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"YES,THERE IS
LIFE AFTER
BREAST CANCER.
AND THAT'S TH E
WHOLE POIN T!'

—Ann Jillian

A lot of women are so afraid of

breast cancer they don't want to hear
about it.
And that's what frightens me.
Because those women won't prac-
tice breast self-examination regularly.
Those women. particularly those
over 35, won't ask their doctor about a
mammogram.
Yet that's what's required for breast
cancer to be detected early. When the
cure rate is 90"(i. And when there's a

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good chance it won't involve the loss of
a breast.
But no matter what it involves, take
it from someone who's been through
it all.
Life is just too wonderful to give up
on. And. as I found out, you don't have
to give up on any of it. Not work, not
play. not even romance.
Oh. there is one thing. though.
You do have to give up being afraid
to take care of yourself.

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Get a checkup. Life is worth it.

Cantor Max Shimansky

"All of us who have come
under his influence are the mourners.

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teaching students at Hillel Day
School of Metropolitan Detroit
Staff Writer
and preparing them for their bar
or bat mitzvah.
Max
Shimansky,
antor
"We're so used to his presence
of
,
pu_pi
who graced the1
at the school," said seventh
Congregation Beth
graders Alissa Koloff and Rachel
Achim for 17 years,
Lachover, who attended the ser-
passed away Dec. 17 after suffer-
vice. "People felt so comfortable
ing a heart attack. He was 62.
around him.
Beth Achim,
He never forgot
closed as part
anyone's name,
of the merger
and always said
with Adat
`hi' to people in
Shalom Syna-
the halls."
gogue
0 0 in
Monica Woll, an
August, was
eighth grader at
symbolically
Hillel, studied
reopened for
for her bat mitz-
the Dec. 18
vah with Cantor
memorial ser-
Shimansky from
vice. The
September 1997
chapel was
to March 1998.
nearly full of
"He was very
mourners,
helpful and kind
including more
and funny," she
than 30 mem-
said. "It was very sad at school
bers of the clergy.
when we found out (he died).
"For 17 years, the cantorial
Every student was taught by him
chair on this pulpit was filled with
in some way."
the distinguished presence of Max
Cantor Shimansky especially
Shimansky," said Rabbi Herbert
touched
the life of Hillel eighth
Yoskowitz at the service.
grader Pele Browner. His family
The rabbi at Beth Achim who
belonged to Beth Achim and Can-
shared the bimah with Cantor
tor Shimansky had officiated at
Shimansky since 1994. Yoskowitz
Pele's bris.
added: "We stare at the empty
"He had a great attitude toward
side of this pulpit in utter disbe-
teaching the Torah and haftorah,"
lief and in deep sorrow.
Pele said. "I thought it was great
"All of us who were a part of
and very special that his career
Congregation Beth Achim are in
was dedicated to praying to God.
mourning. All of us who have
It's going to be a lot different
come under his influence are the
\,vithout him at school."
mourners."
Cantor Shimansky, a native
Cantor Shimansky served con-
New
Yorker, is survived by his
gregations in Albany, N.Y., Mem-
wife,
Sharon, of Southfield; son
phis, Tenn., Wilkes-Barre,-Pa. ,
and
daughter-in-law,
Jacob and
and Canton, Ohio, before coming
Loren
Shimansky
of
Royal
Oak;
to the Southfield congregation.
daughter,
Theresa
Ellen
Shiman-
He also served as a chaplain to the
sky of Walled Lake; and brothers,
Jewish War Veterans, and eight of
Rabbi Zev Shimansky of Ohio
its members marched up the aisle
and Henry Shimansky of Florida.
to the coffin and saluted before
The family asks that contribu-
the service started.
tions
be made to the Cantors
Following the closing of Beth
of America, 3080
Assembly
Achim this year, Cantor Shiman-
Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10027.
sky continued working alongside
Burial was at Adat Shalom Memo-
Rabbi Yoskowitz at life-cycle
rial Park, Livonia.
events. The cantor also continued)

LONNY GOLDSMITH