MARCH 4 • 2021 | 25
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tudents of JCC’s Sarah
& Irving Pitt Child
Development Center
created family trees in honor
of Tu b’Shevat, which staff have
plastered along the hallways of
the center.
Staff sent home all the basic
materials the families would
need to create the trees and
asked them to sit with their chil-
dren and talk about what trees
provide and what they enjoy
doing outside in nature.
The families created the
trees together and the students
brought them to school.
Shannon Hall, director of the
Center, did a short “walk in the
trees” during a Facebook Live
stream on Jan. 28 for all the chil-
dren and their families to see the
trees in the building. Parents are
not currently allowed inside the
building due to COVID restric-
tions.
“Usually, families take a really
long time picking up their chil-
dren because they’re looking at
all the wonderful family trees,
but this year with them not
being able to come into our
building, we felt like this was
such a great way for the children
to ‘see’ their families inside of
our building,
” Hall said. “It’s been
really a different year due to the
pandemic and this has brought
so much happiness to them.
“
A lot of our families were
very appreciative because it’s
been a long time since they’ve
been inside our hallways,
” Hall
added. “This has just been a
really fun way to celebrate Tu
b’Shevat.
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Children at JCC
Celebrate Tu b’Shevat
with Family Trees
DANNY SCHWARTZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER
1. Zelda, age 2, and Yoela, age 23 months, Kimmel. 2. Gabrielle Blechman,
age 4. 3. Kaylee Budai, age 1.5. 4. Terran Merker shows off his family tree.
5. Jordyn Monson, age 4. 6. Charlotte Bogorad, age 3.
PHOTOS COURTESY JCC SARAH & IRVING PITT CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER
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Puzzled by the
Cold Weather?
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till agonizingly bored
from the isolation
of the pandemic?
Running out of things to
watch on Netflix? Hadassah
Greater Detroit may have
the cure.
Hadassah is having a
jigsaw puzzle fundraising
sale, which ends at noon on
March 31.
The puzzle has 500 pieces,
measuring 13 x 19 inches.
The picture on the puzzle
is from one of the covers of
Hadassah Magazine, show-
ing the founding women of
Hadassah with women in
the Israeli Army. Puzzles are
$36 each.
Hadassah, the Women’s
Zionist Organization of
America, represents approx-
imately 4,000 Greater
Detroit area women. Mandy
Garver, a co-vice presi-
dent of philanthropy, said
the fundraiser money is
going to Hadassah Medical
Organization’s general fund.
Puzzles can be purchased
online at hadassahmidwest.
networkforgood.com/
events/25667-greater-de-
troit-puzzle-sale and are
available for pickup or
delivery. Contact Garver
at mandy.garver@gmail.
com to arrange a time to
pick it up at her house or
she’ll drop it off. Shipping is
available for an additional
$10 per puzzle.
“It gives you something
to do together with your
family,” Garver said. “It’s
a nice indoor thing when
you’re trying to figure out
what you can do while the
snow is still on the ground
here, that’s indoors and isn’t
putting you at risk.”
DANNY SCHWARTZ STAFF WRITER
Hadassah offers 500-piece jigsaw
for indoor fun.