Special Report: Dayenu

ISRAEL

JCCouncil-sponsored solidarity and memorial
gathering draws 400 people to Adat Shalom.

HARRY KIRSBAUM
Staff Writer

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ne by one, they strode across
the Adat Shalom Synagogue
bimah Monday afternoon,
lighting a candle and calling
out a name.
Shultz Abramovitch. Avraham
Beckerman. Andre Fried. Amiram
Hamami. Dvora Karim . . . Forty-six
names — Israelis killed in terrorist ,
attacks during Passover.
The solemn service, organized in 24
hours, drew concerned Jews to the
Farmington Hills synagogue via phone
calls, e-mail messages and radio

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reports, said David Gad-Harf, execu- -
tive director of the Jewish Community
Council of Metropolitan Detroit.
"It was necessary to bring the Jewish
community together and give us all a
sense of solidarity — and to send that
message to the community at large,"
Gad-Harf said. "The intent was to let
everyone know that the Detroit Jewish
community is behind Israel."
The service included prayers for heal-
ing for the many who have been hurt
or traumatized by terror.
Israel needs to know that the diaspora
stands with her, said JCCouncil President
Ann Zousmer to a crowd of about 400.
"We mourn for the innocent victims
of suicide bombings that target the
young, the unsuspecting. We mourn the

escalation of terrorism that robs us of
hope and serves as deterrent to peace.
"We mourn the state of siege that
Israel finds itself in and the futility of
trying to reason with people who have
so little respect for human life," she said.
Recounting Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon's Sunday branding of Palestinian
leader Yasser Arafat as "the enemy of the
entire free world," she said: "Arafat has
placed Israel in an untenable situation
and we, as Americans and as Jews, can
recognize that the use of suicide
bombers, strapped in dynamite, readily
choosing death, cannot lead to peace."
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit President Lawrence Jackier

STANDING WITH ISRAEL on page 18

Clockwise
from top left:

Susan Averbuch
vf Commerce
listens intently
to the prayer
program.

Laura Miller
of West
Bloomfield sheds
a tear for Israeli
victims of terror.

Irving
Nusbaum of
Franklin lights
a memorial
candle.

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