§=11
-1111
AtMII
06]ArcHERWOOD
the
Roping Them In
The Heatherwood
Takes you There.
Our driver... at
your service!
\‘' •
-,-;;;7,--
Youth organizations broaden efforts to involve
pre-teens in community life.
The Heatherwood gets you there. Through rain or
snow our courtesy van gets you where you need to go. Leave your
worries behind and leave the driving to us!
At Heatherwood, we offer a warm, wonderful atmosphere,
and provide all the services our residents need to remain as
active in the community as they wish.
Southfield's Most CO istinguishe
etirement Community Offers:
JULIE WIENER
• Lunch available (7 days per week) - something the others don't o e
• Evening meal provided (7 days per week)
• On site staffing 24 hours a day
• Emergency pull cord in each apartment
• Local transportation for errands & appointments
• Full size apartment with kitchen • Weekly housekeeping & linen service
• Personal care assistance available through on-site health care staff
One & Two Bedroom Apartments Now Available!
JOIN US FOR AN OPEN HOUSE
Friday, November 27 • 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
For information, call Kathy Ostrowski: (248) 350 1777
22800 Civic Center Drive • Southfield, MI
—4 11711131.31:
WE SERVICE EVERYTHING WE SELL...
AND EVERYTHING ANYBODY ELSE SELLS.
Anybody Can Sell jewelry—
But Nobody Provides Service
& Discounts Like Weintraub
Sunset Strip • 29536 Northwestern Hwy. • Southfield • 248-357 -4000
Hours: Monday 7 8,aturday, 10:00 - 5:00 • In-store Specials Everyday
11/13
1998
22 Detroit Jewish News
Staff-Writer
et 'em while they're young.
So say youth group leaders
who, once charged with
engaging high school stu-
dents in Jewish life, are increasingly
recruiting kids at earlier ages.
Some examples:
• The local office of National
Conference of Synagogue Youth
(NCSY), an Orthodox youth group,
recently hired a staff person to focus on
programming for Junior NCSY.
Nationally, NCSY is expanding its sum-
mer camp programs for pre-teens.
• Kadima, a feeder group for United
Synagogue Youth (USY), now boasts a
chapter at every local Conservative syna-
gogue and is better-known among par-
ents, says regional USY field worker
Sharon Levine.
• The Reform movement's Union of
American Hebrew Congregations is
expected to announce a major funding
initiative next month targeting sixth-
through eighth-graders.
• B'nai B'rith Youth Organization of
Michigan's kickoff dance this year For
the Teen Connection, its middle sc. -01
group, attracted more participants
ever before. The 10-year-old commu
ty-based program for sixth- through
eighth-graders has its own staff person.
The new focus on younger kids
comes at a time when communal leaders
are recognizing the importance of infor-
mal Jewish education in cementing feel-
ings of identity. It is also an acknowl-
edgement of the fact that today's Jewish
Top of page: Mike Weingarten, 12, of
Huntington Woods uses rope supports at
a BBYO Teen Connection Event. 7_,J
Above: Emily Weingarten, 12, of
Bloomfield Hills literally learns the ropes
at a BBYO Teen Connection Event.
teens have busy schedules and interests
that go beyond the synagogue.
"Kids today are much more taxed,
there's so many extra-curricular
options," said Rabbi Tzali Freedman,
regional director of NCSY. "If you don't
get their allegiance at an earlier age, you
often don't get them at all."
Rabbi Arthur Vernon, director of
educational development at the Jewish
Education Service of North America
UESNA), said the focus on younger
teens is coming from the youth groups'
national parent organizations, and that
this makes sense.
Vernon said JESNA has to provide
youth outreach to children still in mid-
dle school because "pulling them in at
high school is a lot harder."
But programming for younger kids is
not just a junior version of regular youth
programming. It has to be tailored so it