BBYO to Groove Into 1970 at Kickoff Phantasmagoria

The Greater Detroit AZA and
BBG councils will host their an-
nual kick-off dance for members of
Bnai Brith Youth Organization
7:30 p.m. Saturday at Bnai Moshe
Synagogue.
Entertainment will be provided
by Bleak Obscurity, a local rock
band, and refreshments will be
served. Dress will be casual.

Daniel Syme Elected
President of Student
Body at HUC-JIR

Daniel Syme, son of Temple Is-
rael Rabbi and Mrs. M. Robert
Syme, has been elected president
of the student body at Hebrew
Union College-Jewish Institute of
Religion, Cincinnati.
Syme, who is entering his third
year at the college, is the youngest
rabbinical student ever named to
the post. In this position, he serves
on the board of governors of the
college.
Syme has been named student
rabbi at Temple Beth El, Steuben-
ville, 0.
During the High Holy Days,
Syme was invited to officiate at
services at the Interlochen Arts
Academy by its president, Karl
Haas, former music director al
Temple Israel.
At this service, an academy stu-
dent, Cheryl BensmanZ daughter of
Temple Israel members Mr. and
Mrs. Lawrence Bensman, served
as cantor.

Admission will be free to AZA
and BBG members who are na-
tionally registered for the 1969-70
year. Membership cards will be
distributed by • chapters at the
door. Prospective or old mem-
bers not yet nationally register-
ed for the year will be charged
nominal admission. All potential
members are welcome, and will
be able to sign up for chapters
they prefer.
During the dance, new executive
hoards of the AZA and BBG coun-
s will be introduced.
AZA officers are aleph godol
(president). Jay Gottlieb; aleph
sgan (vice president), Terry Gal-
per; aleph gizbor, (treasurer), Doug
Finegood; aleph moreh (teacher),
Rick Warsh; aleph mazkir (secre-
tary), Dave Walt; aleph sopher
( reporter 1, Jeff Kurland; and aleph
kohen godol (counselor), Rick
Segal.

Teen Sabbath Minyan
Formed at Oak-Woods

Young Israel of Oak-Woods will
sponsor a Sabbath minyan for
teen-age youth starting Saturday
at 9:30 a.m. in the chapel.
The first teen oneg Shabat of the
season will be held the same after-
noon in the youth lounge at 4 p.m.
L Weisberg serves as director
of all teen activities. This year,
Young Israel teens will be part of I
the Central East Kesser Torah re-
gion of the National :Council of
Synagogue Youth.

`Daniel and Lion's Den' Comedy for Children

An original children's pl a y, Abdagagel and Assurnassurpal
based on the Old Testament story
a corrupt Babylonian politician
of Daniel and the lion, is being played by Robb Rodd. The vil-
presented with an interfaith cast
lains appear in a series of com-
in the Westminster Presbyterian
edy sequences and nearly suc-
Church.
cessful plots, attempting to trick
Entitled "Daniel and the Lion's the king into having the chil-
Den," the production will run 1 dren of Israel executed.
pin, this Saturday and the two
With the help of Chutzpah, one
Saturdays thereafter at 1, 3:30
of the lesser angels in the domi-
and 7 p.m-
nions of the Lord, the children,
Producer is the Detroit Resident
Daniel, foil the plans of
Artist Theater. Kenneth Chomont, including
villains and are restored to
author of the play, explained that the
the favor of the king.
the story centers around Daniel
Most of the cast is under 16
and his attempt to please both
years old.
King Nebuchadnezzar and God.
Tickets are available at the box
The plot is thickened by the
addition of two bungling villains: office.

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I BBG officers are: n'sia (presi-
I dent) Cindy Kaufman; sganit ris-
, hona (first vice president), Sue
Singerman; sganit shnia (second
vice president), Joanne Eder; kat-
vanit (secretary), Pam Ovshinsky;
orehet (reporter), Elaine Malin;
and madriha (counselor), Tobye
Bindes.
Co-chairmen for the event are
Larry Forst of Posen AZA and
Tobi Horowitz of Gan Dafna BBG.
Adviser for the event is Arnold J.
Weiner, assistant BBYO director,
Michigan Region.

Pidyon Haben Coin
Issued by Israel

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Halloween is a night for laughter, but as this cartoon shows,
be carry-
also will be a night with purpose for young people who will
Fund.
They
ing canisters for UNICEF, the United Nations Children's
Will be collecting coins Oct. 31 for less fortunate children around the
world. Ten cents, for example, can provide 50 glasses of milk for 50
distributed
hungry children in developing countries. Canisters will be
it the Jewish Center, main and branch buildings.

`Mitzva' Becomes a Word for Ghetto

tion of an abandoned movie Mea-
1 ter for use by ghetto youngsters.

