Temple Emanu-El Sunday school students and Jewish Senior Life Oak Park residents spent the morning making decorations for the sukkah.

Sukkah Fun

Emanu-El students pair
with seniors to make
festive decorations.

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n Sunday, Sept. 30, Jewish
Senior Life Oak Park residents
joined Sunday school children
from nearby Temple Emanu-El in making
decorations for the synagogue's sukkah.
Sukkot started that evening at sundown.
To further celebrate the holiday, the JSL
seniors planned a sukkah hop on Sunday,
Oct. 7, between Temple Emanu-El, Teitel
and Prentis Apartments and the Oak Park
Jewish Community Center.

Temple Emanu-El Sunday school students Julie Krasnick, Emma

Brianna Johnson, 7, creates sukkah decorations at

Quail, Zoe McManus and Rayna Gold, all 10 and from Huntington

Temple Emanu-El with Prentis resident Martha Klonsky,

Woods, make sukkah decorations.

as Rina Hennes guides the project.

Holday Activities

Akiva's ECC kids make sukkah decorations and hear a story.

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t this year's PJ Library and sukkah-decorating event,
Akiva Hebrew Day School's clam (multi-purpose room)
was full of children engaged in pre-Suk k ot activities.
The room in the Southfield school was divided into four stations:
at one, participants could build a sukkah out of Legos and have a
picture taken of their creation; at another, a decorative table run-
ner could be painted in fall colors by every member of the family
to enhance the sukkah table; at a third, children could make "sukki
cookies," an edible sukkah built from graham crackers, icing, pret-
zel sticks and fruit loops; and at the final station, a fall harvest pic-
ture frame could be decorated.
After participating in the four activities, the families regrouped
for an interactive storytelling of a Sukkah-themed PJ Library book,
The Vanishing Gourds by Susan Axe-bronk and illustrated by Marta
Monelli. Volunteers helped retell the story, along with narrator Lisa
Parshan, director of Akiva's Early Childhood Center (ECC). The PJ
Library offers free Jewish books and music to Jewish children and
families.
ECC teachers Sarah Shaw and Susie Goldman helped set up and
coordinate the activities. Li

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Shayna Stebbins, 3, of Southfield makes a

Aron Skoczylas, 2, of Southfield builds a Lego

"sukki cooki."

sukkah.