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16–Friday, December 31, 1971
SYNAGOGUE
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
S ERVICES
TEMPLE BETH JACOB of Pontiac: Services 8 p.m. today Rabbi
Berkowitz will speak on "I Will Lift Up the Cup Of."
CONG. BNAI ISRAEL of Pontiac: Services 5:30 p.m. today and 9 a.m.
Saturday, Rabbi Berman's sermon will be "Let Us Share Our
Blessings."
CONG. 1113ISHKAN ISRAEL: Services 5 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Satur-
day. Rabbi Kranz will speak on "Such Is Life."
TEMPLE ISRAEL: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Fram's sermon
will be on "1971—a Review of This Year of Crisis." Services 11
a.m. Saturday.
TEMPLE EMANU-EL: Services 7:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Rosenbaum
will speak on "What Do You Think About 'Fiddler on the Roof'?"
CONG. BETH ABRAHAM-HILLEL: Services 5:30 p.m. today and 9
a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Halpern's sermon will be "The Benefits of
Two New Years."
CONG. BNAI MOSHE: Services 4:45 p.m. today and 8:45 a.m. and
4:20 p.m. Saturday. Rabbi Lehrman will speak on "Generation
Cobedveness."
CONG. BETH MOSES: Services 5 p.m. today and 8:45 a.m. Saturday.
David Goldman and Michael Craig, Bnai Mitzva.
CONG. BETH SHALOM: Services 6 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Saturday.
Victor Kay, Bar Mitzva.
Regular services will be held at Shaarey Zedek, Young Israel of
Oak Woods, Temple Kol Ami, Cong. Bnai David, Cong. Adas Shalom,
Temple Beth El, Cong. Shaarey Shomayim, Birmingham Temple,
Livonia Jewish Congregation, Cong. Shomrey Emunah, Cong. Beth
Isaac of Trenton, Cong. Bnai Jacob, Cong. Beth Hillel, Cong. Bnai
Israel-Beth Yehudah and Downtown Synagogue.
Knife Over Halla
By RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX
Some people run the knife over
the halla on the Sabbath before
making the benediction (the Motze)
over the bread.
The general rule in Jewish tra-
dition is to make the benediction
as close as possible to the act
which One is performing. In this
case, the matter involves making
the benediction before the act of
eating bread. Since the Sabbath
requires pronouncing the benedic-
tion over a whole loaf, the act of
cutting a piece off before eating
any of it would be an interruption
between the benediction and the
actual act of eating the loaf, or
part of it. On the other hand, to
cut the slice off before making the
benediction would involve one in
pronouncing the benediction on a
piece rather than on the whole of
the loaf. Thus one begins the cut-
ting by passing the knife slightly
over the halla so that the actual
cutting has begun before the bene-
diction. Therefore, the benediction
is as close as possible to the eating
of the bread and yet is pronounced
over the whole loaf because the
cutting has as yet not severed the
piece from the whole. The general
insistence that the benedictions be
made as close as possible to the
act is to insure that every human
act is as closely linked as possible
to a spiritual experience.
(Copyright 1971 JTA, Inc.)
Rabbis insist that the benedic-
tion be made over a whole loaf
on the Sabbath and do not nec-
essarily insist on this require-
ment during the rest of the week.
Rabbis do not insist on this re-
quirement throughout the week
because it is not always possible
to begin a whole loaf at every
meal during the week. First, what
is one supposed to do if one does
not finish the loaf at a previous
meal. Second, there are many who
simply cannot afford to begin a
whole loaf at every meal. Geneial-
ly, the experience of beginning a
new loaf was a luxurious experi-
ence. Hence, such luxuries were
reserved for the Sabbath to show
that the Sabbath is a special day,
unlike the ordinary day, and even
one's daily bread is more luxurious
on the Sabbath. The halla itself
is usually a "richer" kind of bread
than the ordinary bread eaten dur-
ing the week.
Kantrowitz to Give Bnai Moshe Talk on Heart Surgery
For tickets, call the synagogue
Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz will de- Community," was appointed chair-
liver the second lecture in Cong. man of Sinai 'Hospital's depart- office, LI 8-9000. Students will be
admitted
at half-price.
