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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.

a.m.-1:3O p.m. Games for young children, while older ones

Check it Out!

ARTS & CULTURE

See "Healing Arts Photo Exhibit,"
including work by Dane Gussin,
in Artist Avenue Gallery, through
April 28, inside Henry Ford Hospital
West Bloomfield, 6773 W. Maple. (248)
661-6100, danesworldlIc@aol.com ,
or www.henryford health.org .

Shop "Spring into Summer Used Book
Sale," through March 24, at Meyers
Library at West Bloomfield JCC. Hours:
10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday, and until 5 p.m.
Monday-Thursday. (248) 432-5546.

Discuss Sarah/Sara by Jacob Paul at
"Reading Between the Wines" 7:30
p.m. Thursday, March 24, at Temple
Israel in West Bloomfield. Sisterhood
invites community to book review and
dessert wine; Rabbi Jennifer Kaluzny
leads. $15, or $10 Sisterhood member.
Payment due with RSVP by March 17
or contact Norinne: (248) 553-8883.

Attend the launch for Ma Baseema,
a Middle Eastern Cookbook with
Chaldean flair 6:30 p.m. Wednesday,
March 30, at Shenandoah Country
Club in West Bloomfield. Published
by the Chaldean American Ladies of
Charity and Huron River Press.

CINEMA & STAGE

See ghost of Humphrey Bogart
in Play It Again, Sam by Woody
Allen, opening Friday, March 18, at
Village Players Playhouse, 34660
Woodward in Birmingham. Presented
Fridays-Sundays, through March 27.
Schedule/tickets: (248) 644-2075 or
www.birminghamvillageplayers.com .

Learn that winning isn't everything at
Stagecrafters' spring musical, 25th
Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,
playing weekends of March 18-20
through April 10, at Baldwin Theatre,
415 S. Lafayette in Royal Oak. www.
stagecrafters.org or (248) 541-6430.

Applaud for all-Michigan cast in
Off-Broadway comedy, I Love You,
You're Perfect, Now Change, opening
Wednesday, March 23, at Andiamo
Novi Theatre, 42705 Grand River.
Shows Wednesdays-Sundays, through
April 10. Tickets: (248) 348-4448.

Experience Jellyfish, acclaimed film
by Israeli writer Etgar Keret, 7 p.m.
Monday, March 21, at 147 Community
Arts Building on Michigan State
University in East Lansing. Free:
• Keret exhibit: Tour "Interpreting the
Interior," exhibit highlighting Keret's
short story collections, graphic novels
and film, through May 31, at MSU
Main Library, 3 West. Exhibit features
the full text of Keret's story, "Breaking
the Pig," in English and Hebrew.
Details: libguides.lib.msu.edu/keret.

Watch drama, Last of the Boys, a
Magenta Giraffe Theatre production
about legacy of the Vietnam War,
through April 2, at 1515 Broadway
in Detroit. $18, $15 student or pay
what you can. Schedule/tickets: www.
magentagiraffe.org or (313) 408-7269.

Select best seats now for 2011-2012
Broadway In Detroit Series at
Fisher Theatre. Six-play season
starts in September with Come Fly
With Me, featuring music of Frank
Sinatra. www.BroadwaylnDetroit.
corn or (313) 872-1000.

will have inflatables, dancing to Star Trax Productions

and prizes. Kosher food can be purchased. Martha:

Celebrate the festival of Purim at local synagogues:

• Adat Shalom in Farmington Hills: Traditional

mgoldberg@shaareyzedek.org or (248) 357-5544, ext. 46.

• Temple Kol Ami in West Bloomfield: Have a Yee-Haw

Megilla reading 8:30 p.m. Saturday, March 19, or 8:30

Purim 5:30 p.m. Saturday, March 19, starting with pasta

a.m. Sunday, March 20. Also for families on Sunday:

dinner ($2 adult/$1 child) and service at 6:45. Nosh on

Megillah Mania — Purim in story and song, 11:45 a.m.; free

hamantashen and study text together with Cong. B'nai

admission to carnival, noon, featuring entertainment by

Israel Synagogue members. Dinner RSVP: Julie@tkolami.

