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Cantor Ralph Goren, Cantor Chaim Najman and Michael Wolf display the
Chanuka Bears.
SHELLI DORFMAN
Staff Writer
his Chanuka, many hospi-
talized children received spe-
cial furry gift bears, thanks
to a national project of the
New York-based Cantors Assembly.
Established by Cantors Assembly
staff member Jay Neufeld, the program
is named BEARS. That stands for:
Bears that will give some
Encouragement, and in turn, our
reward will come from their Adorable
Rewarding Smiles.
Cantor Chaim Najman, national
president of the Cantors Assembly,
says congregations in two-dozen
cities participated in the program,
including Congregation Shaarey
Zedek in Southfield under his lead-
ership. Bears for the project were
purchased from the Cantors
Assembly, which acquired them in
large quantity.
Some of the cantors nationally
involved their religious schools and sis-
terhoods in the purchase and delivery
of the bears; those at Shaarey Zedek
chose to include the synagogue's youth
group. Michael Wolf, the synagogue's
director of education and youth,
arranged for United Synagogue Youth
members to share the bears with young
patients at William Beaumont
Hospital in Royal Oak.
Cantor Stephen Stein, the Cantors
Assembly executive vice president, says
this first-year program was initiated
with a goal of bringing at least a small
measure of joy to these children. The
thought of a child being in the hospi-
tal during this season is particularly
troubling.
"We are more than singers," he
adds. "We are clerics who visit the sick,
hold their hands as they die and stay
with them once they have passed on.
And, in fact, much of our time is spent
teaching children, which makes this
project especially meaningful to us."
Cantor Najman says he and syna-
gogue Cantor Ralph Goren have given
away bears at Children's Hospital of
Michigan in Detroit and Beaumont
Hospital. They also sing Chanuka
songs with the children, Cantor
Najman says, happy to "bring them
some holiday cheer and sunshine, no
matter how brief." He describes the
two types of bears presented as
Chanuka Bears: blue and white but
with no religious symbols, and
Rainbow Bears. Both types are offered
to patients, who are non-Jewish as well
as Jewish.
Cantor Najman says he may
expand the program next year to
include area nursing homes in addi-
tion to hospitals. What's especially
important to him is to "continue to
involve the synagogue's youth in the
mitzvah of delivering the stuffed
gifts.
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