PHOTOS BY GLENN TRIEST

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Sinai Health Care
Foundation President
Richard Roth attended the
gala with wife Susie.

Sinai tosses black-tie benefit
for Digestive Health Center.

RUTH LITTMANN STAFF WRITER

Dr. Neal and
Sandy Mozen.

Bruce and Ileane
Thal take a
breather.

Bruce and Suzy
Gershenson get
down.

Let's dance:
Jerome Soble
and Andi
Wolfe.

ressed to the nines, more than 800 patrons of Sinai Hospi-
tal showed up at the Westin Hotel last week for the sixth an-
nual Heritage Ball.
This year's proceeds, an estimated $500,000, will go toward
establishing the Sinai Digestive Health Center, located at the
hospital's Hechtman Building on Telegraph Road in Bingham
Farms.
The center will apply an interdisciplinary approach to the diag-
nosis and treatment of digestive disorders, including Crohn's disease and
colitis.
The staff at the center will include Sinai physicians Dr. Jason Bodzin, Dr. Jay
Levinson and. Dr. Manuel Sklar, who will work with additional health-care pro-
fessionals to assess their patients' medical, as well as psychological, nutrition-
al, social and educational needs.
"It was a project everybody deemed of very high priority. (Digestive disorders)
affect a very large number of Jewish people," said Richard Roth, president of the
Sinai Health Care Foundation, which raises money for the hospital.
Last year's gala brought in $500,000 to benefit the Srere Radiation Oncology
Center. Mr. Roth says Heritage Balls are important reminders of Sinai's place
in the Jewish and general communities.
"I feel there's a lot of electricity at these events. Excitement," he said. "The
hospital is experiencing a renaissance and the Heritage Balls show that Sinai
is alive and kicking. They also demonstrate that people want to support this
Jewish institution, which is a major institution in Detroit."
The Heritage Ball, sponsored by the Foundation, this year honored seven com-
munity members: Alfred Deutsch, Bruce Gershenson, Merle Harris, Maxwell
Jospey, Mervyn Manning, Robert A. Steinberg and Bruce Thal. Six of the men
have served as past chairs of the Sinai board. The seventh, Mr. Gershenson,
served as the founding chairman of the Foundation.
"Sinai Hospital and the Sinai Health Care Foundation are very lucky to be
the recipient of their wisdom, business acumen, time, energy and money," Mr.
Roth said.
"It is because of them that Sinai is healthy and has excellent medical care and
continues to honor the Jewish values and traditions on which it is based. As lead-
ers, they receive more of the blame and less of the credit. Tonight they get the
credit that they deserve." El

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