Intensification of Studies About Christianity in Temples
PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — The
National Association of Temple
Educators called upon Jewish
teachers to intensify their studies
of Christianity and other faiths
to meet the growing demand for
knowledge of various religions
from religious school youngsters.
The educators from the 664 Re-
form Jewish synagogues of the
Union of American Hebrew con-
gregations in the United States
and Canada, concluding their an-
nual convention here, indicated
Play by Youth Group Will Honor
Temple Israel's 25th Anniversary
Temple Israel Youth Group Theater Guild will present Tuesday
and Wednesday the popular Broadway musical "The Boy Friend," a
musical of the 1920s written by Sandy Wilson and presented by
arrangement with Music Theater International of New York. Direct-
ing this production, which is being presented to honor Temple
Israel's 25th anniversary celebration, is Elliott Siegel, 1'7-year-old
student director at Cass Technical High School. Tickets are available
at the Temple office. Showtime is 8 p.m. at Temple Israel. The cast
includes (from left) front row, Rick Oppenheim, Sheryl Silver
Marshall Goldberg, Lisa Bunrstein, David Fink and Nancy Polen;
second row, Susan Jacobstein, Barbara Solomon, Muriel Nathan, Lynn
Frank, Lauren Schwartz, Barbra Reder, Bob Neshkes, Elliott Siegel
and. Nadine Levin; third row, Steve Raskin, Mike Katz, Larry Stewart,
Rick Gilbert, Rick Brenner, Wayne Mitz, Buddy Seyburn and Glenn
Gradis; top row: Norman Treneck, Laurel Lipsitt, Janice Schaefer,
Barbara Schlaff, Margo Bloomberg, Ellen Meistrich, Judy Hahn,
Carole Tobias, Bob Handler and Steve Trepeck, TYG president.
that this was necessary because
"in this ecumenical age the fre-
quency of communication between
the church and the synagogue has
increased." They reelected Max
Frankel, of Temple Emanu-el,
Denver, as president.
The convention adopted a reso-
lution calling on Reform congre-
gations "to expand our participa-
tion in cooperative institutes, sem-
inars, and workshops for religious
school teachers involving religious
institutions of all faiths and de-
nominations in the community,
and to share information and
broaden interfaith understanding
to make more effective the teach-
ing of comparative religion."
NATE members adopted a
statement encouraging greater
contact and communications be-
tween youngsters of Reform,
Conservative and Orthodox Juda-
ism through social, religious and
organizational programs. The
educators felt the need not to
neglect a broader understand-
ing by the young men and wo-
men in the religious schools of
the various schools of Judaism
while, at the same time, gain-
ing a greater insight into Chris-
tianity and other religions.
Bnai David Adult Education Program
Has Course in Yiddish Conversation
Con. Bnai David is inaugurating
its adult education program Wed-
nesday at the synagogue.
To run for 15 weeks, the first
session, 8:15 p.m., offers a choice
of four courses; Hebrew reading
for beginners, refresher course in
Hebrew reading, conversational
Hebrew and conversational Yid-
dish. The course in Yiddish has
been introduced in response to
many requests for such a course.
During the second session 9:30
p.m., the choice of two courses
is Jewish laws and customs and
the history of Zionism and modern
Israel from 1880 to 1965.
For registration, call the syna-
gogue office, EL 6-8210. There is
a nominal fee for non-members
of the synagogue. Rabbi Hayim
Donin, Rabbi Charles Rosenzweig,
Cantor Hyman J. Adler, Movas
Goldoftas and Mrs. David Spinner
will constitute the faculty.
TO WORK - TO STUDY - TO LIVE IN ISRAEL
For all people who desire information regarding professions, retirement
programs, Ulpan program of study, kibbutzim, housing and more
Shmuel Werzberger, Director of the
JEWISH AGENCY— AMERICAN SECTION, INC. ALIYAH DEPT.
ISRAEL ALIYAH CENTER, INC.
will be in Detroit on January 13th and 14th
-
Appointments may be had to meet with him privately by calling
Diamond 1-0669, Chaim Greenberg Institute, 19161 Schaefer Highway
All other inquiries may be made to regional office of Jewish Agency,
13947 Cedar Rd., Cleveland 18, Ohio 321-0757
Detroit Jewish Folk Chorus
28th Annual Mid-Winter Concert
Abraham Segal, Philadelphia,
newly appointed director of teach-
HARVEY SCHREIBMAN, Conductor
er education of the Union of Amer-
ican Hebrew Congregations in
Presents a
New York City, announced that
CHORAL DRAMATIZATION
his department would prepare ed-
CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF
ucational materials on compara-
MODERN JEWISH LITERATURE
tive religions in a curriculum for
teacher certification.
Narrator: ZALMAN YACHNES
Dr. Louis Lister, chairman of
Guest Artist: MENASHE OPPENHEIM
the NATE resolutions committee
AND THE YOUTH CHORUS
and professor of education at He-
Yiddish-English and Hebrew Folk Songs
brew Union College-Jewish Insti-
tute of Religion in New York, said
there had been an increased popu-
SUNDAY EVENING, JAN. 16th-8 P.M.
larity in courses on comparative
at the Jewish Community Center
religion in the religious schools of
Meyers Road at Curtis
Reform congregations. He indi-
cated that such courses were be-
Tickets From All Members of the Chorus
ing supplemented by visits to
Mrs. R. Baron, 341-9231 or box office the evening of performance
churches and institutions repre-
Harabonim Bulletin to inform the senting other faiths, so that young-
community of activities and func- sters could observe ritual and ;' 21
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tions of the Vaad, as well as ques- other practices.
tions on kashrut and other basic
Rabbi Alexander M. Schind-
community interests.
