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Detroit helps Blight Busters rebuild a Detroit home. Meet at Oak Park JCC to carpool. RSVP: Lesley Zwick, (313) 577-3459 or Hillelpd@wayne.edu Transfer your old IN tapes to DVS 2004 he singles shuttle is reversing course Sept. 3-6. Instead of area Orthodox sin- gles heading off to New York to meet new people and enjoy a weekend away, local singles will be hosting a Shabbaton in Detroit and its suburbs for 25s-to-35s from throughout North America. Sponsored by Young Israel of Oak Park and the Young Israel Metro Council, the weekend will include: • Friday night Shabbat dinner at YIOP, with area host families invited to an after-dinner oneg. • Shabbat lunch on Saturday at the host families' homes. • Motivational talks and seminars throughout the weekend with lawyer- actor-Rabbi Moshe Bellows of New York. • A limousine road rally Saturday night. • The Ford Factory Tour and Greenfield Village on Sunday • Bowling on Sunday night. • A goodbye breakfast on Monday. The weekend is being planned by YIOP's Esty Kleid and Zoya Mavashev. Women at the synagogue had for years been discussing hosting a singles Shabbaton. The group included Kleid's , thing. Send information to Did you know your VHS tapes will not last forever? 8/13 7 For college age through 30-some- 800-668-2660 827340 ONLY $ ALAN HITSKY Associate Editor aeh YOLlf Children emerric9 numben keep them safe! Hadassah annual picnic at the Walled Lake home of Kimberlee Rubin. Cost: $7 members, $ .12 non- members. RSVP: Hadassah, (248) 683-5030, or ruach_chapter@yahoo.com mother, Adell, of Oak Park. When a new women's group, Evrat Nashim, formed this year, Esty Kleid asked what could be done for singles. The Shabbaton, and her co-chairing, are the result. "There. are [single] people who go to New York once a month" to visit friends and make new ones, said Kleid, 25. "I try to go every few months." She visits her brother and friends "and I try to have a date for the weekend." She is fixed up by friends and by matchmakers. This routine started when she was 18, and has led to a few longer-term, long- distance relationships. The age range for the Shabbaton — 25-35 — was selected, Kleid said, because there is more pressure on Orthodox sin- gles to find a mate after their early 20s. The YIOP members also want to show New Yorkers and observant singles from other areas that there is Orthodox life outside the New York area. "We want them to see our community,' said Kleid, who works for the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. Participants in the Shabbaton will pay $195 for the weekend events, and out- of-towners will stay with host families. El For more information or to help sponsor the Shabbaton, contact Kleid at (248) 842-78411 or yiopsingles@hotmail.com How To Respond The Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit is offering a free copy of On One Foot to all Jewish col- lege students. 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