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Israel Unmasked
Fulfilling moments mark Temple Israel mission.
Tel Aviv, Israel
a surgeon to relieve Hack's pain.
The physician also followed up
on Hack's two-day hospital stay.
Shachar and Temple Israel coordi-
nated so that Dorothy could stay at
the hospital.
ARZA World, a Reform Judaism
travel subsidiary, arranged for the
Hacks to connect with the rest of
the mission-goers in Jerusalem.
Hack called Dorothy his
"woman of valor:'
"She was there all the time and
never left my side — and is now
my home nurse to help me with
the aftercare he told the JN.
W
hen Rick Kay turned
60, and his fiancee,
Julie Rubin, turned
50, his mother, Nancy Firestone of
West Bloomfield, wished the two
of them could travel to Israel for
the first time.
So as a gift, she sent the
Birmingham couple on Temple
Israel of West Bloomfield's mission
to Israel from April 23 to May 6.
"She wanted me, since I had
sent my children there, to go to
Israel, too:' Kay said.
And the trip, featuring three
P2G Rewind
buses and 120 participants, didn't
disappoint.
Rick Broder of West
As he sat in a semicircle
Bloomfield took time to tell the
with 30 bus mates
Partnership2Gether
while overlooking
story during a stop at
the sun-splashed
a Druze village in the
Mediterranean Sea in
Judean Mountains. The
Tel Aviv on the last
Detroit Federation P2G
day, Kay said, "I had
steering committee
come looking for all
— member explained that
those Jewish National
Detroit Jewry's business,
Fund trees I had
educational, medical
planted over the years,
and cultural exchange
but instead found my
with
the Central
Robert Sklar
Galilee
communities of
roots.
Contrib uting
Nazareth
Illit, Migdal
"This has been a
Edito r
HaEmek and the Jezreel
very special time for
me he said.
Valley goes back 21
Leaders of the ARZA World-
years.
hosted mission were Rabbis
"It used to be the whole P2G
Harold Loss and Paul Yedwab, and
budget was the $600,000 that the
their wives, Susan and Wendy, and Detroit Federation gave each year:'
Cantor Michael Smolash, and his
he said. "Now, thanks to fundrais-
wife, Dr. Jen Green.
ing, grants and philanthropy, our
three sister communities together
Sudden Illness
give about the same amount each
Bob Hack of West Bloomfield
year. That makes it not only an
wound up at Ziv Medical Center in equal effort, but also equal dollars
Tzafat in the Upper Galilee three
invested — a true partnership:'
days into the mission thanks to an
More Reflections
abscess.
By coincidence, the physi-
In her closing impressions, Susie
cian taking charge was Dr. Inbar
Berman of Farmington Hills
Ben Shachar, whose family had
talked about
hosted Hack and his wife, Dorothy,
how the sojourn
for dinner the evening before.
"brought the
Home hospitality was part of
richness of
the mission's stop in the Central
this land to life
— physically,
Galilee, the Jewish Federation
spiritually, his-
of Metropolitan Detroit's
Partnership2Gether (P2G) region.
torically:'
Shachar heads up Ziv's
Steve Sallen
Steve Sallen
of Orchard Lake
obstetrics-gynecology unit, but
he helped facilitate scheduling
repeated a popu-
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At the William Davidson-endowed archaeological park, which exhibits the layers of discover-
ies made in the Old City, from the Canaanite (Bronze Age) period to the 14th-century Marmluk
(Muslim) period: Mark Klein and Lori Fullett, both of West Bloomfield; Susie Berman, Farmington
Hills; Brenda Steuer, Orchard Lake; Mona Shane, Phoenix (formerly West Bloomfield); Perri
Goodman, Farmington Hills; Beverly Tepper and Randi Sakwa, both of West Bloomfield; Robert Sklar,
Farmington Hills; and Michael Kay and Julie Rubin, both of Birmingham.
Sheri and Jeffrey Weiss of Farmington Hills on
a rooftop overlooking Jerusalem's Old City.
Ron and Susan Hodess of West Bloomfield at
ancient Petra during a mission track to Jordan.