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The cover of the machzor used by
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past years

At some Temples, you might feel like just a

Join today for everything TKA has to offer:

number. At TKA, we offer our Congregants

• Metro Detroit's most innovative Religious School.

a warm environment and the opportunity

• Free K-3 tuition for one year for new members!

to feel like a family member — spiritually

• The only local Temple with no annual dues — you

and socially. We take great pride in making

Member families conduct services at
JPI, which has offered Rosh Hashanah
for more than 50 years and Yom Kippur
since the 1980s. Students participate as
readers, singers in the choir and some-
times play musical instruments.
The one-hour services "have always
been free of charge, and the community
at large is invited to attencr Wolfe said.

• Engaging Saturday morning Torah study group.

meaningful and rewarding experience.

• Rabbi Norman Roman and Cantorial Soloist

Tiffany Green welcome you to discover Temple Kol Ami.

Not just a Temple.

Your Temple.

Your Temple Kol Ami.

Jewish Cultural Society

Julie Gales is the madrika (leader) at
the Ann Arbor-based Jewish Cultural
Society. She grew up and formerly
worked at JPI, which did not originally
observe Yom Kippur. There was a sense
then "that such traditionally religious
holidays could not be separated from
a belief in God or the judgment about
one's past deeds by a supernatural power
—which we didn't believe in"
JPI and JCS eventually developed
Jewish New Year festivals "to come
together as a community and to reflect
on our actions or acts of omission
and to support each other:' Gales said.
Traditional Jewish new year obser-
vances were reframed "because Secular
Humanistic Jews believe in modifying
traditions to make them more meaning-
ful" to modern-day Jews.
The most unique reinterpretation is
tashlich, a High Holidays ritual in which
religious Jews cast off their sins by
throwing bread crumbs into a flowing
body of water.
Gathered at Island Park, JCS members
honor the tashlich tradition by throwing
flower petals into the Huron River.
"As we do so, com-
munity members have
a chance to reflect on
their individual and
communal actions
and deeds over the
• year, to cast off behav-
iors that they are not
Julie Gales
proud of and to vow
to be better people in
the year to come:' Gales said.
"Watching the kaleidoscope of
color flow down the river is a peaceful
and soothing way to transition into the
New Year:' she said. "It provides a beau-
tiful, yet concrete expression of our hope
for the future:'

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Jewish study and culture a more personal,

Become a member today and get tickets for
High Holy Days Services. Erev Rosh Hashana
Service is Sept. 24th at 7:30 p.m.

The Gable Family (Lance, Kineret and Meira)
getting ready for a sweet new year at Temple Kol Ami.

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