Three Talmud Scholars Will Address
Convocation Here This Weekend
A special
convocation, to
be addressed
by these Tal-
mudic scholars,
will be held
8:30 p.m. Sat-
urday at Young Kamenetsky
Israel of Oak Woods.
This is part of the larger pro-
gram of cultural activities sponsor-
ed by the Vaad Harabonim. Lec-
tures had been arranged on hala-
cha and rituals prior to every
major holiday. In addition to the
daily study of Talmud (Daf Yomi)
at the council headquarters, 8 p.m.,
the Vaad is publishing the Vaad
Israel Acquires Fragment
of Dead Sea Scroll Which
Contains Parts of Psalms
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel
has acquired a fragment of a
Dead Sea Scroll containing por-
tions of the Psalms and belong-
ing to a larger scroll, part of
which is owned by the Jordanian
government, it was disclosed by
Dr. Yigael Yadin, Hebrew Uni-
versity archaeologist.
Dr. Yadin, who announced the
acquisition at a Bible study circle
at the home of President Zalman
Shazar, said that the Israeli frag-
ment contains three complete
Psalms in addition to the 38
Psalms in the Jordanian manu-
script and some missing verses
of a Psalm in the larger scroll.
The new Israeli fragment was
presented by an American who
asked not to be identified.
THE VAAD HARABONIM
INVITES THE COMMUNITY
TO HEAR
Three Eminent Talmudic Scholars
RABBI JACOB KAMENETSKY
of Torah Vodaath
RABBI DAVID LIPSHITZ
of Yeshivah University
RABBI MEYER COHEN
Menahl of Agudath Harabonim
the United States and Canada
of
SATURDAY NIGHT, JAN. 8th at 8:3• P.M.
at Young Israel of Oak Woods
24061 COOLIDGE, OAK PARK
MrJave Molke
Refreshments Will Be
Served
ler, UAHC national director of
education, called for a radical
revision of the approach to Jew-
ish education to conform with
the pervasive changes in the
American Jewish community. He
said the present program of re-
ligious education, promulgated
decades ago, has become largely
irrelevant, and "fails to cut into
the current of our children's
deeper needs." He called for a
change of emphasis in Jewish
education from an "ethnic to a
religiously centered curricu-
lum," explaining that "the
younger generation views Juda-
ism in strictly religious terms,
and finds unintelligible the
stress placed by their parents
on a cultural, national and de-
fense-oriented Judaism."
Rabbi Schindler spoke of the
"loosening of the ethnic strains"
which once bound the American
Jewish community and of the
"compensating reinforcement of
the religious bonds expected to
serve as a unifying force in the
stead." He stated that the "secu-
lar culture or nationhood envis-
aged by many Jews of a previous
generation has proved illusory, in-
capable of fulfillment on the
American scene. The community
has become a communion, bound
by belief, turning primarily to re-
ligion to define its 'nature and to
justify its continuity."
As a first step Rabbi Schindler
announced that the commission on
Jewish education has directed its
curriculum committee, under the
chairmanship of Rabbi Samuel
Glasner, of Baltimore, to "summon
a conference of Jewish theologians
of diverse convictions not neces-
sarily to forge a unified Reform
Jewish theology, but to agree on
what we should teach our children
in the realm of belief."
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
16—Friday, January 7, 1966
ADAS SHALOM •
ADULT STUDY INSTITUTE
Lecture and Discussion Series
Moderator: Rabbi Jacob E. Segal
MORALS, MAN AND THE GOOD SOCIETY
Tuesday Evenings • January 11 through March 15, 1966
9:15 - 10:30 o'clock
JANUARY 11
FEBRUARY 8
DR. MILTON COVENSKY MR. MARVIN KARPATKIN
Professor of History
Wayne State University
Subject:
"IS ANOTHER MORAL
REVOLUTION POSSIBLE?"
JANUARY 18
FR. JOHN C. SCHWARTZ
Pastor, Gesu Parish
Subject:
"THE TEENAGER, THE FAMILY
AND THE GOOD SOCIETY"
JANUARY 25
RABBI HAROLD S. WHITE
Congregation Beth Israel
Ann Arbor
Chairman, New York Council
American Jewish Congress
Subject:
"JEWS AND CIVIL RIGHTS"
FEBRUARY 15
BISHOP
RICHARD S. EMRICH
Episcopal Diocese of Michigan
Subject:
"NO NEW MORALITY!"
MARCH 1
HON.
JEROME P. CAVANAGH
Mayor of the City of Detroit
SUBJECT TO BE ANNOUNCED
Subject:
MARCH 8
"MORALS ON THE CAMPUS"
RABBI JACOB E. SEGAL
FEBRUARY 1
Subject:
"JUSTICE AND JUDAISM"
DR. FRITZ REDL
Distinguished Professor of
Behavorial Sciences
Wayne State University
Subject:
"HOW MUCH ANGER CAN
WE AFFORD"
MARCH 15
HON. WADE McCREE
Judge U.S. District Court
Subject:
"IS CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
EVER JUSTIFIED?"
Registration open to all Men and Women
University students are especially welcome.
You may register for entire series on
Tuesday, January 11 from 8 to 9 p.m.
For information call the Synagogue Adult Education Office,
UN 7-7474. All sessions will be held at the Ados Shalom
Synagogue Social Hall, 7045 Curtis.
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Rabbis Jacob Kamenetsky, rosh
yeshivah of Torah Vodaath, New
York; Dovid Lipshitz, known as
the "Suvalker Ray" of Yeshivah
University Theological Seminary;
and Rabbi Meyer
Cohen, director
of Agudath Hara-
bonim of Amer-
ica will be guests
of the Vaad Hara-
bonim of Metro-
politan Detroit pa.
this weekend.
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