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SYNAGOGUE

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CONG. SHAAREY SHOMAYDI: Services 7:20 p.m. today and 9 a.m.
Saturday. Rabbi Goldman will speak on "Hope and Comfort of
Israel." Joel Irvin Last and Mark Joe Upfal, Bnai Mitzvah.
CONG. BETH TEFILO EMANUEL TIKVAH: Services 7:15 p.m. today
and 8:30 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Levin will speak on "The Messages
of Encouragement."
TEMPLE ISRAEL: Services 8:30 p.m. today and 11 a.m. Saturday.
Rabbi Fram will speak on "The Songs the Pilgrims Sang on Their
Way to Jersualem." Michael Steven Moscow, Bar Mitzvah.
CONG. AHAVAS ACHLM: Services 7:20 p.m. today and 8:40 a.m. Satur.
day. Dennis Lee Berger, Bar Mitzvah.
BETH AARON SYNAGOGUE: Services 6:30 p.m. today and 8:30 a.m.
Saturday. David Greenblatt and Reid Pollack, Bnai Mitzvah.
YOUNG ISRAEL CENTER OF OAK-WOODS: Services 7:20 p.m. today
and 9 a.m. Saturday. Howard Lax, Bar Mitzvah.
CONG. BNAI DAVID: Services 6:30 p.m. today and 8:30 a.m. Saturday.
Asher Adler, Bar Mitzvah.
BETH ABRAHAM SYNAGOGUE: Services 7 p.m. today and 8:40 a.m.
Saturday. Mark Stoffer, Bar Mitzvah.
CONG. BNAI MOSHE: Services 7 p.m. toady and 8:45 a.m. Saturday.
Mark Wedas, Bar Mitzvah.
SHOMREY EMUNAH SYNAGOGUE: Services 7:20 p.m. today and
9 a.m. Saturday. Joel Murry Hornung, Bar Mitzvah.
ADAS SHALOM SYNAGOGUE: Services 6 p.m. today and 8:45 p.m.
Saturday. Gary Hassin, Bar Mitzvah.
Regular services will be held at Temple Beth El and Cong. Beth
Moses.

Yeshiva U. Project for Teacher Training
Receives Acclaim from President Johnson

NEW YORK — A pioneering
teacher training project initiated
at Yeshiva University last fall has
been singled out by President
Johnson as a constructive answer
to the problem of displacement of
Negro teachers in the South.
The program, called the "Teach-
er Orientation Project," has just
received an 18-month extension
thanks to additional funds provided
under the Manpower Development
and Training Act. President John-
son told the annual National Ed-
ucation Association Conference
that the project has "already
proven its worth in New York
City," and added he would instruct
Federal officials to encourage
similar projects across the country.
Several days after the Presi-
dent's address, the New York City
board of education announced it
will establish a retraining program
for southern Negro teachers who
lost their jobs as a result of cut-
backs in staff caused by integration
of local schools.
The "Teacher Orientation Proj-

Oak-Woods Young Israel
Names New Nursery Head

Young Israel Center of Oak-
Woods, Oak Park announces the
appointment of Mrs. Mickey Spira
as nursery supervisor, succeeding
Mrs. Louise Haber who has moved
to Arizona.
Mrs. Spira, a native Detroiter, is
a graduate of Central High School
and attended Wayne State Univer-
sity. She has been affiliated with
the Shaarey Zedek Sunday School,
and served as executive secretary
to the assistant director of the
Jewish Community Center. She
also was executive secretary of the
Michigan regional office of the
Anti-Defamation League.
For the past three years, Mrs.
Spira has been a staff member of
the Jewish Community Center
including their nursery school,
as well as being a guitar in-
structor.
Mrs. Spira is an Oak Park resi-
dent and has two children; Wendy,
14, and Shawn, 9.
For information on the nursery
program, call the Young Israel of-
fice, 546-6662 Monday - Thursday
12-4:00 p.m.

