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A Winning Senior Service

The community program that enables older adults with limited transportation to
visit the gravesites of loved ones during the High Holidays season will be honored
at the Reform movement's November convention.
The Kever Avot (Graves of Our Ancestors) program of Temple Israel in West
Bloomfield will receive an Epstein Communicate! Award for large congregations at
the 2005 Union of Reform Judaism Biennel. The Ira Kaufman Chapel in Southfield
co-sponsors the 8-year-old program along with Temple Israel's Robert Sosnick
Family LIfe Center. Communicate! is an online database created by the URJ to facil-
itate the sharing of synagogue ideas and practices. Award winners receive $1,000 to
use for congregational programming.
Kever Avot has grown from 15 participating seniors to 1998 to 87 this year.

— Robert A. Sklar, editor

Honoring IDF

Israel Defense Forces Major General Aharon Ze'evi Farkash, head of
military intelligence, addresses a crowd of 700 at the Michigan
Friends of the IDF annual dinner at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in
Southfield on Oct. 27. Farkash described, in obvious generalizations,
the IDF intelligence structure and how it operates to combat terrorism.

— Harry Kirsbaum, staff writer

Fix-Up
Volunteers
Needed

When leaves start
falling, it's time for
Jewish Family Service
of Metropolitan
Detroit's ninth annual
Fall Fix-Up, which will
be held 9:30 a.m.-
12:30 p.m. Sunday,
Nov. 13.
Volunteers will meet
at Yeshivas Darchei
Torah,
21550 W. 12 Mile,
Southfield, for break-
fast, assignments,
tools and supplies.
The program serves
homebound older
adults in need of
minor home repairs
and indoor-outdoor
cleanup. Teams of vol-
unteers will rake
Matt Cannon and Mike Lipsitz rake leaves during last year's
leaves, hang pictures,
Fall Fix-Up.
clean or organize
basements, winterize
windows, change light
bulbs and do other minor chores.
Event chairperson is Jack Cherney. Committee members are Dr.
Steven Dunn, Beth Ganezer, David Ganezer, Micki Grossman, Karen
Saffran, Nathan Shiovitz, Jennifer Silverman and Judy Stern.
Sponsors include Broner Inc., Beaumont Hospital, Costco, Hanson's
Windows, Universal Bearing Co. and Yeshivas Darchei Torah.
To volunteer, contact Lindsay Leder at JFS, (248) 592-2309 or
lleder@jfsdetroit.org.

— Keri Guten Cohen, story development editor

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A Good Cause

Natalie and Manny Charach attend the ground-breaking for the
expansion of the Natalie and Manny Charach Cancer Treatment
Center, part of Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital in Commerce Township.
Immediately behind them are Shirley Harris, John Levey and Elaine
Bayram. A Sock Hop dinner-dance at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 12, will
benefit the expansion. Moose and Da Sharks will provide music for
dancing Fifties-style, replete with hula hoops. The Sock Hop will be
held at 59 W. Banquet Center, Highland. Wear Fifties attire and enjoy
an old-fashioned diner menu. For tickets, call (248) 937-3627.

Wing Dedication

As part of the Design for Dignity Capital Campaign project, a dedica-
tion of a newly renovated wing of the Fleischman Residence-
Blumberg Plaza was held. The Dembs and Roth Family Wing, in
memory of Michael Roth's parents, Mildred and Louis Roth and in
honor of Dennis Dembs' parents, Ann and Nelson Dembs, was dedi-
cated. Shown are Dennis Dembs, Sandy Dembs, Nelson Dembs, Ann
Dembs, Michael Roth and Janie Roth.

November 3 2005