18 December 26, 1975

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Black Converts form NY Synagogue

Synagogue

Services

ADAT SHALOM SYNAGOGUE: Services 6 p.m. today
and 9 a.m. Saturday. Kenneth Grander, Bar Mitzva.
TEMPLE BETH EL: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi
•Schwartz and Father Ronald Modras of St. John's
Provincial Seminary will speak on "The Church and
the Synagogue, Where Are They Going?" Services it
a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Schwartz will speak on "A
Woman's Right."
TEMPLE BETH -JACOB OF PONTIAC: Services 8:30
p.m. today. Rabbi Ballon will speak_ on "10 Years
After Vatican II."
CONG. BETH SHALOM: Services 6 p.m. today and 9 a.m.
Saturday. Rabbi Nelson will speak on "The Mood of
Our Times."
BIRMINGHAM TEMPLE: Services 8:30 p.m. today.
Rabbi Wine will speak on "The Future — How to
Prepare for It."
CONG. BNAI DAVID: Services 4:45 p.m. today and 8:30
a.m. Saturday. David Burg, Bar Mitzva.
CONG. BNAI ISRAEL OF PONTIAC: Services 8:30 p.m.
today. Rabbi Berman will speak on "The Authentic
Bat Mitzva." Ellen Kershenbaum, Bat Mitzva. Serv-
ices 7:30 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Berman will speak on
"The Righteousness of Moses."
CONG. BNAI MOSHE: Services 4:40 p.m. today and 8:45
a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Lehrman will speak on "The
Unchanging Pattern of Jew Baiting."
TEMPLE ISRAEL: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Fram
will speak on "1975 — The Year of the Triumph of
Zionism." Services 11 a.m. Saturday.
TEMPLE KOL AMI: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Con-
rad will speak on "Exodus 1975." James Portney, Bar
Mitzva.
Regular services will be held at Cong. Bais Chabad of
West Bloomfield _(Ealy Elementary School), Cong. Beth
Abraham-Hillel, Cong. Beth Achim, Cong. Beth Isaac of .

Trenton, Cong. Beth Jacob-Mogain Abraham, Cong. Beth
Moses, Cong. Beth Tefilo Emanuel Tikva, Cong. Bnai Israel-
Beth Yehuda, Dovid Ben Nuchim, Downtown Synagogue,
Temple Emanu-El, Ha-Ner Ha.:Tamid, Livonia Jewish Con-
gregation-, Cogg. Mishkan Israel Nusach H'Ari, Northwest
Detroit Israel Synagogue (Jewish Community Center),
Cong. Shaarey •Shomayim, Cong. Shaarey Zedek, Shomer
Israel (13430 W. Seven Mile), Cong. Shomrey Emunah,
Young Israel of Greenfield, Young Israel of Oak-Woods and
Young Israel of Southfield (27705 Lahser).

Sephardis Set Annual Dinner

The Sephardic Commu-
nity of Greater Detroit will
present its annual paid-up
membership dinner 5:30

Honors Continue
on Fram's 80th

In honor of his 80th birth-
day Dec. 12, Rabbi Leon
Fram, founding rabbi of
Temple Israel, was accorded
honors from the Rabbinical
CommiiSion of the Jewish
Community Council of Met-
ropolitan Detroit and the
Michigan Council of the
American Jewish Congress.
• The rabbinical cOuncil, in
a resolution, stated in part:

"Whereas he has been re-
sponsible for the formation
of the Rabbinical Commis-
sion of the Jewish Commu-
nity Council of Metropolitan
Detroit and has served as its
first chairman, and,
"Therefore be it re-
solved that his colleagues
and friends extend to him
their sincere felicitations
and best wishes on having
attained his 80th birthday

• • •

The AJCongress, mean-
while, renamed its Century
Club for the rabbi, titling it
the Rabbi Leon Fram Cen-
tury Club of the AJCon-
gress. The AJCongress
Council and Women's Divi-
sion will have a celebration
in Rabbi Fram's honor in
the spring.

.

p.m. Sunday at the Zionist
Cultural Center.
A full-course kosher
chicken dinner will be pre-
pared and served by the sis-
terhood. The committee in-
cludes Mary Papo,
chairperson; Shirley Gor-
mezano, Livia Katan,
Sharon Katan, Eta Moss,
Rita Rozencweig, Terresa
Senor, Flora Sevy, Sylvia
Sima and Dr. Elaine Soley-
mani. For infqrmation, call
Mrs. Papo, 547=.2379.
Dr. Sion Soleymani, pres-
ident, announces that this
year's dinner will -be a testi-
monial' to honor the reli-
gious committee of the Se-
phardic Community, which
is responsible for conduct-
ing High Holy Day services
each year. Special recogni-
tion will be accorded Rabbi
Samuel Betsalel, Ieshula
Ishakis, SaFtatore Katan,
David Hazan and Sam Moss.
New officers are: Dr. So-
leymani, president; Rabbi
Samuel Betsalel and Simon
Rozencweig, vice presidents;
Shirley Gormezano and
Mary Papo, segretaries;
Jack Gormeza,no, treasurer.
The board of directors in-
cludes Marcel and Shirley
Behar, David Chicorel, Lu-
cien Darmon, Bernard.
Jonas, Katan and Mrs. Ka-
tan, Mr. and Mrs. Moss, --
Mrs. Papo, secretaries;
Gabriel Salma, Gilbert and
Mrs. Senor, Mario and Mrs.
Sevy, Albert and Mrs. Sima.

BY BEN GALLOB

(Copyright 1975, JTA, Inc.)

