22 Friday, August 6, 1976
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Black Congregant to Celebrate Bar Mitzva
Ceremony Saturday at Cong. Beth Shalom
Cantor Samuel Green-
baum also will partici-
pate.
Boyer was a follower of
the Baptist faith. He at-
tended Cass Technologi-
cal High School where he
had many Jewish friends
who often talked about
Israel. After the Six-Day
War Boyer read on his
own about Israel.
In 1973 he went to Israel
where he "fell in love"
with the country, and after
visiting several
synagogues there decided
to convert to Judaism. He
wanted to convert in Is-
rael, but waited until he
returned to Detroit.
By HEIDI PRESS
Cong. Beth Shalom will
celebrate its first Bar
Mitzva of a black con-
gregant at 9 a.m. Shabat
services Saturday in the
sanctuary.
Glen Boyer of Westland
will be called to the Torah
by Rabbi David Nelson.
ADVANCE NOTICE
for the FIRST TIME
in the history of
CONG. BNAI DAVID
tickets for the
High Holidays
Family Picnic Set
in the
Rotenberg Hall, will
be available.
Detroit's Young Israel
congregations will join
for a family picnic 11 a.m.
Sunday at Oak Park
Major Park, near the
Northfield St. parking
area.
There will be games
and prizes. Larry Singal
and Hy Brown are co-
chairmen.
For More Details
Call
557-8210
Congregation Beth Achhn
is pleased to announce
that it will conduct auxiliary
High Holiday Services
For non-members
in its Social Hall and in the La Med Auditorium
of the United Hebrew School's Rohlik Bldg.
Tickets are available at
21100 W. 12 Mile Rd.
for further information or inquiries concerning
membership and seating call the synagogue office
352-8670
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Friends recommended
that he contact Adat
Shalom Synagogue for in-
formation on conversion
and Rabbi Seymour
Rosenbloom became his
sponsoring rabbi for the
Institute for Judaism
conversion course con-
ducted by Rabbi Max
Weine. The recent course
was conducted at Cong.
Beth Shalom.
Boyer completed the
18-week course and went
to the mikve at Cong.
Beth Achim. Cantor
Greenbaum, who also is a
mohel, performed the
Hatafat Dam Brit on
Boyer; a ceremony simi-
lar to a bris, where blood
is drawn in place of re-
moving the foreskin.
Boyer attended Shabat
services regularly at Beth
Shalom and was a member
of the adult Bar and Bat
Mitzva course. Since he
was the only male in the
course, the congregatioh
decided to hold a separate
B not Mitzva ceremony for
the women, and another
for him.
Following completion
of the course, Boyer con-
tinued to study with Can-
tor Greenbaum, who he
said had "the greatest in-
fluence on me." The 26-
year-old Boyer plans to
take his third trip to Is-
rael in January.
Local Student Rabbi Will Lead
Temple Israel Shabat Service
Harold Caminker, a
student rabbi at the Heb-
rew Union College-
Jewish Institute of Relig-
ion in Cincinnati, will oc-
cupy the pulpit of Temple
Israel 8:30 p.m. today.
Caminker will be j oined
by Cantor Harold Orbach
in presenting a sermon in
narration and song, enti-
tled "Lest We Forget: A
Tisha b'Av Remembr-
ance of the Holocaust."
The son of Jack and
Eve Caminker, of South-
field, Caminker holds a
BA degree in social sci-
ences from Michigan
State University.
He entered the rabbini-
cal program at HUC-JIR
in 1972, spending his first
year in Israel and the next
two years at the Los
Angeles campus. •
Under an intership
program called InterMet,
Caminker was part of an
Inter-Faith Seminary
HAROLD CAMINKER
Without Walls, in which
ministerial students of all
faiths shared joint ex-
periences.
During this same
period, he was assigned
as a student rabbi at
Temple Beth El, Alexan-
dria, Va., and served the
Washington, Baltimore
and Virginia areas.
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Jewish law forbids wear-
ing clothes which are made
of both wool and linen inter-
woven or sewn together.
Basically this is a Biblical
command which states:
"You shall not wear mixed
material, wool and linen
together (Deuteronomy
22:11). The author of the
work Sefer ha-Chinuch
compares this prohibition
with the prohibition against
witchcraft and claims that
both of these practices rep-
resent practices that act
against the original design
of nature (Mitzvah 62).
The Ibn Ezra makes a
similar claim when he ex-
plains that such a practice is
contrary to the Almighty's
original intent in patterning
nature. The Mystic Recanati
relates this prohibition to
the claim that the linen rep-
resents a product of the vo-
cation of Cain, the "tiller of
the soil," whereas wool,
being the product of animal
life, represents the vocation
and produce of Abel.
Services
[
CONG. BETH ACHIM: Services 6 p.m. today and 8:45
a.m. Saturday. Scott Adelson, Bar Mitzva.
TEMPLE BETH EL: Services 5:30 p.m. today and 11
a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Schwartz will speak on
"Jewish Gas and How to Get It."
CONG. BETH MOSES: Services 7 p.m. today and 8:45
a.m. and 8:25 p.m. Saturday. Richard Mond, Bar
- Mitzva at Minha services.
BIRMINGHAM TEMPLE: Services 8:30 p.m. today.
