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COMEDY NIGHT
8:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16 (WB)
Fred Stoller: Maybe We'll Have You
Back
Marion Grodin: Standing Up
Mindy Raf: The Symptoms of My
Insanity
Emcee Alan "Big Al" Muskovitz
serves as host for the JCC's Comedy
Night, featuring three author-come-
dians.
Fred Stoller has appeared in
Friends, Scrubs and My Name Is
Earl, among others, and was a writer
for Seinfeld. But he always hears:
"Maybe we'll have you back" and not
"We'd like to offer you a permanent
job" at the end of a gig. Somehow,
he has managed to keep a sense of
humor not just about his work but
about everything entertainment
(like his memorable encounters with
Kathy Griffin and Billy Crystal).
Marion Grodin is the daugh-
ter of actor Charles Grodin and a
comedian in her own right. She has
shared the stage with everyone from
Jerry Seinfeld to Robin Williams and
used humor (along with her sup-
port group: her cats) to get through
breast cancer, weight gain and
divorce.
Mindy Raf is a University of
Michigan grad who has written
for VH1, TNT, the Daily Comedy
Network and more. Her book, for
ages 12 and up, is filled with delight-
ful and not-so-delightful characters
(much like any family), including
a teen girl (that pretty much sums
it up) and her illness-challenged
mother.
Tickets are $20, which includes
the show and snacks. Cash bar avail-
able. Reservations required by Nov.
8 (reserved seating available): (248)
432-5462.
HEALTH AWARENESS
DAY
Americans use alternative medicine.
In Do You Believe in Magic? Dr. Offit,
chief of pediatric infectious diseases
at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
and professor of vaccinology and
pediatrics at the University of
Pennsylvania, considers whether any
of these really work.
11:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 15 (WB)
Lloyd Sederer, M.D.: Family Guide
to Mental Health
Dealing with a child, a sibling, a
spouse or a parent diagnosed with
a mental illness is one of the most
stressful situations a family will
face. And more than 50 million
Americans experience some kind of
mental illness every year.
Dr. Lloyd Sederer, a psychiatrist
and mental-health administrator,
offers help for anyone trying to help
a loved one with mental problems,
from schizophrenia to depression.
He also offers practical advice and
provides families with the tools nec-
essary to find the help they need.
12:30 1 p.m.
Enjoy a light snack as resource
specialists affiliated with DMC
Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital will be
available to answer questions.
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1 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15 (WB)
Julie Feldman: Grocery Makeover
There was a time when you could
ride your bike to the corner store
and get just about everything you
needed. Today, a typical grocery
store sells more than 60,000 items.
What is all that stuff, and are 400
different kinds of yogurt really
that different? U-M graduate Julie
Feldman takes on the complex world
of today's grocery stores, finally
making sense of all the labels and
offering straight talk about what to
eat and what to avoid.
day schools, no Jewish federations.
Rabbi Sid Schwarz believes that
the American Jewish community
is looking at that very future if it
does not find a new way to speak
to Gen Xers and Millennials. Ideas
that once shaped the Jewish com-
munity (like fighting anti-Semitism,
going to synagogue and supporting
a federation campaign) are not rel-
evant to younger Jews, who want to
talk about Jewish ethics and human
rights. In Mega trends, Schwarz, a
Reconstructionist rabbi, presents
what he calls "my prescription for a
Jewish renaissance in America?'
$18 for brunch and author pro-
gram. Reservations required by Nov.
8: (248) 432-5492.
1 p.m.
Frankel Scholars Forum
Featuring moderator Deborah
Dash Moore, along with authors
from U-M's Frankel Center for
Judaic Studies
Deborah Dash Moore: City of
Promises
Zvi Gitelman: Jewish Identities in
Post-Communist Russia and Ukraine
Eileen Pollack: Breaking and
Entering
Ryan Szpiech: Conversion and
Narrative: Reading and Religious
Authority in Medieval Polemic
Jeffrey Veidlinger: In the Shadow
of the Shtetl: Small Town Jewish Life
in Soviet Ukraine, 1919-1953
3 p.m.
Rabbi Evan Moffic: Wisdom for
People of All Faiths: Ten Ways to
Connect with God
Rabbi Eric Moffic, who teaches at
churches and interfaith institutions
around the world and writes for
Beliefnet.com , considers the ques-
tions with which everyone struggles,
from living with fewer regrets to
building a relationship with God and
getting along with family.
OAK PARK REUNION DAY
Sunday, Nov. 17
Come celebrate "the Family City"
with an afternoon of coneys, popcorn,
friends and neighbors, and two local
authors.
Noon (OP)
Irwin Cohen: Jewish History in the
Time of Baseball's Jews: Life on Both
Sides of the Ocean
Hear the stories of some of baseball's
greats, including the player who went
home to sit shivah instead of starting
with the Major Leagues and another
who spied for America.
2 p.m. (OP)
Gerald Naftaly: Oak Park (Images of
America)
By 1956, Oak Park, established
only 11 years earlier, was America's
fastest-growing city. It would soon
become home to some of the leading
entertainment figures of today, as well
as baseball legends, a famed economist
and the founder of cryonics. Longtime
Oak Park Mayor Jerry Naftaly tells the
story of this diverse, thriving city.
Free and open to the public.
CLOSING NIGHT
7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 17 (WB)
Michael Feinstein: The Gershwins
and Me: A Personal History in
Twelve Songs
Michael Feinstein was only 20 when
he got the chance of a lifetime: a job
with his hero, Ira Gershwin. During
their six-year partnership, the two
became close friends, and Feinstein
blossomed under Gershwin's men-
torship. In his new book, Feinstein
discusses the music that defined
American popular song and shares
the rare Gershwin memorabilia he has
collected over the years. An evening of
conversation, with a few songs sprin-
kled into the program.
Tickets are required: $52 JCC mem-
bers/$57 nonmembers. ❑
10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 15 (WB)
Paul Offit, M.D.: Do You Believe in
JEWISH DAY OF
LEARNING
Magic?
Whether it's an actress who claims
to have a cure for autism or a TV
personality who insists that any ail-
ment can be cured with herbs, seem-
ingly everyone is a medical expert,
offering a simple, natural solution to
your problem. About 50 percent of
Sunday, November 17 (WB)
11 a.m.
Brunch and Learn
Rabbi Sidney Schwarz: Jewish
Editor's Note: In most cases, authors who appear in "Special Events"
are not included in the article that follows, which features authors
according to genre.
Mega trends: Charting the Course of
the American Jewish Future
Imagine a United States with no
synagogues or temples, no Jewish
Elizabeth Applebaum is marketing director at the Jewish Community
Center of Metropolitan Detroit. Unless otherwise noted, she is the writer
of all Book Fair stories in this section.
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