Friendship Circle's Work
Mentioned In New Book

. the pages of a new
ithin
book on the worldwide
Jewish outreach of
Chabad-Lubavitch is a
tribute to West Bloomfield's own
Friendship Circle.
Author Sue Fishkoff
devotes a chapter in her
book, The Rebbe's Army:
Inside the World of
Chabad-Lubavitch ($26,
Schocken Books, 2003),
to groups she calls the
underserved.
Highlighted are
Rabbi Levi and Bassie
Shemtov, the Chabad
emissaries who creat-
ed and direct the
program Fishkoff
describes as "provid-
ing relief support
for the parent-care-
takers of emotionally
demanding children."
The book chronicles the Friendship
Circle, from its early days when Bassie
Shemtov set out to locate families who
would benefit from the organization, to
her program that now matches more
than 400 teen volunteers with children
with special needs, serving 175 families.
The book includes praise of the $4
million dollar Ferber-Kaufi-nan Life
Town Center, on which construction is

expected to begin soon. Life Town will
be a scale-model city street, including a
restaurant, food store, general store,
movie theater, dentist office and beauty
parlor where kids with special needs
can learn how to interact in real-life set-
tings.
Also on the West
Bloomfield site will
be a facility hous-
ing eight standard
therapy rooms, a
gross motor skills
room and sensory
rooms with sand,
water and bean tables.
The Daniel B. Sobel
Friendship and
Counseling Program,
where Rabbi Shemtov
counsels drug addicts, is
also described in the
book, as is the $2.7 mil-
lion contributed it has
received so far.
While Bassie Shemtov
said, "It is definitely exciting to be writ-
ten about in a book that will be read all
over the world," she sees the inclusion
in terms dhow it will help other chil
dren. "What I really hope is that
shlichim _(emissaries) will use this as a
tool to get support to start Friendship
Circles in their cities," she said ❑
Shelli Liebn2an Dorfman, staff writer

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