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Congregation Beth Shalom in Oak
Park will hold a women’s march of
another sort at its annual Women’s
Seder at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 29.
The Women’s March to Sinai program
will commemorate the contributions
of Jewish women during the Exodus
from Egypt and throughout Jewish
history.
Women of all faiths are invited to
the event at the synagogue in Oak
Park. The program includes a kosher,
Passover-style dinner. Vegetarian
meals are available upon request.
Beth Shalom’s immediate past
president Marie Slotnick will lead
the program and Cantor Penny
Steyer of Temple Shir Shalom in West
Bloomfield will lead the singing.
Participants will follow The Journey
Continues: The Ma’yan Passover

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2016 Beth Shalom Women’s Seder: Jeanne
Milstein of Oak Park, Sherri Gelb of Huntington
Woods, Mandy Garver of Bloomfield Township
and Esfir Nohznik of Oak Park.

Haggadah by Tamara R. Cohen.
Linda Bell chairs the Women’s
Seder committee. Working with her
are Nathalie Conrad, Mandy Garver,
Fran Hildebrandt, Shelia Livine, Aviva
Phillips, Marie Slotnick and Gretchen
Weiner.
Reservations are $25 for adults and
$10 for girls ages 5 to 12. Sponsorships
are welcome at $54. “Angel” sponsor-
ships are $72. Anonymous sponsor-
ships for guests at $25 are also wel-
come.
Paid reservations must be
made by March 23. Mail checks to
Congregation Beth Shalom, 14601
Lincoln, Oak Park. For more informa-
tion or reservations, call the syna-
gogue office at (248) 547-7970 or email
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her mother about her fam-
The University of
ily during World War II and
Michigan will host the
after. Raised as a Catholic,
Fourth Annual Polish
Tuszyńska found out in her
Jewish Workshop on April
late teens that she is Jewish,
2-4, organized around the
which brought with it a host of
theme “Generations and
questions about her own iden-
Genealogies.”
tity as well as her family’s. The
Sponsored by the
author will also sign books fol-
Copernicus Program in
lowing the event, which begins
Polish Studies, the work-
at 5 p.m. in the Michigan
shop will explore Polish
Room of U-M’s Michigan
Jewish subjects as seen
League.
through the lens of differ-
The following day, Adam
ent generations, including
Michnik, historian and editor-
how they reflect a shift
in-chief of Poland’s largest
in attitudes, identity and
daily newspaper, Gazeta
perceptions of historical
Wyborcza, will give the annual
and contemporary events. Adam Michnik
Copernicus Lecture, “The
The events, which
Glory and Poverty of the ’68
are free and open to
Generation.”
the public, will feature acclaimed
1968 was a watershed year for
Polish writers and historians Agata
global protest and, in Poland spe-
Tuszyńska and Adam Michnik.
cifically, protests by students and
“We are honored to host this
members of the intelligentsia met
major international confer-
forceful suppression by the govern-
ence,” says workshop organizer
Genevieve Zubrzycki, director of the ment, which launched a brutal anti-
Semitic campaign that forced tens of
Copernicus Program and U-M fac-
thousands of Jews into exile.
ulty member. “Polish Jewish studies
Michnik will discuss the differ-
is rapidly growing, and we’re thrilled
to be at the epicenter of this exciting ent threads that made that year the
defining moment of his generation,
interdisciplinary dialogue.”
a turning point for Poland and a
The kickoff event will be held on
dramatic crossroads for Polish Jews.
Sunday, April 2, with a reading by
His lecture begins at 5:30 p.m. in the
Agata Tuszyńska from her book
University of Michigan Museum of
Family History of Fear: A Memoir. In
her book, Tuszyńska, one of Poland’s Art’s Stern Auditorium.
For more information, visit:
most respected poets and cultural
ii.umich.edu/cpps. •
historians, recounts the secret sto-
ries that were passed down from