Beth Abraham Nursery
Open for Registration

Beth Abraham Nursery an-
nounces that registration is open
for the fall session, which will
begin Sept. 13. Facilities are
geared to activities on the pre-
school level.
The children will meet Monday,
Wednesday and Friday 1-3:30 p.m.
Transportation is provided. For
information, call the nursery,
272-1567.

ect, "jointly sponsored by Yeshiva
University's Ferkauf graduate
school of education and the Urban
League of Greater New York, pro-
vides remedial services to persons
who had not passed the New York
City license examinations because
of deficiencies in communication
and test-taking skills.

The project offered nine-week
courses to four groups of 25
trainees each. Most of the trainees
were graduates of southern rural
colleges.

All Algerian Jews
Settled in France

On the eve of 'World War II,
the Jewish population of France
was estimated at about 300,000.
Deportations and Nazi crimes re-
duced this number by one third.
During the years that followed
France's liberation, several suc-
cessive waves of refugees arriving
from Eastern Europe, Egypt, and
then the 1956-60 wave of North
African arrivals, especially from
Algeria, restored the community to
its pre-war level.

The accelerated exodus of the
Jews from Algeria beginning 1960,
and the arrival of about 110,000
during the summer of 1962, imme-
diately preceding and following
Algeria's independence, together
with the steady stream of Jews
from Morocco and Tunisia, raised
the present strength of the French
Jewish community to more than
500,000. Thus, it has become nu-
merically the most important com-
munity in Western Europe.
Practically the whole of the
former Algerian community is
now settled in France.
The community of Marseilles
and suburbs has jumped from
5,000 to 80,000. Toulouse has gone
from 3,000 to 18,000; Lyon's Jew-
ish population is more than 20,000.
Nice, with about 2,000 has quad-
rupled its community in a short
time, while a number of commu-
nities are being formed throughout
the whole Mediterranean region,
where the climate is especially
attractive to all former North
African s. Hundreds of families
have settled by chance in out-of-
the-way places.
In the Paris suburbs alone there
are about 100 localities where
Jews have settled, in some places
several hundred strong; and these
numbers are increasing steadily as
new elements arrive.

Why is it customary to pluck
some grass and toss it behind
after witnessing a burial?
Some consider this to be an al-
lusion to the belief in the resur-
rection of the dead. For this rea-
son they see fit to pronounce the
verse "And they of the city shall
flourish like the grass of the
earth" (Isaiah 26:19) after doing
this. The idea would be that just
as the grass which has withered
during fall and winter grows up
again during spring and summer,
so shall the deceased who has
been buried come forth again
when the time for resurrection
comes. Others (whose contention
is mentioned in Kol Bo) claim that
the grass is plucked together with
some earth and thrown over one's
head to carry out the Biblical
verse in Job which said "And
threw dust upon their heads to-
wards heaven" (2:12). They re-
gard the dust as a symbol of the
element towards which the body
returns as explained in the Mid-
rash (Number Rabbah 5:12-31)
and the act of tossing it up indi-
cates that, even though the body
is buried in the earth, the soul
soars heavenward, bringing about
a kind of union of heaven and
earth. Some consider the grass as
symbolic of the hyssop grass
which was used in the mixture
which was sprinkled over those
who had come in contact with the
dead in order to repurify them
with the mixture from the Red
Heifer (Numbers, chapter 19). In
that situation, the grass was sym-
bolic of humility because it grows
in a low position; so does death
humble its victim and his onlook-
ers who realize the seeming futil-
ity of their ambitions which all
end in the grave.

Why do those who come to the
cemetery to accompany the
corpse to its burial wash their
hands on leaving the cemetery?
Some consider this an act of
restoring the purity of those who
become impure by having been in
close proximity to the dead. As
far back as in Biblical times there
was a method of repurifying those
who came in contact with the dead
by sprinkling upon them the liquid
mixture made from the ashes of
the Red Heifer, cedar wood, hys-
sop grass, etc. Others consider
this representative of the act of
elders of the city next to which
a corpse was found who were re-
quired to wash their hands and
recite a formula stating that they
were by no means responsible for
this death. Likewise, those who
attend a funeral and witness the
burial of the dead wash their
hands as if to declare that they
were not responsible for the death
of the person involved. This sort
of makes a community aware of
its responsibility for the welfare
of its citizens.

