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THE IRA KAUFMAN CHAPEL
Bringing Together Family, Faith & Community
18325 West Nine Mile Road, Southfield, MI 48075
248-569-0020 • Facsimile 248-569-2502
www.iralcaufman.com
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.A: We are committed to offering our
Congregation Beth Shalom
presents songwriter and
guitarist, Debbie Friedman,
4 pm, Sun, Sept 17, 2006
Congregation Beth Shalom,
14601 W. Lincoln Rd,
Oak Park
families the finest facility, unparalleled
in our field. Our location, building and
parking, along with ease of entry and
exit, ensure a visit to The Ira Kaufman.
Chapel is convenient and stress-free.
Because of these and our proximity to
the cemeteries we frequent, it makes
good sense for us to stay here and
improve our budding amenities.
Internationally known singer,
songwriter and guitarist,
Debbie Friedman, performs
"Unplugged" concert.
Debbie's inspiring and
spiritual music is fully
integrated into the liturgy
of many congregations.
She has performed in
Q
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facility a sign that you are not moving
any time soon:
hundreds of cities, and at
major Jewish organizations'
conventions.
Concert dedicated in loving
memory of Barbara Katchke,
Preschool Director of
Gan Shalom Preschool, Oak Park.
Tickets on sale now for
$18/adults; SIO/children.
If not sold out,
tickets will sell at door
for increased price.
For more information,
or to reserve tickets,
call 248-547-7970.
ring questions like these for kids of all ages
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August 31 • 2006
Pondering
Ethics
Israeli writer
S. Yizhar, 89.
Ynetnews. corn
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riter Yizhar Smilansky,
part of the founding
generation of Israeli
writers, died, Aug. 21, 2006, at age
89. He leaves a wife and three chil-
dren.
Smilansky,
whose pen
name was S.
Yizhar, was
born in 1916
in Rehovot, the
Yizhar
son
of a writer.
Smilansky
Yizhar
worked in youth education in
Rehovot and Ben Shemen, fought
in the War of Independence and
was a Knesset member from its
founding until 1967 in the Mapai
and Rafi parties. He was also a
professor of education and litera-
ture at the Hebrew University in
Jerusalem.
The largest and most mature
of his works, the novel Days of
Ziklag (1958), is about a group
of lone soldiers in the Negev, one
week in 1948. Yizhar describes the
ideological and ethical dilemmas
they pondered. The novel is con-
sidered one of the best and most
influential on Hebrew literature.
He was awarded the Israel Prize
for Literature in 1959 for Days of
Ziklag at the age of 43.
Shimon Peres, his friend and
admirer, said, "Since Yizhar, Hebrew
literature is not what it was. He
created a style, not just literature.
Yizhar gave Hebrew literature a
taste that will never dissipate."
Shulamit Aloni, one of his stu-
dents in Ben Shemen, said, "In my
eyes he is the new Israeli which the
first aliyot [immigration waves]
dreamt of — someone who could
whistle Beethoven, but knew the
land through and through; some-
one with polished Hebrew who
loved the light, the sun, and the
field." ❑