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n Jan. 4, the Jewish News
published Devra
Wanetik's guest editorial,
"I'm An Israeli." Wanetik,
a 22-year-old Michigan native who
Stuart and Helene Weiss with Devra Wanetik
made aliyah in October, said she
had few friends in her new home of and Netanya Weiss at a kosher Thai restaurant
in Jerusalem.
Jerusalem and her job prospects
were slim. But she was happy to be
1 and took only two more years to gradu-
living in the Jewish homeland, and
1 ate from the University of Michigan:
determined to make a go of it.
"I figure there are a lot of people who I Since returning to Israel, she's started an
I immigrant group called Young Olim
died, and continue to die, so I can sit,
I United.
unemployed and lonely, in my
1 She recently asked her father for an
Jerusalem apartment," wrote Wanetik.
1 official copy of her birth certificate, so
These words struck a chord with
1 she too could become an Israeli citizen.
Smart and Helene Weiss of West
' "I felt like a hypocrite starting an organ-
Bloomfield, whose daughter Netanya,
ization for aim (immigrants) and not
also 21, has been living in Jerusalem
I being one," she said.
since fall. They decided to seek out the
Wanetik, a college journalism major,
article's author while they visited Israel.
1
is
finishing an internship at the
Wanetik attended Hillel Day School
Jerusalem
Post while working with
of Metropolitan Detroit in Farmington I
Hills and West Bloomfield High School I Birthright Israel, which provides free
while Weiss graduated from Southfield's 1 tours of Israel to young people from the
1 diaspora.
Yeshivat Akiva.
On Sept. 1, Wanetik will marry a fel-
"We asked Netanya to call — it
would have seemed strange for two mid- 1 low oleh she knew at Ohio State
1 University. Her two new friends are
dle-aged people who were complete
I planning a tichel party in honor of her
strangers to call to ask her out to din-
I engagement. In Orthodox tradition, a
ner. "
The Weisses took eight young women I tichel is a head scarf worn by women
I after marriage. Each guest at a tichel
to Rung Sit Ltd., a kosher Thai restau-
rant in Jerusalem. Wanetik, Netanya I party brings a new scarf for the engaged
Weiss, and Sara Tova Coolish, a young 1 woman and they learn different ways to
woman from Philadelphia, hit it off 1 tie them.
Now that Netanya has decided to set-
immediately.
I tle in Israel, her father said he's proud of
They soon called themselves "The
I his daughter — on one hand. "On the
Three Musketeers."
other, I'm sorry she's so far away.
"We're in different stages of learning,
"But when I look at all the kids —
but our values are the same," said
1
they're
so happy — I know they are
Netanya Weiss. 'And we talk about
making
the right decision." ❑
boys, marriage and stuff like that."
Weiss attended Bar-Ilan University in
Diana Lieberman,
Rehovot for her freshman year of college
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