Why does a Jew offer special
prayer when setting out on a
journey?

In the days of the Tannaim
travel was beset with great
dangers. Aside from the threat of
wild animals and wayside thieves,
there was the threat of arrest and
being molested by the Roman
soldiers. It was for this reason that
Joshua proclaimed "whosoever
takes a journey and passes
through perilous territory should
offer a brief prayer (Mishnah Ber-
achoth 4:4). The Palestinian Tal-
mud tells us that "All travel is
beset with danger" (Yerushalmi
Berakoth 4:4). In our own day and
age, even when wild animals and
hostile government soldiers are
not a common threat, there are of
course other perils such as the
alarming automobile accident rate,
as well as railroad and plane mis-
haps. Consequently the advice and
caution of the early rabbis who or-
dained a special prayer for the
traveler is still very much in
order. The prayer is commonly
With the help of Mike Jacob- known as "Tefilath Haderech" (the
son of Los Angeles, and Steve Prayer of the Road). Some chari-
Cohen of Philadelphia, Penn State table institutions have distributed
won the team title at the National
Collegiate Athletic Association THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
gymnastic tournament.
16—Friday, August 13, 1965

LA Study Shows Increase
in Area Jewish Population

BY RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX

(Copyright, 1965, JTA, Inc.)

wallet-size cards containing this
prayer both in Hebrew and in
English translation.
* * *
Why do we sing the "Shalom
Aleichem" upon returning home
from the synagogue on Friday
evening?

The Talmud relates in the name
of Rabbi Joseph bar Yehuda that
"Two ministering angels accom-
pany everyone on his way from
the synagogue to his home on Fri-
day evening. One is a good and
one is a bad one. When one ar-
rives home and finds the candles
lit, the table set and the beds
made up, the good angel blesses
the home and says 'May the fol-
lowing Sabbath be likewise." It is
these angels whom the Jew wel-
comes into his home on Friday
evening, asking them to enter, to
bless the household and to leave
in peace.
It is claimed that t his
practice was instituted for a prac-
tical reason during the Babylonian
exile. The Babylonian Jews of that
era were not allowed to build their
synagogues in the midst of the
city. Therefore they had to build
them outside of the city. Every
evening they would go home from
the synagogue carrying torches to
light up their way back into the
city. On Friday evening, however,
one cannot light or carry a torch.
They therefore walked home from
the synagogue to their homes in
great fear. It was only the faith
that the angels of the Almighty
walked with them, protecting them
from danger, that gave them the
confidence to walk home in the
dark. Upon arriving home, they
were so thankful for their safety
in arriving home, that they offered
this song in tribute to the angels
who must have accompanied them
protecting them in the course of
the dark journey. Strangely
enough, many areas of modern
civiligation have recently become
dangerous places to walk through
in the night. Thus the Sholom
Aleichem is still in order.

LOS ANGELES (JTA)—A sharp
increase in the Jewish population
in the north and west areas of the
San Fernando Valley section of
Los Angeles is one of the prelimi-
nary findings of the nearly-com-
pleted population study of the
Jewish Federation-Council of Los
Angeles.
The North Valley Jewish popu-
lation, although a small part of
the area's total population, has al-
most doubled since 1961. The
North Valley total of 14,622 Jews
constitutes six per c e n t of the
area's population. The West Valley
Jewish population increased 67
per cent to 19,786 in that period
and now comprises 12.4 per cent
of all residents in that area.
Jewish population growth has
been registered in the San Gabriel
Valley, West Hollywood and Mar
Vista. A 21 per cent increase in
Beverly Hills has brought the Jew-
ish population to nearly 50 per
cent of the total population.

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AKIVA HEBREW

DAY SCHOOL

19161 Schaefer Hwy., Detroit

is happy to announce that

FINAL REGISTRATION FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR
1965-66

will be held from August 16 to August 20

Limited number of openings still
available for Kindergarten.

CALL 342-9119

For an Appointment

Rabbi Manfred Pick, Principal

