HEALTH / SUPPORT Attend monthly support group open to caregivers of adults with Alzheimer's or a related diagnosis 5:30-7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 19, at JVS, 29699 Southfield Road, Southfield. Sponsored by Dorothy & Peter Brown Jewish Community Adult Day Care Program. No charge to attend, but RSVP appreciated to facilitator Dorothy Moon, Southfield: (248) 233- 4392. EVERYTHING'S RELATIVE by Jordan B. Gorfinkel • www.jewishcartoon.com -1A//..5H Join weekly support group offered by National Council of Jewish Women if you're a family with children adjusting to living in a single-parent house- hold, in a stepfamily or experiencing another significant family-life change. Starts 7-8 p.m. Monday, Jan. 25, at the Birmingham Temple, 28611 W.12 Mile, Farmington Hills. Monday series continues through March 8, except Feb.15. Materials charge only: $10. Registration: (248) 355-9936. HELPING OUT Be a personal shopper, help tag, hang and sort, or help decorate and dis- play items at NCJW Council Thrift Shops in Royal Oak and Berkley. Maria Horwitz: (248) 646-2800 or marlahor- witz@yahoo.com . Interact with senior residents while working in the Jewish Senior Life (JSL) building's stores, cafes and gift shops in Oak Park and West Bloomfield. Become a friendly visitor, help at activities, field trips or games. BETH BERNIE YAEL LOUIS ZAYDS The Realist The Idealist The Perplexed The Rebel The Traditionalist BUBS The Bubbe ?NANG/AL CONA1/77145/1/7: ci ( i-j cj 0 z 0 0 0 CC 0- Et Et >- CO Contact: Michal Ram (248) 592-1104, mram@jslmi.org . HOLIDAYS / SHABBAT Take part in Adat Shalom Synagogue's SYNergy Shabbat Weekend featuring actress, writer and director Vanessa Hidary, "The Hebrew Mamita," on Friday evening, Jan. 15. She wrote Culture Bandit, a solo show that chronicles her coming of age during the golden age of Hip-Hop. At 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 16, Ruth Bergman will hold a session titled "Lilith: Demon or Heroine?" (248) 851-5100 or info® adatshalom.org . Hear Rev. Kenneth James Flowers, pastor of Greater New Mt. Moriah Missionary Baptist Church and longtime supporter of the Rabbi B. Benedict and Ada S. Glazer Institute, at Shabbat services 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 15, and 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 16, at Temple Beth El, 7400 Telegraph, Bloomfield Township. These Glazer Institute Memorial Lectures on Judaism for Catholic, Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Muslim and Jewish clergy, as well as all worshippers, are presented in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Free. Barbara Grant: (248) 851-1100, ext. 3149. See what's happening at Temple Emanu-E1,14450 W.10 Mile, Oak Park. King Day, Monday: • Teens can join interfaith celebration 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Jan. 18, at Southfield municipal complex, 26000 Evergreen. Volunteer on own, or through Temple Emanu-El: (248) 967-4020. • Come for a movie, music, dance, and discussions on Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. t 5 DCZ,SN'T - 15 A Try the "Come As You Are Yoga" series 5:30-6:45 p.m. Wednesdays, at Cong. Beth Ahm, 5075 W. Maple, West Bloomfield. There is a charge; five weeks left. Instructor is congregation member Shelley Shindler: (248) 661- 8080, snslist@aol.com . Parents, get strategies for "Nurturing the Parent-Teacher-Child Relationship" from Marc R. Hirsch, Ph.D, of Walnut Lake Preschool 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 25, at Bloomfield Township Public Library, 1099 Lone Pine Road, Bloomfield Hills 48302. Free, but register with Youth Room: (248) 642-5800, www.btpl.org . The Altruist ..5L)RE HOPE_ 50, B E CAUS E B/LL6, E3/Z-L6, E3/1-4.6 LIVING BECCA Jan. 18, at Farmington Library, 32737 W. 12 Mile, Farmington Hills. (248) 848-4307. • Hear prosecutors Jessica Cooper and Kym Worthy at American Jewish Committee and Detroit Urban League's All People's Breakfast 8 a.m. Jan. 18, at the Urban League, 208 Mack, Detroit. RSVP: (248) 646-7686. (248) 967-4020. •Anniversary Shabbat: Annual wor- ship service will feature the old Union Prayer Book and pipe organ 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 15. A leaf on the Tree of Life will be dedicated to honor Davis Gloff for his service with the Temple Choir. • Havdalah gathering: Casual evening will feature temple musicians 7-9 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 16. No cost, but par- ticipants asked to bring an appetizer, bottle of wine/juice, Havdalah set and canned food donation. RSVP by Jan.15. JEWISH LEARNING Let Emory (Atlanta) University Professor Jeffrey Lesser explain "How Jews Became Japanese: Some Not- So-Tall Tales of Brazilian Ethnicity" 12:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 15, at 5055 Woodward, Room 10302, on Wayne State University campus. Cohn- Haddow Center for Judaic Studies is