CHANUCON! FEST
SET FOR DEC. 4
AT BETH SHALOM

Congregation Beth Shalom in Oak Park
will hold its first community-wide
Chanukah festival on Sunday, Dec. 4,
from 1-5 p.m.
Called Chanu-Con!, the festival will be
one of the Detroit area’s largest Chanukah-
themed events, providing fun and enter-
tainment for all ages. Admission is free
and open to the public.
Chanu-Con! will feature a kosher food
truck and other Chanukah-themed food
vendors, a tin can auction-style raffle
with more than 50 valuable prizes, retail
vendors offering a variety of holiday gift
ideas, live children’s musical entertain-
ment by Music Man Dave, a bounce
house, face painting, Chanukah arts and
crafts, and much more.
“An extra-special draw is our wide
variety of tin can auction prizes,” said
Beth Rodgers, event coordinator. “Local
businesses have been especially generous.
Prize contributors include the Detroit
Red Wings, Detroit Opera House, Mark
Ridley’s Comedy Castle, Men’s Wearhouse,

Tamarack Camps and Detroit Kid City.
And that is just the start of the list.”
Chanu-Con! has been funded by local
businesses including Cohen /Lerner/
Rabinovitz Attorneys and Counselors,
the McCarty Team Realtors, Masserman
Photography, Adrienne Groff Design and
Men’s Wearhouse.
Food and merchandise items will be
available for purchase. Some children’s
activities are free while others have a
nominal fee. Raffle tickets will range in
cost from 50 cents to $5, depending on
the prize.
Working with Rodgers on the event
are Bryan Beckerman, Ilene Cantor, Neil
Cantor, Marcy Citron, Susan Friedman,
Vicki Salinger, Aaron Schwartz, Marie
Slotnick, Arnie Weiner and Gretchen
Weiner.
Beth Shalom is located at 14601
Lincoln Drive in Oak Park.
For more information, full prize con-
tributor and vendor lists, visit the event
Facebook page at www.tiny.cc/chanucon
or call (248) 547-7970.

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1967ERA HOME MOVIES WANTED

The Detroit Institute of Arts and Detroit
Free Press are asking the public to submit
home movies from around 1967 to pro-
vide perspective to the strife that occurred
in Detroit in July 1967. They are especially
interested in films including everyday
scenes and personal histories of diverse
Detroit residents.
The films gathered in the “1967 Detroit:
Home Movies” effort will be used in two
distinct cinematic projects — one pro-
duced by the Detroit Institute of Arts, the
other by the Detroit Free Press.
“By searching for and publicly screen-
ing these unique artifacts we want to
provide a more complex and immersive

experience for audiences, one that allows
them to participate in uncovering a mul-
titude of intimate histories and contribute
to a fuller understanding of their mean-
ing,” said Larry Baranski, the DIA’s direc-
tor of public programs.
For more information about the project
and how to submit, visit bit.ly/2fNxOxR.
Beginning January and running
through June, the DIA will host weekly
events that will provide the public oppor-
tunity to lend footage — and see it pro-
jected that day at the Detroit Film Theatre
at the DIA. A marathon screening of films
will be presented as part of the 2017 DFT
summer schedule.

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1943-1945. My
aunt and uncle
even sent him
a piece of my
Alice Silbergleit recently redis-
parents’ wedding
covered letters from a soldier
cake that he ate
written during WWII and
in a foxhole!”
would like to reunite them
Sadly, Irving
with his family.
Irving Mandell
was killed in
She is looking for Edward
battle on Jan.
(Eddie) Mandell, who would
19, 1945. He
be in his early 70s. He is the son of Irving
received the Purple Heart and is buried in
Mandell and Betty Greenberg. Irving and
Epinal cemetery in France.
Betty were married on Dec. 24, 1939.
Silbergleit donated the original letters
“They were very close friends of my
aunt and uncle, Belle and Dave Bernstein. to the Jewish War Veterans’ archives, but
they will release them to Eddie if he is
I have about 25 letters that Irving wrote
found.
to my aunt and uncle from his stations
Anyone with information can contact
across Europe during WWII. He wrote
her at (248) 644-1389 or at
detailed accounts of life as a soldier and
asilbergleit@gmail.com.
his longing to see his toddler son from

SEARCH FOR SON
OF WWII HERO

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