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SCHOOL IN THE HUNTINGTON
WOODS, SOUTHFIELD, OAK PARK
AREA?
10:30 a.m. (Rebbe's Tish 9:30 a.m.),
Weekdays 7:30 a.m., Sunday 9 a.m.
Friday: Blessing of teenagers leaving
on trip to Israel with Rabbis Loss and
Yedwab.
Temple Installs
New Officers
The Birmingham Temple
installed new officers. They
are: Robert Roether, presi-
dent; vice presidents Eli
Master, Marty Burnstein;
Michael Beltzman, treasurer;
Benjamin Morris, secretary.
The board of trustees will
be: Paula Creed, Dan Ernst,
Roslyne Gitlin, Linda
Goudsmit, Orna Hankins,
Jim Jacobs, 'Ibby Kiritsis,
Audrey Kron, Esther Litt-
mann, Iry Miller, David
Siegel, Skip Siegel, Goldie
Tremblay, Gerald Weinberg,
Connie Walberg, John Zim-
mer and Joseph Gadon.
TEMPLE KOL AMI
5085 Walnut Lake Rd., West
Bloomfield, 661-0040. Rabbis:
Norman T. Roman, Rabbi Emeritus:
Ernst J. Conrad. Services: Friday 8
P.m.
Chevrat Torah Study Group will meet
on Saturday at 9:15 a.m.
TEMPLE SHIR SHALOM
5642 Maple, West Bloomfield,
737-8700. Rabbi: Dannel I. Schwartz:
Services: Saturday 11 a.m.
Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Rabbi's Tish.
CONGREGATION SHIR
TIKVAH
3633 W. Big Beaver, Troy, 643-6520.
Rabbi: Arnie Sleutelberg. Services:
Friday: 7:45 p.m.
Services conducted by Ruth Kranitz
in the lounge.
Women's Group
Plans Service
HUMANISTIC:
THE BIRMINGHAM TEMPLE
28611 West 12 Mile Rd., Farmington
Hills, 477-1410. Rabbi: Sherwin T.
Wine. Services: Friday 8:30 p.m.
RECONSTRUCTIONIST:
T'CHIYAH
1035 St. Antoine at Monroe, Detroit,
393-1089. Services: Saturday 10
a.m.
Services will be conducted by Janet
Kelman and Corinne Asher.
UNAFFILIATED:
SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY
OF GREATER DETROIT
15751 W. Lincoln. Southfield
557-8551.
.
The Sisterhood of Con-
gregation Beth Abraham
Hillel Moses will hold its in-
stallation of officers and its
annual Women's Shabbat ser-
vice 9 a.m. July 14.
The 1990-1991 officers are:
president, Shirley Dinner;
vice presidents, Freda
Davidorf, Bunny Frank, Shel-
ly Lenhoff, Marlene Somberg;
treasurer, Mildred Winer;
secretaries, Elizabeth Gross,
Adele Goodman, Lillian
Bricker; parliamentarian,
Helen Fisher; past president,
Rita Terebelo.
TORAH PORTION
Special to The Jewish News
I
t may come as a surprise
to some of us that criti-
cism is not only regarded
as a virtue by Judaism but is
included as a full biblical
commandment, one of the 613
Mitzvot: "Thou shall not hate
thy brother in thy heart, thou
shall surely rebuke thy
neighbor — and not bear sin
because of him?'
Indeed, not only is criticism
one of the important com-
mandments, it is one of the
main functions of our
religion. This it does by serv-
ing as our critic, by focusing
our attention on the distance
between the ideal and the
real, by revealing our im-
perfections and then urging
us to strive for the perfect.
Moses and Baalam were
both prophets. They lived at
the same time and preached
Morton Yolkut is rabbi of
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Criticism A Central
Function Of Judaism
RABBI MORTON YOLKUT
ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A RELIGIOUS SCHOOL
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to the same Jewish people.
Moses often was merciless in
his criticism of his people. He
reminded them of their short-
comings and failings and call-
ed them to task time and
again.
Baalam, the non-Jewish
prophet featured prominent-
ly in this week's sidra, spoke
only kind and gentle words to
the Jewish people. He hailed
them, complimented them,
blessed them, flattered them.
While Moses berated them as
stubborn and contentious,
Baalam greeted them with
Mah 7bvu "How goodly are
your tents, 0 Jacob?'
In retrospect, however,
Moses is the archetype of the
navi haemet, the true pro-
phet, while Baalam is the
navi hasheker, the prophet of
falsehood. Moses who criticiz-
ed is truly a prophet; Baalam
who did not is merely a
soothsayer. At the time Moses
spoke, our ancestors must
have felt offended by his
scathing words. Yet the judg-
ment of history was reverence
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Begins Wednesday, August 1, 1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
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