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A former concert violinist
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to share her love of Jewish melodies.

RENA FULKA
Special to The Jewish News

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Malka (a post-Shabbat repast in honor
of the close of Shabbat), we always
feature a top entertainer," said Rabbi
Elimelech Silberberg of Bais Chabad.
"I've heard she's a virtuoso. She come c s,
very highly recommended."
After Schoenfield visited the Bais
Chabad of Toledo four years ago, the
once-cloistered musician began to
intensify her search to "find a place
called home for my spirit.
"I was so impressed with this way
of life, from the foods they eat to the
way they organized their life,"
Schoenfield said. "I had to clear a lot
of obstacles from my life to be able td —\
make this choice of my own."
After a year of intense study at the
Chabad in Toledo, Schoenfield made
mikvah in Oak Park on the 20th day
of Shevat, 5757.
"She gave up that first chair to be
Sabbath observant. That was the ulti-
mate sacrifice for her," said Silberberg,
a presidium member of the Council of/
Orthodox Rabbis of Greater Detroit
who was involved in her conversion.

C Nava Simcha Schoenfield
lives in the heart of Toledo's
downtown district.
She spends her weekdays
directing the Toledo Symphony
Orchestra's community music lessons
program for troubled adolescents,
teaching music at Michigan's Saline
High School and giving private music
lessons in her home.
But on Friday evenings and
Saturdays, the former concert violinist
frees herself from all work commit-
ments for the very reason she gave up
her contract two years ago with the
Toledo Symphony Orchestra: She con-
verted to Judaism and became
Shabbat-observant.
"I love Shabbos so much more than
playing with the symphony," she said.
"I now do more mitzvahs than I did
sitting on a stage in the symphony all
my life."
On Saturday, Feb. 21,
Schoenfield will share her
love of Chasidic songs and
niggunim (wordless
melodies) when she per-
forms at the Bais Chabad in
West Bloomfield.
Schoenfield will solo and
- play with guitarist Amy
Druksh, also of Toledo. The
performance begins at 8:30
p.m.
"I'll be playing ancient
200 and 300-year-old
tunes, traditional music to
prayers and songs that are
still sung in shul on
Shabbos," said the Ferndale
native.
Preceding the program at
8:30 p.m. is a kosher wine
and cheese tasting under the
guidance of Michael and
Merna Shanker of West
Bloomfield.
Chava Simcha Schoenfield loves music and
"For our monthly Melava Chabad.

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