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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1988
David Gottlieb
sounded like Madison Avenue
propaganda, but I later
discovered that it was literal-
ly true. People would call at
all hours, and he would take
the calls?'
Then began a prolonged
love affair between Rabbi
Gottlieb and his religion. "I
spent the next two years ques-
tioning everything. I was very
independent. I didn't take
anyone's word for anything;
he says.
Despite his questioning, he
began to observe the tenets of
Orthodox Judaism, a fact
which his parents found hard
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I
was on the wrestling
team . . . the track team
. . . I played the flute in
the school orchestra . . . I had
good grades and I had a girl
friend. But it wasn't enough.
I couldn't believe that this
was all there was to life?'
So says Rabbi Dovid Gott-
lieb, 43, referring to his life
twenty years ago in the days
when he was known as Dale,
when he was a student at
Brandeis University.
Where did this dissatisfac-
tion lead him? After an in-
tense search for his Jewish
roots, he was later to become
a talmud (or student) of the
Bostoner Rebbe, a quest
which he pursued while
teaching at Johns Hopkins
University, in Baltimore, and
which was to continue even
after he moved to Israel.
Wearing Chassidic garb of a
long black coat and fur
streimel, Rabbi Gottlieb stood
in dramatic contrast to the
life he led as a boy growing up
in a Reform Jewish home in
Scarsdale and later in White
Plains.
His first experience with
Yiddishkeit began when he
was 17 when he spent a sum-
mer at the Brandeis Camp In-
stitute (no connection with
the university),. in California.
The camp's aim was to raise
Jewish consciousness in
young people. "It was not a
religious-oriented place," says
Rabbi Gottlieb. "Most of the
people who went there would
perhaps give money to UJA in
the future or might visit
Israel. But in my case, it in-
spired me to want to explore
my Judaism!'
Soon afterwards, in
September 1960, he entered
Brandeis University. There
he became friendly with a
fellow named Donald Yasnyi,
who happened to nbe renting
a room in the house of the
Grand Rabbi. Levi Yitzchok
Horowitz, known as the
Bostoner Rebbe.
As Rabbi Gottlieb recalls, "I
remember the first time I met
the Rebbe. It was a Purim
seuda (meal). He spoke in
Yiddish and afterwards peo-
ple were dancing on the
tables. When the meal was
over, I was introduced to the
Rebbe. He spoke perfect
English — after all, he was
born in Boston — and he said
to me, 'We're open seven days
a week, 24 hours a day! I
remember thinking that it
ADAT SHALOM SYNAGOGUE: ServiCes
5:45 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Saturday. Jen-
nifer Taylor, bat mitzvah.
CONG. BETH ABRAHAM HILLEL
MOSES: Services 6 p.m. today and 8:45
a.m. Saturday. David Gottesman, bar
mitzvah.
CONG. BETH ACHIM: Services 5:45 p.m.
today and 8:45 a.m. Saturday. Charles
Berris will chant the haftorah.
TEMPLE BETH EL: Services 8 p.m. today.
Rabbi Blumenthal will speak on "Rules,
Rules, Rules!" Alissa Getz, bat mitzvah.
Services 11 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Hertz
will speak on "Mr. Lincoln and the Jews!'
CONG. BETH SHALOM: Services 6 p.m. to-
day and 9 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Nelson
will speak on "The Shabbat I Spent in
Jerusalem!'
BIRMINGHAM TEMPLE: Service 8:30
p.m. today. Adult confirmands will pre-
sent a program, "Humanistic Judaism:
Our Connections!'
CONG. B'NAI DAVID: Services 5:30 p.m. to-
day and 8:30 a.m. Saturday. William
Wesiberger will chant the haftorah.
CONG. B'NAI ISRAEL OF WEST
BLOOMFIELD: Services 9 a.m. Satur-
day. Rabbi Kirshner will speak on "The
Long and the Short of Jewish Law!'
CONG. B'NAI MOSHE: Services 5:30 p.m.
today and 8:45 a.m. Saturday. Nathan
Roth will chant the haftorah.
DOWNTOWN SYNAGOGUE: Services 8
a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Gamze will speak
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on "We Need Mutual Trust to Survive."
TEMPLE EMANU-EL: ARZA Shabbat; ser-
vice 8:15 p.m. today. Torah study 9:30
a.m. Saturday; young family service
10:15 a.m.; service 10:30 a.m. Matthew
Beresh, bar mitzvah.
TEMPLE ISRAEL: Services 8 p.m. today.
Rabbi Loss will speak on "Washington
and the Jews!' Torah study 9:30 a.m.
Saturday; services 10:30 a.m.
CONG. SHAAREY ZEDEK: Services 5:50
p.m. today and 8:45 a.m. Saturday.
Stephanie Burstein, bat mitzvah.
TROY JEWISH CONGREGATION: Ser-
vices 10 a.m. Saturday, conducted by the
the board of trustees.
Services will be held at: Cong. Bais
Chabad of Farmington Hills, Cong. Bais
Chabad of West Bloomfield, Cong. Beth Isaac
of Trenton, 'Temple Beth Jacob, Cong. Beth
Jacob Mogain Abraham, Cong. Beth Thfilo
Emanuel Tikvah, Cong. Beth Thphilath
Moses of Mt. Clemens, Cong. B'nai Israel-
Beth Yehudah, Cong. B'nai Jacob, Cong.
B'nai Zion, Cong. Dovid Ben Nuchim, Tem-
ple Kol Ami, Livonia Jewish Congregation,
Cong. Mishkan Israel Nusach H'Ari, Sephar-
dic Community of Greater Detroit, Cong.
Shaarey Shomayim, Cong. Shomrey
Emunah, Cong. Shomrey Israel (18995
Schaefer), Cong. T-chiyah, Cong. 12 Mile and
Pierce (Bais Yoseph), Young Israel of Green-
field, Young Israel of Oak-Woods, and Young
Israel of Southfield.