28—Friday, July 29, 1966

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Weekly Quiz

Cong. Ateres Zvi Gives to Education

BY RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX

(Copyright, 1966, JTA,

SYNAGOGUE

SERVICES

TEMPLE ISRAEL: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Charles L. Goldstein will
speak on "Deuteronomy and Computers" (See story). Services 11
a.m. Saturday.
CONG. BNAI JACOB: Services 7:35 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Saturday.
Rabbi Isaac will speak on "Sabbath Nahamu."
CONG. BETH YEHUDAH: Services 7:35 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Satur-
day. Rabbi Spiro will speak on "The Prophets."
YOUNG ISRAEL OF GREENFIELD: Services 7 p.m. today and 9 a.m.
Saturday. Rabbi Sperka will speak on "Why Jerusalem Will Be
Rebuilt."
SHOYEREY EMUNAH SYNAGOGUE: Services 7:45 p.m. today and 9 a.m.
Saturday. Rabbi Flam will speak on "Be Comforted My People."
Abba Joseph Weiss, Bar Mitzva.
CONG. BETH ABRAHAM: Services 7 p.m. today and 8:40 a.m. Satur-
day. Howard James Slusky, Bar Mitzva.
CONG. BNAI DAVID: Services 6:30 p.m. today and 8:30 a.m. Saturday.
Jay Nathanson and Michael Fleischman, Bnai Mitzva.
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YOUNG ISRAEL OF OAK-WOODS: Services 7:30 p.m. today and 9 a.m.
Saturday. Jerome Superstine, Bar Mitzva.
BETH AARON SYNAGOGUE: Services 6:30 p.m. today and 8:30 a.m.
Saturday. Gary Gaspas and Michael Rowe, Bnai Mitzva.
CONG. AHAVAS ACHIM: Services '7:50 p.m. today and 8:40 a.m. Sat-
urday. Jack Gordon Belen and Gary Hauptman, Bnai Mitzva.
CONG. MISHKAN ISRAEL NUSACH HARI: Services 7:45 p.m. today
and 9 a.m. Saturday. David Miles Blonder, Bar Mitzva.
CONG. SHAAREY ZEDEK: Services 6 p.m. today and D a.m. Saturday.
Morris Victor Bornstein and Jeffrey Siegel, Bnai Mitzva.
CONG. BETH MOSES: Services 6:45 p.m. today and 8:45 a.m. Saturday.
Paul Sternberg, Bar Mitzva.
CONG. BETH JOSEPH: Services 7:45 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Saturday.
Steven B. Bogart, Bar Mitzva.

Regular services will be held at Downtown Synagogue, Adas Shalom
Synagogue, Cong. Bnai Moshe, Temple Beth El and Cong. Shaarey
Shomayim.

Bnai David to Hold Dinner-Dance;
Will Install Kraizman as President

Cong. Bnai David will hold its Biederman, Philip Bolton, Morris
annual installation of officers and J. Brandwine, Philip Bricker, Louis
dinner-dance 6:30 p.m. Aug. 14 in N. Buch, Hyman Cohen, Edward
the social hall. Fishman, Carl Freedman, Joseph
At that time, the following offi- Gorman, Philip Horwitz, Mrs. Neil
cers will be installed:
Kalef, Benjamin Kott, Lew Kru-
Jack J. Kraizman, president; ger, Jack Lieberman, Alex Lipson,
Neil M. Kalef. Dr. Maurice M. Sil- Joseph Milgrom, Bernard Nathan-
verman and Harry Koltonow, vice son, Morris Novetsky, Max Ostrow,
presidents; Arthur J. Cole, secre- Yale Phillips, Burton J. Platt, Mel-
tary; and Joseph Shifman, treas- ville J. Richman, Norman Rich-
man, Norton Rosin, Julius Roten-
urer.
berg, Charles N. Shere, Paul Sheri-
The new board of trustees, ap- zen, Mendel Shifman, Oscar Shorr,
pointed by the president, includes: Max Simon, Harold Soble, Max
Dr. Sheldon Abramson, Samuel Sosin, Jack Wolf and Herman Ya-
Belkin, Meyer Berman, Joseph goda.

