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Hillel Day School Taps
New Leadership Team

Community Day School-SSDS in
Pittsburgh. From 1988-1996, he, his
wife and three children lived in
Israel where he served in educational
and administrative positions.
Both the board positions and the
creation of a head of Lower School
Judaic Studies are the result of Hillel
Day School's long-range
plan. Dr. Mark Smiley will
continue to serve as head-
master, but also will
assume the role of chief
executive officer.
Scott Cranis' title of
administrative director will
be changed to chief firian-
:cial officer.
Rabbi-in-Residence
.Michele Faudem has been
promoted to head of
`Upper School Judaic
Frederick Blechman
Amittai Ben Ami
Studies. Rochelle
be the head
Iczkovitz
of General Studies (grades
3-8) and her title will be senior prin-
and executive committee as well as
cipal.
several committees for the Jewish
Robyn Glickman, formerly assis-
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit.
tant
principal, will be principal of
He and his wife, Doris, have three
Early
Elementary (grades K-2).
and
graduates
Lisa
children: Hillel
Marianne Milgrom Bloomberg
Stephanie, and Joshua, a seventh
will continue her development
grader at Hillel.
responsibilities with the new title of
Elected to the executive commit-
director of development.
tee were: Robert Orley, vice presi-
dent; Gary Shiffman, vice president;
Linda Baruch, treasurer; Terri Farber
Roth, secretary; and Steven
Margolin, immediate past president.
Elected to the board of directors
were: Stacy Brodsky, Rhonda Byer,
Alaine Waldshan of Farmington
Hills was named
Scott Eisenberg, Lori Garon, Ken
staff associate for
Gross, Dennis Kalt, Bob Kaplan, Dr.
the Community
Barbara Kappy, 'Shari Kaufman,
Outreach and
Rabbi Elliott Pachter, Elyse
Education
Schostak, Lii Schubiner, Lori
Department of
Weisberg, Tom Wexelberg-Clouser
the Jewish
and Sara Zivian Zwickl.
Federation of
Ben Ami earned a master of edu-
Metropolitan
cation degree from Harvard
Detroit.
University in 1981 and master and
Her responsi-
bachelor degrees from Brandeis
Alaine Waldshan
bilities include
University in 1981 and 1978,
staffing the
respectively. From 1983-1986, he
Maimonides Society and Avenues
was assistant principal at Hillel Day
affinity groups in addition to volun-
School. He assumed education-
teer recruitment for new retirees.
administrative functions with
Rochelle Iczkovitz while Rabbi
For the past two years, Waldshan
Robert Abramson was on sabbatical.
worked as a social worker for the
Bronx Jewish Community Council
More recently, Ben Ami was head of
in New York.
Hebrew/Jewish Studies at

Frederick Blechman was elected
president of Hillel Day School of
Metropolitan Detroit at a recent
board of directors meeting. Amittai
Ben Ami was named head of the
Lower School Judaic Studies (grades
K-5).
Blechman serves on Hillel's board

Klein, Alter Again Heading
Federation's Annual Campaign

For the second year, Linda Klein and
Peter Alter will chair the Jewish
Federation's Annual Campaign, the
Detroit Jewish community's central
fund-raising appeal
(formerly called the
Allied Jewish
Csmpaign).
Campaign 2000
will seek funds for
programs and ser-
vices for the Detroit
Jewish community;
Israel and 58 coun-
Linda Klein
tries around the
world.
Past president of the Federation
Women's Campaign and Education
Department, Klein is treasurer of
Federation's Board of Governors. She
chaired the Federation's Business and
Professional Women, was co-chair of
Michigan Miracle Mission II and
serves on several Federation endow-
ment committees. Klein, a
Bloomfield Hills resident and Temple
Beth El member, is past president of

Jewish Vocational Service.
Alter is a Federation vice president
and recipient of its Frank A. Wetsman
Leadership Award. He co-chaired
Federation's
Financial Resource
Development
Committee and the 'N
Michigan/Central
Galilee Partnership
2000 Committee.
He was national
chair of the United
Jewish Appeal
Peter Alter
Young leadership
Cabinet
Washington Conference and has been
involved in many UJA programs. Alter
was national chairman of Project
Otzma, serves on the steering commit-
tee of the North American Jewish
Forum and is past president of the
Anti-Defamation League of Michigan
and vice chairman of the ADL national
executive committee. The West
Bloomfield resident is a member of
Congregation Shaarey Zedek.

Waldshan Joins
Federation Staff

8/27
1999

46 Detroit Jewish News

Norwegian Tribute

Nordkap Lodge Cultural Director Finn Reed of the Sons of Norway meets with
Sander Davis, a survivor of the Auschwitz death camp, at a recreation of the
gates of Auschwitz at the Holocaust Memorial Center in West Bloomfield.
Members of Detroit's Nordkap Lodge toured the center on July 17 and presented
a check on behalf of its members, some of whom lived in Norway at the time of
the Nazi occupation.