SWIMWEAR '94

Arriving Daily

Families Share
Chanukah Stories

Going South? Let us help you select a good fitting
swimsuit to enhance your wardrobe!

LESLEY PEARL STAFF WRITER

QoAyn'6 Int imate
App ard

353-5522

Applegate Square
Northwestern Highway & Inkster Road

Daily 10-5:30
Thurs. 10-8
Sat. 10-5

?EEK-Al

CONTEMPORARY

"Children's Resale Boutique"
"Gently" worn children's
clothing from sizes 4-18
donated to us, will then be
sold to less fortunate fami-
lies for far less than any
retail store. We will even
take your old clothes on
consignment.

• furniture
• lighting
• wall decor
• gifts
• silk florals
• interiors

The Holidays...
at Casual Living Modes

Call for pickup service or stop in
Monday-Saturday, 10 am-6pm.

20% - 50% OFF our entire stock

on the avenue of fashion

863-2323

* Gift Certificates available

casual
living
modes

the yachtsman

5441711 I 22%1 WOODWARD • FERNDALE

Michigan's largest Dealer

21 1 111 1 1 11!

rri\IIP

patagon a

For the best in contemporary home furnishings
and accessories for over 39 years!

549-5070

(We're located 1/2 mile south of 1-696 on Woodward Ave.)

There's
Hidden Money
In Your
Garage!

Storyteller Stuart Grant

0

nce upon a time nearly
300 people joined to-
gether to listen to
Chanukah stories.
Young children sat quietly on
parents' and grandparents' laps
and followed the animated voic-
es of Stuart Grant and Miriam
Yezbick as they told tales of
Meshka the Kvetch and the
Bagel Maker of Mulliner Lane.
Voices rose and fell togeth-
er with musicians Ted Strunck
and Nate Rosenberg, singing
"Bagels, bagels, bagels. I love
bagels."
And then the families played
together.
Well, once upon a time
wasn't all that long ago. Infact,
it was Sunday at the Jewish
Community Center in West
Bloomfield.

The Center's Readers The-
atre program, which revives the
age-old form of storytelling,
modified its length and content
to appeal to an intergenera-
tional audience. Jewish Expe-
riences For Families co-
sponsored the event, along with
Home Health Exchange and
The Jewish News, and offered
craft activities for families.
After hearing the story of
Meshka the Kvetch, and how
her every exaggeration of woe
came to be, children created
their own Meshka magnets.
Clothespins, wood circles, plas-
tic eyes and tiny pieces of fab-
ric — tied as babushkas — were
put together to hold a notepad
reading "a good thought today."
New York Bagel donated
dozens of their best salt, plain
and onion bagels to serve as the
foundation for bagel people —
adorned with moving eyes and
feathers — just like the magi-
cal dough creations in the Bagel
Maker of Mulliner Lane.
Sefer Safari, JEIi'?s reading
incentive program for children,
signed up many families at the
program.
"We believe in Jewish fami-
ly literacy. We know people
read stories to their children on
a regular basis. It's a wonder-
ful way to pass down Jewish in-
formation, Jewish concepts,
Jewish stories," said Sue Stet-
tner, JEFF director. "The ac-
tivities we provided were a way
to help bring the stories to-
gether, to extend them."

❑

Borman: Setting
Records Straight

RUTH UTTMANN STAFF WRITER

SELL IT FAST

In Our
Amazing Marketplace

6644 Orchard Lake
West Bloomfield
855-1600

4

354-5959

THE JEWISH NEWS

B

orman Hall officials say
there's no truth to ru-
mors that the 212-bed
Detroit nursing home
will close by the end of the
month.
"There have been no discus-
sions at all about closing Bor-
man Hall immediately," said
Denise Bortolani-Rabidoux, ex-
ecutive director of the Jewish
Home for Aged, which includes
Prentis Manor, Fleischman
Residence, as well as Borman
Hall.
But if, by March 31, the JHA
board does not arrive at a deci-

sion to sell Borman Hall to a dif-
ferent operator, closure will be-
gin and all residents will be
relocated by October 1994. Re-
location will be carried out ac-
cording to state guidelines, Ms.
Rabidoux said.
The JHA board and the El-
der Care Options Committee
have been meeting to decide the
fate of the Detroit facility,
whose census has dropped from
164 to 158 in recent months.
The decline is due to attrition,
Ms. Rabidoux said.
All in all, she said, it's "busi-
BORN1AN page 22

