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New Year
At Sea

Finding your faith
thousands of miles
from home.

DEANNA SILVER
JACOBSON as told to
DEBRA B. DARVICK
Special to the Jewish News

4 MRS. JACK EPSTEIN

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SCOTT, SALLY, JENNIFER, ZACHARY & ISAAC BAKER

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Rosh HaShana

MARK & MARLA

A Very Happy and Healthy
New Year to All Our
Friends and Family.

SAM & MINNIE BERMAN

May the New Year Uring
To All our Friends
and Family - [Health.
Joy, Uresperity
and Everything
Goad In life.

111 any things made
Rosh HaShana
different that
year, but the
biggest difference was perform-
ing tashlich by dropping my
bread crumbs, crusty symbols of
the year's past sins, into the inky
darkness of the East China Sea.
I was so high up on the sun
deck that I lost sight of them sec-
onds after they fell from my out-
stretched hand. The ship's
whistle bellowed low and loud.
It is a good enough substitute for
the shofar I didn't hear. Rosh
HaShana had fallen on Shabbat,
traditionally a day when the
ram's horn is not blown. Just as
well since we couldn't find one
anyway.
Bread crumbs and sins cast
away, we began to disburse.
Then Alisa, a student from Mex-
ico, says quietly to someone
holding a siddur, "Can you help
me find the Kaddish?" Those of
us left on the deck stop in our
tracks.
One of the biggest reserva-
tions I'd had after learning I'd
been accepted into the Universi-
ty of Pittsburgh's Semester at Sea
was the realization that I would
be spending Rosh HaShana and
Yom Kippur away from my fam-
ily for the first time in my life. I
wouldn't hear the cantor's famil-
iar High Holiday melodies or be
with my loved ones for our fami-
ly's legendary holiday meals.
I didn't even know if I would
be with other Jews at all; it was
quite possible that I would mark
the Jewish New Year in private,
by myself
But all my friends and family
said holiday homesickness wasn t
reason enough to miss an oppor-
tunity of a lifetime. "Go," my

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RAY & SHIRLEY ABRAMS

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36 Detroit Jewish News

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