Weekly Quiz SYNAGOGUE 00 SERVICES TEMPLE EMANU-EL: Services 8:15 p.m. today. Rabbi Rosenbaum will speak on "Our Crowd." THE NEW TEMPLE: Services 8:30 p.m. today in the Birmingham Unitarian Church. Rabbi Conrad will speak on "Noah and Gilga- mesh: Two Accounts of the Flood." TEMPLE BETH AM: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Jessel will speak on "Noah, Can You Tread Water?" TEMPLE BETH EL: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Morris N. Kert- zer will speak on "Today's American Jew." (See story.) Robert Bachman Lakin, Bar Mitzva. Services 11:15 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Hertz will speak on "The Symbol of the Dove." Laurence Alan Schechter, Bar Mitzva. CONG. BETH SHALOM: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Halpern will speak on "It Depends on Me." Suzanne Moss and Susan Rosen- thal, Bnot Mitzva. Services 9 a.m. Saturday. Michael Shaenboen, Bar Mitzva. CONG. BETH ABRAHAM: Services 5:15 p.m. today and 8:40 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Halpern will speak on "The Importance of Growing Up." Mark Linton and Paul Needelman, Bnai Mitzva. TEMPLE ISRAEL: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Fram will speak on "The Balfour Declaration of 1917: Its Significance in the Middle East Crisis of 1967." Mark Warren Kover and David Glenn Shpargel, Bnai Mitzva. Services 11 a.m. Saturday. Scott Robert Jacobson, Bar Mitzva. DOWNTOWN SYNAGOGUE: Services 10 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Gamze will speak on "The Parable of Noah." David Rosenthal, Bar Mitzva. TEMPLE BETH JACOB of Pontiac: Services 8:30 p.m. today. David Freeman Weiman, Bar Mitzva. YOUNG ISRAEL CENTER OF OAK WOODS: Services 5:10 p.m. today ! and 9 a.m. Saturday. Neil Warheit, Bar Mitzva. CONG. AHAVIS ACHIM: Services 5 p.m. today and 8:40 a.m. Satur- day. Jeffrey Wayne Morof, Bar Mitzva. ADAS SHALOM SYNAGOGUE: Services 6 p.m. today and 8:50 a.m. Saturday. Lawrence Kollenberg, Bar Mitzva. BETH AARON SYNAGOGUE: Service 5 p.m. today and 8:30 a.m. Saturday. Douglas Bengels and Michael Levy, Bnai • Mitzva. CONG. BETH MOSES: Services 5:05 p.m. today and 8:45 a.m. Satur- day. Gary Bressler and Robert Weiss, Bnai Mitzva. CONG. BNAI MOSHE: Services 5 p.m. today and 8:45 a.m. Saturday. Robert Grodin and Steven Goodman, Bnai Mitzva. CONG. BNAI DAVID: Services 5 p.m. today and 8:30 a.m. Saturday. Neil Stewart Osborne, Bar Mitzva. CONG. BETH YEHUDAH: Services 5:10 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Satur- day. Joseph Rothenberg, Bar Mitzva. CONG. SHAAREY -ZEDEK: Services 5:15 p.m. today and 8:45 a.m. Saturday. Robert Jay Begun and Steven Nathan Margolin, Bnai Mitzva. Regular services will be held at Livonia Jewish Congregation, Shomrey Emunah, Mishkan Israel and Cong. Beth Joseph. Temple Israel Dinner Slated for New Families Temple Israel will welcome new temple and its affiliate groups, the families affiliated with the congre- sisterhood, men's club, couples gation at a Sabbath Eve Dinner 6 club and youth group, and is co- p.m. today in the temple. ordinated by the Affiliates Council, Following dinner, the new mem- of which Reuben Levine is chair- bers will be honored at the Sab- man. bath service. Guests will include all mem- The program is sponsored by the bers joining the temple since the Rabbi Borowitz Due at Temple Israel last dinner a year ago, together with all children from age 10. The Sabbath candles will be lit by Mrs. M. Robert Syme, and Can- tor Harold Orbach will chant the kidush at the Sabbath meal. Mes- sages of greeting will be extended by Dr. Leon Fram, Rabbi Syme and Jack Caminker, vice president of Temple Israel. A welcome also will be extended by Mrs. Moe Traurig, Sidney J. Newman Jr., Joseph