MEDICAL NEWS BREAKTHROUGH
Lunch And Learn Marks 13 Years
SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN
Staff-Writer
mysticism).
Typically leading the classes himself,
Rabbi Tolwin, educational director of the
Birmingham-based Jewish education
center, occasionally invites guest lectur-
ers, ranging from a psychologist to a
Jewish funeral home director to a scribe.
Rabbi Tzvi Hochstadt, former Aish
rabbi, also led classes regularly during the
Thirteen years after founding its first
lunch-and-learn class, Rabbi Alon
Tolwin of Aish HaTorah still sees some
of the same faces he greeted the first
week. Now he's celebrating his "bar mitz-
vah" year.
In addition to
the 15 to 20 news-
paper staffers and
community mem-
bers who meet
weekly at the
Jewish News office
during their
Thursday lunch
hour, three other
Aish lunch-and-
learn programs also
have been estab-
lished in various
Learning around the Jewish News lunch table are, from left, Gary
Detroit-area sites.
Rosenberg of Huntington Woods, Daren Shavell and his mother,
"We started
Helena Shavell of Bloomfield Hills, Ron Lowy of West Bloomfield
when Arthur
and Aish HaTorah's Rabbi Alon Tolwin of Southfield.
Horwitz (Jewish
News publisher and
time he was affiliated with the organiza-
president of Jewish Renaissance Media)
tion. "He added an element of structure
had the idea to do a series of classes on
and brought the Jewish News staff back
hospice care and the associated responsi-
in greater numbers than had been there
bilities," Rabbi Tolwin remembers.
for a long time," Rabbi Tolwin says.
The rabbi says it set the stage for
"The original intent was to start
other classes geared toward communi-
something that would create change in
ty issues and Judaic study, including
the city — and it did," the rabbi says of
Chumash (the Five Books of Moses,)
what
he calls "the longest running
Pirkei Avot (Ethics of our Fathers) and
lunch-and-learn
in the city." 0
introduction to kabbalah (Jewish
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