Cantors Assembly Opens Workshops
The Cantors Assembly will open daily
seminars at the annual convention in
Dearborn at no charge. Workshops are:
Sunday, May 21:
7:30 p.m.: Concert of new Friday
night service by Michael Isaacson, corn-
poser in Los Angeles.
8:45 p.m.: Concert of new cantorial
talent with recent graduates of the H.L.
Miller Cantorial School of the Jewish
Theological Seminary.
Monday, May 22:
9:30 a.m.:
Sephardi music for
the Ashkenazi syna-
gogue, with
Dr./Cantor Ramon
Tasat from Iraq and
Baltimore.
10:45 a.m.:
"Looking for God
Rabbi Lawrence
in the Year 2000,"
Hoffman
with Rabbi
Lawrence
Hoffman, Professor of Liturgy at
Ni rn Workshop:
kWorkshop -titled, "Teaching
ewsh Values, Texts and Prayer
h Musk," will be offered to
ucators, Sunday 4 p.m. at the
yatt Regency Hotel in Dearborn,
Led by cantors and educators from
around t h e country For informa-
Sadler at the
for Jewish' Education, (248)
Hebrew Union College.
1p.m.: Music of Toronto composer
Srul Glick with the Beth Tikvah Choir
of Toronto.
2:15 p.m.: The presentation of
Shabbat Yachad,
commissioned of
new music for
Shabbat morning
for the millenium,
with commentary
by Rabbi Moshe
Tutnauer, from
Israel, visiting rabbi
at Har Zion
Rabbi Moshe
Tutnauer
Temple in
Philadelphia.
Tuesday, May 23:
11 a.m.: "Synagogue 2000:
Implications for the Future," with Dr.
Ronald Wolfson,
dean of education
and vice president
of University of
Judaism.
1:30 p.m.: The
music of
Dr./Cantor Sholom
Kalib, composer,
Eastern Michigan
University professor Dr. Ronald
and Flint cantor;
Wolfion
Detroit Zamir
Chorale, directed
by Ben Cohen with soloist; Cantors
Louis Danto from Toronto, Cantor
David Lefkowitz from New York City
and Cantor Moshe Taube from
Pittsburgh.
3:30 p.m.: A new musical Siddur for
Shabbat by Cantor Sol Zim from
Queens, New York.
Wednesday, May 24:
10:45 a.m.: Creating musical pro-
gramming for the synagogue, with
Cantor Lawrence Avery from New
Rochelle.
3 p.m.: New Jewish music presenta-
tion of newly published works by Oxford
Music, Sounds Write, Transcontinental
and Cantors Assembly.
All events take place at the Hyatt
Regency Hotel in Dearborn. For a guest
pass, call Gerrie Spalter (248) 357-5544.
JNF Canada
Tribute Set
The 2000 Negev Dinner will pay trib-
ute to Carl S. Cohen on Thursday,
June 1, at the Caboto Club in
Windsor, Ontario.
Cohen is a past president of the
Windsor Jewish National Fund,
Congregation Beth El and B'nai
B'rith Lodge 1011. He is a founding
partner of the law firm of Paroian,
Raphael, Courey, Cohen and
Houston. He is also president of the
family business, Merchants Paper
Company Windsor Ltd.
Proceeds for the dinner will go
toward the greening of Mt. Scopus in
Jerusalem. The keynote speaker is Peter
C. Newman, a Canadian political and
business columnist and author.
For information, call the Windsor
JNF, (519) 969-8733.
Community House Hosting Newsman
Charles Krause
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Charles A. Krause, a foreign affairs corre-
spondent, will speak at the Community
House in Birmingham at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, May 25.
Until last July, Krause — a native of
Detroit, a graduate of Bloomfield Hills
Cranbrook and a bar mitzvah at
Temple Israel — reported for the
NewsHour on PBS from Central and
South America, Haiti, Cuba, the
Philippines, Mexico, Canada, Eastern
Europe, the former Soviet Union, and
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait during the
1991 Gulf War.
An Emmy finalist twice, he won a
1997 Emmy for his piece on the Middle
East, "The Politics of Peace."
Krause left the NewsHour to join
Perception Films in Montreal. He plans
to work on a series of documentaries
on international issues as well as write a
book on his experiences as a foreign
correspondent.
At the Community House, Krause will
share his most recent project, "The
Americas in the 21st Century," a docu-
mentary exploring how trade, demo-
graphic and political developments in the
western hemisphere will impact the
United States in the new century. The•
program — reported, written and hosted
by Krause — will be broadcast by PBS
stations throughout the country this year.
Tickets for the talk are $12. To regis-
ter, call the Community House program
department, (248) 644-5832.
Irnai Moshe
Welcomes Babies
Congregation B'nai Moshe will wel-
come its newest members at a New
Baby Shabbat held during services on
Saturday, May 20. A special prayer
will be said as babies born from
January 1999 through April 2000 are
called to the bima.
Those being honored are Allie,
daughter of Robert and Jill Friedman;
Jonah, son of Joel and Stine Grand;
Andrew, son of Marina and Isaak
Gross; Max, son of Jody and Joel
Kersch; and Deanne, daughter of
Paula and Richard Koscik.
Also being honored are Adam, son
of Mindy and Jonathan Liebman;
Samantha, daughter of Marsha and
Paul Margolis; Jacob, son of Fran and
Aaron Martin; Zoe, daughter of
Sheryl and Gregg Nathanson; Evan,
son of Ellen and Joseph Starr; and
Ilana, daughter of Jodi and Robert
Weinfeld.
Beth Ahm
Honors Servetter
Congregation Beth Ahm will honor
Cyril Servetter as the Jewish
Theological Seminary honoree during
Shabbat morning services on May 20.
He will be present-
ed with the JTS
Shin award at the
16th annual JTS
dinner Tuesday,
May 30, at Adat
Shalom Synagogue.
Servetter was a
teacher in the
Cyril Servetter Detroit school sys-
tem at Burton
Elementary for 40
years. He is a past director of the state
of Michigan's multi-cultural multi-
ethnic project. He taught Hebrew
school at Congregations B'nai David,
Beth Moses and Beth Shalom and was
educational director at Beth Shalom
for 20 years. Servetter frequently leads
morning services and Torah reading at
Beth Ahm.
The Jewish Theological Seminary is
the spiritual and academic center of
Conservative Judaism. Funds raised at
the patron and gala dinner go for stu-
dent scholarships.
Beth Ahm member Sheryl Katzman
is in rabbinical school at JTS.
For dinner information or reserva-
tions, call the Detroit JTS office,
(248) 258-0055.