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Teens involved in theater create
a weeklong camp for younger kids.

Each day, campers will learn a differ-
ent aspect of theater. The camp is aimed
at children in grades 3-6, and the teens
heater has the ability to boost
promise a fun-filled week with acting,
self-confidence, as it has done
singing and dancing. On the last day,
Friday, the campers will perform their
for Gabrielle Feber, 14, of
Huntington Woods. She started at age
acts at Jewish Senior Life apartments
6, when her mom, Lisa
in Oak Park. Family
Feber, got her involved
members and friends are
with the Ridgedale
encouraged to attend.
Players in Troy, which
"I have loved theater
allows young children to
ever since my first play,
audition for plays.
Aladdin, at Ridgedale
Through Gabrielle's
Players:' Gabrielle says.
theater involvement
Anna says, "I want the
and participation in
campers to learn about
the Michigan Opera
the different aspects of
Theater Children's Chorus
theater and gain speech
(MOTCC) at the Detroit
skills that could help
Opera House, she met
Onethe rest of their
Gabrielle Febe r and Anna
Anna Chisholm, 13, of
lives:'
Chisholm cre ated a theater
Birmingham.
One of the biggest
camp for you nger kids.
Gabrielle really wanted
goals the two girls have
to help out as a counselor
for the week of camp is
at a camp this summer, but she also
to gain the experience of teaching chil-
thought it would be cool to do her own
dren something they both love. They
camp. She told Anna her idea and gained want to learn from the kids, too.
a partner. The teens knew they wanted
The weeklong camp welcomes stu-
to teach theater to kids ages 7-11, to help
dents with all levels of theater experi-
them gain self-confidence, learn about
ence.
teamwork, acting, singing and dancing as
The camp is not only about having
well as sharing their hobby with others in fun and learning about theater, but also
hopes it becomes their hobby, too.
the campers will do a mitzvah by per-
forming for local senior citizens.
Their idea, Theater Camp, Caring
and Sharing, will take place June 23-27
from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. (including lunch and
To sign up for camp, call Lisa Feber at (248)
514-1462 or email aishtheatercamp@gmaiL
snacks) at Aish in the Woods, Jewish
com.
Outreach Center, in Oak Park.

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14 June 19 • 2014

Adam Finkel, 27, of Bloomfield Hills, a
Jewish young professional, was named
one of the Crains' Detroit Business
Twenty in their 20s for 2014 (Craths,
May 5). Finkel is a partner at Orfin
Ventures in Bloomfield Hills.
Orfin Ventures
has funded 10
investment rounds
over the past two
years, including a
next-generation
memory storage
technology devel-
oped by an electrical
Adam Finkel
engineering profes-
sor at the University
of Michigan; a cybersecurity technol-
ogy developed by a former electrical
engineering dean at the Technion-
Israel Institute of Technology in
Haifa; an advanced data platform for

manufacturing founded in Ann Arbor;
and an artificial intelligence company,
located in San Francisco, that included
investment from the founders of
Facebook and Amazon.com .
Finkel, a member of the ROI net-
work for global Jewish innovation,
raised funding to bring the Moishe
House concept for Jewish young adult
living to Detroit. He also is a freelance
writer for the JN.
He is on the boards of Congregation
Shaarey Zedek in Southfield, the
Michigan-Israel Business Bridge and
the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit's NEXTGen and NEXTGen
Connect.
Finkel serves on the Crains' Detroit
Business Homecoming Outreach
Committee, recruiting the 150 most suc-
cessful Detroit expats back to the Motor
City for a 2014 fall conference.

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