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Issue 94 - September 2011
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Rosh Hashanah Greetings from Southfield Mayor Brenda Lawrence
הנשט הנש !הק תנש Wishing your family a sweet and healthy 5772!
I want to acknowledge and thank the Jewish community for your contribution toward maintaining a strong and vibrant Southfield. I am proud to have served as your Mayor for the past decade and look forward to continuing our partnership in Southfield.
With regards, Brenda Lawrence Mayor of Southfield Paid for by Friends of Brenda Lawrence, PO Box 3060, Southfield, MI 48037 10
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Young Israel of Oak Park 15140 West Ten Mile Road Oak Park, MI 48237 (248) 967-3655
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Deeva Wigs Luxurious and quality wigs at affordable prices! Back by popular demand and just in time for the New Year! Come and buy a yourself something special for Yom Tov
September 18 10:00am - 4:00pm Shomrey Emunah in Southfield 25451 Southfield Road An experienced stylist will be on hand to cut your new wig! Prices Range $375-$675 Deeva Wigs now accepts Visa and Mastercard! 16
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Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit – Oak Park
Shana tova! Celebrate 5772 as you create a healthy, happy body and spirit!
• Call today to learn about our NEW membership specials! • Experience an outstanding fitness club with amenities like laundry and towel service • Extensive fitness programs including Zumba, Pilates, Spin, Yoga, Boot Camp, Fitball, Step Challenge, Stretch and Relax • Affordable rates and open hours that accommodate every schedule! • Swimming year-round in our beautiful indoor pool • Single-gender swim daily • Fitness programs for men, women and children of all ages and all abilities • Make new friends and renew old friendships! • Women-only fitness classes • Swimming lessons, events and classes for every age • Plus much more!
Contact Assistant Membership Director Marc Front at 248.432.5605 or mfront@jccdet.org to start now! For information, visit www.jccdet.org. Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit Jimmy Prentis Morris Building A. Alfred Taubman Jewish Community Campus 15110 W. Ten Mile Road • Oak Park, MI 48237
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Best Wishes To Everyone For Good Health, Happiness, Peace And a Very Sweet Year!
L’Shanah Tovah Tikatevu Mrs. Grace Naftaly Gerald E. Naftaly Mayor, Oak Park, Michigan Now open for business!
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Have Keyboard Will Travel
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THE JEAN AND THEODORE WEISS
invites the women of the community (ages 19-99) to
the North Oak Park
Monday Night Shiur
Due to the enthusiastic response to the first round of classes we have outgrown our location! Please note the new location and earlier start.
Bais Yaakov Library 14390 W. ten mile road, Oak Park 8:00-8:45 pm
Elul: The End or the Beginning? with Rabbi Leiby Burnham on Monday, September 12 Nineteen Days to Neilah with Rabbi Shaul Engelsberg on Monday, September 19 The Majesty of the Machzor with Rabbi Shlomie Newman on Monday, September 26 The Road to Teshuvah: Every Step Counts with Rabbi Yehudah Moller on Monday, October 3
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Quality Kosher Catering Wishes you a happy and healthy New Year! To place your order for Rosh Hashanah meals Visit our website for menu and order form
www.qualitykosher.com Or call us @ 248-352-7758 to speak with one of our friendly and helpful staff members
Please place your order by Wednesday September 21st Pick up time is Wednesday September 28th from 10am – 2pm at the Shaarey Zedek service entrance
this year take advantage of our rosh hashanah Carry-out Promotion Place any order over: $100 = Receive 10% $200 = Receive 15% $300 = Receive 20% Off your next Carry-out order with Quality Kosher Catering let us help you with your “Break the Fast Dinners”, and your succot Cakes and Deserts Full service catering and carry-out available anywhere you need us Contact Us: 248-352-7758 www.qualitykosher.com www.facebook.com/kosherdetroit
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Traditionally, these foods are eaten on Rosh Hashana to symbolize a good year for ourselves and for the Jewish Nation.
The Community Links wishes the entire community a happy and a healthy sweet New Year!
