THE FORD HONORS PROGRAM

UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY

DISTINGUISHED ARTIST AWARD

Still, she'll be hard to
recognize: Covered as she
is in a poofy, surgical
shower cap and facemask,
we hardly notice her gen-
der until a voice — her
voice — sings out sweetly •
Rabbi
and strongly. The camera
Missaghieh
zooms in on the rabbi's
hand cradling the girl's. Then it cuts to
Missaghieh's deep brown eyes staring
intently into the eyes of her congregant,
who seems, for one instant, held aloft.
While the clip of her praying in
Hebrew takes barely 30 seconds, the
shoot lasted 3i/2 hours. By the end, even
the cameramen were humming along.
The effort was well worth it,
Missaghieh said, given that the-show
offers her a platform to reach millions of
Jews and gentiles.
"I hope," she said, "they'll see that
Judaism is a religion that has many com-
forting sources to it and that Jewish peo-
ple will be reminded of the comfort that
rabbis and prayer and their community
can give them during times of crisis." El

Local Women Honored

Michigan Branch Women's League for
Conservative Judaism will honor several
women as "Women Who Make a
Difference" at the Michigan Branch
Conference luncheon 12:15 p.m.
Sunday, May 22, at Congregation Beth
Shalom.
The honorees are Lisa Grodman,
Celia Lubetsky, Adat Shalom; Libby
Newman, Zita Kirsch, Beth Ahm; Joan
Fealk Levitt, Beth Israel Ann Arbor;
Miriam Brot, Vivian Pollack, Betty
Ruden, Congregation of Moses;
Florence Berner, Beth Israel Flint; Nancy
Kaplan, Shelley Milstein, Anne -
Rottman, B'nai Moshe; Anita Epstein,
Beth Shalom; Helene
Cherrin, Miriam
Goldberg, Frieda
Langnas, Shaarey
Zedek.
The conference,
whose theme is
"Kulanu B'yahad All of
Schneider
Us Together," will
begin with a Shacharit service at 9 a.m.
followed by registration and continental
Sisterhood Installs .Officers
breakfast. The opening plenum will start
at 10:15 a.m. and include remarks by
Temple Israel Sisterhood's installation
Cory Schneider, national consultant.
p.m.
dinner will be held at 6:15
Workshops will be led by Rabbi Rachel
Thursday, May 19, at the temple.
Following dinner will be a special musi- Shere and Ruth Bergman. Marilyn
Feingold will lead an afternoon work-
cal program featuring Cantor Michael
shop titled "Mezuzah in the Making".
Smolash and cantorial soloist Neil
Cory Schneider, the conference con-
Michaels.
sultant,
is the international chair, Torah
Laurie Blinder will be installed as
Fund
and
chair, Women's League
president. Other officers include
Leadership
Institutes.
Sandy Belsky, committee on commit-
The cost 'for sisterhood members is
tees vice president; Barbara Szirtes,
free. The cost of the luncheon is $30.
ways and means vice president;
The
cost of the mezuzah workshop is
Deborah Schiffer, programming vice
$10.
For reservations, send checks
president; Marci Zeman, youth vice
payable
to Michigan Branch to Linda
president; Karen West, treasurer;
31122 Perrys Crossing,
Warner,
Lynn Apel, corresponding secretary;
Farmington
Hills, 48331. Reservations
Elissa Kline, financial secretary;
must be received by May 16.
Denise Shuster, recording secretary;
For information, contact Sharon
and Eileen Isenberg, immediate past
(248) 666-8170 or
Silverman,
president.
.
silvermansms@juno.com
Board members to be installed for a
two-year term, expiring in 2007,
include Carol Borson, Cherie Blazofsky, ChaZaKaH Musical Revue
Sherry Cantor, Lorry Cooper, Nancy
Area seniors are invited to a luncheon
Goldman Cutler, Patricia Erlich, Linda
and program with the Adat Shalom
Feldman, Barbara Hechtman, Barbara
Synagogue seniors group —
Horenstein, Susan Kaplan, Wendy
CHaZaKaH/Young-at-Heart —
Kohlenberg, Phyllis Levitt, Jodi Mills,
Thursday, May 26, at 12:30 p.m.
Marilyn Rubin, Terri Robbins, Norinne
Crystal Wish Webster will present "A
Selesko, Enid Schatz, Julie Stern,
Musical Revue of Popular Broadway
Yolanda Tisdale, Harriet Trager, Risa
Tunes." Webster is a choir director and
VanDerAue, Amy Vine and Judy
classical musician. Charge: $9, members
Wayne.
of CHaZaKaH/Young-at-Heart; $10,
Board Members to be installed for a
non-members. Mail checks by May 17
one-year term, expiring in 2006,
to Alice Cohen, 29325 Lancaster Drive,
include Pam Bloom, Dorothy Collens,
#210, Southfield, MI 48034. Call Adat
and Carol Lynn Cooper.
Shalom at (248) 851-5100.

A Fundraiser for the UMS Education Program
Saturday, May 14, 6 pm • Rackham Auditorium

All proceeds benefit the UMS Education and Audience Development Program.

Mozart—String Quartet in F Major, K. 168 • Schubert—Cello Quintet in C Major,

PROGRAM

D. 956 (with former Guarneri cellist David Soyer) • Mendelssohn—Octet for Strings in E-Flat,
Op. 20 (first movement, performed with the Sphinx Quartet)

Concert Tickets: $35-$85

734 - 7 6 4 -2 53 8
www.urns.org

For Gala Evening

Packages, please call

734-647-8009.

COHN-HADDOW CENTER
FOR JUDAIC STUDIES

presents

TEN YEARS LATER : AN ASSESSMENT OF
THE LEGACY OF YITZHAK RABIN

A PANEL PRESENTATION WITH

— FREDERIC PEARSON, WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY
— ALAN DOWTY, UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME/

ILAI

UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
ALON, UNIVERSITY OF TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY
OF CHICAGO/NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

This program is made possible by a generous gift of
The Rita C. and john M. Haddow Support Foundation.

SUNDAY, MAY 22, 7:30 P.M.
TEMPLE BETH EL, 7400 TELEGRAPH -RD.
BLOOMFIELD HILLS

WAYNE STATE
UNIVERSITY

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