INSIDE: Community Calendar 41 Mazel Toy! 43 Ilappy Campers Central Galilee and American teens learn about each other while having fun at Camp Maas. HARRY KIRSBAUM StailWriter Ortonville ach Firestone had never heard a Bob Marley recording until Boaz Grof shared his CD with him. As campers stuck in the same bunk, they both listened to music .— Eminem — when they weren't tubing or water- skiing at Camp Maas in Ortonville. They looked like any other pair of busy 12-year-old campers. But Grof was one of about 150 lucky Israelis who spent a few weeks this sum- mer enjoying summer camp in America. "It's a whole new experience," said Grof of Kfar HaHoresh in Israel's Z Central Galilee. "You meet a lot of Americans. You learn about them — they learn about you." Kosher food and "all those prayers are strange to Grof, he said. 'Almost everything is different. Where I come from we don't keep kosher." Firestone of West Bloomfield said, "I think it's good that we get to meet Israelis and find out about their culture. At night we talk about what happened during the day, and sometimes we talk about Israel." This was the second year of a Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit pro- gram that began when the current Palestinian intifada (uprising) prevented the Federation Teen Mission from tak- HAPPY CAMPERS 0 0 on page 34 Above: Boaz Grof of Kfar HaHoresh and Zach Firestone of West Bloomfield pack up. Both are 12. Top right: Yoav Raban, 24, of Kibbutz Ramat David in the Jezreel Valley served as Israeli delegation supervisor. Right: Counselor Daphna Nog, 17, of Kibbutz Gazit and camper Tamar Laitman, 13, of Moshav Kfar Baruch relax. 8/29 2003 33