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Adam Horowitz and Monica Woll, both of West Bloomfield, at the Kotel plaza in
Jerusalem.
"My husband and I were thrilled for
JAMD in 11th grade," says Goldis,
Rabbi
Buckman to pursue this," she
"was the promise of a senior trip to
says. "It was wonderful for the kids to
Israel. In most schools, spring break is
bond and for a Jewish day school to
a party. Being in Israel for our senior
go to Israel. Jill had wanted to go at
trip was beyond incredible," she says.
16, but her trip was canceled. She fell
"I always had such a safe feeling in
in
love with the country on the first
Israel, and I was scared I wouldn't have
day.
It was a trip of a lifetime and I
the same feeling of safety. But I could-
hope
the beginning of many more to
n't have been safer or happier. Walking
come."
the streets of Safed with the sun shin-
Jill is already preparing to lobby for
ing was incredible. I wish the trip
a spending a summer there, visiting
could have been longer."
family. "It was amazing to see all the
places I'd studied about," she says.
"You have to pinch yourself. Our first
The People Side
day there we were hiking at Mitzpe
For Vadim Avshalumov, son of Rina
Ramon, the Ramon Crater. It was
and Slava Avshalumov of West
such an empty open space. We were
Bloomfield, going to Israel was a
aware that was where our ancestors
chance to visit family.
had walked."
Avshalumov, who lived in Israel
The JAMD students were greatly
from age 6-9, reconnected with what
affected
when the Israeli medic
he called the "people side" of Israel. "I
assigned to the group heard that a
got to appreciate the people, not just
friend had been killed in an attack
the historic sights — their struggles
with the economy and politics and the elsewhere in the country.
"When you hear about a shooting
divisions within Judaism."
on
TV here at home you say it's terri-
As with Susan Goldis, the visit to
ble,"
says Jill Salama. "But being in
Safed was also a high point. "It was a
Israel,
it hit home. I realized the seri-
very exciting place to be," Avshalumov
recalls. "It was so uplifting, even if you ousness of the situation. I just lost it
and cried for two hours."
were still sick, everyone was so happy.
Now stateside once again, JAMD's
And the desert ... it was so quiet and
seniors are turning their attention to
simple. Very inspiring."
graduation and college in the fall. And
Farmington Hills resident Rita
for these JAMD teens, senior trip now
Salama, whose daughter, Jill, is a sen-
means that Israel has become not just
ior at JAMD, was glad when she first
a place to visit, but a place to call
heard about the JAMD class trip to
home.
Israel.

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