THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
20—Friday, May 17, 1974
Early Deadline
for Shavuot
SERVICES
SYNAGOGUE
CONG. MISHRAN ISRAEL: Services 8:45 p.m. today and 9
a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Gottlieb will speak on "Sabbath
Unto the Lord." Eric `Applebaum, Bar Mitzva.
TEMPLE BETH JACOB of Pontiac: Services 8:30 p.m. to-
day. Rabbi Berkowitz will speak on "What Is Religious
Education All About?" Steven Kroot, Bar Mitzva.
TEMPLE KOL AMI: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Con-
rad will speak on "Issues That Divide the Community."
Services 10:30 a.m. Saturday. Mark Zeme, Bar Mitzva.
ADAT SHALOM SYNAGOGUE: Services 6 p.m. today and
9 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Segal will speak on "The View
From the Mountain—Everyman's Vision." Martin Leder-
man, Bar Mitzva.
TEMPLE ISRAEL: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Cantor Orbach
will deliver a sermon in song, "Zion Rise and Shine."
(See story). Scott Friedman and Steven Wolk, Bnai
Mitzva. Services 11 a.m. Saturday. Jeffrey Morton, Bar
Mitzva.
CONG. BETH SHALOM: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi
Nelson will speak on "Would an Exorcist Help?" Julie
Abel and Faith Goldin, Bnot Mitzva. Services 9 a.m.
Saturday. Rabbi Nelson will speak on "The Way Rabbis
See Things." Charles Gibbs and David Ritter, Bnai
Mitzva.
TEMPLE EMANU-EL: Services 8:15 p.m. today and 10:15
p.m. Saturday. Rabbi Rosenbaum will speak on "What
Did You Learn This Year?"
TEMPLE BETH EL: Services 8:30 p.m. today. James J.
Levbarg will speak on "So What's New in Jewish Edu-
cation?" Jill Franklin, Bat Mitzva. Services 11 a.m.
Saturday. Rabbi Hertz will speak on "If Stephen S.
Wise Were Alive Today." Robert Canvasser, Bar
Mitzva.
CONG. SHAAREY SHOMAYIM: Services 8:45 p.m. today
and 9 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Leo Goldman will speak on
"The Warning to Israel."
CONG. BNAI ISRAEL of Pontiac: Services 8:30 p.m. today.
Rabbi Berman will speak on "Can Judaism Survive?
Heidi Rosner, Bat Mitzva. Services 7:30 a.m. Saturday.
BIRMINGHAM TEMPLE: Services 8:30 p.m. today. The
'high school philosophy class will present "An Evening
With Marx, Laing and Watts."
CONG. SHAAREY ZEDEK: Services 6 p.m. today and 8:45
a.m. Saturday. Michael Metzger and David Newman,
Bnai Mitzva.
CONG. BETH MOSES: Services 7 p.m. today an4 8:45 a.m.
Saturday. Daniel Wuethrich, Bar Mitzva.
CONG. BNAI MOSHE: Services 7 p.m. today and 8:45 a.m.
Saturday. Marc Wizel, Bar Mitzva.
CONG. BETH ACHIM: Services 7 p.m. today and 8:45 a.m.
Saturday. Lyle Lieberman, Bar Mitzva.
Regular services will be held at Young Israel of Oak-
woods, Livonia Jewish Congregation, Cong. Bnai David,
Cong. Beth Abraham-Hillel, Cong. Bnai Jacob, Young Israel
of Greenfield, Beth Jacob-Mogain Abraham, Cong. Bnai
Zion, Cong. Dovid Ben Nuchim, Cong. Buis Chabad, Beth
Isaac of Trenton, Young Israel of Southfield (27705 Lahser),
Bnai Israel-Beth Yehuda, Downtown Synagogue, Cong.
Shomrey Emunah, Cong. Beth Tefilo Emanuel Tikva and
Shomer Israel, 13430 W. Seven Mile.
Minyan will be held at 5:45 p.m. Monday through
Thursday and 9:30 a.m. Sunday at Temple Israel. A daily
minyan and Sabbath services are held at Temple Beth El
and 17376 Wyoming.
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the synagogue. A reception
will follow, and the public
is invited.
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Because the first day
of Shavuot and Mem-
orial Day fall on
Monday, May 27, there
will be an early dead-
line for the issue of
Friday, May 31. All
publicity must be in
the Jewish News office
by noon Friday, May
24. Copy that arrives
after deadline will be
held for the following
we ek if it is still
timely.
Shavuot
Traditions:
LateVintage
The festival of Shavuot,
which will be celebrated May
27 and 28, has few special
rituals. Those which it does
h a v e says Encyclopedia
Judaica, are of late origin,
and many were established
in the present generation.
Shavuot marks the end of
the barley and the beginning
of the wheat harvest and, ac-
cording to the Bible, is con-
sequently nothing but an
agricultural festival. The
earliest clear reference to
Shavuot as the anniversary
of the giving of the Tablets
of the Law says the E/J,
date to the Third Century CE
The harvest associations no
longer had much meaning
once the Temple was des-
troyed, and there are ob-
viously no biblical cere-
monies connected with the
giving of the Torah since this
motif is post-biblical.
