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Passover Fun

Jonathan, 5, and

Adat Shalom students got ready for
the holiday with crafts and chocolate.

Jordan, 8, with their

parents Melissa

and Harley Manela

of Farmington Hills

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tudents in grades K-2 in the Adat Shalom
Synagogue religious school in Farmington Hills
joined with their parents on Sunday, April 1, for
some pre-Passover fun.
Parents and children created seder plates from a vari-
ety of interesting materials to be used as centerpieces at
their seders.
They also participated in a chocolate seder that made
learning about the symbols on the seder plate even
more fun. ❑

share a table with

Abby Winkelman, 5,

and her dad, Larry, of

Farmington Hills.

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The crafty team of Jared Ellias-Margolis, 8, and Alex

Morgan Kaplan, 6, of West Bloomfield, worked with

Zoref, 7, both of Bloomfield Hills

Enjoying the chocolate feast are Gabe Goldberg, 12, of

her mom, Debbie, on her seder plate.

Farmington Hills, and Evan Kolin, 12, of Bloomfield Hills.

Ready, Set, Read!

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Shell Liebman Dorfman
Contributing Writer

of only was this year's Southfield
Public Library Battle of the
Books event well-represented by
students from Akiva Hebrew Day School
and Yeshiva Beth Yehudah, so was the dais
of winners.
Competing among nearly 500 young
readers, Jewish day school students were
on top teams in all three categories, which
included fourth-grade and fifth-grade
competitions on March 13, and the Middle
School Challenge on March 14.
The winning fourth-grade team was
Cooler Than U, comprised of five Akiva

Battle of the Books winners includes a slew of Jewish day school students.

students and one from Yeshiva Beth
Yehudah, both in Southfield, under the
direction of Becky Eizen of Southfield and
Susan Schulman of West Bloomfield.
The first-place middle school group
was Rainbow Readers, a team of sixth
graders from the Yeshiva's Beth Jacob
School in Oak Park, coached by Eric Batt
of Southfield, assisted by his wife, second-
grade Akiva teacher Anita Batt.
This was the second first-place win for
this team, having won last year. This year
they had a perfect score.
Designed to encourage reading and
give recognition to those who like to read,
students pored through assigned books
specific to their grade group. After answer-

First-place Team Cooler

Than U: (back row)

Becky Eizen and Susan

Schulman, (middle row)

Yeshiva Beth Yehudah

student Moshe Dovid

Lerner, 9, of Southfield

and Akiva students,

Ezra Klausner, 9, of

Southfield, and (front

row) Micah Eizen, 9,

of Southfield, Calev

Herdman, 9, of Oak Park,

Shira Schon, 8, and

Andrew Schulman, 9,

both of West Bloomfield.

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April 12 • 2012

ing questions at the event at the Southfield
Pavilion, the highest number of correct
answers determined the winning places.
Prizes included medals and books.
Not a school-sponsored event, it is open
to students living in or going to school in
Southfield or Lathrup Village, or attending
a school with those cities' residents.
Second-place winners in the fifth-grade
category were Word Girls, with Akiva
students Chloe Abrams, 11, Atara Kresch,
10, and Anna Warshay, 11, all of Oak Park,
Zoe Korelitz, 11, of Huntington Woods,
Nechama Kashuk, 10, of Saginaw and
Sarah Phillips, 10, of West Bloomfield,
under the direction of Susie Kresch of
Oak Park and Renee Phillips of West

Bloomfield.
Akiva students on Team Red Reading
Hoods won third place in the middle
school category with members Ayelet and
Hadas Pollock, both 12, of Huntington
Woods, Alexis, Lindsey and Rebecca
Potoff, all 11, of Southfield and Audrey
Rogers, 12, of Southfield, directed by
Allison Pollock of Huntington Woods.
In the fifth-grade competition, Rock-
and-Read won third place with a team
comprised of Akiva students Elisheva
Apap, 10, Ghana Fischer, 12, Aviva Levi,
10, Sami Lofman, 10, Justin Weil, 10, and
Yehudah Wrotslaysky, 11, all of Southfield,
under the direction of Karoline Puder and
Debbie Wrotslaysky, both of Southfield. E

Middle School

Challenge win-

ning team, Rainbow

Readers, from Yeshiva

Beth Yehudah: Yael

Zacks and Esti

Wayntraub, both 11,

both of Southfield,

Anita Batt, Elisheva

Batt, 12, of Southfield,

Eric Batt, Rivky

Goldfein, 11, of Oak

Park, Hadassah

Farhy, 11, and Devorah

Gelberman, 12, both of

Southfield.