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rewarding experience."
"This year, we have eight buses and
will visit 11 cemeteries throughout the
community," said Kari Provizer, director
of the Family Life Center at Temple
Israel, the program co-sponsor with Ira
Kaufman Chapel in Southfield.
Because many seniors are frail and
need assistance, sometimes several vol-
unteers assist each one, from walking to
the gravesite to saying Kaddish (the
memorial prayer).
Helping Hands Aplenty
There's no shortage of volunteer sup-
port for the program. For example,
Kaufman Chapel covers the cost of the
buses and prints the prayer sheets.
Fleishman Residence in West
Bloomfield provides kosher bag lunches
and snacks, especially important for
people who have diabetes. The Temple
Israel Youth Group marks the gravesites
ahead of time with an orange flag to
make them easier to find. To defray the
cost of supplies, Kroger, Hiller's Market
and Target give donations.
"It takes an entire year to organize
this event," Provizer said. "It's a very
emotional and special day."
Seniors who are alone call her all year
in anticipation of this program, she said.
Kever Avot volunteers can help them in
a range of ways, from providing a quiet
moment graveside, to unveiling a head-
stone, to discovering the graves of other
family members nearby. Some of the
seniors from the former Soviet Union
don't speak English, but they have inter-
preters and find other, heartfelt ways to
communicate.
David Techner, a funeral director with
Kaufman Chapel, is enthusiastic about
the program. "When people first hear of
Kever Avot, they say, 'Isn't this depress-
ing?' But if you saw the smiles on the
bus on the way home — that's really the
gift of Kever Avot. Sure, they use a lot of
Kleenex, but people come back totally
uplifted. There's a sense of fulfillment for
both volunteers and seniors involved."
Helping Hands
Volunteers, too, have been moved by
their experience. "We felt honored to
have spent a few hours with these special
people," Russell and Mary Barnett of
Bloomfield Hills told the Jewish News in
a letter. "We look forward to expanding
our participation in this year's program."
Said Techner: "I think that volunteers
get as much out of Kever Avot as the
people they are there to help."
He and his wife, Ilene, who is
Kaufman Chapel's aftercare program
director, approached Temple Israel after
noticing many seniors "were saddened at
their inability to do what had always
been so simple — visiting the cemetery"
Enter Kever Avot. "It's a very spiri-
tual time," Techner said, "a time
where the importance of family and
faith go hand in hand."
For some, the program doesn't end
when the buses return to Temple Israel
around noon. As a result of Kever
Avot last year, Techner said that at
least three residents went to High
Holiday services with their volunteer
and the person's family.
One senior, with family members
buried only in Russia, went to the
cemetery to support her friends last
year. She was so moved by the experi-
ence, she has become one of the
Russian interpreters this year.
The timing of the annual program is
not by accident, said co-chair Ida
Nemzin. As she puts it: "This is the per-
fect way to end the year and to start off
the New Year — by doing the mitzvah
of a lifetime." ❑
New Principal At ffnaz Moshe
Josh Leopold has been appointed the
principal of Congregation B'nai
Moshe's LIFE
school program.
Leopold is a past
president of
Congregation Beth
Shalom men's club
and a former B'nai
Moshe youth direc-
tor. He has taught
at several local syn-
Josh Leopold
agogues and was a
presenter at the
sixth annual Holocaust Conference at
Wayne State University.
Leopold holds a bachelor's degree
in political science with a major in
international relations and Judaic
studies from Wayne State University.
He also has a master's degree in teach-
ing secondary education in social
studies from WSU. Leopold is a can-
didate for principal certification in
secondary education.
He teaches social studies at Osborn
High School in Detroit, where he
serves as assistant chair of the social
studies department and coordinator
of student activities.