JCC Spring 2016 Program Guide

Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit Program Guide Spring 2016

Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit THE MISSION of the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit is to support Jewish unity, ensure

Jewish continuity and enrich Jewish life while conveying the importance of well-being within the Jewish and general community and the people of Israel.

ACCESS AND INCLUSION

To support our mission of inclusion, the Jewish Community Center welcomes everyone to use our facilities and participate in our programs.

LOCATION

HOURS

D. Dan & Betty Kahn Building Eugene & Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus 6600 W. Maple Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48322

Monday-Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

248.661.1000

5:30 a.m.-9 p.m.

5:30 a.m.-6 p.m.

6 a.m.-6 p.m.

6 a.m.-6 p.m.

Spring 2016 Holiday Hours PASSOVER Friday, April 22 5:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. Building open 3 p.m. CDC closed 3:30 p.m. Building closed Saturday, April 23 6 a.m. - 6 p.m. South Wing open 6:30 p.m. South Wing closed Sunday, April 24 6 a.m. - 6 p.m. South Wing open 6:30 p.m. South Wing closed Gallery closed

Thursday, April 28 5:30 a.m. - 9 p.m. South Wing open 3:30 p.m. Offices closed 9:30 p.m. South Wing closed Friday, April 29 5:30 a.m. - 6 p.m. South Wing open 6:30 p.m. South Wing closed CDC/Offices closed

MEMORIAL DAY Monday, May 30 7 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. South Wing open 5 p.m. South Wing closed CDC/Offices/Gallery closed

Saturday, April 30 6 a.m. - 6 p.m. South Wing open 6:30 p.m. South Wing closed

Save $$$ on Your Membership!

Invite a friend to join the JCC. When he/she signs up, you receive $$$ off the price of your membership.

For details: membership@jccdet.org or 248.432.5436

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Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit • Spring 2016

Executive Committee President Brian D. Siegel

Chair, Executive Committee Florine Mark

Vice Presidents

Howard Iwrey H. Barry Levine, Finance Eric Lumberg Mark Rubenfire Nathan Upfal, Legal Affairs Rick Zussman

TABLE OF CONTENTS Membership and Fitness........................................................................4 Try it, You’ll Like it!.................................................................................5

Treasurer

Terry Hollander

JCC Day Camps........................................................................................6

Secretary

Pitt Child Development Center.............................................................. 7

Jeremy Wolfe

Executive Committee Members at Large Michael Berger Miriam Bergman Carol Weintraub Fogel Ilana Glazier Martin Hollander Steve Lefkofsky Scott Small

Board of Directors

Barbara Bloom, Honorary Stacy Brand Jeffrey F. Budaj Stuart Carlin Carrie Cohen Suzan Curhan Ben Falik Stephen Feldman Dennis Frank Dr. Sonia Gonte Scott Isner Howard Katz Alan J. Kaufman Shari Kaufman Susan Lutz Jerold R. Minkin Donna Pearlman Evelyn Rosen Jared Rothberger Bassie Shemtov Malke Torgow Steve Weisberg

Friends for Life........................................................................................9 Special Needs....................................................................................... 10 Kids All Together Comedy Night.......................................................... 10 We Take Our Hats Off to........................................................................11 Sports & Recreation............................................................................. 12 Inline Hockey ....................................................................................... 13 Aquatics................................................................................................. 14 The Berman Center for the Performing Arts...................................... 16 Shalom Street ...................................................................................... 17 Janice Charach Gallery......................................................................... 18 Event Planning at the JCC.................................................................... 19 The Active Life/Russian Jewish Life....................................................20 Jewish Parents Institute (JPI)............................................................... 21 Institute for Retired Professionals (IRP)............................................ 21 Henry & Delia Meyers Library and Media Center..............................22 Jewish Gay Network (JGN)....................................................................22

Immediate Past President Florine Mark

Seminars for Adult Jewish Enrichment (SAJE)....................................23

Past Presidents

Annual Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival........................................23

Douglas A. Bloom Mark Davidoff Harry M. Eisenberg Irwin L. Elson Sidney Freedland Sharon Hart Thomas I. Klein Hannan Lis Richard J. Maddin Florine Mark Todd Sachse Brian D. Siegel Robert Slatkin Charles G. Stone Joel D. Tauber Lawrence A. Wolfe

Executive Staff

James Issner, CEO

Leslee Magidson, Assistant Executive Director

Center Travel ........................................................................................24 JCC Maccabi Games & ArtsFest............................................................25 Dr. Larry D. Sills JCC Memorial Golf Outing.........................................25 The Matthews Sports Exhibit...............................................................26 Sponsors................................................................................................26 Pillars of Light....................................................................................... 27

Unless otherwise noted, catalog prices ($55/$65) indicate JCC member/non-member.

Larry Poupard, CFO

Mort Plotnick, Executive Director Emeritus

Programs subject to change. Please visit www.jccdet.org for updates.

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JCC MEMBERSHIP

A membership at the JCC is a great way to fuel your mind, body and soul!

How To Join

We’d love to help you find the perfect membership. For more information, please email us or give us a call: membership@jccdet.org or 248.432.5436.

CULTURAL

TEEN (Ages 11-18)

Discounts on JCC cultural programs and more

Basketball courts • Swimming pools • Free weights (14 and older) • Discount for Kenny Goldman Basketball League

FITNESS

GENERAL

Discounts on all programs and events

Discounts on all programs and events

Basketball courts

Basketball courts

Basketball courts

Swimming pools

Swimming pools

Swimming pools

Free weights (14 and older)

Free weights (14 and older)

Free weights (14 and older)

Track

Track

Track

General locker room privileges

Cardio floor

Cardio floor

Discounts on purchases throughout the building

Fitness classes (more than 80 every week)

Fitness classes (more than 80 every week)

General locker room privileges

Executive locker room privileges

Discounts on purchases throughout the building

Sauna, steam room, Jacuzzi

General, Fitness and Executive memberships include discounts to:

• Pitt Child Development Center • Russian Jewish Life • SAJE (Seminars for Adult Jewish Enrichment) • Shalom Street parties and other private events • Sports and Rec classes

• The Active Life programming and events • Annual Jewish Book Fair • The Berman Center for the Performing Arts • JCC Day Camps – summer and break camps • Center Travel • Department of Special Needs • Inline Hockey Center • IRP (Institute for Retired Professionals) • JCC Lenny Krayzelburg Swim Academy • Kenny Goldman Basketball League • Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival

Fitness and Executive membership levels include: • Top-of-the-line equipment • Outstanding personal trainers • Televisions at treadmills and cardio machines • Clean, well-appointed locker rooms

MORE THAN 80 CLASSES EACH WEEK: Aqua Mix and Hydrotone Fit Ball and Weights Zumba Zumba Gold Aqua Zumba

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EXECUTIVE

Discounts on all programs and events

NIA Pilates Pilates Barre Drums Alive Sit and Be Fit Step

Yoga Kick Fit Tai Chi TRX Latin Dance Basic Back Care

Healthy Body and Core Spin Muscle Jam Basic Training AND MANY MORE!

Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit • Spring 2016

Complimentary babysitting Discounts on purchases throughout the building

Jimi Varner’s

Incredible Boot Camp You’ve seen him on MTV’s

“I Used To Be Fat.”

Now YOU can get in shape with the incomparable Jimi Varner!

A consultant on “The Biggest Loser,” Jimi is an author, Hall of Fame pro wrestler, served as adviser for the 2014 Winter Olympics ice dancing team and is a personal trainer certified by the American Council on Exercise.

Come experience Jimi Varner’s Boot Camp 6-7 a.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday at the JCC. Perfect for all ages and fitness levels (modifications available for every exercise), this program focuses on strength, cardio, mobility, flexibility and balance.

No two classes are the same, so you will never be bored!

Try It – You’ll Like It! Good friends. A great workout. Culture. Plenty of nice people.

Why Millie Zivov loves the JCC. At 86 years old, Millie Zivov is making her mother’s dream come true.

As a little girl, Millie grew up in an area that was home to few Jewish families. Her mother, Regina Friedmann, always hoped her daughter would make some good Jewish friends.

“Now, I walk into the Center and I want to tell my Mom, ‘I’m with Yiddishe kinder!’” Millie says. “Being here - it’s like something I’ve never had before. I can hear Jewish lectures, read Jewish books, be with friends.”

And, she says, she loves that the Jewish Community Center is open to everyone, offering a multiculturalism that “is wonderful. It’s even more interesting here because we have that.”

Millie, who lives in West Bloomfield, grew up in Detroit. Her parents emigrated from Hungary and settled in the northwest part of the city because it was affordable, but they found it challenging because so few Jewish families lived nearby. Still, it was a wonderful place to grow up.

“It was like a Norman Rockwell setting,” Millie says. No one kept locked doors. All the kids played together. In the summer, neighbors sold vegetables from their gardens to help raise money for the war effort, and in the winter the couple across the street from Millie flooded their deep backyard so it would freeze, creating a skating rink where everyone was welcome.

Regina’s family made certain that the children stayed connected to Judaism: on the High Holidays, they walked five miles to the synagogue, and when Millie’s uncle came for a visit from the Bronx he always brought “a lecture about moving and a box of chocolatecovered cherries.”

