Focusing on ourselves:
Six Days To Remember
PHIL JACOBS EDITOR
dam Marsch was the "abba" this
ing challah for Shabbat, learning Talmud,
Debbie Schultz, helped select the photos
day. It didn't matter that he was
running to make the religious school car-
and design this keepsake edition.
3 years old. It didn't matter
pool or a trip to a bakery, it's something we
that he was still too young to
should never overlook for its raw beauty
its contributors. This was not a contest.
know all of the words to the
and truth.
There were no "losers." There were many
Kiddush. On this day in
Six Days In October happened Oct. 23 -
Faye Friedman's Adat Shalom Nursery
28, 1994. It was an opportunity for Detroit
We offer it to you as a labor of love from
other worthy reflections in addition to those
selected for the section, and the Jewish
News is grateful to
School class, he sang the
everyone who took
prayers with a Kiddush
cup held high and with a
look of pride that Ms.
Friedman couldn't resist.
"They get so excited
when it is their turn," Ms.
Friedman said. "They
come in on Friday and
they instantly know it's
soon to be Shabbat. They
want to know who is go-
ing to be the eema
Debbie
Schultz,
Robyn Katz
and Phil
Jacobs of The
the time and energy
Jewish News
staff sort
for the generations.
through the
many Six
Days In
October
photographs.
able to see part of
happy thing that goes on. If you wanted to
Perry Drug Stores donated 1,000 dispos-
Adam's face was just so sweet, I had to
institutions. Many others used their own
have a picture of it." (See front cover.)
film and own cameras to capture their pho-
tographs. Jewish News Associate Publisher
Arthur Horwitz, Jewish News photographer
Glenn Triest and Birmingham photograph-
Oak Park, Huntington Woods, Southfield
er Linda Solomon helped in the planning
or beyond, there are thousands of quiet,
and conception of the project.
this Jewish community. Whether it's mak-
50 photographs into
signed them, they are representative of
school and after-school religious
personal moments that reflect the life of
We've divided some
moments they feel Jewish.
Jewish News, this was one way to do it.
Each day, whether in West Bloomfield.
your life.
necessarily taken on the days we've as-
able flash cameras for distribution to day-
Marsch of West Bloomfield.
Pick it up. You're li-
Jews to define, on film, themselves and the
tell a story about six days in October for the
Adam is the son of Steven and Michelle
Keep this around
the photos weren't
(mother), who is going to
"It never gets old for them. It's a real
pen.
six days. Though
0
6-
be the abba (father).
to make this hap-
Mr. Triest, along with the Jewish News
design staff of art director Robyn Katz and
what happens on a day-to-day basis in our
community.
This day started with a simcha. The crowd
was a happy one for morning services at Con-
gregation Mogan Avraham, the synagogue lo-
cated within Yeshiva Beth Yehuda.
On this day, 8-day-old Baruch Shaul Firth
entered into and fulfilled a covenant that
Abraham, himself, made with God. Here, in
the arms of his great-uncle Dr. Harvey
Lefkowitz and under the watchful eye of Rab-
bi Dov Loketch, little Baruch was welcomed