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hey couldn't wait to get
there and they made the Shalom are housed for three days
most of their limited time. and given vegetarian meals. No
They bought books. They payment is accepted.
Many of the books purchased
bought religious artifacts. They
bought souvenirs. They bought by the Japanese group at
books. They bought cassette Spitzer's will become part of the
small, but growing Jewish library
tapes. They bought books.
The 37 members of Makhelat at Beit Shalom.
The choir members — a di-
Hashachar, the Japanese choir
that sang for 1,500 people last verse group of men and women,
week at Adat Shalom Synagogue, young and middle-aged, who all
descended on Spitzer's bookstore speak fluent Hebrew — paid
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concert and nobody left empty-
handed.
"They insisted on visiting a
Jewish bookstore while they were
here," said Rabbi Efry Spectre of
Adat Shalom, who arranged for
the Protestant group to stop at
Spitzer's after a tour of Henry
Ford Museum in Dearborn.
Members of Makhelat
Hashachar ("Choir of the Dawn")
belong to the Japan Christian
Friends of Israel movement in
Japan, which has about 10,000
followers. Beit Shalom, its head-
quarters, is in Kyoto.
At Beit Shalom, the buildings
are named in memory of Anne
Frank. There is a school and a
dormitory. Students explore Ju-
daism and learn Hebrew. There
are no Christian symbols in the
sanctuary; Hebrew biblical phras-
es are prominent features.

country tour that included stops
in Los Angeles, Minneapolis,
Toronto, Detroit, Philadelphia,
Washington, D.C., and St. Louis.
They were directed by Takeo
Sato.
In Washington, the choir sang
at the Holocaust Memorial Mu-
seum and the Israel Embassy.
Those concerts, like all those giv-
en by the choir on their tour, were
free.
"You don't sing for your friends
and charge them money," said
the Rev. Masaru Otsuki, whose
father launched the Japan Chris-
tian movement just after World
War II. The Rev. Takeji Otsuki-
says he had a spiritual revelation
in 1938 that, in 10 years, the Jew-
ish people would finally gain their
independent home state.
"You cannot have peace in the
world if you don't have peace in