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Interfaith service clergy Rabbi Daniel Syme with Msgr. Anthony Tocco of St.
Hugo of the Hills and Rev. Dr. Norman M. Pritchard of Kirk in the Hills
Friday Night Live!:
Folk singer/songwriter Patty Larkin performs songs
from her new CD, 25, which marks 25 years of making music.
throughout the years, with surprises
and prizes given.
As someone who spent 12 years in
Chicago during and after college, Klein
knows how it is to be away and come
home "to be closer to family" and
reconnect — and now, to welcome
others.
"The event has become a tradition
for local and out-of-state alumni to
reunite, to catch up and reminisce
about some of our fondest memories,"
Klein said.
"Tamarack Camps created a
Thanksgiving reunion for alumni to
spend a little time with their camp
family. For many of us, our camp
friends remain amongst our closest
friends for life."
Family Sunday:
Detroit's own PuppetART Theater presents Kolobok,
the Russian version of the Gingerbread Man.
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It would have been your 85th birthday
anctour 65th anniversary.
Your family and especially me miss you,
Your loving husband,
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Together In Prayer
Among our community's interfaith
Thanksgiving prayer services is one
co-sponsored by Temple Beth El in
Bloomfield Township, whose com-
munal interfaith roots go back more
than 100 years.
According to Jan Durecki,
director of the Rabbi Leo M. Franklin
Archives at Beth El, the origins of the
service were Nov. 27, 1902.
In the very early 1900s, it
was referred to as the Citizens'
Interdenominational Thanksgiving
Service. More recently, the service
was a joint effort with the Northwest
Suburban Interfaith Ministerial
Association.
"The service was rotated among
the congregations, with Beth El the
only Jewish house of worship, with
the host clergy speaking and the
combined choirs singing,"
said Barbara Grant, Beth El's Bulletin
editor. "For many years, we also
brought canned goods, which were
contributed to the Food Bank of
Oakland County and later to The
Emergency Assistance Ministry
(TEAM), a consortium of the congre-
gations meeting needs in the area."
The service in its current format
was established in 2004, with Beth
El celebrating along with Kirk in the
Hills Presbyterian Church and St.
Hugo of the Hills Catholic Church,
both in Bloomfield Hills.
"We were the three founding
sponsors of the Great Lakes Chamber
Music Festival and, in that capacity,
the clergy got to know each other as
friends," said Beth El's Rabbi Daniel
Syme. "I said, in addition to what we
do for the festival, we should have a
rotating pre-Thanksgiving service,
alternating being the host."
This year's service was held Nov.
21 at Kirk in the Hills. "The service
is always beautiful — as is its com-
bined choir — and truly represents
the best of what interfaith can be,"
Syme said. "This service is a jewel
among the programs of each of our
institutions."