0 NOVEMBER 29, 1996 0 Sermon In Song At Temple Israel Temple Israel will cele- C brate Chanukah Shab- bat in a family service 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 6. The community is invited. Joining the Temple Is- rael clergy, Cantors Harold Orbach and Mikhal Shift' Matter will offer a sermon in song ti- tled "Light: The Symbol of Holiness." The Tem- ple Israel Choir and =c) Choral Group, directed by Benjamin Cohen, also will participate. Cantor Shiff-Matter, a graduate of Hebrew Cantor Shiff-Matter Union College School of Sacred Music, teaches at the college in Jerusalem. She is a native of Florida. After graduating from the University of Miami, she continued her vocal studies at Manhattan School of Music before receiving her master's degree in sa- cred music at Hebrew Union College. She has sung in con- cert with the New Israel Opera and the Jerusalem Madrigal Singers, as well as on radio and television. For information, call the temple office, (810) 661-5700. Officiating at the Brandeis Award ceremonies at the 63rd annual Balfour Concert of the Zionist Organization of America at the Detroit Opera House were Johanna Gordon, Rabbi Irwin Groner, Beverly Baker, Morton A. Klein, George P. Mann, and Anne Gonte Silver. COMMUNITY I3ais Ch.abad Torah Center of West Bloomfield will host a naelava malka, 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 30, at the center. Call (810) 855-6170. The alumni of Hillel Day School will honor Yolteet Jaffe, 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 1, at Hillel. Call (810) 851-6950. Among the 25-year Allied Jewish Campaign donors at the recent Campaign Quarter Century Club Klezmer Kabaret are 1997 Campaign Chairman Oscar Feldman, and Quarter Century Club Chairmen Jessie Stern and Herbert Kaufman. Text Study Is Planned Community and adult educator Susann Codish will lead a Rosh Chodesh text study session for the new He- brew month of Tevet 7:45 p.m. Monday, Dec. 16, at Congregation B'nai Moshe. The program is free and open to the community. Susann Codish is a teacher at Akiva Hebrew Day School. She also has taught text study classes at Midrasha and currently leads a number of adult study groups throughout the metro Detroit area. She is president of Or Chadash, a new congregation based in Oak Park. Her topic for the upcoming Rosh Chodesh session will be "The Mid- wives in Egypt: Jewish Resistance, or Righteous Susann Codish Gentiles?" Adat Shalom Ho Dr. Michael Nevins Adat Shalom Synagogue will host Dr. Michael Nevins, who will provide a glimpse into the world of medicine as it has been practiced by Jewish doctors from Talmudic times to the present, 8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4 at the synagogue. Dr. Nevins will draw upon material from his book The Jewish Doctor. Dr. Nevins has practiced internal medicine and cardiology in northern New Jersey since 1968. There is no charge. Michael Nevins A lunch and learn will take place 1 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3, at Aldva Hebrew Day School. For reservations, call (810) 552-9690. Parenting workshop, 7:30- 9 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3, at Temple Israel. as Ohr Sornayach will host a lunch and learn program with Rabbi &raga Rothbart, 12:30-1:30 p.m, Thursday, Dec. 5, at the11 ex M. Fisher Buildind lb) 3524870. SENIORS Dr. Melvin Bornstein, psy chotherapist, will address the Institute for Retired Pro- fessionals, 1 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 5, at the Maple-Drake Jewish Community Center. SYNAGOGUES Rabbi Sherwin Wine will ells- cuss the philosophy of Hu- manistic Judaism, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4, at the Birmingham Temple. For reservations, call (810) 477- 1410. CO CS) 0) CS) CsJ CC LL, CO BBYO homecoming event, 8 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 30, at Maple-Drake Jewish Com- munity Center. Call (810) 788-0700. LLJ 29