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DIAMONDS & FINE JEWELRY

Mark the Moment

11/12
1999

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6337 Orchard Lake Road
West Bloomfield, MI 48322
248-932-7700 . 800-337-GIFT

input, the seven-
year project
became Dr.
Onolemhemhen's
book, The Black

Estimating that sev-
eral hundred patrons
had attended the
Local Author Fair,
Weiss says the gath-
ering has become a
place for the authors
to network. She
notes that last year's

selection.
As with almost all the books in the
Local Author Fair, Dr. Brownstein's
was an offshoot of his personal expe-
Jews of Ethiopia:
rience. A West Bloomfield medical
The Last Exodus.
doctor with a holistic practice, he
Irwin Cohen's
documents more than 40 successful
religious and pro-
case studies of patients treated with
fair paired up two
fessional lives
natural hormone therapy. It began
local authors who
blend when he
when, frustrated at the lack of help he
are now collaborat-
signs
his
books
could offer his father as a patient with
ing on a new book.
with
these
words,
coronary artery disease, Dr.
This is also a
"May HaShem
Brownstein began treating his father's
place
to share experi-
grant you extra
illness as a hormonal imbalance and
ences
and swap sto-
Dr. Durrenda Onolemhemhen
innings of good
prescribing natural testosterone.
ries
and
books. One
health." Cohen of
Dr. Brownstein saw his father's life
shopper
was
over-
Oak Park has
"change with the use of natural hor-
heard
bringing
a
message
to
author
been
dubbed
"Mr.
Baseball"
in
recog-
mones," and said he continues to be
Irwin Cohen. He told him Brian
nition of his years of working in the
symptom-free and pain-free after six
Golden wanted to know if he would
front
office
at
Tiger
Stadium.
Now
years.
consider trading books, if Golden also
Baseball
editor/publisher
of
the
Describing treatment of such dis-
shared some of his own baseball
Bulletin, he recently penned So You
orders as chronic fatigue syndrome,
memories and photos.
Detroit
Love Tiger Stadium, Too with
headaches and premenstrual syn-
News columnist Joe Falls.
drome, he says his book shares "the
The book of Tigers memories
miracle not taught in medical
includes
trivia, photos and chapters
school."
with
titles
like "Quirky Managers,"
For local author Brian M. Golden,
Moments"
and "Sparkyisms"
"Great
his book is really an extension of his
colorful
Tigers
manager Sparky
(for
life. A model railroader as a child, he
Anderson).
Cohen
includes
a descrip-
Farmington
Junction:
A
Trolley
wrote
Here's the schedule of remaining events
tion
of
what
he
terms
"the
greatest
after
discovering
a
trolley
line
History
through Sunday, Nov. 14, sponsored by
thrill of all time" in the physical count-
once ran through his hometown of
the Jewish Community Center of
ing of every seat in the recently closed
Farmington.
Metropolitan Detroit.
baseball
stadium.
A historian and
Walled Lake
All lectures, family shows and other activi-
member of the
author
Erik
Bean's
ties take place at the JCCs D. Dan 6. Betty
Farmington Hills
An Building, Maple and Drake, in West
offering
for
book
Historical
Bloomfield unless otherwise indicated at the
fair visitors was A
Commission, he says
Jimmy Prentis Morris (JPM) Building
Writing
for
his position as vice
15110 W 10 Mile, in Oak Park. Events
Publication Guide.
president of the
are free of charge, except where indicated.
The former free-
Farmington Historical
lance writer says he
FRIDAY, Nov, 12
Society brought him
10 a.m. Judy Zeidler 30-Minute Kosher
"wanted
to
break
the chance to present
Cooking
into journalism in a
his research on the
10 a.m. Susan Friedland Shabbat Shalom
way" to
creative
trolleys. "The presenta-
(JPM)
finance his master's
tion became the book,"
SATURDAY, Nov. 13
degree. Bean decid-
he says.
8 p.m. Eddie Fisher Been There, Done That
ed
to
share
his
secret
For Dr. Durrenda
when
he
discovered
SUNDAY, NOV. 14
Onolemhemhen of
it wasn't always what
11 a.rn. Helen Fremont After Long
Detroit, a published
Dr. David Br ownstein
but
whom
he
wrote,
Silence
study on the absorp-
1 p.m. Willard Manus The Pigskin Rabbi
he shared his articles
tion of Ethiopian Jewry
I p.m. Eileen Pollack Paradise New York
with, that got him published.
in Israel is an area of interest she dis-
(JPM)
Offering a formula for where and
covered quite by chance. In 1991, as
2:30 p.m. Sefer Safari UPM)
how to seek publication, Bean's book
a social work professor at the
3 p.m. Yaffa Eliach There Once Was a
is based on interviews with Car and
University of Alabama, she attended
Time: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl
Driver magazine's editor-in-chief,
an Ethics of Medicine conference in
of Eishyshok
Csaba Csere, publisher Len Fulton
Jerusalem. While there, a colleague
4 p.m. JPM Target Concert Series per-
and Jim Detjen, Michigan State
formance, Noah Budin (family show;
intrigued her with a discussion of
University professor and environmen-
there is a charge) UPM)
Ethiopian Jewry. Their talk quickly
tal writer. Bean also offers local work-
6:30 p.m. Itamar Rabinovich Waging
led to a partial grant from Hebrew
Peace:
Lcrael and the Arabs at the End of
shops on the subject.
University and trips to Israel funded
the Century
Sitting
at
long
tables
covered
with
by the Alabaman university. When U-
8 p.m. Carl Reiner How Paul Robeson Saved
newly published books and small
A librarian Kebede Gessesse, who is
y Lo and Other Mostly Happy Stories
trays of sweets, the local authors
originally from Ethiopia, joined her
appeared to be enjoying their event.
to add background to the Israeli

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Jewish
Book Fair