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THE DETiOIT JEWISH JEWS

Temple Israel to Bid Farewell to Cantor Asher at Service

Cantor Arthur Asher,
educational director at
Temple Israel since 1967,
will be honored at a service
of tribute and farewell at
8:30 p.m. Sept. 11 in the
sanctuary, as he and his
wife, Evelyn, leave the
community to make their
permanent home in
Sarasota, Fla.
Alan D. Bennett, execu-
tive vice president of the
Cleveland Bureau of Jewish
Education and long-time
colleague and friend of the
Ashers, will be guest
speaker at the service.
Greetings will be pre-
sented from many of Cantor
Asher's professional col-
leagues, as will a gift from
the congregation. The

CANTOR ARTHUR ASHER

community is invited to
participate,
A member of the fa-
culty of the College of
Jewish Studies, spon-

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Temple Israel School Alum
to Speak at Shabat Services

Rabbi Jamei Stone
Goodman will return to
Temple Israel, where he re-
ceived his early Jewish edu-
cation, to deliver the ser-
mon at 8:30 p.m. today.
Rabbi Goodman, the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Goodman, long-time mem-
bers of Temple Israel, was
ordained at Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of
Religion in Cincinnati.
He now serves as assis-
tant rabbi of TempleShaare
Emeth, St. Louis, Mo., a
position he shares witholais
wife, Rabbi Susan Talve,
also a member of this year's
ordination class.

Rabbi Goodman is a
1970 graduate of the Uni-
versity of Michigan. A
professional entertainer,
he performed with a
puppet theater in art
museums and schools
throughout the Midwest.
His "Sermon topic for. Fri-
day night is "From Puppets
to Prophets."
He also has entertained
prt)fessionally as a singer

and guitarist, and as a first
year rabbinical student in
Jerusalem, toured Israel
with a multi-national musi-
cal revue, performing in
clubs, on kibutzim and at
special events.
Before he entered rabbin-
ical school, Rabbi Goodman
worked as a juvenile proba-
tion officer in Phoenix,
Ariz., and attended Arizona
State University doing
post-graduate work in
classical Greek literature
and philosophy.
ordination,
Upon
Rabbi Goodman won the
Israel Bettan Prize for
Pulpit Creativity. He has
designed special services
for the deaf, and has ex-
perimented with the
liturgy and Midrash in
creating unique religious
forms.
Prior to his present pul-
pit, Rabbi Goodman served
student pulpits in Jones-
boro, Ark.; Twinsburg,
Ohio; and Victoria, Tex.

sored by the Metropoli-
tan Detroit Federation of
Reform Synagogues,
Cantor Asher became
dean of the college in
1971, and•has served in
that capacity, as well as
continuing to teach adult
courses, to the present.
Cantor Asher came to
Temple Israel after direct-
ing religious schools at
Temple Israel, South
Orange, N.J., and Temple
Emeth, Teaneck, N.J.
A graduate of the College
of the City of New York, he
also studied at the Hebrew
Union., College-Jewish In-
stitute of Religion School of
Education and Sacred
Music. He was invested as a
cantor-educator with a BS
degree in music, a princi-
pal's certificate and teacher
certification in music and
Hebrew.
He later was a candidate
for a doctorate in religious
education at 13ropsie Col-
lege, Philadelphia, and at
Wayne State University.
For many years, Can-
tor Asher was an officer
of the National Associa-
tion of Temple
Educators, and also was
an officer of the Ameri-
can Conference of Can-
tors. From 1974 to 1977,
he served as president of
the Jewish Educators
Council of Metropolitan
Detroit.
He has written and lec-
tured extensively in the
field of Jewish religious
education and on Jewish
music and liturgy. Many of
the innovative programs he
created for the Temple Is-
rael Religious School have
appeared in Jewish Teacher
magazine, the NATE
Bulletin and Compass, the
publication of the depart-
ment of education of the
Union of American Hebrew
Congregations„.
Like her huslmnd, Mrs.
Asher has been active in

Temple Israel's educational
program over a 14 - year
span, teaching Hebrew, de-
veloping and directing a
Sunday school Hebrew
readiness program and
teaching Hebrew high
school classes.
The Ashers' three sons
and their families will join
in the Sept. 11 festivities.

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Bank of Israel has an-
nounced that there is no
danger to the stability of
any bank in Israel. Reports
in focal newspapers had
stated that the First Inter-
national Bank of Israel
(FIB') was in difficulties be-
cause of heavy loans to
diamond merchants and
manufacturers.
The Bank of Israel said
that FIBI and other banks
had already taken into ac-
count these loans as bad
debts.' The Israeli diamond
industry, said to lead in the
world in the production of
small "Melees" polished in
Israel, has been badly hit by
the decline in the world
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