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Fr$349 pp inc. air * • NASSAU Fr4144 pp inc. air/hotel * • SIDEWALK si l I • GEMINI TRAVEL IN THE ORCHARD MALL I OUTLOOK GOING TO THE AIRPORT? BUSINESS OR VACATION * • LAS VEGAS 4( • LONDON . "Sc • BERMUDA Fr$239 99 pp inc. air/hotel "r Fr$399 pp RT * Fr$895 pp * 7 Day Cruise with air * 28859-A Orchard Lake Rd. * 4( Between 12 & 13 Mile Rd. * -OK 489-5888, ext. 8 * -1( **************. ISRAEL simply, "This Torah should be with you." Now all that remained was the rabbi. In the end, it was not the booming membership or the new site, in an office building near Orchard Lake and Maple roads in West Bloom- field, that won over Rabbi Schwartz. It was, he says, the attitude of the congregants that clinched the deal. "They made it clear that it would be an extremely uni- que experience for me," he says. "They wanted the rabbi to be a full partner rather than just an employee." Part of being a partner means that Rabbi Schwartz will help run the religious school, and have the right to address whatever he chooses from the pulpit and select the prayerbook. Rabbi. Schwartz wants none of those thick prayerbooks that line up one by one, papers stuffed between their pages, in front of seats in temples and synagogues everywhere. Instead, he is writing a ser- vice he described as "creative, yet traditional." It will be con- tained in a looseleaf binder and follow an exact order, "so there won't be any 'Turn to page such and such, to inter- rupt prayers," Rabbi Schwartz says. "That is really disrup- tive" He also has started a new program of offering bus ser- vice for students in the Hebrew school. Hebrew school will be one day a week. Rabbi Schwartz expects Shir Shalom congregants to live up to their responsibility as partners, too. He wants them to attend "town meetings" so they can par- ticipate in all aspects of the congregation, and to help plan services. He envisions services by the youth group, perhaps longer moments of silence and the accompanying music of a flute and harp. Shir Shalom's first service, slated for Aug. 5, will be held under the stars. The Schneids are en- thusiastic about the service. And that, Schneid says, is something new in itself. `.`Until Rabbi Schwartz, I never had a rabbi I felt I could talk to and get an honest answer," he says. "When I was young, I didn't even know the rabbi. He was always somebody up there (on the pulpit)." "The whole key to it is fami- ly," adds Mrs. Schneid, saying that she appreciates the close feeling among temple members. As a volunteer in the new temple office, Mrs. Schneid shuffles papers in Manila folders the way some Las Vegas dealers shuffle cards. The folders are filled with sheets from a legal pad and schedules and white papers printed with Temple Shir Shalom and a dove at the top. They contain information about the High Holy Days, a temple picnic and family Shabbat dinners. The intimacy that family Shabbat dinners can provide is one of the things Ethel Rosenblatt finds particularly attractive. "Shir Shalom has a small, family-type atmosphere," she says. "It's not the kind of place where nobody knows who you are." "What's unique is that everybody who is there wants to be there, it's not because we have to be," Bas says. "We want to make it a nice setting, and we want to make it work:' ■ I LOCAL NEWS I $799 • Roundtrip Scheduled Departures Superior Hotels $28 Caves Travel 19 Old Court Rd. Baltimore, MD 21208 Baltimore 1-301-6554679 Nationwide 1-800.346-7074 Mr. and Mrs. Louis Kay recently hosted a B'nai B'rith Albert Einstein Lodge and Chapter Reception in their home on behalf of State of Israel Bonds. Shown, from left, are guest speaker, Israel Amatai; Louis and Gladys Kay; the honoree, Nathan Harris and Jack Miller, chairman.