Hacker and Marshall Gold- berg, presidents, respectively of sisterhood, men's club, couples club and youth group. Rabbi Eugene B. Borowitz, a fore- most scholar in the Reform Jewish movement, will be second speaker in a series of adult education programs offered by Temple Israel 9 p.m. Monday at the temple. Professor of education and Jewish religious Mrs. Norman N. Robbins is co- thought at t h e chairman of arrangements. Wait- New York school ers and waitresses, as well as hosts of the Hebrew nad hostesses, will be officers and Union College- Dr. Borowitz Jewish Institute of Religion, Rabbi leaders of the temple and the af- Borowitz will speak on "Can We filiate groups. Believe in God—an Existentialist Approach." Rabbi Kertzer to Speak Preceding the lecture. Rabbi Leon Fram. Rabbi M. Robert Syme. at Temple Beth El Today Cantor Harold Orbach and Cantor Dr. Morris N. Kertzer, noted Arthur Asher will teach courses in rabbi, writer and traveler, will oc- Bible, history, prayerbook and mod- cupy the pulpit of Temple Beth El ern Hebrew for beginners, begin- 8:30 p.m. today. Dr. Kertzer will ring at 8 p.m. preach on "Today's American Jew." Rabbi Borowitz, for the second Leader of the Larchmont Temple year, serves as visiting professor of religion at Princeton University in Larchmont, N.Y., Rabbi Kertzer and held seminar appointments at was formerly national director of Temple University and Columbia interreligious affairs for the Amer- lean Jewish Committee. A prolific University. He previously served congrega- author, his articles have appeared tions in St. Louis and New York, in Look, Reader's Digest, and the and was national director of educa- New York Times. Dr. Kertzer wrote tion for the Union of American the best seller "What Is a Jew?" Hebrew Congregations before as- as well as the recent "The Art of suming his present post. Being a Jew." His newest book is The entire adult education pro- "Today's American Jew." In 1965, gram of Temple Israel is open to Hebrew Union College conferred the community. There is a nominal an honorary degree of doctor of enrollment charge. divinity on Kertzer. BY RABBI SAMUEL .1. FOR (Copyright 1967, JTA inc.) What is the purpose of the notes that appear in the printed texts of the Bible?" The Rabbis in the Talmud (Me- gillah 32a) tell us that whoever reads the Tora without its approp- riate melody displays his disregard for the Tora and its laws. And it was not just any melody that was deemed appropriate for the chant- ing of the Biblical texts. The rabbis in the Talmud (Sanhedrin 101a) further stated that whoever reads the Tora with a secular melody abuses it. The notes that are print- ed along with the texts thus de- pict the official melody of cantilla- tion by which the Bible is to be chanted. 700 Year-Old Temple Dedicated in Jerusalem JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Syna• gogue of Hamandides in East Jeru- salem, believed to be the oldest Jewish house of worship in the Old City, was rededicated in cere- monies attended by President Zal- man Shazar. The synagogue is 700 years old. Israeli police dispersed a group of youths who had tried to conduct public prayers on Temple Mount. The prayers had been held in de- fiance of a ban by the Israeli Chief Rabbinate. Why was the melody and its of- fidal noted considered so import- ant and basic to the reading of the Bible? For one thing the presence of the printed note would indicate the syllable on which the accent is placed when pronouncing the word. This is the general rule al- though there are a few exceptions. Furthermore, the notes serve as punctuation marks indicating how the words are to be grouped into the appropriate phrases. Different groupings of words in various sen- tences