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September-07 WASHTENAW September 2007 Elul 5767/Tishrei 5768 Volume XXXII: Number 1 FREE HDS's Jennifer Rosenberg Apples & Honey celebration at the JCC receives Grinspoon-Steinhardt Halye Aisner, special to the WJN Award for Excellence pples & Honey, an annual fam- Jewish organizations to provide information ily event that celebrates the fall about their purpose and to educate par- in Jewish Education A Jewish holidays, will take place ticipants about the upcoming holidays: By Samantha Leapman and WJN staff writers on Sunday, September 9 from 1–4 p.m. at Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year; ebrew Day School of Ann Arbor the Jewish Community Center of Washt- Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement; gan co-teacher Jennifer Rosenberg enaw County. Chairing the event this year and Sukkot, the fall harvest H is one of 76 exemplary classroom are Pyper Alpern and Viktoriya Strumba. festival. Jewish educators The event is open to everyone and is free A special New- from across North of charge. comers table will America selected to Participants will be able to taste apples welcome new receive the eighth and honey, symbolic of the Jewish New Year JCC members and annual Grinspoon- and children will have the chance to partici- new arrivals to the Steinhardt Awards pate in many activities including bouncers, Ann Arbor commu- for Excellence in games, shofar blowing and arts and crafts. nity. Jewish Education. Clowns will entertain guests with face paint- Reservations are Rosenberg has ing and balloon animals, and a petting zoo required to attend. worked in the field and pony rides will also be part of the fun. For more informa- of education for Israeli food, kosher baked goods, and lunch tion on sponsoring 15 years. She has a Jennifer Rosenberg will be available for purchase along with a table or to register master of arts degree in education from Har- gifts and Judaica items. for Apples & Honey, vard University and a bachelor of science degree This program brings together many local call 971-0990. n in elementary education from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She was formerly a vice-principal of Oakland Hebrew Day School in Oakland, California, and the school’s general Kol Halev in Argentina studies coordinator; prior to that she was a head teacher for first and second grade. She spent a Jonathan Levine and Cantor Annie Rose, special to the WJN year in an intensive Hebrew language program n late June 2007, Kol Halev, the adult choir Unforgettable receptions with members of the and Americans sang “Hine Mah Tov”—one in at an ulpan in Israel. She has also taught at the of Temple Beth Emeth (whose members Jewish communities, wonderful performances song and heart, arms around each other and Akko Center for Co-Existence in Akko, Israel, I also include members of Beth Israel Con- by collaborating choirs, tours of synagogues, swaying as they sang. where she developed a program that facilitated gregation and the Ann Arbor Reconstruction- beautiful services, and a tremendous sense of Each community had its own flavor and discussions between Jewish and Arab students. ist Chavurah), and non-singing travelers began bonding were highlights of the trip. Concerts character, the most unusual being Moises Ville, The Grinspoon-Steinhardt Awards are de- by Kol Halev in two a town of 2,000 people in the Argentine inte- signed to recognize, honor and support out- Jewish day schools were rior, hundreds of kilometers from anywhere. standing Jewish educators in day schools and particularly memorable, This unlikely rural location was the site of what other formal Jewish educational settings on the with hundreds of chil- is best described as the only shtetl in the Ameri- local level. Each Awards winner has made a ca- dren singing and clap- cas. The travelers visited four synagogues (one reer commitment to the field, has contributed ping along throughout working), a Jewish elementary school (working in some outstanding way to his or her school or the shows. in the afternoon for a small group) and a Jewish community, and exemplifies excellence in Jew- The head of the teachers’ seminary (used only sporadically). The ish education. These teachers passionately en- Jewish community in most notable structure is the Kadima Theater, gage children in Jewish learning, convey to them Cordoba addressed Kol built in grand European style, and inscribed a love of Jewish history, Torah, Talmud, Israel Halev and friends after prominently in Yiddish . and/or the Hebrew language. They are from the first concert: “You The history involves a community from diverse backgrounds, representing each of the have come from so far Kamenetz-Podolsk, Ukraine, that sought to es- North American Jewish denominations. away, and we have only cape pogroms and other hardships of the late JESNA (Jewish Education Service of North Kol Halev of Temple Beth Emeth met, yet already we are 19th century by purchasing land and settling America) developed the Grinspoon-Steinhardt family. We are one. We in rural Argentina. In the process, they found Awards in partnership with the two founda- a 12-day concert tour of Argentina, visiting must keep our new community together al- plenty of hardship, disease, and starvation, but tions as a reflection of the deep commitment synagogues, Jewish centers, old-age homes, ways; our children must know each other, must ultimately came under the sponsorship of the Harold Grinspoon and Michael Steinhardt have and other sites of Jewish and Argentinean life. know the love we share and the one-ness of us. Baron Moses Hirsch—hence the name ”Moises for Jewish education and their recognition that The 55-member tour group spent time in six You have brought us something we will trea- Ville“ (pronounced in Argentinean Spanish high caliber educators comprise the basis for a cities and towns, with eight concerts by Kol sure. Please come back to us again.” Then every something like ”moy sess vizheh.”) The com- meaningful Jewish educational process. In the Halev engaging audiences in each community. member of the diverse crowd of Argentines Continued on page 37 Continued on page 37 Washtenaw Jewish News NON-PROFIT ORG. In this issue… 2935 Birch Hollow Drive U.S. Postage PAID Ann Arbor, MI 48108 Ann Arbor, MI Beth Israel's Federation Enclosed… Permit No. 85 Trip to Leaders You will find the Temple Beth Emeth Kol Halev Israel Ethiopia CD from their tour of Misssion Argentina this summer. 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