DETROIT

Mourners Attend Service
For Menachem Begin

STAFF REPORT

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imon Cieck, president
of Detroit's Jabotin-
sky Society, came
Sunday to pay his last
respects to former Israeli
Prime Minister Menachem
Begin.
So did Steve Goldin, past
president of the society and
recipient of a Jabotinsky
medal of honor.

Services were held for Mr.
Begin at 3 p.m. Sunday at
the Zionist Cultural Center
in Southfield. Nearly 100
Detroiters attended.
"I knew him in Poland

when he was a leader of
Betar," said Mr. Cieck, 72, of
Oak Park. "He helped
smuggle Jews out of Poland
to Italy and then into
Palestine."
Among the participants in
the service were Jewish
Federation President Mark
Schlussel, Rabbi David
Nelson of Congregation Beth
Shalom, Israeli political
columnist Avner Regev and
Zionist Organization Of
America local executive di-
rector Ezekiel Leikin.
"Menachem Begin will be
remembered as one of our
people's greatest Jewish
patriots and statesmen,"
Rabbi Nelson said.

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Dialogue Is Not
An Easy Task

NOAM M.M. NEUSNER

TRADITION.

Staff Writer

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s if everyone thought
black-Jewish rela-
tions were easy.
David Schoem, a Univer-
sity of Michigan dean and an
expert on intergroup rela-
tions, told an American Jew-
ish Committee audience last
Thursday that he's surprised
black-Jewish relations are
not any worse.
After all, he said, Jews and
blacks rarely sit and discuss
what they have in common.
They also never discuss
what separates them.
"We can never again live
apart," he said. "The coali-

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FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1992

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Temple Beth El To Host
Three Musical Programs

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tion we had in the '60s is
something we should be pro-
ud about."
Dr. Schoem has led many
college students through the
maze of cultural dialogue; he
has discussed race and re-
ligion with blacks and Jews;
sexuality with homosexuals
and heterosexuals and
gender with fraternity and
sorority members.
Those experiences taught
him that dialogue can not be
artificial or easy. Although
it's important to focus on
"commonalities," he said
you can not overlook differ-
ences.
"It takes time to make this
happen," he said.

Gemini, the twin singing
duo whose specialty is per-
forming before audiences
with hand-motion songs,
sing-alongs and virtuosity
on a variety of musical in-
struments, is just one of
several events scheduled for
Temple Beth El in Birm-
ingham.
The Gemini performance
marks the final concert of
the 1991-92 season of the
Loren B. Fischer Cultural
Arts Series for Children and
Their Families. The series is
a gift to the community from
the Fischer family in
memory of their daughter,
Loren, who succumbed to
cancer at the age of 17. Gem-
ini will perform 1 p.m. Mar-
ch 22 at the temple. The con-
cert is open to the public at
no charge.

Today, the temple
sisterhood will celebrate its
90th birthday with an
original work by composer
Andrea Jill Higgins, "Song of
Miriam." Beth El Cantor Gail
Hirschenfang will perform
the solo role at the 8 p.m. ser-
vice with Ms. Higgins on
piano.
If this wasn't enough
music for one month, Beth
El will host a "Music in the
Sanctuary" program March
29. Cantor Hirschenfang,
soprano, will team up with
tenor Gary Bachlund of the
Metropolitan Opera and the
Michigan Opera Theatre Or-
chestra.
The 7:30 p.m. concert will
feature selections from
Judas Maccabaeus, Carmen,
Phantom of the Opera, West
Side Story and more.

