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…metro » Seeds To Table Downtown Synagogue to unveil new community garden initiative on Tu b’Shevat. Barbara Lewis | Contributing Writer 14 January 21 • 2016 a harvest dinner. “How wonderful will it be when we invite those same folks to IADS to eat meals featuring the plants they nurtured from seeds?” said Purcell, an energy ana- lyst for EcoWorks, a Detroit nonprofit. “We think it will be pretty special.” EVERGROWING GARDEN A grant from...…
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…metro » ‘Seinfeld Music Guy’ Composer to bring stories and his TV theme songs to Beth Shalom. Barbara Lewis Contributing Writer He spent many Shabbat mornings at his grandparents’ Conservative and Orthodox synagogues and celebrated his bar mitzvah at his parents’ Reform temple. Wolff started playing at bar mitzvahs, house parties and weddings when he was 12. He won a National Merit Scholarship and moved to Los Angeles at 17, intend- ing to...…
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