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Elul Series
Concludes
Student Rabbi
Asszsts Tchiyah
The four-part pre-High Holiday
study series "Judaism and
Disabilities" will conclude 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 13, at the offices of
Jewish Association for Residential
Care in Farmington Hills with a
panel discussion moderated by Dr.
Mitch Parker, special needs director
at Hillel Day School of Metropolitan
Detroit in Farmington Hills and
reacher development coordinator at
Congregation Shaarey Zedek.
Panel members will be Nancie
Furgang, special needs director at
the Jewish Community Center of
Metropolitan Detroit; Robyn
Glickman, k-2 principal at Hillel
Day School and director of the
Agency for Jewish Education's Efshar
special education program; Joyce
Keller, executive director of JARC;
and Dr. David Loeffler, activist,
teacher and volunteer in the field of
disabilities and a parent of a young
man with autism. Tuition is $10 (no
charge for Jewish educators, commu-
nal agency staffers of high school-
ers). Collegians are $5.
For information or to register, call
Nancy Kaplan, (248) 593-3490.
Amber Powers, a senior at the
Reconstructionist Rabbinical
College in Philadelphia, will be a
rabbinical resource person to
Congregation T'chiyah.
Student Rabbi Powers will visit
T'chivah for the High Holidays and
one weekend a month from
September through June. She will
help members develop skills and
strengthen participation in Shabbat
and holiday services. She will also
assist in discussions, study sessions
and other programs.
Student Rabbi Powers earned a
bachelor of arts in religion/Jewish
studies from Emory University,
Atlanta. She attended Pardes
Institute in Jerusalem and is a par-
ticipant in the Wexner Graduate
Fellowship Program for Jewish
Professionals. She previously was
student rabbi at Havurat Lev
Shalem in Atlanta and student rab-
binical intern at Ramat Shalom in
Plantation, Fla.
Congregation T'chiyah is an egali-
tarian, participatory synagogue affil-
iated with the Jewish
Reconstructionist Federation. The
congregation holds weekly Shabbat
and holiday services at Royal Oak
Woman's Club. For information,
call Mary Ellen Gurewitz, (313)
366-0292.
Adat Shalom
Hosts Picnic
Adat Shalom Synagogue will
hold its annual family picnic
Sunday, Sept. 9.
"A Shrek Fest" will feature a
variety of children's activities
and family games.
The event will run from 11
a.m.-2 p.m. with a complimen-
tary pizza lunch. The communi-
ty is welcome.
The picnic is co-sponsored by
the Adat Shalom Youth and
Education Department and the
synagogue's membership and
Jewish Experiences For Families
committees. Chairing the event
are Cheryl Margolis and Jeanne
Maxbauer.
Adat Shalom's blood drive will
also take place that Sunday from
8 a.m.-2 p.m. The project is
sponsored by the synagogue's
Social Action Committee.
For information, call Adat
Shalom, (248) 851-5100.
Sefer Torah
Is Dedicated
Bais Chabad of North Oak Park
along with the Meer family invites
the Jewish community to a Sefer
Torah dedication ceremony Sunday,
Sept. 9, at Congregation Dovid Ben
Nuchim, 14800 W. Lincoln, Oak
Park.
The Torah is being donated to the
shul by the Meer family in loving
memory of their mother, the late
Norma Jean Meer (Chaya Chaya bas
Mendel). The Torah will be escorted
by a parade through north Oak Park
to its new home at the Jewish
Community Center of Metropolitan
Detroit Jimmy Prentis Morris
Building.
Torah completing will begin at 2
p.m. followed by hakafot dancing
and refreshment. The parade will
begin at 4:30 p.m.
For information, contact Chaya
Youngworth, (248) 546-9225.
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