metro

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Preset 'tied by

Jewish
volunteer
make
Christmas
cheery for
those served
by nonprofits.

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Jimmy Tuman, left, with Temple

Israel members Diana and Bradley

and sons Dylan, 12, and Brendan,

8. The West Bloomfield family

delivered gifts for the Jimmy's Kids

eturning to its more familiar format after an
abbreviated and smaller program last year
when Dec. 25 fell on Shabbat, Mitzvah Day
2011 sent more than 800 volunteers to some 40 sites
throughout Metro Detroit on Christmas Day.
The volunteers relieved Christian staff and volunteers
at the nonprofit agencies so they could spend the holi-
day at home with their families.
Coordinated by the Jewish Community Relations
Council, large groups from area synagogues, includ-
ing Congregation Shaarey Zedek, Temple Beth El,
Congregation Beth Shalom and Temple Israel, among
others, delivered presents to families of the Jimmy's
Kids charity, visited seniors at the Methodist Children's
Home, helped out at Almost Home animal shelter,
entertained residents at JARC homes and served meals
at several soup kitchens.
Joining in this year were 50 teens from the JServe
volunteer group and about 100 Muslim volunteers who
worked alongside Jewish volunteers in an interfaith
effort at several locations.
"Our family spent the morning delivering presents for
Jimmy's Kids',' said Diana Bradley of West Bloomfield.
"This was such a wonderful, eye-opening experience for
our children as well as ourselves. It really brings home
that we each need to be grateful for all that we have and
just puts life in general into perspective. We can't wait
until next Christmas!" ❑

Photos by Tony Jaco bs

charity.

At Forgotten Harvest: Shaarey

Zedek members Wendy, Adam,

Shoshana, Sam and Phillip Arnold

of Farmington Hills and Howard

Spinner of Livonia.

Shaarey Zedek members at work: Terri Bocson of Troy, Mark Menuck

of Birmingham, Richard Kroll of Bloomfield Hills, Shirlee Marshall

of Farmington Hills, Dawn Spinner of Livonia and Sarah Galley of

Livonia

Jane

Steinger,

Huntington

Woods;

JAN. 20 -29

www.dia.orgidft
313.833.3237

Susie Solarz,

Farmington

Hills; Reema

Sorting at Bookstock: Shirlee Wyman Harris

of Commerce Township and Chehab Kaakarli of

Rochester Hills.

Kaakarli,

DIA

DETROIT

INSTITUTE

OF ARTS

Rochester

Hills

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