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MEMOS
Dance Through Time
The Jewish Community Center of
Metropolitan Detroit will host "Fifty Years
of Dance with Harriet Berg," a tribute
to the choreographer, dancer and direc-
tor, on Sunday, June 7, at the JCC in West
Bloomfield. The program also will honor
the late Irving Berg, Harriet's husband and
a leading sculptor in Metro Detroit.
Harriet Berg is the founder and artis-
tic director of the Festival Dancers, the
Madame Cadillac Dance Theatre and the
Detroit Renaissance Dance Company.
The Festival Dancers is Michigan's only
all-female, all-Jewish dance troupe;
the women perform Israeli, traditional
Jewish, folk, Yemenite and contemporary
dance. The Madame Cadillac Dance
Theatre recreates the French Colonial
period in Michigan history and tours
throughout the Midwest, and the Detroit
Renaissance Dance Company perfor-
mances honor the city's musical and
dance history.
Berg also endowed the Harriet Berg
Choreography Award at Wayne State
University in Detroit, is a dance instruc-
tor at WSU and appears each year as the
Wassail Queen at the Detroit Institute of
Arts.
The late Irving Berg was director
of the Detroit Cass Tech High School
art department, where he taught fine
and commercial art, and a supervising
teacher of art education at Wayne State.
He also served as a docent for the Detroit
Institute of Arts.
The June 7 program will begin at
2:30 p.m. with an exhibit of dance pho-
tographs and newspaper stories from
1959-2009. At 3:15 p.m., friends will
pay tribute to Irving Berg, including
unveiling a sculpture dedicated in his
memory. At 4 p.m., the Carolyn Dorman
Dance Company will perform in honor
of Harriet Berg. A dessert reception will
follow.
Those wishing to contribute dance
articles or photos to the exhibit are
asked to send maetrial via e-mail to
Party Ceresnie at pjceresnie@comcast.
net or mail it to 5591 Kingsfield Drive,
West Bloomfield, 48322. Include a return
envelope if you would like your items
returned.
For information about the "Fifty
Years of Dance" program, contact Adina
Pergament, (248) 432-5470.
Carole Eizelman of West Bloomfield has
joined the Weir Manuel Realtors in the
Birmingham office. A Realtor for 31 years,
she spent the past six years as a produc-
ing manager at her former employer
serving Bloomfield Hills, Rochester and
Troy. She is the recipient of a President's
Circle Realtor Award.
Steven D. Weinstock, formerly of
Michigan, has been named regional
manager of Marcus & Millichap Real
Estate Investment Services Oak Brook,
Ill., office. He joined the firm's Detroit
office in April 2001 as a multifamily
and self-storage investment specialist
and was a director of the National Multi
Housing Group as well as a member of
the National Self-Storage Group.
Goldberg
Dr. Scot F. Goldberg,
a Warren internal
medicine specialist,
was re-elected to the
Michigan State Medical
Society (MSMS) Board
of Directors during
the annual meeting of
the MSMS House of
Delegates on April 26 in Grand Rapids. He
will serve a second three-year term on the
45-member MSMS Board, representing
physicians from Macomb and Oakland
counties. Goldberg chairs the Michigan
Doctors' Political Action Committee and
serves on the MSMS Committee on State
Legislation and Regulations. He also
is vice chair of the Michigan Board of
Medicine.
Children's Health ini-
tiative Program was
honored by the National
Kidney Foundation
of Michigan with the
Innovations in Health
Care Award for the
project that extols good
nutrition, effective
physical education and
positive lifestyle modification for elemen-
tary school children ages 8-12 and their
parents. Dr. Paul R. Ehrmann of Royal
Oak, medical director of CHIP, submitted
the winning entry focusing on childhood
obesity.
Sunday, May 24 • 2009
7:30 PM at Temple Israel
Featuring:
• Yom Sheini and the Teen T'fillah Team
(from Temple Israel)
• Kidz Klez
• PLUS teen rock bands from the
Frankel Jewish Academy
BBYO (B'nai Brith Youth)
Tamarack Camps
and many others!
Minimum donation: $10 for teens, $20 for adults
Please make checks out to "Temple Israel" with the
words "Yaldeinu Fund" in the note.
The YALDEINU Fund: A Fund for Children
who have been Orphaned in our Community.
Co-sponsored by the Youth Federation of Temple Israel,
BBYO (B'nai Brith Youth), The Frankel Academy,
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ATID: Alliance of Teens in Detroit,
Tamarack Camps, Kidz Klez and the Jewish News.JN
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May 21 . 2009