Regina’s hope that her daughter might find a Jewish friend came true when Millie was invited to a bar mitzvah party where she met Nancy Magid, “who took me under her wing.”

Thanks to Nancy, Millie began attending parties and events where she met other Jewish young men and women, including one named Harry who made a brief but critical appearance in her life.

One afternoon Harry called and asked: “Millie, will you go out on a date with me?”

Millie was 17.

Harry? Oh gosh, not Harry. Millie was not going out with him! Harry, she told her mother, “is so not cute!”

But Regina talked her into it. He’s a nice Jewish boy! It’s just one evening! She would have fun!

She could even get something new to wear!

“So I got a nice outfit out of it, at least,” Millie says today, laughing.

Millie and Harry went to a post-Yom Kippur dance where Millie discovered that 1.) Not only was Harry so not cute 2.) He was so not for her. But while they were there, another boy passed by and brushed against Millie.

“He had blue eyes, a cute nose and wavy hair,” she remembers.

A friend of Millie’s caught up with her a few days later. “There’s going to be a guy calling you,” she said with a coy smile. “But be warned: He’s got hands like an octopus!”

Millie wasn’t worried in the least. “I can handle that,” she said. (And in fact, Bernie turned out to be “a real gentleman.”)

Bernie did call, and he asked Millie to a dance.

But it wasn’t going to be just the two of them.

Instead, Bernie - a brilliant dancer - brought along another girl, “a back-up, because he didn’t think I knew how to Lindy [hop]!”

Bernie fell in love. Millie fell in love, too, and in case she ever forgot how fortunate she was to be with the kind of guy who had hands like an octopus and brought another girl along on a date, her future mother-in-law was there to remind her: “He’s a regular Clark Gable! You don’t know how lucky you are!”

After the two married, Millie studied social work at Michigan State University, and Bernie was a student at the Detroit College of Law – as were hundreds of others who had just come back from WWII. But then inspired by his grandfather, who had been a boot maker in Lithuania, and his father, who made orthopedic shoes - Bernie decided to open his own store, Greg Shoes, which he named after his first son.

Millie had worked for much of her young life – in a drugstore owned by Julius Spielberg, and for an insurance agency after she married. But when she and Bernie started having children, Millie stayed at home fulltime to look after the kids - and their parents.

By the time Millie turned 58, her parents and in-laws had died and her two sons and one daughter were grown and out of the house.

Millie decided to learn about computers.

It was a challenge. The computers were ridiculously big and complicated, and the moment you mastered one the technology had changed and it was time to learn another. “It drove me nuts,” she says.

So Millie went in search of employment.

An acquaintance heard that a lawyer named Harvey Altus was looking for an assistant, and she encouraged Millie to give him a call.

Millie didn’t think it would fly. The guy would want someone with legal expertise, she was sure of that! She called anyway.

“Do you know the difference between a

Bernie (z”l) and Millie Zivov plaintiff and a defendant?” he asked.

Well, of course she did.

Okay, she was an expert!

And besides, the other candidate for the job was a beautiful blonde 20-something. “Too many boyfriend problems,” Altus told her.

Millie was hired and she stayed into her 25th year, bringing her boss chicken soup when he worked late into the night, taking him lunch weekly and fresh fruit for a pick-me-up in the afternoon. She became close with his wife and then his children, too. She loved to take the kids to play mini-golf and babysit when the Altuses went out of town.

So far, it has been a full life and mostly a great life. Of course, living takes a lot of stamina. Millie deals with her challenges by keeping fit.

Millie was a member of another health club when she and her husband moved to West Bloomfield. When Bernie mentioned that he’d heard about a special on JCC memberships, Millie decided to take a look.

It took all of 2 seconds for her to decide this was the place for her.

What did she love about the JCC? First, it’s the people. “They’re all so sweet and kind,” she says. The attendants at the fitness center “knock themselves out to help you.” All the staff is “warm and inviting.

People are just so nice and accommodating.”

It’s also the classes. Millie goes to TRX, water aerobics and yoga. She loves swimming, walking and going on the Cybex machine.

“My mother has always been an inspiration to me, incredibly resilient and strong,” said Millie’s daughter, Julie. “The JCC is her home away from home. I’m so grateful she’s a member. It plays a huge part in her life in reference to staying active and social.”

Say you’re busy or out of shape, you’ve got so much on your plate or you just can’t manage another project and Millie is likely to give you that, “Oh, really?” look.

She has overcome plenty in her life, too, so no whining, please.

“Just try it,” she says. “Maybe start with the yoga. You’ll be able to do it. And then you’ll thank yourself because you’ll feel so much better. I mean it. You’ll love it!” ❂

Programs subject to change. Please visit www.jccdet.org for updates.

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JCC DAY CAMPS Howard Gutman, director: 248.432.5458 or hgutman@jccdet.org

It’s going to be a GREAT summer at JCC Day Camps!

Register today at www.jccdet.org/daycamps

REMINDER:

Why JCC Day Camps?

Friendship

Independence

Activity

Jewish Values

Confidence

At camp there’s no competition (except the friendly kind), no homework, tests, or pressure to get good grades, allowing kids to develop confidence and become empowered to face new challenges and situations.

Exploring Talents

JCC Day Camps allow kids the chance to do what they love, working with

$50 credit

professional staff from every field who help them develop existing talents and learn new skills.

The closeness children share as they play and learn together helps them develop compassion, make friendships that last a lifetime and learn to work with many different kinds of people.

With swimming and hikes in the woods, sports and games, camp means being active, which is vital for mental, physical and spiritual well-being.

Refer a new camper and receive a

Camp is a safe and structured environment where children learn to think for themselves and make good choices.

While each JCC day camps has its own culture and program, we share a commitment to bringing to life the values of the JCC movement. Chesed (compassion), kehillah (community), tikkun olam (repairing the world), ruach (spirit) and hachnassat orchim (welcoming guests) are woven into the fabric of our camp communities.

Friday, March 11: Last day to save 10% off your camp tuition when you register and pay in full.

Monday, June 20: Hooray! It’s the first day of JCC Day Camps!

toward a future JCC Day Camps program!

Upcoming Break Camps Break Camp: Tuesday, March 1 and Friday, March 25 Spring Break Camp: Monday-Friday, April 4-8

Bring your kids for sports, arts and crafts, swimming, games and MORE! Daily rate: Just $40 per child (JCC member) and $55 (non-member) One FREE day for anyone who has never registered for a JCC Day Camps program!

AM and PM care available 7:30-8:30 a.m. and 3:30-6 p.m. (additional charge) Register at www.jccdet.org/breakcamp

Contact us at 248.432.5458 or camp@jccdet.org

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Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit • Spring 2016

SARAH & IRVING PITT CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER Fredelle Schneider, director: fschneider@jccdet.org or 248.432.5439 www.jccdet.org/pittcdc

Father/Toddler Nursery Gym, with Barbara Cantor

Sunday 9:30-11:30 a.m.

February 28-May 22 $220/$252 (18-36 months) (11 weeks) Father or grandfather and toddler experiment with art media, music, marching and creative play. Kosher snack included.

Parent/Toddler Nursery Gym, with Barbara Cantor

Thursday 9:30-11:30 a.m.

March 3-May 26 $280/$321 (18-36 months) (14 weeks) Parent or grandparent and toddler experiment with art media, music, marching and creative play. If you are interested in class on a different day, please contact our office.

We need a minimum of four students to hold a class, which is available MondayFriday.

Piano, with Galina Feldman

10 private sessions $200/$220 (4 years and older) The teacher will schedule day and time for private lessons. No class the weeks of April 18-22 and April 25-29.

Music Time, with Galina Feldman

Yoga for Kids, with Lisa Redmond

Tuesday 1:15-1:45 p.m.

March 1-May 31 $168/$200 (3-5 years) (12 weeks) Children gain confidence and a sense of accomplishment as they improve physical self-control. No class the weeks of April 18-22 and April 25-29.

Cheer, Cheer, Cheer, with Lisa Redmond

Tuesday 5-5:30 p.m.

March 1-May 31 $168/$200 (3-5 years) (12 weeks) Students learn basic motions including drills, jumps, dances and tumbling. No classes the weeks of April 18-22 and April 25-29.

Movin’ and Groovin,’ with Lisa Redmond

Tuesday 3:30-4 p.m.

March 1-May 31 $168/$200 (3-5 years) (12 weeks) Students learn hip-hop moves, and classes include warm-ups that help build stamina and improve strength. At the end of the session, family will be invited to see how kids mastered this funky class. No classes the weeks of April 18-22 or April 25-29.

To register for classes, please contact Bri Keslacy: 248.432.5593 or bkeslacy@jccdet.org.

It’s time for the Pitt CDC’s wonderful

MOM 2 MOM SALE! Sunday, March 20 • 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.

AT THE JCC

8 ft. tables: $25 for the first table, $20 for each additional table Rack spaces: $5 (you must provide your own rack) Large items: $2 each Vendor table: $40 per 8 ft. table For a contract, please email: mom2momjcc@gmail.com

Spring Preschool Play Days

Calling all kids ages 2½ – 4½ (must be potty trained)!

