ever clergy are conducting," Glazier
said. "This year, we developed the
theme of 'Hidden Heroines.' It some-
what grew out of Sept. 11, and looking
at ordinary women in different ways,
doing extraordinary things."
Interspersed within the seder were

Congressman
David Bonior

"Any woman in Israel today is in the
position of being a heroine," said Carol
Weintraub Fogel of West Bloomfield,
one of the seder's two co-chairs.
Joining Fogel in conducting the
Women's Seder for 5762 were co-chair
Abbe Sherbin of West Bloomfield,
Cantor Lori Corrsin of
Temple Israel and Rabbi
Amy Bolton, who works
with Eilu v'Eilu (the Adult
Jewish Learning Project of
the Conservative
Movement), JEEEP (the
Jewish Early Education
Enhancement Project) and
the Jewish Hospice and
Chaplaincy Network.
This was the first
Women's Seder for Rayna
Kogan of West Bloomfield,
who said she enjoyed the
camaraderie and the chance
to meet new people. "I'm
really not a feminist," she
said, "but I'm always
searching for new insights
for my seder."
4.
Beth Contorer of
Rabbi Amy Bolton and Cantor Lori Corrsin lead
Huntington Woods, at her
Federation's Women's Seder.
second Federation Women's
Seder, attended the event
the stories of Judy Feld Carr, a
with her family, including her mother,
Canadian-born musicologist who
Susan Katkowslcy, sister, Lauren
secretly rescued more than 3,000 Jews
Katkowsky, both of Huntington
from Syria; Gertrude Belle Elion,
Woods, and grandmother, Ruth Elson
Nobel Prize-winning chemist whose
of Southfield.
work was critical to the development of
"I love the women's Haggadah,"
AZT, the first effective treatment for
Contorer said. "I like the positive ener-
AIDS; and several other "Hidden
gy, seeing all the women in the com-
Heroines" from North America and
munity here. And I'm excited to be
Israel.
here with my family."

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Wishing you Joy & Happiness

at Passover and Always!

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Leslee Magidson, Gail Burton and Rivka Latinsky, all employees of the Oak Park
Jewish Community Center, follow Cantor Lori Corrsin's directions for hand gestures
to accompany Kadeish Ur'chatz, the order of the seder.

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