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With the turn of the grager
and the munching of haman-
tashen, Purim will be cele-
brated Thursday night and
Friday, in recollection of the
happy event in long-ago Shu-
shan.
Fair Queen Esthers, wicked
Hamans and righteous Mor-
decais will compete for prizes
in carnival contests, and ac-
tivities for all ages have
been scheduled by syna-
gogues a n d organizations.
Although the Megila (Scroll
of Esther) is read in the syn-
agogue Thursday evening
and Friday morning, many
celebrations have bee 11
scheduled for this weekend
and into the following.
Beth Abraham-Hillel PTO
wiU hold a carnival noon
Sunday. The afternoon of
games and prizes will follow
a program of plays pre-
sented by various classes of
the religious school. Friends
and neighbors are invited.
Lahav United Synagogue
Youth will have its carnival
at Cong. Beth Achim noon-
4:30 p.m. Sunday. There will
be games and refreshments.
Cong. Briai Moshe Branch,
United Hebrew School PTO,
will have a Purim carnival
11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Sunday at
the 10 Mile Jewish Center.
There will be games, movies
and refreshments.
The Circle of Handicapped
Friends will sponsor a Purim
party 1:30 p.m. Monday at
the 10 Mile Jewish Center.
There will be entertainment
by Max Sosin.
Synagogues Must
Have Windows
Traditionalists insist that
the synagogue have windows.
Many trace this to the
biblical verse which de-
scribes Daniel as praying by
windows which faced in the
direction of Jerusalem. Some
authorities require 12 win-
dows which would represent
the 12 tribes of Israel.
Rashi, the famous com-
mentator. explained the re-
quirement of having windows
in the synagogue by saying
that windows allow the wor-
shiper to catch a glimpse
of the sky which would serve
as a means of inspiration to
him. There are others who
explain the need for win-
dows by contending that a
synagogue must not be a
place where the individual
or thee congregation as-
sembled in worship is iso-
lated from the rest of the
community or the rest of the
world.
Having windows in the
synagogue implies that the
synagogue is concerned with
the outside world around it.
The people in the synagogue
do indeed not only pray for
themselves. They offer pray-
er for all the people in the
community. This community
eventually involves all Jewry
and then even all humanity.
The synagogue thus also
seeks to lie an influence for
the good within the commu-
nity and not an isolated unit
cut off from life in general.
For this same reason Jewish
law also prohibited the build-
ing of a wall too close to the
synagogue windows.
Mishkan Israel Nursery
will present a Purim play
1:45 p.m. Wednesday at the
synagogue, to which the pub-
lic is invited. The synagogue's
youth department will have
a masquerade party for chil-
dren after the 7:45 p.m. Me-
Vaad Benefit
Sunday at Cobo
Rabbi Chaskel Grubner, di-
rector of the Council of Or-
thodox Rabbis, announced
many congregations and lay-
men have responded to the
45th anniversary banquet of
the Council of Orthodox Rab-
bis of Greater Detroit 6 p.m.
Sunday at Cobo Hall.
The event is on behalf of
the Vaad Harabonim, through
which this organization is
able to maintain its budget
for activities maintaining the
traditional Jewish way of life.
The council will honor Mr.
and Mrs. Max Biber, who
have been active in educa-
tional, charitable and Ortho-
dox activities.
David B. Hermelin, general
chairman, will be toastmas-
ter.
Foyer as Passageway
Into the Synagogue
Jewish tradition requires a
synagogue to have a foyer or
vestibule that one passes
through from the outside be-
fore entering the sanctuary
proper.
This is an old tradition
which is said to emulate the
arhcitecture of the ancient
temple in Jerusalem of which
the synagogue is a copy. The
famous Rabbi of Prague (the
Maharal) explains this re-
quirement by saying that one
should enter the sanctuary
of holiness in the synagogue
gradually. This means one
should condition' himself in
stages. One just doesn't pass
from the profane into the
holy without some kind of
conditioning. Passing through
the foyer which separates
the synagogue from the out-
side street impresses one
with the need of passing
through some phase of pre-
paredness before entering
the synagogue.
Congregational
Presidents Meet
The first Conference of
Presidents of Congregations
of the Michigan Region, Unit-
ed Synagogue of America,
was held recently at Cong.
Shaarey Zedek, of the Michi-
gan Region, which consists of
19 synagogues throughout
Michigan and is part of the
association of Conservative
congregations in the United
States and Canada.
The conference heard a
presentation by Richard H.
Lobenthal, Michigan regional
director of the Anti-Defama-
tion League, on "Current En-
ergy Crisis and Its Implica-
tions for the United States."
Rabbi Irwin Groner stress-
ed the importance of the syn-
agogue, and Milgrom sug-
gested that congregational
leadership should attempt to
attract Jews who are unaffil-
iated with any synagogue.
Other officers of the region
are Melvin Weisz, vice pres-
ident; Maurice Gelder, secre-
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS tary-treasurer; and Dr. Sid-
22—Friday, March 1, 1974
ney Selig, executive director.
gila reading Thursday. The
Bais Chabad Hasidic Student
Center is organizing a Purim
trip to the Lubavitcher world
headquarters in New York,
where college-age students
will attend a farbrengen. A
bus will leave Detroit and
Ann Arbor Wednesday and
return the following Sunday.
For information, call Rabbi
Yitschak` Kagan, 542-5058, or
Rabbi Yitschak Lipszyc, 548-
O667.
The Bayit, 16845 Muirland,
will hold its annual "Get
Smashed Bash" Purim Festi-
val Thursday, opening with
the Megila reading at 8:30
p.m. Hamantashen will be
served. According to the Ba-
yit everyone is invited, in-
cluding "old. friends, new
friend s, life-long enemies
(and their mothers), bubies
and zadies, kinderlach and
their mas and pas and the
usual bunch of misfits."
The Jewish Student Educa-
tional Forum will hold a cele-
bration noon Thursday in
Hilberry C of the University
Center Building, Wayne State
University. The Megila read-
ing, hamantashen and Israeli
folk dancing will be featured,
and all are welcome at no
charge.
Ada t Shalom Synagogue
will start a weekend of fes-
tivities with a family Megila
service 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
A celebration, including Is-
raeli dances and refresh-
ments, will follow. At a
Shabat 'dinner evening the
following day, the congrega-
tion's youth community will
lead a 5:45 p.m. service,
followed by the meal and a
short p 1 a y, "A Midrashic
Parable of Purim." For res-
ervations, call the synagogue
office, 851-5100. The annual
Purim carnival will be held
noon-4 p.m. March 10, under
the sponsorship of the youth
groups. There will be games,
prizes and refreshments. The
community is invited.
The Jewish Center will
have a Purim Extravaganza
March 8-10 for everyone in
the family. A dance concert,
"The Story of Purim," will
be performed by the Appren-
tice Dancers Guild 2 p.m.
March 10 in the Aaron DeRoy
Theater. Tickets are on sale.
Other activities will include
a Purim party, nursery car-
nival, tumbling acts and a
special senior adult nosheri.
Criterion Club will cele-
brate at its annual Purim
Ball 9 p.m. March 9 at the
Oak Park Community Center.
There will be dancing, prizes
hamantashen, social mixers
and the "coronation" of
Queen Esther, chosen by lot.
The public is invited.
The Zionist Revisionists of
Detroit will hold its Purim
ball 9 p.m. March 9 at the
Young Israel Center of Oak-
Woods.
Bnei Akiva also invites the
community to its carnival
1-4 p.m. March 10 at Young
Israel Center of Oak-Woods.
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