THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
32 Friday, September 1, 1919
Named to UJA
NEW YORK — Bobi
Klotz of New York City has
been appointed chairman of
the, Young Women's Lead-
ership Cabinet of the
United Jewish Appeal.
Jews of Arab Lands Topic
of Bnai Moshe Special Talk
The Social Action Corn-
mittee of Cong. Bnai Moshe
will present a special lec-
ture 8:30 p.m. Sept. 18 in
the synagogue on "It's Hard
to Be a Jew — Jewish Com-
munities in Distress." The
featured speakers will be
Henri Bizaoui and Dr.
Firooz Banooni. The focus of
their talks will be Jews in
Egypt and Iran.
'Dr. Banooni was born in
Hamadan, Iran. He was
graduated from the Al-
liance Israelite Universelle
and the Teheran Medical
School. Dr. Banooni immig-
HIGH HOLIDAY
SERVICES
"from the heart"
led by
RABBI Y.M. KAGAN
BAIS CHABAD
Of Farmington Hills
28555 Middlebelt
Farmington Hills
information call
626-3194 or 548-2666
CONGREGATION SHAARIT HAPLAYTAH
METROPOLITAN DETROIT, MICHIGAN
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CONGREGATION SHAARIT HAPLAYTAH
IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE
HIGH HOLIDAY
SERVICES
WITH The Esteemed and Highly Acclaimed
Cantor Seymour Greenstein
Cantor Irvin Ernst
Rosh Hashonah: Sept. 21, 22, 23, 1919
Yom Kippur: Sept. 30, Oct. 1, 1979
1979
To be held at the
Thompson School
Holocaust Theme
of Wine Lecture
5740
16500 Lincoln Drive • Southfield, Mich.
Donation $20.00 per person
The High Holidays will soon be here, so make your reservations
today by calling any of the following:
Jack Waksberg
Sol Kleinman
Sonia Popowski
23471 KENOSHA Chairman
Ticket Co-Chairman
398-6861
356-3383
557-3994
Helen Balberman Simon Schwarzberg
557 - 1141
968 - 3791
Mrs. Ben Fisk
Abe Weberman
Leon Gutman
968 - 4878
Leo Halpern .
Ticket Chairman
353-9237
541-7450
All proceeds from High Holiday will go toward the Memorial Center
626-5224
rated to the United States in
1966 and served one year of
internship in Philadelphia.
The following year he
moved to Detroit, did his re-
sidency at Sinai Hospital
and is currently in private
practice serving on the staff
at Sinai, Grace-Harper and
Beaumont Hospitals. In
addition, he has published•a
number of articles in na-
tional obstetrics and gyne-
cology journals.
Bizaoui is a native of
Cairo. He emigrated from
Egypt in the 1950s, lived
briefly in France and fi-
nally settled in Israel,
where he lived from 1957
to 1969. He served in the
Israeli Air Force from
1961 to 1964.
Bizaoui is the chairman of
the Committee of Jews from
Arab Countries, co-
chairman of the Holocaust
committee and a member of
the Michigan Regional
Board • of the Anti-
Defamation League. He has
lived in the United States
since 1969.
Chairmen Pearlena Bod-
zin and Mark Eichner invite
the community.
545-1244
Spend your Holidays with your friends and dear ones, Remember too, that if you
attended last years Services how warm and "hamish" they were.
Rabbi Sherwin Wine will
begin a series of three talks
on the theme, "After the
Holocaust," 8:30 p.m. Mon-
day in the Birmingham
Temple.
Rabbi Wine will speak on ),
"The Other Germany.
There is a charge, and the
public is invited.
Israel will export about
15 million units of
grapefruit all over the world
this season. That is equiv-
alent to about 300,000 tons,
of which some 84,000 tons
will go to Germany. The
grapefruit season is from
October to June.
THE BIRMINGHAM TEMPLE
COMMUNITY
HIGH HOLIDAY SERVICES
1979
5740
For Jewish Humanists ROSH HASHANA and YOM KIPPUR allow an oppor-
tunity for personal reflection. These times of celebration help us to affirm our
Jewish Identity and to take stock of our personal lives.
RABBI SHERWIN WINE
will present services on the theme .
OPTIMISM — TRAINING FOR HAPPINESS
Saturday, September 22 1:00 p.m.
Rosh Hashana
Monday, October 1 1:00 p.m.
Yom Kippur (Kol Nidre)
Monday, October 1 4:30 p.m.
Memorial
Children's Services (Ages 4-9)
Saturday, September 22 2:30 p.m.
Rosh Hashana
Yom Kippur — Monday, October 1 2:30 p.m.
Youth Services (Ages 10-12)
Rosh Hashana — Saturday, September 22 3:30 p.m.
Yom Kippur — Monday, October 1 3:30 p.m.
Tickets of admission are required for all adult services and may be purchased by calling the
Temple Secretary. Tickets are not required for Memorial, Children's and Youth Services.
If you are interested in learning more about Humanistic Judaism please join us for an Evening With
The Rabbi on Wednesday, September 5 at 8:30 p.m. at the Temple.
THE BIRMINGHAM TEMPLE
The Center of Humanistic Judaism
28611 West 12 Mile Road (bet. Inkster and Middlebelt)
(313) 477.1410
Sabbath Services each Friday at 8:30 p.m.
Tuition Study Cites Major Gap
Between Fees, Rising Inflation
With respect to day
NEW YORK (JTA) — mary through high
The American Association school grades, was schools, the survey showed
for Jewish Education slightly more than $78. that tuition fee increases
(AAJE) disclosed this week Concomitantly, tuition during the period examined
that rises in tuition fees fees rose 26.8 percent in were 107 percent for pri-
mary grades, 98 percent for
charged by Jewish congre- three-day-a-week
gational schools have lag- schools, resulting in av- elementary grades and 124
ged far behind increases in erage tuition charges of percent for high school
the cost of living over the $42, $85 and $107„respec- grades, resulting in an
overall rise of 110.3 percent
past nine years to the point tively, for 1978-1979.
