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PHOTOS BY JERRY ZOLYNSKY
Oak Park-based Congregation Beth Shalom celebrated its second-
annual holiday spectacular, Chanu-Con, Sunday, Nov. 19. The free
event, planned by congregation member Beth Rodgers, featured a
kosher food truck, live music and children’s activities including a bounce
house, candle dipping, finger painting and snow globe making and was
enjoyed by people throughout the community. Chanu-Con teamed up
with Yad Ezra, Metro Detroit’s only kosher food bank, to accept nonper-
ishable kosher food donations to help families in need. •
13-year-old
Benny Lerner
of Huntington
Woods plays
the violin
for the party
goers.
Michelle Posner of Ferndale
entertains her 11-month-old
child Asher with a tiger puppet.
Marla Schloss of West Bloomfield shows 10-year-old
Megan Zelmanov, also of West Bloomfield, how to make a
beeswax candle.
8-year-old Maayan Kaplan of Huntington Woods looks
at a Chanukah snow globe that 8-year-old Kaiya
Jackie of West Bloomfield just made.
2-year-old Ilanit Kaplan and her mother,
Gabriella, work on a holiday coloring.
Both are from Huntington Woods.
Ban Habib and Mazal Rabi, both from Windsor, explain their dishes for sale to Jan
Wanetick of Southfield.
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In October, the Jewish Community Relations Council/AJC hosted its annual lun-
cheon for Detroit media. The program, an essential tool in ensuring Israel’s per-
spective continues to be shared locally, featured Yonah Bob, the intelligence, ter-
rorism and legal analyst for the Jerusalem Post.
The gathering included the publishers, vice presidents, editorial editors, anchors,
reporters, news directors and producers from all of the area’s print, television and
radio outlets.
Speaking on the heels of the Las Vegas attack, the deadliest mass shooting
in U.S. history, Bob addressed “Confronting the Next Wave of Terror: The Age of
Lone Wolves,” and shared Israel’s unique experience and its insights into defying
the scourge of terror.
For more than a decade, the annual media luncheon has brought Israel’s story
to the media through Israeli dignitaries and journalists, and is part of JCRC/AJC’s
ongoing efforts to help area reporters understand Israel and the situation in the
Middle East, and to reinforce JCRC/AJC’s role as the media relations agency of
the Detroit Jewish community. The program was made possible through the gen-
erous support of former JCRC officer Linda Finkel and her husband, Bob Finkel. •
WDIV-4 Anchor Karen Drew, Fox 2 Anchor Taryn Asher, JCRC/AJC Assistant Director-Public Relations
Beverly K. Phillips, Jerusalem Post Analyst Yonah Bob, JCRC/AJC Executive Director David Kurzmann and
WXYZ-7 Anchor Malcolm Maddox visit before the program.
JCRC/AJC’s David Kurzmann, WXYZ-7 Anchor Joanne
Purtan, Editorial Director Chuck Stokes, Producer
Tracy Wujack, JCRC/AJC’s Beverly K. Phillips, WXYZ-7
Reporter Ann Marie LaFlamme, Producer Jodie Heiser
and Futures Editor Dan Zacharek
Michigan Radio Anchor Doug Tribou and News
Director Vincent Duffy chat with JCRC/AJC’s
David Kurzmann at the program.
JCRC/AJC’s David Kurzmann, WDIV Anchor Karen Drew,
Editor Corey McIsaac, Anchor Kimberly Gill, News
Director Kim Voet, JCRC/AJC’s Beverly K. Phillips, WDIV
Vice President and General Manager Marla Drutz and
Producer Ro Coppola
Featured Speaker Yonah Bob of the
Jerusalem Post