16 Friday, March 23, 1984 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS E11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 And a good time was had by all B'nai B'rith CITY-WIDE DANCE 1111111111•1111 Sat., April 14, 9:00 p.m.-12:30 a.m. --- Adat Shalom 29901 Middlebelt Rd. 11111111110M with THE FENBY-CARR BAND Modern Ballroom Dancing $5.00 per person in advance $Z.00 at the door For info and ticket sales B'nai B'rith B'nai B'rith Women 552-8177 552-8150 25835 Southfield Rd., Sfld. MI 48075 E l 111111 1 1111111111 11 1111111111 1 1111111111 11 117. 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 OFFERS THE FINEST IN CITIZEN WATCHES BY HEIDI PRESS Local News Editor 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. OCITIZEN KNOWN BY THE COMPANY WE KEEP AT T.H. GRANT , c. ira 1 It 111010;44,s &T11, 31313 Northwestern • Farmington Hills 851-7333 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.