DIGEST
Concert Of Friends
Former Detroiters Wyn and Harold
Landis will make a special trip north
from Tamarac, Fla., this weekend to
perform in concert at Congregation
Beth Shalom.
The pair will present a repertoire of
songs from popular Broadway musi-
cals at a 7 p.m. Sunday, May 21, event
to benefit the synagogue's Circle of
Friends group.
"Circle of Friends is made up of 20-
25 new Americans who get together
with a goal of learning English:' said
synagogue member Wendy Newman
of Huntington Woods. "The program
is a fund-raiser to help offset the cost
of bringing in speakers and taking bus
trips."
Volunteers, including Newman's
husband, Lenny, who helped orga-
nized the event, meet with the group
regularly to talk about current world
events with a Jewish perspective and
discuss the speakers' topics.
The Landises will be accompanied
in concert by Gennadiy Zut, Ida Kogan
and pianist Rochelle Barr.
Cost is $15; seniors 65 and older,
$10.
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For information on the concert,
presented by the Beth Shalom Cultural
Commission and Circle of Friends, call
the synagogue at (248) 547-7970.
Focus: Halachah, Ethics
The Jerusalem Center for Research:
Medicine and Halachah will present
a weekend-long medical Halachah
(Jewish law) and ethics yarchei kal-
lah (conference and learning pro-
gram) from Thursday evening, May
25, through Sunday evening, May 28,
at the Harav Menachem and Rochel
Goldberg Kollel of Greater Detroit in
Oak Park.
The conference will consist of shi-
urim and lectures on varied medical
topics, as well as facilitated small
group in-depth learning of pertinent
source materials. The featured guest
scholar and educational director is
Rabbi Yaakov Weiner, dean and rosh
kollel of the Jerusalem Center for
Research: Medicine and Halachah,
Jerusalem.
Other prominent local rabbinic
authorities will also speak. The con-
ference themes include end-of-life
issues (Thursday evening and Friday
morning), dilemmas of limited-
scarce resources (Friday mid-day and
Shabbat afternoon) and genetics and
medicine (Sunday).
The program is primarily geared
toward physicians and is able to
accommodate participants at most
levels of Jewish learning. Continuing
medical education credits are available
and there is a cost for participation.
For details, visit j-c-r.org .
Rabbi Weiner will speak at several
sessions that are open to the public
at no charge. These open sessions
include Tuesday evening, May 23, on
"Assisted reproductive techniques as
foreseen and viewed by Halachah"
and Wednesday evening, May 24, on
"Cosmetic surgery, bariatric (obesity)
surgery, and refractive (LASIK eye)
surgery." These sessions will be held at
Congregation Agudas Yisroel-Mogen
Avraham at 8:30 p.m.
JHS Fetes Volunteer
Local attorney Gerald S. Cook will be
the 2006 recipient of the Leonard N.
Simons History Award for his con-
tributions to preserving local Jewish
history and to the Jewish Historical
Society of Michigan. He will receive
the award at the
47th annual meet-
ing of the Jewish
Historical Society
June 4.
Cook, a native
Detroiter and Oak
Park High School
graduate, is an
Gerald Cook
officer and long-
time JHS member.
His active participation includes co-
founding and chairing the JHS High
School Yearbook Collection (now
nearly 450 volumes) and coordinating
the establishment of the JHS student
tours of historic Jewish Detroit. Cook
and his wife, Barbara, serve as orga-
nizers and tour narrators for these
tours, often creating new materials to
distribute to students.
Cook is a partner in the law firm of
Honigman, Miller, Schwartz and Cohn
LLP.
Guest speaker at the annual meet-
ing and luncheon will be Edward
Portnoy, who will give a presentation
on cartoons in the Yiddish press. A
Detroit native, Portnoy teaches his-
tory and is a doctoral candidate at the
Jewish Theological Seminary in New
York. Portnoy is a bibliographer at the
Center for Jewish History in New York.
The meeting begins at 10:30 a.m.
Sunday, June 4, at Adat Shalom
Synagogue, 29901 Middlebelt,
Farmington Hills. Tickets are $36
and must be reserved by May 24. Call
(248) 432-5517.
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