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it was a great day of arts and
crafts, entertainment and food at
the IsraelFest.

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Elizabeth Applebaum
AppleTree Editor

Staff photos by Krista Husa

Above: Benjamin Havis, 9, of
Southfield climbs a "mountain."

Left: Goldie Abrin, 13, of Oak
Park pets a sheep.

Solly, 10, and
Daniel, 7,
Benaderet of
West Bloomfield
create sand
sculptures.

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illy ("That's L-I-L-L-Y," she politely
announces) Morrison, 4 1/2, of
Huntington Woods, and her
friend Rachel Spitzer, also 4 1 /2 , of
I Oak Park, didn't know exactly
what it's called, but they loved it.
"That climbing thing right there,"
Lilly said, pointing to the left.
"That is fun."
"I like that thing, too," Rachel
I added. "You get to slide down."
The thing, looming like a bright,
large balloon at the front of Temple
Emanu-El in Oak Park, was a vari-
ation on the moonwalk, an air-filled
plastic concoction where children
jump and climb and slide. It's soft
and bouncy, wherever you fall.
And in this case, the thing also
was representing a part of Israel, a
little piece of the mountainous
Golan Heights.
This past Sunday, men, women
and children came from throughout
metro Detroit to attend the IsraelFest
I in celebration of Israel's 52nd birth-
: day on May 10. Sponsored by
I the Jewish Federation of Metropoli-
j tan Detroit, the program gave visi-
tors a chance to experience Israel
I by stopping at stations paralleling

1 cities and regions of Israel. Other
I co-sponsors were Federation's
Neighborhood Project, the Jewish
Community Center and the Agency
for Jewish Education/Jewish Experi-
I ences For Families.
As people arrived, they were
handed "passports." The first stop
was a big white tent filled with arts
and crafts projects. You could
watch oil being made, complete
I with a catchy display featuring an
overflow of pimento-filled olives.
I You could taste the staple of the
Middle East: pita bread. You could
1 learn about archaeology by dig-
ging up Israeli Bazooka gum from
I a sand-filled pit. You could make a
necklace, where volunteer Fraya
Hirschberg of West Bloomfield
patiently helped you string on blue-
! and-white beads and a gold or sil-
ver Mogen David (star of David).
1 Jessica Grene, 10, of Oak
Park, gave thumbs-up to a project
that allowed children to layer vari-
I
colors of sand — from soft
pink to deep blue to a perky red
.
— in a glass bottle. "The jumping
I things [the moonwalks] are fun,
too," she added.

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