The N Sports Club...
Building Better Bodies
If you build it,
they will come.
If you meet them,
you will join.
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Club
of West Bloomfield
The Sports Club's Construction Site
The-Sports Club's Membership Staff
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97 New, spacious aerobics studio
Expanded cardio facilities
Expanded and updated weight room
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Special Construction Rates
$50/Month - individual
S85/Month - couple
(above rates for 3-year fitness membership)
The
Sports
/Club
of West Bloomfield
6343 Farmington Rd.
(just north of Maple)
626-9880
Israel
no more than 30 people are present
for prayers on an average Friday night
or Saturday morning. But when the
female cantor chants Kol Nidre, there
are 15 times that many men, women
and children in attendance.
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While the Conservatives (with 40
synagogues) and the Reform (with
25) are much more a part of the
Israeli scene than they were a few
years ago, they can't compete with
the Orthodox where numbers are
concerned. And more important, in cJ
the eyes of most secular Israelis, only
the Orthodox are "legitimate."
Thus one secularist of my acquain-
tance was outraged when his son told
him that he and his girlfriend planned
to be wed by a Conservative rabbi in
Jerusalem (after first being married in
New York in a civil ceremony, as non-
Orthodox Jewish marriages performed
in Israel are not regarded as binding
by the authorities here).
Internet use in
Israel was 25
percent higher
on Yom Kippur
than normal.
"Why can't you be married by a
proper rabbi?" the father asked
indignantly.
Whatever their attitude towards
religion, many Israelis look upon
Yom Kippur as the nicest holiday on
the calendar. For it is the one day of
the year when there is real peace and
quiet in the country. There are no
cars on the roads and so you can
walk through the middle of town
without danger of being run over or
asphyxiated by automobile fumes.
And you can ignore the news, which,
in other circumstances, you would
probably be hearing every hour on
the hour.
But with bloodshed continuing
and war clouds gathering, worship-
pers this October could not but recall
the Yom Kippur 24 years earlier
when, in the middle of services, men
began to stream out of the syna-
gogues, rushing off to the battlefields
and, all too often, to their deaths.
That memory made this year's
prayers for peace even more fervent
than usual. ❑