By BEN GALOB

(Copyright 1959, JTA, Inc-)

He reported that passersby in
the black neighborhood watched
with surprise as the young Jews
toiled on the former theater, B
process of cleaning up the building
and ridding it of rats. Soon, Just
about every able-bodied adult and

More than 125 Jewish teen-agers
lived and worked in ghettos in
seven American cities during their
summer vacation in the seventh
year of a program sponsored by
Reform Judaism. Since the Mitzva

Corps was started in 1963, more
than 500 junior and senior high child had joined the effort and the

word "mitzva" became as much a
part of the ghetto's everyday lan-
guage as "honky," according to
Rabbi Skirball.

school students have learned at
first hand the conditions of ghetto
life, paying their ova) expenses to
do so.
The Mitzva Corps is a program
of the National Federation of Tem-
ple Youth, an affiliate of the Union
of American Hebrew Congrega-
tions. The teen-agers also have
worked in Puerto Rico, Mexico
and Israel during their summer
holidays.
This summer, the Mitzva Corps

Because the task was too big

for the corps members to com-
plete it during their six-week
stay, the neighborhood people

continued to work at it after the

NEW YORK — The Israel Gov-
ernment Coins and Medals Corp.,
has announced the mintage of the
Pidyon Haben Coin, issued by the
Bank of Israel. This coin is a legal
tender in Israel with a nominal
operated in Chicago, Detroit, Los
value of 10 pounds. It will be issu-
Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, St.
ed annually in both regular and
Louis and St. Paul, according to
proof condition. Some 15,000 of the
Rabbi Henry Skirball, NFTY
latter will be struck by the San
director.
Frarfcisco Federal Mint, while the
The young people usually work
former will be struck in the Gov-
five days a week as volunteers in
ernment Mint in Jerusalem.
public
and private agencies on as-
Pidyon Habeas is the concept of
redemption by which the father signments geared to community
redeems his first-born son with needs and their own interests and
five shekels, thus releasing him I ' abilities. Evenings are devoted to
from the priesthood to which all lectures, seminars and discussions
first-born sons are dedicated. This of the problems of slum life, con-
commandment, given to the Israel- ducted by local experts. A Reform
ites when they were still wander-; rabbi or rabbinic student is pres-
ing in the desert, is still observed ent at the study sessions to relate
the teachings of Judaism to the
to this day.
social issues the students encoun-
In the lands of the Diaspora, be- ter, Rabbi Skirball said.
fore Israel became independent,
In Miami, 30 corps members-23
the legal tender of those countries, girls and seven boys—worked with
or a silver substitute, has been
high school dropouts. Half of the
used to redeem the first-born son
members were local youth and the
on the 31st day after his birth.
rest from other parts of the South-
Each set of five coins will be east. They also worked in a non-

placed in a velvet case. A hand-

somely decorated certificate,
bearing the signatures of the
Bank of Israel and the chief
rabbis attesting to their ritual

fitness, will accompany the set.
Space also is allowed on the cer-
tificate for the name of the first-
born son and other details of fam-
ily interest. A booklet will be en-
closed with the set giving the
background information of this tra-
dition and the sources from the
Bible. It also will describe exact
details of the actual ceremony and
how it should be conducted by the
family.
Full information can be obtain.
ed from the Office of the Director,
Coins and Medals Department,
Government of Israel, 850 Third
Ave., New York 10022.

`Music Hall of Israel'
Draws Bravos in NY

NEW YORK — "A Jewish wed-
ding in the era before the caterers
took over" is the way a New York
Times critic described the atmos-
phere in the Lunt-Fontanne Thea-
ter where "The New Music Hall of
Israel" opened to almost nonstop
applause Oct. 2.
The Israeli revue, including
Geula Gill in its cast, is expected
to last at least nine weeks.

Bnai Moshe Youth Set
Saturday Activities

Jewish youth departed.
A group of 44 corps members
spent the summer at Ben Shemen,
a youth village in Israel where
they worked five mornings each
week rebuilding a public park
which had been destroyed during
the 1948 War of Independence.

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Cong. Bnai Moshe Senior Chap-
ter of United Synagogue Youth will
hold services 9:45 a.m. followed by

a luncheon on Saturday.
Seymour Kaplan, director of ac-
tivities, will speak on Soviet Jewry.
At 7 p.m. Saturday, the group
will meet for a movie party at the
synagogue.

Students Invited to Take
Counselor Training

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' THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Oct. 21 is the registration dead-
line for students who wish to par-
ticipate in the Counselor-in-Train-
ing-Junior Counselor Training
Workshop at the Jewish Center.
Students in grades 10-12 are
eligible for the 10-week program,
held on alternate Thursdays begin-
ning Nov. 6.

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