STAFF PHOTOS BY KRISTA HUSA
Chanukah celebration
highlights announcement
of World Unity Week.
Clockwise from top left:
Reid Fursmidt, 5, of Wiest Bloomfield holds a candle during the menorah lighting.
Cate Goldman, 4, of Bloomfield Township enjoys a doughnut at the Chai Center party.
Guests of the Chai Center celebration gathered outside the synagogue with flaming
Chanukah candles.
SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN
StaffWriter
efore lighting an outdoor menorah and the start of
an indoor party, 100 guests at a Dec. 12 Chanukah
celebration heard a mayoral proclamation.
"Bloomfield Hills Mayor John Davey called for the week of
Dec. 9 to be World Unity Week," says Rabbi Yochanan Polter
of the Birmingham Bloomfield Chai Center, where the event
took place. "It is a week during which we emphasize the
importance of unity"
While synagogue member Jerry Borsand of Bloomfield
Hills lit the menorah, the crowd shared in the mitzvah. "We
like to have people participate in the menorah lighting cere-
mony," the rabbi says. "So we felt by everyone holding their
own candle they are partaking in the ceremony, not just
watching." ❑
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