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Annual Tradition

Photos by Rudy Thomas

Kever avot program brings l oved
ones to cemeteries.

Stones are traditionally left after a visit to a gravesite.

Jane Jacobs remembers her parents as volunteer Ellie
Provizer provides support.

Volunteer Shoshana Rubenstein
assists Marvin Keif by placing a
flower on his mother’s grave.

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emple Israel held its
annual kever avot program
Sept. 25. Kever avot is the
tradition of visiting gravesites and
remembering loved ones before
Rosh Hashanah. Temple Israel pro-
vided volunteer escorts for elderly
or infirmed individuals to visit
their loved ones’ gravesites at sev-
eral cemeteries in Metro Detroit.
These photos were taken at
Machpelah Cemetery in Ferndale.
Barry Feldman and Joe Roberts
were bus captains for this site.

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Shirley Keller
with volunteer
Lisa Rosen read
a passage for a
loved one.

Pearl Coffman reads aloud at the graves of
her parents.

Shofars And More!

Shofar Factory Festival brings together tradition and hands-on fun.

Michigan band.
Many participants also created their own
kosher-to-use shofars and learned about where
the horns came from and how to make them
kosher.
Sponsors were the Bais Chabad Torah Center
of West Bloomfield, Michael Berman and the
Sherrill Berman Art Education Fund.

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Gormezano and
Aryeh Silverstein
of West Bloomfield
add a little bling to
their shofar.

Southfield
resident Marion
Brown watches
Layla Hill, 7, get
her face painted
by Chana Finman
of Oak Park.

28 October 13 • 2016

Photos by Rudy Thomas

T

he annual Sherrill Berman Shofar
Factory Festival was held Sept. 25
at the Jewish Community Center in
West Bloomfield. About 700 people participated
in fun activities, like a petting farm, bungee
jumping, climbing a 30-foot “Mount Sinai,”
arts and crafts, learning about how bees make
honey and hearing music from the Kids Klez of

Rabbi Shneur Silberberg explains the meaning and origins of the shofar.

Alicia Felhandler of West
Bloomfield and her daughter
Tobi prepare their shofar.

Mendy and Chaya Stock of Oak Park oversee their
painting daughters Miriam, Raizy, Chana and Baila.

Benjamin Siporin of
Southfield flies high.