THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS -
SYNAGOGUE
Friday, June 9, 1967-21
SERVICES
YOUNG ISRAEL OF NORTHWEST DETROIT: Services 7:50 p.m. to-
day and 9 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Prero will speak on "Shavuot
Approaches. "
THE NEW TEMPLE: Services 8:30 p.m. at the Birmingham Unitarian
Church. Dr. G. Ernest Thomas of the First Methodist Church of
Birmingham will speak on "The Program and Goals of the Birm-
ingham Council of Churches-"
TEMPLE BETH EL: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Religious school gradua-
tion exercises will he held. Rabbi Hertz will speak on "Jews by
Birth or Worth?" (See Youth Page). Services 11:15 a.m. Satur-
day. Rabbi Kanter will speak on "When the Spirit Triumphed Over
the Sword."
TEMPLE ISRAEL: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Syme will speak
on "Who Is a Wise Man?" Barbara Jo Schlain, Bat Mitzva. Ser-
vices 11 a.m. Saturday.
CONG. SIIAAREY SHOMAYIM: Services 8 p.m. today and 9 a m.
Saturday. Rabbi Goldman will speak on "The Responsibility of
Being Jewish." Robert S. Kupfer, Bar Mitzva.
CONG. BETII ABRAHAM: Services 7:40 p.m. today and 8:40 a.m.
Saturday. Rabbi Halpern will speak on "Restraint: Strength or
Weakness?" Eric Freedman and Mark Phillip Goodman. Bnai
Mitzva.
TEMPLE EMANU-EL: Services 8:15 p.m. today. Robert S. Hertzberg
and Steven S. Wittenberg, Bnai Mitzva.
Marc Lip-
CONG. BETH JACOB: Services 8:30 p.m.- today. Jeffrey
shaw, Bar Mitzva.
CONG. BNAI DAVID: Services 7:45 p.m. today and 8:30 p.m. Satur-
day. Marc Dennis Grodman and Jay Ira Novetsky, Bnai Mitzva.
BETH AARON SYNAGOGUE: Services 6:30 p.m. today and 8:30 a.m.
Saturday. Jerrold Greene and Lawrence Deutsch, Bnai Mitzva.
ADAS SHALOM SYNAGOGUE: Services 6 p.m. today and 8:40 a.m.
Saturday. Martin Kaufman and Ronald Zack. Bnai Mitzva.
CONG. BETII MOSES: Services 6:45 p.m. today and 8:45 a.m. Satur-
day. Anthony Lee Haar. Bar Mitzva.
CONG. AHAVAS ACHIM: Services 7:50 p.m. today and 8:40 a.m.
Saturday. Mark Henry Rubinstein, Bar Mitzva.
CONG. BETH SHALOM: Services 6 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Saturday.
Douglas Kahan, Bar Mitzva.
CONG. SIIAAREY ZEDEK: Services 6 p.m. today and 8:45 a.m. Satur-
day. Seth Alan Kogan and Joel C. Rifkin, Bnai Mitzva.
at Cong. Bnai Moshe, Young Israel
Regular services will be held
of Oak Woods, Cong. Bnai Israel, Cong. Beth Hillel, Downtown Syna-
Shomrey Emunah, Cong.
gogue, Livonia Jewish Congregation, Cong. Bnai
Jacob.
Mishkan Israel, Con. Beth Joseph and Cong.
Beth Jacob Elects Thomas Horwitz
as New President; Active in ZOA
Thomas A. Horwitz was elected
president of Temple Beth Jacob.
Pontiac, at the annual congrega-
tional meeting Sunday evening.
Horwitz succeeds Sherwin M.
Birnkrant.
Other officers elected were: Dr.
M. Kenneth Dickstein and Dr. Har-
old L. Bienenfeld. vice presidents:
and Mrs. Harry Arnkoff, secretary.
Elected to three-year terms on
the board of directors were Mrs.
Irving Steinman and Paul Mandell.
Also elected to a one-year term
was Harold Orman.
