CONGREGATION SHAAREY SHOMAYIM
announces that
HIGH HOLIDAY SERVICES
Will be held at
Jewish Community Center Prentis Branch
15110 W. Ten Mile Rd, Oak Park
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Cantors Pinchos Braunstein & Mordechai Waldman
Will Officiate Traditional Liturgy. Rabbi Leo Y. Goldman will deliver
the sermons. For reservations call the office, 547-8555 or 542-4444
or members of the ticket committee:
Sam Kreisman 398-4655 Max Young 967-3272
Jenoe Roth
967-3560 M. Weiss 399-5388
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throughout the year are held every morning and evening 15110 West 10 Mile, Oak Park
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Your
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DAVID HOLZEL
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Here's what's waiting for you.
Michigan's oldest congregation—getting younger every day.
A vibrant, growing membership keeps Temple Beth El young, with
strong ideals and new ideas.
An excellent religious school—for students of all ages.
No matter how young or how old, our students enrich themselves by
studying their spiritual and cultural identity.
■ Nursery School and Extended ■ Confirmation
Care
■ High School
■ Kindergarten
■ Adult Bar/Bat Mitzvah
■ Complete Special Education
■ College of Jewish Studies
■ Bar/Bat Mitzvah
■ Weekly Torah Study
A friendly place to pray and grow—a family of families.
Temple Beth El appeals to many groups for social and spiritual
fulfillment.
■ Middle Years Group
■ Young People's Society
■ Beth Elders
■ Singles
■ Mixed-faith families
■ Sisterhood and Brotherhood
■ Single-parent families
■ Married Group
Rabbi Daniel Polish—a national leader in Reform Judaism.
Temple Advertisement
Draws Orthodox Ire
ome area Orthodox
Jews were angered
this week by an adver-
tisement placed in last Fri-
day's Jewish News by Temple
Shir Shalom.
The ad was aimed at attrac-
ting to the new Reform con-
gregation intermarried
couples and converts to
Judaism. It featured a draw-
ing of the biblical Ruth and
Naomi with the headline:
"Ruth intermarried, too. At
Shir Shalom, we would have
made her part of the family."
The advertisement added
that both Moses and Queen
Esther married non-Jews.
Orthodox critics said this
week the Shir Shalom ad ad-
vocates intermarriage,
misinterprets the biblical
stories it mentions and sug-
gests that converts to
Judaism are not fully ac-
cepted as Jews.
Rabbi Dannel Schwartz of
Shir Shalom said the purpose
of the ad was not to encourage
intermarriage, but to en-
courage intermarried couples
who have avoided par-
ticipating in Jewish com-
munity activities to consider
joining Temple Shir Shalom.
"We're trying to make peo-
ple feel at home," he said.
He added that he does not
perform intermarriages un-
less the non-Jewish partner
expresses a desire to become
a Jew.
Shir Shalom has placed
several advertisements in
The Jewish News since the
congregation was founded in
June. Each was aimed at a
different segment of the
Jewish community: singles,
the unaffiliated and parents
of school-age children.
A letter to The Jewish News
from the Va'ad Harabbanim,
the Council of Orthodox Rab-
bis, sums up the feelings of
many who wrote or called The
Jewish News this week, in-
cluding those who underwent
halachic, or Jewish legal,
conversions.
Referring to Rambam, the
medieval Jewish philosopher,
the Va'ad stated, "In some
ways, (intermarriage) is worse
than adultery and incest."
It labeled as blasphemous
the notion that Ruth, Moses
and Queen Esther
intermarried.
Ruth did not intermarry,
although she began life as a
non-Jew, the Va'ad's letter
stated.
Moses married his wife Zip-
porah before the Torah was
given at Mount Sinai — in
other words, before there was
any Jewish law to violate by
intermarrying. She "accepted
the Torah together with the
entire congregation of Israel
at Mount Sinai," the letter
added.
The Va'ad's letter did not
mention Queen Esther, the
heroine of the Purim holiday.
The Scroll of Esther says that
she married the Persian King
Ruth intermarried, too.
At Shir Shalom, we would have
made her part of our family.
Rabbi Polish comes to us from Temple Israel
in Los Angeles, where he was a respected
leader in the Reform Jewish community.
We'd Like to Meet You
Open House for Prospective Members
Monday, August 29, 7 pm-9 pin
at Temple Beth El. Come see how
easy it is to belong. For more
information, call 851-1100, or stop
by during office hours.
Temple Beth El
7400 Telegraph Road
Birmingham, Michigan 48010
The Temple Shir Shalom advertisement from the Aug. 19 Jewish News.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1988