ITo Do! CALENDAR 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 Deadline: noon, Tuesday, nine days prior to publication. game 1:05 p.m. Sunday, July 25, at Check It Out! ARTS & CULTURE ourmissbrooks425@yahoo.com . Attend "Art From the Heart" 1 p.m. Sunday, July 25, at Janice Charach Gallery inside the West Bloomfield JCC. Sale of artwork will benefit Jewish Gay Network of Michigan and gallery. Exhibit hours through Aug. 19: 10 a.m-5 p.m. Monday-Thursday and noon-4 p.m. Sunday. (248) 432-5579 or www.charachgallery.org ; JGN: (248) 432-5661 or www.jgnmi.org . The Jewish Hikers of Michigan will hike at 11 a.m. Sunday, July 18, at the U-M Matthaei Botanical Gardens, 1800 N. Dixboro Road, Ann Arbor. Information: Eli Avny, (734) 883-9522, Rabbi Lisa Delson, (734) 665-4744, or jewish.hikers@gmail.com . CINEMAS STAGE Water Works Theatre Company pres- ents Lane Riosley's family oriented comedy The Commedia Tales of King Arthur ($6) plus Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona ($18) at Shakespeare in the Park at Starr Jaycee Park,1101 W.13 Mile, Royal Oak. July 22- Aug. 8. Schedule and tick- ets: www.waterworkstheatre.com . Birmingham's Village Players' play- writing group, Playwrights at Work presents a One-Act Play Festival 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, July 30-31. One of the four plays present each night is teacher Myron Stein of Southfield's Swashbucklers, about regaining joy and youth through fantasy. $10. Village Players Playhouse, 34660 Woodward. 248-644-2075 or www.birminghamvillageplayers.com . EVENT HOTLINE Play Mah Jongg with West Bloomfield Cong. Beth Ahm's Sisterhood,12:30- 3 p.m. Tuesdays. $1. Bring a current card. RSVP: Gail Ellenbogen, at (248) 626-4123 or gellenbo@yahoo.com . Attend the Annual Mumford High Alumni Golf Outing 8:30 a.m. Saturday, July 17, at Warren Valley Golf Course, Dearborn. $37. $10 dona- tion to alumni association requested. RSVP by July 14 to Phil Martin, xag- well@hotmail.com or Carol Brooks, All skill levels are welcome at the Seventh Annual Scrabblethon to benefit the NCSY youth group 7-10 p.m. Sunday, July 18, at Young Israel of Oak Park. $10 adults; $5 children. Information: (248) 568-2163 or (248) 968-4105. Tour Eastern Market and Greening of Detroit with Tikvah Hadassah Group. Meet 9:45 a.m. Wednesday, July 21, at Adat Shalom parking lot, Farmington Hills. $40 includes lunch and bus. RSVP, Nancy: (248) 202-8393. See Yishai Fleisher, host of Israel National Radio's Yishai and Friends, on his "Eye On Zion" speaking tour 8 p.m. Thursday, July 22, at Young Israel of Oak Park. Free. Dinner with Fleisher at 5:30 is $18. RSVP for dinner: (248) 967-3655. Attend Temple Israel Brotherhood's Achim program, a spiritual journey for men, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday, July 22. Topic is "Mother." $10. Dinner included. RSVP: John Shanteau, (248) 661-5700 or jshanto@ameritech.net . Cantorial Soloist Neil Michaels will sing "0 Canada" and the Shabbat Singers will perform "The Star Spangled Banner" at the Temple Israel Brotherhood attends a Tigers-Blue Jays baseball game at Comerica Park 1 p.m. Sunday, July 25. Also attractions for Scouts and kids. RSVP: Jim Grey, (248) 540-9070 or greyco@aol.com . Sit with B'nai B'rith at Tigers EVERYTHING'S RELATIVE by Jordan B. Gorfinkel • www•jewishcartoon.com Death Of A Parent Comerica Park. Purchase now for $25; ticket surcharge will treat invited guests from Jewish Family Service Mentor Program. Tickets from Jim: GreyCo@aol.com or (248) 540-9070. The National Council of Jewish Women, Greater Detroit Section- SPACE for Changing Families offers a six-week bereavement Find a bargain at the monthly flea market 8:30 a.m.-noon Wednesday, July 28, at the Oak Park JCC. Proceeds support the JCC special needs program and JARC. (248) 967- 4030. support group for adults grieving the death of a parent 7-8:30 p.m. Wednesdays, July 28-Sept. 1, at Bingham Office Park, 30300 Telegraph, Suite 125, Bingham Farms. Cindy Goldman facilitates. Free, but donations are appreciated. Feet on the Street Tours presents RSVP: (248) 355-9936 or e-mail space@ncjwgds.org . "Prohibition and All That Jazz" Thursday nights July 29-Sept. 9, through the stomping grounds of the Purple Gang, including a musical pit stop at the river. $38. Pickups in Farmington Hills, Birmingham and Greektown. feetonthestreettours.com . HEALTH & SUPPORT Participate in a free national heart health study for women 40 and older. DMC and Sinai Guild will conduct tests 8 a.m.