This That Torah lite; the hidden bakery; where the smoke was. What do you serve at a Weight Watchers bat mitzvah luncheon? When you're Florine Mark Ross, the president and CEO, there's really no choice. Iii one month, Ross will share the bima with four other adult women as part of her life-long dream. With no bat mitzvahs allowed in the Conservative Movement when she was 13, Ross found herself learning the Torah in Hebrew school as the only woman in class. "It's something I'd long had a spiritual desire to do," she said, but didn't think about it lately until her sister passed away two years ago. "I was looking for some answers, and I couldn't find them," she said. "I had a need to do some- thing spiritually for myself, to be someplace for four or five hours a week where it would take my mind off of things and maybe give me some answers. " Ross studied once a week with the other women, and made time for individual study. The b'not mitzvah cer- emony is scheduled for May 21 at Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills, with a Anna Mickel of West Bloomfield carries her "before photo" luncheon to follow. while sporting her new look. The Mother's Day Fashion "There's going to be Show and Make-over was held May 5 at the Jimmy enough Weight Watchers Prentis Morris Building of the Jewish Community Center food that people like me of Metropolitan Detroit. Nine senior adults modeled can eat," she said, and a clothing from Liz Claiborne and had make-overs by Shabbat dinner at my stylists from Nino Salon, both in Ti-oy's Somerset Collection. house on Friday night More than 100 attended the event in Oak Park. will absolutely be a Weight Watchers meal, Franklin Racquet Club is slated to be including the chocolate chip cookies." back in full working order in June after a Jan. 22 fire. A long-awaited kosher bakery has Rick Brode, the Southfield club's opened in Southfield. The Bake president said that the renovations are Station opened late lase month on the being completed on schedule. "The southeast corner of Southfield Road whole Franklin Road facade will be and 13 Mile. It's in a renovated store- redone," he said. "We're coming back front of the Country Corners shop- newer and better. ping center, where Zeman's Bakery The facility's beauty shop and had been before it closed in Kidsports Fun & Fitness Club August 1997. entrances, as well as the Franklin According to Rabbi Joseph Road lobby, are being redone. is Vaad Harabonim Krupnik, the Already renovated are the tennis supervising the kashrut of the facility. courts and ceiling in the back, which Store owner Steve Katz said he was contributed to the project's nearly still awaiting city approval, maybe by $1.5 million tab. the end of the month, to hang The fire started in a machine in the a sign on the facade to nail salon. Brode said it caused some advertise the bakery's smoke damage inside but little else. existence. Marking 100 Years Of Detroit Jewry Remember When • • From the pages of The Jewish News for this week 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 1989 Irving Laker was elected president of Congregation Shaarey Zedek during the synagogue's annual meeting. Jewish groups nationwide appeared split over whether to favor a relaxation of U.S. trade sanctions against the Soviet Union contained in the Jackson-Vanik Amendment. 1979 The handwritten speech that Israeli Premier Menachem Begin delivered at the treaty-signing ceremonies in Washington has been auctioned in Jerusalem to an American for $56,000. Sam and Ruth Rich have under- written the construction of a new day camp facility being built on the grounds of the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield. 1969 Norman Drachler, superintendent of the Detroit Public School system, is one of seven alumni of Wayne State University to receive alumni award citations; he was recognized for his contributions in the field of education. Marjorie Goldman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Goldman and a senior at Cass Technical High School, is slated to play Anna in the upcom- ing production of The King and I. 1959 Charles A. Madison, a former Detroiter, marked the completion of 35 years of service as editor of the col- lege division of Henry Holt & Co., a New York publishing company. A fully equipped weight-lifting room opened at the Jewish Community Center on Meyers; non- experienced people can use the room only with an instructor present. 1949 This Depression-era photograph is of a chil- dren's services rogram at Detroit's North End Clinic, forerunner to Sinai Hospital. Photo courtesy of the Leonard N. Simons Jewish Community Archives/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. If you have information about this photograph, please call Heidi Christein, Jewish community archivist: (248) 642-4260. 5/14 1999 28 Detroit Jewish News Representatives from 26 Reform Jewish congregations in the Midwest met in Milwaukee to organize the Great Lakes Council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Detroit violinist Jerome Stasson has been appointed concertmaster of the Wayne University Symphony Orchestra.