Synagogues/Torah Portion

851-1100. Rabbis: Daniel B. Syme, David Scott
Castiglione. Cantor: David Montefiore. Services: Friday 6
p.m. Saturday 10:30 am. Friday, Brenda Rosenberg will
speak. Saturday, the TBE Quartetwill sing.

TEMPLE BETH EL (FLINT)

5150 Calkins, Flint, 48532, (810) 720-9494. Rabbi:
Karen Companez. Cantorial soloist: Aleksander
Chemyak. Services: First Friday of the month 6:15 p.m.;
second Friday 8 p.m.; all other Fridays 8 p.m.

TEMPLE BETH EL (MIDLAND)

2505 Bay City Road, Midland, 48642, (517) 835-4822.
Guest teacher: Hal Greenwald. President: Stuart J.
Bergstein. Services: Friday 8 p.m. once a month.
Regularly scheduled social events and High Holiday
services for the tri-city area.

TEMPLE BETH EMETH

2309 Packard, Ann Arbor, 48104, (734) 665-4744.
Rabbi: Robert D. Levy. Chazzan: Ann Zibelman Rose.
Services: Friday 8 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. Family service
once a month at 7:30 p.m. replaces 8 p.m. Friday serv-
ice; call for specific dates.

BETH ISAAC SYNAGOGUE

2730 Edsel Dr., Trenton, 48183, (734) 675-0355.
Services: Friday 7:30 p.m. Congregational leaders con-
duct services throughout the year.

TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL

801 W. Michigan Ave., Jackson 49202; (517) 784-3862.
Rabbi: Jonathan V. Plaut. Rabbi emeritus: Alan Ponn.
Chazzan: Evette Lutman. President Dr. Cathy Glick.
Services: Friday 8 p.m. Saturday 10 a.m. the first
Saturday of the month.

CONGREGATION CHAYE OLAM

P.O. Box 250356, Franklin Village, 48025-9998, (248)
752-6669. Cantor: Stephen L. Dubov. Services: Friday
6:30 p.m. at the International School, 28555 Middlebelt
Road, Farmington Hills.

TEMPLE EMANU EL

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14450 W. 10 Mile, Oak Park, 48237, (248) 967-4020.
Rabbi: Joseph P. Klein. Cantor: Norman Rose. Services:
Friday 8 p.m.; Saturday 10:30 a.m. Saturday bar mitzvah
of Michael Edwards, son of Vickie and David Edwards.

TEMPLE ISRAEL

5725 Walnut Lake, West Bloomfield, 48323, (248) 661-
5700. Rabbis: Harold S. Loss, Paul M. Yedwab, Joshua L.
Bennett, Marla Homsten. Cantor: Lod Corrsin. Cantorial
soloist: Neil Michaels. Services: Friday 7:30 p.m.
Saturday 10:30 a.m. Friday baby naming of Shay Bria
Finn, daughter of Erika and Brian Finn; Ellie Rose Schiff,
daughter of Carolyn and Brian Schiff; Riley Elizabeth
Gesund, daughter of Monique and Todd Gesund; Brooke
Naomi Bell, daughter of Barbi and Kenny Bell.

Wedding blessings of Lezlie Meyer and Eric Foreman;
Heather Young and Jeffrey Moss; Amy Hendin and Dr.
Peter Lipson. Saturday bar mitzvah of Dylan Schaefer,
son of Paul Schaefer.

TEMPLE KOL AMI

5085 Walnut Lake, West Bloomfield, 48323, (248) 661-
0040. Rabbi: Norman T. Roman. Rabbi emeritus: Ernst J.
Conrad. Cantorial soloist: Susan Greener. Services: Friday
8 p.m. Saturday 10:30 a.m. Srday bat mitzvah of
Lena Katz, daughter of Philip Katz and Susan Goldfaden.

CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK

1924 Coolidge, East Lansing 48823, (517) 351-3570.
Rabbi Emeritus: Morton Hoffman. Cantor: Pamela Jordan
Schiffer. Student rabbi: Roger Lerner. Services: Friday 8
p.m. Saturday 9 a.m.

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TEMPLE SHIR SHALOM

3999 Walnut Lake, West Bloomfield, 48323, (248) 737-
8700. Rabbis: Dannel Schwartz, Michael L. Moskowitz.
Cantorial soloist: Penny Steyer. Services: Friday 6:30
p.m. Saturday 11 a.m. Saturday bat mitzvah of Brianna
Malyn, daughter of Catherine and Matt Malyn.

