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came together at Wayne State to 
promote the messages to vote, 
ways to register and how to get 
involved in getting out the vote.
• There was a drive-by voter 
registration rally in Campus 
Martius Park. 
• A Voter Town Hall in 
partnership with the Interfaith 
Intercampus Coalition, includ-
ing HMD Rabbi Michele 
Faudem, the head of Ministry at 
Madonna. University, the head 
of the ministry of University 
of Detroit Mercy and both 
the Office of Student Life and 
Office of Social Justice and 
Inclusion at UM Dearborn.
• A Challah if UR Voting 
event, where participants 
receive a challah handout in a 
last-ditch effort to remind peo-
ple to vote.
• The interns also meet with 
students to educate and discuss 
the election through one-on-
one virtual coffee dates.
This is just some of the activ-
ity, which has engaged over 
100 local college students this 
semester. We hope you will 
include us in the future when 
you do stories about Hillel 

activity in Michigan.

— Sally Krugel, board president

Miriam Starkman, executive director

Hillel of Metro Detroit

Hillel Day School 
Success
I am following up on an article 
on Hillel’
s quarantine in early 
October. In my mind this was 
a “school COVID success” (in 
these strange times I don’
t know 
how to put it). 
 Because of the school’
s firm 
mask-wearing policy and clear 
protocols, subsequent testing 
for staff indicated there was 
zero transmission among the 
ECC community. My daughter 
returned to school Monday, 
Oct. 12, so happy to be with 
all of her friends and teachers. 
Masks work! Wear a mask. 

— Michal Nodel

Bloomfield Hills

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Jewish Family Service. I’
ve 
also had the opportunity to 
make deliveries. The older 
adults who receive the food 
are so grateful, and the driv-
ing volunteers are generous 
and kind, knowing that for 
many of the KMOW recipi-
ents, the delivery person may 
be the only person they see 
and talk to each day.
This work also has the 
additional benefit of witness-
ing how federal and state 
funding affects individuals 
and families. At the beginning 
of COVID-19, there was an 
influx of money to help the 
homebound adults. The num-
ber of older adults who fell 
under the definition of home-
bound increased during the 
pandemic. Prior to COVID-
19, the recipients of the meals 

did not receive a Shabbat 
lunch for Saturday. Now there 
were extra funds to help with 
an additional meal. 
Then, toward the end of 
the summer, funds began to 
get cut, and so was Shabbat 
lunch. In addition, some of 
our older adults either no 
longer needed the service 
or no longer qualified. The 
number of people served by 
KMOW is constantly chang-
ing, influenced by politics and 
public policy, communal abil-
ity and individual needs. 
 

Mara Moss is a volunteer and on the 
Executive Committee of the Board 
of Jewish Family Service, associate 
chair of Jewish Women’
s Foundation 
of Metropolitan Detroit and on the 
Board of Women’
s Philanthropy of 
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan 
Detroit. She lives in Bloomfield Hills.

