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Maccabi athletes took time out for tzedakah.

Left: Blake Amhowitz, 14, of Farmington Hills and Blake Grosekind, 14, of Bloomfield Hills fill out Will Work for Food pledges.
Right: Steven Weinberg, 21, of Ann Arbor explains the Will Work for Food program. Teens are asked to get pledges to support
any type of volunteer work they do back home.

The 2,700 JCC Maccabi
Games athletes took time
out from competition Aug.
20 to learn about and do
charitable projects. All of
the athletes were required
to complete a tzedakah
project before they came
to Detroit. On Aug. 20, the
delegations were divided
among 15 projects and
charities. But the major-
ity —1,500 teens — par-
ticipated in a teach-in and
rally at Temple Israel in
West Bloomfield about the
genocide in Darfur, Sudan.
Afterwards, the 1,500
marched back to the Jewish
Community Center along
Walnut Lake and Drake
roads, displaying signs to
the passing motorists.

- Alan Hitsky, associate editor

Left: Jacob Chapman, 14, of Franklin asked a question. Right: Sean Sonego, 15, and Bernard Grempel, 16, both of Edmonton, led
the march.

NEVER
AGAIN

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NEVER
AGAIN

The parents of Jacob Atem were mur-

Left: Jacob Allen, 16, of Southfield and Jesse Frank, 15, of Birmingham hold up their signs. Right: Ethan Weinfeld, 13, of West
Bloomfield and Ivan Spizizen, 13, of Franklin walk together.

dered in Darfur when he was 6. He and a
cousin walked 1,000 miles to escape the
violence.