Is your destiny set? Will you be rewarded for good behavior?
Can you change your luck?

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Find out the:

JEWISH SECRETS

TO SELF IMPROVEMENT

"How To Change Your Luck"

By Noted Lecturer Rabbi Shmuel Irons

Tuesday, April 1, 1997 • 7:30 p.m.

Jewish Community Center
Janice Charach Epstein Museum/Gallery
Maple/Drake Building

There is no charge for this program. Refreshments well be served.

Call (810) 661-7649 for more information.

Jewish Secrets will be held on the first Tuesday of each month.

This lecture series is brought to you by
Mr. Fred Ferber and the Jewish Community Center.

Sperber's North Kosher Restaurant, located inside the JCC,
will now be serving dinner until 8:00 p.m.

"I liked the fact that everyone "the survey shows that if we wel-
has to participate," said Joan Leb, come everyone, regardless of re-
who last year joined with her ligious background. or family
husband. "You learn a lot when status, then most Jewish fami-
you have to prepare services lies looking for Jewish commu-
yourself," she added. Before join- nity will also feel comfortable in
ing Congregation T'chiyah, the our movement."
Among the survey's findings
Lebs had been involved in a num-
ber of Reform synagogues, but are that Reconstructionists are
grew frustrated with the politics. highly educated, they are more
Like Ms. Leb, Lisa Gayle was
familiar with the Reform move-
ment and was looking for a
change. She was first drawn to
T'chiyah because, as a resident
of Detroit, she liked the,fact that
it frequently held services in the
city, but she soon became im-
pressed with other aspects as
well.
"The spirituality was acces-
sible to me, really palpable," she
said. She is also pleased that
her husband, who is not Jew-
ish, has been accepted by oth-
ers in the congregation.
In many ways, T'chiyah —
which was founded in 1977 —
is typical of Reconstructionist
congregations around the coun-
try. Although Reconstruction- Sen. Carl Levin is one of T'chiyah's
ists come from a full range of founders.
backgrounds, according to the
recent survey, many are more
observant as adults than they likely to work as professionals
were in their childhood homes. than in businesses, and in 41 per-
In addition, while the majority of cent of all Reconstructionist
Reconstructionists are in Jewish- households, at least one of the
Jewish households, fully half of adults has a Ph.D., medical or
those under 40 are intermarried law degree. In addition, Recon-
and raising their children as structionists tend to be "less rich,"
with a median household income
Jews.
According to Rabbi Shulewitz, of $100,000, when measured
Reconstructionist affiliates are against the American Jewish
drawing large numbers of main- community in general. ❑
stream, unaffiliated Jews and

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And while many philan-
thropists acknowledge their gifts
were made at least in some part
to benefit Jewish people, many
said the fact that Sinai is a part
of a secular institution most like-
ly would not affect their philan-
thropy in the future.
One who was pleased with the

way the sale turned out is Cis
Maisel Kellman. Her name and
that of her late husband,
Emanuel Maisel, grace the front
of Sinai's Women's Health Cen-
ter, which houses comprehensive
obstetrical and breast-care ser-
vices.
A member of the now-defunct
Sinai Health Care Foundation,
Ms. Kellman at first felt "funny"

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