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Mail to: The Detroit Jewish News, 29200 Northwestern Hwy. #110, Southfield MI 48034 Attn: Marketing Coordinator We appreciate your business and thank you for continuing to get it. F3 For your best price, selection dandy _personeilized service CINDY VT 14 8/ 8 2003 80 SCHLUSSEL SHUMAII 41. 'IPAY CHRYSLER Jeep Plymouth Eagle Later, Chomsky began representing LLL at the annual the Yeshivas Darchei Torah Health Fair, and serv- ing on the Area Council of LLL of Michigan and with the International Division. Today, she works with Hebrew Free Loan and the Institute for Retired Professionals, a program of the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit. And while she is semi-retired from LLL, she continues to help with phone calls and works on special projects. Teaching Love Marilyn Tokayer, a native of New York who made aliyah 18 years ago, is the author of Created in Wisdom: The Symbiotic Relationship Between Mother and Child: A Jewish Perspective (Feldheim). A longtime supporter of breast- feeding, she is a leading spokesman on the issue within the Orthodox Jewish community. Tokayer, the mother of seven chil- dren, lived in a religious settlement when she first came to Israel. She quickly became despondent — "it drove me crazy" is the way she puts it — watching mothers who were attuned to every last detail of kashrut, or tzinut (modesty), but who remained casual, at best, when it came to the best way to care for their infants. For Tokayer, nursing is a very Jewish issue. "I felt so Jewish breastfeeding my children and listening to their cues. I just knew that this was the way God created us to be," she says. "I would say my morning prayers, or read tehillim (psalms) while nurs- ing, and felt that God was looking down on me and 'getting nachas' from His creations. "I always felt that breastfeeding kept me close to and in tune with each baby's needs." Breastfeeding came easy for her, Tokayer says, but if she did encounter slight problems she would ask for help. It was never difficult to find. "The advantages [of breastfeeding] always outweighed the difficulties." In addition to the fact that Halachah directs Jewish women to breastfeed, Tokayer notes that according to Jewish law, a nursing mom can relax when it comes to keeping the house in order — and her husband is directed to bring her extra food during lactation. "Jewish values teach us to begin educating a child from the moment that he or she is born," she says. "The main thing to teach a child at the most tender stage of his or her life is love. "That is what the Torah teaches us: To love unconditionally our fel- low, and certainly to love God. The child will never learn to love if he does not know what it means. And he can never trust in God or people if he does not experience a sense of trust in his early life. He will never feel secure or important in this world if he has missed the opportu- nity in his early years. "Breastfeeding keeps mother so in tune with her baby," she says. "It keeps her wanting to be near and to give and to care for her child. This is the first lesson in life. This is the first lesson in being a Jew." ❑ Looking For LLL? For a list of La Leche League groups in Michigan, visit LLL on the Web: www.lalacheleague.ore Web/Michigan.html Meetings are free. You may join LLL for a fee. At the LLL site www.lalacheleague.org you'll also find a listing of LLL groups around the United States. For information about LLL around the world, including English- and Hebrew-speaking groups in Israel, go to vvwvv.lalecheleague.org/WebUS.html Meetings in Israel are held in metro Jerusalem, metro Tel Aviv, and in northern Israel.