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From Jewish Artistry
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T
he Birmingham Temple's 30th annual juried art
show runs Nov. 840, and Patty Becker of
Southfield has an artist she wants to see.
"Last year, my daughter and I bought a menorah
by Linda Buck, and we still love it," said Becker, a board mem-
ber at the temple and
the art fair's business
manager. "We're so
glad she's coming back
this year."
Buck, who special-
izes in whimsical,
brightly colored
ceramic creations, is
one of more than 100
artists from through-
out the Midwest to be
featured in the art
show, the temple's
biggest fund-raiser of
the year.
Also featured will be
drawings and paint-
ings by Davya Cohen,
prints by Ilona
Brustad, jewelry by
Cynthia Mann, glass-
Glass sculpture by Henry James
works by Homer
Yarrito of Toledo will be available at
James Yarrito and
the Birmingham Temple Art Show.
much more.
Many artists will be
on hand for the opening reception, 7-10:30 p.m. Friday, Nov.
8. There's a $15 admission fee for the reception; the show itself,
which runs 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 9 and
10, is open to the public at no charge. For information, call
(248) 477-1890.
Diana Lieberman
Jeweler's Donation Puts
Pizzazz Into P'tach Raffle
mong the prizes to be raffled off Nov. 9 at the second
annual P'tach Cafe Night is a mother-daughter jewel-
ry package that includes a custom-designed gold and
Adi 'amond necklace valued at $6,500.
But the necklace would have been much less impressive if
not for the unexpected generosity of Morris Bednarsh of MB
Jewelers in Southfield. "The ladies called and said they had a
diamond, and asked for a four-prong setting," said
Bednarsh, who's been in the jewelry business for 58 years.
"I said, 'I can make it better than that."' •
Bednarsh's donation is a foxtail chain and pave diamond .
setting for the 1.11-carat diamond, which had been donat-
ed by an anonymous friend of the special-education servic-
es organization.
The mother-daughter jewelry package also includes a Tiffany
and Co. sterling silver, heart tag charm bracelet.
It takes only one $25 raffle ticket to win the package, one of
three grand prizes at the P'tach event, starting 8:30 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 9, at Congregation Dovid Ben Nuchim, 14800
W. Lincoln in Oak Park.
Proceeds from Cafe Night will support the Detroit branch of
P'tach (Parents for Torah for All Children), a New York-based
organization that assists parents in providing an Orthodox
Jewish education for children with learning disabilities. The
group runs resource rooms at Yeshiva Beth Yehudah, Beth
Jacob School of Yeshiva Beth Yehudah, Yeshivas Darchei Torah
and Yeshivat Akiva.
Café Night also will include a dessert buffet and entertain-
ment by Benji Refaeli and Kobi Adato of the Hamsa Boys. The
evening's admission is $30, or $25 in advance. The raffle ticket
packages are additional.
•
Bednarsh said the Ftach volunteers were "doing us a favor by
coming in to ask us to help."
MB Jewelers also contributed jewelry to fund-raisers for
Hadassah-and the Mental Illness Research Organization, a
Bloomfield Hills-based group that supports brain research' into
mental illness and raises awareness of the physical basis of brain
disorders.
For information or raffle tickets for the P'tach Cafe Night,
call Fern Herschfiis, (248) 557-4007, or Andi Stawis, (248)
968-0910. ❑
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Reform Rabbi
Wanted: Poland
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Diana Lieberman
hen the resourceful members of Beit Warszawa
synagogue in Warsaw, Poland, have a need,
they've been known to find ways to fulfill it.
In establishing their Reform synagogue, con-
gregants appealed for 50 kippot and tallitot and one member
donated a Torah that had been in his family for several genera-
tions. When they hired an American rabbi to lead High
Holiday services two years ago, members combined their fre-
quent flyer miles to pay for her ticket.
Now that they are seeking a full-time rabbi, it is not unex-
pected that their president, Jan Weinsberg, has sent a "rabbi
wanted" ad across. the world to Detroit. In a written appeal,
Weinsberg says, "We urgently need a rabbi for our fast-growing
congregation. "For more information, e-mail at: adriana@pol.pl
— Shelli Liebman Dorfman
Looking For Relatives
Of Jacobs, Raskin
ew Yorker Diane Jacobs is hoping Detroiters can
help in her search for her husband's first cousin, -
Arnold Martin Jacobs.
Jacobs, who may be a physician, was born around
1932. His parents are Allen Herman (Hyman?) Jacobs and the
former Thelma Raskin, who met in New York and married
between 1930 and 1932. Allen's parents, Joseph and Bessie
Jacobs, were in the soda-seltzer distribution business in
Brooklyn, N.Y.
.
In 1940, Allen and Thelma Jacobs were known to have been
living with Thelma's parents, Solomon and Annie Raskin, at
1793 Delaware Avenue in Detroit. The Raskins had lived in
Detroit since the 1920s or 1930s and owned a dairy business.
(They are not related to JN columnist Danny Raskin.)
Anyone with information about Arnold Martin Jacobs or
his family is asked to e-mail Diane Jacobs:
kingart@ix.netcom.com or call Shelli Liebman Dorfman:
(248) 865-6341.
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