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Brooke Lipman, 19, also of West
Bloomfield and a sophomore at
Indiana University in Bloomington,
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for Yom Kippur this year.
"Academically, it's hard for me to go
home,” she says. "But religiously it's
hard for me not to."

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Still other students find the holidays a
time of reflection, both pulling apart
and a coming together, of their sense
of being Jewish.
Olivia Ambrogio, 20, of Grosse
Pointe, a senior at Oberlin College in
Ohio, is candid about her ambiva-
lence toward the holidays and her reli-
gion.
"I don't know yet if I'm celebrating
the holidays this year," Ambrogio
says. Hillel services are not an option,
she adds, because "I'm not interested
in starting the religious option I never
had at home."
Her mother, not her father, is
Jewish. Her mother's mother is a
Holocaust survivor.
Ambrogio says she has fond memo-
ries of the holidays at home, especially
as a time when her parents' close
friends, Jewish and non-Jewish, gath-
ered.
Last year, Ambrogio had a big take-
home exam over the Rosh Hashanah
weekend. "I finished it before sun-
down," she says, "and shared apples

and honey, for sweetness in the new
year, with secular friends."
A recent graduate of the University
of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario,
Canada, Erica Botner, 23, says she
discovered the meaning of a Jewish
community since leaving home and
coming to work in the Detroit area.
Botner, who grew up in a small
Jewish community, has been a facilita-
tor in the challenge program at Camp
Tamarack in Ortonville.
She is celebrating the holiday this
year with a good friend and his family
in Farmington Hills. "It's very special
to be part of a religion and have a
shared history, and so much in com-
mon," Botner says. "That's what's
important."
"The holidays away from home are
a little sad and exciting," concludes
Stacey Gross, "because we're starting
something new with our friends." Li

Because it is a commuter campus,
Wayne State University's Hillel does
not hold services. However, the
University of Michigan Hillel holds
Reform, Conservative, Orthodox and
Humanistic Judaism services during
the holidays. Hillel Executive Director
Michael Brooks says that they serve
3,000-4,000 students.
A student with a U-M or Eastern
Michigan University student ID card
can pick up free tickets in advance at
Hillel. For information, call Hillel,
(734) 769-0500.