Iran's Chief Rabbi
to Be From Israel

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Sephardi
Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim an-
nounced here Sunday on his return
from a visit to Turkey and Iran,
that the Iranian government had
agreed to the appointment of an
Israeli rabbi as chief rabbi for
Iran.
Rabbi Nissim said he had con-
ferred in Teheran with the Iranian
interior minister, who has jurisdic-
tion over the local chief rab-
binate. He said the minister had
readily agreed to the appointment
of an Israeli citizen to the post.
It was reported that Iranian
Jewish religious and lay leaders
had apparently agreed on Dr. Kal-
man Kahana, presently director
general of the Israeli Ministry of
Religions, as the choice for chief
rabbi. However, Dr. Kahana has
not yet replied to the presumed in-
vitation.
Before leaving Turkey for Is-
rael, Rabbi Nissim issued a state-
ment praising Turkey's tolerance
toward its religious minorities.
The chief rabbi said that his
studies and contacts in Turkey
had proved certain allegations
made abroad on the issue of re-
ligious freedom in Turkey were
completely false. "I observed
complete religious freedom," he
said.
The statement was widely pub-
licized in the Turkish press. Rabbi
Nissim brought back with him a
1,000-year-old Tora scroll present-
ed to him by Turkish Jewish lead-
ers.

.

The committee handling the ar-
rangements for the installation
and dinner is as follows:

Co-chairmen: Dr. Sheldon Abramson
and Jack Wolf; installing officer, Mel-
ville J. Richman; master of ceremonies
for installation, - Morris J. Brandwine;
reservation committee, Neil Kalef, Nor-
ton Rosin and Mollie Fellows; catering,
Charles N. Shere and Max Simon; re-
freshments, Max Ostrow; and master
of ceremonies, entertainment: Max
Sosin.

Hal Gordon's orchestra will pro-
vide the music, and all members,
their guests and friends are in-
vited. All new members since the
last Hikh Holy Days will be guests
of the congregation.

Laymen to Conduct
Temple Israel Service

Lay members of Temple Israel
who participate in a daily "min-
yan" service will lead and take
part in Sabbath services 8:30 p.m.
today at the temple.
One of four Reform congrega-
tions in the country to hold such
da i 1 y services,
Temple Israel
initiated its min-
yan several years
ago. The serv-
ices are held
5:45 p.m. Mon-
day through
Thursday and
9:30 a.m. Sun-
Goldstein
day.
Charles L. Goldstein will deliver
the sermon on "Deuteronomy and
Computers." Sanford Lichterm an
will chant cantorial selections.
. Other participants will be Mau-
rice M. Stewart, Lorraine Fenley,
Joan R. Braun, Joseph Fink and
Leonard Trunsky.

Inc.)

Why do some people prefer to
have a quorum of 10 males (i.e.
a Minyan) present during the cir-
cumcision of a Jewish boy?
Basically, the presence of a quor-
um is not indispensable to the
proper performance of a circumci-
sion. Some claim that it is pre-
ferred because whenever feasible
the performance of a command-
ment such as this should be publi-
cized and that the presence of a
Minyan at such a performance
makes it a public performance.
One of the reasons for desiring
to have a circumcision as a public
performance may be the fact that
there was a time when Jews were
compelled to perform circumci-
sions in hiding. Doing it publicly
now would be a means of express-
ing our enjoyment of freedom.
Also, such a public performance
inspires others to follow the tra-
dition of circumcision which is
one of the most important re-
quirements of the Jewish faith.
There are some who claim that
the circumcision is preferably
a public performance because
a new child being born may be
said to be required to offer thanks
to God for being freed from the
imprisonment of his mother's
womb, and a prisoner who has been
captured and freed is required to
offer thanks to the Almighty in
public.

