SYNAGOGUES
The Cultural Commission of Congregation Shaarey Zedek
cordially invites you to attend the
ELEVENTH ANNUAL
PETER and
CLARA WEISBERG CONCERT
featuring the world acclaimed
INTERNATIONAL
JEWISH MALE CHOIR
Wednesday Evening, June 6th, 1990
7:30 P.M.
At Congregation Shaarey Zedek
The program will consist of Hebrew, Yiddish and operatic selections
and will feature outstanding resident soloist
MR. BOB BOROWSKY
Adat Shalom Synagogue
Elects New Officers
Harry Maisel of West
Bloomfield has been elected
president of Adat Shalom
Synagogue. New synagogue
officers and incoming
members of the Board of
Trustees were installed at a
Shabbat dinner.
Maisel has been a professor
and chairman of the Depart-
ment of Anatomy at the
Wayne State University
School of Medicine since
1975. He is recognized in the
field of vision research and
has served on several commit-
tees of the International Eye
Institute.
He has served as president
of the Men's Club, chairman
of the Adult Study Commis-
sion, and was first appointed
to the synagogue Board of
Trustees in 1975.
Elected to the synagogue's
Executive Board for 1990-91
were: vice presidents Sanford
Eichenhorn, Leonard Siegal;
secretary Sharon Hart and
treasurer Jack Rubin. Joel
Golden, rIbrran Leemis and
Beverly Liss will serve three
year terms as executive corn-
mittee members at large.
Harry Maisel
Elected to the Board of
Trustees were: Irwin Elson,
Michael Freedland and Paul
Magy. Barbara Cook,
Emanuel Feinberg, Sidney
Feldman and Milton Shiff-
man were elected to the Adat
Shalom Memorial Park Board
of Trustees.
as well as
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Tickets may be obtained by sending a written request and a stamped, self-addressed
envelope to:
Congregation Shaarey Zedek
27375 Bell Road, P.O. Box. 2056, Southfield, MI 48086.2056
Attention: Weisberg Concert
Patron seats may be purchased by sending a $25 check to
Peter and Clara Weisberg Concert c/o Congregation Shaarey Zedek.
Open To The Entire Community
Admission is Free
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To Say 'No' To Porn
BEN GALLOB
Special to The Jewish News
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s there a Jewish side to
the current fierce debate
over whether the Nation-
al Endowment for the Arts
should fund traveling ex-
hibits of the photographic
art of Andreas Serrano and
the late Robert Map-
plethorpe?
The answer is definitely
yes, according to Rabbi
David Novak of Richmond,
Va., who teaches Jewish
studies at the University of
Virginia.
Jews who abide by
Halachah — Jewish re-
ligious law — are required
by it to oppose public por-
nography and public
blasphemy, Novak said in a
recent issue of Sh'ma, in
which he discussed what was
the halachically proper Jew-
ish position in that debate.
The Mapplethorpe exhibit
includes several homoerotic
images, and a Serrano
photograph displaying a
crucifix immersed in urine.
The images have enraged
the religious and political
right wing in the United
States.
The halachically correct
position also is to oppose
both exhibitions, says
Novak, even though Jews
are supposed to be tradi-
tional opponents of censor-
ship.
He asserted that "the
question before us (as Jews)
is not simply answered by
direct reference to Jewish
law, since much of that law
is not to be enforced in a
society where Halacha is not
the governing norm."
He denied, in an interview
with the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, that he meant to
imply that in the absence of
a Jewish theocratic state,
Halachah is not binding on
Jews. The point he sought to
make, Novak explained, was
that there is no authority
which can enforce Jewish
law.
Many Jews abide by the
laws of kashrut, refrain from
working on the Sabbath and
adhere to other command-
ments entirely on a volun-
tary basis, he said.
Therefore, Novak said, on
the principle of self-imposed