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The Darkness
And The Light

hey're billing it as a moving rector of the Agency for Jewish
educational seminar, and Education, one of the trip's co-
it's bound to be. • sponsors. "This is for teen-agers
At the urging of Rabbi who want a very intense history
with the backdrop of what
Steven Weil of Young Israel
of Oak Park, the Jewish Fed- Jeff Kaye: happened in Europe."
In years past, between six
eration of Metropolitan De- "A distinct
trait is co-sponsoring the first Detroit and 10 metro Detroit teen- G= ,'
Detroit Teen Unity Mission flavor." agers have joined approxi-
mately 6 000 students from
to Poland and Israel.
The trip, from April 30 to May 44 countries for the annual March
14, is part of the international of the Living program. But there
March of the Living program that has never been a formal effort un-
takes students through the death til now to organize a local contin-
camps, synagogues, cemeteries gent.
Miriam Jaffa, a junior at North
and yeshivas of Poland and the
political, archeological and historic Farmington High School who par-
ticipated in last year's March of
landmarks of Israel.
`The reason we're choosing the the Living with 1,500 other B'nai
March of the Living program is B'rith Youth Organization teens, cam,
because of the impact it has," Rab- called the experience "amazing."
bi Weil explained. His experience "It's amazing to see that the
with the program goes back to his Jews came together and made it
years in New Jersey, where he su- past the Holocaust and we're still
pervised the educational compo- here, and we're still fighting, and
nent of the March. Fully 80 we're still staying strong. We have
percent of the participants used a country we can go to, so the
the experience as part of their col- Holocaust can never happen
lege application packages, he said. again," she said.
"Of course, it was emotional
"It's not a light tour for some-
one who wants a getaway," said
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Howard Gelberd, executive di-

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