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THE MESSAGE
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Library News
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DAY SCHOOL
PTA MEETING
TUESDAY EVENING,
NOVEMBER 16
the bearers and preservers of this
treasury of song, and who became the
creators of that song throughout the
Medieval ages.” Before the Common
Era, the mithpallel was someone who
seemed especially gifted with the power
of leading in prayer. In the following
centuries, this layman-presentor evolved
into the SHALIACH TSIBBUR—mes-
senger of the people—an office of honor,
in which he was often assisted by
scholars (S O F E R I M) and readers
(Baale Kore). By the fifth century of
the Common Era, there were musical as-
sistants to the precentor. The Cantor
emerged as professional precentors to-
ward the end of the Sixth century, when
he assumed greater responsibilities for
the synagogue services.
The Cantor was often a composer of
new prayer melodies which he added to
his store of music acquired, usually
orally, from other Cantors. Up to this
day the Cantor has been the preserver
and guardian of our Jewish music her-
itage.
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
There will be a long weekend for
the students of Beth Hayeled and the
Day School begining Thursday Novem-
ber 25th through Sunday the 28th in
observance of Thanksgiving. Regular
classes resume Monday November 29th.
CANTOR'S COLUMN
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is fit to accompany the words of God.”
This musical conflict, with its eventual
compromises, also raged within the
Jewish communities of those times.
The Old Testament relates the key
role that music has played in Jewish
history. The creation of the Jewish
people at the Red Sea was epitomized
in song and as Moses bade them fare-
well at the Promised Land gates, he dis-
tilled the formative experience of forty
years in the cadences of melody. The
victories of Joshua and Deborah were
sharpened by song, the triumph over the
Philistines and the return of the Ark by
David were celebrated on timbrels and
psalteries, on harps and cymbals. The
worship of the Temple was synonymous
with music, as the Psalms amply attest.
Abraham Zevi Idelsonn, Jewish mus-
icalogist, wrote: “The history of syna-
gogue song and its development cannot
be fully understood without the consid-
eration of the functionaries who were
THANKSGIVING PROGRAM
As an annual event the Day School
and Beth Hayeled will once again sup-
ply the ingredients for a gourmet
Thanksgiving Dinner to eighteen needy
families throughout the city. On
Wednesday, November 24th, the stu-
dents will present a program of songs
and dances at which time the baskets
of food will be brought in by the stu-
dents. The P.T.A. provides the Tur-
keys to make the meal complete.
Did you know that from January
to May, articles about the Jewish De-
fense League were published in News-
week, Life, U.S. News and World Re-
port and Time? And did you know that
articles were printed in major magazines
on the Jews in Russia, and that New
Republic had an article entitled “Show
of Support” by H. J. Morgenthau and
that the New York Times Magazine
section recently had an article entitled
“Twenty Four years in the Life of
Lyuba Bershadskaya?”
Also that Holiday magazine in their
November 1970 issue featured an article
on the “Four Seas of Israel”.
All this information can be located
in the Rubin Kaplan Memorial Library
by consulting the Readers' Guide to
Periodical Literature, which lists month-
ly more than 200 magazines in which
articles appear on an endless variety
of subjects.
The following additions to the library
are available to our members.”
Magazines — Yiddish Lingo which
contains articles about the Yiddish lan-
guage in both English and Yiddish;
Jewish Frontier, Midstream, and Jour-
nal of Ecumenical Studies.
New Children’s books — New Jewish
Song Book; Jewish Holidays, Facts,
Activities, and Crafts; and Where is
Y onkele?
New Adult books — The Game of
Nations (Miles Copeland); The Secret
Battle for Israel (Benjamin Kagan); The
Children of the Cave (Zvi Livne); The
Spirit of the Ghetto (Hutchins Hop-
good); The Mishnah, Oral Teachings of
Judaism (B’nai B’rith); The Lifeboat is
Full (Alfred A. Hazier) translated from
German; An Anthology of Hebrew Es-
says (in English); Blow Softly in Jeri-
cho (Ephraim Kishon); The Mendelman
Fire (Wolf Mankowitz) —short stories
A History of Jewish Costume (Alfred
Rubens); The Art of Warfare in Bib-
lical Lands (Yigal Yadin).
DAILY SERVICES
J.B. GREENFIELD CHAPEL
Sunday,
October 31
Monday-Friday,
Nov. 1-5
Saturday,
Nov. 6
Sunday,
Nov. 7 8:00 A.M., 5:15 P.M.
Monday-Thursday,
Nov. 8-11 —.7:00 A.M., 5:15 P.M.
Friday,
Nov. 12
Saturday,
Nov. 13
Sunday,
Nov. 14 8:00 A.M.,
Monday-W ednesday,
Nov. 15-17 -.7:00 A.M.,
Thursday-F riday,
Nov. 18-19 —.6:45 A.M.,
(Rosh Chodesh)
Saturday,
Nov. 20
Sunday,
Nov. 21 8:00 A.M.,
Monday-Friday,
Nov. 22-26 —.7:00 A.M.,
Saturday-Sunday,
Nov. 27-28 — 8:00 A.M.,
Monday-Friday,
Nov. 29-
Dec. 3
Saturday,
Dec. 4
CANDLE LIGHTING TIME
Friday, November 5 5:15 P.M.
Friday, November 12 5:07 P.M.
Friday, November 19 5:04 P.M.
Friday, November 26 5:02 P.M.
Friday, December 3 5:02 P.M.
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Congregation Beth Yeshurun (Houston, Tex.). The Message, Volume 23, Number 8, October 21, 1971, periodical, October 21, 1971; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1287819/m1/5/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.