The Message, Volume 6, Number 2, September 1951 Page: 6 of 8
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The MESSAGE
OBSERVE THE SABBATH!
PRESERVE YOUR HERITAGE!
RECREATION GROUPS AT
OUR HEBREW SCHOOL
The United Synagogue of America
The Rabbinical Assembly of Ameri-
ca
The National Women's League
The National Federation of Jewish
Men’s Clubs
makes Jack a dull boy, and, so we have
provided for both in our plans for the
Hebrew School at Beth Yeshurun.
The Young People's League
The Cantors Assembly
The National Association of Syna-
gogue Administrators
The Educators Assembly
United Synagogue Youth
THURSDAY
OCT. 18TH 12 NOON
SISTERHOOD
LUNCHEON — MEETING
PULASKI-RAUCH
AUDITORIUM
Arrangements have been made for
free play in football and baseball on
the grounds of our new Educational
Building for those boys and girls who
attend our Hebrew School classes.
The play is supervised by Izzie Sha-
piro, under the auspices of the Jewish
Community Center, and all the boys
and girls who attend our Hebrew School
are cordially invited to participate.
We realize that all work and no play
Under the impact of the tensions of our technological age,
the observance of the Sabbath has tragically suffered. Because
of the pressures of economic necessity, he has been deprived
of experiencing the delights of the Sabbath; he has even spurn-
ed, often enough, those Sabbath delights which he could ex-
perience.
Yet the significance of the Sabbath is very relevant to the
life of modern Jews. We continually carry with us the tensions
and the strains, the pressures and the burdens of daily living,
with disastrous consequences on our physiological and mental
health. The Sabbath properly observed, offers us the oppor-
tunity to cast off the chains of routine and hypertensions, to
preserve our psychological, physical and spiritual equilibrium.
Besides, Judaism is inconceivable without the Sabbath, its rit-
ual, its observances, its leisure for study and meditation.
It is with a profound realization of the timeliness of these
values and the necessity for the dynamic revival of the Sab-
bath that we, the constituent organizations of the Conserva-
tive Movement, lay and rabbinic, call on the men and women
of our congregations throughout the land to restore the Sab-
bath to its disiincive role in Jewish living. We call:
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BETH YESHURUN FAMILY
Julian L. Pryzant has been recalled to
the Navy, and has been sent on a mis-
sion to Morocco. We hope that he will
meet with every success and that we
shall soon have the privilege of his re-
turn to us.
1— For the preservation of Sabbath ceremonies in our home.
2— For Sabbath home observance, in prayer and practice.
3— For regular participation in public worship at the syna-
gogue.
4— For the avoidance, as far as possible, of acts and activities
that are averse to the Sabbath and its spirit.
We bespeak your participation in making the Sabbath a liv-
ing reality in your home and in your life.
CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM AND THE SABBATH!
The Sabbath, in Jewish tradition and history, occupies a
preeminent position. It has nurtured the intellect as well as the
soul of the Jew; it has counterbalanced his disappointments;
and it has afforded him a blessed opportunity for personality
adjustments.____
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BEAUTIF" SUKKAH PLANNED
FOR FESTIVAL OF MOTH
As in past years, Beth Yeshurun is
planning to erect a beautiful Sukkah in
the Great Court of our new Educational
Building. We are planning to make it
large enough to accomodate the many
people who will be coming to celebrate
the joyous Festival of Sukkoth, which
will begin on Sunday evening, October
14 Mr. Ray Kaufman, our Executive
Director, is in charge of the erection of
the Sukkah.
The Sisterhood will, as usual, be in.
charge of the decorations and recep-
tions which will be held after every
Sukkoth service. Mrs. Rosie Ploss, the
Sisterhood Chairman, promises that the
decorations of the Sukkah and the re-
freshments will surpass even the high
standards set for them in the past.
Sukkoth Services will be held on Sun-
day and Monday evenings, October 14
and 15, at 8 p. m. and on Monday and
Tuesday mornings, October 15 and 16
at 9 a. m. Rabbi Malev and Cantor
Wagner will officiate at all these ser-
vices, and everyone is cordially invited
to attend both the services and the re-
ceptions that will follow.
Special Children’s Services are be-
ing planned for Tuesday morning, Oc-
tober 16 at 10:30.
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SUKKOTH PARTY PLANNED BY
OUR YOUNG FOLKS GROUP
A unique gathering in tune with the
celebration of the Sukkoth festival is
being planned by our Young Folks
Group for October 17 at 8 p. m. It will
be held in our beautiful Sukkah on the
grounds of our new Educational Build-
ing, and a grand program of entertain-
ment and fun has been arranged by the
Program Chairman, Pincus Brounes.
Tasty refreshments will also be served
after the program.
Under the stars, within the ancient
Sukkah, in which our fathers dwelt
through the years of the wilderness,
our young folks will gather to celebrate
the beginning of the Fall activities
after the solemn days of the Peniten-
tial season are over.
All foung folks, both married and
un-married, are cordially invited to at-
tend.
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