Shaarey- Zedek's Spring Lecture Series Synagogues Get
to Include Max Lerner, Baron, Wiesel JNF Purim Plea

A month of intellectual events
Is planned for Cong. Shaarey Ze-
dek in March.
The activities will begin March
3 with the first of a three-part
spring lecture series, "Dimensions
of Jewish Existence Today," con-
tinue with the other two lectures
March 10 and 17 and wind up on
March 29 with a symposjum in
Memory of Rabbi Morris Adler.
The entire program is sponsored
by Shaarey Zedek's cultural com-
mission.
Opening the lecture series at
S:30 p.m. March 3 will be journal-
ist and scholar Max Lerner, who
will speak on "The Jewish Pres-
in Contemporary Social
ence
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of Jewish history, literature and
institutions at Columbia Univer-

sity, Baron has served since
1954 as visiting professor of Jew-
ish history at the Jewish Theo.
logical Seminary of America.
Author Elie Wiesel will conclude
the series March 17 with a talk on
"Jews of Silence; Soviet Jewry
Revisited."
Wiesel has written several books
and has received many awards
and honors, holding doctorates
from both the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America and Hebrew
Union College — Jewish Institute
of Religion.
The symposium March 29 will
be a day-long event featuring Rab-
bi Robert Gordis and Dr. Eli Ginz-
berg, discussing "Judaism Faces
the Challenges of the 70's."
Jewish News to Refuse
The symposium, sponsored by
Mis-Mailed Copy
the Rabbi Morris Adler Memorial
As of today, The Jewish News Foundation, will be part of Shaarey
will cease to accept copy mailed Zedek's yearly tribute to the mem-
to the old address on W. Seven ory of the late rabbi.
The March lecture series is free
Mile Rd. The delay and inconveni-
ence in picking up such mail make and open to members of the con-
gregation and their guests. Cul-
this action necessary.
tural Commission chairman is Wal.
ter L. Field.
Change." Professor of American
civilization and world politics at Spending on Synagogues,
Brandeis University, Lerner has Recreation Centers Seen

lectured to university groups on
six continents. His lecture here is
under the sponsorship of the Lich-
ter family in memory of Adolph
Lichter.
Continuing the series March
29 will be Salo Baron, dean of
Jewish historians, who will
speak on "Demythologyzing Jew-
ish History." Professor emeritus

Weekly Quiz

By RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX

(Copyright, 1970, JTA, Inc.)

Why is the Tor ah covered
either by its mantle or by a
specially designated cloth in be-
tween the portions which are
read publicly in the synagogue?

There is a prohibition mentioned
in the Talmud (Berakot, Chap. 1)
stating that one is not allowed to
leave the synagogue while the
Torah is being read. This is gen-
erally taken to mean that while
the scroll of the Torah is open and
its letters are exposed to view it

is considered to be an insult to the
Torah and hence to God, to leave
the synagogue. In order to allow

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Synagogues throughout Michigan
are being called upon to make the
traditional Purim appeal on behalf
of the Jewish National Fund.
Purim, which this year falls on
Marth 22, is the holiday of "Mish-
loakh Manot," the festival when

"Inquire After the Peace of Jerusalem; Those
Who Love You View the Future Unafraid"

gifts are given to friends, neigh-
bors and good causes.
Congregants will be asked to

make Purim contributions to JNF
that will be used to plant trees,
reclaim and develop land and
establish border settlements.
According to Phillip Stollman and
Harry Cohen, co-chairmen of the

The Detroit Friends of

SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL

,

JNF religious groups committee,
nearly 100,000 000 trees have been
planted thus far in Israel by the
Jewish National Fund. In addition,
JNF has established over 600 set-
tlements, redeemed millions of du-
nams of land and built thousands
of miles of roads.
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as 'Obscenity' by Rabbi

NEW YORK (JTA)—Rabbi Ar-
thur Gilbert, dean of the newly
formed Reconstructionist Rabbini-
cal College, linked with Temple
University in Philadelpiha, called
upon the Jewish community "radi-
cally to revise their priorities and
to enter into dialogue with the new
youth culture if Judaism is to ful-
fill its role in establishing world
justice and peace."
Addressing an audience of Re-
constructionist Jews at the Jewish
Congregation of Pacific Palisades.
the rabbi asserted, "in an age
when we are confronted by the
harsh problems of poverty, racism,
urban blight and war, the Jewish
communities' capital expenditure
for multimillion-dollar synagogue
buildings, plush recreational cen-
ters and elementary school educa-
tion is an obscenity."
He urged Jewish federations
drastically to increase their ex-
penditures for the education of
high school and college youth to
support graduate Jewish education
and to make social action a cen-
tral function of Jewish religious
concern.

