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Temple Emanu-El

IT'S HAPPENING

14450 West Ten Mile Rood
Oak Pork, Michigan 48237
(313) 967-4020

RABBI LANE STEINGER
RABBI L. DAVID FEDER

FEBRUARY

Kindergarden Dinner
Family Shabbat Service
Torah Study with Rabbi Lone Steinger
Shabbat Morning Service -
Catherine Schmier, Bat Mitzvah
7:30 p.m. Sisterhood presents "A Night in Italy"
- Italian dinner and "Jews of Italy,"
a talk by Rabbi Lane Steinger
4-1-3:00 p.m. JEFF/Nursery Program

6:00 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
3- 9:30 a.m.
10:30 a.m.

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7- 8:00 p.m. Overeater's Anonymous - Meets
every Wednesday
8:15 p.m. Shabbat Eve Service - Interpreted
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9:30 a.m. Torah Study with Rabbi Lane Steinger
10:15 a.m. Young Family Service
10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning Service -
Shiro Handelman, Bat Mitzvah
7:45 p.m. Couples Club "Cruise" Fun, Frolic,
Food - Music and Dancing
11-10:45 a.m. It's My Temple Too! Service for
2-5 year-olds and their parents

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8:15 p.m. Shabbat Evening Service -
Michelle Efros, Bat. Mitzvah

9:30 a.m. Torah Study with Rabbi Lane Steinger
10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning Service
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8:15 p.m. Shabbat Evening Service -
Jody Wittenberg, Bat Mitzvah
24- 9:30 a.m. Torah Study with Rabbi Lane Steinger
10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning Service
25-10:00 a.m. Book Review with
Rabbi L. David Feder

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From The Story Of Plagues:
The Birth Of The Jewish People

RABBI RICHARD HERTZ

Special to The Jewish News

E

very Passover seder
highlights the 10
plagues brought upon
pharaoh and the Egyptians at
the time the Israelites were
slaves in ancient Egypt. The
plagues symbolize the con-
frontation between pharaoh
and Moses. The plagues were
brought about because
pharaoh's heart had been
hardened. His stubbornness
in refusing to let the children
of Israel leave Egypt resulted
in his punishment for his de-
fiance of the Will of God.
The sedra this week
describes these events. The
plagues gradually intensify
beginning with nuisances,
then the destruction of
livestock and crops and en-
ding with the death of the
first born. The Midrash tells
how God used the tactics of

Rabbi Hertz is rabbi emeritus of

Temple Beth El.

6:00 p.m. Faculty Appreciation Dinner
7:30 p.m. Faculty Appreciation Shabbat Service
3- 9:30 a.m. Torah Study with Rabbi Lane Steinger
10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning Service
Randy Brennan, Bar Mitzvah
4- 9:00 a.m. Third Grade Parents Meeting
10:00 a.m. JEFF/Grades 3-4 Meeting
6- 5-10 p.m. Blood Bank

ORTHODOX:

Bais Chabad of Birm-
ingham/Bloomfield Hills: Moshe
Polter, rabbi. 646 3010.
Bais Chabad of Farmington
Hills: 32000 Middlebelt Rd., Farm-
ington Hills. Chaim Bergstein, rab
bi. 855-2910.
Bais Chabad of West Bloomfield:
5595 W. Maple Rd., West Bloom-
field. Melech Silberberg, rabbi.
855-6170.
Beth Jacob Mogain Abraham:
15751 W. Lincoln Dr., Southfield.
Dov Loketch, rabbi. 557-6750.
Beth Tefilo Emanuel Tikvah:
24225 Greenfield Rd., Southfield.
Leizer Levin, rabbi. 559-5022.
B'nai Israel Beth Yehudah:
15400 W. 10 Mile Rd., Oak Park.
Yoel Sperka, rabbi. 967-3969.
B'nai Zion: 15250 W Nine Mile
Rd., Oak Park. Solomon Gruskin,
rabbi. 968-2414.
Dovid Ben Nuchim: 14800 W. Lin-
coln, Oak Park. Chaskel Grubner,
rabbi. 968-9784.
Huntington Woods Minyan:
meets at the Burton School. Dave
Morrison, 542-1491.
Kollel Institute: 15230 W. Lincoln,
Oak Park. Moshe Schwab, rabbi.
968-0109.
Machon L'Torah: 15221 W. Ten
Mile Rd., Oak Park. Avraham
Jacobowitz, rabbi. 967-0888.
Mishkan Israel, Nusach H'ari,
Lubavitcher Center: 14000 W. 9
Mile Rd., Oak Park. 543 6611.
Shaarey Shomayim: 15110 W. 10
Mile Rd., Oak Park. Leo Goldman,
rabbi. 547-8555.
Shomrey Emunah:
25451
Southfield Rd., Southfield. Shaiall
Zachariash, rabbi. 559-1533 or
557-9666.

