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Essay Contest
for High School Seniors

How can Jewish values help create
a future free of domestic abuse?

100 MENSCHES invites graduating Jewish high

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school seniors to submit an 800 1,000 word
original essay describing how Jewish values can
help create a future free of domestic abuse.

These Jewish values may help guide your thinking:

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RODEF SHALOM

Compassion and
caring for others

The pursuit of understanding,
empathy and mutual respect

SHALOM BAYIT

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Harmony in
the home

In your essay please be specific about changes that
would help play a role in eliminating domestic abuse
in the Jewish, and broader, community.

The TOP THREE submissions will be awarded
college scholarships totaling $5,000:

1 st Place
2 nd Place
3 rd Place

DEADLINE

$2,500
$1,500
$1,000

April 20, 2018 by 5pm

Visit 100mensches.org for judging criteria,
student eligibility guidelines, and to download
the application. Email your submission and
application (as PDFs) to lklein@jfsdetroit.org.

Please make sure your name isn’t on your
submission as judging will be anonymous.

Questions? Contact Danny Kaplan
at dkaplan@jfsdetroit.org.

Winners will be notified by April 30th and
recognized at our May 8th Annual Meeting

100 MENSCHES is an initiative of JCADA,
the Jewish Coalition Against Domestic Abuse,
a program of Jewish Family Service.

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drop it, you’re done,” he says.
“The challenges were really intense.
You’re there and you’re thinking ‘Oh
my God, I’m in the MasterChef kitchen
cooking with all their fancy equip-
ment.’ At first, I felt the pressure of
the cameras, but I quickly learned to
ignore them.”
Vieder, along with his mom, spent
an unspecified amount of time living
in a California hotel (they can’t say
how long because that would lead to
speculation about how long he lasted
on the show and if he won).
Accompanying her son meant
being away from her husband, Jason,
and two other children, Gabe, 10, and
Lindsay, 7.
“Jason stepped up to be Mr. Mom
while I was gone. He was truly fantas-
tic,” she said of her husband, an emer-
gency-room physician at Henry Ford
Hospital in Dearborn. “The house was
definitely a lot cleaner and quieter
while Sammy and I were gone.”
While Vieder and the other contes-
tants were taping or attending school,
a parent or chaperone had to remain
at the studio. Stacy said she passed
the time by planning Sammy’s June
2017 bar mitzvah (he had a cooking
theme), reading and talking with the
other parents.
Vieder says his favorite part of being
on the show was getting to know the
contestants. When he celebrated his
bar mitzvah last June, a highlight of
the weekend was having a handful of
his new friends travel to Michigan to
celebrate with him.

ABOVE: Enjoying his herb-seared
salmon with farmers ’ market roasted
veggies, wilted spinach and polenta.
TOP: Vieder was one of 40 kids chosen
from a nationwide search to make the
cut for the first episode of MasterChef
Junior Season 6.

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MasterChef Junior’s sixth
season premieres 8 p.m.
Friday, March 2, on Fox.

The Vieders are relieved that the
season is finally here. “His friends
started to not believe him,” Stacy says.
“He’s ready to finally be able to share
the MasterChef Junior experience with
family and friends who have been
patiently waiting for the show to air,
and he hopes everyone enjoys watch-
ing the show as much as he enjoyed
being a part of it.” •

