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decided Moishe House would be
the perfect setting for the group's
fourth annual Thanksgiving dinner.
The holiday event helps foster
community among Detroiters and
former Detroiters in Israel tempo-
rarily on various programs or who
have made aliyah and now live
there permanently.
About 50 people attended,
including some Israeli spouses, boy-
friends, girlfriends and fiances. The
group also welcomed four Israelis
who live in the Detroit Federation's
partnership area in Central Galilee,
Raban said.
Participating were Stephanie
Horwitz of West Bloomfield, who
just completed two years of Israel
Defense Forces (IDF) service;
Jessica Curhan of West Bloomfield,
who works at the Jaffa Institute;
Ilan Ben Ami, who is studying
medicine through the IDF; and
Esther Rubyan of Detroit, a pho-
tographer in the Israel by Design
internship program.
"Thanksgiving was one of my
first times in Israel when I really
missed being in the States, and it
made me feel at home to be with
friends from Detroit:' said Zev
Newman, 23, of Southfield. He is
interning at a Tel Aviv business
consulting firm that works with
startups and small- to medium-
sized enterprises.
"I think it shows how special
the Detroit community is that
Federation makes an effort to reach
out to those in Israel," he said. His
U.S. housemates wondered why
their federations didn't do some-
thing similar.
Raban said finding a whole
turkey was challenging. Israel is
among leading countries in per-
capita consumption of turkey meat,
thanks to its use in shwarma. "But
no one buys a full turkey, ever."
"When I did our very first
Thanksgiving four years ago, I had
to pre-order a full turkey in the
supermarket:' he said. "The cashier
had a shocked look on her face.
She asked, 'What is this? A gigantic
chicken?' She didn't even have a
code for it at the registry. They had
to make a special code for it:'
Now Raban uses a caterer who
has her own source of turkeys. *

I The Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit's SAJE (Seminars for
Adult Jewish Enrichment), in partnership with the Holocaust Memorial Center
Zekelman Family Campus and the JFCS Holocaust Center, San Francisco,
presents:

The Diary of Rywka Lipszyc:
Through the Lens of Faith

The Writings of a Jewish Girl from the
Lodz Ghetto Found at Auschwitz in 1945
and Published 70 Years Later

Sunday, December 13, 2015 at 2 p.m.
The Berman Center for the Performing Arts

Join us following the program for a meet and greet,
book sale and light refreshments.

When Auschwitz was liberated, a doctor from the Red Army made
a surprising find: a diary, ended in mid-sentence, belonging to a
young girl named Rywka Lipszyc.

What became of Rywka was a mystery.

The program will include the premiere of a 17-minute documentary film
that recounts the story of the diary, followed by a panel discussion
with Dr. Yedida Kanfer and Dr. Anna Muller, moderated by Dr. Jan Maisel.

Cost: $12
For more information or to purchase tickets, please call The Berman Center
for the Performing Arts at 248.661.1900 or visit theberman.org .

SAJE is endowed by a generous gift from Cis Maisel Kellman and is supported by Carol & Ronald Fogel,
Sheri & David Jaffa and Sophie Pearlstein through the Center's Pillars of Light program.

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