Youth Learn
About Tzedakah

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fifth graders and their parents will participate in a jour- l
ney through our community at the eighth annua
Tzedakah Experience Sunda, March 5, 9:30 a.m. -noon
ger ienCe at Temple Beth El.
The event is co-sponsored by Temple Beth El, Women's Di-
vision of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, Agency
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riences for Families and The Jewish News.
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At this year's all-new Tzedakah Experience, hands-on activi-
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ties will assist parents and fifth graders in learning about the im-
. portance of helping others. Agencies in our community also will be
there to show how their services provide help to those in need.
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One component of the event will be the Penny Harvest. Stu-
dents in all day and afternoon religious schools in the metro-
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politan Detroit area will collect pennies and loose change
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be donated to non-profit agencies within the communiewish
portion of the money collected will be given to the J
$1 Federation's Allied Jewish Campaign, and the rest will be
allocated by the fifth grade classes to agencies participating
at the Tzedakah Experience.
Trudy Weiss is the chairman, and Ruth Beitner and Sherry
Lofman are associate chairman of the event.
For details, call (810) 642-4260.

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eborah Dwork, associate professor at the
Yale University Child Study Center, will
speak at Shabbat morning services 9 a.m.
Feb. 11 at Adat Shalom Synagogue.
Professor Dwork, who also is on the faculty of
the Yale University Judaic Studies Program, is
a historian with a special interest in the lives of
children. Her work is based primarily on hun-
dreds of oral histories she conducted in Europe
and North America following the World War II.
Her book Children With a Star is a major con-
tribution to the history of the Holocaust.

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Pearl
Biber

Deborah Dwork

Yale Professor
To Give Talk

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Machon Llorah
Honors Mrs. giber

achon L'Torah will have its eighth an-
nual library luncheon benefitting the
the Lillian Saltsman Memorial Library
on Sunday, Feb. 19 at noon.
Mrs. Pearl Biber, the honoree, and has been
the silent heroine behind numerous Jewish
charitable causes. Mrs. Biber's quest for Torah
knowledge and her continuous eagerness for
deeper insights have made her a regular participant in Machon's ed-
ucational events and a most frequent visitor to Machon's Lillian Saltsman
Memorial Library.
The luncheon will be at Young Israel of Oak Woods, 24061 Coolidge High-
way, in Oak Park. The guest speaker will be Rabbi Moshe Tuvia Leiff of
Minneapolis, Minn. For information and reservations, call Machon, 967-
0888.

Panel To Discuss
The Holocaust

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Max M. Fisher Building. Spon-
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(810) 642-4260.

FEBRUARY

he Grosse Pointe Jewish Council will sponsor a pan-
el and audience discussion titled "Holocaust Experts
Answer Questions" on Wednesday, Feb. 22 at 7:30
p.m. at the Grosse Pointe Unitarian Church, 17150 Maumee.
Panelists will be Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, professor of histo-
ry at the University of Michigan and consultant to the Na-
tional Holocaust Museum; Perry Shulman, one of the
youngest survivors of Auschiwitz; and Dr. Henry Krystal,
professor emeritus of psychiatry at Michigan State Uni-
versity and survivor of Auschwitz.
The moderator for the evening will be Dr. Emanuel Tanay,
clinical professor of psychiatry.
The public is invited. For information, call Dr. Tanay,
821-5410.

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