You’re invited to join us for swimming, arts and crafts, outdoor play (weather permitting), stories, games, puzzles and more!

Monday-Friday, April 18-22 and Monday-Thursday, April 25-28 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

• Lunch included • JCC members $62/Non-members $78 • Extended care (7-9 a.m./3:30-6 p.m.) available for a fee This institution is an equal opportunity provider.

Friday 11:30-12:15 p.m.

March 4-May 27 $173/$205 (Newborn-3 years) (11 weeks) Child and parent bond with singing, moving, playing instruments, listening to recordings and exploring sounds. No class the weeks of April 18-22 and April 25-29.

Tiny Trebles Choir, with Galina Feldman Thursday 12:45-1:30 p.m.

March 10-May 19 $120/$140 (3-5 years old) (8 weeks) Includes warmups, vocal development and rehearsal techniques. Students perform in the Pitt CDC dance recital in May. No class March 24, April 21 or April 28.

Programs subject to change. Please visit www.jccdet.org for updates.

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Sarah & Irving Pitt Child SarahDevelopment & Irving PittCenter Jewish Community Center ChildThe Development Center of Metropolitan Detroit

The Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit

Open House Come see our program in action!

Wednesday, March 9 and Thursday, March 10, 2016 • 9:30-11 a.m. ✿ Year-round programming for infants, toddlers, preschool and kindergarten

✿ Four-star rating from the statewide program Great Start to Quality

✿ Academic readiness and values curriculum ✿ Greater number of school weeks than any other program in Michigan

✿ Flexible scheduling ✿ Instructional swim, gym and music, plus weekly visits to cooking, science and computer labs included in tuition

✿ Winter and spring break programming

✿ Security system with key card entry ✿ Romp-and-roll room with climbers, air bouncer and riding toy

✿ Beautiful outdoor playgrounds ✿ We stay open when other schools close because of winter weather!

Current CDC families:

You will receive $50 off your May tuition per new family who attends the Open House, signs up and makes a deposit that day, and mentions your name.

For more information about the JCC’s Pitt Child Development Center, please visit www.jccdet.org/pittcdc, call 248.432.5582 or email fschneider@jccdet.org 8

Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit • Spring 2016

Friends for Life A teacher, her student and a spectacular Child Development Center.

In 2002, the typical 4 or 5 year-old was dreaming of adding the Harry Potter Chamber of Secrets set to his LEGO® collection, was immersed in a new computer game called Super Bubble Pop and started the day by eating a bowl of cereal before heading off to kindergarten.

Max Olson was also making a friend for life.

Fourteen years ago Max was enrolled at the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit’s Sarah & Irving Pitt Child Development Center (CDC), where his kindergarten teacher was Dee Lewin, known to students as “Miss Dee.” She was such a good teacher and played such an important role in his life that the two have kept in contact all these years, and Miss Dee has watched a bright and kind little boy develop into a thoughtful young man.

“Max was the kid who was always the best helper, who cares a lot about other people,” she says. He was “a very funloving boy, and now he really thinks things out.”

One of places Max learned how to do that was at the CDC. Today Max is 18 and lives in West Bloomfield with his parents, Sheldon and Stacey. When he first came to the CDC he was a baby, then a toddler, and finally a kindergarten student.

He loved Miss Dee’s class.

“We were all excited to do everything there!” he says. The program was structured and organized, with lessons in math, computers, science and art, but it was a happy and easy learning environment, too, Max says. “Miss Dee was always smiling,” and it was clear that she loved teaching.

One of Max’s kindergarten favorites was a computer game called Pajama Sam. Sam was a charming little guy with turquoise hair who wore (appropriately enough) pajamas and a red cape.

Together with his friends Xing (a cart), Otto (a boat) and Florette (a piece of broccoli), Sam learned how to make his way through the world. It wasn’t just that

Pajama Sam was fun; Max remembers that the game helped him develop critical thinking skills. “As I became progressively better at the game, I learned how to figure out patterns and understand more complex ways of looking at problems and scenarios,” he says.

Through team-building activities and play time in class, Max also learned how to make friends with all different kinds of people – including Miss Dee. Dee Lewin, of Southfield, had been teaching kindergarten for several years when Max came to her class. It was, she says, her “dream job.”

“Kindergarteners are at that age when they know they’re not preschoolers anymore; now they’re the big kids, and they’re so eager to learn,” she says.

Decades ago, kindergarten involved mostly making art projects, playing games and learning colors and letters.

In the past 20 years, however, it has become much more about learning to read and math readiness.

What makes a successful academic program for young children? The right teacher is a must. The teacher has to be the kind of person who knows how

to manage an entire class – and understand and address the needs of each child.

Miss Dee immediately recognized Max as “an extremely caring and open-minded child,” she says. “He was always listening to everyone’s opinions and accepting of new ideas.”

She, too, remembers how Max made friends (some of whom he is still close with), how he and other students were so open to discovery, and how they learned how to be “kind to each other and respectful and play together.”

After kindergarten at the CDC, Max attended Lone Pine Elementary, then West Hills Middle School and finally Bloomfield Hills High School, from which he’ll graduate this year. He kept his connection to the JCC while working as a counselor for different age groups, as well as with kids who have special needs, at JCC Day Camps, a place he describes as “like a second home.” While at summer camp, he made it a point to stop in and say hello to Miss Dee, and during the year they kept in touch with phone calls. And when Max became bar mitzvah, he knew exactly who he wanted to light one of his candles at the candle-lighting ceremony, held at Temple Israel.

“I was so surprised, and touched!” Miss Dee says.

These days Max is getting ready to attend Oakland University and then become a psychologist.

Meanwhile, he still makes it a point to reach out to Miss Dee, that terrific teacher who made him eager to learn, who taught him how to think and make friends and understand the world. 4

Programs subject to change. Please visit www.jccdet.org for updates.

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DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL NEEDS Megan Coultas, director: 248.432.5460 or mcoultas@jccdet.org www.jccdet.org/specialneeds

The JCC’s Department of Special needs has spectacular programs for all ages!

Kids All Together (KAT)

Teens All Together (TAT)

Preschool to Grade 9 1:1 inclusion counselor at JCC Day Camps so that children with special needs can participate in all regular activities.

Ages 15-17 and 18-26 Gives participants the chance to enjoy camp activities and learn real-world skills including nutrition and budgeting.

Camp Connect

Year-Round Programs

Kindergarten-Grade 4 3:1 camper-to-counselor ratio gives kids the chance to discover hidden skills, learn new interests and make friends as they attend regular camp.

Early Childhood Inclusion - Preschoolkindergarten 1:1 advocate to the JCC’s Pitt Child Development Center

Special Needs Adventure Program (SNAP) - Grades 5-8 and 9-12 Non-inclusion program for children who wish to participate in regular summer camp and take adventures within the community.

KAT: Swim!

All ages Water safety for those with special needs (includes 1:1 support)

Thursday Night Social Group 18 and older Bingo, Karaoke, dinners, dances, trips to movie theatres and more

Young Adult Social Group Ages 15-30 Social activities including bowling, dinner and Zap Zone

Let’s Get Moving!

Ages 15-30 Fitness classes including swimming, Zumba, Drums Alive and yoga

Mark your calendar for the 2nd Annual

Kids All Together Comedy Night

Thursday, May 5 • Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Mark Ridley’s Comedy Castle in Royal Oak

FEATURING BEN BAILEY

Kids All Together Comedy Night:

A campaign in support of programs for people with special needs

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Before he got behind the wheel of the Cash Cab, Ben Bailey was a stand-up comedian.

A native of New Jersey, Bailey has performed in clubs, theatres and festivals around the world. He starred in two Comedy Central specials, including Netflix’s popular “Road Rage” and “Accidental Ornithology,” and has appeared on HBO, FOX’s “Mad TV,” NBC, “Star Search,” “Last Call with Carson Daly” and “The Late Show.”

Bailey drove the smash hit series “Cash Cab” for more than 400 episodes, winning six daytime Emmy Awards and appearing on “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” “Rachael Ray” and many more!

Reserved seat $30/VIP seat $50 Purchase tickets: www.jccdet.org/katcomedynight $500 Host Committee Sponsor Additional sponsorships available. For information, please contact Ariella Monson, development director, at amonson@jccdet.org or 248.432.5530.

Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit • Spring 2016

We Take Our Hats Off to…

Sarah Deitch, who has knitted dozens of gifts for participants in the JCC’s Thursday Night Social Club!

W

hether you’re worrying about work or household bills, trying to understand your teens or facing a dental procedure, life’s woes will all be a little lighter if you do just one thing, according to West Bloomfield resident Sarah Deitch.

“Knit,” she says. “When you are knitting, you don’t know what’s going on anywhere else. Your mind is just on a project you want to finish. I think it’s fabulous therapy for someone with a lot of problems because it will take them all away. When you’re knitting, you just don’t know what’s going on in your life trouble-wise.”

And when you’re knitting a gift for someone who truly appreciates it, then the click-click of the needles, the gentle conversation with others knitting beside you and the bright ball of yarn that jumps every time you pull it are all the sweeter.

