W

orking with painstaking care,
Barbra Tunick of Farmington Hills
traced an ivy band around an
otherwise unadorned ceramic cup
at You're Fired, a paint-your-own ceramics studio
on The Boardwalk in West Bloomfield.
"I made the most pathetic seder plate before
so this should complete the ensemble," chuckled
Tunick, bringing her face within inches of her
newest creation, a version of Miriam's Cup that
she plans to use at her next seder. "Hopefully,
this will turn out to be something that I will be
able to use for years. Or at least until I break it."
Tunick was one of 65 women who crowded
around tables in the pottery store to take part in
a pre-seder brunch the Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit's Young Adult Division
threw at You're Fired on Feb. 25. By giving
young women the chance to socialize while
creating their own seder plates, matzah platters
and Miriam's cups, the co-sponsoring Women's
Campaign and Education Department hoped to
spark interest in a community-wide Women's
Seder held N'larch 21 at Adat Shalom Synagogue.

"The community seder is really a chance for women to take an
active role at Passover and take back some ideas for their own
seder at home," said Women's Seder associate chair Carol
Weintraub Fogel, as women all around her dipped different kinds
of brushes into paint pots to create designs that ranged from frilly
flowers to geometric shapes.
Amy Mintz was interested in completing a collection of hand-
made items that already grace her mother's Passover table. She
picked a matzah platter on which she drew a pitcher and flowers.
"Every year, my mom still whips out the seder plate that I made
when I was in Temple Beth El Nursery School," said Mintz, 26, an
art teacher in the Southfield Schools. "I think now, 20 some years
later, I will make something different."
— Jill Davidson Sklar

8 • APRIL 2001 • STYLE AT EHE JN

