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. - Pe.shibatb BINGO CONG. BETH SHALOM 14801 WEST LINCOLN OAK PARK EVERY TUES. 7:30 P.M. - BINGO CONGREGATION B'NAI DAVID EVERY THURS. 7:45 24350 SOUTHFIELD RD. SOUTHFIELD, MICH. • • • ••••• • BINGO AKIVA HEBREW DAY SCHOOL 40 SANS SOUCI HALL ON 9 MILE AT MIDDLEBELT EVERY SUNDAY 7: 1 5 P.M. ■ BINGO CONGREGATION BETH ACHIM 21100 W. 12 MILE SOUTHFIELD WED., 7:30 P.M. BINGO BETH ABRAHAM-HILLEL 5075 W. MAPLE BETWEEN MIDDLEBELT A INKSTER MONDAYS 7:30 P.M. TSetli Vei,hubab r a bet: 1-2C :75° Mane, Bus, Car and Hotel 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. . 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