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PAID FOR BY THE COMMITTEE TO ELECT LINNIE TAYLOR
Vote to retain Linnie taYLor SoUtHFieLD CitY CoUnCiL
a vote for Councilwoman Linnie taylor means: Lower Property Taxes Protection of Property Values Quality City Services Public Safety – Police, Fire and EMS
Walkable, Safe Communities Proudly endorsed and supported by (partial list): Services and • Pastor Carlyle F. Stewart iii, Activities for Seniors Hope United Methodist Church • Southfield Fire association Attraction and • irv Lowenberg , City Treasurer retention of Residents and • Vince Gregory, State Senator Businesses • Paul Condino, Former State Representative A bright future • Janna Garrison, Southfield City for the City of Councilwoman Southfield • Barbara talley, Former Southfield City Councilwoman • Bernard M. Cohen eSQ • Warren & Muriel Zweigel
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Wishing the community a Happy and Healthy New Year
Warren & Muriel Zweigel with Councilwoman taylor
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And Straight Again! By Rabbi Label Lam
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stumbled upon a list of aphorisms and one-liners from one of the premier Baalei Musar-Masters of Ethical Teachings, Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv, also known as the Alter from Kelm. One phrase made me chuckle at first but I realized it wasn’t and couldn’t be a joke so I highlighted it and parked it in a file entitled, “more thought required”. The statement goes as follows: “Torah is divided into three portions; 1) Simplicity 2) Complexity 3) Simplicity!” That’s it! Get it!? Which one of these is not like the other? Two of the three are exactly the same! What are and why are there three parts when only two different ones are listed? A model for explanation may be found in the Rosh Chodesh Bentching, when prior to each new month we pause in synagogue to recite some prayers of hope. Amongst the handful of items we cry out for is that this month should be filled with: “fear of heaven”, and that it contain wealth and honor, and not have embarrassment and shame, and then at the end of the list again we ask for “fear of heaven”. Twice! Why is it mentioned twice on the same short list? The answer is given that there is a “fear of heaven” that comes before wealth and honor and before embarrassment and shame and there’s another brand of “fear of heaven” that comes after the experience of wealth and honor and embarrassment and shame. We find a similar pattern by the blowing of the Shofar. In order to have fulfilled the Mitzvah of the day one has to have heard a longish straight sound and some combo of broken sounds followed by a straight sound again. The pattern is straight-brokenstraight! Perhaps this is a key to unlocking the code of the Shofar’s simple and not so simple message. Every good thing in life begins with an almost naïve and yet beautiful simplicity. A child looks at his parents at first like the sun and the moon. His introduction to the Aleph and Beis are tinged with wonder and honey. A bride and groom stand as celebrities posing for pictures and generating song and dance wherever they go. All those pictures and memories are purposefully 30
preserved and remain on the mantelpiece of our minds. So too our relationship with HASHEM begins, as a New Year, bathed in hope and idealism. By the second week of school the sharpened number two pencil points are dulled and the knapsack is already lined with peanut butter and lost notes home from the teacher. After a period of time the awareness of ever emerging complexities begin to dominate the brain. The ocean that looked so pristine and inviting on the travel brochure grows darker and more dangerous as we wade deeper into the reality of the scene. The mother and father are not so perfect. The Rebbe’s halo has a stain. The Torah is hard to understand. Those relationships that seemed so natural at first require real work and commitment to maintain and to avoid going insane. “What’s going on here? Is this some kind of bad joke?” one may wonder. Welcome to the realm of the complex! If one stalls at this point, the lingering sense of frustration may yield to disappointment, disillusionment, and ultimately terminal cynicism and depression. In that place one cannot survive long, so there are only two choices. One natural approach is to drift backwards to the world of the childish, to “never-never land”, where all forms of escapism dominate However, when the movie is over and the thrill is gone the complex realities of life are still there staring even more intensely. The only healthy approach and admittedly the more difficult, is the one the Shofar urges desperately. Don’t stop moving! Live with hopeful anticipation of a mature simplicity that reconciles the profound complexities of life with its innocent beginnings. Is this not the paradigm of ultimate optimism for all cycles of life and psyches? So too we are encouraged to strive as King David (following the same pattern) directs us, “Hope to HASHEM, strengthen and fortify your heart, and hope to HASHEM!” Straight--------Broken-------and Straight Again! Reprinted with permission from www.torah.org COMMUNITY LINKS
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Links to the Vaad
Rabbi Doniel Neustadt Halachah Hotline 248-559-5005 x100 Kashruth Product Helpline 248-559-5005 x107 cordetroit@sbcglobal.net www.cordetroit.com
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KID'S T S E T CON KIDS - with your parents permission, enter your favorite recipe that you like to make and be one of 3 lucky winners of passes to the African Safari Wildlife Park! (see ad on page 57) All you need to do is think about your favorite yummy most scrumptious delicious food that you like to make and send in the recipe to Detroitlinks@gmail. com by September 22nd.
