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4460 Orchard Lake Road
West Bloomfield, MI 48323

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Studios and suites with private baths
Three well planned daily meals
Licensed Nurses & Resident
Assistants 24 hours/7 days
Emergency call system
Medication management
Alzheimer's and dementia care
Housekeeping and linen service
Aerobic Pool and exercise room
Scheduled activities 7 days weekly
Game Room
Hair Salon
Sundries shop
Transportation
Includes all utilities except telephone

Call Kathy Porman at 248.683.1010 for additional information
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The Brighter Side

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he nursing home industry gets
a lot of bad press and Dennis
Hayes, administrator of
Menorah House, wants to do some-
thing about it.
When he heard a newly established
essay competition aimed at showing
young people the good side of nursing
homes, he immediately enrolled the
Southfield facility.
The essay contest, whose theme was
"Celebrating the Seasons;" was open
to high school seniors at public and
private schools in the Menorah House
neighborhood. Similar contests, timed
to coincide with Nursing Home Week
(May 13-17), also took place at the-16
other nursing homes managed by the
Medilodge Group.

aacov Abramovitch's latest mili-
tary reserve duty in Israel ended
just before Shavuot (May 17) and
proved both eye-opening and rewarding.
A legislative aide to Member of
Knesset Ytival Steinitz, a Likud Party
member, Abramovitch spent the
Passover break in America visiting
friends, including Israel activist Jerome
S. Kaufman of Bloomfield Hills.
In a May 19 e-mail message to
Kaufman, he said serving in Judea and
Samaria (the West Bank) "was probably
the most exhausting experience I had in
my life, both physically and mentally.
"The intensity of the operations
against the Palestinian terrorists was on
a daily-nightly basis," said
Abramovitch, whose grandfather fought
in Israel's 1948 War of Independence.
He said, "Every incursion to
Palestinian Authority territory was not
to punish, but rather to catch those
who plan, aid and execute the terror
attacks against Israel and Israelis. - It's a
very demanding job indeed."
Still, he found reward in knowing
"that myself and my buddies, with our
own hands and sweat, stopped numer-
ous terror attacks against our families
and friends in the rear."
He said it also "was a great opportu-
nity to know firsthand the beauty of
Judea and Samaria, from the north to
the south."
He and other reservists were glad to
return home "safe and sound," he said,
but knew it may be not long before "we
meet again for another 'reserves' service
if the situation keeps as it is now."
— Robert A. Skla

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embers of the University of
Michigan's Michigan
Student Zionists will intro-
duce their new organization at a
kosher barbecue from 2-6 p.m.,
Sunday, June 9.
The group, established to combat anti-
Semitism and anti-Israel bias in the
media at U-M and abroad, has been
meeting on campus since late April.
Sponsored by the Michigan Student
Assembly, the fund-raising-event will
take place at the South East Area Park,
at the corner of Platt and Ellsworth.
The klezmer band, Into the
Freylakh, will perform; softball and
basketball games will be organized.
For information, call Adi Neuman
at (734) 635-6515. Cost is $4/person;
$10/family.

— Shelli Liebman Dorfman

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Essay contest winners Elizabeth Stern
of Beth Jacob School for Girls, Kelli
Hughes of Southfield-Lathrup High
School and Shifra Weingarden of
Beth Jacob School for Girls with
Sidney Riskin, Menorah House
resident council president.

Five winners were chosen from the
25 Menorah House essays submitted
for the contest. The following young
women shared $2,000 in prize money:
Kelli Hughes of Southfield-Lathrup
High School; Elizabeth Stern, Shifra
Weingarden and Hadassah Bakst, all of
Beth Jacob School for Girls, a division
of Yeshiva Beth Yehudah; and Bracha
Silver of Yeshivas Darchei Torah.
"The nursing home need not be the
end to fun and a good life," Hayes
said. "With caring and creative staff,
an understanding and kind communi-
ty, and with the participation of young
adults, there can be unlimited oppor-
tunities for residents to experience
within and outside of the facility."
Menorah House is one of two preferred
providers of the Detroit area's Jewish
Homes and Aging Services. About 70
percent of its residents are Jewish, Hayes
said, and only kosher food is served.

— Diana Lieberman