SHELL' LIEBMAN DORFMAN

StaffWriter

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well, often the next step
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another place.
That premise fueled a major addi-
tion to this year's women's seder spon-
sored by the Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit Women's
Campaign and Education
Department.
Participants celebrated the fourth
anniversary of the traditional evening
program by turning it into a two-
event, two-country happening.
"It hit me when I was trying to
think of a way to connect women in
our Partership 2000 region (in the
central Galilee in Israel) in a meaning-
ful project with women in our com-
munity," says Tanya Mazor-Posner,
director of Federation's Partnership
2000 program.
Her plan was to help organize a
women's seder in Israel, with Detroit's
Federation supplying materials and
assistance.
"We have been involved in some
Partnership 2000 projects in the
past," says Margo Lazar, Federation
Women's Department senior cam-
paign associate and organizer of this
year's seder. "But not on this level."
On March 13, 200 women in
Israel connected with Americans by
holding their own seder, joined by
Detroiters Carol Weintraub Fogel and
Sharon Lipton, Partnership 2000
liaisons. They took with them autobi-
ographies written by four local
women about the meaning and spiri-
tuality of Passover that were read dur-
ing the Israeli seder.
The theme for the seder, which
took place in Migdal HaEmek, was
ethnicity and multiculturalism; many
of the women who attended dressed
in clothing depicting their cultural
backgrounds.
On March 21, when more than
400 local women met at Adat Shalom
Synagogue for the Detroit counter-
part seder, they saw a videotape of the
Israeli seder.
A Hagaddah used at both events
had additional readings for women

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