1 it 52 Friday, December 24, 1982 CD .•f I • • THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Hanuka Party Marks Third Year for Group Residences for Elderly By SHARON LEOPOLD Jewish Welfare Federation The traditional songs and the glow of candles lent themselves to a very special Hanuka party held at the Carlyle Towers Apartments in Southfield last week. It was the third anniver- sary of the Group Resi- dences for the Elderly pro- gram of the Jewish Family Service. The program is a pilot project supported by the Jewish Community Foundation of the Jewish Welfare Federation's United Jewish Charities. A social room in the com- plex was filled to overflow- ing with family and friends who joined the 12 elderly residents to help them celebrate the Festival of Lights at the apartments, where the program was launched in December 1979. Six of the 12 present members have been with the project since the begin- ning. Zena Baum, coor- dinator of the program, said that the people who need the service hear about it in many ways. "When we first began," she said, "I sent letters to different Jewish agencies and area rabbis for names. Now, places such as the Jewish Home for the Aged and Sinai Hospital's social services division recom- mend people to us." Four apartments have been set aside for the pro- gram. Each of the three- bedroom, two-bath units houses three residents, and each is taken care of by one of four Russian women (Zina Kuzmis, Rochelle and Tanya Samoylov and Dorothea Tirospolsky) who come in to help with shop- ping, heavy cleaning, laun- dry and dinner chores five days a week, five hours a day. "The Russian women have the caring attitude that Americans had about the elderly years ago," Mrs. Baum said. "They're warm, motherly women who keep an eye on their charges and help them along." Another person who "helps them along" is Ar- lene Zuskenic. She's been a volunteer since the program's inception. It was Mrs. Zuskenic who taught the Russian housekeepers about shopping in American stores when the project started. "I would drive them to the stores and have them follow me while I dragged around shopping carts," she said. As an activities coordinator, Mrs. Zuskenic helps keep the residents busy and happy. Beginning in January, they will be work- ing on piecework sub- contracted for them by the Jewish Vocational Service under Mrs. Zuskenic's supervision. JFS social workers Fay Kleinplatz and Judy Op- penheim work with the residents in ironing out day-to-day problems. They meet-weekly as a group to discuss making decisions regarding their lives while living in the group resi- dence. "These people have a strong desire to be with people," Ms. Oppenheim said. "That's what brought them to us in the first place." While the residents may have the same phys- ical disabilities as per- sons living in an institu- tional residence, they cherish independence and have a need to live in a "family" atmosphere. The JFS staff feels that they might well deter- iorate in a larger institu- tional setting. JFS tries to match room- mates by personality as well as infirmity. The tenants suffer from a range of physi- cal disabilities from Par- kinson's Disease to visual Until recently, there were 13 members involved in the program. One man had to give up his place in the apartments and be moved to a nursing home. Usually, the men's apartment, has four residents and the women's units each have three. "Ne don't have a long waiting list," said Mrs. Baum. "These people just can't wait." She went on to say that if there is no room when it is needed, she helps families find alternative living arrangements. 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According to military sources, Taflaq and a group of his friends were demon- strating on the main road just outside Nablus where residents of the Balata ref- ugee camp were stoning passing Israeli vehicles. Taflaq and his friends sur- rounded a three-man border patrol and hurled rocks at them from the school grounds and nearby build- ings. The three border police- men, feeling that their lives were in danger, first fired warning shots into the air and then, when this failed to halt the stonethrowing by the youths, fired at their feet. One of the bullets hit Taflaq in the chest. He was rushed to a local hospital where he was declared dead. Nablus residents near the high school said that the shooting was not justified by the rock-throwing by a few youngsters. Labor Alignment MK Mohammad Watad and Communist MK Tawfiq Taoubi issued pro- tests against "the cheap value of Arab blood in the territories." Participants in the Jewish Family Service Group Residences for the Elderly program light Hanuka candles at their third annual Hanuka party. Pictured are, from left: residents Sol Friedman, Hannah Levadi, Ethel Feldman, Minnie Lipshinsky, Cantor Sidney Resnick and Dorothy Sudakin. capacity to adjust, both physically and psychologically, to a shared living environ- ment. She works with the resident's family and helps them maintain ties while sharing the burden of caring for a parent who is ill but wants to re- tain some independence. Currently, the cost for in- dividual participation in the program, including all meals and apartment rent, is $700 a month — far less than a nursing home. How- ever, the charge to residents or their families is based on their ability to pay. A Group Residences for the Elderly Fund of JFS has r been set up under the co- chairmanship of Marvin Daitch, Charles Snider and Melvin Rosenhaus. They are currently involved in a campaign to raise addi- tional funds to ensure that the project will continue as it has since the UJC grant began three years ago. As Cantor Sidney Re- snick led the residents and their guests through the candlelighting ceremony and the Yiddish and English Hanuka songs, resident Dorothy Sudakin voiced the feeling of all the project participants. "Our freedom to live this way," she said, "is wonder- ful." _ dmil} To: The Jewish News 17515 W. 9 Mile Rd. Suite 865 Southfield, Mich. 48075 wEuE JUST From Paste in old label Greek Bias Hit ATHENS (ZINS) — An extreme right-wing Greek newspaper, Astia, has at- tacked Greece's socialist government for fomenting anti-Semitism. The paper said Greece's villification campaign against Israel through im- agined and cynical false- hoods has led to a lynch mentality against' Israeli tourists and sportsmen in Greece. NAME L Effective Date J C.