In the synagogue it is cus-
tomary to read the Book of
Ruth on Shavuot. Among the
reasons given are: that the
events recorded in Ruth took
place at harvest time; that
Ruth was the ancestor of
D a v i d who, traditionally,
dies on Shavuot; that Ruth's
"conversion" to Judaism is
appropriate reading for the
festival which commemo-
rates the giving of the Torah;
and that Ruth's loyalty is
symbolic of Israel's loyalty
to the Torah.
In Israel's kibutzim,. says
the E/J, Shavuot is cele-
brated as "Hagigat ha-Biku-
rim," the Festival of - the
First Fruits, a name which
appears in the Bible. Kibutz
celebrations originated in the
1920s and 1930s as an attempt
to recapture the "ancient
Hebrew" — mainly the agri-
cultural — character of Jew-
ish holidays.
The Festival of the First
Fruits marks the peak of the
first grain harvest and the
first ripe fruits. The seven
species mentioned in the
Bible (wheat, barley, vines,
pomegranates, olive trees, fig
trees, and honey) are repre-
sented graphically as well as
through song and dance.
There are also mass rallies
to bring offerings of first
fruits to the Jewish National
Fund.
In some medieval commun-
ities it was customary to
introduce children to the He-
brew school on Shavuot, the
season of the giving of the
Torah.
Confirmation, Treger Concert Tuesday
A Soviet Jewish violinist at major congregations in
Graduation Set who
found his way to the the area.
world will perform on
at Beth Jacob free
behalf of his still-oppressed
Temple Beth Jacob of Pon-
tiac will hold its graduation
exercises and confirmation
service on Shavuot, 7:30 p.m.
May 26.
Henry Winkelman, presi-
dent of the temple, and
Steven Fish, chairman of the
religious school, announce the
following students will be
confirmed:
Alan Barnett, Julie Cherno,
K a r en Dickstein, Stefani
Krinsky, Jeffrey Leitson,
Ross Mandel, Susan Miller,
Susan Stulberg, Jody Talan
and Karen Weiss.
The following students will
graduate from the temple
high school department:
Karen Green, Ken Kroot
and Julie Simon.
A time of crisis is a time
brethren in a concert 8:30 for reflection and re-evalua-
p.m. Tuesday at Cong. tion.
Shaarey Zedek.
Alexander Treger, a pro-
tege of David Oistrakh, will
play works by Mozart and
Brahms, with an orchestra
conducted by Julius Chajes.
Toronto's Russian Folk
The event, primarily spon-
Ensemble (Raduga)
sored by the Detroit Corn-
and
mittee for Soviet Jewry, is
cosponsored by local congre-
gations and organizations. THE RUSSIAN FOLK ENSEMBLE
All proceeds are earmarked
of Detroit
to aid Soviet Jews.
will jointly present
Also on the program will
be songs by Cantor Jacob
an evening of
Barkin and orchestral pieces
entertainment, folk
written by Chajes.
dancing, music & songs.
Tickets can be purchased
Concert to be held
RUSSIAN
CONCERT
Sunday, May 19th--5 p.m.
Adat Shalom
Sets All-Night
Shavuot Rites
Adat Shalom Synagogue
will reinstitute the Tikkun
Layl Shavuot-Shavuot mid-
night study session 9 p.m.
May 26 at the synagogue.
The Tikkun will conclude
1 p.m. May 27. Three study
sessions will be presented
led by Rabbi Jacob E. Segal;
Steven Posen, instructor in
the synagogue's teen-age
youth community school; and
Rabbi Seymour Rosenbloom,
assistant rabbi.
Between sessions, there
will be breaks for singing,
dancing, and refreshments.
At about 11:15 p.m. tradi-
tional dairy foods will be
served.
For reservations, call the
youth education office, 851-
5100. The public is invited.
Beth El. Marrieds
Elect New Officers
Fred Simon was elected
president at the recent an-
nual meeting of the Married
Group of Temple Beth El.
Other officers include Lynn
Jacob and Gary Goodfriend,
vice presidents; Todd Poll-
yea, treasurer; and Sue
Rubenstein and P hy I lis
Rochen, secretaries.
The board of directors in-
cludes Dr. Charles and Caro_
lyn Greenberg; Barry and
Lusan Lepler, Ron and Suz-
anne Lowy, Dr. Dan and
Dorothy Levitsky, Herman
and Barbara Moehlman,
Paul and Harriet Oxenberg,
James and Mary Sue White-
head and Melvin and Betty
Wexler.
Banquet to Honor
Oak-Woods Ladies
"A Tribute to Sisterhood"
will be the theme of the 20th
annual banquet of Young
Israel of Oak-Woods 6:30
p.m. June 5 at the syna-
gogue.
Past sisterhood presidents
will be honored. They are
Mesdames Beril Bloom, Da-
vid Dombey, Samuel Glanz,
Jack Cohn, Morris Trager,
Hyman Groskind, Sol Man-
delbaum and Miss Elsie
Rod d.
Chairman of the event is
Alex Roberg with David
Fortunately, for m a n y, 'Friedman as co-chairman.
prayers are not always an- For reservations, call the
synagogue, 398-1177.
swered.
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EVERY TUES. 7:30 P.M.
at Serbian Memorial Hall
19940 VanDyke at Outer Dr.
Tickets sold at door
Students S2
Adults $3
Buffet Supper and Bar
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Soloists:
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at
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SUNDAY, JUNE 2, 3:30 P.M.
Free Admission