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JET hosts June stage festival.
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II reenactment.
he Jewish Ensemble Theatre
The employees
(JET) will present four new
plays in its 2010 Seymour
are divided into
two groups,
J. and Ethel S. Frank Festival of New
Nazis and Jews;
Plays, sponsored by Rona Rones.
They will take place 7:30 p.m.
and a simple
Mondays, June 7-29 at the Aaron DeRoy company game
Theatre in the West Bloomfield JCC and turns into much
more.
on Tuesdays at the Oak Park JCC.
• To Life by David J. Bernstein;
The plays for this annual festival are
quickly rehearsed and read for audi-
directed by Frannie Shepherd-Bates.
Performed Monday, June 21, and
ences with minimal staging and no
Tuesday, June 22.
costumes, props or scenery. Afterward,
Follow Gary and Max, father and son,
the audience is invited to provide feed-
through the major events of life: bris,
back and ask questions of the director
bar-mitzvah, marriage and death. Gary
and often an attending playwright.
tries to offer his best advice to Max
The 2010 lineup is:
throughout his life, and even beyond, in
• Room 15 by Elyce Melman; direct-
a hilarious and heartfelt fashion.
ed by Jennifer Zubernick. Performed
•My Shanghai
Monday, June 7, and
Baby by Esta Fischer;
Tuesday, June 8.
THE SEYMOUR J. & ETHEL S. FRANK
directed by Harold
When Penny
Jurkiewicz. Performed
Greenberg steps
Monday, June 28 and
into Room 15 of St.
Tuesday, June 29.
Matthew's School for
In the late 1930s,
Boys, she is hope-
country after country
ful that through
closed their doors
education, positive
to the Jews fleeing
social changes can
Nazi infested Europe.
be achieved. When
Shanghai, an interna-
Sean Sullivan, one
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was the only place in
his success denied,
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the world many could
he becomes mentally
escape to.
deranged and Penny is
Beginning in modern America, a
suddenly given her most challenging
Jewish woman traces her roots back to
test yet.
a Shanghai ghetto, where her mother
• Reenactments by Bill Gibson;
was an innocent victim of a bomb-
directed by Joe Kvoriak. Performed
Monday, June 14 and Tuesday, June 15. ing.
When a global conglomerate pur-
chases a smaller company, it acquires
Tickets are available at the door
its employees as well. To continue a
of each performance for $5.
company tradition and to evaluate
For information or to purchase
their new employees, the conglomer-
tickets, call (248) 788-2900.
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Kids' Photo Exhibit
COTS "Through The Eyes of a
Child" project, funded by a grant
from the Young Women's Home
Association of Grosse Pointe,
involves 22 homeless children and
their parents.
The children were given a camera
and lessons by fine arts photogra-
pher and instructor Monte Nagler,
then turned loose to express their
feelings through photography.
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Their work will be on exhibit at
the Birmingham Bloomfield Art
Center (BBAC) from June 18 to July
5. Each finished, framed image
includes a written comment by the
youthful photographer.
An opening reception will be
held on Friday, June 18, 6-9 p.m.; a
$20 donation is requested.
The BBAC is at 1516 S. Cranbrook
Road, Birmingham. Contact: www.
bbartcenter.org or (313) 831-3777.
trust funds and invested the money
into high-risk hedge funds in the
Cayman Islands and in an Oklahoma
gas and oil exploration company
controlled by Smart's family.
Smart and several others were
convicted in Tennessee on the
charges and are serving prison sen-
tences. Farmington Hills attorney
Mark Zausmer was appointed con-
servator of the Michigan cemeteries
until their finances stabilized and
they were sold.
- Alan Hitsky, associate editor
Not So Smart
Hebrew University of Jerusalem has
filed suit against General Motors
Corporation in U.S. District Court
for unauthorized use of an image of
Albert Einstein in an advertisement.
Hebrew U. owns all property
rights to Einstein's name and like-
ness and earns an estimated $18
million annually from those rights.
GM ran a four-page ad in People
magazine last Nov. 30. It featured
Einstein's face on a male model's
body with Einstin's famous "e=mc2"
equation tattooed on the shoulder. The
ad for the GMC Terrain sports utility
vehicle stated, "Ideas are sexy too:'
The suit, filed May 19, seeks more
than $75,000.
- Alan Hitsky, associate editor
Cemetery Fines
The U.S. Financial Industry Regulatory
Authority (FINRA) has imposed $1.5
million in sanctions against Citigroup
for its role in an Oklahoma man's raid
on $60 million in cemetery trust funds
in Michigan and Tennessee in the early
part of this decade.
FINRA said Citigroup ignored irreg-
ular movements of funds for two years
and implicated a Citigroup broker in
Pennsylvania in the fraud. Citigroup
accepted FINRA's ruling without
admitting or denying the charges.
The Michigan Attorney General's
Office said two companies owned
by Clayton Smart of Oklahoma,
Mikocem LLC and Indian Nation
LLC, removed $61 million from the
Metal Recycling Day
The Jewish Community Center of
Metropolitan Detroit will host a
metal recycling event from 9 a.m.-4
p.m. Sunday, June 6, at the JCC in
Oak Park, and on Sunday, June 13,
at the JCC in West Bloomfield. The
public is invited to bring any items
made of metal ready for recycling
and will receive a receipt, for tax
purposes, for all donations.
Not accepted are refrigerators and
paint cans, but items with a small
amount of plastic attached are fine.
Dropoff points at both JCCs will be
clearly marked. For information, call
the JCC, (248) 967-4030.
Senior Volunteers
The Retired and Senior Volunteer
Program (RSVP) of Oakland County
is seeking volunteers who are 55 years
of age and older. Opportunities at
hospitals, cultural institutions, food
pantries, schools and more are avail-
able. For information: Carol Heckman
at (248) 559-1147 ext. 3435.
JWV College Scholarships
The Michigan Jewish War Veterans
of the USA and Ladies Auxiliary
will present $750 scholarships to 15
state high school graduates to attend
Michigan colleges. The awardees, all
descendants of war veterans, were
selected by a neutral source without
regard to race or religion.
The presentations, chaired by
Harmon Tron, will be made by at the
JWV annual convention 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, June 10, at the Oak Park
JCC. Shirlee Marshall, scholarship
chairman, says the event is open to
the public. Light refreshments will
be served.
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