ICE ON ICE

Comfort
And Joy

A group of professional women
will talk about Jewish pride
in the midst of the Christmas season.

LYNNE MEREDITH COHN

Staff Writer

speak about] how they use their
Jewish pride as an opportunity instead
of feeling so bombarded with gentile
symbols. It's a time to re-evaluate who
they are as Jews, how to maintain,
enhance our Jewish world — especial-
ly this time of year and especially for
women who are in the non-Jewish
world."
The program begins with a conti-
nental breakfast, followed by remarks

t's that time again.
Everywhere you look, you see
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twinkling strings of colored
lights, electric candles in win-
dows and fir trees decorated with
shiny tinsel and glass ornaments.
What's a Jew to do, not to feel left out
when Christmas and Christian sym-
bols pervade our lives?
Machon L'Torah's women's
d-:vision will try to answer
that question at a Chanukah
program on Jewish pride,
beginning at 10:30 a.m.
Sunday, Dec. 21.
"When we hit this time of
year and we're so bombarded
with Christian symbols and
Christmasy stuff, it's impor-
tant to touch base so we feel
hood about who we are
though we do not celebrate
Christmas," says Bayla
Jacobovitz, rebbetzin of the
Oak Park-based Machon
L'Torah: The Jewish Learning
Network of Michigan.
The program features a
panel of five women who
work in largely secular envi-
ttnments but maintain a high
level of Jewish involvement.
The panel includes Cheryl
Chodun, a news reporter at
Cheryl Chodun: Jewish pride in a Christian
, Channel 7 and Huntington
world.
Woods resident; Margery
Klausner, a 26-year-old attor-
from Bayla Landsman, a teacher at
ney and member of Young Israel-Oak
Darchei Torah who will talk about the
Park; Helene Rubin, an attorney who
background of Chanukah and the
works downtown and lives in
spiritual
and historical aspects of
`t;irmingham; Sandy Shecter, a young
Jewish
pride.
Malke Torgow, who is
mother and accountant in Farmington
active with the Jewish Federation of
Hills; and Barbara Skarf, a social
Metropolitan Detroit, will emcee.
worker and mother of college-age kids
A cover charge of $5 includes
and one daughter who attends Bais
breakfast.
Participants are encouraged
Yaakov.
to
bring
a
$5 wrapped gift for a
"All these speakers are really
Chanukah
grab bag. For information
involved in a non-Jewish world, but
or
reservations,
call Machon L'Torah,
they're very, very strong Jewish
❑
(248)
967-0888.
omen," Jacobovitz says. "[They will
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