COMMUNITY

Cantor Orbach

Hirschenfang, Orbach
Will Salute Yavneh

Yavneh Academy, the
Reform Jewish Day School of
Metropolitan Detroit, will
present its second cantorial
concert, "A Salute To Broad-
way," 7:30 p.m. Mar. 17 at
Temple Israel. Performing
will be Cantor Gail Hirschen-
fang of Temple Beth El and
Cantor Harold Orbach of
Temple Israel, accompanied
by Zina Shaykhet, musical
director of Temple Israel.
The evening's program will

include selections from Fid-

dler on the Roof Oklahoma, A
Little Night Music, Showboat,
The King and I, My Fair lady,
Les Miserables and Phantom
of the Opera.
It will close with a duet
from West Side Story, "One
Hand, One Heart."
The audience will be in-
vited to an afterglow recep-
tion following the concert. For
ticket information, call
Yavneh, 661-2220.

Museum Exhibit Marks
Temple Beth El's 140th

One hundred forty years of
history and tradition will be
celebrated, beginning Mar.
17, when "A Heritage of
Light: Temple Beth El
1850-1990" opens to the
public.
The exhibition, housed in
the temple's Shapero
Museum, will be on view
through June 30 and will
trace the events which shaped
the lives of the members of
Michigan's oldest Jewish
congregation.
Photographs and family
heirlooms, many lent to the
museum especially for this
exhibit, will be displayed.
The exhibit, and the com-
mentary accompanying the
items on display, are intend-
ed to illuminate the past and,
particularly the section
devoted to holiday obser-
vances, to show how Judaism.
has served as a light for
generations.
Among the objects on loan
for the exhibit are:
• A late 19th century hand-
embroidered pulpit cover.
• A shell-shaped Sabbath
bread plate painted with an
interior scene of sheaves of
wheat.
•Two marriage certificates,

dated 1882 and 1898.
• A Gustav Dore Bible,
dated
1874,
bearing
testimony to Dore's fame as
the most productive and
celebrated designer of wood-
engraved book illustrations in
the 19th century.
• A tapestry weaving by a
recently arrived Soviet
emigree.
The exhibit represents a
blending of existing museum
and archival material with
newly loaned memorabilia
and Judaica, curated by
Bonita La March, of the
Detroit Institute of Arts, and
Paul Ameye, an alumnus of
the Center for Creative
Studies, currently with H.B.
Stubbs Co.
Planning the exhibition has
been a two-year effort of a
temple committee chaired by
Josephine Bloom, Mary
Shapero, Jean Shapero and
Saralyn Balan, working in
conjunction with Rabbi
Daniel Polish and Executive
Director Tom Jablonski.
On Mar. 16, there will be a
preview reception for commit-
tee members, the Shapero
family, exhibition donors, and
the temple board. The exhibit
opens to the public Mar. 17.

Council Provides
Haggadah Readings

Supplemental Haggadah
readings for Passover are
available from the Jewish
Community Council. The
readings bring current issues
of freedom to the seder table,
with sections addressing
Soviet Jewry, hunger, Ethio-
pian Jewry and the Holo-
caust.
Those who did not receive
one last year may pick up
copies in the lobby of the
Agency for Jewish Education.

Rabbi Harold Loss phones an Allied Jewish Campaign contributor during
a recent phonathon while Rabbis Paul Yedwab, left, and A. Irving
Schnipper assist.

Closing Celebration
Planned For Campaign

The Allied Jewish Cam-
paign will hold its closing
celebration Mar. 25 at the
Maple/Drake Jewish Com-
munity Center.
The 7:30 p.m. gathering
will feature "Tel Aviv: Arise
and Sing!," an Israeli revue in
Hebrew, Yiddish and English;
and a slide-show mini-tour of
the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion's family of agencies.
There is a charge for the
Campaign closing. For infor-
mation, contact the Jewish
Welfare Federaton, 965-3939,
Ext. 119.
With the closing event less
than a month away, the
Women's Division of the
Jewish Welfare Federation
will hold its Spring Phonogift
Mar. 10-11.
New givers and Campaign
contributors who have not yet
been contacted will have a
chance to make their 1991
commitment Mar. 21. A 6
p.m. phonathon is seeking
more volunteers.
The Podiatrists Section of
the Allied Jewish Campaign
will host a brunch at the
home of Dr. Arnold Gross,
9:30 a.m. Mar. 24. The
meeting is being organized by
Drs. Gross and Walter Col-

eman, chairmen of the sec-
tion. For information about
these events, contact Leonard
Milstone at the Jewish
Welfare Federation, 965-3939,
Ext. 136.

Joe Beaupied's faith
brought the Royal Oak auto-
motive engineer to the offices
of the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion in downtown Detroit.
Mr. Beaupied made a con-
tribution to the Allied Jewish
Campaign because he felt
sympathy for Israel as it came
under missile attack. Accor-
ding to the fundamentalist
Catholic, one does not have to
be Jewish to support Israel.
"If it is possible for God to
bless me by helping Israel, so
be it," he said.
Fearing at first there would
be thousands of American
casualties in the Gulf War, he
now believes Israel's involve-
ment in the conflict brought
a spiritual element to the side
of the United States,
resulting in few dead and
wounded U.S. soldiers.
"America's been in wars
before. Wars that involve
Israel are different," he said.
He attributed America's suc-
cess to the "the hand of God."

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Cantor Hirschenfang

The second annual Black-
Jewish Seder will be held
6:30 p.m. Mar. 20, hosted by
Congregation Beth Shalom of
Oak Park. Rabbi David
Nelson will officiate, assisted
by Cantor Samuel Green-
baum and Rev. Barbara An-
thony of the Mitcham Chapel,
and the Mitcham Chapel
Choir. The event is sponsored
by the South Oakland
NAACP and the Michigan
Region Anti-Defamation
League.
"We are convening this
Black-Jewish Seder," said
William Nabers of the
NAACP, "to foster better
understanding between our
two communities and to en-
courage dialogue between
blacks and Jews. This event
symbolizes our mutual com-
mitment to eliminate racism
and anti-Semitism."
"We view this as one of the
centerpieces of our ongoing
black and Jewish dialogue
group," said Linda Soberman,
president of ADL. "We have
been meeting monthly for
over a year, and have engag-
ed in joint public service pro-
jects as well.
"And while the Seder sym-
bolizes our mutual com-
mitments and support,
because Passover itself
challenges us to rededicate
ourselves to fighting oppres-
sion, prejudice, and ignorance,
the Seder actually is just one
part of the ongoing and
developing relationship bet-
ween our two groups."
Guest speaker for the event
will be Detroit Free Press col-
umnist Mitch Albom.
The seder is being held in
cooperation with the Anti-
Defamation League's "A
World of Difference" program,
which has trained 5,000
teachers in southeast
Michigan.
The Clarence and Jack
Himmel Foundation and the
Benard A. Maas Foundation
are helping to fund the event.
For required reservations, call
the ADL, 355-3730.

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