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metro Detroit April 9-16 for a
mifgash, or getting-acquainted
"encounter." They'll learn about the
Jewish community and life in
Michigan while meeting local teens
who are signed up for the mission.
The two groups will get to know
each other and make plans to keep in
touch before reconvening this sum-
mer.
While here, the Israeli teens will
visit the University of Michigan,
attend Hebrew high school programs,
and tour Detroit's Museum of African
American History and West
Bloomfield's Holocaust Memorial
Center. Sightseeing will include the
Fleischman Apartments, the Jewish
Community Center, the Detroit
Science Center, Great Lakes Crossing
and Greenfield Village.
The Israeli visitors will attend the
Sheba Choir concert on April 9 at
Congregation Shaarey Zedek and con-
dude their trip with a Havdala cere-•
mony and ice skating party. The visi-
tors will stay with local families and
attend high school with their host
teens.
"I hope to host a student," said
Alissa Danzig of Temple Beth El. "I
love meeting new people, especially
from other countries. I find it very
fun and interesting to learn about
people's culture. I love learning about
new experiences."
To prepare local teens for the trip,
the congregational high schools are
holdirig pre-trip orientations led by
rabbis who will be on the mission.
Adat Shalom Rabbi Daniel Nevins
said his goal is to provide essential trip
information in hopes of inspiring a
deeper experience. He said he hopes
to shape group identity and create
pre-trip contact among Israeli and
Michigan teens.
"I enjoy getting to know the teens
in an informal and in-depth setting,"
Rabbi Nevins said. "The people, the
land and the history of Israel are
inspiring and challenging to the iden-
tity of any Jew."
He expects the impact of visiting
Israel will be profound on the teen
travelers.."Visiting with a group of
their peers and with rabbis — my
experience is that, within teens, some-
thing clicks and they feel they're a part
of something much larger that they
had ever known."
"The educational sessions make me
so excited about the trip," said Adat
Shalom's Robyn King, who noted that
mission participants like herself had
learned about the Western Wall on
Teens
CD-ROM.
Temple Beth El's Rabbi David
Castiglione educates his students on
the history of Israel — both biblical
and current times. He covers political
dynamics, cultural and diaspora issues,
and what it means to be Jewish in
Israel. He also teaches basic Hebrew
(enough to "get around").
"I am very indebted to the Jewish
Federation and the Jewish community
at large within Detroit to enable the
students to go on such a trip," Rabbi
Castiglione said.
He added, "The trip gives the ability
to grow the next generation of the
Jewish community not only within the
synagogue but across synagogue lines."
The buses will caravan, as well as
create individual itineraries. The trav-
elers will have a variety of experiences
— from hiking in the desert, rap-
pelling down a mountain and riding a
camel, to going on a dig, exploring
Jerusalem's Old City and staying in a
Bedouin tent. A Jeep ride in the
Golan, Druze hospitality, visiting the
Knesset and Mount Herzl, and enjoy-
ing Eilat also are on tap.
"I am looking forward to seeing the
sunrise at Masada, the Wall, the Dead
Sea and meeting new people," said
Adat Shalom's David Boorstein.
Trip sponsors are the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit,
Federation's Alliance for Jewish
Education, the Agency for Jewish
Education, the Jewish News and local
congregations.
"I know I am going to have an
amazing time," said Temple Beth El's
Alissa Danzig. "I will have wonderful
experiences and memories. I always
wanted to go to Israel. I am so excited
about going." ❑
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Borders participating in the fund-rais-
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Novi, Ann Arbor-Arborland,
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For coupons, call BBYO, (248)
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