-noon Wednesday, July 21, at Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills and Wednesday, Aug. 4, at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield. No RSVP needed, but an eight-hour fast is required. www.thesinaiguild.org or (248) 538-6501. HELPING OUT High Holiday Honey: • Purchase honey to support West Bloomfield Temple Shir Shalom's scholarship fund. For $6, a one-ounce bottle of honey, gift wrapped, will be mailed along with prayers and one's personal greeting. Charlotte Milgrim, (248) 669-3565. •Temple Emanu-El's Sisterhood is sponsoring the sale of 8 oz. jars of Kosher honey for $10, complete with one's personalized L'Shanah Tovah greetings, to be shipped anywhere in the world. Go to www.orthoney.com/ index.html and click on Order Honey and Enter code: TEE. The Zager/Stone/Tucker/Grant/ Oakland Century Unit of B'nai B'rith has an ongoing community project to support William Beaumont Hospitals' Pediatric Unit Recreational Therapy Program. Donations sought include school supplies and games: crayons, glue, easy board games and puzzles, Matchbox cars, Etch-A-Sketch, etc. To donate or volunteer call Lana Jacobs at (248) 626-0616 or Nancy Braun at (248) 553-7474. Monetary contribu- tions are also welcome. B'nai B'rith Buddies volunteers at Friendship Circle is looking for new helpers. They staff the village when schools of special needs children come to learn life lessons like cross- ing on the green light, shopping at a drugstore, going to the library, etc., for 2 1/2 hours. Contact Lila Zorn (248) 762-8694. HOLIDAYS / SHABBAT Temple Israel will hold Shabbat services 10:45 a.m. Saturday, July 17, at the Fleischman Residence in West Bloomfield. All are welcome. Information or RSVP: Michelle Lichtman, (248) 661-5700, or michelle@temple-israel.org . Temple Emanu-El's Mid-Summer's Night Havdalah will be 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 24, at the home of Pat Chomet. Bring an appetizer and wine or juice to share. RSVP to Pat: (248) 398-2646 or chomet®wowway.com . In case of rain, Havdalah will be held at the Temple. Bring a dairy or parve picnic-style dinner and meet other families with BECCAnBETH BERNIE YAEL The Altruist The Idealist The Perplexed The Realist LOVE THIS CAMP! %. LEARN E D HOW TO PLAY 5A1-1- HERE, TO - T1- KNO7:6 AND B011-1) A P./RE- - SPEAK ifeeR.e-w, alarm THE TORAH, LOVE TH15 CAMP 15 WHAT MADE ME A 5TRONG, PROUD, KNOWLELEA5L-E. tJW. LOUIS The Rebel ZAYDS BUBS The Traditionalist The Bubbe NOT JEW/5H MY KIDS WKy COULDN'T N0T2 EAJOUGH COME. a FOR TH E M. young children to welcome Shabbat with a camp-style Shaarey Zedek Shabbat sing-along 6 p.m. Friday, July 30, at Heritage Park, Farmington Hills. Friends welcome. RSVP: Megan Rappaport at (248) 357-5544, ext. 43, or mrappaport@shaareyzedek.org . JEWISH LEARNING Drop in for DVD lectures on "Kabbalah and Society in 16th-Century Safed" and "Shabbetia Zevi — The Mystical Messiah." with Prof. David Ruderman 1 p.m. Wednesday, July 21, at Cong. Beth Ahm, West Bloomfield. Free. (248) 737-1931. Join Rabbi Steven Rubenstein for a Beit Midrash-style seminar explor- ing how Talmudic rabbis transformed Judaism from animal sacrifice to prayer. The class will be held in the West Bloomfield office of a Cong. Beth Ahm congregant 7:30-9:30 p.m. Thursday, July 22. $15. Open to all. Nancy Kaplan: (248) 737-1931 or nancyellen879@att.net . "Explore Herzl at 150" 7:30-9 p.m. Tuesdays, July 27-Aug. 10, at Cong. Beth Ahm in West Bloomfield. Prof. Howard Lupovitch teaches series about Zionist leader. $15 per session at door. (248) 851-6880. Middle-school through college teach- ers are invited to a weeklong seminar spanning the rise of Nazism to mod- ern-day Holocaust deniers featuring Holocaust scholars and survivors Aug. 16-20 at the Holocaust Memorial Center, 28123 Orchard Lake Road, Farmington Hills. Presenters include Drs. Sidney M. Bolkosky, Eric Johnson, Jack Kay, David H. Lindquist, Roslyn Abt Schindler and Guy Stern. $100. RSVP by July 16: education®holocaustcenter.org . SENIORS Play mah jongg 12:30 p.m. Friday, July 16, at West Bloomfield JCC. Free. (248) 967-4030. .14111 "11F Meet other caregivers at support meetings sponsored by Dorothy and n'i!h 44 J) L' S 2010 1-11- Peter Brown Jewish Community Adult Day Care Program. Daytime meet- ings are for caregivers of those with Alzheimer's Disease or related diagno- sis. Evening meetings are for caregiv-