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Ruth Bergman Honored By
Adat Shalom Sisterhood
The Sisterhood of Adat Shalom will
honor Ruth Bergman with its "Woman
of Achievement" Award at a Torah Fund
Brunch at 10 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 23,
at the Michigan Design Center in Troy
for an entertaining and informative
morning in the "Baker Showroom:' The
program will feature designer Susan
Winton-Feinberg, ASID, owner of Walter
Herz Interiors Inc.
The annual Torah Fund event helps
provide rabbis, cantors, educators and
administrators for day schools and
synagogue schools as well as social work
scholars and professional and lay leader
researchers.
Ruth Bergman has been teaching
Judaica since coming to Detroit 22 years
ago. She has been an instructor for the
Florence Melton School of Adult Jewish
Learning and Federation's Fed Ed pro-
grams for many years, teaching courses
in ethics, history, bible, Talmud, theol-
ogy and Holocaust studies. She has also
taught for the International Jewish Day
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Ruth Bergman (center) with Shelly
Perlman (left) and Harriet Dunsky,
co-chairs
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of Learning, Midrasha, Adat Shalom's
Shabbat morning Torah study and Hillel
Day School. She is married to Rabbi
Aaron Bergman. They have four daugh-
ters, Rina, Shira, Ariel and Rikki.
Adat Shalom Torah Fund chairpersons
are Shelly Perlman of Farmington Hills,
Sharyn Gallatin of West Bloomfield,
Harriet Dunsky of Bloomfield Hills
and Jennifer Weinstein of Bloomfield
Township.
For further information, call the Adat
Shalom office at (248) 851-5100.
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September 12 • 2013
Friends Of IDF Gala
Hosts Israeli Envoy
Daniel Ayalon, former Israeli ambassador
to the United States, will be the keynote
speaker at the Friends of the Israel Defense
Forces (FIDF) Michigan Chapter 2013
Gala Dinner at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, at
Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield.
More than 700 promi-
nent lay leaders and
FIDF supporters from
across Michigan are
expected to attend the
annual gala that will
honor the soldiers of
Israel.
A
Most recently, Ayalon
Daniel Ayalon
served as the deputy
minister of foreign
affairs of the State of Israel while serving
as a Member of Knesset (Israeli parlia-
ment). Prior to this, Ayalon served as
Israel's ambassador to the U.S. from 2002-
2006. He is currently president of Hod
Ayalon Ltd., a private consulting firm for
governments and international corpora-
tions.
Ayalon will be speaking on the current
situation in the Middle East, including
Syria and Iran.
This year's gala dinner co-chairs are
Shari and Alon Kaufman, and Lisa and
Gary Shiffman.
"We look forward to honoring the sol-
diers of Israel for their dedication and
commitment to the State of Israel and
the entire Jewish community:' said Tamir
Oppenheim, FIDF Midwest Region execu-
tive director.
For information, call (248) 926-4110 or
email michigan@fidf.org.
Ann G. Abrams
Melissa Litvin
Ilene Lubin
Heidi Martin
Rick Nessel
Event On Preventing
Financial Abuse Of Seniors
"Safeguarding The Golden Generation:' a
national tour to end the financial exploita-
tion of senior citizens, is coming to the
Berman Center for the Performing Arts at
the West Bloomfield JCC on Monday, Sept.
30, from 6:30-9:30 p.m.
The evening will start with light refresh-
ments and the showing of the film Last
Will and Embezzlement, which will be
followed by comments from the film's
producer, Pamela S. K. Glasner. At 8 p.m.,
West Bloomfield Township Supervisor
Michele Economou Ureste and Township
Trustee Steve Kaplan will make comments,
and then a panel discussion and audience
Q & A will take place with experts on
aging and elder care.
Tickets cost $18-$29; senior specials are
available. Buy tickets online at theberman.
org/box-office, or call (248) 661-1900.
No College Football Chatter
During Yom Kippur Services
(JTA) Saturday is Yom Kippur. It also
includes a rematch between the University
of Alabama and Texas A&M, the only
team to beat Coach Nick Saban's national
champion Crimson Tide last year.
But Bama fans at Reform Temple
Emanu-El in Birmingham, Ala., are under
strict orders — no football talk during
Yom Kippur services, or even during the
break-fast event.
According to AL.com , a message was
handed out at Rosh Hashanah services
banning scores and high fives at Yom Kippur.
"If even a peep gets out, our pages in the
Book of Life will be compromised and all
of us will suffer; it chided in part.
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