TEMPLE BETH EL

Services: Friday 8 p.m.; Saturday 11
a.m.
Sat. Bar Mitzvah of Matthew Bradley
Siegel, son of Bobette and Byron
Siegel.
Saturday: Rabbi Polish will give the
D'var Torah.
Fri. — New Member Service. Sat.
9:30 a.m. Torah Study.

BETH ISAAC

2730 Edsel Dr., Trenton, 675-0355.
Services: Friday 7:30 p.m.

TEMPLE BETH JACOB

79 Elizabeth Lake Rd., Pontiac,
332-3212. Rabbi: Richard A. Weiss,
D.D. Services: Friday 8:30 p.m.

TEMPLE EMANU-EL

14450 W. Ten Mile Rd., Oak Park,
967-4020. Rabbis: Lane B. Steinger,
L. David Feder. Rabbi Emeritus: Dr.
Milton Rosenbaum. Cantor Emeri-
tus: Norman Rose. Services: Friday
7:30 p.m. Saturday 10:30 a.m.
Sat: Bat Mitzvah of Alyssa Eden Patt,
daughter of Roberta and Daniel Patt.
Friday Family Shabbat Service. Sara
Lee, director of Rhea Hirsch School
of Education, HUC-JIR, L.A., will
speak Shabbat morning.

TEMPLE ISRAEL

5725 Walnut Lake Rd., West
Bloomfield, 661-5700. Rabbis: M.
Robert Syme, Harold S. Loss, Paul
M. Yedwab. Cantor: Harold Orbach.
Services: Friday 8 p.m., Saturday
10:30 a.m. (Rebbe's Tish 9:30 a.m.),
Weekdays 7:30 a.m., Sunday 9 a.m.
Friday, B'nai Mitzvah of Steven and
Louis Linden, sons of Sanford and
Karen Linden.
Fri. — Rabbi Syme will deliver the
sermon. Sat. — Rabbi Loss will
deliver the sermon.

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. Saturday 10:30 a.m.
Sat.: Bar Mitzvah of Joseph
Reifman, son of Pamela and Steven
Reifman.
Fri. — Religious School Shabbat.
Mrs. Sara S. Lee, will speak on
"Religious Education in Preparation
for the 21st Century." Chevrat Torah
Study Group 9:15 a.m. Saturday.

TEMPLE SHIR SHALOM

5642 Maple, West Bloomfield,
737-8700. Rabbi: Dannel I. Schwartz.
Servibes: Friday 8 p.m.; Saturday 11
a.m.
Friday, adult Bat Mitzvah of Cynthia
Link Grant.

CONGREGATION SHIR
TIKVAH

3633 W. Big Beaver, Troy, 643-6520.
Rabbi: Arnie Sleutelberg. Services:
Saturday 10 a.m.
Bar Mitzvah of Mathew Klotz, son of
Camille and Joseph Klotz.
Rabbi's tisch Sat. at Rabbi
Sleutelberg's home - 8 p.m.

THE BIRMINGHAM TEMPLE

28611 West 12 Mile Rd., Farmington
Hills, 477-1410. Rabbi: Sherwin T.
Wine. Services: Friday 8:30 p.m.
Rabbi Wine will discuss the values
of Humanistic Judaism, civil rights,
Judaism and Israel. Zionism will be
the theme of the service.

RECONSTRUCTIONIST:

T'CHIYAH

1035 St. Antoine at Monroe, Detroit,
393-1089. Services: Saturday 10
a.m.

T

his week's Ibrah por-
tion describes how
Moses assembled all
the Israelites as they were
about to enter the Promised
Land. He preached a long ser-
mon in which he recounted
the laws he had taught in the
wilderness. He then directed
the people, as soon as they
entered the promised land, to
gather great stones and build
an altar unto God. "Thou
shalt build the altar of the
Lord thy God of unhewn
stones?' The altar was to be
built with no iron tool as if to
promote peace in the land, for
an iron tool was a symbol of
division and destruction.
Building an altar was to be
the first duty of the Israelites

Richard Hertz is rabbi
emeritus of Temple Beth El.

At Beth El Nursery School, th ey'll
discover Judaism through play and
celebration. They'll experience the
delight of decorating a Sukkah,
cheering the Maccabis, hissing
Haman and setting a Seder table.

UNAFFILIATED:

SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY
OF GREATER DETROIT

15751 W. Lincoln. Southfield.
557-8551.

The Unhewn Stones
That Shape Our Lives

RABBI RICHARD HERTZ

Expose your children to the joys of Judaism

HUMANISTIC:

TORAH PORTION

Special to The Jewish News

DO SOMETHING FOR YOUR CHILDREN . . AND YOURSELVES.

on entering Canaan. So it has
been ever since. The first
thing our people did
whenever they came to a new
land or a new community was
to arrange for public worship
for the education of the
children and for the sacred
burial of their deceased.
When Jews came to the New
World from Europe in the
19th century and even before,
the first thing our forefathers
did as settlers in America was
to establish a synagogue, to
build an altar to God out of
whatever rough unhewn
stones were at their disposal.
And often the stones were
rough! The origins of the
synagogues in America were
very simple.
In Detroit, the first
synagogue, established in
1850 had humble beginnings
in the home of Isaac Cozens.
It was a small frame house on
the corner of Congress and St.
Antoine streets. The impor-

Catch your children's enthusaism.
Join them at Family Shabbat din-
ners, workshops and weekend
retreats.

Experience the warmth of the Tem-
ple family. Participate in programs
that enrich your mind and spirit
from lectures to musical perfor-
mances to meaningful holiday
observances.

MAKE OUR HOUSE YOUR HOME.

For membership and
financial information, call:

Tom Jablonski, Executive Director — 851-1100

Ken Korotkin and Stuart Lockman,
Membership Co-Chairmen

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