The Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit
Give your child the
After School
Experience of a Lifetime
JCC Afterschool Club
The JCC Afterschool Club offers a kaleidoscope of creative, fun
and challenging activities for children from kindergarten through 5th Grade,
Daily activities and highlights for your child include:
Swimming • Cooking prod ects • Tennis • Rollerblading • Arts & Crafts
Supervised homework assistance • Outdoor play • Gym games
Plus.... Birthday Parties .3 .4:)erstar of the week •Specid Entertaiirnent•Theme clays
*The Af erschool Club takes place Monday through Friday from 330-6 pm,
'The JCC provides transportation from your child's school to our MaplelDrake Campus.
*Bt.45 service varies according to registration per school,
A Kosher snack is provided,
* As an extra service, the JCC provides Break Days - vacation days and travel camp programs during
school breaks,
For additional information, please call the West Bloomfield JCC
at (248) 661-7656 or (248) 661-7687.
JCC Fall Classes
The JCC offers over L100 classes from which to choose, including:
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Arts Crafts • Dance • Theatre • Rollerhockey • Hag Football • Gymnastics • Basketball
(For detailed c lass liStingS, please refer to the JCC Fall Class Catalogue)
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The Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit
6600 West Maple Road • West Bloomfield, MI • 48322
Jimmy Prentis Morris Building • A. Alfred Taubman Campus • 15110 West Ten Mile Road • Oak Park, MI • 48237
What's In Store?
New buildings, facilities, staff and
curricula greet Jewish students this fall.
JULIE WIENER STAFF WRITER
T
he first day of school is a
time for students to greet
old friends and show off
how much they've grown
and changed over the summer.
But the students aren't the only
ones who have changed:
DAY SCHOOLS
Some Akiva Hebrew Day
School students will be sticking
around in the building a little
longer each day to participate in
the school's new latchkey pro-
gram. Fifteen kids have signed up
for the four-day-a-week program
so far, says principal Rabbi Kan
mi Gross, who adds that a home-
work club is in the works as well.
On the after-school and home-
work front, Hillel Day School
will be providing after-school
homework help for fifth- to eighth-
graders. The tutors will be Hillel
alumni.
At Sally Allan Alexander
Beth Jacob School for Girls,
girls in all grades will be explor-
ing the sciences in
greater depth in a
new, fully-equipped
lab donated by the
Meer family. Howev-
er, lest one think the
students are at risk of
becoming science
geeks, a new set of
writing and commu-
nications books —
stressing critical
thinking and research
skills — have been purchased for
fifth-12th graders.
Darchei Torah has hired its
first director of development, Jeff
Maza.
Yeshiva Gedolah is ensuring
its long-term financial security by
starting up a scholarship endow-
ment, thanks to a $250,000 chal-
lenge grant from Gary Shiffman.
The school hopes to raise the mon-
ey — which Shiffrnan will match
— over the course of the next two
years.
A veritable building boom of re-
ligious schools is occurring
throughout metro Detroit.
Shaarey Zedek will be unveil-
ing its new school in West Bloom-
field at a dedication ceremony this
weekend. The 7.5-acre facility in-
cludes computers, athletic and art
equipment.
Congregation Shir Tikvah
in Troy anticipates the completion
of its synagogue building (which
will include classroom space) dur-
ing the coming school year.
Beth Shalom in Oak Park will
be breaking ground for its school
wing on Sept. 7, after years of
holding classes at local public
school buildings, in trailers and in
the basement. Education Direc-
tor Shoshana Ben-Ozer says she
hopes the new wing will be up and
running within a year.
Renovation at the Workmen's
Circle has been on a smaller
scale: The school combined two
rooms to make for a larger, more
open room for its oldest students.
Beth Achim will
be expanding offer-
ings at its satellite
school in West
Bloomfield by offer-
ing several Friday
night family events
throughout the year.
And post b'nai mitz-
vah students will
have Tuesday-night
dinner classes at stu-
dents' homes.
Parents at B'nai Moshe will
be participating in monthly Shah-
bat programming with their chil-
dren. Incidentally, students of all
grade levels won't just be learning
liturgical Hebrew this year, but
will be adding biblical grammar
and vocabulary to their repertoire.
Temple Shir Shalom is also
altering its Hebrew curriculum by
integrating it with Judaic studies
and starting formal instruction at
the pre-kindergarten level. "We
need to tickle kids' language abil-
ity early," explained education di-
rector Mindy Nathan.
Post b'nai mitzvah students at
Temple Kol Ami will be getting
out through "Eighth Grade on
Wheels," exploring practices from
other Jewish denominations and
other faiths throughout metro-
politan Detroit.
New teachers at the Birming-
ham Temple include two assis-
tant rabbis and a rabbinic intern.
While children attend Sunday
school, parents will be able to at-
tend a lecture series lineup that
includes speakers from Focus
Hope and the National Holocaust
Museum. O
New
buildings,
new people,
new
programs.
AFTERNOON SCHOOLS
Adat Shalom is continuing to
look for a director of education, but
in the meantime Rabbi Daniel
Nevins is filling in. A new youth
and education program director,
Adam Schaefer, has been hired,
as well as mother-daughter team
Harriet and Talya Drissman, who
will be coordinating art activities.
New staff fill the ranks at Tem-
ple Israel as well, including
Rachel Erlich, the new director for
the library and media center, as
well as specialists in the area of
Israeli dance and music.
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