NORMA JEAN & EDWARD MEER APARTMENTS | Discover Jewish Senior Life! | |
Contact Jackie Rosender
248-444-2430 jrosender@jslmi.org
| As a longtime fundraiser for many wonderful causes, I have learned so much from many of my mentors about the importance of cultivating our donors’ capacity for meaningful generosity. At the same time, fundraising begins in our own homes. As many of us learned as children, we find causes worthy of our hard-earned dollars to support and have felt the good feelings when giving tzedakah. It opens our hearts to kindness and compassion. We appreciate and are inspired by the depth of other people’s spirit of giving and we learn by example for ourselves the importance of giving gifts to make the world a better place. | |
Don’t Write Me Off!
We have lift-off. The book is now in the process of layout and publication and will be available at our Lives Well Lived: Wrinkles in Time event in November (as well as on Amazon and in our boutiques).
This is a great time to thank all the people who contributed their time, talent, and expertise to this project.
Thirty-nine residents have contributed their stories.
Regina Amromin, Larry L. Aronoff, Ada Bandalene, Shirley Benyas, Edith Birnholtz, Edith Blumer, Rose Cooper, Audrey Demak, Marilyn Dizik, Harry Doren, Toni Fontana, Shmuel Graybar, Harriett Hessenthaler, Bonnie Hubert, Eleanor E. Johnson, Bernie Jonas, Nancy Kalef, Ruthie Katz, Harriet Kovacs, Harry M. Krim, Ruthe Levy, Phyllis Lewkowicz, Edith Maniker, Carole Master, Deborah Merin, Jill Messinger, Adele Nodler, Diane Pliskow, Roz Rogers, Ilene Rubin, Terri Silberstein, Ann Spencer, Ann Torf, Regina L. Turner, Debbie Warner, Laura Watson, Sheba Zietchick, Millie Zivov, Al Zlatkin
Nine volunteer writer/editors helped them.
Wendy Robins, Sy Manello, Shari Cohen, Jo Rosen, Alan Hitsky, Nicole Lupiloff, Elizabeth Applebaum, Shelli Dorfman, Phyllis Schwartz
Two expert portrait photographers added the finishing touch.
Ira Goldberg and Jon Lybeck
One graphic designer has volunteered to create cover artwork to wrap around it.
Brett Panter
Thank you to all of them!
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Lives Well Lived: Wrinkles in Time
To celebrate our storytellers and the stories of older adults who are living life well, we’re excited to present Lives Well Lived 2023!
Highlights are:
Pre-glow Meet and Greet with writers of “Don’t Write Me Off!”
Program of short documentaries, including Death Metal Grandma, Wendy’s Shabbat, and
Young at Heart.
Tribute to Oscar-winning filmmaker Sue Marx by journalist Jack Lessenberry.
We are still seeking sponsors. For more information, to support or to purchase tickets, visit jslmi.org/jsls-lives-well-lived. Or call me (Beth Robinson) at
248-592-5062.
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Memory Care Volunteers Needed
Our memory care residents need visitors who can take them outside for a breath of this delightful fall air (and winter, spring and summer air). Details:
- Monday – Sunday
- Anytime between 2-4pm, for approximately an hour
- Volunteers will pick up the resident, walk with them outside, weather permitting, or visit with them, and take them back to memory care.
Visit jslmi.org/volunteer to sign up. Or call/email Beth at 248-592-5062 / brobinson@jslmi.org.
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CLICK THE PHOTO!
Gertie and Ruth Katz from Meer Apartments.
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EDWARD I. & FREDA FLEISCHMAN RESIDENCE | Come see the JSL Difference! | |
Contact Janet Antin
248-967-4240 jantin@jslmi.org
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Sunday, October 22
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
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JSL invites you to nominate your candidate for the 2024 event. We recognize eight distinguished leaders in our community, all over the age of 80, who have demonstrated a lifetime of dedication to the Jewish value of Tikkun Olam - repairing the world.
