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On April 8, Holocaust 
Remembrance Day cere-
monies took place at both 
Fleischman Residence and 
Meer Apartments of Jewish 
Senior Life. Holocaust survi-
vors were joined by residents 
and staff who remembered the 
6 million Jews who perished in 
the Shoah. 
In 1959, Israel established 
Yom HaShoah to honor the 
heroism of the Warsaw Ghetto 

fighters. Dr. Charles Silow, 
director of JSL
’s Program 
for Holocaust Survivors and 
Families, commented on the 
heroism and resiliency of all 
Holocaust survivors.
Survivors lit memorial can-
dles and read moving passages 
from Elie Wiesel and Anne 
Frank. The service concluded 
with the singing of “Hatikvah” 
led by survivors Gabriella 
Weiss and Laurette Levadi. 

PHOTOS COURTESY JSL

Dr. 
Charles 
Silow

Audience at 
Fleischman 
Residence

Judy Martin, 
widow of 
survivor Andrew 
Martin, and 
Joanne Kristal

Survivor Laurette Levadi and 
JSL Chaplaincy Program 
Associate Joanne Kristal

Remembrance at JSL

Music Shabbat at Temple Kol Ami

The annual Music Shabbat at 
Temple Kol Ami takes place 
Friday, April 30, at 7:15 p.m. 
The service has been prepared 
by Nathalie M. Conrad, 
pianist, who served as director 
of music at the temple since its 
founding in 1966 until being 
named music director emerita 
in 2009. She is marking her 
55th year of making music at 
Temple Kol Ami, and several 
of her own compositions will 
be included in the service. 
The worship will be 
a “Sermon in Song,
” a 

retrospective collection of 
synagogue music which 
has been heard and sung 
for so many years: ancient, 
Sephardic, Ashkenazic, 
Chassidic, Israeli and 
contemporary.
Miles Eichenhorn and 
Marci Shulman will serve 
as cantorial soloists, and 
Rabbi Brent P
. Gutmann will 
conduct the service. 
The public is invited to view 
this service on Facebook at 
the Temple Kol Ami Facebook 
page. 

New Course Explores the Future

This April, Rabbi Levi Dubov 
of Chabad Jewish Center of 
Bloomfield Hills will offer 
This Can Happen, a 
new six-session course 
by the Rohr Jewish 
Learning Institute 
(JLI) that will address 
pressing questions: Is 
the current situation 
going to get any bet-
ter? Can we realisti-
cally rectify the world? What 
does the future hold in store 
for us?
“It’s common for people to 
feel that matters are getting 
progressively worse and, 
fostered by much hysterical 
media and general dialogue, 
an environment of fear and 
despair is all too rampant,
” 
Dubov told the Jewish News. 
“Exploring world history and 
the actual facts from a larger 
perspective and context paints 
an eye-opening picture, one 
that can provide real, practical 
understanding and hope.
” 
This course will explore one 
of the most misunderstood 
and maligned topics in the 
Jewish canon — the future 
redemption, presenting an 

opportunity to finally appreci-
ate, in a realistic and down-to-
earth manner, what Judaism 
really means when it 
talks about a “Messiah.
” 
The six-week course 
will be offered with three 
class options: Wednesday 
afternoons, noon-1:30 
p.m., beginning April 28, 
via Zoom; Wednesday 
evenings, 7:30-9 p.m., 
beginning April 28, via Zoom; 
and Thursday mornings, 11 
a.m.–12:30 p.m., beginning 
April 29, which will hopefully 
be offered safely in-person 
to a limited audience at the 
Farber Soul Center in West 
Bloomfield, with the option 
of ordering lunch from the 
Soul Café for a special course 
discount.
The course fee is $80, and 
includes the course textbook, 
with discounts available 
for couples and groups. 
Scholarships are available 
upon request. 
Register at bloomfield-
hillschabad.org/canhappen, 
or contact Dubov at (248) 
949-6210 or rabbi@
bloomfieldhillschabad.org. 

Rabbi Levi 
Dubov