E-mail items to calendar@thejewishnews.com Mail items to Calendar, the Jewish News, 29200 Northwestern Highway, Suite 110, Southfield, MI 48034 Fax items to (248) 304-8885 New deadline: noon, Tuesday, nine days prior to publication. ing the past 12 months. RSVP: (248) 205-2535, goldberg@jfmd.org . JEWISH LEARNING Take a Beginning Hebrew language class, open to first-time students. RELATIVE EVERYTHING'S by Jordan B. Gorfinkel www.jewishcartoon.com MY.BC163 HA5 1 -1-007- FOR M. HAV E N'T HAD A A/17 - IN WK.5. AND MY CR''1)1- 1 CARL) 13 IF BECCA BETH BERNIE YAEL LOUIS The Altruist The Realist The idealist The Perplexed The Rebel ZAYDS BUGS • The Traditionalist The Bubbe tA/R. A COMPUT E R, Pt> 13e- THE V1RUS MAXC --,6 7-8 p.m. starting Tuesday, Sept. 22, at the Fisher Federation Building, 6742 Telegraph, Bloomfield Township. Instructor Cobi Sacerdoti starts with the alphabet and moves into conver- sational Hebrew. No previous knowl- edge of Hebrew required. Sponsored by Federation's Alliance for Jewish Education FedEd, whose new season of day and evening classes for adults includes Jewish history, philosophy, LEARNING Prof. Howard Lupovitch will teach Find people who understand you at Watch The Last Mogul with other course for Federation's Alliance for support groups sponsored by Program seniors 1 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 22, at detroit.org/feded. See Geri Zeldes' Arabs, Jews and the Jewish Education, Federation's Israel for Holocaust Survivors and Families, Oak Park JCC. This is the biography & Overseas Department, Jewish a service of Jewish Senior Life of of Hollywood agent and executive Lew Explore mysticism with Rabbi News, a documentary exploring the Arab-Israeli conflict, its local repercus- Community Relations Council and Metropolitan Detroit. Charles Silow, Wasserman. Free. (248) 967-4030. Elimelech Silberberg at his ongo- sions and how the news covers these American Jewish Committee. Tuition: Ph.D., facilitates. Schedule: ing classes in Kabbalah for both matters 7:30-9 p.m. Monday, Sept. $130. Registration: (248) 205-2557, beginners and more advanced stu- jewishdetroit.org/feded. dents 10:30 a.m. Sundays and 8:30 21, at Michigan State University's Communication Arts and Sciences p.m. Wednesdays, at Bais Chabad Building, Room 147, in East Lansing. Jewish Family Service co-hosts a work- • Oak Park JCC: 10-11:30 a.m. Monday, Sept. 21. Meets weekly. • Coville Apartments, Oak Park: 2:30- 3:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 21. Torah Center, 5595 W. Maple, West A panel follows moderated by Ken shop "Multicultural Series — Chaldean Bloomfield. Details: bctc770@aol.com , Waltzer, director-Jewish Studies, with American Session" 9 a.m.-4p.m. Drop by Cafe Europa for socializ- (248) 855-6170. Osama Siblani, publisher of the Arab Thursday, Sept. 24, at Shenandoah ing and the entertaining Schmaltz Country Club, 5600 Walnut Lake Road, Klezmer Ensemble 1-2 p.m. Monday, Sept. 21, at Oak Park JCC. Program Admire works in a photo-art show by Find inspiration each week in "48 American News, Don Cohen, freelance writer for the Jewish News, and Gregg Steps to Wisdom," a lecture series Krupa of the Detroit News. for Holocaust Survivors and Families Professionals Photography Group through Sept. 30, in Oak Park JCC literature and bible studies. Schedule/ registration: (248) 205-2557, jewish- West Bloomfield. www.jfsdetroit.org . Listen as journalist Harry Cook developed by Rabbi Noah Weinberg. Enjoy a concert of light classics fea- turing pianist Max Tarakhovsky 1 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24, at the Oak Park JCC. Concert is $1 for non-members. Lunch at noon costs $2.75, by RSVP presents. (248) 967-4030. only: (248) 967-4030. members