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Spirituality

President Beverly Liss displays her
Passover table at last year's table display.

JAMIE ROSEN

College Intern

T

o begin the Jewish holiday
season, the Sisterhood of
Adat Shalom will launch its
second annual Hiddur
Mitzvah — Celebrating the Holidays in
Style on Monday, Aug. 27.
"It's a nice way of sharing holiday tra-
ditions," says Sisterhood Co-President
Linda Warner of Farmington Hills.
"This is one thing we all have in corn-
mon — we all set tables. The event has
provided us with many more ways to
express ourselves through our tables."
The event includes a patron evening
and preview parry, "Orchestrating the
Holidays with Culinary and Musical

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Adat Shalom
annual event helps bring
new ideas to holiday tables.

Delights," which will open the gala.
Guests will enjoy a wine and dessert
reception, along with a performance by
Adat Shalom Cantor Howard Glantz, a
cooking demonstration by gourmet
chef Annabel Cohen and the opening
of the holiday table exhibition.
Tuesday's all-day event begins at 9:30

a.m., followed by a full day of demon-
strations. New editions to this year's
program include the patron evening, a
baby-sitting service available by
appointment and a boutique, which
will include clothing for the holidays,
Jewish items and kosher cookbooks.
A table-setting highlight last year

were the charger plates, decorative
dishes placed under dinner plates. The
suggestion proved so popular, a local
store sold out after the event.
A Thanksgiving table — "an
American holiday as viewed in a
Jewish home" — also will be added to
the table exhibition by Adat Shalom
President Beverly Liss of West
Bloomfield.
"As Americans, it's so important for
us to celebrate our freedom because it
is so important to the Jewish people,"
says event co-chairwoman Shelly
Perlman of Southfield.
The event is part of the sisterhood's
ongoing efforts to raise money for the
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Torah Fund campaign of the Women's

