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Lift Up Your Voice

The Motor City UpBeats!

The Motor City UpBeats!, a new 
choir for individuals with Parkinson 
disease, MS, stroke, epilepsy, COPD 
or other neurological or medical 
conditions and their caregivers, 
will be offering six-week sessions 
throughout the summer. 
The idea behind the choir was to 
give people with such conditions a 
forum in which to use their voices 
in a healthy manner and have fun 
while doing so. Group singing pro-
motes camaraderie while exercising 
abdominal muscles and vocal cords 
in a healthy way. Choir director 
Elizabeth Esqueda, M.M., who sings 
in the Temple Beth El choir, has 

been a voice teacher and vocal per-
former for years. Esqueda and Alice 
Silbergleit, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, voice 
therapist, teach Motor City UpBeats! 
choir members how to safely use 
their voices, coordinate their breath 
support with voicing and to enjoy 
their voices. The choir has a different 
theme each week. 
The Motor City UpBeats! choir 
meets every Tuesday from 2-3:30 
p.m. at Temple Beth El. No prior 
singing experience is necessary to 
join. Each class is $10 or $50 for a 
six-week session. For information, 
contact Elizabeth Esqueda at (248) 
417-7870.

Detroit Photo Bound for the Moon

Yonatan Weintraub aimed high — 
with a relatively low budget — for 
a soft landing on the moon. The 
SpaceIL co-founder and his Beresheet 
lunar lander came oh-so-close to 
planting Israel’
s flag on the lunar 
surface, joining the U.S., the former 
Soviet Union and China as the only 
other countries to achieve that feat. 
The spacecraft, and its trove of items, 
crashed onto the surface.

At a May gathering at Shaarey 
Zedek in Southfield to benefit the 
Jewish National Fund, Weintraub 
said he and his colleagues are already 
at work for a second attempt at a 
lunar landing. He then asked the 
audience to pose for a group photo 
(below) that would be included with 
the next batch of leave-on-the-moon 
memorabilia. 

WE ARE 
PLEASED TO 
ANNOUNCE

Beginning June 17, 2019,
Epic Kosher Catering will be providing meals for
our Kosher Meals on Wheels program
Calling ALL Volunteers!!!

Perform a Mitzvah and 
Volunteer for Meals on Wheels

Our new location of meal preparation will be at Epic Kosher Ca-
tering Kitchen, housed at the Jewish Community Center in West 
Bloomfield. We are in need of the following volunteers. 

Pick a day that you are available.

Packers, 7am-8:15am
Drivers, starting at 8:30am-9:00am in West Bloomfield or 9:00am-
9:15am in Oak Park
Sub Drivers to help out on an as needed basis
Shuttle Drivers, starting at 8:00am, bringing meals from West 
Bloomfield to Jewish Senior Life Prentis Apartments in Oak Park, 
where drivers will pick up the meals and deliver to participants in 
the Oak Park/Southfield area

Call 248.967.0967 to volunteer

Kosher Meals on Wheels is sponsored by National Council of Jewish Women, Michigan in cooperation 
with Jewish Family Service. Funding is provided by Area Agency on Aging 1-B through the Office of 
Services to the Aging, and funding through the federal Older Americans Act in compliance with Title 
V of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, with support from Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, DeRoy 
Testamentary foundation and individual donations.

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artsfest

VOLUNTEER!PARTICIPATE! 
BE A HOST! 

F O R M O R E I N F O

