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Show OHI Ralph Tannenbaum 6 - 18-82 s3:45 district Jewish welfare board convention in San Diego and on the Saturday morning, attending a shabbot serivce and one of the Jewish leaders from Los Angeles was giving an and absolutely made a horriblebotchof it . And I vowed to myself at that time that is I was ever called upon in a similar situation, that I would not be embarrassed. I n other words, here I claim to be a Jew a so called leeader of the community, etc. I have be obligation to myself that no one else, you know, how to do thing Jewishly. And my wife felt basically the same thing. And then as I mentioned beofer with the merger, I dedinitely was not going to-- you see, as president of the congregation, B'nai Israel, and the second presi-dent of Kol Ami, ah, ah , let's seee. As a vice preaident of Kol Ami under _________ president, Sam Bernstein. When he was out of twon, it woul ~e up to me sit on the bema. For example, Saturday morning is wuite a traditional serivce. And even though Kol Ami to this day has an option as far as the wearing of yarmulkahs, i n those days, see, we had already sold the B'nai Israel temple, that building. And we were meeting in the Montefoire Building until it was sold. So when I would sit onJthe bema, I felt very uncomfortable so again I madeup my my,,mind that I was going to follow, that I was going to learn. That I was going to become a part. And fortunately, Rabbi Bergman at thattimewas very under-standing. He started a class n Hebrew for about roughly ten of us. I would give a lot of credit to hjm. I would also give a lot of credit to Dr. Loeb. And his wife who trained my wife and me for bas and bar mitzvahs which we underwent when we were in our 50s. Some ten years ago. |
