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This Week

Staff Notebook

David Montefiore has known Aumann
since Behar-Montefiore worked at the
Israeli Embassy with him in
Washington, D.C., in the late 1980s.
The programs, open to the communi-
ty, are co-chaired by Stacy Wallach.
Cost for Shabbat dinner is $20/adults;
$12/children 5 to 12; no charge for chil-
dren younger than 5. There is no cost
for the Saturday evening program.
For information and reservations, call
(248) 851-6880.

—SheIli Liebman Dorfman

Sale Of Booklets
Help The Hungry

40 Midtilebelt at 14 Mile Road • Farmington Hills, MI

Two local businesses have joined forces
to help feed the hungry during the win-
ter, when requests for food increase dra-
matically.
Nine Weight Watchers
locations and 106 Kroger
stores will give proceeds
from the sale of Help
Heal Hunger: Food For
Thought booklets to
Michigan food banks.
Moshe Aumann
Oak Park-based Yad Ezra
is an indirect beneficiary.
The booklets, on sale
for $1 till Feb. 1, are filled
with Weight Watchers
recipes and coupons.
The project is a collab-
oration between Gleaners Rabbi Buckman
Community Food Bank
in Detroit, the Salvation Army, the
Kroger Company of Michigan, Weight
Watchers, Inc., WJR Radio-760 AM
and Kessel Food Markets.
"When customers purchase the Help
Heal Hunger booklet, they are really giv-
ing to the food banks, which provide
food to more than 600 agencies which
directly feed the hungry," says Rick
Loewenstein, Gleaners president.
Securing surplus food from farmers,
grocery retailers, food distributors and
processors, Gleaners stores and distrib-
utes 20 million pounds of food annually
to 300 feeding agencies throughout
southeastern Michigan.
Yad Ezra, Detroit's kosher food pantry,
is not a direct recipient of funds from
the project. "However, Yad Ezra and
Gleaners have a beautiful relationship,"
says Ruth Ellen Mayhall, Gleaners vice
president of development. "We provide
them with fresh produce and they pro-
vide us with non-kosher foods that they
might receive, so there is a great cooper-
ative effort shared among our two
organizations."

Liebman Dorfman

1/19
2001

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