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Volunteers prepare Purim treats to be delivered

throughout Metro Detroit.

Story by ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM

Photos by BRETT MOUNTAIN

W

hat in the world could be better than a
big bag of goodies (and we're talking
real treats here — candy and cookies
and licorice; no tofu allowed) delivered by friend-
ly faces right to your door?
Each year, volunteers from throughout Metro
Detroit help prepare holiday parcels, mishloach
manot, for the Great Purim Parcel Project.
Families and individuals prepare their own
mishloach manot or bring kosher snacks like
Hershey kisses, Kit Kat bars and Twizzlers to be

heaped into goody bags at the Max M. Fisher
Federation Building in Bloomfield Township.
More than 3,000 parcels were created this year,
which were then delivered to families of Jewish
Hospice patients, Jewish Family Service clients,
JARC, Yad Ezra and more.
The Great Purim Parcel Project is made possi-
ble thanks to a gift from Bill and Audrey Farber,
and is sponsored by Jewish Experiences for
Families (a division of Federations' Alliance for
Jewish Education) and the Jewish News, in coop-
eration with local congregations, religious schools
and Jewish organizations. ❑

Left.
Adi Soble-Siegmann,
4, of Oak Park
decorates a parcel.

Right:
Filling bags are Jared
Schulte, 6, and dad
Dan of West
Bloomfield.

L.
Uri, 5, and Gavi Isaacs, 3, of Oak Park arrange the mishloach manot.

Above:
Kate Gordon, 4, of Franklin and Emma faconson, 4, of Bloomfield Hills decorate
cards to go inside the Purim parcels.

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