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or Sue Birnholtz, Limmud
Michigan is the biggest bargain
in the metro area.
“Once a year, we have the oppor-
tunity to listen, learn, discuss, sing
and socialize with our fellow Jews
of all stripes from all over Southeast
Michigan, from Torah scholars to
atheists, from surburban retirees to
young Detroit activists, from right-
brain thinkers to left-brain artists,
from dabblers to experts,” said
Birnholtz of Sylvan Lake, a Limmud
steering committee member.
“Where else can you spend such
an enriching and worthwhile day for
only $25, including a kosher lunch?”
This year’
s Limmud takes place
on Sunday, March 31, at the Jewish
Community Center and Frankel
Jewish Academy in West Bloomfield.
Registration starts at 9 a.m.; the pro-
gram runs from 10 a.m.-5:15 p.m.
with six sessions.
Participants can choose from 13
presentations in each time slot. To
help with choices, organizers created
10 tracks — Arts and Culture, Body
and Soul, Current Events, History,
Identity, Israel, Jewish Life and
Practice, Our Community, Social
Justice, and Text and Thought.
Most presenters, all volunteers, are
from the Southeast Michigan Jewish
community, and many have spoken at
previous Limmud Michigan events,
including Rabbis Alana Alpert,
Robert Dobrusin, Aaron Bergman,
Mitch Parker, Louis Finkelman,
Shneur Silberberg and Alana Alpert,
Nira Lev, Ruth Bergman, Howard
Lupovitch and Zeesy Silberberg.
First-time Limmud Michigan
speakers include Sky Brown,
Catherine Canady, Jeffrey DeVries,
Jake Ehrlich, Susan Knoppow,
Leahaliza Lee, Rabbis Asher Lopatin
and Paul Yedwab.
Out-of-town speakers include
Daniel Henkin, sponsored by the
Covenant Foundation, speaking
on Jewish a cappella music; Joel
Goldstein of Boston; David Krishef
of Grand Rapids; Bill Robinson, dean
of the Davidson School of Jewish
Education at the Jewish Theological
Seminary in New York; Dena Weiss
of Machon Hadar in New York; and
Leonore Wineberg of Chicago.
Session topics include intermar-
riage, grandparenting, Jewish con-
spiracy myths, Jewish sexual practic-
es, organ transplants, immigration,
intersectionality and much, much
more. For the full schedule, go to
limmudmichigan.org.
Major donors include Barbara and
Dr. Edward Klarman, and Sue and
Sandy Birnholtz.
The registration fee includes snacks
and a kosher box lunch from Dish
Kosher Catering. Parents can register
their children ages 2-12 for Camp
Limmud for $10 each, which includes
age-appropriate activities, lunch and
snacks.
Registration is now open at
limmudmichigan.org. After
March 19, the fee will increase
from $25 to $36. ■
BARBARA LEWIS CONTRIBUTING WRITER
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Limmud 2019 brings Jewish learners together
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