…IP! I Music Program For CHaZaKaH CHaZakaH, the Adat Shalom Synagogue seniors group, will sponsor a musical program featuring the vocal selections of G. Robin Beck, 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13. The enter- tainment will follow a dairy luncheon. The program is open to all Detroit- r)_ r- area seniors. There is a $5 charge for CHaZaKaH members and a $6 per nonmember fee. Send checks to Arthur Schultz, 30830 Hunters Drive, Farmington Hills, MI ...…
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…Religion •VID EOGRAPHY The Holy City 'Lacks Tolerance GARY ROSENBLATT Special to The Jewish News he poet Yehuda Amichai once wrote of a couple searching for a place to make love in Jerusalem. Their effort was in vain because every site was suffused with sanctity, every stone a battlefield for holiness. Jerusalem is a city of powerful passions — political, cultural and religious — and that is why there is so much strife over physical and e...…
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…Point Out Thai Diamonds can Provide O 48104, (313) 665-9897. Rabbi: Robert Dobrusin. Services: Friday 6 p.m.; Saturday 9:30 a.m.; weekdays 7:30 p.m.; Sunday 5 p.m. Please join the congrega- tion for kiddush following services. BETH SHALOM 6 14601 W. Lincoln Road, Oak Park, 48237, (248) 547-7970. Rabbi: David A. Nelson. Cantor: Samuel L. Greenbaum. Ritual director: Rev. Samuel Semp. Services: Friday 6 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m., 5:30 p.m.; Sund...…
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…Saturday, November 1S, 1997 E:00 p.m. Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit Maple/Drake Building Call (248) 661-7649 for tickets and information. Funded in part by the Manny and Natalie Charach Endowment for the Cultural Arts, the Irwin and Sadie Cohn Fund, the DeRoy Testamentary Foundation and the Boaz Siegel Culture Fund. Just a Reminder... Sign your child up for Winter Sports gr Recreation classes TODAY at the MC and SAVE 5095...…
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…Photos by Krista Husa The Scene Rabbi Avraham Jacobovitz leads a lunch-and-learn discussion as Ethan Gilan and David Nederlander listen. Finding My Religion Why young Jews are rediscovering the power offaith. RICHARD REGEN Special to The Jewish News F or years I had this running gag. When talking to other Jews, I would ask them • whether they were brought up Reform, Conservative or Orthodox. Naturally they would ask me the same. Then, l...…
…service in the basement of Ohab Zedek, an Orthodox synagogue with a large twentysomething membership. Wildes, 28, attracts a young, single, well-dressed crowd, evenly divided between men and women. "These days," he says, "synagogues, thank God, are seen as an alternative to bars for meeting other Jews." Wildes offers a variety of courses in religion and culture. In order to engage people who are attempting to come back to Judaism, the rabbi sa...…
…Scenes Around Town 4 Jewish young adults and singles gather for coffee, hayrides and dancing— and spontaneous meetings. ELI NATINSKY Special to the Jewish News The Ultimate Annual HMD Hayride The time flew, and so did the hay — literally — at Hillel's Ultimate Hay Ride, Sunday, Oct. 19, at Maybury State Park. A roaring fire, abundance of ballads and multitude of mingling provided warmth on the chilly autumn eve. Participants (totaling 120)...…
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…it O IIAPPENINGS Saturday, Nov. 1 Dinner and ballroom dancing with Jewish Professional Singles. 6 p.m. At Deli Unique on Telegraph Road. Call Jack, (248) 543-8327. Sunday, Nov. 2 Where To Pray? Diary of a shul shopper. JULIE EDGAR Senior Writer S fitting behind the pink parti- tion was like being at the back of the bus, except that thick panes of tinted glass separated me further froni the lucky souls up front. From what I could make ...…
…The Rabbinic Scene Whirlyball and dinner with the young adult group of Temple Beth El (ages 21-35). 7-9 p.m. At Whirlyball West in West Bloomfield. Cost: $10. Call Stacey, (248) 669-5085. • Saturday, Nov. 8 Ruach annual hay ride and bonfire. 7:15 p.m. At the Maybury Riding Stables, 20303 Beck Rd., Northville. Cost: $8. S'mores and hot chocolate provided, b.y.o.b. Call Michele Chapnick, (810) 258-0145 or Karen Davis (313) 455-2502. Relation...…
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…Rabbi Rod Glogower's Talmud class at B'nai Moshe. The Learning Gap Is the Midrasha meeting the need for adult- Jewish education? JULIE WIENER Staff Writer Until what period in life ought one study Torah? Until the day of one's death. — Maimonides, in the Mishneh Torah ("Laws of Torah Study," 1:10) 111 or nine years, Rabbi Rod Glogower has been teaching a Tuesday morning Talmud class, and Diane Savin has been taking it the whole time. Cro...…
