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JVS Provides Wide Aid
To Jewish Community

On behalf of JVS, we would like to respond
to the letter to the editor in the Jan. 7 issue
regarding the focus of our Jewish agencies
(“JN, Jewish Agencies Have Wrong Focus,”
page 6).
JVS is proud to be a partner in the array
of services for the Jewish community and
beyond, fueled by our core belief in tikkun
olam — to repair the world. The quality
and breadth of our community’s programs
have long served as a role model for Jewish
agencies across the nation, and we are
proud of the reputation that our commu-
nal agencies hold.
As one of these leaders, JVS was recently
named a finalist in Crain’s Detroit Business
Best Managed Nonprofit Contest for the
second year running. JVS was recognized
for the innovative ways we have created new
sources of funding to support our services.
Part of this initiative is rooted in the
reality that Jewish financial resources
alone cannot fund the depth of services
needed by the members of our commu-
nity. Thus, JVS has successfully expanded
funding, enabling us to better meet the
needs of all of our community.
JVS has a full array of services for
unemployed and underemployed, people
with disabilities, and supportive day ser-
vices to keep our seniors living safely in
the community and avoid more restrictive
care.

Arthur
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Additionally, through access to private
foundations, we also have services targeted
specifically to the Jewish community,
such as: JOIN, the Jewish Occupational
Internship Program, which places Jewish
college students into summer internships
at Jewish nonprofits; COJO, Connecting
with Options and Job Opportunities,
which provides young Orthodox men with
career and supportive counseling to obtain
and maintain employment; and NEXTGen
Connect and NEXTWork, in partnership
with the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit — all of which create opportunities
for our young Jewish adults to return to
and settle in Metro Detroit.
Through special funding for the David
B. Hermelin ORT Resource Centers, we are
able to provide targeted computer training
for Orthodox Jewish women to help them
gain skills needed for successful employ-
ment.
Founded as Jewish Vocational Service,
JVS is proud of our Jewish heritage, but
as times change, so did our name. After
recognizing the depth and breadth of our
services to the Jewish community, the “V”
in Jewish Vocational Service no longer
communicated the scope of our services.
JVS offers a range of services and sup-
ports to help people at all ages and stages
of their lives that go far beyond vocational
services. These include financial educa-
tion, senior activity and day programs,
veteran services, enrichment activities and
support services for people with disabili-

ties and much more.
Whether you are aware or not, JVS is
helping someone you know — and we will
continue to be there to support members
of our community.

Aaron Chernow
chair, JVS Board of Trustees;
Leah Rosenbaum
JVS president and CEO
Southfield

State Of The Union
Speech Was Inspiring

For a president who began eight years ago
with four strikes against him, I applaud
President Barack Obama for his final State
of the Union Speech. It was intelligent,
articulate, reasoned, passionate, inspiring,
authentic, unique.
His speech was necessary for American
citizens and those throughout the world
to hear during these chaotic times.
Remember the closing words: truth, love.
Be involved.

Hannah Provence Donigan
Commerce Township

CORRECTION
• In the Jan. 14 cover story, “The Power
Of The Machine,” artist Jaclyn Schanes’
website was listed incorrectly. The correct
website is Jacxart.com; she can also be
emailed at jacx@jacxart.com.

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newspaper and settles back to read uninter-
rupted for the next 10 minutes.
Parents develop a pretty thick skin. You
have to because one day the sweet little dar-
lings who constantly profess their undying
love will, without any warning whatsoever,
turn into these eye-rolling teens who walk 10
feet in front of you lest anyone, God forbid,
realize you might be related.
It helps to be a really good sport — like
my mum. Once, back in the day, my parents
took us kids to a farm. A lot of the animals
had new babies, always cute to see, but my
siblings and I became practically giddy
with joy upon seeing the pigs. For there, on
the board right on top of the pig pen, was
scrawled the new baby’s name. It said, “Bella,
Large White Pig.” My mother delighted
us when she posed next to the sign while
we kids all snapped pictures and happily
announced to anyone who passed by that
“Bella is our mother’s name, too!”
One fun thing about parenthood is that
you have all these inborn taste testers for

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’ve heard people say that parenthood
hit them the first time they held their
new baby in the delivery room. Others
say they first realized they were really par-
ents when all the visitors had gone home, 2
a.m. rolled around and suddenly there was
no one else to hold the crying baby.
The first time I
thought, “Oh, wow, I’m
a mother!” was when I
found myself licking my
finger and then using it to
wipe the shmutz off my
kid’s face.
Not only do parents
Rochel Burstyn come equipped with
special cleansing saliva,
they also become adept at creative time
management. Like the father who convinces
his three clamoring kids to play hide-and-
go-seek. They all run off to hide while he
counts loudly and then calls out, “Ready or
not, here I come” and, as the house descends
in silence, he puts his feet up, shakes out his

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cooking experiments. A while back, I called
my mother-in-law to ask her what I should
do with the eggs sitting in my fridge a few
days past the expiration date. She said, “Use
them. I’ve been feeding you expired eggs for
years and you seem OK.”
In a way, parenthood hones your inter-
pretation skills, but not as acutely as hungry
5-year-olds. One time, my baby was cooing
in a store and Binyamin asked what she was
saying. “A-goo,” I repeated. “No,” Binyamin
corrected me. “She clearly said, ‘Let’s buy ice
cream.’”
There’s something about parenting that
unleashes the animal instinct. I mean, check
it out: Parents tend to work like dogs, give
piggy-back rides and are busy as beavers. We
can smell a rat a mile away and often take
the bull by its horns and badger kids who are
more stubborn than mules.
But, most ironic of all, it’s so often a
mother who asks, all offended, “Who am I?
The cat’s mother?” And then can be found
licking her kids clean.

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