Bridal Showers Weddings Bar/Bat Mitzvahs Birthdays Anniversaries Graduations Sweetest Day Holidays Any Day Gifts • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Always 30% off Complimentary Gift Wrapping Shop Sherwood... it's worth it. 6644 Orchard Lake Rd at Maple West Bloomfield Mon-Thur-Fri 10-9 Tue-Wed-Sat 10-6 • Sun 12-5 (810) 855-1600 LEAGUE OF JEWISH WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS OF GREATER DETROIT Cordially invites you to our opening meeting and program honoring THE PRESIDENTS OF OUR MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS Featuring MICHELLE KAUFMAN Sports Writer The Detroit Free Press Speaking On: WHAT'S A NICE JEWISH GIRL DOING IN THE MEN'S LOCKER ROOM? Thursday, October 20, 1994 12:30 p.m. ADAT SHALOM SYNAGOGUE • 29901 MIDDLEBELT • FARMINGTON HILLS Members of Your Organization, Family and Friends are Invited to Join Us! Dessert Reception — Donation $3.00 108 R.S.V.P. Evelyn Noveck, President 661-1642 • Joanne Zuroff, Vice President 626-8957 Torah Center Class, Program Biblical Scholar Slates Talks Bais Chabad Torah Center will host a Wednesday night series of classes beginning 7:30 p.m. Oct. 19 at the Torah Center titled "Pointers For Those Seeking The Spiritual High Ground." The course will cover a Torah life style. Mr. Martin Goodman will lead the course that will cover Jewish history, prayer, and law. The Torah Center will hold a Melava Malka 8:30 p.m. Oct. 22 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mar- tin Goodman, 2340 Walnut Lake Road, West Bloomfield. The Melava Malka will include food, Chasidic songs, words of Torah, and Chasidic story telling. There is a charge. This is part of a monthly series dedicated to the memory of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. For information, call the Torah Center, 855-6170. Dr. Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, pro- fessor of Bible at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion at Los Angeles, will be at the scholar in residence for the 13th annual Richard C. Hertz Institute on Reform Judaism, Oct. 28-29 at Temple Beth El. She will address the issue "The Bible and the Texture of Our Life." On Oct. 28 at 8 p.m., Dr. Eskenazi will speak on "Who Are We? Genesis and the Birth of ( Service Awards At JWV Dinner Department of Michigan Jewish War Veterans Ladies Auxiliary President Faye Glosser will be guest speaker at the Charles Shapiro Auxiliary paid-up mem- bership dinner. 6:30 p.m. Oct. 19 at the Steak and Ale Restaurant, Orchard Lake at 12 Mile Rd. Forty-five year member Sadie Pesick will be among those being awarded service pins from Mrs. Glosser. For reservations and informa- tion, contact Marilyn Epstein, 559-2063; or Myra Gross, 851- 7366. Shapiro Post Plans Meeting The next meeting of the Charles Shapiro Post of the Jewish War Veterans will be 9 a.m. Oct. 16 at the Jewish War Veterans Memo- rial Home. It will be a breakfast meeting and the agenda will in- clude upcoming hospital visits and social activities. For information, call Bernie Gross, 851-7366; or Harry Rose, 354-2452. Coin Club Shows Video A video honoring the Jewish American Hall of Fame will be shown at the Judaic Coin Club meeting 8 p.m. Oct. 25 at the Jimmy Prentis Morris Jewish Community Center. Admission is free; refresh- ments will be served; there will be gifts raffled off. The public is invited. Tamara Eskenazi Possibilities." On Oct. 29, she will lead a 9:30 a.m. Torah Convoca- tion on the suject of "The Book of Job as a Question to God." She will conclude her visit with an ad- dress to the congregation at 11 a.m. Shabbat Services on the topic "Song of Songs as a Biblical Answer to Job." The first woman appointed to a full-time rabbinical faculty po- sition in Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion's history, Dr. Eskenazi is a biblical scholar specializing in the study of the Second Temple Period. Dr. Eskenazi is president of the Pacific Coast Region-Society of Biblical Literature. Previously the chair of the Society's Narra- tive Research on the Hebrew ,/ Bible Group, she now chairs the Society's Literature and Histo- ry of the Persian Period Group. She has also chaired sessions of the International Meeting of the Society in Sheffield, Heidelberg, Vienna, Copenhagen and Rome. She also is the co-founder of the Denver Jewish Women's Re- source Center. All three programs of the Arden-Hertz Institute are open to the community without charge. No reservations are necessary. For information, call Barbara Grant, 851-1100. Publicity Deadlines The normal deadline for lo- cal news and publicity items is noon Thursday, eight days prior to issue date.