2015 Morris (ז״ל) and Betty Starkman Annual Genealogy Lecture and Election of Officers

Sunday, June 28, 2015 at 11:30 AM
Adat Shalom Synagogue – Youth Lounge (downstairs)
29901 Middlebelt Road in Farmington Hills
Election, Brunch and Lecture – $40 per person

“How Jews Invented and Reinvented Comic Books”
with Adat Shalom’s own Rabbi Aaron Bergman

Many people know that Jewish artists and writers created the vast majority of superheroes that are still popular today. Not too many know that the format of the comic book itself was created by Jewish entrepreneurs. In the 1980s, Jewish artists recreated the genre by introducing graphic novels and a higher level of artistic and intellectual content. We will look at the history of the comic book from its very humble beginnings to today.

RABBI AARON BERGMAN is a Detroit native and a graduate of the University of Michigan. He was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary and pursued additional graduate work in Jewish Folklore at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He was part of the educators program at the Shalom Hartman Institute.

Rabbi Bergman served as a rabbi at Congregation Beth Ahm and was Rabbi-in-Residence at Hillel Day School. He was the founding Director of Jewish Studies at the Frankel Jewish Academy and has been an instructor in the Melton Adult Education program.

Rabbi Bergman and his wife Ruth, a noted educator herself, are the proud parents of four wonderful daughters: Rina, Shira, Ariel and Rikki.

Proposed Slate

President: Adina Lipsitz
VP, Programming: Alexandra Goldberg
VP, Membership: Richard Jaeger
VP, Publicity: Position Open
Recording Secretary: Joshua Goldberg
Corresponding Secretary: Diane Freilich
Treasurer: Irwin S. Alpern

Would you like to join the board? We are also looking for an editor for Generations. Please contact John Kovacs at elections@jgsmi.org by June 21, 2015.

Wheelchair accessible entrance: Drive around to the back of the building and turn left at the playground; park where the covered entrance is. The Youth Lounge is down the hall on the left.