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. _ 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.