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o make a highly successful
program even more enticing,
planners of the third annual
Seminars for Adult Jewish
Enrichment (SAJE) made some innova-
tive changes and additions.
"We are offering courses that are very
intriguing," says Elisa Freilich, SAJE
coordinator. "We are trying to approach
everyone and hope new subjects taught
by a diverse grouping of educators will
bring in new students as well as return-
ing ones."
Classes are scheduled in areas includ-
ing Jewish spirituality, mysticism, ethics,
the Bible, Jewish law, music, cooking,
humor, senior living and Jewish parent-
ing.
Sharon Hart, Jewish Community
Center first vice president, and Irwin
Alterman, a JCC vice president, found-
ed SAJE in 1999 to offer short intro-
ductory courses on a wide variety of
Jewish subjects. They helped form a
partnership between the JCC and the
Agency for Jewish Education, then
enlisted support from the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit's
Alliance for Jewish Educa.tion and the
Jewish News.
The hope is that SAJE participants
will discover areas of interest and con',
tinue with further studies.

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"This gives just a taste of Jewish
learning from every perspective —
Orthodox, Conservative, Reform,
Reconstructionist, historical. Whatever
anyone could want is represented in this
program," says Doris Blechman of
Bloomfield Hills, who chairs this year's
program with Arthur M. Horwitz, pub-
lisher of the Jewish News.
This year, classes will be offered once
a week for four weeks, rather than in
two, three-week sessions. Blechman says
the additional week this year will enable
instructors and students to get more in
depth in their i:opics.
SAJE classes will run from Tuesday,
Feb. 27-Thursday, March 29, with no
class on March 8, when the Megillat
Esther is read for Purim.
Classes will be held primarily at the
JCC's Oak Park and West Bloomfield
buildings. Teachers include area rabbis,
cantors, educators and community lead-
ers who represent the range of Jewish
observance_ The program is open to all
adults.

New And Different

With over 550 students taking SAJE
classes last year, up from 512 the year
before, the goal for this year's SAJE,
Blechman says, is "to take a great pro-
gram a make even

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