Spirituality
'Who Knows One' from page B1
dent of Jewish Life Network-Steinhardt
Foundation.
Local interviews were with Rabbi Paul
Yedwab of the Reform Temple Israel
in West Bloomfield and the late Rabbi
Sherwin Wine of the Birmingham Temple
in Farmington Hills and founder of
Secular Humanistic Judaism.
Goldfein also interviewed lay people.
"These were mostly my friends and fam-
ily, but I also interviewed some people
on the street in Jerusalem and my mom's
butcher:' she said.
Teacher Avigayil Ishakis in front of the ark
A Lesson Learned
Two By Two
Indoor ark experience brings lesson home.
S
tudents in a nursery classroom at Yeshivat Akiva in Southfield helped to
recreate the story of Noah, first by getting wet.
As Nursery 4B teachers Avigayil Ishakis and Pia Katz supplied the rain
with spray bottles, the children searched for
pairs of animals around the room that they
placed at the mouth of an ark fashioned out of
paper. Once they were safely "inside they pulled
off their slickers, folded down their umbrellas
and were read a book about Noah's Ark. The
very best part, of course, was painting rainbows
on slices of pound cake topped with a cloud of
whipped cream.
The sun, the children agreed, had returned.
The experiential project on Oct. 19 was fol-
lowed up a week later by a tea to which parents
and grandparents were invited. They and the
students of Nursery 4B learned about Abraham's
Dalia Albert, 4, of Southfield
great hospitality (and got to eat cake, too). I 1
doesn't mind the downpour.
On Gossip
One should not say that a person is
not poor because it may keep him
from receiving assistance.
Presented by Lubavitch Women's
Organization. For information on keeping
kosher or lighting Shabbat candles, contact
Miriam Amzalak, (248) 548-6771, amzalakg
yeshivanet.com .
Addiction Support
The Temple Israel Robert Sosnick Family
Life Center will host an addiction support
group, facilitated by Deede Amhowitz and
Joni Lipson.
Sessions are scheduled for Mondays,
Nov. 12-Dec. 17, from 7:30-9 p.m. at
Temple Israel in West Bloomfield.
The group will cover all types of addic-
tion, including shopping, gambling, sub-
stance abuse, food, sexual and Internet.
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Participants will experience a confidential
setting and learn to stay healthy when
addiction touches family.
All sessions are open to the community
free of charge. Registration is necessary.
Contact Elaine Bertsch, (248) 661-5700 or
Elaine@temple-israel.org .
Authors Spark
Synergy
Joshua Henkin, author of
the new novel Matrimony,
will headline Adat Shalom
Synagogue's SYNergy
Shabbat weekend in
Joshua
November. Following
Henkin
Shabbat services and din-
ner on Friday, Nov. 16, he will speak about
"The Life and Times of a Jewish Novelist!"
Following Kiddush on Saturday, local
author Karen Tintori will speak. Her most
recent, Unto The Daughters, is the story
of a secret guarded so fiercely for nine
decades that members of Tintori's family
died without ever learning it.
Now in her third year at Harvard Law
School, Goldfein, 28, still doesn't know
who nominated her for the fellowship. She
only knows it was an academic source.
Her one-year fellowship was extended
to two, during which her project became a
23-part, 13-hour educational DVD series
— but not without some difficulty. At
one point, her video camera and 14 taped
interviews were stolen and only nine
interviews could be repeated.
"What will be shown on Nov. 18 is a
2-hour video covering six of the areas
covered at greater length in the series, and
including movie clips, music and other
media intended to spice it up a bit;' she
said.
Her father added, "While the subject
is serious, the content is also often funny
and entertaining."
Reflecting on her interviews, Goldfein
said, "It was interesting to me that even
within movements there was such a wide
range of perspectives on many questions.
Harold Kushner and Elliot Dorff are both
Synergy activities will begin at 6 p.m.
Friday with services for all ages. There will
be a Shabbat Rocks Kabbalat Shabbat ser-
vice. Families with children through sec-
ond grade are invited to Shabbat Shaboom
musical service. There will be a separate
teen service. A casual Shabbat buffet sup-
per will follow.
Childcare will begin at 7 p.m. and
extend until the end of the adult program.
At 7:45 p.m., children will enjoy a perfor-
mance from the Leslie Science and Nature
Center, "Raptors: Meet the Hunters of the
Sky!'
Traditional services begin at 9 a.m.
Saturday. Dan Shere will lead a Mishpacha
Minyan (family service) at 10 a.m. At
10:15 a.m., there will be drop-off youth
services. A Yoga & Yiddishkeit class is at
10:30 a.m.
The day's activities will conclude with
a third-grade family Havdalah program
at 4:15 p.m. along with a seventh-grade
Havdalah experience with residents from
Farmington Hills-based JARC.
Conservative rabbis, but their views differ
greatly from one another in several key
areas."
She also was surprised that married
couples not only had different beliefs, "but
each spouse seemed quite unaware of
what his or her spouse's beliefs were she
said.
"I learned many things from creating
the video but probably the most promi-
nent lesson for me was that it's OK to live
with the questions. I think when I started
out I really wanted answers; I wanted to
figure out what was true, or at least what I
believed. It took a long time, but I'm final-
ly comfortable living with uncertainty and
with letting my beliefs evolve and change.
"I can't say what I expect others to
learn from viewing it, but I can say that I
hope that they will learn that Judaism can
encompass a broad spectrum of beliefs
and that the conversation is a valuable
one.
The 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m, Sunday, Nov.
18, "Who Knows One" program of
the Jewish Forum will take place at
the Community House, 380 S. Bates,
Birmingham.
Prepaid registration is required:
$36 per person or $60 for two. A
kosher lunch will be served.
For information on the Jewish
Forum or to make reservations
for "Who Knows One," call Nancy
Kaplan, (248) 737-1931, e-mail pro-
grams@thejewishforum.org or visit
the Jewish Forum's Web site: www.
thejewishforum.org .
SYNergy co-chairs are Carol Weintraub
Fogel of West Bloomfield and Phyllis
Pilcowitz of Bloomfield Hills.
The community is welcome. Dinner res-
ervations are required by Nov. 9. Contact
the Farmington Hills synagogue, (248)
851-5100 or info@adatshalom.org .
Parenting Center
Gan Shalom Parenting Center and
Preschool at Congregation Beth Shalom in
Oak Park will open enrollment for January
2008.
The program includes bilingual
Hebrew-English with parent workshops,
Zoo-phonics reading readiness beginning
with the twos, everyday math readiness,
Israeli dance, Franklin Kids Sport Fitness,
Computer Tots and afternoon enrich-
ments.
Hours are 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday
through Friday (Friday until 4:30 p.m.).
Lunchtime is included in tuition.
For information, call Beth Shalom, (248)
547-7970.