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T
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