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…Students Raise Money While Adults Give Blood The day's big winner was the American Heart Association, recipients of both types of donations, as Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit held hile the adults donated "Jump Rope and Hoops for Heart." blood on Sunday, their Ceil Ginger, Hillel physical education children were collecting teacher, said sponsors made donations contributions for heart on behalf of students participating in disease an...…
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…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 ...…
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