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KRISTA HUSA Photographer

hildren, parents and grandpar-
ents celebrated Simchat Torah
with readings, song and pro-
cessional Monday night.
The holiday marks the close of the
year's Torah-reading cycle. So the
Torah readings included the final
chapter of Deuteronomy, VZot Ha-
Barchah, and the first chapter of
Genesis, Bereshit.
Preceding the readings was a passing

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1998

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of the Five Books of Moses through
three generations of the Schelberg fam-
ily: Edythe and Herbert Schelberg;
daughter-in-law and son Marilyn and
Jim Schelberg and children Jonathan
and David; and daughter and son-in-
law Jane Schelberg and Steven Miller
and son Andrew Schelberg-Miller.
Rabbi Harold Loss delivered a story
sermon. The traditional processional
around the sanctuary with the Torah

scrolls, and plenty of waving of paper
Simchat Torah flags, followed.
Afterward, each child received a
taffy apple, symbolic of the sweetness
of studying Torah. The apples were the
gift of Carole and Melvin Kaftan and
family.
"Our kids had a lot of fun, especial-
ly marching around waving their flags,"
said West Bloomfield's 14chael
Gendelman, who attendt'sit with his

wife, Suzanne, their daughter, Jennifer,
3, and their two sons, Joshua, 5, and
Samuel, two months.
Joshua, a Temple Israel Religious 111-4
School kindergartener, and Jennifer,
in the nursery school, were well
aware of the Jewishness of the occa-
sion, Gendelman said. "They feel
quite comfortable around the rabbis,
who spend a lot of time with the
kids in class," he said. El'

