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November 7

Featuring f?ab ► r Daniel Gordis
Kabbalat Shabbat Service & Dinner
Welcoming New Members

6:00 PM • CSZ Southfield

November 8

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Rabbi Daniel Gordis

9:00 AM • CSZ Southfield

November 11
West Wino vs. Western Wall:

Using Jewish Values

To Make Political Decisions
7:30 PM • CSZ B'nai Israel Center

November 15

Featuring Comedian Marc Weiner
CSZ Sisterhood Presents
An Adult Night Out
kiddllS11: The Ultimate Battlefield

8:00 PM • CSZ B'nai Israel Center

November 21

Featirring Professor
Howard Lupovitch
Jews of Italy

6:00 PM . CSZ B'nai Israel Center

For more information, please call the

synagogue office at 248/357-5544

www.shaareyzedek. org

Check It Out!

Arts & Culture

Go with the JCC's Center Travel
Dept. to a DSO Coffee Concert,
Friday, Nov. 7, at the Max Fisher
Music Center, 3711 Woodward in
Detroit. Outings schedule: (248)
432-5471, www.jccdet.org .

Visit Detroit's Pewabic Pottery
with Cong. Shir Tikvah's cultural-
arts chavurah Saturday afternoon,
Nov. 8. $15. RSVP: (248) 584-
0533, lbakerboy@aol.com .

See "The Writing is on the Wall,"
posters from Israel, 1930-1960s,
through Nov. 16, Janice Charach
Gallery, at the West Bloomfield
JCC. Free. (248) 432-5449.

Celebrate local authors who will
talk about their works at a book-
signing event during the Jewish
Book Fair 10 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 9,
at West Bloomfield JCC. Book fair
schedule: (248) 432-5467.

Meet Henry Gleisner, a local
Holocaust survivor speaking
about his book Defying the Fates,
1 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9, at the Oak
Park JCC. (248) 967-4030.

Sign up for lunch with speaker
Chris Bohjalian, author of
Skeletons at the Feast, on
Hadassah Day at the Jewish Book
Fair 11:45 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11, at
the West Bloomfield JCC. $45 also

includes his book; $30 without
book; $21.20 for book only and no
lunch. RSVP: (248) 683-5030.

Author! Author!

Come to free events at the Oak
Park Public Library, 14200 Oak
Park Blvd. (248) 691-7483:
• "Music and Dance in the Visual
Arts": Slide show with Detroit
Institute of Arts docent Marlene
Hamel, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11.
Free.

Book Fair, continu-
ing through Nov. 16,

• "Traditional Indian dance":

Sudha Chandra Sekhar of Oak
Park will lead her students from
the Hindu Temple Rhythms Dance
Company in a public demonstra-
tion 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 16.

Hear Daniella HarPaz Mechnikov,
Congregation Shir Tikvah's direc-
tor of lifelong learning, read the
story, "Tale of a Scribe" by S.Y.
Agnon in two parts 4:30-6 p.m.
Tuesdays, Nov.11 and 25, at
the synagogue, 3900 Northfield
Parkway in Troy. www.shirtikvah.
org , (248) 649-4418.

Submit artworks by Friday,
Nov. 14 to be considered for
the "ImaginAide Gala and Art
Auction" on April 25. Proceeds
will assist Detroit's Coalition On
Temporary Shelter (COTS). Arts
journalist Marsha Miro is helping
with the juried selection. Details:
www/cptsdetroit.org .

If you're in Lansing, stop by the
Chanukah gift and craft sale 10
a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 16, at
Congregation Kehillat Israel, 2014
Forest, west of University Club,
Lansing 48910. Sarah Kalt: sara-
kalt®gmail.com .

