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FUTURE EVENTS
FRIDAY, AUG. 1
RUMMAGE SALE
MOTOWN THE MUSICAL
FUN FOR TODDLERS
Cong. Beth Ahm Sisterhood's rummage sale
features gently used clothing, housewares,
purses, books, artworks, jewelry and more.
The sale at the West Bloomfield synagogue
is Sunday, July 27,10 a.m.-4 p.m.; and
Monday-Tuesday, July 28 29,10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Information: 248-851-6880.
JCC's Center Travel trip to the 8 p.m. Tuesday,
Oct. 21, performance of Motown the Musical at
the Fisher Theatre in Detroit. Tickets must be
purchased by Aug.15 and cost $120 for JCC
members and $130 for others. Bus leaves West
Bloomfield JCC at 6:15 pm and the Oak Park JCC
at 6:45 pm. Information: Marilyn Wolfe, 248-432-
5471.
11:15 am. Shake, Rattle & Twist at Adat Shalom
Synagogue in Farmington Hills. For parents,
grandparents and babies/toddlers age 3 and
younger. Older siblings welcome. Sing songs and
braid challah with Rabbis Bergman and Shere and
Hazzan Gross. Free. Also held on Wednesday, Aug.
20, at 5:30 p.m. (followed by an optional light
dinner at $3/person). Information: Debi Banooni,
dbanooni@adatshalom.org or 248-626-2153.
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JCC BOOK SALE
The JCC's Henry & Delia Meyers Library and
Media Center in West Bloomfield holds a used
book sale Monday-Thursday, July 28 Aug. 7.
Fiction, best-sellers, children's books, cook-
books, Judaica and more.10 am-5 pm Monday-
Thursday, and 10 am-noon Friday. Information:
Fran Menken, 248-432-5546 or fmenken®
jccdet.org .
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STRATFORD FESTIVAL
JCC's Center Travel is sponsoring theater trips
to the Stratford Festival in Canada. There is a
one-day trip on Aug. 28, and a two-day trip
Sept. 16 17. Information: Marilyn Wolfe, 248-
432-5471.
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SUNDAY, JULY 27
ART SHOW
The Orchard Lake Fine Art & Craft Show
runs 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-5
p.m. Sunday, July 26 27, along Powers and
Daly roads, south of Maple Road and west of
Orchard Lake Road in West Bloomfield. $5.
Kids 12 and younger, free. Information:
hotworks.org .
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CHILDHOOD CENTER
3 5 pm. The Can Early Childhood Center at
Cong. Beth Shalom in Oak Park holds an open
house. For kids 18 months-5 years, at all levels
of Jewish practice. RSVP by July 25:
Rena Meyers, 248-547-7970 or
gan_director®congbethshalom.org .
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SUNDAY, AUG. 3
Interfaith Conference
Coming To Detroit
Several local Jews are helping bring about
the annual North American Interfaith
Network (NAIN) conference, Aug. 10-14 at
Wayne State University in Detroit.
Gail Katz of West
Bloomfield co-chairs the
conference with Paula
Drewek of Warren. Katz,
a retired teacher, is
active in local interfaith
efforts. Rabbi Dorit Edut
of Huntington Woods,
Bobbie Lewis of Oak Park,
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Sheri Schiff of Birmingham and Brenda
Rosenberg of Bloomfield Hills served on the
NAIN planning committee.
Workshop presenters include Lynne
Meredith Golodner of Huntington Woods,
Rosenberg, Schiff, Sheyna Wexelberg-Clouser
of Oak Park and Lauren Zinn of Ann Arbor.
Golodner, a publicist, will talk about how
to share individual and organizational inter-
faith stories. Rosenberg and Schiff will be
part of a panel on sharing Metro Detroit's
interfaith best practices. Wexelberg-Clouser,
a social worker, will participate in a panel
on interfaith challenges in health care. Zinn,
who works with interfaith families, will be
on a panel about passing the torch to the
next generation.
Maggid Steve Klaper of Oak Park, a Jewish
troubadour and one of the founders of Song
and Spirit Institute for Peace in Berkley, will
provide entertainment at the opening ban-
quet on Sunday, Aug. 10, at WSU's McGregor
Conference Center. He will be joined by
Brother Al Mascia, co-founder of Song and
Spirit.
