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November 04, 1994 - Image 15

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1994-11-04

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Left:
Ilene and David Goldberg with
- 1,tig Apron Stein and friend
program.`'"" Man In for the

Below:
Daniel Rosenblum looks for
an answer from his mother
Elaine Rosenblum.

Tzedakatt
For Sunta

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JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER

Volunteer Ruth Berkley waits for
questions.

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hen Hilary Sinkoff went shopping for
her "family" on Sunday, she decided
they would eat nothing more than
peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
every day for lunch this week.
The 10-year-old and her friend,
Melissa Turbow, had a limited bud-
get to deal with since their "family"
had just lost their income due to job
cutbacks in the auto industry.
"I guess we will just have pasta
every day for dinner," Hilary mum-
bled, counting out the play money to
pay the $23.07 grocery bill. "Besides,
the chicken is too expensive."
The two, along with their class-
mates at Adat Shalom Synagogue's
Sunday school, learned what it is like
to be needy in the Detroit area and
the roles different Jewish agencies
play in helping meet those needs.
A daylong, area-wide teachers con-
ference shuttered most Detroit area
Sunday school programs Oct. 30, but
Adat Shalom's social action commit-
tee used the opportunity to teach the
children along with their parents.
"We didn't want them to miss a day
of learning," said Nancy Welber Barr,
an organizer of the Yad b'Yad event.
"And this fits well with the school's
theme of tzedakah this year."
Six agencies — Hebrew Free Loan,
Jewish Family Service, Jewish Voca-
tional Service, Yad Ezra, Jewish In-

formation and Refeikal Service, Re-
settlement Service and Jewish Home
for Aged — participated in the event.
The activities began with the chil-
dren receiving profiles of their "fami-
lies." The profiles, compilations of
actual cases that the agencies expe-
rienced in the past, included infor-
mation such as the amount of savings,
the state of the family car and the
health of certain family members.
After pairing the child/via with their

Students learn the
value of tzedakah.

parents, the fmily groups went from
agency to agency in search of the help
they needed to make it through the
week. They had to stick to a budget
while grocery shopping, getting their
camper fixed, finding a home for
grandma and seeking to improve their
employment situation.
Some grasped the idea of tzedakah
above and beyond what the organiz-
ers thought they would. Some chil-
dren who were adept at budgeting
their money tried to donate their sur-
plus to the various agencies.
"It bodes well for the program," said

Carol Kac7ander, a volunteer for JeW-
ish Information and Referral Service.
"This was the students who came to
give their money. It wasn't their par-
ents encouraging them."
"No one prepared us -fur +h is," Ati.
Kaczander said. "We didn't
what to do with the donations."
Other children volunteered their
time on the spot. Frieda Langnass of
the Jewish Home for Aged was sur-
prised to find her newest volunteer at
the program.
"One 9-year-old girl said she plans
to come to the home once a week from
now on to read to the elderly resi-
dents," she said. "It warms your
heart."
Rabbi Efry Spectre said the syna-
gogue plans to make Yad b'Yad an an
event.
"This was most worthwhile," he
said. "We were very happy with the
project. It was a drawing together of cr,
so many different aspects of the syn-
agogue." -
To Hilary Sinkoff, the program may
have a more profound effect, said her
mother, Teri. co
"I don't think she expected us to 2
come here today and lose our jobs," c,
Teri Sinkoff said. "But now she has z
some idea that others have it hard. I
think she will remember this les-
son."111
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