THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Peace between the Arabs
and us will not come
quickly. In my opinion,
there are two factors that
would lead to peace. The
first factor is an increment
of six to seven million Jews
in Israel; the second is a
realization by the Egyptian
intelligentsia of the needs of
the Egyptian people. Most
of the Egyptians are fella-
hin and their circumstances
are deteriorating year by
year. —David Ben-Gurion

By PHILLIP APPLEBAUM

erything the modern-day
community center as-
pires to be.
Indeed, the word syna-
gogue itself is a direct
Greek translation of the
Hebrew beit kneset —
house of assembly, the
traditional place where
the community comes to-
gether for all communal
functions.

Since the destruction of
the Second Temple, the
synagogue has been the
focus of the corporate life
of Jews everywhere. To-
day, among traditional
and Orthodox Jews, the
synagogue still serves as
a central communal in-
stitution.
In the Jewish tradition,
Moreover, each congre-
the synagogue is more gation itself forms a
than a place of prayer, it spiritual and actual corn-
is also a house of study, munity, which in many
where children are ways is subject to the same
taught the way of Torah, dynamics which govern
and a meeting place society at large.
where all decisions- vital
Samuel C. Heilman, a
to the community are ar- former member of an
rived at. In fact, it is ev- .East Coast Orthodox
congregation, is a
sociologist who has writ-
ten "Synagogue Life,"
(University of Chicago
by Inftnity Disco
Press) to show "how Or-
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In addition, Heilman is
an ethnograiher — one
who describes cultures.
Thus he intersperses the
social analysis with pre-
cise depictions of rituals,
ceremonies, and personal
behavior.
Those who are not in-
volved in the field of
sociology will probably
not enjoy Heilman's book,
for it is an academic work,
full of the language,
quotes and references,
which make it a fine
textbook, but not suitable
reading for the curious
layman.
"Synagogue Life" is not
a book to pe perused, it is
a book to be studied, and
to be used in further
studies. However, those
who are members of small
middle-class Orthodox
congregations such as
Heilman describes will
find it interesting to
notice the similarities to
their own synagogues.

Samuel Heilman has
written a precise, de-
tailed portrait, a needed
addition to the literature
on the sociology of Jews.

During the first eight
months of 1976, the lead-
ing importers of polished
gem diamonds from Is-
rael, by country, included
(in round figures) U.S.A.
$140 million, Hong Kong
$82 million, Holland $53
million, Japan $48 mill-
ion, Belgium $38 million,
Switzerland $32 million,
West Germany $23 mill-
ion, France $15.5 million,
U.K. $13 million, Singa-
pore $8.5 million.

Friday, January 21, 1977 37

Solar Energy Use Up in Israel

JERUSALEM
—
Energy from the sun will
be used to help power a
modern hospital in
Jerusalem. The new
Shaare Zedek Medical
Center, whose construc-
tion is expected to be
completed in 1978, will
become the first hospital
in the country to utilize
solar energy for its heat-
ing.
Various plans for a
power unit are currently
under consideration, the
hospital announced. But
regardless of the final
choice, the plant will be
the largest of its kind in
the country.
In addition to signific-
ant savings to the hospi-
tal over the long run, the
exploitation of solar
energy on a large scale
will mean a decrease in
Israel's foreign currency
expenditures for oil.

A special energy com-
mission at Shaare Zedek
began investigating the
feasibility of using solar
energy in the Medical
Center two years ago, -ac-
cording to Eliezer Rahat,
chief co-ordinator of the
building project.

"The initiative came
from the work being done
on solar energy in the
U.S.," Rahat says. The
power unit atop the Medi-
cal Center will work on
the same principle as the
solar hot water heaters
seen on roofs all around
the country."
The current level of ad-
vanced technology, how-
ever, will enable the
Shaare Zedek unit to
make much more efficient
use of the unlimited sup-
ply of free energy offered
by the sun.
In the first stage, solar
power will supply at least
part of the hospital's
huge hot water needs,
and perhaps also be used
for room heating. At a
later date, solar energy
will also contribute to the
hospital's air condition-
ing system.

"The system will be
linked to one using con-
ventional energy
sources," explains Rahat,
"in order to ensure
round-the-clock, all-
weather heating and cool-
ing.

"With the proper plan-
ning from the very begin-
ning, we are hopeful that
our solar heating project
will prove a benefit not
only to the hospital and
the state, but will help
other institutions around
the world make greater
use of this cheap and
plentiful source of
energy."
Meanwhile, an entire
village in Israel has
turned to solar energy.
The settlement is Gnai
HaDarom (Gardens of the
south), a moshav all of
whose residents have
gone over to sun heat for
their hot water.

Miromit, Ltd., Israel's
major manufacturer and
exporter of solar heating
panels, reports that it has
installed sun heating col-
lectors in .46 of the 52
homes in the village, with
six more awaiting comple-

tion of houses under con-
struction.

The units were instal-
led in existing homes, in
which the families con-
verted to sun heating, as
well as new units.
These homes are all
one-story concrete build-
ings with three and more
bedrooms.

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