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Check It Out!

For A Song

Take in the JET production of Neil
Simon's They're Playing Our Song,
the award-winning Broadway show
based on the real-life relationship of
composer Marvin Hamlisch and lyri-
cist Carole Bayer Sager, through Dec.
31 in Aaron DeRoy Theatre of the
West Bloomfield JCC. Tickets are $29-$39 with discounts for
seniors and students. A New Year's Eve party package is avail-
able for performances at 5 and 8 p.m. Dec. 31. Tickets: (248)
788-2900, www.jettheatre.org .

Arts & Culture

projects. Find audition monologues
at the Web site: www.ncjwgds.org .
Set an audition: (248) 355-3300.

Sample the humorous, poignant
and unusual secrets submitted
anonymously to "PostSecret
Project," a display of 200 original
and artistic postcards, through
Dec. 20, at the Janice Charach
Gallery inside the West Bloomfield
JCC. The upstairs gallery features
local artists Deanna Dione, Bruce
Finsilver, Hillary Fisher, Lindsey
Meyers, Betzi Pipis and Robert
Schefman. Hours are noon-4 p.m.
Sunday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-
Wednesday; and 10 a.m.-7 p.m.
Thursday. No charge. (248) 432-
5448, www.postsecret.com .

See the film Unlikely Heroes,
narrated by Sir Ben Kingsley
and directed by Richard Trank,
12:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16, at
the Holocaust Memorial Center,
Zekelman Family Campus, 28213
Orchard Lake Rd. in Farmington
Hills. Produced by the Simon
Wiesenthal Center, the film tells
stories of Jewish resistance, cour-
age and human dignity during the
Holocaust. $5 or free for members;
refreshments. RSVP: (248) 496-
1324 or AlexandraAtGofP@aol.com .

Cinema & Stage

Concerts

Attend the open audition for
Eve Ensler's play The Vagina
Monologues 7-10 p.m. Tuesday,
Dec. 11, at National Council of
Jewish Women, Greater Detroit
Section, 26400 Lahser, Suite 306,
in Southfield. The project is under
the auspices of V-Day, a global
movement to stop violence against
women and girls. NCJW/GDS will
use proceeds from the Feb.19 per-
formance to fund local anti-violence

Travel for the chance to hear
a Chanukah concert featur-
ing Visions, a Jewish singing
trio, 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9, at
Congregation Shaarey Zedek,1924
Coolidge in East Lansing. Winnie
Rome: (517) 351-3570.

Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty in
downtown Ann Arbor. Ticket hold-
ers can have a pre-concert preview
at 7 with Maestro Lipsky. $10-$45.
(734) 994-4801, a2so@a2so.com .

Relax as the Tracy Kash Thomas
Quartet plays easy-listening R&B
and jazz tunes 7-9 p.m. Tuesday,
Dec. 11, at the Music Hall Jazz Cafe,
350 Madison in Detroit. (313) 887-
8532, www.tracykash.com .

Take in the Fair Lane Music Guild
performance of violinist Gabe
Bolkosky and pianist Michele
Cooker 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec.
12, at Henry Ford Estate-Fair Lane,
4901 Evergreen, at University of
Michigan-Dearborn. $15 admission;
discounts available. (313) 593-5330.

Listen to a new work by Richard
Danielour as the Chamber Music
Society of Detroit continues its
Opus 9 Series 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec.
15, at Seligman Performing Arts
Center, 22305 W.13 Mile in Beverly
Hills. The Kalichstein-Laredo-
Robinson Trio with violist Kirsten
Johnson also will perform works by
Mozart and Tchaikovsky. $43-$75;
$25 students. (248) 855-6070.

Hear Sounds of the Season with
the Motor City Brass Band 3
p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16, at Ford
Community and Performing Arts
Center,15801 Michigan in Dearborn.
Tickets: $15 for ages 13 and older;
$12 for seniors/students. (313) 943-
2354, www.mcbb.org .

Event Hotline

Hear violist Yizhak Schotten and
other musicians in Heroes, a pre-
sentation of Ann Arbor Symphony,
8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, at the

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Bring the family to a program
with stand-up comedian Taylor
Mason, 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16,

at Congregation Shaarey Zedek,
27375 Bell Rd. in Southfield.
Mason, a favorite from the Disney
Cruise Line, also is a ventriloquist,
musician and actor. $10 admission,
or $7 in advance through the syna-
gogue. (248) 357-5544.

Health

Find help and companionship at
the Time Travelers Stroke Support
Group 10 a.m. Tuesdays, Dec. 11 and
18, at Temple Shir Shalom, 3999
Walnut Lake Rd. in West Bloomfield.
(248) 737-8700.

Come to a healing service and be
comforted 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec.
13, in the main sanctuary's bimah
at Adat Shalom Synagogue, 29901
Middlebelt in Farmington Hills. Led
by Rabbi Herbert A. Yoskowitz and
Cantor Frank Lanzkron-Tamarazo.
(248) 851-5100.

View Innerstate, a documentary
focused on the challenges of living
with chronic, life-altering inflamma-
tory diseases, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec.
18, at the West Bloomfield JCC.
The sponsoring Michigan Chapter
of Crohn's & Colitis Foundation
will take registration at 6:30. No
charge. Light refreshments. RSVP:
(888) 337-1339, ext. 4.

Helping Out

Assist members and friends of
Sara & Morris Tugman Bais Chabad
Torah Center in sending kosher
Chanukah gift packages to Jewish
soldiers in Iraq. Drop off packages
as soon as possible to the office,
5595 W. Maple in West Bloomfield.
(248) 855-6170; e-mail bctc770®
aol.com .

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Holiday Inclusion

Attend the Chanukah
celebration as part of
the "Someone I Know is
Gay ... Now What?" series
presented by the Jewish
Gay Network of Michigan
(JGN) in partnership with
PFLAG (Parents, Family
and Friends of Lesbians
and Gays), the Jewish
Community Center of
Metropolitan Detroit and
Jewish Family Service.
The free program, titled
"Inclusion and GLBT
Family, Partners and
Friends at Holidays," will
feature Rabbi Rachel
Shere of Adat Shalom
Synagogue, Farmington
Hills, and take place 7
p.m. Thursday, Dec. 6, at
the West Bloomfield JCC.
Visit jgnmi.org or call
(248) 432-5661.

Feel uplifted at "Bras for a Cause,"
a benefit for Gilda's Club Metro
Detroit, Friday, Dec. 7, at Somerset
Inn in Troy. The day will include a
holiday boutique starting at 10 a.m.,
and luncheon-fashion show at noon.
Cancer survivors will don Soma
intimate apparel, and participants
may decorate and design a bra.
$75, with table pricing available.
RSVP: (248) 577-0800, ext. 22;
sshanaman@gildasclubdetroit.org .

Participate in Mitzvah Day,
Tuesday, Dec. 25, with dozens of
volunteer activities from which to
choose. Register by Dec. 9 at www.
jewishdetroit.org/mitzvanday, e-
mail daitch®jfmd.org or call (248)
642-5393, ext. 9.

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December 6 • 2007

Participate in events held during
Chanukah, the eight-day Festival
of Lights concluding at sundown
Wednesday, Dec. 12. See other
Calendar sections for more activi-
ties:
• Conservative Movement:
Chanukah Celebration, hosted by
the Jewish Theological Seminary,
7-8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, in the

