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GIFT GUIDE
Issue Date: November 15
Ad Deadline: October 25

GIFT GUIDE II
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n Dec. 1,Tapper's Diamonds
& Fine Jewelry will host
"Precious Lives, Precious
Metals," a gala celebration at its West
Bloomfield store.
The evening will celebrate storeown-
ers and brothers Howard and Steven
Tapper's 30 years in business as well
as raise money for the new charitable
initiative they founded, Precious Lives,
Precious Metals.
Precious Lives, Precious Metals was
created with the goal of bringing hope
and healing to people affected by HIV/
AIDS through education and prevention
programs. The Tappers have chosen
two organizations doing this impor-
tant work as the beneficiaries of their
fundraising efforts, the Midwest AIDS
Prevention Project and YouthAIDS.
The date of Dec. 1 was chosen for the
gala in honor of World AIDS Day.
The Midwest AIDS Prevention Project
is one of Michigan's largest licensed
nonprofit, HIV/AIDS-focused com-
munity-based organizations. Each year,
MAPP provides hundreds of programs
including HIV education, risk reduction
and substance abuse prevention.
YouthAIDS is an international
HIV/AIDS education and prevention
initiative operating under the umbrella
of Population Services International.
YouthAIDS targets 15-24 year olds with

positive upbeat messages of abstinence
and responsible sexual behavior using
the news media, pop culture, music, the-
ater and sports to "edu-tain."
PLPM's donation will fund
YouthAIDS' efforts in South Africa.
Honorary chairs for the gala are Gov.
Jennifer Granholm, State Sen. Gilda
Jacobs of Huntington Woods and
Oakland County Executive L. Brooks
Patterson.
Emerald City Designs is styling
the Orchard Mall with the evening's
theme of precious metals. Rich tones of
platinum, silver and gold will be draped
throughout the center.
Bingham Farms-based Matt Prentice
Restaurant Group will provide a special
station dinner. Patrons can dance to the
Simone Vitale Band.
For the evening's live auction, Tapper's
vendors have donated travel packages
and exclusive experiences that can't be
purchased anywhere else. Curious bid-
ders can read more about the auction
items online, www.tappers.com .
Tickets for the gala are $130; patrons,
$250; benefactors, $500. Tickets are tax
deductible.
Tickets can be purchased at Tapper's
West Bloomfield store or by contacting
Karynne Naftolin at Tapper's, (248) 865-
6327.

Institute Names Dean
Rabbi Adam Chalom of Kol Hadash
Humanistic Congregation in Highland
Park, Ill., has been named dean of
the International Institute for Secular
Humanistic Judaism,
North America, suc-
ceeding the late Rabbi
Sherwin T. Wine,
who was killed in an
automobile accident
while vacationing in
Morocco in July.
The announce-
Rabbi Chalom
ment in Farmington
Hills, coincided with Colloquium 2007,
a special biennial program of the IISHJ.
A panel of scholars — Jewish, Muslim,
and Christian — convened to discuss
"Jews and the Muslim World: Solving
the Puzzle:" The IISHJ also promoted
Rabbi Sivan Malkin Maas of Jerusalem,
Israel, from associate dean to dean for
the Institute's Israel campus.

Upon graduating cum laude from Yale
University with a bachelor's in Judaic
studies, Chalom attended the University
of Michigan, where he earned a master's
and doctoral degree in Near Eastern
studies. He was ordained a rabbi by the
IISHJ in October 2001.
From 1999 through 2004, he was
affiliated with the Birmingham Temple
in Farmington Hills as rabbinic intern,
assistant rabbi, and co-rabbi. A protege
of Sherwin Wine, Chalom has served
as a faculty member of the IISHJ
since 2000 and was assistant dean
since 2004. It was also in 2004 that he
became rabbi at Kol Hadash Humanistic
Congregation.
He is the membership chair of the
Association of Humanistic Rabbis
and sits on the editorial board of the
quarterly journal Humanistic Judaism
(a publication of the Society for
Humanistic Judaism), to which he also
contributes.

