The voice of
Cantor
Stephen
Dubov of
Temple Beth
El reverberated
through the
Pontiac Silver-
dome Monday
night. The
Broadway per-
former turned
cantor sang the national anthem at the
start of ABC's Monday Night Foot-
ball. The Detroit Lions ended
up winning the prime-
time game over the
Tampa Bay Bucca-
neers.
Dubov also has
sung in the Super-
dome in New
Orleans, where he
worked as a cantor
for five years before
coming to Temple Beth
El in 1996.
This
UAHC repre-
sents 1.5 million
Reform Jews in
870 North Ameri-
can synagogues.
Next Friday
hundreds of Jews
from all over the
world will gather
in secular Jewish
hub Tel Aviv for
the International Federation of Secu-
lar and Humanistic Jews Biennial
Conference.
With more than 125 repre-
sentatives from 30-plus con-
gregations and havurot
throughout North
America, the Farming-
ton Hills-based Society
for Humanistic
Judaism boasts the
largest delegation.
"Throughout our peo-
ple's history Israel has called
to the Jewish people,
drawing us home," said
SHJ Executive Director
Rabbi Sheldon
Bonnie Cousens.
Zimmerman, pres-
"With this mission, we
ident of the
join heart and mind
Hebrew Union
with our secular Israeli
College-Jewish
brothers and sisters,
Institute of Reli-
blending our voices
gion, will deliver
with theirs in calling
one of the Shabbat
for peace in Israel and
sermons at the
religious freedom for
Union of American
all Jews in our home-
Hebrew Congrega-
land."
tions Northeast
Founded by Rabbi
Lakes
Sherwin Wine,
Council/Detroit
Humanistic Judaism
Federation Region-
embraces a human-
al Biennial Nov. 5-
centered philosophy
8 in Oakland
Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman.
that celebrates Jewish
County.
culture and identity. It
He'll speak on
affirms the power and responsibility
"The Content of Our Covenant:
of human beings to shape their own
Faith, Mitzvah and Spirituality" at Fri-
lives independent of supernatural
day night services at Temple Israel.
authority.
The seventh president of HUC-
JIR, Zimmerman heads Reform
Judaism's four-campus, international
seminary "All of us who know and
admire Rabbi Zimmerman understand
that he brings to the seminary a real
understanding of the needs of congre-
gations and the role that the rabbi
plays," says Rabbi Harold Loss of
Temple Israel.
Hundreds of delegates from Ohio,
Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania and
New York will meet at the Somerset
Inn in Troy to explore the biennial
theme, "Building A Strong Covenant
for the 21st Century."
Reform
Judaism leader
coming to town;
a cantor starts a
football game.
10/2
1998
30 Detroit Jewish News
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From the pages of The Jewish News for this week 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50
years ago.
1988
President Chaim Herzog gave a sendoff to 62 disabled athletes who will
represent Israel at the Special Olympics in South Korea.
Sinai president Irving Shapiro notified the hospital board of trustees that
he will leave the position when his contract expires next year.
Anaruth Bernard and Sidney D. Feldman were named chairmen for the
Jewish Theological Seminary Sunday session.
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Robert Frauenglas of New York arrived in Holland on a 1,300-mile walk-
ing pilgrimage through Western Europe to arouse attention to the fate of
Soviet Jewry.
More than 100 public figures in Israel rejected the Camp David agree-
ments, saying the PLO was the sole representative of the Palestinian people.
Percy Kaplan, executive director of the JNF in Detroit, was presented
with a fund-raising achievement award at a national JNF conference in
New York.
1968
Denmark's King Frederick IX and Queen Ingrid were in the vast audience
at services in the Copenhagen Synagogue, which marked the 25th anniver-
sary of the rescue of 8,000 Jews from Nazi Germany
Construction of Bibleland began in Israel. The 50-acre biblical theme park
was hoped to rank among America's Disney and Denmark's Tivoli.
Joseph Katz, president of the Detroit City Committee, Farband Labor
Zionist Order, announced a sukkot celebration would take place at the
Labor Zionist Institute.
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The Netherlands' Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhardt made their first visit
to a sukkah of the 283-year-old Sephardic Synagogue of Amsterdam.
A three-year plan to create a network of Jewish community centers in 20
French cities at an estimated cost of $2.2 million was submitted to the
Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany by the Fonds
Social Juifs Unifie, France's largest Jewish philanthropic organization.
The cornerstones of the new sanctuary of Congregation B'nai Moshe were
laid in a ceremony at Kenosha and 10 Mile in Oak Park.
1958
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1948
Israel rejected proposals for ceding the Negev and maintained its claim over
Haifa and Jerusalem.
Ex-Gestapo officer-Erich Hohn, who posed as a Jew and a former concentra-
tion camp victim, was sentenced to three years in prison by a German court.
Beth Olam Cemetery Association appealed for help during the holiday sea-
son to keep up the resting place of Detroit's Jewish pioneers.
100-Year Celebration
of Detroit Jewry
A Labor Zionist recruitment meeting for the
Palestine Legion, circa 1918. The banners, in
Hebrew, read "Palestine will be redeemed with
justice." From the collection of Leah Drachler.
Courtesy Leonard N. Simmons Jewish Communi-
ty Archives/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit.