TaMBROFF (►) 1401WEIA. CIVIC "BEST BUY" ALERT 2003 CIVIC LX SEDAN - 2003 CIVIC EX OUPE The fourth area is the interaction of formal and informal education. Appelman hopes to tap the resources of both the Women's American ORT- Michigan Region interactive learning museum being built at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield and the board of the Fresh Air Society, which runs Tamarack Camps. Mark Davidoff, Federation executive director and chief operating officer, said the Alliance's task will be "to understand what each user wants and to coordinate providing these services." Added Appelman, "When a family moves into this community, regardless of what stage they are in, we will pro- vide them with a way to access the best Jewish education possible." An Upward Direction Jewish education in metropolitan Detroit has been on a steady course of improvement for more than a decade, said Dr. Conrad Giles of Bloomfield Hills. Dr. Giles was Federation president in 1990 when he commis- sioned and was an active participant in a report on the state of education in the Detroit Jewish commu- nity. The Giles Report recommended the dis- solution of United Hebrew Schools and the creation of the AJE. "Since then, the movement has been a forward momentum," said Dr. Giles, also past president of the Council of Jewish Federations, one of three predecessor organizations of the UJC. "It would be wonderful if this progress were made as if it were on a Rand McNally map, where you draw a straight line between points with no evolution involved. But there was no way in 1990 to put out the kind of structure that would be required to provide the kind of education we do today." The realignment approved Jan. 23 was endorsed by a more recent Federation report, chaired by Federation board member Robert J. Gordon of Huntington Woods. "In my years as Federation budget chairman, I welcomed this type of thoroughness," Dr. Giles said. "That report assessed every activity — every strength, every weakness. "The community would be well- served if we had that type of thorough analysis of every department and agency. We have a responsibility to our donor community to make sure our money is well-spent." Dr. Giles called himself "an interest- ed observer" of the realignment process, thanks to the active involve- ment of his wife, Dr. Lynda Giles, who has served as co-chair of Federation's Alliance and president of the AJE. 'Alliance was for vision; Agency was to bring that vision to life," said Dr. Lynda Giles. "This is the completion of the work we started with the found- ing of Federation's Alliance in 1998, putting the missing pieces together." Through Federation, Detroit's Jewish schools — day, afternoon and supplemental — have improved their financial base as they have honed their educational offerings, Davidoff said. 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