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Musician Avy Schreiber of Southfield played piano and sang in a history-rich set-
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ting on March 22: the U.S. Supreme Court.
He performed at the kickoff dinner during the 2007 conference of the American
Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists and International Association of Jewish
Lawyers and Jurists. The kickoff event featured U.S. Associate Justice Antonin
Scalia presenting the Pursuit of Justice Award to Aharon Barak, retired president
of the Supreme Court of Israel.
"I was overwhelmed by the beauty, austerity and rich, illustrious history of the
Supreme Court," Schreiber said. "I felt truly honored to perform there. Having played
on many different pianos around the world, I can say that their beautiful, well-tuned,
well-maintained 7-foot Steinway grand is a treat for the hands and ears!'
Event coordinator Robin Mellas said: "This was the first time they had music
Avy Schreiber at the piano at the U.S. Supreme Court
at the event — Avy's idea — and people loved it. We got fabulous feedback from
people. Avy added warmth and created a soft background to the reception at the Supreme Court. People were gathering around him. They loved
the music and when we had an opportunity to have him sing, many asked to have a sing-along."
Schreiber, 37, has performed around the world, including at the White House. He participated in the production of three albums and now is
at work on a solo album. He is a senior member of the Jewish singing group Kol Zimra, does musical arranging and composition and performs
solo and with other musicians at events. He and his wife, Lynne Meredith Schreiber, have three children.
- Robert A. Sklar, editor
Settling In Southfield
Marker Dedication Sunday
Hoping to attract new young members from across the country, Young
Israel of Southfield (YIS) will host a Young Family Shabbaton, Friday,
June 1-Sunday, June 3. Synagogue-wide efforts have created a fund
to provide everything from help with transportation to the event to
interest-free loans toward home
mortgages for those who make
the move.
"Participants will be hosted
in members' homes, which will
give them an opportunity to see
the beautiful, spacious, relatively
low-cost homes that are available
within our eruv," said YIS Rabbi
Yechiel Morris." We are working
with local realtors and hope to
have them on hand to answer
any questions and are compil-
ing a list of job opportunities in
the area that we will distribute."
Information on local day school
and yeshivot also will be shared.
"The overall purpose of the
Shabbaton," Rabbi Morris said, "is
to get the word out that we are a
Rabbi Morris and his son Ezra,
vibrant, welcoming and growing
3, at a YIS Young Family Social
modern Orthodox community
Committee ice skating event.
and that we would love to have
other families experience and hopefully consider joining us."
Information: contact Dr. Howard Korman at hkorman@comcast.net
or Monica Fischman at monicafischman@gmail.com or (201) 966-
1591.
Celebrate Detroit's Jewish history when a Michigan historical marker
honoring the first Jews to settle in Detroit is dedicated from 3:30-5
p.m. Sunday, April 29, at the Michigan TriCentennial Park in down-
town Detroit.
Co-sponsored by the Jewish Historical Society of Michigan and
the American Jewish Committee in collaboration with the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, the afternoon's program is free
and open to the public and will include welcoming remarks by U.S.
Sen. Carl Levin.
The marker highlights the arrival in 1762 of fur trader Chapman
Abraham, the first Jewish settler in Detroit as well as the 181
Michigan Jews from a population of 150 families in the state who
served in the Union Army during the Civil War.
The marker was awarded by the Michigan Historical Commission's
Department of History, Arts and Libraries, and is the legacy project of
the statewide coalition that spearheaded "Celebrate 350 — Jewish Life
in America: 1654-2004,"the commemoration of 350 years of Jewish
settlement in America.
The afternoon program will feature jazz
and a Jewish Boy Scout color guard. Young
volunteers from Camp Tamarack will re-enact
Chapman Abraham's arrival by voyageur
canoe. Light refreshments will be served.
Michigan TriCentennial Park is at the corner
of Atwater and St. Aubin streets, three blocks
east of Rivard.
From 2-3:30 p.m. Sunday, the
Reconstructionist Congregation of Detroit
Sen. Carl Levin
(RCD) will dedicate its sanctuary at 1300 E.
Lafayette, also downtown. The event marks the return of the congre-
gation's newly restored, century-old, hand-carved ark.
Timed to coincide with the historic marker dedication, the event
features a short ceremony plus remarks by U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, a
founding RCD member. The synagogue opened its doors in 2000, and
was the first new synagogue in Detroit in 25 years. For more informa-
tion on RCD, its services, Sunday school and the Reconstructionist
movement, contact Jessie Shenk at (313) 417-1944 or visit www.jrf.
org/recondetroit.
- Shelli Liebman Dorfman, senior writer
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