IN JERUSALEM

Most cordially invites

the Detroit Jewish Community

to attend the

ANNUAL DINNER

Community Invited
to Aid Women's Forest

Participation in the Women of
Jewish National Fund forest, to be
planted in the area of Kibutz Ga-
dot, is open to the community,
Mrs. Albert Posen, president of
the auxiliary, stated.
The forest, which got a head
start recently when the Women
of JNF raised $115,000 at its an-
nual donor tea, is in recognition
of the 1,000-member organization's
efforts.
The name of any individual or
family planting 40 trees or more
in the women's forest will he in-
scribed in a specially designed
commemorative book to be on
permanent public display, said
Mrs. Posen.
Inquiries regarding the woman's
forest should be made at the JNF
office, 22100 Greenfield, Oak Park,
399-0820.

for the benefit of the

SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM

SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 1970-6:30 P.M.

in the Stollman Hall

Young Israel Center of Oak Woods

24061 Coolidge Highway

GUEST SPEAKER: RABBI ISAAC SWIFT

Englewood, N.J.

For Reservations Call:

DR. 'HUGO MANDELBAUM, 863-8904

or MR. ALEX ROBERG, 544-8412

Shaare Zedek has dedicated service to the City of Jerusalem for
almost 70 years. This affair is part of a Worldwide effort to
maintain the present facilities and help in the construction of
a new 500 bed hospital near Mt. Herzl.

anyone

who had need to leave
synagogue before the entire
reading of the Torah was con-
cluded, the scroll was covered

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the

GM Chorus to Honor
Jewish Music' Month
while time lapsed between the at Cong. Beth Moses

reading of one portion of the pre-
Cong. Beth Moses will present a
While it is covered one can leave concert by the General Motors
the synagogue auditorium should Chorus 8:30 p.m. Wednesday.
he have need to do so.
The 40-member chorus, com-
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prised of GM employes, will pre-
Why is it forbidden to deface
sent a program in honor of Jewish
the structure of a synagogue in Music Month under the direction
any way?
of Frank Murch and accompanied
The synagogue of today has a by John Hopkins.
measure of holiness that was
This concert is open to the public.
characteristic of the temple of old. and refreshments will be served.
It was forbidden to deface any For information, call the syna-
part of the structure of the temple gogue KE 5-4434.

1969 1970 Town Hall Series

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presents

an Oratorio by Shalom Secunda

"IF NOT. HIGHER"

of old and it is likewise forbidden
to deface any part of the structure Tractate Study to End,
of the synagogue of today. Some
explain this prohibition on the and Another to Begin at
grounds of creating a positive at- Young Israel Occasion

A siyum marking the completion
titude to that which is holy and
pure, instead of a negative. de- of the study of the tractate Sukka
structive outlook. From the vari- will take place at a "sholosh
ous things which the Rabbis pro- seudos" at the Young Israel of
hibited one to do in the synagogue, Oak-Woods Feb. 28. The study
it was quite obvious that the honor class is taught by Rabbi James I.
of the synagogue was paramount. Gordon every Sabbath afternoon.
Guest speaker will be Rabbi
One could thus not use the syna-
gogue as a short cut in passing David Lieberman. dean of the
Beth
Yehuda Schools. Study of the
from one locale to another. One
could also not wear military wea- tractate Yoma will begin.
Due to this special occasion,
pons when entering the synagogue.
One's attire must be clean and Minha services will begin at 5:15
p.m.
instead of the regularly
relatively formal instead of a
soiled or casual appearance. Sec- scheduled time. The public is
ular business, ordinary jesting and invited.
the like were forbidden as an ac-
It is sad destiny of a prophet
tivity in the synagogue. A proper that
when, after working 20 years,
attitude of respect and decorum
he convinces his contemporaries,
WWI required at all times. Some
his adverseries also succeed, and
traditions forbid any type of in-
he is no longer convinced him-
formal or secular conversation in self.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
the synagogue.

'day, February T20, 1970-21

TH6 DETROIT JEWISH HEWS

with the

Oakland University Chorus
Conductor John Dovaras
Cantor Harold Orbach
Cantor Louis Klein
B'nai Moshe Choral Ensemble

MAIN SANCTUARY

CANTOR
HAROLD ORBACH

14390 West Ten Mile Road, Oak Park

CANTOR
LOUIS KLEIN

SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1970 — 8:15 P.M.

Donation $2.00

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