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August 23 • 2007

SAJE reclaims a wider audience
with a new format.

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Change Of Pace

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n the late 1990s, Seminars for
Adult Jewish Enrichment at
the two branches of the Jewish
Community Center of Metropolitan
Detroit warmed the months of
February and March.
As the years went by, however, fewer
and fewer Jewish adults signed up
for the three- or four-week nighttime
classes.
Last year, SAJE was transformed
into SAJE For All Seasons, a year-
round series of monthly speakers,
seminars, panels and programs. They
have ranged from national broadcasts
originating at the 92nd Street YMHA
in New York City to last spring's
"Champagne, Culture & Conversation"
at the West Bloomfield JCC's exhibit
"Mazel; Toy! The Art of Marriage."
SAJE even made it to Florida in
the midst of Michigan's cold snap
last February. "SAJE in the Sun" for
snowbirds featured Florida Atlantic
University's Dr. Jeffrey Morton speak-
ing at Boca Raton's Polo Club on cur-
rent affairs and the Middle East.
Adina Pergament, who became
SAJE director last year, says SAJE For
All Seasons has the same quality as
its predecessor "but it's spread out

so more people can attend." The new
SAJE has been averaging several hun-
dred participants per event.
In March, SAJE had three programs
on consecutive Mondays: "The Tribe:
An unorthodox, unauthorized his-
tory of the Jewish people and the
Barbie doll ... in about 15 minutes";
"An Evening With The Technion"; and
"Intelligent Design - Awesome Design:
Do God & Darwin Mix?"
The original SAJE "was very popu-
lar," says SAJE chairman Susan Marwil
of Bloomfield Hills. She believes it
led to increased enrollment for the
Florence Melton Adult Mini-School
adult education program and a dwin-
dling of its own attendance.
In 2005, Marwil says, SAJE atten-
dance was very small "and we started
to look at it from a different perspec-
tive?'
Now, attendance is increasing, new
members have joined the SAJE com-
mittee and the SAJE endowment is
growing through the generosity of Cis
Maisel Kelman, the Morris and Beverly
Baker Foundation, Maida Frank
Portnoy, Sophie Perlstein, Sydelle and
the late Sheldon Sonkin, Federation's
Alliance for Jewish Education and oth-
ers.
Marwil, a former board member of
the JCC and former chair of its annual