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Yamasaki's Designs

Hear archivist Jan Durecki's lecture on Minoru Yamasaki's
synagogue architecture, including his commission at Temple
Beth El, 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 3, in the temple's Alpert Room,
7400 Telegraph
in Bloomfield
Township. The
Jewish History Detectives Lecture Series is presented by the
Rabbi Leo M. Franklin Archives. No charge. (248) 851-1100,
ext. 3137; franklinarchives@tbeonline.org .

cons illuminating the former World
Trade Center site for six months,
in honor of lives lost there on 9/11.
No charge. (313) 664-7800.

Hear from Sharon Duke Estroff,
author of Can I Get a Cell Phone
for Chanukah? at the annual Alicia
Joy Techner Parenting Conference
9:30 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, at
Temple Israel, 5725 Walnut Lake
Rd. in West Bloomfield. RSVP to
Elaine Bertsch: (248) 661-5700.

Seniors

Enjoy a program of Jewish music,
Broadway show tunes and jazz
1 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 27, at the
Oak Park JCC. Performers are
David Appelman, flute and saxo-
phone, and Michele Chekan, piano
and vocals. $2 charge includes
light refreshments. Supportive
Communities: (248) 967-4030.

Celebrate with fellow seniors at
a pre-Chanukah latke luncheon
noon Wednesday, Nov. 28, at
Temple Israel, 5725 Walnut Lake
Rd. in West Bloomfield. Vocalist
Michael Kreiger will entertain. $10
for Temple Israel Treasures mem-
bers; $12 for guests. There will be
a collection of new books, toys
and games for needy local chil-
dren. RSVP to Tikwah Gerendasy:
(248) 538-1295.

Help CHaZaKaH/Young-at - Heart
members celebrate 18 years of
programming at a luncheon-con-
cert 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 29,
at Adat Shalom Synagogue, 29901
Middlebelt in West Bloomfield.
Cantor Frank and Lisa Lanzkron-
Tamarazo will offer selections
from American and Yiddish musi-
cal theater and opera. Piano
accompanist is Morrine Maltzman.
$12; $10 for members. Mail check
to Dorothy Goldberg, 28303
Franklin Rd., Apt. A130, Southfield,
MI 48034. (248) 851-5100.

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Come for lunch and a concert
featuring the Bel Canto Choir
noon Thursday, Nov. 29, at the
Oak Park JCC. At 1 p.m., Martin
Mandelbaum will lead the group
in singing Chanukah and holiday
songs. The program is $1 for non-
members. Reservations for lunch,
$2.75, are required. (248) 967-
4030.

Brush up your duplicate bridge
game at the Bridge Club 1-3 p.m.
every Wednesday at the Oak Park
JCC. All players are welcome.
(248) 967-4030.

Experiment with various media
at the ongoing Farber Adult
Art classes 9 a.m.-noon every
Monday, Wednesday and Friday at
the Oak Park JCC. Harriet Gelfond
is the facilitator. Tuition and art
supplies over 10 sessions cost $40
for JCC members and $60 for oth-
ers. (248) 967-4030.

Drop in to play cards with the
Ben-Gurion Men's Group noon-
4 p.m. every weekday (not on
Thanksgiving) at the Oak Park
JCC. No charge. (248) 967-4030.

Young Adults

Turn out for the "Light up the
Night" Chanukah party, open to
ages 21-40, 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec.
1, under the sponsorship of Temple
Israel in West Bloomfield. The
evening takes place at Andiamo
in Novi, starting with a strolling
supper, comedy show upstairs at
Second City and concluding with
drinks at the Dirty Martini. For
more, contact JoAnn Smith: (248)
661-5700.

Participate in campus Hillel pro-
grams, offering a variety of activi-
ties for ages 18-30. Following are
the Hillel House address, Web site
and contact for:
• Wayne State University: 667

Grosberg Center in Detroit. www.
hillel-detroit.org . Hillel of Metro
Detroit hotline: (313) 577-8888.
hillel@wayne.edu .
• Eastern Michigan University:
965 Washtenaw in Ypsilanti. www.
emuhillel.org . Audrey Bloomberg:
(734) 482-0456;
audrey@emuhillel.org .
• University of Michigan:1429 Hill
Street in Ann Arbor. www.umhillel.
org . Michael Brooks: (734) 769-
0500; umhillel®umich.edu .
• Michigan State University: 360
Charles in East Lansing. www.
msuhillel.org . Marisa Saltzman:
(517) 332-1916; marisa@msuhillel.
org .