main sponsor. (313) 577-2679; www. judaicstudies.wayne.edu . Hear military historian Prof. Tom Collier speak on "Israeli Wars from the Earliest Settlements to the Present: A Historical Perspecitve" 8 p.m. Monday, Jan. 18, at Birmingham Temple in Farmington Hills. Free (248) 477-1410. Take in programs at Congregation Beth Ahm, 5075 W. Maple, West Bloomfield. Details from Nancy Kaplan: (248) 737- 1931, nancyellen879@att.net . • The Challenge of Modernity: 7:30-9 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 19. Prof. Howard Lupovitch will draw his lecture from his new book, Jews and Judaism in World History. $15 at the door. • The Eternal Light: A Historical Retrospective:1 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 20. The one-hour documentary by the Jewish Theological Seminary with Theo Bikel, Marion Seldes, Elie Wiesel and others. Free; drop-ins welcome. Join Partners in Torah for its Exodus- themed lunch-and-learns featuring Rabbi Leiby Burnham, noon-1 p.m. Thursdays, at Yeshiva Beth Yehudah, 15751 W. Lincoln, Southfield. Topics: "Plagues Start Coming," Jan. 21; "Second Helping of Plagues," Jan. 28. $7 per class. RSVP: 248-JUDAISM. See Lev Raphael reading from his memoir My Germany: A Jewish Writer Returns to the World His Parents Escaped, 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 23, at the Detroit Public Lbrary, 5201 Woodwward. Free. (313) 833- 1470; www. levraphael.com or www. detroitpubliclibrary.org . Hear Rabbi Lawrence Kelemen illu- minate terrifying political and social realities in his talk, "Step Forward: A Strategy for Facing Crises: Both Global and Personal" 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 27, at the Oak Park JCC. Presentation of Seminars for Adult Jewish Enrichment. Upcoming: Dr. Susannah Heschel, "Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: The Legacy of Abraham Joshua Heschel," 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10, at West Bloomfield JCC. $10 each; check pay- able to JCC and sent to SAJE, 6600 W. Maple, West Bloomfield, MI 48322. Charge by phone: (248) 432-5692. Attend a talk by WSU History Prof. Aaron B. Retish on "The Many Histories of Russia's Jews: From the Shtetl to Trotsky" noon, Tuesday, Jan. 26, at Cohn-Haddow's Judaica Research Center, 2311 Faculty/Aministration Bldg., 656 W. Kirby, Detroit. RSVP by Jan. 25: (313) 577-2679. Attend Federation's FedEd new classes: Inside the Rabbinic Mind with Rabbi Rod Glogower.14-week class began this week 10:30 a.m. Tuesdays or 7 p.m. Wednesdays. $190. Senior dis- count available for this class only. • And the Moral of the Story is ... The Bible, Morality and You! with Dr. Cobi Sacerdoti meets eight weeks 11:30 a.m. Thursdays beginning Jan. 21. $130. • Jewish Woman — Ancient Traditions, Modern Voices: Sexuality and Intimacy with Ruth Bergman meets for seven weeks 10 a.m. Mondays at JCC in West Bloomfield beginning Jan. 25. $110. • The Changing Face of Israel: Contemporary Issues in the Promised Land with Prof. Howard Lupovitch meets for seven weeks 7 p.m. Tuesdays beginning Jan. 26. $110. Call (248) 642-4618 for information. Explore the Kabbalah with Rabbi Elimelech Silberberg at his ongoing classes based on classical and con- temporary esoteric texts 10:30 a.m. Sundays and 8:30 p.m. Thursdays, at Bais Chabad Torah Center, 5595 W. Maple, West Bloomfield. Details: (248) 855-6170 or bctc770@aol.com . Aish HaTorah's "48 Steps to Wisdom": •Keter Torah Synagogue, 5480 Orchard Lake Road, West Bloomfield: 7 p.m. Mondays. Free. (248) 565-2757, www.ketertorah.us . • Detroit Jewish News, 29200 Northwestern Hwy., noon Thursdays. $8. RSVP: (248) 948-9908, ext.1. LEARNING See Mara Staller Starr of Oak Park discuss how she lost 140 pounds over two years and kept it off when she joins Florine Mark of Weight Watchers Inc. on "Ask Florine" 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 18, during the WXYZ-Channel 7 News. Starr's new habits, including exercise, have influenced her husband and three daughters to adopt healthy lifestyles. Get perspective on Iraq War from retired Army Brig. Gen. Donald Schenk 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 19, at Cong. Shaarey Zedek-B'nai Israel Center, 4200 Walnut Lake Road, West Bloomfield. Free. RSVP: gail2@shaar- eyzedek.org , (248) 357-5544, ext. 32. Attend slide show on one-room schoolhouses 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 24, at Oakland County Pioneer and Historical Society, 405 Cesar E. Chavez, Pontiac, MI 48342. Donations. (248) 338-6732, www.ocphs.org . SENIORS Hear a concert of favorite songs with entertainer Avy Schreiber 1 p.m. Friday, Jan. 15, at the Oak Park JCC. Free. The Active Life: (248) 967-4030. Enjoy the Ambassadors of Temple Beth El's luncheon noon Tuesday, Jan. 19, at the Bloomfield Twp. temple. Cantorial Soloist Rachel Gottlieb Kalmowitz will Calendar on page 42 - e"-"1"9 "11111111111.11111111111111iii 41