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44 October 2020 FOCUS ON YOUTH

Temple Sinai’s week of Maccabiah Games

starts with exciting Ultimate Scavenger Hunt

By Gail Glickman and Bethany Leinweber
emple Sinai youth and families ilies received a bag of goodies and Leinweber, Director of Youth Educa- thusiasm of Liana, age 8, co-captain
had a delightful time during activities to do for a week of Virtual tion, Outreach & Engagement. Temple of the Green team, and Preston, age 5.
Tthe week of Maccabiah games Maccabiah. They were split into two Sinai’s SAFETY board with Deb Bry- “What a great experience! Even though
(MACARONA 2020) August 2-7. On teams: Blue Buffs and Green Masks. an, Youth Group Advisor, helped lead it was virtual, it was such a great in-
Sunday, August 2, families met in the During the week, they had challenges programming as well as judge the en- teractive way to get the kids, families,
temple parking lot and took off for an to do at home. Competitions included tries. teams and the temple to come togeth-
around-the-town Scavenger Hunt to candy sushi, songwriting and compos- Ethan Freeman, age 9, co-captain er. We can’t wait to participate next
start the adventure. They had to read ing a Jewish melody, jump rope, cre- of the Blue team, said, “The MACA- year!”
clues, go to the spot, take a picture and ative masks, and Zoom kahoots. Blue RONA really made me feel that win- Bethany declared, “This was the
send it to Geveret Bethany. It was an Team took the win, but in the end, they ning doesn’t matter but having fun first of many such games, as everyone
hour of family fun! became Turquoise to be one Kehillah does, and multiple brains are better enjoyed it so much!”
When the Scavenger Hunt ended, Kedosha (holy community). than one. The MACARONA was real- For information on Temple Sinai’s
MACARONA 2020 broke and fam- The games were led by Bethany ly fun.” Religious School, email bleinweber@
Alix Leinweber, age 12, exclaimed, sinaiSRQ.org.
“Even though we did not win, it was so
much fun!”
Sheena Lambright shared the en-

Steven, Liana, Preston and Sheena Lambright enjoy the games Alix Leinweber Ethan Freeman creates a movie poster

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