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Row-A-Thon Fights
Childhood Obesity
The first annual indoor Row-a-Thon fun-
draiser for the Jordan Levin Childhood
Obesity Foundation will begin at 9 a.m.
Sunday, June 8, at CrossFit Bloomfield/
Fitness Innovation Team, 799 and 795A
Industrial Court, Bloomfield Township.
Participants will row in teams of four in
beginner and advanced divisions. Beginners
will row 10,000 meters. Advanced will row
20,000 meters. Kids are welcome. If you do
not have a team, you can be paired with one.
Money raised will help the foundation
prevent childhood obesity The overall focus
is to help economically challenged kids and
families to be healthy.
Cost to enter is $20 per person. To register,
go to www.j1cotorg/june8event or call (248)
805-1567.
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Decorate A Cake For Shavuot
At Beth Ahm Celebration
The community is invited to Congregation
Beth Ahm on Tuesday, June 3, to celebrate
Shavuot and the receiving of the Torah. Free
festivities will begin at 5:30 p.m. on the Beth
Ahm playground with games, crafts and
more. Bring a dairy picnic dinner.
Then, showcase culinary and creative skills
during the ultimate Shavuot cake decorating
contest; cake and supplies will be provided.
Take 20 minutes to design and decorate a
cake based on one of the following biblical
themes: Creation, Noah's ark, Joseph's dream,
receiving the Torah or crossing the sea. Prizes
and sweet treats will finish the night.
Contact Elissa Berg at (248) 851-6880 or
eberg@cbahm.org with questions or to RSVP.
Adult learning with Rabbi Steven Rubenstein
and Professor Howard Lupovitch will begin
at 8 p.m.
Discussion Group Probes
Jewish History, Folklore
For those addicted to
Jewish history, folklore or
fairy tales, a small discus-
sion group is forming to
share some of the curious
stories of Jews who
changed the world or were
changed by it.
Connie Harris
Consider the true
adventures of a Jewish
pope and his love affair with a beautiful
countess. Or the prime minister who influ-
enced a queen and made her an empress. Or
the midrash about the prophet Elijah who
warned a bridegroom that he was about to
lose his soul. And maybe even a character
or two whose lives are more interesting than
their biblical descriptions suggest.
Connie Harris, author of The Way Jews
Lived (available at the Baldwin Library
in Birmingham) and donor of the Jewish
Heritage Collection at the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, will lead the discus-
sion.
The group will meet five Mondays
beginning June 16, 11 a.m.-noon. Another
group will also repeat the session on five
Tuesdays beginning June 17, 11 a.m.-noon.
The location will be a condo in downtown
Birmingham.
The cost $3 per session will be donated to
the Jewish Federation. For reservations and
information, call (310) 994 7295.
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Hechtman Apartments
Adam Mosseri
Detroit Jewish News
Foundation Fellow
K —
let's face the facts. Most
of us would like to remain
young forever. But, we all
know that we are going to be senior citi-
zens, sooner or later. And, our lifestyles
will change.
On Sept. 12, 1982, there was a
groundbreaking for a new residential
center for seniors at Drake and Maple
roads in Bloomfield Hills. There were
three major benefactors for the project,
including Samuel and Lillian Hechtman.
Samuel Hechtman was a Russian
immigrant who moved to Detroit in
1935 and became a successful busi-
nessman. He had various enterprises,
and was a founder of the American
Savings & Loan Association in Detroit.
Beginning in 1967, Hechtman was
also a long-time, key volunteer for the
Jewish Federation Apartments building
program.
Samuel Hechtman, whose volunteer labors have
spearheaded the Jewish Federation Apartments building
program since 1967, will be honored together with his wife
Lillian in the naming of the JFA's Phase III in West Bloom-
field.
The Samuel and Lillian Hechtman Apartments,
toward which the couple has given a $500,000 gift, will rise
on the Maple-Drake site where the Jewish Community
Center is located and the Holocaust Memorial Center is
under construction. Hechtman chaired the building com-
mittees for both structures, as well as phases I and II of
Jewish Federation Apartments in Oak Park.
In announcing the couple's gift and the naming of the
three-story structure in their honor, JFA President Shel-
don Winkelman said thb designation of Hechtman Apart-
ments "could not be a more appropriate way of recognizing
the Hechtmans' many contributions to his community."
A former presidt of
Jewish Federation Apart-
ments, Hechtman has
played a major role in the
Jewish/I/community. His
wife Lillian is active in a
, number of Jewish organiza-
tions, including Hadassah,
ORT and the sisterhood of
Adat Shalom Synagogue.
Hechtman is a member of
the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion Board of Governors and
has been active in the Allied
Jewish Campaign. He co-
chaired the building com-
mittee for Federation
Apartments' first two phases, and is co-chairman for the
third phase. He also is a board member of the Jewish Corn-
i w
ity Center.
In 1982, Samuel and Lillian donated
$500,000 to develop one of three phases of
the senior residences at Drake and Maple.
We now know it as the Lillian and Samuel
Hechtman Apartment complex.
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