THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
JWB Prepares for High Holidays
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NEW YORK — Rabbi
Judah Nadich, chairman er
the Jewish Welfare Boara
Commission on Jewish
Chaplaincy, has announced
that U.S. Jewish military
personnel and their families
in such far-flung places as
Germany, Greece, Turkey,
Italy and the Far East as
well as throughout the U.S.
will observe the High Holy
Days through ar-
rangements made by
Jewish chaplains and
JWB's Commission on
Jewish Chaplaincy.
"There are only 55 full-
time Jewish military and
Veterans Administration
chaplains," says Rabbi
Nadich. "The commission
will help mobilize civilian
and reserve rabbis to con-
duct Rosh Hashana and
Yom Kippur services at
every base where there are
Jews."
This year Rosh Hashana
will begin at sundown Sept.
10. Yom Kippur will begin
the evening of Sept. 19.
Both JWB's Commis-
sion on Jewish Chap-
laincy and JWB's
Women's Organizations'
Services have sent ship-
ments of prayer books
and prayer shawls, yar-
mulkes, Torah scrolls,
shofars, Jewish calen-
dars and inspirational
literature for use during
Rosh Hashana, Yom
Kippur, Sukkot, Shemini
Atzeret and Sunhat To-
rah.
Services will run the
gamut from large as-
semblies in base chapels to
small gatherings on iso-
lated sites or ships at sea.
The first services will take
place on Gaum, just across
the International Date
Line, and starting times
will follow the sun. Pearl
Harbor traditionally has
the honor of being the last to
finish.
The Chaplaincy Commis-
sion of JWB will work with
the placement services of
the Central Conference of
American Rabbis, the Rab-
binical Assembly, and the
Rabbinical Council of
America in helping to ar-
range civilian rabbinical
coverage at the many mili-
tary bases and Veterans
Administration facilities
that lack permanent Jewish
chaplains.
Selihot
Traditional
prayers and liturgical
melodies of the High Holy
Days and Sukkot are avail-
able on three commission-
produced tape cassettes.
"While ambulatory
patients generally attend
hospital services," Rabbi
Nadich notes, "the cas-
settes are often played
over VA hospital net-
. works so that bedridden
Jewish patients can par-
ticipate as well." Jewish
chaplains arrange spe-
cial "break-the-fast"
suppers for those
patients who fast on Yom
Kippur.
The armed services
encourage liberal leave and
pass policies for Jewish per-
sonnel. Those servicemen
who can't get home for the
holidays are offered home
hospitality by local Jewish
families. Single men and
women are often guests of
military families on their
bases.
Local Jewish communal
organizations cooperate in
holiday arrangements with
the Jewish chaplains, the
JWB Chaplaincy Commis-
sion and JWB's Women's
Organizations' Services.
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Soviet Immigrants Re-Marry
in Jewish Ceremony in NJ
NEW YORK (JTA) — A
young Soviet Jewish couple
who immigrated to the
United States at the begin-
ning of April were wed a
second time last week at the
Jewish Center of West
Orange, N.J.
Gennady and Natalya
Podolsky Grinberg, who
live in nearby Irvington,
had always wanted a
Jewish wedding. But they
probably never expected it
to happen so soon.
"This is something that
they always wanted to do in
Russia," said Rabbi Stanley
Asekoff, who performed the
wedding. The Grinbergs
were formally wed in
Gomel, Byelorussia, in a
civil wedding two years ago.
The New Jersey ceremony
served as their reintroduc-
tion to Jewish life and cus-
toms, Asekoff said.
Gennady, a math-
ematician, is currently
studying English language
and looking for a job in com-
puter programming.
Natalya was a music
teacher in Russia, and she is
now studying accounting.
The wedding was
attended by 180 members of
the Jewish Center's congre-
gation and outsiders, each
of whom was asked to con-
tribute $5 to pay for the af-
fair. The children of the
West Orange temple acted
as ushers and bridesmaids,
since the wedding also
served to teach them about
Jewish marriage cere-
monies.
Members of the Haverim,
the Havura organization of
the Jewish Center, wanted
their children to attend a
Jewish wedding so they
agreed a few weeks ago to
find a couple who would
benefit from one. Almost as
soon as the idea occurred to
them, Leslie Hecht, a
Haverim member who does
resettlement work with
Soviet emigres at the YM
and YWHA in East Orange,
found the Grinbergs.
It made little difference
that the Grinbergs were al-
ready married, since Gen-
nady "told me that he had
been looking for a rabbi to
hold a Jewish wedding for
him," Hecht said. After
Hecht introduced herself,
someone in the resettle-
ment center suddenly con-
gratulated Gennady on his
successful emigration.
"No," Hecht said Gennady
replied. "Jews say `Mazel-
toy.' "
"I immediately felt he had
some sense for Yid-
dishkeit," Hecht added. She
gave Gennady's name to
Rabbi Asekoff, and he made
the final arrangements
with the Haverim for the
wedding. "I'm getting mar-
ried' in August and I was
more excited about his wed-
ding than about my own at
that point," Hecht said.
Asekoff said ; that even
though the Grinbergs live
outside . West Orange, "I
would hope we might adopt
them and make them part of
the community."
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