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Kosher Meals
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Volunteers help Morrison senior dining chef Dave Dry assemble kosher meals
at Prentis Apartments in Oak Park.
T
he National Council of
Jewish Women, Greater
Detroit Section's Meals on
Wheels program is in need
of volunteers. For 37 years, Kosher
Meals on Wheels has provided high-
quality lunches and dinners for the
homebound. The only Meals on
Wheels program in the community to
provide kosher and glatt kosher meals,
the organization prepares and delivers
40,000 meals a year.
Five days a week, more than 150
volunteers package and deliver the
meals to local communities. Volunteers
range in age from youngsters just old
enough to be volunteering for their
b'nei mitzvah service requirements
to adults in their 90s. Each morning,
packagers organize the meals and
have them distributed in less than a
half hour. Drivers deliver the meals to
cities as far as Commerce to Royal
Oak. Once a week, they deliver to
Wayne County.
Founded by current volunteer
treasurer Esther Rosenblum, Kosher
Meals on Wheels provides five lunches
and five dinners a week to its clients,
who do not need to be Jewish, but
should keep kosher. The organization
also assists homebound or disabled
individuals able to adhere to a kosher
diet. Meals are prepared at the Jewish
Senior Life Prentis Apartments in Oak
Park by Morrison Senior Dining chef
Dave Dry and his team.
Program participants make a
donation within their ability to pay
for meals, and some clients need
not pay at all. The National Council
of Jewish Women, Greater Detroit
Section provides the additional fund-
ing from the proceeds raised at their
Council Thrift Shops in Royal Oak and
Berkley. Additional support is provided
by AAA 1-B, the Michigan Office of
Services to the Aging (OSA) and the
Older Americans Act. The program is
run in cooperation with Jewish Family
Service of Metropolitan Detroit, which
provides intake and casework ser-
vices.
Drivers have dedicated routes and
know the status and behaviors of each
of their clients, who, in some cases, is
the only person they will see all day.
Not only do the drivers deliver the
food, but they also provide the social
interaction that some of their clients
are lacking.
"Kosher Meals on Wheels provides
much more than food," said Irma
Glaser, president of the local NCJW.
"The program provides friendship and
can sometimes be a very real lifesaver
to our clients. Our delivery volunteers
have, in some instances, been the first
at the side of a person in need."
Glaser added, "While we have
wonderful, dedicated volunteers, we
are always looking for more. We have
come to mean something to the com-
munity and to so many families. Our
goal is to serve more in the years
ahead."
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For more information on Kosher Meals
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someone in need, call (248) 967-0967, 8-
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