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Reform Congregants Gather

MSU Comes To W.B.

Michigan State University Hillel will
host "Rockin' the Suburbs," a free bar-
becue picnic 4-7 p.m. Sunday, May
15, for Jewish high school seniors who
will attend MSU in the fall and their
friends.
The event will be held at Drake
Sports Park, on Drake south of Maple
Road in West Bloomfield. A barbecue
and DJ will be featured.

Metro Detroit Reform congregations
will come together at Temple Shir
Shalom Friday, April 29, for their
annual Isaac Mayer Wise Shabbat in
memory of the movement's American
founder.
The 8 p.m. service will be preceded
for the first time by a free Passover
pot-luck dinner at 6:30. H. Eric
Alan Hitsky, associate editor Schockman, president of the L.A.-
based Mazon: A Jewish Response to
Hunger, will be the guest speaker.

Seniors can bring their friends to
hear about MSU Hillel activities, free
trips to Israel, weekly events, an intra-
mural sports league and other oppor-
tunities at Hillel and MSU.
RSVP to MSU Hillel Program
Associate Jenn Stotter, (517) 332-1916
or pd@msuhillel.org .

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Remembering Einstein

As an Army private in World War II,
Bernard Zaffern was a member of the
69th Infantry Division, the first group of
soldiers to link up with
the Russian army in the
German town of Torgau.
As president of the 69th
Division Association, the
81-year-old retired lieu-
tenant colonel will spend
the 60th anniversary of
that moment in history in
Moscow.
A few months ago, he
offered an invitation to
the Russian embassy to
Zaffern
send Russian soldiers who
were on the other side of
the river Elbe to the 69th Division's
annual reunion in Louisville, Kan.
A call came back from the Russian
embassy inviting the retired lieutenant
colonel and six other American soldiers
to the 60th "Victory Day" celebration
on May 9.
"This is a bigger deal in Russia than it
is here," said Zaffem, a retired Southfield
attorney who enlisted in March 1943.
He served in the states until

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Robert A. Sklar, editor

Allied Reunion

power and human responsibility
were the foundations of the
moral life," said Rabbi Sherwin
Wine, dean of the Farmington
Hills institute that trains
Humanistic rabbis.
"Einstein maintained that ethi-
cal rules flowed from human
experience and from the require-
ments of human survival. While
he stood in awe of the wonders of
the universe, he refused to wor-
ship them. He firmly believed
that reality was no more than the
natural universe and that neither
chance nor supernatural interven-
tion governed its events.
"He was an ardent Jew who
found meaning in Jewish national
identity and in the moral princi-
ples that were part of his Jewish
Howard Lederman of Berkley stands near a
heritage."
portrait of Albert Einstein by Israeli artist
Secular Humanistic congrega-
Ayakin at Birmingham Temple.
tions across the United States —
including at Birmingham Temple
Humanistic Jews remembered Jewish
in Farmington Hills — memorialized
humanist and scientist Albert Einstein
Einstein by lighting a candle.
April 18 on the 50th anniversary of
his death.
— Keri Guten Cohen,
"Albert Einstein was an ardent
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The Metropolitan Detroit
Federation of Reform Synagogues will
serve kosher-for-Passover chicken and
beverages. Attendees are asked to bring
a Passover non-dairy side dish in a dis-
posable container.
For reservations, call the Union for
Reform Judaism, Northeast Lakes
Council/Detroit Federation office:
(888) 282-6352.

November 1944, when he was sent to
England.
They crossed over in 1945 and got
into position in Ardennes,
France, in February 1945,
just after the Battle of the
Bulge.
Zaffern was a 60 mm
mortar gunner in a rifle
company that found itself
on the main road in Torgau.
"We had to guard the
crossroads [from sniper fire],
because we started getting
American brass coming in
trucks with stars," he said.
The group will stay as
guests of the Russian gov-
ernment, take part in a military parade
on Moscow's Red Square and a reception
in the Kremlin hosted by Russian
President Vladimir Putin and President
George W. Bush.
Zaffern said he doesn't think about the
war that much, only at events like these.
The war was a long time ago, he said.
"I've got a lot of memories since then."

— Harry Kirsbaum, staffwriter

Do You Remember?

Ap ril 1955

It turns out my boyfriend's a twit
Who can't make his mind up one bit.
Well, I'm beyond carin'.
Me ken tsizetst veren* .
While waiting for him to commit!

— Martha Jo Fleischmann

* One could burst (in frustration)

Native Detroit artist Robert Broner is planning a
one-man show at Wellon's Gallery in New York
City. This will be his second one-man exhibit.
The show will have 15 works which will deal in
a semi-abstract nature with urban life. Half the
show is a study of the New York subway; the oth-
ers are typical street scenes.

— Sy Manello, editorial assistant

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4/28
2005