Com m un ity
Weiss Directs
Nursery School
Jordana Weiss, social worker, Jewish
educator, Federation professional and
mother of two pre-schoolers, will
become director of Adat Shalom nurs-
ery school and kindergarten in July.
She will succeed Dottie Levitsky,
who retired after
launching the
school and
directing it for
most of its 31
years.
Weiss earned a
master's degree
in social work
from the
University of
Jordana Weiss
Maryland and a
second master's
degree in Jewish
studies from Baltimore Hebrew
University.
She has taught at Conservative
congregations and is a former staff
member of the Jewish Community
Center and Jewish Family Service of
Baltimore. She enriched her back-
ground with Hebrew courses here and
in Israel and through a program in
early childhood development.
Weiss spent five years as assistant
director of the Planning and Agency
Relations Department for the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit.
Her work has included programs for
children with special needs and allo-
cation of funds to local day schools
and educational agencies.
She has served the Federation's
Alliance for Jewish Education in
forming its vision for the community
and is now staff person to the Max
M. Fisher Jewish Community
Foundation, where she helps develop
new and innovative community pro-
grams.
Temple Israel
Hosts Carnival
The Youth Federation of Temple Israel
will present its annual Purim carnival
noon-3 p.m. Sunday, March 4.
There will be food, contests, prizes,
raffles, and games for the entire fami-
ly. There will also be a blood drive
and a bone marrow screening spon-
sored by the Temple Israel
Brotherhood from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Tickets are available at the Temple
Israel religious school. In advance,
tickets are $4; at the door, $5.
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Purim Fun At
Adat Shalom
Adat Shalom Synagogue will mark
Purim starting Sunday, March 4.
The synagogue's Education and
Youth department will sponsor two
Purim carnivals. "Haman's Hideaway,"
for children 2-5 years old, will include
moon walks, a magic show and all the
games a youngster can play for $5.
Elementary school children will have
games and prizes at "Mordechai's
Marvelous Magical Museum." Tickets
can be purchased in $6 packets. The
carnivals run from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Lunch and snacks will be available to
purchase.
At 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 8,
Adat Shalom will hold a mega-
megillah evening beginning with a
break the Fast of Esther buffet supper.
There is a $4 per person charge; reser-
vations are required. Dinner will be
followed by a traditional reading by
Adat Shalom teen megillah readers as
well as two Purim performances by
Adat Shalom's Popcorn Players, Alice
from Wonderland and Dorothy from
Oz, at 7:15 p.m. and 7:45 p.m. Both •
events will be followed by a haman-
tashen nosh.
A teen masquerade bash also will
take place that evening for participants
in the synagogue's eighth-12th-grade
Gesher and Nosh cri Drash programs.
Synagogue teens will read the
megillah once again on Purim morn-
ing, Friday, March 9, beginning at 7
a.m.
Adat Shalom will conclude Purim
festivities with its annual Purim party
plus event on Saturday, March 10.
The evening will honor the congrega-
tion's executive director, Alan Yost, for
20 years of commitment and service
to the synagogue. The evening will
begin with hors d'oeuvres and cock-
tails at 7:30 p.m. A sit-down dinner
with music and dancing will follow.
Winners of the congregation's annual
Purim fund-raiser will be drawn that
evening. A $25 ticket admits two to
the party and provides one ticket in
the Purim drawing. Chairing the parry
event are Jams and Sam Holcman,
Shelley and Ed Kohl, Lori and Steven
Roth.
Throughout the week, Adat
Shalom nursery, kindergarten and reli-
gious school students will participate
in a variety of classroom experiences
related to Purim.
For information about any of the
events, call the synagogue office, (248)
851-5100.
Purim Parcels
To Be Packed
Community members are invited to the
Max M. Fisher Building, 6735
Telegraph, Bloomfield Township, from
9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, March 4, to
assemble shalach manot (Purim parcels)
food packages as part of the annual
Purim Parcel Project.
Participants will decorate plates and
assemble parcels with at least two kinds
of treats, The parcels will then be deliv-
ered by volunteers to recipients from
many Detroit area agencies, including
the Jewish Home for Aged, Jewish
Vocational Service, Kosher Meals on
Wheels, Yad Ezra, Kadima and Shalom
Detroit.
The project is sponsored by Jewish
Experiences for Families, a division of
the Agency for Jewish Education, and
the Jewish News.
For information on volunteering, call
Gail Greenberg, (248) 645-7860.
Purim Torah
Is On Tape
Purim begins Thursday night, March
8. Eilu v' Eilu, the adult Jewish learn-
ing project of the regional
Conservative movement, offers a dri-
vetime Torah tape library with audio-
tapes on Purim themes and topics pro-
duced by adult learning providers
from around the country.
There are also classes on Purim top-
ics taught by Rabbi Aaron Bergman,
Ruth Bergman and other local instruc-
tors.
Tapes may be borrowed at no
charge. For information, call Lisa
Parshan, (248) 593-3490.
Beth Shalom Sets
Family Shabbat
Family Shabbat will be celebrated at
11 a.m. Saturday, March 10, at
Congregation Beth Shalom. The
event is an abbreviated traditional
Conservative Shabbat service led by
congregants.
There will be opportunities for
Torah honors. Children will be
encouraged to participate through
songs and creative activities. A
Kiddush will follow the service.
Talk Planned
On Rabbis' Role
Steven Bayme, director of the
American Jewish Committee's
Department of Contemporary
Jewish Life, will be keynote speaker
at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 6, at a
Metro Detroit Chapter program on
"The Ever-
Changing Role of
Rabbis in America."
The program
will take place at
the Max M. Fisher
Federation
Building, 6735
Telegraph, in
Bloomfield
Steven Bayme
Township.
He holds the
rank of adjunct
professor at the Wurzweiler School
of Social Work, Yeshiva University.
He has published articles on family
policy, intermarriage, liberal
Judaism, Jewish parenting, Jewish
responses to modernity and modern
Orthodoxy.
New rabbis to the community
will participate in the evening's pro-
gram and the audience will have the
opportunity to meet them at a post-
talk reception. There is no charge.
Kadima Hosts
Learning Forum
Southfield-based Kadima's first in a series
of educational forums, "Dual Diagnosis:
Eating Disorders/Mental Illness," featur-
ing Ann Weeks Moye and Dr. Paul
Gutterman, will be 7-9 p.m. Wednesday,
March 14, at Congregation Beth
Shalom.
Moye is a psychologist ire practice at
Dennis & Moye & Associates in
Bloomfield Hills. Her experience
includes positions as a psychological con-
sultant at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook
Middle School, affiliation with
Children's Hospital of Michigan
Research Grant, Eating Order Project;
clinical director, Midwestern Educational
Resources Center.
Gutterman is a practicing psychiatrist
in Farmington Hills, as well as medical
director of psychotherapy and counseling
services in Northville; consulting psychi-
atrist, Department of Physical Medicine
Pain Clinic, William Beaumont
Hospital,_ Royal Oak.
There is a $10 fee. Call Kadima, (248)
559-8325, to attend or for information.