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T'chiyah To Honor The Gurewitzes
Check It Out!
ARTS & CULTURE
Find drawings, paintings, photography
and jewelry among offerings at holiday
gift show 2-8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 12,
at House on Main, 8903 N. Main in
Royal Oak. Participating are local art-
ists Marji Silk, Cindy Leven and Steve
Gamburd. (248) 541-3069.
Find art and other items to please all
ages at Sisterhood-sponsored gift
bazaar 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 14,
at Congregation B'nai Moshe in West
Bloomfield. www.congbethshalom.org
or (248) 788-0600.
Work on stuffing teddy bears for char-
ity, scarves for the Special Olympics,
butterflies for the Texas exhibition and
other projects at next Pomegranate
Guild meeting 1 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 14,
at Prentis Jewish Apartments, 15100
W.10 Mile in Oak Park. Group members
also study and creates Judaic needle-
work. Free. Details from Judy: (248)
661-5337.
Hear author Lev Raphael of Ann
Arbor, reading from his books My
Germany and German Money 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov. 16, at University of
Michigan-Dearborn,1030 CASL
Building. Presenters also include the
Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral
History Archive at UM-Dearborn.
Campus map: www.umd.umich.edu .
Meet Italian-born jewelry designer
Ippolita at her collection preview 4-8
p.m. Thursday, Nov. 18, at Tapper's
Fine Jewelry, 6337 Orchard Lake
Road (inside the Orchard Mall) in West
Bloomfield. Her trunk show continues
at the store 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday, Nov.
19. www.tappers.com or RSVP for
Thursday: (248) 865-6093.
Consider "Omens and Obstacles," new
work by artist Paula Zaks, continu-
ing through Nov. 20, at Cary Gallery,
226 Walnut Blvd. in Rochester. (248)
651-3656.
See courtroom drawings of Timothy
Cong. T'chiyah in Oak Park will honor former presidents Harold and Mary
Ellen Gurewitz with the shul's first Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan Bonei Kehillah
Award 11:30 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 21, at the Oak Park Jewish Community Center.
Mary Ellen is a partner at Sachs Waldman, specializing in union-side labor
McVeigh, Manuel Noriega, Mike
Tyson, Kwame Kilpatrick and Geoffrey
Feiger, also landscapes and horses,
at one-woman exhibit by Emmy
Award-winning artist-journalist Carole
Kabrin, daily through Nov. 30, at the
Community House, 308 S. Bates in
Birmingham. Free. (248) 644-5832.
Admire sabbatical exhibition by Wayne
State University professors Stanley
Rosenthal, a printmaker, and Adrian
Hatfield, a painter, through Dec. 10,
in WSU Art Dept. Gallery, 150 Art
Building in Detroit 48202. Hours:
10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesdays through
Thursdays, and until 7 on Fridays. (313)
577-0770.
Celebrate greatest icons of rock-n-roll
in tribute show, "Jews Who Rock,"
featuring pictures by celebrity pho-
tographer and former Detroiter Lynn
Goldsmith, through Dec. 23, at Janice
Charach Gallery inside West Bloomfield
JCC. Free. Includes sale of vintage
posters, records, photos and books.
(248) www.charachgallery.org or (248)
432-5579.
CINEMA & STAGE
Enjoy the Spotlight Players' per-
formance of Neil Simon comedy
Proposals, set in the Poconos in 1953,
weekends of Nov. 12-14, 19-21, at the
Village Theater at Cherry Hill, 50400
Cherry Hill in Canton 48187. Schedule/
tickets: www.spotlightplayersmi.org or
(734) 484-3284.
See comedy/drama Steel Magnolias
presented weekends through Nov.
14, at Village Players Playhouse,
34660 Woodward, sounth of Maple,
in birmingham. Shows: 8 p.m. Friday/
Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. $15. www.
birminghamvillageplayers.com or (248)
644-2075.
See Cabaret, presented Nov. 12-21, at
Marygrove College Theatre, 8425 W.
McNichols in Detroit 48221. Shows: 8
p.m. Thursdays and 2 p.m. Sundays. A
production of UDM Theatre Company
Card Sharks
Get lucky while helping at inaugural
casino night/poker tournament
hosted by Adat Shalom Synagogue
Young Adult Group 7:30 p.m. (doors
at 6) Saturday, Nov. 13, at Teen
Center at the West Bloomfield JCC.
Benefit for Israel Sport Center for
the Disabled. $100 poker entry, $50
spectator entry; prices increase $50
at door. Advance registration: www.
supportiscd.com/detroit or questions
to Amanda: (248) 719-0084.
and political and election law. She served on the boards of Roeper School,
the Detroit Chapter of the ACLU and Jewish Council for Public Affairs. She is
president of the Michigan Chapter of the American Constitution Society and
head of the Poverty Task Force of the Jewish Community Relations Council.
Harold is a partner in Gurewitz and Raben, specializing in criminal law. He
served as a U.S. assistant attorney and the head of the economic crime unit.
In private practice, he successfully defended clients in federal death penalty
Mary Ellen and Harold Gurewitz
cases and in white collar and public corruption matters. He is vice chair of the
Legal Aid and Defenders Association.
Rabbi Steven Gutow, once a visiting rabbi at T'chiyah, will keynote. Funds raised will aid educational and social justice
programs at T'chiyah. For tickets and tribute journal information: Roz Schindler, (248) 541-7218 or www.tchiyah.org .
and the college's Music and Dance
Department. Schedule/tickets: www.
theatre.udmercy.edu or box office:
(313) 993-3270.
