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 114 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.