Every week, Sarah Deitch meets with about 15 other women who knit gifts to donate to local hospitals and shelters. Sarah also knits adorable little caps for everyone involved in the Thursday Night Social Club, a popular JCC Department of Special Needs program that offers Bingo, Karaoke, films and more to those 18 and older.

“The participants and caregivers get excited in anticipation of receiving Sarah’s famous knitted hats!” said Megan

Coultas, director of the JCC’s Department of Special Needs.

Sarah Deitch was a little girl when she learned how to knit. As a young married woman, she made Afghans for her children. But she didn’t really become a good knitter until she walked into a store, bought yarn and asked plenty of questions.

“Go to a knitting store,” Sarah says.

“That’s how you learn.”

Sarah’s knitting needles have been with her through good times and very difficult ones, too.

A native of Detroit, she is the daughter of Russian immigrants, the youngest of five children (including an oldest sister, now 104 and living in Sarasota). “My mother taught herself English, and we kids taught her how to use a phone,” she says.

“My father worked in a factory that made brushes for vacuums. They were wonderful, caring people who raised us with a lot of common sense.”

Sarah met her sweetheart, Charles, while he was on furlough during WWII. They wed soon after the war and had been married for 21 years when Charles, only 48, died of a heart attack. “He was a great guy,” Sarah says.

A widow with four children, Sarah and her family survived thanks Megan Coultas and Monee Whitney, staff from the JCC’s Department to government support, of Special Needs, model two of Sarah Deitch’s hats. she says, and “we all pitched in.” She was never the kind to sit around and feel sorry for herself or expect things to be done for her. Not only could she take care of herself and her family, she was there for others when they needed help, too.

“I never knew the word ‘no,’” she says.

Sarah Deitch

“Any time people wanted to get anything done, they knew to see me. ‘Call Sarah,’ they’d say. ‘She’ll get it done for you.’”

Sarah is turning 93 this year, and while she says she can’t do as much as she once did (she had a business as a wedding and party planner), she’s still famously busy helping record donations made to the Northwest Child Rescue Women, working as an usher for the Jewish Ensemble Theatre (JET), doing word search puzzles, serving as a Bingo caller at the Hechtman Apartments, and, of course, knitting.

Sometimes she knits with other women; that’s her daytime work. In the evening, she knits at home, watching channel 10, usually a news program because “I like to see what’s going on in the world.”

What she will not do: sit around doing nothing. “If you don’t keep busy, you rot,” she says.

When she’s at the JCC, Sarah will on occasion see someone wearing one of the hats she made, and it makes her day.

“I love helping people,” she says. ❦

Programs subject to change. Please visit www.jccdet.org for updates.

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SPORTS AND RECREATION Bruce Wineman, director: 248.432.5498 or bwineman@jccdet.org Leah Worthy, assistant director: 248.432.5404 or lworthy@jccdet.org www.jccdet.org/sports

Beginning Sports with Dad

Sunday 10-10:45 a.m.

May 1-June 5 $55/$85 (3-5 years) (6 weeks) Preschoolers spend time with dad and have fun learning beginning sports while playing fun and creative games and interacting with other children.

Little Kickers Soccer

Monday 12:45-1:30 p.m.

May 2-June 6 $46/$70 (3-5 years) (5 weeks) He shoots! He scores! Aspiring soccer players learn the basics through games and drills.

T-Ball

Sunday 11-11:45 a.m.

May 1-June 5 $55/$85 Tuesday 12:45-1:30 p.m.

May 3-June 7 $55/$85 (3-5 years) (6 weeks) Kids learn to play throw, hit, run the bases and field the ball.

Kinder Sports

Thursday 12:45-1:30 p.m.

May 5-June 9 $55/$85 (3 years-Kindergarten) (6 weeks) Kids play floor hockey, kickball, soccer, basketball and more! Class focuses on coordination, socialization, sportsmanship and F-U-N!

CREATE A CLASS! Do you have a new idea for a class?

Would you like to see a class at a different time than offered?

Find six or more participants and we will teach it (depending on gym and instructor availability).

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Tumbling

Friday 12:45-1:30 p.m.

May 6-June 10 $55/$85 (3-5 years) (6 weeks) Preschoolers learn basic skills of gymnastics, including balance beam.

Golf

Grades K-6 Monday 5-6 p.m.

May 2-June 6 $109/$129

Preschool Golf

Wednesday 12:45-1:30 p.m.

May 4-June 8 $99/$119 (6 weeks) TGA offers the country’s only National Golf Enrichment program to introduce America’s youth to the fun, positive, character-building aspects of the game.

Kenny Goldman Basketball Spring League

• ALL payments due at registration • JCC members: $110 if paid by April 10/ $140 after April 10 • Non-members: $140 if paid by April 10/ $140 after April 10 • Team manager/coach: Please call about team pricing • Add $15 per player for anyone who needs a league jersey • Player’s age determined as of September 1, 2015 • Join as a team (Open League) if you have between 7-10 players and a coach • First practice: April 24 • First game: May 1 • You MUST be registered by April 10 • Parent coaches are needed! The success of our league relies on good coaching.

Indicate your interest on the bottom of your child’s registration form or call Bruce Wineman at 248.432.5498 or Leah Worthy at 248.432.5404 Evaluations are on April 10 8U-1 p.m.

10U 2:30 p.m.

12U 4 p.m.

14U 5:15 p.m.

6U, 18U and 18-20: No evaluations

Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit • Spring 2016

Fourth Annual Memorial Day Family 2-on-2 Basketball Tournament Sunday May 29 at 1 p.m.

Divisions for 6U + parent, 8U + parent, 10U + parent, 12U + parent • Entry fee $50/family (cash or credit cards only) • Each team is guaranteed three games.

Games are 15 minutes each or 16 points for 6 and 8U/21 points for 10U and 12U • Pool to bracket play • Trophies and other prizes for first, second and third place in each division • Father/son, mother/daughter, mother/ son and father/daughter For more information or to register, call Bruce Wineman at 248.432.5498 or Leah Worthy 248.432.5404.

Spring Basketball Clinic with Southfield Native and International Star Denarryl Rice!

Grades 3-5 and 6-9 Monday-Friday April 4-8 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

Daily Rates $35 JCC members/$45 non-members Weekly Rates $160 JCC members/$210 non-members To register by March 31, call Bruce Wineman at 248.432.5498 or Leah Worthy at 248.432.5404.

PICKLE BALL is coming to the JCC!

Join us for an introduction to this great game on Thursday, March 3 at 1:30-3:30 p.m. in the gym.

Regular pickle ball sessions will be Thursday, 1:30-3:30 p.m.

For more information, call Marilyn Wolfe, 248.432.5471

INLINE HOCKEY Vinny Jalaba, director: vjalaba@jccdet.org or 248.432.5584 The Edward & Shirley Rosenberg Complex houses two inline hockey rinks, a newly renovated track plus table tennis.

Never skated? Don’t have the slightest idea about equipment?

Staff at the Inline Hockey Center are here to get you started!

From classes and leagues to parties and rentals, we offer something for everyone. We look forward to you joining our hockey family.

For more information, please visit www.jccdet.org/inlinehockey Registration deadline for all programs is March 25.

Learn To Skate

Ages 4 - 10 April 12- May 31 Tuesday 4:30-5:15 p.m. $70/$80 We can provide equipment!

Intro to Hockey

Ages 4 - 14 April 12- May 31 Tuesday 5:15-6 p.m. $70/$80 We can provide equipment!

Organized leagues with games Youth Roller Hockey Leagues

Ages 6 - 14 8u, 10u, 12u, 14u, 18u April 3 – June 26 Sunday 1-4:30 p.m. $130/$150 Ask about our loaner equipment!

Adult House Leagues

Ages 25 and older April 3 – June 26 Sunday 8:10-10:30 a.m. $175/$195 Ages 30 and older April 4 - June 27 Monday 6:10-9:30 p.m. $175/$195 40 and older April 6 - June 29 Wednesday 6:10-9:30 p.m. $175/$195

Adult Open Teams

• Open leagues include registration for full teams • We offer a variety of days and divisions that differ in caliber • April 3-July 12: 10-game season • $1,300, or $1,200 if paid in full before first game For details: www.inlinehockeycenter.org

RINK RENTALS Reserve time on one of our two rinks.

We rent time for a large variety of activities all year long, including: ✓ Inline hockey ✓ Floor hockey ✓ Soccer ✓ Lacrosse ✓ Birthday parties ✓ Team practices ✓ Dodgeball

Programs subject to change. Please visit www.jccdet.org for updates.

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AQUATICS The JCC Lenny Krayzelburg Swim Academy

At

JCC Lenny Krayzelburg Swim Hours

offered exclusively at JCCs, was founded in 2005 by fourtime Olympic Gold Medalist Lenny Krayzelburg. Using the SwimRight® Method to reward students for each new skill, the year-round academy has taught thousands the importance of water safety and swim techniques. Scheduling is easy and flexible, and certified instructors work to fulfill the goals of each student.

