Empty Bowls Fight Hunger The Food Bank of Oakland County and Yad Ezra, the Oak Park-based kosher food pantry, will join forces for the second year to help fight hunger with an Empty Bowls Open House 1-3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 13, at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield. Families can donate $18 (per family) for a hand-made bowl and a simple meal of soup and bread. The purpose of the Empty Bowls Dinner is to raise awareness about hunger and to raise money to buy nutritious food for those in need in metro Detroit. The Bingham Farms-based Unique Restaurant Corp. will donate all the soup and bread for the event. The Third New Hope Baptist Church Choir and Temple Israel's Shir Ami Volunteer Choir will entertain guests. Younger children can enjoy the story- telling corner or visit the "Planting Table." They will be able to plant seeds (vegetable or flower) to take home and create their own windowsill garden. Master gardeners will be on hand to assist children with the planting and to answer any questions. The Empty Bowls programs mission is to ease hunger and poverty by secur- ing, storing and distributing food, information, personal care items and household products to a network of emergency food pantries, soup kitchens and shelters in Oakland County. In 1991, the Food Bank of Oakland County distributed 1.4 million pounds of food. By 1995, the figure was 3.1 million pounds. By year's end, the Food Bank — in one of the wealthiest coun- ties in the United States — will have distributed more than 6.3 million pounds of food. For information, call the JCC, (248) 661-1000. SAJECourse Asks The Doctor Seminars for Adult Jewish Enrichment (SAJE) will offer a course titled "Ask the Doctor," sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit's ElderLink. "Ask the Doctor" will take place 7:15 p.m. each Tuesday, Jan. 15-Feb. 7, at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield. Participants will discuss ways to optimize health and wellness. Registration deadline is Thursday, Jan. 10. The cost per seminar is $20; $36 for unlimited course registration. For information on the course, call Linda Blumberg, (248) 203-1468. To receive a SAJE 2002 course schedule and registration form, call the JCC, (248) 661-1000. SAJE Kickoff Features Rabbi Tickets are available for the kickoff event for SAJE-Seminars for Adult Jewish Enrichment 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 10, at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield. Rabbi Eddie Feinstein will talk on "A Brief History of Chutzpah: Our Ability to Say Yes to Life." SAJE courses will be conducted Jan. 15-Feb. 7 at both JCC locations and at off-site venues. The seminars are spon- sored by the Jewish Community Center, the Agency for Jewish Education, Federation's Alliance for Jewish Education and the Jewish News. SAJE is supported by a gift from Cis Maisel Kellman. For information, call the JCC Life and Learning Department, (248) 432- 5577. AJCommittee HostsBreaktfast The American Jewis Committee Metropolitan Detroit Chapter and the Detroit Urban League will host an "All Peoples" breakfast and program in com- memoration of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, 8 a.m. Monday, Jan. 21, at the Detroit Urban League, 208 Mack Avenue, corner of John R, Detroit. The breakfast is open to the community U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan Jeffrey Collins will speak on "Combating Terrorism and Racial Profiling: Balancing Our Individual and Collective Freedoms." Representatives of the Detroit Urban League and the AJC will respond. Beginning in 1995, the American Jewish Committee and the Detroit Urban League have joined together annually to cosponsor this program. Reservations are required, but there is no charge. James Rosenfeld and Joel Kellman are serving as AJC co-chairs of the program. 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