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Giving Wheels
To Youngsters
Orchards Children's
Services gives bikes to
400 children in honor of
its 50th anniversary.
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rchards Children's Services,
which is celebrating its 50th
anniversary this year, gave bikes
to nearly 400 foster care, adopted and
high-risk children on June 22 in its park-
ing lot in Southfield. Guests of the foster
care and adoption agency enjoyed carni-
val games, food, music, dancing and more.
The organization was founded in 1962
by the National Council of Jewish Women-
Greater Detroit Section as a small resi-
dential group home for Jewish boys with
emotional impairments. In 50 years, the
private nonprofit has expanded to include
foster care, adoption, family preservation
and specialized programs, and has served
thousands in Michigan.
The organization is led by Michael
Williams, president/CEO. The newly
installed board chair is David Kramer.
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Betsy Appleton, Orchards COO Carmine Devivo and Sally
Schottenfels, member of NCJW and the Orchards board, at bike day
Paula and Stanley Wolfe of Bloomfield Hills
Jay Hack, Orchards board member, with Connor Tukel, Jeremy Cohn
and Aviv Lis, members of Orchards' youth board
Kids served by Orchards Children's Services are happy
with their new bikes and helmets.
Musical
Memoric:7,
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July 26 * 2012
Walter Soles, Cantor Meir Finkelstein and Olivia Brodsky
of West Bloomfield.
Steve and Lori Weisberg of West Bloomfield flank Alvin and
Henrietta Weisberg of Bloomfield Hills
Ka ren Co u f Co he n
he musical dust finally settled
after the eagerly awaited June
7 performance of The Gates
of Righteousness — the cantata com-
posed by Shaarey Zedek Cantor Meir
Finkelstein, which took a look back
in time and musically celebrated the
150th anniversary of Congregation
Shaarey Zedek. More than 1,400
people attended the premier perfor-
mance brought to life by the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra — conducted
by Maestro Leonard Slatkin and per-
formed by Cantor Meir Finkelstein,
Olivia Brodsky, the Hillel Day School
Choir, and narrated by Walter Soles.
Audience members were treated to
a journey back in time, interpreted
musically — with each movement of
the cantata highlighting different eras
of Congregation Shaarey Zedek's rich
history.
The evening was generously
sponsored by Henrietta and Alvin
Weisberg.
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Cantor Finkelstein and Maestro Leonard Slatkin