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Dorothy & Peter Brown
Jewish Community Adult Day Care Program
invites you to attend
LEGAL ISSUES &
COMMUNITY RESOURCES
A Caring Partners Workshop on Dementia
For Family Caregivers
RABBI ARNOLD GOODMAN
Mindi Silver-Weiss, ACSW and Don Rosenberg, JD
us are making appeals to God. In
Judaism, we have specific prayers for
almost everything, which provide
words for what is in our hearts but
which we may not know how to
express. Consider, for example, the
beauty of the Kaddish, which raises
our spirits to God in the most
painful of times.
There are quiet prayers, too, in our
own words — conversations we have
with God at night, and in moments of
despair, fear and gratitude. Prayer is not
only for adults. Children also pray, some-
times spontaneously, with their own
words, and sometimes from Jewish texts
that have been with us for generations,
uttered by our parents, grandparents,
great-grandparents.
So why might a child need some-
thing like A Child's Book of Jewish
Prayers? He won't.
Adults often have a silly notion that
children need to be spoken to like
dolts. And so you end up with texts
like these.
Here's a prayer the author recom-
mends children say on Shavuot: "Dear
God ... Mommy says that the best
present we can give someone is a big
smile and a helping hand. I hope I can
give Torah and You this special present
every day."
Or how about Rabbi Goodman's sug-
gestion for a bedtime prayer: "Daddy
says You take special care of the souls of
people who have been good. I will
always try to make sure that my soul
stays good by listening to my mommy
and daddy."
And finally, a prayer for going on a
trip: "Daddy says I will have to be good
and not fight with my brother and sister,
especially when he is driving. I will try
to behave myself. My doll and I want to
make sure that our trip is fun."
Tuesday, September 11, 2001
Registration: 6:30 - 7 p.m.
Program: 7 - 9 p.m.
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit
6735 Telegraph Road
Bloomfield Hills
For reservations. call Barbara Adler by Friday, September 7
at (248) 559-5000. ext. 705
The Caring Partners Training Program is a project of the Dorothy & Peter Brown Jewish Community Adult Day Care Program located at Jewish Home
and Aging Services (West Bloomfield) and Jewish Vocational Service (Southfield). The Caregiver Training Program is being planned in
consultation with the Alzheimer's Association — Metro Detroit Chapter and the Michigan Department of Community Health.
The Caring Partners Training Program is funded through Title III of the Older Americans Act from the Area Agency on Aging 1-B through the Office of Services to the Aging. The Dorothy & Peter
Brown Jewish Community Adult Day Care Program complies with the terms and regulations of Tide V of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as amended in Section 504 of the Social Rehabilitation Act of
1973. The Program is an equal opportunity employer: reasonable accommodation will be provided upon notification or request.
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