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. • 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. Skyline & The Back Street Horns The Jerry Ross Band •Rurnplestiltskin •LUSA •Nightline •Persuasion •Cassens Murphy Band •Simone Vitcile Band 'Intrigue •Sun Messengers 'Radio City Newsmaker Hot Ice Joyride L04110 BOSS STIALING Call for free video consultation Since 1972 248-398-9711 A rnim THE POWER NAZZOF TO SURPRISE Loaded, leather, moonroof, power windows, locks, mirrors, auto, V8 & more. Stock #25K490 was S29,740 this is not a misprint! Plus tax, title, plate, destination & doc fees. All rebates to dealer includes KIA owner loyalty. Expires 5/31/06 V 6, 4X4, power windows, locks, mirrors, auto & more!. 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