Michelle Freed, 15, helps Gabriel Levine, 4, both of Ann Arbor, make an Israel magnet.

Staff photos by Armando Rios

Celebrate Israel

Ann Arbor's annual fest offers day
of music, dance, art and food.

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n honor of Israel Independence Day, Ann Arbor's Jewish community held its annual "Celebrate Israel" program April 29.
This year the program was moved inside to the new Eastern Michigan University Student Center in Ypsilanti.
Activities attracted about 350 participants who sampled Israeli food, learned Israeli dances, looked at art exhibitions
and made art themselves. A special project involved creating a community mosaic to be installed later this month on the wall
of the Jewish Community Center in Ann Arbor. Artists Gail Kaplan and Dani Katsir helped children and adults add tiles to the
design.
Musical performances came from Ann Arbor Temple Beth Emeth's Kol HaLev choir and High School Shir Hadash Band. Neil
Alexander and the Klezmer Fusion Band got people onto the dance floor.
The event was sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Washtenaw County in partnership with 17 other local organizations.

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Above left: Members of the High School Shir Hadash Band
and Choir from Temple Beth Emeth perform.

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Above right: Yael Silver, 10, of Ann Arbor helps create a
mosaic art project to be installed in the JCC in Ann Arbor.
Artist Gail Kaplan of Farmington Hills assists with the
project.

Left: Joseph Estes, 10, of Ann Arbor helps to create a
mosaic art project.