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To Life!

ON THE COVER

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Sam and
Max Brown
swept the
bowling lanes
in Orange
County.

Join us!

Celebrating a
Century of Caring
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Sunday,

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Awaiting Maccabi from page 37

September 30, 2007

at the

Detroit Opera House
5:30 in the evening

Event Chairpersons
Pearlena Bodzin, Hannah Moss
Joel Smith, and Howard Tapper

being kids — and learning that the bonds of Jewish commu-
nity go far beyond southeast Michigan.
Says Gordon, "It's about the Detroit soccer player [last
month] in Orange County [Calif.] who almost missed the bus
to the airport" because she was saying goodbye to the boy she
met at the Games.
It's about the Detroit boys basketball team allowing an
undersized West Hartford player to score at the end of a game,
then joining his teammates to congratulate him.
It's about the coaches. There are veterans who have vol-
unteered each year since Maccabi began in the early 1980s:
swim coach Herb Bernstein with his hats full of delegation
pins and track coach Joel Kashdan with his perpetual suntan.
And there are father-daughter teams like Ken Bertin and
Gennifer Roth, and baseball mavens like Gary Bistrow, Harry
Glanz, Jimmy Kollin and Mort Meisner and similar volunteers

Maccabi Chairs

Honoring

Jim August, public relations-mar-
keting
Allison August, teen leadership
Stuart Bass, local delegation
Jerry Eisenshtadt, operations
Nate Forbes, honorary chair
Lindsey Fox, assistant Games
director
Harold Friedman, Games chairman

Carol Rosenberg

Executive Director

Proceeds from this event
will benefit
Acts of Loving Kindness
Gemilut Chasadim

in every sport.
In the coming year, the Jewish News will publish bundles of
stories as a prelude to the Games and as a way to coax volun-
teers to raise their hands. You are all needed.
But you also need to be part of the Maccabi experience —
your children, your parents, you! You need to be part of this
effort in order to teach our children — visitors and Detroiters
alike — what "Jewish community" really means.
And you need to participate so that you can be part of the
afterglow, the sense of community and purpose that will per-
sist here long after the visitors leave on Aug. 22, 2008.
As Karen Gordon says, "I don't want anybody to say two
weeks later, `I missed it!'"

To volunteer for the 2008 JCC Maccabi Games, contact Karen

Gordon, kgordon@jccdet.org or (248) 432-5482.

Dan Gilbert, honorary chair
Karen Gordon, Games director
Sherri Ketai, hospitality chair
Jim Ketai, hospitality chair
Cheryl Kirsch, housing
Geoff Kretchmer, special events
Mark Lit, JCC executive director
Sandi Matz, housing
Mort Plotnick, development
Jesse Polan, athletics

Gennifer Roth, local delegation
Linda Roth, operations
Todd Sachse, JCC president
Donna Sklar, volunteers
David Stone, JCC assistant execu-
tive director
Jerry Sukenic, food
Andy Tucker, Games vice chairman
Ted Wagner, budget and finance

For more information
contact 111A.S at
248-661-2999 #348
www.jhas.org

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September 20 • 2007

Jake Olds, Brandon Potash, Josh Levine and Andy Schwartz
celebrate their silver medals in basketball in California last
month.

Detroit dancers celebrate their gold medals last
month: Alana Goldstein, Danielle Rapp, Samantha
Scharg, Taylor Chaness and Shayna Mandell.

