Spirituality
Music Committee Invites You To:
AN EVENING OF JAZZ
with the CHRISTA GRIX TRIO
Sunday, May 20, at 7:30 P.M.
Hors d'oeuvres,
music Sz_ dessert afterglow
Call 248 967 4020
for Reservations
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Harp, acoustic bass
& percussion
Temple Emanu-El
14450 W. Ten Mile • Oak Park
NOTICE
Jewish Apartments & Services, Jewish Apartments & Services Phase IV
Inc., Jewish Apartments & Services Non-Profit Housing Corporation, JAS
Non-Profit Housing Corporation Phase VI, and Jcare, Inc. will hold the
annual meeting of members on Wednesday, June 13, 2001, at 6:00 p.m. at
the Harriett and Ben Teitel Jewish Apartments, 15106 W. Ten Mile Road,
Oak Park, Michigan, for the purpose of electing members to the Board of
Directors and for the transaction of such other business as may properly
come before the meeting.
Nominations for Directors are as follows:
First three year terms: Bruce Brickman, Rabbi Bunny Friedman, Nancy
Simpson, Robin Trepeck.
New three-year terms: Robert Colburn, Arthur Friedman,
Jack Friedman, Jonathan Podolsky, Dr. William Ross, Sheri Schiff,
David Schostak.
To fill an existing vacated three-year term ending June 2002:
Harold Etkin.
Honorary Lifetime Director: Robert Shechter.
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In accordance with the Bylaws other qualified persons may be nomi-
nated for election by a petition signed by not less than fifty (50) members
of the corporation and filed with Marsha Goldsmith Kamin, Executive
Director, not less than ten (10) days prior to the date of the Annual
Meeting. Only one (1) person may be nominated by each such petition and
no nomination shall be valid unless the nominee shall have consented to
such nomination.
Educator, Activist To Discuss
Meaning Of Modem Orthodoxy
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, educator,
activist, spokesman for modern
Orthodoxy and chief rabbi of Efrat,
Israel, will be the scholar-in-residence
at Yoi_ing Israel of Southfield May 18-
19. He will speak at Yeshivat Akiva
May 17.
Rabbi Riskin will
deliver three talks:
Friday at 9:15 p.m. fol-
lowing a community
dinner, Saturday during
morning services, and
Saturday at 7:15 p.m.
All talks will be given at
the synagogue. Dr.
Larry and Shirley
Loevventhal and Dr. Jay
and Paula Novetsky, all
of Southfield, are spon-
soring the program.
The topic of the
Rabbi Riskin
Friday evening talk is
"Modern Orthodoxy:
What Does It Mean?" The Shabbat
morning sermon will focus on the
weekly portion. On Saturday evening,
Rabbi Riskin will speak on, "The
Cultural Divide in Israel: Jew vs. Jew."
The rabbi will speak on "The State
of Israel: A View from the Front" at 8
p.m. Thursday, May 17, at Yeshiva
Akiva, 21100 W. 12 Mile, Southfield.
The $5 cost includes a dessert recep-
tion. Call Akiva for reservations: (248)
386-1625.
Rabbi Riskin was awarded a doctor-
ate from New York University's
Department of Near Eastern
Languages and Literature. He has
written two books, Women and Jewish
Divorce and the New Passover
Haggadah:
As a young rabbinical graduate, he
was the founding rabbi of the Lincoln
Square Synagogue in Manhattan. He
later participated in the fight to free
Soviet Jews and is past
chairman of the Center
for Russian Jewry.
While living in New
York, he established the
Ohr Torah High Schools
in Israel. Over rime,
these schoOls developed
into today's Ohr Torah
Stone network of high
schools, colleges, gradu-
ate programs, seminar-
ies, and rabbinical
schools with 4,000 stu-
dents. Ohr Torah Stone
has sent and teachers to
the Americas, England,
South Africa, Australia and New
Zealand.
In 1983, at the peak of his profes-
sional career in America, Rabbi Riskin
made aliyah with his family and
became the rabbi of the city of Efrat, a
community of 10,000 residents.
He believes in the right of Jews to
settle in the West Bank. At the same
time, he has fought for Palestinian
rights and dignity, establishing model
relationships with leaders and resi-
dents of neighboring Arab villages.
For information, call Esther Posner
at (248) 354-4153.
Lecture Explores
Eastern Religions
Italian Jews Focus
Of Discussions
The Jewish Community Center of
Metropolitan Detroit will host the sec-
ond lecture in a three-part series,
"Judaism Faces East," exploring the
intersection of Judaism and eastern
thought, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May
16, at the JCC in West Bloomfield.
Rabbi Hal Greenwald, JCC direc-
tor of Jewish education, will lecture
on "Can You Kvetch to the Buddha?"
The lectures are open to the public
at no charge. For information, call the
JCC's Jewish Life and Learning depart-
ment, (248) 661-7649.
The Italian Jewish community is one
of the most ancient in the world.
Rabbi Daniel Nevins of Adat
Shalom Synagogue will discuss that
community at 8 p.m. Wednesday, May
16, at the synagogue.
The following Wednesday, May
23, part two of the series will be fea-
tured at the annual synagogue meet-
ing at 7:30 p.m. followed by the dis-
cussion. The final program is set for
Wednesday, May 30, 8 p.m.
The discussions are open to the
community at no charge.