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A written report sent to you after each visit. , PLAN II (Cost $35) , 1 phone call per week (4 per month). 1 personal visit per month. A written report sent to you after each visit. • PLAN III (A La Carte) Phone call $1.75 Personal visit $25.00 SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS Dinners, shows, luncheons: $20 per hour, plus expenses. For special services such as gift or clothes buying, errands, per- sonal services, hospital or nursing home visits, birthdays, anniversaries or special holidays, rates will be quoted in advance. All services may be charged on Visa, MasterCard or American Express. We show you care when you can't be there. Among traditional Jews, Tisha b'Av is preceded by three weeks of mourning during which all celebra- tions are forbidden. At the final meal before the fast, on the eve of Tisha b'Av, some Jews dine on hard rolls and eggs, sprinkling the eggs with ashes, a ritual associ- ated with mourners after funerals. In dimly-lighted synagogues, Jews sit on low benches or boxes and read from the Book of Lamenta- tions, puiportedly written by the Prophet Jeremiah. Then kinot, dirges or odes of mourning, are recited by the worshippers over the passing of the Holy Temple and the religious and na- tional life of which the Temple was the symbol and the embodiment. The closing section of the kinot expresses the Jewish people's longing for the Holy Land and contains prayers for her speedy restoration. After midday on this fast, oriental Jewish women anoint themselves with fragrant oils, for it is be- lieved that this is the birthday of the Messiah, who will arise out of de- spair and bring consola- tion to his people. This ritual, re-enacted annually for nearly 2,000 years by Jews dispersed in every part of the world, speaks more persuasively than academic tomes of the centrality of Jerusalem in the religious and folk- consciousness of the Jewish people. Thus, Jerusalem is more than a locale of holy places in Judaism; it si in fact the axis mundi, the center of orientation in the cosmos for Jews,' and that reality will play a decisive role in all the deliberation over the future status of Jerusalem in teh months ahead. Refusnik Visas NEW YORK (JTA) — Longterm refusniks Peter Balshem of Tashkent and Lev Talianker of Moscow have received exit visas, it was reported here. Synagogue V I V ;I VIII Ix I II I IV Services V CONG. BETH ABRAHAM HILLEL MOSES: Services 7:15 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Saturday (Men's Club Instal- lation). CONG. BETH ACHIM: Services 6 p.m. today and 8:45 a.m. Saturday: Erica Disner, Bat Chayil. TEMPLE BETH EL: Services 5:30 p.m. today and 11 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Schwartz will speak on "The Jewish Equation: To Learn How to Do." David Katchman, Bar Mitzva. (Alan Schwarz became Bar Mitzva at July 12 Shabat morning services.) DOWNTOWN SYNAGOGUE: Services 8 a.m. Satuday. Rabbi Gamze will speak on "Our Doors Are Always Open." TEMPLE EMANU-EL: Services 8 p.m. today in the West Garden, conducted by the Mossoff Family. TEMPLE ISRAEL: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Loss will speak on "Planning — Preparation — Participa- tion— The Future Is Now." Services 11 a.m. Saturday. TEMPLE KOL AMI: Services 8:30 p.m. today, conducted by Reuben Bergman. CONG. T'CHIYAH: Services 10 a.m. Saturday. conducted by Alan Schenk. .Regular services will be held at Adat Shalom Synagogue, Cong. Bais Chabad of Farmington Hills, Cong. Bais Chabad of West Bloomfield, Cong. Beth Isaac of Tren- ton, Temple Beth Jacob, Cong. Beth Shalom, Cong. Beth Tefilo Emanuel Tikvah, Cong. Beth Tephilath Moses of Mt. Clemens, Birmingham Temple, Cong. Bnai David, Cong. Bnai Israel of Pontiac, Cong. Bnai Israel-Beth Yehudah, Cong. Bnai Jacob, Cong. Bnai Moshe, Cong. Bnai Zion, Cong. Dovid Ben Nuchim, Livonia Jewish Congregation, Cong. Mishkan Israel Nusach H'Ari, Sephardic Commu- nity of Greater Detroit, Cong. Shaarey Shomayim (Jewish Center Morris Branch), Cong. Shaarey Zedek, Cong. Shom- rey Emunah, Cong. Shomrey Israel (18995 Schaefer), Cong. Solel, Young Israel of Greenfield, Young Israel of Oak-Woods and Young Israel of Southfield. Steinhardts on the Bima An innovative ceremony marked the Adat Shalom Sabbath services July 12. Dr. Milton Steinhardt ob- served his approaching 75th birthday by being Bar Mitzva. He recited the Haftara (Jeremiah 2:4-28, 3:4, 4:1-2) and all the traditional prayers preceding and fol- lowing the Prophetical reading. His wife, Frieda, added to the interest of the oc- casion by reading the Prayer for Our Country. Rabbi Efry Spectre, in his charge to the senior Bar Mitzva, enumerated Dr. Steinhardt's many profes- sional and communal ac- complishments, praised him for his devotions and expressed the hope he will have a second Bar Mitzva, Tisha b'Av Services Listed Tisha b'Av will be ob- served beginning at sun- down Monday. Synagogues who have made their Tisha b'Av schedules available are: ADAT SHALOM SYNAGOGUE: A slide and tape presentation will be given at 7:30 p.m. Monday and services will follow at 9 p.m. in the main sanctuary. CONG. BETH AB- RAHAM HILLEL MOSES: Minha will begin at 8:45 p.m. Monday, fol- lowed by Maariv and recita- tions from the Book of Lamentations. Tuesday's services will be held at 7:15 a.m. CONG. SHAAREY ZEDEK: Services will be held at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday for Tisha b'Av. traditionally, at the age of 83, after the symbolic 70th year of life's fulfillment. Dr. Steinhardt was not Bar Mitzva in his home town in Russia because of problems that arose during World Wrar I. German City to Aid Synagogue BONN (JTA) — The Christian Social Union fac- tion in the City Council of Wuerzburg has proposed a detailed plan to assist the Jewish community to reno- vate its synagogue. The plan calls for a gradual renovation which would be financed mainly from the city's budget. It also recommends placing the synagogue under the care of local authorities. The faction wants Wuerzburg to demonstrate its solidarity NYith former Jewish citizens by inten- sifying contacts with them on various levels. It was suggested that the city's cultural prize be awarded to Yehuda Amichai, an Israeli author who was born in Wuerzburg. Absentee Ballots Set in Hawaii HONOLULU (JTA) — Hawaii's Jewish voters will be allowed to cast absentee ballots in the state's pri- mary elections which will be held on Sept. 20, Yom Kippur. Lt. Gov. Jean King said in a letter to the Hawaii Jewish Welfare Fund that she and her staff are now working on a plan for the absentee voting, the Hawaii Jewish News reported.