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ZOO Greets Scholarship Winners

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'To Israel With Hebrew'

Offers the second lesson in Hebrdw, coupled with a

Travelogue of Israel

Zionist Organization of Detroit scholarship winners were intro-
troduced to the membership at the annual meeting, May 11. Scholar-
ship winners and committee members of the Philip Slomovitz
Scholarship Fund at the presentation included (from left) seated:
Dr. Jack R. Greenberg, newly-elected ZOD president; Mrs. Greenberg;
Philip Slomovitz; and Dr. Joel I. Hamburger, new chairman of the
ZOO executive committee; standing, Dr. Sidney Z. Leib, Alissa
Torgow, Cynthia Zack, Paul Strasberger, Reena Zoldan, Judi Weiss
and Louis Panush. Not pit-timed is Arthur Zebrack, who now is at-
tending the Mollie Goodman High School at Kfar Silver in Israel on
a ZOD scholarsnip. In addition, Robert Schwartz and Allan Shapiro
will attend a seven-week summer program sponsored by ZOA.
Besides Arthur Zebrack, Mary Louise Gordon and Benson Wein-
garten from this area also are studying at the Kfar Silver Mollie
Goodman High School.

Shavuot—Feast of Weeks Marks
First Fruits and Israel Harvest

significant historical events in the
From Encyclopedia Judaica
Shasuot ("Weeks," Pentecost, life o (the people. Since Passover
"the 50th day") celebrated on and Sukkot are connected with the
the sixth of Sivan (and also on the Exodus, it was natural to link
seventh outside of Israel) occurs Shavuot with this event. When this
transformation took place is not
this year on May 19.
It is one of the three pilgrim exactly clear but the earliest clear
festivals created to mark the end references to Shavuot as the anni-
of the barley and beginning of the versary of the going of the Torah
wheat harvest. It is stated in Lev- are from the 3rd Century.
Customs
iticus' "Fried the day after the
In the synagogue it is customary
Sabbath. the day that you bring
to
read
the
Book
of Ruth on Sha-
you
the sheaf of wave-offering
shall count (until) seven full weeks vuot since the events recorded in
have elapsed—you shall count 50 Ruth took place at harvest time.
(lays. until the day after the Ruth was the ancestor of David.
seventh day. then you shall bring who traditionally died on Shavuot.
an offering of new grain to the Ruth's "conversion" is appropriate
Lord - i I-cy. to 15 tt and to 21). reading for the festival which com-
The new Encyclopedia Judaica memorates the giving of the Torah.
and Ruth's loyalty is symbolic of
explains further:
Since the sheaf was waved on Israel's loyalty to the Torah.
It is customary to adorn the
the day after the Sabbath on the
festival of Passover, Shavuot falls synagogue with plants and flowers
50 days after this day. Shavuot was on Shavuot because tradition has it
also associated with the bringing that Sinai was a green mountain..
of the bikkurirn ("the first ripe trees symbolize Shavuot as judg-
ment day for the fruit of the tree
fruits") to the Sanctuary.
It is a home custom to eat dairy
In raLbinic times a remarkable
transformation of the festival took products on Shavuot because the
place, and it became the anniver- Torah is ccinpared to milk and
sary of the giving of the Tor .ah at because the law of the first fruits
Sinai. This was in accord with a is placed in juxtapositicn to a law
process to he observed in the Bible concernin4
Biblical names for the festival
which the ancient agricultural
feasts were transformed into festi- are Hag Shavuot and Yom ha-bik-
kurirn,
Hag haAatzir.
vals marking the anniversary of

-Nonviolent Militancy' troreil for Jews

he declared that "a militant, but
non-violent - stance was an alterna-
tive to "submissiveness and si-
lence" and - hoping for the best'
when Jeoish interests were threat
ened. He further declared: "I
believe in the granting of libera
Bon and self-determination for all
minority groups. but not at the es
pense of Jews."
The conference was sharply
criticized shortly before it op-
ened in a statement issued by
Rabbi Robert J. Marx, director
Boer
of the New York Federation of
The conference was attended
Reform Synagogues. "It is not a
by representatiyeS of local corn.
conference at all but a mass
mortal groups, synagogues and
meeting, and a mass meeting is
Jewish eisil sersice groups con-
not the way to deal with the
cerned by des elopments in New
problems that confront us to-
lurk (Its which se-em to pose
day," Rabbi Marx said.
serious threats to the Jewish
Rabbi I Usher Kirshblum of the
rommunitY.
Kew Gardens Hills Jewish Center.
of the Nesv York Board
math n ,u ,,i i t tim.--n faculty and of Babb: , and a former president
.0.11,11,•
of the lialibmical Assembly of
( . 111■14111 of the
and lit, I rh, to --its
Queen- told the Jewish Tele
the
nc
r r , 14 e
civ-1
graph], A4cncv afterward. that his
0' and the
of Inc .1,•,101
walk out nos to protest the
at itin
dritm.
- rabble roining" attitude in which
hrod communities
the conference was called and jkitui
Rat!, Berkiioitz oho ti resided. lack of democracy in the meeting
set tho tone of the meeting ,hen format

'i i MK I i'r •■■ — A "grass
NF.
roots emergency conference - of
the New Verk slew o-,h coin munity.
cane I by Rabbi William Berko-
witz, president of the New York
Board of Rabbis, dress sonic 1.200
participants Monday night.
It al•. drew sharp criticism from
the head of another rabbinical
group and Inas colic ened by the
walk„nt 14 about two dozen per-
sons t rittesting the refusal of the
panel to allow questions from the

56 — Friday, May 19, 1972

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LESSON 2

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