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SUMMARY:Israeli Nifgashim
DESCRIPTION:ישראלים נפגשים\nהרצאה קצרה\, שיחה וחברים\n3 gatherings for Israelis in Hebrew.\nOn February 24th Aviv Touitou Certified aromatherapist and social worker\nspeaks about Aromatherapy – The Power of Essential Oils to Support & Heal the\nBody & Mind.\nOn March 24th Ariel Levi\, DDS\, Orthodontist speaks about the Basics of\nOrthodontics.\nOn May 19th Tomer Stern\, PhD\, MSc\, Assistant Professor at the University of\nMichigan School of Dentistry speaks about Advancing Skeletal Pathology\nResearch Through Computational Biology. \nOrganized by: Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor \nView event on Jlive: https://jlive.app/events/15189
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/israeli-nifgashim-3/
LOCATION:Ann Arbor \, Ann Arbor
CATEGORIES:Adults,Beverages (non alcoholic),Educational,Families,General,Hebrew Speaking,Older Adults,Parents,Special Guest,Young Adults
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SUMMARY:Jewish Book Series: Lunch & Learn with Ayelet Tsabari
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at the JCC on **Thursday\, March 26** from **12:00-1:30 PM** for\nan in-person Lunch & Learn and a virtual visit from Ayelet Tsabari\, the author\nof _Songs for the Brokenhearted: A Novel._ Enjoy a delicious Yemeni lunch\nwhile listening to Ayelet speak about her book over Zoom. **Lunch starts at\nnoon\, author talk begins promptly at 12:30 PM.** \nThis event is part of the JCC’s ongoing **Book Series** \, where visiting\nJewish authors give talks on their work to bring new ideas and literature to\nthe community. **The cost of this program is $12.50/person.** This program is\nsponsored by ORT. Zoom available upon request. \n_JCC community events and programs are open to all regardless of faith or\nbackground. All are welcome._ \n**_Book Blurb_** \n1950. Thousands of Yemeni Jews have immigrated to the newly founded Israel in\nsearch of a better life. In an overcrowded immigrant camp in Rosh Ha’ayin\,\nYaqub\, a shy young man\, happens upon Saida\, a beautiful girl singing by the\nriver. In the midst of chaos and uncertainty\, they fall in love. But they\nweren’t supposed to; Saida is married and has a child\, and a married woman has\nno place befriending another man. \n1995. Thirty-something Zohara\, Saida’s daughter\, has been living in New York\nCity—a city that feels much less complicated than Israel\, where she grew up\nwishing that her skin was lighter\, that her illiterate mother’s Yemeni music\nwas quieter\, and that the father who always favored her was alive. She hasn’t\nlooked back since leaving home\, rarely in touch with her mother or sister\,\nLizzie\, and missing out on her nephew Yoni’s childhood. But when Lizzie calls\nto tell her their mother has died\, she gets on a plane to Israel with no\nreturn ticket. \nSoon Zohara finds herself on an unexpected path that leads to shocking truths\nabout her family—including dangers that lurk for impressionable young men and\nsecrets that force her to question everything she thought she knew about her\nparents\, her heritage\, and her own future. \nOrganized by: JCC of Greater Ann Arbor \nView event on Jlive: https://jlive.app/events/14346
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/jewish-book-series-lunch-learn-with-ayelet-tsabari/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor 2935 Birch Hollow Dr\, Ann Arbor
CATEGORIES:Adults,Arrival / Check In,College Students,Educational,Food Available ($),Older Adults,Parking (free),Special Guest,Young Adults
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SUMMARY:U-M Frankel Center Event: 36th Annual David W. Belin Lecture
DESCRIPTION:“Orthodox Jewish Wellness Influencers in the Age of Viral Politics” with Ayala Fader (Fordham University) \nThursday\, March 26 from 5:30 – 8:00 PM \nMichigan Union\, Pendleton Room \nRSVP: https://myumi.ch/15PN8 \nThe University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies is pleased to announce that Professor Ayala Fader of Fordham University will deliver the 36th Annual David W. Belin Lecture\, titled “Orthodox Jewish Wellness Influencers in the Age of Viral Politics.” This free\, public lecture will take place in the Pendleton Room of the Michigan Union on Thursday\, March 26\, 2026. Please RSVP at https://myumi.ch/15PN8 to let us know if you plan to attend. \nOver the past decade\, frum (Orthodox) Jewish women wellness influencers on social media have become a significant presence. Despite attempts by some rabbis to silence them\, frum influencers in the United States and Israel continue to share intimate details of their everyday lives online\, earning a living through the promotion of products linked to their platforms. Professor Fader’s talk examines the seemingly contradictory worlds these influencers navigate: while claiming new forms of gendered authority\, they simultaneously reinforce traditional Jewish family structures and gender roles. \nDrawing inspiration from conservative Christian wellness influencers\, frum influencers create content that asserts Jewish exceptionalism while fostering unexpected exchanges with conservative Christian women. The lecture will consider whether frum social media influencers are subtly promoting illiberal politics through the gendered language of wellness. \nAyala Fader is Professor of