Youth

Kick off the holidays with a fam-
ily show featuring Gemini, the
musical duo of Sandor and Laszlo
Slomovits, 1 p.m. Sunday, Nov.
25, at the Ark, 316 S. Main in Ann
Arbor. $10. (734) 761-1451; www.
theark.org .

Celebrate Chanukah at this
month's Tot Shabbat, geared to
young children with family mem-
bers 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, at
Temple Beth El, 7400 Telegraph
in Bloomfield Township. An infor-
mal service begins the morning,
with snack and crafts at 10. The
program introduces youngsters
to Shabbat and other holidays.
Temple religious school: (248)
865-0612.

Give a Chai Five for the Shul-
Chabad Lubavitch's new youth
program that meets 10:30 a.m.-
noon Saturday, Dec. 1, and every
other Saturday at the Shenkman
Building, 6890 W. Maple in West
Bloomfield. Children ages 10-13
will have field trips and surprises
along with Shabbos activities.
Enroll with Levi Stein: (248) 877-
7978; www.TheShul.net .

Greet former Detroit resident
Sarah Marwil Lamstein, read-
ing and signing copies of her
new book, Letter on the Wind: A
Chanukah Tale, 2 p.m. Sunday,
Dec. 2, at the Oak JCC. There also
will be a shadow puppet perfor-
mance and menorah fashion show.
No charge. (248) 967-4030.

The community is invited to these events:

• Temple Israel, 5725 Walnut Lake Rd. in West Bloomfield:
Enjoy the Magic of Chanukah, including latke lunch, musical
sing-along and magic show,12:15-3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2. $10 for
adults; no charge ages 12 and under. RSVP to Rita Geiringer:
(248) 661-5700.

• Temple Beth El, 7400 Telegraph in Bloomfield Township:
Bring your own menorah for lighting during the congregation's
Chanukah dinner 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 7. Services at 7:30 p.m. will
feature the voices of the Temple Youth Choir. There is a charge
for dinner. RSVP to Barbara Grant: (248) 851-1100, ext. 3149.

Partners In Learning

pioneered an initiative to research,
collate and expound upon mitz-
vahs governing interpersonal
behavior. He has touched thou-
sands of Jews by making this area
of Judaism accessible, relevant
and meaningful to them. He is
artners in Torah is break- a speaker and pioneer in Jewish
adult education
ing ground with the
The series will be held at the
new "just Say Know to
Jewish Community Center in West
Judaism" series.
Bloomfield on Wednesdays at
In partnership with Federation's
noon, beginning Nov. 28 through
Alliance for Jewish Education,
Dec. 19. Additional series
FedEd and the Jewish
will be added this winter
Community Center of
and spring.
Metropolitan Detroit,
Upcoming topics are:
Partners will initiate
•Nov. 28, A Tall Order
a series of lunch-and-
•Dec. 5, True Love
learns aimed at raising
•Dec. 12, Taking it to
awareness and profi-
Heart
ciency in the mitzvah
•Dec. 19, Are All Loves
Hillel once described as Rabbi Muller
Created Equal?
the entirety of the Torah:
The cost, including lunch, is
Love your neighbor as yourself.
$18 for the series or $7 per class.
Rabbi Tzvi Muller will lead the
classes, which will be accompanied To register or for information, call
by lunch. He moved to Detroit after Partners in Torah, (248) Judaism!
The Jean and Theodore Weiss
three years as a pulpit rabbi in
Partners in Torah program is part
Winnipeg.
of the Southfield-based Yeshiva
As founder and director of the
Beth Yehudah.
Center for Jewish Values, Muller

JCC setting
for new Torah
study program.

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Partition Anniversary
To mark the 60th anniversary
of the 1947 U.N. partition plan
involving American foreign policy
in the Middle East, the Zionist
Organization of America Midwest
Region will host Jonathan Schanzer
speaking on "Dangerous Times in
a Dangerous Neighborhood."
He will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday,
Nov. 29, at the Jewish Community
Center in West Bloomfield, 6600 W
Maple at Drake.
Schanzer is director of policy
for the Washington-based Jewish

Policy Center and a former coun-
ter-terrorism analyst for the office
of Intelligence & Analysis at the
U.S. Department of Treasury. He
holds a master's degree in Middle
Eastern Studies from Hebrew
University, Jerusalem. He speaks
Arabic and Hebrew. He has
appeared on CNN and Al Jazeera.
Talk cosponsors include the
Jewish Community Center
of Metropolitan Detroit,
StandWithUs/Michigan and
the Jewish Institute of National
Security Affairs, Washington.

