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Emanu-El’s Spring Festival
Brings Five Events in March
Temple Emanu-El in Oak Park will
host its Spring Festival “Looking to the
Future” March 14-24 with five events.
Popular speaker and former Detroit
Free Press columnist Rochelle Riley
will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday, March
14, about her new book The Burden:
African Americans and the Enduring
Impact of Slavery. An afterglow and
book signing follows.
The signature event for festival
sponsors and patrons is an evening
with Elliot Wilhelm, Detroit Institute
of Arts film curator, at 7 p.m. Saturday,
March 16. His topic is “When the
Future Meant Fear: Sci-fi Movies of
the 1950s and the Cold War.
” Movie
snacks available. Those who are not
sponsors and patrons can attend for
$25.
On Thursday, March 21, at 7
p.m., Saeed Khan, senior lecturer in
Near East & Asian Studies at Wayne
State University, will speak on “The
Future of U.S. Foreign Policy and the
Era of Trump: Internationalism and
Isolationism.
” An afterglow follows.
On Saturday, March 23, Emanu-El’
s
current and former rabbis, Matthew
Zerwekh and Joe Klein, will speak on
the future of Reform Judaism. A lun-
cheon begins at 12:30 p.m.
On Sunday, March 24, the festival’
s
finale brings the sounds of the Dave
Bennett Quartet. That program begins
with a brunch at 11 a.m.
Except for the March 16 event, tick-
ets are $15 for each event and include
food and program. Students (under
age 26) can attend for $10.
RSVP for all events by calling
(248) 967-4020. Become a sponsor
for $100 or a patron for $250, which
includes admission to all events.
The Spring Festival is co-sponsored
by the Emanu-El Sisterhood and
Brotherhood and the Social Action,
Religious and Music committees.
Temple’
s Adult Education Committee,
co-chaired by Doug Kellerman and
Elizabeth Zerwekh, coordinates the
festival. ■
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The Jewish Community
Relations Council/AJC is
pleased to announce that reg-
istration for the 4th Annual
“
A Shared Future” Lecture
Series, featuring Wayne State
University Professors Howard
Lupovitch and Saeed Khan,
is now open. The topic of this
year’
s dialogue is “Destination
America: Jewish and Muslim
Migration — Histories and
Trajectories.” Here are the
dates, times, and locations:
• Wednesday, March 6, at
The Muslim Unity Center
(Bloomfield Hills)
•
Tuesday, March 19, at
Congregation Beth Ahm (West
Bloomfield)
•
Tuesday, March 26,
at Wayne State University
(Detroit)
All programs begin at 7 p.m.
They are free to attend and
each will be followed by a des-
sert reception.
Registration is required for
any or all of the lecture dates at
eventbrite.com/o/jcrcajc-and-
mmcc-11853503742. ■
Khan
Register for ‘
A Shared Future’
The Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic
Studies at Wayne State University
announces the fourth annual writing
competition for all high school
students in the Metro Detroit area.
Students grades 9-12 are invited to
submit an original work that deals with
an aspect of Jewish culture and Jewish
life, past and present, in the categories
of poetry, prose and nonfiction.
The best two submissions in each
category will be awarded a $500
cash prize, with awards of $100 for
honorable mentions in each category.
In addition, award-wining entries
will be published online and in print in
a literary magazine that the center will
produce.
Deadline for submissions is March
1. To see past competition winners,
guidelines, rules and suggested
themes, and for where to submit
entries, visit Judaicstudies.wayne.edu/
writingcompetition.php. ■
Teen Writing Competition
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