metro "imaligkr fall The care you need to get you back to your life. Marvin /MI D8 Ai Niro Family Health Care Center 6800 West Maple West Bloomfield, MI 48322 248.788.5300 Rob Gordin, 59, of Huntington Woods and a Beth Shalom Men's Club member, leads the service. itaveling Minyan Heartland West Bloomfield Beth Shalom Men's Club brings services to Coville residents. 6950 Farmington Road West Bloomfield, MI 48322 248.661.1700 Barbara Lewis Contributing Writer 0 Experience Makes a Difference.° heartlandnursing.com 1901 kti Call it a "BREEZE" Replaceable Hair • Light • Airy • Affordable • Today's Style • Wearer Friendly • Looks Natural Consistently • Almost goof proof $100 OFF - First time clients — exp. 6/28/14 SAMPLE DEMONSTRATION AVAILABLE 888-569-9898 Call ASK FOR DONNA THE APARTMENT 17125 W. 12 Mile Rd. '913700 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:' ❑