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 Chafets 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 December 8 • 2005 73