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Art For The Soul
Bais Chabad of North Oak Park event.
Roche! Burstyn
Special to the Jewish News
A
rt is everywhere if you know where to look. It
was all over Bais Chabad of North Oak Park
on Nov. 25 as women attended a creative and
heartwarming event called Art for the Soul.
Guests chose different stations and tried
scrapbooking, flower arranging, jewelry creating and
card making. If typical art wasn't quite their forte, there
also were more unusual options like spoon bending,
chocolate shaping and ceramics.
The evening's dinner spread also fit the do-it-yourself
theme and included a make-your-own-salad bar and
choose-your-own fruits smoothies.
Hadassah Werner, wife of the rabbi at Bais Chabad,
said that in addition to typical art, there are also
valuable arts that come from within like the art of
thanking, appreciating and forgiving. Dina Fried then
shared some of her experiences as an art therapist
and discussed how art can help bring out feelings that
words can't always express.
In all, it was an enlightening and light-"arted"
evening.
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Art therapist Dina Fried talks to the group about how art can be healing.
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Daniella Rosenstein of Crown Heights, N.Y., and her
mother-in-law Leah Rosenstein of Oak Park
Fighting Pancreatic Cancer
Sky Foundation luncheon raises more than $100,000 for research.
I
n November, the Sky Foundation Inc. held its fourth annual luncheon at the
Townsend Hotel in Birmingham. The foundation was created in 2008 by Sheila Sky
Kasselman of West Bloomfield, now a five-year pancreatic cancer survivor.
Michael A. Tainsky, Ph.D., of the Detroit-based Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer
Institute spoke on the latest advances the Sky Foundation-sponsored research projects
have made. More than $100,000 was raised at the event to support his group's research.
The research, also involving Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System, seeks to develop
a screening test for early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer in people deemed to be at high
risk. Another project seeks to produce a targeted method to kill pancreatic cancer tumors.
Rod Meloni of Channel 4 News was the emcee and gave a memorial tribute to last
year's emcee, author Jeffrey Zaslow, who died in February in a traffic accident.
Kasselman, whose group over the years has raised $500,000, was honored in 2011 with
the Karmanos "Pat Milner Sachs Heart of a Survivor Award" for her compassion, dedica-
tion and drive to raise awareness of pancreatic cancer and funds to advance its research.
For more information on the Sky Foundation Inc., visit skyfoundationinc.org . For
information on cancer treatment and research, contact Karmanos at 1-800-KARMANOS
or visit www.karmanos.org.
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Sandy Schwartz of Franklin, Sheila Sky Kasselman, Harvey and Phyllis Yates of
Birmingham
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Daniel Glosser of Pittsburgh, who made a $10,000 donation, Sheila Sky Kasselman
and Dr. Michael Tainsky
Adrienne Ruby-Fink and Herschel Fink of Orchard Lake