Looking For Sisterhood

Above: Suzi Malach and Marilyn Schelberg knit lap blankets at a Temple Israel
Sisterhood board meeting.

LYNNE MEREDITH COHN

Staff Writer

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Inset:
Temple Israel Sisterhood president Sheila Schiffer shows o yarn to
make lap pads for nursing home residents.

11/21
1997

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hey dress in the latest
trends; their hair coiffed :
and curled and colored.
They are contemporary r
women who have a hand in many
projects, including knitting small lap
blankets for nursing home residents.
Sheila Schiffer, Temple Israel
Sisterhood president, runs through old
and new business, to the faint sound
of needles clicking. She holds up
vibrant skeins of yarn. The lap blan-

kets will be Chanukah gifts for resi-
dents of West Bloomfield nursing
homes.
The sisterhood members also will
compile packages for college students.
Oh, and one woman accompanied the
temple's youth group on a field trip tc
Cleveland.
It's the new sisterhood, a micro-
cosm of the synagogue, a group of
women who embrace the old tradi-
tions while leading their members in
new directions.
Women of Reform Judaism, the
umbrella organization for Reform sis-