fi Front Lines xrpor,, SSANCE DETROIT JEWISH NE G E T theJEWISHNEWS.com Advertising Sales Stamp It Chanukah The 2009 Chanukah stamp went on sale on Friday and should be available at all local post offices. It features the new menorah design. The U.S. Postal Service has printed only 35 mil- lion Chanukah stamps. So distribution to local post offices will be only 15 per- cent of what it is for other new stamps. If the 2009 Chanukah stamp is not available at your post office and the staff tells you they never get Chanukah stamps or they ran out of them, let Ronald Scheiman know. The Boynton Beach, Fla., resident runs a Chanukah stamp Web site: www.hanukkah- stampquest.com. Send him the town name and ZIP code of the post office at: Hanukkah@att.net . "When you buy Chanukah stamps:' he said, "don't just buy enough for your Chanukah cards. Buy 100 or more and use them on all your mail through the holiday season and beyond. I buy 200 and use them on all my mail for the entire year." Scheiman wants the U.S. Postal Service to issue a new Chanukah stamp each year and hopes there's enough interest in the stamp this year to help lay the ground- work for that in the years to come. Wind-Blown Helping Hands Jewish Family Services of Washtenaw County (www.jfsannarbor.org ) has earned a $60,000 grant from the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan to develop a Center for Caregiving. The 14-year-old, Ann Arbor-based agency provides employment services, older adult support services and volun- teer-based programs serving older adults. The new center will offer direct and indi- rect support to family caregivers of older adults and, at the same time, develop the unemployed, underemployed and other peo- ple seeking meaningful volunteer work in the senior service industry. The innovation will benefit older adults looking for new job skills in one of the few growing fields: senior services, volunteer work, caregiving. ECO — notes by Robert Sklar, editor W Judaism Shopping • Purchase products from locally owned busi- nesses. • Find out about the companies from which you buy. Get a copy of The Better World Shopping and learn which ones have policies consistent with your values. • Purchase biodegradable products. • Give unneeded usable items to family mem- bers, friends and neighbors. Other options are donating them to charities or sell them at yard sales or to secondhand stores. That way, others can have reused/recycled items. • Choose high-quality products that last longer. • Use the online services Freecycle and Craigslist to get rid of unwanted things. • Find alternatives to compulsive shopping (relaxing, visiting, gardening, etc). • Wait a day or more before purchasing to real- ly think if the purchase is necessary. Jewish Thought On The Environment "These are the generations of the heaven and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord made earth and heaven." — Genesis 2:4 sukkah is a fragile, temporary structure that was used by The sukkah our ancestors when they wandered the desert after the exodus from Egypt and when harvesting the fields in ancient Israel. The Detroit area found out just how fragile they are last week when high winds Oct. 6-7 damaged many sukkahs, like this one in West Bloomfield. Our JN Mission Please contact Michigan Coalition on the Environment & Jewish Life for global warming presentations: (248) 642.5393 ext. 7 or mi-coejl®jfmd.org or www.mi-coejl.org . Source: MI-COEJL, copyright 2009 The Jewish News aspires to communicate news and opinion that's useful, engaging, enjoyable and unique. It strives to reflect the full range of diverse viewpoints while also advocat- ing positions that strengthen Jewish unity and continuity. 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