Metro

Our High Yield
Premier Money Market
Rates Can Send Your
Future Soaring

Invest

Celebrating Israel

Detroit Federation regroups; Ann Arbor goes all out.

Be st

HARRY KIRSBAUM
Staff Writer

T

1 31 1 Account
* Apy
Balances

of $100.000
or more

-

wpar

sr :1st

ANIL

MICHIGAN HERITAGE

07L4d,

Let us lend a hand

See our website for current Special Rates.
www.miheritage.com

FDIC
insured

•Amami Percentage Yield (APY) is effective as of May 12. 2005.
New Deposits only, minimum $100,000 required Lower interest
rates for deposits under $100,000. Brokered accounts riot eligible.
$7.50 statement fee on balances under $2,500. Rates subject to
change without notice.

1-800-914-3524

Farmington Hills • Livonia • Novi • Troy

975230

yerizQnwireless

• Cellular Phones
•Satellite TV
• Send Global
International
Calling

VVIPUILESS COMI•41.4eCATt.f+13

5/12

2005

28

557-8987.

West Bloomfield • (248) 681-7200

Bloomfield Hills • (248) 335-3345

Ann Arbor Fest

4276 Orchard Lake Rd. @ Lone Pine

43183 Woodward Ave @ Square Lake

Jewish Federation of Washtenaw

Shop

%TN

he Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit will not
sponsor, a Yom HaAtzmaut
(Israel Independe
nce Day) celebration
this year. The Jewish Federation of
Washtenaw County, however, is plan-
ning Ann Arbor's largest celebration in
four decades.
The Detroit Federation's Israel and
Overseas Department is evaluating all
Israel and local programs, said chair
Robert Schostak. "We're trying to
determine the best way to invigorate
and re-invigorate and create a new
sense of broader awareness of what the
Federation agenda is on the Israel pro-
gram," he said.
"We're hoping that beginning this
fall, in relationship with the Annual
Campaign, and again next year in
respect to Yom HaAtzmaut, to create
something that's going to be a
broader and bigger community
event," he said. Federation will plan
on a larger Yom HaAtzmaut event
the following year.
"We can allocate more resources to
it, get the synagogues and JCC youth
involved. To do it right would really
take more planning."
Other venues in Detroit and Ann
Arbor will hold Yom HaAtzmaut cele-
brations in honor of Israel's 57th year.
The Moshav Band will play in
concert at Yeshivat Akiva in
Southfield on Thursday, May 12, at
6:30 p.m., with a Minchah Seudah
and children's activities beginning at
5 p.m. The cost is $12 per person;
$50 per family. Make reservations by
calling Sarah Kornblum at (248)
569-5220 or Sherri Weil at (248)

Online
the
Easy
Way...

www.jewish.com

County Executive Director Jeffrey
Levin expects "the largest Yom
HaAtzmaut celebration in probably 40
years."
"Celebrate Israel!" is Ann Arbor's
first community-wide celebration of
Yom HaAtzmaut in more than two
decades. The event is a collaborative
effort of more than 15 Ann Arbor
Jewish organizations under the leader-

ship of the Jewish Federation of
Washtenaw County. Co-Chairs are
Arik Cheshin and Eileen Freed.
The planning committee is corn-
prised of representatives from Beth
Israel Congregation, Temple Beth
Emeth, Ann Arbor Orthodox
Minyan, Ann Arbor Chabad, Jewish
Cultural Society, Hebrew Day
School, Jewish Community Center,
Jewish Family Service, Hadassah,
ORT, Young Judaea, Habonim,
Huron High School Jewish Student
Union, University of Michigan Hillel,
Ann Arbor Reconstructionist
Havurah, and the Israeli Community
of Ann Arbor.
Celebrate Israel! will be held, rain
or shine, from 1-4:30 p.m. Sunday,
May 15, at the Jewish Community
Center of Washtenaw County. The
event will include live entertainment
with local talent such as the Hebrew
Day School KlezKids, Chaverim
B'Shirim, the Jewish Musical
Ensemble, Festival Dancers
and more.
The celebration does not end at
4:30. The Israeli marketplace
resumes indoors from 6-7 p.m., and
the party will continue with Israeli
dancing, led by Tom Starks, from
7-9 p.m.
The cost is $3 per person or $5 per
family and includes entrance to the
evening programming. To register, call
677-0100. ❑

Beth El Marks Israel Day

Temple Beth El will celebrate Israel
Independence Day with "Pizza, Pita
and GaGa," Sunday, May 15, at noon.
The program will put an Israeli
twist on the temple's monthly Pizza
and GaGa program held following
religious school, when parents and
children meet for a pizza lunch and
a chance to play GaGa, an Israeli
game that resembles dodge ball.
Sponsors of the monthly event are
Family Circle and Jewish
Adventurers and the temple's Israel
Chai Committee.
In addition, there will be an archaeo-
logical "dig," an opportunity to write
prayers and insert them in the "Western
Wall," and Israeli crafts and foods. The
prayers will be collected at the close of
the event and taken to Israel in June for
insertion in the actual wall.