REFORMA=EVIAL

Moses' Spies' Lack Of Faith

Foretells Future Jewish Tragedies

by the repetition is not only the
weeping of that generation (that was
ultimately to die in the wilderness for
their sin) but also to the weeping of
many generations to come.
That night was to be determined a
night for disaster; it was the night of
he Kabbalah teaches us
the ninth day of Av. That was the day
that God "looked into the
upon which both Temples were
Torah and created the
destroyed hundreds of years later. It
world." That is to say that
was the day upon which the city of
the Torah is much more than an early
Betar was vanquished and its hun-
history of the Jewish nation but con-
dreds of thousands of inhabitants
tains within it any and all wisdom
slaughtered. In more recent times, it .
and the imprint for the destiny of
was the day Jews were
mankind.
expelled from Spain in
A striking example of this
1492 and it is the day
is found in the portion this
upon which World War I,
week. God instructs Moses
which many historians
to send the spies to travel
view as the precursor of
around the land of Israel so
World War II, began.
as to be able to report first
"Very interesting," I
hand to the people what a
hear you say. But what is
wonderful land it truly is.
the practical meaning of all
However, when they
this to me?
returned after their 40-day
First of all, I believe this
mission, they overstepped
RABBI
is
teaching
us the fact that
their mandate. Rather than
MICHAEL
we
the
Jewish
nation can
tell of the beauty of the land
COHEN
neither
avoid
our
history or
they decided to report on the
Special to the
our
destiny.
military challenge and
Jewish News
Secondly, and more
impending danger that faced
importantly, that our des-
the Jewish nation if they were
tiny is controlled by God and to deny
to attempt to enter it. They even
this would be to make the same mis-
went so far as to say that it would not
take as those in the wilderness who
be possible to overcome the chal-
listened to the predictions of the pun-
lenges.
dits (spies) rather than the promise of
Now at this point, the Jewish peo-
God.
ple had a clear choice. Either trust
There is no question that we live
that God would indeed deliver them
in a critical time in the history of the
to the Holy Land; after all, He had
world. As Jews, we must not forget
brought them this far. Or heed the
our own history and destiny. We are
words of the spies and the prediction
mandated by God to keep His Torah.
of tragedy should they attempt to
In turn, God has promised us that if
enter the land.
we do this we will dwell in the land
The people of Israel decide to do
of Israel in tranquility. E
the latter and disregard the promise
that God had made to them that they
would be able to win the land.
That night, the Torah tells us, they
cried over their predicament. But the
The Jewish people were forced to
Torah at this point seems to repeat
wander the wilderness for 40
itself by adding that "the nation wept
years because they listened to the
on that night." What is the Torah
spies rather than the promise of
telling us by this repetition?
God. In what way was this con-
The saintly Rabbi Hayim Ben Atar
sequence a fitting outcome of
in his commentary (01». HaHayim)
their actions and what were they
explains that what is being referred to
supposed to learn from it?

CONGREGATION SHIR TIKVAH

Shabbat Shelach:
Numbers 13:1-15:41;
Joshua 2:1-24.

SECULAR irumaiagric

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3900 Northfield Parkway, Troy, 48084, (248) 649-4418.
Rabbi: Amie Sleutelberg. Services: Friday 7:45 p.m.
Saturday 10 a.m. Saturday bat mitzvah of Dayna
Campbell, daughter of Ronald and Joanne Campbell.

THE BIRMINGHAM TEMPLE

28611 W. 12 Mile, Farmington Hills, 48334, (248) 477-
1410. Rabbis: Sherwin T. Wine, Tamara Kotton, Adam
Chalom, Miriam Jervis. Services: Friday 8 p.m.

JEWISH CULTURAL SOCIETY

2935 Birch Hollow Drive, Ann Arbor, 48108-2301, (734)
975-9872. Board president Karla Rice. School principal:
Ramona Brand. Shabbat services first Friday of every
month 7:30 p.m.; cultural Jewish celebrations, secular
bar/bat mitzvah programming, cultural Sunday school.

JEWISH PARENTS INSTITUTE

JCC, 6600 W. Maple, West Bloomfield, 48322, (248)
661-1000. Director: Marilyn Wolfe. Altemative cultural
Jewish celebrations; secular bar/bat mitzvah cere-
monies; adult programming; cultural Sunday school
from nursery through teen.

SHOLEM ALEICHEM INSTITUTE

28690 Southfield, Suite 293, Lathrup Village, 48076,
(248) 423-4406. Co-presidents: Alva Dworkin, May
Moskowitz. Holiday observances; Friday night oneg
Shabbat, cultural events.

WORKMEN'S CIRCLE ARBETER RING

26341 Coolidge, Oak Park, 48237, (248) 545-0985.
Chair: Arlene Frank. Michigan district director: Ellen R.
Bates-Brackett. Year round holiday observances, Nokh
Shabbes Havdalah once a month; secular bar/bat mitz-
vah; Sunday school.

SEPHARDIC

KETER TORAH SYNAGOGUE

5480 Orchard Lake Road, West Bloomfield, (248) 681-
3665. Rabbi: Michael Cohen. Services: Friday at candle-
lighting time; Saturday 9 am., Minchah 1 1/4 hours
before the end of Shabbat; Sunday 9 a.m.; Monday 7
a.m.; Wednesday 9 p.m., Thursday 7 a.m., 9 p.m.

TRADITIONAL

B'NAI DAVID

6346 Orchard Lake Road, Suite 100, West Bloomfield,
48322, (248) 855-5007. Cantor: Ben-Zion Lanxner.
Services: Saturday 9 a.m. Sunday 8:30 a.m. Haftorah,
Harold Strom.

raNYANS

FLEISCHMAN RESIDENCE

6710 W. Maple, West Bloomfield, 48322, (248) 661-
2999. Rabbi: Avie Shapiro. Minchah Monday-
Thursday 5:30 p.m.; Sunday, Shabbat Schachant
9:15 a.m.

YES H IVAT AKIVA

21100 W. 12 Mile, Southfield, 48076 (248) 386-
1625. Services: During the school year, morning
services at 7:30 a.m.; afternoon services at 2:40
p.m. The community is invited.

Conversations

Michael Cohen is rabbi of Keter Torah
Synagogue.

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