of good will to build a world where Rabbi Oswald Besser, American
mutual respect and justice will pre- chairman of the Friends of Ez-
vail."
rath Nashim.
The Assembly declared itself
The gift, which was presented
"deeply troubled" by the outbreaks on the occasion of the institution's
of anti-Semitism in Argentina.
70th anniversary, will be applied
Rabbi Max J. Routtenberg of toward the completion this year
Rockville Center, Long Island, of the center's new building in
N. Y., and the entire list of cur- Givat Shaul on the outskirts of
Jerusalem.
rent officers were re-elected.
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First illlayor
e
This is symbolic of the historic
Revelation on Mount Sinai which
occurred on Shavuot. That event
was the beginning of the formal
instruction of the Jewish people.
So does the formal education of
a Jewish child traditionally begin
on Shavuot to indicate that the
education of Jewish children in
our times is but a repetition of the
original revelation or a continua-
tion of the original instruction
given to the people of Israel at
Sinai. Therefore, many of the origi-
nal occurrences at Sinai are re-
peated in the instruction of the
new student on Shavuot. He is
brought to the synagogue early in
the morning because the people
heard the voice from Sinai early
in the morning. He is dressed in
fresh clean clothes just at the Jew-
ish people were prepared for the
event by washing their clothes so
that they would appear in clean
fresh clothes. Rabbi Jacob Emden
is quoted as having decried the
fact that this custom fell into dis-
use, claiming that it was and still
should be a most beautiful and in-
spiring practice most fitting for
all times.
All Local Cantors to Participate
in Concert in Sonenklar's Honor
on
THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1965-8:00 P.M.
at
CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK
SOUTHFIELD, MICHIGAN
in honor of
CANTOR JACOB SONENKLAR
on his
FIFTIETH YEAR IN THE CANTORATE
PARTICIPANTS ARE
ALL LOCAL CANTORS
SHAAREY ZEDEK CHOIR
CANTOR'S CHORUS
DIRECTED BY
DAN FROHMAN AND ISRAEL FUCHS
RESERVE THIS DATE
Cantor Harold Orbach, Chairman
Tickets Available at Offices of Respective Congregations
The public is urged to hear
the
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honor arranged by Zionist Council of Detroit and the Midwest Section of the Jewish Agency.