22 Friday, April 18, 1975
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Celebrating Lag Ba-Omer
Synagogue
Services
ADAT SHALOM SYNAGOGUE: Services 6 p.m. today
and 9 a.m. Saturday. The Gimel Class will be honored.
(See story.) Samuel Gray, Bar Mitzva.
CONG. BETH ABRAHAM-HILLEL: Services 6 and 8:15
p.m. today. Rabbi Halpern will speak on "Child, Par-
ent, Teacher: a Jewish Trinity." Joanne Altschul,
Bat Mitzva at late services. Services 9 a.m. Saturday.
Rabbi Halpern will speak on "Our Environment —
How Bad Is It Really?" Bruce Schreier and Mark Gol-
din, Bnai Mitzva.
TEMPLE BETH EL: Services 8:30 P.m. today. Rabbi
Schwartz will speak on "I Wonder Who's Kissinger
Now?" Michael Simmons, Bar Mitzva. Services 11 a.m.
- Saturday. Rabbi Hertz will speak on "The New Con-
cept of Holiness:"
TEMPLE BETH JACOB OF PONTIAC: Services 8:30
p.m. today. Rabbi Berkowitz will speak on "Ques-
tions Reform Jews Ask." Adam Stein, Bar Mitzva.
CONG. BETH SHALOM: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi
Nelson, Cantor Greenbaum and the synagoguge choir
will give a special presentation for Israel Indepndende
Day. Elaine Fritz and Janice Starr, Bnot Mitzva. Serv-
ices 9 a.m. Saturday. An adult Bar Mitzva ceremony
will take place. (See story.)
BIRMINGHAM TEMPLE: Services 8:30 p.m. today.
Rabbi Wine will speak on "Jacob Bronowski — the
Ascent of'Man." Matthew Gluckman, Bar Mitzva.
CONG. BNAI DAVID: Services 6:45 p.m. today and 8:30
a.m. Saturday. Randal Sosin, Bar Mitzva.
CONG. BNAI ISRAEL OF PONTIAC: Services 8:30 p.m.
today. Rabbi Berman will speak on "What Is an
Open Society?" Services 7:30 a.m. Saturday.
CONG. BNAI MOSHE: Services 6:45 p.m. today and 8:45
a.m. Saturday. =Rabbi Lehrman will speak on
"Knowing What Is Sacred." Richard Demak, Bar
Mitzva. .
TEMPLE ISRAEL: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Fram
will speak on "An Open Letter to President Ford."
(See story.) Mark Weisberg, Bar Mitzva. Services 11
a.m. Saturday. David Segal, Bar Mitzva.
TEMPLE KOL AMI: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Con-
rad will speak on "Is Israel Indepndent?"
CONG. MISHKAN ISRAEL NUSACH H'ARI: Services
7:15 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Gottlieb
will speak on "The Ultimate Purpose of Man."
Stuart Sherman, Bar Mitzva.
CONG. SHAAREY SHOMAYIM: Services 7 p.m. today
and 9 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Leo Goldman will speak
on "The Price for Gossip."
CONG. SHAAREY ZEDEK: Services 6 p.m. today and
8:45 a.m. Saturday. Rabbis Groner and Lifshitz, Can-
tor Barkin and IrVing TUkel will present a cantata,
"A Moment of Time," in honor of Israel Indepndence
Day. (See story.) Lindsay Gross and Daniel Aronovitz,
Bnai Mitzva.
Regular services will be held at Cong. Beth Achim (late
services 8:15 p.m.), Temple Emanu-El, Livonia Jewish Con-
gregation, Cong. Beth Moses, Young Israel of Oak-Woods,
Cong. Bais Chabad of West Bloomfield (Ealy Elementary
School), Cong. Bnai Jacob, Beth Jacob-Mogain Abraham,
Cong. Beth Isaac of Trenton, Young Israel of Southfield
(27705 Lahser), Bnai Israel-Beth Yehuda, Downtown Syn-
agogue, Shomrey Emunah, Cong. Beth, Tefilo Emanuel
Tikva, Young Israel of Greenfield, Northwest Detroit Israel
Synagogue (Jewish Community Center) and Shomer Israel,
13430 W. Seven Mile.
Minyan will be held 5:45 p.m. Monday through Thursday
and 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Temple Israel. A daily minyan
and Sabbath services are held at Temple Beth El and the
Northwest Detroit Israel Synagogue.
Adat Shalom Cites Its UHS Students
The Gimel classes of the
United Hebrew School
branch at Adat Shalom
Synagogue will be honored
with their teachers at serv-
ices 9 a.m. Saturday in the
synagogue.
The classes, conducted by
Mrs. Rachel Carmi and Mrs.
Jackye Drapkin, will be
called to the Torah. A med-
ley of Hebrew songs will be
presented under the direc-
tion of Mrs. Carmi.
The students are: Ann
Baker, David Bean, Mi-
chelle Bomze, Jocelyn
Cohen, Sheryl Cohen, Dan-
iel Klaper, Steven Klein,
Joan Nadler, Sandy Neu-
virth, Jonathan Nuss-
baum, Leslie Rautbort,
Randy Rein, Adam Rosen,
Bruce Sandler, Sandra
Shapiro, Noreen Stillman,
Nancy Tachna, Martin
Weinstein and Marcy Wo-
ronoff.