Joe Cornell, snacks, games, bouncers, Rad-a-Tattoo, face

org or (248) 661-0040. Kol Ami Temple Youth hosts an all-

painting, photo booth, miniature motorways. Purchase

ages Purim Carnival noon Sunday, March 20, featuring

lunch. info@adatshalom.org or (248) 851-5100.

games, cupcake walk and prizes. Ticket info: Tiffany@

tkolami.org or (248) 661-0040.

• Temple Shir Shalom in

• Cong. Beth Ahm in West

West Bloomfield: Check out

Blazing Sandals, a musical Purim

Bloomfield: "A Variety Of

shpiel for all ages with music

Laughs" 8:30 p.m. Saturday,

from Oklahoma, Annie Get Your

March 19, including Megillah

Gun and Seven Brides for Seven

reading followed by a Variety

CONCERTS

Brothers, 7 p.m. Saturday, March

Show, $10; drinks, desserts,

Plan on attending opening night of the
JCC Stephen Gottlieb Music Festival,
featuring renowned composer Marvin
Hamlisch, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March
23, in the new Berman Center for the
Performing Arts at West Bloomfield
JCC. Festival continues there and
also at Oak Park JCC, through April
3. Another highlight: Israeli guitar-
ist David Broza, 8:30 p.m. Saturday,
March 26, at Berman Center.
JCC members get ticket discount.
Schedule/tickets: www.jccdet.org .

19. Guest narrator will be Jim

snacks. RSVP: (248) 851-6880.

Harper, Magic 105 radio host. Free.

Traditional Megillah reading by

Megilla readings at 9:15 and 10 p.m. Saturday, March 19.

games, food. Marilyn Wolfe: (248) 432-5471 or www.

Listen to Grammy Award-winning bass-
ist Robert Hurst and jazz guitarist A.
Spencer Barefield at next Music in
Homes Series concert 8 p.m. Saturday,
March 26, at a 1928 French eclectic
home in Detroit's historic Sherwood
Forest neighborhood. $35, or $30 for
six or more; includes reception, food.
palmerwoods.org or (313) 891-2514.

Celebration features live music, activity booths ($3/ticket)

jpisundayschool.com .

Come at 6 to purchase snacks and

Prof. Howard Lupovitch during

beverages. hankct711@att.net or

9 a.m. minyan Sunday, March

(248) 737-8700. Show up 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Sunday, March

20, free; includes breakfast. Megillah reading and Purim

20, for Purim Carnival, sponsored by youth group SSTY,

carnival featuring Rabbi Steven Rubenstein as "The

at the Corners, 2075 Walnut Lake Road, West Bloomfield.

40-Year-Old Persian" 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Sunday, March 20.

Nominal charge for game and food/meal tickets. www.

Music, costume contest, games, food.

• Jewish Parents Institute Sunday School, Purim

shirshalom.org or Ilene: (248) 406-4255.

• Bais Chabad of North Oak Park, 15401 W. 10

Mile: Join family event, "Purim at the Sea," including

and food (sold separately). Attend festive Purim meal

celebration will be 10:15 a.m. Sunday, March 20, at

West Bloomfield JCC. Free; open to all. Costume parade;

• Aish in the Woods, 25725 Coolidge in Oak Park: Get

6:30 p.m. Sunday, March 20. $25 adult, $15 child at door.

tickets for musical play, The Purim Story, 11 a.m. Sunday,

rabbisw@aol.com , (248) 895-8103.

March 20. $36 family, includes show and lunch. www.

• Downtown Synagogue in Detroit: Take part in an

interactive Megilla reading and costumed Purim

dance party 7 p.m. Saturday, March 19.

• Temple Emanu-El in Oak Park: Come in costume

aishinthewoods.com or (248) JUDAISM.

