Weekly News & Updates
Caring for Older Adults Since 1907
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MARGOT & WARREN COVILLE ASSISTED LIVING & MEMORY CARE | Discover Jewish Senior Life! | |
Contact Janet Antin
248-967-4240 jantin@jslmi.org
|  | Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., is a clinical professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine and founder and director of the Institute for the Study of Health and Illness at Commonweal. She is one of the earliest pioneers of holistic and integrative medicine, and as a medical educator and reformer, Dr. Remen has trained many thousands of physicians to practice healing from the heart. Her groundbreaking curriculum The Healer’s Art (HART) is taught in nearly half of America’s medical schools. Dr. Remen has had Crohn’s disease for more than fifty-three years, and her work is a unique blend of physician and patient viewpoints. Her 1996 book, Kitchen Table Wisdom, is heartwarming and offers healing, life-affirming stories. This beautiful book is filled with tales of shared experiences that reveal life in all its power and mystery reminding us that the things we cannot measure may be the things that ultimately sustain and enrich our lives. | THE BUSTLING BROWN CENTER | |
By Jo Strausz Rosen
Activities during the Jewish Holidays at The Dorothy & Peter Brown Jewish Community Adult Day Program have been engaging people living with dementia and their family care partners. Two locations in West Bloomfield and Southfield are open from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The Brown Program helps people living with dementia stay purposefully involved in programs such as music, art, yoga and other physical exercise, cooking, group discussions and cognitive exercises. When participants spend the day, or even a morning or afternoon, their care partners benefit by regaining time for themselves, knowing their family member is cared for and occupied in meaningful activities.
| Hechtman residents, Rose Cooper, Beverly Salter, and Milly Zivos enjoyed the newly refreshed Eli A. Scherr Activity Room on the second floor of Hechtman. Coffee, refreshments, games and a place to celebrate friendships brought smiles to all the resident’s faces. | |
Now is the season to consider LIVING at Jewish Senior Life!
You are invited to our Fall Open House where you will meet residents and learn about the incredible living options at Jewish Senior Life including Independent, Assisted, and Memory Care.
Delightfully delicious donuts and cider will be served and tours of our amazing community and model apartment homes will be available.
There’s never been a better time to discover Jewish Senior Life!
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
JEWISH SENIOR LIFE, WEST BLOOMFIELD CAMPUS
6760 W. Maple Road | West Bloomfield, MI 48322
For more information, contact: Tracey Proghovnick
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30 years ago, Jewish Senior Life’s Eight Over Eighty celebration was established in our community to honor eight remarkable individuals, each 80 years of age or older. The Tikkun Olam Award has been bestowed on people each year for their work in helping to “Repair Our World.”
Save the Date Sunday, May 21, 2023 and join us at Shaarey Zedek for our 30th Annual Celebration!
Proceeds from this yearly event help enhance the quality of life for JSL residents with an emphasis on subsidizing the cost of food for low-income or indigent residents. Everyone benefits from this event by coming together to acknowledge these selfless older adults in our community for their contributions over their lifetime.
Do you know a special older adult who exemplifies Tikkun Olam?
Nominate them by visiting jslmi.org/8over80
| We are hiring people for a variety of full time and part time positions. Join our caring team and make a difference in the lives of the older adults who live at Jewish Senior Life. | |
SERVING SMILES, SALADS and SANDWICHES at Marvin’s Bistro and Krolik Café and Prentis Café five days a week. We need friendly folks to greet our guests, run the cash register and make sandwiches.
Contact Beth Robinson at brobinson@jslmi.org or 248.592.5062.
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LILLIAN & SAMUEL HECHTMAN II APARTMENTS | Come see the JSL Difference! | |
Contact Jackie Rosender
248-444-2430 jrosender@jslmi.org
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Break out your boas and bangles for a delightful celebration of getting older – in style!
FRIENDS of Jewish Senior Life’s annual Lives Well Lived event will feature the Emmy-nominated documentary “Iris” about 101-year-old fashion icon Iris Apfel.
Come for the film and dessert pre-glow, and enjoy a fabulous fashion show featuring our residents who are aging in style.
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By Beth Robinson
The first time I saw Star Wars, I immediately felt an affinity for the idea of the Force. It felt like it must be true that there is some vital energy binding together both living creatures and all the matter around us. I have been fascinated by energy ever since, reading constantly on the topic – human energy, magic, Marie Kondo’s methods, feng shui, and so on. So, I like to think I recognize positive energy at work when I see it. And I’ve definitely been seeing it here.
I wasn’t here during the worst of the pandemic, but I could see its lingering effects, on our boutiques particularly. They felt a little stale and airless, like they had been deprived of positive human energy, which for some periods, they actually had.
