…SCOTT*CPECORY *Thanksgiving Weekend Sale 3 Bar/Bat Mitzvah Max Aaron Blitz will celebrate his bar mitzvah when he is called to the Torah Saturday, Nov. 29, at Adat Shalom Synagogue. He is the son of Lauren and Andy Blitz, brother of Jillian and grandson of Elinor and Morton Trotsky and Mary and Lou Blitz. Max is a seventh- grade honor student at Abbott Middle School in West Bloomfield. His most meaningful mitzvah project was to vol- unteer...…
…ASTREIN 48 PRE-HOLIDAY EVENT dance program at the Fleischman Residence in West Bloomfield and par- ticipated in kever avot as part of her mitzvah projects. Daniel Joseph Enfield, son of Shari and Mark Enfield and brother of Sara, will read from the Torah on the occasion of his bar mitzvah Saturday, Nov. 29, at Temple Israel. His grandparents are Elissa and Hal Leider and Doris and Bruce Enfield. Daniel attends Clifford Smart Middle School in...…
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…Synagogue Listings 64 Torah Portion 66 Lift Up Your Voices Thanksgiving concert brings together groups of different religions. SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN StaffWriter embers of nine Detroit- area houses of worship of various religions cele- brated together Nov. 15- at the Interfaith Thanksgiving Concert of African-Arnerican Gospel and Klezmer Music. The concert, whose theme was "To Everything There is a Season," brought 350 participants to ...…
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…stopped the Navy from using flogging as a punishment." The cousin of a friend was on the fund-raising committee for the Naval Academy's Jewish center and chapel, and Berry's decision to contribute led to his invitation to the Nov. 2 event. Members of the Jewish Midshipmen's Club, distinct among the crowd in their dark blue uniforms and white caps, expressed their enthusiasm over the chapel's opening. "This is the first time we have had a dedic...…
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