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Friday, March 16, 1984

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

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KLEZMER
CONSERVATORY
BAND

The Klezmer Conservatory Band is coming! They'll be here Sunday, March
25th, but we're suggesting you purchase your tickets now or risk missing this
most extraordinary and exciting evening.
Although many of the songs the Klezmers play are familiar ones from Europe
and Israel, the way they are played — the instruments, the orchestration, and
above all the soul and energy in each performance — is unique to klezmer
music in America.
Order your tickets now and join in the most exciting event of the year!
For further information, call Selma Lerner, Congregation Shaarey Zedek,
357-5544.

Please send me the following tickets for the Klezmer Conservatory Band
Concert Sunday evening, March 25, 1984, at 7:00 p.m.

QUANTITY

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TOTAL
AMOUNT

RESERVED SEATING @ $25.00
GENERAL ADMISSION, MEMBERS c $7.50
GENERAL ADMISSION, NON-MEMBERS @ $10.00
I would also like to provide the opportunity for a
Senior Citizen to attend the concert.
Please accept my donation of tickets @ $7.50

Total Enclosed $

(make checks payable to Congregation Shaarey Zedek Celebrity Series)

Name
Send to:
Congregation Shaarey Zedek Address
27375 Bell Road, P.O. Box 2056
City
Southfield, Michigan 48037

State

Zip

Early ticket purchases are recommended, since a full- house is expected.

By RABBI ALLAN M.
BLUSTEIN

Chaplain, Sinai Hospital

Throughout the centuries
of persecution and pogrom,
the beautiful Aishet Chayil
(Woman of valor) of the
Jewish home, has always
managed to shed the light of
Sabbath upon her house-
hold.
The "woman of valor"
kindles at least two candles
in honor of Sabbath. The
first fulfills the command-
ment of "remembering the
Sabbath day (Exodus 20:8)
while the second reminds us
to "observe the Sabbath day
(Deuteronomy 5:12).
In ancient times, it was
customary to decorate the
candle holders. Later one,
the sages specified the con-
stituents to be used for the
oil and the wick of the can-
dles.
Four- and five-pronged
Sabbath lamps came into
use during the Middle Ages
as the hanging lamp be-
came distinctively Jewish.
Oil lamps were replaced by
tallow candles during the
later Middle Ages. Often
both oil and tallow candles
were used simultaneously

in specially crafted recepta-
cles.
Candlesticks were intro-
duced during the 17th Cen-
tury, differing little from
their European counter-
parts. They were usually in-
scribed with delicately
crafted letters specifying
"For the Holy Sabbath."
The traditional blessings
over the candles also usu-
ally found their way onto
the candlesticks.
Over the years, the
candlesticks and can-
delabra of Jewish homes
have been adorned with
various scenes and glimpses
of proud moments of Jewish
history. Jacob's dream, the
Shepherd, Moses, Samson
and the lion are but a few of
the many. Sephardic can-
delabra are most beautiful,
inculcating as they do, both
the gifted genius of Arab
and Jewish culture.

Libyan candelabra for
example, are colorfully ar-
rayed standing-receptacles,
used for all occasions. The
strong Berber-Jewish influ-
ence of North Africa is evi-
dent throughout the lovely
art of that society.

* * *

Lubavitch Women Begin
Shabat Candlelighting Drive

As part of its observance
of the Week of the Jewish
Woman, the Lubavitch
Women's Organization has
contacted local women's
organizations to encourage
Jewish women to light can-
dles on Shabat. The obser-
vance begins today and will
conclude on March 25 with a
brunch and workshops.
Candlelighting brochures
were sent to each of the
organizations, and the
Lubavitch women have
made available candlelight-
ing kits.
During their campaign,
the Lubavitch women are
encouraging Jewish women
and their daughters to light

candles on Shabat in an ef-
fort to strengthen Jewish
observance in the home and
Jewish family ties.
According to Rachel Ka-
gan, a member of the
presidium of the Lubavitch
Women's Organization, the
Lubavitcher Rebbe in 1974
initiated a Shabat
candlelighting campaign in
which he encouraged the
performing of the mitzva by
young girls and single
women, as well as by mar-
ried women.
For brochures and infor-
mation about lighting the
Shabat candles, call the
Lubavitch Center, 548-
2666.

Jewish Travel Guide Issued

Guide books to various
lands and historic places are
means of becoming ac-
quainted with peoples, their
ways of life and the historic
factors in their experiences.
"World Guide for the
Jewish Traveler". (Dutton)
has the special significance
of having been compiled by
an author who has to his
credit many essays relating
to a score of countries.
Warren Freedman, whose
essays have appeared in
The Jewish News is recog-
nized as an authority on the
countries and peoples in his
analytical works.
Like other guides,
Freedman's deals with the
Jewish aspects relating to
hotels, foods, peoples'
homes, facts to be remem-
bered about traveling. But
in this guide book Freed-
man gives emphasis to such
subjects as the El Transito
Synagogue in Toledo,
Spain, which was built in
1357; the Prague State
Jewish Museum; a Hong

Kong Jewish cemetery dat-
ing from the early 19th Cen-
tury; and the Anne Frank
House in Amsterdam.
The guide also features a
wealth of Jewish historical
tidbits gathered from loca-
tions around the world.
Freedman offers detailed
information on the 10
Jewish settlers who arrived
in Australia with a British
contingent in 1788; the
Japanese "Fugu Plan,"
which was devised to give
asylum to German Jews in
exchange for their "eco-
nomic infthence;" and the
Marranos of Portugal, who,
despite forced conversions
to Catholicism some 400
years ago, continue to prac-
tice Judaism secretly today.

Freedman has served on
the travel commissions of
the American Jewish Con-
gress and Bnai Brith. His
travel columns appear in 16
U.S. and Canadian Jewish
newspapers including The
Jewish News.

