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A
journey to the mall for Esther
Winer led to an afternoon of
dancing, drumming and med-
itation for 75 Jewish
Apartments residents.
Winer, community outreach coordina-
tor for Jewish Apartments and Services
in West Bloomfield, says last month she
"stopped by the Marshall Fields ticket
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counter
at the Somerset Collection in
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Troy and overheard Linda Militello's
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phone conversation about drumming
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and meditations with friends."
Always looking for an exciting and dif-
ferent experience for the residents, Winer immediately
invited Militello and her quintet of musical pals to per-
form at both the Lillian and Samuel Hechtman and the
Norma Jean and Edward Meer Jewish Apartments, both
in West Bloomfield.
Directed by Militello, the group's coordinator who
played the African jemba drums, the other performers
joined in with more drums, percussion instruments and
shakers. They led the residents in an interactive musical
performance in which they were able to participate as
well as watch.
"Before the performance we made our own musical
instruments from toilet paper rolls and paper towel
rolls," Winer says.
The rolls were painted and appliqued, then filled with
popcorn, black beans and rice.
For the finale of the Oct. 27 program, Nancy Turk led
a meditation and relaxation session that benefited both
the performers and the residents.
"The ladies [Militello and friends] had never per-
formed for another group and they were all nervous,"
Winer says. "They met at a drumming circle at the
Renaissance Unity Drum Circle, formed their own
group — and this was their debut."
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n addition to the mourning peri-
od following a death, the yearly
yahrtzeit remembrance and the
four annual observances, when
else in Israel is the Kaddish prayer recited?
— Goldfein
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Quotables
"They need to single out anti-Semitism
because of the history of Europe, the
history of Hungary and the attempt to
revive anti-Semitism in Hungary. It's
not enough to treat it under racism.
From an educational standpoint, you
have to call the sickness by its very
name, otherwise you can't immunize the
social system."
Top: Hechtman resident Anna Helman participates in the
musical program with the instrument she created.
Above: Hechtman resident Lillian Fagen dances to the
sounds of African drums with performer Blanche
Schaffhausen.
— Avi Beker, secretary-general of the
World Jewish Congress, in response to
greater government sensitivity to rising
anti-Jewish sentiment in the central
European nation of Hungary as quoted by
JTA.
"I've always felt myself at home in a
Jewish environment, even more so
than with non-Jews."
— Gaina Bukki, an ethnic Russian
married to a Jew but not Jewish herself,
who makes gefilte fish, prepares Shabbat
meals at the Jewish center and does
home care for elderly Jews in Hzevsk,
Russia, as quoted by JTA.
Yiddish Limericks
Shabbat Candlelighting
"The one time I am completely at peace with myself after an extremely long, draining week is when I
light my Shabbos candles. Before saying the brachah [blessing], I literally close my eyes, take a step
back, breath in as if I were smelling a bouquet of roses, open my eyes and there it is, complete peace
of mind."
— Dena Hyman of Southfield, controller with a contracting firm, mother of 3
Sponsored by Lubavitch
Women's Organization.
To submit a candlelighting
message or to receive
complimentary candlesticks
and information on Shabbat
candlelighting, call Miriam
Amzalak of Oak Park at
(248) 967-5056 or e-mail:
amzalak@juno.com
© 2002
Candlelighting
Candlelighting
Friday, Dec. 20, 4:44 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 27, 4:48 p.m.
Shabbat Ends
Shabbat Ends
Saturday, Dec. 21, 5:51 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 28, 5:56 p.m.
"It's every proctologist's wish,"
Insisted renowned Dr. Fisch,
"To get to the bottom
Of things when we spot 'ern.
It's toches," he said, " ahfen tish*.”
— Martha JoFleischmann
* (literal) bottom of the table; (idiomat-
ic) put up or shut up
Yiddish-isms
shmeggege
An unadmirable, petty person; an
untalented type, a whiner; a drip
Source: The Joys of Yiddish by Leo
Rosten (McGraw-Hill)
12/20
2002