AN OPEN LETTER TO THE JEWISH YOUTH
OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT

on "American Judaism: A New and
Different World." Saturday 9:30 a.m.
seminar with Rabbi Zimmerman; 11
a.m. Rabbi Zimmerman on "Priestly
and Prophetic Tradition: A Joint
Model for the Synagogue."

TEMPLE KOL AMI

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

5085 Walnut Lake Rd., West
Bloomfield, 661-0040. Rabbis:
Norman T. Roman, Rabbi Emeritus:
Ernst J. Conrad. Services: Friday 8
p.m. Saturday 9:15 a.m. Chevrat
Torah study group and services.
Friday: Rabbi Roman will speak on
"Implications of the Election."

TEMPLE BETH JACOB

TEMPLE SHIR SHALOM

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

5642 Maple, West Bloomfield,
737-8700. Rabbi: Dannel I. Schwartz.
Services: Friday 8 p.m. Saturday
Rabbi's Tish 9:30 a.m. Services 11
a.m.
Friday: Bat Mitzvah of Sarah Rontal,
daughter of Ellen and Eugene
Rontal. Saturday: Bat Mitzvah of
Dana Rachel Hoffman, daughter of
Sue and Jerry Hoffman.

BETH ISAAC

TEMPLE EMANU EL

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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
8:15 p.m. Saturday 10:30 a.m.
Friday: Bar Mitzvah of Warren Fisher
Frankford, son of Gail Rose and Jack
Frankford. Saturday: Bat Mitzvah of
Nicole Katrina Korman, daughter of
Diane and Ronald Korman.
Torah study at 9:30 a.m. in the
library. Rabbi Steinger will deliver
the D'var Torah on Friday evening
and Saturday 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: Bat Mitzvah of Amy Lauren
Marks, daughter of Steven and
Carolyn Marks. Saturday: B'not
Mitzvah of Dana Liss, daughter of
Mark and Joanne Liss; Ellen Laura
Berman, daughter of Jack and
Miriam Berman. Saturday: 5 p.m.
Havdalah Bar Mitzvah of Steven
Dworman, son of Robert and Cheryl
Dworman.
Friday: Rabbi Loss will deliver the
sermon. Saturday: Rabbi Syme will
deliver the sermon.

SHIR TIKVAH

3633 W. Big Beaver, Troy, 643-6520.
Rabbi: Arnie Sleutelberg. Services:
Friday 7:45 p.m.
Services conducted by Rabbi
Sleutelberg and new members.
Sermon topic: "The Night the Glass
Was Broken."

HUMANISTIC:

THE BIRMINGHAM TEMPLE

28611 West 12 Mile Rd., Farmington
Hills, 477-1410. Rabbi: Sherwin T.
Wine. Services: Friday 8:30 p.m.
The opening of the Temple Art Show;
there will be no service.

RECONSTRUCTIONIST:

T'CHIYAH

1035 St. Antoine at Monroe, Detroit,
393-1089. Services: Friday 7:45 p.m.
Service will be conducted by Bobbie
Cash and Larry Stettner.

On Wednesday evening, November 14th, 7:30 P.M., a
very unusual event will take place at Congregation Shaarey
Zedek. Twenty-five Russian Jewish teenagers, members of
a choir called "Kinor" from Riga, Latvia, will perform in a
concert of Hebrew and Yiddish songs — free admission.

Whether you are a member of BBYO, NCSX NFTY or USX,
whether you attend Akiva, Andover,. Country Day, Groves,
Harrison, Hillel, North Farmington, Southfield-Lathrup, United
Hebrew Schools, or West Bloomfield, I urge you to attend
this event and to show our Latvian friends that you care.
They need your support and encouragement.

The teenage members of "Kinor" are traveling on behalf
of the resettlement of Latvian Jewry in Israel. They bring with
them the message of Jewish rebirth in the Soviet Union. They
represent the miracle of Jewish survival.

Please come and greet the members of Kinor. There will
be an opportunity to meet and chat with the teenage
guests.

Hope to see you on November 14th.

IRVING LAKER, PRESIDENT
CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK

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TORAH PORTION

`A Time To Live
And A Time To Die'

RABBI RICHARD HERTZ

Special to The Jewish News

T

his week's sidra re-
lates how Abraham,
the first Jew, faced
death. His beloved Sarah, 127
years old, had died. She had
been Abraham's companion
from the time she accom-
panied her husband from
Haran into Caanan. She had
left her family to become,
with her husband, a stranger
in a strange land. Now she
was dead.
This was the first recorded
death in Scriptures. What
was Abraham to do? He did
not want to bury her in the
barren ground of no-man's
land. He went to the elders of
Hebron where Sarah had died
and negotiated with the Hit-

Richard Hertz is rabbi
emeritus of Temple Beth El.

tites for a visible place, a
burial area. He wanted the
cave of Machpelah. The man-
ner in which Abraham
bargained for Machpelah in-
dicates the reverential way
Jews ever since have honored
their dead. Proper burial has
remained a characteristic of
the Jewish people. Three
patriarchs — Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob, and three
matriarchs — Sarah, Rebecca,
and Leah — were eventually
buried in the cave of
Machpelah, a place that
became, in time, a shrine.
The Sidra suggests the
question, when Jews bury
their dead, what then? What
is the Jewish way of death?
Here are four basic truths,
four supporting walls of the
house of death we
euphemistically call Bet
Haim, the House of Life.
• Death must be accepted

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