Middle East
Melody
Israel musical ensemble enchants Detroit students.
DIANA LIEBERMAN
Staff Writer
El
Darma's musical tour included
Israeli, Middle Eastern and Balkan
music, along with improvisation and
contemporary styles.
Sponsoring Sela and his ensemble
was the Mid East/West Festival, under
the direction of Sylvia Kaufman of
Muskegon. Local sponsors of the festi-
val include Bank One and the Jewish
Community Council of Metropolitan
Detroit.
This school year, the festival fea-
tured three musical ensembles, while
also providing schools with a detailed
classroom curriculum on Israel and
Turkey. D
e looked like the Pied
Piper, a thin eccentrically
dressed fellow, closing his
eyes in ecstasy as he played
a haunting melody.
And when he called the young peo-
ple of Detroit up to the stage, they
came in droves.
However, that's where the resem-
blance between Eyal Sela and the Pied
Piper ends. While the fictional charac-
ter led his young followers into obliv-
ion inside a mountain, Sela, the Israeli
master of the clarinet
and ethnic wind instru-
The clarinet takes
ments, wanted only to
Sela to another place.
introduce the students
to new horizons in
music.
Sela and his ensemble
of highly trained musi-
cians, Darma, appeared
in Detroit April 25-27.
They performed and
conducted workshops at
three middle schools
and two elementary
schools, all in the
Detroit Public School
system. In addition, the
five-member ensemble
performed twice for
Detroit student groups
at the Detroit Opera
House.
Granholm Addresses
Bonds Dinner
Volunteers
Recognized
Michigan Attorney General Jennifer
Granholm will be the
speaker at the 2001
State of Israel Bonds
Attorney Division
Tribute Dinner hon-
oring Judge Martin
Doctoroff and Judge
Michael D. Schwartz.
The dinner will
be 6 p.m.
Jennifer
Wednesday, May 16,
Granholm
at Congregation
Shaarev Zedek.
Judges Doctoroff and Schwartz will
receive the Eleanor Roosevelt
Humanities Award in recognition of
their contributions to the legal profes-
sion and for their years of dedicated
public service.
For dinner information, call the
Detroit Israel Bonds office, (248) 342-
6555 or (888) 352-6556.
In honor of National Volunteer Week,
the Jewish Home and Aging Services
hosted its annual Volunteer Recognition
Party at the Fleischman Residence /
Blumberg Plaza in West Bloomfield. The
speaker was Ellen Labes, co-chair,
Commission on Jewish Elderly Services.
Recipients of special volunteer awards
included: Volunteer of the year, Howard
and Sheldon Green; Auxilian of the Year,
Rose Cooper; Community Group of the
Year, Temple Israel's Caring Committee;
Young Adult of the Year, Rachel
Jacobson; Youth of the Year, Jacob and
Emily Rossberg; Religious Volunteer of
the Year, David Hauer; JHAS
Guardianship Program Volunteer of the
Year, Molly Diamond and Anna Mickel;
Jewish Community Chaplaincy Program
Volunteer of the Year, Paul Lefkowitz
and Yeshivas Darchei Torah; Dorothy
and Peter Brown Center Volunteer of the
Year, Mae Moss; Auxiliary President's
Award, Mary Tarnow.
The Golden Hearts Award recognizes
outstanding volunteers over 80 years of
age at the Jewish Home and Aging
Services. They are Florence Aaron,
Rosalie Bassin, Beatrice Cohen, Molly
Diamond, Gretl Frank, Andrew
Gawronsky, Marian Goldman, Bessie
Kutnick, Israel Landa, Eve Lieberman,
Eva Maister, Sadie Maltzman, Ethel
Marks, Anna Mickel, Muriel Robbins,
Merry Silber, Leo Weber, Ida Wright.
BBYO Directors
Meet May 24
The Michigan BBYO Board of
Directors will hold its annual meeting
7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 24, at the
Jewish Community
Center in West
Bloomfield. The
speaker will be Allan
Gonsher of Omaha,
Neb.
Gorisher is presi-
dent of Kids Inc., a
professional counsel-
ing agency.
Allan Gonsher
The meeting will
feature the election
and installation of the Michigan BBYO
Board of Directors for the 2001-2002
program year. A dessert reception will
follow. For reservations, call BBYO by
May 20, (248) 788-0700.
JCC Hosts
Art Show
Eyal Sela and Darma are accompanied by Detroit Public School students at the
Detroit Opera House.
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Jeff Johnson, a kinetic artist, will
have his art works on display at the
Jewish Community Center in Oak
Park May 13-20.
On Tuesday, May 15, at 7:30
p.m., Johnson will discuss his work.
A reception will follow. The public
is invited to attend, free of charge.
For information, call the JPM
building, (248) 967-4030.
Volunteers Needed
For 'Greening'
Women are needed to help turn an
urban park green Wednesday, May 16.
Volunteers will meet for breakfast at 8:15
a.m. at the Max M. Fisher Federation
Building in Bloomfield Township and
then spend the morning planting trees at
the Elisabeth Gordon Sachs Park on
Jefferson Avenue, east of the Renaissance
Center in downtown Detroit.
Carpools will return to the Federation
building at 1 p.m. The event is a com-
bined effort ofTikkun Olam Volunteers
(TOV), a program of the Jewish
Federation Women's Campaign and
Education Department and Greening
Detroit.
Judy Rubin is chair of TOV; Arlene
Selik is associate chair. Paula Glazier is
president of the Federation Women's
Campaign and Education Department;
Susie Pappas is vice president.
For information, call Alaine
Waldshan, (248) 203-1486.