The Community is invited to
Catch Our Sfteur
as we welcome

RABBI
HERBERT A. YOSKOWITZ

and
HIS FAMILY
to
Congregation Beth Achim
and
Metropolitan Detroit

JOIN US FOR OUR OPEN HOUSE WEEKEND

Saturday, August 20th
Shabbat Services followed by Special Kugel Kiddush

Sunday, August 21st 1-3 p.m.

Prospective members meet Rabbi Herbert Yoskowitz and Cantor Max
Shimansky over bagels and coffee. Tour the Synagogue and visit our
Religious School Open House. Free Tuition for Kindergarten and First
Grade.

The Synagogue with an Affordable

Membership Plan for You!

Centrally Located... Just a line drive via all Major Freeways

School Is In Session
For Area Educators

JENNIFER FINER STAFF WRITER

udy Hudspeth, a third-
grade teacher at Temple
Emanu-El, is looking for
new teaching skills and a
way to heighten her knowledge
of Jewish music.
She is confident she will ac-
complish both goals at the
Conference on Alternatives in
Jewish Education, which begins
Sunday.
"I went to the conference two
years ago and it was a remark-
able experience," Ms. Hudspeth
said. "This is the only time I've
sat in the same room with people
from Orthodox, Conservative, Re-
form, Humanistic and Recon-
structionist backgrounds who all
have the same idea in mind.
Everyone is pro-education."
Thousands of teachers and ed-
ucators, including 80 from the De-
troit area, will attend this year's
conference at Indiana Universi-
ty.
For five days, participants can
choose from 800 programs and
workshops on topics from Jewish
texts on the environment to what
should be taught in Hebrew
schools. Gender eqn2lity, reciting
a prayer in sign language and
Torah and Talmud sessions are
among the slated programs.
Susan Gartenberg, a nursery-
school teacher at Shaarey Zedek's
Beth Hayeled in West Bloomfield,
learned how to recite the Sh'ma
and HaMotzi in sign language
when she attended a previous
CAJE conference. She brought
what she learned back to the

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classroom, and by the end of the
year the children in her class
were doing the same.
"The conference offers any-
thing an educator needs, from in-
stant ideas to put in your
classroom tomorrow to revitaliz-
ing your own Jewish knowledge,"
said Harlene Appelman, director
of educational services at the
Agency for Jewish Education and
a CAJE national programming
chair.
Like Ms. Hudspeth, other area
CAJE participants have specific
issues they would like to learn
about during the conference.
Shawn Locke, director of school
services at the AJE, said teach-
ers are grappling not only with
how to teach prayers to students
but also ways to give personal
meaning to prayer.
Shoshana Ben-Ozer, educa-
tional director at Congregation
Beth Shalom, hopes next week's
meeting will provide her with
methods of keeping more post-
bar and bat mitzvah students in-
terested in Jewish education.
'We are looking at a lot of teens
who don't continue with their
Jewish education," Ms. Ben-Ozer
said. "This is a crucial age. We
need to attract them to stay."
Raquel P. Gershon, director of
the AJE Teachers Resource
Center, is also looking for some-
thing at CAJE. She is hoping to
win the American Zionist song
competition, where she is slated
to compete against four other fi-
nalists. ❑

B'nai David Re-Votes,
Has Holiday Options

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C

ongregation B'nai David's
board of trustees on Aug.
17 will reconsider approv-
ing the merger proposed
with Congregation B'nai Moshe.
Board approval is required be-
fore the proposed merger can be
considered by a general meeting
of the congregation.
The proposal failed at a July
meeting of the board on a vote of
15-11 with four abstentions. At
that meeting, the proposal need-
ed 16 votes for passage.
Meanwhile, B'nai David is
going ahead with plans to hold
High Holiday services at the
Maple/Drake Jewish Communi-
ty Center. President Phillip
Bolton said Rabbi Morton Yolkut

will lead services and addi-
tional clergy have been contact-
ed. •
At the request of some B'nai
David members, B'nai Moshe's
executive committee has ap-
proved offering reduced-price
tickets to B'nai David members
for the High Holidays. B'nai
David members will be asked to
fill out a membership application.
Those who prefer not to may pur-
chase B'nai Moshe tickets at the
regular price.
If the merger is approved by
both congregations, the price of
the reduced-fee tickets will be ap-
plied to the B'nai David mem-
bers' dues at the merged
congregation. ❑

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