To Life!

AROUND TOWN

Right: Julie Krasnick, 3, and

Evan Krasnick, 4, both of

Huntington Woods

Far Right: Jamie Oclater, 10,

of Bloomfield Hills

Mitzvah

Moments

Community benefits from
volunteer elbow grease!

izza, sunshine and smiles
characterized this year's
Itsa Mitzvah Day lunch-
eon kickoff at the Max M. Fisher
Federation Building in
Bloomfield
Township. More
than half of the
hundreds of
participants at
the Oct. 9 event
were kids, hap-
pily munching
on kosher
Ronit Pinto
Jerusalem Pizza
Columnist
before getting
busy on one of
nine community projects.
Activities included sukkah build-
ing at JARC homes for people
with disabilities, a fall cleanup at
the Kadima mental health
agency in Southfield and food
sorting for the Gleaners
Community Food Bank in
Detroit and Yad Ezra in Berkley.
Families played games with
members of the West Bloomfield
based Friendship Circle. There
was a concert at the Fleischman
Residence/Jewish Home & Aging
Services in West Bloomfield.
There was cookie baking and art
projects with residents at the
Jewish Community Center's
Jimmy Prentis Morris Building
and the Teitel senior citizen corn-
plex on the A. Alfred Taubman
Jewish Community Campus in
Oak Park.
Families also participated in
Nature's Way — The Great
Outdoors, a special gardening
project in collaboration with the

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Top: Leah Krasnick and Mackenzie Newman,

both 7, and Fran Newman, all of Huntington

Woods

Above: Hallie Averbach, 10, and Rachel

Finkle, 7, both of West Bloomfield

Above right: Marlee Newman, 9, and Alana

Doctoroff, 5, both of Huntington Woods

Right: Jacob Lutz, 9, and twins Michael Lutz

and Adam Lutz, 7, all of Birmingham

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National Wildlife Federation, on
the Eugene and Marcia
Applebaum Jewish Community
Campus in West Bloomfield.
Stefany Freeman of
Bloomfield Hills co-chaired the
event with Joanne Aronovitz of
Huntington Woods. "This is a
day the whole family can do a
wonderful community mitzvah,"
said Aronovitz.
"We've done clean-up, we've
done planting, we've put up
sukkahs," said Sharon Resnick
of Farmington Hills. She volun-
teered to bake cookies with
daughters Meme, 15, and
Carolyn, 13, and her mother,
Edie Resnick of Bloomfield Hills.
"The girls gladly do whatever
they're asked to do," Edie said of
her granddaughters.
This is the family's fourth year
to participate.
"We do this because it's a
mitzvah," said Debbie Wolfe of
Bloomfield Hills, on her way to
build sukkahs at a JARC home
with daughter Rachel, 9.
Also spotted in the crowd
were: Fran Newman with
Marlee, 9, and Mackenzie, 7, and
Stacy Doctoroff with Nicole, 7,
Alana, 5, and Matthew, 2, all of
Huntington Woods; Karen
Ockner of Bloomfield Hills, with
daughter Jamie, 10; and sukkah
builders Hallie Averbach, 10,
and Rachel Finkle, 7, both of
West Bloomfield.
Itsa Mitzvah Day is an annual
event sponsored by the Jewish
Federation Women's Campaign &
Education Department. El

November 3 2005

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