…To Do! CALENDAR E-mail items to calendar@thejewishnews.com Mail items to Calendar, the Jewish News, 29200 Northwestern Highway, Suite 110, Southfield, MI 48034 Fax items to (248) 304-8885 Deadline: noon Tuesday, nine days prior to publication. includes dessert. RSVP by March 18 to Barbara: (248) 481-9580. 1 JCheck It Out! ARTS 46- CULTURE Shop "Spring into Summer Used Book Sale" March 13-24, at Meyers Library at West Bloomfield JCC. Sal...…
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…1 Dec. 11 Stacey (Young) Soffa and Jason Soffa of West Bloomfield are delighted to announce the arrival of their daughter, Ava Brooke. Sharing in their joy are grand- Soffa parents Esther Soffa of Farmington Hills, Jeffrey Soffa of Royal Oak and Chuck Young of Farmington Hills. Proud are great-grandmother Ellen Ziff of Walled Lake and great-grandfather Joseph Soffa of Las Vegas, Nev. Ava is named in loving memory of her maternal grandmother Av...…
…Fam ocus MAZ'L TOV! Zeldes-Seago D r. and Mrs. Jeffrey Zeldes of Farmington Hills have announced the engagement of their son Daniel Zeldes to Meghan Seago, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John Seago of Grosse Pointe Shores. A June wedding is planned at the Grosse Pointe Yacht Club. Mr. Zeldes is a 2006 graduate of the University of Michigan. He is a fourth-year medical student at Wayne State University and plans to pursue a career in anesthesiol...…
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…Obituaries FRED LAX Family and friends please join us for a memorial gathering in honor of our father, Fred Lax, who passed on February 4, 2011. His burial took place in Jerusalem, Israel accompanied by his daughter Nancy Lax and his , son Michael Lax. Mr. Lax was a decorated WW II veteran and was founder and former owner of F. Lax Construction Co. The memorial will be held on Sunday, March 13, 2011 at Fleischman Senior Residence, 6710 W. M...…
…MARILYN DAVIES LIEBERMAN SCHWARTZ, 82, of Boca Raton, Fla., died March 1, 2011. She graduated from Highland Park High School and attended the University of Michigan. While in Detroit, she was active at Temple Emanu-El and its sisterhood, ORT and Hadassah. Mrs. Schwartz retired to Sarasota with her husband, Harry, where she continued her Hadassah work becoming president of the Sarasota Chapter. Following her divorce, she met and married Michael...…
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…Obituaries Obituaries from page 60 Seinfeld's 'Uncle Leo' Jewish Telegraphic Agency D espite a vast acting resume, Len Lesser had a career as a char- acter actor that probably didn't prepare him for his late-career fame as Jerry Seinfeld's annoying but lovable Uncle Leo on the 1990s sitcom Seinfeld. Lesser died Feb. 16, 2011, at 88. Lesser's "hawklike profile and Noo Yawk accent" saw him through 15 epi- sodes of Seinfeld and won him lasti...…
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…Roundup Soldiers Deliver Baby JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israeli soldiers delivered a Palestinian woman's baby boy inside a military ambulance. The woman, a resident of the Jordan Valley, called for help early Monday, according to the Israel Defense Forces. She lives in an area unreachable by ambulance, so the soldiers gave the family a stretcher to bring her to the waiting ambulance. During the ride to the hospital, the woman gave birth, assisted by...…
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…Metro Photos by Jerry Zolynsky AROUND THE CORNER / ON THE COVER Jewish rock musician D Nichols leads a medley of Shabbat songs at the Learning Center preschool. Learning Shir shalompreschool aims for a strong sense of self. Judith Doner Berne Special to the Jewish News ulie Hirschman finds Temple Shir Shalom's fledgling preschool "much more relaxed and laid back" than the one her children previously attended. "It's so much fun': she...…
…0 R N Learning The Ropes from page 11 "There's a reason for everything we do," says school director Marsha Mitnick as she and Ben Toby, 3, of West Bloomfield lead the way back to class. in education, loves how the school has helped Kendell unfold. "They are so clearly focused on every aspect of the child. "Little things," Schultz says:' like how Marsha gets right down on the floor to be eye to eye with the child, are so important. "There's ...…
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…Faith Filled from page 17 culture and tradition of the many religions represented at the World Sabbath. Hindu dancers, Yiddish Klezmer, Jain songs, Sikh Shabads, Christian Dance ensembles and Arabic elementary school drummers have enchanted the attendees. To Katz, the highlight of every World Sabbath is inclusion of third- through sixth-graders who decorate flags with their ideas about World Peace. "These flags are then sewn into Children of ...…
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…News From The Frankel Center for college students by college students First Step To Washington? Lansing internship may be stepping stone for WMU senior. By Erin Kaplan Kalamazoo M Deborah Dash Moore, Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of History and Director The Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan Studying Jews The idea of studying Jews at the University of Michigan often catches students by surprise...…
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