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here will you be for the
holidays? is the ubiqui-
tous question of the
day.
If you're a college student, leagues
away from Aunt Shirley's, adrift from
familiar holiday traditions, way out of
"sniff range" of Grandma's special
brisket, what then?
College brings challenges to far-
flung freshmen and seniors alike, not
the least of which is finding a sense of
belonging and connection during the
High Holidays. Many area young
adults are learning first hand that ven-
turing forth for the holidays opens up
new worlds of community. Being
Jewish away from home is frequently
the next best thing to being there.
Aaron Fidler, now a senior at the
University of Pennsylvania, spent his
first Rosh HaShana at Penn in a huge
campus auditorium.
"I wasn't close with a lot of friends
yet, but my roommate was Jewish and
we went to services together. The ser-
vice was open to people in the whole
community, so not only were there
college students, but people from the
area as well.
"It had a nice feel to it, being part
of a congregation in another city."
Sophomore and junior years, Fidler
went home with school friends and
found himself in Jewish communities
that were "very open and welcoming."
He acknowledges his good fortune in
having lived in active Jewish commu-
nities, first in West Bloomfield, then
at a university with a high concentra-
tion of Jewish students and most
recently during a summer working in
New York City.
If all goes according to plan, Rosh
HaShana 5760 will find this finance
and information management major
in Manhattan. His college experiences
of worshipping away from home have
given him the confidence to test his
Jewish wings in new places. Fidler is
already planning on finding a congre-
gation and attending services on a
regular basis."
Freshman year, Brad Terebelo's par-
ents couldn't wait till Thanksgiving to
see their son, so they brought him
home for the New Year. For Terebelo,
an earth and planetary science and
English major at Washington
University in St. Louis, part of going
home means a big family dinner that
starts with his grandmother's gefilte
fish.
"It's the best," he says. "She says
that she can't die until someone learns
how to make her gefilte fish. So no
one is learning."
Terebelo will head home to
Franklin for Rosh HaShana this year,
but come Yom Kippur he will do as
he's done in the past — attend stu-
dent-led services at Hillel. "I don't feel
as much of a disconnection between
home and school when it comes to
Yom Kippur," he says. "We don't have
• too many traditions besides break fast
for Yom Kippur, so I don't miss home
too much.
"On Yom Kippur I read and I
sleep. It doesn't feel that unusual to
do that at school. [The holiday] is
introspective, so for me it's not that
hard to be away from home."
During her freshman year at
Brandeis, Arianna Gordon didn't miss
her family (she went to an aunt's
home in New Jersey) as much as she
missed the familiarity of the worship
services she had grown up with. "I
was prepared to be away from my
family," she recalls. "But what I wasn't
ready for was being away from our
traditions at Temple Israel. Every year
we go to the alternative family service.
It's relaxed and the songs are really
beautiful.
"I missed that special service at
temple.
From a spiritual standpoint, Yom
Kippur left Gordon with the yearning
for something more, as well. She
recalls that the Reform services on
campus were "the most horrible ser-
vices ... I was so disappointed. The
next day I went to a Conservative ser-
vice and it was fine ... A group of
friends and I went to Friendly's to
break fast.
This year, Gordon is planning
ahead. Though she will return home
to Huntington Hoods for Rosh .
HaShana, she began researching
area temples last spring while apply-
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