• Cong. Dovid Ben Nuchim in Oak Park: You may

dress in a jungle costume for this African-themed Purim

seudah (meal) celebration 6 p.m. Sunday, March 20. Sara

to Havdalah-Purim celebration 7 p.m. Saturday, March

and Morris Tugman Torah Center and Young Israel of

19. Joel Topf and David Hart will debate merits of

Southfield will present a drum circle, jungle animals, magic

Learn and laugh with Tikvah Hadassah
Group, presenting "Understanding
Jewish Culture through Humor," 1:30
p.m. Tuesday, March 22, at Davidson
Hadassah House, 5030 Orchard Lake
Road in West Bloomfield. Speaker
will be Partners in Torah's Rabbi Tzvi
Muller. $5 includes dessert. RSVP by
March 18 to Barbara: (248) 481-9580.

hamantashen vs. latke. PTO Purim Carnival opens 9 a.m.

show, African hair braiding and live music for dancing.

Sunday, March 20, for tots, 11 a.m. for religious school

African buffet dinner: $20 adult, $12 for ages 3-10. RSVP:

students. www.emanuel-mich.org or (248) 967-4020.

rabbishneur@baischabad.com or (248) 207-5513.

Drop by for weekly mah jong game
12:30-3:30 p.m. Tuesday, March
22, at Cong. Beth Ahm in West
Bloomfield. Bring own mahj card
and set if you have them. $1 admis-
sion. Questions to Gail: gellenbo@
yahoo.com or (248) 626-4123.

EVENT HOTLINE

Glennwood ORT hosts Mandy
Garver and Allen Wolf on "Living
Jewishly in Thailand" 6:45 p.m.
Wednesday, March 23, at Echo
Valley Clubhouse. RSVP by March
18: Etta Bernard (248) 553-3904.

Help celebrate a milestone for
Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue
at "Making Minyan: 90 Years in
Detroit" 1-3 p.m. Sunday, March
27, at Historic Gem Theatre, 333

• Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield: Following

• Temple Beth El in Bloomfield Township: Listen to

Megilla reading 8:30 p.m. Saturday, March 19, stand-up

Megilla reading and Purim Shpiel, featuring TBE Youth

comedian Joel Chasnoff, who wrote comic memoir about

Choir, 10:45 a.m. Sunday, March 20. Carnival follows,

his service in the Israeli Armored Corps. Come again 9:30

noon-2 p.m., with games, riding a bull, inflatables, dancing,

a.m. Sunday, March 20, for Megilla reading, Purim Shpiel

prizes, snacks. Purchase tickets for food and games.

at 11, costume party and "Great Grogger Grind," 11:30

Barbara Grant: (248) 851-1100, ext. 3149.

Madison in Detroit. Noah Ovshinsky
of WDET will host afternoon of
stories, noshing and dancing cel-
ebrating Jewish Detroit. RSVP by
March 24 to pay $10, otherwise,
$15. www.downtownsynagogue.org or
(313) 962-4047.

March 19, at Meadow Brook Theatre,
at Oakland U. in Rochester. Schedule:
pre-glow and theater tour, perfor-
mance of comic farce, Ding Dong, and
hors d'oeuvres with cast at afterglow.
Tickets from $50; (248) 649-4418,
ext.1., or supportshirtikvah.org .

Oh, the places you could go with
Center Travel, offering day trips and
overseas vacations. Request brochure;
mwolfe@jccdet.org or (248) 432-5471.

Pick up your bagel brunch order, items
provided by Detroit-based concerns,
10:30 a.m.-noon Sunday, March 20, at
Downtown Synagogue in Detroit. Part
of proceeds go to synagogue. Choices
include boiled or fried bagels, cream
cheese, juice, coffee. Order by Friday:
www.detroitinstituteofbagels.com .

EVENTS THAT HELP

Support Cong. Shir Tikvah's theater
party fundraiser 5:15 p.m. Saturday,

Attend the Kollel Institute of Greater
Detroit's 36th Anniversary Dinner
6 p.m. Wednesday, March 23, at
Farmington Hills Manor, 23666
Orchard Lake Road. Rabbi and Mrs.
Mordechai Wolmark will receive Kesser
Torah Award, and Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Jaffe will receive Eitz Chaim Award.
$100/person; $180/couple. (248) 968-
1891 or kolleldetroit@gmail.com .

Get lucky at Texas Hold 'Em poker
tournament 7:30 p.m. Thursday,
March 24, at Cong. Beth Ahm in West
Bloomfield. $50, all-inclusive. RSVP
to Jason: jgolnick@comcast.net or
(248) 960-9209.

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