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Lighting One More
Yahrtzeit Candle
I have the sacred tradition of lighting a
yahrtzeit candle for loved ones. First this
was for my dear parents and then this year
for my husband's first yahrtzeit.
With his passing, I took upon myself
to uphold the Kaddish and the yahrtzeit
candle lighting for his parents as well.
However, this year, on the 22nd day of
Kislev, I lit a yahrtzeit candle for someone
I never knew.
I lit it in memory of
a 15-year-old girl by
the name of Liba Malka
Ginsberg who was born
in Poland in 1927 in the
town of Staszow, to her
parents Yosef and Rivka
Ginsberg. She perished in
November 1942 during
15-year-old
Liba Malka
the Nazis' liquidation of
the town.
Ginsberg
When I first found
out of the new Adopt-a-Kaddish sacred
initiative sponsored by Hebrew Memorial
Chapel in Oak Park in partnership
with the Holocaust Memorial Center in
Farmington Hills, I didn't have to think
twice, knowing that I have to be part of it.
You see, like the father of my beauti-
ful and innocent Kaddish girl, my father,
too, is named Yosef; and he, as well as my
mother, Sarah, both stem from little shtetls
in Eastern Europe. Fortunately, though, both
my parents were steeped in the Zionist ideal;
and both, separately, left their loved ones
and everything which they knew, and went
courageously to Eretz Israel to rebuild it.
My father actually worked in paving the
streets of Tel Aviv, the city where both my
sister and I were born, and helped renew
Jewish life in what became in 1948 the
State of Israel.
I couldn't help thinking that if not for
my parents' Zionism, my fate would have
been similar to that of Liba Malka. And on
Thanksgiving Day, I always give thanks for
that and now for the added mitzvah that I
took upon myself to commemorate the life
of a beautiful girl who never had the chance
to live only because she was born Jewish.
Rachel Kapen
West Bloomfield
To Participate in Adapt-a-Kaddish, go
to www.hebrewmemoriaLorg/adopt-a-
kaddish.
Correction
In "Cashless Commerce" (Nov. 28, page 42),
Metro Trading Association was started 35
years ago by Michael Mercier not 28 years
ago by Allan Wilson, as stated in the article.
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Performances are at 8 p.m. Saturday,
Dec. 7, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8.
Tickets are $18 and are available online
at www.theberman.org or at the Berman
box office, (248) 661-1900.
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FJA seniors Stephanie Schulman (Alice)
and Talia Schechet (Queen of Hearts)
FJA's Alice in Wonderland
Plays Dec. 7-8 At Berman
Frankel Jewish Academy in West
Bloomfield presents Alice in Wonderland
Dec. 7-8 at the Berman Center at the Jewish
Community Center in West Bloomfield.
This musical version of Lewis Carroll's
tale is produced and directed by Mitch
Master, director of the FJA Performing
and Visual Arts Department. Student
directors are Mara Cranis and Lily Grier.
The cast is led by Alice (Stephanie
Schulman) and the Queen of Hearts
(Talia Schechet), who face off in a magical
land populated with classic and quirky
characters such as the White Rabbit
(Jonah Erlich), the Cheshire Cat (Sarah
Fradkin), the Duchess (Talia Gothelf), the
Caterpillar (Chava Levi) and others. Twins
Ben and Eli Sider play the comical duo
Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
The FJA students are joined by 20
young actors from local middle and
elementary schools, including Akiva
and Hillel, who play dancing butterflies,
mushrooms and playing cards.
Help Restock Norup School
Food Pantry On Dec. 15
Temple Emanu-El in Oak Park will be
hosting the Helping Hands for Hunger
food drive to help refill the food pantry
at Norup International School in Oak
Park. The food drive will take place on
Sunday, Dec. 15, 1-3 p.m.
All ages are welcome to bring food and/
or help pack up boxes. They are asking
for food donations of peanut butter, pasta,
macaroni and cheese, granola bars, pro-
tein and/or fiber bars, individual fruit or
applesauce cups, nuts and cereal.
For the middle school students, $5 gift
cards to Little Caesar's Pizza or Subway
are requested.
Tax deductible monetary donations in
any amount will also be accepted. Checks
can be made payable to Norup Food
Pantry. In addition, food/gift cards can
be dropped off any time before Dec. 15
at Temple Emanu-El, Burton Elementary
in Huntington Woods or the Recreation
Center in Huntington Woods.
Many people don't realize that at
Norup, nearly 40 percent of elementary
school kids and 20 percent of the middle
school kids are from families that often
don't have food on their table. But, the
pantry is running low, and kids are not
getting the food they need.
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