Community Commemorations
Holocaust Memorial Center Shaaray Zedek Plans
Sets Annual Commemoration Memorial Service
Members of the U. S. armed forces, representing
Selfridge Air National Guard Base, will present a color
guard to open the annual Holocaust Memorial Academy
at 1 p.m. Sunday, April 22, in Handleman Hall at the
Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield.
A highlight of the ceremony will be the kindling
of candles by Holocaust survivors and their families
in memory of the 6 million who perished and
Israel's victims of terrorism.
Sponsored jointly by the Holocaust Memorial
Center and Shaarit Haplaytah, a survivors' organiza-
tion, the event is presented in cooperation with the
Jewish Community Center, Jewish Community
Council, CHAIM, Federation of Jewish Child
Survivors of the Holocaust, B'nai B'rith Great Lakes
Region, Anti-Defamation League and Ecumenical
Division of the Archdiocese of Detroit.
Saul Waldman, HMC's development chair, and
Alan Zekelman, HMC president, are co-chairs.
Guests will be welcomed by Abraham Weberman,
president of Shaarit Haplaytah.
Memorial prayers and musical selections will be
offered by Cantor David Montifiore of
Congregation Beth Ahm, accompanied on the piano
by Cantor Sholom Kalib. Rabbi Charles H.
Rosenzveig, founder and executive vice president of
the HMC, will deliver the memorial address.
Greetings will be expressed by Dr. Steven D.
Grant, past president of the HMC; Gus Berenholz,
HMC executive committee chair; Larry Wolfe, presi-
dent of the Jewish Community Center; Erna
Gorman, representing the Federation of Jewish
Child Survivors of the Holocaust; Dr. Charles Silow,
president of CHAIM (Children of Holocaust
Survivors Association in Michigan); Richard Nodel,
chair of the ADL; and Kathleen Straus, president of
the Jewish Community Council. Sheri Ferber
Kaufman will offer a dramatic reading.
New this year will be a modern dance performance
by an ensemble from the American Dance Academy
of Commerce and choreographed to music from
Schindler's List by dance instructor Jan McDonald.
This pre-teen company includes Leigh Baecker,
Brittany Cyr, Chelsey Forry, Katie Geary, Sarah
Hakala, Jessica Hersh, Justine LaRose, Nia Silao,
Kelley Unrath, Rachel Vick and Sarah Zuccaro.
Inside the Holocaust Memorial Center, guests will
light yahrtzeit candles and be led in memorial prayers.
Reservations are not necessary. The facility is
wheelchair accessible.
JCC, DMC Co-Host
Shoah Candlelighting
Survivors will light memorial candles in tribute to the
6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust at a memorial
program set for 12:45 to 2 p.m. Monday, April 23, at
the Jewish Community Center in Oak Park.
Afterward, musicians Ted and Laura Schwartz will
perform solemn Jewish selections.
DMC Sinai Hospital's program for Holocaust sur-
vivors is cosponsor of the free program.
The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit's
Michigan/Israel Connection will host a tribute to
Israel's men and women who have died in the
defense of the Jewish nation at a Yom HaZikaron
memorial ceremony at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 24,
at Congregation Shaarey Zedek, Southfield.
Brigadier General Eyval Giladi and an Israel
Defense Force soloist will be featured.
Judy Loebl and Daphna Feldman are co-chairs. For
information, call Bat-Ami Abas, (248) 645-7878.
Yeshivat Akiva Fetes
Yom HaAtzmaut
Yeshivat Akiva will host a Yom HaAtzmaut cele-
bration to honor Israel's 53rd anniversary as a state.
The event takes place at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April
25, at the school, 21100 W. 12 Mile, Southfield.
Mincha and Maariv services are at 7:30 with the
celebration to follow Yaniv and the Segulah
Orchestra will lead dancing and singing.
Falafel and light refreshments will be served. There
is no charge.
