PHOTO BY LINDA KAPLAN

PHOTO BY ANDR EA SOLOMON

Another custom observed
with enthusiasm by community
members is giving. BBYO
members and members of B'nai
B'rith Women joined to assem-
ble baskets for Yad Ezra, De-
troit's kosher food pantry. The
baskets first served as table cen-
terpieces at a luncheon. Many
Detroiters are putting together
centerpieces of non-perishable
foods and then donating the
centerpieces to Yad Ezra or the
Oakland County Food Bank.
It was a day when Amanda
Golsky, 3, the daughter of Marc
and Francie Golsky, and Brit-
tany Yaffa, 3, daughter of
Wendy and Brian Yaffa, played
with Jewish shapes in Faye
Friedman's Adat Shalom class-
room.
Sandy Zipser of Oak Park
found wheelchair-bound JARC
residents "dancing" to music at
the JCC.
Myrna Messenger, who
works in Mt. Clemens, looked
into Jewish life outside of De-
troit while at Congregation
Beth Tephilath Moses in Ma-
comb County.
"I've always been a west-
sider," Ms. Messenger said. "I
never even knew there was
Jewish life in Macomb
Top: The
County. "But here's
this synagogue that
Rothenberg
serves Jews from Lake
Family Club has
St. Clair and beyond."
been meeting
Zach, 8 months,
Gabe, 8, and Max
since 1932.
Neistein, 6, sons of
This time the
Amy and Howard
Neistein of West
family met at
Bloomfield, shared
the home of
part of their Shabbat
Morty and
preparations on film.
Lori Silverstein cap- Millie Feldman.
tured a different look
Bottom: Jaime
at life in the "Lion
Room" at Shaarey
Solomon, 5,
Zedek's Beth Hayeled
welcomes the
Nursery School open-
Shabbat by
house. There, class
members traced them- lighting the
selves on paper, then
candles.
painted and stuffed
and stapled their like-
nesses together. When
the parents walked into class,
the paper forms were sitting in
chairs around tables.
On another chair at another
table, Darchei Torah first-
grader Efrayim Britvan learned
with his father, Jerrold.