COMMUNITY
Dor L'Dor Concert On Tuesday
Features Inter-generational Choir
The no-name travel group.
Seven Detroit Couples
Visit Jewish America
GARY ROSENBLATT
Editor
A
bout 15 years ago,
seven Detroit Jewish
couples met through a
Federation-sponsored pro-
gram, featuring a young
leadership educational in-
stitute and mission to Israel.
After the trip, while everyone
else involved went off on their
separate ways, these couples
have never stopped meeting.
Four years ago, the
couples added a
new twist.
They still get together about
four times a year to explore
various Jewish topics, from
religious rituals to politics.
Four years ago, the couples
added a new twist, traveling
together one weekend each
spring to explore the Jewish
communal history of various
cities. `-`Our first trip together
was to New York," explained
Sharon Hart, a professional
volunteer in the Jewish com-
munity, whose husband Mar-
ty, a dermatologist, does most
of the planning and arrang-
Fire Called
Accident
The youths who started last
month's fire under the 1-696
bridge near 10 Mile and
Church Street in Oak Park
will not face criminal charges,
police said this week.
A police spokesman said
the youths, who ranged in
ages from 15 to 17, did not
mean to start the fire.
The fire, which caused more
than $1 million damage,
forced children in 'Kemple
Emanu-El's nursery to tem-
porarily move from class-
rooms to the sanctuary.
ing. "We toured the Lower
East Side, the rare books of
the Jewish Theological
Seminary, and much more,"
she said.
Subsequent annual visits
took the group to Toronto and
Boston, and this year they
recently returned from
Baltimore, where they were
much impressed with the
community's new Jewish
Heritage Center. "We'd like to
convince leaders in Detroit to
consider a similar undertak-
ing," said Howard Friedman.
"We have grown to know
each other and to share sim-
chas and sadnesses together
as a group," noted his wife,
Pola, who works for Sinai
Hospital. "This group had
gotten together as a part of a
yearlong study program and
we just jelled. By now, we've
become a real support system
for each other."
Marty Hart noted that
while the group members
used to take turns leading
discussions on different
Jewish topics, including
genealogy, Mideast politics
and the media, "we've gotten
lazy, and now we hire experts
to come talk to us." Professor
Zvi Gittelman of the Univer-
sity of Michigan has address-
ed the group several times on
different issues.
The group feels that they
have become more conscious-
ly Jewish as a result of their
association, and they are even
talking about expanding
their travel plans in the
future to visit cities in
Europe.
The couples in the group,
which has no name, are,
besides the Harts and Fried-
mans: Bobbie and Don Blitz,
Irwin and Susan Alterman,
Liz and Bob Tam, Paul and
Elaine Goldsmith and Donna
and Michael Maddin. 1=1
More than 100 Jewish
youngsters and seniors will
join in song on Tuesday to
present the community's fifth
annual Dor L'Dor concert.
The program, a culmination
of five months of inter-
generational pen-pal letter
writing and music rehearsals,
will begin at 7:30 p.m. at Mat
Shalom Synagogue. It has
been organized and is jointly
sponsored by the National
Council of Jewish Women,
Greater Detroit Section;
the Jewish Community Cen-
ter's senior adult depart-
ment; the Jewish Home for
Aged — Fleishman Resi-
dence/Blumberg Plaza and
the Hillel Day School. This
year's concert will be a
celebration in song of Lag
B'Omer.
The project, patterned after
an inter-generational choir
experience in the Academy
Award-winning documentary
film Close Harmony, was
originally planned by
NCJW's public affairs depart-
ment in 1985. Hillel sixth
graders and a group of
"adopted grandparents" first
exchanged letters and even-
tually came together to
rehearse and present the first
Dor L'Dor concert that spring.
Tikkun Editor
Gives Lecture
The first annual Shorr
Memorial Lecture, in memory
of Mickey and Robert Shorr,
will feature Michael Lerner,
the editor of Tikkun
Michael Lerner
Magazine speaking on "Israel
and the American Jews; A
New Relationship."
The lecture will take place
on Monday at 8:30 p.m. at the
Birmingham Temple.
The program is open to the
public at a nominal charge.
For information, call the tem-
ple, 477-1410.
So successful was that first
experience that the program
has become an annual com-
munity event. This year's
seniors are from the Center's
senior adult department and
the Fleishman Residence/
Blumberg Plaza.
NCJW Dor L'Dor co-
chairmen are Celia Lubetsky
and Fran Wigod.
Miriam Sandweiss and
Judy Blustein represent the
Center, Libby Ben Moche
coordinates the seniors from
the Fleishman Residence, and
Rochelle Iczkovitz organizes
the Hillel participation in the
joint enterprise. Musical
director is Stuart Rogoff.
The concert is offered free-
of-charge to the public. Coffee
and cake will be served.
NCJW's "Up and Out Pro-
gram" will provide bus
transportation for its par-
ticipants from several pick-up
points to the synagogue.
Those interested should call
the NCJW offices, 258-6000.
Olmert To Speak
On Peace Process
"The Mideast Peace Process
— Options and Prospects"
will be the theme of the Eins-
tein Luncheon Forum at noon
Tuesday at the Southfield
Hilton Hotel, it was announc-
ed by Judges Ira G. Kaufman
and Benjamin Friedman, the
forum's co-chairmen.
Guest speaker will be Dr.
Yosef Olmert, lecturer on
Middle East and African
studies at Aviv Universi-
ty and its Overseas School.
He has been associated with
the Shiloah Institute/Dayan
Center at Tel Aviv University
and serves as visiting pro-
fessor in the department of
Near Eastern studies at Cor-
nell University.
Reservations can be made
by calling the Zionist
Organization of America —
Detroit District, 569-1515.
The Einstein Luncheon
Yosef Olmert
Forum is sponsored as a
public service by Metro
Detroit ZOA and the Zionist
Cultural Center.
Theater Plays Listed
The Birmingham Theater
has announced its 11th
subscription season which in-
cludes musicals, comedies
and a classic suspense
thriller.
For the first time in its
history, the Birmingham
Theater will co-produce with
the Goodspeed Opera House
of East Haddam, Conn., a
Gershwin musical, Oh, Kay!
The season will open Sept.
19 with the second national
company of the Pulitzer Prize-
winning comedy Driving Miss
Daisy, followed on Oct. 31 by
an offbeat and hilariously
good-humored musical, Oil
City. Oh, Kay! begins on Dec.
30, and the Tony-nominated
musical Romance, Romance
opens Feb. 14. The season con-
tinues with the spine-tingling
mystery Wait Until Dark
April 3 and concludes with an
all new production of Jesus
Christ Superstar opening on
May 16.
Birmingham Theater sub-
scribers receive all six produc-
tions for the price of five, free
parking and a 20 percent dis-
count at selected area
restaurants.
For information, call Bir-
mingham Theater subscrip-
tions, 644-9225.
Torah Fund
Dinner Set
Beth Achim Sisterhood will
hold its culminating Torah
Fund dinner 6:30 p.m. Tues-
day in the Wasserman Hall of
the synagogue. Cantor Max
Shimansky will entertain.
Guests are invited. There is
a charge. For information,
contact chairman Lotty Par-
tovich, 357-4216; or the
synagogue office, 352-8670.
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