For Openers For The Sake Of Love ost couples embark on married life with the hope that their love will survive in good- times and bad, through joy and adversity. But Estelle Mitch, 76, and Angelo Frigo, 68, are certain their love will survive adversity. It already has. The pair were married by the Birmingham Temple's Rabbi Adam Chalom Feb. 22, at the interde- nominational chapel of Farmington Hills' Botsford General Hospital — a mere two weeks after they were DIANA involved in a potentially fatal auto LIEBERMAN accident. The accident, in which the pair Staff crashed head-on into a truck, left Writer/Copy Mitch with a broken ankle and Editor Frigo with a shattered knee and left index finger. After surgery at St. Mary's/Mercy Hospital in Livonia, they were trans- ferred to Botsford for intensive physical therapy. "They are very good, very compliant patients," said nurse Margaret Brannigan. "They have a lot of broken bones, but they'll heal; they'll walk again." Added nurse Connie Lynn, "We always know, if we can't find Angelo, he's -in Estelle's room, and if we can't find Estelle, she's in Angelo's room." The two nurses were among 20 guests at the Saturday night ceremony, as the two wheelchairs rolled down the chapel's aisle. Frigo's grandson, 15- year-old Stephen Patton of Clinton Township, was best man, and Eve Chalom of New York City, the rabbi's sister, was maid of honor. Although not relat- ed by blood, the Chaloms are "my adopted family," Mitch said. Both natives of France, Mitch and Frigo first met 30 years ago when the pair took English lessons at Detroit's International House. Along with Mitch's late husband, Leo, they formed a close-knit friendship. t.c[P,k,V'cha Don't Know ©2003 T he Jewish year follows the Hebrew calen- dar; for example, the first of Tishrei is Rosh Hashanah, and the 14th of Nisan is Passover. There is one date on the English calendar, however, which affects Jewish observance. Can you name it? 'ID.A.OSSEd papp-e pun -DaG Luau ST DUDA IDkeid auzusalurm SQDTA.IDS repads v of :nMSTIV" Quotables Angelo Frigo and Estelle Mitch share a moment together before their Feb. 22 wedding. "'Promise me to keep a secret,' Leo told me four or five days before he died," Frigo remembered. "'Promise me to take care of Estelle ... keep this a secret until the day you can ask her.'" For her part, Mitch called Frigo "kind, caring and affectionate." "I feel secure and happy about spending the rest of my life with him." The wedding itself was only a symbol of the strength the pair has already shown, said Rabbi Chalom. "I feel I'm adding the last piece to some- thing you've already built." The couple's marriage represents the truest form of love, he said, "Love not for the sake of children, not for the sake of status — love for the sake of love." ❑ "As the ner tamid [eternal light above the Holy Ark] flickers, it continuously reminds us that it is the light of hope when we are immersed in trouble; it is the light of faith when we plagued with doubt. That perpetual light represents the light of the God within each one of us." — Rabbi Marla Hornsten of Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, sermonizing on Parshat "Tetzaveh" Feb. 14. "What must a religion of love and goodness do to confront its history of hatred and harm, to make amends with its victims and to right itself so that it is no longer the source of a hatred and harm that, whatever its past, it would no longer endorse? — Author Daniel Jonah Goldhagen in his news book `A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair," as quoted in the Jan. 31 issue of the Forward. Yiddish Limericks Diplomacy's failed us, it's clear. You can't talk to those who won't hear. Let pacifists yelp ... I say words will help Vee a taten bankehs,* I fear! Shabbat Candlelighting — Martha Jo Fleischmann "Shabbat candles are a unique and special thing to me. They represent that after God created our world, after the sixth day He rested. When I think about Shabbat candles, I think about our home, Jerusalem." — Susan Immerman, 9, Bloomfield Hills Sponsored by Lubavitch Women's Organization. To submit a candlelighting message or to receive complimentary candlesticks and irOrmation on Shabbat candlelighting call Miriam Amzalak of Oak Park at (248) 967-5056 or e-mail: smzalak@juno.com * like blood-cupping (would help) on a corpse Yiddish-isms koptzen Candlelighting Candlelighting Friday, Feb. 28: 6:02 p.m. Friday, March 7• 6•11 p.m. Shabbat Ends Shabbat Ends Saturday, March 1: 7:06p.m. Saturday, March 8: 7:14 p.m. A pauper; one who does not amount to anything and never will. Source: From The New Joys of Yiddish by Leo Calvin Rosten, edited by Lawrence Bush, copyright 2001, by the Rosten Family LLC. Used by permission of the Rosten Family LLC. 2/28 2003 17