THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, November 25, 1983 91
Reception for Chief Rabbis
The Rabbinical Council of American honored Is-
rael's two Chief Rabbis recently at a reception at New
York's Fifth Avenue Synagogue. Shown are, from left,
Rabbi Gilbert Klapperman, Chief Rabbis Avraham
Shapira (Ashkenazic) and Mordechai Eliyahu
(Sephardic), and Rabbi Binymanin Walfish.
The Rabbi' Life Contract':
a Look at Synagogue Politics
"The Rabbi's Life Con-
tract" is the sometimes
humorous, sometimes sad
novel by Marilyn Green-
berg about a rabbi who is
turned out by his congrega-
tion after serving it for 20
years.
The Doubleday-published
novel, the first book by Mrs.
Greenberg who is the wife of
a New York rabbi, deals
with a long confrontation
between the rabbi and
members of his congrega-
tion.
The novel delves into the
congregation taking sides,
the stress on individual
members, the rabbi and his
family, and the battle
within the congregation
and the courts over the rab-
bi's life contract.
What happens when
the leader of the opposi-
tion dies and the rabbi is
asked to conduct the fun-
eral offers an ironic twist.
The novel looks with a
kind and comic eye at the
petty jealousies that
beset a group of people
who have lived together
perhaps too long and
think they know their
neighbors perhaps too
well.
It is also a novel that
looks at love: of a rabbi for
his congregation; of a rab-
bi's wife for her family; of a
community that pulls to-
gether in time of crisis.
New Cell Injection Methods
Demonstrated at Hebrew U.
JERUSALEM — New
methods for injecting
molecules into animal cells,
developed by scientists at
the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, were presented
at a recent international
course at the university's
Givat Ram science campus.
A group of 20 young sci-
entists (advanced doctoral
students and new PhDs)
from 10 countries (Au-
stralia, Belgium, Canada,
France, Great Britain,
Sweden, Switzerland, the
United States, West Ger-
many and Israel) partici-
pated in the two-week
course.
The program was spon-
sored by the European
Molecular Biology Organi-
zation (EMBO) and or-
ganized by scientists of the
department of biological
chemistry at the universi-
ty's Alexander Silberman
Institute of Life Sciences.
The scientists developed a
number of new methods for
microinjection of macro-
molecules into animal cells,
which make it possible to
introduce information or
new materials into living
cells.
Instructors and lecturers
at the course came from the
Hebrew University, the
Weizmann Institute, Tel
Aviv University, the Techn-
ion and a number of over-
seas universities.
Artifical Pancreas Studied
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