Monday, November 12, 2012
Jewish Book Fair at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield and Oak Park runs through Nov. 18.
The 61st annual Jewish Book Fair rolls on this week at the West Bloomfield Jewish Community Center, offering a diverse array of art, music, and speakers as a tribute to the written word through Nov. 18. However, none will offer a story quite like that of Irene Miller's, a West Bloomfield resident who fled from her home nation of Poland for the Soviet Union on the brink of the Holocaust in 1939. Miller's first-person, historical take on her journey, titled Into No Man's Land, is the first book she has had published. She is scheduled to speak at the book fair on Sunday, as part of a panel celebrating local authors. A sense of tikkun olam, or a sacred prescription taught in Judaism to repair the world, stayed with Miller throughout her family…
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Sunday, October 14, 2012
Jewish Book Fair at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield and Oak Park will be held Nov. 7-18.
The 61st annual Jewish Book Fair kicks off Nov. 7 at the West Bloomfield Jewish Community Center, offering a diverse array of art, music, and speakers as a tribute to the written word. Among the speakers are Jordan Zaslow, daughter of world-renowned author and columnist Jeffrey Zaslow of West Bloomfield. Zaslow passed away Feb. 10 in an auto accident while on a promotional tour in Northern Michigan. Zaslow's family settled in West Bloomfield and as his work grew from gracing the pages of The Wall Street Journal to several New York Times bestselling books, they were involved with local public schools and nonprofit organizations. Zaslow's book The Magic Room: A Story about the Love We Wish for Our Daughters, released earlier this year, has …
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Jewish Community Center
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Monday, April 30, 2012
The event which began April 22 ends Thursday.
This week, don't miss your last chance to: On Tuesday, the Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival promises to hit the West Bloomfield Jewish Community Center with an "Israeli reality" courtesy of filmmaker-in-residence and guest from Israel, Galit Roichman. Roichman, a graduate of Tel Aviv University, screenwriter and online editor of popular Israeli web portal Ynet, will be the speaker for a lunch and learn beginning at noon on May 1 at the JCC, and she will host talk-backs following several films that highlight life in Israel: Strangers No More and Homecoming (showing together) and Restoration. Festival Director Rachel Ruskin describes Roichman as "a captivating speaker" with an impressive knowledge of Israeli film. "You buy a ticket to an …
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Friday, April 13, 2012
The Jewish Community Center will host special guest Israeli filmmaker Galit Roichman for the 14th annual event that runs April 22-May 3.
For the 14th year, the Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival will take over the West Bloomfield Jewish Community Center, starting April 22. This year, organizers promise an "Israeli reality" courtesy of a special guest filmmaker who knows day-to-day life in Tel Aviv firsthand. Doors to the Jewish Community Center open at noon April 22 for the 12-day event featuring more than 30 films and guest speakers, including filmmakers from Michigan and filmmaker in residence Galit Roichman. "Each one of these films is like entering another world, like going on a once-in-a-lifetime adventure," first-year festival Director Rachel Ruskin said in a news release. "You buy a ticket to an Israeli film and you meet Israeli reality enlarged on the big screen, …
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Monday, March 19, 2012
Here's a look at some of the award-winning scholastic art.
More than 30 West Bloomfield-area middle and high school students have been recognized as award-winning artists in the 2012 Southeastern Michigan Region of the Scholastic Art Awards. Sponsored by the national nonprofit Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, the Scholastic Art & Writing Competition receives more than 140,000 submissions annually from more than 77,000 students in grades 7– 12. From those submissions, 1,000 winners are selected nationwide. The Southeastern Michigan Region of The Scholastic Art Awards is sponsored by the College for Creative Studies. This year, five students from the West Bloomfield area were awarded with a Gold Key — Erica Noelle Bauer, Krysten Caudle, Shay Gabbara, Hailey Rozenberg, and Akbar Husain — all of …
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West Bloomfield High School
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College for Creative Studies
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Frankel Jewish Academy
6600 W Maple Rd, West Bloomfield, MI
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West Hills Middle School
2601 Lone Pine Rd, West Bloomfield, MI
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Violinist Dave Reed was honored earlier this year with a Teacher of the Year award.
Andover High School music teacher Dave Reed will perform in Bend The Knotted Oak, a chamber music concert 7:30 p.m. Aug. 31 at the Orchard Lake Community Church Presbyterian, 5171 Commerce Road. The accomplished violinist will perform with his brother Robert, a cello professor at Eastern Michigan University, and pianist and relative Uel Wade in three performances across the state this week. The concerts will feature music by Haydn, Clarke, Svoboda and Beethoven, and are dedicated to Reed’s aunt, Barbara Davis. “Barbara is the person who suggested we form this ensemble,” Reed said. “She lives in Kalamazoo at Friendship Village, a retirement community and one of our venues. There are a number of local and professional ensembles that give …
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Bloomfield Hills Andover High School
4200 Andover Rd, Bloomfield Hills, MI
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5171 Commerce Rd, Orchard Lake, MI
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Sunday, February 20, 2011
The new Berman Center at the JCC is scheduled to open March 23 with appearance of composer Marvin Hamlisch.
In the next few months, the new Berman Center for the Performing Arts at the Jewish Community Center will feature renowned American conductor and composer Marvin Hamlisch, famous Israeli musician David Broza and Broadway star Patty LuPone. But the biggest stars of all may just be Madeleine and Mandell “Bill” Berman, the local philanthropists who provided $4 million toward the $6.5 million cost of the theater at Maple and Drake roads, and toward its permanent endowment. The theater, which opens with the March 23 appearance of Hamlisch, hosts Broza on March 26 and LuPone on May 23. A Navy veteran, Bill Berman had a successful business career in the housing and construction industry as president of Bert L. Smokler & Co. from 1946-1975. He …
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