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32 December 7 • 2017 jn Oak Park-based Congregation Beth Shalom celebrated its second- annual holiday spectacular, Chanu-Con, Sunday, Nov. 19. The free event, planned by congregation member Beth Rodgers, featured a kosher food truck, live music and children's activities including a bounce house, candle dipping, finger painting and snow globe making and was enjoyed by people throughout the community. Chanu-Con teamed up with Yad Ezra, Metro Detroit's only kosher food bank, to accept nonper- ishable kosher food donations to help families in need. • faces & places jews d in the 13-year-old Benny Lerner of Huntington Woods plays the violin for the party goers. Ban Habib and Mazal Rabi, both from Windsor, explain their dishes for sale to Jan Wanetick of Southfield. Michelle Posner of Ferndale entertains her 11-month-old child Asher with a tiger puppet. Marla Schloss of West Bloomfield shows 10-year-old Megan Zelmanov, also of West Bloomfield, how to make a beeswax candle. PHOTOS BY JERRY ZOLYNSKY 8-year-old Maayan Kaplan of Huntington Woods looks at a Chanukah snow globe that 8-year-old Kaiya Jackie of West Bloomfield just made. 2-year-old Ilanit Kaplan and her mother, Gabriella, work on a holiday coloring. Both are from Huntington Woods. In October, the Jewish Community Relations Council/AJC hosted its annual lun- cheon for Detroit media. The program, an essential tool in ensuring Israel's per- spective continues to be shared locally, featured Yonah Bob, the intelligence, ter- rorism and legal analyst for the Jerusalem Post. The gathering included the publishers, vice presidents, editorial editors, anchors, reporters, news directors and producers from all of the area's print, television and radio outlets. Speaking on the heels of the Las Vegas attack, the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, Bob addressed "Confronting the Next Wave of Terror: The Age of Lone Wolves," and shared Israel's unique experience and its insights into defying the scourge of terror. For more than a decade, the annual media luncheon has brought Israel's story to the media through Israeli dignitaries and journalists, and is part of JCRC/AJC's ongoing efforts to help area reporters understand Israel and the situation in the Middle East, and to reinforce JCRC/AJC's role as the media relations agency of the Detroit Jewish community. The program was made possible through the gen- erous support of former JCRC officer Linda Finkel and her husband, Bob Finkel. • WDIV-4 Anchor Karen Drew, Fox 2 Anchor Taryn Asher, JCRC/AJC Assistant Director-Public Relations Beverly K. Phillips, Jerusalem Post Analyst Yonah Bob, JCRC/AJC Executive Director David Kurzmann and WXYZ-7 Anchor Malcolm Maddox visit before the program. Michigan Radio Anchor Doug Tribou and News Director Vincent Duffy chat with JCRC/AJC's David Kurzmann at the program. Featured Speaker Yonah Bob of the Jerusalem Post JCRC/AJC's David Kurzmann, WDIV Anchor Karen Drew, Editor Corey McIsaac, Anchor Kimberly Gill, News Director Kim Voet, JCRC/AJC's Beverly K. Phillips, WDIV Vice President and General Manager Marla Drutz and Producer Ro Coppola JCRC/AJC's David Kurzmann, WXYZ-7 Anchor Joanne Purtan, Editorial Director Chuck Stokes, Producer Tracy Wujack, JCRC/AJC's Beverly K. Phillips, WXYZ-7 Reporter Ann Marie LaFlamme, Producer Jodie Heiser and Futures Editor Dan Zacharek