SYNAGOGUES
Temple Emanuel
HAPPENINGS
14450 West Ten Mile Rood
Oak Pork, Michigan 48237
(414) 967-4020
May, 1989
RABBI LANE STEINGER
MAY
3— 7:00 &
8:00 p.m. Ballroom Dance Class
5— 7:15 p.m. Family Shabbat Service - Steven Friedman,
Bar Mitzvah - BABY SITTING AVAILABLE
6— 9:30 a.m. Torah Study with the Rabbi
10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning Service - Brandon Rubin,
Bar Mitzvah
6:00 p.m. Couples Club Mystery Bus Trip
7— 9:30 a.m. EMES (EMANU-ELS MATURE & EXCITING SET)
MEETS
11:30 a.m. JETS Car Wash
8— 7:00 &
8:00 p.m. Ballroom Dance Class
9— 5:00 p.m.
to
10:00 p.m. BLOOD BANK
12-8:15 p.m. ANNIVERSARY SHABBAT -
SAMUEL HAMBURGER ENDOWMENT FUND,
SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE WEEKEND. Guest
Speaker, DANIEL S. SCHECHTER (Interpreted)
13— 9:30 a.m. Torah Study with the Rabbi
10:15 a.m. Young Family Shabbat Service —
2-7 year olds and Parents
10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning Service - Shari Silver,
Bat Mitzvah. Guest Speaker, Scholar-In-
Residence, Daniel S. Schechter,
"Shabbat and Spiritual Survival"
14— 9:30 a.m. Parent Temple Organization
11:30 a.m. JETS Car Wash
11:45 a.m. Scholar-In-Residence, Daniel S. Schechter
"Personal Perspectives on Leadership and
Learning"
15— 7:00 &
8:00 p.m. Ballroom Dance Class
19— 8:15 p.m. Shabbat Evening Service Kevin Sweetwine,
Bar Mitzvah
20— 9:30 a.m. Torah Study with the Rabbi
10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning Service - Todd Shogan,
Bar Mitzvah
7:00 p.m. SPRING SENSATION '89 - Patron Dinner Dance.
Call Temple office for information
21— 9:30 a.m. Brotherhood Sports Day - Tiger Baseball Game.
Call Temple office for information
22— 7:00 &
8:00 p.m. Ballroom Dance Class
23-
LAG B'OMER
7:30 a.m. Russian Jewish Acculturation Program.
Rabbi Lone Steinger, Speaker
26— 8:15 p.m. Shabbat Evening Service - Marc Stein,
Bar Mitzvah
27— 9:30 a.m. Torah Study with the Rabbi
10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning Service - Benjamin Permut,
Bar Mitzvah
June
2— 7:30 p.m. Family Shabbat Service - David Ashley, Bar
Mitzvah - BABY SITTING AVAILABLE
3— 9:30 a.m. Torah Study with the Rabbi
10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning Service - Benjamin Korman
Bar Mitzvah
4-10:00 a.m. EMES (EMANU-ES MATURE & EXCITING SET)
MEETS
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FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1989
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Hours:
DAILY 10-5:30
THURS. 10-7
SAT. 10-3
Small, Yellow Candles Sustain
The Memory Of The Six Million
STAFF REPORT
F
rom
a single candle
grew more than 50,000
lights, glowing in the
black night erev Yom
Hashoah, Holocaust
Memorial Day, which will be
observed this year on
Monday.
The Yom Hashoah Yellow
Yahrtzeit Candle is a project
of the Federation of Jewish
Men's Clubs. Local
synagogues participating in
the program, which en-
courages individuals to place
burning candles in their win-
dows to remember victims of
the Holocaust, are Congrega-
tions B'nai Moshe, Beth
Shalom, Shaarey Zedek, Beth
Abraham Hillel Moses, Beth
Achim and Adat Shalom
Synagogue.
The Yellow Yahrtzeit Can-
dle project was started by Joe
Winokur of Danvers, Mass., to
memorialize the death of his
father, Wolf, a Holocaust sur-
vivor. After learning of a
Canadian group's program of
memorializing the Six
Million by delivering
yahrtzeit candles to con-
gregants before Yom
Hashoah, Joe Winokur decid-
ed to remember in a similar
way his father and Jews
murdered by the Nazis.
First, Winokur approached
the brotherhood of his own
congregation. Later, the pro-
ject was adopted by the New
England Region of the
Federation of Jewish Men's
Clubs and, in 1987, by the en-
tire membership of the
federation.
