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A Reason To Kvell

A West Bloomfield couple bolster Jewish Vocational Service and honor
his parents at the same time.

to be able to ensure that the ser-
vices of the Jewish community
can be provided over the long
run," she said.
The money generated by the

new endowment fund will sup-
port general programming at the
agency, which provides job train-
ing and job placement services
to the general community. ❑

JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER

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elf-reliance was among the
major virtues Rose and
Sidney Diem passed on to
their children.
It is also the driving force be-
hind the programs offered by
Jewish Vocational Service.
So, it made sense for Dr. Mark
and Linee Diem to create an en-
dowment fund for JVS so that it
can continue to help ordinary
people, Jewish and non-Jewish,
disabled and non-disabled, to
learn job skills and use them in
the real world.
The Diems recently estab-
lished the fund at the United
Jewish Foundation for JVS in
honor of Sidney Diem, who
passed away 8 years ago, and
Rose Diem, a volunteer with the
JVS Senior Service Corps.
"[JVS] helps people to become
self-reliant. I like the idea that
in the Jewish community we
have an institution that takes
people with disabilities and
makes them self-reliant," Dr.
Diem said.

In honor of the Diems' gift, the
JVS building on Southfield Road
will be named the Rose and Sid-
ney Diem Jewish Vocational
Service Building. At a ceremo-
ny at 11 a.m. Sunday, the new
sign will be unveiled and Con-
gregation Shaarey Zedek Rabbi
Irwin Groner will give a talk.
Dr. Diem said his father, a
shoe store owner, was not a rich
man, but he managed to send
his children to college through
tenacity and hard work. And
when he died, he gave a little
something to the Jewish com-
munity.
Rose Diem, whom he de-
scribed as "strong and self-re-
liant," suffered a stroke last year
and was forced to sell her car
and move into an assisted living
facility. Yet, she still volunteers
with the JVS.
Dr. Diem, the president of
Shaarey Zedek's Men's Club,
chose to endow JVS while
his mother is still alive. Sel-
ling his medical clinics earlier

this year helped, too.
"I figure my mother isn't go-
ing to be around forever. I
haven't been the best son in the
world. I don't hold
her hand or take Mark and Linee
her to dinner as Diem created
much as I can. an endowment
This was a good fund for JVS.
time to memorial-
ize my father's memory and hon-
or my mother. It gives her
something to kvell about. This
was the time to do it, while she
can derive some nachas out of it
and while we as a family can see
her happy that she's got some-
thing named after her," Dr.
Diem said.
The gift, the amount of which
was not disclosed, is a boon for
JVS, said JVS Executive Direc-
tor Barbara Nurenberg.
"We are probably the most de-
pendent agency of the Federa-
tion on government funding, and
one of the goals of the agency has
been to develop and increase
philanthropic funding in order

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