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Noah, 3, and Laya Holtzman, 4; Mirel Silberberg, 4; Meir Shomer, 5;, and Chumi Meshulovin, 10, all of West Bloomfield, enjoy hot Leena Haikin, 7, Farmington Hills and
chocolate while listening to the story.
Lauren Hayman, 8, West Bloomfield

Children combine a Talmudic story with painting at Bais Chabad.

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ara & Morris Bais Chabad Torah
Center's Youth Zone programs
provide enrichment for children
of all ages and from any background by
educating children about their Jewish heri-
tage and the Torah.

One such program is the Jewish Book
'n Art Club, which is free and enables
Jewish children to enrich and develop
their social skills, comprehension and
artistic talents during a six-week course
at the West Bloomfield synagogue. The

Benjamin Back, 4, of West Bloomfield

Raise The Roof!

hen the internationally
renowned Muscovite Yiddish
musician Pasha Lion (aka
Psoy Korolenko) called Post-Soviet
Graffiti director Alexis Zimberg about an
upcoming visit to Michigan, she knew just
where to turn for a Detroit concert venue
— Motor City Moishe House.
Residents Erik Wodowski, Meredith
Cohen, Lea Salitsky, Jared Goldberg,
Michael Baum and Ariella Morrison
agreed to host the show and, on Tuesday,
Jan. 15, the Soviet Jewish songwriter and
poet serenaded his audience in Yiddish,
Russian, English and French. The crowd
of Klezmer-lovers, Downtown Synagogue
regulars and Yiddish students spent the
entire night singing, stomping and vigor-
ously clapping along.
Through cultural hub Post-Soviet
Graffiti, Michigan-replant Zimberg orga-

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program is co-sponsored by Bais Chabad
Torah Center and Barnes & Noble.
Recently, teacher Zeesy Silberberg
read the children a Talmudic story
and discussed its Jewish values. At
the painting tables, Gabi Drissman

directed the children in a creative canvas
painting, featuring the Hebrew letter
corresponding to the mitzvah they
learned from the story.
For more information, go to www.
baischabad.com .

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Gabi Drissman of West Bloomfield directs the canvas painting.

Russian Yiddish musician gets his audience moving at Moishe House.

nizes arts programming for the Detroit-
area Russian, Eurasian and East European
community, including film screenings,
photography exhibits, regional concerts
and public lectures. In Downtown Detroit,

Zimberg is a part of a community of pas-
sionate, educated, ambitious and Jewish
young adults who find their creative outlet
on the other side of Eight Mile Road.
Organizations like Moishe House and

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Pasha Lion at Moishe House

the LiveDetroit Fund provide to this
demographic of young adults the critical
resources necessary to build the sustainable
community that they envision for them-
selves and future Jewish Detroiters.

An appreciative
appreciative audience gets into the music at Moishe House.

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