22 Friday, December 26, 1980

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Slow Reform for Moslem Women

The Institute of
Jewish Affairs

LONDON — Fewer
women were educated in the
Moslem world than in other

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culture areas and the gap
between the proportion of
educated women and men is
growing. Other than in ag-
riculture, the percentage of
working Moslem women is
probably the smallest in the
world.
Women in the privileged
classes clearly enjoy greater
freedom than their counter-
parts -in the villages and
poorer urban areas but even
professional women are
sometimes subject to re-
strictions which are applied
when Islamic fervor inter-
rupts the process of gradual
emancipation.
It seems that legal re-
forms pertaining to per-
sonal status and rights go
hand in hand with the pro-
vision of equal educational
facilities for women and
encouragement of the entry
of women into the labor_
force: The nations that have
reformed the laws most in-
equitable and restrictive to
women have higher female
literacy, school enrollment,
and reported female par-
ticipation in economic ac-
tivities.

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Synagogue

Services

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Those women who
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have benefitted s from
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legal reforms and who
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work in the professions
are often better placed CONG. BETH ABRAHAM HILLEL MOSES: Services 6
than women in the West.
p.m. today and 9 a.m. Saturday. Robert Berger and
The nature of the Moslem
Jason Stocker, Bnai Mitzva.
extended family and the CONG. BETH ACHIM: Services 5 p.m, today and 8:45
preponderance of
a.m. Saturday. Emily Burns, Bat Chayil.
domestic servants mean TEMPLE BETH JACOB: Services 8:30 p.m. today, con-
that children are looked
ducted by the college students.
after and the burdens of BIRMINGHAM TEMPLE: Services 8:30 p.m. today.
domestic management
Rabbi Wine will speak on "Prediction — America After
are shared. But this only
the Election."
applies to the elite.
CONG. BNAI MOSHE: Services 4:40 p.m. today and 8:45
a.m. Saturday. Irving Pelavin will read the Maftir.
Although customs,and so-
cial practices are changing DOWNTOWN SYNAGOGUE: Services 9 a.m. (new time)
Saturday. Rabbi Gamze will speak on "What Is Real
under the pressure of eco-
nomic development only
-
Freedom?" Kenneth May, Bar Mitzva.
changes in the law will TEMPLE ISRAEL: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Fram
will speak on "1980 — What an Eventful Year." Serv-
allow women the opportu-
ices 11 a:m. Saturday. Denise Walker, Bat Mitzva.
nity to achieve full equality.
Women's organizations are TEMPLE KOL AMI: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Con-
rad will lead a pulpit discussion on "Peace on Earth:
playing a major role in at-
Goodwill Toward Man — Current Prospects for
tempts to improve the
Jewish-Christian Cooperation."
status of Moslem women
and many look to the West LIVONIA JEWISH CONGREGATION: Services 8 p.m.
today. Rabbi Gordon will speak on "The Staff of the
for examples of the kind of
Snake." Services 9 a.m. Saturday.
independent status they
Regular services will be held at Adat Shalom
wish to achieve.
However, the problem is Synagogue, Cong. Bais Chabad of Farmington Hills, Cong.
how to reform the law and Bais Chabad of West Bloomfield, Temple Beth El, Cong.
improve status -while at the Beth Isaac of Trenton, Cong. Beth Shalom, Cong. Beth
same time preserving Mos- Tefilo Emanuel Tikvah, Cong. Beth Tephilath Moses of Mt.
lem and Arab traditions Clemens, Cong. Bnai David, Cong. Bnai Israel, Cong Bnai
which are precious to their Israel-Beth Yehudah, Cong. Bnai Jacob, Cong. Bnai Zion,
Cong. Dovid Ben Nuchim, Temple Emanu-El, Cong. Mis-
followers.
This is indeed a complex hkan Israel Nusach H'Ari, Sephardic Community of
process and one that cannot Greater Detroit, Cong. Shaarey Shomayim (Jewish Center
occur in such rigidly Morris Branch), Cong. Shaarey Zedek, Cong. Shomrey
structured societies without Emunah, Cong. Shomrey Israel (18995 Schaefer), Cong.
conflict and some social dis- Solel, Cong. T'chiyah, Young Israel of Greenfield, Young
Israel of Oak-Woods and Young Israel of Southfield.
ruption. -

Psalm Recalls
Temple's Demise

Sculpture Depicts Holocaust

By RABBI SAMUEL FOX

(Copyright 1980, JTA, Inc.)

The 137th Psalm, recited
before offering the grace
after meals, recalls the de-
struction. of the Temple
when the people , wept (at
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The reason for reciting
the Psalm on weekdays be-
fore thanking the Almighty
for His provisions to- the
human race is to remind a
person that even if he has
enjoyed his food and com-
pany there is still some-
thing lacking which he
might have enjoyed had the
Temple tint been destroyed.
While happiness is per-
mitted and feasting is
allowed, the joy is incom-
plete and the satisfaction is
not all encompassing. The
Jew thus mixes a bit of sad-
ness into his joy. ,

Jews of Germany

BONN — About 30,000
Jews now live in West Ger-
many and West Berlin, a
mere five percent of the
number which made up the
Jewish population before
the Nazis rose to power in
1933.
The Jewish community
today consists of Holocaust
survivors — German and
other nationalities — as
well as more recent arrivals
from Europe and the Soviet
Union.

This relief by sculptor, Rappaport, recalling the
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising during World War II, is
housed at Israel's memorial to Holocaust victims,
Yad Vashem. The Holocaust memorial is comprised of
extensive archives, museum and a memorial chamber
whose floor contains six million tiny mosaic tiles
through which are weaved the names of the Nazi
death camps.

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