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The Detroit Jewish News, 2011-12-08

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Meals Volunteers
Make The Program
We want to compliment and thank Keri
Guten Cohen for her article, "Helping
the Homebound" (Nov. 24, cover story),
which so beautifully captured the
essence of kosher Meals on Wheels
(MOW), one of the many programs
made available to the community by
the National Council of Jewish Women,
Greater Detroit Section (NCJW/GDS).
As the article so strikingly described,
the success of the program can be
attributed to the more than 100 men
and women volunteers who give of their
time, some having been involved for
more than 35 years. Ms. Cohen captured
that perfectly, and for that we are grate-
ful.
We would like to make a correction to
the article. Although Esther Rosenblum
has been the dedicated treasurer for
MOW since its inception, it was past

NCJW/GDS President Sonia Macey who
brought the idea to our section, and
Dottie Kaufman who was the first chair
of the program.

Richard Emmer, MOW Coordinator

Irma Glaser, President

Susan Gertner, Executive Director

NCJW/GDS

Correlate Jewish Studies
To General Coursework
Recent discussions have considered how
to best instill knowledge of our Jewish
religious, cultural and historical heri-
tage in the younger generation.
Sixty years ago, the teachers who
taught in the weekend or after-school
Jewish schools were frequently teach-
ers who also taught in public schools,
and both the Reform and Conservative
movements created a series of texts that
related the study of Jewish heritage to
the coursework being taught in the pub-

lic schools.
A local Orthodox school has a teacher
who teaches both Jewish and non-Jew-
ish history. He has said that he would
not be able to teach both subjects unless
he was able to correlate the content of
the studies.
Until the various branches of Judaism
can agree on a basic plan for correlating
those non-Hebrew areas of study, a true
system of education for Jewish youth
is not likely to meet all of the needs of
future generations of Jewish youth.

Ask
Financial Crisis
Attorney
Ken Gross
about...

Your
Financial
Problems

Burton A. Zipser

Oak Park

Correction

• In the story "Getting Involved" (Nov.
24, page 29), Lena Epstein Koretzky's
job title was listed incorrectly. She
is a general manager at Vesco Oil in
Southfield.

at can you do
ff I have tax
problems?

Well - I wish I could
say we can snap
our fingers and the
problem will vanish . If
you call the big outfits
you see advertising on Cable
TV they lead you to believe it
is that easy. The truth is - they
oversell to get your money.
What we do is take control
of the issue and resolve
the problem. We obtain
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and sometimes, we use the
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paychecks from IRS and State
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Seeking Teens To Join
Holocaust Program
The program for Holocaust Survivors
and Families, a service of Jewish Senior
Life of Metropolitan Detroit, is looking
for teens, ages 13-18, to join its 3Gs,
Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors
program. The program will help young
adults learn about family members and
their family histories, then pass the
information on to others.
To learn more, contact program coor-
dinator Renee Fein at rfein@jslmi.org , or
call (248) 592-5028.

- a

Max Rotenberg with 110 pounds of food collected at his bar mitzvah
for Yad Ezra

Bar Mitzvah Project
Helps The Hungry
Max Rotenberg of Farmington Hills
recently became a bar mitzvah at Adat
Shalom Synagogue where his family
has belonged for many years. In prep-
aration of this milestone, Max chose
to do his community service project
at Yad Ezra, the kosher food pantry in
Berkley.
Working at Yad Ezra was an eye-
opening experience for him, as he
learned about what people can do to
help others who are vulnerable in the
community and the impact he could
make by volunteering his time.
Max, a student at O.E. Dunckel
Middle School in Farmington Hills,

sent a letter to family and friends
saying that "[because of] the grow-
ing number of families in our com-
munity going hungry each and every
night [and] the impact that Yad Ezra
has had on me, I ask that when you
come to my party on Nov. 6 that you
please bring along one non-perishable
kosher food item. All the food collect-
ed will be donated by me to Yad Ezra."
Through Max's efforts, 110 pounds
of groceries were brought by his
guests to his party to be distributed
among client families served by Yad
Ezra. Though Max's bar mitzvah has
passed, Max and his family are com-
mitted to continuing their support of
Yad Ezra.

Dancing Thru Pregnancy
Classes Now Offered
Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapy
(OMPT) Specialists are offering the first
licensed Dancing Thru Pregnancy pre-
natal fitness classes in Michigan.
"Dancing Thru Pregnancy keeps
expectant moms healthy," said Michael
Fahmy, president and CEO of OMPT
Specialists Physical Therapy Inc.
"Studies show a positive effect on labor
experience and recovery time as well."
Effective cardio fitness, strength and
birth preparation classes for pregnant
woman in all stages of pregnancy are
part of the wellness program offered
at the clinic. The one-hour classes are
held in OMPT's Troy clinic on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Saturdays and in
the Southfield clinic on Tuesdays and
Thursdays. For information, contact
Amanda Matzoll, instructor, at (248) 353-
1234 or amatzoll@omptspecialists.com .

Continued on page 6

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