Jewry's Role in Human Advancement 146 South Ave., Mt. Clemens, (810) 465- 0641. Services: weekdays 7:15 am.; Sat- urday 10 a.m. with kiddush following; Sunday 8 a.m. with breakfast following. Hebrew Sunday school 9 a.m.-noon. Saturday, baby naming of MacKenzie Nicole Ross, daughter of Michael and Dawn Ross; Hailee Stagner Halprin, daughter of Rick and Mary Beth Halprin. Wedding blessing of Cindy Bernstein and Steven Buchman. B'NAI MOSHE TEMPLE KOL AMI BETH TEPHILATH MOSES 6800 Drake Road, West Bloomfield, 5085 Walnut Lake Road, West Bloom- (810) 788-0600. Rabbi: Elliot Pachter. field, (810) 661-0040. Rabbi Norman T. Cantor emeritus: Louis Klein. Sexton Roman. Rabbi emeritus: Ernst J. Con- emeritus: Shalom Ralph. Torah reader: rad. Services: Friday 8 p.m.; Saturday Avram Rabinovitz. Services: Friday 6 Chevrat Torah 9:30 a.m., services 11 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m., 8:45 p.m.; Sunday a.m. Saturday Tot Shabbat at 9 a.m. 8:30 am.; weekdays 7 a.m. Kiddush fol- TEMPLE SHIR SHALOM lows Shabbat services. Shabbat Minchah 3999 Walnut Lake Road, West Bloom- followed by se'udah shlishit, rabbi's class, field, (810) 737-8700. Rabbis: Dannel Ma'ariv and Havdalah. Family Shabbat Schwartz, Michael L Moskowitz. Canto- with Michael Weiss. rial soloist: Penny Steyer. Services: Fri- day 8 p.m.; Saturday, 9:45 a.m. Rabbi's ISAAC AGREE Tish, 11 am. service. No Friday service DOWNTOWN SYNAGOGUE 1457 Griswold, Detroit, (313) 961-9328. this week. Saturday baby naming of Erin Rabbi: Noah Gamze. Cantor Israel Idel- Guria. sohn. Services: Monday-Friday 5:15 p.m.; CONGREGATION SHIR TIKVAH Saturday 8:30 a.m. 3633 W. Big Beaver, Troy, (810) 619- 9669. Rabbi: Arnie Sleutelberg. Services: SHAAREY ZEDEK 27375 Bell Road, Southfield, (810) 357- Friday 7:45 p.m. Service will be con- 5544. Rabbi: Irwin Groner. Cantors: ducted by members of the adult inter- Chaim Najman, Sidney Rube. Services: mediate Hebrew class. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 7:45 a.m.; RECONSTRUCTIONIST Monday and Thursday 7:30 a.m.; daily and Friday 6 p.m.; Saturday 8:45 a.m., CONGREGATION TCHIYAH 8:45 p.m.; Se'udah shilishit between Min- 404 S. Pleasant St., Royal Oak, (810) chah and Ma'ariv. Sunday 8:30 a.m. 542-0900; 4605 Cass, Detroit, (313) 832- Aufruf of Aimee Majdi and Richard Jay 0009. President: Alan Schenk. Services: Kovan. Friday 7:45 p.m. at the Royal Oak Women's Club led by Sandy Hansel! and SHAAREY ZEDEK Matthew Schenk. B'NAI ISRAEL CENTER 4200 Walnut Lake Road, West Bloom- HUMANISTIC field, (810) 681-5353. Rabbi: Leonardo A. Bitran. Services: Saturday 9 a.m., 8:45 THE BIRMINGHAM TEMPLE p.m.; Sunday 9 am.; Monday and Thurs- 28611 W. 12 Mile Road, Farmington Hills, day 7 a.m.; Tuesday, Wednesday, Fri- (810) 477-1410. Rabbi: Sherwin T. Wine. day 7:15 a.m.; daily and Friday 6 p.m. Services: Friday 8 p.m. Join the congregational family for kid- dush/lunch following services. liEEQ RM CONGREGATION BET CHAVERIM stalled new officers and trustees for the coming year. The officers are: Donna R. Sklar, president; Marc Willner, first vice president; Shirley Rosenberg, second vice president; Lee Schottenfels, third vice president; Karen Gutman, secretary; and Irving Yellin, trea- surer. Paul Groffsky serves as past president. Trustees who were installed were: Debbi Chasnick, Gary Eu- banks, Cindy Faber, Lori Fidler, Myrna Fisher, Judie Goren, David Gumenick, Jordan Isaacs, Jeff Kaplan, Andrea Liberman, Frida Markle, Sandra Nessel, Lawrence Pepper, Mindi Silver- Weiss, Naomi Tendler. Steven Shelden represents KATY (Kol Ami Temple Youth) and Shelley Willner represents Kol Ami Sisterhood. SIM 0 HOS P.O. Box 871262 Canton, MI 48187- 6262; (313) 480-8880. Rabbi: Peter Gluck. Services: 7:15 p.m. the third Fri- day of each month. Services are at Cher- ry Hill United Methodist Church at Ridge Road and Cherry Hill Road in Canton. Visitors are welcome. Religious school available. Beth Shalom Graduates a.m. B'nai Moshe Family Service Congregation Beth Shalom grad- uates from its religious high school are Matthew Weiner, TEMPLE BETH EL 7400 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Hills, Brent Pliskow and Joel Kirsch. (810) 851-1100. Rabbis: Daniel B. Syme, Next year Brent Pliskow will be David Scott Castiglione. Rabbi emeritus: the editor in chief of the Beth Richard C. Hertz. Cantor: Stephen Shalom Religious School news- Dubov. Services: Friday 6 p.m. Saturday Torah study 9:15 a.m.; services 10:30 paper. BETH ISAAC 2730 Edsel Dr., Trenton, (313) 675-0355. Services: Friday 7:30 p.m. Congrega- tional leaders conduct services through- out the year. Visitors are welcome. TEMPLE BETH EMETH 2309 Packard Road, Ann Arbor, (313) 665-4744. Rabbi: Robert D. Levy. Direc- tor of music: Ann Zibelman Rose. Ser- vices: Friday 8 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. TEMPLE EMANU-EL 14450 W. Ten Mile Road, Oak Park, (810) 