Rabbi Michael Moskowitz of Temple
Shir Shalom in West Bloomfield will join
other members of the Interfaith Leadership
Council of Metropolitan Detroit's Religious
Leaders Forum at a plenary session on the
fight against enmity. The program takes place
after dinner on Tuesday, Aug. 12, at St. Mary's
Antiochian Orthodox Church in Livonia.
Linda Yellin of Farmington Hills, founder
of Feet on the Street Tours, will lead one
of several bus tours for conference partici-
pants on the afternoon of Tuesday, Aug.12.
MONDAY, AUG. 4
TISHA B'AV SERVICE
8:45 pm. Conservative movement's community
Tisha b'Av service will be at Cong. B'nai Moshe in
West Bloomfield. Information: 248-788-0600.
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 6
RECYCLING HELPS KIDS
LUNCH & LEARN
8 am 6 pm. "E-Clutter for Kids" is a recycle-
athon to benefit pediatric speech and language
treatment scholarships at Beaumont Children's
Hospital. Drop off metal, computer components,
electronics, refrigerators, washers and dry-
ers, household items, clothes, shoes and toys
at Northwood Shopping Center,13 Mile and
Woodward, Royal Oak. Televisions not accepted.
Information: foundation.beaumont.edu/
eclutter or Matt Romkey, 248-551-5396.
Noon. Rabbi Aaron Leib of Akiva Hebrew Day
School in Southfield will speak at Yad Ezra kosher
food pantry, 285011 Mile, Berkley. Kosher dairy
lunch provided. $7. RSVP by Aug. 4: 248-548-
3663 or Katie®yadezra.org .
SURVIVORS' STORIES
Noon 1 pm. Wendy Evans discusses "L'Chaim:
Jewish Artists." At Oak Park JCC. Lunch: $3.50;
and lecture $3. RSVP for lunch by Aug. 5: 248-
967-4030.
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11 a.m. Detroit native Joanne Ron Gilbert, author,
educator and personal historian, speaks on her
book Women of Valor — Resisters to the Third
ORT's Rub-A-Dub
At Franklin Hills
"Club 1880 at ORT Rub-A-Dub 2014" will
benefit ORT's local and international pro-
gramming. ORT was organized in 1880 in
St. Petersburg, Russia, and provides train-
ing and education to school-age children,
college students and those at vocational
schools as well as the unemployed and
underemployed.
The event will take place on Wednesday
evening, Aug. 13, at Franklin Hills Country
Club. It will include a silent auction and cock-
tail reception followed by a Mexican-themed
dinner, live auction and dancing to the Foster
Brooks Band. Attire is "dressy casual."
Tickets are $150. Those under 30 can
purchase two tickets to attend at this price
until Aug. 1. For information, visit www.
ORTmichigan.org or call Nicole Miller, region-
al director, ORT America (248) 723-8860.
Reich, based on interviews with extraordinary
women, now in their 80s and 90s, including
Fleischman resident Manya Feldman. At West
Bloomfield JCC. $3. Information: 248-967-4030.
Another bus tour will visit the Holocaust
Memorial Center in Farmington Hills and
the Arab American National Museum
in Dearborn. Sheri Schiff and Brenda
Rosenberg will host that tour.
The full conference cost is $350; students
can attend for $135. Full-day and half-day
rates are available.
Visit www.detroitinterfaithcouncil.com/
nainconnect-detroit to register or call (313)
338-9777.
Young Chef Wins
With Patriotic Pops
Eliana Schreiber, 10, an incoming sixth-
grader at Norup International School, was
the overall winner of the
Huntington Woods July
4th Bake-Off.
Her Patriotic Pops
— chocolate cake pops
coated in white choco-
late and decorated with
blue and red sprinkles
Eliana
— took the grand prize
Schreiber
in the annual contest,
which confers awards
on three kids, three juniors (ages 13-20)
and three adults, plus one overall winner.
Schreiber, daughter of Lynne Golodner
of Huntington Woods and Avy Schreiber of
Oak Park, has aspired to a culinary career for
several years already, taking baking classes
and experimenting with recipes at home.
This was the first contest she entered.
The winning prize was a gift certificate
for a massage, which Eliana gave to her
THURSDAY, AUG. 7
ART TALK
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mother and asked for a baking class in
return. They plan to take a cupcake class
at Zingerman's baking school later this
summer.
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Oh, Izene* Dome, you saved the day
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in the air.
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* Izene — iron
** tayere matone — precious gift
*** Ven — when
**** hot geshikt — sent
***** Do host gekhapt — You caught
****** Eib nisht far dir — If not for you
— Rachel Kapen