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Congregation Shaarey
Zedek will host a cantorial
concert at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 11,
featuring Cantor Chaim Naj-
man of Congregation Shaarey
Zedek and guest Cantors
Moshe Taube of Pittsburgh
and Yaacov Motzen of
Montreal.
The Shaarey Zedek
Synagogue Choir also will
participate in the concert,
which will offer selections in
celebration of Chanukah,
Israel's 40th anniversary and
from the general liturgy.
This year's Laker Concert is
being chaired by Dr. and Mrs.
Joseph Langnas.
Cantor 'Paube has served for
the past 24 years at Con-
gregation Beth Shalom in
Pittsburgh. A teacher of voice

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and hazzanut, he has taught
at Julliard, the Cantors In-
stitute of The Jewish
Theological Seminary and
presently at Duquesne
University in Pennsylvania.
Born in Cracow, Poland,
Cantor Taube attended
yeshivot in Europe and Israel,
where he studied with Cantor
Glantz. He completed his
music studies in the United
States.
Cantor Yaacov Motzen is a
native of Israel, where he

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studied hazzanut with Can-
tors Ravitz and Eshel while
attending the Yeshiva of
Ponevitz.
Cantor Motzen now serves

Cantor Najman

at Congregation Mat Israel
in Montreal and appears fre-
quently in concerts
throughout the United States
and Europe. Last year, he par-
ticipated in a series of con-
certs in Romania and
Hungary, for which he earn-
ed medals awarded by the
state.
Admission to the concert is
free and open to the
community.
The Laker Concert is spon-
sored by the Laker family and
under the aegis of Shaarey
Zedek's cultural commission
headed by Dr. Samuel
Stulberg.

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The Council of Orthodox
Rabbis of Greater Detroit will
host a dinner gathering
marking the conclusions of
Tractate Zevachim and the
beginning of Tractate
Menachos at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 6
at Congregation Dovid Ben
Nuchim.
Systematic completion of
the entire study of Talmud
was initiated 26 years ago by
Rabbi Meir Shapiro of Lublin,
Poland, who sought an
answer to what he feared was
the decline of study of the
original sources of Jewish
literature.
Rabbi Shapiro suggested
that one pdge of the Talmud
be studied each day.
Daily meetings will be held
at Congregation Beth Tefilo
Emanuel Tikvah; Congrega-
tion B'nai Israel Beth
Yehudah; Congregation
Dovid Ben Nuchim; Yeshiva
Gedolah; Kolel Institute; and
Congregation Shomrei
Emunah.
The community is invited.
There is a charge.
Call the Council of Or-
thodox Rabbis, 559-5005, for
reservations.