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Friday, March 23, 1984
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Akiva third grade teacher Retta London paints a rainbow on the face of second grader Tasha Bortman at the school's
Purim carnival Monday.
Photos by Benyas-Kaufman
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Flying globs of shaving
cream. Yelling. Running.
Hamantashen crunching.
Cheering. Pandemonium.
Purim was never cele-
brated with such frivolity as
students of Akiva Hebrew
Day School held their an-
nual Purim celebration
Monday. Carnival games,
shaving cream squirting,
face painting and a costume
contest were among the
highlights of the day's ac-
tivities.
Even the teachers and
administrator Joan Levi got
into the act, dressing in cos-
tume, Mrs. Levi decked out
in balloons and "antennae"
while assistant principal
Mary Jane Wall dressed as
a crayon.
A costume contest was
indicative of the times.
Gone were the Queen Es-
thers, hamantashen and
King Ahasueruses of the
past. The first prize winner
was sixth grader Alyssa
Guyer who portrayed rock
star Michael Jackson. Sec-
ond prize winner Elisheva
Schreiber, fifth grade, came
dressed as a Hershey kiss,
while first grader Joshua
Last chose to wear a
styrofoam head and a man's
suit. He took third prize.
Monday's celebration was
a continuation of the holi-
day observance that began
last week. On the Fast of
Esther, students in ninth-
11th grade joined a demon-
stration on behalf of Soviet
Jewish prisoner of con-
science Anatoly
Shcharansky at the South-
field Civic Center. The
school's principal, Rabbi
Sheldon Lopin, gave the
closing prayer at the
demonstration, and the
school was asked to partici-
pate in a letter writing
campaign for Shcharansky.
Nursery and kindergar-
ten students entertained
the residents of the Jewish
Home for Aged's Prentis
Manor facility in South-
field. The school's seniors
participated in the Jewish
Community Center's Purim
observance and visited the
adjacent Holocaust Memo-
rial Center.
On Sunday, Akiva stu-
dents and their families
joined for a family supper at
Cong. Bnai David. Elemen-
tary students and parents
were treated to a Purim
play by the day school's
first graders on Monday af-
ternoon.
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Third grader Daniel Yolkut strikes
a serious pose as he portrays
Mordecai during Akiva's Purim
costume contest.
Originality plus is the theme of
Akiva fourth grader Amy Sabbota,
left, who dressed up for the Akiva
costume contest as a pregnant lady,
while Elisheva Schreiber, a fifth
grader at Akiva, took second prize
for her Hershey kiss costume.
Third grader Randy Jerome bobs
for apples during the carnival
games session of the Akiva Purim.
celebration.