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 • '• - • • ,• • '• • '• • I • 4 • • , 4' ir I • COMPLETE SUPPLIES AT EXTRA SAVINGS DESKS - CHAIRS FILES - RUBBER STAMPS Dqar-r. 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. 15% OFF OFFICE - ART & DRAFTING SUPPLIES BY RABBI SAMUEL FOX (Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.) PROMPT DELIVERIES 1; a ( `• • • IP, II, • V/ • IP ALLSTATE ALARM SYSTEMS U. WEST SIDE EAST SIDE 968-2620 731 6200 76000 GREENFIELD OAK PARK LINCOLN CENTER IPd• v. pp, .• BURGLAR ALARMS - 111673 WL ID AWAY PLAZA *RAY tWP ' • • • ALLSTATE ALARM SYSTEMS HOME ALARM SPECIALISTS CALL THE ROTT BROS. FOR FREE ESTIMATE SHEL ALLSTATE Or: CY ALARM SYSTEMS, INC. 255-1540 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.