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Clockwise from top left.
Jody Schostak takes a hall walk at Hillel Day School.
Sharri Urnansky is a Project STaR intern, working at
the Federation building.
Teitel resident Allan Smith gets help from Clarice
Huckstep, a Jewish Family Service homemaking
services employee.
Rabbi Bergstein of Bais Chabad starts his SAJE class.

Bob Littky leads "Exercise with Bob" at the
Fleischman Residence.

Hillel Day School teaches 720 stu-
dents this year. It was granted
$485,000 of the $1,528,200
Federation allocated to four local
Jewish day schools.

Senior Sweat

It's 3:38 p.m. when we arrive at the
Fleischman Residence in West
Bloomfield.
As we enter the atrium, we hear
music blaring from a boom box.
Bob Littky leads 35 residents,
mostly in their 80s, during a daily
30-minute "Exercise with Bob" ses-
sion, commanding the crowd to
move. The group, in various degrees
of flexibility, some standing, some
sitting, try to keep up with the 64-
year-old marathon runner.
Fleischman is a licensed home for
the aged offering assisted living ser-
vices and part of Jewish Home and
Aging Services, funded last year with
$288,370 in Federation allocations.

Extra Levels Of Care

It's 4:45 p.m. at Teitel Apartments and
Services in Oak Park, and the workday
is nearly ending for Clarice Huckstep
of Detroit. As part of her duties in
homemaking services for the Jewish
Family Service, she has spent three and
a half hours getting medication for
Allan Smith, a 54-year-old Teitel resi-
dent suffering from a debilitating dis-
ease that has left him unable to work
and waiting for a lung transplant.
She comes by twice a week, per-
forming whatever household chores
are necessary for Smith and the 10
other disabled clients on her list.
Smith said her help allows him to
remain in Teitel, which, we are told, is
a "supportive housing" apartment
building for chronically ill or socially
isolated residents who don't need 24-
hour care. Without Huckstep, he told
us, he would be in a nursing home.
Teitel gets substantial help both
from the Federation — $1,524,355

in 1998 — and a like amount from
the Jewish Fund.

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Night Classes

It's 7:25 p.m. at the West Bloomfield
JCC and Rabbi Chaim Moshe
Bergstein of Bais Chabad of
Farmington Hills stands near a wall in
the first-floor gallery, watching as 60
fresh minds slowly take their seats.
This is the first of three classes called
"Chassidus, Kabballah and
Reincarnation," a Seminars for Adult
Jewish Enrichment (SAJE) course offered
by the Jewish Community Center and
the Agency for Jewish Education.
Eleven other seminars are being
taught tonight throughout the building.
Within two hours, with seminars
complete, the students make their way
through the parking lot and head home.
Tomorrow, the sun will come up,
Lenna will start her car, Cindy will wait
for her ride to the JVS, and the wheels
of Federation will begin to turn agian. I I

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