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Safe and affordable
housing in a Jewish
Communal Setting
Kosher meals, activities, professional staff and transportation
Immediate Occupancy
Prentis Jewish Apartments
Teitel Jewish Apartments
Residences of Jewish Senior Life of Metropolitan Detroit
15100 & 15106 West Ten Mile Road, Oak Park, Michigan 48237
A. Alfred Taubman Jewish Community Campus
For an application or more information, call
Jewish
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3 bedroom \ Nit 11 garage
starting at $1,023
2 heciroom with ourakve
starting at $870
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Walled Lake community
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2 bedrooms starting @ $825
3 bedrooms starting @ $930
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Eagle Pond Heights
1 bedroom starting @ $540
2 bedrooms starting @ $690
Convenient mid-rise living
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Pet Friendly
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priate response strategies for each
particular client base. This will ensure
that any person in our community in
need of service will get the full range
of services available to them.
October is National Domestic
Violence Awareness month. Please
know that domestic violence is not
only a black eye, but also is always
coercive control.
If someone you know lives in fear
or seems isolated or ashamed, encour-
age them to call (248) 592-2335 to
speak to someone confidentially who
will offer support, encouragement and
safety.
As a community, we can help to
make lasting change! Fl
Ellen Yashinsky Chute is chief community
outreach officer of West Bloomfield-based
Jewish Family Service of Metropolitan
Detroit.
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We are in the process of coordinating
all community efforts for prevention
and intervention in the area of domes-
tic abuse.
Our goal is to raise community
concsiousness about this devastat-
ing condition and to create uniform
best-practice standards for our Detroit
Jewish communal professionals.
The local Jewish Women's
Foundation has been a key supporter
of our coalition for the past three years
and has recently awarded $5,000 for
the JCADA Training Project. Over the
next year, we hope to provide train-
ing to three primary groups of "first
responders" in our community: rab-
bis, educators and the intake or triage
professionals in our coalition member
agencies and organizations.
The training will provide education
about the recognition of the signs of
domestic abuse and will teach appro-
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professional. Throughout the FSU, as
well as in organizations in the United
States and Israel that serve Russian-
speaking populations, there are Jews
like Dasha Privalko, who was a teen-
ager when I met her on my first trip to
Kiev and, today as an adult, is a senior
member of the Hillel Ukraine team.
We were introduced to the power of
service. Years before it was as fashion-
able as it is today, dozens of young
Jews from inside and outside the FSU
traveled throughout the region each
spring to help lead Passover sederim.
Jews who thought no one knew or
cared about them shared an educa-
tional and emotional Jewish experi-
ence with young people who, in turn,
received at least as much in return as
those to whom they brought great joy.
We also were exposed to the value of
providing young Jews from one region
with opportunities to work alongside
their peers from other communities
and countries. This is a lesson that
Taglit now employs so effectively to
help strengthen Jewish identity.
Finally, the vitally important con-
cept of "meeting people where they
are" emerged from the earliest days
of the FSU Hillel program and now
has become the generally accepted
approach to outreach in America. It
took almost no time at all for us to
realize that for Judaism to flourish
anew in the FSU, especially among
those young Jews for whom the post-
Soviet lifestyle is all they have ever
experienced, Jewish life in the region
must be one of their own making.
It is at a time like this, one of reflec-
tion and rebirth, that we can draw
inspiration from the revival of Jewish
life in the former Soviet Union. It is
a story that embodies the enduring
values of our heritage, the remark-
able resilience of our people and the
unlimited potential of our future. Fl
Sandy Cardin is president of the
Schusterman Family Foundation.
Answering
Israel's Critics
The Charge
Ousted Honduran President
Manuel Zelaya and some of his
supporters claim that Israeli sol-
diers provided assistance to those
who executed a coup and installed
their own government in place of
Zelaya.
The Answer
The charges are a recent example of
scapegoating Israel for a country's
internal problems. Israel has con-
sistently respected the established
governments in central America.
- Allan Gale, Jewish Community
Relations Council
of Metropolitan Detroit
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