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Students turn recyclables into cash
for hurricane victims.
KERI GUTEN COHEN
Story Development Editor
D
aniel Zacks, 9, was so moved
by the tragedy left in the path
of Hurricane Kartina he
decided he had to do something.
"I watched TV for five days in a
row," he said. "I wanted to help
because people on TV said they needed
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me take a crate of cans. We took them
to Farmer Jack, but we didn't do all of
them because the maximum is $25.
They let us get $34. We will send the
money to a Jewish organization to send
to Jewish people in New Orleans."
Daniel is the son of Aviva and Arye
Zacks. He also has a sister, Nava, 3. He
is a fourth-grader at Yeshivat Akiva in
Southfield, where his mother is his
Jewish studies teacher.
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"I'm so proud of him — it's a dou-
money and clothes and that they were
ble feeling of pride because he's my
getting dehydrated.
student," she said. "He's
"I had read a book called
turning out to be such a
Seal Island School, and the
sensitive kid who cares
kids in the book collected
Daniel Zacks, 9,
about the world. There's
bottles and cans and used
and Betzalel
no way to describe how a
the money to buy a dog.
Berkman, 11, both
parent feels when a child
of Oak Park, trade
That gave me an idea."
thinks about others this
Daniel and his brother,
in their cans and
way.
Ephraim, 6, went around
bottles for cash to
At the Akiva picnic
help victims of
their Oak Park neighbor-
Sunday, the kids placed
hood collecting bottles and
Hurricane
flyers about their project at
cans to recycle into cash.
Katrina.
every table, telling atten-
They were joined by
dees the school could be a
neighbor Betzalel
drop-off place. Daniel put one at his
Berkman, 11, a sixth-grader at Yeshiva
synagogue, Young Israel of Oak Park,
Beth Yehudah in Southfield, who also
too.
collected while he was in Flint, and by
"It makes me feel good, like I'm
friend Simcha Spolter, 8. Together they
making a difference," he said. "I like
gathered about 800 recyclables.
to do mitzvot. We're going to keep
"People were friendly and thought it
collecting, and I think other kids will
was a good idea," Daniel said. "Now
help us, too." Fl
they are saving cans for me. At
Jerusalem Pizza in Southfield, they let
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