FEBRUARY 23 • 2023 | 37
More than 200 people joyfully brought
in the new week at Hillel Day School’s
Havdalapalooza, sponsored by Hunter
Pasteur Homes and Star Trax Events.
The evening featured lively songs,
crafts, live music and creative activities.
Local clergy performed Havdalah bless-
ings followed by a variety of fun Hebrew
songs while families danced with glow
sticks.
The all-clergy band included Adat
Shalom’s Hazzan Daniel Gross and Rabbi
Daniel Horwitz, B’nai Moshe’s Rabbi
Shalom Kantor, Shaarey Zedek’s Hazzan
David Propis and Temple Israel’s Rabbi
Jennifer Lader.
Attendees enjoyed sand art, slime
making, cookie decorating, licorice
havdalah candles, a bounce house and
so much more thanks to Hillel’s partner
organizations Adat Shalom, Aish, BBYO,
Beth Ahm, B’nai Moshe, Congregation
Shaarey Zedek, Frankel Jewish Academy,
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit, Tamarack Camps and Temple
Israel.
Participants danced and sang along
with Hillel parent Randy Kaplan.
Hillel Day School’s
Havdalapalooza
ABOVE: Aryeh Gamer helps
second-grader Naomi Wagner and
fourth-grader Isabella Moses.
TOP: Anna Stern (ECC4) and second-grader Matthew Stern.
ABOVE: Hillel teacher Kim Stern, first-graders Eliana Shayne and
Reese Stern, fourth-grader Audrey North and third-grader Sienna
Stern.
ABOVE: Second-graders Noa Lader and
Avery Weisel.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF HILLEL
Andrew Goldberg,
Lucy Goldberg, Elana
Ackerman and Isla
Goldberg
Adat Shalom’s Hazzan Daniel Gross, Shaarey Zedek’s Hazzan David
Propis, Adat Shalom’s Rabbi Daniel Horwitz, B’nai Moshe’s Rabbi
Shalom Kantor and Temple Israel’s Rabbi Jennifer Lader