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 * * * 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. * * * 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. Jerusalem s r 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 Wednesday, June 9 message on ALIYAH from the j o euct tst: ,...d. i nig doinuitshs ioorni t yF roe: t. . s utt 9:30 p.m., at Beth Refreshments ons . ma LI Synagogue Abraham Synagog e will be serv d . I ®n S S. • Z. Shragai Mr. shra gai, who heads the Jewish Agency Aliyah Department, will bring first hand reports on latest developments. on Israel's borders ... Reception in his honor arranged by Zionist Council of Detroit and the Midwest Section of the Jewish Agency.