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From Hillel,
From The Heart

Students will bring holiday happiness to the less fortunate.

ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM
AppleTree Editor

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his project is more than a little something,
though many of the participants are small
children themselves.
Just before Thanksgiving, kindergartners
at Hillel Day SChool of Metropolitan Detroit were
busy preparing holiday cards, students throughout the
school were buying gifts while staff members put their
finishing touches on plans for "One Night of
Chanukah" — a program to benefit children through-
out metro Detroit.
For five days, from Monday, Dec. 2, through Friday,
Dec. 6, Hillel is collecting presents in the school lobby
to give to children in need. Each grade is participating
by bringing in a wrapped gift, marked for the appro-
priate age and sex.
The presents will be given to one of eight (one for
each night of Chanukah, of course) local agencies,
including Lighthouse, Children's Hospital of Michigan,

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Beaumont Hospital of Royal Oak, Pontiac Rescue
Mission, Salvation Army, Orchards Children's Services
in Southfield, HAVEN and Jewish Resettlement
Service. This is the fifth year for "One Night of
Chanukah" at Hillel. Alita Cyrlin, assistant principal,
is the program coordinator. ❑

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Above, left to right:
Noah Cutler, 5, of West
Bloomfield ponders his drawing
in progress.

Jessica Birndolf, 5, of West
Bloomfield concentrates on her
Chanukah art.

Five-year-olds Jodi Levin of
Farmington Hills and Jamie
Menuck of Birmingham are
serious about their projects.

Left:
Sara Cahn and Jeremy Cohn,
both 5 and from West
Bloomfield, add color to
their n2enorah pictures.

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2002

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