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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the 13th day of Heshvan, 5737, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion; Genesis 12:1-17:27. Prophetical portion, Isaiah 40:27-41:16.
Candle lighting, Friday, Nov. 5, 5:04 p.m.
VOL. LXX, No. 9
Page Four
Friday, November 5, 1976
Vital Adult Education Program
Greater Detroit's community of Con-
servative Jews has undertaken a cultural
program so extensive in its planning that it
immediately assures fulfillment of one of
the major needs for provision of means of
acquiring knowledgeability by all Jews in
this area.
The need for adult education is so press-
ing, its expansion has been hoped for so se-
riously through the years, that the newly
formed Intercongregational Adult Educa-
tion Institute merits encouragement, coop-
eration and commendation for its introduc-
tion.
Several vital factors are merged in the
presentation of this vital program that pro-
vides programming for all, regardless of af-
filiation, although the affiliated are the
ranking sponsors of the idea.
Not only all of the Conservative
synagogues and their rabbis but the local
schools, the educational arms of the
synagogues, the Day Schools and the Hillel
Foundations of the University of Michigan
and Wayne State University have become
deeply involved in a series of study sessions
meritoriously prepared.
If the previous efforts to organize adult
education programs have had too many dif-
ficulties, which may account for the slow-
ness with which the idea has been promul-
gated, the realization of the needs and mak-
ing the program a reality is heartening to
all who recognize the necessity for training
a community that is well informed about
itself, its cultural -legacies, Jewish history
and traditions.
Leaders of Conservative synagogues,
their schools and the community's school
systems, and the Hillel Foundations have
earned highest commendation for the for-
mation of the Intercongregational Adult
Education Institute.
Fresh Air Society's Anniversary
A wholesome community's program is
complete only when the needs of the chil-
dren are provided for and when the recre-
ational as well as the educational are ac-
counted for.
Fresh Air Society's 75th anniversary,
now being observed, is an occasion for
evaluation of this community's fulfillment
of the duties to the youth in respect to camp-
ing.
It is - safe to say that the boys and girls
who have benefited from the camping pro-
grams sponsored by the Fresh Air Society
run into the many thousands. Fondest re-
collections of experiences in the camps that
were under the society's guidance are en-
tertained by many who were in this way
introduced to the larger community.
Many from these ranks have become ac-
tive in the community, many have earned
glory in the professions and in business.
In an evaluation of the accom-
plishments of the society recognition is due
the able directors and counselors, and spe-
cial acclaim must be given the volunteers
who had contributed towards notable
achievements or active roles in the tasks of
Fresh Air Society.
Especially noteworthy is the current
program, at Tamarack,_ where activities
have been extended from summer to winter,
providing facilities for week-end seminars
for synagogues and schools, for the elderly
and for the retarded.
Recreational' programming is a vital
factor in youth training and in keeping the
ranks of the youth closely allied with the
elders.
Fresh Air Society has earned the
acclaim that is extended it at this time, on
its 75th anniversary. Its services on a year-
round basis are of immense value to a
wholesome communit y.
Israel on a War-Torn Border
Every conceivable human need was ful-
filled by Israel in the treatment accorded
sufferers from the horrible conflict that has
engulfed neighboring Lebanon for nearly
two years. The sick are being treated in Is-
rael clinics, the crops grown in villages bor-
dering on Israel have been consumed by Is-
raelis. Lebanese refugees — for this is what
the escapees from the conflagration have
become — have been given employment.
Yet, the only thing that concerns rumor
spreaders is that Lebanese fighters have
been seen with Israeli guns, and tanks and
in uniforms resembling Israel's.
The • fact is that Israel-made muni-
tions have been on the markets in many
lands and it is possible that such munitions
have become available. Furthermore, in the
present immoral trend of an expanding
munitions industry which makes all peoples
akin in the guilt of creating deadly weapons
it is not outside the realm of possibility that
Lebanese could acquire weapons made in
Israel. And if the guns are U.S.-made they
did not necessarily have to come from Israel
but could be available from many areas.
The more serious problem relates to the
Muslim-Christian conflict. The Maronites
have secretly nourished the hope that Is-
rael would be an acceptable reality for the
sake of the peace of the entire Middle East
and therefore also for the Christians in
Lebanon. If Israel shows partiality towards
the Lebanese Christians it is neither sur-
prising nor objectionable.
What does_matter in the long run is the
puzzle of how it will end, whether, in the
long run, the Christians, if they assume
power in Lebanon, will remain Israel's
friends, and whether Syria, having lulled
threats to Israel because she is engaged in a
serious struggle elsewhere, will continue a
moderate position in the Middle East and
will refrain from renewed war threats.
It's a muddied situation, the resolution
of which is not in prophecy but in the in-
evitability of time as a cure-all.
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Story in Photographs
Warshaw's 'Tradition' Portrays
Lubavitch Community's Role
Mal Warshaw, a professional photographer and an inde-
pendent film producer, was born in Brooklyn. He lived in New
York City for some 50 years before he becanie aware, three years
ago, that in his native city there was an Orthodox Jewish com-
munity that lived a life of its own, adhering to customs and
observing religious practices that are entirely strange to the
rest of the world. He became deeply involved in pursuing his
studies of that community, he went among these people, photo-
graphed them, described their way of life. The result is his
photographic work supplemented by the descriptive stories of
what he had learned in "Tradition; Orthodox Jewish Life in
America" (Schocken Books).
Actually, the title should have indicated that it is the
Lubavitch community that was described and so well depicted
in the 208 photographs in this volume.
The photographs realistically portray activity as well as
devotionalism. The community described so graphically is a
productive one, in which the residents are engaged in whole-
some work, in businesses of many varieties. The residents of
Crown Heights Section of Brooklyn where the Lubavitch
Hasidim are centered, travel to New York City to work in var-
ious industries and stores, and at home they are the proud
observers of a richly inherited faith.
Thus, Warshaw commences his study tour in the
synagogue, depicts devotion to Torah, shares with his readers
the experiences of traditional observances of the Sabbath and
all the holidays and in 25 brief chapters leads a tour of life-to-
death actions by the traditionalists who are the heroes of this
photographic work.
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Worship and study, synagogue and home observances are
part of the story. All the Holy Days and holidays, all the sym-
bols, the Mezuza, the Sukka, the Talit and Tefilin, they are part
of this life and are in evidence in the impressive photographs.
There is the Bris, the Bar Mitzva, the traditional ceremony,
the cutting of the hair and the wedding. And the concludi.
chapter shows how death is confronted and all the aspects 01
this life indicate courage and dedication to faith.
Warshaw was himself deeply moved by what he had found to
incorporate in his book and he describes the effects of his labors
in a preface in which he declares:
"Nowhere else had I witnessed such an intimacy with God
and seen such joy in the most ordinary daily routines, I was
awed by the strength of their commitment to God and tradition
and amazed by such single-purpose adherence to so simple a
way of life — a way of life which had stubbornly and devotedly
resisted the threats of annihilation in the Holocaust, the temp-
tations of assimilation in America, and the ongoing lures of
modernity.
"The intensity ofJewish experience in that community and
other similar communities, it seems to me, must be the wellspr-
ing for the various and diluted forms ofJewish Orthodox experi-
ence I suddenly newly discovered all over the city. The photo-
graphs shown here are the result of a two-year exploration. I
have tried to record faithfully the ingredients of the mystery.
For if there is a secret to the Jewish genius for survival, I
suspect the answer can be found there."