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Celebrate With Gifts
For The Jewish Home

Shopping for family-oriented,
stay-at-home, Judaic-based gifts.

Shelli Liebman Dorfman I Senior Writer

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retty much any gift you can enjoy with your family at home can be mod-
ified to incorporate a Jewish bent. Music fans can sing along to Jewish
tunes; reviewing old pictures can be a Jewish-centered family project of
storing holiday-themed photos in an album with a Star of David on its cover.
Family-based Judaic gift items can range from the common, but fun, game of
dreidel to the more unique Build the Holy Temple model kit (Judaism.com ) or
guidebook for researching Jewish ancestry (A Student's Guide to Jewish American
Genealogy; amazon.com).
In addition to bringing the family together, at home gifts can be a great
money saver when one fun game or activity replaces many individual presents.
Here, several area stores share a sampling of their favorite Judaic gift items to
be enjoyed at home, by the entire family.

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35700 Woodward Ave, • between 1+ Mile & Lincoln • birmingkam
2+8-64+-8565 • www.a66ottscorp.com

Fruity Fun
The classic Apples to Apples card game
now has a counterpart with a Jewish
twist. Billed as a "game of hilarious
comparisons,"Apples to Apples,
Junior Jewish Edition (Out of the
Box Publishing) allows players to
choose the card from their hand they
think best fits the concept of a card
revealed by the dealer. Dealer cards
include thought-provoking, subjective
words such as "misunderstood," which
must be matched by players' cards
displaying phrases like "Jewish moth-
ers,""Hebrew school" or the "Chosen
People." Ages 9 12; four-10 players.
$26.
At Tradition! Tradition! in Southfield.
(248) 557-0109 by appointment;
allthingsjewish.com .

made in Israel, a compilation of full-
color photographs of the country is
still a highlight. "The whole family
can learn about and enjoy fabulous
pictures of Israel by looking through
an amazing book together:' says Coby
Goutkovitch of Coby's Judaica Center
in West Bloomfield. The 9 x 14-inch
hardcover book 360 Israel (MOD
Publishing House) by Mordechai Naor
features an abundance of landscapes
and sites throughout the country,
photographed by Dana Friedlander.
For every book sold, a portion of the
proceeds go to the IDF (Israel Defense
Forces):' $59.90.
At Coby's Judaica Center, inside the
Jewish Community Center, 6600 W
Maple Road, West Bloomfield.
(248) 661-6800; cobysjudaica.com.

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Open Monday-Saturday • 39530 W 14 Mile in the Hiller Shopping Center
Commerce • 248-438-6136 • www.shopatsway.com

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Say It With Yiddish
Introduce the family to Yiddish with
two little books whose comedic con-
cept is that for both flavor and humor,
Yiddish says it best. Written and illus-
trated by Janet Perr with funny photos
and word definitions are Yiddish for
Jewish Home on page GG36

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