To Life!

iDAY

Holiday Teamwork

Volunteers
ensure a
sweet Purim
treat for
all in the
community.

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Ethan Reider, 7, Zack Reider, 10, and Noah Jacobs, 7, all of West Bloomfield, keep the flow moving.

Top left: Dana Woronoff, 12, of West Bloomfield
assembles Purim treats.

Top right: Lauren Weinberger, 9, of West Bloomfield
carries plates of hamentashen to be packed.

Bottom: Abbey Blender, 10, of Bloomfield Hills and
Suzi Terebelo of Southfield load packages for delivery.

- Staff photos by Angie Baan

ike a well-oiled machine, vol-
unteers of all ages got down
to the business of assembling
mishloach manot, traditional Purim
treats, during the annual Great Purim
Parcel Project Feb. 25 at the Max M.
Fisher Federation Building, Bloomfield
Township.
Bustling volunteers assembled par-
cels in bags with blue Jewish stars or
moved mishloach manot parcels others
had assembled at home to a central
spot where other volunteers could pick
them up. Deliveries were then made to
residents of various senior facilities,
families of Jewish Hospice patients,
Coville Apartments, Jewish Family
Service clients, Kadima clients, JARC
consumers, Kosher Meals-on-Wheels
recipients, Yad Ezra clients and more.
A little nibbling was done along the
way, but, mostly, volunteers — even a
few in costume — kept things moving.
Purim begins at sundown Saturday,
March 3. The annual Parcel Project was
inspired by Mordechai's words at the
end of the Purim story, when he tells
the Jewish people to make Purim "days
of gladness and feasting, a holiday, and
of sending portions one to another and
gifts to the poor."
The Great Purim Parcel Project is
sponsored by Jewish Experiences For
Families of Federation's Alliance for
Jewish Education and made possible
through a gift from Bill and Audrey
Farber.

- Keri Guten Cohen, story development editor

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March 1 s 2007