See comedy/drama Steel Magnolias
presented weekends, through Nov.
14, at Village Players Playhouse,
34660 Woodward, south of Maple, in
Birmingham. Shows: 8 p.m. Friday/
Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. $15. www.
birminghamvillageplayers.com or (248)
644-2075.
Watch a love story unfold against
backdrop of 1980s hits in the musical,
Rock of Ages, on stage through Nov.
21, at Fisher Theatre, 3011 W. Grand
Blvd. in Detroit. Schedule/tickets:
www.broadwayindetroit.com or (313)
872-1000.
Bring family to show starring illusion-
ist and humorist Danny Archer 5 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 14, at the Farmington
Players Barn, 32332 W.12 Mile in
Farmington Hills. $12; $10 advance.
(248) 553-2955.
Join Magenta Giraffe Theatre
Company Artistic Director Frannie
Shepherd-Bates, also in the cast, at
world premiere of The Current by Sean
Paraventi, through Dec. 4, at 1515
Broadway in Detroit 48226. Schedule/
tickets: www.magentagiraffe.org . or
(313) 408-7269.
COMEDY & CONCERTS
Applaud for the Temptations at
dinner shows Friday and Saturday,
Nov. 12-13, at Andiamo Celebrity
Showroom, 7096 E.14 Mile in Warren
48092. $75, $100. Schedule: www.
AndiamoShowroom.com or (586) 268-
3200.
Come for Pacifica Quartet, with
Anthony McGill on clarinet, 8 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 13, at Seligman
Performing Arts Center on campus of
Detroit Country Day School, 22305
W.13 Mile in Beverly Hills. Tickets for
this Chamber Music Society concert
start at $43. Pre-concert dinner at 6
p.m. at Bacco Ristorante in Southfield.
www.ComeHearCMSD.org or (248)
855-6070.
Hear world-renowned Vienna Boys
Choir 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 15, at
Orchestra Hall, 3711 Woodward in
Detroit. www.detroit sympony.com or
(313) 576-5111.
Treat yourself the voice of Melissa
Manchester 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15,
at the Ark Coffeehouse, 316 S. Main,
Ann Arbor 48104. $35. www.theark.org
or (734) 761-1800.
Watch as Israel's Uriel Segal con-
duct four musicians from the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra in a program of
Mozart and Tchaikovsky 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 21, at Temple Beth El
in Bloomfield Township.. Advance
purchase advised: $20 or $50. www.
detroitsymphonymusicians.org
EVENT HOTLINE
Visit during the high school open
house 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 16, at
Akiva Hebrew Day School, 21100 W.12
Mile in Southfield. Chaye Kohl: (248)
386-1625, ext. 226. To schedule visit
during school hours, call Mary Wright
at ext. 222.
Let the JCC's Center Travel escort
you on overseas vacations, including
"Israel@62" ($3,639, double occu-
pancy), Nov. 28-Dec. 12. Registration
also open for "Cuba" ($3,099), Feb.
9-17 and April 20-28. Details from
Marilyn: mwolfe@jccdet.org or (248)
432-5471.
• Day trips: Take Center Travel bus
to Of Mice and Men, Hilberry Theatre
drama, 10 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 30;
Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO),
Friday, Dec. 3; Best of Friends,
Purple Rose Theatre play in Chelsea,
Wednesday, Dec. 8; "Hollywood
Pictures" concert with DSO, Friday,
Dec. 10; and Mary Poppins at Detroit
Opera House, Thursday, Dec. 16 and
Wednesday, Dec. 22. Registration:
(248) 432-5471.
EVENTS THAT HELP
Fund multiple sclerosis research
and services by attending annual
Yoga Moves MS 2010 benefit 7 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 13, at Glen Oaks
Country Club, 30500 W.13 Mile in
Farmington Hills. $40 includes stroll-
ing dinner with wine, silent auction
and entertainment. Co-sponsor Mindy
Eisenberg teaches therapeutic yoga to
students with MS. Mindy@yogaspirit-
wellness.com or (248) 417-5985.
Come out on "Night of a Thousand
Stars," benefit for Michigan Parkinson
Foundation, 7-10 p.m. Saturday, Nov.
13, at Steinway Piano Gallery, 2700 E.
West Maple in Commerce. $50 includes
light hors d'oeuvres, entertainment,
two drinks. parkinsonsmi.org or (248)
433-1011.
Listen to blues music from Bo White
and the Bluezers 7:30 p.m. Saturday,
Nov. 13, at Temple Kol Ami in West
Bloomfield. Blues Night will benefit the
temple's religious school and Mazon-
The Jewish Response to Hunger. Doors
open at 6:45 p.m. for a free 45-minute
swing dance lesson. Temple member
Paul Gross, WDIV-TV meteorologist,
will conduct live auction. Advance
ticket: $20, $15 for Kol Ami member;
$25 and $20 at door. Julie@tkolami.
org or (248) 661-0040.
Applaud for Ophelia and Leonard
Herman, Brandeis Award honorees at
77th Annual Balfour Celebration, 7
p.m. Sunday, Nov. 14, at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek in Southfield. Zionist
Organization of America-Michigan
Region also will present Cantors Meir
Finkelstein, Daniel Gross and Michael
Smolash in concert. Tickets start at
$50. www.mizoa.org or (248) 282-
0088.
Discover the impact of actresses from
Sarah Bernhardt to Natalie Portman in
feature-length film Jewish Women and
the Movies, 10 a.m. Wednesday, Nov.
17, at Landmark Maple Art Theatre,
4135 W. Maple in Bloomfield Township.
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