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Insider's View Of Israel

Get an "Insider's View of Israel" from Yoav Raban, community
shaliach (emissary) from the Jewish Federation's Partnership
2000 region of the Central Galilee, at a potluck-program 6:30
p.m. Saturday, Jan. 29, at a private home in Oak Park. Branch
960 of Ameinu (former Labor Zionist Alliance) welcomes guests.
Free admission, but bring a non-dairy dish to pass. RSVP to Esther
Allweiss Ingber: (248) 967-6380.

Yoav Raban

Applaud for honorees State Sen. Gilda
Jacobs and her husband, attorney John
Jacobs, at fundraiser for and at the Oak Park
JCC. Event starting 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb.
6, will feature an interactive murder-mystery
dinner-theater, "The Two Faces of Murder,"
followed by a murder-mystery raffle. $90;
proceeds will support scholarships for youth
and older adults. Purchase tickets by Jan. 29.
Miriam: (248) 967-4030, ext. 2006.

Bill Emerson, CEO, Quicken Loans, will be
honored. Keynoters are Drs. Eva Feldman,
speaking on stem-cell research; Kirsten Gruis,
director, ALS Clinic, U-M Health System; and
Daniel S. Newman, director, Hoenselaar ALS
Clinic, Henry Ford Hospital. Free and open to
all. RSVP: Suzi Terebelo, (248) 680-6540, or
www.alsa-michigan.org .

HEALTH / SUPPORT

Be a personal shopper, help tag, sort, or dis-
play items at NCJW Council Thrift Shops in
Royal Oak and Berkley. Marla Horwitz: (248)
646-2800 or marlahorwitz@yahoo.com .

Peer support group for divorced parents and
their children (eighth grade and younger)
meets 7-8 p.m. Mondays, Jan. 25-March
8 (except Feb.15) at Birmingham Temple,
Farmington Hills. One-time charge of $10 a
family. RSVP: SPACE for Changing Families,
(248) 355-9936 or SPACE@ncjwgds.org .

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 .

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 household, 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: $10. Registration: (248) 355-9936.

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. Instructor is congregation
member Shelley Shindler: (248) 661-8080,
snslist@aol.com .

The ALS Association, Michigan Chapter, cel-
ebrates its 25th anniversary with a Research
Update and Celebration of Excellence
Reception 6-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 2, at the
Southfield Public Library, 26300 Evergreen.

HELPING OUT

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. Michal
Ram (248) 592-1104, mram@jslmi.org .

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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. Ievra-
phael.com or www.detroitpubliclibrary.org .

Hear Rabbi Lawrence Kelemen illuminate
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 payable to JCC and sent
to SAJE, 6600 W. Maple, West Bloomfield, MI
48322. Charge by phone: (248) 432-5692.

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. We are so thankful for the strong.

supportive community that we have

chosen to build our family in. We

Party With The Pulitzers!

Rub elbows with nine local Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalists in one room. Shmooze and network
6-9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 22, at the Birmingham-
Bloomfield Art Center, 1516 S. Cranbrook,
Birmingham. Appearing will be the Detroit Free
Press' Jim Schaefer and M.L. Elrick, the report-
ers who led the investigation of Detroit Mayor
Kwame Kilpatrick, as well as journalists Eric Freedman, Katie Merx, David Ashenfelter,
Sheryl James Jeff Taylor, Angelo Henderson and Charlie LeDuff. Sponsored by the Detroit
Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Hors d'oeuvres, cash bar. Open to all.
$25. (586) 306-2035. www.spjdetroit.org .

want to give back so we have chosen to

support No Family Stands Alone. This is

our community. this is our home.

we get it',

To he a part of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit community effort. please visit jewishdetroit.org

theJEWISHNEWS.com

or call 888-902-HOPE. When you give. you give hope.

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