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Detroit's Jewish community plans
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n an unusual blending of the
major branches of Judaism,
three rabbis will lead 45 local
Orthodox, Conservative and
Reform high school juniors and
seniors to Poland and Israel next
spring.
"The unity aspect was emphasized"
on the March of the Living trip in
1997, said Trudy Weiss, the chair-
woman of the Detroit Teen
Poland/Israel Experience. "Based on
that experience, we can foresee some
discomfort between the kids," but she
added, that created an interest in
learning about the other denomina-
tions."
Said Weiss, "We need to be sure the
kids understand the commitment to
education, and also the need for sensi-
tivity with respect to the other
(Jewish) movements."
"It was an unbelievable coming
together of kids from different back-
grounds," said Temple Israel Rabbi
Paul YedWab, who was on the first
trip. "They still tell me that they get
together."
The 1999 March of the Living pro-
gram will begin in January,-when par-
ticipants take part in six Monday
night school classes to learn about pre-
Holocaust Polish history, the
Holocaust and Israel. The trip will fol-
low April 9-26.
Because this past summer, Detroit
sent 216 predominantly Conservative
and Reform kids to Israel on its Teen
Mission, Detroit is participating in
what is considered an off year for the
march. The program's main goal is
stressing unity among the three main
Jewish denominations. According to
Weiss, Detroit is the first city that has
all three denominations in a mixed
group.
The March of the Living program
began in 1988, intended to take place
every other year. Yedwab and Young
Israel of Oak Park Rabbi Steven Weil
created the Detroit trip two years ago.
In next year's March of the Living,

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only 3,000 teens from around the
world will participate, as opposed to
the 6,000 who go on even numbered
years. The teens meet in Poland to
march from the concentration camps
of Auschwitz to Birkenalr on Yom
Hashoah, Holocaust Memorial Day.
Their journey concludes in Israel.
"The participants will experience
both the Jewish people's destruction
when in Poland and seeing its rebuild-
ing in Israel," said Weil, who is one of
this year's trip leaders. "It takes special
men and women from the community
to relate the trip to various aspects of

Jewry

Rabbi Aaron Bergman of Beth
Abraham Hillel Moses and Rabbi
Sheila Goloboy of Temple Beth El also
will lead April's trip.
"It's my feeling that this is the
greatest hands-on way to connect
Jewish kids to the glorious past and
appreciate the profound loss of the
Holocaust," Weil said. "Last time, the
participants understood this."
The cost of the trip as set by the
international organization is $3,100.
The Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit will subsidize
$1,405 of that, and scholarships are
available as well.
Applications for the trip were
mailed to rabbis and educators
throughout the community last week-
end, according to Weiss.
The Detroit contingent will be
connecting with 15 teens from
Detroit's Partnership 2000 region of
the Central Galilee. That was the idea
of Federation executive vice president
Bob Aronson, Weil said, adding "his
objective was that we should view
them as an extension of ourselves."
Aside from the march, in Poland
the teenagers will visit Warsaw,
Krakow and Lublin, cities that were
once centers of Jewish life. They will
also visit the concentration camps of
Majdanek and Treblinka.
"The trip is not strictly a Holocaust
one, but it is certainly one part of it,"
Weiss said. "We are showing our
strength even after Hitler tried to
destroy us." ❑

