Rosh Hashanah

Holiday Fun

Families learn and create at the annual Shofar Factory Festival.

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undreds of families from
across Metro Detroit
joined for a day of fun
and Jewish education at the Sherrill
Berman Shofar Factory Festival at the
Jewish Community Center in West
Bloomfield.
Participants of all ages had
the opportunity to make their
own shofar, climb Mt. Sinai (a 30-foot
rock wall — Moses descended from
Sinai on the first Yom Kippur), sample
apples and honey at the PJ Library
tent, meet and learn from a scribe and
beekeeper, tend to animals in a biblical
petting farm, take home "Tashlich" fish
and create their own stuffed Torahs.
The program, now in its sixth year,
was arranged by the Tugman Bais
Chabad Torah Center, Janice Charach
Art Gallery and Shalom Street and
sponsored by the Sherrill Berman
Children's Art Education Fund.

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Ilanit Atias and her son, Charlie, practice with their newly made shofar.

Anaeli Seliger of West Bloomfield deco-
rates her new shofar.

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Steve Jasgur and his daughters Baila and Simone

Naomi Lupovitch of West
Bloomfield chooses a
Shofar to make.

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A child makes his own
stuffed Torah.

Eliana Jacobs of
Southfield gets an
lsrael-themed face
painting by volunteer
Annette Newman.

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Rabbi Shneur Silberberg and Akiva Whitt do a shofar-making
demonstration.

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Rabbi Levi Kagan, a certified scribe, shows a child how
to write the Hebrew letters with ink and a quill.