To Life!
6800 Drake Road • West Bloomfield
Healthy Boost
Jewish Fund approves local grants.
Mimi Cohen Markofsky
and staff
May the New Year bring to all
our friends and family health, joy,
prosperity and everything good in life.
Mr. & Mrs. Norman Tarockoff
and Family
May the coming year be filled with
health and happiness for all our family and friends.
L'Shanah Tovah!
Gloria (Goidle) and Marvin Bookstein
We wish our family & friends a very
healthy, happy and sweet New Year.
The Toff Family
Marlene, Bernie, Mike, Ken & Alyssa
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September 13 • 2007
A
t its Aug. 14 board meeting,
the Bloomfield Township-
based Jewish Fund approved
$854,445 in grant payments for 15 pri-
marily health-related programs.
The fund's goal is to encourage
innovation and excellence in meeting
critical community needs. While its
principal focus is the Jewish commu-
nity, it also helps vulnerable popula-
tions in the broader community. Four
grants will help create or expand
health programs primarily the low-
income in Detroit and Wayne County.
Following is a list of allocations. For
more, visit www.thejewishfund.corn.
• Detroit Institute for Children:
$40,000 to establish on-site pediatric
primary care services in partner-
ship with Children's Hospital and the
Wayne County Health Department.
• Forgotten Harvest: $20,000 to
expand the distribution of fresh food
to vulnerable families in Metro Detroit
using rescued perishible food from
grocery stores.
• Gary Burnstein Community
Health Clinic: $40,000 for the final
year of a three-year, $135,000 grant
for this new free medical clinic in
Pontiac.
• Hospice of Michigan: $30,000 for
the first year of a two-year, $50,000
grant to provide at-home care to
non-hospice patients with advanced
chronic illness.
• Jewish Apartments & Services:
$150,000 for the sixth year of a 10-
year, $1.5 million grant to subsidize
rent for 30 low-income seniors at the
Meer Apartments.
• Jewish Apartments & Services:
$27,917 over five months to continue
an Escorted Transportation program
for frail older adults.
• Jewish Family Service: $288,528
for the fourth year of Project Chessed,
a network of free and reduced price
medical care for uninsured Jewish
adults.
• Jewish Home and Aging
Services: $8,000 for the final year of a
three-year, $50,000 grant for a volun-
teer home visitor program for home-
bound Holocaust survivors.
• Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy
Network: $55,000 for the second year
of a three-year, $185,000 grant to
develop a palliative care program.
• Kadima/JFS: $23,000 for the sec-
ond year of a three-year, $68,000 grant
to create a support program for families
of children with emotional disorders.
• Matrix Theatre Company:
$27,000 for the second year of a three-
year, $82,000 grant to include people
with special needs in community the-
ater productions.
• New Detroit: $40,000 for the
second of a two-year, $90,000 grant
to build relationships among emerg-
ing leaders in the Jewish and African
American communities and other
commuities of color.
• Rose Hilll Center: $50,000 for the
second year of a two-year $100,000
grant to support the DMC/WSU/Rose
Hill and Henry Ford Health System
sites of a program designed to imple-
ment evidence-based prescibing prac-
tices for physicians treating patients
with mental illness.
• Visiting Nurse Association of
Southeat Michigan: $40,000 for one
year to expand the TeleHomecare pro-
gram for low-income, elderly patients
with chronic illness.
• Yeshivas Darchei Torah/Beth
Yehudah/Akiva: $15,000 for the
second year of a three-year, $127,500
grant to develop and expand physical
education programs in the schools. I I
Women And Judaism
The annual Pearl A. and George
M. Zeltzer Lecture on Women and
Judaism is 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 21,
at Congregation B'nai Moshe, 6800
Drake, West Bloomfield. The event will
mark publication of Women Remaking
American Judaism by Riv-Ellen Prell
of the University of Minnesota. A book
signing and reception will follow. The
sponsor is the Cohn-Haddow Center
for Judaic Studies at Wayne State
University, Detroit.
Lost Synagogues
The lost wooden synagogues of
Eastern Europe will be the subject
of a discussion and video presenta-
tion by filmmaker Albert Barry at
3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 30, at the West
Bloomfield Township Library, 4600
Walnut Lake Road. This event also
is sponsored by Cohn-Haddow.
Reservations by Sept. 26: (313) 577-
2679.