The Laker Family & Congregation Shaarey Zedek Mixed Media cordially invite you to a pre-Chanukah presentation of lights A Cantata by renowned Israeli composer Raymond Goldstein Sunday, December 3 • 3:00 P.M. Congregation Shaarey Zedek - Southfield featuring Cantor Chaim Najman • The Shaarey Zedek Synagogue Choir, Youth Choir and guest soloists with an instrumental ensemble directed by Eugene Zweig Weeicend Dinner Special Served Fr‘daY. Saturday and Sunday r =a MONDAY THRU THURSDAY • DEC. 4-7 • AFTER 3:00 P.M. 2 0 C3 /C3 EN TIRE F000 BILL Valid with coupon only • 1 coupon per couple • Not valid with any other discount • Excludes dinner for two • Dine in only • Expires 12/07/00 r FRIDAY THRU SUNDAY • DEC. 1, 2, 3 • AFTER 3:00 P.M. -1:31=1 C=I EVERY DINNER ENTRE E 1 MI YOUR PAR TY (over $6.00) L • • Must present coupon • Dine in Only No good with Senior Discount • Expires 12/03/00 Newly Remodeled FAMILY RESTAURANT 29221 NORTHWESTERN HWY. (Corner of 12 Mile Rd.) Southfield • C24133 35E1-2363 "A vegetarian treat in West Bloomfield." Bob Talbert, March '99 " I just had to find out what so many people were raving about." Danny Raskin, June '99 r I 0 c)/ OFF ENTIRE 0 BILL 1 Lunch & Dinner 1. Expires 12/31/2000 I UI ETARIAN (248) 926-6711 6175 HAGGERTY • WEST BLOOMFIELD New One Woman Oprah Winfrey, long ago a poor 4- year-old girl in rural Mississippi, would watch her grandmother boil clothes in a big pot through the screen door. "Girl, you better watch me because you're going to have to learn to do this," her grandmother scolded. "No, Grandma, I won't," thought Winfrey, but wouldn't dare speak her feelings. "I am better than this." And she still is better than that. How fitting that Winfrey would cross paths with the Weizmann Institute of Science. Both the institution and the talk-show host have dedicated them- selves to doing something better, improving the welfare of humanity. The Chicago Region of the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science, an Israel-based world center of medical and health research and graduate edu- cation, crossed Winfrey's path this October. It saluted the television talk- show queen at a gala dinner at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel for her "com- passionate vision of community," according to William Novick, nation- al vice president of the Weizmann Institute. Weizmann is creating the Oprah Winfrey Fund for Biomedical Research in honor of her commit- ment to health and the well being of all people. The fund will support an array of research in dis- eases such as cancer, mul- tiple sclerosis, diabetes, arthritis, AIDS, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, as well as on women's health, conception and fetal development. Famed Chicago restaurateur and dinner chair Richard Melman corn- pared Winfrey to Weizmann by say- ing, "She works on the spirit the way Weizmann works on the physical." Her influence has transcended the television world. Winfrey has devot- ed energies to publishing, music, film, philanthropy, education, health Oprah Winfrey: A research fund at Israel's Weizmann Institute has been named in her honor. em and fitness and social awareness. Some of Winfrey's devotion to the welfare of others — channeled through her Emmy-winning television talk show, which has aired for 14 seasons — stemmed from a trip to Israel. Several years ago, Winfrey visited Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. She stood in the museum "chilled," she explained to the Weizmann gala crowd of more than 2,000 people. She had heard and read the stories before, but being there "changed the trajectory of my life expe- rience." "I found it hard to be in that place, in that museum, and to allow myself as a human being to understand what one man — Hider — could do." How could just one person so alter an entire people, Winfrey asked herself at the time. "The answer for me was, if one man could garner the forces to kill 6 million Jews, what could one African American woman do with a talk show?" Winfrey said. "So I came back, as everyone does who has that experience, willing to be changed."