Front Lines JEWISH RENAISSANCE DIGEST DETROIT JEWISH NEWS theJEWISHNEWS.com Advertising Sales Publisher/President Arthur M. Horwitz ahorwitz@renmedia.us Sales Director: Keith Farber kfarber@renmedia.us Account Executives: Ann G. Abrams, Jan Haskell, Melissa Litvin, Heidi Martin, Rick Nessel, Dharlene Norris Senior Sales Assistant: Kim Metzger Stop To Consider Business Offices Customer Service Asst.: Jan Shain Billing Coordinator: Pamela Turner Collections Analyst: Hazel Bender A re you one of the having troubles? people who wish • Why is it called a "drive longingly for some- through" if we have to stop? thing bright in the news? Well, • If practice makes perfect here goes. and nobody is perfect, why Why is it called "lipstick" practice? when it always comes off? Or • When we say something consider: Why do the numbers is "out of whack:' what is a on a phone go one way but the "whack"? numbers on a calculator go • If lawyers are disbarred Sy Ma nello the other? How come no mat- and clergymen defrocked, Edito rial ter what color the liquid is, the doesn't it follow that elec- Assis tuft froth is always white? tricians can be delighted, Our English language is musicians denoted, cowboys always providing us with some deranged, models deposed things to ponder. For example: and dry cleaners depressed? • If one man says, "It was an uphill • Why do drugstores make the sick baffle," and another says, "It went down- walk all the way to the back of the store hill from there," how could they both be to get prescriptions while healthy people On a recent trip to Yad Ezra, the kosher food pantry in Berkley, the Lester chil- dren brought 13 dozen eggs laid by their chickens to be distributed among the food pantry's client families. Yad Ezra provides free kosher groceries and other necessities to low-income fami- lies in Southeastern Michigan. The pantry assists more than 1,600 families a month. For more information about Yad Ezra, call (248) 548 3663 or visit the organiza- tion's Web site at www.yadezra.org . - — Keri Guten Cohen, story development eidtor Elliah Lester, 6, stands with eggs from their family farm bound for Yad Ezra. Lesters' Farm Aids Yad Ezra Yad Ezra board member Nicole Lester, her husband, Matt, and their two children, Elliah, 6, and Asa, 3, support the food pan- try in many ways, including donating fresh eggs from their farm outside Charlevoix. The Lester Family Farm is a 200-acre lifestyle farm. The Bloomfield Hills family spends time there with extended fam- ily and friends outdoors learning about nature. They raise chickens, goats and sheep. They grow sunflowers, potatoes and corn in large quantities as well as other vegetables in their gardens. Everything is organically grown in partnership with other local farmers. Aiding Student Loans, Grants Southfield resident Harvey Bronstein was elected to a record-setting sixth one-year term as vice-chair of the Michigan Higher Education Assistance Authority and the Michigan Higher Education Student Loan Authority. This is the highest position a person can be elected to within the 116 Harvey authorities' structure; Bronstein the state treasurer is the chair. The authorities approve almost all state and some federal programs and bond issues for higher edu- cation student loans and grants. can buy cigarettes at the front? • If croutons are stale bread, why do we package them in airtight bags? • Why does mineral water that has "trickled through the mountains for cen- turies" go out of date next year? • Why is it that when a person tells you that there are over a million stars in the universe, you believe him; but if someone tells you there is wet paint somewhere, you have to touch it to make sure? • Why do people who know the least, know it the loudest? 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