THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 24 Friday, March 11, 1918 The Finest In Musical Entertainment ERIC ROSENOW AND HIS ONTINENTAL 398-3664 Sperka Wins Young Israel Shofat Award Rabbi Joshua Sperka, rabbi emeritus of Young Is- rael of Greenfield, will be the recipient of the Shofar Award at the annual Shofar Award banquet of the Na- tional Council of Young Is- rael to be held April 9 at the Religious Zionists of Detroit presents RABBI SHUBERT SPERO on the topic "THE ADMINISTERED TERRITORIES FROM AN HALAHIC PERSPECTIVE" a view of the Gush Emunim movement and analysis toward alternatives for peace SUN., MAR. 19 - 8:30 R.M. at Young Israel of Oak Woods __ 24061 Coolidge, Oak Park KOSHER LA PESACH May We Help You? MARVIN SIEGEL CATERERS CARRY OUT FOODS COMPLETE DINNERS and A LA CARTE PLACE YOUR ORDERS EARLY!! Orders Will Be Accepted Until Thurs., April 14 MARVIN SIEGEL CATERS c/o Cong. Shaarey Zedek • 27375 Bell R., Southfield 357-5544 357-5177 Americana Hotel in New York City. Rabbi Sperka has been associated with Young Is- rael for the past 24 years and was spiritual leader of Young Israel of Greenfield for more than a decade. In 1969 he was elected rabbi emeritus of Young Israel of Greenfield, his current post. During the early years of the congregation services were held in his home. He was a teacher in the adult education classes, in which he taught Proverbs and other biblical books. Friday evening Humash classes were held in his home in the early years of the Oak Park communal migration. The Sperka family as- sociation with the Young Israel movement goes back to the mid-1920s when Young Israel had its inception in Detroit and held services in a room in the Kirby Center. It was in the old Jewish Community Center on Medbury Street in 1929 that Rabbi Sperka had his early association with Young Israel. Rabbi Sperka has held Michigan pulpits since 1931 when he was spiritual leader of Cong. Beth Tephilath Moses in Mt. Clemens. He next served the Beth Israel Congrega- tion in Ann Arbor in 1932,- 33, and came to Cong. Bnai David in 1933, remaining there until 1953. He has since been associated with Young Israel. He was the first Jewish prison chaplain in Michigan and served in that capacity from 1941 to 1959. He has held many communal and organizational posts, in- cluding president of the Jewish National Fund Council (1935-37); presi- dent, Detroit Chapter, American Jewish Congress (1941-43); vice president, American Jewish Prison • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •••••• ••••********* • CONGREGATION B'NAI MOSHE Oak Park, Michigan Presents The BELGRADE JEWISH CHORUS of Yugoslavia Featured Soloist BREDA KALEF - SOPRANO — Belgrade Opera with $350 Cantor Louis Klein TICKETS Students & Senior Citizens $200 THURSDAY MARCH 23rd 8 P.M. - •••■•■••■■■••■ •••••• • nagogue Synagogue Sy RABBI SPERKA Chaplains Association; president, League for Re- ligious Labor; and vice pres- ident, Mizrachi-Hapoel Hamizrachi; and former member board of governors, Jewish Welfare Federation. He currently is secretary of the Council of Orthodox Rabbis of Detroit; president, Detroit Friends of Shaarey Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem and on the boards of the Jewish Com- munity Center, Yeshivath Beth Yehudah and Akiva Hebrew Day School. He is the author of three books: "Eternal Life," a digest of the laws of mourning; "Proverbs to Live By," published in 1967 and later trans- cribed into Braille; and "ECclesiastes — Stories to Live By." For the last five years he has been working on a commen- tary on the Book of Job. The Detroit Metropolitan Council Shofar Award committee members are: Harry Blitz, Hyman Beale, Samuel Platt, Milton Duchan, Wolf Gold, Jerome Kelman, Sam Novetsky and David Tanzman. •• • Detroiters Attend Parley in Israel NEW YORK — Harry L. Blitz, president of the Young Israel Council of Metropolitan Detroit, was part of the Young Israel de- legation to the fourth World Conference of Synagogues apd Kehillot which took place in Jerusalem last month. The other members of the Young Israel delegation in- cluded Herman Rosen- baum, national president of Young Israel; - Rabbi Ep- hraim Sturm, executive vice president; Ruby Gruenberg, former presi- dent of Young Israel of Forest Hills; and Rabbi Samuel H. Prero of Detroit, senior rabbi. Election Meeting at Bnai Moshe Cong. Bnai Moshe will hold its annual election meeting 8 p.m. Tuesday in the social hall. Nominating committee includes all past presidents of the congregation and Charles Ruben, chairman; Rena Tobes, Abe Pasternak, Eliot