Anthropology and Jewish Studies at Fordham University. She is the author of the award-winning books Mitzvah Girls (2009) and Hidden Heretics (2020). Professor Fader’s research has been generously supported by numerous fellowships and grants\, including those from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. As the founding director of Fordham’s New York Center for Public Anthropology & Sociology\, she leads the Demystifying Language Project\, which makes linguistic anthropology a social justice resource for public high schools. \nThe David W. Belin Lecture in American Jewish Affairs was established in 1991 through a generous gift from the late David W. Belin of Des Moines (IA) and New York to provide an academic forum for the discussion of contemporary Jewish life in the United States. As the founding chair of Reform Judaism’s Outreach Commission and a founding member of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous\, Belin served the American Jewish community in numerous leadership roles. His commitment to the future of American Jewry inspired him to endow this annual lectureship\, providing a forum for meaningful discussion of contemporary Jewish life in the United States.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/u-m-frankel-center-event-36th-annual-david-w-belin-lecture/
LOCATION:Michigan Union\, 530 S State St\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109
CATEGORIES:Community,Educational,Food Provided,UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
ORGANIZER;CN="University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies":MAILTO:JudaicStudies@umich.edu
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SUMMARY:36th Annual David W. Belin Lecture
DESCRIPTION:The 36th Annual David W. Belin Lecture will be delivered by Dr. Ayala Fader on\nThursday\, March 26\, 2026. Food will be served at the pre-lecture reception\,\nand Fader will sign books after the lecture. This free\, public lecture will\ntake place in the Pendleton Room of the Michigan Union on Thursday\, March 26\,\n2026. Please RSVP at (https://myumi.ch/15PN8) to let\nus know if you plan to attend. \nOver the past decade\, frum (Orthodox) Jewish women wellness influencers on\nsocial media have become a significant presence. Despite attempts by some\nrabbis to silence them\, frum influencers in the United States and Israel\ncontinue to share intimate details of their everyday lives online\, earning a\nliving through the promotion of products linked to their platforms. Professor\nFader’s talk examines the seemingly contradictory worlds these influencers\nnavigate: while claiming new forms of gendered authority\, they simultaneously\nreinforce traditional Jewish family structures and gender roles.\nDrawing inspiration from conservative Christian wellness influencers\, frum\ninfluencers create content that asserts Jewish exceptionalism while fostering\nunexpected exchanges with conservative Christian women. The lecture will\nconsider whether frum social media influencers are subtly promoting illiberal\npolitics through the gendered language of wellness. \n**Ayala Fader  **is professor of anthropology at Fordham University. She is\nthe author of the award-winning books\, _Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next\nGeneration of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn_  (Princeton University Press\, 2009)\nand _Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age_  (Princeton University\nPress\, 2020). Her research has been supported by the National Science\nFoundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Fader’s current book\nproject examines the trend of American Orthodox Jews aligning themselves with\na new form of religion on the Christian Right—a public\, political\, racialized\,\nand biblical philosophy\, redefining postwar Judeo-Christianity in the\ncontemporary political landscape. As the founding director of Fordham’s Center\nfor Public Anthropology\, Fader is currently collaborating on the Demystifying\nLanguage Project\, which makes linguistic anthropology a social justice\nresource for public high schools. Fader received her Ph.D. from New York\nUniversity \n** _About the Belin Lecture_**\nSince 1991\, the Frankel Center has hosted an accomplished speaker to present\nthe David W. Belin lecture in American Jewish Affairs. Following the annual\nlecture\, each speaker provides a text version of their talk. This essay is\nthen published in print format and is made available\n(https://www.fulcrum.org/belin?locale=en)**.**  To request a\nspecific year’s lecture book\, please email JudaicStudies@umich.edu. \nOrganized by: U-M Frankel Center for Judaic Studies \nView event on Jlive: https://jlive.app/events/13395
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/36th-annual-david-w-belin-lecture/
LOCATION:Michigan Union 530 S State St\, Ann Arbor
CATEGORIES:All Ages,Closed Captions,Coffee,Educational,English Speaking,Finger Food,Food,History,Items for sale,Jewish Learning,Presentation,Special Guest,Vegetarian Friendly,Wheelchair Accessible
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SUMMARY:Jewish Book Series: Milena and Margarete with Gwen Strauss
