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Beyond A Father's
Footsteps
A trio of brothers is being honored this weekend
for their community activism.
SUSAN TAWIL
Special to The Jewish News
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made time for them."
"We definitely learned the work
ethic from our parents," said Eugene,
at 37 the youngest son. The owner of
The Lighting Supply Company in
Oak Park, he lives in Huntington
Woods with wife Julie and two chil-
dren.
Oldest brother Howard lives in
Oak Park with his wife Chana and
their six children. Like his father,
Howard is an insurance agent for
Mass Mutual.
Bruce, 43, also of Oak Park, is a
dentist in private practice in South-
field. He and his wife Esther have
three sons.
t first, Paul Sherizen had to
drag his sons to Shabbat
services. But now Howard,
Bruce and Eugene have sur-
passed their parents in Torah obser-
vance and community involvement.
And their own children might yet sur-
pass them.
On Sunday, the three brothers will
be honored for their deep commit-
ment to Jewish communal and reli-
gious life at the annual brunch of the
National Conference of Synagogue
Youth (NCSY).
Aside from
NCSY, in which
their own children
are involved, the
Sherizen brothers
are associated with
the Jewish Federa-
tion of Metropoli-
tan Detroit, Yeshi-
va Beth Yehudah,
Machon L'Torah,
Yad Ezra, Jewish.
Association for
Residential Care,
the Kollel Institute
of Detroit, Young Bruce, Howard and Eugene Sherizen.
Israel, AIPAC,
Their sister, Susie Gun, lives in
NCJW Meals on Wheels, the Jewish
West Bloomfield.
Community Council, Yeshivat Akiva,
The Sherizens attended Oak Park
Yeshiva Gedolah, Aish HaTorah and
High School and B'nai David's reli-
Neighborhood PAoject.
gious school and took Hebrew classes
The children had good role models.
at the old Jewish Community Center
Their mother, Betty, is active in ORT
on Meyers. Services were at B'nai
and other Jewish organizations.
David.
She recalls her own mother's
_
Although NCSY is an Orthodox
involvement with the JNF before the
youth group, Conservative synagogue
State of Israel was established. "She
B'nai David hosted an NCSY chapter
was always on the phone, trying to
in the 1960s. When Howard and
raise money to buy land from the
Bruce joined the group, they jump-
Arabs," Betty said.
started their careers in Jewish commu-
Howard remembers stories of his
nal involvement.
grandmother collecting pennies door-
"NCSY was absolutely an impetus
to-door for Sinai Hospital.
for Jewish activism," said Howard. "Five
Although Betty attributes her chil-
days at an NCSY convention was more
dren's success to "mazel," she also cites
motivating than my entire previous five
the role model of their father, a Mass
years of Hebrew school education."
who, though a "workaholic, always
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