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…Synagogues BATS CHABAD OF FARMINGTON HILLS OHEL MOED- SHOMREY EMUNAH 32000 Middlebelt Road, Farmington Hills, 48334, (248) 855-2910. Rabbi: Chaim Bergstein. Services: Friday sun- down; Saturday 9:30 a.m.; Sunday 9 a.m.; weekdays 6:50 a.m. 6191 Farmington Road, West Bloomfield, 48322, (248) 737-2756; 737-2626; 557- 2580. Rabbi: Eli Jundef. Services: Friday 5:50 p.m.; Saturday 9:15 a.m., 5:40 p.m. Sunday 9 a.m.; Thursday 7 a.m. West Bloomfie...…
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…From The Editor: Tell Me What page 63 Bold, Beautiful and Ridiculous ... , page 65 Iping jewl /- A Different Kind Of Camp . .x page 66 All The Right VeS It has nothing to do with lago or Desdemona, and Shakespeare never even heard of it. This Othello is a game, and one of its greatest champs is Jewish. Here, Othello master Joel Feinstein gives tips on playing the game. Joel Feinstein thinks several moves ahead. Elizabeth Appleba...…
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…EdltoR'8 NoTe I'm trapped inside this challah and I can't get out!! :; Young adults (20-35) are invited to a CHALLAH BAKING EXTRAVAGANZA* Thursday, February 25 e 7:30 p.m. At the home of Mirjam and Gary Schwartz *dietary laws observed There will be baking instruction... (Take home your own creation and a recipe book tool) Baking demonstration by: Sryil Victor and Rabbi Reuven Schwartz co-hosts of "Everything's Kosher" television cook...…
…PiCTuRe ThiS The Bold, The Beautiful And The Ridiculous Forget the cookies, the letters addressed home and the bug spray. Children tell the best, silliest and dumbest things they ever brought to camp. ' Elizabeth Applebaum AppleTree Editor W.S1WV:1 Davidi Lehmann Davidi Lehmann of West Bloomfield attended: Ganeinu in West Bloomfield Shoshana Ungar, middle, with pals Deena Hochheiser and Malkie Stawis head off to camp "The best thing I...…
…Guest Column A Different Kind Of Camp room and scrubs his he tall, black door hands and face. He final- creaks open; rusty- ly brushes his teeth with brown carpet is bottled water, gargles for exposed. A dirty window a few seconds, and lies open across the room. begins humming once Signs on buildings are in again. view, but I cannot read the "Zayde, please. It's words. A little wooden desk Deborah Anstandig almost 1 a.m. We need to sits in t...…
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…The Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit Encore Entertainment Series Presents... An evening with... Saturday, March 6,1999 • 8:00 p.m. West Bloomfield High School Auditorium Members: $25 / Non-Members: $35 Carl Reiner is the creator of the famous sitcom, The Dick Van Dyke Show and one of the best known comedians of all time. He was a co-star in the legendary television pro- gram, Your Show of Shows and directed films such as The ...…
…r S r At The Movies: `The Last Days' 72 A Moss Hart QmQ EO, Meet Joe Black At The JCC erg's Comedienne, actress and best-selling author Suzanne Somers shares her insights at Women's Campaign event. SUZANNE CHESSLER Special to The Jewish News A sk Suzanne Somers the reason for her happy ' marriage and thriving career, and she'll tell you it's having a strong partnership with _a Jewish husband. She relies on Alan Hamel to manage th...…
…What To Do, What To Do .•• Artists include soprano Valerie Yova, mezzo-soprano Elsie Inselman, tenor David Troiano and baritone Chris Meemick, accompanied by pianist Joseph Gurt. LCE's executive director, Stuart Grant, will spice up the pro- gram with readings of love letters and love poems. $18/$15 for students and seniors. To reserve tickets, call (248) 357-1111. They "sold their souls for rock 'n' roll," but original Black Sabbath band mem...…
…The Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit Encore Concert Series Presents... Dance Fever Following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, Arthur Mitchell pursued his own dream and established the Dance Theatre of Harlem. Mitchell and his troupe of talented dancers return to Detroit's Music Hall to perform a mixed repertoire of favorites Feb. 16- 21. The company will perform two programs: one at 8 p.m. Tuesday and T...…
