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Friday, June 6, 1986
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THE CULTURAL COMMISSION OF CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK
proudly invites you to attend
THE ANNUAL PETER AND CLARA WEISBERG CONCERT
featuring
Internationally Acclaimed Pianist
MENAHEM PRESSLER
Tuesday, June 17, 1986
8:00 P.M. at
Congregation Shaarey Zedek
Southfield, Michigan
NO ADMISSION CHARGE
An Afterglow with Mr. Pressler, following the concert will be
featured for Patrons. This entitles Patrons to reserved seating
and the Afterglow. Patron Tickets may be purchased by send-
ing a check for $25.00 per person and enclosing it with the
form below. For group requests over (6) call Sue Prady at
357-5544.
Tickets may be obtained by filling .out the
reservation form and returning it to the synagogue.
Please detach and mail
Mail to: Peter and Clara Weisberg Concert
Congregation Shaarey Zedek
P.O. Box 2056
Southfield, Mich. 48037
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NEWS
Israel To Allow
Heart Transplant
Surgery
Jerusalem (JTA) — The
Health Ministry announced last
week that the government has
given permission to the Hadas-
sah Medical Center here to per-
form heart transplant surgery.
According to unofficial sources,
permission will also be given to
the Rambam Hospital in Haifa
which considers itself fully
equipped to perform the op-
eration.
But Dr. Sami Penhas, Direc-
tor of the Hadassah Medical
Center, said that halachic pro-
blems surrounding heart trans-
plants are still unresolved. He
said he would meet shortly with
the two Chief Rabbis and hopes
to reach an agreement based on
the principle of "pikuah nefesh,"
saving of life.
The Health Ministry said it
expects Hadassah Hospital to
perform about a dozen heart
transplants. a year. The head of
the hospital's cardiothoractic
department, Dr. Yosef Borman,
believes 100 lives could be saved
annually in Israel by transplant
surgery.
It has been banned until now
because of the rabbinate's objec-
tions. The halachic definition of
death differs from the medical
definition. The medical defini-
tion is cessation of cerebral ac-
tivity. Many rabbis refuse to
acknowledge death until the
heart has ceased beating. Med-
ical science required the donor
heart to still be beating when it
is removed for transplant.
The ban has forced patients
requiring heart transplants to
seek them abroad. Newspapers
carry advertisements from ad
hoc aid committees set up to
raise funds for Israelis to have
the operation abroad, where the
costs can exceed US . $200,000.
The Hadassah and Rambam
hospitals are also working
toward the capacity to perform
the more complex liver trans-
plant surgery. An experimental
liver transplant performed on a
dog at Rambam Hospital was
witnessed by Health Minister
Mordechai Gur.
Opinion Hits
Marriage Law
New York — A leading Or-
thodox scholar argues, in a book-
let just published by the Ameri-
can Jewish Committee, that the
rejection by Orthodox rabbinic
judges of all marriages at which
Reform or Conservative rabbis of-
ficiate is "legally unjustified."
Rabbi Eliezer Barkovits as-
serts that "all that is needed for a
marriage to be legally binding is
the espousal of an unmarried
Jewess and unmarried Jew in the
presence of two witnesses."
Explaining why the AJCom-
mittee has published the booklet,
Yehuda Rosenman, director of its
Jewish Communal Affairs De-
partment, said: "The current de-
bate to amend the Law of Return
could split the Jewish community
irreparably because the very
issue of Jewishness is at stake.
As a communal body composed of
Jews from all of the denomina-
tions, the AJC stands above the
battle and hopes to cool off the
situation."
SINGLES
B'NAI B'RITH MICHIGAN
SINGLES will have an evening
of coffee and conversation at 8
p.m. Monday in the home of
Marge Thoryn, 10744 Lincoln,
Huntington Woods. There is an
admission fee, and non-members
are invited.
COMMUNITY NETWORK
FOR JEWISH SINGLES (25-
45) will have an "owl walk and
gourmet supper" at 7 p.m. June.
21 at the Proud Lake Recreation
Area nature center. The evening
will include a guided nature
walk, gourmet dinner and owl
hunt. Carol Fink will direct the
walk. There is a fee, payable by
Monday. For details, call Ms.
Fink, 352-1118; or Jill Cole at
the Jewish Community Center,
661-1000, ext. 347.
CNJS has tickets for the Ju-
lian Lennon concert slated for
June 28 at Pine Knob. Tickets
must be reserved by June 15.
For details, call Harry Pevos,
355-3512.
Interfaith Body
To Have Meeting
The Ecumenical Institute for
Jewish-Christian Studies will
have a meeting at 3:30 p.m.
June 30 at the North Congrega-
tional Church, 26275 North-
western, Southfield.
For reservations by June 25,
call the institute, 353-2434.
Corrections
An advertisement in last
week's Jewish News carried an
incorrect location for Russell
and Hair and Co. The shop is lo-
cated in the 14-Orchard Plaza.
An advertisement in last
week's Jewish News inadver-
tently omitted names of the
membership committee mem-
bers planning the Hadassah in-
stallation luncheon. They are
Dorris Chandler, Peggy Shafir,
Elaine Sturman, Phyllis Subar,
Carol Hervey, • Virginia
Hoffman, Francine Hack, Bar-
bara Orosey, Diane Baron,
Esther Adler and Diane Klein.
Nursery Program
The United Hebrew Schools
Nursery School will hold its
35th annual shalom/graduation
program at 10 a.m. Wednesday
in the LaMed Auditorium of the
main UHS building. Folksinger
Judy Goldstein will entertain.