Fill out the nomination form below and contact Nicole Lupiloff with your questions:
248-592-5098 nlupi@jslmi.org
| OCTOBER 15th SPECIAL EVENT | |
A special thank you to:
Elaine and Michael Serling. https://theberman.org/
| JSL IN THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS - FALL FASHION FORWARD! | MAKING CIDER MILL MEMORIES |
Hechtman residents had a great time enjoying fresh doughnuts and cider in the sunny September weather, exploring the Franklin Cider Mill, learning about the mill’s nearly two-hundred-year-old history, and shopping for fall treats. | |
Gentle Range of Motion Chair Exercises
This is a gentle exercise class designed for seniors with limited mobility. The entire routine is in the chair and low impact. If you're looking to increase your range of motion, perform functional exercises, and get moving again, this is for you!
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Easy Butternut Squash Soup
A fall favorite, Butternut Squash Soup is not only delicious, but easy, SQUASH trying to figure out lunch or dinner this fall.
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Rabbi Dovid S. Polter, Community Chaplain
To Save One Life
Several years back I read with tears of joy the most encouraging news story that still causes chills to tingle down my back. It was the story of a life-saving convoy of truckers, who were flagged down by family and community state troopers at midnight as they were traveling on I-696 in Oak Park. The truckers focused their collective full attention, energy and efforts to save the life of one hurting individual, who wished to jump off the I-696 overpass in our community.
The 13 truckers, guided by state troopers, creatively formed a “bridge” on both east and westbound lanes to rescue and save ONE life. I am truly in awe of this “miracle.”
It is crucial to continually be in a state of profound appreciation and gratitude and to verbalize it aloud. So much dismaying news takes place in our world that reflects the shortcomings of our fellow species, yet this utter act of kindness and partnership by troopers and truckers shattered the majority of media pieces that continue to blast and frighten us, create a sense of instability, discomfort, tension, dissension and, for some, total despondency.
To those troopers and truckers who work endless hours to serve our communities, I say, “You have saved one life! You have indeed saved an entire world.”
Not only is nothing random but everything is meaningful. It was approximately 1 o’clock a.m. when this event occurred. It was ONE life that was spared and saved at ONE.
Furthermore, 1 AM. can also read, “I AM!”
“I Am” tells the truth of who we truly are.
I feel embraced, watched over and protected as do many of our great Oak Park community, by the great Divine Aura and Presence permeating our lives when we affix a mezuzah (sacred scroll containing holy passages and verses of the Torah) to our individual and family doorposts. It is designed and meant to watch over us, our families, our safety, our peace, our health and all that we possess and everything that we are.
I am grateful to be doubly blessed living in Oak Park as is the rest of the community to be surrounded by two larger Mezuzah-like physical and human structures, namely the Oak Park police station and our local station of state troopers, both well-equipped and skilled professionals who are on the alert round-the-clock. May this careful level of safety penetrate our entire world and our sacred land and all the people of Israel.
Shabbat Shalom by Phone - Enjoy some inspiration.
Dial Toll free: 605-313-4107 Access code: 270368#
(Reference number not needed)
Dial # to hear the most recently recorded message.
Rabbi Dovid S. Polter Jewish Community Chaplaincy Program Jewish Senior Life 248-592-5039 • dpolter@jslmi.org
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L’Chaim!
More than half of the residents who live in our JSL communities are considered low income or indigent. Your philanthropic support is essential to maintaining programs and services to help these older adults age with dignity and with a better quality of life. In addition, your gifts could significantly support the shortfall in the cost of pharmacy bills which are so vital to the residents’ wellness. We are so grateful for your generous gifts to Jewish Senior Life.
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Nancy Heinrich, Chief Executive Officer
Kara Powers, Chief Financial Officer
Barbra Giles, Executive Director, Strategic Initiatives
Jo Strausz Rosen, Executive Director, Development
Dianne Azzopardi, Executive Director, Human Resources
Ron Colasanti, Executive Director, Dining Services
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This newsletter was created by Jo Rosen and Nicole Lupiloff
We’re human, prone to mistakes, so if we erred in our newsletter, please forgive us!
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Jewish Senior Life of Metropolitan Detroit
Eugene & Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus
6710 W. Maple Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48322
A. Alfred Taubman Jewish Community Campus
15000 W. Ten Mile Road, Oak Park, MI 48237
248-661-1836
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