I Metro The New Hechtman Apartments Super Sunday Survivors' Stories Calls crucial to fulfilling needs. HMC hosts film on survivors of mass murders. T Model Open Weekly 9-5 Sunday 12-4 Call 248-661-1836 to schedule dinner and a tour or visit our wehsite for an application! O $500 off the first month's rent (Time limited) O Complimentary JCC Membership T O Social Transportation Now Available Call to learn more about our move-in specials! Luxurious Apartments Open floor plan Newly appointed kitchen appliances Walk-in shower, Spacious walk-in closets 24 hr. lighted monitored parking and 24 hr. monitored Personal Emergency Devices Cafe and convenience store on premises. Recreational activities, computer center, exercise, library. On staff social workers. Personal care services available. Kosher meals, Transportation, Pet friendly A JEWISH SENIOR LIFE Hechtman II Apartments a residence of Jewish Senior Life of Metropolitan Detroit 6690 W. Maple Rd. West Bloomfield. Ml 48322 Eugene and Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus For appointment. application. tour and dinner call 248-661-1836 www.jsimi.org 14 January 27 . 2011 Jason Brooks of Royal Oak is shown making calls at last year's Super Sunday phone-athon. 0 & he Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit will hold its annual Super Sunday call-a-thon 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 30, at the Max M. Fisher Federation Building in Bloomfield Township. Hundreds of community members will make calls throughout the Jewish community, asking for support. Funds raised go toward Federation's Annual Campaign and support programs, services and assistance provided by 18 partner agencies and other community organizations. Due to economic and demograph- ic conditions, Federation's Annual Campaign has decreased in the last two years. Federation is seeking increased participation to reverse the trend and serve the growing number of community members in need. Funds raised provide assis- tance with food, rent and utilities; employment counseling and voca- tional training; psychological and family counseling; and scholarships for Jewish day schools and camps. Last year on Super Sunday, more than 200 volunteers obtained 1,200 donations equating to nearly $390,000. Jason Brooks, a first-time Super Sunday volunteer in 2010 and now Super Sunday co-chair, said, "Super Sunday is the single most important event that takes place all year. It brings the Jewish com- munity together to support that which makes us a community in the first place — the organizations and people that tie us together in faith and culture. "With our population down, each and every person has the ability to make a huge impact in our Jewish community. No donation is too small and no amount of time volunteering is too little." Sara Manson, 86, of Southfield has been a volunteer for several years and added, "I strongly believe that the people who have been blessed should come out and help those who are in need. This is something that is so important to the community and to the people whose lives have changed so dramatically. "It's terrible to know people who have been up and now have come down. This is an opportunity to help one another. You never know what the next day will bring to your family and it's an opportunity to help our larger community family. You will walk away feeling so good and knowing you did your part in tikkun olam, repairing the world." Super Sunday chairs are Brooks, Laura Adler, Kathy Wilson Fink, Ryan Liabenow and Dona Stillman. For information or to volunteer, visit the Website www.jewishdetroit.org/super- sunday or call (248) 203-1470. I 1 _ he Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus in Farmington Hills is presenting a special viewing of The Last Survivor, a feature-length documentary portraying the lives of survivors of four different genocides and mass atrocities — the Holocaust, Rwanda, Darfur and the Congo. The event will be at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 6. The documentary depicts the stories of four survivors and their struggle to make sense of tragedy by working to educate, motivate and draw atten- tion to a civic response to mass evils, with a focus on awareness, prevention, activism and community engagement. There will be a public discussion fol- lowing the viewing. "This powerful documentary has lessons that are applicable to soci- ety as a whole explained Stephen Goldman, HMC executive director. "By learning about the mistakes and inhu- manities of yesterday, we recognize we all have the responsibility to stop similar issues today. We cannot turn away when there is such a need for our intervention." The film promotes the need for genocide survivors to become leaders in reminding the world what happens when apathy and inaction prevail. The four subjects of the film were chosen because of their anti-genocide activ- ism. Their stories of loss, survival and hope highlight what they have in common. The Last Survivor was shot on loca- tion in five countries on four conti- nents and shows how such tragedies can happen anywhere. It also high- lights how people can rebuild their lives after such tragedies. The Last Survivor is directed by Michael Kleiman and Michael Pertnoy. It has won numerous film festival awards. The film is presented by the HMC, with support from the JCC Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival. Standard museum admission charge covers ticket to the film. For information, call (248) 553-2400 or visit www.holocaustcenter.org. 17