26 Friday, August 21, 1982
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
CONG. BETH ACHIM
HIGH HOLIDAY SERVICES
in the
Main Sanctuary
Will Be Conducted By
RABBI MILTON ARM
and
CANTOR MAX SHIMANSKY
Membership - Available
AUXILIARY
HIGH HOLIDAY SERVICES
# 1
Auxiliary Social Hall
RABBI BENJAMIN H. GORRELICK
and
CANTOR DAVID TANZMAN
will officiate
Tickets
#2
$60.00
La Med Auditorium
at United Hebrew School
Rohlik Building
RABBI HERBERT ESKIN
and
CANTOR BARRY ULRYCH
will officiate
Tickets
$40.00
Ticket's available at:
21100 West 12 Mile Rd.
Southfield, Michigan
for further information or
inquiries concerning
membership and seating
call synagogue office:
352-8670
Few Jews Remain in War-Torn Lebanon
By GIL SEDAN
(Editor's note: Latest
reports list the Jewish
population of Lebanon at
300, but accurate figures
are not available.)
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A
group of well-dressed men,
women and children sat on
the terrace of a coffee house
in Rosh Hanikra, Israel's
border point with Lebanon,
enjoying the view of the
coastal plain stretching all
the way to the gulf of Haifa.
The group, which seemed
like typical tourists who
visit the scenic border town,
chatted in a mixture of
Arabic and French, and oc-
casionally in Hebrew. They
were indeed tourists, but
hardly typical. They came
from the north, from Leba-
non.
Speaking in Arabic and
French marked them as
Lebanese nationals. But
their usage of Hebrew indi-
cated that they were mem-
bers of the small Jewish
community of Lebanon, a
miniscule almost non-
existent community.
No one knows exactly
how many Jews pre-
sently reside in Lebanon,
after the long and bloody
civil war and after the
"Peace for Galilee" oper-
ation. There are various
estimates, but all agree
that there are no more
than several dozen Jews
in the country, with only
six Jewish families re-
maining in west Beirut.
Several other families are
believed to reside in east
Beirut.
The group sitting on the
coffee house terrace in Rosh
Hanikra seemed to consti-
tute the bulk of Lebanese
Jewry. The group's_ mem-
bers were quite tight-lipped
about their lives and the
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lives of other Jews in Leba-
non. They said they came to
see Israel, visit relatives
and then go back home.
They said their life in Leba-
non was good, business was
good and they would do a lot
of thinking before they
would decide to immigrate
to Israel.
Forty years ago there
were some 9,000 Jews in
Lebanon. About 2,000 Jews
emigrated after World War
II. The number of Jews be-
tween the end of the war
and now fluctuated, grow-
ing for a while as refugees
from Syria and Iraq came to
Lebanon, and declining
again as some of the weal-
thier Jews left. By 1975,
when the civil war broke
out, there were between
2,000 and 4,000 Jews in the
country.
The civil war caused an-
other sizeable segment of
the Jewish community to
emigrate, leaving the com-
munity without a rabbi and
a ritual slaughterer. A
rabbi often had to be
brought in from Italy or
Syria, as was a ritual
slaughterer. By the end of
the civil war in 1976, only
some_2,000 Jews were left in
the country. It was often dif-
ficult to hold a minyan. The
few remaining Jews who
still live in west Beirut are
mostly old, poor and sick.
The wealthy and the young
live in east Beirut.
The paradox of the
Jewish condition in
Lebanon is that in spite of
all the hardships ° the
country has suffered, the
Jews reportedly suffered
little because of their
Jewishness, and rela-
tions with both Moslems
and Christians were re-
portedly good.
At the height of the civil
war in Lebanon, the Jews of
Beirut took shelter in the
Magen Avraham
Synagogue.
The Magen Avraham
Synagogue is located on
Wadi Abu Jamil Street,
once the center of the
Jewish quarter in Beirut,
now a predominatly Mos-
lem Shiite area. The street
is close to the city's commer-
cial center, near the "Green
Line" dividing east and
west Beirut, and the scene
of frequent exchanges offire
between the PLO and
Christian forces. The
synagogue was built in
1926, financed by Indian
Jews. At the beginning of
August, an Israeli shell hit
the roof of the synagogue
during the heavy bom-
bardment of the city, ac-
cording to foreign press re-
ports. There are reportedly
plans to repair the damage,
but it might take quite a
while to do so.
There
are
other
synagogues in Bhamdoun,
on the Beirut - Damascus
highway, and in Sidon. The
one in Bhamdoun is de-
scribed as an exceptionally
beautiful synagogue. The
Jewish Day Care Centers
Needed Sociologist Claims
By BEN GALLOB
(Copyright 1982, JTA, Inc.)
A Jewish sociology in-
structor, who is also a
businesswoman and mother
of a six-year-old son, has
charged that because of
Jewish communal indif-
ference to the need for
Jewish day care centers,
working Jewish parents are
usually forced to choose be-
tween "a poor quality, un-
stimulating non-sectarian
facility, or a loving,
stimulating but indoc-
trinating Christian one" for
the pre-school children.
Barbara Gereboff, who
teaches sociology at Arizona
State University and oper-
ates Surveys for Business, a
marketing information
service, described the prob-
lem in "Sh'ma."
Asserting she had re-
peatedly raised the issue of
Jewish-sponsored day care
centers and the growing
need for such facilities as
more and more Jewish
homemakers take outside
jobs to help meet financial
pressures on the family,
Mrs. Gereboff said the usual
response has been "the in-
correct assumptions that
Jewish working women had
substantial incomes and
that a housekeeper was pre-
ferable to day care."
She said research data
indicated that quality
day care experiences are
"often more beneficial to
children than other child
care choices."
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You don't have to be
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Jewish tradition.
Judaism is more than a
religion. It is a four thousand
year old culture. It has a
secular dimension, a secular
history, secular roots.
Einstein is as much a part of
it as Moses. Freud is as
much a star in it as Akiba.
Throughout Jewish history
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establishment pragmatic
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alongside the official one.
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SUNDAY, AUGUST
10-noon
—
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