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KID’S CONTEST WINNING RECIPEs Delicious cheese cake Recipe • Two 8oz. containers of cream cheese (dairy or pareve) • ½ cup sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla • 2 eggs • one ready-made graham cracker pie crust
1. preheat oven to 350 degrees F. 2. combine cream cheese, sugar, vanilla and eggs. 3. Beat for ten minutes. 4. pour into graham cracker pie crust. 5. Bake for 45 minutes or until top is light brown and begins to crack.
submitted by Yakov Shapero, age 15 MRs. Tainsky’s coRn kugel Recipe • one 15 oz. can corn niblets (drained) • one 15 oz. can creamed corn • 4 eggs • scant 1/3 cup flour
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Zmanim זמנים מנחה מנחה גדולה גדולה
שקיעה שקיעה
נץ החמה
סו’’ז קריאת שמע
חצות חצות
Earliest Talit
Sunrise Sunrise
Sof Zman Shema
Midday Midday
Mincha Mincha Gedolah Gedolah
Sunset Sunset
Tzeit HaKochavim
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עלות השחר
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לוח זמני September 4 September 11 September 18 September 25 October 2
צאת הכוכבים 42 Min
All Zmanim are verified with www.ou.org
Meijer is including Yad Ezra in its Simply Give Program
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Purchase a Simply Give card for $10 at the check-out. Amount raised from card sales along with a donation from Meijer will result in a store credit that Yad Ezra will then use to purchase food and toiletries for client families.
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Women’s Shiurim Schedule September 2011 Day
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Sunday
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10:00 AM Mrs. Shira Smiles
$5
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Partners In Torah Study Hall
Parsha
Sunday September 11th
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@koshersales – Trustworthy advice for salespeople and managers that your grandmother would love. - Elliot Grossbard
Your best friend and worst enemy....the customer. H
ow would you describe what determines a person or business to be a customer? A newsstand owner might say one who comes and purchases a magazine or newspaper is a customer. A lawyer possibly will call a client who pays a retainer, a customer. A doctor would consider any of his/her patients to be customers. Dictionary.com loosely translates cus·to·mer as "a person who purchases something from another". It translates sale as - transfer of property for money. That's all it is, nothing more nothing less. Webster's for cus·tom·er however goes with: “one who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer” . Call me old school but Webster’s nailed it. Simply asked, what is the difference between a sale and a customer really? A sale is what I would term along with what the first translation deemed; basically someone steps up to the counter, buys a pack of gum, and you probably never see him again, let alone recall what they looked like as they left the store. Where a sale is just a purchase, a "customer" is someone who routinely comes back to you to buy the same product or services, or purchases other items from your line of products. But one thing is for certain, the coined adjective "repeat customer" is an oxymoron if I ever saw one. The fact that they come back for more, IS what makes them a customer. Sale = 1 purchase, customer = 2 or more ongoing purchases. With that niw determined, let us talk about what makes the customer; a loyal and profitable client. One word - Relationships. Jeffery Gitomer in his classic book Little Red Book of Selling says "People don't like to be sold, but they love to buy". This is likely true, but what about the people who need to purchase something out of necessity such as diesel fuel for their trucking company, batteries for their electronic store, plastic gloves for their medical office, or yes even office supplies for their business? I would like
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to go out on a limb to say that people that are buying items out of necessity are not doing so while singing Willie Armstrong's "It's a wonderful world." So is it possible to get decision makers that are buying these items or services out of necessity, to "love to buy" these things, let alone purchase from from you? Until someone can prove otherwise my answer is no. But what IS possible is getting your customer to love you. YOU are what you are really selling, YOU are the company you own or work for, YOU are the reason they come back for more, YOU, YOU, YOU..... not price, not freebies, not the taste of the cupcake, not smooth delivery, but YOU. By saying this I am by no means discounting any of the above mentioned, however all of it takes a back seat to your relationship with the customer. How you interact with them, how you service them, how you refer business their way. Harry Beckwith has a great and easy to read book called You, Inc. - "The art of selling yourself". In it he describes what an engineer mentioned in his speech in March 1997 at the Learning Annex. "I want to think I am your only client", he put it memorably. "So when you are in my area and you visit someone else, I want you to at least stop by and say hello." How many of us truly do that? There is too much pressure to run to the next meeting, or errand to run that we miss out on an opportunity to strengthen our relationship with the most important component in the company.....the customer. In previous @koshersales articles I mentioned that I rarely refer to our customers as "accounts", that it was too impersonal. Our Modus Operandi (Latin for "mode of operating" i.e. MO) at WeSupplyYou is
