Prentis and Meer Jewish Apartments,
the Jewish Community Center, Jewish
Family Service, JVS, Jewish Home and
Aging Services and Fleischman
Residence. Many volunteers and staff
members at those locales helped with
the sewing and finishing touches.
Neither group saw the other's squares
before the quilt was completed, but
they meld together seamlessly.
The Israeli panels, created in the
Central Galilee's Emek Yizrael, Migdal
HaEmek and Nazareth Illit, depict
many of the same themes — physical
therapy, music, friendship and holiday
celebrations.
"The fact that Jewish seniors made it
from all over shows we are one," said
Birdie Barris, 91, another Hechtman
resident.
"I think it's magnificent," said 83-
year-old Mae Davidson, a resident of
the Meer Jewish Apartments.
The women who helped create the
quilt all see different things when they
look at the finished product.
"The warmth of the heart and the
dedication" are what stand out to
Gertrude Weintraub, a Fleischman res-
ident who has a large extended family
in Israel. She hopes some of her rela-
tives there will get to see the quilt.
"It's like a time capsule of who we
are as a community," Barris said.
Other participants said the quilt rep-
resents life, hope and the fact that eld-
erly residents are creative, productive
members of society. Meredith
Goldberg, a nurse with J-Care, was
moved. "I had tears in my eyes. It was
just breathtaking to see it completed,"
she said.
The quilt will be unveiled publicly at
Federation's annual meeting Sept. 21.
Then, it will be displayed at the Janice
Charach Epstein Gallery at the JCC in
West Bloomfield from Oct. 14-Nov.
25. It also will travel to Israel so the
participants there can see the fruits of
their labor.
The women who took part in this
project relish the idea that their cre-
ation will be passed on from genera-
tion to generation.
"It's a part of us," said Ida Waksberg,
who lives at Fleischman. "It's a lasting
gift, made with love, for anyone who
sees it." ❑

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