Caring. Helping. Mental Illness. Kadima... caring, helping adults and children with mental illness to move forward July is National Make a Difference to Children Month, a time to consider ways to make a difference in the lives of children in our community. • Commit to do one special thing with a child in July that will make a positive difference for that child. • Communicate with your elected leaders to make children a priority in policy and budget issues. • Reduce the stigma often associated with children who are different; help children see themselves and their peers as special beings who are full of imagination and spark. • Know that children absorb messages and notions from the immediate world around them. Kadima's Child and Adolescent Program is available to work with children, and their family members, who present with emotional and behavioral disorders. Kadima extends a warm thank you to the community for attending our 11th Annual Golf Classic that supports daily activities and programming at the Lois and Milton Y. Zussman Activity Center for adults with chronic mental illness. Afterlife from page 9 task is to articulate our spark," he said. "What reincarnates? Sparks that were never articulateE Like Rosen, Pinson believes souls that have reached higher levels visit those on Earth to help them through chal- lenging times. He also emphasized that what people do on Earth is more impor- tant than focusing on the afterlife. "If we want to experience eternity in the future, we have to experience it in the present. We exist to fulfill our tik- kun (to fix or repair, usually referring to deeds that bring a person closer to the Divine spirit);' he said. "Some near- death experiences are because that person is given another tikkun at the last minute." Rabbi Aaron Bergman of Adat Shalom Synagogue in Ali Farmington Hills, a Rabbi Aaron Conservative congre- Bergman gation, shared some of his thoughts on the afterlife, stating there is no official Conservative position on the topic. "I believe our souls are imperishable and that death is a return, not an end. However, just as we change and grow in this world, I do not believe that in the next world we remain unchang- •■■ HONORIN G et NOM PI" Thu Max M. Fisher Music Center PO TS @ 7:30pm rsday, Sept 13, 2012 HASIIIC IIIS POSC CALL 248.559.8235 x118 na Ul AMR if you, or someone you know, need Kadima's services, please contact 248.559.8235. Kadima . 15999 W. Twelve Mile Road . Southfield, Ml 48076. www.kadimacenter.org 10 July 19 . 2012 iN ❑ An Evening with Rebecca Rosen will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 24, at the Berman Center for the Performing Arts, 6600 W. Maple Road, in West Bloomfield. (A few tickets remain for her Oct. 25 appearance.) Reserved seating: $30-$60 in advance; $90 at the door based on availability. All proceeds will be donated to purchase video equipment for the theater. Tickets: (248) 661-1900; http:// bermancenter//jccdet.org/ticketing/. Petoskey Temple Honors 5 Women PLEASE 10111 ing for all eternity, but that we have opportunities for spiritual growth',' he said. "I prefer to think that, ultimately, God and the universe are kind and com- passionate and that the details will take care of themselves." Scientist and author Dr. Jerry Pollack, who earned his doctorate at the Weizmann Institute in Israel and is a professor emeritus at Stony Brook University in New York, offers a scientific explanation for the existence of God, and the energy that makes it possible for souls to com- municate with the living after physical death has occurred, in his latest book, Putting God into Einstein's Equations: Energy of the Soul (Shechinah Third Temple Inc.; 2012). Pollack said he wrote the book in collaboration with his late wife, Marcia, after she died from cancer in 2011, using a form of thought-energy telepa- thy to communicate with her soul. Pollack weaves his personal story with scientific research to explore issues such as the eternal energy of the soul and how spirits interact with those on Earth. He documents what he learned about his own previous lives through hypnotic past-life regression therapy sessions. "Soul mates are just that',' Pollack said. "Once united, they can never be put asunder. Not even after death. God and years of scientific research have proven it." Temple B'nai Israel of Petoskey will honor five "Marvelous Mavens" during the weekend of July 27-29. Beverly Holden, Rosalyn Goldstick, Gloria Levine, Henriette Kaplan and Berta Meyerson Molasky will be recog- nized for their collective two centuries of service to the congregation. Festivities will begin on 7:30 p.m. Friday with a Shabbat service officiated by student rabbi Nathan Farb. An Oneg sponsored by Gloria Levine and her family in memory of her mother Irene Gordon's birthday will follow. Irene was a Petoskey native with special ties to Ernest Hemingway. Two of Gloria's three daughters are local resi- dents, Carol Hurand of Grand Blanc and Trudy Weiss of Farmington Hills. On Saturday at 2 p.m., Detroit philan- thropist and businessman Joel Tauber, brother of Berta Meyerson Molasky, will headline a free community-wide pre- sentation titled "Israel Today." Sunday's offering will include a cham- pagne brunch honoring the temple's five matriarchs. Betsy Kellman, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, will be keynote speaker. Musical selections will be provided by TBI's local musical group, the Wailing Shpilkes. The brunch will begin at 11 a.m. Admission is $18. Brunch reservations and donations may be sent to Temple B'nai Israel, P.O. Box 2416, Petoskey, MI 49770. Information: Carol Ellstein at cgell- stein@gmail.com, (231) 525-9250, or Pam Ovshinsky at povsh@yahoo.com, (231) 622-8611.