metro >> calendar HOW TO SEND IN LISTINGS: Send listings by noon Tuesday, nine days prior to publication. Email listings and questions to calendar®thejewishnews.com . For telephone inquiries, call David Sachs at (248) 351-5140. Much To Do! 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. - 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 . - 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. - 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 . - 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 . - 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, Gail Katz 34 July 24 • 2014 iN 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. - 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 - mother and asked for a baking class in return. They plan to take a cupcake class at Zingerman's baking school later this summer. ❑ Yiddish Limerick Dav id Bu imov Itc h/JTA/Flas h 90 ONGOING Iron Dome missile The Iron Dome Oh, Izene* Dome, you saved the day A tayere matone, ** I have to say. 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