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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- 3) )5