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Many features. Call or write for information, or immediate demonstration! MOTOROLA Communications and Electronics Inc. Margaret Sherk (313) 354-6030 20300 Civic Center Dr., Suite 310, Sfld., Mi. 48034 Name Business Address City Phone I Zip State ZIONIST ORGANIZATION of AMERICA TH ANNUAL BALFOUR CELEBRATION FEATURING st. .574 WINGED VICTORY SINGERS AMIRAM RIGAI Brilliant, young Israeli Piano Virtuoso FAY NICOLL Seven Superb VoCalists, Joe Bads, Director International Folk Singer and Recording Star AND A SPECIAL BALFOUR GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY PERFORMANCE STARRING PAUL ZIM . . possessing a powerful voice, Zim also proved an inspiration for an audience that not only cheered him, but . stood for a minute to express enthusiasm over his remarkable demonstration of an art, in which he has become a master ..." Philip Slomovitz, Detroit Jewish News #11 "Zim is a fine lyric, sensitive singer ..." N.Y. Times His consummate artistry and his beautiful voice reach the heart ..." Jerusalem Post PAUL ZIM ... rarely does one hear a pianist with such an assured and scintillating technique ..." San Francisco Chronicle "Fay Nicoll really got the audience involved. Her Yiddish Theatre medley captivated the crowd" Journal, Long Beach, N.Y. SUNDAY, OCT. 30, 1983 7:30 P.M. FORD AUDITORIUM RESERVATIONS: ZIONIST CULTURAL CENTER — 18451 W. 10 MILE RD. PHONE — 569-1515 The Dilemma of Our Hazzanim By SAMUEL ROSENBAUM Of all the arts, says Prof. Abraham Heschel, haz- zanut most reveals the soul of the artist. All creative ar- tists leave a piece of them- selves in their work, but it is not always exposed. The voice, sincerely raised in prayer, is always an evoca- tion of what is in the heart and mind of the hazzan, bared and open for all to sense. Beset by the knowledge of his own inadequacies, the hazzan must, nevertheless, be the spokesman, the shaliakh tzibur, of whom he would lead in prayer. Because only one broken heart can fully understand another and only one who has himself been defeated by life's prob- lems can fully understand the frustration of another loser, it might seem that the best hazzan is one who best expresses the frustrations and the disappointments of his congregants because he himself has experienced them. Yet, the hazzan who is himself defeated by life, is, in the end, a poor shliakh tzibur. For the act of prayer is an act of faith, an expres- sion of the possibility of hope. Prayer for the sake of the mechanical repetition of fixed texts is meaningless and purposeless. What is required is that the shaliakh tzibur should know intimately the doubts and the pain which beset his people and yet, at the same time, be able to articulate the hope and the promise that are the birthright of every hunian being. It is for this purpose that the hazzan enlists the art of music. And this is the great di- lemma: How, at the same time, to be sincere, under- standing, honest and open and, yet, conscious of the strict disciplines of the mus- ical art. Hazzanut is a dif- ficult synthesis of art and faith. One might think that the hazzan should come to the amud without prior prep- aration and allow his own thoughts and feelings about the liturgy at that particu- lar time to express them- selves as they will. Isn't there something inherently premeditated, and therefore dishonest about preparing an emotional response in advance? ' We might agree except for one thing. The hazzan's sacred duty is to be more con- cerned with the needs of those he leads in prayer than with his own needs. Patrilineal OK The Central Conference of American Rabbis in April approved a resolution per- mitting its member Reform rabbis to accept pro- visionally as Jewish any child of a mixed marriage whether or not the mother is Jewish, if the child validates his or her Jewish identity "through appropri- ate and timely public and formal acts of identification with the Jewish people." Woman Rabbi American Conservative rabbis, meeting at the Rab- binical. Assembly conven- tion in April, rejected the application of Reform- ordained woman Rabbi Be- verly Magidson. ApproVal of the application would have made Magidson the first Conservative woman rabbi. Survivors Gather Thousands of survivors of the Holocaust and their children from throughout the United States and Canada converged on Washington in April for the four-day American Gather- ing of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. For their sake he cannot come unprepared, hop- ing that in the excitement of the moment he will create a prayer-song which will evoke the de- sire to pray in others. Be- fore he can lead in prayer, he must lead to prayer. Like a teacher, who must skillfUlly map out his classroom procedure in ad- vance no matter how thorough his knowledge of the subject — so the hazzan must give careful attention beforehand to what he will sing and how he will sing it. Sincerity and piety are fundamental and important but vocal line, artistic in- terpretation of the nusa and the text are vital if he is to gain the attention of the worshipper and involve him in the act of prayer. 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