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'Rabbis Have Never Amended
the Divine Laws of the Torah'
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Editor, The JeWish
News.
A statement by the late
Dr. Solomon Zeitlin, on
the controversial ques-
tion of "Who is a Jew - was
._nrinted in "Purely Com-
fltary," of Jan. 14,
Dr. Zeitlin contends
that, "Although the Pen-
tateuch was the basis of
Jewish Law, and was the
constitution of the people,
the sages (of the Second
Jewish Commonwealth)
. did not hestitate to inter-
pret and tmend the pen-
tateuchal
However, the rabbis of
the Second Jewish Com-
monwealth, as well as
those preceding - and fol-
lowing them would never
and have never amended
any of the Penteuchal
Laws.
PIANO
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It is axiomatic • in
traditioal Torah circles
(the circles of the
.Pharisees, the rabbis of
the Second Common-
wealth), that the oral and
written traditions were
given by G-d and are not
man-made.
These G-d-given laws,
according to Torah tradi-
tion (not ultra-Orthodox
tradition) may never be
amended.
It is only rabbinical in-
junction that has at times
been amended, but the
G-d-given Pentateuch
has remained untouched.
Rabbi Meilech Silberberg
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SOL YETZ-MORRIS
COHEN POST and AU-
XILIARY will meet 8 p.m.
Tuesday in the Jewish
War Veterans Memorial
,Home. After an informal
business meeting, a social
evening will follow. Julie
Gleeson, former stewar-
dess with American .Air-
lines, will present travel
films and slides on San
Francisco. Friends are
invited. The post and au-
xiliary will service Allen
Park Veterans Hospital
Feb. 20, following the
Sunday morning chapel
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Editor, The. Jewish
News:
This letter is a response
to an article published in
the Detroit Jewish News
on Sept. 24, 1976, entitled
"Writer Finds Unusual
Communities, Practices
in Visits to Synagogues of
Istanbul and Rome".
To deliberately or un-
knowingly distort reality
is bad journalism and
serves no purpose. Appa-
rently Mr. Siegel knows
very little about the
'Jewish communities in
Istanbul or Rome, but
what is worse has made
no decent effort to be
knowledgeable.
To take the case of Is-
tanbul, Turkey: Contrary
to what he says in his ar-
ticle the Jewish commun-
ity there is very active
and outgoing and hospit-
able; he apparently didn't
know how to find them
out.
He 'should have gotten
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DEPARTMENT OF
MICHIGAN LADIES
AUXILIARY will hold a
brotherhood tea, at an
oneg Shabat with petite
luncheon, noon, Feb. 26 at
the Jewish War Veterans
Memorial Home. Guest
speaker will be Judge
Henry Heading. Mem-
bers are requested to
bring a non-Jewish
friend. For reservations;
call Bertha Kole, 559-
5680, or Faye Katz, 559-
4484. Committee mem-
bers are Mesdames Sol
Goldberg, Harry Left,
Morton Oppenheim and
Sidney Cohen.
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BLOCH-ROSE' POST
and AUXILIARY, under
the chairmanship of Torn
Tannis and Miriam
Lawrence, respectively,
will service the Evangeli-
cal Home for the Re-
tarded 1:30 p.m. Satur-
day. JWV members will
distribute gifts and pro-
vide refreshments and
entertainment. Volun-
teers are welcome. For in-
formation, call the. JWV
headquarters, 559-5680,
or Ms. Lawrence, UN
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LT. -
RAYMOND
ZUSSMAN AUXILIARY
will meet 12:30 p.m.
Saturday in the home of
Mrs. Oscar Katz, 25706
Grand Concourse, South-
field. Brunch will be
served. Mrs. Seymour
Zuger invites new mem-
bers. For information,
call Faye Katz, 559-4484,.
or Martha Hauptman,
352-2696.
Milgrom Elected
Louis Milgrom of
Franklin was elected a
member of the national
board of directors of the
American society for
Technion-Israel Institute
of Technology.
in touch with the Jewish
Community Center which
can be found as easily as
looking for its address
and number in the phone
book.
The caretaker of the
temple is not an imforma-
tion center, or at least he
should have stuck around
the temple a little longer
and_he would have surely
witnessed activity in a
temple as busy as "Neve
Shalom", where, to get a
wedding date, bookings
are made as far advance as
a year. Or better yet how
about getting in touch with
the Jewish press that pub-
lishes ' the weekly Jewish
newspaper "Shalom."
Friday, February 11, 1977 43
He who increases knowl-
edge increases sorrow.
while in Israel about the
Turkish-Jewish commun-
ity from the several
sources such as Turkish
Jews-in Israel and Tur-
key's diplomatic rep-
resentatives.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
DENA
Feb. 14, 1977
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Sara Kosnick
Further, Jewish offi-
cials wouldn't be in the
least disturbed if he went
around with an open
notebook. For his infor-
mation, Turkey is a
democratic country, Mos-
lem not Arab, a country
that has no history of the
kind of pogroms and per-
secutions the rest of most
of the world enjoys. And
further, it would not have
made an iota of difference
if his passport was
stamped in Israel or not.
On the contrary he should
have gotten information
as`
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Alpha Epsilon Phi Scho-
larship of the Center for
Continuing Education of
Women at the University
of Michigan.
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