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COLORWORKS STUDIO OF INTERIOR DESIGN

Record-Setting
Gift

The JCC kicks off its capital campaign
with a bang.

Center meet its need of welcoming
everyone in the community," he said.
StaffWriter
The Kahns saw a need to create an
endowment because all the funding
fter 23 years in existence,
for JCC programming comes from
the Maple/Drake Jewish
fees, allocations from the Federation
Community Center is get-
and United Way and various grants.
ting a proper name.
"In aggregate, there's not enough
The building will be formally dedi-
money,"
said Executive Director David
cated at the Center's annual meeting
Sorkin. "We are constantly trying to
in June as the D. Dan and Betty Kahn
find money, and that's why the cam-
Jewish Community Center. The
paign will include bricks and mortar
Kahns, of Bloomfield Hills, Made a
dollars and endowment dollars that act
donation, reportedly between $3 and
as an insurance policy to run programs."
$4 million, to kick off the Center's
Kahn also wants to stem the tide of
capital fund-raising campaign to over-
assimilation
by helping to make the
haul the existing building.
JCC a magnet for the Jewish commu-
Major renovations planned for the
nity.
JCC include the creation of two new
"We can't get them into a syna-
entrances and the relocation of the
gogue, so they can go to the
health club. There are also plans
Center," he said. "We need
to move the executive
to grab that 40 percent
offices, the library and
[of unaffiliated Jews]
the Judaic studies
before they get too
department.
far away."
JCC Director of
The Kahns are
Development
highly involved
Mort Plotnick
with the Organi-
said that the Cen-
zation
for Reha-
ter has been
bilitation
through
working with the
Training
(ORT),
Kahns for many
and there is a possi-
years on this gift. He
bility
for an ORT
asserted that it is the
facility at the JCC.
largest donation for
"The Center is interested, as
structural improvements in
am
I, in providing one at the
the history of the Jewish corn- JCC benefactors
JCC,"
he said. "ORT teaches
Betty and D.
munity.
technology
for Jewish causes, -_-_-/\
Dan
Kahn.
Half the money will
and
there
is
no facility in this
finance capital improvements,
area."
with the balance going toward the
The Kahns, along with their daugh-
establishment of a permanent endow-
ters, Patti Aaron and Andi Wolfe, all
ment for improving existing programs
are involved with ORT. The organiza-
and creating others.
tion has schools in 60 countries and
Plotnik said the Jewish Book Fair
trains students for the workplace.
and general Jewish programs through-
Andi Wolfe served as co-chairper-
out the agency will benefit, but as of
son
of the Jewish Book Fair last year
now, nothing has been determined.
and her husband, Larry, is a vice presi-
Kahn explained that his donation
dent of the JCC.
was partly a way to show his gratitude
Kahn also has been involved with
to the Jewish Community Center.
Technion,
the Israeli Institute for
"When I first moved to the area
Technology,
as a past president,
from Benton Harbor in 1941, the
international
board member and
JCC on Woodward took me in. I
contributor.
wanted to give a gift that will help the

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