Raskin, Albert Migdal and Eliezer Meister. A buffet dinner will be served at 7. For reservation the information,_ call synagogue, 548-9000. Ab- sentee ballots are available - from the esecutive director, Marvin Schader. Services CONG BETH ABRAHAM HILLEL MOSES — Detroit: Services 6:30 p.m. today and 8:45 a.m. Saturday. Cory Ostrow, Bar Mitzva. CONG. BETH ABRAHAM HILLEL-MOSES — West Bloomfield: Services 9 a.m. Saturday. Gal Karp; Bar Mitzva. CONG. BETH ACHIM: Services 6 and 8:15 today. Rena Glaser, Bat Mitzva at late services. Services 8:45 a.m. Saturday. Ronald Fink, Bar Mitzva. • TEMPLE BETH EL: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Hertz will speak on "Do We Get What We Deserve in Life?" Services 11 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Schvartz will speak on "What's in a Name?" CONG. BETH SHALOM: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Mari- lyn Growe, Bat Mitzva. Services 9 a.m. Saturday (Men's Club Shabat). BIRMINGHAM TEMPLE: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Wine will speak on "The Nazis, The ACLU and Channel 56." Jordon Cohen, Bar Mitzva. CONG. BNAI DAVID: Services 8:30 p.m. Saturday. Marc Beitner, Bar Mitzva. TEMPLE ISRAEL: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Loss will speak on "Sin, Guilt and Sacrifice — Something New and Something Old." Michael Gendelman, Bar Mitzva. Services 11 a.m. Saturday. Amy Redlich, Bat Mitzva. TEMPLE KOL AMI: Services-8:30 p.m. today-Theme for the service will be "The Life and Times of Isaac Sandusky," the centennial of whose birth is being celebrated by congregants Leah Green and Howard Sanders. CONG. MISHKAN ISRAEL NUSACH H'ARI:Services 6:30 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Gottlieb will speak on "Why Remember Amalek?" CONG. SHAAREY ZEDEK: Services 6 p.m. today and 8:45 a.m. Saturday. Lesley Chodak, Bat'Torah. CONG. T'CHIYAII: Services 7:45 p.m. today, conducted by Penny and Larry Deitch. - Regular services will be held at Adat Shalom Synagogue, Cong. Bais Chabad of West Bloomfield, Cong. Beth Isaac of Trenton, Temple Beth Jacob, Cong. Beth Jacob-Mogain Abraham, Cong. Beth Tefilo Emanuel Tik- vah, Cong. Beth Tephilath Moses of Mt. Clemens, Cong. Bnai Israel of Pontiac, Cong. Bnai Israel-Beth Yehudah, Cong. Bnai Jacob, Cong. Bnai Moshe, Cond. Bnai Zion, Cong. Dovid Ben Nuchim, Downtown Synagogue, Temple Emanu-El, Livonia Jewish Congregation, Cong. Shaarey Shomayim (10 Mile Jewish Center), Shomer Israel (13440 W. Seven Mile), Cong. Shomrey Emunah, Young Israel of Greenfield, Young Israel of Oak-Woods and Young Israel of Southfield. BJE Offers Purim Materials NEW YORK — Through a variety of resource mate- rials produced for the holi- day, the Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York will bring this year's Purim celebrations to life in film and animation, song and dance. BJE's Purim materials can be used in school, synagogue and home Purim_ festivities. "The Festival of Purim in Israel," BJE's latest 16mm color film, produced with Camera Ltd. of Israel, shows how Israelis revel in the festivities of Purim with song, dance and drama. Animation helps tell the tale of a mysterious gragger which will not work — ex- cept when the name "Ha- man" is mentioned in "Ha- ra'ashan," a 16mm full- color film. Part of a series of merry animated language films in easy Hebrew, the film is accompanied by a guide which includes the film's full text, a music sheet for the theme song, educational guidelines and objectives and a vocabulary list. The• melodies of the Purim holiday are de- lightfully performed by Jewish school students in "Tu b'Shevat and Purim Melodies," a caugette which features 10 songs for each of the featured holidays. Part of BJE's Holiday Melody Cassette series, it is accompanied by a songbook contain- ing all the melodies fea- tured in the cassette. Other BJE Press items for Purim include "Folk Dances for Jewish Festivals," "Jewish Dances the Year Round," and a play, "A Song for Queen Esther." There is also a reader-activity book entitled "Purim Puppets," designed for use in special education classes. For information, about any of these items, or a com- plete catalog, write Purim Materials, BJE Press, Board of Jewish Education, 426 W. 58th St., New York, N.Y. 10019. Cartoonist Due for Temple Talk Friends of the Temple Beth El Prentis Library will present syndicated car- toonist Larry Wright ofthe Detroit News 8 p.m. April 4 in the temple library. Wright will speak on "The Art of the Cartoonist •— All I've Ever Wanted to Do." There is a charge for non-members.