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The Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit's SAJE (Seminars for Adult Jewish Enrichment), in partnership with the Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus and the JFCS Holocaust Center, San Francisco, presents: The Diary of Rywka Lipszyc: Through the Lens of Faith The Writings of a Jewish Girl from the Lodz Ghetto Found at Auschwitz in 1945 and Published 70 Years Later Sunday, December 13, 2015 at 2 p.m. The Berman Center for the Performing Arts Join us following the program for a meet and greet, book sale and light refreshments. When Auschwitz was liberated, a doctor from the Red Army made a surprising find: a diary, ended in mid-sentence, belonging to a young girl named Rywka Lipszyc. What became of Rywka was a mystery. The program will include the premiere of a 17-minute documentary film that recounts the story of the diary, followed by a panel discussion with Dr. Yedida Kanfer and Dr. Anna Muller, moderated by Dr. Jan Maisel. Cost: $12 For more information or to purchase tickets, please call The Berman Center for the Performing Arts at 248.661.1900 or visit theberman.org. 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. 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 2056840 December 10 • 2015 25 continued from page 22 decided Moishe House would be the perfect setting for the group's fourth annual Thanksgiving dinner. The holiday event helps foster community among Detroiters and former Detroiters in Israel tempo- rarily on various programs or who have made aliyah and now live there permanently. About 50 people attended, including some Israeli spouses, boy- friends, girlfriends and fiances. The group also welcomed four Israelis who live in the Detroit Federation's partnership area in Central Galilee, Raban said. Participating were Stephanie Horwitz of West Bloomfield, who just completed two years of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) service; Jessica Curhan of West Bloomfield, who works at the Jaffa Institute; Ilan Ben Ami, who is studying medicine through the IDF; and Esther Rubyan of Detroit, a pho- tographer in the Israel by Design internship program. "Thanksgiving was one of my first times in Israel when I really missed being in the States, and it made me feel at home to be with friends from Detroit," said Zev Newman, 23, of Southfield. He is interning at a Tel Aviv business consulting firm that works with startups and small- to medium- sized enterprises. "I think it shows how special the Detroit community is that Federation makes an effort to reach out to those in Israel," he said. His U.S. housemates wondered why their federations didn't do some- thing similar. Raban said finding a whole turkey was challenging. Israel is among leading countries in per- capita consumption of turkey meat, thanks to its use in shwarma. "But no one buys a full turkey, ever." "When I did our very first Thanksgiving four years ago, I had to pre-order a full turkey in the supermarket," he said. "The cashier had a shocked look on her face. She asked, 'What is this? A gigantic chicken?' She didn't even have a code for it at the registry. They had to make a special code for it." Now Raban uses a caterer who has her own source of turkeys. *