My first thought was that they needed to look different, so I started rearranging purses and scarves and displays and encouraged our wonderful volunteers to do so also. Over the last couple of weeks, the boutiques started to not only look better, but to feel different, to feel more alive. Our volunteers kept pouring energy into finding each item its perfect spot. The boutiques became like gardens where loving gardeners watered and sang to the plants and the plants responded by reaching toward the sun.
Our boutique volunteers have shopped, staffed, arranged, priced, organized, and cleaned. They’ve put their own human energy into the spaces and the objects in them. It’s such a positive, creative, happy energy. I feel it every time I walk in. I hope you’ll come visit our boutique Jedis and feel it for yourself. And may the force be with you!
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In Jewish tradition, when two people marry, it is not only the couple that are entering into a lifelong relationship — it is their parents, too. There’s even a special word for the new co-in-laws: They become “machatunim.”
The term has no direct English translation because, sadly, this relationship concept doesn’t exist in America. According to the Jewish Chronicle, the Yiddish word “machatunim” derives from chatan, meaning bridegroom or son-in-law, and also has the connotation of “guest of honor.” As a verb, it means to tie, connect or covenant.
| ADD SPARKLE TO YOUR STYLE! | Select jewelry items are on sale at our boutiques. We also have a great selection of Chanukah gear. It’s never too early to start gift shopping! |
Honey Panko Salmon
Ingredients
6 fillets of salmon
1 tablespoon Honey
1 tablespoon Dijon Mustard
1 tablespoon Maple Syrup
1/2 cup Fine Panko
Directions
1) Preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Place the salmon on a baking sheet lined with Gefen Parchment.
2) Whisk together the honey, mustard, and maple syrup.
3) Brush the mixture over the salmon fillets. Sprinkle the panko over each fillet, gently pressing down as you go making sure the panko adheres to the fish. Bake for 15 minutes.
This recipe is from kosher.com
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Rabbi Dovid S. Polter, Community Chaplain
A License Plate and a Life Lesson
One early morning as I pulled up to a medical facility, I spotted an unusual license plate in front of me that touched me and evoked deep feelings in my soul.
The license plate read, “Lo eera.” These words in Hebrew translate as “I shall not fear.” These words are actually recited daily in our prayers. In fact, with these two words we conclude the well-known melody of Adon Olom.
The fact that the license plate on the rear of the car in front of me was facing me meant that I was to glean a lesson from it. Through this unique license plate, I was reassured by my Creator not to fear even while the world around me often seems to be unsettled. The license plates’ declaration was a direct and poignant divine message to me and now I hope to you, the reader that “I shall not fear!”
Moments later I came to realize the relevance and potency of this crucial timely message.
Ten minutes after my entry into the facility, the fire alarm went off. Everyone was asked to quickly evacuate. I was standing outside holding the book of Psalms and thinking, “Maybe the time is now to put this lesson into action. “Lo eera,” ”I shall not fear.”
I was so convinced that “I shall not fear” was my Creator reaching out to me, that I tucked a photocopy of the license plate into my High Holiday prayer book and with it I prayed with a full heart.
In his famous Psalm 23, King David cries out, “Even when I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall not fear (Lo eera) for You (my Creator) are with me.”
Fear and intimidation are at the core of many of our failures. Together let us resolve to muster our every ounce of courage and to fear nothing but G-d Alone.
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Rabbi Dovid S. Polter Jewish Community Chaplaincy Program Jewish Senior Life
248-592-5039 • dpolter@jslmi.org
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L’Chaim!
More than half of the residents who live in our JSL communities are considered low income or indigent. Your philanthropic support is essential to maintaining programs and services to help these older adults age with dignity and with a better quality of life. In addition, your gifts could significantly support the shortfall in the cost of pharmacy bills which are so vital to the residents’ wellness. We are so grateful for your generous gifts to Jewish Senior Life.
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Nancy Heinrich, Chief Executive Officer
Kara Powers, Chief Financial Officer
Barbra Giles, Executive Director, Strategic Initiatives
Jo Strausz Rosen, Executive Director, Development
Dianne Azzopardi, Executive Director, Human Resources
Ron Colasanti, Executive Director, Dining Services
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This newsletter was created by Jo Rosen and Amanda Martlock
We’re human, prone to mistakes, so if we erred in our newsletter, please forgive us!
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Jewish Senior Life of Metropolitan Detroit
Eugene & Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus
6710 W. Maple Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48322
A. Alfred Taubman Jewish Community Campus
15000 W. Ten Mile Road, Oak Park, MI 48237
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