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Yawh" (7:17). Moses wanted
the plagues to demonstrate
God's presence in the land
even though pharaoh
vacillated. He was not con-
vinced of the power of God un-
til the final plague. Somehow,
God determined for His own
purposes that pharaoh must
resist the plagues before he
could submit to God's will.
Many interpretations of the
plagues have been made
throughout the centuries

Shabbat Va'era:
Exodus 6:2-9:35,
Numbers 28:9-15,
Isaiah 66:1-24.

because of th natural condi-
tions of Egypt. Some of the
plagues can be linked to local
or seasonal phenomena. Dur-
ing its annual rise, the Nile
River is reddened by
organisms that carry in it
swarms of frogs and insects.
Sometimes, locusts blow
across the country in winter

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kings against the Egyptians.
First, He cut off their water
supply (blood in the River
Nile); then He raised excite-
ment through the frogs; then
shot arrows at them (lice);
then He arrayed legions
around them (swarms); then
caused a pestilence burning
them with boils; then He sent
hosts against them (locusts);
then threw them in the
dungeons of darkness before
finally putting to death their
chiefs, namely their first
born.
A progression may be seen
in two groups of four plagues
each before the final ones, a
plague of terror and the
plague of the destroying the
first born.
Before each plague, Moses
warned pharaoh in advance
to "let my people go." Stub-
bornly, pharaoh refused so he
could dispel the Egyptian
courtiers' notion that the
power of Moses and Aaron
were simply magical. God ad-
monished pharaoh, "By this
you shall know that I am

Shomrey Emunah-Ohel Moed:
6191 Farmington Rd., West Bloom-
field. Eli Jundef, rabbi. 967-1806.
Young Israel of Greenfield: 15140
W. 10 Mile Rd., Oak Park. Reuven
Drucker, rabbi. 967-3655.
Young Israel of Oak Woods:
24061 Coolidge, Oak Park, Eliezer
Cohen, rabbi. 398-1177.
Young Israel of Southfield: 27705
Lahser, Southfield. Elimelech
Goldberg, rabbi. 358-0154.
Young Israel of West Bloomfield:
6450 Farmington Rd., West Bloom-
field. Ira Lutzky, 259-8500.

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31840 W. 7 Mile Rd., Livonia.
477-8974.
Shaarey Zedek: 27375 Bell Rd.,
Southfield. Irwin Groner, rabbi.
357-5544.

REFORM:
Beth El: 7400 Telegraph Rd., Bir-
mingham. Daniel Polish, rabbi.
851-1100.
Beth Isaac: 2730 Edsel Dr., Tren-
ton. 675-0355.
Beth Jacob: 79 Elizabeth Lake
Rd., Pontiac. Richard Weiss, rabbi.
332-3212.
Emanu El: 14450 W. 10 Mile Rd.,
Oak Park. Lane Steinger, rabbi.
967-4020.
Temple Israel: 5725 Walnut Lake
Rd., West Bloomfield. M. Robert
Syme, Harold Loss, Paul Yedwab,
rabbis. 661-5700.
Kol Ami: 5085 Walnut Lake Rd.,
West Bloomfield. Norman Roman,
rabbi. 661-0040.
Shir Shalom: 5642 Maple Rd.,
West Bloomfield. Darnel Schwartz,
rabbi. 737-8700.
Shir Tikvah: 3633 W. Big Beaver,
Troy. Arnie Sleutelberg, rabbi.
643-6520.

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TRADITIONAL:
B'nai David: 24350 Southfield Rd.,
Southfield. Morton Yolkut, rabbi.
557-8210.

CONSERVATIVE:
Adat Shalom: 29901 Middlebelt
Rd., Farmington Hills. Efry Spectre,
rabbi. 851-5100.
Beth Abraham Hillel Moses:
5075 W. Maple, West Bloomfield. A.
Irving Schnipper, rabbi. 851-6880.
Beth Achim: 21100 W. 12 Mile Rd.,
Southfield. Milton Arm, rabbi.
352-8670.
Beth Shalom: 14601 W. Lincoln
Rd., Oak Park. David Nelson, rab-
bi. 547-7970.
Beth Tephilath Moses: 146 South
Ave., Mt. Clemens. 465 0641.
B'nai Israel of West Bloomfield:
4200 Walnut Lake Rd., West Bloom-
field. Sherman Kirshner, rabbi.
681-5353.
B'nai Moshe: 14390 W. 10 Mile
Rd., Oak Park. Allan Meyerowitz,
rabbi. 548-9000..
Downtown Synagogue: 1457
Griswold, Detroit. Noah Gamze,
rabbi. 961-9328.
Livonia Jewish Congregation:

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HUMANISTIC:
Birmingham Temple: 28611 W. 12
Mile Rd., Farmington Hills. Sher-
win Wine, rabbi. 477-1410.

RECONSTR UCTIONIST:
T'Chiyah: St. Antoine at Monroe,
Detroit. 393-1089.

UNAFFILIATED:
Sephardic Community of
Greater Detroit: meets at
Yeshivah Beth Yehudah, 15751 W.
Lincoln, Southfield. David Hazan,
vice president. 545-8945.

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