For information or to schedule your FREE evaluation: • Email lennyk@jccdet.org • Call 248.432.5430 • Visit www.jccdet.org/lennyk

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Day

Hours

Sunday

9:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

Monday

3:30-7 p.m.

Tuesday

3:30-7 p.m.

Wednesday

3:30-7 p.m.

Thursday

3:30-7 p.m.

Friday

Closed

Saturday

9 a.m.-2 p.m.

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it

*Contact the LKSA office to inquire about additional scheduling

JCC Lenny Krayzelburg Swim Academy Rates* Class

Instructor/ student maximum ratio

Member**

Non-member

CDC member

Length of class

Private

1:1

$99/month

$110/month

$75

15 minutes

Group

4:1

$70/month

$80/month

$53

25 minutes

Parent/Tot

8:1

$60/month

$70/month

$45

25 minutes

Advanced Parent/Tot

6:1

$70/month

$80/month

$53

25 minutes

Adult

6:1

$99/month

$110/month

N/A

20 minutes

*Billed monthly, based on one class/week. **Swimmer must be a current JCC member to receive member pricing.

Discounts

Families with multiple members enrolled, and students with multiple lessons per week receive 10% off second and subsequent lessons.

Registration Fees

Initial registration fee of $55 per child includes: • Color-coded swim cap • Swim progress book • Lenny K swimsuit (order online) Initial registration fee of $15 per adult includes: • Swim cap Additional books and caps are available for $5.

Annual registration fee after first year is $15 per child/adult with maximum of $35 per family.

Parent/tot registration fee ($45) does not include swim cap.

KAT: Swim!

The Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit believes that everyone deserves the opportunity to learn how to be water-safe. That’s why we developed KAT: Swim! for individuals with special needs.

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KAT (Kids All Together): Swim! promotes water safety and skills – and includes plenty of fun, too!

Open to individuals of all abilities and to everyone in the community, this program focuses on what kids can – not what they cannot – do.

For information, please call Monee Whitney at 248.432.5457.

Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit • Spring 2016

Lenny K Day at the J

AquaClub Swim Teams

Ages 6 and older AquaClub Swim Team, operated by Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or and his team of professional coaches, teaches advanced skills to swimmers interested in competition.

This program is for those ready to work hard and dedicate mind and body to the sport. Practice is held up to five times per week and is divided into levels. USA Swimming-sanctioned meets are an option for junior and senior swim team members.

Bring the entire family to meet four-time Olympic Gold medalist Lenny Krayzelburg!

Sunday, May 22, 2016 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

11 a.m.-12:20 p.m.

Join us at the pool for the JCC Lenny K Swim Academy Showcase!

See our successful JCC LKSA Swim Academy in action. Watch babies and kids perform water safety demonstrations, survival tests, skills and drills.

12:30-2:30 p.m.

Come to Handleman Hall for sports activities, arts and crafts, games, bouncers, vendors, coupons, Olympic scavenger hunt and door prizes. You’ll also be able to meet Lenny K, wear his gold medal, take photos and get autographs!

3-4 p.m.

Advanced swimmers are invited to an Olympic-style workout written by Lenny K., who also will coach and critique.

This event is open to everyone, but it is limited to the first 100 who register.

Advance registration required by noon May 20.

Sign up at the aquatics office or at wwwjccdet.org.

JCC member - $5/swimmer Guest - $10/swimmer

Level

Who Is Lenny Krayzelburg?

Lenny Krayzelburg is a four-time Olympic gold medalist whose career started at the JCC in Los Angeles. As a member of team USA, Lenny won gold medals in backstroke at the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games, and he won gold on the USA team at the World Maccabiah Games in Israel in 2001. He also participated in the 1990 JCC Maccabi Youth Games here in Detroit.

When Lenny retired from swimming in 2005, he dedicated his life to teaching others the joy of swimming, particularly emphasizing water safety and life-long skills. His patented and sophisticated learn-to-swim curriculum, the SwimRight Method®, has been successful for everyone from infants to seniors. Because he appreciated his start at a JCC, Lenny is dedicating his swim academy program exclusively to JCCs.

# Practices/week

Monthly Rate

Pre-swim 1 Pre-swim 2-3 Junior 3-4 Senior 4-5

$45 $90 $120 $140

Practices are held Sunday 1-2:30 p.m. (on non-swim meet days) and MondayThursday 7-8:30 p.m.

Registration to swim in USA-sanctioned swim meets is $25/year.

To register or for more information, contact Nim at nim@aquaswimclub.com or Judy Front at jfront@jccdet.org or 248.432.5430.

ARE YOU READY TO BE A LIFEGUARD? Lifeguarding is a rewarding and in-demand career!

Sign up TODAY for American Red Cross lifeguarding classes at the JCC! 2016 Sessions March 18-20 April 15-17 April 29-May 1 May 27-29 Classes are 4-6 p.m. Friday, and 8:30 a.m.- 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday JCC members $350/Non-members $400

• Upon successful completion of class, participants receive American Red Cross certification.

• Training includes lifeguarding, CPR, First Aid and AED. • Students must attend all days of one session and preregister with a $50 nonrefundable deposit.

• A minimum of six students required for each class.

To register: 248.432.5502 or rbrodsky@jccdet.org

NIM SHAPIRA, who raced in the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games, has been a member of the National Team of Israel since he turned 15. In addition to the Olympics, he has competed in the Maccabiah Games, European Championships and World Championships. Nim was 11 when he started swimming for physical therapy after a knee injury in 2000. Today, he is dedicated to helping each swimmer reach his or her highest potential.

Programs subject to change. Please visit www.jccdet.org for updates.

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THE BERMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Elaine (Hendriks) Smith, director: esmith@jccdet.org or 248.661.1900 theberman.org

5

years...

March 23 marks the fifth anniversary of The Berman. What an extraordinary five years of my life. When I came to the JCC to be director of The Berman, I came with the knowledge of how to run a theatre, how to program the arts, how to do a show, how to make everything we do here professional.

What I didn’t have? Any clue about the JCC. I didn’t know that I would meet and work with people who would make my life infinitely richer. Here’s one example, my dear friend Elizabeth Applebaum. If you don’t know this extraordinary woman, you are truly missing out. She makes every single day I work at the JCC better (and she’s hilariously funny). She appreciates people on a personal level that I rarely see in others. Here’s just one example of why I write that: A few years ago, my daughter was going through a trying few days of her life (as most 20-year-olds do).

I mentioned it to Elizabeth and the next day, Elizabeth had a gift for my daughter, Erin. It contained a note about how wonderful Erin is – a note that brought tears to my daughter’s eyes. Elizabeth knew that Erin needed to know she was

valued, and so she took it on herself to make sure Erin felt that way. WHO DOES THAT?! Elizabeth Applebaum does that.

I admire her and want to be more like her every day.

And she’s just one of the people here that I feel that way about.

Looking back now, I always think of my first department directors’ meeting.

I walked into a room with 25 people who weren’t artists. As I started listening to people in the room it started to sink in.

Not only am I a part of an exciting new adventure with the creation of a new center for the performing arts, I am a part of something much larger: the Jewish Community Center, which is exceptional. As the meeting continued I started to really grasp just how huge the organization is and how many programs and people work toward making it a success. I was astonished, and I continue to be impressed to this day that I am able to be a part of such a wonderful organization.

I didn’t know that I would be here for five years. This is the longest I have ever worked in one place…ever. My entire professional career has been about the temporary. You do a show and it ends, the cast moves on, the production team moves on and you move on. Then your attention needs to turn to your next show because to make excellent art you have to work very hard and give it all of your focus.

I never even considered that I would go on a mission to Israel with 19 others from the community to learn about and spread kindness. I never considered that I would be the director of the JCC Maccabi ArtsFest® or be able to write and direct the opening ceremonies of the JCC

The Michigan Five

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Maccabi Games® & ArtsFest® at the Fox Theatre in Detroit. I didn’t think that I would sit at the table with people like me from JCCs all over the country at least once a year, or have dinner with my friends from the Baltimore JCC’s Gordon Center for the Performing Arts. Life is so rich here at the JCC, and I’m proud to be a part of it.

Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit • Spring 2016

So, the idea that I would stay in one place for five years never crossed my mind. But, I am still here, planning next season (which will be amazing…btw).

I have attended two staff weddings and we have seen three amazingly beautiful babies born, one of whom now runs into the office looking for me a few times a week! And, I’m so happy to be a part of an extraordinary team in The Berman Center for the Performing Arts at the Jewish Community Center of Metro Detroit.

Disney’s Cars

Upcoming Shows at The Berman

SHALOM STREET Andrea Liberman, director: aliberman@jccdet.org or 248.432.5454 www.jccdet.org/shalomstreet

For more information or to purchase tickets: theberman.org or 248.661.1900

Great things are happening at Shalom Street!

“The Wizard of Oz”

Please join us for one or all of these events.

March 3 7:30 p.m.

Tickets: $12 (VIP tables available!)

Book Launch: “Shmulik Paints the Town” by Lisa Rose

Throwback Thursday Series

Swingin’: Rhythm Pace Dance Company March 12 8 p.m.

Tickets: $18-$25

“Disney’s Cars” (Kids’ Series) March 13 1 p.m.

