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Making Many
Mitzvah Memories
I would like to thank Mikki Grossman, Hy
Safran, Janet Berman and Sarah Crane for
a truly wonderful job with Mitzvah Day
2011. It was an amazing success!
This is my sixth year as team captain on
Mitzvah Day, and every year I have made
many mitzvah memories. This year, volun-
teers and I were at Detroit Rescue Mission
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Ministries Christian Center. We prepared
and served meals to the homeless and less
fortunate. It was truly a heart-warming
and humbling experience.
I am very honored to be part of Mitzvah
Day and look forward to making many more
mitzvah memories in the years to come.
Valeri Sirlin
Mitzvah Day team captain
West Bloomfield
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Gail Zimmerman
Arts Editor
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Corporate Creative Director
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EDITORIAL
Senior Copy Editor
David Sachs
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Editorial Assistant
Sy Manello
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Senior Columnist
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Contributing Editor
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Rabbi Bergman Leads
Spiritual Focus Series
Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington
Hills will hold a three-part series, "How
to Create Your Own Spiritual Practice'
Rabbi Bergman will lead on Thursdays,
Jan. 12, 19 and 26, from 11:45 a.m. to 1
p.m.
Bergman will offer
suggestions on how
to create your own
personal approach
to Jewish spirituality.
These include medita-
tion, chanting and
learning to do social
Ali
Rabbi Aaron
action as a spiritual
Bergman
experience.
Participants are
invited to bring their own dairy lunches.
Drinks and dessert will be provided.
There is no charge.
RSVP by the preceding Mondays to
Sheila Lederman, (248) 851-5100, ext.
246 or slederman@adatshalom.org .
Beth El Brotherhood Hosts
Free Press Editorial Chief
Stephen Henderson, editorial page edi-
tor of the Detroit Free Press and host of
PBS' American Black Journal, will speak
Sunday, Jan. 15, at a Brotherhood break-
fast at Temple Beth El in Bloomfield
Township.
Breakfast at 9 a.m. will precede the
9:30 a.m. program. Both are open to the
community. There is a nominal charge
for breakfast, payable at the door. There
is no charge for the program, sponsored
by Dana and Elizabeth Gulick.
For information, call Barbara Grant,
(248) 851-1100, ext. 3149.
Managing Editor
Jackie Headapohl
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Executive Editor
Gail Zimmerman
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Keri Guten Cohen
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Jig Chanukah art entries hung
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ED MEM
F. Kevin Browett
Chief Operating Officer
as a menorah at the Chanukah
Wonderland last month.
Our Apologies
W
e appreciate all the time, effort
and talent the community's
young artists always put into
their submissions for the JN's annual
Chanukah art contest. Each year, we are
delighted and surprised by the wonder-
ful artwork that fills our conference room
table just before we start our judging.
In 2010, contest art submitted by all the
children made a positive statement at the
Chanukah Wonderland. This Chanukah,
the entries were arranged in the shape
of a menorah for all to enjoy publicly at
Orchard Mall in West Bloomfield. More
than 1,000 viewers admired them.
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DEPARTMENTS
After this year's event, the artwork and
other Chanukah Wonderland items were
stored in an empty storefront. When Rabbi
Shneur Silberberg of the nearby Sara and
Morris Tugman Bais Chabad Torah Center,
which sponsored the event, came to retrieve
the artwork, he discovered maintenance
staff at the mall had discarded the entries.
Silberberg and personnel at the mall
searched everywhere, but the artwork
could not be found.
Those of us at the Jewish News and Bais
Chabad Torah Center feel horrible about
the loss of the precious artwork and apol-
ogize to all the young artists.
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