Celebrating Together

Speaking
Of The
Unspeakable

JSL residents enjoy Chanukah celebrations around town.

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ewish Senior Life was alive with Chanukah
programs, celebrations and concerts from the
first candle lighting until the very last night.
Residents, staff and the general Jewish community wel-
comed musicians Rennie Kaufmann and Avy Schreiber,
and children added lively play during candle-lighting cel-
ebrations at several residences. It was certainly a light-filled
holiday connecting generations and community. ❑

Interfaith groups join
to honor and mourn
Newtown's slain children.

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Former building president Malka
Sklaskaya, 86, enjoys Chanukah

at the Teitel Apartments in

Yosef Cooper, 5, and his brother

Oak Park.

Yehuda, 8, open gifts at the
JSL Chanukah celebration at

Fleischman Residence/Blumberg

Plaza.

n Dec. 20, more than 100
people gathered in the theater
at Birmingham Groves High
School in Beverly Hills to commemo-
rate the victims of the Newtown, Conn.
shootings.
Speeches and readings, including one
by Rabbi Jason Miller, were followed by
a candlelight vigil outside the school.
The event was presented by the
Interfaith Leadership Council with the
assistance of the Jewish Community
Relations Council and other interfaith
organizations.

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- Allan Gale, Detroit JCRC

Holocaust survivor Manya Feldman lights the menorah
at Jewish Senior Life's Fleischman Residence/Blumberg
Plaza Chanukah celebration Dec. 9 in West Bloomfield.

Jewish Senior Life resident
Doroteya Atriraspolsky, 82,
attends the Teitel
Apartments celebration.

Other Side Of Woodward

Chanukah play shows how working together can pay off.

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t was standing room only at the Woodward
Avenue Shul in Huntington Woods as 12 chil-
dren, ages 3-12, performed in The Other Side
of Woodward. This new, original Chanukah play by
Marcia Fishman, with words and music by Hedy
Blatt, tells the story of the Dreidels and the Latkes,
who live across the street from one another but
don't get along — that is, until they realize they
can save Chanukah by working together.
The cast included Eilon Adelson, 7; Olivia
Adelson, 8; Chanah Amzalak; Mushka Amzalak, 8;
Charles Atias Gorcyca, 5; Eli Gordon, 10; Gabriel
Gordon, 7; Joseph Gordon, 12; Chaya Hadar; Sara

Gabriel and Eli Gordon, Mushka Amzalak and
Charles Atias Gorcyca

Hadar, 3; Yossi Hadar, 6; Zahava Hadar, 8; Briya
Sigler, 4; Maliya Sigler, 7; and Ari Wolfson, 12, all
of Huntington Woods.
Scenery was by April Sigler; props by Susie
Eliades; helpers were Isabella Adelson and Danielle
Sigler.
After the play, the cast and audience was treated
to a Chanukah meal catered by Rabbi Chanoch
Hadar.
Arts and crafts tables were also "a hit" in the
shul lobby before and after the production.

People signed the condolence board
at the event.

Sara Hadar as the
littlest Latke

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Children were among those who gave
readings.

Jason Gordon with sons Gabriel, Eli and Joseph

Ari Wolfson as
Wise Boy

January 3 • 2013

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