Sukkamobile and Volunteers Bring Joy to Aged; Visiting Program Begun.
A nursing home visiting pro-
gram, chaired by Rabbi Leonard
Cahan, has been launched by the
Jewish Family and Children's Ser-
vice committee on aging.
With a volunteer staff, the com-
mittee hopes to bring festival pro-
graming to the residents of all
nursing homes in the metropolitan
area, as well as visits for the aged
and infirm who have no families
of their own.
This Sukkot week, more than
200 Jewish residents in nine pri-
the lulav and the etrog. Refresh-
vote nursing homes were visited
by 18 committee members, with ments were arranged and served
by the JFCS nursing home com-
help of the Lubavitch Youth Or-
ganization and its well-publicized mittee volunteers. Residents who
were bedridden were visited at
"sukkamobile," mounted on a large
bedside by Rabbis Kagan and
truck and stationed at the front
Pater and assisted by the volun-
door of the nursing home.
Many of the aged patients
teers.
said they were taken back
Mrs. Morris J. Brandwine, chair-
to the days of their youth
man of the JFCS committee on ser-
and with the assistance of Rab-
vices to aged, together with Mrs.
bis Yitzhak Kagan and Moshe
Max Biber, program chairman of
Polter of the Lubavitch Organi- the nursing home committee, spear-
zation, recited the blessings over
headed the efforts to organi7' a
group of volunteers. Professional
services were provided by Mrs.
Zena Baum and Mrs. Annette
Bechek of the staff of JFCS.
Merle Harris, president of the
Jewish Family and Children's Ser-
vice, pointed out that "this volun-
teer service to Jewish residents in
nursing homes is one of the most
exciting projects which the JFCS
has undertaken in recent years."
Volunteers who assilsted with
the sukkamobile were Mesdames
Max Biber, Louis Barden, Isadore
Buchman, S. Dan, Bertha Gross-
man, Ruben Eizen, Oscar Bank,
Norman Schkloven, Milton Coven-
community who wish to participate
in the project.
The JFCS office, DI 1-5959, will
forward the names of volunteers to
the committee.
sky, Ruben Meyers, Lawrence Rut-
ter, Leonard Cahan, Morris Posen,
Abe Bookstein, Jules Sanders,
Philip Bricker, George Brown and
Joseph Bean.
Mrs. Brandwine noted that "Jew
in nursing homes need our help
and to the extent possible, we want
to give the comfort and assist.
ance. ut this can not be done with-
out a large group of dedicated and
interested volunteers."
An orientation program is plan-
ned for men and women in the
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
16—Friday, October 27, 1967
SINGERS WANTED
David Goldberger is sightless, but the Northland Geriatric
resident could feel the joy of reciting the blessing over Inlay and
etrog, made possible by the Lubavitch Youth Organization and the
Jewish Family and Children's Service committee on aging. Assist-
ing Mr. Goldberger are Rabbi Yitzhak Kagan, who brought the
"sukkamobile" to the convalescent home, and Mrs. Ruben Eizen,
a volunteer.
SYNAGOGUE
SERVICES
TEMPLE BETH JACOB of Pontiac: Services 8 p.m. today. Rabbi Ber-
kowitz will speak on "These, Our Children?'
CONG. SHAAREY SHOMAYIM: Services 6:15 p.m. today and 9 a.m.
Saturday. Rabbi Goldman will speak on "The Beginning."
THE NEW TEMPLE: Services 8 p.m. today at Birmingham Unitarian
Church. Rabbi Conrad will speak on "And It Was Good?'
TEMPLE EMANU-EL: Services 8:15 p.m. today. Rabbi Rosenbaum
will speak on "Light Gray Anti-Semitism."
TEMPLE BETH AM: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Jessel will speak
on "Number One on the Best-Seller List." Sandra Ilene Davidson,
Bat Mitzva. -
CONG. BETH ABRAHAM: Services 6:20 p.m. today and 8:40 a.m.
Saturday. Rabbi Halpern will speak on "First Things First."
