Noah Aronson

Yehudi Menuhin

HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY
Violinist and conductor Yehudi
Menuhin, the son of Russian immigrants
descended from a rabbinical dynasty,
made his first public appearance at the
age of 7, in velvet knee pants, and was
already a star by age 11, when he made
his first recordings. He is known as much
as a virtuoso as a humanitarian — he
slowed his career in the 1940s to play
hundreds of concerts for Allied troops
in hospitals, played for displaced survi-
vors of Bergen-Belsen and performed
in South Africa under apartheid. In cel-
ebration of Menuhin’s 100th birthday,
the Detroit Institute of Arts presents
A Centenary Tribute: Menuhin100.
Celebrated French film director and vio-
linist — and longtime friend to Menuhin
— Bruno Monsaingeon will travel to
the DIA to join pianist Ivan Moshchuk
and cellist Aleksey Shadrin to pay trib-
ute to his mentor with a performance
of Rachmaninoff’s chamber music and
Tchaikovsky’s Trio in A Minor, aka “In
Memory of a Great Artist,” 7 p.m. Friday,

Sept. 9 (free with museum admission). At
2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10, a screening of
Monsaingeon’s film Yehudi Menuhin: The
Violin of the Century will be followed by
a panel discussion with the filmmaker.
$7.50-$9.50. (313) 833-7900; dia.org.

MUSIC MAN
Noah Aronson has been called a modern
traveling minstrel. The composer and
performer puts new music to traditional
Jewish prayers, engaging and inspiring
spiritual communities across the country.
Experience his unique soulful style Sept.
9-11, at Temple Beth El in Bloomfield Hills,
where Aronson will perform at a series of
events. At 6 p.m. Friday, he will be joined
by temple clergy and musicians for a
dynamic Musical Shabbat; Saturday eve-
ning, he will perform an intimate patron
concert followed by an outdoor Havdalah
($250); and he will finish the weekend
with a free concert 11 a.m. Sunday, fol-
lowed by the temple’s annual picnic, all
open to the community. (248) 851-1100;
tbeonline.org.

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Friends of the Israel Defense Forces
Michigan Chapter

Women’s Luncheon

Please Join Us

Thursday, September 22, 2016

11:45 a.m. Silent Auction • 12:40 p.m. Program & Lunch

Tam-O-Shanter Country Club

5051 Orchard Lake Road, West Bloomfield, MI

Guest Speaker

Noam Gershony

Former IAF Helicopter Pilot &
2012 Paralympics Gold Medalist

Benefiting the IMPACT! Scholarship Program

Granting Academic Scholarships to Combat Veterans in Need

von Haselberg

Raisman

Short. The script is
by Amy Fox, 40, who’s best known for her
play and film, The Heights (2005). Equity was
co-produced by Alysia Reiner, 46, and she
plays one of the film’s three leads (Reiner’s
best known for playing the nasty assistant
warden, Fig, on Orange is the New Black).
She’s married to actor David Alan Basche
(The Exes), 47. Also appearing in a biggish
part is Sophie von Haselberg, 29, who
is Bette Midler’s daughter. (No, Sophie’s
father wasn’t born in a Bavarian castle — he
was born in Argentina, the son of a Jewish
mother and a German father.)

OLYMPIC RECAP
Congrats to Jo Aleh, 30, a New Zealander
who won the bronze medal in the 470
dinghy class sailing competition (she won

gold in 2012) and Aussie
Jessica Fox, 22, who won a
bronze in the canoe slalom
K-1 class (she won silver
in 2012). It wasn’t a great
Olympics in terms of the
number of Jewish Olympic
winners or medals won.
Still, if you think about it,
any medal won by a tribe
member defies statistical
odds. There are 7-8 billion
people in the world and
only 15 million are Jewish — that’s about
two tenths of 1 percent of the world’s
population. The 2016 Jewish medal count
is three gold, two silver and four bronzes.
That total is better than most countries,
including some with a population way
above 15 million. All the more reason to
be aware of and celebrate great athletes
like Aleh, Fox, gymnast Aly Raisman (one
gold, two silvers); swimmer Anthony Ervin
(two golds) and Israeli judo athletes Or
Sasson, 26, and Yarden Gerbi, 27 (who
both won bronze). By the way, Yahoo
Sports just did a short video interview with
Raisman titled How to Date Aly Raisman. In
her level-headed way, she discusses whom
she might date. It’s cute — just google the
title and you’ll find it.

For more information, please contact us at
248.926.4110 or michigan@fidf.org

Co-Chairs:

Lisa Brandes DEnid Goodman DBeverly Leuchter
Nancy Pomish DJanet Stein DBrenda Wayne DKaren Weiss

Host Committee:

Lauren Bienenstock DJoyce Borovoy DMichele Borovoy DLinda Cohen

Mira Eisenberg DJoan Epstein DPam Friedman DBeth Gans DPatty Haron

Roslind Hayes DDenise Kalt DGaby Karp DJudy Karp DLinda Katzman

Nancy Katzman DRhoda Katzman DShari Kaufman D Sarah Kornblum

Susan Lutz DDorie Miller DJulie Nelson-Klein D Natalie Newman

Aliza Nivy DMyrna Partrich DEunice Ring DElaine Robins

Stefenie Sasson DJulie Sherizen DLisa Shiffman D Susan Slabotsky

Gail Smoler DWendy Talan D Lori Wayne D Marilyn Wayne DRobin Wayne

Their job is to look after Israel.
Our job is to look after them.

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