Arts & Life

Teens

Eating For Israel

Local teens join a national student-run campaign
to help victims of Israeli terror.

SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN

Staff Writer

I

f you're going to go out to
lunch or dinner on Monday,
March 21, why not pick a
restaurant that will give 10 per-
cent of its proceeds to victims of
terror in Israel?" That's the ques-
tion of 18-year-old David Stiebel
of Bloomfield Hills.
As local coordinator of America
Eats For Israel, Stiebel and fellow
Jewish Academy of Metropolitan
David Stiebel and Josh Cohen gather collections
Detroit (JAMD) classmates are
for the America Eats for Israel project.
encouraging
ino- diners to eat where a
portion of their bill will be
bers of the Israel Action group sought
donated to the Terror Victims
out personal contacts.
Association in Jerusalem.
"The whole committee sat down in
America Eats For Israel, a project
a room and we read each state out
organized and run by high school stu-
loud and everyone said who they knew
dents, is an offshoot of Baltimore Eats
in that state," he said.
for Israel, cooked up last year by 18-
After that, they called day schools,
year-old Avi Goldberg, a senior at
asking for whoever oversees Israel pro-
Yeshivat Rambam in Baltimore.
gramming. All the phone,calling and
"We raised $1,500 last year,"
project work is done on the students'
Goldberg said. "The money was given
personal time.
directly to the Har-Melech family of
Chomesh [Israel]. As a result of last
year's success, we felt it was our
Detroit Diners
responsibility to do more."
There
are now America Eats for Israel
So this year, under Goldberg's direc-
committees in more than 50 schools
tion, his school's Israel Action
nationwide, hoping to target every
Committee went a giant step further,
kosher restaurant in the United States.
taking things nationwide.
At press time, 131 eateries across the
To contact as many schools as possi-
ble Goldberg and the other four mem- country have signed on — including

Hillel Teams Earn
2nd Place Trophies

The Hillel Day School boys' and
girls' varsity basketball teams partici-
pated in the first Great Lakes
Schechter Showdown basketball tour-
nament in Cleveland March 4-5.
Teams from Chicago, Cleveland,
Detroit, Pittsburgh and Toronto
shared a weekend of Shabbat festivi-
ties and played in a four-game tour-
nament. Shabbat festivities began
Friday night, and the lighting of the
Havdalah candle signified the culmi-
nation of Shabbat and the beginning

of tournament play.
Hillel's boys and girls teams defeat-
ed Cleveland in the first round. The
boys won 35-16. Max Farkas led
with 11 points and Zach Yaker
scored 9 on consecutive three-point-
ers. The girls' team won 25-8, led by
Sarah Lerman-Sinkoff's 8.
In the second round, Hillel's boys
played a tall Toronto team. Hillel
started strong and kept its intensity.
Farkas scored Hillel's first nine points.
Seventh-grader Brad Finkel hit a half-

four Detroit-area restaurants plus a
dinner event.
JAIVID's National Honor Society
(NHS), under Stiebel's leadership, is
spreading the word locally. The
school's NHS President Josh Cohen,
a 18-year-old senior from West
Bloomfield, is working closely with
him on the project.
Israel is close to the hearts of the stu-
dents — and perhaps a little closer for
Stiebel, whose parents were both born
there and many family members still
live there.
"In addition to the significant funds
that this event will raise, it is impor-
tant for terror victims in Israel and all
Israelis to see that we American Jews
are here to help," Stiebel said. "When
Jews across the United States join
together to eat for Israel on Monday,
we will be sending a message to Israelis
that they are not alone.
"It is also important that we continue
to support Israel and to help terror vic-

rims after March 21," said Stiebel, who is
JAIVID's student government president.
"On Monday, eating will be the best
way to help. But afterward, we should
use the momentum from the America
Eats for Israel fund-raiser to keep on giv-
ing, all throughout the year, until the
fund-raiser returns next year." O

Victims' Group

The Terror Victims Association is a
support group composed of victims
of terrorism in Israel, whose aim is
to provide assistance to other vic-
tims in situations where help is not
provided by government programs.
To make a tax-deductible dona-
tion, make checks payable to:
Central Fund of Israel, with "TVA"
in the memo line. Send to Central
Fund of Israel, 980 6th Ave. 3rd
Floor, New York, NY 10018.

Where To Eat

Detroit-area participants in America Eats for Israel:
• Milk & Honey, inside the Jewish Community Center, West Bloomfield,
6600 W. Maple Road. (248) 661-2327.
• Subsation, also at the JCC in West Bloomfield. (248) 661-1000.
• Subsation at the JCC in Oak Park, 15110 W. 10 Mile Road. (248) 432-
5615 or (248) 967-4030.
• BKC 2 Go, 15280 Lincoln, Oak Park. (248) 967-5445.
• Carvel Ice Cream, 6695 Orchard Lake Road, West Bloomfield. (248) 737-
8843.
• Elite Kosher Catering will be serving a Mexican buffet from 6-8 p.m. at
Congregation B'nai Moshe in West Bloomfield. (248) 788-0600 or (248)
592-0200.
For a regularly updated listing of participating restaurants, access the Web
site: www.americaeatsforisrael.org .

court shot at the half-time buzzer.
Hillel defeated Toronto 34-26.
Pittsburgh was the Hillel girls' sec-
ond-round game. Although Hillel
played hard, Pittsburgh outscored the
Hillel girls 24-15.
Sunday morning began with servic-
es, followed by speaker Bill Needle,
voice of Kent State University athlet-
ics. Hillel's girls took on Chicago in a
game Hillel had to win to reach the
championship round.
Alissa Graff paced the team, while
Jackie Pilcowitz was the top scorer,
getting 12 of Hind's 15 points.
Kendall Maxbauer and Sarah
Lerman-Sinkoff contributed the

majority of the rebounds.
Hillel's boys competed against
Pittsburgh in their third game and
won 40-31.
In the championship game against
Pittsburgh, Hillel scrapped for the
lead but fell short by a basket, giving
them second place in the tournament.
The boys went into the champi-
onship game against Chicago. Both
teams were 3-0. It was evident Hillel
was tired from the Pittsburgh game,
and at half-time they were down by
eight. But Hillel exploded at the start
of the second half.

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