To Do! E-mail items to calendar@thejewishnews.com Mail items to Calendar, the Jewish News, 29200 Northwestern, Suite 110, Southfield, MI 48034 Fax items to (248) 304-8885 • Deadline: noon, Wednesday, eight days prior to publication Aid V.A. Patients Join with members of Department of Michigan, Jewish War Veterans and Ladies Auxiliary, at a picnic arranged in Battle Creek for about 200 patients at the local Veterans Administration medical facility. The chartere bus will leave at 8 a.m. Sunday, July 22, from the JWV build- ing parking lot, 24900 Northwestern at 10 Mile, in Southfield. For further details, contact event chairman Art Lipman at (248) 352-8307. Check It Out! Arts & Culture Experience approximately 50 works in water media, including those of artists Linda and Donald Mendelson of Southfield and Stanley Rosenthal of Huntington Woods, at the Michigan Water Color Society's 60th Exhibition, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Thursday, July 19, and 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday, July 20, at the Community Arts Gallery at Wayne State University, 5400 Cass in Gullen Mall, Detroit. (248) 352-3973. See what's current in art at the survived the Nazis in Poland. The 36 colorful wall hangings by the late Esther Nisenthal Krinitz will be displayed through Aug. 9, at the Janice Charach Epstein Gallery inside the West Bloomfield JCC. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Thursday and noon-4 p.m. Sunday. (248) 432-5448. Explore an exhibit of sculptures and paintings by Kate Levant and Michael Smith through Aug. 10 at the Susanne Hilberry Gallery, 700 Livernois in Ferndale. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday though Saturday. (248) 541-4700. Fresh exhibit, through Aug. 4, at the David Klein Gallery, 163 Townsend in Birmingham. Featured artists are Brian Barr, Ben Hall, Dalton Jamieson, Ben Kiehl, Mary Kim, Kelly Reemtsen and Lauren Semivan. Gallery hours are 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday. For information, call (248) 433-3700 or visit www. dkgallery.com . View a tapestry exhibit, Through the Eye of the Needle, depicting the life of a Jewish woman who Share your published work as part of the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit's Local Author Fair, a feature of the Center's 56th Annual Jewish Book Fair. Up to 20 authors will be chosen to meet the public and autograph copies of their book 10 a.m.-noon Sunday, Nov.11, at the West Bloomfield JCC. Open to local Jewish authors and/or those whose book has Jewish content. Books must be published between October 2006 and November Mystic Dialogue Between Faiths? Explore Jewish and Islamic mysticism eight centuries ago and its possible basis for a dia- logue between Muslims and Jews currently at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 5, at Congregation Beth Ahm, 5075 W. Maple, West Bloomfield. Rabbi Aaron Bergman of the Frankel Jewish Academy will speak on Rumi and the Sufi School of Mysticism and read Rumi's poetry. Sponsored by Beth Ahm and the Jewish Forum. Open to all. Admission $10 (high school and college students free). RSVPs encouraged: Nancy Kaplan, (248) 737-1931. 2007 to qualify. Interested authors should contact Susan Solarz by Friday, Aug. 10 at (248) 320-8641. Cinema & Stage Learn about Jewish resistance during World War II in the docu- mentary Partisans of Vilna 1 p.m. Thursday, July 19, at the Oak Park JCC. Interviews with former partisans are interspersed with rare film footage from 1939-1944. (248) 967-4030. EVERYTHING'S RELATIVE by Jordan B. Gorfinkel www.jewishcartoon.com Watch the Yiddish/Jewish video School Ties 1 p.m. Monday, Aug. 6, at the Oak Park JCC. Sponsor is the Holocaust Survivors and Families Support Group. There is no charge to attend. (248) 967- 4030. See The Wearing of the Greens, a contemporary comedy written and directed by sitcom veteran Mark Rothman of Farmington Hills, through July 22. Show times are 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Starlight Theatre within the Summit Place Mall, 315 N. Telegraph, in Waterford. Tickets for the Oakland Theatre Guild production are $10 and $14. For details, call (248) 661-0496 or go to www.starlight- theater.net . BERNIE YAEL The Idealist The Perplexed 15 A DAY OF INFAMY ON THE JEW/5H A 0) 0 C.) § "Tit BASY40,44,V45 I>E5TROYED OUR FIRST HOLY "7"MP./-- . THE /ROMANS i,1).5-rfSOYFI) OUR XPE- 1-1_5C) ALL— J415. AND WORLD WARS WA-5 STARTED..." 