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Why is it that the host breaks
(or slices) the bread when there
are guests?
Jewish commentaries claim that
this is so that he would slice or
break (thus apportioning it) with
good will. Since he is the host and
they are his guests he will natural-
ly slice or break off generous por-
tions. Some try to deduce this from
the Biblical passage where Abra-
ham welcomed his guests and told
them "I will take some bread" in-
stead of saying "take some bread."
Why is it that the Grace after
meals is recited by one of the
guests at the table?
This goes back to the days when
only one member of the group who
ate together offered the grace.
The reason for offering it to the
guest to do, is that upon reciting
the Grace after meals the guest
would traditionally include the
special blessing to be offered for
the host—something the host could
not do for himself. Some commen-
taries write that blessing the host
is like blessing the Almighty—the
supreme Host of the Universe.

Temple Beth Am Plans
Sunday School Move

Temple Beth Am announces the
relocation of its Sunday school be-
ginning in September. It will be
located at the Middlebelt School,
24400 Middlebelt, just north of 10
Mile Rd. The move northward was
decided upon to better serve the
needs of residents of Livonia,
Southfield, Farmington, Bloomfield
and Birmingham.
A staff of teachers will in-
struct children from pre-kinder.
garten to 10th grade confirma-
tion and high school graduation
taking place in 12th grade. The
confirmation class is taught by
Rabbi David Jessel, spiritual
leader of Temple Beth Am.
Sunday school sessions will be
held 9:30 a.m. to noon. Registration
date is Sept. 18. For information,
call the temple, 476-4100 for all
details.

Taking part in the presentation of a gift of $5,500 in Israel Bonds
and a check to the Yeshivath Beth Yehudah are (from left), Hillel
L. Abrams, president of the Yeshivah; Jack Carmen, vice president;
Sam Solomon, treasurer of Congregation Ateres Zvi, which made the
donation; Harry Gonte, president of Ateres Zvi; Max Berkowitz, con-
gregation trustee; Rabbi Solomon P. Wohlgelernter, executive vice
president of the Yeshivah; Rabbi Samuel Adler, director; and Ben
Aronson, congregation secretary. The chemistry laboratory was dedi-
cated in honor of the congregation officers. The gift will be used
toward the school's mortgage payments.

22 U.S. Rabbis Pray
at Babi Yar Ravine
to Erect Memorial

WASHINGTON (JTA)—A group
of 22 American Reform rabbis at
the end of a study tour, the
largest ever assembled in the
Soviet Union, Tuesday stood at
Babi Yar ravine in Kiev and prayed
that Soviet authorities will erect a
memorial to the approximately
100,000 Jews murdered there by
the Germans in World War IL
The service included the recita-
tion, in English, of the poem "Babi
Yar" by the Soviet poet, Yevgeny
Yevtushenko. The poem deplored
the lack of a memorial there and
indicated that anti-Semitism was
the reason for its absence.
Rabbi Jacob J. Weinstein, presi-
dent of the Central Conference of
American Rabbis, recited a prayer
at the tragic scene. He said: "We
stand here on hallowed ground
where many thousands of our
brethren lie buried in a musty pit.
We cannot separate their comingled
bones. But we can perform an act
of poetic justice. We can insist on a
special memorial for those who
were so singularly selected for this
bitter martyrdom."
No Soviet citizens attended the
memorial service.

`Siyum' Party Scheduled
by Talmud Study Group

The weekly Talmud study group
led by Rabbi James I. Gordon of
the Young Israel Center of Oak-
Woods will complete the study of
the tractate Sabbath with a siyum
(completion ceremony) and party
9:30 p.m. Aug. 6 at the center.
For reservations, call Young
Israel, 398-1177.

Cong. Beth Hillel, formerly Gemi-
luth Chassodim, in making prepara-
tions for its 25th anniversary, has
appointed Vice President Menasche
Haar as chairman of the anniver-
sary celebrations.
A special journal depicting the
history of the congregation will be
published, and the highlight of the
celebration will be the weekend of
Dec. 10, when special services and
a banquet will be held.

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Others installed by Rabbi Israel
Halpern were Manny Cetner, vice
president; Barbara Burstein, Linda
Neuman and Eliot Stahl, secre-
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