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…E-mail items to calendar@thejewishnews.com Mail items to Calendar, the Jewish News, 29200 Northwestern, Suite 110, Southfield, MI 48034 Fax items to (248) 304-8885 • Deadline: noon, Wednesday, eight days prior to publication To Do! tolled( It Arts & Culture Attend the opening reception for "Gesture & Geometry," new paint- ings by Tom Berding and Michelle Hinebrook, 5-8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, at David Klein Gallery,163 Townsend in Birmingha...…
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…DETROIT Jewish Migration Studied The Jewish Historical Society of Michigan will present "Why the Jews of Detroit Moved and What It Says about Jewish Politics, Culture and Religion" Sunday, Feb. 17, 1 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield. Author and researcher Lila Corwin Berman will examine a chapter in the long history of Jewish migration: that of Jewish movement from cities to suburbs. Berman is a fellow at University of M...…
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