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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