on early Jewish worship.
hours are 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
7The Mountain of the
Sundays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.
Bethany Yarrow, daughter of Peter
Lord," running Dec. 2-Jan.
Mondays-Wednesdays and
Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary folk
27, will feature architec-
11 a.m.-7 p.m. Thursdays.
music renown, will join her father in a
turally accurate scale models
(248) 661-7641.
Jewish Community Center-sponsored
of the Tabernacle in the
Chanukah concert 8 p.m. Saturday,
wilderness, Solomon's
Dec. 4, at Temple Emanu-El, 14450 W.
HEAVENLY SEX
Temple, Herod's Temple
10 Mile Road, Oak Park.
and the Temple Mount in
Known for her frank dis-
Growing up in a musical family,
Jerusalem, edifices counted
cussion of what goes on
Bethany Yarrow followed a different
• GAIL ZININIERNIAN
among the most beautiful
behind bedroom doors, Dr.
Arts v' Enter
path from her famous dad, becoming a
buildings of the ancient
Ruth
Westheimer is
Editor
documentary filmmaker. Her film about
world.
America's most famous
women in the townships outside of
All the models in this
human sexuality expert.
Cape Town, South Africa, aired on PBS
exhibit were designed by Dr. Leen
Born in Germany in 1928, she was
and was shown at film festivals around
Ritmeyer, an archaeologist and Temple
sent at age 10 to a school in Switzerland,
the world.
scholar from Britain, and built by York
which became an orphanage for most of
After graduating from Yale
Modelmaking of York, England.
the German Jewish students who had
University, she married a painter from
At 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2, there
been sent there to escape the Holocaust.
Chile, where she moved to make films,
will be an opening night lecture by Dr.
At 16 she went to Palestine, where she
write for newspapers and sing.
Ritmeyer and the organizer of the exhib-
fought with the Haganah for Israeli
Returning to New York, she discov-
independence. She then moved to
ered singing to be her natural
Paris, where she studied at the
forte, and began writing songs in
Sorbonne and taught kindergarten.
both English and Spanish. She
She immigrated to the United States
incorporates Middle Eastern,
in 1956.
African, African-American, Latin
Dr. Ruth started her nationally
and rock 'n' roll melodies into her
syndicated radio show, Sexually
works and currently performs in
Speaking, in New York City in 1980,
venues throughout the East
and hit the lecture circuit. In addition
Coast.
to teaching at New York University
Peter Yarrow, in addition to his
and having her own private practice,
innumerable contributions to the
she leads seminars for residents and
world of folk music, is noted for
interns in pediatrics on adolescent
his commitment to social change
sexuality. She is the author of 15
and works with hospice, art and
books, including Heavenly Sex, which
Holocaust remembrance and
describes sex in the Jewish tradition.
education programs.
Dr. Ruth comes to Ann Arbor's
The Dec. 4 concert, part of
Michigan Theater 8 p.m. Wednesday,
the JCC's Julius Chajes/Encore
Dec. 1, in a program tided 'An
Concert Series and co-sponsored
Evening with Dr. Ruth, sponsored by
by Neighborhood Project and
the University of Michigan Hillel and
Temple Emanu-El, will feature
U-M's University Activities Center.
the 'song 'Light One Candle" and
Tickets are $10/$5 students and are
other melodies made famous by
Peter and Bethany Yarrow per form a JCC
available at the Michigan Union
Peter, Paul & Mary.
Chanukah concert on Dec. 4.
Ticket office and all Ticketmaster
Tickets are $10 for JCC mem-
outlets. (248) 645-6666.
bers/$15 for nonmembers and are
available at both the D. Dan and Betty
it, Benjamin Adelman, chairman of the
Kahn Building in West Bloomfield and
'POI IERY PARADISE
Friends of the Israel Exploration Society.
the Jimmy Prentis Morris Building in
The models will be displayed on the
Oakland Community College's Royal
Oak Park. For tickets, call (248) 661-
first level of the gallery and educational
Oak Campus potters, all advanced stu-
7649 or (248) 967-4030.
materials for both children and adults
dents or alumni of OCC's Ceramic
will be available to view on the second
Technology Program, celebrate their
level.
24th annual Potters Market this year
MASTERFUL MODELS
The gallery is located in the D. Dan
Dec. 2-5.
The Janice Charach Epstein
and Betty Kahn Building of the Jewish
Featuring more than 130 potters
Museum/Gallery's next exhibit will focus
Community in West Bloomfield. Gallery
exhibiting their work in a variety of
DAUGHTER & DAD
styles, forms and-techniques and with an
expected 10,000 visitors, the potters
market is the largest sale of its kind in
the country. Hand-built, wheel-thrown,
raku and pit-fired pottery as well as
high- and medium-fired stoneware and
porcelain will be featured. Pieces are
continuously restocked throughout the
weekend.
Looking for a last-minute Chanuka
gift? Check out the cooking and serving
pieces, sculpture and wall art, garden
items, tiles and jewelry that will fill the
aisles of the market, located at the
United Food and Commercial Worker's
Union Hall in Madison Heights. The
12,000-square-foot hall is located at 876
Horace Brown Drive, two blocks south
of 13 Mile Road between Stephenson
Highway and John R
The preview and advance sale, with
an admission fee of $10, takes place 6-9
p.m. Thursday, Dec 2. Admission is free
10 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Saturday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday,
Dec. 3-5. For more information, call
(248) 544-4974.
"LIBERTY' FOR ALL
At 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 30, the
Detroit Film Theatre at the Detroit
Institute of Arts will host a special,
advance benefit premiere of Academy
Award-winning director Barry Levinson's
newest film, Liber t y Heights, a dramatic
and richly comic look at the issues of
race, class and religious distinction as
seen through the eyes of a Jewish family
in the 1950s. The film isn't due to open
in area theaters until Dec. 25.
Two of the film's stars, Ben Foster
and Rebekah Johnson, will be on hand
to introduce the film, which also fea-
tures Joe Mategna, Bebe Neuwirth and
Adrien Brody.
Tickets are $10, and all proceeds ben-
efit the DFT. As an added bonus, tickets
to the Liberty Heights premiere also will
include free admission to a special
marathon screening of Levinson's other
Baltimore-based films, Diner, Tin Men
and Avalon, which will take place at the
DIA on Dec 4.
For more information and to reserve
tickets for the Nov. 30 DFT fund-raiser,
phone the DIA's department of film at
(313) 833-4686.
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