THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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27822 ORCHARD LAKE RD.
At 12 Mile, Just
851-4094
Open Mon. thru Sat.
Off U.S. 696
11:30 a.m.-2:30 a.m.
SPECIAL STYLINGS OF
CHARLES
BOLES
At The Piano Bar
FOR COCKTAIL HOUR
MON. THRU FRI.
4 P.M. TO 7 P.M.
GARY PRIMO
DUO
_MON.THRU SAT. 9 P.M.-2 A.M.
HAPPY
NEW YEAR!
FROM
4
STEAKS
ON-THE-HEARTH
7 Mile & Telegraph • 538-4688
AND
JOHN LAFFREY'S
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5838 Dixie Highway ; Waterford • 623-9300
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New Name-Same Great Food,.Same Owner
DIMITRI'S
1111110'S
316 N. Woodward,
ROYAL OAK
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2 Blks. N. of 11 Mile
542-4880
TAKES THIS OPPORTUNITY
TO THANK YOU FOR THE
WONDERFUL RESPONSE TO OUR
FINE FOOb AND SERVICE AND
HAPP IL1 visH EVERyONE,,THE
ABSOLUTE BEST IN HEALTH &
OPINESS FOR A
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Vag :lupus New 'genie
Reader Defends Secularism
Secularism means not
sacred, not religious.
Secularization means to
convert from religious to
civil ownership, to elimi-
nate religious influence.
In public life sec-
ularism suggests that re-
ligion is a private, per-
sonal matter. It must not
be imposed upon the indi-
vidual. In the educational
system and in cultural ac-
tivities in general, sec-
ularism connotes non-
involvment of elements,
superhuman, super-
natural and divinity.
Secularists favored the
secularization of Jewish
life, to make it possible for
every Jew, believer or
non-believer, to belong to
the Jewish community.
Secularists believe that
it must be left to the
choice of the individual to
be religious or non-
religious, for otherwise
we would have to exclude
from our midst the most
intellectually advanced
and the greatest Jewish
leaders such as Einstein,
Brandeis, Dubnov, Zhit-
lowsky, Herzl, Ben-
Gurion, Weizmann
Bialik, Peretz, Sholem
Aleichem, Borochov,
Leivik, etc. Dubnov once
said that our failure to
separate the two concepts
of people and religion,
cost us the Spinozas, the
Costas, the Maimons, etc.
We secularists do not
consider Judaism as the
only cause for our survi-
val, although we recognize
that religion has played an
important role in our his-.
tory, because we don't be-
lieve that Jews are a re-
ligious group like
Catholics or Protestants.
We believe in. Jewish
peoplehood. We view Jews
as an ethnic group with a
common history and a
common destiny.
Consequently, it is
clear that one becomes a
member of his people, not
as a result of a religious
affiliation, but simply by
being born into it, and if
he accepts his Jewish-
ness, lives according to
the Jewish way of life,
participates in Jewish
communal affairs, helps
to develop the Jewish
lauguages, culture, sup-
ports the Jewish home-
Adult Education
Registration Open
Registration will begin
1:30 p.m. Monday for the
Oak Park adult education
classes.
Among the class offer-
ings are homemaking,
business, foreign lan-
guages, arts, crafts,
music, physical education
and dance. Several
college-level courses will
be offered by Oakland
University; Wayne State
University and Oakland
CominunitY College.
For information, call
the adult education of-
fice, 548-9294 1:30-4:30
p.m. and 640. p.m. 'daily.
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land, he can be a good Jew
whether he observes re-
ligious practices and
rituals or not. Only con-
version excludes a Jew
from "Klal Israel."
In conclusion, sec-
ularism is not anti-
religion and not the anti-
thesis of religion, it sepa-
rates religion from na-
tionality. It is freedom of
thought and freedom of
beliefs. It is the anti-
thesis of actual or
spiritual compulsion.
Mordecai Teiler,
Principal
Workmen's Circle
Sunday School
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Legislation Support
Editor, The Jewish News:
It is my hope that all
Jewish people will write
to their, Senators and
Congressmen in support
of the legislation levied
against the more than 200
companies now comply-
ing with the Arab boycott
against Israel and all
Jewish people.
The Jewish people may
be small in number, but if
all of us pitchin, we have
won another victory
against the Arabs and
bigots in this country.
Sylvia Weiner
Best Wishes For a
Happy & Healthy
New Year
Buddy's Pizza
17125 Conant
Corner of 6 Mile
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Sy Ginsberg & Al Winkler
Wish All Their
Customers and Friends
A HAPPY, HEALTHY
and PROSPEROUS
New Year
Closed Fri., Sept. 24 at 3 p.m.
Reopening Tues., Sept. 28 at 11 a.m.
Peel& Ea/me-Vele
Evergreen Plaza
12 Mile & Evergreen
557-8899
Innan rum
ROSE and IRVING GUTTMAN
and Family
Of
IRVING'S
THE SOMETHING DIFFERENT
Restaurant-Delicatessen
27165 Greenfield, 1 BIk. N. of 11 Mile
559-1380
Join In Extending Most Sincere
Wishes For A Joyful
New Year
May the call of the Shofar herald
a message of peace for the
entire world.
We thank you for your gracious
(patronage . . . and most sincerely
.. wish the very best in health,
happiness, joy and prosperity to all
We Will Be Closed
Fri. Sept. 24 at 3 p.m., Sat., Sept. 25 and Sun, Se t. 26
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