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You'll find there's never a sale, just extra low prices every day. 8/20 2004 58 Temple Beth El will cablecast its 2004 annual seniors concert, the "Best of Broadway," performed by members of the Michigan Opera Theatre. The hour-length video program will be carried on local access cable channels. For exact dates and times, contact your cable company's local-access channel, visit www.tbeonline.org or call Temple Beth El, (248) 865-0617. Adult Education Begins Just ask the future Buckners. www.gittleman.net Beth El On Broadway We set the floor on prices. 20750 Hoover Road (3 miles south of 1-696) Open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. and by appointment. Call Mickey at 586-756-2400. 872300 Temple Beth El's adult education classes will begin Sept. 8. Featured will be a variety of programs from Hebrew classes to courses in ethics, Judaism, parenting, preservation of family history and attitudinal healing. Available are a 6 p.m. Wednesday evening beginning Hebrew class and a 6 p.m. intermediate Hebrew class. Two advanced Hebrew classes will be taught: one on Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. and one Wednesdays at 6 p.m. Conversational Hebrew will meet 7 p.m. Wednesdays. Prospective converts, non-Jewish partners of Jews and Jews seeking a better understanding of Judaism may attend Rabbi David Castiglione's nine- week "Introduction to Judaism" Wednesdays at 7 p.m. beginning Oct. 13. Rabbi Castiglione will lead "Breakfast with the Rabbi," a discus- sion of the psalms, on four Wednesdays at 8 a.m., Oct. 13, Nov. 3 and 17 and Dec. 1. On Wednesday evenings, Oct. 13, 20 and 27 and Nov. 3, Rabbi Daniel Syme will present "Jewish Law in Modern Life." There is no charge for the 7 p.m. class. Also beginning Oct. 13 and run- ning through Dec. 8 at 7 p.m. will be "Attitudinal Healing" with Laurie Pappas. A Thursday lunch and learn will meet once a month on a variety of topics. The first session, Sept. 9, is titled "The Hidden Stories of Sarah and Hagar." Four parenting forums will be held Mondays, Sept. 27 and Nov. 15, at 6:30 p.m. and Sundays, Oct. 24 and Dec. 12 at 10:30 a.m. Two sessions on "Preserving Your Family History" will be Nov. 10 and 17 at 7 p.m. For cost information or to register, call the Temple Beth El religious school, (248) 865-0612. Beth Ahm Hosts Storyteller Every family has a story of how their ancestors came to the United States. How to document this personal lore for future generations will be the high- light of the next Friday-night Shabbat Limud adult learning program at Congregation Beth Ahm on Aug. 27. The evening begins at 6 p.m. with Kabbalat Shabbat services led by Rabbi Aaron Bergman and Beth Ahm's visiting scholar Dr. Howard Lupovitch. Following a catered dinner, storyteller Corrine Stavish will speak on Jewish immigra- tion to this coun- try and the corn- munity's com- Stavish mitment to America. She will also teach the congregation how to collect their families' personal stories: the techniques of what ques- tions to ask relatives and how to ask them. Parallel youth programming will be available with Beth Ahm's nursery school director Cathy Rozenberg. Cost for dinner is: $16 adults; $10 children ages 4-12; free, younger than 3. For reservations by Aug. 25: (248) 851-6880. T'Chiyah Sets Dedication Congregation T'Chiyah will hold a dedication celebration 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 29, at the David and Miriam Mondry Building, 15000 W 10 Mile, Oak Park. There will be a brief service and a reception following the event. Adat Shalom Seeks Blood Adat Shalom Synagogue will hold a blood donor drive Sunday, Sept. 12. Red Cross specialists will be on hand 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Virtually anyone, age 17 and older, weighing at least 110 pounds and in good health, can give blood. There is no upper age limit. Allow about one hour for registration, blood donation and juice and a nosh. The drive is sponsored by the syna- gogue's Social Action Committee and chaired by Debby Portney, Amy Strauss and Ruth Zerin. For reservations, call Adat Shalom, (248) 851-5100. Drop-ins are wel- come.