…At The Movies `The Last ays' The Oscar-nominated documentary, a production of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, comes to the Detroit Film Theatre. SUZANNE CHESSLER Special to The Jewish News o Hollywood script ever was written for The Last Days, the third documen- tary of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. Instead, the five heroes of the film, survivors of Nazi tyranny in Hungary, talk about and show the area they once called home. T...…
…aspects of the Hungarian story. I want- ed to tell their stories from their pre- war lives to how they managed to rebuild their lives." Each survivor in the film is respond- ing to questions posed by Moll, who is edited out of the documentary. Lantos, 16 when Nazi Germany occupied Hungary in 1944, escaped from a work camp to move around Budapest delivering food and medi- cine that could mean the difference between life and death for others. A ...…
…At The Movies c7\ Alicia Silverstone, an actress who proudly proclaims her Judaism, is Eve to Brendan Fraser's Adam in "Blast from the Past." 340 East Maple Road • Birmingham, MI SERENA DONADONI Special to The Jewish News 248.593.9085 A The Hit Musical Comedy Everybody's Talking About! 333 Madison Ave. Detroit, MI 48226 Call Nkole-for groups of 15 or more (313) 9624913 NOW PLAYING! CALL (248) 645-6666 Y . ctress Alicia Silverstone...…
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…NOW OPEN! she told Hershleder, some small under- standing of what happened to her. Hershleder craves an even deeper understanding and to that end tracks down a Holocaust revisionist in France who has retracted his Holocaust denial. Hershleder meets Leclerc, the former revisionist, who now devotes his energy to culling details about the construction of gas chambers, but who also admits that he does not like Jews. Nevertheless, Hershleder deriv...…
…Playwright Moss Hart lit up the theater — and the life of his wife, actress Kitty Carlisle Hart. She recalls their life together and shares her happiness at the revived interest in his plays. JENNIFER POYEN Special to The Jewish. News T Playwright Moss Hart and his wife, actress Carlisle Hart, shared a life in the theater: he setting: A suite at Boston's Ritz-Carlton Hotel, 1948. Piles of food, overflowing ashtrays and half- empty tumblers...…
…"Oh, he was fun to live with," she said quietly. Reflecting on the theater world she shared with her playwright-director hus- band and the nerve-jangling premiere of Light Up the Sky, Hart is a disarming blend of cultured New Yorker, veteran stage actress and Southern belle. Her careful diction tends to elongate one-syllable words into two, and she has a way of expressing herself by indirec- tion, veering away from topics she might consider in...…
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…A Composer Kurt Weill in Berlin, in 1932, before he was forced to flee the Nazis. mercial output in the New World. Weill may not have composed any symphonies after he settled in the States, but the music he did write, such as the sweetly rueful It Never Was You" and the autumnal medita- tion "September Song," is popular, and also superbly crafted. In fact, it can be argued that musicals like Knickerbocker Holiday and One Touch of Venus or th...…
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…from school and just did music, I real- ized I missed the academic stimulation. "I looked at my talents working as a teacher, musician and writer and realized that the rabbinate was an opportunity for me to combine the talents God had given me and make a difference in the world." Before joining Albuquerque's Congregation Albert in 1996, Black served as assistant and then associate rabbi at Temple Israel in Minneapolis, where he met Bloom. The ...…
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…Food A "Kosher Difference • A new West Bloomfield restaurant is a welcome change from Detroit's kosher dining history. JULIE WEINGARDEN Special to The Jewish News • INT hen Paul Kohn opened La Difference in December, people ques- tioned him. They didn't ask if he was crazy. They asked what took him so long. Kohn, who also owns Quality Kosher Catering in Southfield, offers dairy and pareve (neither dairy nor meat) kosher cuisine at La D...…