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The reason being is that yes it's great that your company is getting their ink, toner, paper, filing, and office supplies from us, however by having a relationship with the customer not only builds a wall of defense against competitors, it also makes doing business enjoyable. So the question is, how do you take something impersonal, and make it personal? You have to show that you care, and in order to do so, you actually have to care. And you can't fake caring, it has to be real, genuine. It is amazing how often I experience a saleperson who fails to make me believe that they honestly care about the consumer's decision and how it effects them. The average person though has an above average "fakeness radar". You can't fake your way to getting someone to become a customer, and you can't fake being real. But let's assume you care, (otherwise just stop reading) how do you convey that to your customer? If you care about someone, anyone, you want to naturally help them in anyway you can. When I first marketed WeSupplyYou LLC within our network of contacts I wanted customers and potential clients to feel that if there was anything they needed, whether we could supply it directly to them like office supplies, or even something like material for scarves, we wanted them to think of us regardless, we were to be their "go to guy", period. If they needed anything, they would come to us and we would invite them into our network of people and their connections. Our MO was "If you need it, We can supply it!". But I was so consumed in trying to be "the everything" for our clients that I was being unnatural. Recently someone I have a great deal of respect for pointed out to me that "in attempting to do everything, nothing is accomplished". So I took a step back and decided to focus on the company's direct products and services. By doing so I became more at ease and natural. With a true conviction of trying to help customers, I was helping them in more than the direct way of supplying them paper, toner and hanging file folders. I naturally started referring poeple from within our network of friends, collegues, and clientle to our customers in areas of business I was indirectly involved in. By doing this we were accomplishing two things; 1) We were referring someone I trusted to my client that helped them in that area of expertise 2) I was giving business to that contact and in essense paying it COMMUNITY LINKS
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forward....twice. Why are you in sales? And forget the limitless earnings of potential commissions, pretend everyone earned the same amount of income no matter the profession. Why do you do what you do? In sales there has to be more than the mighty dollar that motivates the salesperson. That feeling of satisfaction and rush of worthiness has to be rooted within the inner desire to help people. What I love, what I have always enjoyed about sales is the constant interaction of people both new and old contacts, hearing their stories, learning about them, and the potential of not knowing where this meeting would lead; but by far the biggest satisfaction and driving force for me is the accomplishment felt after coming through for someone, delivering on a promise, and generally helping them. Dale Carnegie THE original authority on sales and motivation, wrote in his classic book published originally in 1936 "How to win friends and influence people" : "You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you" There is one catch......you have to be real, otherwise you are wasting the time of your lost customer, and yourself.
Elliot Grossbard is CEO of WeSupplyYou LLC, a turnkey solution for office equipment and supplies. For more information on the products and services of WeSupplyYou LLC such as toner, paper, office supplies, janitorial supplies and furniture you can contact Elliot at elliot@wesupplyyou.com or call 800 425-3514. http://www.facebook.com/wesupplyyou @koshersale & @wesupplyyou http://www.linkedin.com/in/elliotgrossbard
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No Health Insurance? 46 Million Americans lack health insurance! Do You? Between five and ten percent of all Jewish households in our metro area are families without health insurance. Are you unable to access doctors, or buy medication? If you or someone you know can t afford health care, contact Project Chessed, the Jewish Family Service clinic without walls that connects the uninsured to volunteer providers.
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The Farm Fresh Market family wishes the entire community peace, prosperity and happiness for the year ahead!
Happy Rosh Hashana!
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Pick up your full Rosh Hashana menu today at Farm Fresh Market! Featuring challah, soups & starters, main courses and desserts.
