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May the coming year be filled with
health and happiness for all our family and friends.
L’Shanah Tovah!

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The Board of Directors, Volunteers and Staff of

Yad Ezra

thank our Jewish community for its
generous support in helping us
alleviate hunger for the past 28 years.

Your help makes a tremendous difference
in the lives of those most vulnerable.

Best wishes for a healthy, happy and
peaceful new year!

May the New Year
bring to all our friends
and family
health, joy, prosperity and
everything good in life.

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Rosh Hashanah

2018
5779

W

hen the sun sets on Rosh
Beth Ahm in West Bloomfield. He
Hashanah, many of us
said the online and printable journal
will have spent one or two resources will be made available to
days in reflective prayer and con-
his congregants through the syna-
templation of the year to come.
gogue bulletin and Facebook page. “I
Traditionally, Jews are
like how 10Q coaxes the user
ABOVE:
expected to spend the days
into journaling, so, in a year’s
Reboot Creative
between Rosh Hashanah
Director Francine time, they can look back and
Hermelin Levite
and Yom Kippur — the Ten
see if they accomplished
speaks with people what they set out for them-
Days of Awe — maintain-
at Detroit’s Jewish selves.”
ing this reflective mood
Food Festival.
and renewing relation-
Engaging Jews during the
ships with those we have
High Holidays is just the
wronged by asking for forgiveness.
beginning for Reboot.
Then, reality sets in. Instead of
With established followings in
reflecting, we grapple with the mun- cities like San Francisco, New York
dane details of juggling work with
and Los Angeles, Reboot made its
the schedules of the new school year. debut in Detroit last fall, thanks to
That can make hanging onto that
a grant from the William Davidson
sense of awe nearly impossible.
Foundation.
That’s where 10Q comes in. Part
Creative director Francine
journal, part Jewish communal
Hermelin Levite, a Detroit native,
project, this initiative created by a
said that Reboot entered Detroit’s
Jewish renewal organization called
“Jewish ecosystem” starting last fall
Reboot provides those who sign up
with a series of outreach program-
on its website (doyou10q.com) with
ming and partnerships with existing
a daily prompt for 10 days that can
Jewish oganizations through the
be answered and stored in a private,
arts, culture, food and ritual.
online journal. The website also con-
Just as it did last fall, Reboot,
tains a 10Q Toolkit for Jewish com-
with its area partners, will set up
munity leaders that offers ideas and
pop-up 10Q tents at locales such as
resources on how to start out the
Temple Israel’s Labor Day picnic.
Jewish year in a mindful way, either
Participants write their reflec-
in a synagogue or religious school
tions about the year to come on
setting or at the family dinner table.
postcards, which will be displayed
Over a decade old, Reboot was
for others to read and then will be
the brainchild of authors, Jewish
mailed to the writer months later.
educators and other creatives who
“Our current work has centered
believe the arts are ideal vehicles to
around cultivating partnerships and
re-imagine Jewish rituals and tradi-
enriching communities with our cur-
tions for coming generations of Jews. rent portfolio of national programs,
About 11,000 participants nation-
including 10Q,” Levite said. “But now
ally have logged in answers to 10Q’s
that Detroit is a core Reboot city,
online journal.
we are able to incubate our newest
Questions ask users to ponder
programs here. Reboot is best expe-
their personal successes and regrets
rienced at our signature events such
of the past year or events that hap-
as National Day of Unplugging and
pened within their family or in the
Death Over Dinner to spark conver-
world that impacted their lives.
sations around Jewish identity and
“10Q’s online and off-line prompts meaning that then ripple throughout
provide a great way to capture
the country.” •
that evaluation of your life, those
Learn more about Reboot at www.reboot.net
thoughts about the future as well as
focusing on the past so we can move or contact Jessica Katz, Southeast Michigan
coordinator, at jess@rebooters.net or (248)
forward in the new year,” said Rabbi
320-1992.
Steven Rubenstein of Congregation

