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Bit by bit the YAD crowd
got into the act of creating —
trading stories and colorful
chips of tile and glass as they
worked.
Jason Sobel, who lives in
Ypsilanti and is in his third
year of medical residency at St.
Joseph-Mercy in Ann Arbor,
learned of the YAD event on
the Internet. Although initially
hesitant to get involved in an
evening of crafts, he told him-
self, "What the heck, I'll go
out and do it. I'm tired of not
knowing Jewish people."

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Objects Of The Spirit

The melding of arts and Jewish
identity was the basis for
Avoda: Objects of the Spirit, a
Jewish educational organization
whose mission is to use the
arts-making experience to
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help young adults connect to
Artist Gail Kaplan shown with, clockwise from
their own Jewish lives.
left, a matzah holder, etrog box, candle holder
Avoda focuses on reaching
and painted Lucite dreidl, projects she designed
16-24-year-olds, a group,
for students at Hillel Day School. "Ifyou make
research has shown, is much
your own candlesticks, you'll want to light
in need of meaningful experi-
them," she says.
ences to connect them to
Jewish tradition.
Another might bead a wineglass to be
Explains Debbie Krivoy, Avoda's
used for Kiddush.
education director: "There are a lot of
Speaking from her office in
people who don't learn through text
alone. The idea of giving people a new Manhattan, Krivoy told how one
young man made a keepsake box.
way of connection to Judaism was a
"He decorated it beautifully on the
really new concept.
outside with paint and beads. He lined
"College students are living on their
the inside with velvet and placed
own, many for the first time in their
inside the box a key from the pile of
lives. They are forming meaningful rela-
art supplies.
tionships. These are powerful changes
"He offered us an eloquent descrip-
that will ultimately shape that person's
tion of what the word 'key' meant to
Jewish identity, and the idea of relating
him. He spoke about unlocking doors.
ritual object-making to those milestone
He spoke about how his family had
events is a very powerful bridge."
been the key in his life, that he would-
Co-founded by Manhattan artists
n't have joined a Jewish student organ-
Tobi Kahn and Nessa Rappaport,
ization if not for them.
along with Jewish activist Carol
"He transformed a plain wooden
Spinner, Avoda brings its programs to
box into a meaningful object that per-
college campuses and includes an edu-
sonified a lot of the emotional, intel-
cational component. Since its begin-
lectual and spiritual issues that he was
nings in 1999, Avoda has involved
dealing with in his life."
more than 3,000 young people.
The program's directors engage stu-
dents in discussions on core themes —
personal space, emerging identity, reflect- Judaica For The Kids
What Avoda's program does for college
ing on one's path in life when making
students, Gail Rosenbloom Kaplan has
plans. "We encourage students to think
done for her children's classmates at Hillel
about those themes and connect Jewish
Day School of Metropolitan Detroit.
rituals to [them]," says Krivoy.
Using craft projects, the West
One student might connect the idea
of personal space and Jewish ritual and Bloomfield artist involves the entire
grade in the arts and Judaism.
make a mezuzah from Avoda's wealth
Kaplan yearly projects were motivated
of supplies — found objects such as
shells, wire, stones, vessels and fabrics.
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