JANUARY 11 • 2024 | 41

T

he Jewish Senior Life
residents who co-au-
thored the new book
Don’t Write Me Off! Thirty-
Nine Stories of Older Adulthood
were definitely the stars of the
evening at the organization’s
Lives Well Lived: Wrinkles in
Time fundraiser on Nov. 14
at the Berman Center for The
Performing Arts at The J in
West Bloomfield.
The beaming first-time
authors smiled, posed for pic-
tures in front of a life-sized
image of the book and per-
sonally autographed copies for
guests during the pre-glow.

Bringing the book to life
over a five-month period was
a passion project for Beth
Robinson, director of Friends
of Jewish Senior Life, its volun-
teer arm. The event, attended
by more than 140 guests and
chaired by Hannah Moss, also
featured three documentary
films, including Young at Heart,
the 1987 Oscar-winning movie
by late Detroit filmmaker Sue
Marx, which was introduced
by her friends Jack Lessenberry
and Bill Haney. Copies of Don’t
Write Me Off! are available in
JSL’s boutiques, on Amazon and
at https://jslmi.org.

Celebrities
for a Night

Jewish Senior Life resident and writer Larry Aronoff

Jewish Senior Life CEO Nancy Siegel Heinrich, Helen Hedger and
Diane Schulman

Elizabeth Zerwekh and Cyma Carn
Nancy Silverman, Shari Cohen and Jewish Senior Life’s Beth Robinson
and Marcia Mittelman

Carol
Weintraub
Fogel

Beth Robinson, Director, Friends
of Jewish Senior Life, and event
chairperson, Hannah Moss