DIGEST
SYNergy Shabbat
Adat Shalom will welcome Zev Chafets
to headline the congregation's SYNergy
Shabbat Weekend, Dec. 16- •
17.
Chafets was the found-
ing managing editor of the
Jerusalem Report and has
been a columnist at the
New York Daily News for
the past four years.
Chafets is the author of
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five novels (two set in
Detroit) and four works of
nonfiction.
At 5 p.m. Friday evening there will
be a "Carlebach-style" Kabbalat
Shabbat service, followed.by a 6 p.m.
Shabbat buffet dinner. Chafets will
then speak to SYNergy participants at
7:30 p.m. He will discuss "Lovers'
Triangle: Israel, Evangelicals and the
Jews of America:'
On Shabbat morning, second-
through seventh-graders will enjoy a
youth breakfast and will lead services
beginning at 9:30 a.m. Parents are
invited to bring their babies with them
to Baby & Me, an 'Ask the Pediatrician"
session with Dr. Brian Gendelman. A
Tot Shabbat family experience is
offered for preschoolers through age 6
and families at 10:45 a.m.
The synagogue's annual Dreidel
Dance follows a 6 p.m. musical
Havdalah Shaboom event. The dance
will feature the sounds of Joe Cornell
Entertainment. Anisraeli food-fest
and lots of kid-friendly choices will be
offered.
Other highlights of the Shabbat will
be:
• 8:30 a.m — Shabbat Morning
Shmooze with Rabbi Herbert
Yoskowitz: "Israel: A Jewish State in an
Unredeemed World"
• 9:00 a.m. — Shtiebl Minyan
• 9:30 a.m. — Neshama Torah Stddy
with Rabbi Rachel Shere
• 10:30 a.m. — Yoga & Yiddishkeit
(wear yoga attire)
• 11:15 a.m. — An Israel Odyssey
At the conclusion of Shabbat morn-
ing services, Adat Shalom will salute
all participants in the Jewish
Federation Family Mission to Israel.
Everyone going on the mission is
invited to join Adat Shalom members
so that they may be recognized and
blessed.
• Adat Shalom is planning Super
SYNergy Shabbat for Super Bowl
Weekend, Feb. 3, 4. SYNergy co-chairs
are Carol Weintraub Fogel, Gary Graff
and Barbara Kappy.
Reservations are required for both
the Dec. 16 Shabbat dinner and the
Dec. 17 Dreidl Dance. There is a
charge of $36 per family or $20 per
adult and $10 child (3-12) for
the Friday evening dinner. •
There is an $8 charge per per-
son to attend the Dreidl
Dance, which includes food.
Reservations are required
no later than Monday, Dec. 12.
Call the Adat Shalom
Synagogue office, (248) 851-
5100, for reservations and
information.
Grow With Books
The Temple Israel Sisterhood will host
parents and grandparents at a lunch-
eon program "Read and Grow with
Jewish Books" noon Monday, Dec. 12,
with Rachel Kamin, the temple's direc-
tor of libraries and media center.
Kamin will present ways that par-
ents and grandparents can inspire a
love of Jewish learning to children by
discussing must-haves for one's home
library as well as the best new Jewish
books of 2005. Recommended books
will be available for sale at the annual
Temple Israel Book Fair, Sunday, Dec.
11-Thursday, Dec. 15.
The cost for the luncheon is $10 for
sisterhood members and $12 for
guests. Reservations are required; call
(248) 626-5426. .
Jewish Literacy
Lay-lead Reconstructionist Congrega-
tion T'chiyah in Oak Park invites the
community to participate in a five-
part series that will examine the five
traditional sources of Jewish tradition.
The first program, 10 a.m.-noon
Saturday, Dec. -10, will focus on
midrash, one of the first rabbinic tools
used to interpret the Bible. It will pres-
ent the two main types of midrash by
means of four short texts. The final
.part, an introduction to contemporary
midrash, includes exercises to encour-
age people to write their own
rnidrashic interpretations. •
Other sessions will look at Rashi (10
a.m.-noon Jan. 14), Talmud (7:30-9:30
p.m. Feb. 10), Zohar (7:30-9:30 p.m.
March 10) and Baal Shem Tov and
Chasidism (7:30-9:30 p.m. April 14).
The congregation meets in the
David and Miriam Mondry Building, .
15000 W. 10 Mile. For information,
contact T'chiyah President Roslyn
Schindler at rozschind@aol.com or
call (248) 542-0900.
4076 West Maple Road
Bloomfield Hills, .Michigan 48301
248.646.6700
INVITATIONS • GIFTS • STATIONERY
Calligraphy and Complimentary Gift Wrap
• Introducing Harbor Sweets Chocolate •
SAVE OUR SYNAGOGUES
Help us save our synagogues that were
affected by the recent hurricanes
Klezmer for Katrina
Save Our Synagogues Concert
at. Congregation Shaarey Zedek
Southfield
Sunday, December 18, 2005
7 PM
featuring
The New Orleans Kleznier All-stars
The Kidz Klez Band of Michigan
For Tickets Call B'nai B'rith
(248)- 646-3100
$180 - concert plus afterglow
(per couple)
$18 - Concert Only
This concert is made possible
by the generous contributions of:
Chaye Olam
Michigan Board of Rabbis
Temple Israel
Michigan Board of Cantors
Temple Emanu-El
Zionist Organization of
B'nai Moshe
America
Dorfman Funeral Home
Shaarey Zedek
The Detroit Jewish News
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