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JCC MACCABI
PRO -SPORT CAN1P5

When Dreams
Come True

Maccabi Pro Sport Camps
are for children and teens
ages 6 through IQ.

Your child will love our pro-sport summer camps line-
up! Here are some highlights:

NBA BASKETBALL WITH GRANT HILL

This one-week camp runs from August 10-14 with guest
appearances by Grant Hill on Tuesday, Wednesday and

Thursday. There is a 100 camper limit, so sign up today!

RACKHAM GOLF- MEET TIGER WOODS

Two one-week sessions are offered. Week I runs from
July 6-10. Participating campers will receive a pass to
the Tiger Woods Instructional Clinic which will take
place second session. Session I campers will need to
provide their own transportation to and from the clinic.

Campers attending second session (August 3-7) will
have transportation provided to and from the clinic.
Each session has a 100 camper limit, so sign up today!

You may also choose from these exciting pro-sport camps:

• CARL CHILDRESS/FRED GOLDBERG BASEBALL
• KEN LEVY'S KICKBOXING
• DETROIT ARCHERY CLUB - ARCHERY
• LACROSSE
• MAYBURY HORSEBACK RIDING • OAKLAND GYMNASTICS
• IN-LINE HOCKEY AT SOCCER ZONE
• KARATE
• BASKETBALL UNLIMITED
• JCC SOCCER
• PLANET ROCK - ROCK CLIMBING
• NFL FLAG FOOTBALL

One week camp sessions run from June 15 through August 14.

HURRY - THE EARLY BIRD
REGISTRATION DEADUNE IS
APRIL 28!

To sign up your child, or to

request a detailed brochure,
please call the JCC Summer
Camps Office at 948) 661-1010.

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today Rose was almost gone; much
f I am to be honest — and really,
of her middle had turned to water,
what better place is there to
and her head had toppled over.
embarrass myself than a newspa-
Despairing, Adina came in from the
per? — as a child I spent countless
back yard and announced, "Rose
hours watching "I Dream of Jeannie."
collapsed."
Every now and then I'm channel
I felt bad for her because I think she
surfing and I catch sight of it and I
hoped,
though she knew it would not
begin to wonder about myself. Sure,
be, that her snowman would stay a
I was young — but what childhood
long while, even in the sunshine.
trauma (there must have
Another little dream gone.
been something) drove me
"When it melts, it's like
to actually find that drivel .
the snow is dying," Yitzhak
entertaining? Today the very
said. And then the tree
sight of Barbara Eden,
arrived.
garbed in that supposedly
It's not that I buy every-
fetching ensemble, and the
thing my children want; I
sound of that horrible, horri-
totally oppose that. I'm
ble theme music, is enough
offended when I hear about
to make my skin crawl.
Elizabeth
5-year-olds with their own
Often as a child I would
Applebaum
pretend to be Jeannie. I
AppleTree Editor computer and VCR who
make annual trips to Disney-
would cross my arms in front
world and only wear designer cloth-
of me, nod energetically and imag-
ing. A soul needs to yearn from time
ine my dream would come true.
to time, to know what it means to
Maybe this is what explains my
work
hard for something, to have
fondness now for granting my chil-
unfulfilled dreams to work toward. But
dren's wishes. Today I was grocery
the
small things — here I cannot help
shopping and I bought a tree. It's a
myself.
little thing, no more than 3 feet tall. A
Not long ago we went to the zoo
fig. It was a totally spontaneous pur-
and
stopped off at the gift shop. I let
chase, which usually I try to avoid,
each of my children pick a treat. As
but I'm glad I did it.
always, Yitz grabbed the first thing
Several months ago I was reading
he saw. Adina took her time about
to my children, 6-year-old Adina and
selecting
a multicolored pencil with
4-year-old Yitzhak, The Salamander
plastic animal shapes. Later, when
Room, in which a boy imagines his
Yitz
saw Adina's pencil, he said so
room turning into a veritable forest to
sincerely, "I wish I could have one of
accommodate his pet salamander.
those."
After hearing the book Adina said, " I
The next day I went back and I got
wish I could have a tree in my
him
one. And it was with such joy
room."
that I gave it to him before he went
It was a good time for a wish to
to sleep. He said, "How did you
come true. Two days ago it snowed
know I wanted this?" Then he
and we played outside all morning.
crawled
into bed, the pencil in his
Adina worked hard to build a snow-
tiny hands. And there it stayed held
man, complete with a hat and carrot
lovingly, tenderly, until the morning. ❑
nose, whom she named Rose. By

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