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248 642 1690

High Holiday Services
The Birmingham-Bloomfield Chai
Center is offering High Holiday ser-
vices with open seating and family-
style meals.
Services start at 9 a.m. on Rosh
Hashanah, Sept. 23 and 24, and
10 a.m. on Yom Kippur, Oct. 2.
Services are held in the Birmingham
Masonic Lodge, 37357 Woodward, in
Bloomfield Hills.
Holiday meals will be served the
two nights of Rosh Hashanah and
to break to the Yom Kippur fast.
Reservations are required for the
meals.
Shofar blowing services can also be
arranged for anyone in the area who
cannot make it to synagogue.
Contact Rabbi Boruch Cohen at
(248) 203-6721 or chai-rabbi@sbc-
global.net .

Bob Builds A Sukkah

Have dinner and decorate the sukkah
at Congregation Beth Shalom during
"Enjoy Pizza in a Hut with Builder
Bob," 6-7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 11.
Register by Oct. 9 and pay $20/
member family, $25/non-member
family. Prices at the door are $5 more.
A family includes 1-2 adults and 1-3
children; children under 12 months
are free.
Call the synagogue, (248) 547-7970.

programs.
Alumni are urged to go to the
Project Reconnect Web site, www.
projectreconnect.org , as soon as
possible for information on the free
High Holiday tickets offered as part
of Project Reconnect's "Come Home
for the Holidays" initiative, which was
launched last year.
The Web site contains an extensive
list of contact information for more
than 100 Conservative congregations
throughout the country. Movement
synagogues who have not yet signed
up to offer tickets are also encouraged
to visit the Web site for more informa-
tion.
The Conservative Jewish move-
ment in Israel, Masorti, is also part
of the initiative. "Come Home for the
Holidays" matches alumni with Israeli
families for home hospitality on holi-
days or Shabbat.

Joint Reform Worship

Metro Detroit Reform congregations
will join together as a community
to celebrate the second day of Rosh
Hashanah. Temple Shir Shalom will
host the service Sunday, Sept. 24,
beginning at 10 a.m.
The community celebration was
originated by Rabbi Ernst Conrad
of Temple Kol Ami. The year 2007
marks the 40th anniversary of the
Metropolitan Detroit Federation of
Reform Synagogues (MetFed).
Dial For Shofar
In celebration, MetFed congrega-
Congregation Shir Tikvah will offer
tions, along with sister congregations
Dial-a-Shofar during the holiday sea-
in Ann Arbor, East Lansing and Flint,
son, mid-September to mid-October.
have developed a three-part corn-
The service will allow homebound
munity project to benefit emerging
individuals to hear the sounds of the
Reform congregations in the former
shofar. The service can be reached at
Soviet Union.
(248) 649-4418, ext. 12.
The first phase is a collection yar-
Rabbi Arnie Sleutelberg will call out
mulkes,
said MetFed President Bunni
the notes and the shofar will be blown
Lieberman.
"We are collecting all
by Rick May, a congregant.
those unused siinchah yarmulkes to
give to the congregations in need in
Free Holiday Tickets
the former Soviet Union and around
Free High Holiday tickets are avail-
the world:'
able to 20- and 30-somethings who
Yarmulkes can be brought to any
have been involved with programs run
Reform
synagogue in Metro Detroit
by the Conservative movement. United
before
the
end of the High Holidays.
Synagogue of Conservative Judaism's
Each
congregation
will have a basket
Project Reconnect has teamed up
in
the
lobby
designated
for the collec-
with the North American Association
tion.
Temple
Israel
reported
this week
of Synagogue Executives and
that it has reached its quota so no
Conservative synagogues throughout
more yarmulkes should be brought in
North America and Israel to offer the
over the holidays to that synagogue.
tickets.
United Synagogue launched Project
Reconnect in an effort to reconnect
alumni of USY, Atid, Koach, Nativ, the
Conservative Yeshiva, Camp Ramah,
the Solomon Schechter schools and
other Conservative movement youth

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