Sponsors are Akiva PTA, American Jewish
Committee Michigan Region, Friends of Akiva,
Sephardic Community of Greater Detroit, Jewish
Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit, Zionist
Organization of America Michigan Region, Joe Savin,
and Jerome S. Kaufman and Mindy Soble Kaufman.
State Slates Remembrance
Of Holocaust Victims
The Michigan Jewish Conference, in cooperation
with the office of Gov. Engler, will host the official
State Holocaust Commemoration at noon
Wednesday, April 25, at the Capitol Building
Rotunda in Lansing.
A chartered bus will leave from the Jewish
Community Center in Oak Park at 9:30 a.m. and
return at approximately 3:30 p.m. The bus trip is
free, but seating is limited. For bus reservations, call
the Jewish Community Council, (248) 642-5393.
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the begin-
ning of the genocide of European Jews. The theme
this year, "Remembering the Past for the Sake of the
Future," underscores that remembrance also should
be an act of hope.
Gov. Engler, lawmakers and survivors will partici-
pate in the ceremony. Photographs from "Portraits
of Honor: Detroit's Holocaust Survivors" will be on
display.
Survivors and state officials will read messages that
survivors have left for future generations. Sandor
Slomovits of "Gemini" will perform.
The Michigan Jewish Conference is a statewide
network of Jewish communities that facilitates polit-
ical and community needs.
CHAIM (Children of Holocaust Survivors
Association in Michigan), the Shaarit Haplaytah sur-
vivors organization, the Jewish Community Council
and the Holocaust Education Coalition also will
sponsor a bus for Holocaust survivors wishing to
attend the Lansing event. The Michigan Jewish
Conference will sponsor a lunch for survivors and
state officials after the ceremonies. Survivors interest-
ed in taking the bus to Lansing should call Dr.
Charles Silow, (248) 356-6668.
Hillel Day School Marks
Independence Day
Israel Independence Day (Yom HaAtzmaut) will
be marked at a festival 4-7 p.m. Thursday, April
26, at Hillel Day School, 32200 Middlebelt,
Farmington Hills.
Games, arts and crafts and rides will be sold 'by a
punch card: 20 punches for $10. Food and bever-
ages will be sold by cash only. The Tel Aviv Cafe
will feature Jerusalem Pizza, tuna and falafel sand-
wiches, bagels, ice cream, soda and water.
T-shirts designed by Hillel student Brandon
Borovoy will be sold as well. Borovoy won the T-
shirt contest offered to Hillel students in grades six
to eight; the Farmington Hills resident is a sixth-
grader at Hillel.
Michele Borovoy and Beth Margolin are co-
chairs of the festival.
Speaker Relates
Shoah And Israel
In observance of Yom HaAtzmaut (Israel
Independence Day), Adat Shalom Synagogue will
host Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, dean of the
Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies and vice presi-
dent of the University of Judaism in Los Angeles.
In a free lecture at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 26,
the published author will discuss "Destruction,
Response, Renewal: The Meaning of the
Holocaust and Israel for American Judaism."
Rabbi Artson is a member of the faculty of the
Wexner Heritage Foundation and the 1996 hon-
oree of the Orange County, Calif, Bureau of
Jewish Education for "outstanding contributions
to Jewish education."
The Farmington Hills synagogue's adult study
co-chairs are Joyce Weingarten and Elaine Robins.
Adat Shalom is at 29901 Middlebelt.
Shabbat Rocks For
Yom HaAtzmaut
Adat Shalom Synagogue will host a "Shabbat
Rocks" Kabbalat Shabbat Service in celebration of
Yom HaAtzmaut (Israel Independence Day) at 6
p.m. Friday, April 27.
Afterward, at 7 p.m., Rosenberg Kosher
Catering will cater dinner. An Israeli songfest,
dancing and the cutting of a giant birthday cake
will follow.
There is an $18 dinner charge for adults and a
$10 fee for children 3 and younger. Reservations
are required: (248) 851-5100.
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