P*f« 14 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE July 28, 1978
Synagogue Directory
Quiz box
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Ahavath Achim (Conservative), 600 Peachtree Battle Ave., N.W., Dr.
Harry H. Epstein, Rabbi; David H. Auerbach, Assoc. Rabbi; Isaac
Goodfriend, Cantor. Daily service 7:15 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Late Friday, 8:15
p.m.; Saturday morning, 8:35, 9 a.m.; Saturday evening, 5 p.m.; Sunday
morning, 8:30 a.m.
Anshi S’Fard, (Orthodox), 1324 North Highland Avenue, N.E., H.
Taratoot, Hon. Pres., Label Merlin, Pres. Saturday morning 9 a.m.
Atlanta Hll|el, 1531 Clifton Rd., N.E. Rabbi Juda Mintz, Director.
Friday evening, 8 p.m. (followed by Oneg Shabbat); Saturday morning,
10 a.m., (followed by Kiddush brunch).
Beth Jacob, (Orthodox), 1885 La Vista Rd., N.E. Emanuel Feldman,
Rabbi; Marc Volk, Asst. Rabbi; Benjamin Stiefel, Cantor. Daily
Minyan, 7 a.m. and 8:30 p.m.; Friday Evening, 7 p.m.; Saturday
morning, 8:30 a.m.; Saturday evening, 7:55 p.m. Sunday morning, 8 a.m.
Beth Shalom, East Atlanta Area, P.O. Box 298, Clarkston, Ga. 30021.
Rabbi Donald Peterman. Information is available at 294-8157. Friday
evening 8 p.m.; Briarlake Elementary School, Saturday morning, 9:30
a.m.. home of Rabbi Peterman; Text class, 1:30 p.m., home of Rabbi
Peterman.
Etz Chaim, (Liberal Conservative), Rabbi Shalom Lewis, P.O. Box
28904, Atlanta, 30328. Friday evening services held at Mt. Zion United
Methodist Church, 1779 Johnson Ferry Rd. Friday evening service, 8
p.m. information is available by calling 992-9658.
Jewish Home, 3150 Howell Mill Rd., N.W. Saturday morning 9:15 a.m
Relatives and friends of residents most welcome.
Or VeShalom, (Sephardic), 1681 N. Druid Hills Rd., N.E. Robert Ichay,
Rabbi; Joseph Cohen, Rabbi Emeritus, Friday evening, 6:30 p.m.;
Saturday morning services, 8:45 a.m.; Sunday morning, 8:30 a.m.
Shearith Israel, (Traditional), 1880 University Dr., N.E. Marc Wilson,
Rabbi, Daily morning service, (followed by Halacha Class); Mon. and
Thurs., 6:50 a.m.; Tues., Wed. and Fri., 7 a.m.; Daily evening, 8:30 p.m.;
Friday evening, 6:30 p.m., Shabbat morning, 8:30a.m., Shabbat evening,
8:05 p.m. Sunday morning, 8:30 a.m. Talis and Tefilin followed by
breakfast, 8.45 a.m.
Temple Sinai, (Reform), 5645 Dupree Dr., N.W. Richard Lehrman,
Rabbi; Sid Gottler, Cantor. Friday evening services, 8:15 p.m.; Saturday
morning, 10:30 a.m.
The Temple, (Reform), 1589 Peachtree Rd., Alvin Sugarman, Rabbi
Harvey Winokur, Rabbi Donald Tam. Friday evening, 8:15 p.m.;
Saturday morning, 10:30 a.m,
Yeshiva High (Orthodox), 1745 Peachtree Rd., Rabbi Herbert Cohen,
Dean. Daily morning service, 8 a.m.; Daily afternoon service, 2:25 p.m.;
Friday nigh), 7:30 p.m.; Saturday morning service, 9 a.m.; Saturday
evening service, 20 minutes before Sundown. Shabbat services are held at
1271 Jody Lane, N.E.
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by Rabbi Samuel J. Fox
Why b it that Jews do not have
missionary movements?
