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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, June 28, 1985

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The public address will commemorate the 58th anniversary, on the Twelfth of Tam-
muz, of the miraculous liberation of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef
Yitzchak Schneerson, from Soviet Prison.

Breaking With Tradition

Continued from preceding page

sion of women's ordination on
a "high level, away from the
sort of an expression of per-
sonal hostility."
Simply dressed, with -very
little make-up, Rabbi Eilberg
said she has found being in
the limelight fascinating. She
has had a chance to meet all
kinds of people.
"I think now I'm beginning
to shift my sights from the
basic issues of women's equal-
ity in Judaism, from the
struggle to achieve for women
full participation in the
Jewish community to a new
kind of mission that has to do
with the quality of women's
participation in the Jewish
community.
"That refers both to women
rabbis and women in the
community because I think
that the decision made by the
leadership of the Conserva-
tive movement to ordain
women is a decision that af-
fects far more women and is a
decision of far greater impor-
tance than the simple aspira-
tions of the small numbers of
women who might be ex-
pected to pursue ordination."
Rabbi Eilberg forsees
changes to accommodate
women's participation in
Jewish life. "There may need
to be additional rituals. There
may need to be changes, per-
haps, in the liturgy, perhaps

in the style of worship by vir-
tue of women's participation.
I'm hopeful the community
will be open to those new
perspectives and the possibil-
ity for change."
Naturally, she sees the or-
dination decision as a positive
step in integrating women's
insights and experience into
the general swell of Jewish
life.
"I understand the ordina-
tion decision as a declaration
of equality for women, as an
invitation by the leadership to
women- throughout the com-
munity to step forward in a
new way and to recommit
themselves, to involve them-
selves perhaps more actively
than they did before in the
process of re-reading Judaism
and the basic texts of Judaism
in light of their own experi-
ence as women.
"After -all, the basic texts of
our religion are based, un-
avoidably, stemmed from
societies in which women
were not equal. We have a
marvelous opportunity now to
fill in that gap, to really see
what will happen when the
Jewish community now can
be the beneficiary of the in-
sights, wisdom and experi-
ence of the totality of the
Jewish people. I'm very ex-
cited about being part of that
process."

Boaz Sharabi Returns
Home And Succeeds

BY SIMON GRIVER

RABBI MENACHEM M. SCHNEERSON

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Jerusalem — Israeli singer
Boaz Sharabi went home after
five years in America and man-
aged to re-establish himself as
one of Israel's leading singer-
songwriters.
When Sharabi left Israel in
1977 he was an angry young
man. Coming from a family of
Yemenite origin, he felt that the
Israeli establishment discrimi-
nated against oriental music.
"Ten years ago I doubt if 15 per-
cent of the music played on Is-
rael Radio was oriental music,"
he claims. "I opened my mouth
to complain and the next thing I
knew Israel Radio was playing
no more Boaz Sharabi music.
But everything is different now
and even on the radio a fair
cross section of music is played."
Sharabi is different too. The
years have mellowed his rebelli-
ous outspoken manner and they
have also enriched his lyrical
imagination. Sharabi's music is
a synthesis of numerous influ-
ences, his Yemenite background,
Israeli ballads both Ashkenazi
and Sephardi plus contemporary
American and British music.
He released a new album
entitled Boaz which contained
his two big hits of 1984. The

first Etzli Hacol Beseder (Ever-
thing's Fine With Me) reflects
his newfound sense of calm and
contentment with himielf and
Israel. His second major hit was
T'ni Li Yad (Give Me a Hand).
This song was written especially
for the movie Beyond the Walls,
a fable about an imaginary
prison in which the authorities
are so corrupt that the Jewish
and Arab inmates forget their
differences and unite and in
which he starred.

"I am not a political person
but I strongly believe that Jews
and Arabs can learn to live in
peace," he said. "That is the
final message of the film, that
we can live in peace. We either
have peace or war and I'm all
for peace."
Sharabi says he never worried
about whether things would
work out for him on his return
to Israel.
With his records being issued
in both Western Europe and
America and the anticipated in-
ternational success of the film,
Sharabi has been urged to
undertake overseas tours.

World Zionist Press Service.