Richard Yorke and Jonathan Taylor, Bnai Mitzva.
TEMPLE ISRAEL: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Syme will speak
on "To Build A World." Andrew Scott Collins, Bar Mitzva. Ser-
vices 11 a.m. Saturday. Elliot Ralph Globerson, Bar Mitzva.
TEMPLE BETH EL: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Hertz will speak
on "The Jewish Mission in an Ecumenical Age." Services 11:15
a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Kanter will speak on "The Truth About Crea-
tion." Maurice Freed, Bar Mitzva.
BIRMINGHAM TEMPLE: Services 8:30 p.m. today at Robert Frost
Junior High. Rabbi Wine will speak on "The Message of Marshall
McLuhan."
CONG. BNAI MOSHE: Services 6:15 p.m. today and 8:45 a.m. Satur-
Men and women needed for new
choral group. Rehearsals every
Monday evening from 8 to 10
p.m. at Clinton Jr. High School,
22180 Parklawn, Oak Park.
For Further Information Call:
543-5608 or 398-3280
The remotest heavenly body vis-
ible to the naked eye is the Great
Galaxy in Andromeda. This is
a rotating nebula of spiral forM,
and is about 2,200,000 light-years,
or about 13,000,000,000,000,000,000
miles away.
The Hillel Day School notes with deep sorrow
the passing of
MRS. ETHEL FINKELSTEIN
Mother of Mrs. Jacob E. Segal
To her husband, Mr. Abe Finkelstein, Rabbi and Mrs.
Jacob E. Segal and family we express our sincere and
profound sympathy with the prayer that God may
comfort them among the mourners of Zion and
Jerusalem.
Abe Kasle, president
Howard Danzig, Chairman of the Board
Rabbi Simon Marciano, Headmaster
CONGREGATION B'NAI MOSHE
Presents
An evening with
RALPH McGILL
Pulitzer Prize Winner, Author,
Publisher
on
THURS., NOV. 2, 1967
8:30 P.M.
Topic
"CAPTIVES OF OUR
-ENVIRONMENT"
In the Main Sanctuary, 10 Mile
Road, at Kenosha, Oak Pork
Lecture followed by
Questioning Panel
Mrs. Roberta Hughes, Detroit Commission OR
Children and Youth
Jack Hamilton, Detroit Free Press
Sheldon Hochman, Detroit News
Tickets $1.50 per person available at the Synagogue office,
14390 W. Ten Mile Road, Oak Park
LI 8-9000
dlevi,-glan,Zinithvatitik
annual- Nancy/mt.
Wednesday, November 29— Cobo Hall
Cocktails 6:00 p.m.
Dinner 7:00 p.m.
Guest Speaker
General Chairman
DR. JOSEPH H. LOOKSTEIN
SAMUEL FRANKEL
day. Jeffrey Laski and Gary Wagner, Bnai Mitzva.
ADAS SHALOM SYNAGOGUE: Services 6 p.m. today and 8:50 a.m.
Saturday. Gerald Gudes and Howard Colburn, Bnai Mitzva.
CONG. BETH SHALOM: Services 6 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Saturday.
Aaron Bobkin and Howard Scheer, Bnai Mitzva.
CONG. BNAI DAVID: Services 6 p.m. today and 8:30 a.m. Saturday.
Mark Elliott Chimoff and Gerald Ross, Bnai Mitzva.
CONG. SHAAREY ZEDEK: Services 6 p.m. today and 8:45 a.m. Satur-
day. Norman LoPatin and Joel Allan Miller, Bnai Mitzva.
BETH AARON SYNAGOGUE: Services 6 p.m. today and 8:30 a.m. Sat-
urday. Steven Feldman and Allan Goldberg, Bnai Mitzva.
Regular services will be held at Cong. Beth Joseph, Mishkan Israel,
Downtown Synagogue, Shomrey Emunah and Livonia Jewish Con-
gregation.
Chancellor of Bar-Ilan University
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