ARCADIA -- Home Care & Staffing Helping people stay at home & healthier longer aft Hillel Day School adds to its professional staff. A full service agency providing quality care for your loved ones. • Live-In or Hourly • No minimum hours • Complimentary Assessment • Ongoing Care Coordination • All employees are bonded & insured A Caregivers Assist With: 'Medication Reminders 'Safety Monitoring 'Transportation Call Lynn Feinberg Today 'Bathing & Dressing 'Kosher Prepared Meals 'Skilled Care (248) 594-4574 visit us online • arcadiahomecare.com I don't wear a kippah. I have tattoos. I have two kids. I am a humanist. Who am I? Jeffrey Falick, Rabbi The Birmingham Temple orml ime 4111 11 al. a As the new rabbi at The Birmingham Temple, I'm honored to follow in the path of our movement's founder, Rabbi Sherwin Wine. • f Join us as we celebrate life, the High Holidays and the firstfr 50 years of this congregation and the movement it gave birth to. "Wt• The Birmingham Temple was unique 50 years ago. it still is. ' K 4 28611 West 12 Mile Rd., Farmington Hills, MI 48334 For more information or to reserve High Holidays tickets, call 248.477.1410 www.BirminghamTemple.org 34 ,ugust 22 • 2013 JN New Leadership s school approaches, Hillel Hillel: Merrick, a third-grader, and Day School of Metropolitan Sydney, who will be in kindergarten. They live in Farmington Hills. Detroit announces two Friedman has been working as a new leadership positions: Melissa Michaelson as the K-8 principal and school psychologist for 16 years in Dr. Jennifer Lerner Friedman as the the Walled Lake Consolidated School school's dean of student learning/edu- District and has had a wide variety of work experiences at all levels. She has cational psychologist. Michaelson has worked at Hillel in significant experience in intervention Farmington Hills for three years as a planning and implementation of dif- kindergarten teacher and, this past ferentiated curriculum for students. year, as the K-4 division head. Prior to She has expertise in educating all Hillel, she taught in Bloomfield Hills types of learners by evaluating and schools for eight years. In 2002, she addressing students' individual learn- was named Sam's Club Teacher of the ing styles and needs as well as educat- Year. ing and collaborating with teachers to Earning her bachelor's degree in assist them in helping their students education from Indiana University, succeed. Friedman has a PhD in Michaelson received a master's degree educational psychology, is a licensed in educational leadership and a certifi- psychologist and certified school psy- cate in administration from Oakland chologist. University. She also has received edu- She will be working with the teach- ers and administration to maxi- cational endorse- ments in Reader's mize the benefits of Hillel's new Workshop, Writer's team teaching structure that will Workshop and place two teachers in the grades Everyday Math. 1-4 classrooms. An added bonus is As the K-4 Friedman's background in Hebrew Division Head, language and Judaic studies, which she quickly estab- will allow her to give support to lished herself as a the Judaic studies program. strong and effective "I look very forward to tran- educational and sitioning toward individualizing instructional leader. Dr. Jennifer student growth in a more progres- She has earned the sive fashion in the academic and Friedman respect and admira- social-emotional domains," says tion of the teachers Friedman. "This is an exciting while also investing time to be at Hillel, and I relish the her time in getting opportunity to contribute to our to know each child growth as a school community." in her division. Friedman is married to Lowell "When students and has two children, who both walk into the doors attend Hillel: Max, a fourth-grader, of Hillel, no matter and Jacob, a first-grader. They live the age, I passion- in Huntington Woods. ately feel that each "Imagine a Jewish day school in child will learn to which we 'carry' on our traditions stand tall with con- that firmly and ethically plant us fidence and have a on the ground, while simultane- Melissa Michaels on feeling of self- iden- ously soaring upward into the tity and content- future with the skills necessary to ment:' she said. succeed in a global community," says "Through the dedication of our staff Steve Freedman, head of school. and commitment to our core values, I "This is Hillel's direction, and I hope that when the students leave the am confident that Mrs. Michaelson doors of Hillel, they feel challenged and Dr. Friedman will help us get critically and creatively and have a there." ❑ connection to Judaism and our com- munity:' To learn more about Hillel, contact Michaelson is married to Jeremy Amy Schlussel at (248) 539-1484 or and has two children, who both attend email her at aschlussel@hillelday.org.