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MORE MEMBERS
•
in a city-wide membership drive
ATTEND OUR NEXT GENERAL MEETING
AND BRING A FRIEND
WHERE: Southfield Civic Center, 26000 Evergreen Rd.; Rm. 115
WHEN: October 8, 1987, 7:15 p.m.
SPEAKER: Senator Jack Faxon will speak on pending legislation
for security deposits.
Our representatives have been meeting with apartment owners
and city officials on rent problems and other tenant concerns.
We will report details about these meetings.
For further information and membership applications
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DIANE E. HASPEL
Special to the Jewish News
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isenfranchised. By
choice. I didn't expect
to feel this way since
the decision not to affiliate
with a synagogue this year
was made very deliberately.
It occurred about a year ago,
after reading an article about
a woman who chose to slow
things down and take some of
the hectic out of daily living.
Her situation rang true, and
I realized we needed to do
something similar. Life with
three young sons is wild by
definition. It became in-
describable (especially on
weekends) with all the extras;
soccer and basketball, art and
gymnastics, religious school
and birthday parties and
swimming and .. .
The overwhelming schedule
and the fact that all three
children were about to enter
new schools drove us to put ,
our new strategy into action.
We cut out almost every "ex-
tra," including religious
school. Fortuitously (or so it
seemed), there was also some
change taking place at our
synagogue, leaving us unsure
Diane Haspel is a writer who lives
in Virginia.
about whether or not to re-
main. And so, we did not re-
join our synagogue, nor _did
we join any other.
We paid for tickets and at-
tended High Holy Day
services.
And that was it.
The fall was wonderful. The
weekends were relatively
uncluttered and, especially
on Sunday mornings, very
relaxed. Pancakes for
breakfast, and nowhere to
have to be. We did very little
of the "museuming" I had
We attended
services and that
was it.
mentally planned to do as a
family activity, and surpris-
ingly, none of us missed that,
either. The family reveled in
doing mostly nothing
together.
The decision seemed sound.
During the year, the
youngest attended a Jewish
Mothers-Day-Out program. I
had no twinges when he came
home full of Succot, or Tu
b'Shevat. Chanukah fell, very
conveniently, on school holi-
day. We were together with
far-flung family and that was
comfortable, too.
But then, of all things,