PH OTOS BY BI LL HANSEN
RUTH LITTMANN STAFF WRITER
Tik-ee-aw! Baruch Shalom Davidson, 11, welcomes the New Year.
Hundreds take part in a
New Year extravaganza.
Eorsh Eva Weiss, 11, gets her face painted by Peter Cooper of Oak Park.
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hat's green and cold and smells like apple
pie?
Answer: The slime at life's dead ends.
At a New Year party, tossed Sunday by
Jewish Experiences For Families, hundreds
of children entered a maze designed to show
the many twists and turns on the road of hu-
man existence.
The "Maze of Life" started with a High
Holiday exhibit of shofars, described as alarm
clocks awakening Jews to the New Year. Down
one path in the maze was a spice box, repre-
senting the sweetness of Shabbat. A different
route took children to a box of matzah, symbol-
izing Passover and freedom.
At each turning point in the maze of life, there was something
new to learn — even at the dead ends, where bowls of green, ap-
ple-pie-smelling slime indicated that it was time to execute an
about-face and head in a new direction.
Why the slime?
"If you reach dead ends in life, you have to have a sense of hu-
mor. You have to giggle and laugh and try again," says J EFF Di-
rector Sue Stettner.
The New Year party, called "Apples and Honey," was sponsored
by JEFF, a division of the Agency for Jewish Education, and The
Jewish News. The crowd packing the AJE building on 12 Mile Road
in Southfield dove into a myriad of activities. From shaking lulays
to making and blowing shofars, they warmed up for Rosh Hashanah,
Yom Kippur and Sukkot.
JEFF "CHEFFs" Mimi Markofsky and Elaine Lavetter taught
the Abraham girls — Shoshanah, 9, and Sharonah, 7 — how to