of the Institute for Retired lobby. Free. (248) 967-4030. Two opportunities available: Get informed on "Winning Through expounds on "The 'State' of Michigan • Keter Torah Synagogue, 5480 Orchard Lake Road, West Bloomfield: Mediation" from community dispute — Will It Survive Intact in the 2010 Enjoy Dino Valle singing opera mediator Rackeline Hoff 11 a.m. Fiscal Year That Starts in a Week," Experiment with various media at Speakers include Rabbi Alon Tolwin Tuesday, Sept. 22, at a private home. and Rabbi Tzvi Hochstadt of Aish Luncheon program for new season of a Thursday Forum program, 10- 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 24, at excerpts and other famous songs 2 p.m. Monday, Sept. 21, in Handleman Hall at West Bloomfield JCC. $3. The a.m.-noon every Monday, Wednesday HaTorah 7 p.m. Mondays. Additional Tikvah Group, Greater Detroit Chapter Birmingham Unitarian Church, 38651 Active Life presents. (248) 432-5633. and Friday at Oak Park JCC. Harriet co-sponsors include Fed Ed and Jewish of Hadassah. $15, or free if joining Woodward, Bloomfield Hills. $10, free Renaissance Project. No charge to Hadassah or upgrading to life member. attend. Free refreshments. (248) 565- ongoing Farber adult art classes 9 Gelfond facilitates. Tuition and art for students. RSVP not required. Attend monthly support group open supplies over 10 sessions cost $40 for RSVP to Barbara: (248) 353-0072. larrysherman@wideopenwest.com . to caregivers only of individuals with JCC members, $60 for others. (248) 967-4030. Put the Middle East conflict into SENIORS Alzheimer's disease or a related diagnosis 7-9 p.m. Monday, Sept. 21, 2757, www.ketertorah.us . • Detroit Jewish News, 29200 Northwestern Hwy., Southfield: Rabbi To[win also leads lunch-and-learn ses- a historical context at eight-week sions noon Thursdays. Kosher lunch: $8. RSVP: (248) 948-9908, ext.1. at Jewish Senior Life, Fleischman Pass the afternoon playing cards with Residence/Blumberg Plaza, 6710 W. the Ben-Gurion Men's Group noon-4 Year History of the Middle East" 7- Share creativity in "Writer's Corner" 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 18, at Oak Park Maple, West Bloomfield. No charge to p.m. weekdays at Oak Park JCC. No 8:30 p.m. beginning Tuesday, Sept. JCC. Prof. Norma Goldman facilitates attend, but facilitator Fran Cook appre- charge. (248) 967-4030. 22, at the Fisher Federation Building, 6742 Telegraph, Bloomfield Township. monthly group. (248) 967-4030. ciates RSVP: (248) 592-5032. series "Shifting Sands...The 2,000 Calendar on page 112 Walk For Sarah Pow! Zap! Oy! Take a step to find a cure for debilitating masto- Learn about "How Jewish Immigrants Created Super Heroes" from Hollywood producer Michael Uslan, originator of the Batman movie cytosis by aiding the Sarah Gittleman Research Fund's 1.5-mile walk 10-11 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 4, at series, 1 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 6, at Congregation Shaarey Zedek, 27375 Bell Road, Southfield. Paulette Borin is honorary chair of opening meeting the Huntington Woods Recreation Center, 26325 Scotia. Register at 9:15 a.m. RSVP: e-mail gittlemanfundraiser@yahoo.com or mail the for Greater Detroit chapter of Hadassah. Schedule: registration, 10-11:45; boutiques, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. ; lunch, noon. Also raffle; supports Hadassah medical programs. RSVP by Sept. 25. Members: $45 speaker and lunch; Gittleman Family, 25490 Hereford Dr., Royal Oak, MI 48067. Make donation checks in any amount $25 speaker only; other pricing available. Details: (248) 683-5030. payable to the Mastocytosis Society-Sarah Sarah Gittleman Gittleman Fund. (248) 545-7145. September 17 a 2009 111