sometimes vary the mean ing of the text. Generally speaking a melody makes it easier to re- member a text. It also makes the word more appealing to the ear. The notes are therefore called "neimot" from the word "Naim" which means "pleasant." They are also called "Ta-amim" from the word Ta-am" meaning "sense" or "meaning." The use of these two terms indicate that the notes give both "meaning" and "pleasant- ness" to the text. Why is it that these notes are not written into the Holy Scrolls from which the Tora is read? Since the notes involve the "meaning" of the text they were originally classified under the cate- gory of "oral law" or "oral tradi- tion." The oral law or oral tradi- tion was not originally given in written form for a variety of rea- sons including the reason that one cannot really convey the full and exhaustive meaning of anything in writing. It must be conveyed to each listener or student according to his own capacity for under- standing. It was only later on when the diaspora threatened the disin- tegration of Jewish culture that even the "oral law" or "oral tra- dition" was allowed to be reduced to writing. Still, unlike the written text of the Bible, this oral law is an infinitely expanding literature to which subsequent generations of scholars continue adding mean- ing and application. Music, like- wise, is a growing cultural pheno- menon which assumes deeper and richer meaning along with the pro- gress of civilization. Thus the notes were originally not written into the text. Indeed the greatest of artists do not play or sing from written notes but from an inner sense of understanding which gives them the appropriate melody for the voice or the instrument. The musi- cal notes that are eventually writ- ten down are inscribed so that the student or the novice will have a chance to learn the genuine melody which only the original master and composer fully grasped. So it is with the oral tradition of Jewish law, where the original composer, the Almighty himself formed the teachings of the faith and subse- quent generations after Moses at- tempt to grasp the meanings of the words and the music in their genu- ine setting. Make The alai? MOM! "DEXTER CHEVROLET IS THE BEST PLACE TO GET YOUR CAE" • Better Service • Better Deals Slatkires DEXTER CHEVROLET DONATE .. Your old Books B. Paperbacks to the Brandeis U. Library generous tax deduction For Pickup Call 20811 W. 8 Mile Road between Telegraph & Southfield KE 4-1400 398-8877 Nat'l Women's Comm. Classified Ads Get Quick Results OUTSTANDING NEW BREAKFAST FORUM SERIES Begins SUNDAY, NOV. 5th —10 A.M. Feature Speaker: WILLIAM L. CAHALAN, Prosecuting Attorney for Wayne County BETH ABRAHAM SYNAGOGUE West Seven Mile Road at Greenlawn Beth Yehudah Schools Annual Dinner Sunday, November 12 — Cobo Hall GUEST SPEAKER Co-Chairmen Honorary Chairmen David J. Irwin I. Cohen Cohen David Goldberg Ruben Dubrinsky Daniel A. L.:wen Reubin Grevnin RABBI MORDECAI GIFTER Dean, Rabbinical College of Telshe Wickliffe, Ohio GUEST ARTIST MR. BENZION SHENKER Vocalist - Interpreter of Yiddish and Hebrenic Melodies New York City DINNER COMMITTEE: Hillel L. Abrams Max Biber A. Howard Bloch Benjamin Brodmon Jock Carmen Max Carmen David N. Cohen Solomon N. Cohen Wolf Cohen Morris Dom Dr. Arnold Eisenman For the Finest in Home Remodeling Residential and Commercial 358-2488 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 14—Friday, November 3, 1967 Kenneth Fischer Sidney Fischer Nathan I. Goldin Samuel Hechtmon Harold Kaplan Morris ICarbal Eugene Kraus David Kuperwasser Sol Lessmon Irving Polman Alex Saltzman I. William Sherr A. M. Silverstein Leon J. Simon Charles Snow Leo Stein Lawrence J. Troison Julius Wainer Charles Weiner Meyer Weingarden Eugene Zack