Find interesting books
and hear fascinating
authors at the Jewish
Community Center's
57th Annual Jewish

at JCC locations in
West Bloomfield and
Oak Park. Two nation-
ally known speakers,
both coming up in West Bloomfield: CNN legal analyst Jeffrey
Toobin, 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, and Martin Fletcher,
Emmy award-winning NBC news bureau chief in Tel-Aviv, 8:15
p.m. Monday, Nov. 10. Other talks can be found throughout
this calendar. Schedule: www.jccdet.org , Jewish Life and
Learning: (248) 432.5577, ext. 7.
Also, the Washtenaw County JCC Jewish Book Festival con-
tinues through Nov.17 in Ann Arbor. See schedule on page C9.

Get to a screening of The
Counterfeiters, winner of the
2008 Academy Award for Best
Foreign Film, 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov.
9, at the West Bloomfield JCC.
Presented by the Lenore Marwil
Jewish Film Festival and Jewish
Book Fair, the film is based on
Leonard Malkin's book concern-
ing Operation Bernhard, a secret
Nazi plan to destabilize the British
economy. Malkin will speak.
Advance purchase of tickets ($10)
recommended: (248) 432-5461.

Gather for Black Book, set during
the Holocaust, at a Sisterhood
Movie Night 7:15 p.m. Wednesday,
Nov. 12, at Congregation Shaarey
Zedek, 27375 Bell Road in
Southfield. $3, or $2 for CSZ
members. (248) 357-5544.

group offers an opportunity to
make and learn needlecrafts with
Judaic themes. Judy Galperin:
(248) 661-5337.

Fasten your seatbelt for How
Learned to Drive, Paula Vogel's
award-winning drama explor-
ing secrets and dysfunction,
performed weekends by the
Theatre Company of University of
Detroit Mercy, Nov. 14-30, in the
Marygrove College Theatre, 8425
W. McNichols in Detroit. Tickets/

Cinema & Stage

schedule: www.udmercy.edu , (313)
993-3270.

See Meredith Goldberg's fabric
postcards at a meeting of the

Pomegranate Guild 1 p.m. Sunday,

Nov. 16, at a member's home. The

See Anything Goes, the fall musi-
cal at Groves High School, 7:30
p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, Nov.
7, 8, 14 and 15, and 2:30 p.m.
Sunday, Nov.16, at 20500 W.13
Mile in Beverly Hills. Tickets: $12
adult, $10 student. (248) 203-
3530.

Road. $36 includes an afterglow.
(248) 681-4235.

Don't miss Puccini's classic opera
Madame Butterfly staged at six
performances 7:30 p.m. Nov. 15-
23, at the Detroit Opera House,
1526 Broadway. Schedule/tickets
($28-$120): www.MichiganOpera.
org , (313) 237-7464.

Join Temple Beth El's "Reel Israel
Film Club" for Beaufort, set during
the final days of the Israeli occu-
pation of Lebanon, 7 p.m. Sunday,
Nov. 16, at the synagogue, 7400
Telegraph in Bloomfield Township.
Charles Greenberg leads a post-
film discussion. Free. (248) 851-
1100, ext. 3149.

Audition for WIT, presented by

SRO Productions and city of
Southfield, 7 p.m. Monday and
Tuesday, Nov. 17-18, at the Burgh
Church, 26060 Berg in Southfield.
Bring a resume and head shot
if possible. Shows start Feb. 20.
(248) 796-4645, www.srotheater.
org .

Take in "Living La Vida Jewish," a
Sisterhood-sponsored show fea-
turing professional comedian Marc

Come to the world premiere of
Kim Carney's Geoffrey & Jeffrey
through Dec. 28, at Performance
Network Theatre, 120 E. Huron in
Ann Arbor. Schedule/tickets: call
(734) 663-0681, or see online
www.performancenetwork.org .

Weiner, seen on Comedy Central,
HBO and more, 8 p.m. Saturday,
Nov. 15, at Congregation Shaarey
Zedek West Bloomfield, B'nai
Israel Center, 4200 Walnut Lake

Calendar on page C12

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