BEIT KODESH
31840 W. Seven Mile, Livonia, 477
8974. Rabbi: Craig Allen; President:
Phyllis Lewkowicz; Vice President:
David Gross; Religious Chairman:
Jeff Kirsch. Services: Friday 7:30
p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m.
Children's service the first Friday of
every month. Kiddush follows
Shabbat services.
BETH ACHIM
21100 West 12 Mile Rd., Southfield
352-8670. Rabbi: Martin J. Berman.
Cantor: Max Shimansky. Ritual
Director: Joseph Baras. Rabbis
Emeritus: Milton Arm and Benjamin
H. Gorrelick. Services: Friday 6
p.m., Saturday 8:45 a.m., Weekdays
7:15 a.m., 6 p.m.
Minchah 8:55 p.m., Haftorah will be
chanted by Mark Rafsky.
BETH SHALOM
14601 W. Lincoln Rd., Oak Park,
547-7970. Rabbi: David A. Nelson.
Cantor: Samuel L. Greenbaum.
Ritual Director: Rev. Samuel Semp.
Services: Friday 6 p.m., Saturday 9
a.m., Sunday 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.,
Weekdays 7 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.
Baby naming of Laura Marin NG,
daughter of Rosa Lynne Schindler
and Richard Yut NG.
BETH TEPHILATH MOSES
146 South Ave., Mt. Clemens, 465-
0641. Services weekdays 7:15 a.m.
Saturday 10 a.m. with kiddush fol-
lowing. Sunday 8 a.m. with breakfast
following. Hebrew and Sunday
school 9 a.m. to noon.
Emeritus, Cantor, Gail P. Hirschenfang,
Friday 5:30 p.m.; Saturday 11 a.m. Torah
Study 9:30 a.m.
Dr. Hertz will speak on "Cities of
Refuge for Blood Revenge."
BETH ISAAC
2730 Edsel Dr., Trenton, 675-0355.
Student Rabbi Robert Morais will
lead services once a month Friday
7:30 p.m., Saturday 9:30 a.m.
Congregational service leaders will
serve at all other Friday services.
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Saturday 9:15 a.m. Chevrat Torah;
11 a.m. Shabbat worship.
Friday: Rabbi Rick Steinberg will
speak.
TEMPLE SHIR SHALOM
5642 Maple, West Bloomfield, 737-
8700. Rabbi: Dannel I. Schwartz.
Cantor: Samuel Dov Berman.
Services: Friday 8 p.m.; Saturday
9:45 a.m. Rabbi's Tish, 11 a.m. ser-
vice.
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14450 W. Ten Mile Rd., Oak Park,
967-4020. Rabbis: Lane B. Steinger,
Amy B. Brodsky. Rabbi Emeritus: Dr.
Milton Rosenbaum. Cantor: Norman
Rose. Services: Friday 8 p.m.,
Weekdays 5:30 p.m. Monday thru
Thursday Minyan.
Summer services will be held in the
Theodore Birnkrant Garden, weather
permitting.
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THE BIRMINGHAM TEMPLE
5725 Walnut Lake Rd., West
Bloomfield, 661-5700. Rabbis: M.
Robert Syme, Harold S. Loss, Paul
M. Yedwab, Joshua Bennett. 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: Rabbi Bennett will deliver
the sermon. Saturday: Rabbi Syme
will deliver the sermon.
TEMPLE KOL AMI
5085 WalnutLake Rd., West Bloom-
3633 W. Big Beaver, Troy, 643-
6520. Rabbi: Arnie Sleutelberg.
Services: Saturday 10: a.m.
Rebbe's Tish Friday at Rabbi
Arnie's; call for directions.
HUMANISTIC:
28611 West 12 Mile Rd., Farmington
Hills, 477-1410. Rabbi: Sherwin T.
Wine. Services: Friday 8 p.m.
