Appletree

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JCC celebrates
Tu b'Shevat with
multi-dimensional
program.

SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN Staff Writer

BILL HANSEN Photographer

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2/1
2002

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Sunda.y was Tu b'Shevat day at the JCC,"
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says Katie Marcus, program coordinator
of the Jewish Community Center of
Metropolitan Detroit Jewish Life and Learning
Department. "We wanted to hold a concert, and a seder was .
already booked, so we added a kids' program and connected
the three."
At the West Bloomfield JCC, the afternoon of Jan. 27 began
with a Tu b'Shevat seder, leading to a paper-making and recy-
cling education project for children, followed by a performance
by musician-composer Craig Taubman for more than 500 con-
cert-goers.
"Some people spent the day at the Center, going to every-
thing," Marcus says.
Participants were able to learn about Tu b'Shevat — the New
Year of the Trees — at the seder sponsored by the JCC,
Michigan Coalition on Environment and Jewish Life
(MICOEJL), Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit's
Young Adult Division and Young Adult Shabbat Services group,
Hillel of Metro Detroit and B'nai B'rith Leadership Network.
The paper-making project was sponsored by the JCC,
MICOEJL and the Sarah and Irving Pitt Child Development
Center. The Craig 'N Co. concert, which included youth singers
from Temple Kol Ami, was sponsored by the supporters of the
Julius Chajes/Encore Series. ❑

Clockwise from top:
Sarah Berendon, 10, of West Bloomfield claps with the crowd at the
Craig Taubman concert.

Gary Hollander of Farmington Hills makes paper with his son
Matthew, 4.

Singer Craig Taubman leads the group in song.

Julia Pais of Southfield gives her son Nadav Pais-Greenapple, 3, a taste of grape juice
at the Tu b'Shevat seder.

Beth Greenapple plays guitar and sings with seder participants.