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November 21
Featuring Professor Howard Lupovitch
Jews of Italy
6:00 PM • C2 B'nai Israel Center
December 1
Featuring Author Stephen Fried
Joint Sisterhod Dinner
with Adat Shalom
6:30 PM • CSZ Southfield
December 4
Featuring Rabbi Frir S. Yanoff
From Rikkud (Dance] to Rap: An
In-Depth Look at What Israeli Music
Reveals About the Soul of Israelis
7:30 PM CSZ B'nai Israel Center
December 13
Kesher Connedion:
Wine & Cheese Reception for
Unattached Adults ages
40-ish to 6•ish
7:00 PM • CSZ Southfield
December 13
Featuring Sam Glaser
Coffee House Adult Concert
8:00 PM • CSZ Southfield
for more information, please call the
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Arts & Culture
Get two reviews at one program
when the Book Discussion Group
of Greater Detroit Chapter of
Hadassah talks about Scribblers
on the Roof, contemporary Jewish
fiction by Melvin Jules Bukiet,
and Get a Life, a novel by Nadine
Gordimer 10-11:30 a.m. Monday,
Nov. 24, at Hadassah House,
5030 Orchard Lake Road in West
Bloomfield. Free. (248) 683-5030.
Appreciate the talent of local art-
ists or showcase your own work
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at the next Pecha-Kucha Night
Detroit 8:20 p.m. Tuesday, Nov.
25, at Detroit Institute of Arts.
Twelve creative people in vari-
ous disciplines will present their
work on PowerPoint. Co-hosts:
American Institute of Architects
(AIA) and Detroit Synergy. No
RSVP. www.detroitsynergy.org .
Get ready for the gift season:
• Congregation B'nai Moshe:
Artisans and gift vendors have
until Nov. 24 to reserve a space
at the holiday bazaar 11 a.m.-4
p.m. Sunday, Dec. 7, at 6800
Drake, West Bloomfield. Ruth:
(248) 626-8660.
• Kulanu Group Hadassah:
Vendors will offer lots of variety
at a holiday gift show 7 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 4, at Hadassah
House, 5030 Orchard Lake Road,
West Bloomfield. Hadassah will get
some proceeds. (248) 683-5030.
• Oak Park JCC: Find a myriad of
artisans and vendors at the annu-
al gift emporium 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Sunday, Dec.14. Details: (248)
967-4030, ext. 2006.
Cinema & Stage
Applaud at these high school the-
atrical productions:
• The Wedding Singer: The new
musical set in 1985 and based
on the Adam Sandler movie has
performances through Nov. 23,
at Frankel Jewish Academy,
inside the West Bloomfield JCC.
Performances: 7 p.m. Thursday,
Nov. 20; 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22,
and 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 23.
$15. (248) 592-5263.
•Children of Eden: Andover High
stages the story of Adam and
Eve, music and lyrics by Stephen
Schwartz, on the weekend of Nov.
21-23, at 4200 Andover Road,
Bloomfield Hills. (248) 341-5699.
Catch the Spotlight Players'
production of the Kaufman and
Hart comedy You Can't Take It
With You, beginning 8 p.m. Friday,
Nov. 21, at the Village Theater
at Cherry Hill, 50400 Cherry Hill
Road in Canton (48176). The show
about an eccentric family will be
staged weekends through Dec. 6.
Schedule/tickets: (734) 394-5300,
www.spotlightplayers.net
Witness Tony 'n Tina's Wedding,
Friday, Nov. 21, at Andiamo's
Celebrity Showroom in Warren
(586) 268-3200; and weekend
dates of Dec. 5, 13, 19 and 20,
at San Marino Club in Troy. (313)
885-3032.
Enjoy Stagecrafters' produc-
tion of the musical Show Boat,
including cast member Ed Berger,
through Nov. 23, at the Baldwin
Theatre, 415 S. Lafayette, down-
town Royal Oak. Show times: 8
p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 p.m.
Sundays. Tickets: $16, $18. www.
stagecrafters.org , (248) 541-6430.
Throw
The Book
Give unwant-
ed media to
Bookstock's
Colossal Collection
Drive 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 23,
at Bloomfield Plaza
Shopping Center,
southwest cor-
ner of Maple and
Telegraph. Tax receipts will be provided for donations of used
books, books on tape, records, videos, CDs and DVDs. Also,
volunteer to sort items 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Wednesdays, and select-
ed Sundays. www.bookstock.info, (248) 645-7840, ext. 365.
Catch must-see rebroadcasts on
public television. Details: www.
detroitpublictv :
• The Jewish Americans: 2 8 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 23. The three-part
mini-series on the history of Jews
in the United States was made by
David Grubin, a speaker at this
year's Jewish Book Fair.
• Rape of Europa: 9 p.m. Monday,
Nov. 24. Film addresses the
looting, destruction and sur-
vival of European art during Nazi
Germany's reign of terror.
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Wood Coffee House Series inside
First United Methodist Church,
1001 Green at Glazier Way, Ann
Arbor 48105. (734) 665-8558.
Spend an evening with Jewish
songwriter Dick Siegel from
Michigan 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 21, at
the Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor.
His music incorporates modern
folk, roots and jazz. $15. www.
a2ark.org , (734) 763-8587.
Check out the Young American
Comedy Tour, including Jewish
Watch the documentary Trumbo,
about the blacklisted Hollywood
screenwriter, 9:30 p.m. Friday and
Saturday, Nov. 28-29, and 7 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 30, at Detroit Film
Theatre inside Detroit Institute of
Arts, John R entrance. (313) 833-
4005, www.tickets.dia.org .
Learn why Grease is the word
when Players Guild of Dearborn
stages the teen musical, at 21730
Madison, Dearborn. Show contin-
ues weekends through Nov. 29.
Tickets: $18, with discount avail-
able. Schedule: www.playersguil-
dofdearborn.org , (313) 561-TKTS.
Buy a ticket to Nicky Silver's
funny play, Raised in Captivity:
A Bow of Paranoia, part of the
Breathe Art Theatre Project,
through Dec. 7, at 4126 Third,
Detroit. Tickets: (313) 831-1939,
www.BreatheArtTheatre.com .
Concerts
Sit back for the music of Chuck
Brodsky, a Jewish singer-song-
writer from North Carolina, 8-10
p.m. Friday, Nov. 21, at Green
comics Mike Young and Jeff
Dwoskin, 8 p.m. Wednesday,
Nov. 26, at City Theatre, 2301
Woodward, Detroit. $31.50. (313)
471-6611.
Welcome folk-singing newcomer
Ryan Mintz at his homecoming
concert after six months away
7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 26, at
Affirmations, 290 W. Nine Mile,
Ferndale. Admission: $7, $3.
He'll also lead two workshops on
Saturday, Nov. 29, at 6 p.m. (men
over age 18) and 8 p.m. (youth
ages 14-24). Free. Details: (248)
397-7105, ext.113;
www.goaffirmations.org .
Get $5 student tickets dur-
ing November to most Detroit
Symphony Orchestra concerts at
the Max Fisher Music Center, 211
Woodward, Detroit. Offer is for
students in elementary through
grad school with valid ID. Limit 4
tickets per household. Purchase
at box office or (313) 576-5111.
Details: www.detroit.symphony.org .