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presents the
Annual Coleman Mopper Memorial Lecture

Paul Gauguin, Post-Impressionism
and the Decorative Arts

Liebman recounted the bind some
Reform congregations have found
themselves in upon inviting non-
Jewish parents and other relatives for
an aliya (call to the Torah) during
their offspring's bar or bat mitzvah.
"Is the presence of so many non-
Jews a good thing, or does it indicate a
weakness of the continuity of
American Jewry?" He said there is a
danger of trivializing Judaism by mak-
ing it "what the individual finds
meaningful, versus what serves
Judaism."
Leo Goldstein of Farmington Hills,
who attended the lecture with his wife
Betty, agreed with Liebman that "We
have lost standards. But I don't know
that kosher is the only standard. How
we behave to others is more impor-
tant."
For Inge Jordan of Southfield,
keeping Jewish ethnicity is "a matter
of knowing Jewish history, and know-
ing about Judaism." She said feeling
that one belongs is not necessarily
about following kashrut, but whether
"you know your history, you know
your prophets."
Liebman started his program by
admitting to having no answers. He
said his intent would be to focus his
social scientist's lens on the state of
affairs in Judaism as it stands today.
Replying to the evening's final
question, "Is there hope?" he said,
"Only if we recognize there is a con-
flict between the American values we
have come to think of as beneficial,
and basic Jewish values." ❑

April 8 at 2 p.m.
DIA Lecture Hall

Beyond his critical acclaim as a painter and sculptor and his
friendship with Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin worked
extensively in the decorative arts, a side of this extraordinary artist
the public has rarely glimpsed.

Join June Hargrove, professor of Art History at the
University of Maryland, as she reveals Gauguin as a
brilliant innovator in the decorative arts who worked
in stoneware, glass, wood and found objects.
The lecture is free with museum admission.
For more information call 313/833-4249.

Come see the art and learn about the artist.

5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit * 313/833-7900 * www.dia.org

La petite parisienne, 1881;
Paul Gauguin, French.

The Coleman Mopper Memorial Lecture was established in 1998 in honor of Dr. Coleman Mopper,
a DIA trustee and an active collector of European painting and sculpture.

Programs made possible with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs.

At Designs Unlimited, Quality Is Our Custom.

High School
Yearbook '00

The Jewish News will honor
Michigan's brightest Jewish high
school seniors in our "Cap &
Gown" supplement May 12.
Deadline for nominations is
April 20.
Area high schools have been
asked to distribute our nominat-
ing form to their eight Jewish
students with the highest
unweighted grade point averages
(minimum 3.6. required).
If you feel you qualify but
have not been contacted, please
check with your counselor.
Students living outside Detroit's
northwest suburbs or Ann Arbor
should contact Alan Hitsky at
the Jewish News, (248) 354-
6060, ext. 259.

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