The survey also disclosed since 1969-1970. The aver-
where such fees now repre-
sent only 10 percent of the that 73.6 percent of the re- age tuition fees at these
cost of educating a student. porting congregational levels last year were $1,222,
Reporting on a nation- schools require tuition fees $1,268 and $1,610, respec-
wide survey on tuition for children of members, a - tively.
scales and policies which it slight increase from the 68
As with congregational
conducted during the percent recorded in the schools, tuition fees ten
1978-1979 academic year, 1969-1970 study; 65 percent to be reduced when par
the AAJE said that since of the schools restrict ents enroll more than one
1969-1970 (the last time it enrollment to the children child in a day school,
undertook a study in this of congregational members such reductions ranging
area), the cost of living rose — a surprising increase, in from 4 percent to 13 per-
more than 2 1/2 times as light of their growing finan- cent.
much as did tuition fees in cial need, over the 53 per-
The average tuition fees
primary, elementary and cent which followed such a
high school classes of one-, policy in 1969-1970; 89 per- of communal schools are
two- and three-day-a-week cent of the schools which higher at all grade levels
admit non-affiliated chil- than those in congrega-
congregational schools.
The survey by the AAJE's dren charge higher tuition tional schools.
For example, the survey
Department of Community fees for their education.
showed
tuition in two-
According
to
the
survey,
Services, Information and
Studies analyzed findings only 18 percent of the re- day-a-week schools is $124
from 266 selected congrega- porting schools receive (communal) as against $107
tional, day and communal some form of communal (congregational) at the pri-
subsidy; tuition fees levied mary level, $354 (com-
schools in 46 American and
by larger schools tend to be munal) as against $75 (con-
Canadian communities.
Its analysis, according higher than those charged gregational) at the elemen-
to department director by smaller schools; and tui- tary level and $139 (com-
tion fees are usually re- munal) as against $74 (con-
Dr. George Pollak,
"strongly indicates that duced for each additional gregational) at the high
child from the same family. school level.
as the gap between in-
come and expenses con-
tinues to widen for con-
gregational schools,
these schools will be
compelled to make hard
While very few fast on these
By RABBI
decisions affecting their
days, the shofar is still
SAMUEL FOX
educational quality, fis-
blown to indicate the re-
(Copyright 1979, JTA, Inc.)
cal accountability and
The shofar is blown for a quired penitential mood of
perhaps even synagogal
whole month before Rosh these days.
autonomy."
The act of blowing the
Pollak said certain op- Hashana (i.e., during the
tions which would seem ap- month of Elul) because it shofar is omitted on the day
parent to schools in such was at the beginning of the before Rosh Hashana to
circumstances — those of month of Elul that Moses differentiate between the
either raising tuition fees or made his second ascent to shofar blowing that takes
place during the whole
cutting operational costs — the top of Mount Sinai.
This took place after month and that which takes
"are in fact apt to be re-
garded as counterproduc- Moses pleaded with the Al- place on Rosh Hashana it-
tive. The first incurs the mighty to give the Israelites self.
The two have separate
a second chance after they
risk of discouraging school
enrollment and congrega- had sinned in worshipping motives: The Rosh Hashana
tional membership," he the Golden Calf. His second shofar blowing refers to the
ascent was to complete the authority, awareness and
said, "while the second, in-
volving the watering down act of forgiveness on the communication between
the Almighty and His
of staff and depletion of staf- part of the Almighty.
At the time he went up. people. The Elul shofar
fing needs, carries with it
the seeds of destruction for (the beginning of the month blowing is a reminder of the
of Elul) the shofar was approaching period of
Jewish education."
blown to remind the Israel- judgment.
As a result, Pollak said
A second reason is offered
ites not to repeat the shame-
more and more congrega-
ful incident. It is claimed by by the mystics who claim
tional schools will have to
begin considering such al- some that the shofar was that the interruption is
ternative courses of action then blown daily to keep the made to confuse Satan into
as intra-and trans- people of Israel on the watch thinking that the judgment
denominational school for good behavior (Tana is concluded, so that he will
cease his accusations
D'be Eliyahu).
mergers for greater educa-
We, likewise, during against us.
tional and fiscal efficiency,
increased appeals to local this period ask for the
federations for subsidies or forgiveness of the Al- Holiday Songs
allocations, and new fun- mighty and therefore the on Cassette
draising approaches con- shofar is blown daily (ex-
NEW YORK — The
ducted either indepen- cept on the Sabbath) to
dently or via a coordinated remind us that a chance melodies of the High Holy
community education cam- for forgiveness is ap- Days and Sukkot are avail-
proaching (i.e. Yom Kip- able on "High Holy Day and
paign.
Sukkot Melodies," one of a
The AAJE survey found pur).
Some authorities trace series of holiday cassettes
that while the post of living
rose 78 percent over the past this idea to the passage in published by the Board of
nine years, tuition fees in the prophetic Book of Amos Jewish Education of
congregational schools (ex- (3:6) "Will then the Shofar Greater New York.
To order the cassette and
clusive of nursery and kin- be blown in the city and the
dergarten classes) in- nation will not tremble?" It companion songbook, write
is claimed that these were Frada Harel, Board of
creased only 30.3 percent.
The average tuition fee days of fasting and peni- Jewish Education, 426 W.
charged by these schools tence and on such days the 58th St., New York 10019.
last year, covering pri- shofar was usually blown. There is a charge.
ShofarrsIs Sounded Daily
During the Month of Elul