16 Friday, December 9, 1977 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
`Coffee Crazy Professor Finds Way to Grow Beans in Israel Black Market in Torah Scrolls
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years to find a coffee plant
that will survive Israel's
cool winters and hot sum-
mers, but now that the cost
of coffee in Israel has quad-
rupled within a year. "they
are calling me all the
time—it's an attack."
The professor ran hun-
dreds of ivory-colored beans
through his hands as his
wife Nehama threw a hand-
ful of powdered coffee Ara-
bica into a pot of boiling
water to serve visitors. It
had the usual taste of cof-
fee, but is relatively low in
caffeine, a finding con-
firmed in chemical tests.
Gindel said the seeds could
easily make enterprising
farmers a profit despite
their newness to the Middle
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The strain later named
Golda was the only one to
live through an especially
severe frost.
Gindel says coffee needs
no more water than citrus
fruits and 12 days of labor to
harvest once it has reached
maturity. A field of 900
acres could easily turn a
profit, given the nearness of
European markets and the
relative distance of tradi-
tional suppliers in Brazil
and Africa.
"Ours is better too,"
muses Gindel, who was
brought up on tea and
claims he never tasted cof-
fee until after he was mar-
ried. Today he drinks one
cup a day in the morning,
and in the evening a glass of
broth made form the outer
shells of coffee beans.
Ketubot Seen as Pathway
Back to Tradition for Reform
ANDY BLAU
13720 W. 9 Mile Rd.
He calls his favorite
strain "Golda," after
Israel's doughty ex-prime
minister, Golda Meir. The
67-year-old Gindel has been
working since his immigra-
tion in 1935 to acclimatize
foreign plants to Israel's
scant rainfall and sandy
soil.
The experiments with cof-
fee began in 1948 when
Israel's War of Independ-
ence cut off shipments from
abroad. "The soliders came
in from the front around
here and begged for coffee
and the civilians were writ-
ing to relatives abroad to
beg them to sent coffee,"
Gindel said. "So I started to
work."
Of 200 varieties sent from
around the world, 15 pro-
duced a good number of
beans and survived the
occasional freezing nights
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"There is a decided trend
among Reform Jews toward
reaffirmation of their roots
in Jewish tradition."
That is the quote one
hears very often today from
Reform movement rabbis.
And partial proof of the
return of many Reform
Jews to tradition rests in
the recent liturgy released
these past few years by the
Central Conference of
American Rabbis (CCAR).
"Gates of Prayer," the New
Union Prayerbook, for
instance, includes more
Hebrew than its predeces-
sor and restores the tradi-
tional order of the service.
"Gates of the House," the
companion volume of home
prayers and readings has
been described by rabbis as
being "more traditional."
Another example of the
trend to tradition, according
to Rabbi Gunther Plaut of
Holy Blossom Temple,
Toronto, and chairman of
the CCAR's Committee on
Jewish Practice, is evi-
denced by the forthcoming
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Trends toward tradition
are manifested in various
ways. One unique and inter-
esting way is the increased
use of ketubot (marriage
contracts) in Reform move-
ment wedding ceremonies.
Of those rabbis responding
to a recent CCAR survey,
most indicated that ketubot
were read during the over-
whelming majority of
Reform services.
The survey not only
indicated the reading of the
ketuba in the ceremony, but
a growing demand for the
availability of alternative
texts and artistic designs.
On the Conservative move-
ment side, many young
couples want designed and
artistic ketubot for their
ceremony.
In an Orthodox ketuba,
one can add to the tradi-
tional text which also pro-
vides for the financial obli-
gations which the husband
undertakes toward his wife
in respect of, and con-
sequent to, their marriage,
obligations which in prin-
ciples are imposed on him
by law.
Popular today in ketubot
designs is the illumination
of Jerusalem which for
many young American Jew-
ish couples holds spiritual
and yes, even romantic sig-
nificance. Many American
Jews have met their
spouses-to-be in Jerusalem
and want that to be
recorded in their ketuba.
One ketuba had a huge
rose, a symbol of sweetness
" and purity and in the center
was the city of Jerusalem.
Another used a wedding
ring design decorated with
flowers.
All in all, say several
rabbis, with the trend
toward tradition and with
one example, the ketuba, a
reflection of Jewish art. we
do have at least a sign of
the ''continuity of
Jewishness."
JERUSALEM—Israeli po-
lice report that Torahs
scrolls are being stolen with
increased frequency espe-
cially from synagogues
which are left unlocked so
they can be visited by tour-
ists and devout members.
Israeli police have sugges-
ted that Torahs only be sold
by bills of sale or ownership
certificates with the scrolls
being registered by laws
passed by the Knesset, just
as clerks of court in Ohio.
are required to register ma-
chine-gun transfers.
Although Jews are not
permitted to write on the
written or printed side of
parchments or Bibles, there
is no prohibition to writing
or printing on the reverse
side.
Since every Torah varies
slightly in spacing of letters
or letter shapes, a Bertillon
system of identification
based on this factor has
been suggested.
Israeli synagogues have
reported a million dollars'
worth of Torahs-200 in
number—were stolen last
year, eight in one robbery.
Police have not been suc-
cessful in finding the Torahs
or their takers. It is believ-
ed the Torahs are resold in
this country and in Western
Europe.
Some congregations pay
as much as $3,000 for one
Torah. not knowing it is
stolen but being told it has
been in the seller's family
for years.
One way to protect Torahs
is to put burglar alarms in
the aron kodesh and connec'
them with the nearest police _
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