Bnai Moshe's Town Hall Series ment of surgery in 1970. Former
p.m. Jan. 9 at the synagogue. director of cardiovascular surgery
Dr. Kantrowitz, who will speak at Maimonides Hospital in New
on "Modern Heart Surgery and the York, he is a full professor of sur-
gery at Wayne State Medical
School. He performed the first
Vandals Damage
heart transplant in the United
• Selected fine jewelry
States and recently installed an ar-
E. Berlin Synagogue
and Diamonds
tificial heart pump device in a
Large Selection of
BONN (JTA)—The synagogue in patient at Sinai. -
Fine
Opal Jewelry
the Reichstrasse in East Berlin
Audience questions will be hand-
Watch and Jewelry Repair
has been badly damaged by van- ed to him by-a panel consisting of
dals, according to reports reach- Larry Rockind, Town Hall series
LI 7-5068
ing here.
chairman; Norbert Reinstein, past
Neer Post Office
The well-known Jewish ceme- president of the congregation; and
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W. 9 Mile
tery in East Berlin has also been Abraham Brickner, executive di-
the target of attacks, it was re- rector, Michigan Heart Association.
ported, and several youths have
been arrested.
Heinz Galinski, bead of the West
Berlin Jewish community, said that
valuable windows in the synagogue
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had reportedly been smashed,
prayer books torn to pieces, and
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Other Jewish sources said the
attack on the synagogue was the
first anti-Semitic incident to be
reported from East Germany,
which has had a Jewish com-
munity of 1,560 since 1945.
(There are some 4,500 Jews in
West Berlin.)
The East Berlin daily. Berliner
Zeitung, denied the report -that a
synagogue in East Berlin had been
badly damaged by vandals. The
newspaper said that "all that hap-
pened was that a few children
threw stones through the—windows
of the synagogue's 'offices:"
When the combined Berlin 'Jew-
ish community celebrated its 300th
anniversary last SepteMber, East
Germany's religious affairs min-
ister gave an official pledge that
Jews could live safely in the East.
The East German goverMent - -has
financially aided the restoration
of synagogues, cemeteries and
Jewish -monuments destroyed by
the Nazis.
be honored at a
dinner in the
Judge Kaufman synagogue Jan.
marking
his
25th year of in-
25.
volvement in community affairs.
A Judge Nathan J. Kaufman
Library will be established in the
synagogue.
As joivenile court judge, Kauf-
man pioneered many programs
to aid juveniles in distress and
has been a friend of labor since
his early days of active union-1
ism. He was assistant prosecu-
tor, judge of common pleas and
for many years a Circuit Court
judge.
Irwin I. Cohn is chairman of
the Judge Nathan J. Kaufman
Tribute Dinner. Co-chairmen are
Dr. Robert Schlaff and Jack
Schon. For tickets, call Beth
Abraham-Hillel, 851 6880.
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Beth Abraham-Hillel
Offers Adult Classes
Cong. Beth Abraham-Hillel will
inaugurate its adult education ser-
ies 10 a.m. Jan. 16 with a course
on basic Judaism led by Rabbi
Israel I. Halpern and Rabbi Jerry
Godfrey, principal of the congre-
gational Hebrew schobl.
Sessions will be held every Sun-
day in the synagogue when He-
brew school is in session, and will
continue through May.
The course will summarize the
fundamental tenets of Judaism, its
Scruples certainly make men customs and practices, its holidays
miserable, and seldom make them and sanctions and taboos. The pub-
lic is invited.
good.—Samuel Johnson.
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Judge Nathan Kaufman to Receive
Beth Abraham-Hillel Service Award
Judge Nathan J. Kaufman of
Wayne County Circuit Court has
been named recipient of the first
community service award of Cong.
Beth Abraham-Hillel.
The honor is to be bestowed
upon a community member who
each year contributes to the wel-
fare of the com-
munity through
personal effort
and service.
Judge Kau f-
man, who with
his wife Beatrice,
is an active mem-
ber of Beth Abra-
ham - Hillel, will
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