Metro
Coping With The Crisis
We think nothing of driving
half an hour to a good restaurant,
but we'll settle for a hospital
that's right around the corner.
As long as your health insurance allows you to go
anywhere, maybe you shouldn't confine yourself to
the neighborhood.
Because this isn't dinner, this is your life.
Year after year, the people of Southeast Michigan have
rated Beaumont as their most preferred hospital. Most
preferred for surgery and for overall quality of care.
Do you have a Beaumont doctor?
National Council of Jewish Women/
Space for Changing Families and
Jewish Family Service present
"Facing the Issues of Today: Coping
with Economic Crisis?'
The five-week workshop for sup-
port and resources will be offered
from 2:30-4 p.m. on Thursdays
July 30, Aug. 6, 13, 20 and 27 at the
JFS Orley Family Building, 6555 W.
Maple Road, West Bloomfield.
Topics will include coping with
emotional issues regarding job loss,
credit card debt, foreclosure, bank-
ruptcy, housing issues and the impact
on family. The sessions are free.
To join, call (248) 592-2344 or
e-mail johana@jfsdetroitorg.
Afro Semitic Music
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800.633.7377
Join us for these special summer community forums.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 • 9:00 a.m.
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit
6735 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Workshops
Facilitated by Representatives from Our Communal Agencies
• Finding a job in this economy
• Negotiating with your mortgage company — preventing foreclosure
• Managing credit and debt issues
• Healthcare for the uninsured or underinsured
• And more!
PLUS...
Food Demos with Chef Matt Prentice/
Matt Prentice Restaurant Group — Maximizing your food budget.
AGENCY FAIRS AT BOTH EVENTS
Meet with agency representatives about your specific concerns, to register for workshops
and classes, and schedule individualized consultations.
For more information on these summer forums or to register, call 248-203-1519 or e-mail mayer@jfmd.org . Walk-ins welcome.
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JEWISH ASSISTANCE PROJECT • 248-592-2650 • jewishdetroit.org/help
July 23 • 2009
New Detroit Inc. and the Charles H.
Wright Museum of African American
History will present the Afro-Semitic
Experience, a jazz band of six African
American and Jewish American jazz
musicians, at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 25,
at the museum, 315 E. Warren Ave.,
Detroit. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
The Afro-Semitic Experience
melds musical genres of the two
distinct cultures, combining gospel,
klezmer, nigunim (wordless melo-
dies), spiritual, synagogue songs,
bebop and swing. In concert, the
band also engages the audience
through storytelling of how the
music reflects upon the relations
between the two ethnicities.
"The African American and
Jewish communities each have a
distinct and proud history in their
own right, but also share a common
bond in the fight for social justice,
from marching together with Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. on Woodward
Avenue to the blended Black Bottom
neighborhood where Coleman A.
Young was raised," said New Detroit
President and CEO Shirley Stancato.
Historian Arnie Collens of
the Jewish Historical Society of
Michigan in West Bloomfield said
the friendship between Jews and
blacks in Detroit dates to before the
Civil War, when a rabbi abolition-
ist recruited Jews to help slaves get
to Canada via the Underground
Railroad. "Both ethnicities under-
stood what social justice meant:'
he said.
Tickets to the Afro-Semitic
Experience are S7 for museum
members or 810 for others. Contact
Angelita Espino at (313) 664-2058
or aespino@newdetroit.org .