ENTERTAINMENT Staff Notebook AT ITS BEST SInce1972 Argentinean Jews Focus. Of SZ Show Rumplestiltskin Skyline & The Back Street Iris Simone Vitale Band Hot Ice • Cassens Murphy • Rave • JoyRide Nightline • Radio City Higher Ground • Persuasion • L'USA Cheers • Intrigue Nouveaute avid Sloan, an attorney from Huntington Woods, has been discussing the plight of Jews in Argentina on a cable-access program during October. He is a guest on the Shaarey Zedek Productions' public-affairs show, this month focusing on The Jews of South America. Host Geri Levitt interviewed Sloan along with Chilean native Rabbi Leonardo Bitran of Congregation Shaarey Zedek West Bloomfield-B'nai Israel Center and his wife, Silvana, from Argentina. The Bitrans were married in August at Cong. Benei Tikva in Buenos Aires, Argentina — "the same synagogue where I attended my cousin's wedding ago a year ago," Sloan says. Through a genealogical search, Sloan has discovered more than 100 relatives living in Argentina. He'll be going back with his wife, Kathy, and their son John, a Berkley High student, in December, planning to visit family and do volunteer work to help the Jewish community devastated by Argentina's failing economy. Broadcasts remaining this month include: Huntington Woods channel 18, 5 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29; Comcast channels 18 and 25, 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31; Cable Ready West Bloomfield channel 22, 10:35 p.m. Oct. 31; and Time-Warner channel 12, 5 p.m. Oct. 31. For addi- tional information, call Shaarey Zedek, (248) 357-5544. — Esther Allweiss Tschirhart Hillel Hosts ISACS Accreditation Team Sun Messengers Teen Angels Wel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit, which educates 720 students in grades K-8, is well on its way to a second national accreditation. A team of 12 educators from the Independent Schools Association of the Central States (ISACS) will be visiting the school Sunday-Wednesday, Oct. 27-30, as the final step in the accreditation process. The visit culminates an 18-month process of self-examination by all facets of the Hillel commu- nity. "Accreditation serves two purposes," said Dr. Mitch Parker, the school's coordinator of special needs, who directed the ISACS accreditation process. "It confirms Hillel's excellence to the broader community and drives school improvement for the next five or six years." Now in its 45th year of serving the Detroit-area Jewish community, Hillel, in Farmington Hills, already has accredi- tation from the Solomon Schechter Day School Association of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. — Diana Lieberman all for a free video consultation Akiva Family Concert Features Sam Glaser Lorio Ross Entertainmentinc op rocker Sam Glaser is on the road again. The dynamic singer-songwriter, last in the Detroit area two years ago, performs 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2; at Yeshivat Akiva's family concert. Accompanying him this time are his friends Naftali Finkel and Michael Ian Elias. Together, they make up the band Chashmal. The Hebrew definition of chashmal is "electricity," and audiences have found Glaser and his Los Angeles-based group full of the electricity of the Jewish soul. Call (248) 398-9711 14 Fire At Yad Ezra Kosher Pantry A n electrical fire temporarily closed the Yad Ezra warehouse in Berkley in the late afternoon of Oct. 22, the day after Michigan's only food pantry marked its annual dinner. The fire began as warehouse manager Bernard Phillips of Hazel Park stacked pallets of pasta with the forklift. Its motor surged and thrust the machine into the food, sending out billows of black smoke, said Lea Luger, Yad Ezra co- director with Elaine Ryke. "Fortunately, Mr. Phillips immediately evacuated the building and called 911, while hosing down the hi-lo," Luger said. The Michigan Department of Agriculture, Food and Dairy division inspected the food pantry the next day and approved its re-opening Oct. 24. Volunteers have a big cleanup ahead of them with the smoke and water damage, Luger said. However, thanks to Phillips' swift action, the value of the food lost is minimal. The cost of a replacement forklift will run between $7,500 (for a used one) to $20,000 for a new one, Ryke said. — Sharon Luckerman Corrections e Jerry Ross Ban 10/25 2002 "Sam is the most dynamic and positive musical influence on the Jewish scene today," said Rabbi Ben Zion Kravitz, founder of the Los Angeles-based Jews for Judaism Crisis Center. "His ability to show people the spirit and the hipness of Judaism makes him the best candidate to bring Jews back to their roots." The Akiva appearance is part of the Singer-songwriter band's 50-site tour to promote the mes- Sam Glaser sage of its latest album, The Bridge. A collection of 15 new songs celebrating the unifying themes that bind the Jewish people, the CD was sponsored by Israel's Common Denominator organiza- tion, which seeks to foster communication between the country's religious and secular communities. The Bridge is Glaser's 11th Jewish-themed CD. The Nov. 2 concert, sponsored by Akiva's PTA, also includes the awarding of the Distinguished Service Award to school vol- unteer Arleen Platt. "Whatever the task, Arleen gives of herself selflessly and graces her efforts with spirit and vitali- ty," said Ariella Nadel, PTA board chair. Tickets for the Chashmal concert are $12 for adults and $6 for children age 12 and younger. For reservations, call Mark and Ariella Nadel, (248) 356-5663. Akiva is in_S.ou eld. — Diana zeberman 505 S. Lafayette • Royal Oak www.lorioross.com 0000620290 P • In "Pleasures Of Giving" (Oct. 18, page 48), the children pic- tured should have been identified as Rose Kim, 11, of Bloomfield-Hills; Hope Peskin-Shepherd, 11, of West Bloomfield; and Avi Greenbaum, 3, of Southfield. • The correct name of the school that Special Writer Rachel Kohn attends in Israel is Michlelet Orot ("An Inspiration," Oct. 18, page 82) sr, k'IrAct.-4