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In The Garden
Ameinu Detroit teams up with Eden Gardens.
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Photos by Esther Allweiss Ingber
erkley-based Ameinu Detroit, a progressive Zionist
organization, did various chores on Sunday, July 17,
to help grow the bounty of Eden Gardens, an urban
garden on the East Side of Detroit. Nine Ameinu members
assisted Karen “Chava” Knox and block club members with
watering, weeding and putting together framed boxes for
making raised gardens. After sharing a birthday cake for
Chava’s birthday, the visitors had dinner at the original
Buddy’s Pizza on Six Mile at Conant.
Ameinu members stand with Eden Gardens neighbors at the community garden’s sign.
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Volunteer Vicki
Salinger of Southfield
puts in a layer of
magazine pages in the
completed box.
Mark Phillips of Oak
Park has little Sarai in
his wheelbarrow.
Harvey Turkel and Mark
Phillips, both of Oak
Park, fit corners on a
box.
Aviva Phillips of Oak
Park works on a raised
garden bed.
Eden Gardens Block
Club leader Karen
“Chava” Knox, seated, a
member of Isaac Agree
Downtown Synagogue,
celebrated her birthday
with the Ameinu guests.
Michal Ram of
Huntington Woods
watered vegetables.
Jeff Ram of
Huntington Woods
uses a drill while
constructing a raised
garden bed.
Shabbat On Location
A
season-ending Shabbat on Location program
from Federation’s SPARC (Single Parent Alliance
and Resource Connection) program was held
June 17 at the Jewish Community Center in West
Bloomfield.
Participants enjoyed a poolside Shabbat meal together
as well as singing — and then more fun in the pool.
To learn more about SPARC, contact Dona Stillman at
(248) 833-2527 or email stillman@jfmd.org.
Photos by Drasnin-Reuben Photography
Single parents and their kids enjoy a poolside program.
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Brayden Munro, 2½, of
Huntington Woods
Ari Ellis, 8
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Erica Bak with children, Benji, 8, Ella, 3, and Nathan, 7
Joel Rosenfeld of West Bloomfield with daughter Raquel,
12, and twins Daniel and Zachery, 9
JBaby Coordinator Mikki Frank, JFamily Director Lisa
Soble Siegmann and SPARC Coordinator Dona Stillman