ANNOUNCING THE
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THE JACK & MIRIAM SHENKMAN
CAREGIVING FELLOWSHIP TEAM
The Jack & Miriam Shenkman Caregiving
Fellowship Team is a skill building program to
train and develop the best and the brightest
in end-of-life care. A Shenkman Fellow will
be known as a leader in end-of-life care, both
locally and throughout the nation.
Shenkman Fellows will be top-notch profes-
sionals who dedicate their careers to end-of-
life care for patients and their loved ones. This
distinction will be promoted as a badge of
honor — an indication that recipients have
undergone the most rigorous and wide-ranging
training and professional development avail-
able, and that they are on the cutting edge of
their field. For ten years a new designee will be
chosen each year as a Shenkman Fellow.
THE SECOND SHENKMAN FELLOW:
RABBI IRVING SCHNIPPER
Before the concept of end-of-lfe care became
common practice, Rabbi Schnipper implored
the rabbinic communty to care for the sick
and dying, and in many ways, his teachings
foreshadowed the hospice and chaplaincy
movement in our community. He was a pul-
pit Rabbi for 45 years and retired from Beth
IN CREATING THE JACK & MIRIAM SHENKMAN
Abraham Hillel Moses in 1996. Today Rabbi
Schnipper continues to care for the well aged
and the dying as a chaplain for both the
Jewish Hospice and Chaplaincy Network and
JEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK.
Jewish Home and Aging Services. His com-
passionate visits to dozens and dozens of our
THIS MULTI-YEAR GIFT IS DEDICATED TO
community's elderly each week has earned
him the title of "father of Detroit's jewish
PROVIDING CONTINUING EDUCATION AND
chaplaincy program" in our community.
Rabbi Schnipper will utilize his year as a
Shenkman Fellow to hone his professional
caregiving skills and will teach his rabbinic
colleagues and interns the art of Jewish care-
giving that he as mastered over a lifetime of
delivering compassionate care to fellow Jews.
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