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December 21, 2023 - Image 30

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The Detroit Jewish News, 2023-12-21

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36 | DECEMBER 21 • 2023
J
N

OUR COMMUNITY

A

nother Thanksgiving
has come and gone,
and so has another
year of the Metro Detroit
Jewish community banding
together to help feed on-duty
police officers with a complete,
delicious Thanksgiving dinner.

This Thanksgiving initiative,
Feed the Force, was started by
Noach Klein in 2018. What
started with purchasing dinner
together with a few local
families and delivering it to
the Oak Park and Southfield
police departments has grown
into a true community-wide
effort in just a few years.
This year, 125 meals were
provided for officers on duty
across nine police departments
— Oak Park, Southfield,
Berkley, Lathrup Village,
Huntington Woods, West

Bloomfield, Farmington Hills,
Bloomfield Township and
Birmingham.
Along with GoFundMe
contributions from the Jewish
community, the financing and
overall efforts behind Feed the
Force are backed by various
families and community
members.
The officers were treated to
these meals as an expression
of gratitude during a
time organizers say local
police forces deserve to be
recognized more than ever
for working to keep the
Jewish community safe —
especially on holidays such as
Thanksgiving where they’re
sacrificing time away from
their families.
The menu, provided by Chef
Cari once again, included a

carved turkey with traditional
turkey gravy, a slow-roasted
brisket, mashed potatoes and
sweet potatoes, homestyle
stuffing, green beans,
cranberry sauce, crudités
salad, dinner rolls, apple pie
and pumpkin pie. Apple cider
was purchased from Franklin
Cider Mill, which generously
donated donuts to every
department as well.
Children from the Jewish
community wrote “thank-you”
notes to families of officers
from each department.
Ensuring each department
receives the hot food at
dinnertime is an effort
reflective of all the planning,
organizing and hard work
going into Feed the Force
every year.
On Thanksgiving Day, it’s

truly an all-day event for the
organizers. They race across
town and practically take over
each station and set everything
up. It’s not just a bunch of food
dumped on the tables, either,
as teams of local families
carefully lay out the beautiful
catered dinners, spread out
nicely and done up right.
Once again, because there
was so much food, Chef Cari
lent her catering truck to make
the process easier.
At each police department,
the officers were beyond
thankful for the heartwarming
efforts.
Ethan Gross, the backer
of the West Bloomfield and
Farmington Hills efforts,
always makes sure to give the
police departments a letter
with the meals, thanking them

Feed the Force Returns

This year, 125 meals were provided for officers on duty
across nine police departments.

DANNY SCHWARTZ STAFF WRITER

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