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

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Detroit's track team included Jonathan Shaw, Jenna Pickman, Nicole

Meisner, coach Joel Kashdan and David Sandler.

A Little Stumble

Maccabi athlete just can't seem
to hit the tape ... again.

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D

avid Sandler couldn't
believe it happened again.
Sandler, a member of
the JCC Detroit Maccabi Club's track
contingent at last month's Vancouver
Games, was racing to the finish line in
the boys age 15 16 110-meter hurdles
when he experienced a painful &ja
vu.
"About 75 percent of the way
through the race, I clipped a hurdle
and fell," Sandler said. "My first reac-
tion was, `Not again!' The same thing
happened to me at about the same
spot in the same race at last year's
Maccabi Games."
Despite his tumbles to the track,
Sandler won a medal in both races.
The Oak Park resident earned a sil-
ver in 2005 in Richmond, Va., and a
bronze in Vancouver.
"There was no way I was going
to win the race last year, but I had
a chance this year if I hadn't fallen:'
Sandler said. This was Sandler's fourth
and final year of, Maccabi competi-
tion. He ran for veteran Detroit track
coach Joel Kashdan in Houston and
Washington, D.C. before traveling to
Richmond and Vancouver.

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HANAH TOVAH!

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

— Maureen & Bob Shapiro —
Falls Church , VA.

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

Linda, Howard, David, Bradley Goldman
Dr. Adam & Tracie Fienman

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September 21 ® 2006

"Maccabi was a wonderful experi-
ence," said Sandler, a Berkley High
School junior. "I really enjoyed the
diversity of the athletes, all the activi-
ties and the great competition."
One of Detroit's flag bearers at the
opening ceremonies in Vancouver,
Sandler also earned a gold medal in
the 4x100 relay, and bronze medals in
the 4x400 and 4x400 coed relays.
Detroit's Nicole Meisner and
Jenna Pickman competed in the
girls age 13-14 division. Besides
winning a goal medal in the 400 run,
Ivleisner earned a silver medal in the
4x400 relay and bronze medals in the
200 run and 4x100 relay. Pickman
won silver medals in the 4x100 and
4x400 relays and a bronze medal in
the 4x100 coed relay.
Jon Shaw rounded out Detroit's
four-member track contingent. He
won silver medals in the boys 13-14
2,000 steeplechase and 3,000 run
and a bronze medal in the 1,500 run.
Detroit athletes were teamed with
runners from other delegations in sev-
eral relay races.

Making A Splash
Detroit's swimmers, coached by the
father-daughter team of Herb and
Dena Bernstein, left Vancouver with