Photos by Paul Fischer

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Early Start

Farber students started
their school year ready to go.

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tudents at Farber Hebrew
Day School-Yeshivat Akiva in
Southfield started school on
Wednesday, Aug. 24, rather than after
Labor Day, as the majority of schools
do. Despite the early start, students
arrived happy and ready for a good
school year.

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Brian Schwartz of West Bloomfield with his two sons, Eli (grade 5) and Jonah (grade 2)

Lailie Greenbaum (grade 2) and Matthew
Greenbaum (nursery 4) of Southfield

Jocelyn Thompson
of Huntington
Woods with Sophie
(grade 4), Samuel
(grade 1) and Oliver
(nursery 3)

Samantha and Louis Schwartz of West
Bloomfield (grade 11)

Libby Gomez of Oak Park (grade 4)
with her sister Adelaide (nursery 4)

School Supplies

NCJW/Greater Detroit keeps filling backpacks for needy kids.

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ational Council of Jewish Women,
Greater Detroit Section volunteers
packed 1,200 backpacks filled
with school supplies for children in need in
grades K-12 in Oakland County on Aug. 18
at the NCJW office.
Seventy volunteers of all ages stuffed the
backpacks, which were picked up by the
Oakland County Schools Homeless Student
Education group for distribution. Jewish
Family Service will disperse backpacks for
Jewish children in need in Oakland County.
NCJW/Greater Detroit volunteers have
organized the purchase and packing of
school supplies and backpacks annually

since 2000. This project is funded by grants
from the DeRoy Testamentary Foundation,
Consumers Energy and the Phillip and
Elizabeth Filmer Memorial Trust. NCJW
further leveraged grant monies by purchas-
ing the backpacks at Meijer, which provided
supplies at a discount.
For 125 years, NCJW/Greater Detroit has
provided a variety of services for children,
most recently with its Back 2 School Store
serving more than 300 children in need
living in the city of Detroit and tutoring/
reading to children at the Coleman A. Young
Elementary School and Yeshivas Darchei
Torah in Southfield.

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Amy Cutler, Rachel Matz, Courtney Knoerl and Marlee Park

Event co-chair
Deede Auster, Ella
Blank and Marilyn
Kohen; the other
co-chair was Sue
Rollinger.

Carol Kaftan, Audrey Sobel and Kenyatta Sims

28 September 1 • 2016

Elaine Tell, Joanie Applefield, Margo Stocker, Marlene
Margolis, Helene Cherrin and Sydney Michalson