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Editor, The Jewish News:
I am writing as a member of
the planning committee of the
Jewish Center Single Adult Group
and the offshoot, the Jewish Social
Singles. The feeling that we have
of being "maligned and misunder-
stood by the community at large"

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(See JN, Dec. 13) needs a certain
amount of explanation.
The planning committee was
formed in January 1968 at the Cen-
ter. It is comprised of members of
other clubs and represents a col-
lection of people who have been
throwing stag parties for the past
few years. In addition, there were
some new people who came with
new and rather "strange" ideas
for the formation of a group. We
all knew that in the 30-age group.
the Center as a meeting ground
had a stigma—a "losers" image—
in the community. The party
throwers felt that more needed to
be done for this age group, some
way to meet that was less brutal
than the rating-dating, acceptance-
rejection of the parties ...
The problem is that while par-
ties are fun and always success-
ful, they appeal to a set of needs
the satisfaction of which may be
necessary but not sufficient for a
productive, meaningful life. Many
people realize this and subsequent-
ly avoid the "circuit" like the
niague . . . Others are afraid of
the circuit and feel too inadequate
and threatened to come out and
subsequently their legitimate so-
cial needs go unmet . .
The problem we have had as a
planning committee was exactly
what type of activities should be
nlanned. We decided to have
two activities at the Center a
month and tested out a number of
different ideas for the past few
months.
Most of these activities have
fallen flat. The experience has
suggested to the planning com-
mittee the idea that nothing
"works" other than parties and
perhaps (this is untested) con-
crete cultural programs.
In other words, we feel that to
finish out the season successfully,
we should plan a series of hard-
core lecture-socials on such topics
as the sexual revolution and the
family, divorce and intermarriage
problems and causes, psychothera-
peutic adjustment for single adults
and survival of marriage as an
institution . . . given by doctors,
professors, ministers, rabbis and
Merrill Palmer types whom we
might have some success in lining
up. The next planning meeting
scheduled for sometime early in
January will determine the future
course the club will take, hope-
fully with more success and sup-
port from the community than we
have had in the past.
Cordially,
KARL GORDON

(Editor's Note: Rabbi Sherwin
Wine will be speaker at the
group's next event, 8:30 p.m. Jan.
23 at the Jewish Center.)
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Postmaster's Appreciation

Editor, The Jewish News:
On behalf of the 9,500 employes
of the Detroit Post Office, and my-
self, I would like to express heart-
felt thanks to you and your paper,
to your readers, and to the public
in general, for the excellent coop-
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during the holiday rush, and
throughout the past year.
Despite the flu epidemic that took
its toll among our employes, as it
did in the community as a whole,
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Without your help, however, we
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Early mailing, good packaging,
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us here at the post office, best
wishes for a thoroughly Happy
New Year.
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Wisdom of Sages

The sage Nahum was called
"Gimzo" because, no matter what
befell him, he would say, "This
too (gam zeh) is for the best."
It is related of him that he was
blind in both eyes, crippled in both
hands, that he had lost both his
feet, and that the whole of his body
was covered with leprosy. He lay
stretched out in a tottering house,
and his legs were thrust into pots
of water so that the ants might not
be able to get to him. One day his
pupils said to him: "If you are so
just a man, why do all these evil
things overtake you?"
"My children," he answered, "I
have brought them all on myself.
One day as I was going to the
house of my father-in-law, leading
with me three donkeys, one laden
with provisions, one with wine, and
one with rare fruits, I chanced on
a poor man who stopped me and
said, 'Master, give me something
to eat.'
" 'Wait,' I said, 'until I have un-
loaded my donkey.' But before I
could finish doing that, the man
gave up the ghost. Then I went and
threw myself upon him, saying:
'May my eyes, which had no pity
on your eyes, lose their sight; may
my hands, which had no pity on
your hands, be crippled; may my
feet, which had no pity on your
feet, be cut off.' And my spirit
was not at rest until I had said:
'May my whole body be covered
with leprosy.' "
His pupils replied: "Woe to us,
that we see you in this condition."
But he said: "Woe to me if you
were not to see me." — Ta'anit,
21a.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, January 10, 1969-33

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A Hasid complained to the Gerer
that he kept forgetting what he
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"Do you forget to place the spoon
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the holy one.
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"Neither can you live without
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sons. When the youngest died, the
mother refused to be comforted.
Her husband said to her: "Our sons
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fortune like ours should happen
to another man, he will remember
that we lost 13 holy sons, and
he will not feel angry against the
Lord."

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