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The way it's meant to be!

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The Chr y sler Founclation

Evelyn Orbach, Artistic Director

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November 27
Vec•enier 31, 2007

New Year's Eve Dining
& Dancing Packages available!

n°411 /: Neil Simon
Musk, $ Lyrits
Marvin Hamlisch
& Carole Bayer Sager

Pirec iteill/: Harold Jurkiewicz

A delightful musical based on the unlikely attraction between lyricist Carole Bayer Sager
and composer Marvin Hamlisch. Neil Simon's hysterical book will tickle your funny bone.

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November 29 • 2007

Undeniably Your Phone
Feel like you need an inexpensive
little something for yourself amidst
Chanukah shopping for everyone else?
In just seconds, you can access a new
ringtone for your mobile phone that
will not only make you laugh, but will
make others sit up and take notice.
Created by Californian Daniel
Aharonoff, YidTones are innovative,
Jewish themed ringtones — voice
messages that appear instead of the
phone's original ringing sound.
Available for free listening on
the YidTones Web site, they may be
ordered through the site or via a tex-
ting process.
"I am an Orthodox Jew first and a
digital media entrepreneur second, so
YidTones.com combines two of my
greatest passions:' said Aharonoff,
whose products are offered through
the Msgme mobile content sales plat-
form from Waterfall Mobile.
Choices of ringtones include accent-
ed voices calling out such directives as
"Be a mensch!, "Pick it up, it might be
the Mashiach,""Oy vey, it's my ex-wife
... straight to voice mail:' or the dis-

comforting announcement: "It's your
Mutha ..."
Among the musical ringtones are
those including one to the tune of the
Passover seder favorite Dayenu, with
the voice singing: "If it wasn't just my
cell phone, but it's also fax and house
phone, fax and house and my cell
phone, dayenu."
Some of the motivational messages,
announced in a voice that sounds like
it's coming from above, are, "Be open
to something great:' and "This might
be a great opportunity."
"Ever since that 40-year walk in the
desert, my people have been interested
in products that make it easier to be
away from home Aharonoff said.
"I hope that YidTones' collection of
digital Judaica makes the modern
Jew's on-the-go lifestyle just a bit more
enjoyable."
To hear YidTones ringtones, access
the Web site at YidTones.com. To order,
access the Web site or text YIDTONES
to 67463 (MSGME). Cost: $1.99 each.

Preparing For Bookstock
Bookstock, Metro Detroit's largest
used book and media sale where all
proceeds benefit literacy and educa-
tion projects, is seeking donations
and volunteer sorters.
Gently used books, books on tape,
records, videos, CDs and DVDs are
now being collected for Bookstock
2008, which will be held April 6-13 at
Laurel Park Place in Livonia. Drive-
through and drop off days will be held
11 a.m. – 1 p.m. at Bloomfield Plaza,
on the southwest corner of Maple and
Telegraph, Bloomfield Township, on
Sundays, Dec. 9, Feb. 3 and March 9.
Bookstock is accepting donations
Mondays through Fridays, 8 a.m.-3:30
p.m., at the Sarah and Ralph Davidson
Hadassah House, 5030 Orchard Lake
Road in West Bloomfield, and during
regular business hours at the Jewish
Community Center in Oak Park.
Volunteer sorting days will be held
at Bloomfield Plaza 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
every Wednesday and on the follow-
ing Thursdays: Dec. 13, Jan. 20, Feb. 21
and March 13.
For Bookstock volunteer opportuni-
ties, call (248) 645-7640, ext. 365, or
visit www.bookstock.info.

Benefit Performance
National Council of Jewish Women
Greater Detroit Section will host a
benefit production of Eve Ensler's The
Vagina Monologues on Feb. 19 directed
by Yolanda Fleischer.
Open auditions will be held Tuesday,
Dec. 11, 7-10 p.m., at the NCJW/
GDS office, 26400 Lahser, Ste. 306,
Southfield. Call the NCJW/GDS office
to reserve an audition time, (248) 355-
3300, ext. 0. Audition monologues can
be found on the NCJW/GDS Web site at
ncjwgds.org.
The Vagina Monologues is part of
V-Day, a global movement to stop vio-
lence against women and girls.
NCJW/Greater Detroit Section will
use proceeds to fund its anti-violence
programs; Luggage for Freedom, pro-
viding a suitcase packed with personal
and household items to women tran-
sitioning from HAVEN's domestic vio-
lence shelter; Safe Place, in cooperation
with Jewish Family Service, a kosher
shelter providing temporary housing
for women and their children; assisting
people completing personal protec-
tion orders; and Teen Yellow Pages, a
resource guide on critical topics for
high school students.

— Shell! Liebman Dorfman,

senior writer