46 July 19 • 2007 Attend an investment lecture series 7 p.m. Thursdays at the Farmington Community Library, 32737 W.12 Mile, Farmington Hills. There is no admission charge, but registration is required at (248) 553-6880. Information on all pro- grams is at www.farmlib.org •July 19: Prepare for the finan- cial security of a child with a disability. The presenter is Robin Waldman, a financial advisor with the Merrill Lynch Global Private Client Group. •July 26: Learn the differ- ences between no-load and loaded funds. The presenter is Mario Lepore II, an executive with UBS Financial Services. •Aug. 2: More about no-load mutual funds with Rick Bloom. The Altruist "THE NINTH DAY OF THE LUNAR MONTH OFAV c>_5e-COND .1 3 , 1N 1'+ 92, 5PAW Education BECCAnBETH The Realist •Aug. 9: Planning for long-term insurance with Susan Poppert. Listen to Golem, a contemporary Eastern-European folk-rock band, during the Concert of Colors music festival. Golem, putting modern beats to Jewish and Slavic folk songs, performs 4- 5 p.m. Sunday, July 22, at the Max M. Fisher Music Center, 3711 Woodward in Detroit. The festival offers diverse musical experiences free of charge through Sunday. The complete schedule can be found at www.concertofcolors.com . Find enchantment with Wicked, music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, through July 22 at the Wharton Center for the Performing Arts in East Lansing. Tickets are $35-$95. Call for show times: (800) WHARTON or online at www.whartoncenter.com . Rabbi Bergman CALENDAR... '1 Concerts Pli;1* LOUIS ZAYDS The Rebel The Traditionalist BUBS The Bubbe ALL ON 175HA a'AV- HOWEVER, ITS SAID THAT IN THE FUTURE-, OUR TEARS OF AAN4'.55 WILL TURN TO JOY AND THE 9r 2, 0F AV WILL Be_com A HOLIDAY. Register for Federation's Summertime Torah series, co- sponsored by Florence Melton Adult Mini-School and Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit's Alliance for Jewish Education. There is a charge. Call about openings in the remaining classes. (248) 642-4260. • Explore parent-child relation- ships in the Bible with local psychologist and Judaic stud- ies instructor Dr. Mitch Parker in What's the Matter With Kids Today? 7-8:30 p.m. continuing Thursdays through Aug. 9. • Learn about Jews in America with Dr. Howard Lupovitch 7-8:30 p.m. concluding Wednesday, July 25, at Max M. Fisher Federation Building, 6735 Telegraph in Bloomfield Township. • Study The Laws of Being a Mentsh with Rabbi Leiby Burnham 9:30-11 a.m. concluding Tuesday, July 31, at the West Bloomfield JCC. Become informed about buying and selling a home 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, July 28, and noon-5 p.m. Sunday, July 29, at Fairlane Town Center, Lower Level, Center Court, in Dearborn. Among the real estate experts attending will be professional home stagers, real estate agents, mortgage bro- kers and home insurance agents. Admission is free. (313) 593-1370 or www.shopfairlane.com. Enhance skills or try something new at the 10th annual Learning at the Opera House community cultural series through Aug. 12, at Michigan Opera Theatre, 1526 Broadway in Detroit. The educa- tional experiences include pro- grams in opera, musical theater, music composition, performance and movement, art and poetry. The complete schedule is available at www.MichiganOpera.org or call (313) 237-3270.