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A.M. • Tea Room • Boutiques • Educational Displays 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The Historic ORT Film "L'Chaim — To Life" w i ll be shown at 1 p.m. B'nai B'rith Detroit Lodge Chapter #436 Presents Zero Mostel & Harry Belafonte star in `The Angel Levine' o the Third Annual Theatre Party Tues., Mar. 19th, 8 p.m. Washington Theatre _ 422 S., Washington, Royal Oak Donation $3.50 For Tickets Call LI 3-5715 • 545-6841 • 968-2896 • 557-5462 Classified Ads Get Fast Results • New Reform Hagada Restores Many Traditions NEW YORK — Ref or m Jews this year will observe Passover with a new Hagada. The new worship volume, seven years in the making, has been prepared by the Central Conference of Amer- ican Rabbis. Leonard Baskin, noted art- ist, has provided 20 new watercolor illustrations de- picting the characters and symbolisms of the Passover ritual. A trade edition of the Hagada (10r14) will be re- leased by Grossman P u b - lishers, a division of Viking Press. Both the deluxe edi- tion and a paperback version (7x10) will be distributed ex- clusively by the CCAR. Rabbi Herbert Bronstein of North Shore Congregation. Israel, Glencoe, Ill., is the editor of :.the Hagada. A number of traditional Hagada symbolisms and a few new ones have been in- chided in the new text. The service of the plagues, describing the 10 calamities befalling the ancient Egypt- ians until they released the Israelites from slavery had been eliminated in the 1923 Reform service. This has been restored and reinter- preted to relay the hope for the deliverance of everyone from oppression. Another prayer that has been restored from tradition is the phrase "Next Year in Jerusalem" which was left out, according to Rabbi Bron- stein, because of the anti- Zionist feelings among Re- form Jews in the early 1900's and also because they had lost the symbolic meaning of Jerusalem as a representa- tion of the homecoming of all people, not only of Jews — the universal homecoming." As an example depicting the Reform Jews' recovery of the spiritual dimension in prayer, Rabbi Bronstein points to the inclusion of the Elijah service, where the door is opened for this super- natural visitor who repro-_ sents hope for the helpless and the coming of the mes- sianic kingdom of peace on earth. Rabbi Bronstein mentions an innovation introduced into the CCAR Hagada service— a fifth can of wine "drawing hope for the future from the symbolisms of the ancient Seder table and foods and prophets of Israel to the in- the 's e r v i c e has been de- spiration obtained by all Jews scribed for the layman by today from the state of Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut of Israel." Toronto's Holy Blossom The Hagada included a Temple. wide range of new and tradi- D r . Lawrence Hoffman, tional music prepared by a professor of liturgy at the sub-committee under the New York School of Hebrew guidance of Rabbi Malcolm Union College, has prepared Stern. a special historical account A chapter offering advice of the Hagada and t1-1 on the preparation of the service. Come Back, Sheba! By DAVID SCHWARTZ (Copyright 1974, JTA, Inc.) Ethiopia has been in the news lately, but not with the pleasant note of ye old days. What a story was that which the Associated Press carried some 2,500 years back! We have an old copy of the Jeru- salem Times telling about it. The type is mostly faded, but oddly enough the headline is still discernible: KING SOLOMON WELCOMES QUEEN OF SHEBA Israel people threw bou- quets enthusiastically greet- ing ruler of Ethiopia. The story of the Queen of Sheba's visit has gotten more play than all of Henry Kis- singer's visits. Even the Sun- day school children know it. So much has been written about this royal visit that it is difficult to distinguish be- tween fact and legend. The columnists of those days tell many strange things. For in-. stance, the columnist of the Midrash has a story that King Solomon directed his chefs to put extra salt in the Queen's dinner, so that later, becoming thirsty, she would go traipsing to his chambers where the water cooler was kept. Most of the papers, espe- cially the Midrash say the visit is educationally moti- vated. One reports that in order to test his wisdom, the Queen brought along a bunch of flowers, real and artificial, the latter so finely contrived as to be indistinguishable from the real. Solomon chuckled. He noticed nearby some bees. Opening the win- dow he let them in and see- ing the direction they went, knew, of course, immediately which were the real ones. The Queen of Sheba had a good laugh. Today, some profess to be able to talk to flowers. As far as Solomon is concerned, that was old hat. The Queen of Sheba was particularly im- pressed, according to the Midrash, by a conversation of Solomon with a butterfly. The King and Queen of Sheba happened to be passing when one butterfly standing on the Temple wall was talking to another butterfly boasting that if it wanted, it could cause the wall of the Temple on which it was standing, to cave in. Solomon was indigant. He had the bragging butterfly brought before him. "Why do you talk such nonsense?" he asked. "You know very well you couldn't budge the Tem- ple wall." "Well," said the butterfly, "Your Majesty, you know how it is. I wanted to impress my girl friend." But evidently, there was more to the visit of the Queen than nature study. The Bible speaks of the copper mines which Solomon worked. Until very recent times, however, there were no evidences of the existence of copper mines in Israel, and some skeptics thought the who matter was simply a pretty legend, but some twenty odd years back, Dr. Nelson Glueck of the Hebrew Union College discovered the mines in the N e g e v. The consensus of scholarly opinion today is that one of the purposes of the Queen of Sheba's visit was to purchase copper, but this does not deny the under- lying basis of the other stor- ies. A spirit of good will ex- isted between Israel and Ethiopia and trade and good will go together. Israel, under Solomon's long reign of 40 years enjoyed complete peace with her neighbors. If it has happened before, why cannot it happen again? Come back, Sheba! Camp Memoir Cited BONN — Germaine Tillon, ethnologist and university teacher, was awarded this year's "Prix Voltaire" for her book "Ravensbruck." in "The Plagues of Egypt" and "The Four Mothers of which she writes about the Israel," two of the 20 full-color original illustrations by time she spent in the con- Leonard Baskin from "A Passover Hagada," prepared by centration camp after 1943. the Central Conference of American Rabbis.