FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER,
DETROIT HAS CAR-RAIL SERVICE TO FLORIDA!

In The
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the nation's premier car transportation company,
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• Miami • Sarasota • Tampa • West Palm Beach

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Return service will be
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Preserving The Past... Showcasing The Present

Detroit Historical Society

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In partnership with the American
Society of Interior Designers,
Michigan Chapter

The former B. Siegel Estate
150 West Boston Blvd.
Detroit, MI

OCTOBER 3-25, 1998
TUESDAY - SUNDAY 10 A.M. TO 4 P.M.

Secured parking and complimentary shuttle are available.

Individual Tickets: 515

Groups of 20 or more:* $12

Call Tickets PLUS at (800) 585-3737 to charge tickets by phone.
Tickets can also be purchased at the door or at the Detroit Historical Museum.
5401 Woodward (at Kirby). Detroit.. Wed. - Sun. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.. For more information,
please call the Detroit Historical Society Showcase hotline at (313) 833-7912.

No strollers or children under 10 permitted.
IV° high-heeled shoes will be permitted.

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10/16
1998

18 Detroit Jewish News

ASID

Conference on pluralism interrupted by feud
between secular and Orthodox Jews.

no paiyes (earlocks). I would say they
ultimately ended up with 25 or 30 peo-
ple," she recalls.
"They started shouting: 'You're not
allowed! It's against the law It's against
the law of the Jews.' One of the men
kept shouting: 'Goyim! Goyim!'"
Eyal Halevy, the hotel's deputy gen-
eral manager in charge of food and bey-

RUTH ASHKENAZI
Special to The Jewish News

Tel Aviv

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unny Miller-Shaw came to
Israel for a conference that
brought Jews together, but
she returned to Detroit feel-
ing torn apart.
"It was one of the most
heartbreaking, stomach-
churning experiences of my
life," she says about a fight
that occurred last Shabbat
between secular and Orthodox
Jews.
Mrs. Miller-Shaw and her
husband, Dr. Melvin Shaw,
were part of group of 325
Secular Humanists from
around the world — 45 from
metro Detroit — who met in
Israel last week to celibrate the
country's 50th anniversary and
Rabbi Tamara
to discuss religious pluralism.
The Seventh Biennial
erages, witnessed part of the fray which,
Congress of the International Federation
he contends, involved only two, not 30,
of Secular Humanistic Jews drew partici-
protestors. He would not comment on
pants from 12 countries. It began Oct. 5
whether yelling, swearing and shoving
in Jerusalem and ended on the 10th in
ensued.
Tel Aviv's Dan Panorama Hotel.
"Nothing severe happened. It was
Last Friday, in preparation for their
just
a normal disagreement between
Shabbat service, members of the group
the
Orthodox
and the secular," he
asked the hotel for candlesticks. Hotel
maintains.
representatives said no, explaining the
But Tamara Kolton, assistant rabbi of
sun had already set, which made it
the Birmingham Temple in Farmington
against the laws of kashrut to light fires
Hills, witnessed "screaming, swearing
of any kind.
and pushing." "They knew who we
However, the group's candle-lighting
ceremony proceeded in a partitioned-off were," she said. "They weren't coinci-
dentally at the door. We were so rattled.
section of the hotel's dining room with
It wasn't just a disagreement. It was vio-
candlesticks a tourist had purchased in
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lence.
Jerusalem. Accounts of what transpired
Hotels like the Dan Panorama have
vary, but Mrs. Miller-Shaw describes
agreed
to comply with the laws of
the scene as "violent."
kashrut, as put forth by their local rab-
"The mashgiach (supervisor of
binate, to accommodate religiously
kashrut) came with a group telling us
observant guests. Halevy said the hotel
that we couldn't light candles. He came
risks losing its kashrur license if it sanc-
with several men in black suits — not
tions use of microphones and cameras,
the ultra Orthodox, black suits with
as
well as the lighting of candles, after
trimmed beards, small yarmulkes and
sunset on Fridays.
"That's how the hotel must run,"
Ruth Littmann Ashkenazi, a former
Halevy says. "Even if it was a private
staff writer for The Jewish. News, is a
area for food, it doesn't matter."
writer in Israel.

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