By 1988, the men's clubs
had distributed more than
50,000 candles to congregants
throughout the United
States. Contained in a small
glass, the yahrtzeit candle
bears a paper label reading
"Remember the Six Million"
and includes a depiction of
the yellow star Nazis forced
Jews to wear at all times. In-
tertwined with the star is a
strand of barbed wire to sym-
bolize Hitler's death camps.
Also included with the
yahrtzeit candle, which is to
burn for at least 24 hours, is
a meditation Winokur
selected with the assistance
of the Rabbinical Assembly. It
reads in part, "As I light this
memorial candle I vow never
to forget the lives of the
Jewish men, women and
children who are symbolized
by this flame . . . so that we
may help to ensure that part
of who they were shall endure
always."
Dr. Harvey Nussbaum, past
president of the men's club of
Adat Shalom and interna-
tional chairman of adult
education for the Federation
of Men's Clubs, is in charge of
the project locally. Helping
coordinate the program in the
Detroit area are Alan Leven-
son of B'nai Moshe; David
Goldis of Beth Achim;
Leonard Baruch of Shaarey
Zedek; Alfred Cowan of Beth
Abraham Hillel Moses;
Harold Baker of Beth Achim;
Steve Westerman of Adat
Shalom; and Jay Waldman of
Beth Shalom.
Nussbaum stressed that the
Yellow Yahrtzeit Candle Pro-
gram, while a project of Con-
servative congregations, is
open to everyone.
"A unique aspect of the Yom
Hashoah Yellow Yahrtzeit
Candle Program is that it
transcends all," he said. "The
program has been used by Or-
thodox, Reform and
Reconstructionist as well as
Conservative congregations,
and by non-Jewish religious
institutions and organiza-
tions."
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SYNAGOGUE SERVICES
REFORM:
BETH EL: Services 8 p.m. Rabbi Daniel Polish will speak on
"The Rites of Spring." Torah study 9:30 a.m. Saturday, ser-
vices 11 a.m. Rabbi Julian Cook will speak on "Making
Atonement."
BETH JACOB: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Richard Weiss
will speak on "Remember the Weekday: To Keep it Holy!"
TEMPLE ISRAEL: Services 8 p.m. today. Rabbi Harold Loss
will speak on "My Bar Mitzvah Trip to Israel — 13 Visits,
13 Groups?' Rebbe's tish 9:30 a.m. Saturday, services 10:30
a.m.
KOL AMI: Jewish Music Season service, dedicated to remem-
brance of the Holocaust, 8 p.m. today. Avra Weiss and Carol
Ferror will perform "A Sermon in Song?'
SHIR SHALOM: Family Shabbat Service 7:30 p.m. today. Rab-
bi Dannel Schwartz will speak on "Making Our Days Count
. . . The First in a Series." Rebbe's tish 9 a.m. Saturday, ser-
vices 11 a.m.
CONSERVATIVE:
ADAT SHALOM: Seminary Shabbat. Services 6 p.m. today and
9 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Efry Spectre will speak on "The
Centrality of the Jewish Theological Seminary in Conser-
vative Jewish Life."
BETH ACHIM: Services 6 p.m. today and 8:45 a.m. Saturday.
David Ian Burnstein will chant the haftara.
BETH SHALOM: Weekend events will focus on "A Shtetl Ex-
perience: From Eastern Europe to Oak Park Geberniah."
Services 6 p.m. today. Roslyn Bresnick-Perry will speak on
"Recollection." Cantor Samuel Greenbaum will lead a Yid-
dish sing-along. Services 9 a.m. Saturday.
B'NAI ISRAEL OF WEST BLOOMFIELD: Services 9 a.m.
Saturday. Rabbi Sherman Kirshner will speak on "Being
Really Alive." Dr. Milton Stern will chant the haftara.
B'NAI MOSHE: Services 7 p.m. today and 8:45 a.m. Saturday.
Emily Klarman will chant the haftara.
DOWNTOWN SYNAGOGUE: Services 8 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi
Noah Gamze will speak on "Elitism Is Sometimes a Good
Idea?'
TRADITIONAL:
B'NAI DAVID: Services 7 p.m. today and 8:30 a.m. Saturday.
Hershl Roth will chant the haftara.
RECONSTRUCTIONIST:
T'CHIYAH: Services 10 a.m. Saturday conducted by Marty
Baum and Larry Horwitz.
SECULAR-HUMANIST:
BIRMINGHAM TEMPLE: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi
Sherwin Wine will speak on "The Birth of Hitler — 100
Years Later." Members of the youth group will pay tribute
to Holocaust victims.