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at the JCC on **Tuesday\, April 7** from **5-6:30 PM** for an\nin-person visit from Gwen Strauss\, author of _Milena and Margarete: A Love\nStory in Ravensbrück._ \n**_Book Blurb_** \nFrom the moment they met in 1940 in Ravensbrück concentration camp\, Milena\nJesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann were inseparable. Czech Milena was\nKafka’s first translator and epistolary lover\, and a journalist opposed to\nfascism. A non-conformist\, bi-sexual feminist\, she was way ahead of her time.\nWith the German occupation of Czechoslovakia\, her home became a central\nmeeting place for Jewish refugees. German Margarete\, born to a middle-class\nfamily\, married the son of the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber. But soon swept\nup in the fervor of the Bolshevik Revolution\, she met her second partner\, the\nCommunist Heinz Neumann. Called to Moscow for his “political deviations\,” he\nfell victim to Stalin’s purges while Margarete was exiled to the hell of the\nSoviet gulag. Two years later\, traded by Stalin to Hitler\, she ended up\noutside Berlin in Ravensbrück\, the only concentration camp built for women. \nMilena and Margarete loved each other at the risk of their lives. But in the\npost-war survivors’ accounts\, lesbians were stigmatized\, and survivors kept\nsilent. This book explores those silences\, and finally celebrates two strong\nwomen who never gave up and continue to inspire. As Margaret wrote: “I was\nthankful for having been sent to Ravensbrück\, because it was there I met\nMilena.” \n _JCC community events and programs are open to all regardless of faith or\nbackground. All are welcome._ \nOrganized by: JCC of Greater Ann Arbor \nView event on Jlive: https://jlive.app/events/14347
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/jewish-book-series-milena-and-margarete-with-gwen-strauss/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor 2935 Birch Hollow Dr\, Ann Arbor
CATEGORIES:Adults,Arrival / Check In,College Students,Educational,Holocaust,LGBTQI,Older Adults,Special Guest,Young Adults
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SUMMARY:Lag B'Omer
DESCRIPTION:Join the Greater Ann Arbor Jewish Community for a celebration of Lag B’Omer.\nEnjoy bonfires\, Chabad BBQ\, crafts\, music\, games and bicycle-towed hayrides\nwith your family and friends as we count day number 33 of the Omer together!\n(Free for children 4 and under) \nOrganized by: Chabad House of Ann Arbor\, JCC of Greater Ann Arbor\, Hebrew Day\nSchool of Ann Arbor \nView event on Jlive: https://jlive.app/events/15450
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/lag-bomer-2/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Camp,Children,College Students,Desserts provided,Educational,English Speaking,Families,Finger Food,Food,Food Provided,Games,Grandparents,Hebrew Speaking,History,Israel,Jewish Holiday,Jewish Learning,Kids Area,Kosher,Kosher Food,Lag B'Omer,Music,Nature,Older Adults,Outdoors,Parenting,Parents,Parking (free),Sports & Fitness,Teens,Tweens,Young Adults,Young Children
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SUMMARY:Israeli Nifgashim
DESCRIPTION:ישראלים נפגשים\nהרצאה קצרה\, שיחה וחברים\n3 gatherings for Israelis in Hebrew.\nOn February 24th Aviv Touitou Certified aromatherapist and social worker\nspeaks about Aromatherapy – The Power of Essential Oils to Support & Heal the\nBody & Mind.\nOn March 24th Ariel Levi\, DDS\, Orthodontist speaks about the Basics of\nOrthodontics.\nOn May 19th Tomer Stern\, PhD\, MSc\, Assistant Professor at the University of\nMichigan School of Dentistry speaks about Advancing Skeletal Pathology\nResearch Through Computational Biology. \nOrganized by: Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor \nView event on Jlive: https://jlive.app/events/14765
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/israeli-nifgashim-4/
LOCATION:Ann Arbor \, Ann Arbor
CATEGORIES:Adults,Beverages (non alcoholic),Educational,Hebrew and Yiddish,Hebrew Speaking,Israel,Parking (free),Special Guest
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor":MAILTO:info@jewishannarbor.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260527T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260527T210000
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SUMMARY:2026 Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor's Annual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:_Annual Meeting for the Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor. At this\nmeeting we will highlight our efforts and impacts. We will celebrate our\nPillars: Philanthropy\, Engagement & Convening. We will celebrate this years\naccomplishments and share challenges. We will celebrate the many people whose\nefforts help us cultivate a thriving Jewish community. During our annual\nmeeting we share our appreciation outgoing officers and board members and\nwelcome new members to the board and to new roles._ \nOrganized by: Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/2026-jewish-federation-of-greater-ann-arbors-annual-meeting/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor 2935 Birch Hollow Dr\, Ann Arbor
CATEGORIES:Adults,Arts & Culture,Beverages (non alcoholic),Cocktails and Drinks,Desserts provided,Educational,Food Provided,General,Kosher,Leadership,Older Adults,Parking (free),Philanthropy,Presentation,Volunteering,WiFi,Young Adults
ORGANIZER;CN="Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor":MAILTO:info@jewishannarbor.org
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