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Here are some ideas to
celebrate Jewish Heritage
Month with your family.
Thursday, May 1:
Thursday, May 8:
Watch a film at the Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival at the
Give the kids squares of tulle
and ribbon and fill them with
spices to make besamim
(Havdalah spice) bags. Fill with
cloves, coffee beans, cinnamon
sticks, red hots, potpourri, etc.
(Tie with ribbon.)
West Bloomfield Jewish Community Center.
'Friday, May 9:
Roll with NEXTGen Detroit and Aish in the Woods at
Good Shabbos Detroit! Kabbalat Shabbat Services start
at 7:15 p.m. (optional); dinner is at 8 p.m. $10 per per-
son until midnight, Tuesday, May 6. Questions? Call
Tara Forman at (248) 642-1645 or register online at
jewishdetroit.org/events.
Saturday, May 10:
Sunday, May 11:
Help your children look up
their grandparents' names in
the Jewish News Foundation
Archives (www.djnfoundation.org )
Treat your mom or grandma to a kosher brunch at
Milk & Honey at the West Bloomfield JCC in honor of
Mother's Day. For other brunch locations, see page 35.
to see if they can find their wed-
ding announcement.
Friday, May 2:
Make challah with the whole family. Let the little ones do the
braiding. You can find a recipe at www.myjewishlearning.com
by searching for "challah."
Saturday,
May 3:
Monday, May 5:
Challenge your children to find
out which Jewish American
wrote the song "God Bless
America."
HaAtzmaut, Israel
Monday, May 12:
In celebration of Yom
Independence Day,
videotape your family
singing "Hatikvah" and
post it on You Tube.
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Sunday,
May 4:
Attend the Yom HaZikaron
Memorial Ceremony, a commu-
nity-wide event to remember
those who have fallen so Israel
may continue to stand. Starts
at 5:30 p.m. at the Berman
Center at the West Bloomfield
JCC.
Wednesday,
May 7:
Tuesday, May 6:
Savor a meal at one of
Jewish Detroit's kosher
restaurants or bakeries
in support and celebra-
tion of this unique,
rabbinic-supervised way
of food preparation as
prescribed by Jewish
custom.
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Make these easy play-dough Shabbat
candleholders. All you need is play-
dough (store-bought or made at
home) and some white Shabbat
candles. Help your child make their
play dough into a ball, star, heart or
any other shape they'd like. Place
your Shabbat candles in the dough
upright. Allow your dough to dry
overnight with candle still in or set your toaster on low heat
to dry out your shapes. Once dried, help your kids to paint
their candlesticks.
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Wednesday, May 14:
Today is Second Passover, exactly one
month after 14 Nisan, the day before
Passover, which was the day prescribed
for bringing the Korban Pesach ("Paschal
lamb") in anticipation of that holiday.
As described in the source text for this
mitzvah (Numbers 9:1-14), the Israelites
were about to celebrate Passover one year
after leaving Egypt. The offering of the
Korban Pesach was at the core of that
celebration. However, certain men were
considered ritually impure and were there-
fore ineligible to participate. Faced with
the conflict of the requirement to partici-
pate and their ineligibility due to impurity,
they approached Moses and Aaron for
instructions, which resulted in the com-
munication of the law of Pesach Sheni.
One theme commonly expressed for this
holiday is second chances.
Make a mezuzah out of an empty glue stick. Twist
glue stick until bottom of the inner tube is fully
extended, then pull straight out. You should see
the inner spindle, around which you will put the
scroll later. Mark paper with crayons, markers,
paints, rubber stamps or stickers or just use pret-
ty paper. Glue paper around tube and around cap,
making sure cap will still work. Choose a front
side of the tube and add the letter "shin." Add
any solid decorations, but keep the back of tube
smooth so you can hang at your child's level.
Tuesday, May 13:
Make a scroll for your mezuzah: Create the
word "Shema" in a word processing program in
"outline" font. Print and let child color inside
the letters. Remember, the traditional way to
roll a mezuzah scroll is left to right, so when
the scroll is opened, the first thing visible is
the shin of Shema.
Thursday, May 15:
Go to Busch's Fresh Food Market or Hiller's
Markets and see if you can purchase all
Israeli-made ingredients for a family meal.
For a list of local stores that sell Israeli-made
goods, visit www.michiganisrael.com .
Friday, May 16:
Enjoy a Shabbat dinner at home replete with
a child-friendly description of the observance
rituals and the contents of the meal.