Community

AROUND TOWN

Sa ring ummer

Young adults fire up the grill and soak up the sun.

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t was the perfect summer day —
sunshine, blue skies, kosher chicken
and hot dogs sizzling on the grill and
friends relaxing together at Kensington
Metropark in Milford. More than 90 mem-
bers of the Young Adult Division of the
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit
and Hillel of Metro Detroit came together
July 27 to enjoy a barbecue, the weather,
the great outdoors and each other's com-
pany.
"Hillel serves
college students
ages 18-30, YAD
serves the 21-40
crowd, so some-
times we over-
lap;' said Mitch
Wagner of Oak
Park, program
director for Hillel
Robin Schwartz of Metro Detroit.
"It was nice to get
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everyone together,
to show people
they're part of something bigger than just
YAD or Hiller
The group took over a large picnic area
and cooked out amid the grass, trees,
and the lake. They ate lunch, caught up,
made new friends and even took part in a
water-balloon toss and three-legged race.
"I loved looking around and seeing
people from both organizations mingling;'
said Ariana Blumenfeld of Berkley.
She co-chaired the event with Craig
Eidelman, also of Berkley.
"We also had several people who just
returned from the young adult mission
to Israel (June 29-July 8), so it was great
to see them again. It was a nice, relax-
ing Sunday. We enjoyed the sunshine
Blumenfeld said.
Spotted in the crowd were: Jodi Beals,
Jayme and Ryan Baruch and Lindsay
Rubin, all of West Bloomfield; Alex
Solomon, Jennifer, Todd, Marlee and
Lilley Kroll of Birmingham; David Moses
and Laurice Covensky, both of Bloomfield
Hills; Leor Barak of Detroit; and Julie
Borkin of Huntington Woods. ❑

Top left:

Allan Urman of

West Bloomfield
and Jocelyn
Adelman, 2, of

Berkley

Top right:

Michelle Kormon
of Bloomfield

Hills and

Lindsay Citron
of Birmingham

Middle left:

Todd and
Jennifer Kroll of

Birmingham and
their children,

Lilley, 7, and
Marlee, 5

Middle right:

Oak Parkers
Moshe Schreiber,
Greg Grinman
and Joe Lakier

with Jen Lipson

of Northville

Above: Jessica Goodwin of Southfield, Jessica

Sterling of Farmington Hills and Liz Jerome of

Lathrup Village

Left: Jennifer and Matt Levine of Pleasant
Ridge and their daugher, Zara, 5 months

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July 31 • 2008

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