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Yad Ezra Elections
Yad Ezra, Michigan's only kosher food
pantry, held elections for the executive
committee and board of directors for 2011.
Elected to the execu-
tive committee were
the following: Richard
Simtob, president; Nancy
Kleinfeldt and Judy
Kepes, vice presidents;
Jeff Katz, treasurer; Allen
Wolff, secretary and Ken
Bernard, immediate past
Richard
president.
Simtob
Serving on the board
of directors for 2011 are
the following: Beth E. Applebaum, Nancy
Baron, Robert Blum, Helen Etkin, Augie
Fernandes Jr., Ben Forta, Ellie Glen, Nate
Goldberg, Sheila Guyer, Margot Halperin,
Jason Katz, Linda Z. Klein, Joel Krugel,
Nicole Lester, Anita Naftaly, Howard D.
Rabotnick, Alan Reiter, Sam Rozenberg,
Amy Schlussel, R. Tyler Smith, Bert Stein,
June Stillman, Malka Torgow, Arthur
Weinfeld and Barbara Zaltz.
Yad Ezra Past presidents include: Jeffrey
Appel, Richard Barr, Gary Dembs, Sanford
Eisenberg, Michael Eizelman, Paul Finkel,
Ruth Kahn, Allan Sefton, Andrew Zack and
Howard Zoller.
Advisory panel appointees include: Susie
Citrin, Sharon Hart, Joel E. Jacob, Emery
Klein, Sally Krugel, Arthur Liss, Robert
Schechter, Rabbi A. Irving Schnipper,
Howard Tapper and Neal F. Zalenko.
Party Planning Expo
The Jewish Community Center of Greater
Ann Arbor will hold its first Party Planning
Expo on Sunday, Jan. 30, from 2 to 5 p.m., at
the JCC. The free expo will cater to families
having bar/bat mitzvahs, weddings, etc.
Carolynn Hayman, is one of the event's
organizers. Staci Kennedy, owner of Who's
Got the Time event planning business, is
chairing the event.
For information or to participate as a
vendor, contact Mimi Weisberg, (734) 971-
0990 or mimiweisberg.jccfed.org .
JCRC Board Nominees
The Jewish Community Relations Council
of Metropolitan Detroit is accepting nomi-
nations for its 2011-2012 board of direc-
tors.
Candidates should be leaders within the
Detroit Jewish community who are able to
County Lawmakers
Oakland County commissioners Marcia
Gershenson, left, of Beverly Hills and
Helaine Zack of Huntington Woods
share a moment at the first board
meeting of the year, Jan. 5, following
the swearing- in ceremony of the new
2011-2012 Board of Commissioners.
Gershenson is beginning her fourth
term and Zack is beginning her fifth
term. Also returning among Jewish
commissioners is Shelley Goodman
Taub of West Bloomfield.
make a commitment to the public affairs
agenda that the council pursues on behalf
of its member organizations and the entire
Jewish community.
To nominate a candidate for the Jewish
Community Relations Council's board,
contact the council at (248) 642-5393, or
download a nomination form on Council's
website, detroitjcrc.org. Nominations must
be received by Monday Feb. 15.
All nominations will be submitted to
council's nominating committee for con-
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spring.
Jewish Languages Series
"The Languages of Jewish Life" is a six-
week series that will explore the role of
language in Jewish history and culture.
It will be presented Jan. 30-March 16, at
various venues in Metro Detroit.
The series will feature speakers from
throughout the U.S. and Israel; a number
of the events are free. Tickets for the entire
series are $25 each, or $10 for Jewish com-
munal professionals and educators. Tickets
for individual lectures also are available. For
a complete list of pricing and class informa-
tion, please visit www.jccdet.org .
The series is sponsored by Federation's
Alliance for Jewish Education/FedEd,
the Jewish Community Center of
Metropolitan Detroit's Seminars for Adult
Jewish Enrichment (SAJE), the Jewish
Forum, Wayne State University's Cohn-
Haddow Center for Judaic Studies and the
University of Michigan's Frankel Institute
for Advanced Judaic Studies.
• 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 30 — Brad Sabin
Hill: "Jewish Languages: A Panorama of
Manuscript and Print"
(at the JCC, West Bloomfield).
• 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 6: Professor
Benjamin Hary: "Not Just Yiddish and
Hebrew: On the Phenomenon of Jewish
Languages" (at Temple Kol Ami, West
Bloomfield).
• 3 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 15: Professor
Benjamin Hary: "Judeo-Arabic" (at Wayne
State University, Detroit).
• 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 27: Professor
Monique Balbuena: "Ladino" (at Keter
Torah Synagogue, West Bloomfield).
• 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 9:
Professor Avraham Novershtern: "Yiddish
Culture in America: So Jewish, So
American!" (at the JCC, West Bloomfield).
• 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 16:
Professor David Aaron: "Sacred Hebrew:
Inventing Identity Through Language" (at
the JCC, West Bloomfield).