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Upcoming vents
October 4
Featuring Alan Morinis
Community-Wide Mussar Shabbaton
Featuring Alan Morinis
9:00 AM • CSZ B'nai Israel Center
October 14
Sukkot Celebration
followed by Sukkah Stroll
10:00 AM • CSZ Southfield
October 15
Super Sensational Sukkot
For Pre-School Families
10:30 AM • CSZ Southfield
October 21
Simchat Torah Family Program
5:30 PM CSZ Southfield
October 21
Simchat Torah Block Party
7:00 PM • CSZ B'nai Israel Center
November 7
Featuring Rabbi Daniel Gordis
Kabbalat Shabbat Service & Dinner
Welcoming New Members
6:00 PM • CSZ Southfield
For more information, please call the
synagogue office at 248/357-5544
www.shaareyzedek.org
Arts & Culture
Attend the dedication ceremony
for a new permanent exhibit,
"The Kindertransport Memory
Quilts," 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct.
5, at the Holocaust Memorial
Center Zekelman Family Campus,
28123 Orchard Lake Road in
Farmington Hills. Members of the
Kindertransport Association and/or
their family members around the
world created the quilt squares.
They capture the memories of
Jewish children whose parents
sent them on a secret train trans-
port from Germany to righteous
English families, just before World
War II. Advance registration
advised: (248) 553-2400, ext. 25.
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Join the Oak Park-based Book
Beat bookstore for a program with
writer Heather Henson and illustra-
tor David Small discussing their
children's book That Book Woman,
7-8:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 6, at
Southfield Public Library, 26300
Evergreen. (248) 968-1190.
See "Three Generations of
Photography," an exhibit of work
by photographers Leo Sheiner, his
daughter Susan Sheiner and her
son Daniel Epstein, through Nov.
1, at the House on Main, 803 Main
in Royal Oak. Judy Weiner: (248)
541-3069.
Register by Nov. 17 to be an arti-
san or vendor at this year's Gift
Emporium 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday,
Dec. 14, at the Oak Park JCC.
Details: (248) 967-4030, ext.
2006.
Feed The Needy
Participate in the Yad
Ezra/Berkley kosher food
pantry's Yom Kippur Food
Drive, helping to feed 1,400
families in need. Bring
grocery bags filled with
food, donation envelopes
or money to wherever you
observe Yom Kippur on Oct.
9. See the "Helping Out"
category for volunteering
to sort food. (248) 548-
3663.
Reserve your place on the Jewish
Federation's Family Mission to
Israel. Dates are Dec. 25, 2008-
Jan. 4, 2009. Details: (248) 642-
8639 or skaufman®jfmd.org .
Cinema & Stage
Ponder the thriller Doubt: a
Parable, 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3,
at the Baldwin Theatre, 415 S.
Lafayette in downtown Royal Oak.
Stagecrafters 2nd Stage offers
performances Thursday-Sunday
evenings, with Sunday matinees,
through Oct. 12. Tickets: $12.
(248) 541-6430.
Try a little Murder by Poe, open-
ing Wednesday, Oct. 8, at Oakland
University's Meadow Book Theatre
in Rochester. Shows through Nov.
2. Tickets/schedule: (248) 377-
3300 or wwwmbtheatre.com .
Enjoy the Broadway show Say
Goodnight Gracie, about comedy
and life partners George Burns and
Gracie Allen, 8 p.m. Wednesday-
Sunday, through Nov.16, at the
Gem Theater, 333 Madison in
Detroit. Matinees presented 2 p.m.
Wednesdays, Oct. 8 and 15 and
1 p.m. Saturdays, Oct. 11 and 18.
Tickets: (313) 963-9800, www.
gemtheatre.com .
Laugh at David Regal and Arthur
Beer as The Sunshine Boys, also
the name of the Neil Simon com-
edy, weekends through Oct. 12, in
Marygrove College Theater, 8425
W. McNichols in Detroit. Theatre
Company of University of Detroit
Mercy: (313) 993-3270,
www.theatre.udmercy.edu .
Tell aspiring singers and danc-
ers, ages 13-25, about auditions
for "National City Stars of Ballet
and Broadway" and "Rising
Stars" 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday, Oct.
12, at Music Hall Center for the
Performing Arts, 350 Madison in
Detroit. Audition times from Meg
Paul: megp@musichall.org or www.
starsofballetandbroadway.com .
Come back for Temple Beth El's
2008-2009 Reel Israel Film Series
7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 19, at 7400
Telegraph in Bloomfield Twp. The
Truce, starring John Turturro, is an
adaptation of Primo Levi's memoir,
The Reawakening, chronicling the
author's trek home to Italy after
being liberated from Auschwitz
by the Russian Army. Dr. Charles
Greenberg will lead a post-film
discussion. Free. Details: (248) 851-
1100, ext. 3149.
Concerts
Celebrate Detroit musical heritage
at the annual Motor City Blues &
Boogie Woogie Festival Friday-
Saturday, Oct. 3-4, at Music Hall
Center for the Performing Arts,
350 Madison in Detroit. $35
nightly; $75 VIP ticket includes
mezzanine seating and buffet, but
cash bar. Schedule/box office: (313)
887-8500.
Experience an Opus 3 concert 8
p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4, at Seligman
Performing Arts Center, 22305 W.
13 Mile on the campus of Detroit
Country Day School in Beverly
Hills. Chamber Music Society of
Detroit will present musicians John
Bruce Yeh, clarinet; Cho-Liang Lin,
violin; Gary Hoffman, cello, and
Christopher Taylor, piano. Tickets:
www.comehearcmsd.org .
Hear a chamber music concert,
"Music and Color," performed
amidst the art of four galleries, 7
p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5, at Birmingham
Bloomfield Art Center, 1516 S.
Cranbrook in Birmingham. $25.
(248) 644-0866.
Enjoy violinist Anton Shelepov,
appearing with the Andiamo
String Quartet, in the Ann Arbor
Symphony Orchestra's Afternoon
Delights Concert Series 1:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 8, at the Jewish
Community Center of Washtenaw
County, 2935 Birch Hollow Dr. $8.
(734) 994-4801.
Attend the first concert of the "For
the Love of Music Series" 7 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 12, at Temple Beth El,
7400 Telegraph in Bloomfield Twp.
Charles Greenwell conducts the
Birmingham-Bloomfield Symphony
Orchestra, featuring Hart Hollman
on viola. Series/individual tickets:
(248) 645-BBSO or www.BBSO.
org .
Bring your soprano, alto, tenor or
bass voice to the Metropolitan
Singers. No experience required.
Details from Ray: (248) 932-0390.
Event Hotline
Enjoy Feminists Are Funny, an
evening with performance artists
Guerrilla Girls, 7 p.m. Friday, Oct.
3, in Smith Theatre at Oakland
Community College, 27055
Orchard Lake Road in Farmington
Hills. Arlene Frank is director the
college's Womencenter, celebrating
its 35th anniversary. Free. (248)
522-3642.
Visit more than 50 vendors, able
to help you have a great party,
at Joe Cornell Entertainment's
Event Planning Expo 11 a.m.-3
p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5, at the West
Bloomfield JCC. (248) 356-6000,
www.joecornell.com .
Hear a recap of the recent
Jewish International Genealogical
Conference during a pro-
gram planned by the Jewish