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HAPPY, HEALTHY NEW YEAR!

For The Best Service Go To…

MUFFLERS and MORE is now Kenny’s Lakes Area Auto Experts!

We’ve evolved: more training, more services, everything you need!
We’re changing our name to refl ect the direction we’ve been moving in for years.
The name is changing, but our hearts and commitment are the same.

Kenny “the Car Guy” Walters, owns
the award-winning auto shop
and is a member of Temple Israel

Lakes Area Auto Experts

at 490 N. Pontiac Trail
in Walled Lake

248.668.1200

www.lakesareaauto.com

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For years, Lakes Area
Auto Experts has
provided neighbors with
HONEST, DEPENDABLE,
QUALITY information,
repair and service! They
live here and it shows!

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Email Kenny the Car Guy at
kenny@lakesareaauto.com

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Lauren Zinnershine, Leah Ferreira, Tom Gabay, Tomer Lurie and Raviv Aharon visit
the Heidelberg Project in Detroit.

Making Lifelong
Friendships

Mifgash program reunites Israeli and
American Birthright alumni in Detroit.

Becky Hurvitz | Special to the Jewish News

Franklin Cider Mill

“A FAMILY TRADITION”

NOW
OPEN!

248-626-8261

14 Mile Rd.
and Franklin Rd.

I

t sure does pay to be from Detroit.
Good food, good music. Drive
an hour and a half Up North
and instant vacation. But these perks
pale in comparison to the benefits of
being a young Jewish Detroiter on one
of NEXTGen Detroit’s community
Birthright trips. Because, while most
Birthright trips travel to the same areas
and iconic sites, a Detroit community
trip has a special way of connecting local
young adults not only to the Land of
Israel … but to the people of Israel.
Since 2009, Federation’s NEXTGen
Detroit has sent out two to three Detroit

community Birthright trips every year
for a total of 20 trips to date. During
these free 10-day adventures, par-
ticipants see and do things that aren’t
offered on most standard Birthright
trips, while the entire time being accom-
panied by young adults from Detroit’s
Partnership Region in Central Galilee.
And, when the trip is over, the jour-
ney is just beginning — and for many
of Detroit’s Birthright alumni it starts
with NEXTGen Detroit’s annual Mifgash
week.
“Every year in August, Federation
brings all of the Israelis from that year’s

HOURS:
Open Daily
7am-6:30pm
Weekends
8am-6:30pm
Thanksgiving Day
8am-4pm
Last Day of Season,
Sunday,
November 27th

Make us your stop for
the Jewish Holidays. A
full assortment of Dakota
Breads and our Franklin
Homemade Apple Pies.

Israeli and American participants come together for a group shot.

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