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Community Wide Teen
Volunteer Day!

Sunday, April 21

Registration opens at 11:45 am

Program will run from 12:00 - 4:30 pm

Good
Shabbos,

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Next Gen'ers share Shabbat
at Temple Beth El.

for all Jewish 6th - 12th graders

Drop off and Pick up:

Temple Beth El

Pre-Registration Required

for more information:

www.jservedetroit.org

Projects include (not limited to):

Gardening

Painting

Food Package Assembly

Park Clean Up

Questions:

Danny Bittker
BBYO-Michigan
248-432-5686
dbittker@bbyo.org

Jodi Gross
Adat Shalom
248-626-2153
jgross@adatshalom.org

J-Serve is a community wide initiative thanks to

Adat Shalom Synagogue; Akiva Hebrew Day School;
ATID: Alliance for Teens in Detroit; BBYO; BBYO Connect;
JCC Day Camps; B'nai Israel; Boy Scout Troop 364;
Congregation Beth Ahm;Congregation Beth Shalom;
Congregation Shaarey Zedek; Frankel Jewish Academy;
Hillel Day School; Habonim Dror; JARC; JCC
Jewish Community Relations Council;
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit;
Jewish Parents Institute; Repair the World
MetroDetroit Board of Jewish Educators;
NFTY; Summer in the City; Tamarack Camps;
Temple Beth El; Temple Israel; Temple Kol Ami;
USY (Motor City USY); Young Judaea

Supported by grants from:
BBYO Panim institute
Repair the World
The Stephen H. Schulman Millennium Fund

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ach month, NEXTGen
Detroit, a department
of the Jewish
Federation of Metro
Detroit, partners with a different
synagogue to bring the community
together for a uniquely personal
NEXTGen Shabbat experience. On
March 22, the venue was Temple
Beth El, where about 90 young
professionals attended the third
Good Shabbos Detroit event.
The event began with services
led by Josh Nelson and Cantorial
Soloist Rachel Kalmowitz, and
then everyone met in the temple's
main sanctuary, where Jordon
Wertheimer welcomed the group
to Temple Beth El and talked
about the synagogue's history
and its building's background.
The temple's sanctuary was built
by Minoru Yamasaki, the same
architect who designed the Twin
Towers in New York City.
After the talk, the group enjoyed
a sumptuous strolling dinner
catered by Zack Sklar and Cutting
Edge Cuisine while listening to
wonderful background music
provided by Jake Barnaby and
Matt Arnold.
The group was invited for an
afterglow to Social Kitchen, Zack
Sklar's Birmingham restaurant,
where they gathered on the patio
to enjoy more delectable food to
round off a great evening.
The next Good Shabbos Detroit
is scheduled for April 12 at
Congregation Beth Shalom in Oak
Park. ❑

For more information, contact Tara

Forman at forman®jfmd.org or call

(248) 642-1645.

Michael Rubyan of
West Bloomfield and
Ashley Weisberg of Wixom

Brother and sister, liana Goldberg
Block and Joshua Goldberg, who
is on staff with Federation's
NEXTGen Detroit Department