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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. kbrowett®renmedia.us Keith Farber Sales Director kfarber®renmedia.us Senior Account Executive Melissa Litvin Account Executives Kathryn Andros Wendy Flusty Annette Kizy Paige Lustig Sales Manager Assistant Andrea Gusho Karen Marzoff BUSINESS OFFICES Billing Coordinator Pamela Turner Collections Analyst Hazel Bender Production By FARAGO & ASSOCIATES Manager Scott Drzewiecki Designers Amy Pollard Pam Sherevan Michelle Sheridan Susan Walker RgNcE etMEDIA Chairman Michael H. Steinhardt 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 Arthur M. Horwitz ahorwitz@renmedia.us Chief Operating Officer F. Kevin Browett kbrowettrenmedia.us 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." ❑ Want to learn more? Go to the DIN Foundation archives, available for free at www.djnfoundation.org. Controller Craig R. Phipps Corporate Creative Director Deborah Schultz dschultz@renmedia.us FULFILLMENT circulationdesk@thejewishnews.com Customer Service Manager: Zena Hosley DEPARTMENTS General Offices: 248-354-6060 Advertising: 248-351-5107 Advertising Fax: 248-304-0049 Circulation: 248-351-5174 Classified Ads: 248-351-5116 Advertising Deadline: Monday, 2 p.m. Editorial Fax: 248-304-8885 Deadline: All public and social announcements must be typewritten and received by noon Tuesday, nine days prior to desired date of publication. 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