THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 8 Friday, May 26, 1918 Jewish Book Awards Due S&O POOL DOCTORS OPENINGS & CLOSINGS Weekly Cleaning & All Repairs Ardent "Phi Sum War" ■ See Our DISTO ZED Hydretierapy WHIRLPOOL at 17260 Lee Slid_ Mi. Mks Nan Mteftls & 557-2657 557-6555 NEW YORK — A major document in the literature of the Holocaust — Terrence des Pres' "The Survivor. An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camp" (Oxford U. Press) — will receive one of seven 1978 National Jewish Book Awards on June 4. The JWB Jewish Book Council will also confer awards on Chaim Grade, AMERICAN PROTECTIVE Worship OKd ALARMS. INC Fire 838-7008 FULL TIME PROTECTION FROM MARV CHECK • • • • Burglary Vandalism Fire Personal Attack MARV ROSEN At A Price You Can Afford NO IFONE Automatically Notifies within seconds Police Dept. & Fre Dept. Central Office rlidden Wire Install/alio. You Won't Know We've Been There emergency reporting system with 24 hr. protection AMERICAN PROTECTIVE ALARM INC. author of "The Yeshiva," Volumes I-II (Bobbs- Merrill) for fiction; Celia S. Heller, "Edge of Destruc- tion" (Columbia Univ. Press), Jewish history; Hillel Halkin, "Letters to an American Friend" (JPS), Is- rael category; Milton Melt- zer, "Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust" (Harper & Row), juvenile award, and T. Carmi, "El Eretz Aheret" (Dvir.), poetry. 838_7008 NEW YORK (JTA) — The Connecticut Supreme Court has granted a motion by the American Jewish Congress to stay enforce- ment of a lower court order restricting overnight wor- ship for members of a con- gregation in Norfolk called Beit Havurah. The Litchfield court of common pleas last fall rec- ognized the status of Beit Havurah as a house of wor- ship but upheld a local zon- ing board ruling which limited worship to certain holidays determined by the board. The AJCongress has ap- pealed that ruling to the state Supreme Court and the case is expected to be argued next October. In the meantime, the AJCongress has enabled Beit Havurah to function without restric- tions by obtaining the stay, AJCongress officials said. SENIOR CITIZENS FIGHT INFLATION With A 2 Year I ease* Significance of the Omer Count By RABBI SAMUEL FOX (Copyright 1978, JTA, Inc.) The days between Passover and Shavuot are ceremoniously counted day by day and week by week because of the command- ment of the Torah (Leviticus 23:15). It is interesting to note, in this respect, that unlike its procedure regarding all other major festivals, the Bible does not give the explicit date of the Shavuot holiday except to state that Dreyfus Street PARIS (JTA) — A street named after Jewish Cap- tain Alfred Dreyfus (1859- 1935), the man wrongly charged with treason and defended by writer Emile Zola, was inaugurated in the French city of Rennes. The city's mayor unveiled the plaque in the presence of one of Dreyfus' daughters, Mrs. Renee Levy, and other members of the family. The City Council decided to rename the street after Dreyfus on the 80th an- niversary of the publication of Zola's letter to the French President, the famous "J'Accuse." French televi- sion is also due to show a special program to mark the occasion. A Bishop's Anti-Semitism LONDON — An Angli- can assistant bishop has come under fire for a radio address last month in which he suggested that Jews "have always been engaged in religious wars" and have "forgotten the pains of per- secution and now persecute Palestinians." Dr. John A.T. Robinson was quoted by the London Jewish Chronicle as equat- ing Israel's policies in the administered territories with the apartheid policies of South Africa and the ra- cial policies of the Nazis. Dr. Robinson told the Chronicle that his remarks had been distorted and taken out of context. 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Twenty students are attending the four-year course which is being of- fered by the School of Social Work of Haifa University with the help of a 11.548,000 grant from the Joint Distri- bution Committee. Dean Appointed PHILADELPHIA — Dr. Ronald A. Brauner, chair- man of faculty and director of the Rabbinic Civilization Program, has been ap- pointed dean of the Recon- structionist Rabbinical Col- lege. it comes about after count- ing the appropriate number of days and weeks from Passover. This indicates the indispensible bond that exists between these two festivals. Since Passover com- memorates our freedom and Shavuot commemorates our revelation and commit- ment, the bond represents the belief that commitment is impossible without a freedom to commit one's self and freedom is meaningless without one's commitment to ideals and faith. There are those who claim that the count-is made to keep track of the passing days so that the pilgrims who came to Jerusalem for Passover and who return home will not tarry too long since they have to return to Jerusalem for the Shavuot holiday. Some mystic commen- taries state that the count- ing was done so as to emu- late one who had become impure and who has to count a period of time until he reached the state of pur- ity. Passover ended the He- brews' state of impurity in Egypt while the revelation emphasized their state of purity which is necessary to make the proper commit- ment to God's revelation. Others claim that count- ing the days and weeks is a symbol of the eagerness and anxiety with which the Jews anticipated the reve- lation. Revelation is mean- ingless unless there is a de- gree of desire and anticipa- tion to obtain the truth. 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