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By MARY KORETZ

fancy, hung on a vant. It consisted
hawt gemacht
made
kvalie
The most memorable Chanukah of a groys metal circle. Nine nails
wave
noch demi
afterwards
I hob a mol farbracht was in 1968.
tog
were distributed arom it. On each
day
trefn
meet
krank
We went to Israrel that year to fulfill
nail was placed a raw bulbe with its
ill
tochter
daughter toyt
drei objectives. One was to see our
top cut off. A loch was dug out of
dead
ayntsike
only tsu zen
son, who hawt gemacht aliyah.
each to hold a licht.
to see
gemacht
made
tsviling
Then Baruch, his friend who had
twin
The legal requirements were
mayn
mean etleche
made aliyah shortly noch demi was
few
fulfilled in the hoyf of an Orthodox
zun
son
hobn gevoynt
to be married at Chanukah. Also,
lived
rabbi. Following the legal formalities, hipsh
sizeable chasene
we were to trefn my mother's sister
wedding
we retired to the kibbutz. Dort the
elter
ages hot getaylt
and tochter as well as my father's
shared
festivities began. The food was
neintsik
90 ober
brother, the ayntsike Holocaust
but
abundant and batemt. The skits
onkumen
arrival shayn
survivors.
beautiful
were amusing and the musical
aroysveizn
display zumer
When I refer to the "we" who
summer
numbers were lebedik. Community
pletzer
places tsimer
gemacht the trip, I mayn my
room
singing and dancing continued until
gesheftlech
business vant
husband, 15-year-old zun and my
wall
the early hours of the following day.
einkoyfn
shopping groys
71-year-old mother. Also, there was
large
At least, so we oldsters were told.
untershayd
difference arom
a hipsh amount of Baruch's
around
We went to shlofn about midnight,
natirlech
natural bulbe
relatives. The elter ranged from his
potato
exhausted by the day's events and
dire
apartment loch
neintsik-year-plus grandfather to his
hole
the trip. It was a eingenemen to
shenster
handsomest Iicht
11-year-old sister.
candle
hear the music and laughter as we
nu
well hoyf
Upon onkumen in Israel, the
yard
fell asleep.
takeh
really
dort
first thing that impressed me was
there
gelechter
laughter batemt
the aroysveizn of menorahs in
delicious
vi
fil
how much lebedik
a mol
public pletzer and gesheftlech sites.
ever
lively
joy shlofn
hob farbracht
Having just left the U.S. in the
spent frayd
sleep
over eingenemen
drei
throes of Christmas einkoyfn and
three iber
pleasant
displays, it took me some time to
get adjusted to the untershayd of
scenery . . . about two minutes.
After that, it all seemed comfortable
and natirlech.
The first day, we met at the dire
L'Chayim, a family-oriented,
given to students at Agency For
The Jewish News and L'Chayim,
of my mother's sister and her
experiential section published by
Jewish
Education, Temple Israel,
working
with J.E.F.F., co-sponsors
daughter. Also present was the
The Jewish News since September
Temple Beth El, Akiva Hebrew Day
several family-oriented events,
"Jewel of Israel," the cleverest
of 1987, received special recognition
School, Temple Emanu-El, Yavneh
shenster young man ever ... my
including Apples & Honey,
from the Council of Jewish
Academy,
Jewish Parents Institute,
Chanukah
Inside-Out, The Purim
son, Guy. He was in army uniform.
Federations at its recent General
Temple Shir Shalom, Temple Kol
Nu, he hadn't takeh changed. In his
Parcel
Project
and The Great Israeli
Assembly in San Francisco.
Ami and Birmingham Temple.
Kumsitz.
gelechter, I sensed the same
The award reads: "Since its
amused, sardonic view of life her
initial issue in September of 1987,
always had. While we had been
L'Chayim has grown into a regular
separated, I hadn't permitted myself
and valued part of The Detroit
to think of vi fil I missed him. Now,
Jewish News. It has proven to be: a
frayd at seeing him and the
creative way for a newspaper to
loneliness I had experienced in his
expand its vital role as a provider of
absence, flooded iber me like a
informal Jewish education; a
giant kvalie.
"hands on" Jewish family
The following tog, we went to
experience,
and a unique way for
visit my deceased father's brother.
We found him krank and in bed. My an independent newspaper to work
closely with Federation and its
father had been toyt for three years
agencies in educating the Detroit
and it was a shock tsu zen his
Jewish community.
brother, who could have been his
identical tsviling.
"The CJF Smolar Awards pay
The next etleche days we spent tribute to L'Chayim which represents
at Kibbutz Gal-On, where Guy and
a superior example in North
Baruch hobn gevoynt and where the American Jewish journalism of how
chasene was to take place. As a
to creatively and actively expand a
newcomer, Guy hot getaylt a one-
newspaper's role in educating its
room dwelling with a roommate. It
readers."
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was humble ober adequate. The
Jewish Experiences For Families
grounds were shayn. It put me in
Director Harlene W. Appelman
mind of a zumer camp I had
serves as adviser to L'Chayim.
attended as a child.
J.E.F.F. is part of Fresh Air Society,
The dining room tsimer showed
a Federation agency.
evidence of Chanukah. There had
Besides distributing 21,000 copies
Jewish News Associate Publisher Arthur M. Horwitz receives special Council of Jewish
been a contest of original
of L'Chayim to Jewish News
Federations Award for L'Chayim from Smolar Award Committee Chairwoman Phyllis B.
menorahs. One, which caught my
subscribers, an additional 5,000 are
Freedman and outgoing CJF President Mandell L. Berman of Detroit.

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L'Chayim Receives CJF Smolar Award

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