SINGLE LIFE I Shortage Of Activities Prompts Singles Reunion RICHARD PEARL Staff Writer T uter Video imaging ... one of the .:51 exciting developments to come along in years . A healthy confident smile is your best asset and if you've ever wondered how yours could' look, now you can see for yourself through video imaging . Make your wish for a beautiful smile come true. Come in and help us design it for you today . J. BURTON D.D.S., P.C. ROAD 01, ' NGHAM, MI 48010 • (313) 647-3050 • (M,T,F 7-3, TH 8-5) Joe Stamen's Dynamic WearMaster 851.3883 FOREIGN CAR SERVICE WHY PAY MORE? brakes mut tiers shocks macpherson struts & more 32661 Northwestern Farmington Hills FRONT OR REAR BRAKES • All Brake Work Guaranteed • Turn Drums and Rotors • Semi metallic pads extra • Check Hydraulics 0 , • Test Drive Car Alignment Wheel Balancing Brakes - Shocks Suspension - Exhaust Foreign & Domestic Cars OPEN MON.-SAT. 3995 MOST AMERICAN CARS FRONT END ALIGNMENT $ Starting at 95 I most Cars Ports and Other Service Extra — 4 DYNAMIC WEARMASTER EXHAUST SYSTEM Small & $ 7995 Compact $ 8995 Mid Size Full Size $ 99 95 Single Exhaust, Resonotors and Wide Pipes Extra MOST AMERICAN CARS ■ Nowno ■ i. r _vs- rirRENDS 4 1 Applegate Square Fun Fall Fashions CRUISEWEAR ARRIVING DAILY d Men's & Boys'/ 352-4244 . 106 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1990 Contemporary Women's Fashions RICK GOULD Estate Motors, Ltc. 644-8400 855-4464 Hunters Square • Farmington Hills 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