New Year Greetings

May this New Year

be filled with

health and happiness...

The Time To Improve
Individually, Collectively

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would like to wish all of you L'Shana Tovah:
and there is always something we can do to help
a happy and prosperous new year filled with
and bring hope. We can all make a difference both
good health, joy and happiness. Another year
individually and collectively. We can do this by
has passed and, once again, we begin to think about
offering a kind word, giving of our time or giving
Rosh Hashanah and the approaching Days of Awe
of our resources.
that end with Yom Kippur.
All Jews are responsible, one for another. Amid
This is a time for introspection, a time for us to
all the struggles over the past year, amid all the
reflect over the past year. This is a time for renewal
economic challenges and demographic shifts, hope
and a time for us to hope for the sweetest of new
can be found nearby thanks to the compassion
years. As we greet the new year, we look inward:
and generosity of our Detroit Jewish community.
Nancy
How can we become better? How can we improve
We have come together during other challenging
Grosfeld
not only our lives but also the lives of others — our
times in our history and have emerged stronger.
Special
to the
family, our friends and our community? How can
My hope is that our Detroit Jewish community
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we make the world a better place? How can we
will continue to come together, from our very
make a difference?
youngest to our oldest, to keep our community
We are blessed to live in a close-knit Jewish community of
strong.
72,000 that cares deeply about those who are less fortunate
L'Shana Tovah.
— a community where "No Family Stands Alone' Many of
us are having difficult times in this challenging economy,
Nancy Grosfeld is president of the Bloomfield Township-based
but there are people even less fortunate who need our help;
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit.

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Thanks From Your JCC

W

hen Rosh Hashanah arrives at our
to build a state-of-the-art theater in the Kahn
door, we greet the day with a sense
Building on the Applebaum campus. We intro-
of hope. It is a new year, bringing
duced Healthy IJ, hosted one of our most popu-
with it an unimaginable number of possibilities,
lar Jewish Book Fairs ever, celebrated amazing
adventures and dreams. It is the birthday of the
exhibits at the Janice Charach Gallery, spon-
world — a world that continues to amaze us
sored top-notch Jewish educational programs
every day because it is filled with such beauty,
through Seminars for Adult Jewish Enrichment,
from the sound of children laughing to 60 years
renovated our Oak Park facility's playgrounds,
of the State of Israel.
co-sponsored Walk for Israel/Walk the Land,
It also is a time of reflection, as we consider
held the JCC's Stephen Gottlieb MusicFest and
Todd Sachse
our fortune at being part of this vibrant com-
the Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival, offered
Speci al to the
munity, and for everything we have experienced
new and diverse programming for seniors, and
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together this past year.
had terrific fun with Camp Kids All Together
At the Jewish Community Center of
and Center Day Camps. All that, plus the day-
Metropolitan Detroit, we have much for which
to-day activities like Center Fitness, Sports and
to be grateful. We are appreciative of our members, vol-
Fitness and Inline Hockey.
unteers, supporters, donors and staff. It's an extremely
We are honored to be your Jewish Community Center,
diverse group, and it takes all of us to make it work.
and as we look to a new year we invite you to stop by
The 2008 JCC Maccabi Games brought thousands of
if you haven't been to see us in awhile. Please, let us
teens here for fun, games and service, from the rally for
know how we're doing. What do you like, what could be
Darfur to collecting food for Yad Ezra, the local kosher
improved, what new programs would you like to see? If
food pantry. More than 2,100 teens came from throughout you have concerns, let us know. We listen to you.
the world and stayed in homes of families they had never
We also wish for all of us, from Metro Detroit to Tel Aviv,
met. It was an extraordinary experience made possible by
a year of health, contentment and happiness — a year,
the generosity of our community.
and a lifetime, of only good. And because we know that
We look forward to another great opportunity for teens:
miracles do happen, we keep in our hearts the eternal wish
the opening next month of the Beverly Prentis Wagner
for peace, at last, in Israel and throughout the world.
Teen Center at our West Bloomfield facility. We encourage
L'Shana Tovah.
you to come check out our extensive collection of comput-
ers, quiet study areas and flat-screen televisions.
Todd Sachse is president of the Jewish Community Center of
This past year was an exceptional one for the Jewish
Metropolitan Detroit, with buildings in West Bloomfield and Oak
Community Center. Thanks to a generous gift from
Park.
Madeleine and Mandell Berman, we began a campaign

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