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Staff Writer
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hat old complaint that
there's nobody around
and nothing to do over
the Thanksgiving holiday
won't be true this year.
Several West Bloomfield
parents, most with single
children in the 21-to-early-
thirtysomething age group,
have organized a singles
reunion for that group, 9
p.m. Nov. 22 (Thanksgiving
night), at the Metropolitan
Musicafe in Royal Oak.
A minimal donation
benefitting the Michigan
Assocation for Ethiopian
Jewry will be requested at
the door. A disc jockey will
play dance music and there
will be a cash bar.
The Musicafe will be
marked "Closed for Private
Reunion" but its valet park-
ing service will be available.
The club will check identifi-
cation at the door and will
stay open until 2 a.m. And
the parents will be con-
spicuous by their absence.
The parents were
prompted into action by the
oft-voiced complaint of a lack
of friends and activities plus
concern over the increasing
rate of intermarriage and a
lack of planned social ac-
tivities by the organized
Jewish community.
Jamie Rabinowitz, mother
of two collegians who in-
stigated the reunion, said
those who go away to school
and then return to Detroit to
work lose contact both with
Jewish friends at school and
at home and often don't meet
too many Jews in the
workplace.
Some parents tend to
shrug off the age group, she
said, "but we must re-
member them and recognize
them as young adults whom
we might be able to help, but
not feel they can be just cut
loose." The help, she said,
must be subtle, with parents
remaining in the
background.
"We cannot wait until
they are 35 to bring them
back into the Jewish com-
munity. Otherwise, all the
great projects we have in the
Jewish community will end
when we no longer can carry
them on.
"I believe our young Jew-
ish people are falling bet-
ween the cracks. I feel we
are losing them. There's so
much attention paid today to
making mixed marriages
work. I wish we would pay
more attention to them
before it reaches this stage.
We need to make these kids
feel they are a part of this
Jewish community."
"These young people can't
meet whom they don't
know," added Dr. Maurice
Opperer, whose concern with
intermarriage got him in-
volved even though his
oldest son is only 20 and
won't be able to attend.
"If the synagogues and
temples did a good job, we
wouldn't have to do this,"
said Judith Ehrmann, an-
other group member. "I
know they try, but for some
reason they haven't hit the
mark."
"It's true, nobody is doing
anything much for the kids,"
said Rabbi Dannel Schwartz
of Temple Shir Shalom,
whom Mrs. Rabinowitz con-
"What parents
forget is, it's not just
Central and not just
Mumford
anymore."
Rabbi Dannel Schwartz
tatted. "The singles market
here is rather sparse."
Part of the difficulty young
single adults encounter, he
said, is caused by the subur-
ban Detroit sprawl.
"Suburban life requires pri-
vate transportation. There
are too many places to go;
things are too spread out.
Kids go to different schools,
synagogues, temples.
"What parents forget is,
it's not just Central and not
just Mumford anymore."
He suggested the parents
"do a loosely organized kind
of thing: go to some local
bistro, rent it out for a reu-
nion, do some advertising to
let the young people know
about it, charge a dollar a
head at the door for a chari-
table cause and then fade
into the background."
Seed money for the adver-
tising came from Shir
Shalom, Temple Kol Ami,
Adat Shalom Synagogue and
congregations Beth Abra-
ham Hillel Moses, Beth
Shalom, Beth Achim and
B'nai David.
There were objections by
some parents to the event's
being held in a nightclub
and the scheduling on
Thanksgiving night.
"Some parents have trou-
ble realizing that when their