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here are few organizations in the 
Detroit Jewish community that 
Sheryl “Sheri” Terebelo Schiff was 
not involved in.
Perhaps best known for her work 
as an organizer and coordinator of 
Bookstock, the annual week-long used 
book sale benefiting literacy efforts, she 
also held leadership positions with the 
Jewish Community Relations Council/
American Jewish Committee, for whom 
she chaired the recent Mitzvah Day 
volunteer program on Christmas Day, 
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan 
Detroit’
s Women’
s Philanthropy, 
Michigan Jewish Historical Society and 
the National Council of Jewish Women/
Michigan.
Sheri Schiff, 72, of Birmingham, died 
tragically Jan. 5, 2020.
In addition to Jewish communal 
work, she also endeavored to improve 
relations between various religious and 
ethnic groups in the region. She was 
active with the Birmingham-Bloomfield 
Community House’
s Race Relations 
and Diversity Taskforce, the Interfaith 
Leadership Council, the FBI Citizens 
Academy and WISDOM, a women’
s 
interfaith group. As part of a group called 
Women Confronting Racism, she helped 
plan a conference that will take place at 
Baker College in Auburn Hills on May 8.
“I have been a rabbi for almost 48 
years, and I have never received more 
phone calls from friends wanting to 
share a story. I stood in awe of her 
commitment to tikkun olam, healing 
the world,
” said Rabbi Daniel Syme 
of Temple Beth El, who delivered the 
eulogy at her funeral, attended by nearly 
700 family, friends and admirers. Rabbi 
Steven Rubenstein of Congregation Beth 
Ahm also officiated. 
Sheri’
s husband, Charles “Chuck” 
Schiff, said he would often ask her, 

“Which save-the-world group are you 
going to be involved with today?”
Sheri was born in Detroit. Her late 
mother, Rita, was divorced from Sheri’
s 
father. In 1956, she married the late 
Lawrence Terebelo, who adopted Sheri 
and fathered her brother, Dr. Marc 
Terebelo.
Marc Terebelo called his sister “my 
hero.
” He remembers how she starred in 
plays as a student at Henry Ford High 
School in Detroit. Even as a teenager, she 
was an activist, helping to lead a protest 
against a segregated swimming pool in 
the city. She was “a true child of the 60s,
” 
he said, participating in anti-Vietnam 
War efforts as a member of Students for 
a Democratic Society. She loved Jefferson 
Airplane and the Grateful Dead and 
attended the Woodstock festival in 1969 
as well as numerous rock concerts in 
Detroit. 
Sheri graduated from Michigan State 
University with a bachelor’
s degree in 
communications and master’
s degrees in 
education and cultural anthropology. She 
wrote for two alternative newspapers, the 
Ann Arbor Sun and the Fifth Estate in 
Detroit. She also worked as a DJ for sev-
eral local radio stations, using the name 

Natasha Lawrence. Later, she worked 
as a substitute teacher in the Royal Oak 
schools.
Sheri met her husband through the 
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan 
Detroit’
s young adult group, then called 
Junior Division. They married in 1980 
and had two daughters, Stephanie and 
Carly. 
Sheri doted on her only grandchild, 
2-year-old Liora, whom she called “my 
gift for having children.
”
She enjoyed international travel with 
her daughters, shows at the Fisher 
Theater and concerts by the Detroit 
Symphony Orchestra. She also enjoyed 
golf, canasta, lunching with friends and 
cooking.
“Sheri seemed to have an almost ency-
clopedic knowledge of both the Jewish 
and secular community,
” said Jennifer 
LoPatin, NCJW/MI president. “She was 
involved in so many different organiza-
tions, not just as a volunteer, but in lead-
ership positions. She served as a liaison 
for our Agency Relations Committee for 
our Back 2 School Store and recently told 
her agency she would get books for their 
children, ‘
as many as you need.
’
 She was 
so proud of how her efforts impacted 
literacy in our community.
” 
Sheri is survived by her husband, 
Chuck; daughters, Stephanie Schiff-
Nevell (Ryan Nevell) of Sunnyvale, 
Calif., and Carly of Birmingham; broth-
er, Marc Terebelo of Farmington Hills. 
Arrangements were by Ira Kaufman 
Chapel. Interment was at Clover Hill 
Park Cemetery.
Those wishing to honor the memory 
of Sheri Schiff may do so by making a 
contribution to the Fresh Air Society’
s 
Benton and Charlotte Schiff Scholarship 
Fund, 6735 Telegraph, Suite 380, 
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301 ( 
tamarack-
camps.com). 

Sheryl “Sheri” Schiff

Her Activism and Leadership 
Touched Many Organizations

BARBARA LEWIS CONTRIBUTING WRITER

