Contact Person: Janet Weingarten
Sunday school with bar/bat mitzvah preparations.
JEWISH CULTURAL SCHOOL
2935 Birch Hollow Drive
Ann Arbor, MI 48108
Phone: (734) 975-9872
E-Mail: jcs@jccfed.org
Web site: www.hvcn.org/info/jcs/
Contact Person: Helene Tamarin, school director
Sunday school, holidays, secular bar/bat mitzvah
ceremonies.
JEWISH PARENTS INSTITUTE
Jewish Community Center
6600 W. Maple Road
West Bloomfield, MI 48322
Phone: (248) 661-7636
Fax: (248) 661-7711
Contact Person: Marilyn Wolfe, educational
director
An affiliate of the JCC, provides a cultural/historic
approach to Jewish education through a family-oriented
Sunday school located at the JCC.
PRENTIS RELIGIOUS SCHOOL
Temple Beth El
7400 Telegraph Road
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301
Phone: (248) 851-1100 ext. 3126 or 3127
School Phone: (248) 865-0612
Fax: (248) 851-1187
Contact Person: Elizabeth Bloch, R.J.E., M.A.
Provides education grades K-12 as well as b'nai mitzvah
and confirmation.
TEMPLE BETH EMETH
2309 Packard Road
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Phone: (734) 665-5817
Fax: (734) 665-9237
E-Mail: tbeschool2@aol.com
Web site: www.templebethemeth.org
Contact Person: Terri Ginsburg
Jewish education for ages 3-18. Programs include
Hebrew and religious school focusing on Israel history,
Torah study, holidays, ethics, culture and traditions.
Choir and musical ensemble integrated into program.
TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL
2300 Center Ave.
Bay City, MI 48708
Phone: (517) 893-7811
Fax: (517) 893-1812
Web site: www.tbisrael.org
Contact Person: Marilyn Dresser, religious school
administator
Joint Hebrew and religious school for children in
preschool-8th grade offered in Bay City.
TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL
801 W. Michigan Ave.
Jackson, MI 49202
Phone: (517) 784-3862
Fax: (248) 788-4144
E-Mail: plaut@rust.net
Web site: www.uahc.org/congs/mi/mioo3
Contact Person: David Eizelman, president
Religious school and Hebrew school during the school
year.
TEMPLE EMANUEL
1715 E. Fulton St.
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Phone: (616) 459-2143
Fax: (616) 459-6510
Web site: www.templeemanue/gr.org
Religious school for pre-kindergarten-12th grade.
TEMPLE EMANU-EL
14450 W. 10 Mile Road
Oak Park, MI 48237
Phone: (248) 967-4023
Contact Person: Marcia Leibson
Religious and Hebrew School.
TEMPLE KOL AMI
5085 Walnut Lake Road
West Bloomfield, MI 48323
Phone: (248) 661-0040
Fax: (248) 661-5901
E-Mail: kolami@speedlink.net
Contact Person: Rabbi Norman T. Roman
Religious school.
TEMPLE SHIR SHALOM
3999 Walnut Lake Road
West Bloomfield, MI 48323
Phone: (248) 737-8700
Fax: (248) 737-8862
Web site: www.shirshalom.org
Contact Person: Amy Seidman, educational
director
Hebrew school offered for pre-K-7th grade and Sunday
school for pre-K-6. The Madrichim Program is a monthly
program including two retreats per year for children in
grades 7 and 8.
WORKMEN'S CIRCLE/ARBETER
RING, THE
26341 Coolidge
Oak Park, MI 48237
Phone: (248) 545-0985, (248) 543-9307
Fax: (248) 545-2628
E-Mail: ellenbb720@aol.com
Web site: www.circle.org
Contact Person: Ellen R. Bates-Brackett, director
Secular/cultural approach, emphasizing ethics, values,
history, holidays, customs, Yiddish and Yiddishkeit.
Warm, homey atmosphere, experiential learning,
holiday celebrations. Intermarried families welcome.
Personalized bar/bat mitzvahs, ages 13-18. New
preschool/parent program.
!SCHOOLS/
JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS
AKIVA DAY SCHOOL
21100 W. 12 Mile Road
Southfield, MI 48076
Phone: (248) 386-1625
E-Mail: YshAkiva@speedlink.net
A nursery-12 Orthodox Zionist day school. Students
enter the finest universities and are infused with the
desire to continue their intensive Judaic education into
their adult years.
BAIS MENACHEM ACADEMY
14601 W. Lincoln Blvd.
Oak Park, MI 48237
Phone: (248) 542-1792
Fax: (248) 543-1793
E-Mail: rabbichaimmoshe@aol.com
Contact Person: Rabbi Chaim Moshe Bergstein
A progressive day school stressing development of
skills in the spirit of the teachings of Rabbi M. M.
Schneerson, the Lubavitch Rebbe.
BEIS CHAYA MUSHKA
GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL
25401 Coolidge Hwy.
Oak Park, MI 48237
Phone: (248) 586-1301
Fax: (248) 586-1301
E-Mail: dkagan@mji.edu
Contact Person: Dr. David Kagan
A Lubavitch girls high school for grades 8-12. Provides a
high standard of Judaic and secular studies. Last year's
entire graduating class continued with Jewish
education. Thirty percent of the graduates earn
scholarships.
BETH JACOB SCHOOL
A division of Yeshiva Beth Yehudah
14390 W. 10 Mile Road
Oak Park, MI 48237
Phone: (248) 544-9070
Fax: (248) 544-4662
E-Mail: bethyehudah@hotmail.com
Contact Person: Rabbi Nathaniel Lauer
Intensive academic program of Torah and general
studies. Graduates perpetuate the Torah heritage
through examples of virtue, goodness and devotion and
transmit it with love to family, children and community.
CHEDER OHELEI, YOSEF YITZCHOK
LUBAVITCH
14100 W. Nine Mile Road
Oak Park, MI 48237
Phone: (248) 541-5441
Contact Person: Rabbi Bentzion Stein
Highest standards of Cheder education. Boy's
elementary and high school/Mesivta program at Nine
Mile location. Girl's elementary school at 25401
Coolidge Highway.
HEBREW DAY SCHOOL
OF ANN ARBOR
2937 Birch Hollow Road
Ann Arbor, MI 48108
Phone: (734) 971-4633
Fax: (734) 971-6204
Contact Person: Sheva Locke
Full-day K-5 community school offering a general
studies program in addition to immersion in a
Hebrew/Judaic curriculum. Open to Jewish families
regardless of background.
HILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF
METROPOLITAN DETROIT
32200 Middlebelt Road
Farmington Hills, MI 48334
Phone: (248) 851-3220, (248) 851-6950
Fax: (248) 851-5095
E-Mail: mb4ohil@moa.net
Web site: www.hillel.pvt.k12.mi.us
Contact Person: Dr. Mark Smiley, headmaster
Established in 1958. K-8 Conservative day school.
Hebrew/English curriculum, comprehensive education
program stressing social action and social
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