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Treasure Hunt Let us Link you to your treasure at absolutely no charge! » Working refrigerator Must have professional transportation Call 347-522-6566 » Giving away bunk bed frame without mattresses, exersaucer, and infant car seat with base Call 248-557-3444 » 2 excersaucers, 24” TV, Rubbermaid desk & round white table Call Bashy – 248-789-8536
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Coming to NY/NJ? Prompt & reliable Shomer Shabbos car service available for pickups at airports, simcha halls, Lakewood, etc. Late night & early morning service available. Please call Harry Schonfeld 917-776-6260 European Facial, Face and Body Waxing. Angelina Rose, Licensed Experienced Esthetician. Please call for appointments 248-842-6802 T.D.M. Plumbing Co. - Commercial & Residential Total Plumbing Service Backflow Preventer Certifier - Free Estimates • Work Guaranteed • Licensed & Insured - Tony DeMarco Owner Master Plumber 248-477-7435 Need a Ride? Metro Detroit affordable rates Airport Service Local/Long Distance reliable-prompt-MDoT-insured call Ed Rapoport SmoothRide Car Service 248-804-2334 for specials/prices visit: www.smoothridecars.com Sarah L. Rosenzweig, LMSW, CAADC Individual and Family Therapy Addiction Recovery and Coaching 248-890-4453 Slrosenzweig@gmail.com 20-25% off retail for vitamins & nutritional supplements. Many product lines available including Nutrisupreme, Maxihealth. Call Lisa Cohen 248-613-1804
ADVERTISE YOUR SERVICE HERE! CLASSIFIEDS STARTING AS LOW AS $20 babysitting Babysitting slots available for coming school year beginning Sept. Small group near Yeshiva Gedola. Please call 248-968-5038. (Leave message if no answer)
job opportunity Att: HS girls or women: Looking for an inspiring exper? Become an Ateres leader for 30 minutes Shabbos afternoons. Secty also needed. Please call M. Buckwold 248-967-4742
Classes Ulpan Classes for Adults & children starting June 21-August 4. Choose from 1. Hebrew thru songs, 2. National bible contest preparation, 3. Cooking, 4. Hebrew classes For more info contact Libat at 248-996-9072 or libat6@gmail.com
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lost & found » Found: Black wool men’s long coat left by Ungar shiva home during winter. Hamilton & Hayes. Call 732-6104606 » Found: Remote Car key found on Sussex. Please call Sarah Wayntraub 248-967-3608 To include something you have lost or found, please e-mail detroitlinks@gmail.com
gemaChs » Costume jewelry for weddings/any occasion - call Shani at 248-752-3843 » Folding Tables & Chairs:Call Nechama Weingarden @ 248-557-3444 » Ladies Clothes: skirts, shirts, sweaters & Shabbos suits (sizes 4-14). Call 248-548-6771 for details. $1/article, all proceeds go to N’shei Chabad » Nebulizer machine: call 248-552-1989; leave a message if necessary » GPS:for info call Benny 248-619-6845 » Beautiful Clothing for women,children & infants. Please take! Call Mrs. Schwab @ 248-968-0588 » Tznius (modest) hospital gowns for maternity or hospitalization, preserving the patient’s dignity & modesty. Call Miriam at 248-548-6771 or email Amzalak@ yeshivanet. com. Confidentiality assured. » Tefillin & Gemara: Yaakov Gregg 248-967-4263. Tallis available at Beaumont Bikur Cholim » Kosher Pantry at Motts Children’s Hospital in AA on 8th floor near the chapel. Cabinet marked kosher w/lock box (code 0613) on the side. For volunteer opportunities please call 248-219-4500 » Bris Set w/embroidered k’vater pillow, pillow for Kisay Shel Eliyahu, baby yarmulke w/ribbon ties & Artscroll Bris Milah book. Call Hilda Borenstein 248-967-3502, or if no answer call Borenstein’s 248-967-3920
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Fresh salad, sandwiches, desserts and gluten free dishes now available 24/7 at U of M Hospital in the cafeteria! • Authentic Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Thai, Italian, Greek, Israeli, and Moroccan menus • Vegan and vegetarian menus • Gluten-free menus • Fresh seasonal produce — never any MSG or trans fats • Bris/Baby namings, bar/bat mitzvahs, sheva brachos, weddings, shiva dinners, corporate meals, Ann Arbor deliveries, traditional or themed Shabbat dinners, all special occasions or anything else you may need big or small.
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