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Shabbat Chicken Dinner
At Cong. B'nai Moshe
Congregation B'nai Moshe in West
Bloomfield hosts a kosher chicken Shabbat
dinner, catered by Chef Cari, the first
Friday of every month, with the next event
a chicken marsala dinner on Oct. 2.
Dinners begin at 7 p.m., following 6
p.m. services. The cost is $20 per person,
$10 per child 5 and under. Email
cbminfo@bnaimoshe.org or call (248) 788-
0600 to RSVP and pay by Sept. 28.
Local Writers To Read
New One-Act Plays
Playwrights@Work, a local playwrit-
ing group affiliated with the Village
Players of Birmingham, will present one
of their semi-annual short play festivals,
Shorts and Sweets, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday,
Oct. 3.
The festival will be at the Village Players
playhouse, Woodward and Chestnut in
Birmingham.
Seven original short plays, each 10-15
minutes long, will be presented in a staged
reading format. Three Jewish playwrights,
Myron Stein, 74, of Southfield, Steve
Sussman, 66, of Bloomfield Hills and Joe
Feinstein, 82, of Farmington Hills are
among the authors.
There will be audience feedback after
each play, designed to help the playwright.
A dessert buffet will follow.
The festival is free. For information,
contact Myron Stein at myronstein@
hotmail.com.
Older Job Seekers Find
New Careers Via JVS
Job seekers over age 50 struggling with
long-term unemployment and the inability
to find rewarding encore careers can dis-
cover new directions in Recharge!, a five-
week JVS group counseling program.
Meeting twice a week, the group cov-
ers topics to help members refresh their
professional image, examine the local job
market and re-enter the workforce with
renewed confidence.
"Working gives people a sense of iden-
tity, and without it, they feel lost:' says
Sherrie James, JVS career counselor. "We
help people enter the workforce in a career
that will value their level of experience and
ability"
The Recharge! fall group will meet
on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10
a.m.-noon beginning Oct. 13 at the JVS
Diem Building, 29699 Southfield Road,
Southfield. There is a $35 materials fee.
For information, contact Sherrie James
at (248) 233-4472 or sjames@jvs.org or
view the flyer at www.jvsdet.org/recharge.
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Quick Click ... From the William Davidson
Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History
Mike Smith
Detroit Jewish News
Foundation Archivist
H
ow did you celebrate Rosh
Hashanah? At home? With
family and friends? Lauren
Ann Davies, the editor for the Jewish
News Foundation's Facebook page,
discovered an interesting story in the
William Davidson Digital Archives
about Rosh Hashanah celebrations
from 70 years ago.
On Sept. 14, 1945, the Jewish News
published a full page of stories under
the headline "How World's Jews
Celebrated Rosh Hashanah" The page
included short bits on the activities
of Jews in Moscow, London, Sofia,
Bucharest, Rome, Warsaw and else-
where in Europe.
The featured item that caught our
eyes was the story of 1,500 Jews in the
American military holding services
in a B-29 Bomber hangar on the little
island of Guam, in the middle of the
Pacific Ocean. They had a lot to cel-
President
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Friday, Seefember 14, 1945
How World's Jews
1,500 GIs on Guam Hold
Services in B-29 Hangar
Soldiers of All Allied Countries Join With European Jewry
in Praying for Lasting Peace: Discrimination of
Jewish Population Evident in Synagogues
GUAM, (JTA)—Rosh Hashanah services were held here
under the dome of a hangar that has just been completed to
house B-29 Superfortresses. Against the background of
B-29's, and surrounded inside and outside the hangar by the
giant aircraft, 1,500 men prayed for a new year of "Peace to
him who is far off and to him that is near."
It was the first Rosh Hashanah
on Guam for the B-E9 Personnel. was here to take nart Although
For many a will be the last. these a„ several thousand Jewish
Tears mingled with prayers and somioss in Vi e n na, thesei s no
joyous hope; farewells and adieux Jewish
were exchanged with the hid,' Plans have already been conw
ones who may soon be on their pleted here for Yom KiUpur
wav home.
ebrate. Those servicemen had survived
World War II, which had ended with
the surrender of the Japanese Empire in
August that year.
Their work was over, and the B-29s
were no longer flying combat missions.
They prayed for a new year with "Peace
to him that is far off and to him that is
near."
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