Generally speaking, rabbinic
tradition insists that one who
converts to Judaism must do so
only with absolute conviction
based solely upon his own volition
without any feeling of compulsion
or ulterior motive.
The first question asked of a
candidate for conversion is “Why
are you converting?” (i.e., for what
reason?) If anything, an attempt is
made to dissuade the candidate
from converting, by pointing out
the hardships and antagonism
suffered by Jews (Yebamot 77a).
During many periods in Jewish
history conversions were hardly
performed at all. At certain times
hostile governments under which
Jews lived actually forbade them
from converting non-Jews to the
Jewish faith.
At other times, the rabbis
suspected some converts of
becoming informers and perhaps
having converted in the first place
in order to be able to inform
against the Jewish community. It is
also mentioned in the rabbinic
literature that in some places
converts embarrassed the existing
Jewish population by adhering to
the practices and principles of the
Jewish faith with more fervor and
loyalty than natural-born Jews.
There is no question that
converts are accepted into the
Jewish community today, but only
after it has been ascertained that
they are voluntarily willing to
accept all the commandments and
practices as well as the
prohibitions of the Jewish faith.
To conduct any kind of
missionary activity would
certainly be against the
aforementioned principle of
conversion.
There are some who point to the
rabbinic statement that the first
Jew, Abraham, as well as his wife,
Sarah, converted non-Jews to the
Jewish faith. However, this was
done on a purely voluntary basis to
people who approached them.
What Abraham and Sarah did do
was to try to discourage non-Jews
from engaging in pagan idolatry
with all its accompanying evils, as
practices in those days, such as
child sacrifice, holy prostitution,
etc. They were indeed not
practicing missionaries in any
sense of the word.
The ‘Single-Parent’ family
plagues Jewish community
by Boris Smolar
There was a time—not so long
ago—when assimilation was
“Problem Number 1” in American
Jewish communal life. As the
younger generation grew up,
mixed marriages became the
dominating problem.
Today, the “Single-Parent
Family"—the deterioration of
Jewish family life—is beginning to
take a front place in the problems
that plague the Jewish community.
This does not mean that the first
two problems have been solved.
On the contrary, assimilation and
mixed marriages are increasing.
But they have reached a status of
becoming “accepted” as part of
American-Jewish life even by
many who deplore them. Not so
yet with the increasing breakdown
in Jewish family life, through the
evergrowing number of “single
parents."
In the summer months the
disintegration of Jewish family life
is especially visible in the Jewish
summer camps for children. This
summer, about 25 percent of the
children in resident camps
sponsored by Jewish Federations,
Jewish Centers and various other
Jewish organizations and agencies
are from “single-parent” homes.
The father and mother are
separated or divorced. The camp is
a relief for them. It relieves “single
parents” from custodial service. At
the same time it offers the
separated or divorced parents the
opportunity to each visit
separately the child in the camp for
a few hours on different days.
In the Jewish day camps the
proportion of children coming
from “single-parent families” is
this summer even greater than in
the resident camps. In larger
Jewish communities their
percentage is higher than in the
smaller. In some New York City
area camps children of “single
parent families" make up more
than 60 percent.
The summer months give major
Jewish organizations time for
planning action on the “Single-
Parent Families" problem, which
weakens the structure of
traditional Jewish family life,
creates problem children, and
imposes special burdens on
community service agencies.
The Council of Jewish
Federations is now preparing
plans for dealing with this
problem. The American-Jewish
Family will be a major theme on
the agenda of the forthcoming CJF
General Assembly in November
and much time will be devoted to
the single-parent family and its
effects.
The American Jewish Commit
tee too is now engaged in
conducting an extensive study on
the various aspects leading to the
deterioration of Jewish family life
and on methods of nurturing a
healthy family.
Some of the major Jewish
Federations, recognizing the
growth of single-parent families in
their communities, are establishing
task forces to study the problem of
both children and parents in such
families.
Some of the Federations are
now seeking to analyze the existing
services of their local agencies for
families at the “mopient of
crisis”—at the moment of divorce
or widowhood. They are also
studying therapy-type services,
and the introduction of family-life
education programs dealing with
marital adjustments and
communications.
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