Jewish Senior Life wishes you joy, and a happy and healthy Passover! | |
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248-444-2430 jrosender@jslmi.org
| THOUGHTS ON MY 71st BIRTHDAY | |
As one who recalls the most minute details of my childhood, I sometimes struggle to access the present perfect adjective or noun when I’m communicating. Recently, in the car singing along with a much beloved CSNY song from the 70s, I was chagrined when I couldn’t recall some of the lyrics I used to know by heart. And then there’s that daily annoyance of having to search for my missing phone if it’s not in plain sight… I’m forced to ask someone to call me until I can hear it ring, muffled under the unfiled papers that cover it or hiding in the laundry basket with the clothing I have just folded.
Sleeplessness haunts me at times in the bedroom and anxious thoughts make my heart beat faster. I remind myself to inhale and exhale slowly and deeply and I can usually find the calm in my mind… My husband Andy shares with me his own trials in worry and forgetfulness or asks me a question he asked yesterday, and I say to myself…. “Uh oh.”
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It’s so quiet around here without any fashion shows.
NOT 😊!
We are non-stop busy around here getting ready for Pesach and our upcoming Bessie Spector Oldest Jewish Americans Celebration. Invitations for the June 21 brunch for our 95 and ups will go out in a couple of weeks. Please make sure you, your friends, and your family members who will be 95 or older by December 31, 2024 are registered as honorees. You can also RSVP to the event online. The honoree form and the RSVP are both on the event webpage. And, did I say this before? We’ll need lots of helpers for our honorees, so please give me a call or shoot me an email if you’d like to be part of this very special event.
|  | Big shout out to author Bill Haney for dropping off two boxes of his book “What They Were Thinking: Reflections on Michigan Difference-Makers” yesterday. The books were a gift to our libraries, and to the authors featured in JSL’s “Don’t Write Me Off!” for which Mr. Haney generously wrote the beautiful foreword. If you don’t yet have a copy of DWMO, it’s available online, in our boutiques, and on Amazon. | Speaking of our boutiques, we have a couple of gift-giving occasions coming up and the boutiques have all kinds of fun and lovely options for both afikomen and Mother’s Day gifts. Whether the recipient gave birth to you or just thought to look under the right sofa cushion, we have the perfect gift for them. Also, Friday, April 26 is “Hug an Australian Day,” so if you have Australian friends… |  | |
Concurrent with Passover this year is National Volunteer Week. At Jewish Senior Life, we rely on our volunteers to bring the love of the community into our residences. Our amazing corps of over 150 volunteers does so many vital jobs, working in the café, bistro, pantries, and boutiques, leading Bingo games, discussion groups, arts & crafts activities, a writing group, karaoke, exercise, a readers’ theater, lectures, flower arranging, current events, baking, wood shop, and so much more. I just wanted to take a moment to say a deeply heartfelt and grateful thank you to our volunteers for all you do.
Wishing all of you a Chag Pesach Sameach!
Beth Robinson
Director
FRIENDS of Jewish Senior Life
brobinson@jslmi.org
248 592-5062
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MARGOT & WARREN COVILLE
ASSISTED LIVING &
MEMORY CARE
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Contact Janet Antin
248-967-4240 jantin@jslmi.org
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Creativity abounds at Hechtman, where residents enjoy expressing themselves through art. This week, class participants melted wax crayons on canvas using hot glue and heat. The outcome was a happy abstract mix of vivid colors. Every piece was unique and a great success. | Darling youngsters Talia and Shira Margolis visited Fleischman Residence this week bearing gifts of beautifully decorated picture frames. The girls worked tirelessly on this project for over a month, and their excitement to share their gifts was apparent. Thank you to Talia and Shira who brought joy and brightness to everyone's day, and we are so grateful for their thoughtful gesture. | The JCC Maccabi Games® is the largest Jewish youth event in the world. From July 28 to August 2, 2024, our Detroit community will welcome 1,200 Jewish teens from across the globe. The Games involve thousands of members from our community, including 400 host families, 1,000 volunteers and 200 local athletes. Please consider opening your home to at least 2 visiting athletes or sign up to volunteer for a couple of hours (or days!) during the week. Call or email for more information. |
A seated routine with Tom and Gareth, these exercises will improve strength, balance and endurance. | Who doesn't love dipping ? Jewish Guacamole: It’s just like your favorite guac, but with hard boiled eggs and gribenes on top! Great for passover, and any time! | There’s no such thing as a straight line. No matter how hard you try, if you look closely, there will always be irregularities. We say things are “laser-focused,” but even laser beams are slightly curved! | | |
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Rabbi Dovid S. Polter, Community Chaplain
Don’t Wait for Redemption -
Redemption is Waiting for You
“Passover” in a single word is Redemption. It was Passover when the Israelites were redeemed from Egyptian bondage and slavery. Let us examine Redemption as it applies to this very day. According to all opinions we are living in unprecedented times. Redemption is a buzz word for the religious and for the secular, for the Jews and for the non-Jews. Redemption means to be redeemed from the shackles which the surrounding world places upon us and those that we place on ourselves.
Redemption is an era, a period, and a phase. It is not merely a gift that comes to us without exertion. It requires much inner work. Redemption means to break through the attitudes of doubt, fear and misery to begin to see life in a whole new light. Redemption can only happen when we realign ourselves with the perfect way G-d originally created our world.
Note the following: “Redeem” is the root word of “redemption.” Split the word “Redeem” and you get “Re-Deem.” Redemption is about re-deeming everything you see, hear and encounter. Re-deem affords you the opportunity to relook, to revisit, to reexamine, to reassess and to reevaluate. Perhaps you will find the silver lining, the good, the moral, the lesson and the inspiration.
We can now more fully appreciate the teaching of the saintly Baal Shem Tov urging us during these last moments in exile to take heed of our two most vital senses, namely our eyes and our ears. We must scrutinize everything we see and hear. Only then are we to sift the good and the positive.
If G-d brought a situation, a setting, or a human being into this world, it must possess at least one redeeming factor. Let us search for the spark of goodness and kindness in our fellow man and in the many encounters we experience daily.
So, when you think of redemption, think of your responsibility and privilege to “Re-deem” the world around you and that which you see and hear.
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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
15100 W. Ten Mile Road, Oak Park, MI 48237
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28290 Franklin Road, Southfield, MI 48034
248-661-1836
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