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Nov. 17-20 at the Mendelssohn
Theatre in Ann Arbor. $9-$22.
(734) 764-2538.

Watch new films at the 2005

Brighton International Film
Festival 5-10 p.m. Friday, Nov.. 18,

at the Brighton Center for
Performing Arts, 7878 Brighton Rd.
Two new films by Kathy Vander and
John Prusak are among those
being screened. (810) 299-4130.

Laugh with the Farmington Players
as they present Comic Potential
Nov. 18-Dec. 10 at the Players
Barn Theater, 32332 W. 12 Mile,
Farmington Hills. Performances are
at 8 p.m. Nov. 18, 19, 25 and 26
and Dec. 1, 2, 3, 8, 9 and 10 and
2 p.m. Nov. 20 and 27 and Dec. 4.
$10-$13. (248) 553-2955.

Join Young Israel of Southfield for a
performance of Golda's Balcony
Saturday, Nov. 19, at the Fisher
Theatre. There will be an afterglow
at the synagogue. (248) 358-
0154.

Concerts

Hear bassist Dan Pliskow in a free
jazz concert at 6 p.m. Sunday, Nov.
20, at the First Baptist Church of
Birmingham, 300 Willis Street.
(248) 644-0550.

Listen to the band Michigan
Weather (Rena Kirshenbaum,
Frank Ellias, Mark Sinkoff, Ed
Chudnow and Larry Shlom) at 7:30
p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 23, at
Xhedos, 240 W. Nine Mile,
Ferndale. $5 cover. (248) 661-
1358.

Education

Attend V'shinantam L'vanecha
Family Learning Hour with Young
Israel of Southfield about 45 min-

utes after Havdalah every Saturday
night. (248) 358-0154.

Shaarey Zedek, 27375 Bell Rd.,
Southfield. (248) 646-7686.

coordinated by the Jewish Home &
Aging Services. (248) 661-2999.

Bloomfield center. (248) 357-
5544.

Attend free sessions of "Beginner-

Event Hotline

Join Dr. Lubomira Scherschun, a
dermatologist at Henry Ford Health
System, for a discussion of skin
and hair care at 6 p.m. Thursday,
Nov. 17, at 6777 W. Maple, W.
Bloomfield. RSVP to (800) 436-
7936.

Attend Temple Shir Shalom's

Hear Peter Ostrow, director of the
Brown Adult Day Care, discuss

Peace After the Gaza
Disengagement" at an Oneg

Plus Prayerbook Hebrew
Reading" at 11 a.m. Sundays or 5
p.m. Mondays at Congregation

B'nai Moshe, 6800 Drake, West
Bloomfield. (248) 788-0600.

Explore Kabbalah and That
Kafkaesque Edge with Rabbi
Boruch Cohen at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 17, at Grille 173,
32832 Woodward, Royal Oak. $36.
(248) 203-6721. -

Hear about "Visionary Leaders of

the Jewish Theological Seminary"

discussed by Rabbi Herbert
Yoskowitz Tuesday, Nov. 22, at Adat
Shalom Synagogue, 29901
Middlebelt, Farmington Hills. The
class runs from noon-1:15 p.m.
with lunch. $10. Respond to
Charlotte Fiszbein at (248) 851-
5100. .

Learn about Shabbat observance
at 8 p.m. Tuesdays at the Sara
Tugman Bais Chabad Torah Center,
5595 Maple, West Bloomfield.
Marty Goodman will
discuss "Conducting

Shabbat Dinner:
Laws, Customs,
Songs, Tips" on Nov.
22. Each participant

will receive a CD
with traditional
Shabbat tunes. Call
(248) 855-6170
to RSVP

Connect with the Metropolitan

Detroit Chapter of the American
Jewish Committee and the India

League of America to welcome
Aaron Jacob, Israel's former deputy
permanent representative to the
United Nations, and Raminder
Singh Jassal, India's new deputy
chief of mission, at 8 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov. 22, at Congregation

Art Survives

Experience "Forbidden
Sounds, Forbidden Sights
— A Tribute to the Human Spirit;' an evening to celebrate the
music and art that Hitler could not destroy, at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 23, at the Capitol Theatre in Windsor.
The program, with a performance by the Windsor Symphony
Orchestra Ensemble, is sponsored by the Windsor Jewish
Community Centre, Conference on Jewish Claims Against
Germany and the Rabbi Israel Miller Fund for Shoah Research,
Documentation and Education. (519) 973-1772.

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Hear Jerry Liebman, founder of the
Specs Howard School of
Broadcasting, discuss "My Life in
the Broadcast Business" at 2 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 17, at the Oak Park
JCC for COJAR (Council of Orthodox
Jewish Active Retirees). (248) 967-
4030, ext. 2020.

