Childrerl.' Center for speech, language, sensory-motor, & social connections We welcome children and adolescents with speech, language, sensory-motor and social needs to our state-of-the-art facility. If you recognize these symptoms in your child, please call us for a consultation. We can help! • non-verbal at age 2 • difficulty following verbal directions • repeating back words and phrases without comprehension • unintelligible speech • overly sensitive to touch • activity level that is unusually high or low • difficulty with writing, self-feeding, self-dressing, use of utensils or other hand skills • misinterprets social cues •feels rejected by peers and doesn't know why The Kaufman Children's Center is proud to be a sponsor of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit's Alliance for Jewish Education's Anita Naftaly Family Circle Event and the Presenting Sponsor of the Day School Conference on November 16th, featuring: Dr. Ross Greene, author of "The Explosive Child," presenting Keys To Resolving Challenging Behavior. 6625 Daly Road I West Bloomfield I (248) 737-3430 (24 5 69- 1 1 00 29200 Southfield Rd, Suite 201A Southfield, MI 48076 Financial Advisor Stocks I Bonds I 401k IRA J Retitement A48 September 25 • 2008 Children's Opera Motor City Youth Theatre will pres- ent the children's opera Brundibar at Grantland Street Playhouse in Livonia Oct. 17-19 and 24-26. Brundibar, originally performed by the children of the Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia during World War II, was composed by Hans Krasa and written by Adolf Hoffmeister. The opera is a sweet fairy tale about two small children who must get milk for their mother who is ill. The children have no money and are confronted by adults who don't offer any help. Three animals as well as the entire child popu- lation soon aid the children; all ends well. The second half of the evening per- formance will include short scenes and monologues relating to the Holocaust and will be performed by some of the children. The cast includes talented chil- dren and adults from the Detroit area. The production runs Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p,m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets are $15 with a discounted price of $12 for seniors (age 62 and up) and children (ages 5-15). Children younger than 5 will not be admitted. Information: (313) 535-8962 or e-mail nlflo@aol.com . Pictured above are, top row, Rachel Harvey, 12, Gabby Harvey, 10, Katy Bick of Franklin, 12; middle row, Danielle Borovsky, 12, Alina Sternberg of Beverly Hills, 12, Nicki Borovsky, 9; bottom row, Noah Harvey, 6. The Harveys are from Farmington Hills and the Borovskys are from Bloomfield Township. Not shown is Jenna Silverstein of Novi. Obama Talks With Rabbis Washington/JTA — In a conference call with 900 rabbis, Barack Obama said last week he supports government funding for after-school programs in religious schools. The Democratic candidate for presi- dent said he opposes vouchers for pri- vate schools, but would continue to sup- port funding, as is currently provided in the No Child Left Behind Law, for after- school, tutoring, mentoring and sum- mer programs at private and religious schools, according to a news release from the Orthodox Union and other rabbis who participated in the call. Participants said Obama talked about a number of issues and took four ques- tions from leaders of the four major denominations during the more than 40 minutes he spent on the call. The econ- omy, education, energy, Israel and Iran were among the topics he discussed. With the call coming less than two weeks before Rosh Hashanah, the Democratic nominee wished the group shanah tovah. He also discussed how the shofar "raises people from slumber" and how he hoped this election could do the same. Rabbi Sam Gordon, who introduced Obama and serves as co-chair of "Rabbis for Obama," said he believed that a presi- dential candidate speaking to hundreds of rabbis was "unprecedented" during a political campaign and that Obama showed an impressive "depth of knowl- edge" — at one point referring to the largest modern Orthodox high school in Chicago by name, the Ida Crown Academy, when discussing faith-based schools.