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College of Arts and Sciences Oakland UNIVERSITY Rochester, MI 48309-4401 www.oakland.edu All You Can eat Chinese Family -Friendly Ceab 1-egs Irk too" 110 Kids 'Ander 2 Free Lunch M-Sat, 11-3:30 Dinner M-Th, 4-10 Lunch starting at 85" for adults Dinner Fri-Sat, 4-10:30 • Sun 11-10 1 r 10% OFF 20% OFF Expires 6-12-05 Dine-in Only Expires 6-12-05 wwwdragonbuffetrestaurant.com Spertus hosts exhibit on Holocaust's hidden children. We -Have I313Q Grill & Steak Fri Sun onl - 26855 Greenfield Rd. • Southfield 248-557-9898 • Fax: 248-557-2038 Across from Hebrew Memorial Chapel 969570 Tk Goiter Now offers some of themost favorite items for 30 years. Available anytime for your carry-out needs. Lox 522.50 lb. Corned Beef Extra Lean Corned Beef Fresh Roasted Turkey Breast Swiss Cheese Chicken Salad Tuna Salad $10.00 lb. $ 11.00 lb. $10.00 lb. 96.25 lb. $9.00 lb. $9.00 lb. 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They're all framed differently. Some in gild, some in wood," explains Rosen. "We love that feeling." It is that same feeling of whimsy that inspires Lois Sarkisian, owner of the Every Picture Tells a Story Gallery in Santa Monica, Calif., and curator of the exhibition of the same name. Always a collector of children's books, Sarkisian (whose husband is Jewish and whose Armenian heritage relates her to Jews, she says, in that Out Of The Shadows CARRY-OUT TOTAL BILL • V A' • • .0. • AV and their parents — learn to under- stand what makes us all different and how our differences can help bring us together. It is very appropriate, then, that the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies should be host to this exhibition. Incorporating a graduate college, a library and the museum, Spertus is rooted in Jewish learning and culture and is dedicated to inspiring learning and understanding for Jews and non- Jews alike. "It's about teaching cultural accept- ance," explains Museum Director Rhoda Rosen. "To do that, we're mov- ing away from a heavy text panel exhi- bition structure to a more engaged, participatory learning environment, particularly for children. "The child is experiencing and doing rather than just viewing. We don't want to just give them informa- tion," she explains. So most of all, "it has to be fun." And what's more fun than a room- ful of Dr. Seuss' Star-Belly and Plain- Belly Sneetches; a sports room with hopscotch and a basketball court in honor of Floyd Cooper's Jump, about Michael Jordan's own discovery of his talent; a music and dance room with an enormous mirror where kids can dress up in costumes, play the bongos and boogie; and a multicultural cafe- teria with a plastic wok and sushi, starting at $999 for adults r tz4 EVERY PICTURE from page 55 rkertly.opaNaltfzi•N•Nt. • •1114,... • p, 9014AP While at Sperms Museum, be sure to shift gears and visit "Life in Shadows: Hidden Children and the Holocaust," an exhibition on loan from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., that runs through July 31. The most vulnerable victims of Nazism were the Jewish children liv- ing in occupied countries, of whom only a few thousand of the 1.6 mil- lion survived. "Life in Shadows" tells some of the stories of those who sur- vived by disguising their Jewish iden- tity or hiding in attics, barns and sewers, often leaving their families and identities behind. One adolescent girl lived alone for three years on bugs, rats and worms in the forests of eastern Poland. An 11-year-old boy was disguised as a girl and as mentally disabled, exempt- ing him from attending school and exposure. Some were mere infants; some never discovered their true identities. "It's a challenging exhibit, especially for parents," admits Rhoda Rosen, director of Sperms Museum. "The crucial question that it brings forth is: Could you give your child up, not with the certainty that they'd be OK but just with the hope?" At the same time, however, the exhibit highlights the human poten- tial for kindness and compassion, fea- turing the lives of people who risked or lost their own lives to help save others. "One of the 'children' represented