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Rabbi Brent Gutmann of Temple
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Marilyn Finkelman, a local obser-
vant Jewish educator, participated in
“Ask a Jewish Person” at the Islamic
Center of America in Dearborn on
Oct. 3. The program was presented by
the Interfaith Leadership Council of
Metropolitan Detroit (IFLC) as part
of a series in which representatives of
one faith make themselves available to
answer questions at a house of worship
of another faith.
Christians and Muslims in the audi-
ence asked about Sabbath, the Jewish
view of heaven and hell, how Judaism
explains why bad things happen to
good people, the clothing worn by
some Orthodox Jewish men and the
role of women.
Rabbi Brent Gutmann and Marilyn Finkelman
participated in a panel moderated by the Rev.
Charles Packer of Pine Hill Congregational
Church in West Bloomfield.
The next program in the series will
be “Ask a Latter-Day Saint” (Mormon),
which will take place at Congregation
Beth Shalom in Oak Park at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Jan. 30. For more infor-
mation, visit detroit.interfaith.council@
gmail.com. — Barbara Lewis
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Promoting Wellness and Breast Health
The Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit will honor University
of Michigan President Mark Schlissel with its Boneh Kehillah (Builder of
Community) Award as part of a tailgate party starting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct.
30, at the JCC in West Bloomfield. The party will celebrate the special relationship
between the Metro Detroit Jewish community and U-M.
Wear your colors to the tailgate, which will feature corned beef sandwiches,
spiked cider, bag-o and much more. “The Game” starts at 7:30 p.m. with a march-
ing band and the award presentation.
Host committee chairs are Nicole and Matt Lester, and Andi and Lawrence
Wolfe. Honorary event chairs are Ira Jaffe and Mel Lester.
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As individuals and families increasingly
balance work, social commitments and
competing interests both online and
offline, traditional activities — includ-
ing worship in religious institutions
— are being left behind. But accord-
ing to a recent Angus Reid Institute
survey, people still want spirituality
in their lives: Just 19 percent claim to
be non-believers, while 30 percent say
they are privately faithful and 30 per-
cent are spiritually uncertain.
SecularSynagogue.com, an online
community launching this fall, aims
to reach these people and help them
integrate spirituality into their lives on
a regular basis by bringing spiritual and
cultural lessons into homes instead of
requiring people to go out to congre-
gations.
Members of the online secular syn-
agogue will have access to a website
featuring materials for do-it-yourself
Shabbat and High Holidays celebra-
tions, parenting resources, Jewish
scavenger hunts and more. A private
Facebook group will offer members
the opportunity to interact with the
community through challenges, oppor-
tunities for joint social justice work,
interviews with experts and thinkers on
a range of topics, video-based Jewish
learning and more.
“With SecularSynagogue.com, my
aim is to build a modern congrega-
tion that recognizes the challenges
of our fast-paced world, but also
gives people the spiritual guidance
they still crave,” says Rabbi Denise
Handlarski, who trained in the Secular
Humanistic Judaism movement that
positions Judaism through the lens of a
human-centered understanding of the
world.
Membership to the online communi-
ty is $18 a month or $180 per year. ■