Photos by Rob Dawson
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By The Water
Metro Detroit Jews performed tashlich to prepare for Yom Kippur.
N
early 1,500 participants took part in “Rosh
Hashanah on the River,” a communitywide
tashlich event held Oct. 6 at the Chene Park
Amphitheatre in Detroit.
In addition to performing the ritual of tashlich en
masse by throwing their bread crumbs into the Detroit
River, people enjoyed arts and crafts, learned about the
five species essential for Sukkot, took a “Breathe Break”
led by Kids Kicking Cancer and learned to blow the shofar
calls by playing them on kazoos.
There were three food trucks, including Karen Schultz’s
Nosh Pit and Chef Cari’s new fleishig (meat) kosher
food truck. Raffle donations came from Fuse 45, Dubin
Cleaners and Fathead, with snack donations by KIND.
Politicians attending included Michigan Lt. Gov. Brian
Calley, Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence and Detroit
City Council member Gabe Leland.
Lead sponsors for the event were The Well, Jewish
Federation’s NEXTGen and JFamily departments and
the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation’s
Grassroot Initiative program, plus a host of local Jewish
organizations.
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As people approached Chene Park, signs asking
questions of reflection greeted them.
Rabbi Dan Horwitz teaches the crowd the traditional notes
of the shofar on a kazoo; participants all had kazoos, too.
Spencer Burke of Huntington Woods
helps his son Brenden, 4, decorate a
Star of David.
A young participant performs
tashlich by casting her bread into
the Detroit River.
Tekiah Gedolah: Participants take a turn sounding a kazoo
or shofar.
M
ore than 250 people gathered at the Franklin
Cider Mill Oct. 9 with Congregation Shaarey
Zedek to perform the ritual of tashlich, which
means “casting off ” in Hebrew. Bread crumbs are tossed
Michelle Adamcyzk and Barbara Dworin, both of Bloomfield
Hills, flank Sam, Kim and Sloane Lotzoff of West Bloomfield.
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Photos by Allison Gutman
Shaarey Zedek’s Tashlich At The Cider Mill
into a flowing body of water, symbolically casting off
“our negatives” from the past year. In addition, families
enjoyed cider, donuts and shmooze time.
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Shaarey Zedek families perform the ritual of tashlich.
Sarah, Eric, Riley and Sydney Gutman of Huntington
Woods