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Awareness
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HONORING ELAINE & MICHAEL SERLING

Please join us for these
magical musical events!

Jewish Gay Network plans weekend
with Rabbi Steven Greenberg.

A Night of Opera with Dr. David DiChiera
and MOT Performers
7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26 - West Bloomfield

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Grammy Award winner Melissa Manchester
8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28 - West Bloomfield

Cantors and Cantorial Soloists of Michigan
7 p.m. Sunday, March 1 - West Bloomfield

The Fleur de Lys Chamber Ensemble

7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 3 - West Bloomfield

Broadway and more with Elaine Serling
1 p.m. Wednesday, March 4 - Oak Park

Sing-along with the film
"Fiddler on the Roof," starring Topol
7 p.m. Thursday, March 5 - Oak Park

KlezmerFest with Yale Strom and Hot Pstromi
8 p.m. Saturday, March 7 - West Bloomfield

Jazz at the J: The Buddy Budson Trio,
featuring Ursula Walker

7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 8 - Oak Park

The Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit

Jimmy Prentis Morris Building
A. Alfred Taubman Jewish Community Campus
15110 W. Ten Mile Road, Oak Park

D. Dan & Betty Kahn Building
Eugene & Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus
6600 W. Maple Road, West Bloomfield

Tickets for Melissa Manchester are $30 each.
Most other events are $15 each.
For ticket price information for seniors, children,
students and Center members, please call

248.967.4030.

To purchase tickets online, go to www.jccdet.org .

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he Jewish Gay Network of
Michigan (JGN) will host
an awareness-raising and
education weekend featuring Rabbi
Steven Greenberg, the world's first
openly gay Orthodox
rabbi. The events
are scheduled from
March 5-8.
Greenberg is direc-
tor of the diversity
project at the Center
for Learning and
Rabbi
Leadership (CLAL)
Greenberg
and author of
Wrestling with God
and Men, which won the Koret Book
Award for Philosophy and Thought.
He was ordained as a rabbi at Yeshiva
University, New York. He also serves as
scholar-in-residence to Keshet, a grass-
roots organization that works for the
full inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual
and transgender (LGBT) people in
Jewish communities all over the coun-
try. Last year, JGN became an affiliated
partner of Keshet.
•Thursday, March 5, 7 p.m.:
Greenberg will meet with JGN patrons at
a private home in Bloomfield Hills with
wine and dessert. For patron opportuni-
ties, contact JGN, (248) 432-5661.
• Friday, March 6, 3 p.m.: Greenberg
will lead a discussion for teens at
the JCC's Beverly Prentice Wagner
Teen Center. The program, "Gay?
Jewish? Orthodox? All of the Above
— A Conversation with Rabbi Steven
Greenberg;) co-sponsored by Temple
Israel, BBYO, JGN and the Teen Center.
Open to all teens.
• Friday, March 6, 6 p.m.: Shabbat
dinner for the Jewish LGBT com-
munity at a home in West Bloomfield.
Greenberg will lead the meal
with songs and words of Torah.
Reservations are required. $18.
• Saturday, March 7, 8 p.m.:
Greenberg will lead a discussion fol-
lowing the Michigan premiere of a
film by Chaim Album. V'ahavta —
And Thou Shalt Love depicts the tur-
moil of a yeshiva student who falls in
love with his havruta (study partner).
After the film will be discussion about
the ways faith encounters gayness and
the ways gayness can challenge and
also deepen faith. This event is located

at and co-sponsored by Affirmations,
the community center for LGBT peo-
ple and their allies (290 W. Nine Mile
Road in Ferndale). Open to the public.
Tickets are $20 in advance; $25 at the
door. Beverages and dessert included.
• Sunday, March 8, 1:30-7:30 p.m.,
JCC, West Bloomfield: JGN will host
a training institute on the Hineini
Education Project curriculum at
the JCC in West
Bloomfield. Trained
participants will
be able to then
facilitate Keshet's
Jewish Safe Schools
& Supportive
Communities
offit:
training
with staff
Idit Klein
members at local
schools and camps. Facilitators are
Keshet Executive Director Idit Klein,
Greenberg and JGN Program Director
Kim Phillips-Knope. Advanced reg-
istration required. Training is free.
Contact Phillips-Knope for details.
• Sunday, March 8, 6:30 pm:
Greenberg will be at the University
of Michigan in Ann Arbor for a
speaking event titled "What if God
was Fabulous? The Story of a Gay
Orthodox Rabbi." The event will be in
the Great Lakes Room in the Palmer
Commons (100 Washtenaw Ave.).
Co-sponsors are Ahava, U-M Student
Assembly, U-M Hillel, U-M LGBT
Commission, Spectrum Center (U-M
Student Affairs Division) and JGN.
Co-chairs fo the event are JGN
board members Michelle Passon of
Commerce Township and Gail Katz of
West Bloomfield.
"I believe wholeheartedly that the
way to full inclusion of LGBT citizens
will come about through persistent
education and advocacy by the gay
and straight community:' said Passon,
community activist and former ORT
America regional director.
"This important JGN educational
weekend will expand the minds of our
teens and the Jewish educators that
instruct our teens about the inclusion of
LGBT individuals in the context of social
justice and basic human rights, and I
am passionate about this," said Gail Katz,
retired Berkley Public Schools teacher
and community activist. ❑

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