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Jewish Senior Life of
Metropolitan Detroit
NOMINNIE! DON'T BE LATE!
SAVE THE DATE!
SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2014
EIGHT
EIGHTY
op The Tikkun Olam Award
WHAT:
Yehudah Wrotslaysky
gets ready for his
Chanukah-Thanksgiving
bar mitzvah celebration
Eight Over Eighty – The Tikkun Olam Award
Eight Over Eighty is an annual event where Jewish Senior Life
of Metropolitan Detroit honors eight senior adults, eighty
years or older, who have dedicated their time, talents and lives
to our community.
WHY
To recognize eight senior adults for their lifetime achievements
WHEN:
Sunday, May 4, 2014, LUNCHEON 11:30 AM (Dietary laws observed)
WHERE:
Adat Shalom Synagogue, Farmington Hills
Nominations are due by January 13, 2014
Do you know
a deserving
older adult who...
How to Nominate:
Write or email JSL describing the
worthiness of the nominee.
Please include (as applicable):
• Name, age and telephone number
of nominee
• Duration of volunteer
• Involvement in Jewish organizations
and causes
• Leadership positions held
• Current accomplishments
• Letters and newspaper articles
supporting nominee's
accomplishments
• Explain how the nominee's long-
standing activities exemplify a
commitment to the Jewish value of
Tikkun Olam (Repairing The World)
• Is at least 80 years old?
• Has been a long-standing
volunteer in the community?
• Is active or volunteering today?
• Is dedicated to maintaining
strong Jewish values?
• Is an inspiring leader or mentor
in the community?
Honorees will be recognized at a
community luncheon held on May
4th during Older American's Month
Proceeds will benefit:
The JSL Kosher Meal Program
Mail or email nominations to
Eight Over Eighty
Jewish Senior Life of Metro Detroit
15000 W. Ten Mile
Oak Park, MI 48237
Attn: Michelle Buda
mbuda@jslmi.org
(248) 592-1101
Or nominate on-line at
www.jslmi.org
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Thanksgiving Day
The Wrotslaysky's celebrations will
begin on Thursday, which is also
Yehudah's Hebrew birthday. "We'll
have a traditional Thanksgiving meal
in our house," Hershey said. "It will be
a time of turkey and football and being
grateful to live in the United States
of America where we can practice
Yiddishkeit without a problem. And
we also will light Chanukah candles
with our guests:'
The day between Thanksgiving and
Yehudah's Shabbat bar mitzvah service
will be highlighted by the completion of a
Torah, commissioned by the family, to be
used at Young Israel of Southfield (YIS),
where the Wrotslayskys are members.
"We thought it would be an auspi-
cious time to fulfill the 613th Torah
commandment to write a Sefer Torah,"
Debbie said. "And keeping the Torah at
our wonderful shul is a unique oppor-
tunity to relate to our kids and grand-
kids the importance of the Torah to the
Jewish people'
The Torah, which will be dedicated
in honor of Yehudah's bar mitzvah, was
written — except for the final letters —
in Israel by a scribe in B'nei B'rak. "He
will be carrying the Torah here on the
plane from Israel and will complete it in
our home on Friday morning," Hershey
said.
A dedication of the new Torah and
a celebration — complete with potato
latices — will take place at YIS.
"Our family, bar mitzvah guests and
the community will dance the new
Torah from our home to the shul,"
Hershey said. "Southfield police will
close Lahser Road as we dance across
with the Torah:'
That evening, a Shabbat dinner will
take place for family and friends.
Bar Mitzvah Day
"On Saturday, Yehudah will lain (chant)
the whole parshat Miketz and read the
haftorah and maftirr said his dad.
Yehudah has been learning with
Rabbi Elimelech Goldberg. "They
have been studying the connections
between Chanukah and the Torah
and Thanksgiving and Shabbos, and
Yehudah's bar mitzvah and parshat
Miketz, which Yehudah will discuss
in his speech in shul," Debbie said.
Saturday evening's party decor will
include a menorah and candles.
Yehudah, a seventh-grader at Akiva
Hebrew Day School in Southfield, is very
much looking forward to the festivities.
"I'm really excited for my bar mitz-
vah," he said. "When I found out it
would be on Thanksgiving weekend,
I was even more excited knowing
it's the first and last time I'll have
Thanksgiving and Chanukah together.
My friends are all talking about how
the holidays and the bar mitzvah are all
mixed together:'
Among the special guests of the long
weekend will be Yehudah's grandpar-
ents, Niels and Tove Bamberger, from
Englewood, N.J. Ten days before the
bar mitzvah, said Debbie, "Hershey's
brother, Sheldon, and his wife, Pessy,
from New York already loaded in
their car a gift for Yehudah from the
Bambergers: a complete set of Gemaras
originally used by his great-great-
great-great-grandfather in Wurzburg,
Germany, in the mid-1800s:'
Hershey said, "All of the celebrations
are blending together beautifully. It is
an unusual, perfect togetherness of an
American holiday, the Chanukah holiday,
and Yehudalis birthday and bar mitzvah:'
And instead of rest, at the end of the
quadruple celebration comes the start
of another.
The day after the bar mitzvah begins
festivities for Michal and Menachem,
whose wedding will take place in
January in Miami Beach.
Sunday afternoon, while the guys
watch football, the women will attend
a bridal shower for Michal. Looking
forward to it, Debbie said, "We'll be
tired, but it's nice that the celebrations
continuer ❑