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30-Something from

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May the coming year be filled
with health, happiness and prosperity
for all our family and friends.

MadeIon, Lou & Melissa Seligman

Dona Stillman of Birmingham, takes a break between Israeli dances

kTh as&na

May the coming year be filled with
health and happiness for all our family and friends.
L'Shanah Tovah!

Karen & Jerry Kaufman & Family
Lisa, Jonathan & Emma Coden
Brian, Sabrina & Jadyn Kaufman

with her 7-year-old twin daughters, Olivia and Emily. She is one of

nine local counterparts who visited the Central Galilee in March. "It

was my first trip to Israel — it was phenomenal," she said. "We made

friends and we'll be friends forever."

improve conditions in their
region. They sought assistance
and advice from Detroiters on
one of them.
The joint project will create a
community park in Migdal
HaEmek, the Balfour Forest or
the Hanefetz Forest near Kibbutz
Yifat. The plan will "base the
project on volunteer activity,
thereby leveraging the region's
human capital."
The other five projects for the

regions for several months at a
time and
• having youth interact with
seniors to transcribe their life
stories.
Shula Almonzino-Zaguri is a
32-year-old attorney from
Migdal HaEmek and the mother
of two. She is chair of an organi-
zation that helps the mentally
handicapped and is working
with Ilanit Twitou; a 34-year-old
junior high teacher in Nazareth

Moraia Tafla, 39, a

high school English

teacher from the

Jezreel Valley,

checks out a model

of an Ethiopian

May the coming year be filled with
health and happiness for all our family and friends.
L'Shanah Tovah!

Jewish hut. She is

one of the 16 emis-

saries and serves as

the Central Galilee

chair of Gesher

Esther and Frank Rosner
Jeremy and Arielle

We wish our family & friends a very
healthy, happy and sweet New Year.

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L'Kesher.

region being considered by the
Israelis involve:
• providing comfort for griev-
ing families after the death of a
child,
• helping the often overlooked
siblings of chronically sick chil-
dren,
• informing the needy of their
social and economic rights,
• having Detroit and Central
Galilee high school students live
and volunteer in each other's

Illit, on the intergenerational
life-stories project.
She is excited about the joint
efforts between 30-something
counterparts from Detroit and
the Central Galilee. "It's a good
basis for real relationships:'
Almonzino-Zaguri said. "Not a
connection based on money, but
a connection that will build and
grow a project that can be com-
mon to the two areas."

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September 29 2005