TO DO! Calendar Sponsored by Con re ation Shaare Zedek Build a Strong Foundation of Jewish Education with Shaarey Zedek! FEEL THE CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK 0 0 0 4.7 Exciting Religious School Experience! Two Campuses to Choose from to Meet Your Needs! Religious School families will no\A have the choice of attending Tuesday afternoon School in either our Southfield or West Bloomfield synagogue buildings. OK 0^ Aosomoilli Already feeling the love? Then share it with a friend! Register Today To Secure Your Child's Future! Call 248/357-5544 or visit wwwshaareyzedek.org Hear Michael Ledeen, expert on U.S. foreign policy and Iran, speak Aiding Detroit about his book, The Iranian Time Bomb, 7 p.m. Thursday, June 25, at the Holocaust Memorial Center, volunteering in Detroit through the Summer in the City community-build- Zekelman Family Campus, 28123 Orchard Lake Road, Farmington Hills. Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs sponsors it to commemorate third anniversary of the kidnapping of Israeli soldier ing program 9:30 a.m. Saturday, June 13, at Gilad Shalit. Free. Details: (248) 208-2773, kjonesjinsa.org . Arts & Culture Enjoy a potluck luncheon and Browse "Opening the Doors to Fulfill Our Mission" through July display of Pomegranate Guild projects completed for charity and challenges 1 p.m. Sunday, June 16, at the Janice Charach Gallery 14, at Spicer House, aka Aldo Gamburd, Lorraine Goldberg, Danny Gutman, Marc Maddin, Jennifer Maiseloff, Jonathan Vagnossi Center, in Heritage Park, Farmington Hills. RSVP to Judy Galperin: (248) 661-5337. Hear why Dan Fleshier of Ameinu (the former Labor Zionist Alliance) supports J Street, rather than AIPAC, for America's Israel lobby at his book signing 2-4 p.m. Sunday, June 14, at Book Beat, 26010 Greenfield at Lincoln, in Oak Park. Free. Ameinu Detroit: (248) 967-6380. Book Beat: (248) 968-1190, www.thebookbeat.com . B 1 6 June 11 • 2009 inside the West Bloomfield JCC. Featured artists include Steven Nickovich and Marat Paransky. Open Sunday and Monday- Thursday. (248) 432-5579, www. charachgallery.org . View the stark Polish photographs of Roman Vishniac and Jeffrey Gusky at the exhibit "Of Life & Loss" through July 12, at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward. (313) 833-7900, www. dia.org . Congregation Beth Ahm, 5075 W. Maple, West Bloomfield. Beth Ahm member David Zwickl, CFO of the organization, will speak at Shabbat services and receive results from a month-long drive to collect art supplies and money for activities at the program's summer camp. Judy Vine: (248) 363-4508, panyavinocomcast.net . L Cinema & Stage Spend a Sunday in the Park With George, the acclaimed Stephen Sondheim musical, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, June 12-13, and 2 workers and communists, 11:45 includes reception. RSVP: www. a.m.-12:45 p.m., at the Community House, 3809 S. Bates; and Brenda Rosenberg's Reuniting the palmerwoods.org , (313) 891-2514. p.m. Sunday, June 14, at Village Players Playhouse, 34660 Woodward, Birmingham. $17. (248) 644-0275, www. birminghamvillageplayers.com . Children of Abraham peace docu- with jazz, blues, theater, poetry and more through June 27 during Delight in the Cole Porter musical Kiss Me Kate, 8 p.m. nightly through June 13 and 2 p.m. Sunday, June 14, at Lydia Mendelssohn Theater at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Details: mentary with her workshop, 3:45- 5 p.m., Baldwin Library, 300 W. Experience 12 exciting nights filled Merrill. Schedule: (248) 647-4007, www.reelmixed.com . the inaugural "Midsummer Nights in Midtown" series. Programs offered Thursdays-Saturdays, at midtown Detroit locations. Meet the enticing Miss Saigon at Stagecrafters' Baldwin Theatre, University Cultural Center Association and Wayne State 415 S. Lafayette, Royal Oak. Shows University co-sponsor. Free. Get schedule: (313) 577-5088, www. midsummernightsinmidtown.com . through June 21: 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays. (734) 971-2228, www.a2ct.org . Tickets: $16 and $18. (248) 541- 6430, www.stagecrafters.org . Take in Oakland Theatre Guild's Concerts Lakes Chamber Music Festival. Welcome the duo Post Honeymoon of Chicago to town Venues include Temple Beth El in Bloomfield Township and Seligman Performing Arts Center in Beverly 9 p.m. Wednesday, June 17, at PJ's Lager House, 1254 Michigan, Detroit 48226. The newlywed Hills. Dates through June 21. Details/tickets: (248) 559-2097, www.greatlakeschambermusic.org . Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: $10-$14. (248) 335-1788. band members are vocalist/key- boardist Rachel Shindelman and drummer/bassist/vocalist Nick Event Hotline Laugh along with The Producers, presented weekends through Kraska. Details: (313) 961-4668. Attend a Sisterhood dinner meet- ing 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 16, in June 13, at the outdoor Cranbrook Catch contemporary musicians at Greek Theatre, 400 Lone Pine Road, Bloomfield Hills. Mitch Kerrytown Concert House, 415 N. Temple Shir Shalom's Foltyn Social Hall, 3999 Walnut Lake Road, West Bloomfield. Details: (248) production of Northanger Abbey, through June 14, at Starlight Theater in Summit Place Mall, 315 N. Telegraph, Pontiac. The comic romance by Jane Austen Check It OL. Salute Jewish young adults is performed 7:30 p.m. Friday and Master stars as Max Bialystock and Marty Mandelbaum is music director for the St. Dunstan's Theatre production. Tickets: $20 adults, $18 students and seniors. (248) 737-3587, www. StDunstansTheatre.com . Check out the Birmingham-based ReeIMIXED Film Festival, focused on cultural diversity, Friday- Sunday, June 12-14. Screenings of Jewish interest on Saturday, June 13: At Home in Utopia, about cooperative housing in Bronx, N.Y., built by immigrants, factory Fourth, Ann Arbor. Reservations recommended: (734) 769-2999, www.kerrytownconcerthouse.com . • Randy Napoleon Sextet: Group leader plays jazz guitar, 8 p.m. Saturday, June 20. Appreciate the outstanding musicians playing in the Great 737-8700. Take pride in the tribe at "From Haven to Home: Jewish Life • Nathan Brown: The singer-song- in America" exhibited through Aug. 30, at the Detroit Historical writer-poet appears 8 p.m. Friday, Museum, 5401 Woodward at June 26. Kirby. Museum hours: Wednesdays through Sundays. Admission: $6 adult, $4 discount rate. Exhibit Listen to violinist Jannina Barefield and violist Jason Amos as part of the Palmer Woods Music in Homes concert series 8-10:30 p.m. Saturday, June 20, at a private home in Detroit's Palmer Woods neighborhood. $30 information: (313) 833-1805, www. michjewishhistory.org . • Film: Architects We Knew: Albert Kahn's Legacy, 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, June 13-14. Detroit Historical Film Society