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