For Openers

Shabbat Shalom — And Mazel Toy, Too

their cell phones calling their families, this group, who
mong the latest group of
do not use phones on Shabbat, spent the time soaking
University of Michigan
in
the day's tone.
graduates were a few who
"I
just sat and absorbed the feeling of being at grad-
wore kippot under their
uation,"
Miller said. "I just looked around and
caps with Shabbat-appropriate attire
:
thought
about
my years at U-M."
beneath their gowns. They had
_After
the
ceremony,
Miller was among a group
attended a 7 a.m. Shabbat service at
whose
family
and
friends
joined together for
the U-M Hillel building before
Shabbat
lunch.
"Because
the
Orthodox communi-
trekking the two miles to Michigan
SHELLI
ty
in
Ann
Arbor
is
close,
students
usually either
Stadium in Ann Arbor for their April
LIEBMAN
get
together
to
prepare
Shabbat
lunch
or are
DORFMAN 27 graduation ceremony.
invited
out
by
families
in
the
community,"
Miller
In their minds was the pleasant
Staff Writer
said.
memory of Shabbat dinner with their
For graduation day, taking the initiative of for-
families at Hillel the night before,
mer
classmates Ami and Sarah Goldfein, "who
complete with maize and blue tablecloths. These stu-
planned
lunches for families of graduates the last
dents had joined together with those who attended
two
years,"
Miller and fellow graduate Adina
the regular weekly Orthodox or Conservative minyan
Newman,
21,
of Southfield arranged to use the
or Reform chavurah on campus.
U-M
Hillel
Building
to bring in a kosher lunch
Their family and friends stopped at the will-call
for
seven
families,
including
60 guests.
window on the way to their stadium seats, where a
."The
day
was
like
a
great
circle,"
Miller said.
non-Jewish woman escorted them to the stands with-
"We
started
at
Hillel
in
the
morning,
and after
out questioning the Shabbat law that prohibits carry-
graduation,
we
all
returnedthere,
to
the
place
ing (including an admission ticket).
that
had
been
the
center
of
our
Jewish
cultural
"It was a wonderful experience — all of us walking
life."
together. Then all of us graduates sat together in a
For Miller and others, Hillel "was our rallying
row," said Cheryl Miller, 21, of Southfield, a member
point,
our base, like it had been for our four years at
of the graduating class. While other students were on

New U-M
graduates
Dena Stein of
Pittsburgh and
Cheryl Miller of
Southfield.

school. It was the
first building I
went into when I
started U-M. I
went there my first
day, for lunch."
Graduation for
this group was the
culmination of
years of secular
study, achieved in
a place that
encourages continuation of religious commitment.
And as these young people marched together to
receive degrees in fields including education, history,
business and engineering, they also marched as proud
Jews. They were the graduates who, before wishing
one another, "Mazel toy," said, "Shabbat shalom." 0

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