Metro TIME TO GATHER Traditions from page 15 ALL-YOU-CAN-SEE BUFFET.. 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. Now on View: Fakes, Forgeries and Mysteries w e Programs are made possible with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, National Endowment for the Arts, and the City of Detroit. DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS 5 2 0 0 Woodward Ave. I 313-833-7900 The 8 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 27, Tamarack Camps Alumni Reunion – for those older than 21 – will take place at Dino's Lounge, 22740 Woodward Ave., in Ferndale. Light appetizers will be served. No cover charge. For information, send an e-mail to Carly Weinstock at weinstock® tamarackcamps.com . PAULINE M. floppy Birthday and Happy Anniversary; • It would have been your 85th birthday anctour 65th anniversary. Your family and especially me miss you, Your loving husband, Rest in. Peace, Bernie Jonas Keep your company top of mind with our readers. ADVERTISE WITH US! CALL 248.351.5107 Visit theJEWISHNEWS.com 16 November 25 • 2010 JN JN 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."