THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
28 Friday, August 15, 1980
Former Denver Cantor Engaged to Assist
at Beth Achim High Holiday Services
Cong. Beth Achim has
engaged Cantor Maurice
Weiss for the High Holiday
services in the main
sanctuary. Cantor Weiss
was associated for 22 years
with Cong. Beth Joseph of
Denver, Colo.
Cantor Weiss came to the
U.S. from Romania at age 9
and attended Orthodox
religious schools in New
York City. He studied and
ON DISCOVERING FREEDOM .. .
I
had to go to the Soviet Union to
discover the meaning of freedom.
Please don't misunderstand. I did not
find freedom in the Soviet system. To the
contrary, I came away from my recent
visit there convinced that the U.S.S.R. is
one large prison camp.
But I met some of the most liberated
human beings I have ever been privileged
to know. They are the dissidents and
refuseniks. They are those who have
determined that they no longer are willing
to go along with oppression, that they will
not remain in rigid conformity. The spirit
of freedom they radiate in their lives is
incredibly inspiring. -
I made a similar remark to one young
Jewish refusenik. He is a man in his early
thirties, father of three young daughters.
He has not been permitted to work at his
profession as a mathematician for half a
decade, ever since he first made applica-
tion to emigrate to Israel. I said, "Every-
one in this country seems frightened
except you and others like you. How can
you go on the way you do, day by day,
knowing that you can be arrested and
imprisoned tomorrow?"
His answer was immediate and direct.
"You are correct. Everyone else is afraid.
Brezhnev is probably most frightened of
all. The K.G.B. agents following us are
afraid, but they are only doing their job. In
-
fact, I probably get more respect from
them than they show toward anyone
else. They can do whatever they choose
with me, but I am not afraid. I know there
is a higher Law in this world than the law
of the Soviet government. Thus I am free
of their power to intimidate."
To another, at the Synagogue in
Moscow, I said: "I don't know how to deal
with you. I came to Russia because you
were oppressed and burdened, and I find
you laughing and filled with joy. The
woman to whom I was speaking grew
serious. "Do you know our legend about
the tax collector who found the people
singing and dancing?"
When the Czar used to send his tax
collector to the village it was a time of
great sadness. But one year he arrived
and found the villagers in celebration.
Why are you happy, he asked. Because
we have nothing left that you can take
away!
The song "Me and Bobby McGee" has
a line: "Freedom's just another word for
nothing left to lose." I never understood
that before. After meeting dissidents in
Russia I am beginning to understand.
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ADAT SHALOM SYNAGOGUE: ServiceS 6 p.m. today
and 9 a.m. Saturday. Stuart Zorn, Bar Mitzva.
BIRMINGHAM TEMPLE: Services 8:30 p.m. today.
Rabbi Wine will speak on "Election 1980: Jimmy Car-
ter."
CONG. BNAI MOSHE: Services 7 p.m. today and 8:45
a.m. Saturday. Yaron Paliwoda, Bar Mitzva.
TEMPLE EMANU-EL: Services 7:30 p.m. today in the
West Garden, conducted by the Allan Tushman Fam-
ily and Barbara Alexander.
TEMPLE ISRAEL: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Andrew
Harris, Bar Mitzva. Services 11 a.m. Saturday.
CANTOR WEISS
TEMPLE KOL AMI: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Con-
- rad will direct a pulpit discussion on "The Push to the
sang with such great can-
tors as Leibele Waldman,
Right." Services 10:30 a.m. Saturday. Suzette Green-
Pierre Pinchik, Moishe
berg, Bat Mitzva.
Oysher and Moshe Stein- LIVONIA JEWISH CONGREGATION: Services 8 p.m.
today. Rabbi Gordon will speak on "Election, 1200
berg.
From the time he was 13 •
BCE." Services 9 a.m. Saturday.
years old, Cantor Weiss ac-
Regular services will be held at Cong. Bais Chabad of
cepted weekend cantorial Farmington Hills, Cong. Bais Chabad of West Bloomfield,
assignments to pay for his Cong. Beth Abraham Hillel Moses, Cong. Beth Achim,
school tuition and music Temple Beth El, Cong. Beth Isaac of Trenton, Temple Beth
Jacob, Cong. Beth Shalom, Cong. Beth Tefilo Emanuel
lessons.
Cong. Bnai Abraham in Tikvah, Cong. Beth Tephilath Moses of Mt. Clemens, Cong.
Easton, Pa., gave him his Bnai David, Cong. Bnai Israel of Pontiac, Cong. Bnai
first full time position at Israel-Beth Yehudah, Cong. Bnai Jacob, Cong. Bnai Zion,
age 16. He then officiated Cong. Dovid Ben Nuchim, Downtown Synagogue, Cong.
at the prestigious Beth ha Mishkan Israel Nusach H'Ari, Sephardic Community of
-Greater. Detroit, Cong. Shaarey Shomayim (Jewish Center
Morris Branch), Cong. Shaarey Zedek, Cong. Shomrey
NY Federation
Emunah, Cong. Shomrey Israel (18995 Schaefer), Cong.
Has Hotline
Solel, Cong. T'chiyah, Young Israel of Greenfield, Young
NEW YORK (JTA) — Israel of Oak-Woods and Young Israel of Southfield.
Volunteers trained to assist
Jews with a wide range of
problems staff the Jewish
Information and Referral
Service, the newest service
is proud to announce
of the Federation of Jewish
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The volunteers get initial
and then monthly training
to keep them up to date on
all available services. Some
of them speak fluent Yid-
with Esteemed and Highly Acclaimed Cantors
dish.
In September, a part-time
SEYMOUR GREENSTEIN and ITZHAK TATELBAUM
Russian-speaking volun-
teer will answer inquiries
from Soviet Jews unable to
speak or understand
Sept. 10, 11, 12, 1980
English. A professional so-
cial worker is at hand at all
times to deal with compli-
Sept. 19 & 20, 1980
cated and urgent problems.
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(Don McEvoy is Senior Vice President
of the National Conference of Christians
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significance. He was hon-
ored to have cut a record,
"Blow the Shofar, Blow"
which was inspired by the
victory and written espe-
cially for him.
For information concern-
ing new membership and
seating for the High Holi-
days call the synagogue
office, 352-8670.
Medrosh Hagodol Con-
gregation in New York's
Lower East Side. Before
coming to Denver, he
served for eight years as
cantor of Cong. Ahavath
Israel in Philadelphia,
Pa.
For Cantor Weiss, the
1967 Israeli victory in the
Six-Day War had special
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