Members of Beth Jacob, old-
est Reform congregation in Oak-
land County, were told that the
Capt. Levy Gets
3-Year Sentence
Shavuot Quiz
said before him (at the time of
By RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX
the revelation at Sinai), "All that
(Copyright. 1961, JTA, Inc.)
the Lord bath said we will do"
Why do some communities (Exodus 24:7). Others say the lily
have a custom of adorning their
represents the Tora itself in ac-
homes, their synagogues and
cordance with a tale in the Mid-
even the Tora Scrolls with flow-
rash which speaks of the Almighty
ers (especially li llies) and sweet as a king who had a garden and
smelling greens on the Shavuot
who inspected the garden one day
and found it full of thorns. He or-
Holiday?
dered his gardners to cut down all
Some claim that this is because the foliage in the garden until he
Mount Sinai was adorned with noticed a beautiful lily whereupon
green vegetation on the occasion he told his people that for the sake
of the revelation which the festi- of this one lily it is worth s aying
val of Shavuot commemorates. the entire garden. Because of the
Others claim that this is a re- Tora which was given on Shavuot.
minder of the biblical tradition of : s ay the Rabbis, has the Almighty
Bikkurim in the course of which spared the universe from destruc-
the first fruits were brought to the tion. It is possible that adorning
Temple in Jerusalem on Shavuot. the Tora with flowers and greens
These fruits were brought to the is symbolic of the unity of nature
temple in wicker baskets which and faith. or in modern terms — I
were adorned with tithes, roses I science and religion. making a
and other impressive flowers. realistic belief out of Judaism in-'
There are some who claim that stead of a mere theoretical set of
adorning the home and synagogue ideas.
on Shavuot remind us that this
festival is, at least in one sense. I ,,,...„ , I
a harvest festival. An interesting I Unto State Gets $500,000
reason associated this practice for Jewish Study Chair
with the early days of the infant COLUMBUS. OTA1—Samuel M.
Moses in Egypt. He was born on , Melton. local Jewish philanthropist.
the seventh of Adar. At the end , has given Ohio State University
of three months he was placed in 5500.000 to establish the Samuel
a basket at the river bank. Three , and Esther Melton Chair of Jewish i
seventh o
o f - Ad ar Hisiory and Studies. president
months from the seventh
would coincide with the date of No%1. - ,, G I- .1%% cett announced Sat-
the Shavuot festival. Thus. the , i ,-,i .,..
floral adornment on Shavuot re- ,
The chair. named for his late
mind us of the basket of greens .
into which Moses was placed on %%lie .ind Inirs , lf replaces the ;
■ estab.,
that date. Some trace the prefer- Melton Professorship ilie
ence for lillies and roses to a pas. lished :n 1965
sage in the Song of Songs (Song of
Dr 7vi Ankori. Jewish historian.
Songs 2:1) and to a Midrashic in- I
only holder
terpretation of that passage. The of
who
been Professorship,
the
will
the has
Melton
verse is the well known expres- become occupant of the new chair.
sion "I am a rose of Sharon — a lie has been on leave front Ile-
lily of the valleys." The Rabbis
. University in Jerusalem and
(Midrash Rabbah-Song of Songs brew
will now become a permanent
2:1) interpret this to mean that member of the Ohio State faculty.
the people of Israel is saying
Creation of the Melton Chair
about itself, "I am a rose of Sha-
'timer-
ron, I am the one, and beloved also has stimulated the
collection
am I. I am she that was hidden shy's acquisition of a
in the shadow of Mount Sinai, and of hooks and materials in Jewish
in a brief period I blossomed forth history and related fields, pur-
in good deeds before Him like a chased in Amsterdam at a cost of
lily with hand and heart and I more than 520.000.
congregation would celebrate 50
years of service to Oakland Coun-
ty communities and that plans
were being formulated for a
series of concerts, art exhibits
and evenings with prominent
speakers.
Horwitz, president of Michigan
Fluorescent Light Co., has been
active in many civic and fraternal
organizations. He is past president
of the Toastmasters Club, Council
of Human Relations, Pontiac Bnai
Brith. and Pontiac Zionist Organi-
zation. Former vice president of
Michigan Region ZOA, he also is
Listen . . .
this Sunday, to:
'The Fabulous
Voice of
Richard Tucker'
a radio-musical documentary
on the soloist for the June
former vice president of Michigan
Bnai Brith and past master of
Flower Lodge F&AM.
26 Hillel Day School benefit
His avocation is sculpture. and
many of his bronzes have been
exhibited in art galleries through-
out the country.
9 p.m., WJBK Radio
on "University of Detroit
Town Hall"
concert.
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Army Capt. Howard B. Levy
(left), is led handcuffed from
the courtroom at Fort Jackson,
S.C., by Col. Davis, the post hos-
pital's executive officer, after
Levy received a three-year sen-
tence on charges of making dis.
loyal statements and disobeying
an order. Levy was immediately
taken to the post stockade.
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