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To Hear

ANTHONY S. GLICKI%/1.AN

Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Treasury
at the Canadian Irn_perial Bank of Commerce
SUBJECT:

"FOUR CRISES IN THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOIVIY:
AN INSIDER'S VIEW"

on
Sunday, November 30 ? 1997 at 10:00 a.m.

at

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Hebrew. I'm really excited about
Earle's progress. I'm going to love
working with Aaron and his grand-
father."
"Everyone at temple has been
very supportive of me," Earle said.
"They make the bar mitzvah itself as
easy as possible for you, offering
you a choice of what lines of the
haftorah to read and letting you
decide whether to chant or read
them. And the classes are so inter-
esting, the time just flies by. My
wife and kids used to worry about
me when I came home late from my
class, but the teachers are so inter-
esting and knowledgeable that we
often run overtime."
Seglin reports that well over 20
adults have had or are in the
process of having b'nai mitzvah cel-
ebrations at Temple Beth El. How
does she explain this growing inter-
est in knowing more about Judaism?
"There seems to be a deep desire_
for learning, for finding a spiritual
and ethical path away from plastic
America and 'yuppiedom.' The
Reform movement looked to confir-
mation and de-emphasized bar or
bat mitzvahs until the 1960s, but
confirmation doesn't have the emo-
tional hold of the traditional bar
mitzvah. Basically, people who are
totally 'ept' in their lives realized
that they felt inept at synagogue
and wanted to be able to practice
their religion. They wanted to find
the spiritual essence of Judaism."
Earle's daughter feels that when her
father joins Aaron on the bimah that
Friday evening "it will add greatly to
the special significance of Aaron's
bar mitzvah. In fact, everyone I've
told thinks it's neat."
Will there be a bike, a party or
at least a fountain pen for the older
bar mitzvah "boy"?
"I don't want a party for myself, but
only for Aaron," Earle said. His
reward is that "I'm proud of myself for
doing something I didn't think I could
do and to become bar mitzvah with
my grandson..." The words stop.

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11/21
1997

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