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2007

Walk of Ages Earlier

The annual Walk of Ages community
walkathon sponsored by Jewish Home
and Aging Services Auxiliary will be
held Sunday, May 6, on the Applebaum
Jewish Community Center campus in
West Bloomfield. The date was moved
from September to avoid conflicts with
other JHAS events.
Proceeds from the fifth annual walk
will help support elderly residents
of the Fleischman Residence and
Danto Family Health Center in West
Bloomfield and the Menorah House
in Southfield. Grand marshal will be
Weight Watchers President Florine
Mark, with Detroit Jewish News colum-
nist Danny Raskin as grand marshal
emeritus.
The Walk of Ages will start at 10 a.m.,
preceded by registration at 9:15 and
warm-ups at 9:30. Walkers can do the
minimum 3K distance (1.8 miles), or
the 5K (3.1 miles). Refreshments will be
served at the finish line, and the second
annual tent sale will feature furniture
and other household goods, games, toys
and other merchandise.
Cost is $18 per person in advance
or $20 on May 6, including a T-shirt;
$36 for a family (two adults and four
children) in advance or S40 on the
day of the event; and $125 for a team
(up to five people, five T-shirts), or
$130 on May 6. Cost of a lawn sign on
Dedication Lane along the route is $180.
Walkers can earn incentive prizes by
getting sponsors.
Celebrity walkers expected to attend
are Judges Susan Moiseev, Edward
Sosnick and Marc Barron; Detroit Jewish
News columnists George Cantor and
Robin Schwartz; television's Cheryl
Chodun, Don Shane, Murray Feldman,
Rich Luterman and Dell Warner; radio's
"Big Al" Muskowitz; JET'S Evelyn
Orbach; and others.
For walk information or registration,
call Judy Dunn at JHAS, (248) 661-2999
ext. 120.

Women's Book Night

The Tri-Synagogue Women's Project
will hold a "Book Night Out" with liana
Blumberg, a young Ann Arbor Jewish
author and professor at the MSU James
Madison College, 7:30 p.m. Thursday,
April 26, at the Jewish Community
Center in Oak Park.
She will discuss her new book,
Houses of Study: A Jewish Woman
Among Books. The event is open to all
women, and sponsored by Congregation
Beth Shalom, Temple Emanu-El and
Young Israel of Oak Park.
There is a $5 charge. For reservations
by April 17: mciesla@jccdet.org.

Sunday May 6th
Dinner 6:00 pm

Knollwood Country Club

Featuring Special Guest Speaker
Ben Stein

call 248.723.8860 for tickets or more information

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Barbara Pariser Adler
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Arlene Barris
Selma Becker*
Elaine J. Beresh
Janet Berman
Josephine Bloom*
Muriel Weisman Brooks
Dana Burnstein
Richard Burstein
Robert S. Colburn
James Colman
Grace Colton
Susan Dubin
Beth Feldman
Cynthia Franklin
Mrs. Earl Freshman*
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David Hermelin*
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Edith Kahn*
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Inda Pariser*
Harry Platt*
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Gary Ran
Ruth Rosenfeld
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Mollie Ruby
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Community-Wide Yom HaShoah Program

SUNDAY, APRIL 15. 2007 • 7:00 PM

CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK SOUTHFIELD
27375 BELL ROAD • SOUTHFIELD. MI 48034

featuring special guest speaker Gerda Weissmann Klein

ne Survivor Remembers

Gerda Klein's account of living through the Holocaust is documented in
her autobiography, All But My Life, in print for 46 years in 55 editions.
The book depicts her view of the dark years of the Holocaust, a
progression that ultimately led to her liberation from a death march by
her future husband, Kurt Klein, an American intelligence officer. The
Klein's last book together was The Hours After: Letters of Love and
Longing in War's Aftermath, a follow up to All But My Life. The Hours
After contains actual correspondence between Gerda and Kurt Klein
following the war. Gerda's more recent book, A Boring Evening at
Home (2004) is a collection of uplifting stories and memories that drive
home the importance of friends, family and love.
Gerda Weissman

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The Kleins' story is portrayed in the film Testimony, a permanent exhibit
at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

Klein
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who marriec1 ne r
Best sei' ng Author card
Human R,gits

Gerda Weissman Klein's appearance is generously sponsored by The Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation in Memory of Mont D. Baker,
the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, Men's Club and Cultural Connection

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