…• • . • • • • : • Centers librarian. She does not recall rhe procedure for purchasing new books. For the past year, die library has been staffed entirely by volunteers. According to Howard Gelberd, the executive director of the Agency for Jewish Education, of which Midrasha is a part, the library still makes acquisitions, but he would not disclose the library's budget. "Some things are being kept up that are useful. Others are not. Ther...…
…ing together is more effective," Courses, which are open to the community, included a pre-High Holiday's series and a diverse lineup for the fall: Wednesday night classes at Hilkl Day School; a monthly Rosh Fiodesh series at I3orders book- store; an eight-part "lane and learn- ing' series at Borders; a four-part text study series on medical ethics; a series on women fakir- art series n g well as Eilu v'Eilu. She formerly worked at AJE. But sy...…
…lose U she would release hard copies of AJE's budgets from the past 10 years, but she was not able to provide them in time for publication. According to Gelberd, $140,000 is budgeted for adult education this year (which includes the Midrasha library), $410,00 for school services, $340,000 for Jewish Experiences For Families, $178,000 for special education and $122,000 for teen , programming. The figures include total overhead costs, which ar...…
…education and look at areas that are not presently being served." Dr. Richard Krugel, chair . of Federation's planning and alloca- tions steering committee, said that while the Federation encourages adult education, it does not dictate how the AJE's $1,132,758 alloca- tion is spent. "We feel adult education is important from the Federation side and we feel AJE should be looking into doing what it can do to pro- mote adult ed, but how they spen...…
…Photos by Jennifer Weisbord The Brothers Wittenberg From West Bloomfield to Wall Street, there's no grass growing under their feet. 10/31 1997 88 LYNNE MEREDITH COHN Staff Writer hings have certainly changed for Jeff and Ken Wittenberg. The West Bloomfield duo used to run their own car-parking business at local country clubs. They now spend their days and nights on Wall Street, turning profits for clients around the world. It started wh...…
…the financial world — it's the finan- cial center of the world. And I also really liked the work ethic of the peo- ple here in Manhattan — I really thrive on a challenge," Ken says. Not that people in Michigan aren't motivated. The brothers love their hometown roots, but thrive on the city streets of New York. On an average day, Ken and Jeff get to work at 6:30 a.m. and don't stop until near midnight. Out of a training class of nearly 60 peopl...…
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…$10/$8 seniors and students. Call (313) 993-1130. The Big Screen Wendell Harrison and seniors/$10 children. Call (248) *362-9329. The University Musical Society pre- sents the "Queen of Salsa," Celia Cruz, with "El Canaria" Jose Alberto, in a concert of Latin music, 8 a p.m. Friday, Nov. 7, at Hill Auditorium, 825 North University, Ann Arbor. $20-$36. Call (313) 763- TKTS. •on The Stage First Theater Guild presents Hansel and Gretel, perf...…
…• Mark Nelson brings the young Einstein to life in Steve Martin's "Picasso at the Lapin Agile." SUZANNE CHESSLER Special to The Jewish News C ould you imagine what twentysomethings Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso would talk about if they met bar hopping? Comedian Steve Martin could. He wrote his ideas into a play, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, which comes to the Fisher Theatre Nov. 4-16. Mark Nelson and Paul Provenza take on the roles of t...…
…O The Road From Rio Bloomfield Hills artist Bertha Cohen couples Brazilian roots with expressionist sensibilities. SUZANNE CHESSLER Special to The Jewish News B ertha Cohen's portrait paint- ings do not capture actual persons; they capture person- alities. Her work has evolved during a long career, which has included many exhi- bitions both in this country and over- seas. The portraits represent only one of many directions she has taken. ...…
…JNEntertainment • Impressions "'Pissarro SUZANNE CHESSLER Special to The Jewish News Newly discovered works cast a new light on the early years of one of the founders of Impressionism. n exhibition of 45 recently discovered early drawings and paintings attributed to Camille Pissarro, a founder of the French Impressionist move- ment, remains on view through Nov. 16 at The Jewish Museum in New York. Camille Pissarro in the Caribbean, 1850-...…
…Pissarro's parents sent him to a French boarding school when he was 11. His talent for drawing was discovered and encouraged there. After his return to St. Thomas in 1847, the budding artist expressed . more interest in sketching scenes of the port than in overseeing the busi- ness transactions he was supposed to supervise. Pissarro's artistic interests were fur- ther strengthened when he met the itinerant Danish painter Fritz Melbye in about ...…
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