Tickets: $14

The Michigan Five March 19 8 p.m.

Tickets: $18-$25

“Sleeping Beauty” (Kids’ Series) April 3 1 p.m.

Tickets: $14

The Wizard of Oz

Sunday, March 13 1-3 p.m.

Come hear the charming story of a little boy named Ezra and his helpful dog.

Then kids can be just like Ezra and have fun painting a bench!

Followed by book signing by the author.

No charge

Barbara & Douglas Bloom Matzah Factory Sunday, April 10 1-3 p.m.

Sunday, April 17 1-4 p.m.

Experience the exodus from Egypt, make matzah and explore activities in Shalom Street!

No charge

Mitzvah Magic Sunday, May 1 1:30-3 p.m.

You’re invited to a magical afternoon that includes a great story, learning about the magic of mitzvot and a spellbinding performance by a magician!

It’s Your Torah To Explore

Be sure to stop by Shalom Street Museum’s ongoing exhibit, an exciting adventure into the Five Books of Moses! “This is an experiential exhibit that provides a great opportunity for kids and family to learn outside the classroom,” says Shalom Street Director Andee Liberman.

Liberman and Shalom Street Programmer Sarah Katz also developed a treasure hunt so that families can make additional discoveries along the way.

This exhibit, created with the support of the Charles H. Gershenson Fund, was developed specifically for children ages 3-12. There is no charge for admission.

Programs subject to change. Please visit www.jccdet.org for updates.

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JANICE CHARACH GALLERY Kelly Kaatz, director: kkaatz@jccdet.org or 248.432.5579 www.charachgallery.org

PLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR NEWEST EXHIBIT!

Abiogenesis: From Clay to Community

Featuring works by ceramic artists who have contributed to the development of Pewabic and have been shaped by the organization.

Curated by Pewabic’s exhibition committee.

Founded in 1903, the Pewabic studio and school is famous for its iridescent glazes of astonishing depth of color and breathtaking translucent quality. The Pewabic glaze can be seen on Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium, Comerica Park, the Nebraska State Capitol building and Herald Square in New York City, and works are included in collections at the Louvre, the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art.

March 13-April 21 Opening Reception: Sunday, March 13, 1-4 p.m.

Plus: • Please join us at the gallery for a tour with visiting artist Susan Beiner, who will discuss her recent work, at noon Sunday, April 17. No charge.

• Susan Beiner will host a slip-cast assemblage workshop for adults, 1-4 p.m., Saturday, April 16, at Pewabic in Detroit. $125 per person. For more information and to register, call 313.626.2062.

IN THE SIDE GALLERY

Andrew Madvin opened Axiom Glass Studio in Detroit in 2000 after studying at the College for Creative Studies, California College of Art and Pilchuck. His limited edition fine craft and art sculpture evolve as his techniques flourish and his ideas expand. He says of this exhibit: “The material holds an excitement I can feel. I see endless possibilities in form, technique and physical attraction, waiting to be discovered.”

Susan Beiner Unintended Consequences 42"x48" porcelain, wood, foam Art by Andrew Madvin

Coming soon! Corktown Studios Corktown Studios is an artist collective that is contributing to the emerging identity of Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood as a diverse and accessible hub for community oriented creatives.

In the Side Gallery: PD Rearick

May 15-June 16 Opening Reception Sunday, May 15, 1-4 p.m.

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Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit • Spring 2016

Be sure to stop by the Janice Charach Gallery Shop, which contains works from more than 60 local artists. It’s a great place to buy a gift for someone or something for yourself.

The perfect location for your next event!

Whether you’re hosting ✦ A wedding

O

ur elegant banquet hall, comfortable spaces for family gatherings, and meeting rooms of all sizes allow you to find exactly what you need.

✦ Corporate meetings ✦ Bar or bat mitzvah celebrations ✦ Birthday parties ✦ A private dinner or luncheon

Options include: portable dance floor, tables and chairs, linens, audio/video needs, stage and more!

To book your next event at the Jewish Community Center, please contact Sarah Casman:

scasman@jccdet.org 248.432.5536

Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit D. Dan & Betty Kahn Building Eugene & Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus 6600 W. Maple Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48322

www.jccdet.org/specialevents Programs subject to change. Please visit www.jccdet.org for updates.

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THE ACTIVE LIFE/RUSSIAN JEWISH LIFE Noemi Herzig, The Active Life director: nherzig@jccdet.org or 248.432.5466 Ben Opengeym, Russian Jewish Life director: bopengeym@jccdet.org or 248.661.1000

Lise de La Salle

www.jccdet.org/activelife

The Active Life, with programs for older adults, is held at the JCC and throughout the community!

International Woman’s Day Celebration

Concert, dancing and refreshments Sunday, March 13 • 3 p.m.

Handleman Hall - JCC JCC members: $5/General public: $7

Shahida Nurullah in Concert

Jazz, samba, bossa nova and show tunes: Shahida is a master of every genre.

Praised by Downbeat magazine, The New York Times, the Detroit Free Press and Finland’s Rytmi magazine, this Detroit native sings with an unmistakable beauty, power and sincerity.

Accompanied by Cliff Monear.

Tuesday, March 29 • 2 p.m.

The Berman $5 in advance/$7 at the door To purchase: 248.661.1900 or theberman.org

Cantor Daniel Gross in Concert

The Active Life presents a spectacular concert featuring Adat Shalom Synagogue’s outstanding cantor. Please join us for a beautiful afternoon of song.

Tuesday, April 5 • 2 p.m.

The Berman All tickets are $5 in advance and $7 at the door To purchase tickets: theberman.org or 248.661.1900

Piano Solo Concert with the brilliant U-M Professor Vadim Monastyrski!

Sunday, April 10 • 3 p.m.

The Berman JCC members and students: $17 General public: $22 “The combination of virtuoso accomplishment and an artistic personality of remarkable stature is what places Monastyrski in a class all by himself” – The Jerusalem Post

Concert with the J

Please join The Active Life and Russian Jewish Life for a DSO Coffee Concert!

Featuring French piano virtuoso Lise de La Salle playing Rachmaninoff, and Nashville Symphony’s sensational Giancarlo Guerrero conducts Stravinsky’s “Petrushka”.

Friday, April 15 • 10:45 a.m.

At Orchestra Hall JCC members: $10/Non-members: $15 Bus pick-up: West Bloomfield: 8:45 a.m.

Oak Park: 9:15 a.m.

To RSVP or more information: Rosa at 248.432.5467 or Ben at 248.432.5654 Sponsored by the Shirley Harris Fund

Giancarlo Guerrero conducting

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Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit • Spring 2016

Annual Vesna Russian Choir Concert Performing songs in English, Russian, Ukrainian and Hebrew Artistic director: Larisa Matusova Accompanist: Liliya Ostapenko Sunday, May 1 • 3 p.m.

The Berman JCC members and students: $7 General public: $10 To RSVP or for more information: Ben at 248.432.5654

Yom Haatzmaut Celebration!

Please join The Active Life and Russian Jewish Life for a wonderful movie and tasty Israeli treats as we celebrate Israeli Independence Day! Thursday, May 12 • 1:30 p.m.

Greenberg Suite - JCC JCC members: $2/General Public: $4 To RSVP or for more information, contact Ben at 248.432.5654

Russian songwriter and singer Timur Shaov

Saturday, May 14 • 7 p.m.

Handleman Hall - JCC All tickets: $30

Jazz at the J

Everyone’s favorite jazz series returns with a captivating performance by Nicole New and Cliff Monear!

Tuesday, May 24 • 2 p.m.

The Berman All tickets are $5 in advance and $7 at the door. To purchase tickets: theberman.org or 248.661.1900

Vesna Russian Choir

Vadim Monastyrski

JEWISH PARENTS IRP (INSTITUTE FOR RETIRED PROFESSIONALS) INSTITUTE Marilyn Wolfe, educational director: mwolfe@jccdet.org or 248.432.5471

Sharon Levine, director: 248.661.1000 or slevine@jccdet.org

www.jccdet.org/jpi

www.jccdet.org/irp

Are you looking for • An alternative to the traditional religious school?

• An inviting atmosphere where all Jewish families are welcome?

• A secular program where children gain a rich understanding of their Jewish identity?

• A place where families, single parents and interfaith couples work together?

Then consider the Jewish Parents Institute (JPI).

Founded in 1947, JPI meets every Sunday morning at the JCC. Please join us for small, informal groups where teachers bring Jewish culture, history, ethics and heritage to life!

Be sure to ask about our scholarship program.

Model Seder Sunday, April 17 • 10 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

Room 205 - JCC No charge

B’nai Mitzvah Celebration Saturday, May 14 • 10:30 a.m.

Please join us as we honor our newest b’nai mitzvah: Zachary Anderson, Lenna Peterson, Kelly Simakas and Lisa Steinberg Kiddush following the ceremony

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Institute for Retired Professionals

The Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit IRP of the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit (JCC) provides an intellectual and social environment with more than 25 self-directed discussion groups and special events. The community is invited to join IRP for lively conversations about everything from today’s political scene to helping children through college to cutting-edge medical opportunities to understanding the arts.

