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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Readers Foruth
Black Congregation Leader
Says His Synagogue Is Valid
Editor, The Jewish News:
Several weeks ago this
column contained a letter
from Rabbi Jack Goldman
who criticized the listing of
Cong. Isek Abraham .under
the column heading of Syna-
gogues in the Yellow Pages
Telephone Directory. I
failed to see why Rabbi
Goldman brought this mat-
ter to the attention of The
Jewish News when he could
have directed his protest to
Michigan Bell.
But, then again, being a
regular reader of The Jew-
ish News, I have grown ac-
customed to reading Rabbi
Goldman's frequent letters
which appear in your news-
paper.
Rabbi Goldman questions
the validity of Cong. Isek
Abraham. This congrega-
tion received its Articles of
Association on April 25,
1960. Isek Abraham was my
teacher, an observant Jew
who, after he died, was in-
-terred at the Hebrew Memo-
rial Cemetery (Chesed Shel
Emes).
Among the Articles of As-
sociation is the following:
"The members... shall wor-
ship and labor together ac-
cording to the discipline,
rules and usage of the Con-
gregation Isek Abraham of
Detroit...as from time to
time authorized and de-
clared by the Hebrew Faith
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as interpreted by Father
Isek Abraham."
Contrary to what Rabbi
Goldman contends, Cong.
Isek Abraham is not listed
as an Orthodox synagogue.
It is simply listed as a syna-
gogue. If Rabbi Goldman
wishes to conduct an in-
quisition as to our right to
list our congregation as a
synagogue, why doesn't he
have the courage to pub-
licly oppose the inclusion of
the Birmingham Temple
where G'd's name is ex-
cluded from the liturgy,
non-Jews are admitted into
full membership, and the in-
tiation rites into the Cov-
enant of Abraham are dis-
regarded.
Parenthetically, let me
state that Rabbi Goldman
had no qualms about giving
religious instruction on an
individual level to four sets
of people from our congre-
gation rather than on a
group basis. Obviously,
there is quite a difference fi-
nancially between accept-
ing $13.00 an hour for the en-
tire group as compared to
$13.00 each per couple.
Indeed, Rabbi Goldman
whose stationery lists him
as a Kosher Food Consult-
ant ought to examine the
kosher condition of his con-
science.
Prince R. Crawford
Reader Urges `Jewish Roots'
Editor, The Jewish News:
I appeal to our zealous
leaders, to our gifted
writers, to our talented
actors and to all those to
whom the Jewish nation
and the state of Israel are
dear, to join in a common
goal to produce a TV
series, "Jewish Roots",
that would stir viewers'
hearts and minds with docu-
mentaries of agony and for-
titude such as were never
experienced by any other
nation.
What a dynamic produc-
tion this can be ! What a tre-
mendous contribution to-
ward shattering, the age-
old lies about our people
and of arousing, instead, un-
derstanding, compassion, re-
spect and, perhaps, even ad-
miration!
Never before did we have
as good an opportunity as
television offers us now, to
open the pages of our re-
markable history to mis-
Hillel Art Sale
Metropolitan Detroit Bnai
Brith Hillel Foundation will
hold a benefit art sale noon
to 5 p.m., May 22, in the Zi-
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Wayne State, Oakland U.,
and Oakland Community
College students are collec-
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jects. For information, call
Wayne State Hillel, 577-
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are experiemnts to grow
in them other crops, such
as ornamental flowers.
Jewish National Fund
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,
most 400 editions not listed -
in Yaari.
In my own collection of
some 1,300 different edi-
tions I have about 500 not
listed in Yaari or by Wie-
ner.
Back in 1970, when I first
met Cecil Roth, who got me
interested in collecting the
Haggada, he estimated then
that there must be at least
4,000 different eeditions.
With the great many pub-
lished since 1970 and I have
listings of hundreds from
booksellers the world over
that were not included in
Yaari—I daresay that 5,000
would be a more accurate
figure.
Maurie Orodenker
Philadelphia
The Christian antino-
mian movement which
was prevalent toward the
end of the First Century
C.E., later maintained
that the commandments
of the Torah were a
punishment inflicted
upon Israel.
CHALK TALK
5 000 Editions of Haggada
Rabbi Zev Schostak under-
estimated the number of dif-
ferent Haggadot published.
He must have taken that
number from the Yaari bib-
liography which lists 2,717
only until 1960.
In 1965, Theodore Wiener
listed in the "Studies" of
Hebrew Union College al-
informed non-Jews, as well
as to uninformed Jews. If
we fail to take advantage of
this opportunity, we fail in
what should be our com-
mitment to do our utmost
to counteract anti-Semitism
with enlightenment. We
owe this to our past gener-
ations, to ourselves and to
our generations to come.„
Meriam Margolis
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