Farmington Hills, MI 48334
(248) 851-5105
FAX: (248) 851-3190
Email: adatshalom@aol.com
Website: www.adatshalom.org
Contact Person: Dottie Levitsky, director;
Gail Raminick

Adat Shalom's experienced staff makes
learning fun and being Jewish a joy.
Child's social, emotional, cognitive,
motor and independent skills grow in
nurturing environment. Programs for 17
months through 6 years.

Child Development Center*

Contact Person: Joyce Epstein, director

Jewish Community Center - Kahn Building
6600 W. Maple Road
West Bloomfield, MI 48322
(248) 661-7605
FAX (248) 661-3680
Contact Person: Fredelle Schneider

Nursery program includes social,
language, intellectual, physical and
emotional development. Enrichment
classes, early care and extended hours
available. Jewish awareness is stressed.

Early childhood programs for over 45
years. Children thrive in Jewish
environment rich in play-based
activities. Programs include
infant/toddler, parent/toddler,
transitional preschool, preschool,
extended care, kindergarten enrichment
and children's enrichment classes.

Akiva Day School

21100 W. 12 Mile Road
Southfield, MI 48076

Congregation Beth Abraham
Hillel Moses

(248) 386 1625

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Email: YsliAkiva@speedlinknet

Akiva is an Nursery-12, Orthodox Zionist
Day School. Akiva students enter the
finest universities and are infused with
the desire to continue their intensive
Judaic education into their adult years.

5075 W. Maple Road
West Bloomfield, MI 48322

(248) 851-6880

Congregation Beth Shalom Early
Childhood Program

14601 W Lincoln
Oak Park, MI 48237

(248) 547-7970

FAX (248) 547 0421
Contact Person: Nancy Glen, preschool
board chair

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An upcoming preschool, parent-
toddler, parent-baby and enrichment
classes are all part of this synagogue's
philosophy of meeting the needs of its
membership and community of
families.

(248) 851-8820

FAX (248) 851-6488

W

hen Minnie Schiffman gets her rocker going, the
preschoolers sitting on the floor around her in
"I just love
the library of the Kahn Jewish Community Cen-
people;
ter pay close attention. As she reads in her expressive voice,
the children are lured by the tale and by the master story-
I especially
teller.
adore children."
"Slowly they move closer and closer to my feet," she says.
"I adore the children. They are so funny"
Four times each Thursday, Minnie volunteers to read to the
JCC children. Four times each Thursday she can count on getting hugs from these
youngsters who get grandmotherly hugs back. The win-win routine has been going on for
six years and now is a JCC preschool tradition.
"Minnie is a retired Southfield elementary school teacher," says JCC librarian Julie
Solomon. "She's phenomenal with the children. She's a people person who needs to be
around them and helping."
As a library volunteer, she's excellent as a walking reference person who always helps with
a smile ... and an occasional song. She also has a good knowledge of Yiddish, Judaic
Honorable Menschen
topics and of Detroit history.
"I remember the glory days of Detroit," says Minnie, who also volunteers twice a
week as a docent at the Detroit Historical Museum. "When I take people through the
exhibit on old Detroit, I can tell personal tales."
Southfield
Minnie volunteers at the Northville District Library, too, but the JCC Library is really
her main cause. She began volunteering there in 1993 when a Jewish News article
reported that the JCC library would close. Now she diligently keeps records of volunteer hours as testament
to the need for the facility. In November, she will represent the JCC Library as a storyteller at the annual
Jewish Book Fair.

Keri Guten Cohen

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