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Help Flows In

As a follow up to my Community View,
("Menorah House Yiddishkeit," Aug.
16, page 24) I want to make your read-
ers aware of our progress. To recap:
Menorah House is no longer a kosher
facility, leaving many of our beloved
Jewish aged without kosher meals.
Medilodge, owners of the former
Menorah House, has been more than
gracious and aware of the plight fac-
ing the Jewish residents. It is trying
very hard to accommodate the needs
of the few.
Kudos to administrator Michelle
Peeper, who is working closely with
Rabbi Dovid Polter of the Jewish
Chaplaincy Program and me, along
with Carol Rosenberg of the Jewish
Home & Aging Services. Michelle is
going an extra mile as we present her
ideas.
Mimi Cohen Markofsky, owner of
Elite Kosher Catering in West
Bloomfield, is donating Rosh
Hashanah meals to all Jewish resi-
dents of Medilodge at no cost, out of
her deep commitment to our plight
and her graciousness. Mimi is one
of our community's angels. I did not
contact her; she responded to my
Community View.
Edward and Aviva Gordon of Oak
Park said they wanted to sponsor a kid-
dush for one year on behalf of a refuah
shleimah for their dear friend Shafti
Mordechai ben Etta. I will be able to
provide a Kiddush of chopped liver or
cholent or kugel or any other variety of
Jewish delicacies each week at the end
of our Shabbat Kabbalat service.
Are these mentshen or what?!
My granddaughter, Hannah
Korelitz, brought 30 flower baskets
and bouquets and inconspicuously
spread them around Medilodge in
honor of her bat mitzvah. Hannah,
who is only 12, has been helping with
our Shabbat service since she was 5
and quite often leads the entire ser-

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vice when I am just too tired.
Helen Maltz, volunteer extraordi-
naire, helps at every Friday service.
She also visits residents three addi-
tional times a week. Now she has the
unexpected duties of helping me buy,
store and serve kiddush each week.
Both of our home pantries now need
to have a separate section marked
Menorah House/Medilodge.
I only wish I could put into words
the expressions on the faces of the
residents when I told them what
people were doing for them. A ray
of sunshine has been painted on the
hearts of our elderly.
I offer a special thank you to the
JN for allowing me to bring to light
the current situation. If any IN reader
would like to help out, contact me at
sabajk@gmail.com.

Jay Korelitz

Farmington Hills

This Month In History

September 1654: Twenty-three
Jews arrived in New Amsterdam
on the French privateer St.
Catherine, refugees from the
Dutch colony in Brazil that had
been seized by the Portuguese.
In the ensuing years, they
endured governor Peter
Stuvesant's efforts to remove
them from the colony and
scored an early civil rights vic-
tory by contesting a special tax
levied against Jews who were
refused the right to serve in the
militia. Among this group, Asser
Levy became the most promi-
nent of 17th-century New York
Jews, thriving in trade and land
speculation.

Taken from Encyclopaedia Judiaca, 2nd edition.

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