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Staff.photos by Angie Baan
Ari Katz of Waterford and Andrew Rosenfeld of Novi
Janet Dashevsky of Oak Park takes a shot.
It's A Small,
Small Whirl!
Loni Marcus of Southfield; Aaron Beals and Eric Sweet, both of West
Bloomfield; and Elana Lebovic of Farmington Hills
College students converge at Hillel's
pre-Turkey Day party.
Robin Schwartz
Special to the Jewish News
I
t's a fast-paced team sport described
a cross between bumper-cars, basket-
ball and lacrosse in which two teams
of five battle to outscore one another.
More than 120 local college students, all
members of various Hillel chapters, came
together Nov. 21 in Novi to mingle and try
their hands at WhirlyBall.
Julie Schechter of West Bloomfield, a
senior at Wayne State University in Detroit,
Jordan Weiss of West Bloomfield plays air hockey.
was ready for some friendly competition.
"You sit in these bumper-car things
[called WhirlyBugs], and you try to shoot the
21 and over-21 crowds:' said Karen Adelman
[softball-sized whiffle ball] into this flat bas-
of Berkley, assistant director of Hillel of Metro
ket," Schechter explained. "I thought it was fun
Detroit. "The students loved it — and we want to
because it brought all of the Hillels together. We
make this an annual event:'
got to see old friends from high school or Hebrew
In addition to free WhirlyBall, there were two
school and also got to meet new friends."
cash bars, free video games, pool, air hockey and
The event included Jewish students from the
music. The Michigan Hillel Consortium helped
University of Michigan, Michigan State, Eastern
fund the event. II
Michigan and members of Hillel of Metro
Detroit. The party was held the night before
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Thanksgiving.
Metro
Detroit events, call (313) 577-3459
"We knew everyone would be home for the
or
go
to
www.hillel-detroit.org .
holiday, and we wanted to cater both the under-
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David Levinson and Aaron Levin, both of West Bloomfield
Dan Morris of Ypsilanti, Kourtney Spauling of Farmington Hills and
Gaelan Campbell-Fox of Berkley