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.