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THE APARTMENT
17125 W. 12 Mile Rd.
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24 June 12 • 2014
n the third Sunday of every
month, Congregation Beth
Shalom's Men's Club packs
up materials for the morning Shacharit
service — taleisim, yarmulkes, prayer
sheets — and heads a few blocks
over to the Coville Assisted Living
Apartments at the Jewish Community
Campus in Oak Park.
After the service in Coville's activity
room, the group serves the residents a
simple brunch of bagels, cream cheese,
lox, juice and coffee, coordinated by
Susan Friedman, wife of Men's Club
President Ted Friedman.
The Men's Club's "traveling minyan'
got its start more than 11 years ago. A
Men's Club member, the late Sanford
Danzig was terminally ill with cancer
and living at the Marvin & Betty Danto
Health Care Center in West Bloomfield.
Danzig, who died in 2003, had asked
his friends to come to Danto and con-
duct a service.
"After that, we started going every
month," said Friedman of Southfield.
"We went to various nursing homes and
senior apartments:'
About eight years ago, the group
went to Coville for the first time. "They
asked us back, and we've been going
there ever since Friedman said.
Jewish Senior Life, which administers
the Coville Apartments, named the
traveling minyan its Chaplaincy Group
of the Year for 2012.
Even though it's sponsored by the
men's club, the minyan welcomes
women. Ronna White Perlman of Oak
Park, a regular at Oak Park-based Beth
Shalom's weekday morning minyan,
has been going to the Coville gatherings
since her mother, Shirley White, 98,
moved there a few months ago.
She recently brought Alex Friedman,
formerly of Southfield, who doesn't get
to see his Beth Shalom friends much
since he moved in with his son in
Alex Friedman, now of Farmington
Hills, came to minyan to see his
Beth Shalom friends, like Ronna
Perlman to his right.
Farmington Hills.
Men's club member Neil Weiner and
Beth Shalom's rabbi, Robert Gamer,
created the traveling minyan's prayer
booklet, an abbreviated version of the
Shacharit service that takes about 20
minutes. Rob Grodin, 59, of Huntington
Woods leads the service. The syna-
gogue's emeritus clergy, Rabbi David
Nelson and Cantor Samuel Greenbaum,
often attend and one usually delivers a
brief d'var Torah.
In addition to providing services, the
group also visits members who are ill
in hospitals, nursing homes or private
homes. Greenbaum himself benefited.
"When I fractured my hip and I was in
the hospital in Ann Arbor, they came
to visit me," he said. "It creates a nice
sense of community:'
Coville resident Jacob Sharker, 77,
said the morning minyan reminds him
of going to shul, which he can't do often
now that he no longer drives.
Martha Klonsky, who lived in New
York before moving to Coville a year
ago to be closer to her children, says the
minyan brings back memories of her
neighborhood synagogues.
Resident Ida Sorscher, who has lived
at Coville for three years, attended her
first minyan on Lag b'Omer, May 18.
"I loved it," she said. "It was interest-
ing and appropriate for Lag b'Omer. I
will definitely be back:'
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