Rabbi Wine will speak on` Passages' and the Chal-
lenge of Gail Sheehy."
TEMPLE ISRAEL: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Student
Rabbi Harold Caminker and Cantor Orbach will
present a sermon in song "Lest We Forget: A Tisha
b'Av Remembrance of the Holocaust." Services 11
a.m. Saturday.
TEMPLE KOL AMI: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi
Conrad will speak on "Comforting the Jewish
People Today.' Services 10:30 a.m. Saturday. Lisa
Alspector, Bat Mitzva.
YOUNG ISRAEL OF OAK-WOODS: Services 7 p.m.
today and 9 a.m. Saturday. Jeffrey Weiss, Bar
Mitzva.
Regular services will be held at Adat Shalom
Synagogue, Cong. Bais Chabad of West Bloomfield,
Cong. Beth Abraham-Hillel, Cong. Beth Isaac of Tren-
ton, Temple Beth Jacob of Pontiac, Cong. Beth
Jacob-Mogain Abraham, Cong. Beth Shalom, Cong.
Beth Tefilo Emanuel Tikvah, Cong. Beth Tephilath
Moses of Mt. Clemens, Cong. Bnai David, Cong. Bnai
Israel of Pontiac, Cong. Bnai Israel-Beth Yehudah,
Cong. Bnai Jacob, Cong. Bnai Moshe, Cong. Bnai Zion,
Cong. Dovid Ben Nuchim, Downtown Synagogue,
Temple Emanu-El, Ha-Ner Ha-Tamid, Livonia Jewish
Congregation, Cong. Mishkan Israel Nusach H'Ari,
Cong. Shaarey Shomayim, Cong. Shaarey Zedek,
Shomer Israel (13430 W. Seven Mile), Cong. Shomrey
Emunah, Young Israel of Greenfield and Young Israel
of Southfield (27705 Lahser).
Report Czech Atheism Drive
Jewish Law on Clothing
PLASTIC SIGNS
Synagogue
Since the clash between
the two bought about the
first homicide, these two
were regarded as two irre-
concilable materials. Oth-
ers claim that the holy cur-
tain in the Temple was
woven from these two ele-
ments and therefore secu-
lar man may not imitate
holy vestments in their
exact nature.
Maimonides explains that
pagan priests used to wear
such mixtures during their
rituals and thus Jews were
forbidden to imitate them.
A rab Landlords
In the 19th century rich
urban Arab families ex-
ploited peasant distress by
lending money at usurious
interest rates. Since the
debtors could never repay
the loan their land titles
went to their creditors who
graciously consented to let
the peasants become their
tenants. Leasehold fees
were as high as half and two
thirds of the crop yield.
LONDON — Recent re-
ports from Czechos-
lovakia indicate that the
crusade of attrition
waged against Jewish
identity in Czechos-
lovakia, part of an accel-
erated atheist campaign,
has gained new momen-
tum during the first half
of 1976.
A report from reliable
sources to the Interna-
tional Council of Jews
from Czechoslovakia re-
veals that only recently
one of the principal
Jewish communities in
Slovakia, Galanta, has
lost its synagogue and
the flat of its rabbi by way
of expropriation. The pre-
text for the measure is a
townplanning scheme.
The community has
not, so far, been offered
any alternative -accom-
modation or compensa-
tion and is especially per-
turbed by the fact that
the only officiating rabbi
in CzecI'ioslovakia, Izidor
Katz, has up till now had
his seat in Galanta.
The Slovak Jewish
community, after the
forced resignation of its
former chairman, Dr. Ben-
jamin Eichler, has not
been allowed to elect a new
leadership; it is now con-
ducted by a triumvirate of
state-paid officials headed
by Julius Ehrenthal of
Bratislava.
The Prague Jewish
community announced
recently that the Jewish
cemetery of Litomysl on
the Bohemian-Moravian
border is to be made into a
public park. Tombstones
which remain unclaimed
will be used for erection of
a memorial plaque" on
the site of the former
cemetery.
The
Prague
an-
nouncement is seconcl of
its kind to be made this
year. Earlier, the liquida-
tion of five cemeteries in
Slovakia with two-
months' notice to rela-
tions was announced by
the Jewish religious
communities for
Slovakia, covering the
cemeteries at Krom-
pachy, Komjatice, No.ve
Mesto, Previdza and
Holic.
Also, cases are known
of foreign tourists visit-
ing the State Jewish
Museum in Prague hav-
ing had to surrender
their passports at the
porters lodge before
being admitted. Similar
measures seem to apply
to Czech research work-
ers who are not admitted
to the Museum unless
they surrender their
identity cards.
According to reports
from Prague to the Inter-
national Council of Jews
from Czechoslovakia in
London, it will take "sev-
eral more years" to re-
store the 16th Century
Pinkas synagogue in the
Czech capital, one of the
oldest synagogues in
Europe, which also ac
commodates the memoria„
tablets for the 77,297
Jewish victims of Nazism
in Bohemia and Moravia.
The synagogue has
been affected by rising
dampness from the
Fltava River for decades;
moisture has rendered
part of the memorial tab-
lets illegible. Restoration
work, commenced at the
synagogue as far back as
1950 and over many years
the place of worship has
been closed for services
and to tourists.