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Touching Torah

At Kol Ami, Simchat Torah
means everyone holds the unrolled scroll together.

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very year, Temple Kol Ami in West
Bloomfield develops an energetic
evening of prayer and celebration
on Simchat Torah for its religious school
children.
The popular evening culminates with
everyone present participating in the roll-
ing of a Torah from Deuteronomy back to
Genesis.
Following the upbeat service, everybody
moves into Conrad Social Hall, where a
Torah is entirely unrolled, with everybody
helping to support the precious scroll.

Brooklyn Rosenberg, 6, of West

Bloomfield helps to hold up the Torah
parchment.

Rabbi Norman Roman than points out sig-
nificant passages from beginning to end and,
upon request, shows congregants where their
bar or bat mitzvah Torah portions are.
The Torah is then carefully rolled back
in the opposite direction and made ready
for the reading of Bereshit (Genesis) later
that week.
The children respond enthusiastically to
this special opportunity to see and touch
the Torah, and the evening is another suc-
cessful way to get kids into the synagogue
for something fun and memorable. II

Evan Kravitz, 12, of Farmington Hills
breaks for a smile.

Great Day For Football

Members of Kol Ami help support the unrolled Torah.

Rabbi Norman Roman, with wife, Lynne,

beside him, begins to roll up the Torah.

With some help from member David

Henig, Roman is nearly done rolling the
Torah back to Genesis.

Annual Hillel flag football game blends students
from EMU's Hillel and Hillel of Metro Detroit.

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Mel students
for the ball

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n a beautiful Sunday afternoon
recently, 20 students met in
Ypsilanti for the Third Annual
Hillel of Metro Detroit versus Eastern
Michigan Hillel Flag Football Game. The
young adults shared a kosher Jerusalem
Pizza lunch at EMU's Hillel house prior
to the game, allowing participants, both

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November 3 2011

Hillel veterans and first-time attendees,
to meet, network and socialize.
Coming off of HMD's 2010 victory,
this year the teams were divided ran-
domly, with a combination of HMD and
EMU students. The co-ed teams played
at Riverside Park enjoying this friendly
competition. Fl

Jessica Edmondson, Oakland University, Oak Park; Emily Chocron, Oakland
Community College, Waterford; Adi Smorgansky, University of Michigan-

Dearborn, West Bloomfield; Miriam Sridler, University of Michigan, West

Bloomfield; Dan Morris, Eastern Michigan University, Farmington Hills; and Lavi

Golenberg, recent PhD graduate of Wayne State University, Farmington Hills

