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Learning About Sukkot

Rabbi Michael
Moskowitz
explains the
holiday of Sukkot
to kindergarteners
andfir.4-grade)Ic
froth the Roeper
School

Lorenio Spagnuolo, 5,
of Birmingham p uts
some decorations on the
wall of the sukkah.

Staff photos by Angie Baan

Lucie Rosenthal, 6,
of Huntingtona Woods
gets ready to hang a
birdhouse decoration
in the sukkah.

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2004

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abbi Michael Moskowitz and his wife,
Leslie, welcomed 17 kindergartners and
first-graders from the Roeper School
into their sukkah on Sept. 30.
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The children — most of whom are not
Jewish — learned about the holiday and its
symbols, the lulav, etrog and sukkah, from
Rabbi Moskowitz of Temple Shir Shalom. His
daughter, Ellie, is in the kindergarten class.
Ellie and her fellow students made birdhous-
es and decorated the sukkot with gourds, flow-
ers and branches. The children ate pumpkin
bread and blueberry muffins and drank cider.
"A philosophical mission of our school is to
educate children about cultures and religions
that may be different from their own," said Lori
Zinser of Bloomfield Hills-based Roeper.
"When we have a parent in a class with infor-
mation or tradition to share with students, we
like to take advantage of the opportunity."
The children were glad for the opportunity,
too.

— Keri Guten Cohen,
story development editor