Meet Rabbi David Golinkin as he
discusses "Us and Them: Views of
Gentiles in Rabbinic Literature" at
8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17, at
Adat Shalom Synagogue in
Farmington Hills. Make reserva-
tions for the free program by call-
ing (248) 851-5100.

Discuss "How Israel Is Portrayed
in the Media" with Allan Gale,
associate director of the Jewish
Community Council of Metropolitan
Detroit, at a dinner meeting of the
Congregation Shir Tikvah
Sisterhood at 6:45 p.m. Thursday,
Nov. 17, at 3900 Northfield
Parkway, Troy. $5 members, $10
nonmembers. (248) 649-4418,
ext. 28.

Hear Berl Falbaum discuss his
book, Shanghai Remembered at
9:30 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 20, at the
Holocaust Memorial Center in
Farmington Hills, where a tour is
planned. The program, open to the
public, is sponsored by the Men's
Club of Adat Shalom. $3.
Reservations can be made by call-
ing (248) 851-5100.

"You Can't Do It All — How to Be
an Effective Caregiver" at 8 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 17, atTemple

Israel, 5725 Walnut Lake Rd.,
West Bloomfield. The pro-
gram is support-
ed by the
Jewish
Women's
Foundation of
Metro Detroit.
Call (248) 661-
5725 to register.

Attend meetings of the Survivors'
Support Group with Dr. Charles
Silow 10-11:30 a.m. Mondays at
the Oak Park JCC in a program

Walnut Lake, West Bloomfield.
(248) 737-8700

Listen to Moran Lencer, shlicha
from Israel, discuss "Prospects of

Shabbat sponsored by the Sholem
Aleichem Institute at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 18, at the National
Council of Jewish Women offices,
26400 Lahser, Southfield. (248)
423-4406.

Listen to Rabbi Israel Haber recall
his journey from Alaska to the
Golan Heights as part of the Friday
program of services and dinner
starting at 5 p.m. Nov. 18 at the
Shul-Chabad Lubavitch in West
Bloomfield. $25 adults, $15 chil-

Donate blood 8 a.m.-2 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 20, at Temple Beth

El, 7400 Telegraph, Bloomfield
Hills. The program is sponsored by
the Brotherhood of the temple. Call
Roy Goodman at (248) 626-1841.

Helping Out

Assist Yad Ezra with clerical, ware-
house and/or delivery tasks. Call
(248) 548-3663.

Take on any of an array of volun-
teer assignments for the JVS in
Southfield or West Bloomfield. To
assist adults with memory loss at
the Brown Center, call Dorothy
Mantis at (248) 233-4392. To visit
the isolated elderly in Detroit, call
Listen to David Hoptman discuss
Gloria Bender at (248) 233-4431.
Leonard Bernstein: The Great
To assist with mailings and packag-
Musical Mind for the Circle of
ing for nonprofit agencies, call
Friends at 10 a.m. Sunday, Nov.
Barbara Peitz at (248) 233-4432.
20, at Congregation Beth Shalom
To assist older adults with develop-
in Oak Park.
mental disabilities or chronic men-
Call Lora Bank
tal illness with recreational activi-
at (248) 547-
ties, call LuAnn Elwell at (248)
7970, ext. 215.
661-8100, ext. 12. To be a friend
to an adult with a developmental
Hike with Mosaic noon-
disability, call Karol Friedman
2 p.m. Sunday, Nov.
(7 at (248) 233-4230. To assist
20, at the Maybury
adults with developmental dis-
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State Park in Northville.
abilities in a sheltered work-
$6 members, $8 nonmem-
)1 shop with production-related
bers. Call Susan by Nov. 18
activities, call Kirk Jude
at (248) 763-1711.
Goddard at (248) 233-4310.

Health

Special Music Shabbat Service at
8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18, at 3999

dren. (248) 788-4000.

Hear Berl Falbaum discuss his
book Shanghai Remembered at
the Lunch & Learn program after
services, Saturday, Nov. 19, at
Congregation Beth Shalom in Oak
Park. $10 adults, $5 children 3-
12. (248) 547-7970.

Participate in the Farmington Area

Interfaith Thanksgiving Service at
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 23, at

Adat Shalom Synagogue, 29901
Middlebelt, Farmington Hills. (248)
851-5100.

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Take the children to hear "A
Bounty of Tales," stories of giving
thanks from a variety of cultures, at
2, 6:30 or 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 25,
at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
(313) 833-4005.

Holidays/Shabbat

Join Congregation Shaarey Zedek
for Simcha Davening at 6 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 18, at the West

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