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Beth Shalom Sets
Women's Seder
Congregation Beth Shalom in Oak Park
is hosting a Women's Seder and a catered,
kosher-for-Passover dinner at 6 p.m.
Thursday, March 28.
Marie Slotnick will lead the pro-
gram, and Tiffany Green, cantorial
soloist at Temple Kol Ami, will lead
the singing, accompanied by Nathalie
Conrad. Participants will sit on pillows
under a billowing tent for part of the
evening. The program will follow The
Journey Continues: The Ma'yan Passover
Haggadah, by Tamara R. Cohen, Deborah
L. Friedman and Suelevi Elwell.
The Women's Seder planning com-
mittee is chaired by Linda Bell, with
assistance from Conrad, Slotnick, Mandy
Garver, Fran Hildebrandt, Shelia Levine
and Gretchen Weiner.
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Reservations are $20 for adults and
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are welcome at $36. Vegetarian meals are
available upon request.
Paid reservations must be made by
March 20. To RSVP, call (248) 547-7970
or email cbs@congbethshalom.org .
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To Help Improve
Downtown Synagogue
The Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue
has truly become the hub of Jewish life
in Downtown Detroit. Over the past two
years, its membership has grown more
than 25 percent to more than 250 mem-
bers. Each Friday night, 40-50 people
come for services, kiddush and camara-
derie. Hundreds come through its doors
each week. To accommodate the growth,
improvements are needed to make the
building more inviting, accessible, func-
tional and safe.
Downtown Synagogue members are
working hard on a fundraising campaign
in which private donors have put up
$60,000 that must be matched online by
midnight April 11. Funds will be used for
improvements to the synagogue's kitchen,
bathroom and exterior, plus additions
like a bike rack and fire escape. And a
mural will be painted on the back of the
building.
To donate, go to www.indiegogo.com/
projects/make-it-history.
Nominate Teens
For New Honor:
Kindness Stars
The Kindness Project, a joint initia-
tive of the Jewish Community Center of
Metropolitan Detroit and the Southfield-
based Partners in Torah, is seeking to
honor exceptional teens in our commu-
nity as Kindness Stars.
The Kindness Stars are teens in grades
9-12 who do, or have done, an extraor-
dinary act of kindness, who have volun-
teered above and beyond any school or
religious program requirements and/or
who have created or participated in an
innovate kindness program.
These could include, for example, a
teen who, without being asked or paid,
regularly shovels snow in front of her
neighbors' homes, or who volunteers
to babysit for a family where money is
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extremely limited, or a group of students
who organized a toy drive to benefit
homeless children or who started a recy-
cling program.
A panel of judges from the community
will review the nominees and choose
those who best exemplify the criteria
for Kindness Stars. All nominees will be
recognized, and the Kindness Stars will
be honored at a ceremony this summer at
the JCC in West Bloomfield.
Nominations are required by 5 p.m.
April 19. To nominate a Kindness Star,
visit www.jccdet.org . For information,
call Ariella Monson at (248) 432-5530 or
email thekindnessproject@jccdet.org.
Saving Greek Jews
During The Holocaust
Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman
Family Campus (HMC) will host
University of Illinois at Chicago profes-
sor Dr. Mimis Cohen for a presentation
on "Heroism and Humanity: A Reminder
Once More about the Holocaust and the
Greek Jews" 3 p.m. Sunday, March 17.
The free event is co-sponsored by the
Greek fraternal organization Daughters of
Penelope, Dares Chapter #252 and is free
to the general public.
Cohen will speak on the
heroism of the clergy,
officials and lay people
who risked their lives to
save Greek Jews during
the German occupation,
which resulted in the
loss of 87 percent of the
ife
Jewish population of
Dr. Mimis
Greece and the destruc-
Cohen
tion of most historic
communities.
Born and raised in Athens after World
War II, Cohen is the child of parents
who survived the Holocaust by hiding in
Christian homes.
The HMC is at 28123 Orchard Lake
Road, Farmington Hills. For information,
call (248) 553-2400.
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