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owing under
the weight of
bags stuffed
with toys and
clothes, the two 10-
year-olds staggered
into Adat Shalom
Synagogue for He-
brew class Monday.
On their way inside,
they added the sacks
to the mountain of
goods destined for the
Society of St. Vincent
De Paul, which lost
$1 million in dona-
tions in last Friday's
evening blaze.
"It's a mitzvah,"
Scott Marsch said
simply. "As we get
older, we keep giving
toys away."
The act of giving Scott Marsch and Michael Rudy haul in goods
was nothing new for at Adat Shalom.
Michael Rudy, either.
Ms. Welber Barr arranged for
In his mitzvah class at Adat
Shalom, Michael said, he was in a St. Vincent De Paul truck to be
charge of painting posters ad- at Adat Shalom Monday and
Tuesday afternoons, during He-
vertising a toy-collection drive.
The fire that ripped through brew class hours. In two days, the
St. Vincent De Paul's warehouse synagogue had collected about
on Gratiot Avenue in Detroit was 200 bags and boxes of clothing
apparently started by a space and household goods, including
heater that was inadvertently left a bicycle.
Parents who dropped off their
on. The block-long building, the
main storage facility of the children at classes either threw
Catholic mission, was reduced to their goods onto the truck or
brought them inside the syna-
cinders.
At Shabbat services Saturday gogue.
Brenda Felsenfeld of Farm-
morning, Adat Shalom Rabbi
Efry Spectre talked of Chanukah ington Hills got there early and
and the need for families to re- hauled in. the bags herself. Her
new their faith in each other and 9-year-old son, she said, "knows
we're big on Toys for Tots," a sea-
in the larger community.
The devastation to the fami- sonal collection drive. "He knew
lies served by St. Vincent De exactly what we were doing."
"I think it's good for them to re-
Paul, he told congregants, was
the kind of crisis that demanded alize not everybody has a shirt on
his back and a coat to keep warm
action.
"Our tradition is filled with at night," Ms. Felsenfeld said.
Elise Levinson of Huntington
this kind of outreach," Rabbi
Spectre said. "We acted on it im- Woods dropped off her two sons
mediately. There was no prob- at the entrance of Adat Shalom
and then began emptying her
lem, no red tape."
Nancy Welber Barr, chair- van of bags. She had six in all.
"When this happened, it was
person of Adat Shalom's social-
action committee, passed out the right time to pass things
200 fliers at a Chanukah pro- along," she said. "The synagogue
gram Sunday asking parents really reaches out to the com-
and children to help out in the munity at large. It helps out
wake of the fire. She also paid a throughout the year, no matter
visit to every classroom in the your faith or background."
Even Rabbi Daniel Nevins got
building to make the announce-
in the act, parting with an old
ment.
"Teachers talk about tzedakah blue blazer he stuffed into a bag
and its importance. This is an act with other clothes.
Ann Wegrzynowicz, daughter
of lovingkindness, and it's very
important for children to under- of St. Vincent's director of opera-
stand we reach out to the entire t,ions, Stanley Wegrzynowicz, took
community. We're rededicating the week off from her regular job
ourselves to what it means to be to man the phones and help reor-
ganize the disoriented staff.
Jewish," she said.