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Meet At
The Well
New community outreach
program aims to enhance
Jewish living.
Barbara Lewis I Contributing Writer
I
n ancient days, the community well was
a gathering place where news and opin-
ions were shared and something valu-
able and life-sustaining was taken.
And so The
Well seems a fit-
ting name for
an exciting new
Jewish community
outreach program
headed by Rabbi
T
Daniel Horwitz. Its
mission, he said,
is "to dramatically
increase the num-
Rabbi Dan Horwitz
ber of Jews actively
will direct The Well.
participating in
liberal community-
centric Jewish living in Metro Detroit by
means of relationship-building, network
weaving and participant-driven program-
ming:'
Several years ago, Horwitz, then the rabbi
and director of immersive learning for the
Kids create mosaic murals for
new hospital to make other
kids feel better.
Suzanne Chessler I Contributing Writer
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1942 - 2015
Covering and
Connecting
Jewish Detroit
Eve y Week
wo eighth-graders at Baker Eighth-graders at
Middle School in Troy
Baker Middle School
know the waiting rooms
in Troy work on a
and lengthy hallways at Children's
mosaic panel that
Hospital of Michigan in Detroit inti- will be installed with
mately.
others by students
Regardless of the separate reasons at Children's Hospital
they had to be there, both could
of Michigan-Troy, now
find distractions in looking at other under construction.
young faces, noticing the layout of
the building and observing colorful
artworks.
One of those students easily recalls seeing a Tree of Life
mosaic installation. It was made and signed by patients
encouraged to step away from illness by experimenting with
the creative possibilities of artistry.
The young observer hadn't mentioned the installation to
classmates or visual arts teacher Linda Gealy until he joined
a much larger mosaic project to enhance a facility under con-
struction: Children's Hospital of Michigan-Troy, David K. Page
Building.
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