APRIL 11, 1997
Bleefeld Leads
Remembrance
Pesach Plans
For Community
I
he agencies of the Jewish
Federation are preparing
for Passover.
Jewish Home for
Aged's Fleischman Residence/
Blumberg Plaza has already be-
gun the cleaning process. Some
vacancies are available for the
two sedarim which will be held
7:10 p.m. Monday and Tuesday,
April 21 and 22. For seder
reservations, call Rabbi Sha-
piro, (810) 661-2999.
Jewish Vocational Service
Adult Day and Activities Pro-
gram will highlight the history
and meaning of Passover, and
feature Passover cooking activ-
ities for adults with develop-
mental disabilities. In the
Herman Teitel Senior Adult
Workshop, Passover treats will
be served at the morning coffee
break.
JVS Project Outreach volun-
teers will bring Passover foods
to Detroit residents living in
nursing and foster homes and
apartments isolated from the
Jewish community. Project Out-
reach clients will participate in
a seder at noon Thursday, April
24, at the Jimmy Prentis Mor-
ris Jewish Community Center,
sponsored by the Cooperative
Council of the League of Jewish
Women's Organizations.
Menorah House will conduct
a model seder for residents at
2:30 p.m. Monday, April 21. The
community is invited. For in-
formation, call Menorah House,
(810) 557-0050.
At the Danto facility, Elliot
Sorkin and Danto activity staff
will conduct a seder at 4:14 p.m.
Monday, April 21. For infor-
mation, call Bonnie Sorkin,
(810) 788-7348.
Passover bingo for older
adults will take place 12:45-2
p.m. Monday, April 14, at the
Jimmy Prentis Morris Jewish
Community Center. Older
adults are invited to a third
Passover seder, noon-2 p.m. Fri-
day, April 25, at JPM.
Jewish Family Service geri-
atric workers will prepare a sec-
ond seder Passover meal for the
residents of the Group Apart-
ments for the Elderly program.
The seder will be conducted by
program manager Jan Bayer,
her husband, Jerry and their
three children.
Clients of the kosher Meals
on Wheels program will have a
traditional Passover seder meal,
distributed by the National
Council of Jewish Women, in
partnership with Jewish Fam-
ily Service and Jewish Feder-
ation Apartments kitchen.
Recipients will receive a box of
matzah and a bottle of grape
juice with their meal to make
the seder.
Hillel Day School students
are studying the Haggadah in
preparation for their own
sedarim. The kindergarten will
have its model seder 9:40 a.m.
Monday, April 14. Second-
graders will participate in a
seder 9:40 a.m. Tuesday, April
15. On Wednesday, April 16,
the fourth grade students will
have a seder at 9:40 a.m. and
the first- graders at 1:30 p.m.
Fifth-graders will conduct their
seder at 9:40 a.m. Thursday,
April 17. All of the model
sedarim will take place in the
Mike and Mary Must Multi-
Purpose Room.
The Jewish Community Cen-
ter is hosting Passover activi-
ties for people of all ages. The
Matzah Factory will be open
1:15-4:30 p.m. Sunday, April 6,
and Sunday, April 13, at the
Maple-Drake JCC. Students
and families are invited free of
charge to make matzah.
The Charoset Factory —
"The Other Half of the Hillel
Sandwich" — will be open 10
a.m.-2 p.m. Wednesday, April
16, at the Jimmy Prentis Mor-
ris building for center members
and nursery school children. A
family Passover program will
be held 6:30-8 p.m. Wednesday,
April 16, at JPM with hands-on
crafts and charoset making for
children and adults.
The center will host "Matzah
101" 1-3 p.m. Sunday, April 13,
at the Kroger store at Hagger-
ty Road and Pontiac Trail.
Women aged 35-65 are invited
to attend a cooking demonstra-
tion and book signing by the au-
thors of Matzah 101. The
demonstration will be repeated
7:30-9 p.m. Monday, April 14,
at JPM.
Temple Emanu-El's Holocaust
Committee will host a Yom
Hashoah service 9:05 a.m. Sun-
day, May 4, at the temple.
This service, commemorating
COMMUNITY
The Greater Detroit Inter-
faith Round Table Annual
Symposium of Muslims,
Christians and Jews will be
held 2 p.m. Sunday, April 13,
at Temple Shir Shalom.
Jewish Advocacy Day will be
observed 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m.
Tuesday, April 15, at the
Lansing Center in Lansing.
To register, call (810) 642-
5393.
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The Reform Breakfast and
Learn study group will meet
7:30-8:30 a.m. Tuesday,
April 15, at the Max M. Fish-
er Building.
Rabbi Bleefeld
Holocaust Remembrance Day,
will be led by Rabbi Bradley
Bleefeld. Also participating will
be children and grandchildren
from the congregation who will
introduce their families' sur-
vivors who will share their own
recollections from the days of
Nazi oppression.
Adat Shalom
Honors Helfman
Anne Helfman will be Adat
Shalom Synagogue's honoree at
the congregation's Seminary
Shabbat on Saturday, April 12,
and at the Annual Jewish The-
ological Seminary Gala on June
23.
As this year's seminary hon-
oree, Ms. Helfman will be rec-
ognized for her many
contributions to Adat Shalom
and to the Detroit Jewish corn-
munity. An elder stateswoman
at Adat Shalom, she was the
first woman to serve on the syn-
agogue's board of trustees and
was a president of its sisterhood
from 1950 to 1952. Since 1951
she has worked with the Greater
Detroit Israel Bond Office and
with the Jewish National Fund.
In 1994 she was honored by the
American Zionist Movement as
a Zionist of the Year.
Ellen S. Wolintz will address
the congregation at Seminary
Shabbat. Ms. Wolintz is a third-
year rabbinical student at the
Jewish Theological Seminary.
She is a graduate of the semi-
Calendar
A Family Matters Forum
will meet 7:30 p.m. Wednes-
day, April 16, at the Max M.
Fisher I3uilding. For reser
vations, call (810) 642-4260.
Book Bites, Congregation
Beth Achim discussion
series, will meet 1 p.m.
Thursday, April 17, at the
synagogue. For reservations,
call (810) 352-8670.
SENIORS
The seniors of Congregation
Beth Abraham Hillel Moses
will host a program 10:30
a.m. Sunday, Apri113, at the
synagogue. A donation is re-
quested.
CHaZaKaH, the Adat Sha-
lom seniors, will hold a lun-
cheon program 12:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 17, at the
synagogue. For reservations,
call (810) 557-7804.
SYNAGOGUES
Adat Shalom Synagogue will
hold a series of Passover
workshops 9 a.m.-noon Sun-
day, April 13, at the syna-
gogue. For reservations, call
(810) 626-2153.
Anne Helfman
nary's undergraduate, double-
degree program, with bachelor
of arts degrees in religion from
Barnard College and in Talmud
from the seminary. She is the
first woman ever to be elected
president of the Rabbinical
School Student Association. In
addition, she serves as the sec-
retary for the Rabbinical As-
sembly's Committee on Jewish
Law and Standards.
The Birmingham Temple
will host a Monday Forum
8:30 p.m. Monday, April 14.
Rabbi Wine will review The
Ashkenazic Jews.
WOMEN
Brandeis University Na-
tional Women's Committee
will host a program on crim-
inal law 11:30 a.m. Wednes-
day, April 16, at Parthenon
House on Drake Road, West
Bloomfield. For reservations,
call (810) 559-5268.