29 Friday, January 3, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS IT'S TRUE! There really, is, an Orthodox shut in Farmington Hills. Your Good Marriage JEWISH MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER ' It Deserves ItI FOR INFORMATION CALL: Susie Rosenzveig 4784921 Joanne Zuroff 626.8957 FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL ALEXANDER '533-6794 marriage encounter A Covitivvivg Core Center T ' CLOSE-UP Doesn't Need - Providing skilled nursing care In a quiet, residential setting for over thirty years, our professional staff Is dedicated to serving the special short-term, convalescent and long- term needs of our patient-guests and their families. Breaking Tradition? Continued from preceding page resistance on womenIs 'participa- leration and a respect for others' tion, says some of his older viewpoints," he says. (male) members were' 'very en- • Toleration, respect for other thusiastic about it." While he points of view, and also pati- says, "I don't draw women to the ence, 'fairness — these qualities bimah kicking and screaming," all enter into a discussion of he is pleased that so many of •women's participation in Con- the female members want to servative Jewish synagogues. take part. He says Beth Shalom Some women desperately want was the first . Conservative •to join the men as equals, and synagogue in the area to begin they have the education and calling women to the Torah commitment" that makes them (1.974) and also initiated adult feel worthy. Other women are Bat Mitzvah training eight indifferent or don't want to years ago. (Shaarey Zedek and share the men's religious oblige- Adat Shalom also have these programs today.) He may be most proud of the' fact that a graduate of the Beth Shalom re- ligious school, Debbie Newman, is a freshman in the Jewish Theological Seminary's graduate rabbianical school. Rabbi Nelson says Newman's decision to be- come a Conservative rabbi is - "part of the payoff" for his con- gregation's enthusiastic support for women in religious life. For Rabbi Rosenbaum of B'nai Moshe, whose congregation membership is neither so liberal as Beth Shalom nor as tradi- tional as Beth Achim, it is im- portant to respect the needs of all members, male and female. • "Last year (at B'nai "A congregation is a commun- ity," Rabbi Rosenbaum says. Moshe), women of all ages "We accept the legitimacy of dif- -- 13 in all — read the ferent needs of people in terms of social action and the same is entire Book of Ruth on the true that people have different second day of Shavuot. And religious needs. In Europe, you could vote with your feet which you know what? The ceiling congregation you would go to" didn't fall in, not even the •because there were more choices available, reflecting the diver- roof." sity of people living in an area. Rather than concentrating strictly on the issue of a wo- men's minyan, Rabbi Rosen- As Libby Weingarden of baum would like to see alterna- tions. Shaarey Zedek says, "If tive styles of minyanim to Cong. weather is bad and I don't satisfy needs of various mem- the want to walk (to the synagogue), bers of the congregation. For I'll read that _Torah portion at example, there could be a be- home. stay home. I•,think ginner's minyan, for people un- there's I a can place for familiar with Hebrew. It would women in tremendous Judaism and it's not be a basic service with a discus- on the bimah." sion of the prayers. A Havurah But for Rena Tobes, of B'nai minyan could emphasize the Torah portion, says Rabbi Moshe, allowing the same re- Rosenbaum. The participants ligious privileges as men means would prepare and lead discus- women can experience the joy of. sions on their portion. This for- worshipping God in the fulled mat stresses personal involve- fashion., "Last year (at B'nai Moshe), ment. women of all ages 13 in all — An egalitarian service, of the read the entire Book of Ruth on type approved by the Committee second day of Shavuot," says on Lair and Standards of the the "And: you know what? Rabbinical Assembly would be' Tobes. all right, too, if the members The ceiling, didn't fall in, not want it. By the same token, he even the roof." 0 feels a- traditional' service with a mechitza (segregated seating of men and women) also would be' a possibility. Rabbi Rosenbaum would let members pursue these Tel Blast ideas and their continuance would depend on "how their • Tel Aviv (JTA) A bomb kind of service is received --• if exploded outside a fast food re- it attracts others' interest." in. Malchei Israel • "Our strength (at B'nai staurant Square opposite the City Hall Moshe) has been our heimish- last Thursday, shattering win- ness, the feeling of being part of dows in nearby shops and cafes. a family, even though there are There were no' injuries but a many different personalities woman, passerby was taken to within a family," says Rabbi. Ichilov Hospital where she was Rosenbaum. As people learn 'to treated for shock. The blast was express themselves, and come •the second terrorist bombing in into contact with diverse opin- two months' in downtown Tel ions, congregants "will learn to- Aviv. ' •718 W. 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