Where educational and social opportunities are there for you!

SAVE THE DATE

IRP’s 30th Anniversary Celebration Dinner And Entertainment Wednesday, May 25

IRP SPRING MINI-SERIES

Four Fridays at the JCC All programs begin at 11 a.m.

IRP and Beth Shalom members: Free General public: $6/session or $24/series March 11

Aaron Retish

Professor of History, Wayne State University “The End of the Soviet Union and PostSoviet Russia” March 18

Timothy Baughman

Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, Wayne County “Into the Lion’s Den: Presenting Cases in the Second Highest Court in the Land” March 25

Berl Falbaum

Journalist and Author “A Look Behind the Scenes of the Media” April 1

Stephanie Allard

Director of Animal Welfare, Detroit Zoological Society “Detroit Zoo: Then and Now”

IRP GROUPS

All groups are open to IRP members and non-IRP members. Guests are welcome to visit three times prior to joining. Please call for information about meeting times.

IRP groups that meet at the JCC • Art of Money Management • Biographies • Current Events I • Film Study III • History • Implications of Science and Technology • Medical Issues • Music Lovers • National & International Issues • Photography • Play Reading • Short Story IRP groups that meet outside of the JCC • Dinner & Conversation • Gad Abouts • Kindness Corps IRP that meet at Congregation Beth Shalom in Oak Park • Current Events II • Exploring the Visual Arts • Film Study I • IRP Singers • Jewish Thought Through the Ages • Opera • Social Action-Tikun Olam-Social Justice • Study of Poetry

Programs subject to change. Please visit www.jccdet.org for updates.

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HENRY & DELIA MEYERS LIBRARY AND MEDIA CENTER Francine Menken, director: fmenken@jccdet.org or 248.432.5546 www.jccdet.org/library

Please join us for great discussions at our book club!

WEDNESDAYS AT 1:30 P.M. • FREE AND OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY

BOOK CLUB

Wednesday, March 9 1:30 p.m.

“The Mathematician’s Shiva”

by Stuart Rojstaczer

Alexander “Sasha” Karnokovitch wants to mourn his mother, Rachela, with modesty and dignity. But Rachela, a famous Polish emigre, mathematician and professor at the University of Wisconsin, is rumored to have solved the million-dollar NavierStokes Millennium Prize Problem. Rumor also has it that she spitefully took the solution to her grave. To Sasha’s chagrin, a ragtag group of socially challenged mathematicians arrives in Madison and crashes the shiva, vowing to do whatever it takes to find the solution.

Facilitator: Ruth Bergman

The library is located on the lower level of the JCC

STOP BY AND VISIT! Monday–Thursday: 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Friday: 10 a.m.-noon Sunday: 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Books, magazines, newspapers, DVDs, CDs, free WiFi, used book sales, volunteer opportunities and more!

Coloring, Chocolate and Conversation Workshop #2 Thursday, April 7 1:30 p.m.

Our first event was so popular that we’re bringing it back!

Please join us for a relaxing and fun afternoon with coloring, yummy chocolate snacks and terrific conversation. We’ll have coloring sheets and a wide array of pens – or bring your own.

Drop-in fee: $2 To RSVP: Fran Menken at 248.432.5546 or fmenken@jccdet.org

BOOK CLUB

Wednesday, May 18 1:30 p.m.

“Marriage of Opposites”

by Alice Hoffman

From the bestselling author of The Dovekeepers comes a forbidden love story about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro, the father of Impressionism.

Facilitator: Sharon Schwartz

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Generations in Modern Hebrew Poetry -Taught by Dina Routin

Hebrew poetry has been a part of Jewish culture since the time of King David, reflecting both national events and yearnings, and private thoughts.

This series will focus on writing from mid-19th century Europe to contemporary Israel. Classes will consider the individual intentions of poets and the way their works narrate the times, the growth of Zionism and the development of the Hebrew language.

Tuesdays, May 3 - June 21 7 p.m.

JCC members: $40/Non-members: $50 Drop-in fee: $7 Co-sponsored by the JCC’s Seminars for Adult Jewish Enrichment (SAJE) and the Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies

JEWISH GAY NETWORK (JGN) Faith Renner Robinson, director, gnmi@jccdet.org or 248.432.5661 Call for information about our: • F ree To Be Me support group for those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning. Meets at the JCC. •Y ou Are Not Alone group for transgender youth and families. Meets at Temple Israel every second and fourth Thursday of the month. For information: Laura Koziol at 248.661.5700 or laura@temple-israel.org Stay posted for news about our advocate educational workshop, held at the Birmingham Temple, coming soon!

SAJE - SEMINARS FOR ADULT JEWISH ENRICHMENT Adina Pergament, director: apergament@jccdet.org or 248.432.5470 www.jccdet.org/saje

TWO SPECTACULAR EVENTS WITH AVIVAH ZORNBERG!

LUNCH & LEARN

Tuesday, May 31

“’Let Me See That Good Land’: The Story of a Human Life”

7:30 p.m.

At the Michigan Psychoanalytic Society

“The Murmuring Deep”

Moses was a compassionate, wise and humble leader – and one who suffered from a “speech impediment.”

An increasing number of U.S. residents are involved in violent acts motivated

by Islamic extremism. Who are these men and women, and what – if anything – can be done to stop this radicalization?

Please join us for a lunch and briefing with Lauren Steinberg, terrorism analyst for the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism.

Monday, March 14 12:15 p.m.

At the JCC JCC and ADL members, and Friends of Melton: $13 General admission: $18 (Price includes lunch) To purchase tickets: 248.661.1900

Annual Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival!

Please join us for more than 30 films from around the world, including:

“Deli Man”

9:30 a.m.

At the JCC

A revealing look at Moses, the mystery of why he could not enter Canaan and his poignant legacy of speeches just before death.

“Responding to the Call: American Terror Recruits”

FOR THE

May 8-19

“Feminism, Heresy and the Future of Orthodox Judaism” with Professor Adam Ferziger Thursday, March 10 Noon At the JCC

MARK YOUR CALENDAR

What was the nature of this “impediment” and what do biblical, philosophical and psychoanalytic sources say about the role of voice in communication?

Avivah Zornberg grew up in Scotland, where she studied Torah with her father, head of the rabbinical court.

She went on to receive degrees from Cambridge University and move to Israel, where for the past 30 years she has taught Torah at several yeshivot in Jerusalem.

Dr. Zornberg, who also holds a visiting lectureship at the London School of Jewish Studies, travels widely, lecturing in Jewish, academic and psycho- analytic settings.

SAJE is endowed by a generous gift from Cis Maisel Kellman and is supported by Carol & Ronald Fogel, Sheri & David Jaffa and Sophie Pearlstein through the Center’s Pillars of Light program.

The funny and insightful story of a third-generation deli man who has built what is arguably the finest deli in the United States: Kenny & Ziggy’s.

“East Jerusalem West Jerusalem”

Eight days and nights with singer/ songwriter David Broza, who sets out to realize his dream of cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians.

“Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem”

An astonishing account of an Israeli woman who challenges the country’s religious marriage laws.

“In Search of Israeli Cuisine”

A delicious look at the chefs, home cooks, farmers and cheesemakers from the more than 100 cultures that make up Israel.

“My Italian Secret: The Forgotten Heroes”

The incredible true story of Gino Bartalia, an Italian sports idol who risked his life to save Jews during WWII.

“Rock in the Red Zone”

A documentary filmmaker comes to Sderot, a town regularly pummeled by missiles, and discovers music and romance.

Become a patron of the Film Festival!

When you become a patron, you receive two passes for every film and entrance to our VIP patron reception!

For information, please contact Adina Pergament at apergament@jccdet.org or 248.432.5470.

Programs subject to change. Please visit www.jccdet.org for updates.

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CENTER TRAVEL Marilyn Wolfe, director: mwolfe@jccdet.org or 248.432.5471 www.jccdet.org/travel

Come away with us on a great adventure!

Center Travel hosts great trips around the state, the country, the world!

Want to know more? Just call Marilyn Wolfe for a flyer with details about upcoming trips.

“Matilda, the Musical” The Fisher Theatre

Thursday, March 10, 1 p.m. performance $99/$109

“The Tender Land” Macomb Center for the Performing Arts (Dress rehearsal) Friday, March 11, 11 a.m. performance $59/$69

“Calendar Girls” Meadowbrook Theatre

Preceded by lunch at Kruse and Muer Wednesday, March 23, 2 p.m. performance $92/$102

“Love Letters,” with Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal – The Fisher Theatre Thursday, April 14, 1 p.m. performance $85/$95

Toledo Museum of Art

Docent tour of “Indigenous Beauty: Masterworks of American Indian Art,” “Hot Spot: Contemporary Glass” and Jaume Plensa’s “Human Landscape” Lunch (on your own) at the museum cafe Tuesday, April 26 $59/$69

“Kalamazoo” – The Jewish Ensemble Theatre

Sunday, April 3, 2 p.m. performance $105/$115

Preceded by a light dinner at the JCC Thursday, May 5 Dinner at 5:30 p.m., performance at 7:30 p.m. $46/$56

“Dancing Lessons”– The Jewish Ensemble Theatre

“Gaps in the Fossil Record” at the Purple Rose Theatre

“If/Then” – The Fisher Theatre

Preceded by lunch at the JCC and a talk

by Chris Bremer, executive director of the JET and director of “Dancing Lessons.”

