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"Why is the whole world happy and I am depressed?"
"How bad does it get before I hit rock bottom?"
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Binding

Devotion

JEWISH SECRETS

To Self Improvement

Temple Beth El's sisterhood sponsors a volunteer
effort to bind books for the visually impaired.

"How To
Overcome
Depression"

LYNNE MEREDITH COHN
Staff Writer

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very Tuesday, 12 women and
one man gather at Temple
Beth El to repair and bind
books for the blind. No one
can remember just how long they've
been doing this work, but they know
it dates back at least to the old temple
on Woodward and Gladstone in
Detroit.
Lee Ann Salle, co-chair of the vol-
unteer effort, does not even know how

With Noted Lecturer Rabbi Shmuel Irons

Tuesday, February 3, 1998
7:30 P.M.

Jewish Community Center

Maple/Drake Building

There is no charge for this program.
Refreshments will be served.

Above: Ada Glazer, Gertrude
Evans and Cecile Dreyer number
the pages of old Braille books before
they are disassembled. The books
are rebound to be reused.

Please call (248) 661-7649 to register for the lecture.

Right: Ilene Goldman-Sawyer
works on a Brailler (a Braille type-
writer) as Ruth Fuller prepares
some text to be bound.

Jewish Secrets will be held on the first Tuesday of every month.

Sperber's North Kosher Restaurant, located inside the JCC,
will be serving dinner until 8:00 p.m.

Fo- the hearing impaired, an Infrared Sound System is available. With reasonable
notice, we can provide a sign language interpreter for any speaker upon request.

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the'project got started.
"The sisterhood has always run it,
and the Jewish Braille Institute in
New York City is sponsored by sister-
hoods all over the country," she says.
The volunteers are Jewish, and they
belong to various synagogues, Salle
says. "It's a lot of camaraderie between
the people besides just doing the
work," she adds.
The group takes works that have
already been Brailled — including
Jewish textbooks and novels — and
puts the volumes into binders. The
books are then mailed to wherever