Without You, The Suruiuors' Stories
Might Never Get Told

She comes from
Przemysl, Poland. She
is among the 10% of
Polish Jews who
survived Nazi
Occupation. Now she
is in her 80's. Her
family's graves are
overgrown and
crumbling. Her
experiences have gone
untold. Remembrance
and Reconciliation,
Inc., an Ann Arbor
non-profit, is working
to restore Przemysl's
Jewish cemetery and
to publish the stories
of survivors like her—
in Poland, where they
most need to be heard.

Help us fight Anti-Semitism in Poland.
Help us preserve the Memory.

Please send your tax-deductible contribution to:

R emembrance and Reconciliation, Inc.

1835 Cambridge Road <> Ann Arbor, MI 48104

For more information, call: (734)

665-5 73 4

• Are you battling with your
child over food?

• Is your child sneaking food?

Is your child gaining too
much weight?

• Do weight problems
run in your family?

CCWM

Center
for Childhood
Weight Management

Let the
professional
staff of
The Center for
Childhood Weight
Management help you
and your child.

For more information about
classes and locations, call:

(248) 661-6625

"Healthy Kids Are Happy Kids"

3/26

1999

16 Detroit Jewish News

Federation and Madonna University partner
to enhance home hospice care in Israel.

Freedman said the inclusion of
Madonna University could only enhance
the project. By creating a long-distance
learning program specifically for the pro-
he universal philosophy of
gram, "the concepts we share in caring
hospice — giving dignity to
for the dying have absolutely no barriers
people in their last
between our religions," he said.
moments of life — has
The program will help those nurses,
linked a local Catholic university with
administrators, social workers and med-
the Jewish community to provide help
ical personnel who are working in estab-
in a partnership region of Israel.
lishing the hospice, said Sister Mary
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Franceline, Madonna University's presi-
Detroit staff members and officers met
dent. "It's a way to increase
this week with hospice educa-
Ab ove•
how we apply this philosophy
tors from Madonna
Rabbi Freedman: to people who really need it,"
University in Livonia, as part
A partn ership to she told the Federation repre-
of a project that has set up a
help set iously
sentatives Monday.
central Galilee home hospice
The
university offers three
program.
degree
programs
in hospice education
The project began in 1996 when the
and boasts of almost 250 students
director of a medical center in Israel
working in hospice care across the
approached Federation's Partnership
country.
2000 project and asked for help in devel-
About a dozen hospice programs
oping home hospice care. He wanted a
operate in the Detroit area, and most
closer match to the style of hospice care
managed-care systems have them, a stark
offered in Michigan. Here, hospice staff
contrast
to Israel. Israeli medical profes-
members are allowed to care for some of
sionals say only three of the dozen or so
the dying at home or in nursing homes,
hospices there provide hospital inpatient
while freeing up space in emergency
facilities and can be reimbursed.
rooms and hospital beds, according to
Rabbi Freedman said there is no
Rabbi E.B. (Bunny) Freedman, the
official hospice reimbursement from
director of Jewish Hospice Services at
third-party insurers or the managed
Hospice of Michigan.
care systems in Israel.
A home hospice was set up last
"Our long-term dream is to change
October near Afula, and the HaEmek
that,"
he said. With the hospice oper-
Medical Center joined the program a
ating mainly on fund-raising dollars, it
month later, dedicating some bekj• in
won't last forever.
the hospital for hospice care.
"It will only really change when the
reimbursement changes, and we can
Harry Kirsbaum can he reached at
make certain allowances in our [the
(248) 354-6060, ext. 244, or by e-mail
Partnership 2000]region to cover us," he
at hicirsbaum@thejewishnews.com

HARRY KIRSBAUM
StaffWriter

T