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Birmingham Temple Sets Humanists Parley
Sherwin Wine, founder of
the Society for Humanistic
Judaism and rabbi at the
Birmingham Temple, will be
one of the first speakers at
the 1974 annual conference of
the Fellowship of Religious
Humanists.
He and Robert Marshall,
minister of the Birmingham
Unitarian Church, will dis-
cuss "Religion and Rational-
tual has been under continu-
ous attack for failing to
improve the world through
the use of science and rea-
son. He has been contrasted
with the mystic, the intui-
tionist, the emotionalist and
the spiritual person who were
out of fashion for a while—
and who now have returned
to fashion."
Rabbi Wine will examine
these statements in his ad-
dress.
Other speakers include
Profs. Carl Cohen of the Uni-
versity of Michigan, Mary
Daly of Boston College and
Seymour Martin Lipset of
Harvard University.
Paul Kurtz, editor of The
Humanist magazine and pro-
fessor at State University of
New York, Buffalo, will
speak Sunday morning at the
Church. F o r information,
contact the Birmingham
Temple, 477-0177.
ism" at the opening session,
at 8:30 p.m. Oct. 11 at the
Temple. The meeting is open
to the public.
Saturday conference meet-
ings will feature three noted
professors. All will discuss
some aspect of the confer-
ence theme: "Is Rationalism
Dead?"
Rabbi Wine explained, "In
the last decade the_intellec-
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The Joys of Sukkot
One rabbi of the Talmud is
quoted as saying that anyone
who had not witnessed some
of the festivities marking the
celebration or Sukkot in Jeru-
salem cuoldn't know what joy
is.
Sukkot is a very interest-
ing holiday. Even its name is
interesting. It is called "the
Feast of the Booths."
A booth is a small house.
Imagine a holiday called the
Feast of Houses
Sukkot, the Bible says, is a
remembrance of the fact that
when the Israelites went forth
from Egypt, they made their
dwellings in little houses
called sukkas.
The Israelites didn't have
any Israel Bonds or WA to
raise money for them, so
Moses had them erect sukkot.
We have a tremendous
housing problem today and
maybe if all America cele-
brated a Feast of Houses, it
might help to its solution.
Recently, there was held a
conference of America's lead-
ing economists. President
Ford opening the conference,
remarked that if any of them
brought forth a solution to the
economic problems facing
America, his statue would be
erected in all the parks of
the country.
The conference brought
forth many suggestions about
cutting down the spending,
tight money, loose money. No
mentioned houses.
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Perhaps if the conference
had been held in a sukka, it
would have helped.
Moses was against stone
statues, but maybe he de-
serves that statue in the park.
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He solved the housing prob-
lem of his people.
When the housing problem
is settled satisfactorily, there
isn't too much left of the eco-
nomic problem.
The wandering Jews built
sukkas. So did the wandering
Americans. A log cabin was
not very different from a
sukkah.
William Henry Harrison
was the log cabin President.
In his campaign, log cabins
were paraded through the
streets. Abraham Lincoln was
born in a log cabin. Thoreau
built his log cabin at a cost
of $25. When you have to pay
so little rent, you don't have
to go to a psychiatrist so
much, you have less worries
and you have time to study
nature as Thoreau did. And
there is less crime. There
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright 1974, JTA, Inc.)
were no muggings in early
America.
Adam Smith maintained
that high rents also , mean
high prices.
To be sure, in eaL 'v Amer-
ica, land was abundant.
Today land is like gold.
This is a problem, but per-
haps Moses had the answer.
The Mosaic laws were de-
signed against land monopoly.
The land was supposed to be
for all like the sun and the
air. Every 50 years, the
land was to be re-distributed.
The distinguished economist,
Prof. Franz Oppenheimer, a
friend of Theodor Herzl be-
lieved the land question was
basic in economics, that land
monopoly was responsible for
high interest and low wages.
Pity he couldn't be at the
President's conference!
Bais Chabad Tells Simhat Torah Plans
Bais Chab ad of West
Bloomfield is offering a spe-
cial service to West Bloom-
field residents who wish to
celebrate Simhat Torah with
the Lubavitcher Hasidim.
The congregation will offer
accommodations to neighbor-
hood residents who wish to
make overnight arrange-
ments to celebrate the holi-
day.
Services will be held '7 p.m.
Monday, 9:30 a.m. Tuesday,
and 9:30 a.m. and 7 p.m.
Wednesday at the home of
Mr. and_Mrs. Theodore Schol-
nick, 6265 Northfield, West
Bloomfield. The special Ha-
kafot service, complete with
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singing and dancing, will be
held 8 p.m. Tuesday at Hillel
Day School. Admission is
free.
The congregation announces
it also holds a regular min-*
yan 9 a.m. Saturdays at Ger-
trude Ealy School.
For information or accom-
modation reservations, call
the Lubavitcher Center, 548-
2666, or Rabbi Berel Shem-
tov, 398-2611-2.
Happy is the generation
where the great listen to the
small, for it follows in such
a generation the small will
listen to the great.
— Talmud
Friday, October 4, 1974-19
You are cordially invited to attend the
Aiva meted rew 1)ct y &loot ot4 Amiveriar
e
anquet.
MAX M. FISHER, Honorary Chairman
Sunday evening, October 20, 1974 at Beth Achim
Banquet Hall, 21100 W. 12 Mile, Southfield
Featuring Special Guest of Honor
The Honorable Abba Eban, M.K.
Former Foreign Minister of Israel
The Honorable Mr. Eban will present Akiva with
the 1974 Spiritual Bridges Award of the World
Zionist Organization's Department for Torah
Education and Culture.
Tickets for this gala event, 5 50 per person.
For reservations and information,
Call: 354-4664.
The Honorable Abba Eban, M.K.
Former Foreign Minister of Israel
Honoree Rabbi James I. Gordon
Co-founder of Akiva, will receive the
Rabbi Akiva Award for his outstanding
and long-time dedication to the school.
AK1VA HEBREW DAY SCHOOL, The Best of Two World's.
21550 WEST 12-MILE ROAD, SOUTHFIELD 48076