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Preview Nights
You are invited to explore the Bloomfield Hills Schools.
Please join us for an informative evening to learn about
our rigorous academic curriculum, explore the K-12
International Baccalaureate Programme, experience
the Bowers Farm and Johnson Nature Center auxiliary
classroom environments and discover the variety of
athletic programs, student clubs and activities.
Parents of private, parochial, tuition and BHS students who
are entering preschool, kindergarten, 6th grade or 9th grade
in the fall of 2007 are invited to attend Preview Nights.
Preschool Preview Nights
Bloomin' Kids at Conant Elementary
Bloomin' Kids at Lone Pine Elementary
November 8th at 7 p.m.
November 8th at 7 p.m.
3100 Lone Pine Road, W. Bifild
4100 W. Quarton Road, B'fld Hill
Bloomin' Tots at Fox Hills Center
November 15th at 7 p.m.
1661 Hunters Ridge, B'fld Hills
Elementary School Preview ghts
Conant Elementary School
Lone Pine N
November 8th at 7 p.m.
November
41001N. Quarton Road, B'fld Hills
3100 Lon
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Eastover Elementary School
'Building Bridges
Arab cable network and rabbi
create interfaith TV series.
Don Cohen
Special to the Jewish News
A
national effort to exchange
ideas, advance understanding
and ease tensions between
Jews, Muslims and Christians is corn-
ing to Metro Detroit; but the prominent
involvement of an outspoken area
imam has made the American Jewish
Committee concerned it will do more
harm than good.
Building Bridges: Abrahamic
Perspectives on the World Today,
a series of 18 half-hour programs,
will premiere on cable TV at 8 p.m.,
Tuesday, Nov. 2, on Bridges TV, an
American Muslim television network
November 8th at 6:30 p.m.
1101 Westview Road, B'fld Hills
Hickory Grove Elementary School
November eh at 7 p.m.
2800 Lahser Road, Bind. Hills
Middle School and High Scho s.
Building
Bridges
Bloomfield Hills Middle School
November 9th at 7 p.m.
4200 W. Quarton, B'fld Hills
East Hills Middle School
November Stn at 7 p.m.
2800 Kensington Road,Hild Hills
456 Lahser Ro
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Model High School
November 9th at.7 p.m.
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based in Buffalo, N.Y. The first episode,
"God in the American Public Square,'
will be screened at the Islamic House
of Wisdom, 22575 Ann Arbor Trail,
Dearborn Heights, beginning at 7:30
p.m. Nov. 2. The screening is free and
open to the public.
The program deals with general ques-
tions of the importance of religion, its
role in promoting both violence and
peace and its role in American life.
Specific issues include evolution and
creation, abortion, forgiveness and
repentance, Jerusalem, secularism and
fundamentalism and women, among
other topics.
Building Bridges was conceived by
Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, vice president
of CLAL — the National Jewish Center
for Learning and Leadership, a New
York-based Jewish educational think
tank. Each episode is hosted by Ahmed
Soliman, Bridges TV senior news anchor
and producer, and includes Rabbi
Hirschfield, the Rev. Francis X. Mazur of
the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo
and one of four imams.
Two of the imams are from Metro
Detroit: Imam
Mohamad Ali
Elahi of the
Islamic House
of Wisdom and
. Imam Abdulah
Bey El Amin,
an African-
American
Christian con-
vert to Islam
Rabbi Hirschfield
who is director
of the, Council of Islamic Organizations
of Michigan. Imam El Amin participates
in the first episode. Imam Elahi is in four
episodes..
The American Jewish Committee
works with Imam El Amin, but is
concerned that
Imam Elahi is
participating and
that the opening
program will be
at his mosque.
Imam Elahi has
offended many Jews
and others with
his rhetoric about
Israel, Zionism and Jewish control of
the news media as well as his apologet-
ics for Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad.
Imam Elahi was prominent during
the summer's pro-Hezbollah rallies
in Dearborn,
writes against
Israel, Zionism
and U.S. support
for Israel in his
columns in the
Detroit News,
and his Web
site includes
photos of him
with Ayatollah
Sharona Shapiro
Muhammad
Hussein
Fadlallah, spiritual leader of Hezbollah;
the late Iranian leader Ayatollah
Khomeini, whom he served as Navy
chaplain; former Iranian presidents
Khatemi and Rafsanjani; and Minister
Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam,
among others.
Sharona Shapiro, AJC Michigan direc-
tor, says she respects CLAL, but that this
program "is part of a larger pattern"
whereby "CLAL will reach out to build
bridges with those that the American