An interracial Jewish
congregation, made up
mostly of black converts to
Judaism, was formed in the
Crown Heights section of
Brooklyn last September
under Orthodox auspices,
according to its founder and
preSident, Robert Coleman,
a one-time Baptist leader
who was converted about 10
years ago.
Coleman said that the
new congregation is consid-
ered interracial because sev-
eral black and white couples
are members, as are 16 sin-
gle white males. He said 20
families, totaling 60 men,
women and children, and in-
cluding the 16 single men,
make up Cong. Zichron
Rabbi ‘Eliezer Meskin,
named in memory of an Or-
th6klox rabbi who converted
the Coleman's and other
blacks to Judaism.
Coleman reiterated an
assertion he made publicly

in 1970 that most black boys and girls, in the' con-
Americans claiming to be gregational school.
The congregation also
*Jews, and who have formed
congregations, lacked ha- sponsors adult education
lakhic validity for their classes, led by Rabbi Yaacov
claims. Estimates were then Siegel, described by Cole-
made that there were more man as a Breslover Hassid
than 15,500 Black Jews in from Brooklyn's Boro Park
section. Basic Jewish reli-
the United States.
In announcing the gious lore makes up the cur-
Crown Heights congrega- riculum.'
tion, Coleman, a former — Coleman who is`currently
staff member of the Syn- director of an educational-
agogue Council of Amer- project in Crown Heights
ica,asserted that while funded by the U.S. Office of
there were other black Education, said that he and
Jewish "synagogues" in other officers of the congre-
the-United States, only the gation hope it will become a
Crown Heights congrega- seed-bed for future black
tion met halakhic require- rabbis, ritual slaughterers
ments. He said every adult and other ritual functionar-
-
member who was a con- ies.
He said that both the
vert had been converted by
white Jews and the Black
an Orthodox rabbi.
Jews were unlearned in
The congregation does not
Jewish lore and had felt
have 'a rabbi. Worship is led uncomfortable in the typi-
by yeshiva students, both
black and white, Coleman
said. There are 23 children,
most of them black, about
equally divided between

'

Book Takes In-Depth Look
at Soviet-U.S. Trade Issue

The "moral vacuum" puz-
zle emerging from the trade
with Russia issue confront-
ing the United States is tac-
kled with a firmness and a
serious challenge by Morris
Brafman and David Sehi-
mel. •
Collaborating in the writ-
ing of an impressive book
under the title "Trade for
Freedom: Detente, Trade
and Soviet Jews" (Shengold
Publishers), the two authors
touch upon the basic issues
related to one of the most
serious problems affecting
America and the Jewish
communities that are so to-
tally concerned about the
security of Soviet Jewry.

The book is the first at-
tempt to systematically
trace and analyze the his-
tory of U.S.-Soviet trade
from the October 1917
Trade Bill which established
freedom of emigration as a

Goldman to Speak
in San Francisco

Rabbi Jack Goldman,
Jewish chaplain and profes-
sor of English at Macomb
County Community College,
will address a seminar in
the Study of the Bible as
Literature at the 19th an-
nual convention of the Mod-
ern Language Association
of America,,,in San Pran-
cisco, Sunday.

precondition for Soviet re-
ceipt of U.S. Most Favored
Nation status and American
credits.
Brafman, an industrial-
ist and innovator.- of the
Trade for Freedoin con,-
cept, and Schimel, a young
academician and writer on
the Soviet-Jewish prob-
lem, address themselves to
a question that lies at the
core of detente:
Can the U.S. or its busi-
ness community pursue a
policy of trade with the
USSR within a moral vac-
uum? Their answer is that
they cannot and, more im-
portant, that they need not.
One of the things Braf-
man and Schimel contend is
within reach is a more flexi-
ble Soviet emigration policy
— particularly as it applies
to Jews.
They point out that ideo-
logically, the Russians can
justify giving up most of
their three million Jews to
Israel because this is an act
of repatriation and the repa-
triation of national minori-
tieS (e.g. the Soviet Armeni-
ans, the Spanish and the
Poles) is an established
principle in both Soviet law
and fact.

cal Crown Heights Ortho-
dox synagogue, partly be-
cause of such factors. as
the use of Yiddish as the
basic language and partly
because of the speed with
which Orthodox Jews ,
pray. Some had belongen
to the Lubavitch syn-
agogue.
Represented by Coleman,
such Jews, both Black and
white, approached Rabbi
Menachem Schneerson, the
Lubavitcher Rebbe, and
asked him for support for
the idea of forming a con-
gregation of their own. He
agreed, provided they
tained an Orthodox rabbi
serve as their rabbinic au-
thority.
Rabbi J. David Bleich,
who had, known Coleman
from his Synagogue Council
service, agreed to accept
that role.

Happy Anniversary

Mom & Dad

(Grandma & Grandpa)

Love:

Michelle & Dave, Melissa & Kim,

Debbie, Larry, Scott, & Leslie

Granddaughters: Amy & Alisha

The Turover Aid Society
Congregation Ezras Achim

In celebrating their

66th anniversary luncheon
have pledged $800.00

to JEWISH CHARITIES

Participating in the program were:

Mrs. Bella Honeyman, chairlady of the affair
Mrs. William Keller, pres.
Mr. Nathan Samit, vice pres. as Toastmaster
MR. JACOB NOSANCHUCK,
Honorary Pres. of Cong. Ezras Achim
Mr. Hyman Kravitz, past vice pres.
Abraham Richman, Sergeant of arms

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9 . YEARS

Synagogue Settles
With Cemetery

It was announced this
week that Machpelah Ceme-
tery has reached a settle-
ment with Cong. Bnai Israel
Beth Yehudah over control
of the cemetery.
A court suit brought by
the congregation and Cong.
Beth Jacob Mogain Abra-
ham against the cemetery
over control and ownership,
was dismissed last Decem-
ber in Oaklarid County Cir-
cuit Court. An appeal is still
pending before the Michi-
gan Court of Appeals.

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