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…I 41/ The Family of the Late OBITUARIES I 4' HARRY KASSER (KALUZNY) Acknowledges with grateful appreciation the many kind expressions of sympathy extended by relatives and friends during the family's recent bereavement. kt 4 The Family of the Late DR. SIDNEY CHARNAS Announces the unveiling of a monument in his memory 11:30 a.m., Sunday, June 11, at Hebrew Memorial Park. Rabbi Lane Steinger will officiate. Relatives and friends are i...…
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…THE JEWISH NEWS JUNE 2, 1989 A Toast To Jewish Living Shavuot: Celebrating The Torah And Its Teachings By RABBI IRWIN GRONER Rabbi Irwin Groner, senior rabbi at Congregation Shaarey Zedek, is _ the author of this month's main L'Chayim feature. For each issue of L'Chayim, a rabbi, a Jewish educator or other notable from the community will present an overview of the month's theme. Shavuot is the second of three pilgrimage festivals designat...…
…Celebrating The Torah And Its Teachings Continued from Page L-1 prophets and writings. In its broadest connotation, the word embraces the whole of Israel's spiritual and intellectual life and creation built on scripture. The Decalogue is read on Shavuot. It is not generally known that there is no Hebrew expression for the Ten Commandments. These are described as "Aseret Ha- Devarim," the Ten Words, translated as the Ten Commandments because ...…
…Afit 44. 0 - Customs Abound For Shavuot Pit Special By RABBI BRUCE AFT You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, of the first fruits of the wheat harvest. —Exodus 34:22 On the day of the first fruits, your Feast of Weeks, when you bring an offering of new grain to the Lord, you shall observe a holy day. —Numbers 28:26 You shall count off seven weeks; start to count the seven weeks when the sickle is first put to the standing grain. Then you sha...…
…Each month in this space, L'Chayim will look back into issues of The Jewish News to see what was happening in the local Jewish community or in the Diaspora 10, 20 and 40 years ago. TEN YEARS AGO Thirty students invaded the New York offices of Ford Motor Co. demanding that the company fire a Cleveland worker, Ivan Demjanjuk, who they alleged was a Nazi camp guard at Treblinka. Detroit attorney Avern Cohn and former Genesee County Circuit Cou...…
