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Thursday, May 25, 2000, 7 p.m.

Jimmy Prentis Morris Building
A. Alfred Taubman Jewish Community Campus
15110 W. 10 Mile Road, Oak Park

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Sunday, June 4, 2000, 2 p.m.

And Upon Your Gates

Newest tenants have mezuzot installed
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Eugetlie and Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus
6600 W. Maple, West Bloomfield

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From Pesach to Shavuot

An interactive, hands-on family program
Learn about the Omer, a seven-week period
lasting from Passover to Shavuot.

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$2.50 per child • Families of 4 or more $8
Parents are free!

For JPM Building reservations by May 19,
call Andy Roisman, (248) 967-4030.
For Kahn Building reservations by Friday, May 26, •
call Lorraine Morris, (248) 661-7649.

Funded in part by the &oldie and Harold Soble Foundation

Sunday, June 4, 2000, 4 p.m.

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DIANA LIEBERMAN

Staff Writer

he pictures are on the walls and the carpets
are installed.
So, on May 4, the newest tenants of the
Max M. Fishes. Federation Building held an
open house and mezuza installation.
The building, on Telegraph Road south of Maple in
Bloomfield Township, has become the center for agencies
and activities of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit. Its latest additions are the Agency for Jewish
Education and the Michigan/Israel Connection. Because
of their interconnected activities, the two have separate
but connected suites on the third floor.
"I love my new office here. It's very professional,"
said Lisa Soble-Siegmann, director of the AJE's
Jewish Experiences For Families.
AJE president James Jonas, who helped
design the new space, agreed. "Certain things
are downsized [from the former AJE offices on
12 Mile Road in Southfield], but it's more effi-
cient."
Rabbi Paul Yedwab of Temple Israel spoke at
the mezuza installation at the Michigan/Israel
Connection offices, while Mark Myers, com-
munity shaliach, affixed the mezuza to the
doorframe.
Installing the AJE mezuza was Rabbi Steven
Weil of Young Israel of Oak Park, assisted by
Judah Isaacs, AJE's executive director. Rabbi
Weil referred to the biblical injunction to
"write them upon the doorposts of your house,
and upon your gates."
"In practice, every day of their lives these people ful-
fill the words and the point of the mezuza," he said. ❑

Above: At an open
house, community
shaliach Mark Myers
attaches a mezuza to
the doorframe at the
Michigan/Israel
Connection ofices,
while Rabbi Paul
Yedwab speaks to
the well-wishers.

Below: Judah Isaacs,
executive director
of Agency for Jewish
Education, is in
his new office.