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