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Maccabi Message
Join the Regent Street Memory
Walk team and stop by for our
Community Carnival afterwards!
Robert A. Sklar
Editor
Regent Street is teaming up with the
Alzheimer's Association for the 2008 Memory
Walk. Call today to join our team or donate
as we raise money and walk to help the
millions of people affected by this disease.
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Saturday, August 23
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lympic swimming legend
Mark Spitz got his first taste
of Olympic-like competition
in the World Maccabiah Games, which
are held in Israel every four years, when
he was just 15.
The annual JCC Maccabi Games
provides a similar Olympic-like oppor-
tunity, Spitz, now 56, told the 2,700
athletes and 600 coaches taking part in
the opening ceremonies of the 2008 JCC
Maccabi Games in Metro Detroit this
week. Spitz won seven gold medals in
the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.
"It's a very special time for all of you:'
Spitz said in remarks Sunday night
at the Palace of Auburn Hills. "The
Maccabi Games is an opportunity for
each and every one of you to develop
your own individual success stories,
regardless of the sport:'
The Maccabiah Games gave him his
first chance to compete internation
"That allowed me to understand what
it was like to have a dream to go to the
Olympic Games," he said.
Spitz, a Los Angeles resident, is here
to watch his son, Justin, 16, play basket-
ball as a member of the Los Angeles-
Milken JCC delegation.
Spitz exhorted the 13- to 16-year-
old Maccabi athletes to pursue their
dreams and make new friends.
He also talked about his awe for
American swimming star Michael
Phelps, 23. Phelps just broke Spitz's 36-
year-old gold medal record by winning
eight gold medals in Beijing.
"He wasn't even born when I won
seven gold medals; Spitz said. "I'm the
Detriot Zoo, Royal Oak, MI
After the Memory Walk, come and enjoy
games, clowns, food, and prizes at our
Community Carnival! Don't miss out on face
painting, fishing games, a cake walk, blow
up jumper and more! It's great for kids and
the family!
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Yossi's Israeli Cuisine in West
Bloomfield will mark four years in
business by hosting a party to benefit
Yad Ezra, Michigan's only kosher food
pantry
"I can't think of a better way to honor
our four-year anniversary than by help-
ing Yad Ezra help people close to home
in the Jewish community, who may not
have the means to feed their families:'
said Yossi Benjamin, a Haifa native.
The party at Yossi's begins at 7 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 30. The restaurant is in
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Spitz to athletes: Push yourselves.
Mark Spitz at the Palace
only person in the world who knows
what he went through. You have no
clue how complicated it is to compete
against seven different people in eight
different events
"The difference between greatness
and mediocrity is what you witnessed
with Michael swimming',' Spitz added.
"He put himself to task and he was suc-
cessful. You should learn that lesson:'
Not everyone can win, "but you can
be a little better today, a little better
tomorrow:' Spitz told the Maccabi ath-
letes."Set your goals where you can be
satisfied that you are a better person."
Spitz reiterated the Olympic credo.
"Each of you will have an opportunity
to go swifter, higher and stronger; he
said. "If you meet that challenge, you
will be no different than the Olympic
athlete you are watching on TV. For a
moment in time, you can dream that
perhaps immortality will occur to you
with your success here this week.
"Be an inspiration to yoursel' ❑
Robin's Nest Plaza, 7325 Orchard Lake
Road at Northwestern Highway, West
Bloomfield. The fare will include an
all-you-can-eat buffet at $20 per per-
son as well as live music.
All proceeds will go to Yad Ezra.
Additional contributions are welcome.
For reservations, call (248) 626-0160.
Berkley-based Yad Ezra is an inde-
pendent agency that provides free
kosher groceries, toiletries and house-
hold goods to 1,400 needy Jewish fam-
ilies (2,700 individuals) every month.
It also assists 700 students monthly
with a lunch program.