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February 26 • 2015

Beth Ahm Offers
Celebrate Purim
Bet Midrash Shabbat
With Bais Chabad
Rabbi Steven Rubenstein will facilitate
At The JCC
Congregation Beth Ahm's Shabbat Bet
Bais Chabad will have its annual Purim
Midrash (traditional
bash starting with a megillah reading at
"study-hall" learning)
5 p.m. followed by a 5:30 "royal feast"
immediately follow-
on Thursday, March 5, at the Jewish
ing 9 a.m. Shabbat
Community Center in West Bloomfield.
services on Saturday,
The theme is Purim in the Palace.
Feb. 28, at the West
The event includes the purim feast
Bloomfield syna-
(meat and pareve options), live music,
11.
gogue.
comedian Brett Walkow and a children's
Rabbi Steven
The Bet Midrash
program in Shalom Street Museum that
Rubenstein
will use materi-
includes Purim crafts as well as a Purim-
als from Ask Big
themed game show of JEWpardy.
Questions, a project of the Hillel
Adults are $23; children, $12; under
International Foundation for Jewish Life
age 3, free.
on Campus. The theme will be "What
Contact RabbiShneur@baischabad.
Have You Learned So Far?" Participants
com to reserve seats or visit baischabad.
will share their experiences with Jewish
com
learning and think ahead to what they
would still like to learn.
Newborns Wear Red
The Bet Midrash will begin at about
For Heart Awareness
11 a.m. and will be followed by a
Babies born at Henry Ford West
Kiddush lunch. No reservations are nec-
Bloomfield Hospital in February are
essary.
wearing red hand-knit caps to bring
Other ongoing life-
awareness to congenital
long Jewish learning
heart defects (CHD)
opportunities at Beth
during American Heart
Ahm include a Shabbat
Month.
morning Torah class
According to the
with the rabbi, which
American Heart
meets from 9-9:30
Association, one in 100
a.m. most Saturdays.
babies is born with a
Rubenstein's weekly
heart defect, making it
drop-in conversa-
the most common birth
tion group meets on
defect.
Thursday afternoons,
This means an esti-
and "Drop In &
mated 40,000 newborns
Learn on DVD" with
with CHDs are born
Dr. David Else nstein and
Nancy Kaplan meets
per year in the U.S.,
newborn Sava nnah
on Wednesday after-
and more than 1,700 in
noons. The Thumin
Michigan.
Bet Midrash (new
"Most heart defects
this year), which offers adult classes on
that are present at birth can be corrected
Talmud, Midrash and other topics, meets surgically or improved with medication:'
Monday evenings, featuring engaging
says Brent Davidson, M.D., service chief
community educators.
of Women's Health Services at Henry
Ford West Bloomfield Hospital. "Medical
For information about lifelong Jewish
advances have allowed half a million
learning opportunities at Beth Ahm,
American children with heart defects to
contact Rubenstein at (248) 851-6880
grow into adulthood:'
ext. 17 or email raysteven@cbahm.org.
All Henry Ford hospitals screen every
Hillel Day School Students
newborn for CHDs.
Get Grant For Greenhouse
Although the cause of many heart
Hillel Day School has been awarded
defects is unknown, the mother's health
a $2,000 grant from the Whole Kids
or infection, exposure to tobacco, alcohol
Foundation to support its greenhouse.
or other toxins, some medications and
The foundation, established by Whole
some genetic conditions can also con-
Foods Markets, supports children's nutri- tribute to CHD.
tion and provides grants to school green-
The Michigan Department of
houses and garden projects.
Community Health is partnering with
The grant for Hillel will assist in teach- several organizations to promote CHD
ing students Jewish agricultural laws,
awareness. Approximately 2-3 million
learning about food insecurity and com-
U.S. adults and children are living with
munity gardening, hydroponics, and also CHDs.
integrating skills in science and math-
The caps were made by American
ematics as students monitor the growth
Heart Association volunteers.
and effect of conditions on various spe-
cies of fruits and vegetables.

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