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Wednesday Night Ledrning
$30. A strictly kosher meal is available
October 20 & 27, November 3 & 17, December 1, 8 & 15
Laker Complex
Members: $70 for one hour, $80 for two hours
Non-members: $100 for one hour, $120 for two hours
upon request. Reservations are due by
Monday, Oct. 11, and can be made
online at www.thisisfederation.org or by
calling Alaine Waldshan, (248) 203-
1486.
To register, contact Rabbi Lauren Berkun, Director of Lifelong
Learning at 248/357-5544 or lberkun@shaareyzedek.org
First Hour - 7:00 PM
Second Hour - 8:00 PM
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Military cover-ups, sex scandals and stolen elections...explore
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Award winning Detroit News Columnist George Cantor takes a
deeper look at hot topics in the news each week. Stay current
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The complexities of Jewish law shed new insights on the
difficult cases presented in the award-winning TV drama.
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relevant to the real-life dramas inherent in our questions of
justice, ethics, and morality.
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Confused by our Hebrew prayers? Seize this opportunity to
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Thousands of years before psychology and HBO, the ancient
rabbis instituted profoundly comforting rituals to help Jews
cope with the loss of a loved one. Study the intriguing original
sources and learn the "why's" and "how's" of these traditional
practices.
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Balfour Honorees Named
Guided Chevruta Study on key sources in Bible,Talmud,
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changing definitions of who is a "good Jew:' These participa-
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identity and Jewish living throughout history and in our day.
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For intermediate and advanced Hebrew students who
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community who weren't called to the Torah as a teen.
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At this year's Balfour Concert, the
Zionist Organization of America will
bestow its highest honor, the Justice
Louis D. Brandeis Award, to Dr. Leora
Bar-Levav and Dr. Gary Edelson.
The doctors have distinguished them-
selves as civic and community leaders,
philanthropists and avid supporters of
Jewish education and Israeli institutions.
They are involved members of Congre-
gation Shaarey Zedek and the ZOA.
Dr. Edelson, an endocrinologist, is on
the staff of Wayne State University and
Beaumont Hospital and is chief of
endocrinology at Sinai-Grace Hospital.
Dr. Bar-Levav is a psychiatrist in private
practice. She also is a faculty member of
the Bar-Levav Educational Association
and an active member and lecturer at
both the Michigan and the American
Group Psychotherapy Associations.
Co-chairs of the Balfour Concert
Committee are Joseph Savin, president
of the ZOA Michigan Region, and
Beverly Baker, executive vice president of
the ZOA Michigan Region. Co-chairing
the tribute committee are Spencer and
Myrna Partrich, Dr. Charles and Sharon
Taylor and Pamela Torraco.
The concert, 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 24,
at the Millennium Theatre in
Southfield, will feature the show
Forbidden Broadway, an informal and
hilarious overview of the American
musical theater. Proceeds will help to
fund ZOA's scholarship program for
study in Israel, the Kfar Silver academic
and vocational training center for Israeli
youth and ZOA's pro-Israel public rela-
tions work.
General admission tickets to the con-
cert are available for $50, $75 and $100.
For information, call the Zionist Organ-
ization of America, (248) 282-0088.