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STAR TRAX EVENT PRODUCTIONS PAG E ROHE cingular WIRELESS Cellular and Paging Services 8/22 2003 50 Crosswinds Plaza • Next to Kroger Orchard Lake and Lone Pine West Bloomfield 248-538-2100 718300 The Greatest Interactive Entertainment in the Country is in your Back Yard! 248.263.6300 Rabbi Lauren Berkun, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America rab- binic fellow for the Detroit and Chicago Jewish communities, will teach a four-part adult study series in honor of the month of Elul and the upcoming Days of Awe noon-1 p.m. Thursdays, starting Aug. 28, at the Max M. Fisher Federation Building, 6735 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Township. The series is titled "The Way Home: The Path of Teshuvah." Other session dates are Sept. 4, 11 and 18. Sessions may be attended independ- ently. The series is designed as spiritual preparation for the upcoming High Holidays and will explore rabbinic, medieval and modern texts on the process of repentance (teshuvah). All study materials will be translated into English. Students may bring a dairy or parve lunch. The series is open to the communi- ty at no charge, but pre-registration is requested. For information or to regis- ter, call Beverly Roth, (248) 258-0055. Young Israel Hosts Speaker Series Young Israel of Oak Park (YIOP) will sponsor a series of lectures for the five weeks leading up to the Jewish new year. The series is open to the commu- nity and free of charge. Titled "Torah: The Road Map for Jewish Life," the series features five scholars on consecutive Shabbat after- noons. Kicking off the series 6:30 p.m. Aug. 30, Rabbi Yehuda Willig will dis- cuss "How Rigid is the Road Map? Is There Room for Something Else?" Rabbi Willig is a member of Yeshiva University's Kollel Elyon for Advanced Talmudic Studies in New York. The second lecture, given by Rabbi Shmuel Irons, rosh kollel for the Kollel Institute of Greater Detroit in Oak Park, 6:25 p.m. Sept. 6, will focus on the idea of taking on strin- gencies in observance and is tided "Obligation vs. Chumra: Big Things vs. Small Things." On Sept. 13, Rabbi Yehudah Moller will discuss Judaism in a secu- lar world at 6:10 p.m. Rabbi Moller is a rebbe at Yeshiva Beth Yehudah in Southfield and a guest lecturer for Machon L'Torah in Oak Park. Rabbi Ovadia Sofer, director of outreach for Aish HaTorah of Detroit, will look at "The Relationship Between Doing and Feeling" at 6 p.m. Sept. 20. Concluding the series, Rabbi Reuven Spolter of YIOP will lead a discussion on Shabbat Shuvah, Oct. 4, on "Will My Teshuva Really Matter? One Small Person in a Great Big World." Rabbi Spolter's lecture will begin at 6:45 p.m., following minchah services at 5:30 p.m. and a meal at 6 p.m. For information or to request home hospitality for Shabbat, contact Rabbi Spolter, (248) 967-3655. Workmen's Circle Welcomes Kids The Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring- the Circle of Jewish Culture has a new Sunday school program for children ages 5-13 for the school year 2003- 2004, `.`A. Gleisele Te" (A Glass of Tea). This interactive, hands-on, multi- media study of Eastern European Jewish immigration to this country at the turn of the last century will begin Sept. 5. Developmentally appropriate activities will include producing a fac- simile of the Forverts (Forward) news- paper from the turn of the last centu- ry, researching and assuming the per- sonae of eastern European Jewish immigrants making their way in "the golden land," photography, music, drama, puppetry, storytelling, dance and Yiddish. The Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring is dedicated to Jewish communi- ty, Yiddish culture and social justice. For enrollment information, call (248) 545-0985. Shabbat Jams At Beth Shalom Shabbat Jams will return to Congregation Beth Shalom on Friday, Aug. 22. It's open to members, prospective members and non-mem- bers. Musicians will be featured during the alternative musical Shabbat, which begins with appetizers at 5:30 p.m., followed by a Kabbalat Shabbat service