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1035 St. Antoine at Monroe, Detroit,
646-9444. President: Harold Gure-
witz. Services: Saturday 10 a.m. Bar
Mitzvah of Reuben Goodman, son of
David Goodman. Services conduct-
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B'NAI MOSHE
6800 Drake Road, West Bloomfield,
788-0600. Rabbi: Elliot Pachter.
Hazzan: Louis Klein. Sexton: Shalom
Ralph. Torah Reader: Abram
Rabinovitz. Services: Friday 6 p.m.,
Saturday 9 a.m., 6 p.m. Daily 7 a.m.,
Sunday 8:30 a.m. No evening ser-
vices other than those listed until fur-
ther notice.
Daniel Weiner will chant the
Haftorah. Kiddush will follow
Shabbat Services. Shabbat Minchah
at 8:30 p,.m. followed by Se'udah
Shlishit and Rabbi's Mishnah Class,
Ma'ariv and Havdalah.
DOWNTOWN SYNAGOGUE
1457 Griswold, Detroit, 961-9328.
Rabbi: Noah Gamze. Cantor: Israel
ldelsohn. Services: Monday-Friday
5:15 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m.
SHAAREY ZEDEK
27375 Bell Rd., Southfield, 357-
5544. Rabbis: Irwin Groner, William
Gershon, Cantors: Chaim Najman,
Sidney Rube. Services: Tuesday,
Wednesday, Friday 7:45 a.m.; Mon-
day and Thursday 7:30 a.m.; Daily
and Friday 6 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m.,
8:45 p.m.; Sunday 8:30 a.m.
Saturday evening services will be fol-
lowed by Se'udah Shlishit.
SHAAREY ZEDEK
B'NAI ISRAEL CENTER
4200 Walnut Lake Rd., West Bloom-
field, 681-5353. Rabbi: Leonardo
Bitran. Services: Saturday and
Sunday 9 a.m.; Monday and
Thursday 7 a.m.; Tuesday,
Wednesday and Friday 7:15 a.m.
Please join our congregational family
for kiddush/luch following Shabbat
services.
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7400 Telegraph Rd., Birmingham,
851-1100; TDD 851-7686. Rabbis:
Daniel Polish, Richard C. Hertz, Rabbi
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RABBI CRAIG ALLEN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
he connection between the
weekly parsha and life's sit-
uations is a source of con-
tinual intrigue. This week's
parsha, Matot-Mass'ei, speaks of
"stages." As a rabbi, I am re-
peatedly challenged by congre-
gants who tell me the following,
"Rabbi, I ceased regular syna-
gogue attendance because I did
not know the meaning of the He-
brew prayers." I often wish I
could inject such people with a
'60s mentality, colored with a
Kabbalistic spin. Such a direction
would, at the very least, draw po-
tentially invaluable distinction
between two very different ac-
tivities: meditation vs. prayer.
When I was at the seminary,
it very quickly became evident
that of all the assorted Jewish rit-
uals, prayer was easily the most
problematic. Indeed, the difficul-
ty in getting morning minyans
was astounding. It is only with
the passage of time that I believe
I have deduced a source of the
problem.
T
Craig Allen is rabbi of
Congregation Beit Kodesh.
Our rabbis tell us that there is
often much in a word. The He-
brew word for prayer, palal, im-
plies an act of self-examination.
Moreover, the English word,
prayer, historically connotes an
act of begging. Both of these
meanings, especially the English
by which we are unavoidably in-
fluenced, constitute a clear and
present stumbling block to any
successful act of worship. The
problem is this: Both meanings
imply a degree of worthiness
which must either precede or ac-
company the act. Indeed the
strong non-Jewish component to
our culture has at least sub-con-
sciously convinced even us that
there is no distinction between
attitude and behavior. We need
only remember Jimmy Carter's
famous statement about lusting
in his heart.
Interesting, prayer is a late-
comer to Judaism. In fact, recent
scholarship, much by the late
Areyeh "Caplan, suggests that the
primary activity prior to the di-
aspora was one of hagah or me-
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