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Department of Fine, Performing
and Communication Arts, gives
a talk titled “Duck Soup: How the
Marx Brothers Brought Issues of
Social Justice to the Big Screen
and Made Us Laugh.” Sponsored by
the Beatrice and Louis Weinstein
Adult Education Fund, this is a
special event only for festival spon-
sors ($100) and patrons ($250).
Wilhelm spoke about blacklisted
Jews in film at last year’s festival.
“We liked him, and he liked us, so
we brought him back,” Kellerman
said.
The festival wraps up in a big
way on Sunday, April 29, with a
performance by Klezmephonic,
called Ann Arbor’s premier
klezmer band. “They are unbeliev-
able musicians and music histori-
ans who talk about different com-
posers in Europe and America,”
Zerwekh said. “They are repairing
the world in a different sense, with
bright and very lively music.” The
performance begins at 11 a.m. and
includes brunch co-sponsored by
Temple’s Music Committee.
Each event costs $15 for adults,
$10 for high school and college
students.

“This is not a fundraiser; this
is our contribution to the com-
munity,” Zerwekh said of the low
ticket prices. “For $15, how could
you not go?”
Kellerman noted, “If you went
to all the events, it would cost $85,
and a sponsorship is only $100.
We are hoping to eclipse last year,
when we had 70 sponsors and
patrons.
“It’s gratifying because we are
not a large congregation. We
are looking forward to our new,
young rabbi [Matthew Zerwekh,
Elizabeth’s son] coming in July, and
we want to spread the world that
good things are going on at Temple
Emanu-El. We are excited to offer
this and to invite the whole com-
munity.”
Zerwekh said, “We felt this was
the time to do this program. It’s
a hard time and people are strug-
gling with a lot of issues. Is not
talking about them the way to do
it? The event is political, but not
partisan.” •

For individual tickets or to become a sponsor
or patron, call the temple at (248) 967-4020
or email TempleFamily@emanuel-mich.org.

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For many patients with cancer, oral
chemotherapy is the best treatment,
yet many of those patients can’t afford
the oral drugs because Michigan is
one of only six states in the nation
that does not have a law that allows
these drugs to come under a doctor’s
visit co-pay — as infusion chemo-
therapy does.
So, instead of paying a $100-$200
insurance co-pay for IV chemothera-
py, Michiganders on oral chemother-
apy, classified as a Tier 3 or 4 specialty
drug, must pay $20,000 or more annu-
ally because these drugs are under a
patient’s pharmaceutical insurance
plan, explains Anita DeVine, co-chair
of Cancer Thrivers Network for Jewish
Women, a local support and advocacy
group. Her co-chair is Janet Moses.
“The extremely high cost of oral
chemotherapy is wiping people out,”
DeVine says. “Because it is so costly,
people are not filling their prescrip-
tions and are not getting therapy. And,
it is predicted that in the next three to
five years, up to 50 percent of chemo-
therapy will be oral.”
To raise awareness and to educate
about an upcoming oral chemother-

apy bill in the Michigan legislature,
Cancer Thrivers is sponsoring “From
Oy To Joy” at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday,
April 11, at Knollwood Country Club
in West Bloomfield. The event is free
and open to the community through
a grant from the Sandra and Alfred
Sherman Women’s Health Fund.
The speaker will be Dave Almeida,
regional director of government
affairs in the Midwest for the
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
Almeida is guiding the coalition to
make Michigan the next state to enact
cost containment laws.
The Oral Chemotherapy Parity Bill
has passed the Michigan Senate and is
in process in the Michigan legislature.
If approved by the House Insurance
Committee, it will go to the House.
RSVP for the program to Tracy
Agranove at (248) 592-2267 or to
tagranove@jfsdetroit.org. The pro-
gram is supported by Hadassah
Greater Detroit, NCJW Greater
Detroit Section, Jewish Family Service,
Jewish Women’s Foundation, Jewish
Federation, Force and the Cancer
Action Network. •