SEPTEMBER 30 • 2021 | 25

Fall Fix Up is generously sponsored by:

Join us November 7th!

Fix Up this Fall!

Invite your family, friends or community
Invite your family, friends or community
groups to this outdoor, family-friendly
groups to this outdoor, family-friendly
volunteer event. Help rake leaves and
volunteer event. Help rake leaves and
winterize homes (outdoor only) of older
winterize homes (outdoor only) of older
adults served by Jewish Family Service.
adults served by Jewish Family Service.

All ages welcome

Drive-thru contactless supply pickup
by prior appointment starting at 9am at

Congregation Shaarey Zedek
27375 Bell Road, Southfield

To register,
visit jfsdetroit.org/fallfixup
or contact fallfixup@jfsdetroit.org

Worksites are pre-assigned. Register by October 29th.

*We will be following State COVID protocols for this event. Should
*We will be following State COVID protocols for this event. Should
we conclude that it would not be safe, Fall Fix Up will be canceled.*
we conclude that it would not be safe, Fall Fix Up will be canceled.*

Teens Can Apply Now for
a Bronfman Fellowship

Learn About the
Jews of Mexico

The Bronfman Fellowship
announced that applications
are now being accepted for the
36th cohort of this transforma-
tive program.
The Fellowship selects 26
outstanding North American
teenagers for an intellectually
challenging year of program-
ming that begins with a free
summer in Israel between the
Fellows’ junior and senior years
of high school, followed by
monthly virtual experiences
and two seminars in the U.S.
The program educates and
inspires exceptional young
Jews from diverse backgrounds
to have a significant impact
on the world as community
builders, deep thinkers, moral
voices, and cultural creators.
The nonprofit Fellowship
was founded by Edgar M.
Bronfman, z”l, formerly CEO
of the Seagram Company Ltd.
and a visionary Jewish philan-
thropist.
In addition to learning with
stellar educators, Fellows also
have the unique opportunity
to engage with leading intellec-
tuals, artists, and religious and
cultural leaders. Past speakers
have included journalist Matti

Friedman; author Nicole
Krauss; musician and Yiddish
scholar Anthony Russell; and
Torah scholar Dr. Avivah
Zornberg.
Fellows also interact with
a group of Israeli peers who
were chosen through a parallel
selection process by the Israeli
branch of the Fellowship,
Amitei Bronfman.
Additionally, they can par-
ticipate in the Fellowship’s
arts tracks: workshops in
areas including poetry, dance,
drama, visual narrative and
music, taught by leading inno-
vators in the field of Jewish art.
Upon returning home from the
summer in Israel, Fellows also
explore major themes in North
American Jewish life.
Applications for the 2022
Fellowship are due Dec. 8,
2021, and are available online
at bronfman.org. High school
students in the United States
and Canada who self-identify
as Jewish and who will be in
the 11th grade in the fall of
2021 are eligible to apply.
The Fellowship is a plural-
istic program for Jews of all
backgrounds; prior Jewish edu-
cation is not required.

Mexico is home to a large
and diverse Jewish com-
munity whose members
hail from places as diverse
as Syria, Turkey, Poland or
Ukraine. As in the United
States, Jewish communities in
Mexico have had to negotiate
their own ethnic and religious
identities in the larger context
of the country’s national nar-
ratives.
Writer Jacobo Sefami is a
Syrian Jew who grew up in
Mexico. He will guide his
audience through the maze of
cross-cultural references that

have contributed to consoli-
date Jewish Mexican identity.
The event will be held from
10-11 a.m. Thursday, Oct.
7, in Founders Ballroom A
at Oakland University. The
event can be attended in per-
sono or virtually. To register,
go to bit.ly/2ZeJ4xZ.

Jacobo
Sefami