967-4020. Rabbi emeritus: Dr. Mil- ton Rosenbaum. Rabbi: Joesph P. Klein. Cantor: Norman Rose. Services: Friday 7:30 p.m.; Monday-Thursday 5:30 p.m. TEMPLE ISRAEL 5725 Walnut Lake Road, West Bloom- field; (810) 661-5700. Rabbis: M. Robert Syme, Harold S. Loss, Paul M. Yedwab, Joshua Bennett. Cantor. Harold Mach. Services: Friday 7:30 p.m.; Saturday Rabbi's Tish 9:30 a.m., services 10:30 am.; weekdays 7:30 am.; Sunday 9 a.m. Congregation B'nai Moshe will host grandparents, parents and children at a relaxed, participa- tory service 10:30-11:30 a.m. Sat- urday, July 12. Following the family service, everyone will join the main ser- vice for concluding prayers, songs and ldddush. Other dates in the Family Shabbat series are July 26, Aug. 2, and Aug.23. Kol Ami Elects Board Temple Kol Ami recently in- Comm* Golden Branch Meeting Set Future programming will be dis- cussed at the next meeting of the Shir Shalom Golden Branch 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 15, at the temple. The Golden Branch, for those age 59 and up, is open to the en- tire Jewish community. Meetings are held the third Tuesday of each month. For information, call the tem- ple office, (248) 737-8700. Senior Events At The JPM Botsford Hospital will sponsor a stress reduction seminar 1 p.m. Monday, July 14, at the JPM JCC. Donna May will speak on "Humor is Ageless." There is no charge. The Charles and Frances Driker Yiddish Culture Fund will present a program by Sam Bar- nett called "Yiddish Music We Love" 1 p.m. Thursday, July 17, at JPM. There is no charge. Publicity Deadlines The normal deadline for local, news and publicity items is noon Thursday, eight days prior to issue date. The dead- line for out-of-town obituar- ies is 10 a.m. Tuesday, three days prior to issue date. All material must be type- written, double-spaced, on 81I2 x 11 paper and include the name and daytime telephone number of sender. In the book of mystical biblical commentary, the Zohar, often credited to Spanish kabbalist Moses de Leon (1250-1305), he claimed that "The earth revolves like a ball. When it is day on one-half of the globe, night reigns over the other half." These speculations about celestial mysteries predated Copernicus and Columbus by two centuries--suggesting the intellectual curiosity through time of Jewish pioneers in astronomy and cosmology. As early as 240 C.E., the records find the illustrious Babylonian astronomer, physician and teacher, Mar Samuel, dean of the Nehardea Academy of Higher Learning, justly observe, From a 14th century atlas of the constellations by astronomer "The paths of the heavens are as close to me as the Yakov ben David ben Yom Tov Fuel paths of Nehardea." The calendar produced by the scholar, based on the motions of the stars, added much to his repute in Babylon and Palestine. During the Middle Ages, astrology was widely practiced by Jewish advisors to the Moslem and Christian courts of Spain. Several 11th Century Hebrew sages in Toledo helped compile the famous Alfonsine Tables, the foundations of scientific astronomy. And before the dawn of the 16th century, over 250 Jews were named in a short "census" of Europe's foremost astronomers. Treatise on the Sphere, published in 1536 by the Marrano cosmographer, Pedro Nunes, guided Gerhardus Mercator in founding modern cartography. And the voyages of discovery by Vasco da Gama and Christopher Columbus were largely piloted by the counsel and astronomical tables of the respected Spanish astronomer and historian, Abraham Zacuto (c. 1450-1515). Another towering figure in the field was Sir William Herschel (1792- 1871), of reputed Jewish origins. Constructing some of the most powerful reflecting telescopes of his day, he discovered Uranus 40 ft.Herschel telescope in 1781, the first n ew planet sighted since ancient times, and added much to our knowledge of the solar system, galaxy and nebulae. His theories helped lay the groundwork for astrophysics. An older sister and associate, Caroline, equally adept in astronomical observation, discovered a number of star clusters, eight comets and several nebulae. Physicist Steven Weinberg has followed in his kinsmen's footsteps, sharing work on a 1979 Nobel Prize winning theory on elemental forces from which the fundamental laws of nature are formulated. In his many sweeping writings, the 64-year old visionary has helped transform our views of space and time, of reality and knowing, of the universe. As he often insists, his search for cosmology's holy grail--the unified theory-- foreshadows our finding an even deeper truth. -- Saul Stadtmauer. "Those should be the best loved who have contributed most to the elevation of the human race." -- Albert Einstein rn COMMISSION FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF JEWISH HISTORY Harold Beny & Irwin S. Field, Co-chairmen Harriet F. Siden, Secreimy Founders/Sponsors: Walter & Lea Field 33