Co-sponsored by Congregation Shaarey Zedek Seniors and Shaarey Zedek’s Berman Center for Education Thursday. April 7: Lunch at noon/ performance at 2 p.m. $46/$56

3 p.m. performance preceded by lunch at the Common Grill Wednesday, May 11 $92/$102

“The Magic Flute” Final Dress Rehearsal at the Detroit Opera House 11 a.m. performance Friday, May 13 Please call for prices

ALSO INSIDE THE JCC!

Co-sponsored by the Village in the Woods Tuesday, May 17, 8 p.m. performance Please call for prices

Overnight Travel and Destinations of Distinction Sedona and Las Vegas, plus the Grand Canyon Train: April 12-21

Washington, D.C. June 1-5

Italy with a Jewish Twist

July 10-21 Co-sponsored by Center Travel, Seminars for Adult Jewish Enrichment (SAJE) and the Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies Scholar-in-Residence: Professor Howard Lupovitch Escort: Marilyn Wolfe

Stratford Festival

Wednesday: Thursday August 24 and 25

Stratford Festival

September 14: One-day trip

In addition to all of our activities and programs, we’re proud to serve as the home for the following vendors, services and exhibits:

• BBYO • Coby’s Judaica Shop • David B. Hermelin ORT Resource Center • Frankel Jewish Academy • Israel Bonds • Jewish Ensemble Theatre (JET) • Jewish Historical Society of Michigan

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“The Sound of Music” at the Fisher Theatre

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• Krav Maga • Michigan Jewish Sports Hall of Fame • Adventure Park • Bookstock • JVS • Epicurean/Milk and Honey • Zionist Organization of America

A FEW SPOTS ARE STILL AVAILABLE FOR THE

2016 JCC MACCABI GAMES® & ARTSFEST®!

The Detroit delegation will travel to St. Louis (July 31-August 5) and Stamford (August 7-12).

Registration information can be found at www.maccabidetroit.com, or contact Franci Silver (francisilver27@gmail.com) or Karen Gordon (karengordon44@icloud.com).

23rd Annual Dr. Larry D. Sills JCC Memorial Golf Outing Generously endowed by the Sills family, the Golf Classic provides scholarship support for JCC Day Camps and enriches youth activities at the JCC

June 27, 2016 NEW LOCATION!

Tam O’Shanter Country Club

Honoring Miriam Bergman 11 a.m.

Registration and buffet lunch

12:30 p.m. Shotgun Start/Scramble

5:30 p.m. Open bar and hors d’oeuvres

6:30 p.m. Dinner and program honoring Miriam Bergman 7:30 p.m. Raffle drawing

Miriam Bergman has been involved with

the Jewish Community Center for more than 20 years. The ongoing chair of the JCC Day Camps Committee, she is an avid promoter of the lifelong benefits of camping and the role camp plays in the development of future leaders.

Miriam grew up in Rochester, N.Y., and spent her early summers at Camp Sisol, the day camp affiliated with the Rochester JCC, where she worked her way up from the youngest village through the pre-teen travel program. She then spent 10 summers at Camp Seneca Lake, the overnight camp also affiliated with the Rochester JCC, including four years on staff.

After moving to Michigan, Miriam became chair of the JCC Day Camps Committee, where she has served for 10 years and has been instrumental in bringing about numerous advancements including the addition of specialty and sports camps. Miriam, who works closely with the professional staff and camp committee lay leaders, is especially sensitive to the expense of camp and says she is “extremely grateful for our community’s generosity in providing scholarship funds which help hundreds of children attend camp every summer.”

A member of the JCC Board of Directors, Miriam holds undergraduate and professional degrees from the University of Michigan and practices as a clinical pharmacist in home infusion. She and her husband Ron live in West Bloomfield and have two grown children, all of whom, she says, “attended many family weekends at Camp Tamarack and spent eight wonderful summers at Camp Michigania.”

Programs subject to change. Please visit www.jccdet.org for updates.

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The Matthews Sports Exhibit Be sure to stop by and visit the Matthews Sports Exhibit at the JCC! This impressive exhibit, from the collection of Dr. Robert Matthews, features memorabilia from leading sports stars, past and present, and includes: • An original work of art, depicting 26 current and former Jewish baseball players, that includes autographs and personal inscriptions.

• An autographed copy of the 1948 first edition of Babe Ruth’s autobiography.

• A signed check and a handwritten 1934 income tax return filled out by Morris “Moe” Berg. An American League catcher and coach, a Princeton grad and friend of Albert Einstein, Berg also worked as a spy for the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) before and during WWII. His 1934 photos of Tokyo helped Gen. Jimmy Doolittle plan his 1942 air raid on the Japanese capital.

• Two kippot signed by Sandy Koufax, from only a handful of such items known to exist. The kippot were intended to be given as awards to students at a Jewish religious school.

• A baseball and bat signed by Tigers legend Hank Greenberg.

• Miguel Cabrera’s signed baseballs, bats and batting helmet.

• A program and ticket from the first Super Bowl.

• A football helmet signed by the 1972 Miami Dolphins, the only National Football League team to complete a perfect (17-0) season, including winning the Super Bowl.

• A check signed by legendary Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi.

THANK YOU TO OUR CORPORATE SPONSORS

FINANCIAL ONE ACCOUNTING, INC.

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Pillars of Light Pioneer

Madeleine & Mandell Berman Florine Mark

Visionary

Financial One Accounting, Inc. Meijer

Pacesetter

Nancy & James Grosfeld Joan & Dr. Robert Jampel

Innovator

Barbara & Douglas Bloom Natalie & Manny Charach Jeffrey Charach Credit Union ONE Judith & Irwin Elson Andi & Larry Wolfe

Champion

The Baronette Renaissance

Regent

Maxwell Bardenstein (z”l) Carol & Ron Fogel Terry & Martin Hollander The John & Ella Imerman Foundation The Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Support Foundation Cis Maisel Kellman Kaufman Insurance and Financial Sheri & David Jaffa Group, LLC Minkin Family Foundation Sue & Alan Jay Kaufman Northwest Child Rescue Women Mark/Lis Family Philanthropic Fund The Ravitz Foundation Pet Nosan Rona Rones Sophie Pearlstein Bluma & Robert (z”l) Schechter Karen & Todd Sachse Raymond & Atara Zimmerman Ellen & Ronney Schmier Philanthropic Fund Elaine & Michael Serling Sydelle Sonkin Sally & Louis Soverinsky Esther & Neal Zalenko Henry Ford Health System

ONE GIFT, YOUR GIFT, MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE

Become a JCC Pillar of Light

• Promote education to those who seek wisdom and life-long learning • Enrich programing for children, families and seniors • Support cultural excellence with films, music, art, theater and literature • Demonstrate philanthropic leadership in our community • Become an integral part of our growth and vision • Strengthen communities throughout Metropolitan Detroit

Pillars of Light donate a minimum of $5,000 and receive • Recognition on the JCC donor wall and in programming publications • Discounts on programs and services • Patron event passes to annual cultural events • Invitations to major JCC events • Concierge services Naming opportunities and customized corporate packages are available.

To arrange for a consultation or for more information, please call the Development Department, 248.432.5418, and speak to Dina Routin or Ariella Monson.

Programs subject to change. Please visit www.jccdet.org for updates.

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Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit D. Dan & Betty Kahn Building Eugene & Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus 6600 W. Maple Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48322

Look what’s going on at the JCC! No more snow, spring is here and camp is around the corner!

Development and Sponsorship Opportunities Send a Kid to Camp The Berman Center for the Performing Arts JCC Annual Book Fair Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival Aquatics Department Kenny Goldman Basketball League The Active Life Center Fitness IRP (Institute for Retired Professionals) Janice Charach Gallery Henry & Delia Meyers Library and Media Center Shalom Street Museum Inline Hockey Center Kids All Together - Special Needs Program SAJE (Seminars for Adult Jewish Enrichment) Detroit JCC Maccabi Games and ArtsFest

Each year, the JCC provides more than $600,000 in scholarships. Please help us keep the momentum going!

• Sarah & Irving Pitt Child Development Center • Department of Special Needs programs • Center Fitness (Membership) Did you know that your company may be able to match your gift to the JCC? Please ask if your place of employment participates in a matching gift program and you can double your gift to the JCC! Snow Birds!

If you’re changing your address, please be sure to let us know so you can stay in the know about everything JCC. Send an address, where you’ll be spending the winter months, to: Colleen Alford, Membership Dina Routin, Development Office Rosa Chessler, ACE

T O D O N AT E

› Contact Dina Routin at droutin@jccdet.org or 248.432.5418 › Fill out a donation slip (found at the JCC front desk or the fitness center desk) and we will call you › Visit www.jccdet.org/donate All donations are tax-deductible. Upon payment, we will send you a letter acknowledging your tax-deductible gift.