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…-592-2339 or jkabert@jfsdetroit.org. S ome things are just meant to be. Thanks to the newest phase of renovation at Hillel Day School, Yeshivat Darchei Torah in Southfield and Detroit Community Schools, a…
… charter school on Detroit’s West Side, have both received donations of classroom furni- ture. Too numerous to inventory, Hillel’s surplus of school items, pulled out of the classrooms under reconstruction…
…-based exploration and discovery. The partnership between Hillel and the Detroit charter school demonstrates the values of a community pooling resources — with a little help from two sisters, Elissa Sternberg, the…
… school social worker at Hillel, and Caryn Loughlin, a third-grade teacher at Detroit Community Schools. “We had good furniture to donate,” Sternberg said. “When I learned from my sister that many of the…
…metro » John Hardwick Hillel Head of School Steve Freedman Moving Day At Hillel Two schools in need get furniture donation thanks to school renovation. Vivian Henoch | Special to the Jewish News…
… pick up the story on moving day (May 31), Head of School Steve Freedman said, “This is all good stuff, and there are children in Detroit and in our community who are entitled to benefit from the…
… materials we are no longer using. We feel lucky that we are able to help with a significant donation of items to be divided between the two schools.” Hillel’s renovation is slated for completion by the start…
… students in her school were just making do with bro- ken desks and chairs, we arranged the match and called the school to come out and take what they needed.” Wendy Senkbil, K-8 principal at Detroit…
… Community Schools, said, “Just getting the call from Hillel was a bless- ing.” She explained that the students them- selves have been involved in building bookshelves and other furniture for the classroom as…
… the classroom.” Reflecting on Hillel’s new phase of development, Freedman said, “Through the awesome generosity of the Farber family and the Davidson Foundation, we have been able to create incredible…