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friends, the more I
think I really need to
go to the reunion. All
those cute guys I
thought were so won-
derful — I'd love to
know what happened
to them."
And while many did
go off in their own
directions, other for-
mer USYers devoted
their lives to working
within the Jewish com-
munity.
Scott Littke, a Beth
Shalom alum and 1979
Berkley High School
graduate, is now educa-
tion director at
Congregation Beth
Israel in Ann Arbor.
"USY opened the
door for me and so
many others," he said.
"Look at Elliot Pachter,
he was in the Grand
Rapids chapter, now
he's the rabbi at B'nai
Longtime friends, clockwise from top left, Nathan Upfitl Moshe. Marty
of West Bloomfield, Ron Elkus. of Huntington Woods,
Pasternak (B'nai Moshe
Val Rosner and Lisa Lopatin, both of West Bloomfield,
USY, 1977) is a rabbi
met as members of United Synagogue Youth.
in Austin, Texas."
Judy Yudof is hoping
thought about her old friends and won- that these reunions and Web lists will
dered what came of them. The USY
recreate that feeling for alumni around
database has allowed her to find out.
the country and ultimately bring them
"As .close as I can get to the people I
back to the Conservative movement.
meet in Knoxville (where she's living
'A lot of the people in USY were very
now with her hUsband and two daugh-
committed, some went on to become
ters), they don't have those common
involved in their synagogues, others
memories," she said. "Having a shared
haven't really connected in the same
past gives us another level of depth.
way since USY," she said.
There's a connection that's deep enough
But for no the focus for the alumni
that it doesn't take a lot of time to
of the CRUSY region is on friendship.
catch up."
No fund-raising, no long-term com-
For Goldberg and many others, USY
mitments, just a bunch of grown-up
provided more than friendship. It also
kids hoping to relive a little of their
provided a window to the world and
past. And if Karen Moss Hale has her
preparation for the lives they would live way, some pretty important relation-
as adults. Camp CRUSY, as well as
ships will be rekindled.
regional and international conventions,
allowed them to step out of their com-
For more information on the
fort zones and expand their horizons.
CRUSY reunion April 4-6 in sub-
Susan Moiseev, now a Southfield
urban Cleveland, contact Karen
District Court judge, flipped through a
Moss Hale at (216) 496-0691 or
scrapbook she's saved since her USY
by e-mail at kikione@adelphia.net
days and mused, "I think the wrack
Cost of the reunion is $80 per
[spirit] bound us together very tightly,
person, which includes Saturday
but after that we went out into a bigger
night dinner, reception and can-
world; we were exposed to different
dlelighting ceremony, Sunday
experiences and different things.
brunch, hospitality suite, Shabbat
Friends just went different ways.
services with Rabbi James LeBow
Though when you connect, there's cer-
and lots of memories. -A deposit of
tainly an instant reverting back to the
$25 is due by March 4.
closeness, even if it's just momentary.
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