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late, share a pas-
sion for Judaism, are co-
scholarship winners and
went to their prom
together this month.
Judith was president of
the United Synagogue
Posing before the prom:
Youth chapter at
JuditZ Horwitz and Eric
Congregation Beth Shalom Sirota.
for 1997-98, and Eric was
president of Central Region USY
by CRUSY.
(CRUSY). Horwitz served as CRUSY's
In his NCJW essay, he said his vis-
religious services coordinator.
its to the Treblinka concentration
The two Southfield teens were
camp in Poland and the Western Wall
individually chosen for top honors —
in Jerusalem moved him to "a level of
$1,000 college scholarships — in the
kavana (spirit) I never felt before."
recent National Council of Jewish
Thirty high school seniors applied
Women's Greater Detroit Section
for the NCJW 1999 Youth Awards,
Youth Awards competition.
which requires scholarship achieve-
Sirota is the first member of his
ment, formal Jewish education, partic-
family to be bar mitzvah. His parents
ipation in the secular and Jewish com-
and brother Alex emigrated from the
munity, and a personal essay explain-
Soviet Union in 1979. Eric was born
ing "How Does Judaism Affect Who I
here. As a student at Congregation
Am." Judges this year decided they
Beth Achim religious school and as a
would need two first prizes.
youth group leader he found "incredi-
Horwitz and Sirota met as ninth-
ble, intense experiences that have
graders at Birmingham Groves High
shaped who I am."
School in Beverly Hills in an advanced'
Sometimes, he noted in his NCJW
math class.
essay, his father suggests lunch after
They have been good friends ever
shul. Sirota gently reminds him he
since. Horwitz says they are "very effi-
will not drive on Shabbat.
cient and good study partners." They
Horwitz also became more obser-
were in many classes together and drove
vant following her bat mitzvah at
to Oakland University this year to take a
Congregation T'chiyah. She came
multi-variable calculus class.
from a kosher home, but informed
At Groves' prom this month, held
her mother that she wanted to observe
at the Roostertail in Detroit, they
kashrut outside their home as well.
were accompanied by Michael Cahn,
Her mother decided to share her strict
also a Groves senior, and Brooke
adherence.
Lipman, a junior at West Bloomfield
Both Horwitz and Sirota stay home
High School.
. with their families on Friday nights.
Sirota has been admitted to the
"My friends have learned that Friday
engineering school at the University of
nights are not open dates on my social
Michigan. He also plans to take
calendar," wrote Horwitz. "I have
Hebrew and Jewish history classes and
learned to field questions about why I
be active in U-M Hillel.
am never in school a full week in
Horowitz will study for a double
September and October, and I have
degree in New York City, in Jewish
perfected my summary of Rosh
history at the Jewish Theological
HaShana, Yom Kippur and Sukkot in
Seminary and music at Barnard
200 words or less."
College of Columbia University. She
Sirota offers his friends patient expla-
has studied piano privately for 10
nations of why "I don't eat Whoppers
years and has been the pianist for the
anymore, and I can't go our until the
Groves High School jazz band. I I

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sun has gone down on
Saturday."
Horwitz, a graduate of
Hillel Day School and an
outstanding student at tl-cle/
Midrasha Center for
Adult Jewish Studies, was
sponsored for the NCJW
award by the Agency for
Jewish Education. One of
her most gratifying activi-
ties is teaching bar and bat
mitzvah students at the
Grosse Pointe Jewish
Council Sunday School.
Sirota was sponsored