Also Kenneth Baskin,
Brett Chudler, Denise
Cohen, Julie Czeisler, Renae
Fiszbein, Andrew Goldberg,
Keith Irtenkauf, , David
Kent, Bruce Labell, Fran-
cine Mondrow, Steven Mur-
ray, David.Naftaly, Julie
Rakotz, Celia Rubenstein,
Julie Rubin, Mark Rubin-
stein, Dale Sklar, Robert
Slobin, Marla Sokol, Mark
Vernick, Michael Warsh,
,Cheryl Warshawsky, Daniel
Weinstein, Peter Woll and
Brenda Zoldan.
Lag Ba-Omer (celebrated
this year on April 29) is the
33rd day of the counting of
the Omer, which is reckoned
from the second day of Pas-
sover until Shavuot. ("Lag"
is the equivalent of 33 in He-
brew letters). It has been
celebrated as a semi-holiday
since the Middle Ages, the
Encyclopaedia Judaica
states.
On Lag Ba-Omer the tra-
ditional mourning customs
of abstention kept during
the Omer period are lifted:
haircutting and shaving are
permitted, marriages are
celebrated, and other sorts
of entertainment are en-
joyed.
According to 'talmudic
and midrashic sources,
24,000 disciples of Rabbi
Akiva died of a: plague dur-
ing the period between Pas-
sover and Shavuot because
they did not sufficiently
honor one another.
The plague ceased on
the day of Lag Ba-Omer
which, consequently, be-
came a holiday, especially
for rabbinical students in
the Middle Ages (the
"Scholar's festival"). It
was customary to rejoice_
on that day through var-
ious kinds of merrymak-
ing.
According to one inter-
pretation of Exodus 16, the
manna began to fall on Lag
Ba-Omer giving another
reason for the holiday. The
Kabalists hold this date to
be the anniversary of the
death of Simeon ben Yohai,
regarded by them as the
author of the Zohar.
It is celebrated in Israel in
the village of Meron (near
Safed) where Simeon ben
Yohai is traditionally
thought to be buried. The
celebrations are carried out
with songs and dances by
Education Institute Set for
Temple Teachers Sunday
The regional director of
the Pennsylvania Council of
the Union of American He-
brew Congregations will
conduct an "Educators In-
stitute" 1:30 p.m. Sunday
for the religious school
staffs of the Reform congre-
gations in the area at Tem-
ple Beth El.
Rabbi Lewis Bogage will
conduct the two-hour work-
shop around the theme
"Jewish Futures through
Education." He is conduct-
ing a series of workshops
throughout the region on
new educational techniques
and methodology.
He will be assisted at the
workshop by Rabbi David S.
Hachen, who is regional
rabbi for the Northeast
Lakes Council of the UAHC
and a member of the com-
mission on Jewish educa-
tion. .
the thousands who gather
there. -
A special hymn, con-
sisting of 10 stanzas corre-
sponding to the 10 Sefirot in
the Kabala, is sung on this
occasion. Three-year-old
boys are given their first
haircut while their parents
distributedlwine and sweets.
The same rites, says the En-
-cyclopaedia Judaica, are
observed at the grave of Si-
meon the Just, in Jerusa-
lem.
The custom of the chil-
dren playing with a bow
and arrows on Lag Ba-
Omer is traced; by certain
scholars, to a story about
the students of Rabbi Ak-
iva who, it is suggested,
actually fell fighting
against the Romans in the
revolt led by Bar Kokhba.
Lag Ba-Omer in modern
Israel is a school holiday
Youngsters light bonfires in
open spaces in towns and
villages and Students' Day
is celebrated on 'the cam-
puses of the universities.
Scores of weddings are held
on Lag Ba-Omer.
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Pe.shibatb
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ReServations
Congregation B'nai Moshe
AND THE
Cantors Assembly of America
present WorldTamous
RABBI BOGAGE
Temple Women Set
All-Female Service
Cantor
David
KUSEVITSKY
In A Concert of
The Temple Emanu-El
Sisterhood will present an
original all-female Sabbath
service 8:15 p.m. April 25 in
the temple.
The service, entitled "A
New Song", was written and
compiled by Marion Lu--
sardi, Nancy Blumenthal
and Elaine Stein. A special
feature• of the evening will
be a sermon in song by Gail
Posner, one of six female
cantorial students in the
United States.
Ms. Posner is enrolled in a
five-year program at the
School of Sacred Music,
Hebrew Union College-Jew-
ish Institute of Religion,
New York and plans to be-
come a cantor. The public is
welcome.
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CANTORIAL, HEBREW AND
YIDDISH SELECTIONS
ALSO
Cantor LOUIS KLEIN
and the
B'nai Moshe Choral Ensemble
AT THE PIANO: DOREEN RASKIN — DR. SHOLOM KALIB
CANTOR — BETH MOSES
SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 8:00 P.M.
at the Synagogue-14390 W. 10 Mile
TICKETS: SYNAGOGUE OFFICE
PHONE 548-9000
ADULT $3.50
STUDENTS $1.50