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lized the impetus of "Rekindling
Shabbat" to evaluate, develop and/or
enhance Shabbat learning experiences
in our pre-school, after school, school
vacation and senior adult programs —
all of which serve over 500 families on
a weekly basis. We have created
Shabbat bulletin boards in the hall-
ways; the pre-school sells challah each
week; thousands of educational mate-
rials, Shabbat candles and prayers have
been distributed during the last several
months on our new "Traditions" cart;
and we also have added Shabbat can-
dlelighting times to our monthly
newsletter, the "Centerline," which is
mailed to over 4,000 households. This
is a start and will continue to enhance
our role as a partner in the
"Rekindling Shabbat" project as well
as Shabbat education in general.
On another topic, you are correct
that the Center has been open on
Saturday afternoons since 1961,
almost 36 years. Although it is very
difficult to base current practices and
needs on a decision which was made
in 1959, the current expression of our
center's use of Saturday afternoon is to
provide the opportunity for those
community members who wish to uti-
lize this time and the Center's facilities
for the pursuit of relaxing and revital-
izing leisure activities.
Our effort to transmit an apprecia-
tion of the Shabbat is clearly a priority
as noted in the growing number of
Shabbat education programs at the
Center which take place on the six
remaining days of the week.
We do agree that the nature and
scope of all the Center's Judaic educa-
tion and celebration programs, not
only those related to Shabbat, would
be greatly enhanced with additional
financial support. Due to budget limi-
tations over the last few years, the
Center has been unable to staff a
Judaic Enhancement Department; but
this situation was reversed with a 1996
board decision and a challenge grant
from Irwin and Judy Edelson to devel-
op such a department. Under the lead-
ership of Irwin Alterman, the chair of
our Judaic Education Department,
Sharon Hart, the chair of our newly
formed Program Steering Committee,
and Beth Greenapple, our new depart-
ment director and Judaic educator, a
committee is being formed and goals
are being developed.
One of the first actions of our team
was to consult with Rabbi Mark
Charendoff, a national consultant
from the Jewish Community Centers
Association of North America.
Through this, we have developed a
new youth Jewish education program
in the Janice Charach Epstein
Museum Gallery which is very suc-
cessful; and we created a fitness related
tzedakah project which is destined to
become a national model.
We are confident that these plan-
ning efforts will culminate in a com-
prehensive proposal for quality Judaic
enrichment programming, and we
hope that the leadership of the Center
and the community will provide the
necessary financial support where, and
we quote your article, " ... it has been
sorely absent for so many years."
Harry Eisenberg
President, Jewish Community Center
David H. Sorkin
Executive director, Jewish Community
Center
Situation
Well Reported
I am writing in response to the letter
to The Jewish News written by Robert
Naftaly, president of the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit
("Qualities Not Lacking" Dec. 19).
In his letter, he expressed the feel-
ing that The Jewish News staff was "ill
informed" and its criticism and disap-
pointment with the lack of adequate
nursing home service to our Jewish
community was "unwarranted." It
seemed to me that as I read The Jewish _/
—\
News editorial of Dec. 19,
"Continuing Bed Sores,"I was struck
by the depth of understanding which
this paper has shown.
We are all pleased that the
Commission on Jewish Eldercare
Services (COJES) is making such
extraordinary" pfogress toward
addressing the unmet needs of the
elderly, as Mr. Naftaly informed us.
I believe that the leadership of then
Jewish community has all but aban-
doned the most vulnerable of its elder-
ly population, the person who requires
nursing home care.
Anyone who has a family member
requiring adequate nursing home care
in the Jewish community knows that
we no longer care to provide this ser-
vice and that our leadership has cho '
sen to direct our financial resources \--\
along other paths.
I, for one, believe that The Jewish
News understands this situation very
well.
"
Arlene Goldberg
Bloomfield Hills