NOTICE

Jewish Apartments & Services, Inc., Jcare, Inc., JAS Hechtman I Nonprofit
Corporation, JFA Non-Profit Housing Corporation. Jewish Apartments &
Services Phase IV, Inc., JAS Non-Profit Housing Corporation VI, and Jewish
Apartments & Services Foundation will hold their Annual Meeting of Members
on Wednesday, June 13, 2007, at 5:00 p.m. at the Harriett & Ben Teitel Jewish
Apartments, 15106 W. Ten Mile Road, Oak Park, Michigan, for the purpose of
electing members to the Boards of Directors and for the transaction of such other
business as may properly come before the meeting.

Nominations for Directors are as follows:

Shabbat BaMidbar:
Numbers 1:1-4:20; Hosea 2:1-22.

For their first three-year terms ending June, 2010: Dr. Barbara
Kappy and Rabbi Yehudah Burnham.

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For new three-year terms ending June, 2010: Jamie Ben, Bruce
Brickman, Rabbi Bunny Freedman, Arthur Friedman, Jonathan
Podolsky, Sheri Schiff, Nancy Simpson, Rabbi Jennifer Tisdale
and Robin Trepeck.

The following slate of officers will be presented as nominees:

President: Laurence Tisdale; Vice Presidents: Susan Harold, Nancy
Siegel Heinrich, Jon Podolsky and Steven Weinstock; Treasurer:
Harold Etkin; Assistant Treasurer: Eli Scherr; Secretary:
Rabbi Bunny Freedman; Assistant Secretary: Nancy Simpson.

In accordance with the Bylaws, other qualified persons may be nominated for
election by a petition signed by not fewer than fifty (50) members of the Corpo-
ration and filed with Marsha Goldsmith Kamin, Executive Director, not less than
ten (10) days prior to the date of the Annual Meeting. Only one (1) person may
be nominated by each such petition and no nomination shall be valid unless the
nominee shall have consented to such nomination.

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The Need To Belong

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isfy the hunger for belonging.
he Torah reading of
Consider a gifted and promising
BaMidbar describes a census
young man or woman who feels root-
of the children of Israel dur-
less and alienated. Consider a suc-
ing the days of Moses. Each tribe was
cessful entrepreneur who realizes one
to be numbered and the total figures
day that his home is not his castle.
are tallied.
Consider a woman, out-
In the midst of this seem-
wardly graceful and serene,
ingly prosaic report, the
but inwardly distressed
Bible introduces a profound
because she feels unloved
spiritual insight: "Take ye the
and unwanted.
sum of all the congregation
Consider an older person
in Israel ..."By what meth-
who seemingly has all the
od? "By their families and by
material security he desires
their father's houses:'
but who discerns that his
Every person was reck-
counsel is not desired, his
oned not as a separate and
Ra bbi
presence
not welcome. A
detached individual, not as
Irwin Groner
an interchangeable unit in a
Specia I to the sense of belonging has little
to do with what a person
series, but rather as a mem-
Jew's h News
has, but rather with what he
ber of a mishpachah, family,
experiences.
in relationship to his father's house.
The Bible instructs us repeatedly
An important truth is taught. One's
that men and women need some-
identity is established on the founda-
one and something to cling to. They
tions of home, family and lineage; in
require the inspiration of tradition;
short, on a sense of belonging. This
the sense of relatedness to others;
helps explain why modern man, so
the security of a home. Robert Frost's
rootless and insecure, feels such great
yearning and deep hunger for the need definition of a home is well known: "A
home is where, when you have to go
to belong, to be linked with others by
there, they have to take you in."
ties of affection and regard.
We all need the strength and sup-
During World War II, London
port of home and family to find stabil-
was bombed so relentlessly by the
ity and serenity. We need friends and
Luftwaffe that children were sent to
community to feel worthy and valued.
the countryside. A little boy separated
The imagery of Pirkei Avot ("Ethics
from his mother and unaware of
of the Fathers") conveys this truth so
her location, reacted to his plight by
vividly. "The righteous person is like
declaring: "I am nobody's nothing."
a tree planted by streams of water':
Each of us wants to be somebody's
declare the sages, "and even if all the
something. This need is so strong that
winds of the world blow upon it, it
if we cannot belong to what is good,
cannot be stirred from its place."
then we will belong to what is evil.
To belong to a family and to a his-
What accounts for the delinquency
of criminal gangs? We can understand toric community is to have one's life
anchored in the soil of a profound
it as the revenge of social outcasts on
attachment. rl
the society that has abandoned them,
or so they feel. The home is uninvit-
Irwin Groner is rabbi emeritus of
ing; the neighborhood is a slum;
Congregation Shaarey Zedek of
parents are missing. The heart craves
Oakland County.
companionship and will accept it on
whatever terms are demanded. The
young who feel frustrated and rejected
Conversations
join together, as they turn with hostili-
Each man of the families of
ty and violence to that ordered society
Israel was asked to camp by his
which represents to them the enemy.
family
flag. Discuss some mod-
Are the victims of insecurity, loneli-
ern applications of the sense of
ness and isolation limited to the poor
association needed by us today
and underprivileged? Not necessarily.
in our lives.
Material possessions alone cannot sat-