There's only ONE school where your
teenager will be surrounded by:

• A recipient of the National Presidential Award for Excellence in Science and
Mathematics Teaching

• An attorney and high school history teacher with practical experience in two
of the three branches of government

• A well-respected rabbi who is comfortable in the world of Maimonides and
Matisse, Rashi and The Ramones, Prayer and the Pistons

• An NOSY rabbi who has touched and inspired the lives of hundreds of teenagers

• A highly talented childreli's theater director known and loved throughout
the Detroit area

• An athletic director with 385 wins, 28 championships and two state
championship titles

• A dynamic member of the U of M Hebrew language and literature faculty
who is an expert in children's literature

• A Harvard doctorate who is a recognized leader in educational administration
and the integration of the arts and education

• An MSU assistant professor of teacher education committed to promoting
excellence in Teaching Practice

• A rabbi with a passion for teaching who is building a school that will teach the
minds and touch the hearts of the future leaders of American Jewry

• A Phi Beta Kappa math teacher and tutor who has a four-year waiting list

• A French and Spanish teacher who brings excitement to language learning

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The Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit

Where academic excellence and menschlichkeit count.

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FACULTY PICTURE (left to right): Joyce Sherman (Foreign Languages), Coach Bob Shoemaker (Athletics), Rabbi Aaron Bergman (Jewish Studies),

Gale Lawson (Mathematics), Stu Schultz (Science), Dr. Yaakova (Cobi) Sacerdoti (Hebrew Language and Literature), Rabbi Lee Buckman (Head

of School), Dr. Renee Soloway Wohl (Professional Development and Consultant in Jewish History), Amy Bloom (History and Social Sciences),

Mitch Master (Performing and Fine Arts). Missing from photo: Dr. Helene Cohen (Academic Affairs) and Rabbi Steve Burg (Rabbinics).

For further information, contact Head of School, Rabbi Lee Buckman, at 248-592-JAMD (5263),

or Director of Recruitment, Dana Rhodes, at 248-489-5669.

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body has the experience."
Presentations will include a program
dealing with intolerance, focusing on
Armenian, Bosnian, American Indian
and Jewish genocide, as well as discus-
sion of Japanese interment camps.
Original poetry and music by students
will be performed. The drama club will
'present The Trial of Dr. Schultz, based
on the actual trials of Nazi doctors who
delved into human experimentation.
Students then will decide the outcome.
Interactive exercises designed to
demonstrate conditions of the
Holocaust, and personal presentations
of stories of Holocaust survivors, are
planned.
"The most compelling part of the
program is when survivors come —
watching kids who would never have
this experience — you can really see it
in their faces," says Linda Ashley,
Samantha's mother.
. is to use
"The idea of this program
the Holocaust as an example of what
hate can lead to," Samantha Asley says.
"In this way, we can fight intolerance
and prejudice in our own school.
Because of the diversity that exists in
our school population, teaching toler-
ance is essential."
In support of the program, the
Holocaust Memorial Center has pro-
vided learning materials as well as
names of survivors interested in partici-
pating in the program.
"Any time American young men and
women, especially non-Jews, get
involved in writing and researching the
Holocaust, it is a very positive develop-
ment," says Rabbi Charles Rosenzveig,
founder and executive vice president of
the West Bloomfield center.
The program has new additions this
year. Committee members Shira
Stoorman, 15, of Huntington Woods
and Dayna Frenkel, 14, of Oak Park
produced a video. Samantha Ashley
describes Jr as a "student-created video,
making use of the school's new video-
production equipment."
Included in the video are interviews
with U.S. Rep. Sander Levin (D-Mich.),
Rep. Gilda Jacobs (D-Huntington
Woods) and Shoah survivors.
Also new this year, the students have
invited "righteous gentile" Anneke
Burke-Kooistra, a Mayville, Mich., resi-
dent, to tell her story of how her family
rescued Jews in their native Holland
during the Holocaust.
Rene Lichtman of West Bloomfield
has a special interest in Burke-Kooistra's
words. He says he and others like him
"would be the kids that [Burke-
Kooistra's] family would have hidden."
Also scheduled to speak to students,

