Other retirement communities can't hold a candle to our Chanukah gift offer. Eight free gifts. That's what you'll receive when you move to The Trowbridge by January 15. Our eight Chanukah gifts to you are: • A family dinner for ten • One month free rent* • A chandelier • A guest apartment for one weekend • Three guest meals a month for one year • A Chanukah gift basket • Dreidel and Chanukah candy gelt • Five hours of in-home care services These special gifts are in addition to the many fine services and amenities The THE Trowbridge residents enjoy, such as a spacious apartment, dinners, weekly housekeeping, maintenance and scheduled transportation. To find out more about The Trowbridge and A PREMIER RENTAL RETIREMENT COMMUNITY your eight Chanukah gifts, call or write today. Select units starting at $102” 313 352 0208 • 24111 Civic Center Drive • Southfield, MI 48034 - - T HE D ETR O IT J E W IS H N E WS *Does not apply to Trowbridge Plus. 94 CLASSIFIED GET RESULTS' Call The Jewish News 354-5959 Mizrachi Begins Lecture Series The first of a series of lectures sponsored by Mizrachi Hapoel Hamizrachi will feature Pro- fessor Jacob Lassner 8 p.m. Dec. 6 at United Hebrew Schools. Professor Lassner, distin- guished professor of Near Eastern and Asian studies and director of the Cohn Had- dow Center for Judaic Studies at Wayne State University, is an authority on Near Eastern history and a specialist on Islam and the Jewish com- munities of the Near East. His topic for the evening is "Islamic Studies: Jewish Perspectives on the Arab World." Mizrachi Hapoel .HaMiz- rachi also will install a new slate of officers that evening, which includes: Chaim Brickman and Gene Schramm, co-presidents; Ben- no Levi, treasurer; Mintzi Schramm, corresponding secretary; Yael Lieser, recor- ding secretary. Members of the board include: Rita and Oscar Bigman, Hassida Brickman, Fayga Dombey, Julie Halpern, Cillia Klei- man, Erwin Posner, Lissie Rothstein, Toby and Herschel Schlussel and Robert Torgow. The 1992-93 lecture series will continue Feb. 6 with Todd Endelman, professor of his- tory at the University of Michigan; and March 13 with . Zvi Gitelman, professor of political science at the University of Michigan. Refreshments will be serv- ed. For information, call Chaim Brickman, 357-0609; or Gene Schramm 557-2755. Aish HaTorah Hosts Speaker Mrs. Tzippora Heller, lecturer and author, will be Aish HaTorah's speaker for the month of December. Mrs. Heller's talk is titled "Lighting a Candle: Pro- moting Self-esteem and a Sense of Godliness in Children." She will speak 8 p.m. Dec. 15 at the Sally Alex- ander Beth Jacob School for Girls. Mrs. Heller is known for her study of Maimonides and the Maharal of Prague. She has been a senior instructor at Neve Yerushalayim College for Women in Jerusalem, as well as a lecturer at Hebrew University, Weitzman In- stitute and Aish HafIbrah. A question and answer period will follow the light refreshments. There is a fee. The Cooks JVS Program Honors Cooks The Ben N. Teitel Charitable Trust has agreed to give $250,000 to Jewish Voca- tional Service (JVS) in honor of Jeanette and Oscar Cook. "This gift will be used to sustain the future of the sum- mer Jewish Occupational In- tern (JOIN) Program," said JVS board president Linda Klein. In recognition of the gift, the program has been renamed the Jeanette and Oscar Cook JOIN Program. With the gift from the Teitel Trust, JVS has achiev- ed its goal of raising $276,000 in new endowment funds as part of the Van Dusen Endow- ment Challenge. As a result, JVS will receive $92,000 from the Van Dusen Challenge Program, creating an endow i ment fund totaling $368,000. Jeanette and Oscar Cook are JVS volunteers and reci- pients of many B'nai B'rith awards and honors. The Cooks also support the Israel Bond program, the Jewish National Fund and the Jewish Association for Residential Care. Center Plans Winter Classes The week of Dec. 7 starts the 10-week winter semester of classes at the Jewish Corn- munity Center of Metropoli- tan Detroit. It is possible to register up to and including that week for all enrichment classes including dance, art, music, theater, bridge, chess, computer and more for children and adults. There are classes at both the Jimmy Prentis Morris and Maple-Drake buildings. Call Shirley Siegal, 661-1000, to register and for information. A catalogue listing all classes will be sent upon request. Life in this world is an end in —Baal Shem Toy itself.